The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-24 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, JCLY 23.
The King of the Belgians, accompanied by the Count
of Flanders and the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, left
Osborne this morning, to return to the continent. The
Comtess d'Yve de Bavay, the Baronne de Bov4e,
Colonel de Moerkerke, Captain Burnell, and Sir Robert
Carswell, were in attendance on the King and Royal
family.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert embarked in the Fairy
with the King, and accompanied his Majesty to Ports-
mouth, where a special train was in waiting to convey
his Majesty, by the Brighton and South Coast line, to
Dover.
Lord Dufferin, Lord in Waiting to the QuEen, at-
tended the King to Dover.
The }lon, Beatrice Byng has succeeded the Hon.
Flora Macdonald as Maid of Honour in Waiting.

Sir William Molesworth attended at his office in
Downing-street yesterday, and transacted business as
Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Despatches from the Governor of Canada and also
from the Governor of the West India Islands were re-
ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes-
terday. An appeal from New South Wales was com-
menced—" Doe dem. Devine v. WilsOn and others."
The lords present were the Chancellor of the Duchy of
Cornwall, the Judge of the Prerogative Court, Sir J.
Patteson, and Sir E. Ryan. '

DEPARTURE OF THE KING OF THE BELGIANS.—DOVER,
Monday Evening, July 23.- -Hig Majesty King Leo-
pold, accompan'ed by the Princess Charlotte of Belgium,
the Count de Flanders, and a numerous retinue, arrived
at Dover this afternoon at 2.35, and was received by hiS

Excellency M. Van de Weyer, accompanied by his se-
cretary, M. Delfosse (who had preceded his Majesty to
Dover). S. L. Latham, Esq., Belgian Consul at this
port ; W. H. Payne, Esq., Mayor ; the Commandant
and Colonel Kinlock, with the officers forming the staff
of the British Foreign Legion, were in attendance. A
guard of honour of the Sa i,s Foreign Legion, under the
command of Color.e.. C. A. Dickson, was formed from
the platform of the railway station to the Lord Warden
Hotel, where his Majesty proceeded direct. The illus-
trious visitor left Dover in the Belgian royal mail packet
boat Topaz, at 3.15, on his return to Ostend.
Yesterday morning, between the hours of 5 and 6
o'clock, a fire broke broke out on the premises of Mr.
John Pearson, saw and planing mills, Nine Elms,
whereby property to a large amount was destroyed.
The Himalaya steam-ship arrived on Sunday morn-
ing in Kingstown harbour. She is to convey the 56th
Regiment to the Crimea. Several detached sections of
other regiments will proceed to the East by the same
conveyance. The Himalaya is expected in a day or two
at Liverpool, where she will take on board 204 men, 12
officers, and 154 horses, belonging to the let Dragoon
Guards, and 40 horses and 15 men belonging to the 2d
Dragoons.
STRAHAN AND CO.'S BANKRUPTCY.—Yesterday Messrs.
Rushworth and Jarvis offered for auction, by direction
of the assignees, and with consent of the mortgagees, the
banking premises of Messrs. Straban, Paul, and Bates ;
the property consists of two freehold houses, Nos. 217
and 218, Strand ; the lower part having been for nearly
two centuries occupied as banking premises, and the
upper part lately the town residence of Sir ohn Dean
Paul. The purchasers were the London and Westmin-
ster Bank, at the sum of 20,0001. The sale of the furni-
ture and effects was then commenced, and will last for
some days.
The Cork Examiner announcer, on the authority of
Mr. Maguire, M.P., that a leading member of the Irish
independent party is about to retire from the Saxon
Senate and emigrate to Australia. The Freeman's Journal
broadly states that the person alluded to is no other
than Mr. Gavan Duffy, the representative for New Ross,
and the founder of the once formidable Nation newspaper.
The report has been long current in Dublin, and its truth
was but half denied by the friends of Mr. Duffy.
STATE OF THE THAMES.—Last night an adjourned

meeting of the inhabitants of St. P'a.ul's district of the
parish of St. Mary, Newington, was held in the Lecture
Hall of the Wal worth Literary and Scientific Institu-
tion, Lorrimoro-road, Walwerth, for the purpose of re-
ceiving the report (which was noticed in this paper ye:4-
terday), of the deputation appointed at a meeting held on
Monday evening last, to wait up,n Sir. Benjamin Hall,
and represent to him the foetid and impure state of the
water supplied to the inhabitants by the Vauxhall and
Southwark Water Company, and to- induce him, as Mi-
nister of Health, to suggest some measures to remedy
the evil. The Rev. Mr. Mitchell, the incumbent of
St. Paul's, was in the chair, and several resolutionss
thanking the chairman and the committee for their exer
tions were unanimously adopted.
SHOCKING MITRDER AT ROCHDALE.—On Sunday

morning, about half-past six o'clock, a stranger, who had
slept with his wife at the house of Mr. Stephen Asquith,
Half Moon, Blackwater-street, Rochdale, went out, pro-
mising to return in half an hour, and some hours after
his departure it was discovered that his wife was lying
on the bed with her throat cut, and quite dead. They
had taken lodgings at the house on Saturday
night, and some angry words had passed between them
before retiring to rest, but they bad taken no drink.
The woman was between 40 and 45 years of age, and
her throat appears to have been cut with a razor, the
windpipe having been severed. In her right band was
a razor, with the edge from her, and the blade clean.
A good deal of blood was found on the floor, and also
on the bed. The murderer did not return, and has not
been heard of since. He was a thin man of the middle
height, and wore a black, dress coat and dark cotton
trousers. This is the only description given of him by
the people at the public-house.
THE REPRESENTATION OF SOUTHWARK.—A numerous
and influential meeting of the electors of Southwark
was held last evening at the Queen's Head Inn, High.
street, for the purpose of securing the re-election of the
Right Hon. Sir W. Molesworth, who had vacated his
seat by accepting the office of her Majesty's Secretary
of State for the Colonies. Dr. Challis was called to the
chair, and read a communication from the Administra-
tive Reform Association, expressing satisfaction at the
appointment of the right hon. baronet, which they re-
garded as an acknowledgment of the principle repre-
sented by the society. Sir William Molesworth then
addressed the meeting, passing in review his votes upon
various important political questions during the ten
years he had represented the borough ; and having
them, if they
ex-
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re-election, was then unanimously adopted. The nomi-
ticipated.
During the last few days a party of
in the newest style of Parisian fashion, have' been ob-
served at the Universal Exhibition, the Jardin d'Hiver
balls, and other public places. These ebon gentlemen
are functionaries at the court of his Imperial Majesty,
FaUstin 1., better known as Soulouque. Among them
Generrll Count Eloa, senator, Grand Chancellor of
are 6 Haiti • Viscount Eloa, his so •
the Empire —O. , p n , Baron
tor • and the Count de Val, senator. The
Simon, senator ,
above personages, with
a numerous suite, lodged at the
little " hotel" in the garden of the " Cercle de l'Expost-
tion." They are admitted to dine at the club dinner,
and may be seen almost any evening smoking cigars anl.
takine, coffee on the flower-bespangled terrace in front )!
the &role.