POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY.
A Court and Privy Council were held at Windsor yesterday afternoon_ At the Council, Parliament was ordered to be further prorogued from Tuesday the 29th instant, until the 3d January 1854. At the Court, Sir Henry Williams Wynn, on his return from his mission to Denmark, and the Honourable William Temple, on his return from Naples, were pre- sented to the Queen. Lord Aberdeen, Lord Granville, and Mr. Charles Villiers, had audiences of the Queen. Captain S. B. Lakeman, Com- mandant of the Waterkloof Rangers at the Cape of Good Hope, was pre- sented to the Queen, and was knighted by her Majesty.
The Court leaves Windsor for Osborne today.
The Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family, have gone into mourning for eight weeks from the 22d instant, for the late Queen of Portugal.
Telegraphic despatches from the East contain little in addition to what is already known. We have a brief intimation from Odessa, 13th in- stant, that "a division of the Russian fleet, consisting of three line-of- battle ships, five frigates, and several steamers, went out from Sebastopol as soon as Turkish men-of-war appeared in the Black Sea."
We also hear from Constantinople, that General Baraguay
arrived there on the 15th; and that "the Russians had attacked Chefkatil (St. Nicholas) in Asia, by land and sea, but were repulsed five times. A Russian steamer, with 1500 men on board, was stranded: twenty-five of the crew were saved by the Turks, and brought to Constantinople as pri-
soners of war." •
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