The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-01 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Princess Royal, and attended by the Royal suite, arrived at the
terminus of the Great Western Railway at Paddington yes-
terday afternoon by a special train from Slough. The Roya.
party immediately entered three of the Queen's carriages
and four and proceeded to Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty
and Prince Albert, the Princess Royal, and Viscountess Can
ning, Lady in Waiting, were in the first carriage. Major •
General Sir Edward Bowater, Equerry in Waiting on Prince
Albert, and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, Groom in Waiting on the
Queen, occupied the next carnage; and Lady Caroline
Cocks, and the Hon. Miss Frances Devereux, Maids of
Honour in Waiting, and Viscount Hawarden, Lord in
Waiting, followed in another carriage.
A party of Light Dragoons formed the escort of the Royal
party from the Paddington terminus to Buckingham Palace,
where the Illustrious party arrived at five minutes past three
o'clock. The Queen was handed from her carriage by Lord
Charles Wellesley (Clerk Marshal), Equerry in Waiting.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert were received at the Grand
Entrance by the Lord Chamberlain, the Treasurer of the
Heusehold, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Groom of the Stole to
Prince Albert, and the Marquis of Granby, Lord in Waiting
on his Royal Highness.
At half-past three o'clock her Majesty held a Privy Council
at Buckingham Palace. It was attended by his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, Lord Wharncliffe, Lord President; the Lord
Chancellor, the Duke of 'Wellington, Cammander-in-Chief ;
the Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Privy Seal; Sir Robert Peel,
First Lord of the Treasury ; Earl of Aberdeen, Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs ; Lord Stanley, Secretary of State
for the Colonies ; Sir James Graham, Secretary of State for
the Home Department ; the Right Hon. H. GoulbUrn, Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer; Earl of Haddington, First Lord
of the Admiralty; Earl of Ripon, President of the Board of
Control; Sir Henry Hardinge, Secretary at War; Sir Ed-
ward Knatehbull, Paymaster of the Forces ; The Earl of Li-
verpool, Lord Steward ; the Earl Delawarr, Lord Chamber-
lain ; and the Marquis of Exeter, Groom •of the Stole to
Prince Albert.

Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right
Hon. John Earl of Stradbroke to be Lord Lieutenant of the
county of Suffolk, his Lordship took the customary oaths.
Her Majesty pricked the list of Sheriffs for the present
year.
The Queen's Speech on opening the Session of Parliament,
this day, was arranged and agreed upon.
New Seals for her "Majesty's Settlements on the Gold Coast,
and the Falkland Islands, executed by Mr. Benjamin Wyon,
Chief Engraver of her Majesty's Seals, were approved of by
the Queen in Council.

Some Reports of the Judicial Committee were approved of.
A School Inspector was appointed.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council
in waiting.
Her Majesty gave audience to Sir Robert Peel, Lord
Wharnclifte,- the Earl of Aberdeen, Sir James Graham, and
the Earl of Haddington.

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Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge returned
to her residence, at Kew, on Tuesday afternoon.
Full dress Parliamentary dinner parties were given yes-
terday evening by the Duke of Wellington, at Apsley House,
to a numerous party of Peers ; and by Sir Robert Peel, at
his residence in Whitehall-gardens, to a large party of Mem-
bers of the House of Commons. The Queen's 'Speech on
opening the session of Parliament this day was read by the
N oble Duke and the Right Hon. Baronet in the course of the
evening to their respective visitors. At Sir R. Peel's the
dinner was served iu the Picture Gallery, and the follow-
ing is the list of the company :—Viscount Clive, the
Mover, and Mr. Cardwell, the Seconder, of the Address ; the
Speaker, Lord Stanley, the Right 'Hon. Sir James Graham,
the Right Hon. H. Goulburn, the Right Hon. W. E. Glad-
stone, the Right Hon. Sir Henry Hardinge, the Right Hon.
Sir Edward Knatchbull, the Earl of Lincoln, the Earl Jermvn,
Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord Granville Somerset, Lord Eliot,
the Right Hon. J. Nicholl (Judge Advocate-General),
the Attorney-General, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, the
Solicitor-General, Hon. J. Manners Sutton, Right Hon. H.
Lowry Cony, Hon. Sidney Herbert, Hon. W. B. Baring,
Hon. Charles Hope, the }ion. Captain A. Duncombe, Sir
George Clerk, Sir Thomas Fremantle, Sir Frederick Trench,
Lieutenant-Colonel Peel, Captain Gordon, Captain Moynell,
Captain Boldero, Mr. Gaskell, Mr. H. Baring, Mr. Pringle,
Mr. Young, Mr. George Hope, Mr. E. Tennent, and Mr.
Greene.

Lord Stanley arrived in town yesterday morning, from a
visit to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle.
Sir David Davies has arrived in town from Witley Court,
the residence of her Majesty the Queen Dowager.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office,
from the Governors of the Mauritius and the Cap. of Good
Hope.
Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial-
office for the Governor of Ceylon, and also for the Governor
of New South Wales.

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—Lord Stanley and Mr. Davis
took their departure from the Castle in the forenoon.
The F.arl of Liverpool also left this morning for town.
At three minutes past two o'clock, her Majesty and her
Illustrious Consort, accompanied by her Royal Highness the
Princess Royal, and attended by the Viscountess Canning,
Lady Caroline Cocks, the Hon. Miss Devereux, Viscount
Ilawarden, Mr. Gimsby Gore, and Major-General Sir Ed-
ward Bowater, left the Castle for the Slough station, to pro-
ceed by railway to town by a special train.
The Royal party (in three carriages and four) were
escorted from the Castle to the station by a party of the
Life Guards.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Alice remain at the Castle. The Dowager Lady
Lvttelton, and Colonel Arbuthnot, Equerry in Waiting, also
remain at the Castle.

To-morrow (Thursday) her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent will, it is expected, leave her residence, Frogmore
Lodge, in the forenoon, for town.

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residing in Chapman-street, Commercial-road, had not been
able for twelve months past to eat any animal food; if he
did he brought it up immediately. His friends thought that
he would not live long; however, after taking a course of
this wonderful medicine for about six weeks, he was enabled
to eat anything as well as ever he could in his life. Persons
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by almost all respectable Medicine Venders throughout the
civilised world.

TRANSMISSION OF SILKS INTO ENGLAND.—One of
the most important lots of rich silks and satins probably
ever imported has just been purchased by Sewell and Co.,
Compton House, Soho. The goods are of the richest qualities,
and the patterns moot recherche: Families returning to town
will find this a desirable opportunity for purchasing.—N.B.
Several cases of Lyons and Spitalfields Coloured velvets at
prices truly astonishing. Nos. 44 and 45, Old Compton-street,
and 46 and 47, Frith-street, Soho.

CURIOUS PHENOMENON.—As the lonian ship Alex-
ander, Captain Pomoni, was sailing in the direct course from
Smyrna to Trieste, on the 26th of November last, in the
neighbourhood of Cape Strofadi, in 37 deg. 9 min. north lat.,
and 20 deg. 45 mm. east long., and not far from
Zante, the crew observed a violent convulsion of the
sea, accompanied with a vapour having a strong bitu-
minous odour. The water was of a high temperature, and
muddy ; the plummet heaved to 16 fathoms, but without
bottom. In consequence of the violence of the wind, the cap-
tain could not remain long on the spot ; yet the streak of the
convulsion, and the discolouration of the water, occupied a large
space in the superficial surface of the sea. The spot indicated is
in the direct course usually adopted by merchant vessels and
ships of war; and the phenomenon is conjectured to have
been caused by an eruption of Mount Mongibello, which took
place about the same period. [The island Strophades, thirty
miles south of Zante, seems to be meant. Mount Gibello Is
the older part of Vesuvius ; we have no account of its being
then in a state of eruption, but Etna was so about that time.]
—ScOvian.