The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-24 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The Queen held a Court and
Privy Council this afternoon at Windsor Castle.
There were present his Royal Highness Prince Al-
bert, the Duke of 'Wellington, the Duke of Buc-
cleuch, Sir Robert Peel, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord
Stanley, Mr. William E wart Gladstone, Sir James
Graham, Mr. Henry Goulburn, the Earl of Had-
dington, Lord Granville Somerset, the Earl of Lin-
coln, Mr. Sidney Herbert, the Earl of Dalhousie, the
Earl of Liverpool, and the Earl of Jersey.
Lord Stanley had an audience of the Queen, and
delivered to her Majesty the Seals of Office as one of
her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State.

The Queen having been pleased to appoint the
Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone to be one of
her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State (for War
and the Colonies), he was, by command of the
Queen, sworn one of her Majesty's principal Secre-
taries of State.

Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in
Waiting.

companied by the City
At the Court, Mr. Sheriff Chaplin and Mr. Sheriff
Laurie, the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, Re-
sented to the Remembrancer, were pre-
Queen, at an audience, by Sir James
Graham, her Majesty's principal Secretary of State
for the 'Tome Department, to receive her Majesty's
commands relative to the address of the Corporation
of the City of London on the subject of the corn-
laws.

Her Majesty was graciously pleased to appoint
Saturday, the 3d of January next, at Windsor
Castle, for the reception of the address.
The Earl of Warwick and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore
were the Lord and Groom in Waiting.
The Council broke up at half-past three o'clock.
Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Buccleuch, Lord
Stanley, the Right lion. H. Goulburn, the Earl of
Dalhousie, the Earl of Jersey, the Earl of Hadding-
ton, Lord Granville Somerset, Right lion. Sidney
Herbert, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Earl
of Lincoln, Sir James Graham, and Mr. C. Greville,
travelled from town to attend the Council by the
Great Western railway.

The Sheriffs appeared in state at the Court.
After the Court, the Duke of Wellington left in
his travelling-carriage for Strathfieldsaye. Most of
the Cabinet Ministers left the Castle at the same
time, and returnedester
nßailway. to town by a special train on
the Great w
The Earl of Liverpool also left after the Council.
Sir Robert Peel remained at the Castle, on a visit
to her Majesty.

The Earl Delawarr was prevented by indisposition
from arriving at the Castle yesterday. From the
same cause the Noble Earl was absent from the Privy
Council to-day.
The Queen and Prince Albert took their accus-
tomed early walk to-day. The Prince afterwards
went out on a shooting excursion, attended by Mr.
George Edward Anson, Colonel Bowles, Sir Edward
Bowater, and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore.
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the
Princess Alice, took their accustomed exercise in
Frogmore-gardens this morning. Their Royal High.
nesses were taken an airing in the pleasure-grounds
of the Castle this morning.
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Sir Henry IN heatley left the Castle this afternoon.
The Royal dinner party this evening will include
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady
Fanny Howard, and the Baroness de Speth.
The band of the 2d Regiment of Life Guards will
be in attendance during dinner, and her Majesty's
private band will afterwards attend at the Castle.
The Right lion. W. E. Gladstone, after returning

from attending her Majesty's Privy Council, trans-
acted bminess at the Colonial-office.
Mr. Charles Wood, M.P., has left Farrance's Hotel;
Belgrave-street, for his seat in Yorkshire.