The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-13 00:00:00

Otr. 11.

Her Majesty the Queen and the Prince Consort drove
out yesterday, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses
the Princess Alice and Princess Helena.

MINISTERIAL AND POLITICAL
MOVEMENTS.

Viscount Palmerston, who continues at Broadlands,
Hants, in comparative retirement, is expected to arrive
in town about the middle of the week.

The Earl of Clarendon will come to town to-day to
transact the public duties of his department.

Lord Panmure will reach town from Scotland a
the close of the week.

The Marquis of Lansdowne has left Scotland on
his return south.
The Lord Chancellor has left town for his seat in
Kent, after remaining a few days in town.
The Earl of Harrowby, the Lord Privy Seal, has
left town on his return to Sandon-hall, Staffordshire.
The Lord President of the Council and the Countess
Granville, we learn by telegraph, have left Moscow and
St. Petersburg for Germany.
The Right Hon. Sir George Grey is at Falloden,
Northumberland; the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere
at Stoke Park, near Windsor ; the Duke of Argyll
at his palatial seat in Scotland ; and the Right Hon.
Robert Vernon Smith at his seat in Northamptonshire.
The First Lord of tke Admiralty, Sir Chas. Wood, is
at his seat in Yorkshire, but is expected in town in the
course of the week. Admiral the Hon. Maxrice Fitz-
hardinge Berkeley, M.P., is absent at his country seat.
Admiral Peter Richards and Captain Milne, Junior
Lords, and Mr. Phinn, the Secretary, are remaining in
town to attend to their officisl duties. Sir R. Peel is
expected to arrive from Russia about the end of the
month.

RETURN OP THE BRITISH SPECIAL MISSION

PROM RUSSIA.

HAMBURG, Oct. 9.—H.M.S. St. Jean d'Acre, 101,
Capt. St. Vincent King, with Lord and Lady Gran-
ville and the other members of the British mission to
the coronation at Moscow on board, arrived at Kiel
yesterday afternoon, just in time for the distinguished
party to catch the last train to Altona, from whence
they drove into this city and descended at the Hotel
de l'Europe, about nine o'clock in the evening. Here
the party broke up, for the Earl and Countess of Gran-
ville proceeded immediately by the night train to Ber-
lin, en route for Oarlsbad in Bohemia, whilst Sir Robert
and Lady Peel set out this morning by way of Belgium
and the Rhine to England, and sume of the members of
the embassy stay a day or two here, and then go home
through France. The St. Jean d'Acre, after coaling at
Kiel, will return to England immediately.

We regret to learn that the lion. Charles Griinston,
brother of the Countess of Clarendon, died on Wednes•
day last. The llon. Charles Grimston was third son of
the late Earl of Verulatn. He was born 3d October,
1818, and was formerly in the Coldstream Guards.

The Duke and Duchess of Richmond are entertaining
company at Gordon Castle, Fochabers, N.B.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane have
ceased to receive company at Taymouth Castle, after
displaying princely hospitality to a succession of visitors
for several consecutive weeks.

Tb Earl of Lonsdale remains in Paris for the present,
but will return for the hunting season.
Lady Charlotte Portal gave birth to a son and heir
on Thursday, at Laverstoke House, Hants.
A party of officers and noblemen—namely, his Ex-
cellency Count dell'Alberese, Marquis Sanay de Nerli,
chevallor Lenz.na, Lieut. Bilva.tiei, Commandant de
Frescobaldi, and Signor Antinori, members of the Go-
vernment of the Grand Duke of Tuscany—paid a visit
to Woolwich on Wednesday. They first visited the
dockyard, and, having gone over the floating battery
Thunderbolt and inspected the various basins and docks,
they proceeded to the arsenal.
To Mrs. A'Beckett, widow of the late gifted magis-
trate, has been considerately granted by the Premier a
pension of 1001. per annum. Lord Palmerston's libe-
rality has been further shown in the gift of 1001. towards
the maintenance of Mr. Angus B. Reach.

A letter from Berlin states that, on the Ist of nest
month, Prince Frederick William, son of the Prince of
Prussia, will assume the command of the 11th infantry,
in garrison at Brsalau. At about the middle of Decem-
ber he will leave for Coblentz, and afterwards for Eng-
land.

Lieutenant-General Sir Colin Campbell, G.C.8., the
impactor general of infantry, has returned to town from
a tour of inspection hi the provinces. The gallant
general attended at the Horse Guards on his raturn on
Friday and Saturday last.
General Sir George Brown, G.C.8., has arrived in
town from Elgin, N. 8., and attended at the Horse
Guards. We understand the gallant general contem-
plates parsing the approaching winter in Italy.

THE VACANNT CAPTAINSY- OF GREENWICH HOSPITAL,
—The U;titcd Service Gazette states that Sir C. Wood
has conferred this appointment upon Captain W. A.
Willis.

THE LATE PAYMASTER WM. BELL, ESQ., OF THE
QUEEN'S ROYAL YACHT.—The funeral of this lamented
gentleman took place yesterday morning at the New Ce-
metery, near Southsea, attended by the crew of the
Royal yacht, and the whole of the officers in full uni-
form.
It is understood among the friends of the late Miss
Mitford, that selections from her Correspondence are in
preparation by the Rev. W. Harness, her executor and
friend for many para.