The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-15 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty the Queen held a Court yesterday afternoon
at Buckingham Palace.
Count de Lavradio, the Portuguese Minister, had the
honour of an audience of the Queen, to present, on behalf
of his Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal, the
Insignia of the Order of the Tower and Sword for their
Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred.
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone was presented to the
Queen at an audience by the Right Hon. Sir Edward Bul-
wer Lytton, Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Sir E. B. Lytton had an audience of her Majesty.
The Queen was attended by the Earl of Sheffield, Lord •
in-Waiting, and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, Groom-in-Waiting.
The Prince Consort, attended by Colonel the Hon. A.
Hardinge, visited the Exhibition of the Architectural In-
stitution yesterday morning.
The Queen had a dinner party in the evening. The com-
pany included her Royal Highness the Princess Alice, the
Earl of Malmesbury, Earl Cowley, Lord and Lady Raglan,
Captain the Honourable Dudley de Ros, the Dean of
Windsor, and the Honourable Mrs. Wellesley, and the
Honourable Mrs. Biddulph.

The Countess d'Apponyi has issued cards for an
assembly on Saturday evening at the residence of the Aus-
trian Legation, Chandos House.
The Duke of Bedford arrived at his mansion in
BelgTave-square, yesterday, from Woburn Abbey. His
grace, we are glad to learn, is in excellent health.
The Earl and Countess of Craven and the Ladies
Craven arrived in town yesterday morning from Ashdown
Park, where the noble earl and countess have been enter-
taining a select circle during the past week. The Countess
of Craven and Lady Evelyn Craven left town in the after-
noon on a visit to Viscount and Viscountess Grey deWilton
at Melton Mowbray.
The Countess of Sefton and Lady Cecilia Moly-
neux have returned to their residence in Grosvenor-place,
from a tour of visits.
The Countess of Hardwicke and the Ladies
Yorke arrived in town yesterday from visiting Viscount
and Viscountess Barrington at Beckett House, Berks.
The Earl and Countess of Bandon and the Ladies
Bernard have arrived at their residence in Eaton-square,
trom Castle Bernard, Ireland.
The Earl of Sefton arrived in town on Saturday
from visiting the Earl and Countess of Craven, at Ash-
down Park, Berks. _ -

Viscount Uffington arrived in town on Friday,
from Ashdown Park, Berks.
Viscount and Viscountess Doneraile have arrived
at their residence in Park-lane, for the season.

Lady Chelmsford's second assembly will take
place on Thursday next, and not upon Wednesday, as
announced in our impression of yesterday.

Colonel M. Biaclulph has left the St. George's
Hotel.

Mr. and Mrs. Washington Hibbert and family
have arrived at their new residence in Dover-street, for the

season.
The Earl and Countess of Verulam left Grosvenor-
square on Thursday to receive a family party at Gorham-
bury.
The Baroness de La Ropp and family have arrived
at the Brunswick Hotel, from St. Petersburg.
The marriage of Lady C. Somerset's daughter to
Mr. Sandford will take place in May.
DEATH OF SIR ANTHONY OLIPHANT.—WO have
to record the death of Sir Anthony Oliphant, formerly
Chief Justice at the Island of Ceylon. He was born in 1794
and married a daughter of Colonel Campbell. He was called
to the bar in 1821 by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's-inn, and
prior to being appointed to the Chief Justiceship of Ceylon,
was Attorney-General at the Cape of Good Hope.
The important line of railway from Marseilles to
Toulon will be opened to the public on May 1. Trains
already run between the two ports on military service.
A letter from Wiesbaden states that the reign-
ing Duke of Nassau, who is one of the best horsemen in
Europe, was lately thrown from his horse while on his way
to Biberich, whether he was going to see some ball-firing.
He met with some very severe contusions, but his life is
not in danger.
According to an account made up from official
documents, the number of cigars and cigarettes consumed
in France in 18b7 was as follows :—Havana and Manila
cigars, 36,086,500 ; cigars made in France, 481,071,500;
cigarettes, 6,478,000; total, 523,636,000.
The Augsburg Gazette announces that at Munich,
three days back, the Chamber, in a secret sitting, unani-
mously voted a credit to the government of 13,000,000
florins for military purposes ; also that the Chamber
adopted an:address to the King explaining its reasons for
the vote.
We read in the Vienna Gazette : " Accounts
from Sebastopol state that only a few of the old inhabitants
have returned ; the city appears almost deserted and com-
merce at an end. Formerly Sebastopol numbered 45,000
inhabitants; now it contains scarcely a sixth of that num-
ber. The wood huts built by the French serve as resi-
dences for the peasants. The funeral monuments of the
French and English at Sebastopol and Balaklava are un-
injured."
DEPTFORD THEATRE.—Application was made to
the bench of magistrates at Greenwich, on Saturday, for a
license for the Deptford Theatre, the license having been
taken from the previous proprietor for misconduct. Mr. C.
Timothy, the new proprietor, promised that the theatre
should be conducted in a proper and orderly manner, but
the magistrates refused the license, and objected to state
their reasons for so doing.
NAPOLEON AND THE SUTTLERS.—The second
volume of "The Correspondence of Napoleon I." contains
an order of the day issued by him when commanding in
Italy, which shows that the young general was not dis •
posed to treat with much tenderness the class of ladies who
followed the camp. The order was to this effect :—All
women who have not the permission of the commissariat
are required to leave the division within twenty-four hours;
in default of doing so they will be arrested, smeared over
with black, and exposed for two hours in the public square.
The general-in-chief is informed that the disorders which
prevail are attributable to these abominable women, who
incite the soldiers to pillage.—Bulletin.
WILLS.—The will of Mr. Commissioner Phillips
was proved on the 7th instant, by Mr. Edward Cooke, the
barrister, the surviving executor (the late Mr. W. Clark-
son, was the other executor) ; personalty, £30,000. Leaves
all to his wife, the household furniture and effects for her
use absolutely, with the exception of a gold snuffbox, a
goblet, and a travelling-case, which contains a knife, fork,
and spoon, formerly belonging to the Emperor Napoleon,
which he leaves to his son, William Henry Phillips, of the
East India Company. On decease of his wife, leaves a
house to his daughter, the wife of Colonel Penleaze, and
the residue and reversion to his said son and his daughter,
Emily Ann Phillips. The will, with a codicil, is dated in
1853.—The will of Mr. John Thomas Longman, of Earl's-
terrace, Kensington, who died on the 4th of January last,
was proved in London on the 21st ult., by the widow, and
Mr. Richard Longman, the brother, the joint executors ;
personalty sworn under £30,000. Bequeathes the bulk of
his property to his widow. His bronzes, pictures, prints,
and all other works of art to her for life, and then to his
son, John Strongitharm Longman ; the furniture, plate,
linen, china, and books, to her absolutely. Directs that
a sum of £30,000 be purchased in the Three per Cents.,
and the dividends paid to her for life. His interest in
the premises belonging to himself and brother in
Waterloo-place, Pall-mall to be valued. The freehold and
leasehold estates to be sold, and the proceeds invested, with
all other moneys, and, together with the residue, divided
equally among his children. The will is dated the 29th of
November, 1857. Letters of administration of the effects
of the Hon. John Joshua Proby, commonly called Lord
Proby, late of Eaton Hall, Stilton, Huntingdonshire, but
who diedat Melrose Hall on the sth of December last, have
been granted to Admiral Granville Levison, Earl of Carys-
fort, his father, and as such entitled to his effects, Lord
Proby having died intestate and a bachelor.—lllustrated
News.
SHIPWRECK AND Loss OF LIFE OFF APPLEDORE.
—BIDEFORD, Saturday Night.--I grieve to tell you (says
Mr. Chanter, agent for Lloyd's at Bideford) that we have
had a sad misfortune here. The schooner Clifton, Captain
Thomas, of Gloucester from Cardiff for Oporto, in a terrific
storm, struck this morning at the very outer end of the
south tail off our harbour, and immediately filled. The
Mermaid lifeboat, which saved on Friday last the crew of
five men from the wreck Caroline, was instantly launched,
and, after three hours' hard pulling, failed to reach the
wreck. The Petrel lifeboat was then launched, but the sea
was mountainous, and she also failed, the crews being
perfectly exhausted. Again the Mermaid started with
our coxswain and a fresh crew. The vessel's crew
reached the vessel 14taken to the rigging, and could be seen with a
glass,, but before the lifeboat could reach the vessel
remainder df the crew the mast went overi the side with the captain
and three sailors
excitement and confusion which Iperished. Subsequently the Mer-
maidand from the bowsprit saved the
prevail I
in a very exhausted state. In the.
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and a good look-out is kept. I should add that in our
anxious and hazardous pursuits on the coast the National
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Lifeboat Institution, with a liberality becoming its humane
and extensive operations, allows no consideration of expense
to influence our proceedings."