The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-31 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.
The Queen and his Royal ll,gtmess Prince Al-
bert took their usual early morning walk.
The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise
in the Slopes and Windsor Park.
Her Mjesty held a Privy Council at two o'clock.
It was attended by his Royal Highness the Prince
Albert, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord President
the Earl of Minto, L')rd Privy St al ; Lord John
Russell, First Lord of the Treasury ; Sir George
G-ey, S-cretary of State for the Home Department;
Viscount Palnhu-ston, Secretary of Stare for Foreign
Affairs ; E trl Grey, S?cretary of State for the Co-
lonies ; Sir Charles Wood, Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer; Sir John Hobhouse, President of the Board
of Control; Lord Campbell, Chancellor of the Duchy
of Lancaster; the Right Hon. Henry LAbouchere,
President of the Board of Trade ; the Earl of CurlislP,
First Commissioner of the Woods and Forests ; the
Right lion. Fox Millie, Secretary at War ; the Mar-
quis of Breadalbane, Lord Chamberlain, and the Duke
of Norfolk, Ahster of the Horse.
Lord John Russell had an audience of the Queen
previous to the Council.

The Marquis of Lansdowne had also an audience
of her Majesty.

At the Privy Council an election was ordered for
two Scotch Peers, in the room of the Earl of Airlie
and Lord Colville, of Culross, deceased.
The Queen's Speech on opening the session of Par-
liament was arranged and agreed upon.
Toe Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in waiting.
Mr. Justice Talfourd was presented to the Queen
at an audience by the Right HA I. Sir George Grey,
her Majesty's Principai Secretary of State for the
Home Department, kissed hands upon his appoint..
ment, and had the honour of knighthood conferred
upon him by her Majesty.
The Right Hor. Sir David Dundas, Judge Advo,
cnte-General, had an audience cf the Queer, and
submitted to her Majesty the proceedings of some
courts- martial.

Her Mjesty was r:tended by Lml Canloys, Lord
in Waiting,. end -Mijor G2nerai Sir Frederick Stovin,
Groom in Waiting,
After the Council luncheon was served to the Mi-
nisters and officers of State in attendance.
Shortly atter three o'clock Lord John Russell, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Grey, the Earl of Csr-
listle, the Earl of Minto, the Marquis V Bread&lb me,
Viscount Palmerston, Lord Campbell, Sir G. Grey,Sir John Hobhouse, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Mr. L Abouchere, Mr. Fox Maul-, and the lion. W.
Bathurst. took their departur,, returning to town by
a special train on the Great 'Western Railway. The
Duke of Nortolk, the Right Hor. Sir David Dundap,
and Sir Thomas Talfourd, also left the Cestle.
The Duchess of Sutherland and L idy C. Leveson
Gower are expected to arrive at the Castle this evening,
The royal dinner party this evening will include
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady
Fanny Howard, Bsroness de Speth, the Duchess of
Sutherland, Lady C. Leveson Gower, and Sir George
Couper. _

The Queen's private band will attend fif,er dinner

A Sub-Committee of the Commission for the Exhi-
bition tf 1851, met yesterday at the office of th,:
Board of Trade, Thf-Te were i..rrent K-01
vile, Mr. Jones Loyd, and Mr T, P. G►b.on.

IRISH AGRICULTURE.—The f is s'X-
tract from a letter troll n medic,' gi eourit),
Meat , Ire'and, to his friend in Edinburgh:—"Ycu
se? by the papers t ty, Ireland, at least the proprletat•y
and ten'intry, are clamouring ft,r protection. I do not
subscribe to the movement, 'tis more calculated to keep
up high re Its and lazy tamers flan to benefit vie la-
boating class. The imposition (.f duty woul.l net
remove the incubus ( f poor-rare, tkhich is the prroci:,.ti
thing crushing Ireland, leaving a large portion of it ruslt
cultivated and uninhabited. I say let free.-tra:,e
continue, and that by renewed exertion on
e n paystn
eo ..
t alilkle furthat
fe
the part of our agricultural community, making
mother earth yiekl its hundorfold, that Ire-
land is fully able to cope with foreign coun-
trics in the article of
its ground the price of labour there fully
l
for ground
If
ginmndt'eArcm.
o
pro-
prietors of all choses having over-lived their incomes,
and their proent inability to retrench or reduce their
rie:t lait.w is hda,;n.ge pay
the prey ,• nt miFchief—'tis our
lands to the rttnts they n utt do in the end. Now fir our
poor-rate. In parts of this country It hiss gone to such
a height thst on thousands of acres in parts of
the went you not see a beast fe. ding— it might be
seized on for rate, so thele is a perfect wilderness. I
know not how the present rat, s due in those places can
be paid up. Contractors and creditors of all kinds
raiLt be paid—whence remains unknown. But for the
future, it 300 acres were attached to each poor-house, it
would make the instltation self-supporting. This is my
( ur.± fir the rate. Protection is a common humbug."—
&nista

AVITITAM.—The unfortunate lady Mrs. (C. B.)
Leigh, of Nick an.-place, died on Tuesday, from the
injuries which she received from a cow on the 18th iota..
There Ltd been no bore of tier fr.,rn the, first, and but
for her .great physical energy she could not have sur-
vived lontr. 'lie decelsed Lady was, as we stated on
Monday, a sitar of Sir John Tyssen Tyrell, of Bore-
ha :or North Essex,

WE;GHT Or THE HUMAN BRAIN.—The brain of
Carla %.eieatii 644 oz ; as the largest on record.
Tilt-Lc of Dr. Abercrombie was 63 t,z. ; that of Dupuy.
tren, a celebrated surgeon of France, 63i oz.; Dr.
Chelm,Ta, 53 oz, (skull very thick); glr Walter Soot-
not law, perbapa Runge, but het weighed) Lerd
Dm); 56 oz.