The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-28 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, JAN. 26.
The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of
Kent, the Princess Royal, the Duke of Cambridge,
General Alfonso la Marmora, Lord James Murray,
Colonel the Hon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps, Lady Fanny
Howard, Baroness de Speth, Sir James Clark, Mrs.
Drummond, Captain the Hon. J. Drummond, R.N.,
Captain Sherard Osblrne, R.N., Count Avet, A.D.C.,
Col. Tyrwhitt, and Col. Seymour.
The Baud of the Grenadier Guards played during
dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards per-
formed in the Castle.

The Queen and Prince walked in the grounds adjoin-
ing the Castle this morning.
All the visiting company left the Castle in the fore-
noon, viz., the Duke of Cambridge (attended by Col.
Tyrwhitt), the Princess Gauromma of Coorg, with Mrs.
Drummond, General Alfonso la Marnuora, commanding
the Sardinian Contingent (attended by his aide-de camp,
Count Avet); Captain the Hon. J. Drummond, R.N.,
Captain Sherard Osborne, R.N., and Colonel Francis
Seymour (Scots Fusilier Guards).

JAN. 27.
The Queen and Prince, the Prince of Wales, the Prin-
cess Royal, Prince Alfred, Princess Alice, and the
Duchess of Kent, the ladies and gentlemen of the court,
and the domestic hou.ehold, attended divine service this
morning in the private chapel of the Castle. The Rev.
IT. J. Ellison, Vicar of Windsor, officiated.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon
at the Foreign-office. The ministers present were Vis-
count Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville,
the Earl of Harrowby, Sir G. Grey, the Earl of Claren-
don, Mr, Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panmure, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir C. 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.
The Sardinian Minister had an interview with Vis-
count Palmerston on Saturday at his official residence
in Downing-street.
The Committee on Education of the Lords of her Ma-
jesty's most honourable Privy Council bad a meeting on
Saturday at the Council-office. Preient—The Lord
President, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. Grey, and the
Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Despatches from the Governors of New South Wales,
South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, the Cape of Gaud
Hope, and Natal were received on Saturday at the Colo-
nial-office.

On Wednesday next, her Majesty and Prince Albert,
attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the Royal suite,
will leave the Castle for Buckinghain Palace, where the
Queen will hold a Privy Council for the purpose of set-
tling the speech from the throne on the opening of Par-
liament. At the Council her Majesty will appoint the
High Sheriffs for the English and Welsh • counties for
the present year.

On Thursday the Queen will go in state to the House
of Peers, for the purpose of opening the session of Par-
liwnent ; and after performing the august ceremony her
Majety, with Prince Albert and the ladies and gent!e.
men in waiting, is expected to leave Buckingham Palace
the same afternoon, and return to Windsor Castle.

The Duchess of Kent is expected to• remain at Frog-
more (hiring the visit of the Queen to London, and some
of the younger Royal children are expected to remain at
Windsor Castle during the absence of her Majesty iu
town.
The Duke of Cambridge had a dinner party on Satur-
day evening, at his apartments, in St. James's-palace,
in compliment to General Alphonso Della Marmara.
There were present to meet the gallant Sardinian Gene.
ral, the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary,
the Countess Helen Kielmansegge, Field-Marshal Vie-
count Hardinge, the Marquis d'Azeglio, Admiral Sir
Edmund Lyons, General Sir Harry Jones, Major-Gene-
ral Sir Richard Airey, Admiral the Hon. R. S. Dundas,
Colonel Brownino-, Baron Knesebech, in attendance on
the Duchess of Cambridge, and the aide-de-camp to
General Della Marmora.

William Davey Boase, Esq., is appointed to be in-
spector under the Charity Trust Amendment Act.
W. Carpenter Rowe, Esq., Q.C., of the Weatern Cir-
cuit and the Parliamentary bar, is appointed Chief Jus-
tice of Ceylon.
The ➢Zarchioness of Westmeath has arrived at St.
James's Palace, from the south of France. Her lady-
ship leaves town to-day, for Eiva-ston Castle, Derby-
shire.

The Earl and Countess of Durham arrived at the St.
George's Hotel last Thursday, from Ireland, and left on
Friday, to pass a few days at Torquay.
The Earl and Countess of Stamford and Warrington
have arrived at the- Hotel Bristol, Paris.
LORD ADOLPHUS FITZCLARENCE.—We are gratified
to learn that the noble and gallant lord is going en very
favourably. His lordship was able to be removed to the
drawing-room on Saturday, for the first time, and there
received the Duke of Cambridge, Viscount Falkland,
the Earl of Erroll, and other relatives. The noble lord
is, however, much enfeebled by his illness.
The. Derwentivater Record says —" Sir James Graham
has been sojourning at the Royal Hotel, Bowness, for
a few days. He was accompanied by two of his son,.
On Sunday he attended the morning service at the parish
church in the village, and in the afternoon, along with
one of his sons, Captain Graham, who was in the Black
Sea fleet, he enjoyed for a short time the recreation of
skating."
Sir G. Grey has advised her Majesty to remit the re-
mainder of the sentence of 12 months' imprisonment
passed by Mr. Wilson Overend upon Mr. Jackson, the
pawnbroker, of Doncaster, upon the ground that the
prisoner had not sufficient time and opportunity allowed
him for preparing his defence.
On Wednesday last Cardinal Wiseman was elected a
member of the Royal Society of Literature.
The Comie de Chambord arrived at Modena on the
16th, from Parma.
General Martimprey, Chief of the Staff of the French
army of the East, left for the Crimea immediately on
the closing of the sittings of the Council of War.
The Parma Gazette says :—"On the 19th her Royal
Highness the reigning Duchess let this city for Mantua,
where she is to be joined by her august brother and
sister-in-law, the Count and Countess de Chambord, who
will accompany her to Vence, where she intends re-
maining for a few days with her august mother."
Mr. Gye,.the lessee of Covent Garden theatre, has
already secured the services of Grisi and M trio for the
next operatic season.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATBE.—Her Majesty's theatre,
which has been closed for two seas•ns, is again to he
opened for the performance of Italian Opera. Mr.
Lumley has engaged the services of Jenny Lind, and th•
theatre will he conducted by Mr. Lumley, Mr. Mitchell,
and Mr. Goldschmidt.
THE LATE MR- DYCE SOMBRE'S WILL.—On Saturday,
in the Prerogative Court, Sir J. Dodson delivered judg-
ment in the case of Dyce Sombre against Troop Solarol
and Princep and the East India Company, touching the
validity of the will of the decea.ed gentleman. The
learned judge pronounced against the validity of the will
and codicil, and condemned the executors and the East
India Company in the costs. Administration was de-
creed to Mrs. D. Sombre.

THE `VAR.--We observe that a meeting is proposed to
be held in St. Martin's-hall, Westminster, with a view
" to protest against the conclusion of any peace not con-
sistent with the honour and dignity of this country."
We are assured that the proposed meeting is entirely
free from anything of a party character, and that it is
to be attended by Whigs, Tories, and adicals, sinking,
for the time, all sectional differences.
NEWCASTLE POST-OFFICE.—Mr. Pelle`, who, for
some time has been clerk to the surveyor of the eastern
district, has been appointed Postmaster of Newcastle-
on-Tyne. The salary is 6001. a-year.
SALE OF RACING STOCK.—Mr. Padwick has disposed
of his celebrated mare Virago, for a large sum, to the
Earl of Stradbroke, for the stud. Last year, when
Virago was put up for sale by Messrs. Tattersall, an
offer was made of 800 guineas for the mare, and declined.
Mr. Padwick has also sold Little Harry to Mr. Arm-
strong, of Newmarket, who has purchased the horse for
an Austrian nobleman ; and inasmuch as Little Harry
has stood severe work up to 7 years old, and has atwa) s
in public run honestly and true to his form, we may
regret his loss to the country. The whole of Mr. Mare's
extensive premises at Newmarket, including the Sub-
scription Room, has been purchased by Mr. W. Rat-
cliff; of Newmarket, the contract having, been signed
during the' past week by that gentleman and the
assignees and mortgagees of the estate.—Bell's Life.
THE NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE.—We find addi-
tional reason for believing the statement respecting
the progress of the negotiations for peace, which we
were enabled to publish in our Saturday's impression,
in the Economist. That journal, it is well known, has
intimate official relations. In its last Saturdays num.
ber we read :—" Lord Palmerston will have the proud
satisfaction, after holding office for less than a year,
as the fair result of the successes of the war, to present
to Parliament a preliminary treaty* of.peace—signed by
all the belligerent Governments. * As England
and France are entirely agreed upon what demands
shall be made under the fifth condition as a sine qua
non, we regard thet clause as being practically as
well defined as the first four. If this view of the case
be correct—and we have no reason to doubt it—then the
five conditions which we published in our last number
as such, without any preliminary nego-
will in point of fact constitute the preliminary treaty of
peace itself, and,
tiation, will be signed by all the contracting parties.
And there would appear to be no reason why this should
not be done before the meeting of Parliament, short as
that interval is. Immediately upon the signature of
this preliminary treaty, an armistice will take place
until a given day to be named." The official relations
of the Economist sufficiently account for a certain degree
of diplomatic reserve in its expressions. It is suffi-
ciently clear, however, that it expresses what Lord Pal-
merston is anxious to accomplish and hopes to socom•
plish.—Daily KWh