The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-27 00:00:00

PRIVY COUNCIL.

WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—Her Majesty held a Privy
Council at Windsor Castle, at three o'clock this
afternoon.

The Council was attended by his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, the Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord
President), the Lord Chancellor, Lord John Russell
(First Lord of the Treasury), Sir George Grey
(Secretary of State for the Home Department), Earl
Grey (Secretary of State for the Colonies), the Right
Hon. Henry Labouchere (President of the Board of
Trade), the Right lion. Fox Maule (Secretary at
War), the Marquis of Clanricarde (Postmaster-
General), Lord Seymour (First Commissioner of
Public Works and Buildings), Earl Granville, and the
Marquis of Westminster (Lord Steward).
Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the
Right Hon. Granville George, Earl Granville, to be
one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State,
he was this day, by command of her Majesty, sworn
one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State ac-
cordingly.
Mr. C. Greville was clerk of the Council in
waiting.
The Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord John Russell,
and Earl Granville had audience of her Majesty.
Earl Granville received from the Queen his seals of
office as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
The Court was attended by Lord Edward Howard,
Vice-Chamberlain ; the Marquis of Ormonde, Lord
in Waiting ; and Colonel the Hon. N. Hood, Groom
in Waiting.
The Earl of Westmoreland had an audience of the
Queen. _ _

The Lord Chancellor, Sir George Grey, Earl Grey,
the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Right Hon. Fox
Maule, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Westminster,
Mr. C. Greville, and Lord Edward Howard,
travelled from London by a special train on the
Great Western Railway ito attend the Council.
Lord John Russell travelled from Pembroke-lodge,
Richmond-park; and the Marquis of Lansdowne
and Lord Seymour arrived from Bowood-park
Wiltshire. The Right Hon. Henry 1,
oucuere
T.v
came from Stoke.

After the Council the Marquis of
Lansdowne and
Lord Seymour returned to Bowood, Lord John Rug-
sell returned to Richmond, and the Bight non. 11'
Labouchere to Stoke.

The Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, and the rest
of the Ministers and.,,,Oilicers of State, returned to
London by special train on the Great Western Rail-
way, taking their departure from the Castle at twenty
minutes past four o'clock.
14u Luncheon was served to the official circle in the
Castle, previous to the Privy Council.

ROYAL MARINBS*-
WOOLWICH, DSC. 26.—PRO-
luOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Colonel SecondC9rnmandant
John; Rawlins Coryton, of the Ply mouth division, to be
Colonel-Commandant, and appointed to the same division,
',ee Gordon, retired. Lieutenant-Colonel Stephen Giles, of
Chatham division, to be Colonel Second Commandant, and
appointed to Plymouth, vice Coryton. Brevet-Major James
Whitcomb, of the Chatham division. to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, and appointed to the same diviaion, vice Giles.
First Lieutenant Richard Farmer, of the Plymouth division,
to be Captain, and appointed to the Chatham division, vice
Whitcomb. Second Lieutenant Dixon Whidbey Curry, of
the Plymouth division, to be First Lieutenant, and appointed
to the same division, vice Farmar.

DEATH OF SIR WILLIAM B. COOKE, BART.--We
have to record the demise of Sir William Bryan Cooke,
Bart., of Wheatley-hall, near Doncaster. The deceased
gentler= yeas ig hie 59th year, hayhig been Wm in 1792.