The Sun. — 1855-01-13 (London, England)

JAN. 12. The dinner party yesterday included the DucLess of Kent, the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, the Ladies Harriet and Louisa Hamilton, Viscount Torrington, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Spetb, 'Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Major-Goaeral Wylde, and Mr. Gibbs. The band of the Royal Bucks Militia played during dinner, and her Majesty's private Band afterwards. The Queen and Prince walked in the Homo Park this morning. The Royal family took their accustomed exercise. The Countess de Neuilly, the Prince and Princess Joinville, and the Duchess of Coburg visited her Majesty to-day. Prince Nicholas of Nassau is expected this afternoon on a visit.  Mr. John Wood, chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, and Mr. Tiinm had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Earl Granville was present at the Cabinet Connell held at the Foreign-office on Thursday. Viscount Palmerston left tows after the Cabinet Council on Thursday afternoon, for his seat, Broadlunds, Hants.  The Earl of Clarendon left town yesterday for his seat, the Grove, Herts.  Despatches from Lord Raglan, in the Crimea, were received yesterday at the Foreign-office.  His Serene Highness Prince Nicholas of Nassau left town yesterday, on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.  The Duke of Sutherland, accompanied by the Mar• quis and Marchioness of Stafford, have arrived at Stafford House, from Lilleshall, Shropshire. The Marchioness of Kildare gave birth to a daughter, at Stafford House, on Thursday morning. Her ladyship and the infant are progressing most favourably. The Earl Granville was present at the Cabinet Council held at the Foreign-office on Thursday. The Earl of Lichfield has arrived in town from Scotland. His lordship is still very weak, but we are happy to learn that he is progressing satisfactorily towards recovery.  The Countess of Cavan gave birth to a son on Wednesday last, at Hill House, near Bridgwater. The Earl and Countess of Jersey are entertainino• select circle of friends at Middleton Park, near Bicester. Major Macdonald, 92d Highlanders (aide•de•camp to General Pennefather), who was wounded at the battle of Inkerman, has arrived at Long's Hotel. • A letter from Sebastopol states that General Morris, who commands the French cavalry in the Crimea, had left Bardar at the head of a strong force to push a reconnaissance as far as Yalta.  The Prusso-Russian line of telegraph recently opened goes from Koenigsberg, by Tapiau,Wehlau, Insterbourg, and Gumbinnen to Stalupohnen, crosses the frontier at Eydtkulmen, goes to Wilna and Kowno, and thence by Riga to St. Petersburg. The Queen Dowager of Sardinia, who has been labourirg for some days under a violent inflammation of the Auera, experienced a slight improvement on the 9th. Oil etnh the arrestedQc ouitig I Some further transplantions of trees, some of them of large size, with the apparatus of Mr. Stewart MacGlashen, took place yesterday at the Jardin des Plantes. The planting of trees by the same process is going on ndes Tuileries.ot The the coffins in thevaults of the Princes of Weimar have thieves who have thErfurteierahee. 'wheretaeas th they h were n offering pi I lsaogme de of the gold lace for the Suisse of Berne states not far from Weimar. They belong to a band of been received. The first order pair of wooden shoes for the army of the Crimea has that a fresh order for 20,000 quarters in a small town has been executed and sent offAletter from Munich, in the Augsburg Gazette, states that a fisherman on the lake of Starnberg recentlystes discovered and took out of the water the bodies of the Hungarian historian Count Mailath and his daughter. From the had been for some time residing at Munich. F the bodies being tied together with a shawl, it appears that their deaths must be attributed to suicide, but no I motives for such an act can be assigned.