The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-09 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, JAN. 8.
The dinner party, yesterday, included her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent, his Royal Highness the
Count of Flanders, Baroness de Speth, and Captain
Marnelle.

The band of the Grenadier Guards played during din-
ner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards performed
in the Castle.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by
the Count of Flanders, went out shooting this morn-
ing.
The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred went to Lon-
don, and attended Mr. Faraday's lecture at the Royal
Institution.

The Princess Helena and Louisa dreye out in an open
carriage.

The Countess Persigny received company, last even-
ing, at the residence of the French embassy, Albert-gate
House.

The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland are still at
Trentham. The Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford
have left on a visiting tour.

The Duke of Leed-s is expected to arrive in town, on
Friday next, from Hornby Castle, Yorkshire.
The Earl of Ellesmere arrived at Bridgwater House,
yesterday, from Ratchford, near Cobham.
Viscount and Viscountess Villiers have joined the
pirele visiting the Earl and Countess Craven, at Ashdown
Park.

Viscount Falkland has taken a mansion in Eaton-
place.
Sir T. Moncrieffe has been dangerously ill during the
last three weeks, at Moncrieffe House. We regret to
learn that the hon. baronet still continues in a precarious
state.

His Excellency the Lord•Lientenant dined with the
Hibernian Catch Club last evening.
Mr. Edgar, son of the Rev. Dr. Edgar, of Belfast, has
been appointed sub-inspector of factories for the north
of Ireland, in the room of the late Mr. Hudson.
Among the candidates for the office of librarian of the
Queen's Inns, vacant by the death of Mr. Millar, Q.C.,
there are some gentlemen of high standing at the Irish
bar.

Mr. Wallerstein, Consul-General for the Republic of
Costa Rica, had an interview with the Earl of Claren-
don yesterday.
Despatches from the Governor of Malta were received
yesterday at the Colonial-office.
APPROACHING MARRIAGE! IN HIGH LIFE.—A matri-
monial alliance is about to take place between Captain
Sayer, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, ➢eputy Assistant Adju-
tant-General at head-quarters, and Miss Phipps, eldest
daughter of Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, C. 8., and
niece of the Marquis of Normanby.
EXECUTION OF ABRAHAM BAKER.—The convict Baker
underwent the extreme penalty of the law, yesterday
morning, at Winchester. He died penitent.
GREENWICH RAILWAY.—The half-yearly meeting of
the Greenwich Railway Company, the line of which is
leaned by the South-Western, was held yesterday, and a
dividend of ss. 3d. per share, free of income tax, declared.
A meeting of the Finance Committee of the Royal
Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 was held yester-
day, at the Privy Council Office. There were present
Earl Granville (chairman), Sir Wm. Cubitt, Mr. Coulsoe,
QC., Mr. T. F. Gibson, and Mr. Edgar Bowring (seers-
tary). Mr. H. R. Williams, financial officer, was also
prtsent.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY.-A statement having. gone
abroad to the effect that Sir Brook Bridges, Bart., is
likely to be brought forward at the next general elec-
tion, by the University of Oxford, in the room of Mr.
Gladstone, we are authorised to give an unqualified con-
tradiction to such statement, whist), as far as the hon.
bart. is concerned, is entirely without foundation.—
Kentish Observer.

THE SUREET GARDENS' COMPANY, the advertisement
of which appears in our columns this day, is well spoken
of in all quarters. Concerts, presided over and directed
by Mons. Jullien, who has done more to improve the
taste of the million than any one of his time, will always
attract. The plans of the building proposed to be erected
have been carefully arranged by Mr. Jones, whose cha-
racter as an architect is well established. The musical
world will be well satisfied to see such names as Beale
and Chappell taking part in the scheme, and by reserv-
ing to the shareholders the choice of the officers and
managers, the evils of jobbery in the direction will be
avoided. The calculations estimate a dividend of 10
per cent., and a retur❑ of all the capital in five years, as
bonus.

BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES.—At the grand wardmote
held at Guildhall on Monday- the Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor in the chair—the following resolution was handed
into court by the foreman of the inquest of St. Dunstan-
in-the-West :—" We, your inquest, take this opportunity
to state that, being fully sensible of the importance of
public baths and wash houses, in a moral, social, and
sanitary point of view, and, as likely, if established in
the city of London, to induce in an important degree to
the comfort and well-being of our fellow citizens, desire
to draw the especial attention of your worshipful court
to the project now before the corporation of London for
the establishment of public baths and wash•houses in
the ward of Farringdon Without, in the hope that it
may meet with your influential support." The Lord
Mayor assured the inquest that the recommendation
should receive the immediate and respectful attention of
the 'court.

TIIE RUGELET PofeoNlNGlCasE.—There is every rea-
son to suppose that, in addition to the cases in which
Palmer appears to have been so successful, be enter-
tained designs of a similar character with regard to,four
or five gentlemen with whom he had money transactions,
and who are now residing in London, Manchester, New-
castle, Cambridge, and Nottingham. His modus ope-
randi seems to have been to invite his intended victims
to pay him a friendly visit, for two or three days, at a
time when he knew they would have a considerable sum
of money about them ; and, had they accepted the invi-
tation, there can be very little doubt what the end would
have been. A thorough and searching investigation is
proceeding, and, though the evidence in each of the
above cases may not be strong enough to establish a
criminal charge, the discoveries which are being brought
to light will be of no small value as a collateral corro-
boration of those points which can be more clearly and
circumstantially proved.
THE MISSING ENGINEER OFFICEBS.—A coat of ono
of the missing engineer officers has been picked up in
the Medway, near a place called Bartlet's-hole, at Lower
Rainhana, a short distance from the spot where Ensign
Macdonell'n body was found. The persons who found it
took it to Brompton barracks, and placed it in the hands
obfoaCtainpgt. Fpaitrztryo.y SAomerset, the adjutant, and it has since
been identified as having belonged to Ensign Eden, and
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of the Messrs. Battine reside
in the neighbourhood of
Cheltenham.