The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-04 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, JAN. 3.
The Queen and Prince, accompanied by the Duke of
Cambridge, and attended by the Marchioness of Ely and
the lion. Beatrice Byng, drove out in an open carriage
yesterday afternoon, and honoured Mr. Ward, R.A., by
visiting his studio at Upton-park.
The Equerries in Waiting were in attendance on horse-
back.

Prilloo Ernest of Leiningen left the Castle for the
Continent.

Prince Augustus of Saxe Weimar arrived on a visit to
her Majesty.
The dinner party included the Duchess of Kent, the
Duke of Cambridge, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar,
Prince Augustus of Saxe Weimar, the Duke of New-
castle, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, the
Hun. Mary Seymour, Col. Tyrwhitt, and Sir James
Clark.

The bind of the Grenadier Guards played during din-
ner.lThe Queen's private band afterwards performed in
the castle.

This morning Prince Albert, with the Duke of Carn-
bi accompanied by Prince MI ward and Prince Gus-
tavus of Saxe Weimar, went out shooting.
The Duke of Cambridge (attended by Col. Tyrrrhitt)
and Prince Augustus of Saxe Weimar took their depar-
ture in the afternoon.

The Duke of Newcastle has also left the Castle.

The Hon. Mary Seymour and the Hon. Emily Cath-
cart have succeeded the Hon. Eleanor Stanley and the
Hon. Beatrice Byng as Maids of Honour in Waiting.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
the Foreign office. The Ministers present were
count Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville,
Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Claren•
don, Lord Panmure, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the
Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alder-
ley, the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of
Argyll. The Council sat two hours and a half.
General La Marmora has arrived at Turin.
Yesterday his Excellency Lord Cowley presented Ad-
miral Lyons to the Emperor Napoleon.
Prince Ernest of Leiningen left London on Wednes-
day night for Germany.
The Sardinian Minister arrived in London yesterday,
from the seat of Viscount Palmerston, Broadlands,
Hants.

The Lord Chancellor will receive the Judges, Queen's
Counsel, &c., on Friday, the first day of Hilary Term,
at his lordship's residence, in Upper Brook street, at 12
o'clock,

The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Theresa
Lewis returned to town yesterday from a visit to the
Earl and Countess Clarendon at the Grove.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston arrived in town
yesterday morning from Broadlands, and in the after-
noon left London for Windsor Castle, on a visit to her
Majesty.
Lord Stanley of Alderley has returned to town from
Alderley Park, Cheshire.
Despatches for the Governor of Malta, Ceylon, and
Hong Kong were sent last evening from the Colonial-
office.
Admiral Lyons arrived in London late last night by
the South-Eastern Railway.
We (Scotsntan) have good authority to believe that it
is the intention of Government to abolish the Board of
Fishery, which sits at Edinburgh, with officers through-
out Scotland.
THE LAND TRANSPORT.—A correspondent of the Timcs
advocates the employment of one-horse carts similar to
those used by the farmers of Carmarthenshire.
LECTURES IN THE CRIMEA.,—Dr. W. H. Brown, late
of the Polytechnic Institution, is about to proceed to the
Crimea to deliver lectures to our troops on literary and
scientific subjects.
Yesterday morning information was issued from the
chief police office of no less than four robberies of plate
in the neighbourhood of Kingsland and Oakley square.
DEATH OF DB. BABBINGTON.—This eminent surgeon
died at his residence, Queen's-gardens, Hyde-park, on
NeN Year's Day.
THE WEEK DAY OPENING OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
—Last night a meeting was held for the purpose of
taking measures to open the British Museum every day
during the week. Resolutions in favour of the propo-
sition wero unanimously agreed to.
THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. —At the
monthly general meeting, held yesterday at the society's
house, in Hanover-square, Robt. Hudson, -Esq., F.R.S.)
in the chair, Messrs. A. Williams, F. Smedley, W. B.
GUI, M.D., M. Henry, J. Balguy, itnc, E. Warwick,
and Albert Smith, were elected Fellows of the society ;
Messrs. W. J. Lawson, J. P. Alpe, A. S. Petrie, Dr.
Bird, and It. Stephenson, M.P., were proposed as can-
didates for the Fellowship. The committee of auditors
of the accounts for 1855 were then elected, and the
meeting adjourned to Feb.?.

THE MURDER IN THE MINORIES.—The prisoner Cor-
rigan was yesterday again brought up on remand before
Mr. Yardley, at the Thames police-court, charged with
the wilful murder of his wife. The evidence given was
almost a repetition of that which has 'already appeared
in our columns. The prisoner, on having the usual ques-
tion put to him said—" I bare no recollection bow it
happened, or how it was done." The depositions having
been completed, the prisoner was fully committed for
trial on the charge of wilful murder.
THE ALLEGED STARVATION OF Two CHILDREN AT
HACKNEY.—Yesterday the inquiry, which was com-
menced on Friday last, respecting the deaths of William
Harvey, aged 7 years, and Harriet Harvey, aged 5 years,
who were alleged to have been starved by their father,
Edward Harvey, a bricklayer, and a female named
Harriet Ray, with whom he was living at N 0.13, Bruns-
wick-street, Honserton, was resumed and concluded at
the two Black Boys, Well-street, Hackney, before Mr.
Baker. As on the previous occasion the inquest-room
was crowded. It will be recollected that the inquest was
adjourned in order that the contents of the stomach,
with the intestines, &c., of each child might be handed
over to Dr. Letheby for analysation. Dr. Letheby,
being examined, deposed that he had not found anything
which would lead him to suspect that poison had been
administered to either of the deceased. He had come to
the conclusion, looking at the total absence of fatty mat-
ter in all the tissues, a circumstance he bad never known
before, that death in each case was the result of starva-
tion, which bad been going on for a considerable time.
After other evidence to the same effect the coroner
summed up, and the jury having deiiberated, returned a
verdict of " Wilful murder against Edward Harvey and
Ilarriet Ray." The incitiry then terminated,

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