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

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Mann 22.
The Queen and Prince Consort, with the Princess
Royal and Princess Alice, rode out on horseback this
forenoon, attended by the Countess of Desart, Major
General Buckley, and Captain the Hon. D. De Ems.
The Prince of Wales also rode on horseback.
His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Leiningen took
his departure this morning for Plymouth.
The Bdl4itins Minister ( 'Mons. Fan de Weyer) has also
left the Castle.

The French Ambassador had an audience of the Queen
this day, to announce officially from the Emperor of the
French the birth of the Pricica Imperial. His Excel-
lency was introduced by Viscount Palmerston, acting
for the Eirl of Clarendon, Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs,
Lord Camoys was Lord in Waiting.

SUNDAY.
The Qneen and Prince, the Princess Royal and
Princess Alice, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the C )urt,
and the Domestic Houehold, attended Divine service
this morning in the chapel of the Castle.
The King of the Belgians and the Duchess of Kent
we►o also at the service.
The Hon. and Very Rev, the Dean of Windsor per-
formed the service and administered the Holy Sacra-
ment.

The grand parterre was crowded with visitors from all
parts, who had availed themselves of the reduction of
the South-Western fare during the S ►turday preceeding
the Easter week, and the Sunday and Monday follow-
ing, tickets being granted for the three days The fine
bands of the 2,1 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 Rail way.
Owing to the fineness of the weather, the Court will
remain at Windsor, according to the present arrange.
ment, until Tuesday week.

Mr. Albeit Smith has just bean honoured by her
Maj• sty's commands, through Colonel Phipps, to give
his well-known entertainment of Mont Blanc, at Wind-
sor Castle, o■ Tuesday next. -
The Duke of Argyll arrived in town on Friday night.
Viscount Palnfrrston left town for Windsor Castle
after the Cabinet Council on Saturday afternoon. His
lordship r-turaed 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 Counci.l 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 Nord denounces the annexation of Oude as an
abominable spoliation attempted to be juet)fied by
" lying pretexts."
A. letter from Genoa, of the 15th, announces the ar-
rival at Nervi of the ex-Queen Maria Amelie, accom-
panied by the Duchess of Orleans.
The Rev. Henry Melville, principal of Haileybury
College, has been appointed to the Canonry of St. Paul's
Cathedral, vacant by the elevation of the Rev. Montagu
Villiers to the Bishopric of Carlisle.
LIVING OF ALL HALLOWS THE 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'f, Saffron-hill.
WAR. MOVEMENTS—LIVERPOOL, Saturday.—H. M.S.
Hecla, 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 Waddinoton, the chairman of
the Eastern Counties Railway Company, to become a
candidate for the borough of Cetnbridge at the next
general election.
THE GRAND DUKE or' SAXE \VEISIAR._A letter from
Weimar, of the 15th, in the Cologne Guzzle, says ;
" The Grand Duke is senou•ly, 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 he got any sleep."
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—A telegraph despatch
was received last night from. Mr. Lumley, who is at present
in Paris, announcing that he has all but completed ar-
rangements which well ensure a first-rate 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 ; tetel visit 're, 1,680.
Gaunt 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. Trio Count is said to pay assi-
duous court to the Emperor, asking in every debate in
the Conference what the Enipe..or thinks on the subject,
and in almost every instance immediately ranging him-
self on that side.
EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE OF TWO PRISONERS FROM
THE MODEL PRISON.-0a Saturday morning, a full de-
scription of two well-known convicts, who made their
escape on Thursday last from the Model Prison, Penton-
.'rifle, was circulated by the Ceminiesieners of Police,
Scotland-yard. The escape of the prisoners seems to be
unparalleled, and beyond all previous prison breaking.
It appears that the two prisoners bad been some time
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 !Jacket's 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 bow at present seems to ben 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, which 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 fiend 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 authorities hafi 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 22.—T0-day the Peninsular and
Oriental Company's paddle-wheel steam-ship Valetta,
and the fine screw steam-ship Pera went 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 Ve-
tette' a clipper-built peddle-wheel vessel, is of only 770
tons burden and 400 horse power, and was built by the
Messrs. Mare, of London, for the rapid conveyance of
the overland mails between Malta and Marseilles. The
Pere, also constructed by the same eminent ship-
builders, although of 2,600 tons burden, or in fact about
1,900 tons larger than the Valetta, has only the addi- (From, Second Edition of Morning Post.)
tion of 50 horse power; the comparatively small diffe-
SUNDAY, 6 P.M.
rence of speed showing great preference in favour of the The Siecle conveys intelligence from St. Peters-
screw. Both these ships have been some time at South- burg which shadows forth, according to this auth o-
ampton effecting repairs, the latter vessel having uater- rity, some of the leading articles of the expected
tunately become disarranged in the machinery when on treaty. 1. Russia consents to the neutralisation of
her first voyage to Alexandria with the India and Medi- the Black Sea. 2. Sebastopol is not again to be-
terranean mails. Under the superintendence of Mr.
come a war depot, and the reconstruction of the for-
Lamb, superintending engineer of the Peninsular and
tresses are prohibited. 3. Nicolaieff is to be reduced
Oriental Company, and the Messrs. Rennie, the con- to a commercial pert. 4. Russia is to abandon her
structors of the engines, the Pens is believed to be in 5. Russia re-
thorough sea-going condition, and will sail from South-
ampton on the 4th proximo for-Alexandria with the nounces certainterritoriesiu Bessarabia,which leaves
India, China, and Mediterranean mails. The Valetta
the navigation of the Danube perfectly
to trace the erfectly free. 6. A
takes her departure for Malta on the 27th inst., touching commission is to be appointed new
at the Peninsular ports with the mails en route. Several frontiers in this district. 7. Ihe fact of a Russian
of the directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Corn- soldier passing the Pruth is to be looked upon as a
pany, together with their friends, were present to witness cases Belli by the contracting Powers. I believe
the trial, after the completion of which the Petri steamed this information is correct, and to which might be
roiled the fleet at Spithead, and then made a run added a revision of the Asiatic frontiers of Turkey,
through the squadron of gun boats which lie anchored I to accomplish which a commission will be also ap-
at the Motherbank. Both vessels were in excellent trim.
pointed. The domestic organisation of the Prin-
Digit g the trial the Pera averaged 32i revolutions of the cipalities will, I believe, be a subject of future dis-
engin, a, or 65 of the screw, with 1911 b. of steam, the cession. Turkey has no desire to interfere with
coals used being from the Duffryn Collieries of Messrs.
41,
e municipal privileges of the Principalities, but
Powell and Sons. The facilities of Cunningham's patent '"
reefine topsails, with which the Pera is fitted, were ex- she has every right to insist on possessing those
!Ante (Land explained to those on board, and were pro- military defences which are the outposts of her ems
nom cod to be a great addition in perfecting the fittings piss. It ruay be that Austria has peculiar views on
of a sailiag-vtigel 0 large dimming. I this subject, but question if they will prevail,

It is a remarkable as well as an unpleasant circum-
stance, that Prince Jerome, the uncle, and Prince
Louis Lucien, cousin of the Emperor, should
both, in consequence of circumstances beyond their
control, have been unable to sign the A cte de N ais-
sance of the infant Prince. It is owing to these
circumstances that only two witnesses, instead of
four, appear in the programme of the ceremonial
observed on the occasion.

ATe Deum was chanted to-day at Notre Dame,
as in all the cathedrals of France, in thanksgiving
for the Empress's delivery. The Ministers and
other public functionaries were present in uniform.
The Emperor was not present, nor the Diplomatic
Corps. The Emperor and Empress will both attend
the re Deum in June, on the occasion of the solemn
baptism of the Prince.

Prince Jerome's improvement is going on with-
out interruption. It was announced to-day at the
Palais Royal that no more bulletins would be

issued.

The Minister of Finance, M. Magne, gives a
grand dinner on Tuesday to the Plenipotentiaries,
and a ball in the course of the evening.