The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-11 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, FEB. 9.
The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of
Kent, Prince Earnest or Leiningen, the Belgian Minis-
ter and Maclaine Van Weyer, Lady Fanny Howard,
Baroness de Speth, the Hon. Mary Seymour, and Sir G.
Conper.

The band of the Grenadier Guards played during din-
ner, and afterwards her Majesty's private band.
The Qleen and Prince, accompanied by Prince Ernest
of Leiningen, rode out on horseback this forenoon. The
Hon. Beatrice Byng,, Major-General Bouverie, and Capt.
Du Plat attended her Majesty.
Tb.e Queen, accompanied by Prince Ernest of Leinin-
gP.n, drove out in an open carriage in the afternoon, at-
tended by the Duchess of Wellington and the Hon. Bea-
trice Byng, Majcr-General Bouverie attended on horse-
back.
The dinner party comprised the Duchess of Kent, the
Princess Rcyal, Prince Ernest of Leiningen, Lady
Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, Col. the Hon. N.
and Lady Mary Hood, Sir Jas. Clark, Col. F. H. Sey-
mour, and Mr. Gibbs.
The band of the 2d Life Guards played during dinner.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards performed in the
Castle.

SUNDAY, Feb. 10.
The Queen and Prince, the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, Princess Alice, and
Prince Ernest of Leiningea, the Ladies and Gentlemen
of the Court, and the domestic household, attended Di-
vine Service this morning in the Private Chapel of the
Castle. The Duchess of Kent was also at the Service.
The lien. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor offi-
ciated,

A Cabinet Council waci held on Saturday afternoon at
the Foreign-office, Downing•street. The Ministers pre-
sent were :—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chan-
cellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the
Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Cla-
rendon, Mr. Secretary Labouchere,-Lord Panmure, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the
Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley,
the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll.
The council sat three hours and a half..
A deputation from the Birmingham Lord's-Day De-
fence Committee had an interview with Viscount Pal-
merston on Friday. The deputation consisted of the
Hon. and Rev. T. M. Yorke (Rural Dean), Rev. John
C. Miller (Rector of St. Martin's), Rev. Dr. Mackenzie,
Councillor Manton; Mr. Henry Wright, Mr. E. Heeley,
introduced by Mr. R. Spooner, M.P., and Mr. C. N.
Newdegate, M.P.

Meetings of the Oxford University Commission were
held at No. 18, Great Queen-street, Westminster, on
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday last. The
Commissioners present were the Earl of Ellesmere, the
Earl of Harrowby, the Bishop of Ripon, Mr. Justice
Coleridge, the Hon. Edward Twisleton, the Dean of
Wells, and Sir John W. Awdry—with the secretaries.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on
Saturday, and heard an appeal from the High Court of
Admiralty, " Lawson v. Carr," the "James." The
lords present were the Chancellor of the Duchy of Corn-
wall, the Dean of the Arches Court, Sir J. Patteson,
and Sir W. Manic.

Her Majesty, on the recommendation of Lord Pal-
merston, has conferred a pension of 1001. per annum on
Mr. S. Lover, well known for his Irish songs:and stories.
—Court Journal.

On Friday the Directors of the Bank of England re-
peated their liberality in giving to every clerk in the
establishment a bonus of 10/. per cent, on his salary for
the past year.
THE ALLEGED DOLTDLE MURDER AT PENSHUEST.—We
(Maidstone Journal) need hardly say that there was not
the slightest truth in this story, and we are informed
that the whole was concocted for the purpose of hoaxing
a credulous village damsel who is much
and romancsa, given to novels