The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-12 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Her Majesty and Prince
Albert, and the Royal household, attended divine
service this morning in the private chapel of the
Castle, the Venerable Archdeacon Wilberforce (Clerk
of the Closet to his Royal Highness) officiating. The
Rev. Gentleman preached an excellent discourse from.
the 2,oth verse of the 19th chapter of the Gospel ac-
cording to St. Luke.
In the afternoon her Majesty and the Prince, at-
tended by part of the Royal suite, walked out in the
Home Park.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended
divine service at the parish church. The Rev. Isaac
Gossett officiated. Lady Fanny Howard was in
waiting on her Royal Highness.
Yesterday morning the Queen and her Illustrious
Consort enjoyed their usual early walk. Afterwards
the Prince went out shooting in the Great Park, and
had very excellent sport. The party accompanying
his Royal Highness consisted of Sir Robert Peel,
Marquis of Exeter, Earl of Liverpool, S;r E. Bo-
water, and Viscount Sydney. The Noble party re-
turned to the Castle to lunch.

The Viscountess Canning was the Lady in Waiting
on the Queen at the Privy Council, held at three
o'clock yesterday afternoon, for the further proroga-
tion of Parliament. Major-General Sir Edward
Bowater attended Prince Albert as his Royal High-
ness's Equerry in Waiting.
The whole of the members of the Council left soon
after it broke up, excepting the Earl of Liverpool
and Sir Robert Peel.'
Viscount Canning and Archdeacon Wilberforce
arrived at the Castle yesterday, on a visit to her
Majesty.
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Lady Fanny Howard, joined the Royal dinner circle
Princess Royal did not
leave the Castle during the day.

The Queen held a Privy Council at two o'clock
on Saturday afternoon, at Windsor Castle. It was
attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Sir
Robert Peel (First Lord of the Treasury), the Duke
of Wellington, the Earl of Aberdeen (ecretary of
State for Foreign Affairs), Lued Stanley (Secretary
of State for War and the Colonies), the Right Hon.
H. Goulburn (Chancellor of the Exchequer), the Earl
of Hadd'ngton (First Lord of Cie Admiralty), Lord
Fitzgerald and Vesci (President of the Board of
Control for the Affairs of India), Earl of Liverpool
.(Lord Steward), Earl Delawarr (Lord Chamberlain),
Earl of Jersey (Master of the Horse), and the
Marquis of Exeter (Groom of the Stole to the Prince).
At the Council Parliament was ordered to be fur-
ther prorogued froth Tuesday, the 13th inst., unto
Thursday, the 2d of Febt uary, and a Proclamation
was ordered to be issued summoning the meeting of
Parliament on that day for the dispatch of business.
Several reports of the Judicial Committee were sub-
mitted to her Majesty in Council, and were confirmed.
Some Colonial orders were approved.
Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in
Waiting.
Viscount Sydney was the Lord in Waiting on the
Queen ; the Hon. Captrin Duncombe, R.N., the
Groom in Writing ; and the Hon. Colonel Grey, the
Equerry in Waiting.
The Duke of 'Wellington arrived from his seat at
Strathfieldsaye, Hants, to attend the Council. The
Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Earl of Haddington, and Lord
Fitzgel.4ld, arrived from town by a special train on
the Great 'Western Railway.
After the Privy Council his Grace the Duke of
Wellington took his departure from Windsor Castle
for Strathfieldsaye. The Earls of Aberdeen, Jersey,
and Haddington the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Lords Stanley and Fitzgerald, and Mr. C. Greville,
also left the Castle at the same time for town, and re-
turned to the metropolis by a special train from the
Slough station.
Major Malcolm arrived in town on Saturday morn-
ing with dispatches from China for the Earl of Aber-
(leen, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affitirs. Commander Richards, Royal Navy,
arrived in town at the same time with dispatches from
China for the Lords of the Admirillty. Major Mal-
colm attended at the Foreign-office, and also paid a
visit to the Earl of Aberdeen at his private residence
in Argyll-street.

EXTRAORDINARY CROP OF POTATOES.—Mr: W.
Hodgson, of Poulton-le-Fylde, in May last, cut into
sets and planted twenty-four potatoes of the kind
called " lumpers," the produce of which, when taken
up, was no loss thin 101 bushels, or 7201b5. !
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