The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-05 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR CASTLE, APRIL 4.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort
rode out on horseback yesterday afternoon, accompanied
by the Prince of Wales, Princess Alice, and Prince Alfred.
In attendance were the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, Colonel the
Hon. A. N. Hood, Captain Du Plat, and Captain Grey.
The royal dinner party in the evening included the
Prince of Wales, Princess Alice, Prince Alfred, Princess
Leiningen, the Dean of Windsor and the Hon. Mrs. Wel-
lesley, Captain Grey, and Major Cowell, R.E.
The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by the
Prince of Wales, walked in the Home Park this morning,
and visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent at
Frogmore.

Princess Alice visited the Princess of Leiningen.

Viscount Palmerston left London yesterday for
Windsor Castle.

The Duke of Newcastle left London on Tuesday
evening for Clumber Park, Notts.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs.
Gladstone left town on Tuesday evening for Brighton.
The Lord Chancellor will be prevented from
giving the usual reception to the judges and members of
the bar at the commencement of Easter Term.

THE EX-ROYAL FAMILY OF FRANCE.—Her
Majesty the Queen Marie Amelie and his Royal Highness
the Duke de :Montpensier, accompanied by the Marchioness
de Beauvoir, Gen. Dumas, Col. Velarde, and a numerous
suite, arrived at Grillon's Clarendon. Hotel, Albemarle-
street, last evening, from Claremont.

THE LATE BARONESS STRATHEDEN.--The Lord
Chancellor, Lord Stratheden, and other members of the
family, left town early yesterday morning to assist at the
funeral of the lamented baroness, at Hartrigge, Roxburgh-
shire. The funeral is appointed to take place to-day.
We regret to learn of the death, on Sunday, at
his residence, 9, Devonshire-terrace Hyde-park, of Thos.
Keogh, Esq., Secretary to the Board of Inland Revenue,
aged 64.

MARRIAGE OF MADLLE. VICTOTRE BALFE.—
This favourite vocalist has just been married at St. Peters-
burgh to Sir John Fiennes T. Crampton, K.C.8., her Ma.
jesty's Minister at the Court of Russia. Sir John, who
succeeded as second baronet on the death of his father, the
late Sir P. Crampton, Surgeon-General to the Forces in Ire-
land, in 1868, was formerly Minister Plenipotentiary to the
United States, and is now in his 53d year, having been
born in 1807.

LANCASHIRE REFORMERS' UNION.—Mr. Bright,
M.P., has promised to attend and address a general meeting
of members of this union, to be held in the great room of
the Free-trade Hall, Manchester, on the evening of the
12th instant. Mr. Bazley, M.P. and other gentlemen, will
also address the meeting upon the reform question.

The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of
the Western College, at Plymouth, took place yesterday,
amidst much rejoicing. The college was established in
1752, to educate young men for the Christian ministry
amongst Congregational Dissenters. It at present contains
20 students preparing for the university; and facilities are
afforded for the admission of lay students.

THE WAR-OFFICE.—The following is a correct
list of the successful candidates for clerkships, in the order
of their precedence :—R. H. Granville, H. E. Platt, T.
Briant, D. F. F. Richardson, C. Morton, S. C. Rochat, J.
Young, C. L. Sutherland, E. B. Falwasser, D. Piggot, A.
A'Beckett, and T. P. Hincks. The number of competithr.
was 50, and not 40.

Mr. Glassford Bell, sheriff-substitute of Lanark..
shire, has assented to the request made to him to deliver
the inaugural address on the erection of the monument at
Yarrow to the Ettrick bard. The inauguration is fixed to
take place on Thursday, the 28th of June. Mr. Glassford
Bell enjoyed the intimacy of the poet, and was privileged
courseonP rs
Friday.fo ens
with his services as ono of his contributors when he edited
the Literary Journal.
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bear and a hyena, the evidences
of whose destructiveness aro distinctly visible in the bone,
caves of this country. The next lecture will be delivered
en the 20th April.
The official progra
have been made for theaune of
the arrangements which
Alton Towers is Earl of Shrewsbury's entry into
parations are being
mad din the local papers. Great pre-
toxeter, and the neighlZi by the inhabitants of Alton, Ut-
day's festivities. The noble earl
for giving eclat to the
, on will give two balls in the
county town, at the Shirehall
and Wednesday next. The ball o the evenings of Tuesday
by the aristocracy and the leadingn Tuesday will be attended
and that on Wednesday by his inhabitants of the county,
tradesmen. lordship's tenantry and
The India telegram yesterday,
paper currency to be introduced, states rtotarding the
will be effected through commissioners of the Ban"lthe issr
land." This is doubtless a mistake. According of
Eli:-
official correspondence on the subject, the details oftsos hich°
have been fully given in the Tunes, the issue will beh
managed by commissioners specially appointed in India.
The Master of the Calcutta Mint will be one, and the others
will also be public functionaries. The Bank of England
aro simply to supply the notes.—Times City Article.
TILE SPRING.—The fruit crop in the neighbour-
hood of Southampton and throughout great part of the
south of England is likely to be the hugest known for years.
This arises from the backwardness of the season, that has
prevented the trees from budding and blossoming prema-
turely, and their being damaged by severe weather. The
backwardness of the season is shown by the late appear-
ance of the nightingale this year. Wooistone, a village on
Southampton, is
the eastern bank of the Itchen, near .
rst spring
famous for its nightingales, and the night theirs
notes are heard in the beautiful woo is and gdens sur-
rounding Roseland, in that village, the residence of Mr.
James Tucker, is always recorded by that gentleman to
mark the nature of the season. Last year the nightingale
was heard at Roseland on the 12th of March, while this
year it was heard for the first time last Sunday, the Ist of
April,