The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-21 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Princess Royal, arrived at Buckingham Palace, in a carriage
and four, escorted by a party of Lancers, at twenty minutes
before live o'clock yesterday afternoon, from the New-cross
station of the London and Brighton Railway. The Prince of
Wales, Prince Alfred, and the Princess Alice, accompanied
by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, were in the next carriage;
and the Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, the Hon. Miss Paget,
the lion. Miss Kerr, Viarquis of Ormonde Captain Meynell,
Colonel Buckley, and Colonel Wylde, followed in two car-
riages and tour.
The royal party left the Pavilion at Brighton at a quarter
before three o'clock, and were conveyed by a special train on
the Brighton Railway, accomplishing the distance from the
Pavilion to Buckingham Palace in one hour and fifty
minutes.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert were received at the Palace
by the Master of the Horse, the Vice Chamberlain, and Lord
George Lennox, Lord in Waiting to his Royal Highness.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by
Baron Knesebeck, arrived in town at half-past six o'clock
yesterday evening, from a visit to her Majesty the Queen
Dowager, at Witley Court, Worcestershire.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge took an
airing to Kew yesterday, returning to Cambridge House in
the afternoon.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at two
o'clock. The meeting took place at the private residence of
the Earl of Ripon, in Carlton Gardens, in consequence of the
indisposition of his Lordship. The Ministers present were
Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Wharncliffe,
the Duke of Buccleuch, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir
James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of
Haddington, Lord G. Somerset, the Earl of Lincoln, and the
Right Hon. Sidney Herbert.
The Council sat two hours.
Lord Sandon, M.P., Sir Howard Douglas, M.P., and a de-
putation, had an interview with Sir George Clerk, yesterday,
at the office of the Board of Trade.
Sir E. Codrington had an interview with the Earl of Dal-
housie, yesterday, at the Board of Trade.
A deputation on the oil duties, consisting of Mr. G. Lyall,
M.P.; Mr. J. Somes, M.P.; Mr. M. Forster, M.P. ; Mr.
Wallace, M.P. ; Mr. Joseph Chapman, Chairman of the
General Shipowners' Society; Mr. George Frederick Young,
Deputy Chairman ; and Mr. Ellarman Bicknell ; had an in-
terview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday, at his official resi-
dence in Downing-street.
Mr. Lynch had an interview with Lord Stanley yester-
day at the Colonial-office.
Mr. Astell and Lord Alford had an interview with Sir
George Clerk yesterday, at the Board of Trade.
Mr. Welsh had an interview yesterday with Lord Stanley.
Sir John Pelly transacted business yesterday at the Board
of trade.
Dispatches were sent off on Wednesday evening from the
Colonial-office for the Governor of Hong-Kong, and also for
the Governor of Ceylon.

THE COURT AT BRIGHTON.
Bniaairrox, FEB. 19.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert, at-
tended by Colonel Wylde, the Equerry in Waiting, walked
on the Chain-pier for some time.
In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert drove out
in their pony-chaise.
Mr. G. E. Anson, secretary to Prince Albert, left the Pa-
vilion yesterday for London.
The dinner this evening Will be augmented by the pre-
sence of the Marquis and Marchioness of Donegal, Captain
Frederick Seymour, the Earl and Countess of Kinnoul, Lord
and Lady. George Seymour, and the Duke and Duchess of
St. Albans.

A DAN KILLED ON WATERLOO-BRlDGE.—`l'ednes-
day foreneon as a loaded waggon belonging to Messrs. Mumford,
corn-merchants, was proceeding from the Surrey to the Middlesex
side of Waterloo-bridge, a man in attendance on it very foolishly
rested himself on the shaft, and from some cause unknown he fell
into the road. A cry was raised to stop the horses, but before that
could be accomplished, the fore-wheel had passed over both the poor
fellow's thighs. He was soon raised from the ground by some per-
sons passing ; but, after uttering two or three groans, he expired.
FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT.-011 Tuesday morn-
ing, William Hannaby, a lad about eleven years of age, employed at
one of Mr. Sparrow's collieries, near Longton, was in the act of
bringing an empty corfe to the mouth of the pit, for the purpose of
it 4 being lowered into the mine, when he pushed it too far, and un-
fortunately fell with the corfe down the shaft, which is 90 yards in
depth. The poor little fellow was instantaneously killed, his body
being very much mutilated —Wolverhampton Chronicle.
It appears that there are in the metropolis 1,793
of cabs, and 4,54 E drivers of hackney
omnibus conductors, 1,622 di-loots
coacher and omnibuses.