The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-04 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—The remains of the celebrated physiologist
and surgeon John Hunter having been recently
found in the vault under the church of St. Martin-
in-the-Fields, where they were deposited on Oct.
22, 1793, I am directed to inform you that the
Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, feeling
it their duty to obtain for the remains of this illus-
trious man a resting-place worthy of them, have
asked permission of the Dean and Chapter to de-
posit them in Westminster Abbey, which has been
most readily accorded; these authorities stating
also that " they shall be proud to be the guardians
there of the ashes of so great a man."
Your early insertion of this information will
afford the highest gratification to the medical pro-
fession, amongst whom, since the discovery of the
remains, the deepest interest has been excited that
they should receive the highest honours which can
be paid to an illustrious man.
March 3.

E. BELFOUR

THE PRIVY COUNCIL,

(Ttont the Court iVetes;nan.)

Her Majesty the Queen held a Privy Council at three
o'clock yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. It

was attended by his Royal Highness the Prince Consort,
the Marquis of Salisbury, Lord President ; Earl of Hard-
wicke, Lord Privy Seal; Earl of Derby, First Lord of the
Treasury; Earl of Malmesbury, Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs; Major-General Peel, Secretary of State
for War; the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, Chancellor of the
Exchequer; Sir John Pakington, First Lord of the Admi-
ralty ; Lord John Manners, First Commissioner of Public
Works ; the Marquis of Exeter, Lord Steward ; Earl
Delawarr, Lord Chamberlain ; and the Duke of Beaufort,
Master of the Horse.

Before the Council the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole had
an audience of the Queen, and delivered to her Majesty his
seals of office as one of the principal Secretaries of State.
At the Council the Right Hon. T. Sotheron-Estcourt
was sworn one of the Queen's principal Secretaries of State,
and received from her Majesty his seals of office.
The Earl of Donoughmore was declared by her Majesty
President of the Board of Trade, and ,Lori Lovaine Vice-
President.

The Earl of March and Lord Lovaine, by command of
the Queen, were sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable
Privy Council.

The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk' of the Counei
in Waiting.

The Earl of Derby, the Earl of Malmesbury, and Sir
John Pakington had audiences of her Majesty.
The Queen -held a Court, and Mr. Rivers, Peruvian
Minister, had an audience of her Majesty, and took leave.
M. Osma had an audience of the Queen, and delivered
his credentials as Minister Resident from Peru.

Their Excellencies were respectively introduced by the
Earl of Malmesbury, the Queen's Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Major-General
the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master
of the Ceremonies.

The Hon. Frederick Bruce, C. 8., had an audience of the
Queen, and kissed hands on being appointed Envoy Extra-
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of
China. Mr. Bruce was presented by the Earl of Malmes-
bury.

The Court was attended by Lord Claud Hamilton, Trea-
surer of the Household ; Viscount Newport, Vice-Cham-
berlain; Col. the Right Hon. Cecil Forester, Comptroller
of the Household; Viscount Strathallau, Lord in Waitin,s. ;
and General Sir Edward Bowater, Groom in Waiting.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
d'Aumale dined with Mr. Harcourt and the Countess
Frances Waldegrave last evening, at their mansion in
Carlton-gardens.

His Excellency Count Bernstorff, the Prussian
Minister, and Count Brandenburg, Councillor of Legation;
were present at the Queen's levee on Wednesday, at St.
James's Palace.

The Earl and Countess of Portarlington have
arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Emo Park, Queen's
county.

Lord and Lady Aveland received Mr. Justice
Erle, the High Sheriff of the county of Rutland, and the
leading barristers of the Midland Circuit, at dinner at Nor-
manton Park on Monday last. Sir William Erle passed
the night under his lordship's hospitable roof.

Lord Herries has left Claridge's Hotel for Ebring•
`:on Park, near York.

The marriage of Lady Harriet de Burgh, youngest
and. only unmarried daughter of the Marquis and Mar-,
chioness of Clanricards, with Mr. T. Vernon Wentworth,
only son of Mr. and Lady Augusta Wentworth, of Went-
worth Castle, Yorkshire, was solemnised yesterday, at St.
James's Church, Piccadilly.
The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Smyth Vereker received
at dinner on Wednesday, at:their residence in Chesham,
place, his Excellency the Netherlands Minister, the Earl
and Countess of Lanesborough, the Ladies Anna and
Catherine Loftus, Viscount Ranelagh, the Hon. Mrs.
Keith Falconer, the Hon. Hallyburton Campbell, Sir Adam
and Miss Hay, Mr. and Mrs. M'Garel, Major and 'Mrs
Hall, Mr. Cornwallis West, and Mr. Dayrell.
EDUCATION IN THE PIT DISTRICTS.—At Jarrow-
on-the-Tyne, and immediately under the walls of tho
mo-
nastery of the venerable Bede, the following notice is exhi-
bited in a publichouse, window :—" Notice.—Thare wil be
a Coit supper at this house on Seturday forst the Winer to
to Pay Won shiling and the Losser to Pay toou shilin and
sixpence. The Coits to start at toou o'clock, the fors tow
on the list to Play and then third & forth and so one. Any'
Parsons desirarous to join this supper must Love thare
names with the Landlord of this House,"