The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-09 00:00:00

PRIVY COUNCIL.

The Queen held a Privy Council at one o'clock at
the Castle. It was attended by his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, the Marquis of Lansdowne t Lord
President), Sir George Grey (Secretary of State for
the Home Department), Earl Grey (Secretary of
State for the Colonial Department), the Right Hon.
Henry Labouchere (President of the Board of Trade),
the Marquis of Breadalbane (Lord Chamberlain), and
the Duke of Norfolk (Master of the Horse).
The Marquis of Lansdowne had an audience of the
Queen previous to the Council.
At the Council Parliament was ordered to be further
prorogued from Wednesday, the 16th of January,
until Thursday, the 31st of January, and a proclama-
tion was ordered to be issued, summoning Parliament
to meet on the said 31st of January for the dispatch
of public business.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting.
Sir George Grey had an audience of her Majesty.
Her (Majesty •held a Court, at which the Right
Rev. Dr. Hinds had an audience of the Queen in the
Royal Closet, and did homage on being appointed
Bishop of Norwich. The Bishop of Chester (Clerk
of the Closet), and Sir George Grey (her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment), assisted at the ceremony.
The Right Rev. Dr. Oliphant had an audience of
her Majesty, and did homage on being appointed
Bishop of Llandaff. The Bishop of Chester and Sir
George Grey assisted at the ceremony.
Luncheon was served to the noblemen and gentle-
men attending the Court and Council.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, TUESDAY.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
drove out this morning, attended by the Maids of
honour in Waiting, and the Equerries in Waiting,
Lord Charles Fitaroy and Colonel Seymour.
The Royal Family took their usual airings.
The Earl of Liverpool and the Rev. James Cart-
mell are expected to arrive at the Castle to-day, on a
visit to her Majesty and Prince Albert.
The royal dinner party this evening includes her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny
Howard, Baroness de Speth, the Earl of Liverpool,
Sir George Scovell, and the Rev. James Cartmell.
The Earl of Listowel has relieved Lord Elphin-
stone in the duties of Lord in Waiting to the Queen,
and Colonel Hon. R. Boyle has relieved Colonel
Berkeley Drummond in the duties of Groom in
Waiting to her Majesty.

After attending her Majesty's Court yesterday
afternoon, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Grey, the
Eishop of Chester, the Bishop of Norwich, the Bishop
of Llandaff, Sir George Grey, the Marquis of
Breadalbane, and the Hon. William Bathurst, left
Windsor by a special train on the Great Western
Railway, and returned to the Paddington terminus.
The Right Hon. LI. Lahouchere left Windsor for
Stoke, and the Dul:e of Norfolk also took his depar-
ture from Windsor Castle.

A deputation from the Board of Directors of the
Oxford, Worcester, and Woiv-Thampton Railway
Company, consisting of Mr. Francis Rufford, M.P.
(chairman), Messrs. 'William Mathews and Michael
Grazebrook (directors), Mr. Charles Bedford (soli-
e;tor), and Mr. N. T. Smith (secretary), had an
into: view with the Commissioners of Railways yes-
terday at the Board of Trade.

Ijsr 0: A MOUSTAC ISIE.—The editor of the
Medical Times, referring to the moustaches of medical
students, assures a correspondent that " moustaches
among the most important, they
have their uses; and . ,t the idlest, the vainest, and
are considered to point o: obably, tho mo. t dissolute
most self-conceited, if not, P--
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