The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-25 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, Aue. 24.
The Duke of Cambridge left Osborne yesterday
morning for London.
Major-General Breton, commanding the South-
Weqern district, arrived on a visit to her Majesty on
Friday, and returned to Portsmouth yesterday.
Tie Queen and Prince, with the Prince of Wale,, and
Prince Arthur, landed at I3rowndown, near Gosport,
yesterday afternoon, when her Majesty inspected the
two battalions of the British German Legion encamped
there.

Earl and Countess Vane, and Colonel the Hon. C.D.
and Mrs. Phipps had the honour of dining with the
gaeen in the evening.

THE COURT.—Tho Queen will leave the Isle of Wight
for London immediately after the celebration of Prince
Albert's birthday on the 26th, which the Court has
hitherto kept at Osborne-house. Instead of leaving
London for Scotland on Wednesday morning next her
Majesty will remain in London all Wednesday, wh' a
silo will receive Count Creptowich, who has been at the
Russian Embassy some days, and other Foreign Minis
ters, and will transact all business of importance pre-
vious to her departure for the north. The Royal party
will leave London on Thursday morning, the 28th of
August, by the Great Northern Railway, and will stop
that night at the Palace of Holyrood. The Earl of
Clarendon will be the Secretary of State in attendance
upon the Queen.—Observer.
THE QUEEN'S ARRIVAL IN YORIC.—Her Majesty will
arrive in this city on Thursday next, at 12 43 p.m., en
route to Balmoral. The royal family will take luncheon
at the Royal Station Hotel. Messes. H. and G. Brown
have received orders for 1,000 yards of elegant tapestry
carpeting to be used on the occasion at the railway sta-
tion.—Yorkshire Gazette.
We are sorry to learn that her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester has been again suffering from in-
disposition. Her Royal Highness was better yesterday.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived
at his residence in St. James's Palace on Saturday after-
noon from Osborne.
His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar,
who has been on a visit to his father, the Duke Bernard
of Saxe-Weimar, at the Hague, arrived in town on
Thursday from Holland, and has since left to join the
iucess and family circle assembled at Gordon Castle,
N.B.

The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury are at present
making a tour in France. The noble earl and her lady-
ship are expected to return to England early in the en-
suing month.
EARL OF CARDIGAN.— The Leeds Intelligencer states
that on Saturday next, at the banquet to be given in
the Hall of the Stock Exchange, in Leeds, when the
superb sword will be presented to Major-General the
Earl of Cardigan, K.C.8., there will be. many clistia-
guished guests from various parts of this county. The
noble earl will, during his visit to Leeds, be the guest of
IV. Beckett, Esq., M.P.
WrNE.—The following is given by the Journal de
Bercy as the approximate quantity of spirit contained in
i,oine of the best known wines :—Bordeaux, 13 per cent.;
Burgundy, 14 ' • Champagne, 11 ; Constantia, 10 ; From-
tignan Lunel, 11 ; Cote Rotie, 12 ; White Kermitage,
17 ; Red ditto, 12; Madeira, 20 ; Malaga, 17 ; Port,
24; Tokay, 10. It is, however, to be remarked, that
the difference of a single degree of latitude, an aspect
more or less favourable, or a system of cultivation more
or less intelligent way, and dues, modify the above ra-
fiultil.—(Ailipiani.