The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-07 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness the
Prince Consort, accompanied by the Princess Alice, and
attended by the Hon. Beatrice Byng, Lord Charles Fitzroy,
Col. Biddulph, and Lieut.-Col. Ponsonby, rode on horseback
on Saturday morning.
Prince Leopold and the Princesses Helena and Louisa
took a earriage drive.
The Queen and Prince Consort and the Princess Alice
visited the Botanical Gardens in the Regent's Park in the
afternoon. In attendance were the Hon. Emily Cathcart,
Lord Alfred Paget, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Lieut.-Col.
Ponsonby. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess
Alice, afterwards took a carriage drive. The Prince Consort
rode on horseback.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort,
accompanied by the Princess Alice, honoured the Royal
Italian Opera, Covent-garden, with their presence in the
evening. The Royal suite consisted of the Viscountess
Jocelyn, the Hon. Emily Cathcart, Lord Nethuen, Lord
Charles Fitzroy, and Lieut.-Col. Ponsonby.
Mr. Vernon Heath, photographer, of Piccadilly, had the
honour on Wednesday last to explain to his Royal High-
ness Prince Alfred, at Buckingham Palace, the principle of
an improved stereoscopic camera, designed chiefly for pre-
served sensitive plates.

Yesterday the Queen and Prince Consort, the Princess
Alice, Prince Arthur, the Princesses Helena and Louisa,
and Prince Leopold, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court,
and the domestic househ,ld, attended Divine service in the
private chapel, Buckingham Palace. The Bishop of London.
preached the sermon.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in
Downing-street. The Ministers present were—Viscount
Pahnerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the
Duke of Argyll, Sir G. C. Lewis, Lord John Russell, the
Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir
Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke
of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir George
Grey, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the sight Hon.
Edward Cardwell.

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALFRED.--PLY-
MOUTH, Sunday Evening.—ln consequence of the break-
ing of a piston rod, or some other derangement of the
machinery, her Majesty's steam screw frigate Euryalus,
Captain Tarieton, which left Spithead on Saturday for the
Cape of Good Hope, put into the Sound this morning about
9 o'clock and saluted the flag of Port-Admiral Sir Barring-
ton Reynolds, K.C. B. About 1 p rn., a number of liberty
men la•.ded from her yawl. Shortly after the paddlewheel
stcamtug Confiance went alongside the frigate, and his
Royal highness Prince Alfred proceeded in her to Hamoaze,
where a four-oared gig, supplied by the flagship Impreg-
nable, was in attendance. On landing-, his Royal Highness
was received by the Port-Admiral and Admiral Sir John
Pasley, and went to Mount Wise, where he partook of lun-
cheon. After a visit to the Earl of Mount-Edgeumbe,
Stonchouse, the Prince embarked in the gun-
boat Clinker, and rejoined the Euryalus. The repairs of
the machinery may occupy some days. To-morrow the
hoyal visitor will inspect the Devonport arsenal and Key-
ham Steal!: -yard.

The gold ships announced by the present Aus-
tralian mail to be on their way for England are the Jessie
Boyle, which left on the 233 of February, with 8,287 czs. ;
White Star, 24th, with 11,123; Result, 20th, 40,060;
Omar Pasha, 4th of March, 15,214; Great Britain, 7th,
47,472; Southampton, 10th, 19,250; and Dream, 13th,
6,618, making a total of 148,024 ozs., worth,' including
.E 38,000 by tho Norwood, previbusly reported, £632,C00.
About halt of this will be due during the next fortnight,