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 Vitzthum bad an audience, and deliverel to the
Queen his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary from his Majesty the King of
Se 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 intrcduced 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 kissed 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, Zarl of Mel!.
grave, and the Right Hon. Sir James Grahim, liad the
honour of dining with the Queen in the evening.

A Cabinet Council wag held on Saturday afternoon'ai
the of residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,

in Downing-street. Present—Viscount Palmerston, the
Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, Marquis cf Lansdowne,
Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, Earl of Clarendon,
Lord Panmnre, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Woad, the Right
Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the
Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke Argyll.
Tux SPEAKER'S DamEn.----The Right Hon. the
Speaker of the House of Commons gave is 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 Hon. the' Lord Ernest
Bruce, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, G.C.8., the
Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, the Right Hon. Sir
Charles Wood, G.C.8., the Right Hot the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Robert Vernon Smith,
the Right Hon. Mathew Talbot Baines, the Rightlion.
Sir Benjamin Hall, the Right Hon. Viscount Monck,
the Right Hon. liord Alfred Paget, the Right Hon.
Henry Fitzroy, the Right Hon. Edward Bouverie, the
Right Hon. Sir Maurice Berkeley, 1C.C.8., the Right
Hon. the Judge Advocal e-General, tle Right Hon. Ed-
ward Horsman, the Right Hon. William Goodenough
Hayter, the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, Viscount Castle-
rosse, the Hon. Henry Band, the Attorney-General for
Ireland, Mr. Massey, Mr. Frederick Peel, Mr. Bernal
Osb erne, Mr. John Ball, Mr. Danby Seymour, Mr.
James Wilson. There were also present the Rev. Thos.
Gamier and the Hon. George Waldegrave. The Lord
Advocate for Scotland, the Attorney• General, and the
SAicitor•General were prevented by domestic affliction
from being present.
Viscountess 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 congregation 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 6th May next.
We understand 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
ArcEidde Vilain XIV., Councillor of Legation, Brother
of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Mr. Plenche has eceepted the invitation of the Corn.
mittee of the Exhibition of Art Treasures to superintend
tho-izrraDgement of arrooox tuod Wits,

LATEST N E WS.

It is believed at Berne that France will not
convene the conferences on the Neuchatel ques-
tion until Prussia has agreed to renounce all pre-
tensions hitherto insisted upon by the King.

The Hydaspes, which arrived at Marseilles on
Saturday, brought news from Constantinople to
the sth February.

The Sultan and the Ottoman Ministers have
subscribed for shares in the Smyrna railway, the
concession of which has been recently granted.
The rebuilding of Canea, the capital of Candia,
destroyed by the late earthquake, and the repairs
of Sinope of the damage created by the bombard-
ment, are receiving the attention of the Govern-
ment.

An immense number of pilgrims are en route

for Jerusalem.

A proposal has been made for the construction
of a railway from the Illyrian provinces to Adrian-
ople.

The Presse d' Orient says that the Messageries
Imperiales are in arrangement with Russian packets
to effect alternate departures from Marseilles.
The boats are to effect the transit from Constan-
tinople to Marseilles in six days.
News from Naples announces that Count Aquila
is organising a steam company for freights to the
East.

It is asserted in Berlin that Prussia, in the
coming Conferences on the Neuchatel question,
will take the initiative, by submitting her propo-
sitions for an arrangement.

M. Lindenberg, the editor of the Gazette Pa-
Yiotique of Minden (whose severe minimum we uu-

ticed in our impression of Feb. 9tb), has been
pardoned on the intercession of the Prince of

Prussia.