The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-16 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a court at three o'clock on Saturday
afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.
Count de Lavradio, the Portuguese Minister, had an
audience of her Majesty.
Count Vitzthnin had an audience; and delivered to the
Qu Jen his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary from his Mhjesty the King of
Sd xony.
General Almonta had an audience, and delivered to her
Majesty his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary from the Mexican Republic.
Their Excellencies were respectively introduced by
the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., the Queen's principal Se-
cretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Sir John Milbanke was presented to the Queen at an
audience by the Earl of Clarendon.
Lord Napier had an audience, and kiesed hands on
being appointed her Majesty's Minister to the United
States of America. His lordship was presented to the
Queen by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
The Portuguese Minister and the Countess Lavradio,
the Marquis of Breadalbane, Earl Cawdor, Earl of Mul-
grave, and the Right Hon. Sir James Graham, had the
honour of dining with the Queen in tho evening.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at
the official resider.ee of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street. Present—Viscount FalMerston, the
Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, Marquis of Lansdowne,
Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, Earl of Clarendon,
Lord Panmure, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right
Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the
Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll.
Tsa SPEAKER'S DINNER.—The Right Hon. the
Speaker of the House of Commons gave his first Parlia-
mentary full dress dinner this season on Saturday, .the
14th inst. The following members of the House of
Commons were present :—The Right Hon. Viscount
Palmerston, G.C.B , the Right Hen. the Lord Ernest
Bruce, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, G.C.B , the
Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, the Right Hon. Sir
Charles Wood, G.C.8., the Right Hon. the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Robert Vernon Smith,
the Right Hon. Mathew Talbot Baines, the Right Hon.
Sir Benjamin Hall, the 11,glit Hon. Viscount Monck,
the Right Hon. Lord Alfred Paget, the Right Hon.
Henry Fitzroy, the Right Hon. Edward Bouverie, the
Right Hon. Sir Maurice Berkeley, K.C.B. the Right
Hon. the Judge Advocate-General, the Right Hon. Ed-
ward HOT3rO:II3, the Right Hon. William Goodenough
Hayter, the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, Viscount Castle-
rosse, the Hon. Henry B and, the Attorney-General fob
Ireland, Mr. Massey, Mr. Froilerick Peel, Mr. Bernal
'Os!) )rne, Mr. John Ball, Mr. Danby Seymour, Mr.
James Wilson. There were also present the Rev. Thos.
Garnier and the Hon. George Waldegrave. The Lord
Advocate for Scotland, the Attorney-General, and the
S..licitor-General were prevented by domestic affliction
from being present.

Viscottritess Palmerston bad an assembly on Saturday
night, at Cambridge House, Piccadilly. A brilliant
company, including all the members of the diplomatic
corps, and a numerous coNgreation of the aristocracy,
responded to her ladyship's invitation.
Earl Granville will preside at the fifth anniversary
festival of the Royal Medical Benevolent College at the
Freemasons' Tavern, on the Gill May next.
' We under'tand that the Marquis of Londonderry
will preside at the anniversary festival of the Benevolent
Society of St. Patrick, at the Freemasons' Tavern, on
the 17th of March next.

The Belgian papers announce the death of Vicomte
Amdd4e Vilain XIV., Cotinci!lor of Legation, Brother
of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Mr. Planche has accepted the invitation of the.
n Ocir-
mittee of the Exhibition of Art Treasures to superintend
the arrangement of armour and arms.