The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-12 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

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WINDSOR, FEE. 11.
The Queen held a Court and Privy Council at half-past
two o'clock, in the Castle.
The Privy Council was attended by his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, the Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President),
the Earl of Minto (Lord Privy Seal), Lord John Russell
(First Lord of the Treasury), Sir George Grey (Secretary of
State for the Home Department), Viscount Palmerston
(Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs), the Earl of Carlisle
(Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster), the Marquis of Clan-
ricsrde (Post-Master General), the Marquis of Westminster
(Lord Steward), the Marquis of Breadalbane (Lord Cham-
berlain), the Duke of Norfolk (Alaster of the Horse), and the
Marquis of Abercorn (Groom of the Stole to the Prince).
At the Council her Majesty pricked the list of Sheriffs for
the different counties of England and Wales, for the present
year.
Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint Sir R. Wil-
liams Bulkeley to be Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Car-
narvon, the oaths appointed to be taken thereupon were ad-
ministered to the Honourable Baronet.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council
in Waiting.
At the Court a deputation of Protestant Dissenting minis-
ters of the three denominations had an audience of the Queen
to present an address to her Majesty on the Papal aggres-
sion. The deputation was introduced by the Right Hon. Sir
G. Grey, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of .State for .the
Home Department.
The deputation was comprised of the following :—The
Rev. Dr. Steane, the Rev. R. Littler, the Rev. Edward
Mannering, the Rev. Jes. J. Freeman, Rev. William
Groser, Rev. George W. Fishbourne, Rev. Josiah Viney,
the Rev. William Brock, Rev. J. C. Gallaway, A.M., Rev.
William Alexander Blake, Rev. Clement Dukes, A.M.
(Dalston), Rev. Joseph Rothery, Rev. Robert Redpath,
A M., Rev. S. B. Bergne, the :Rev. John Staughton, Rev.
John Hoppus, LLD., Rev. George Smith, and the Rev.
Israel May Soule.
The Duke of Newcastle had an audience of the Queen,
and delivered to her Majesty the ensigns of the Most Noble
Order of the Garter, worn by his father, the late Duke of
Newcastle. _

The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President) had an
audience of the Queen.

-.l.WdLovat, Lord Dormer, and Lord Vaux, of Harrowden,
had an audience of her Majesty.
Lord John Russell had an audience of the Queen. Her
Majesty was attended by Lord Dufferin, Lord in waiting, and
Lieut.-Col. Hon. R. Boyle, Groom in Waiting.
A dejeuner was served in the Castle to the Ministers and
officers of state present at the Court, and also to the Pro-
testant Dissenting ministers of the three denominations.
The Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Newcastle. Lord
John Russell, the Earl of Carlisle, the Marquis of Clanri-
carde, the Marquis of Westminster, the Earl of Minto, Sir
George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, and the Hon. W. Ba-
thurst, travelled from town to attend the Council by a spe-
cial train on the Great Western Railway, arriving at the
Castle at eight minutes past two o'clock.
The Ministers took their departure from the Castle at five
minutes before four o'clock, and returned to London by a spe-
cial train on the Great Western Railway.
The Queen, with their Royal Highnesses the Princess
Alice and the Princess Helena, drove out this morning in a
pony carriage in Windsor Park, Lord Charles Fitzroy at-
tending on horseback.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out hunting,
attended by Lord Dufferin and Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. A.
Gordon.
The younger members of the Royal Family took their
usual airings.
The Royal dinner party this evening included her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, Baroness de Speth, the Mar-
quis and Marchioness of Breadalbane, and the Marquis and
Marchioness of Abercorn.
The band of the Coldstream Guards attended at the Castle
and performed the following pieces during dinner :
Overture, " Oberon" ................ • Weber.
Valse, " Rose de Mai"
Selection, " Zanetta"
....... Auber.
Qua
r(i:trin Song,
"The Hungarian" ..................... Jullien.
... Barnett,
Yolks, " Lallah
Her Majesty's private.. band afterwards attended this
o or Chorus,itookh " Mountain.
..
..
.. ... .......
evening.
The band of the Royal Horse Guards performed the fol-
lowing selection at dinner yesterday (Monday), at the
Castle:—
Overture, " Les Diomans tie la Couronne" Auber.
Waltz, " Jubel Klange aus Albion"
Selection, " Exhibition Quadrille" Jullien.
•• ..... •-. Barnett.
afterwards attended and performed,
iolin,
... Mendelssohn.
eminent artistes
aHrce hr Finale,,Al,l,satNj
Majesty's
"Mountain:mpmrievratse ibgahnSt
band,
Sylph"
Dream"'t
hs
from the orchestras of the Philarmonic Concerts and Royal
aunndderThleiandireOeptieorna'of Mr. Anderson, the following pieces:—
Overture, " La Muette de Portim."
....Auber.
Adagio and Presto Scherzando (from concerto
...........Beethoven.
D minor)—pianoforte Mr. W. G. Cusins ...Mendelssohn.
Mendelsshon.
FantasiaHscahinzitess. Aor
u:nr.
-Sainton.
Scherzo Moho Vivace and Adagio Molto e
Jubilee Overture .................... .
Theme
....................
Cantabile (from Sinfonia No. 9)

The School of Design had a meeting yesterday, at the
Board of Trade.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office,
from the Governor of Gambia.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester-
day.
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was Telegraphresud and again Company,
adjourned.

PROPERTY AND INCOME TAX.—AccordiDt tO areturn issued yesterday, the amounts of property in ngland
and Wales, assessed under schedule A of the property and
income tax were, in the years ending April 5, 1814 and 1815,
53,495.3751., and for the years 1842. 1845, and 1846, they
have been respectively 85,802,7341., 88,724,2521., and
94,538,472/. For Scotland, the amounts have been, in the
years in 1842, 9,481,763/. ; in
18 5,
977314
4,57
61 1815,;
and
6164
in
12,9
8485,51/.;,714,423/.0
CALAMITOUS OCCURRENCE AND Loss OF LIFE NEAR
PORTMAN- SQ [TARE. Yesterday afternoon, a gentleman,
named Samuel Parnell, who resided at No. 7, Baker-street, 1
was noticed sitting in front of the fire reading the news-
paper. Soon after that time an acquaintance called to see
the unfortunate gentleman, when, on some one proceeding
to his room and opening the door, Mr. Parnell was found
sitting in his chair completely enveloped in flame. A young
lady rushed into the house for the purpose of rendering
assistance; but, being unsuccessful, and owing to the density
of the smoke and the body of flame, she dropped senseless
on the floor, where she would soon have been suffocated had
it not been for the exertions of some of the other inmates.
t The flames were extinguished, but not until Mr. Parnell
was burnt to death. The unfortunate deceased NM 88 years
1 pf age,