The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-30 00:00:00

The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow
(Wednesday) afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.
Summonses were issued yesterday to the Xinisters
and Officers of State.

A Cabinet Council was held. yesterday afternoon at
the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were Lord
John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey,
Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Sir John Hob-
house, Lord Campbell, the Right lion. H. Labou-
chere, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the Earl of
Carlisle. The Council sat two hours and a half.

Sir Henry 'l'. De la Beebe had an interview with
Earl Granville yesterday at the Office of the Board of
Trade.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
Inheritress and Geraldine were backed for the Chester
Cup at improved prices, the general transactions, how-
ever, were few, and in small amounts, and the quota-
tions, in most instances, the same as on T,'ursday last.
The betting, in fact, turned chiefly on the Metropolitan
Handicap, for which Loupgarou was backed very freely,
commencing at '2O to 1, and closing at five points less.
Backbiter and Clarissa were also in favour, and in the
eaarly part of the day 8 to 1 was taken about Canez.m,
the odds, however, bring afterwards offered currently.
Lugar receded to 20 to 1. The Flying Dutchman was
backed for the Derby at 9 to 2 to 2501., and anything
above 20 to 1 ;would have been taken about Strongbow,
Nunnykirk, or (Marley. 2,000 to 60 was taken about
Elthiron, 1,000 to 20, five times, about-Chatterer, and
1.000 to 15 about the colt out of Flambeau's dam.
Closing prices:—
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
Bto 1 agst Lord Stanley's Canezou—taken and
afterwards offered
15 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Loupgarou—taken)
16 to 1 agst Mr. B. Green's Flatcatcher—taken
16 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Backbiter—taken
18 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Clarissa—take 20 to 1
20 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Lugar—taken
$0 to 1 agat Mr. S. L. Fox's Executor—taken
33 to 1 agst Mr. Gordon's 1)o the-Boys—t to 1001.
CHESTER CUP.
25 to 1 agst Mr. Nolan's Blucher—taken and after-
wards offered
25 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklatn's Inheritress—taken and
afterwards offered
28 to 1 aget Mr. Greville's Geraldine—taken
33 to 1 agst Mr. J. B. Day's The Tartar—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. S. L. Fox's, Executor
40 to 1 agst Mr. Quin's Farewell
50 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Clermont
3,000 to 60 agst Mr. M. Blake's Ballinafad—taken and
afterwards offered
3,000 to 60 agst Lord Howth's Peep-o'-Day Boy— taken
and afterwards offered
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Maughan's Hathmines
1,000 to 15 agat B. Green's Pelham—taken and after-
wards offered
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Drinkald's Dulcet taken and
al terwards offered
The folloa ing horses were scratched at Chester up to
post time on Sunday evening:—Bon-Mot, Delusion colt,
Tom Tough, Didsbury, Mogador, Crazy Lad, Tom Tit,
John Orridge, and Parable.
DERBY
4 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Flying Dutchman--
1100 to 200 taken
7to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Tadmor—taken to 1001.,
and afterwards off, red
12 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's Honeycomb
20 to 1 agst Lord Stanley s Strongbow—taken to
501., and afterwards offr red
20 to 1 agst Mr. A. Nichol's Nunnykirk—tak 25 to 1
20 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Osterley—take 25 to 1
25 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Uriel—taken
2,000 to 60 agst Lord Eglinton's Eithiron—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's The Knout
50 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Old Dan Tucker
50 to 1 agst Mr. Watt's Chatterer—taken and after-
wards offered
1,000 to 15 agst Duke of Rutland's c out of Flambeau's
dam—taken
It was reported yesterday, at the West-end, that The
Cur has been scratched for all his engagements.

OPERA COMIQUE, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—The
second representation of Auber's opera of L'Ambassa-
drice, (stunted lust evening to this theatre a crowded
and brilliant assemblage. Their Royal Highnesses the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, his Royal lii;;liness‘
Prince George of Cambridge, and the Princess Mary of
Cambridge, honoured the performance with their pre-
sence. Their Royal Highnesses were attended by the
Baton Kncsebeck, Baroness Both, and Lady Augusta
Cadogan. There were also present her Serene Highness
the Hereditary Princess of Parma arid suite, the Turkish
Ambat-ssdor and suite, the Earl of Chesterfield, the
~_:!ountess of Tunkerville, the Marquis Clanricarde, the
o,,untess of Oxford, Lord Bateman, Lord Sandwich,
Lord Crarbourne, Sir John Lyster Kaye, the Eon.
George and Mrs. Cadogan, Colonel Pandas, Miss ))or-
rner, Mr. Henry Greville, Mr. Eugene de Gerlache,
Major and Mrs. Mountjoy Martyn, Mr. and Madame
Uzielli, Mr. and Mrs. John Sandford, Mrs. Fremantle,
Mrs. Dodd, Mr. Brunel, Colonel Barlow, &c.
OLYMPIC THEATRE.—Last night a new classical
drama, entitled The licndoch Draught, was to have been
produced at this favourite little-theatre; owing, however,
to the sudden indisposition or Mr. Leigh Murray, who
was to have sustained the principal character, the piece
was necessarily postp.)ned.

EARLY PROGNOSTIC.—There will be but a fartial
§how of blossome on the owe trees,pymoth Times.