The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-12 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, FRIDAY.
The Queen walked this morning in the Slopes
and Eastern Terrace.

The Royal Family took their accustomed airings.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps, Colonel lion. C. Grey,
and Colonel Seymour, left Windsor Castle for London
this morning, at twenty minutes past ten o'clock,
travelling by a special train on the Great Western
Railway. His Royal Highness returned this after-
noon to the Castle.

The royal dinner party this evening includes her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny
Howard, Baroness de Speth, the Marquis of Breadal-
bane, the Earl of Liverpool, and Sir George Couper.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yes-
terday at the first meeting of the Royal Commission
for the promotion of the exhibition of the works of
industry of all nations, to be held in the year 1851.
The meeting took place in the new palace of
Westminster, where his Royal Highness arrived at
twenty minutes past eleven o'clock, attended by
Colonel the Hun. Charles B. Phipps, Colonel Hon.
Charles Grey, and Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour.
The Commissioners assembled punctually at twelve
o'clock. There wet e present the Right Hon. Sir
Robert Peel, the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, Sir
Archibald Galloway, Sir Charles Lyell, Mr. Baring,
Mr. Barry, Mr. Bazley, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Cubitt,
Mr. Eastlake, Mr. Gibson, Mr. Gott, Mr. Jones
Loyd, and Mr. Alderman Thompson ; the Secretary,
Mr. Stafford Henry Northcote, was in attendance.
The meeting broke up at half-past four o'clock,
when Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Hon. C.
Grey and Colonel F. H. Seymour, took his departure
for the Paddington terminus of the Great Western
Railway, on his return to Windsor Castle.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
on Thursday at Gloucester -House.
The Bishop of Guiana had an interview with Earl
Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Dispatches from the Governors of the West India
Colonies were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.

We have authority to state that Mr. Charles
Villiers will move the address in reply to her Ma-
jesty's speech at the commencement of the ensuing
session. That Mr. Villiers, who annually proposed
the repeal of the Corn-laws before the League was
ever established, should undertake this office is a
sufficient answer to the many idle rumours which
have been circulated of a hankering on the part of
Ministers for a renewed duty upon the importation of
corn.— Times.

We have much pleasure in announcing that the
Court of Directors of the Honourable East India
Company have most liberally contributed the sum of
3001. towards Mr. Sidney Herbert's Fund for the
promotion of Female Emigration.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have receive d the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Assembly was occupiad the whole of Thurs-
day in discussing the various separate articles of the
Bill for regulating primary schcoluaiaters. The
discussion was occasionally of a noisy and irritating
character. Five articles were agreed to, and the
discussion was adjourned to the next day.
The Pafrie publishes the following semi-official
announcement, on the subject of the expedition
against ROSAS :
" We learn with the most lively satisfaction that the
Governm.nt has just decided, in a council of ministers,
that it will immediately send an expedition to La Plata.
It was positively stated at the Assembly that the
squadron would be composed of one or two frigates and
several small steamers. The expedition will be placed
under the command of Admiral Dubuurdieu, who will
unite to the command full diplomatic powers. Some
persons spoke of Admiral Laine as the man the best
calculated in every respect to bring such a negotiation
to a good termination, and we entirely concur in this
opinion. The effective strength of the troops to be sent
will be 2,000 men, under the immediate command of
Colonel Lannes de Montebello, of the 7th chasseurs. The
members of the committee who examined the question
of La Plata have received an assurance that the expedi•
tion will be promptly prepared and dispatched as soon
as possible." . _

The following are the principal items in the weekly
bank return :

Francs.
Specie in Paris ... ... 305.531,672
Ditto iu branches ... ... 132.712,339
Mils in Paris portfolio
„. 46
.563,382
Ditto in branches
... 73,555.552
Bills lying unpaid
... 2,180,096
Ditto in branches... ... ... 1,656,563
Bank Notes in circulation ... 383,740,600
Ditto in branches... 71 912,400
Credit to Treasury . 71,545,591
Private credits
... 79,917 255
Ditto in branches 25,282.888
More specie continues to flow into the coffers of
the Bink. The amount is more by nearly six millions
than it was last week. The increase in the circula-
tion of notes very nearly corresponds. The discounted
bills account shows that the Bank has a little in-
creased its accommodation to the city, while with re-
spect to the country the contrary is the case, for there
is a falling-off in the discounted bills account of up-
wards of three millions. Toe credit to the Treasury
is less by one million and a half.

At the commencement of the sitting of the
Assembly on Monday, the Ministers received a
check. General D'HAUTPOITL, the Minister at War,
expressed a desire that the Bill increasing the pay
of the non-commissioned officers should be sent at
once to the Budget Committee, instead of being re-
ferred to a Select Committee, and M. FOULD, the
Finance Minister, urged the adoption of the views of
his colleague. The motion was opposed by General
FABVIER, a member of the Orleanist faction, and was
rejected. _ _ _

The Assembly yesterday passed the Bill for the
regulation of primary schoolmasters by a majority of
162 ; the numbers being—for the Bill, 385 ; against
it, 223.

PARIS BOURSE, JAN. 11.—Last Prices :—Five per
Cents., 94f. 25c.; Three per Cents., 57f. 65c.; Bank
of France, 2,400 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JAN. 11.

Anglo Italian (late Italian and Austrian), 3/—East In-
dian, 4—Great Indian Peninsula, 34—Luxembourg, 34-
-Namur and Liege, 8 —Norther n of France, IL/2 dis.—Or-
leans and Bourdeaux, 3%—Rouen and Havre, 9%—Sambre
and Mense, 2%.