The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-24 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDCOR, TUESDAY.—Hi; Royal Highness Prince Albert
walked in the grounds to-day, attended by his Equerry.
The Earl of Aberdeen took his departure from the Castle,
for London, this morning.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge took an air-
ing in the Park to-day, in a pony phaeton.
Sir Henry Wheatley has taken his departure from the Castle.
The Royal dinner party at the Castle, this evening, will in-
clude her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, her Royal
Highness's Lady in Waiting, Lady Fanny Howard, and Sir
George Cowper.

A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock yesterday after-
noon, at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were Sir
Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord
Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Earl of Haddington, Earl of Ripon, Mr. Gladstone, Sir Henry
Hardinge, and Sir E. Knatchbull.

The Council sat three hours.
A deputation of the Metropolitan Association for Improving
the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes, consisting of J. D.
Powles, Esq., Dr. Southwood Smith, M.D., W. A. Wilkin-
son, Esq., the Rev. W. W. Champneys, F. A. M'Geachy,
Esq., M.P., John Dunlop, Esq., P. F. Gibson, Esq., J. W.
Tottie, Esq., and Charles Gattiff, Esq., had an interview with
Sir Robert Peel yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-
street.

The Ecclesiastical Commission for England bad a meeting
yesterday, at the office in Whitehall-place. The Commis-
sioners present were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop
of London, the Bishop of Llandaff, the Chancellor of the Ex-
cheduer, the Judge of the Prerogative Court, Viscount Dun..
cannon, aad the Dean of Westminster.
The Earl of Aberdeen returned to town yesterday morning
from a visit to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle. His Lordship
visited Sir Robert Peel after his arrival.
The Postmaster-General had an audience with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing-street.
The Solicitor-General had an interview with Sir James
Graham yesterday.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governor of Gibraltar.

A number of the Cabinet Ministers dined with the Earl of
Aberdeen yesterday evening, at his Lordship's residence in
Argyll-street.

HONG-KONG.—The intense interest and curiosity
which universally prevail respecting our new prospects and pos-
sessions in China are likely to be gratified by the publication of
a series of papers which will be commenced in the February
Number of the New Monthly Magazine, written by a gentle-
man who has just returned from the scene of our late triumphs.
The first paper will be devoted, almost exclusively to Hong-
Kong and its vicinity, and will include personal sketches of all
classes of the native inhabitants; together with most curious
and interesting particulars of the practice and results of opium
smoking ; a description of the various bazaars and public places;
an account of the numerous hands of thieves and pirates which
infest Hong-Kong and the waters in its immediate vicinity,
the various means and methods of locomotion, the public hotels,
and, in short, a detailed view of all the strange and novel points
connected with this most interesting locality.
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His Excellency Sir Charles Metcalfe, Governor-
General of Canada, has become a Life Member of the British
and Foreign Institute, and transmitted 1001. as a donation
towards its library. The Institute is to be opened by a soiree
on Friday the 2d of February, when his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, the Patron of the Institute, has communicated
his intention to honour the opening with his presence. The
Noble President, the Earl of Devon, will preside,