The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-28 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, MAY 27.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked out in the
morning and afternoon of yesterday.
The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred rode on horse-
back.

Sir Thomas Fremantle, Chairman of the Customs,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer
yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street.
Despatches from the Governor of the Cape of Good
Hope and Natal were received yesterday at the Colonial.
office.

The Countess Frances Waldegrave and Mr. Har-
court, M.P., entertained at dinner last evening in
Carlton-gardens the Duke of Newcastle, Lady Su.an
Clinton, the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde,
the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, the Earl Gran-
ville, the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, the Countess
Dowager of Morley, the Countess of Shaftesbury, Lady
Victoria Ashley, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston,
Lord Stanley of Alderley, Mr. Ralph Sneyd, and Mr.
Norman Macdonald.
The Countess Craven's ball, for which invitations
have been issued for the Bth proximo, is unavoidably
postponed until the 15th of June.
The Viscountess Ashbrook's ball will take place on
Monday, the 22d of June, at 13, Portman-square.
Lady Harriett Grant Suttie's ball will take place on
Thursday, the 18th of Jane, at 31, Belgrave square.

Mrs. Vernon Smith will give her first ball for the
present season, at the fancily residence in Savile•row,
this evening. _

SEDDON EXHIBITION.—The Dachess of Sutherland,
accompanied by the Duchess of Argyll, paid a visit on
Monday to the Seddon Exhibition of Paintings, at the
Society of Arts. The portfolios, &c., were shown to
their Graces by Mr. Farrell Hogg.
The Earl of Shaftesbury has consented to preside at
a public meeting of the poor-law medical officers of Eng-
land and Wales, which is to be held this day (Thursday),
for the purpose of considering the grievances under
which they labour, and to pedtion Parliament on the
subject.
The Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, the Secretary of
State for the Colonies, has consented to preside at a
public) dinner, which is to take place on Wednesday,
June 10, to celebrate the return of Mr. Richard Baker
Wingfield, and the triumph of the Liberal cause at the
late general election.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea.ury
in Downing-street. The Ministers present were Vis-
count Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville,
the Earl of Harrowby, Sir G. Grey, the Earl of Cla-
rendon, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panmure, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir C. Wood, the Right
Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the
Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll.
CORPORATION OF THE SONS OF THE CLERGY.—The
annual meeting of the governors of this corporation, for
the election of widows and aged single daughters of de-
caased clergymen to permanent pensions, was held at
the Corporation House, in Bloomsbury-place, on' the
26th inst. The applications of 145 ladies, widows and
aged single daughters of clergymen, seeking assistance
from the funds of the society, were submitted, 41 of
whom were elected to pensions, and 100 received small
donations. The total number of pensioners was stated
to be 711, of whom 405 are widows. The pensions are
from 101. to 251. per annum, and are raised from time
to time as the funds allow.
The European and American Company's steamer
Argo, Captain Benson, left Southampton for New York.
She took out 450 passengers, chiefly Germans, about
200 tons of cargo, specie to the value of 10,0001., a Ger-
man mail, and a small English ship mail.
THE AMERICAN MAILS.—LIVERPOOL, Wednesday.—
The United States mail steamship Ericsson, Captain
Lowber, sailed from the Mersey, this afternoon, for
New York, with the mails for the United States, a con-
siderable cargo, and 10 passengers. The royal mail
steamship Canada, Captain Shannon, will sail for New
York, with the mails on Saturday afternoon next.
Letters must be posted here before noon on that day.