The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-06 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a Privy Council at three o'clock yesterday
afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. It was attended by his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Lord President, the Lord
Privy Seal, the Commander-in-Chief, the First Lord of the
Treasury, the Secretary of State for the Home Department,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Ad-
miralty, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the
Chief Commissioner of the Woods and Forests, the Lord
Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, and the Groom of the
Stole to Prince Albert.

Sir George Clerk, Bart., was, by command of the Queen,
sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and
took his place at the Board.

The Right Hon. Sir George Clerk was declared by the
Queen in Council to be Vice President of the Committee of
Council, appointed for the consideration of all matters relating
to trade and foreign plantations. The Right Hon. Baronet
also kissed hands on being appointed Master of the Mint.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council
in Waiting.
_ _

Her M-ajesty gave audiences to the Lord Chamberlain,
Lord Wharncliffe, and Sir Robert Peel.
The Court was attended by the Treasurer of the House-
holdt
_the Marquis of Londonderry, Gold Stick in Waiting,
the 'Marquis of Ormond, Lord in Waiting, and Captain the
Hon. Arthur Duncombe, RN., Groom in Waiting.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Mr. George
Edward Anson, went yesterday morning to the office of the
Duchy of Cornwall, in Somerset-house.
The Queen, attended by the Countess of Gainsborough and
Colonel Wylde, visited her Royal Highness the Princess
Sophia, at Kensington, yesterday.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was taken an air-
ing yesterday, in the royal gardens of Buckingham Palace.
His Royal Highnss the Duke of Cambridge visited her
Majesty and Prince Albert yesterday.
His Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Meek-
lenburgh Strelitz visited Prince Albert yesterday.
The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yesterday
included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester,
Lady Caroline Murray. the Marquis of Exeter, the Earl of
Liverpool, the Earl Delawarr, the Earl and Countess of Dal-
housie, and Sir George Anson.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge and the
Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz, attended
by Baron Knesebeck, went yesterday to Blackwall, and in-
spected the Great Britain steamer.
Mr. L. W. Buck, M.P. for North Devon, had an interview
with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the office of the
Board of Trade.

Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had
an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yester-
day, at his official residence, in Downing-street.
Dispatches from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
Islands, and from the Governor of Malta, were yeceived yes-

terday at the Colonial-office.
Lord Fitz william had an interview with the Earl of Dal-
housie yesterday.
The Dowager-Countess of Suffield has arrived at Farrance's
Hotel, from Norfolk.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
PIRATES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.

Advices were received at Lloyd's, yesterday, from
their agents at Gibraltar and Patras, reporting the pre-
sence of pirates in the above sea. _ _ _ . .

The agent at the former port states that the Spanish
brig Sopresa, bound from Cadiz to La Guayra, had re-
turned to Cadiz, the captain reporting that when he had
proceeded as far as Cape St. Vincent, three piratical
vessels, a barque, brig, and schooner, hove in sight, and
the brig gave chase to him, but he managed, after being
chased for some days, to re-anchor in Cadiz bay. The
agent at Patras reports that an lonian vessel, with 2,000
dollars on board, on her way to the Gulf of Corinth, to
load currants for a British merchant, anchored in a e-eek
through stress of weather, where she was waylaid by a
pirate and attacked, but the crew repulsed them, the
clerk in charge of the money was, however, seriously
wounded. On the above news reaching Gibraltar, her
Majesty's ship Scout, the Swedish corvette Carlskrona,
and the Danish brig of war Mercurius, all proceeded to
sea to cruise in the above neighbourhood. In the mean-
time it will be well if all merchant vessels bound up the
Mediterranean be provided with arms and ammunition
in case they should fall in with them.

LONDON, Fat s.—Wind this day at noon, N.W., fresh breeze and
fine clear weather.

DEAL, FEB. 4.—A.M., Wind N.E. to N.N.E., P.M., N.N.W.. light
breeze.—Sid. Indianian, Bombay ; Norfolk, Algoa Bay ; Tancred,
St. Lucia ; and the rest of the outward-bound, except Caledonia, for
Bombay.

PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 4.—Wind N. to E.N.E.—Sid. Prima Donna,
Swan River ; Toronto, New York.

COWES, FEB. 4.—Arrd. Harmony, Gibson, Havannah ; Scandina-
vian, Newcastle, for Barcelona, has come into harbour to stop a leak.
The Caledonia, Galrn, from Batavia to Gothenberg, has come into
harbour with rudder-head damaged.

SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 4.—Sld. Thames steamer, West Indies.
PLYMOUTH, FEB. 4.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Alfred, Smith, Ichaboe
for Perth. leaky.

FALmoirru. FEB. 4.—Wind E.N.E., light breeze.—Acrd. Francis
Russell, Ichaboe.

BRISTOL, FEB. 4.—Wind W., light.--Sid. Fingalton, St. John's, N.B
CASTLETOWN (BEARHAVEN), JAN. 30.—S1d. Circassian, Cuba.
STROMNE9B, JAN. 27.—S1d. Barnard, Ichaboe.
DONAGHADEE, JAN. 31.—The Dolphin, Clegg, of this port, was to-
tally wrecked at Sarnlash.

BELFAST, FEB. I.—it blew a heavy gale at S.W. and N.W. along
the North Coast 28th and 26th ult., during which two skips went
down near Lough Larne; one coal laden, the other with lime ; crews
supposed to be drowned. A schooner was seen to founder near Bal-
lintoy and Giant's Causeway. A large sloop bound to this port with
iron went down at Barron Point, near Cushendall, crew saved.
Between Ballycastle and Portrush some feather-beds, a topmast,
Baltic planks, &c., have washed ashore.

LIVERPOOL, FEB. 4.—Wind N.N.W., light.—Arrd. Carthagenian,
Bombay ; George Douglas, St. Andrew's ; Margaret, and New Zea-
land, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sld. Damascus, Savannah ; Mary
Ann, Maranhain ; Wasp, Africa ; Lord Anson, Sierra Leone ; Parker,
Demerara ; Corinth, Havannah ; New York, New York ; Hibernia,
steamer, Halifax. Off, Bolton Abbey, Ichaboe.
BALLYCASTLE, FEB. I.—The Shannon, M`Nab, from Sligo, at
Rathlin Island, is a total wreck.

CLIVE, FEB. 2.—Arrd. Aberfoyle, M'Alpine, Ichaboe. 3.—Jane,
Pitt, Demerara.
13131,1 MARIS, FED. I.—Sld. Ayrshire Lass, St. Domingo.:

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, FEB. 2.—The King presided to-day in a Council o f
Ministers. His Majesty attended Divine service in the chapel
the Palace.

The King has received the letter, by which the King of Bavaria
announced that her Royal Highness the Princess, August Consort
of his Royal Highness Prince Leopold, has been safely delivered of
a Prince.

The receipts of the Custom-house at Antwerp in the month of
January, amounted to the sum of 320,395 francs.
The quantity of snow which fell on the 31st ult. in the environs
of Liege, was so considerable, that the last train far Brussels,
which sets cut at a quarter past three, could proceed no further
than Fexhe, and was obliged to return to Liege, where it arrived
at eight o'clock. The last train from Brussels did indeed reach Liege,
but it was eight hours on the way.

TELLIGENCE,
IHESTER.—TITESDAY.
;It CUP.
10 to 1 agst Semiseria 25 to 1 agst Zanoni (t)
15 to 1 agst Obscurity 40 to 1 agst Foig-a-ballagh (t)
18 to 1 agst Cataract (t) 40 to 1 agst Extempore
22 to 1 agst Pug (t) 1000 to 20 agst Seaport (t)
25 to 1 agst The Era t) 1000 to 15 agst The Master of
25 to 1 agst Celeste the Rolls filly (t).

SPORTING
BETTING AT MANC
CHE STE

DERBY.
11 to I agst Alarm 30 to 1 agst Mentor
13 to 1 agst Cobweb colt 30 to 1 agst Miss Whip col
18 to 1 agst Pain 33 to 1 agst Weatherbit
18 to 1 agst Idas 35 to 1 agst Old England
30 to 1 agst Newsmonger (t) 40 to 1 agst Frederica col
30 to 1 agst Annandale 40 to 1 agst Ironmaster

OAKS.
7 to 1 agst Lancashire Witch (t).

WIGNEYS ESTATE.—The dividends just declared
are as follows :—Joint estate 5d., I. N. Wigney's separate estate
45 3d., and C. Wigney's separate estate ss. 3d. in the pound.—
Brighton Guardian.
The Eastern Counties Railway Company, following
the example of some other lines, are now running enclosed second-
class carriages from Hertford to London. The alteration at present
is only partial, but it 111 tO be hoped that ite adoptioll will become
general on the line. . -