The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-05 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Nov. 4.
The Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer
arrived yesterday evening at the Castle on a visit.
The dinner party included her Imperial Highness the
Duchess of Brabant, their Royal Highnesses the Duchess
of Kent, the Princess Royal, and the Duke of Brabant ;
her Serene Highness the Princess Amalie of Hohenlohe-
Schillingfurst, Countess de Lannoy, Lady Augusta
Bruce, the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de
Weyer, Count de Lannoy, and M. Jules Devaux.

The Queen, accompanied by the Duchess of Brabant,
walked in the Home Park this morning.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, with the Duke of
Brabant, went out shooting.
The Princess Royal rode on horseback.
Prince Arthur and the Princesses Helena and Louisa
took a carriage drive.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left London
yesterday morning for Manchester.

Count Barral has been duly admitted as representa-
tive for Sardinia to the Germanic Diet.
The specie and bullion ex the Parana are expected to
be in band on Friday
The first section of the Swedish Railway, namely,
that between the towns of Malmo and Lund, has just
been opened.
GUILDFORD.—We learn that Mr. Bovill intends to
r•ffer himself as a candidate for this borough at the next
election.

A notice, warning all persons not to discharge fire-
works on Tower-hill, has been issued by the Alderman
of the ward. A
requisition is now in cnirse of signature, calling on
the Right Hon. Stuart ,Wortley, the Recorder of Lon-
don, to allow himself to be put in nomination for the
representation of the City at the next general election.
The Hanoverian Envoy at Hamburg, Mr. Hanbury,
has arrived in Copenhagen for the purpose of negotiating
with the Dani3h Government on the amount of indem-
nity to be paid by Hanover for the abolition of the Sound
Dues.

Qalignani says :—" Parod, the horse dealer, who is
accused of participation in the robberies of the Northern
Railway, and who is now in the United States, has just
been declared a bankrupt by the Tribunal of Com-
merce."
GENERAL SIMPSON AT HAWICK.—The freedom of the
bnrgh was conferred upon General Sir James Simpson
on Saturday morning, in pursuance of an unanimous
resolution of the Town Council at its meeting on the
previous evening.
REPRESENTATION OP LANCASTER.—Mr. William J.
Garnett, of Bleesdale Tower, has issued an address to
the freemen and electors of the borough of Lancaster,
offering himself as a candidate for their suffrages, on the
occasion of the retirement of Mr. Greene, at the
close of the present Parliament.—Manchester Guardian.
The first of the theatrical performances at Windsor
will take place on Thursday, the 13th inst., when the
"School for Scandal" and " Hush Money" will be
played. In the former Mr. Webster playa Sir Peter
Teazle, Mr. Wigan Joseph Surface, and Mr. G. Vining
Charles Surface, with Miss Heath as Lady Teazle.
UNCLAIMED MONEY IN COUNTY COURTS.—Yesterday
lists of sums of money paid into court for suitors since
1851, and *not claimed, were published in the different
county courts, amounting to some hundreds of posnde,
which, if unclaimed on the let of January next, will be
absolutely forfeited.
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eldest son of the Elector of Hesse Cassel, has just mar-
ried Mdlle, Berkmayer, daughter of an actor at the
Cassel Theatre. The marriage was celebrated in Eng-
land, end the newly-married cenple have already
returned to Cassel. The prince was burn in Nov., 1832.
THE PERA.—Among the passengers by the Pera is
Colonel Thompson, from Calcutta, who has returned to
England after an absence of 40 years ; also Lieut.-Col.
Ferrar, C. 8., 47th Regiment. This latter officer landed
wit's his regiment at Old Fort on the 14th September,
and remained in the Crimea during the whole of the late
war. He was present in every engagement.
The James Raines, homeward bound from Australia,
with nearly 700,0001. in gold, has now been at sea 88
days. Assuming that the Lightning left Melbourne on
the date previously fixed, viz , the 26th August, this
vessel, which brings the royal mails and (probably) a
consideraVe quantity ref gold, has also been at sea 70
days.

wooWd-OpOainDvl:AVEMENT.—Application having been made
to the Beard of Works for the Holborn district, from a
firm, asking their permission to lay down
gratuitously a new specimen' of wood pavement, stated
to be mere durable than that at present laid down in
that thoroughfare, the members of the board were
almost artaa:aious is declaring that wood pavement bad
failed cenipletely wherever it had been tried, and they
would haee Go more of it.
An interesting mechanical operation has been lately
performed at the Imperial Dockyard, at Cherbourg, in
the hauling up of a line-of-battle ship, under a building
shed, upon an ordinary launching cradle and way. It
was performed with the assistance of six capstans manned
by about 700 men, and occupied nearly seven hours.
The credit of this extraordinary and successful operation
is due to M. Corrard, the superintendent engineer of
the dockyard.—/lfechanies' Magazine.
BIRTH OP AN HEIR TO THE LURGAN ESTATE.—In
addition to presenting Lord Lurgan with a complimen-
tary address on the auspicious event, the inhabitants of
Lurgan, and the tenantry on the estate generally have
agreed "that some permanent mark of respect be pre-
sented to Lady Lurgan, on the occasion of the birth of
her son and heir." Subscription.; have been entered
into, and a committee appointed t i carry out the ohjset.
—Newry Telegraph,.

" The arrangement concluded recently with the
Vienna Cabinet for the evacuation of some points
of the Pontifical territory, hitherto occupied by
Austrian troops, has just been carried out. The
withdrawal of the troops commenced a few days
since, and terminated yesterday. The Austrian
troops recrossed the Po, taking the direction of
Padua. They are replaced by detachments of the
2d Swiss Regiment in the service of the Holy
Father. Ancona and Bologna are now the only
points in the Papal States which remain occupied
by Austrian troops. Thus is accomplished a mea-
sure which, by diminishing the corps of occupation,
likewise diminishes the expenses of the Papal Go-
vernment, and restores it to the full enjoyment
of its rights and action.

" For some time it has been felt that it was ne-
ce6sary for the Papal finances that the indirect
taxes should be rendered more productive.
" The Government has boldly entered into this
salutary path, and, encouraged by the results ob-
tained, not only is it preparing farther reductions
in the Customs' tariff, but it has just promulgated
a decree with a view to the reform of the stamp
duty, which, under former regulations, was imper-
fectly carried out, and brought in very little to
the Treasury. The rate has been reduced and its
circle of action increased. Everything leads to the
hope that on this point, as well as regards the
Custom-house dues, salt, and tobacco, both the
Treasury and the contributors will find themselves
equally benefited by the introduction of the true
principles of political economy."

Accounts from Constantinople, of tho 27th
ult., state that the English squadron had been

reinforced.

The Commission on the navigation of the
Danube was about to re-assemble at Vienna. The
Porte will be represented at it.
The Boundary Commission had still two months'
work before it.

A letter from Vienna of the 31st ult., in
Voss's Gazette, says :—" Baron de Budberg, Rus-
sian ambassador here, has had several conferences
in these last few days with Count de Buol, rela-
tive to the occupation of the principalities. M.
de Budberg has received instructions to support
the note of France, in which the evacuation is
demanded. It is said that a despatch has been
sent hence to St. Petersburg, in which the occu-
pation is justified."

It is whispered that a treaty of commerce
between Russia and France, and very favourable
to the latter, is on the tapis. If this be true it
would explain the amenities exchanged between
the two Courts. It may also explain the post-

ponement to 1861 of the tariff reforms.

The Paris correspondent of the Times (second
edition), in his letter dated yesterday, says :
" Baron Brenier, whose arrival I announced
yesterday, had his first interview with the Minister
for Foreign Affairs to-day, and he and Count
Walewski have proceeded to Compiegne. Under
all circumstances, it is not difficult to guess the
sort of report which Baron Brenier will have to
make about the King of Naples. Notwith-
standing the hopes and expectations of some
change coming over that amiable specimen of
the Bourbons, I have learnt nothing in any
respectable quarter which would justify them.
I do not believe that at this moment Ferdinand
11. has the slightest intention to listen to
reason or humanity, or that he will not con-
tinue hardened, false, iisane, or hypocritical to
the last. It is his destiny, and he must fulfil it.
Re declared up to the last moment that he would
concede nothing, and change nothing, in his sys-
tem of government. The allies might bombard
his capital, cut down his people, depose or even
kill him—but yield he will not. He admits his
weakness in presence of the force that can be
brought against him—he will endeavour to defend
himself as best he may against his enemies—but
change he will not, neither now nor hereafter.
Such are the latest declarations known to emanate
from his Majesty ; how ho will abide by them
time only can tell.
" The individual who will feel not the least
sorrow at so stern a resolve is the Marquis Anto-
nini, the Neapolitan Ambassador here. The poor
gentleman hoped all along to be allowed to re-
main in kis beloved Paris, in spite of the with-
drawal of Baron Brenier, or at all events not to
be compelled to go further than Brussels, which

in his mind is Paris in miniature. Reports
reached his ears that the French Government
would send him his passport. To his great delight
he learned that the Government had no such in-
tention, and that his stay or departure depended
entirely on the will of his Royal master. But his
joy was of short duration. He has acquired the
certitude that he will soon receive (if he has not
already done so) a peremptory ordor to return to
Naples-L-at all events to quit this city ; and, once
leaving, he will most probably return no more.
"The movements of the Austrian troops in the
Legations, as announced in the papers, are not
considered by some persons as a withdrawal, but
rather as a concentration, to prevent surprise in
case of an insurrection in Italy, Those that have
retired behind the Po may very speedily recross

it, and that Austria apprehends a movament is
gathered from this, and from the increase of her
army in her Italian possessions.

" The Paris papers have been invited not to
make any allusions to the festivitias of Compiegne,
nor to transcribe in their columns whatever

might be said of them in the Belgian papers.
The ridicule excited by the description of these
with the women sportsmen, dressed
o
like vivandieres and the men like
fmseotme:sesqw/h ceatatires, while discontent and poverty reign
in Paris, it is not surprising that people get
ashamed of such harlequivades. Le Roi s'anwse'
is the heading to some of the placards posted up
by night in the fsuborgs. It is considered doubt-
ful whether the Court will now go to Fontaine-
bleau as intended. The Emperor would have
done wisely in not going
Compiegne, as he
would have escaped much unpopularity.
to
" I am informed that five persons have been
arrested in Paris, in consequence of disclosures
made by the now celebrated Carpentier."

The Vienna correspondent of the Times (second
edition), in his letter dated Nov. 2, says :
" In my letter of the 25th of October it was
said that the violent attack made by one of your
morning contemporaries, on the policy of this Go-
vernment in the Neapolitan question, had produced
a very disagreeable impression here, and it is now
necessary to return to the subject. As soon as the
Austrian and British Governments observed that
the French Cabinet wan coquetting with Russia
they felt that it was necessary to let by-gones be ,

by•gones,' and by degrees a good unders anlnig
was established between them. Just as the im-
portant question of the evacuation or non-eva-
cuation of the Black Sea and the Danubian Prin-
cipalities was being settled at Constantinople,
the abovercentioned leader appeared, and the Aus-
trians (erroneously supposing the paper in question
to be the organ of the First Lord of the Treasury)
asked each other how it was possible to work well
with an ally who chose such a critical moment for
making such a desperate onslaught. Information
has now reached me that the Austrian Govern-
ment has recently received the assurance that
Lord Palmerston is in no connection with the
Morning Post, and it is well that such is the
case, for the Treaty of Peace would assuredly be
mere waste paper if any misunderstanding should
arise between England and Austria. A person
who is on intimate terms with many Russian
families of rank assures me that the flower of the
nation is now travelling in different parts of
Europe for the express purpose of making politi-
cal proselyte; and he is of opinion that Russian
agents are not strangers to the alarming ferment
which there now is in France. The Russians
already boast that the Emperor of the French is
in their toils and unable to escape ; and in this
country it is not doubted that the star of Napo-
leon is on the decline, though naturally the
opinions differ as to the time at which it will set."