The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-21 00:00:00

COURT CIRC-ULAR,

WINDSOR, OCT. 20.

The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess and
the Princess Mary of Cambridge, Prince Victor of Ho-
henlohe, the Prussian Minister and Countess Ton Bern-
storff, the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Lady Suf-
field, Lord Burghersh, Colonel Sir Charles Hamilton
(Scots Fusiliers Guards), Sir James Clark and Major
Purves.

The Band of the Royal Horse Guards was in attendance
during dinner, and played the following pieces :
Overture—" Die Waldsehutz "
Selection-,-" Guillaume Tell"
Walzer—" Fair Star"
Selection—" Etoile du Nord" Mayerbeer.
Polka —" Militaire "
Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended in the
Castle, and performed the following selection

~... Mendelzsolin.

Overture—" Die Flebriden"
Coro, Terzetto, and Airs de Ballet
" Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor" ... Otto Nicolai.

The Queen and Prince drove out in an open carriage
yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Prince Victor of
flohenlohe on horseback. Colonel Seymour was in
attendance. _

Her Majesty drove out again this morning, accom-
panied by the Duchess and Prince Mary of Cambridge.
Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prussian Minister,
went out shooting this morning, attended by Colonel
F. H. Seymour and Major Purves.
Prince Victor of Hohenlohe took leave of her Majesty
to-day, and left Windsor for Sheerness.
Lord Burghereh and Colonel Sir Charles Hamilton
left Windsor this forenoon for London.

The Duchess of Kent has been confined to Frogmore
House for several days by a severe cold.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
the Foreign-office. The Ministers present wore--The
Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, the Lord Chan-
cellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Argyll,
Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke
of Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir
James Graham, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon.
Sidney Herbert, Sir Wm. Molesworth, and Eall Gran-
ville. The Council sat two hours.

Lord J. Russell arrived in town yesterday morning,
to attend the Cabinet Council, from Woburn Abbey.
Viscount Palmerston arrived in town, from his seat,
Broadlands, Hants, to attend the Cabinet Council.
Despatches for the Governor of Canada were sent last
evening from the Colonial-office.

We are sorry to learn that her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent has been confined to Frogmore House,
several days, by a severe cold.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter and family
are passing the season at Brighton.
The Earl of Desert has gone on a visit to Viscount
and Viscountess Brackley, at Burwood-park, where his
lordship will be joined by the Countess on Monday next.
The Earl and Countess Cowper are about to join the
circle at present staying at Broadlands.
The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. W. Cowper are expected in
town to-day, from Paris, where they have been visiting
the Hon. Spencer and Lady Harriet Cowper.
THE EARL OF CARLISLE.—This nobleman, as most of
our readers are aware, is expected to visit Bradford next
week. His lordship, on Thursday evening, will deliver
a lecture in connection with the Early Closing Associa-
tion, on the "Poetry of Gray," and on Friday evening
will preside at the annual meeting of the Bible Society.
On both occasions there will doubtless be a large at-
tendance at St. George's Hall. The Earl of Carlisle,
during his stay in the town, will be the gneat of the
mayor, Mr. Samuel Smith.—Bradford Observer. 'T.4-0,?..
PROROGATION OF CONVOCATION.—The convocation of
the prelates and clergy of the province of Canterbury was
yesterday prorogned in the Jerusalem Chamber, West-
minster, pursuant to a Royal writ, by the Vicar-General,
Dr. Twice, under a commission from his Grace the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, Primate and Metropolitan, to
Friday, Nov. 17.
BANQUET AT VIE MANSION-HOUSE.--Last evening the
Lord Mayor gave a megnificent entertainment to the
Mayor, Magistrates, and Corporation of the borough of
Wolverhampton, Staffordshire ; to about 120 members
of the Corporation of London, and a largo number of
his fellow-citizens. Dinner was served in the Egyptian
Hall, and covers were laid for 270.
THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT AND THI
PATRIOTIC FUND.—We have much pleasure in stating
that the civil officers of the Crown, in this well-conducted
and most popular branch of the service, have proposed
to contribute one day's pay to the Patriotic Fund.
Miss Nightingale, who is to conduct the nurses to at-
tend the sick at Gallipoli, leaves England to-day. She
•goes with the sanction and assistance of the War Minis-
ter, the Duke of Newcastle. Her staff of nurses includes
a number of recruits from Miss Sellon's establishment,
and others from a society of Sisters of Charity attached
to a Romanist society in London.
WEIMAR, OCT. 16.—The Ministers of the Thuringian
States will all meet here, to discuss the measures they
intend taking in common with respect to the Eastern
question.
STANDARD TREATRE.---At the Royal Standard Theatre,
the new play of Schamyl, the Circassian Chief, by Mr.
W. R. Markwell, draws full houses, the principal part
being well sustained by Mr. James Anderson, the late
lessee of Drury-lane.
THE PATRIOTIC FUND.—Mr. John Hancock, of the
Registrar-Generally -Department, Somerset-house, has
been selected to act provisionally as accountant to the
Patriotic Fund, ender Mr. W. G. Anderson of the Trea-
sury, retaining his clerkship while engaged in this tem-
porary service.

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PATRIOTIC FUND.—A public meeting was held in the
Town-hall, West Cowes, on Thursday, to take the opi-
nion of the inhabitants as to the best means of obtaining
their subscriptions in aid of the -widows and orphans of
the brave men who may fall in opposing the common
enemy. W. M. Dewey, Esq., was called to the chair.
H. J. Dama,nt, Esq., town clerk, was appointed secre-
tary ; and Mr. Moore, treasurer. The chairman pro-
posed that the town should be divided into districts, and
a committee should be appointed to make a collection
from house to house, which proposal was immediately
adopted, and the committee commenced their work
instanter.
THE GARRISON AT BILAKLAVA.—A battalion of men,
not considered in sufficient health to do duty at thu siege
of Sebastopol, has been ordered to garrison the town of
Baiaklava. The men wereweviewed on the 28th Sept.,
and Lieut.-Col. Daveney, lst Royal Regiment, has been
appointed to the command.
The Admiralty agent of Liverpool (Commander Be-
via) has received instructions from Government to
ascertain the fitness of the Canadian screw-steamers
Cleopatra and Ottawa for the transport service. If they
be approved, as no doubt they will, they are to be en-
gaged for the conveyanee of troops and stores to the
East. The Alps, a screw-steamer belonging to the Cu-
eard Company, is on her way from Halifax to Dublin
with the 72d Regiment on board.
THE WHALE FISHERY IN DAVIS' STRAITS.—The Pa-
cifie, Anderson, arrived at Aberdeen from Davis' Straits,
with 9 fish, 80 tons, reports a bad fishing, and that the
only ships having fish were the St. Andrew's, of Aber-
deen, 2 fish ; Truelove, of Hull, 3 fish ; Heroine, of
Dundee, 1 fish ; Princess Charlotte, of ditto, 7 fish, 55
tons ; Chieftain, of Kirkaldy, 6 fish, 45 tons ; Lord
Gambier, of d.tto, 6 fish, 55 tons; and the Jane, of
Bo'ness, 1 fish, 19 tons.
LONDON ORPHAN ASYLUM, CLAPTON.—A resolution
has been passed " that it be recommended to the next
general court in January, that the Commander-in-Chief
he empowered to nominate to the Board six children for
free and immediate admission into the London Orphan
Asylum from the children of the commissioned or non-
commissioned officers of her Majesty's army who have
fallen in the present war."
THE HORSE GUARDS.—It was yesterday reported that
in the event of a further addition of cavalry being re-
quired for the East, one regiment of Life Guards will be
sent out, the number to be 450 men. Some volunteers
from other regiments will of course be required. Re-
cruiting for the cavalry is ping on most briskly.
FOREIGN POSTAGE.—Lord Canning, accompanied by
Mr. William. Page, the head of the Foreign and Colonial
branch of the Secretary's department of the General
Post-office, left London for Paris on Thursday last, to
enter into negotiations with the French Government on
the subject of a new postal treaty.
RECRUITING IN DERBY.—Recruiting is carried on
with great vigour in Derby and the other towns, the
battle of Alma evidently acting as a stimulant to the
martial feelings of young men.
Tae CHOLERA.—Five fatal cases of cholera have oc•
curred at Goole curing the present week. Cholera has
within the past few days carried of two more victims at
Huddersfield.

BERLIN, Oct. 17.--Several mercantile houses are
drawing up petitions to the Government, in which they
point out the measures th•it might be taken for com-
pelling Denmark to abolish her Sound tolls. Similar
petitions will be presented to the Cha►nbers.—Cologne
Gazette.

SUICIDE OP A POLISH REFUGEE.—On Tuesday even-
ing last, at eleven o'clock, a Polish gentleman, named
Sigismond Wienckowski, residing at Chapel-street,
Devonport, committed suicide by stabbing himself in the
heart, with a sharp pocket knife.
THE LAUNCH OF THE Nzw ROYAL YACHT, THE
WINDSOR CASTLE,—It has been ordered that the new
Royal paddle yacht, the Windsor Castle, constructed
under the superintendence of lir. Oliver Lang, shall be
launched at her Majesty's dockyard, Pembroke, on the
13th of January next.
The Rev. Edward Thomas Austen has been instituted
to the rectory of Barpeston, vacant by the death of the
Rev. John Leigh Spencer, in the patronage of St. John's
College, Oxon ; and the Rev. Thomas Nunn has been
nominated by his grace to the perpetual curacy of Han-
sted, vacant by the cession of the Rev. Samuel George
Booth. White, both in the county of Kent, and diocese
of Canterbury.
It is generally known that her Majesty, out of respect
for the memory of Captain Hyde Parker, has been
pleased to adopt the two little Kustendje orphans, whose
sad case has lately caused so much commiseration. The
little fellows are to remain on board the Firebrand until
a safe and suiteble opportunity for sending them to
Etiglend. shall occur. They are very intelligent chil-
dren, and the eldest displays a proficiency, not merely
in speaking Englieh, but also in the sword and musket
exercises, which would do no discredit to some of the
gallant fellows now doing duty at home.
raFALL OP A CHURCH .Roof.—The roof of the church
at the village of Ganeston, a few miles from East Ret-
ford, North Nottinghamshire, fell in with a great crash
on Tuesday last, doing considerable damage to the
building. The interior fittings had been removed only
a few days before, preparatory to the sacred edifice
being restored, and it was observed at the time that
nearly every piece of wood was decayed with the dry-
rot. The rafters of the roof gave way from the same
came. Nobody was injured.