The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-19 00:00:00

EVE
Cy,

TIC U.RSDAY

COURT CIRCULAR.

_ - -
Lord John Russell had an audience of the Queen
yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
Colonele
His
re Royal
morning.
a and the ee
.HighnessAPGreirndceen,rode Albert, attended
out e
n horseback
eiheauetk
y .-
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, the Princesses Alice,
Helena,
n
exercise yesterday, in the garden of Buckingham Palace.
yesterday
Louisa, and Prince Arthur, took their usual
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
attended by the Countess of MountEdgecumbv, the Hon.
Lucy Kerr, Lord Elphinstoue, Colonel the Hon. Charles
Grey, and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, honoured
the-Princess's Theatre with their presence last evening.
After the Royal dinner party on Tuesday her Ma-
jesty's private band was in attendance, and performed
the following selection :
Overture, "Fidelio"
Andante and Rondu Hummel.
Selection, " Fills du Regiment"
Hungarian March... Alvars.
A deputation from the town and port of Gainsborough
and the Isle of Axholme, consisting of Mr. Christopher,
M.P., Sir Montague Choltneley, 13art., M.P., Mr. Arch-
deacon Stonehouse, the Rev. John Dobson, Mr. Harvey,
Mr. Lister Maw, Mr. Henry Smith, Mr. Farmer, Mr.
Starke, Mr. Sharpe, Mr. Guy, and Mr. C. Menon, had
an interview with the Bight Hon. Henry Labouchere,
yesterday, at the Board of Trade.
Mr. Reynolds, from Corfu, had an interview with Earl
Grey, yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
A deputation, consisting of
Mr. Moffat, Sir Timothy
O'Brien, Bart, Mr. M. J. Blake, and Mr. James Perry,
had an interview, yesterday, with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, at his official residence in Downing-street.
Dr. Smith had an interview with Earl Grey at the
Colonial-office yesterday.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes-
terday at the Council-office. Present—Baron Parke,
Lord Cranworth, Sir J. Knight Bruce, Sir J. Paiteson,
and Sir Edward Ryan.
The petition, " Bennett Vti'oodcroft's Extension of
Patent" (part heard), was resumed and concluded; and
the appeal from the Admiralty Court, " Vaux v. Sheffer
(the Immaganda Clausina), was 'commenced.
SPORTING IN

TEL-LIGENCE.
nee, 9st 101b(Seffert) 2
AYLESBURY STEEPLECH.A...S..E..S.....—WEDNESDAY.
Free Handicap of 5 soya. each, and 40 added. Four miles.
113121 b ~,,,,Goddard) 0
MMAI rrr Land'sJ. aAu dice
kr
s The
on na ' Ss
Springerne wnldo-Bigui Ten-and-Sixpence,
kiPosb7e,ts
lost 51b
51
bt 71b ...(Darby) 0
amM
rrr
JT Land'sGo
Brown's
bTy t e
Ploughboy,BGeneral,nfi nc
h elrl,is
lot
~,,(Pries) 0
Mr. John Clayton's Janus, lOst 41b ............ (Boyce) 0
Mr. J. Elmore's Kossuth, 10st 21b ......... (Hcwitt)
Mr. W. Hay's First Attempt, lOst 31b (Capt. mivens) 0
Mr. Hunt's Esmeralda, 105 t..................... (T. Ball) 0
Mr. Grey's Mischance, 9st 121 b............. (Holman) 0
Baron Rothschild's Louisa, 9st 101 b ...... . ..... (Bosall) 0
Mr. Blank's Paymaster, 9st 41b ............ (Donaldson) 0
Mr. George's Governess, 9st (Watkins) 0
Betting-5 to 1 agst Janus, sto 1 agst Mischance,
6to 1 agst General, 6 to 1 agst Louisa, 7 to 1 agst
Ploughboy, 7 to 1 agst Screw, 8 to 1 agat Spring Back,
and 10 to 1 agat any other. Won in a canter.
The Farmers' Plate of 751. Four miles.
Mr. J. Brown's Troy, list 71b • (Goddard) 1
Mr. Holdham's Huckabite, list 71b ........... (Ball) 2
Mr. Dover's Starch, list 71b
(Bozall) 3
Nancy, list 71b (Rackley)—Buttermilk, list 71b
(Simmons)—Baroness, list 71b (Ablett)—Russborough,
list 71b (Barker)—and Sir Tatton Sykes, list 71b
(Day)—also ran. Won by a length. Starch a good
third.

The Sweepstakes of 1 soy. each and 25 added were
won by Mr. Pryme's Kilwick, Ist (130x411), beating
Frank, list 71b (Land)—Louisa, list (Ball)—Tragedy,
list (Goddard)—Legislator, list 71b (Rackley)—and
Phoanix, 1 Ist 716 (Hewitt)—in a canter.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
COVENTRY, 1852.
The Coventry Handicap of 10 sovs. each, h ft, and 2
only if declared on or before the 26th instant.
Clothworker, 6 yrs, Bst 71b—Musician, 5 yrs, Bst 21b—
Agis, aged, 7st 121b—Merry Peal, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b
Selina, 6yrs, 7st 51b—Warwick, syrs, 7st 21b—Ribaldry,
aged, 7st--Lady Bibina, 6 yrs, 7st—Bullfinch, 5 yrs,
6st 121b—Cheddington, 4 yrs, 6st 121b—The Clown,
5 yrs, Est 101b—Tightwaist, 4 yrs, Est 91b—Rioardus de
Pickburne, 4 yrs, 6st 8 lb—Liberty, 5 yrs, Est 81b—Avis,
4 yrs, 6st 61b—Milkboy, 4 yrs, Est 61b—First Fruits,
4 yrs, Est 51b—Heart of Oak, 4 yrs, Est 41b—Little
Queen, 6 yrs, sst 101b—The Brahmin, 3 yrs, sst 61b--
Merlin, 3 yrs, sst 41b—Butterfly, 3 yrs, sst 21b—Proud-
foot, 3 yrs, sst 21b—b cby Siwoom, out of The Queen,
3 yrs, sst 21b—Madeline, 3 yrs, sst—Sister to the Ma-
caw, 3 yrs, 4st 121b—Queen of Spain, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b.
If the highest weight accepting be under Bst 71b, it
will be raised, &c.
CROXTON PARK, 1852.
Weights for the Granby
Handicap. To declare forfei

1016—The March 1.
Alonzo, 5 yrs, 12st 81b—Clothworker, 6 yrs, llst 131 b
be Justice,
Marquis,s y 52
y rlists, listl l 1016--Cockcrow, —9lbC_o ciktcari
awn,, 45
yy
rrss:
listst
71b—Lough Bawn, 4 yrs, Ilst 61b—Agin, aged, Ilst 61b
--Montague, 6 yrs, llst 61b—Darkie, 5 yrs, list 61b—
Penang, 5 yrs, list 51b—Sir Robert, 5 yrs, list 51b—
Brother to Dough, 5 yrs, Ilst 41b—Faux-pas, 4 yrs, Ilst
31b—Herbert, 6 yrs, I Ist 11b--Loadstone, aged, llst—
Warwick, 5 yrs, lOst 131 b—Jack-in-the-Corner, 5 yrs,
lOst 121b—The Sweep, 5 yrs, lOst 121b—Selina, 6 yrs,
lOst 1 Ilb—John of Berwick, 5 yrs, lOst 111b—/Eolus,
4 yrs, lOst 111b—Proctor, 4 yrs, lost 91b—Hard La-
bour, 5 yrs, lOst 81b—Presto, 4 yrs, lOst 81b—Bullfinch,
5 yrs, lOst 71b—Goodwood, 6 yrs, lOst 616—Harpsi-
chord, 4 yrs, 104 61b—Sledmere, 4 yrs, lOst 51b—New
Forest Deer, aged, lost 41b—Estafette, 5 yrs, lOst 31b—
Don Juan, 6 yrs, 104 21b—Ischia, 4 yrs, lOst lib—Cy-
clops, 4 yrs, 9st 131b—Castanero, 5 yrs, 9st 131b—Uncle
Sam,Llac nidoit3chaywprosfr,ok9resrtt,
h3e6l b.
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Justice,March 5
yrs,l.
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list Colcoki ebri wm,
0411
tyargsu,
,1 248
yrs,
rlBl,b
yrs, list 111b—Darkie, 5 yrs, list 111b—Lough Bawn,
4 y
6 yrs, 1 Ist 51b—Jack-in-the-Corner, 5 yrs, fist 21b—
Warwick, 5 yrs, list
Charming,
4tt,
ng
Charm
—Hard Labour, 5 yrs, lOst 121b—Presto, 4 yrs, lOst
111b—Harpsichord, 4 yrs, lOst 71b—New Forest Deer,
aged, lOst 61b—Ischia, 4 yrs, lOst 21b—Don Juan, 6,
9st 121b—
yrs, lOst 21b—Cyclops, 4 YrsCestanere, 5
yrs, 9st 131 b. g,
4—yHr bieire

DONCASTER, 1852.
Acceptances (up to post time in the country) for the
Doncaster Handicap of 10 soya, each.
View Halloo, 6 yrs, 7st 71b—Abd-el-Kader, aged, 7"
41b—Calculator, 4 yrs, 7st 41b_Selina, 6 yrs, 78t 21b—
Kathleen, 5 yrs, let 21b—Toro Efoltby, 4 yrs, 7st—
Knookhe P Knoll, 4 y
rsrs, 6st 121b—R,i
(p
—ada, 4'yrs, Est 121 b
—Td
roc
Labotor, 4 y, 6st 101b—Cogia 4 yrs, Est 101 b
Har9r, 5 yrs, 6st 101b—The'Catlei, 4 yrs, 6st
101 b—La lianas*, 5 yrs, Est 101b—Abbess of Jervesu.x,
5 yrs, 6st 91b—England's Glory, 4 yrs, Est 71b—Ischia,
yes, sst
.91b—B cby Irish Birdcatcher, 3 yrs'
4 yrs, Est 61b—B cby Red Deer, out f Sister to Porto
Bello, 4 yrs, Est 31b—Finesse, 4 yrs, 68t alb—Ma7
sAsntnil3b—Galvanism, 3 yrs, Sat 61b—Tom Pinch, 3 yrs,
sst 31b—Sir Charles Napier, 3
yrs, sst 31b—liY&cinch,
3 yrs, sst 31b—Cleveland, 3 yrs, sst 31b—
Snowdrop,
3 yrs, sst—t. Michael, 3 yrs, 4st 121b—Dismay, 3 yes,
4st 121b—Lizzy, 3 yrs, 4st 101b—Voiante. 3 yrs, 4st.

ST. .LUK.E7-S-------110
.
Yesterday the annual couSPITAL
rt of the governors of this
George-yard, Lombard-street ; Mr. 11. F. Shaw Lefevre,
treasurer, in the chair. The
hospital was held at the George
reports of the general
committee, physicianr, and auditors, were read and ap-
proved. The proceeds of the centenary festival (after
deducting all expenses) were reported to be 2,0481. 6s.
Contracts had been entered into for improving the
drainage, for building new , and Vulture Tavern,
a n . e"aPel, a new laundry and
work rooms, and for other additional accommodation at
the hospital, for the sum of 3,428/. 2s. The works had
be„ in progress since June last, and were nearly com-
pleted. The number of patients deemed curable ad-
cgcleeusive of 669 re-admitted as in-
c into the hospital during the past year was 196;
tlereeseteavbelrisiebsna,
deanrtinogf thethe hos-
pital u
inmbl;rsla,dlmBi,t2tseesde,baseeitxnaing
of
higher
any previous year. The recoveries ef the male patients
were in the proportion of 63 per cent., and those of the
fcyeuema cable.ralhe a s
beenpatients
7p48e.0r0-
cians spoke in laudatory terms of the exertions of the
resident officers. Many weeks have elapsed without
any of the patients having been subjected to mechanical
the physicians' report. The treasurer
Papers accompanied
reported that
restraint.legacies
h a
dS,h)me
been
rt valuableaei
ye d statistical
during
th 0.
past
year of 1,000/.
from the executors of the late Jeremiah Olive, Esq., and
180/. stock Three-and-a-Quarter per C
from the executers of Miss:Elizabeth Sament. Annuities
uities
Brown of
La r • eceipts for
10 082/. Is. 2d. T •
the past year had been , . he Right Hon.
Lord Ovcrstone was re-elected president; the six vice-
St. John's, Wapping, deceased. The to 1 '
vice-
presidents and remaining officers of the corporation severally re-elected; and, alter a cordial vote were
of thanks
to the chairman, the court ended.

to re-
nal:PiodiiisciPosed7""l..
galrdn ourthe day, men
ef
THE ALCHEMISTS NOT ALL IN THE WRONG.
odnislyeiptioeoa
are
ee
Arabian school and of the late alohemiwers of the
subject of transmutation of metals, as a tests on the
cination of the human mind, and, strangely
the
to lament it. But the idea of the variYabenough'
changeable corresponds to universal experience,le and
always precedes that of the unchangeable. Th() and
of bodies, chemically simple, was first firmly notion
lished in the science by the introduction cation
lished
doctrine, which admits the existenet ' the
solid particles, not further divisible, or
ac:' of
But the ideas connected with this view aro s, little
in accordance with our experience of
nature, that n")
chemist of the present day holds the metals, absolutely,e
for simple undecomposable bodies, for true elemens
Only a few years since, Berzelius was firmly con-
vinced of the compound nature of nitrogen, chlorine,
bromine, and iodine; and we allow our so-called Simple
substances to pass for such, not because w,-, L.
- - ...new
that they are in reality unclecom hiposa—e, but because
they are not as yet undecomposed, that is,_ because
we cannot yet demonstrate their decomposability 80 as
to satisfy the requirements of science. But we all hold
it possible that thi.4 may be dono to-morrow. In the
year 1807, the alkalies, alkaline earths, and earths
proper were regarded as simple bodies, till Davy de-
monstrated that they were compounda of metals with
oxygol,—Liebeg's Letters on Chemistry.

THE ALBURY MIJELDER.—The man Keene and
Jane his wife, accused of murdering a boy three years old,
the illegitimate son of the latter, were finally examined be:
tore the magistrates, at Guildford, yesterday, and committed
for trial upon the capital charge.