The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-18 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.--The Queen and Prince
Albert took their early morning walk in the vicinity
of the Castle pleasure-grounds.
The Royal Family went out for their usual riding and
walking exercise before th• rain came on this morning.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert took equestrian
exercise in the riding-school this forenoon, attended by
Major-General Sir Edward Bowater.
The unfavourable state of the weather has prevented
her Majesty and the Royal Family from taking their
afternoon airings.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty this afternoon. Lady Fanny Howard and the
Baroness de Speth were in attendance on the Royal
Duchess,
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There was no addition to the royal dinner circle at
;he Castle this evening.

The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester-
house,

The Marquis of Lansdowne had an interview with
Lord John Russell yesterday evening, at his residence
in Chesham-place. The Right Hon. Edward Ellice and
the Right Hon. E. T. Baring had also interviews with
his Lordship yesterday.
Lord John Russell dined with Mr. Russell on Tuesday
evening, at his residence in Belgrave-square.
The Earl of Aberdeen, Sir James Graham, the Earl
of Lincoln, and the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, had an
interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday.
The Edelesisstieal Commissioners for England had a
meeting yesterday afternoon, at the office in Whitehall-
place. There were present the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Ely, the
Bishop of Llandair, the Bishop of Rochester, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, the Judge of the Prerogative
Court, and the Right Hon. Sir George Grey.
Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer
on Tuesday, at his official residence in Downing-street.
Dispatches from the Governor-General of Canada, and
also from the Governors of the other North American
Provinces, were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office. Dispatches were also received yesterday from
the Governor of Gibraltar.
Sir Charles and Lady Mary Fitzroy and Mr. George
Fitzroy left Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-street, yester-
day, for the Duke of Grafton's seat, Wakefield Lodge.

THE LATE MINISTRY.—Sir Robert Peel bad a
meeting of certain members of the late Administration, yes-
terday morning, at his residence in Whitehall-gardens. The
meeting took place at the early hour of ten o'clock, and
among those present -were the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of
Lincoln, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, and the Right Hon. Sydney Herbert. The meeting se-
parated at half-past eleven o'clock. Lord Stanley is expected
in town this afternoon from Burghley House, the seat of the
Marquis of Exeter. The Earl of Aberdeen leaves London to-
morroiv fOr Brighton. Lord Wharnchffe is very much
indisposed at his residence in Curzon-street. Lord Granville
Somerset has left town. His Lordship has not 'attended to
his official duties since the members of the Cabinet-tendered
their resignation.
STRO-EGYPTIAN SOCIETY.—.A. very numerous
meeting was held on Tuesday evening, Dr. John Lee, F.R.5.,"
President, in the chair, when a paper was read bY.Mr". John-
son on different types of the Mongolian race, particularly -
illustrated by remarks on the analogy of the BiLllsmen of
South Africa with the Gongas of Abyssinia. There were
exhibited two interesting juvenile specimens of the former
race, which, on account of the unremitting hostility prac-
tised against them by the Kaffirs and Hottentots, and by the
whites prior to the occupation of the Cape of Good Hope and
its dependencies by the English, are fast becoming extinct.
The parents of the two children were killed by a Kaffir tribe,
by whom they were sold to a Dutch Boer for a gun. An in-
teresting conversation followed, in which it was satisfactorily
proved that they formed an important connecting link in the
scale of an universality of the origin as well as the religion of
the human race.
FREE-TRADE MOVEMENT .—We are glad to find
that active committees have been formed in Bath and Bristol
since the recent free-trade meetings in those cities, for the
purpose of promoting the enfranchisement of free-traders in
East Somerset, West Gloucester, and North Wilts—a pro-.
ceeding at all times constitutional, and more than ever ne-
cessary at the present crisis. A forty-shilling freehold may,
by means of these committees, be so easily obtained, that we
hoe to hear of many hundred applications, and that the
conveyances hare been duly made before the 80th of January
next.