The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-24 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S COURT AND PRIVY

COUNCIL.

WINDSOR, OCT. 23.—The Queen held a Court and
Privy Council, at one o'clock this afternoon, at the
Castle.
The Privy Council was attended by his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, the Marquis cf Lansdowne
(Lord President), the Lord Chancellor, Lord John.
Russell (First Lord of the Treasury), Viscount Pal-
merston (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) Sir
Francis Baring (First Lord of the Admiralty), Lord
Broughton (President of the Board of Control), the
Right Hon. Henry Laboucbere (President of the
Board of Trade), the Earl of Carlisle (Chancellor of
the Duchy of Lancaster), the Duke of Norfolk (Mas•
ter of the Horse), and the Marquis of Abercorn
(Groom of the Stole to the Prince).
The Right Honourable Edward Lord Seymour,
First Commissioner of Woods and Forests, was, by
command of the Queen, sworn of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council, and took his seat at the
board.

Earl Granville, Vice-President of the Board of
Trade, also took his place at the Council.

At the Council Parliament was ordered to be fur-
ther prorogued from the 4th of I\ ovember to the 15th
of January.
The Honourable William Bathurst was Clerk of
the Council in Waiting:
TLans-
downe. ee Queen
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as
tiary from her Majesty the Queen of Portugal, had an
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
audience of her Majesty to deliver his credentials.
His Excellency was introduced by Viscount Palmer-
ston, G.C.8., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs.
The Countess de Lavradio was presented to the
Queen by the Viscountess Palmerston.
The Honourable John Bligh, the Queen's Minister
Plenipotentiary to the King of Hanover, was pre-
sented to her Majesty, at an audience, by Viscount
Palmerston, on his return, on leave of absence, from
Hanover.
Mr. John Shepherd, chairman of the East India
Company, and Sir James Weir Hogg, deputy-chair-
man, had an audience of the Queen on
the part of the
Court of Directors of the East India Company, who,
in grateful recollection of the patronage vouchsafed by
the Queen to the Great Exhibition of the Works of
all Nations, and more particularly to the Indian sec-
tion of it, had, by a unanimous resolution, requested
that their chairman and deputy-chairman should
offer fur her Majesty's gracious acceptance, a speci-
men of each of the principal articles exhibited by the
East India Company. The chairman and deputy-
chairman were presented to the Queen by Lord
Broughton, President of the Board of Control for the
affairs of India.

Mr. Richard Kindersley and Mr. James Parker
(nominated Vice-Chancellors) were presented to her
Majesty by Viscount Palmerston (officiating for Sir
G. Grey, Home Secretary), and received the honour
of knighthood from her Majesty..
Mr. Joseph Paxton, Mr. William Cubitt, and Mr.
Charles Fox, were severally presented to the Queen
by Viscount Palmerston, and had the honour of
knighthood conferred upon them by her Majesty.
The Right Hon. Sir David Dundas, Judge Advo-
cate-General, had an audience of the Queen, and sub-
mitted to her Majesty the proceedings of some courts-
martial.

The Queen was attended by the Earl of Morley,
Lord in Waiting, the Vice-Chamberlain, and Sir Ed-
ward Bowater, Groom in Waiting.
Luncheon was served in the Castle to the noblemen
and gentlemen attending her Majesty's Court.
The Lord Chancellor, Viscount Palmerston, the
Earl of Carlisle, Lord Broughton, Sir F. Baring,
Lord Seymour, Lord E. Howard, Sir D. Dundas,
and the lion. W. Bathurst, travelled from town to at-
tend the Court by a special train of the Great Wes-
tern Railway. The Marquis of Lansdowne travelled
from his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts, to attend the
Council.

Most of the Ministers left the Castle at twenty mi-
nutes before three, and returned to town by a special
train on the Great Western Railway.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, OCT. 23.
At three o'clock a meeting of the Royal Commis-
sion for the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of
all Nations was held in the Castle, his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert presiding. The other Royal Com-
missioners present were :—Earl Granville, Lord John
Russell, the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, Sir
Richard Westmacott, Sir Charles L. Eastlake, Sir
William Cubitt, Mr. T. P. Gibson, Mr. Piney, M.P.,
and Mr. John Shepherd.
Mr. Scott Russell and Mr. Edgar Bowring, secre-
taries of the Royal Commission, attended.
Lieutenant-Colonel Reid (chairman), Mr. Henry
Cole, and Mr. Charles W. Dile, of the Executive
Committee were present.
Dr. Lyon Playfair and Colonel Lloyd, Special
Commissioners, also attended.

The Marquis andikla;ci)ioness of Abercorn and
Lady Harriet Hamilton, Earl Granville, and Viscount
Canning took their departure from the Castle to-day.
The Queen and Prince walked in the Slopes and on
the Terrace, this morning.
The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred walked
with her Majesty and his Royal Highness. The
Princess Royal and the younger members of the
Royal Family took their usual exercise.
His Excellency Monsieur and Madame Van de
Weyer are expected to arrive this evening at the
Castle, on a visit to the Queen.
The following had the honour of dining with her
Majesty yesterday (Wednesday) evening :—The
Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn and Lady
Harriet Hamilton, Earl Granville, Viscount Canning,
and Colonel Bouverie.

Her Majesty's private band attended after dinner
in the Castle, and played the following selection :
Overture, " Heimkehr aus der
Frembe"
Quartetto—No. 3, Op. 18, Allegro ;
Andante con moto ; Allegro presto;
2 violins, viola, and violincello.
_ _

Messrs. Sainton, Cusins, Hill, and
Cbip
Danse Bohemienne
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of South Australia, dis-
patches were also received from the Governors of
Hong Kong, Ceylon, Malta, and the Mauritius.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.
One of the most prominent features in the British
machinery department took its departure ytsterday,
and was safely conveyed to its permanent location.
We mean the monster engine of the Great Western
Railway Company, which was rolled out of the
Crystal Palace in the morning, and drawn in safefty
by the united strength of eighteen horses to the Pad-
dington terminus. This locomotive monster, which
weighs twenty-nine tons, on first emerging in the
road, buried its wheels in the gravel, but was at
length persuaded to move, and performed the rest of
the journey in a reasonable manner. The other ar-
ticles of bulk in the same district are rapidly disap-
pearing, but on the opposite side our continental
neighbours are not so active in their movements as
the Executive Committee could wish. The impression
is that they are endeavouring to make sales, but
are
the retarded in their object by the prohibition against
entry of any penons into the building, except Ex-
hibitors.is
It
rumoured that, in addition to the ceremonial
described in the Circular, a decision was come to by
the Royal Commission, awarding to Joseh
Paxton the sum of 5,000/. for his services inSir designinpg
the Crystal Palace.

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DEATH OF J 1 RE ROYAL HIGHNESS TILE
DUCHESS IY ANGOULEME.
We have stated, on the authority of a letter from
Frohsdorff, that on the 15th inst. the Duchess D'An-
gouleme was attacked by severe illness, but that on
the 16th there was a favourable change,
phy-
sicians hoped for her recovery. Subsequent accounts,bie
however, inform us that on the 17thduonnfatvhe 19th ,
symptoms again declared themselves, an
Highness
at eleven o'clock in the morning, herßoyalinher 73d year,
and her
expired. The deceased Princess was
1778.
The Count
having been born on I9th Dec.,
ue t
De Chambord did not his
of her short but severe illness,ke awhichd
iusrisntegtetdhetewbheovlee
cold. The Assembles
g. announcement of the
Naraisteionnalferombae
death, signed " Pastoret :'
with a sentiment of pro-
found• with a broken heart,
" It is
that we announce a very sad piece of
sorrow,
France, Europe, society, and religion have sus-
tainedsuddenlythe an irreparable loss—± h e daughter of Louis XVI,,
that admirable
foralonger time tht.n he, has just given up to God a
'
soul which God had formed to be the strength of some
and the example of all '—Marie Therese Charlotte of
France bas just died. In tracing these words the pen
stops in our hand. To-morrow, perhaps, we will en-
deLsour to speak of her to those who know her, and who
will weep fo4 her—to those who wero not fortunate
enough to know her, and whose providence she would
have been. Never did the Lord call to himself a more
noble heart—never did France lose a heurt more truly
French. She (lied in the bosom of thu Lord, but she
died without again seeing France."

On Friday two truckF, forming part of the heavy
goods train, and gaily decorated with flags, entered the
Swansea terminus of the South Wales Railway. This de-
monstra.lion was called forth to celebrate the transit of the
first specimens cf steam-coal forwarded from Aberdare over
the Vale of Death and South Wales Railways,toS:fvawnhseicah.
The display was well worthy of the occasion, for finer speci-
mens of this valuable material it has never yet been our lot
to set eyes upon. There were in all eleven pieces,
two were ten feet in length. The pieces were of various
weights, from 1 to 214. tons. One
jaonnfdtandeelpwaotastgietrgeomdno,nsdtrearwlnumbpys
horses,was oon p
propriat Saturdayely conveyed in
in the Royal
Institution of South Wales.—Swansea Herald.