The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-20 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

• - WINDSOR CASTLE, APRIL 19
There was no addition to her Majesty's dinner party
yesterdaY.
The Queen and Prince Consort walked in the Home
Park this morning, and visited her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent at Frogmore.

The Countess of Gainshorough has succeeded Lady
Churehil) as Lady in Waiting to her Majesty.
Viscount Strathallan and Lieutenant•;General Sir Frede-
rick Stovin have succeeded Lord Bateman and Lieutenant-
Colonel F. Cavendish as Lord and Groom in Waiting.

His Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio had an in-
terview' with the Earl of Derby, yesterday, at his official
residence in Dewning-street.
The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Saturday
next, the 23d inst., at Windsor Castle.
The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough accom-
panied by the Marquis of Blandford and Lord Randolph
Churchill, left-St. James's-square yesterday, for Blenheim
Palace, 'near Woodstock.
The . Duchess of Buccleuch has left town for
Dalkeith Palace, near Edinburgh. The noble duke joins
the duchess and family in Scotland at the close of the week.
The: Duke and Dachess of Wellington leave
Apsley House.in a few days to pass the holidays at Strath-
fieldsaye, Hants. _ .

The• Marchioness of Salisbury will leave Arling-
ton-stre4 to-morrow, for Buckhurst-park, Sussex, on a
visit to the Earl and Countess Delawarr. .

The -Earl of Malmesbury left London yesterday,
fox Windsor Castle.
Field. Marshal Viscount and Viscountess Comber-
mere are expected to arrive in BelgraTe-square on Wednes-
day next, for the season.
Lady Chelmsford leaves Eaton-square to-morrow,
for Torquay. The Lord Chancellor will be unable to leave
town with her ladyship, owing to public business.
We are glad to learn that the subscriptions to-
wards the proposed testimonial to Mr. Way, the °bile:*
and respected railway superintendent at Dover, already ex
•
teed £2OO.

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The London and South-Western Railway Com-
pany having undertaken to work the Isle of Wight Rail-
way, when completed, two members of their board, viz.,
Captain C. E. Mangles,- M.P., and Mr: Serjeant Gazelee,
have become directors of the latter undertaking.

Horace Vernet is going to be married, at the age
of siXty;seven. The banns are now placarded at the mayor-
alty of the 10th arrondissement, in the Rue do Grenelle,
Paris. The illustrious painter has gained the heart of a
widow, Madame Marie Amelie Fuller, whose first husband
was aM. a. Bois Richeux. _ _

Gene t 1 Ulloa, who took a share in the defence
Of Venice.in 1849, has just arrived at Twin from Paris
A Mail for the Cape of Good Hope will be made
up this evening for conveyance by her Majesty's steamer
Perseverance.
MEETING OF THE NEW PARLIAMENT.—It has
been mentioned that the new parliament would assemble on
the 31st of May. As a delay of two days in the dissolution
has taken•place' it is now considered probable that the day
to be appointed will be Thursday, June 2, especially as
Wednesday, June 1, is the Derby-day, always observed as
a holiday by the House of Commons.
Loss OF LIFE AT WESTMINSTER NEW BRIDGE.
—An accident at the New Westminster Bridge works has
been attended with the loss of a life, and serious injury to
several persons. It appears that the workmen were moving
a block of stone with a travelling crane; when the machi-
nery gave way, and the stone fell with a tremendous crash
on some pieces of timber. A man named Jones was struck
down and fell into the, water, and some others were injured.
The body of Jones is supposed to be underneath the pon-
derous stone. .

MERCANTILE DISCOUNT COMPANY.---With refe-
rence to the Mercantile Discount Company, of which a
prospectus was issued three days back, a correspondent
suggests that attention should be called to its articles of in-
corporation. No allusion is made to these articles in the
prospectus, but they must prove of vital importance to the
interests of the shareholders. There are to be two managers
—Messrs. Gottheimer and Erck. The first is to receive
£2,000 per annum, and the second £l,ooo,and this engage-
ment cannot be terminated without the payment of a sum
equal to three years' salary. They are likewise to have
large and constant additions in proportion as the dividends
may aupaent, and Mr. Gottheimer is to receive £.5,000 out
of the first %moneys paid up, 'on condition that he will dis-
burse preliminary expenses. £5OO per' annum is in like
manner secured •to the secretary. As the nominal capital
is only to be £200,000, of which but one-half 'is at present
to be paid up, the profits to meet these outgoings must bo
calculated on an extraordinary scale: The total to be
employed; after Mr. Gottheimer has taken his' preliminary
£5,000, will be £95,000. Upon this the dividend, held out
as certain'to be realised the first year, is 11 per tent. The
salaries specified will reach £3,500; £l,OOO (subject to
future augmentation) is to be allowed to the Board, and
the expenses of rent and other salaries, &c., may probably
be estimated at £1,500. Nearly £17,000, or 18 per cent. on
the paid-up capital, must therefore be 'gained during the
first year to realise all the conditions in the prospectus.
Whether such results are attainable by simply carrying on
the "usual business of discount houses" is a question that
must be left for persons engaged in that branch of occupa-
tion to decide.—Times,

LATEST NEWS.

TURIN, TUESDAY.

At a Council of Mini sters held early this morn
ing, at which the King was present, it was re•.
solved,

" That in order to give to Europe a proof of the
desire of Sardinia to remove the difficulties which
delay the meeting of a Congress, Sardinia yields to
the demand of England and France, and accepts
the principle of disarmament, the details of which
she will leave to be discussed in the Congress."

The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post
(second edition) says :
" I learn a courier has arrived to-day (Tuesday)
in Paris with despatches saying there is every pro-
bability that Austria will attack Piedmont within
a very brief space of time. Troops are pouring
into Austriaia Italy from all quarters. It is said
Austria prefers war to allowing Piedmont to enter
the Congress."
The Paris correspondent of the Times (second
edition), says :

" The alacrity of France in admitting the prin-
ciple of a general disarming even before the meeting
of the Congress is not free from suspicion. When
the question comes to be treated, how, it will be
asked, is France required to disarm when she has
not armed ? Will any difficulty arise on this point ?''
A letter just received from Turin, dated April
17, says :—" Events, and indications as to their
probable course, now succeed each other so rapidly
that one hesitates to express a positive opinion,
which the telegraph may prove to be ill-
founded before the letter that contains it has
reached its destination. I do not think, how-
ever, that I greatly risk such refutation when
I express my conviction that war is all but
inevitable. Something may yet come to pass to
prevent its occurrence, but that something would,
in my eyes, be not very far short of a miracle. At
such a crisis as the present it is unavailing to revert
to the past, and to seek to show that things would
never have come to this state, and the cruel necessity
of war never have arisen, but for the obstinacy, the
ambition, or the duplicity of certain Governments or
certain men. That would be mere waste of time ;
and, moreover, the question has been argued
threadbare, without, to all appearance, convincing
any of the parties concerned. It is better boldly
to face the present and prepare for the future than
to linger on the past. I shall rejoice if I prove
mistaken, but my belief is that the Piedmontese
Government is bent on war, and that war it must
have, or that the Cavour Cabinet must fall, which
would doubtless be the signal for insurrections in
various parts of Italy, and perhaps even for serious
disturbances in Piedmont, where so many thou-
sands of emigrants and volunteers from other
Italian countries are now congregated, greatly ex-
cited and confident that hostilities arc at hand."