The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-24 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WIMMOR, MARCH 22.
The Queen and Prince Consort, with the Princess
Itlyal and Princess Alice, rode cut on horseback thin
forenoon, attended by the Countess of Desart, Major
General Buckley, and Captain the Hon. D. De Ros.
The Prince of Wales also rode on horseback.
His Serene Mgt./less Prince Ernest of Leiningen took
his departure this morning for Plymouth.
The Belgium Minister ( Mons. Van do Weyer) has also
left the Castle.

The French Ambassador had rn audience of the Queen
this day, to announce officially from the Emperor of the
French the birth of the Prince Imperial. His Excel-
lency was introduced by Viscount Palmerston' acting
for the Earl of Clarendon, Secretary of State for Foreign
Alf Airo.
Lord Camoys was Lord in*raiting.

SUNDAY.

The Queen and Prince, the Princess Royal and
Princess Mice, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court,
and the Domestic 13:ouiehold, attended Divine service
this morning in the chapel of the Castle.
The King of the Belgians and the Duchess of Kent
we►e also at the service.

The Hon. and Very Rev, the Dean of Windsor per.
formed the service and administered the Huly Sacra•
moot.

The grand parterre was crowded with visitors from all.
parts, who had availed themselves of the reduz.tion of
the tiouth-Western fare during the Stturday preceeding
the Easter week, and the Sunday and Monday follow-
ing, tickets being granted for the three days. The fine
bands of the 2d Life Guards and the Grenadier Guards
were in attendance, but from the severe north-easterly
winds which prevailed her Majesty and her august
visitor, the King of the Belgians, did not make their
appearance.

It is now understood that the King of the Belgians
will prolong his visit until Tuesday, when his Majesty
will take his departure by the South-Western Railway.
Owing to•the fincness of the weather, the Court will
remain at Windsor, according to the present arrange-
ment, until Tuesday week.

Mr. Albeit Smith hai just been honoured by her
Majesty's commands, through Colonel Phipps, to give
his well-known entertainineLt of Mont Blanc, at Wind-
sor Castle, on Tuesday next.

The Dulce of Argyll arrived in town on Friday night.
Viscount Palmerston left town for Windsor Castle
after the Cabinet Council on Saturday afternoon. His
lord4hip returned to London in the evening.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of South Australia, and also
from the Governor-General of Australia.
CABINET COUNCIL.—A Cabinet Council was held on
Saturday at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. It was
attended by Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor,
Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George
Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon.
R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the
Duke of Argyll. The Council sat three hours.

Le ./Vorcl denounces the annexation of Oude as an
abominable spoliation attempted to be justified by
" lying pretexts."
A letter from Gonoa, of the 15th, announc!s the ar-
tits.' at Nervi of the ex-Queen Maria Amelie, accom-
panied by the Duchess of Orleans.
The Rev. Henry Melville, principal of Haileyhury
College, has been appointed to the Canonry of St. Paui's
Cathedral, vacant by the elevation of the Rev. Montagu
Villiers to the Bishopric of Carlisle.
LIVING or ALL HALLOWS TIIN GREATER.—The living
of All Hallows the Greater, vacated by the appointment
of the Rev. W. Goode to the valuable rectory of St.
Margaret's Lothbury, has been conferred by the Arch-
bishop of 'Canterbury on the Rev. George Mansfield,
incumbent of St. Peter's, Saffron-hill.
WAIL Movnunwrs—LrvnarooL, Satnrclay.—H.M.S.
Hecla4 6, Commander Aplin, arrived here to-day from
Portsmouth, to tow round two gunboats, lately launched
from Mr. Laird's building-yard. A new 18-inch mortar
is to be exhibited in front of the Town-hall here on
' Monday next, at 11 a.m.

REPRESENTATION OF CAMERIDGE.—It is said to be the
intention of Mr. David Waddington, the chairman of
the Eastern Counties Railway Company, to become a
candidate for the borough of Cambridge at the next
general election.

TIIE GRAND DDICE OF SAXE WEIIIA.R.—A. letter from
Weimar, et the 15th, in the Cologne Gazette, says :
" The Grand Duke is seriously, though it is hoped not
dangerously ill. His complaint appears to be rheumatic
fever. He was exceedingly restless last night, and it
was not until the morning that ho got any sleep."
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—A telegraph despatch
wasreceivel last night from Mr. Lumley, who is at present
in Paris, announcing that he has all but completed ar-
rangements which will ensure a first-rats operatic and
ballet company for the season. Mr. Lumley will open
his long-closed house in the latter part of April.

CRYSTAL PALACE. FIVE SHILLING DAY.- Satur
day,March 22.—Admissions on payment, 170 ; ditto by
season tickets, 1,510 ; total visitors, 1,680.
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Ccunt Orloff was the first who arrived to felicitate the
Emperor of the French upon the birth of a Prince. He
was at the Tuileries a few seconds after the firing of the
guns had commenced. The Count is said to pay assi-
duous court to the Emperor, asking in every debate in
the Conference what the Emperor thinks on the subject,
and in almost every instance immediately ranging him-
self on that side.
EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE OP TWO PRISONERS FROM
TUB MODEL PRISON.—On Saturday morning, a full de-
scription of two well-known convicts, who made their
escape on Thursday last from the Model Prison, Penton-
vile, was circulated by the Commissioners of Police,
Scotland-yard. The escape of the prisoners seems to be
unparalleled, and beyond al previous prison breaking.
It appears that the two prisoners had been some tines
incarcerated in the jail—one being sentenced to 14 years'
transportation, and the other for 10 years. They were
two daring characters, and one was a relative of "the
notorious Hackett, who escaped from the same place
several years since. They were safely locked up in their
cell late on Wednesday evening by one of the warders,
and the door was protected by one of ---'s locks ;
but by some means the fugitives succeeded in opening
it, but how at present seems to be a miracle, for nothing
whatever has been disturbed in the lock, nor was there
even a scratch upon the door. The warder entered the
cell at an early hour on Thursday morning, and to his
great astonishment he found the cell empty. An alarm
was raised, and on subsequent search being made by the
governor and officers, it seems that the prisoners, after
opening the door of the cell, walked along the passage,
where they found an iron trap-door, weighing three
hundred weight, which they must have forced up, and
got upon the roof of a low building. From thence they
scaled a lofty wall by the aid of a ladder made of wax-
ends, whick brought them to the roof of the prison,
where they must have encountered several difficulties ;
for they descended and ascended at least six times before
they could have reached the outside of the gaol. The
ladder was blind hanging upon the lofty wall of the ex-
terior part of the prison, and must have taken the con-
victs a long period to have constructed. One of the
delinquents was a shoemaker, and the other a brick:ayer.
A meeting of the prison autherities has since taken
place, and one of the officers is suspended. The pri-
soners, of course, had on the gaol uniform, and although
the police have been since actively engaged in search of
the fugitives, they have at present avoided detection.
SOUTHAMPTON, March 22e—To-day the Peninsular and
Oriental Company's paddle-wheel steam-ship Valetta,
and the fine screw steam-ship Pera wont out for a trial
of speed at the measured mile in Stoke's Bay. The Va-
letta obtained an average of 13.597 knots per hour, and
the Pera 12'633; being a difference of barely a knot
between the steaming qualities of each ship. The Va-
letta, a clipper•built paddle-wheel vessel, is of only 770
tons burden and 400 horsepower, and was built by the
Messrs. Mare, of London, for the rapid conveyance of
the overland mails between Malta and Marseilles. The
Pera, also constructed by the same eminent ship-
builders, although of 2,600 tons burden, or in fact about
1,090 tons larger than the Valetta, has only the addi-
tion:of 50 horse power ; the comparatively small diffe-
rence of speed showing great preference in favour of the
screw. Both thesa ships have been some time at South-
ampton effecting repairs, the latter vessel having eider-
' tunately become disarranged in the machinery when on
her first voyage to Alexandria with the India and Medi-
terranean mails. Under the superintendence of Mr.
Lamb, superintending engineer of the Peninsular and
Oriental Company, and the Messrs. Rennie, the con-
structors of the engines, the Pera is believed to be in
thorough sea-going condition, and will sail from S mth-
ampton on the 4th proximo for Alexandria with the
India, China, and Mediterranean mails. The Valetta
takes her departure for Malta on the 27th inst., touching
at the Peninsular ports with the mails en route. Several
of the directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Com-
pany, together with their friends, were present to witness
the trial, after the completion of which the Pera steamed

round the fleet at Spithead, and then made a run

through the squadron of gunboats which lie anchored
at the Motberbank. Both vessels were in excellent trim.
Duni, g the trial the Pera averaged 3.21 revolutions of the

engintis, or 65 of the screw, with 191 b. of steam, the
coals used being from the Duffryn Collieries of Messrs.
Powell and Sons. The facilities of Cunningbam's patent
reefinv topsails, with which the Pera is fitted, were ex-
hibit' d and explained to those on board, ar.d were pro-
nom ced to be a great addition in perfectiog the fittings
of a galling-Teasel of large dimensions.