The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-17 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, JAN. 16.
The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
took their usual early morning walk.
The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise.
in the Slopes and 'Windsor Park.

The Earl of Aberdeen, Sir George Grey, and the
Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, left the Castle to-day.
Her Majesty's private band attended in the Castle
yesterday evening after dinner, and performed the
following selection :
Marcia Punebre, Rondo, Allegro
vi-
vace ; Sinfonia
Turkish March, " Ruins of Athens" Beethoven.
Divertissement, "La Prophete" Meyerbeer.

A Cabinet Council was held at half-past two yester-
day at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Mi-
nisters present were—Lord John Russell, the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George
Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Sir
John Hobhouse, the Earl of Carlisle, the Right
Hon. Henry Labouchere, the Marquis of Clanri-
carde, and the Right Hon. Fox Maule.
The Lord Chancellor arrived at the Foreign -office at
half-past three o'clock, and joined his colleagues.
The Council sat three hours.

M. Felipe Molina, Minister of Costa Rica, trans-
acted business with Viscount Palmerston, at the
Foreign-office, yesterday.
A deputation, consisting of the Rev. Charles Hume,
B.A. (Rector of St. Michael, Wood-street), Mr.
Nicholay, J. Bushnan, M.D., Mr. C. F. J. Lord, Mr.
W. Rogers (Barrister at Law), Mr. C. R. Walsh,
Mr. W. D. Bruce, F.S.A., Mr. T. Abraham, and Mr.
A. Barnett (Honorary Secretary), had an interview
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday,
at his official residence in Downing-street.
Sir George Grey returned to town yesterday from
Windsor Castle.

Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from
the Colonial-office for the Governors of the West
Ildia Colonies, and also for the Governor of Gibraltar.
Lord and Lady John Russell had a dinner party
yesterday evening, at their residence in Chesham-
place. The company consisted of the Earl and Coun-
tess Granville, Lord Seymour, the Right Hon. Sir
Robert Adair, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, Lady
William Russell and Mr. Arthur Russell, Sir Juhn
Herschell, Mr. B. Hawes, M.P., Mr. Rich, and Mr.
Charles Dickens.

DEATH OF LORD WILLIAM SOMERSET.
We dceply regret to announce the death of Lord
William Somerset, brother of Lord Fitzroy Somerset,
and uncle of the Duke of Beaufort, who expired on
Tuesday last, at his residence at Clifton, after a severe
illness of several weeks' duration.

The deceased nobleman, who was in holy orders, was
fifth son of Henry, fifth Duke of Beaufort, and was born
2d September, 1784. He married 29th June, 1813.
Miss Elizabeth Mob 'nix, eldest daughter of the late
Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Molyneux, Bart., by whom,
who died in August, 1843, he had issue seven suns and
daughters.
His Lordship was a canon of Bristol, which he has
held since 1822, and rector of the valuable living of
Llanguttoch (Brecon), appointed in 1814, and Tormarton
(Gloucestershire), appointed in 1826.
In September, 1844, his Lordship again married, but
does not leave issue by that marriage.
The families of the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort,
the Marquis and Marchioness of Cholmondeley, the
Earl and Countess of GalloWiy, Lord and Lady Fi►zroy
Somerset, Captain Somerset, M.P., Sir W. C. and Lady
Georgian a C .drington, Sir Walter R. and Lady Mary
Farquhar, Lady Harriet Mitchell, the Hon. F. and Lady
Charlotte Calthoree, Mr. and Lady Louisa Finch, Ludy
Elizabeth Orde, and many other families of rank are
placed in mourning by the lamented decease of his
Lordship.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, CHADWELL-STREET,
Is-
LINGToN.--(From a Correspondent.)—On the 11th inst., the
ladies connected with this congregation presented their
pastor, the Rev. Walter Smith, A.M., with an elegant pul-
pit gown, to mark their approbation of his personal worth,
and of the self-denying zeal which he has displayed in dis-
charging the duties of his sacred office. Mr. Smith posses-
ses, in a high degree, the quality of an effective preacher of
the Gospel. His discourses are characterised by a style of
thought of no common vigour. At the same tine they com-
bine the piety and fervour of a devoted servant of th 4 great
sthpigrelvriings.
Head of the Church, with an uncompromising adherence. to
fundamental truths
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religion to see that under the spiritual superintendence.
of
this talented young minister, a new congregation is rapid.
an additional bulwark to our common faith against
the f
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