The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-04 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Nov. 3.
Her Majesty's dinner party yesterday included the
Prince and Princess of Leiningen, the Earl and Countess
of Clarendon, Colonel the Hon. R. Bruce, the Hon. Mrs.
Biddulph, Sir jaines Clark, and Captain Grey (Rifle
Brigade), also Major-General the Right Hon. J. Peel, and
Major-General Sir Harry Jones, who arrived in the after•
noon.

The Queen and Prince Consort walked in the grounds
of the Castle this morning.
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and Captain Grey,
Rifle Brigade, left Windsor in the forenoon.

A Cabinet Council, the first after the recess, was
held yesterday, at three o'clock, at the'official residence of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street. The
Ministers present were—The Earl of Derby, the Right Hon.
B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury,
the Earl of Hardwicke, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of
Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Gen.
Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir John Pakington, the Right Hon.
Jr W. Henley, and Lord John Manners.

The Earl of Derby left London yesterday even-
me lion. A. Btewart, u. 8., JUdge or tne vice-
Admiralty Court at Halifax, Nova Scotia, had an interview
with Sir E. Bulwer Lytton yesterday. Mr. Brooking had
also an interview with the Right Hon. Baronot at the
Colonial-office.

Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton has given a Ceylon
writership to the successful condidate in an open competi-
tion of the students. of Glasgow University, of which ho is

Rector.

His Highness the Prince Mitschwin has arrived
at the Brunswick Hotel from Paris.

The -Marquis of Salisbury arrived in town yes
terday morning from Hatfield.

The Earl of Derby left London yesterday even•
ing for Windsor Castle.

The Lady Elizabeth Brownlow and family have
arrived at Claridge's Hotel.

Lady Douglas and Miss Murray have arrived at
the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood,

. Baron Stlitterheim has arrived at Fenton's Hotel
from Germany:

General-Peel arrived in London- yesterday from
Windsor Castle, in order to attend the Cabinet Council.
Col. Gooch and Mrs. Gooch have left Fenton's
Hotel for Melbourne-hall, Derbyshire.

CANADA.—LiTEIiPOOL, Thurklay Morning.--
Royal Mail steamship Nova Scotia, with the Quebec mails
of the 23d ult., was off Donaghadee at 1 p.m. yesterday.
She -is• hourly expected. Dense fog prevailed this morning.

BOMBAY.—LivERrooL, Nov. 3.—The following
telegram was posted in the Underwriters' room to-day :
" Bombay.—Cotton, 5 to 6 rupees lower ; freights, 15s. ;
exchange, 2s. Old ; import market good.",

THE RIVER PLATE.---LIVERPOOL, Nov. 3.—'The
following telegram was posted in the Unclerm riters' room
to-day,—" Montevideo.—Brisk demand for British manu-
factures ; exchange 41i ; no bad news."

WESTERN BANK.—CALL OF £lOO. PER SHARE.
.
callwas due on Monday, and we were informed in the
evening that it had - been paid to the extent of £503,000.
The promptitude of this response must be highly gratify-
ing to all who are desirous to see the bank's affairs speedily.
wound up.—Glagow, Mail.
SUICIDE ON THE MIDLAND RAlLWAY.—Yester-
day (Wednesday) morning, a respectably-attired Man, not
yet identified, committed suicide on the Midland Railway,
betweeen Cheltenham and Gloucester, near the Chosen-
bridge. The parliamentary train had arrived within about
four, miles of Gloucester, when the driver observed the de-
ceased, and as the train approached he deliberately placed
himself in a stooping position in front of the engine. No
time was afforded' to avert the'calamity by a stoppage of the
train, and he was literally dashed to pieces, fragments of his
body being scattered upon the line, while considerable por-
tions of flesh and of his wearing apparel were found still
adhering to the engine and carriages on the train reaching
Gloucester. .

SERIOUS COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—An accident or
a very serious nature occurred in one of the Coltness. Iron
Company's pits at Coltness on Priday last, by which two
men, lost their lives. ' It appears that they, along with
a son of the former and brether of the latter, had been
taking down Pyotshaw coal for some time past. They were
in the act of filling a hutch when about 20 tons of coal came
away on them, and of course killed them on the spot. The
other two were repairing some piece of a road back from
where they were working, or very likely they would have
met with the same fate. We believe William Gibb's father,
who was underground manager to the Coltness Tron Com-
pany, was killed in one of theirpits fouirteen years ago.—
Glasgow Herald.

DINING WITH A BISHOP.—One of our leading
prelates not long ago invited to his hospitable mansion in
London a country rector, an old friend, from one of the re-
mote provinces. • The simple-minded gentleman came about
five o'clock, having a notion that he should arrive about the
dinner hour. Soon after he had taken his seat tea was
brought round. " Well," thought the rector, " this is bare
living, at any rate; if I had known I would have had a
beefsteak at a chophouse before I came; but I hardly ex-
pected that a bishop would dine at one o'clock. Is it a fast
day, I wonder." He drank his tea, however, and said
nothing. About half-past seven o'clock his bed candle
was placed in his band, and he was conducted to his sleep-
ing-room. " Call you this London ? (he soliloquised) why,
I should have fared far better at Silverton; I should have
had my comfortable mutton chop and my glass of beer at
nine o clock, and I should have been in bed at ten, well fed,
and contented. 'But here I am, half-starved, in the midst
of splendour—as hungry as a hunter—almost ready to de -
your my blanket, like the boa constrictor—ha, ha I—and
where everything looks so grand. Well, fine furniture
won't make a man fat ; give me substantial victuals, and
you may take the gilding." Soliloquising in this fashion
he undressed himself, pulled over his ears his cotton night-
cap, " with a tassel on the top," as the song says, and
crept into bed, coiling himself up comfortably ; and. being
of a forgiving temper he soon forgot his troubles -and st-nk
sweaty his first sleep as swe as a " Christian child ;" when
lo I after a while, bells begin to ring, and a smart knock
at his door resounds through his room, and a voice is heard
saying, " Dinner is on the table; sir !" -The old gentleman
awoke in 'considerable confusion, not knowing whether it
was to-day or to-morrow ; and according to the .most
authentic account he appeared shortly after at the dinner
t ible, though in a somewhat ruffled condition as relates to
his wardrobe, and mentally in a haze of uncertainty as to
th, day:of the week and the me be
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