The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-22 00:00:00

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A. R. IRVINE, Acting Staff Surgeon,
Ordnance Department, in Charge of Observatory.
Kertch, Dec. 29, 1855.

COURT CIRCULAR.

ENDSOR, JAN. 21.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, acc,.mpanied by
the Count of Flanders, went out shooting this morning.
Viscount PAlmerston left the Castle in the forenoon,
and the Rev. Dr. Philpott took his departure for CUM-
bridge.
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Ills Royal Highness the Count of Flanders, attended
by Captain Burnelle, left Windsor by a special train of
the South-Western Railway, at 3 o'clock in the after-
noon, for London, en route for Brussels.

The Earl and Countess of Stamford and Warrington
left town, yesterday, for Paris.
Viscount Palmerston returned to town, yesterday,
from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The
Viscountess Palmerston went to St. Leonarde-on-Sea on
Saturday last, to visit the Viscountess Jocelyn. Her
ladyship returns to town at the close of the week.
Lady Macdonald was safely delivered of a daughter
yesterday, at the family mansion in Berkeley-square.
Lieut.-Colonel Edwin Wodebouso, C. 8., Royal Artil-
lery, has arrived in London from the Crimea.
Mr. and Mrs. Hurnby have left Edwards's Private
Hotel, in George-street, for the continent. Mr. J.
Wilkes has arrived at the same establishment.
It was rumoured in Paris yesterday, that 31. de
horny will be the Plenipotentiary fur Frince at the
coming Conferences, supposing them to be held abroad.
M. de 3lorny is, it is said, desirous of peace at any
price.
M. Fallout will shortly publish his history of the two
last Assemblies in France—the Constituent and the
Legislative.
Mr. S. Warren, Q.C., is to be the Conservative can-
didate
to fill the vacancy at Midhurst, of Mr. Walpole,
who retires.
Orders have been received at Pembroke-yard fron► the
Admiralty to prepare a set of drawings of the Victor
Emmanuel (late Repulse) for his Majesty the King of
Sardinia.
Lieut.-Colonel Edwin Wodehouse, C. 8., Royal Artil-
lery, has arrived in London from the Crimea.
A marriage was celebrated at Kainiesb a few weeks
since.

Cornelius O'Brier, Esq., ALP. for Cl3re, arrived at
Limer ck oa Friday, fro►n t,is beautiful scat at Birehfield,
and left for Dublin .

The Address in the Commons will be moved by the
Hon. G. H. C. Byng, M.P., for Tavistock, and seconded
by Mr. W. E. Baxter, M,P. for Montrose.
In the Bernese Oberland, especially on the St. Go-
thard route, the temperature is just now extraordinarily
mild. The snow melts and falls in heavy avalanches.
It is said that Sir J. Dean Paul and Mr. Strahan, the
convict bankers, are busily employed in prison, the for-
mer at tailoring, and the latter at chairmaking.
His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the
Countess Persigny have issued cards for a dinner party
on Thursday next.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, who
have been stayirg for some time at Nice, are now on
their way to Rome, where they purpose remaining until
the spring. The noble marquis and her ladyship have it
in cootemplation to visit the Crimea and Sebastopol be-
fore returning to England.
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon arrived in town
yesterday, from the Grove. The funeral of the Hon.
Mrs. Villiers took place at Watford at the close of last
week.

The Earl and Countess of Erroll have arrived in
Eaton-place, at the residence of Mr. James Duff, M.P.,
from Scotland.

The Earl of Munster has taken a mansion at Rutland-
gate.

- The Lord President of the Council, Earl Granville, as
leader of the Ministerial party in the House of Lords,
gives a full-dress banquet on the 30th, to which the fol-
lowing peers are invited : —The Lord Chancellor, the
Duke of Argyll, the Duke of Wellingtou, the Marquis
of Lansd)wne, the Earl of Clarendon, the Earl of Har-
rowby, Earl Spencer, the Earl of Bessborough, the Mar-
quis of Breadalbane, 'Viscount Sydney, Lord Stanley of
Alderley, Lord Panmure, Lord Foley, Lord Wodehouse,
and the mover and seconder of the address upon the
Royal Speech.

Viscount Palmerston gives a full-dress Parliamentary
banquet on the 30th inst. to the following :—The
Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir G. Grey, the
Right Hon. Henry Lahouehera, the Right Hon. M. T.
Baines, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right
Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Sir C. Wood, the Secretary for
Ireland, the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, Sir Benjamin
Hall, the Right Hon. R. Lowe, the Right Hon. E. P.
Bouverie, the Right Hon. the Eirl of Mulgrave, Lord
E. Bruce, Lord Alfred Paget, Viscount Duncan, Vis-
count Drutulanrig, the Hon. H. Brand, Sir Maurice F.
Berkeley, the Right Hon. G. H. Hayter, the Attorney-
Judge-Advocate,
General, the Solicitor-General, the Lord Advocate, the
sell, Mr. J. Wilson, and the mover and seconder of the
Mr. F. Peel, Mr. Osborne, Mr. Mon-
address to the Royal Speech.
Despatches from the Governors of the Cape of Good
Hope, the Gambia, Sierra Leone, and the Gold Coast,
were received, yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
Despatches from the Governors of Australia and
Malta were sent, last evening, from the Colonial-office.
Mme. Ristori is expected to perform for 10 nights at
Vienna in the course of ensuing month. Her return to
the f taliens, Paris, mv be looked for early in March.