The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-31 00:00:00

Co URT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, FRIDAY.-1 he Queen held a Privy Counc.
this afternoon at the Castle. It was attended by his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Lord President, the
Lord Chancellor, the Secretaries of State for the Home,
Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the President of
the Board of Control for the affairs of India, the Chan-
cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Chief Commissioner
of the Woods and Forests, the Postmaster General,
the Chief Secretary for Ireland, and the Master of the
Horse. '

Sir Thomas Wilde, Lord Chief Justice of the Court
of Common Pleas, was, by command of the Queen,
sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council;
and took his place at the Board.

Mr. Edward Strutt was also sworn of her Majesty's
Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his place at
the Board.

Parliament was ordered to be further prorogued from
Wednesday next, the 4th of November, until the 12th of
January.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting. _

The Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas had the
honour to kiss hands on his appointment.
Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl
Grey, Sir George Grey, Lord Campbell, Lord Mor-
peth. Sir John Hobhouse, Mr. Labouchere, Sir Thomas
Wilde, Hon. W. Bathurst, and Mr. Strutt, arrived at the
Castle soon after two o'clock, having travelled from town
by a special train on the Great Western Railway.
After attending the Council and having taken a
dejeune, the same gentlemen, with Viscount Palmer-
ston, left the Castle for the Slough station, and returned
to town by a special train.
The Queen walked this morning on the Eastern Ter-
race.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took
their accustomed p.m)? exercise. Her Royal Highness the
Princess Helena was also taken an airing.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by the
Earl of Morton, Colonel Seymour, and Colonel Bowles,
enjoyed the sport of shooting this morning.
Her Royal lithness the Duchess of Kent, attended by
Lady Anna Maria Dawson, visited her Majesty and
Prince Albert this morning.
His Excellency Prince Calimaki, Viscount Palmer-
ston, Lord and Lady Howard de Walden, and the Hon.
Ra'ph and Lady Kary Abercromby, left the Castle to-
day.

The royal dinner party at thkastle this evening will
include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, the Lady in
Waiting of the Duchess of Kent, the Lady in Waiting of
the Duchess of Gloucester, the Baroness de Sped), the
Lord Chancellor, the Marquis and Marchioness of Wor-
cester, the Hon. and Rnv. C. Leslie Courtenay, and
Colonel Colville (Scots Fusilier Guards).
The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards attend during
dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attend
in the Castle.

Earl Delawarr had an iLterview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing-street.

Dispaches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of Canada, and also from the
Governors of the other North American Provinces.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.
Le Dieu et la Br, yadere, that exquisite composition of
Auber, in which plot, vocal music, and ballet have been
combined with marvellous felicity, presented us onThurs-
day night with several debeitants. Mr. Ratter, who enacted
the Unknown, is young and good-looking, and although
his voice is neither very powerful nor very extensive, and
his notes occasionally veiled, he is unquestionably an
acquisition to the establishment. The other accession
to the vocal troupe is Miss Messent, a pupil of
the Academy. This young lady has a highly
intelligent countenance, and although her dramatic
action as yet displays inexperience, it is far
from displeasing. Her voice is clear, her notes
liquid and resonnant, and she sings with aptness, taste,
and feeling. She displayed considerable facility as well
as power, without. resorting to that species of shouting
to which our best English singers are so much addicted.
The Bayadere was impersonnated by Mdlle. Adele
Dubignon, who appeared to produce a highly agreeable
impression on the audience. In figure, she is petite,
with a winning look, and a highly graceful manner; her
person is well formed,
excepting perhaps too great an
amplitude of the lower limbs—and withal she has the
quality in a dancer—for present impression and for
future promise—youth. Her pantomine, without being
vivid, is highly intelligent, and in her dancing there is
variety and effect, without effort.

PROMENADE CONCERTS.
COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.
M. Jullien opened the campaign here last evening.
We are sorry to perceive, from his programme, that it
will be a very short one, extending to one month only,
but it will be a very glorious one. M. Jullien has com-
pressed into a month attractions sufficient to draw
crowded houses every night for a year. The theatre is
beautifully fitted up with statues, evergreens, &c. The
orchestra is fitted up on the same plan as during former
years, and at the back rises another orchestra, fitted up
like the orchestra of a concert-room. This additional
orchestra is intended for the use of the four bands
—viz., those of the Second Life Guards, Royal
Horse Guards Blue, Grenadier Guards, and Cold-
stream Guards, who are, in addition to M. Ju'lien's
band, to take part in the performance of the " Grand new
Military Quadrille," which is to be produced on Monday
next. Prospe..e, Keenig, Richardson, and all the old
favourites are re-engaged ; and, encouraged by the
success which attended his experiment of last season of
introducing vocal in addition to instrumental music, M.
Jullien has engaged Miss Birch, who, last night, sang a
beautiful duet, "The Return," by Roch Albert, for the
voice and the cornet-I piston (M. licenig accompanying
her on the cornet), and in a grand scena from Verdi's
opera of Ernani. The theatre was crowded to suffoca-
tion, and we have no doubt but that it will be so every
night during the season.

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THE PAVILION AT BRIGHTON.—We stated last week
that 57 hampers of wine had been removed from the
Palace, and conveyed by railway to London. Since
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the Palace have been busily employed in packing up the
china and glass. The kitchen has been nearly stripped
of its contents ; and although the furniture is not yet
removed, it will evidently soon follow. The organ at
present remains untouched. Most of the servants on
the establishment are to be draughted to other places ,
and they have already received notice to that effect..
Our readers may gather from these facts that her Ma-
jesty does not intend to visit the Palace after her return
from Arundel, as was lately stated in the London papers.
—Brighton Gaze tte.
HURRICANE IN THE NORTH CHANNEL, AND LOSS
OF VESSELS.—On Wednesday night last, at ten o'clock,
it commenced to blow fresh from the north-west, and
before an hour after increased to a perfect hurricane,
with incessant rain, which swept the Western Ocean as
far as the eye could reach, and along the North
Channel with fearful violence, making the. water rise
in the air in vast clouds. At daylight on Thursday
morning a large steamer and brig were observed
scudding before it under bare poles, the sea
appearing from the shore to make a clean passage
over their decks. Shortly after this a large brig was
observed to go on shore in Church Bay, in the island of
Rathlin, opposite Ballycastle, supposed to he timber
and
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gale, which continued until Friday morning, when it
abated. The interior of the country was so deluged
with rain, that the largest floods ever before known were
in the rivers, and several bridges, in consequence, gave
way, besides two on the new coast road leading to Glen-
rra,—,Belfast Chronicle.