The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-26 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, July 25.—The Queen held a Council at one
o'clock, at which were present his Royal Hislmess 1120
Prince-Consort, Earl Granville, Viscount Palmerston, Sir
G. Lewis, Sir G. Grey, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, Earl
St. Germans, Viscount Sydney, and Earl Spencer.
At the Council Sir Robert Peel, Bart., was sworn in a
Privy Councillor, and took his seat at the Board.
Sir G. C. Lewis had an audience, and received from the
Queen the seals of the War Department, and delivered up
to her Majesty the seals of the Home Department.
Sir George Grey had an audience of her Majesty, and
gave up the seals of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Sir G. Grey was sworn in Secretary of State, and received
the seals of office.
The Right Hon. Edward Cardwell had an audience, and
received from the Queen the Seals of the Duchy of Lan-
caster,

BANK OF ENGLAND.

An Account, pursuant to tl
cap. 32, for the week ending
of July, 1861:

ie Act 7th and Bth Victoria
on,Wednesday, the 24th day

Notes issued 1....... ISSUE DEP
X 25,517,480,

'ARTMENT.
Government Debt X 11,015,100
Other Securities .. 3.634,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 10,867,480
Silver Bullion ..• •

X 25,517,4801,

£25,b17,480

BASHING D'
Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-
counts) 4,123,460
Other Deposits 11,984,227
Seven Day and
other Bills

%PARTMENT.
Government Seen-

rities (including
Dead W eightAn-
Unity)
Other Securities 18,851,783
Notes
Gold and Silver
Coin 852,610

£34,688,387
M. l

'.C34,688,387
.RSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated July 25, 1861.

MAJOR MURRAY.—This gentleman has no
quitted
preieneehdeinaglish.in The
police
have
mallot far from Pope's villa was the lath-and-plas-
tter. II
ter house built by Horace Walpole in a charming situation,
the hospital,
withdrawn but
alli s
improving
furtherwhich he called Strawberry Hill. He himself has suffi-
ciently described it in his letters, with its outside appear-
ance and its internal decorations. Here was his printing-
press, and here he wrote those letters which will be read
probably as long as the English language lasts. At the
end of a verdant meadow Walpole purchased a compara-
tively small house, in which the celebrated Kitty Clive,
the actress, resided. He would trip across that field accom-
panied by his pet spaniel, in order to enjoy the society
of that fascinating woman. At his death he left
the house to the two beautiful sisters, the Misses Berry,
who may be reckoned amongst the Twickenham worthies.
Near to Pope's villa was the residence of Thomas Hudson,
an eminent portrait painter, and who married the daughter
of Richardson, the painter. Hudson had for his pupils Sir
Joshua Reynolds, Mr. Mortimer, Wright of Derby, and
many other celebrated painters, who first studied under
him. The extravagant Philip Duke of Wharton, whom
Pope satirised as " the scorn and wonder of the age," had
a house at Twickenham, pulled clown a few years ago. A
solitary cedar marks the spot, with a pond near it.—ED-
IVARD JESSE in Once a Week.
A WORD ON COMETS.--It is not a small triumph
to be able in some measure to deine the form of the orbit of
a bodywhich performs its mightyjourney aroundour common
centre, the sun, in more years than this great globe takes
days to do the same. Still more is it to have set at rest those
extravagant notions which perplexed nations, confounded
emperors and kings, and set up gaunt superstition upon its
tall stalking horse to prey on cruelty and ignorance. Even in
more modern, and therefore happily more enlightened times,
the fear of a brush of the tail of one such visitor brought sad
tribulation in its train ; but the matter which once was
thought to engulph the world in destruction is now looked
on with calmer eyes ; Mr. Eind asserting that we really
were in the tail of our present friend at the moment these
thoughts were passing through my brain; and we saw,
nearly two years ago, that the satellites of our big brother
Jupiter endured a very considerable embrace without any
evil result. If, then, when in actual contact they are
harmless, surely at a distance, and in their significative
or prophetic bearing, they may be held to be equally so.--
I Once a Week.