The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-19 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty the Queen held a Privy Council at one
o'clock yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. It was
attended by his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, the
Marquis of Salisbury, Lord President ; the Lord Chan-
cellor, Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Privy Seal; the Earl of
Derby, First Lord of the Treasury ; the Chancellor of the
Exchequer ; the Right Hon. Sotheron Estcourt, Secretary
of State for the Home Department ; Major-General Peel,
Secretary of State for War; Sir John Pakington, First
Lord of the Admiralty ; Lord John Manners, First Com-
missioner of Public Works ; the Marquis of Exeter, Lord
Steward; Earl de La Warr, Lord Chamberlain; and the
Duke of Beaufort, Master of the Horse.
At the Council Parliament was ordered to be prorogued
from this day (Tuesday) until the sth of May. •
Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting.
At the Queen's Court Mr. Justice Hill was presented to
her Majesty at an audience by Mr. Sotheron Estcourt,
Secretary of State for the Home Department, kissed hands
on his appointment as one of the judges of the Court of
Queen's Bench, and received from her Majesty the honour
of knighthood.
The Earl of Derby, Sir John Pakington, the Marquis of
Salisbury, Major-General Peel, and the Duke of Beaufort
had audience of the Queen.
The Queen and Prince Consort left Buckingham Palace
for Windsor Castle at 25 minutes before 4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, accompanied by Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold,
and the Princesses Alice, Helena, Louisa, and Beatrice. In
attendance were Lady Churchill, Lady Caroline Barring-
ton, the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Hon. Flora Macdonald,
Lieutenant-Colonel Cavendish, Colonel the Hon. A. N.
Hood, Captain Du Plat, the Master of the Household, and
Major. Elphinstone.
A detachment of Light Dragoons escorted the Queen

from the Palace to the Great Western Railway Terminus
at Paddington. A special train conveyed her Majesty to
Windsor.

The Duke of Oporto, attended by his Excellency Count
de Lavradio, Lieutenant-General Visconde de Campanha,
and Captain Sergio, went yesterday morning to inspect the
Great Eastern steamship. His Royal Highness took leave
of the.Clueen at Buckingham Palace on her departure for
Windsor Castle, and left London in the afternoon for South-
ampton.

The Marquis of Londonderry left his residence
in Grosvenor-square, yesterday morning for Mount
Stewart, county Down.
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and family
will leave town on Thursday for The Grove, near Wat-
ford.

The Earl and Countess of Craven and family
left town yesterday for Ashdown Park, Berks, for the
Easter holidays.
The Earl and Countess of Suffolk, andthe Ladies
Howard have left Farrance's Hotel, Belgravia, for Charlton
House, Wilts.

The Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam have left
town for their seat, Wentworth House, Yorkshire, to pass
the Easter holidays.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston will leave
Cambridge House to-day for their seat, Broadlands, for the
Easter holidays.

THE DISSOLUTION.—Though the prorogation of
the existing Parliament will take place this day, we believe
that the writs for the new Parliament will not be issued
until Saturday. They will be proclaimed in the several
boroughs and counties on Monday, and when three clear
days have elapsed from that date the elections for the new
Parliament will begin in theboroughs,and three days after-
wards in the counties.

According to the advices from Piedmont the war
preparations in that country, as well as in France, require
some further weeks of active effort for full completion.

Clara Seyton, whose power of personation—a
natural gift, unattainable by those who are not strangely
plastic—is very extraordinary, offers her omnibusful of
singular characters, for the fiat time to a London public,
on Tuesday, at St. Martin's Hall. • In the principal towns
of tlie province 4, carrying, alike, sketches from Regent-
street, our sea-ports, aud from the wilds of Yorkshire—
from the United States on the one hand, and from France
on the other—she has been met with admiration, laughter,
and warm applause,