The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-05 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert promenaded in the
plantations of Osborne House on Wednesday afternoon.
The Black Eagle steam.packet, in which his Royal
Highness Duke Ferdinand and his Serene Highness
Prince Leopold of Saxe Cobourg were conveyed to
Lisbon, arrived off Cowes yesterday morning, from
Lisbon.
Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their ac-
customed early walk yesterday morning.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, and the Princes Alice, were taken to
the sea beach yesterday morning for their usual exercise.
Lady Portman took her departure from Osborne
House yesterday.

WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—His Royal Highness Prince
Alfred has been taken out, both yesterday and this morn-
ing. for early airings on his pony.
Captain Meynell has arrived at the Castle, and has
succeeded Captain the Hon. A. Duncombe as the Gen-
tleman in Residence during the absence of the Court.

A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock yester-
day afternoon, at the Foreign-office.
The Duke of Buccleuch arrived in town from Ditton
to attend the meeting.
The Ministers present were Sir Robert Peel, the Duke
of Wellington, Lord \Marneliffe, the Duke of Buecleuch,
the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Hadding-
ton, the Earl of Ripon, Lord Granville Somerset, the
Earl of Lincoln, and the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert.
The Council broke up at half-past five o'clock.
Mr. Charles Enderby had an interview with the Earl
of Dalhousie yesterday.
Dispatches from the Governor of the Cape of Good
Hope were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.

The Earl of Aberdeen, we understand, intends
shortly to leave town for Brighton.
Miss Burdett Coutts has arrived in town, from
Scotland.
EXTRAORDINARY SUlClDE.—Yesterday morning,
great excitement prevailed in the vicinity of Doctors' Com-
mons, from the extraordinary death of a gentleman named
Rice, who lived close to the Prerogative-office, in Doctors'
Commons. He had for some time been employed in the
Prerogative-office as clerk, but his habits, it is said, have
been lately very dissipated Ile went home late on Wed-
nesday night to his lodging, but was heard in the course of
yesterday morning to go down stairs, as it was supposed, to
the privy. As he was not seen at his usual hour, some per-
sons went to his bedroom, but received no answer to their
knocking, and at last they forced the door. The deceased
was not there, but every article of his clothing was lying
about the room, even to his shirt and flannel waistcoat. Search
was made for him in the privy with a boat-hook, and in a
few minutes the body was grappled with, but life appeared
to be quite extinct, and it is supposed he had been there for
some hours. He vas quite naked, and must have forced
himself head foremost into the soil, which is about ten feet
below.
DEATH OF A CHILD BY FlRE.—Yesterday, Mr.
Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at the Yorkshire Grey, High-
street, Hampstead, on the body of Agnes Boyce, aged eight
years, a fine little g►rl, who was burned to death. It ap-
peared that the deceased with her father, a widower, in
humble circumstances, resided in Bartlett's-buildings, adja-
cent to the above house. On Tuesday afternoon, about four
o'clock, expecting her father home to his tea, she commenced
toasting a slice of bread for him, when, while so doing, her
pinafore was drawn to the bars of the grate and ignited. Her
screams alarmed the landlady, but before medical assistance
could be procured she died of the injuries she had received.
Verdict—" Accidental death."