The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-20 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a Privy Council at 3 o'clock on Satur-
day afternoon at Buckingham Palace. It was attended
by his Royal Highness Prince Albert ; Earl Granville,
Lord President ; the Duke of Argyll, Lord Privy Seal ;
the Earl of Aberdeen, First Lord of the Treasury ; Vis-
count Palmerston, Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment ; the Earl of Clarendon, Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs ; the Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of
State for the Colonies ; the Right Hon. W. E. Glad-
stone, Chancellor of the Exchequer ; Sir James Graham,
First Lord of the Admiralty ; Sir Charles Wood, Presi-
dent of the Board of Control ; the Right Hon. Sidney.
Herbert, Secretary at War ; the Marquis of Breadal-
bane, Lord Chamberlain ; and the Marquis of Abercorn,
Groom of the Stole to the Prince.
At the Council a proclamation was ordered to be is-
sued, prohibiting the exportation of arms, ammunition,
gunpowder, military and naval stores, and machinery
available for war.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting.
The Queen gave audiences to Sir James Graham, the
Earl of Aberdeen, Earl Granville, and the Duke of
Newcastle.
The Court was attended by the Earl of Mulgrave,
Treasurer of the Household ; Lord Ernest Bruce, Vice-
Chamberlain ; the Marquis of Londonderry, Gold Stick
in Waiting ; the Marquis of Ormonde, Lord in Waiting;
and Lieutenant-Colonel the lion. A. N. Hood, Groom
in Waiting.
Prince Albert presided on Saturday morning at a
meeting of the Governors of the Wellington College.
His Royal Highness arrived at the New Palace of West-
minster at 11 o'clock, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel
the Hon. A. N. Hood. The other Governors present
were his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the
Earl of Derby, Viscount Hardinge, the Right eon.
Sidney Herbert, Sir James Hogg, and the Rev. R.
Gleig.
The Hon. W. P. Talbot, Hon. Secretary, was present
at the meeting.
The Rev. William Moseley was in attendance.
The meeting separated at a quarter past two o'clock.
The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, attended by
Mr. Gibbs, visited the Duchess of Cambridge on Friday
at her residence in St. James's Palace.
The Queen had a dinner party on Saturday, at Buck-
ingham Palace. The company included his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge, the Austrian Minister and
Countess Colloredo, the Earl and Countess of Harrow-
by, the Earl of Ellenborough, Lord John Russell, Lord
George Lennox, the Bishop of London and Mrs. Bloom-
field, Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley, Sir Charles
and Lady Mary Wood, Colonel the Hon. A. and Mrs.
Gordon, Captain-the Hon. J. Denman, and Lord W.
Paulet.
The Queen and Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales,
the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, the Ladies
and Gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic house-
hold, attended Divine service yesterday morning in the
private chapel at Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and
Rev. Gerald Wellesley officiated.
Sir John Bowring, Governor of Hong Kong and Chief
Superintendent of British Trade in China, left town on
Saturday afternoon for Southampton, en route co the seat
of his government.
Mr. Roche, M.P., had an interview with the Earl of
Aberdeen on Saturday, at his official residence in
Downing-street.
The Solicitor-General had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer at his official residence in Down-

ing-street, on Saturday.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on
Saturday at the Council-office. The appeal from Ben-
gal, "The East India Company v. Nawab Jaffier Hos-
sein," part heard, was concluded. The lords present
were the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common
Pleas, the Lords Justices Knight Bruce and Turner,
and Sir E. Ryan.

THE SPEAKER'S DINNER.—The Speaker gave his
second Parliamentary dinner on Saturday. The follow-
ing were present :—The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, Vis-
count Mandeville, the Hon. Lord John Manners, Lord
Stanley, the Right Hon. Lord Naas, the Right Hon.
Viscount Newport, the Right Hon. Lord Claude Ha-
milton, the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, the
Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, the Right Hon. J.
W. Henley, the Right Hon. A. Cristopher, the Right
Honourable C. C. Forrester, the Right Hon. George
Bankes, the Right Hon. Sir John Trollope, the Right
Hon. J. Napier, the Hon. Captain Duncombe, Sir
William Jolliffe, Sir Thomas Herbert, Sir Fitzroy
Kelly, Mr. Bateson, Mr. Stafford, Colonel Dunne,
Colonel Taylor, Mr. G. A. Hamilton, Mr. Cumming
Bruce, and Mr. Henry Baillie. The Marquis of Chan-
dos, General Sir G. Berkeley, K.C.8., Mr. Beresford,
and Lord Henry Lennox were prevented through indis-
position from attending.

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