The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-06 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, JAN. 5.
The Queen and Prince walked in the Home Park this
morning, and visited her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent at Frogmore.
The Prince of Wales went out hunting.

Count Kielmansegge, the Hanoverian minister, left
London yesterday on a visit to the Earl and Countess of
Jersey at Middleton.park. The Countess Helene Kiel-
mansegge has left town on a visit to the Earl and
Countess Howe at Gopsall, Leicestershire.
The Lord Chancellor will receive the Judges, Queen's
Counsel, &c.' on Monday next, the first day of Hilary
Term, at his lordship's residence in Upper Brook-street,
at 12 o'clock.

The Queen of Holland has been obliged to keep her
apartment for some days on account of indisposition.
CANONRY OF SALISBURY.—We have, reason to believe
that the vacant canonry of Salisbury will be conferred
by the Lord Chancellor on the Rev. John Guthrie, vicar
et Calne.

It is said that Lord Napier, now .secretary of embassy
at St. Petersburg, will be the r epresentative of her
Majesty at Washington on the •occasion of the com-
pletion of diplomatic intercourse )..iet ween England and
the United States.

We are sorry to have to ar.nounce the death of Mr.
John Duncan, aged 48, a literary gentleman, said to be
an author, and who besidr,s was connected with the
newspaper press for many y ears as a reviewer, critic, &c.
DEATH OF SIGY.OR CRIVELLI.—It is with regret that
we have to avnounce the death of Signor Crivelli,
which took W.ace on Wednesday last, Dec. 31, at his
residence, 7:1, Upper Norton-street, Portland-place.
Ruraor.rs are afloat that a large mass of the French
clergy are unfriendly to the doctrine of the Irawaculat,,
Cone'vtion, and have been preparing to make a protest
on the subject.
COAST GUARD.—This service having been pieced en-
t'.rely under the Admiralty, the department has been
'eemoved from the Customs to the house lately occupied
by the Duke of Somerset, Spring-gardens. The Comp-
troller-General, Captain Chas. Eden, II.N. C.B has
been promoted to the rank of Commodore of the first
class.

OUR RELATIONS WITII ME:YICO•—The following is an
-extract from a private letter, dated Vera Cruz, Dec, 5,
received per the Africa :—" The difficulties with your
Government have been settled, and Mr. Leison has
resumed diplomatic relations with our Govq.nmEint.
The Spanish question, after the retirement of O'D
at Madrid, is considered likely to be settled by General
Narvaez, on the basis adopted by the Spanish Charge
d'Affaires here, lately recalled bytO'Donnell."

LATEST :;E

DEATH OFLTHE BISHOP OF coltr,
DUBLIN, TUESDAY MORNING.

Accounts this morning from Cork announce
the death, yesterday, of the Right Rev. Dr.
Wilson, Bishop of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross.
The deceased was in his 77th year.

NEW MEMBER FOR LANARKSHIRE.
LANARK, TUESDAY MORNING.
Mr. Baillie Cochrane has been returnci for
Lauarkshire without opposition, and amidst much
enthusiasm.

MARCH OF PRUSSIAN TROOPS.

BERLIN, JAN. 4.

The Mercure de Souabe of this day states that
the permanent Committee of the Chamber in re-
ference to the demand made by certain Deputies,
is unanimously itself in favour of a protest against
the pamage of Prussian troops.
The Committee, moreover, required a commu-
nication of the pzesent state of the negotiations on
the subject.

The Assembly of the Bourgeois have just prc
sented a petition to the King, praying him to
avoid the dangers that threaten the material iutc•
rests of the country.

STIITTGARDT, JAN. 5.

The Committee of the Diet, adhering to the
requisition of the eleven Deputies, has unani-
mously decided aginst the right of the Prussians
to a passage through the territory of Wurtemberg.
The Prussian Government has requested from
that of Wurtemberg a statement of the position
of negotiations.

The People's Assembly has voted an address to
preserve the country from the calamity of war,
which must compromise its material interests.

MUNICH, MONDAY.

M. Furrer, the Swiss Councillor of State, has
had an interview with M. Von der Pfordten, the
Bavarian Minister. The result is not known.

CARLSRITHE, MONDAY.

The Russian Envoy here has signed the mar•
riage contract between the Archduke Michael o.
Russia and the Princess Cicely of Baden.

MADRID, JAN. 3.

The rumours of a Ministerial crisis are con
tradicted.

The state of Catalonia is less threatening.
The Press is placed under the entire control of
civil governors of provinces ; the censors to be
named by the Minister of the Interior.

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, JAN. 1.
The bands of all the regiments of the Guards
•assembled this morning and treated the Prince of
Prussia to a morning concert in honour of his
jubilee.
Shortly after 9 o'clock the Prince and Princess
of Prussia, with their family, drove out to Char-
lottenburg to present their New Year's congratula-
tions to the King and Queen, with whom also they
attended Divine service in the chapel of the palace
there.

Long before the Royal party returned from
Divine service at Charlottenburg the open space in
_front of the Prince of Prussia's palace, began to be
thickly covered with anxiously interested spec-
tators. Shortly before one o'clock the representa-
tives. of the Prussian army began to stream into the
Music-hall. It was here that the main act of con-
gratulation on the fart of the army took place.
Lt the time when the Royal party entered the
Musi e-hall after their arrival from Charlottenburg,
the c c tepany assembled, then consisting entirely of
officers, presented a brilliant tableau vivant of the
entir €.; Prussian army.
Th (13 Rotunda was devoted exclusively to the
office rs of the Prussian army, but the foreign mi-
litar. deputations—the English, the Austrian, and
the I:'.ussian—were admitted to be spectators from
a wi, e opening that leads into it from the Conser-
vator• y, corresponding in its position to the door
leadia tg from the central hall of our Houses of
Parb:l tment to the waiting hall and committee
twirl s. Here our Minister, Lord Bloomfield, stood
cons [ Actions, the more so from his diplomatic cos-
tum E, being the only non-military uniform present,
flan; red by Sir Colin Campbell and supported by his
suit( i ; next to them the Austrian deputation, from
the Regiment of Foot, of which the Prince
is c' lief, resplendent in their white, round coats,
whit ;h we call tunics, and bright red trousers ; and
at a convenient distance from both of these, but
more advanced into the room, the deputation from
the Prince's Russian (Kaluga, 4th line) Regiment
con( risting of but two officers, whose dark green
unit :arms and deficient decoration formed an ad-
van. gaged foil to the more brilliant colouring of the
Eng I ish and Austrian groups.
T. e indefatigable exertions of the Prince's Cham-
berl in, Count Puckler, succeeded in getting the
grout, os of the Prussian army formed into three
segni ents of a circle occupying three quarters
of ti ao periphery of the Music-hall, with the
two Field Marshals, Count Dohna and General
Wral I gel, in the centre, when the arrival of the
Roya I party was announced. The King entered
first, followed by the Prince of Prussia, led in by
the Q ueen. They were succeeded by the Princess
of Pr ussia and the ladies in waiting, Prince Fred-
erick Wilhelm, and all the numbers of the Royal
famil: y now present in Berlin. While these latter
and I .he many illustrious visitors were taking up
the Er Lations assigned them, the two Field Marshals
fetc7a ed the silver shield which the officers of the
arm r present to the Prince. The King arid the
Qu( 5.31:1 hereupon gave then the benefit of their
assi stance in holding this work of art, while the
Ku t g addressed the Prince in the name of the army.
'l', he King's address was short, but though spoken
with . great emphasis and warmth not distinctly
audible at a distance ; it was clearly observable,
how ever, that he made use of the familiar form of
adds •ess used to near relations, " thou" and
"th ee ;" and the sense of what he said was, after
poin ting to the shield before them, that not only
he a nd his whole family—not only the officers pre-
sent,. but the whole army, sought to express by
their offering their hearty desire for many a happy
ret urn ©f the day to him.

r. ['he Prince was evidently affected, more by the
Lie: artiness of the address than by the offering thus
nit vie him, andhe evidently experienceddiffieiulotuylit;
fi riding due expression for his feelings—a difficulty
till A, doubtless, was enhanced by the consciousnessleadyr of
the : present critical position ofaffairs with regard to
the : peace of central Europe. He said he bad a
tha .t morning received from him (his brother) so
ma ny marks of affection and favour that this fur.
the r token of the approbation of his
King and
quite over-
poi nmander, in the name of the army, q
poi vered him ; if this was indeed to be looked on
as .a mark of recognition for past services, at least
he was conscious of having always had the firmest
caene,
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truest goodwill
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his serves hatisifmao;tiiofn hheehad was sl
in-
deb deb ted for the means to those who stood around
them ; they had placed confidence in him, and be.
haei endeavoured to deserve that confidence. And
he then begged the officers present to join him in
expressing their common feelings of affection and
devotion to
,
aattfr aEdoigsltiasnhce one thing was
Though much of the Prince's speech was inaudible
the King in a hearty " Hoch !"
mai ie toat least observable to
the allusionu.
"glory," ea,tbastt,rewshsiwleatshelareidwuasponno
scie ntious endeavour to fulfil duty during a length-
ene,l period of years.
After the Prince had concluded his speech of
thanks by calling on all his brother officers to join
him in a cheer for the King, which was given
thrice, General Wrangel proceeded to express the
army tc .vards the Prince with refer-
efenecleintgo oft theheanniversary they were then celebrating,
and closed with proposing a cheer for the whole
Royal Family. As an instance of the unaffected cor-
diality pervading this ceremony may be mentioned
that, as the cheers that General Wrangel had called
forth died away, the King said aloud, " Come, all
good things aro three (a familiar German saying) ;
now let us give another cheer for my beloved
brother, Wilhelm," a proposition that was re-
plied to with a hearty goodwill. The Th-',nce then

proceeded round the room, shaking hands with all
the more piomineut members of the circle and re-
ceiving their congratulations, while the King, the
Queen, and the Princess of Prussia moved aside to
examine the shield, not as yet finished, and its
model. In the course of the King's subsequent
peregrinations through the saloon he approached
the English deputation and addressed Lord Bloom-
field and Sir Colin Campbell in obliging, courteous
terms and in English.
' After having received the congratulations of the
army the Prince passed on to the next saloon,
where the Landwehr and the veterans of the old
wars of Prussia presented him with a helmet, ac-
companied by a lengthy address.
On leaving the saloon the Prince withdrew to
a private room, in which he gave a special audi-
dience to the English deputation that had brought
him the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in
the name of our 'gracious Queen ; the English de-
putation was the first received of the foreign de-
putations, and was introduced by our Minister here,
Lord Bloomfield. It consisted of Lieutenant-
General Sir Colin Campbell, G.C.8., Inspector-
General of Infantry ; Lieutenant-Colonel Sterling,
C. 8., Assistant Adjutant-General ; Lieut.-Colonel
White, C. 8., 6th Dragoons (Enniskillens) ; and
Lieutenant-Colonel Taylor, Royal Artillery ;
thus all branches of the British army were
duly represented ; and the additional com-
pliment paid the Prince by our Queen in
selecting so distinguished a veteran to pre-
sent him with this military decoration has
been duly appreciated here. Sir Colin presented
his Royal Highness with the Grand Cross, Star,
and Collar of the Bath, together with the official
documents announcing the investiture and enrol-
ment of the Prince among the many distinguished
bearers of this order ; and, addressing the Prince
in English, expressed his own great satisfaction
at having been selected by the Queen to be the
bearer to him of that token of her Majesty's great
regard and respect. The Prince was probably
too much excited by the events of the morning to
reply in English, as he is otherwise by no means
backward in doing, and replied in French, how
doubly thankful he was to the Queen for think-
ing of him just at that moment ; that he felt
that his deserts in no way called for this dis-
tinction ; and he was conscious that this military
order was, according to its statutes, conferable
only on those foreigners who had fought side by
side with British troops ; he, at least, could proudly
point to the fact that he had fought simultaneously
with them for a common object ; for, while the
British forces were penetrating into France from,
the south, he had been present at every engage-
ment of the Prussian forces in the north while pene-
trating from the Rhine to Paris. •
The Austrian and Russian deputations were then
admitted to special audiences, after which the
Prince returned to the larger saloons, and received,
in rapid succession, the congratulations of the
Ministers of State, the House of Notables, the
House of Deputies, and 20 other deputations from
different bodies and places.