The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-06 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

BALMORAL, OCT. 4.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
attended Divine service yesterday in the parish church
of Crathie.
The service was performed by the Rev. A. An-
derson.

Viscountess Canning, the lion. Mary Seymour,
the Right lion. Sir John Pakington, Colonel the
Hoorn. C. 13. Phipps, and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. A.
Gdon
attended her Majesty.
Sir Edwin Landseer remains at Balmoral.
The Dean of St. Paul's fiad an interview with Mr.
Secretary Walpole yesterday at the Home-office.
The Earl of Kinnoull and Lord James Stuart had
also interviews with the night Hon. Secretary.
Dispatches were received from the Governor-
General of Canada yesterday at the Colonial-office.

CITY COlitilllSlON OF SE IVERS.
Yesterday a Court was held at the Guildhall, Mr,
Deputy Peacock in the chair.
Mr. H. L. TAvLon moved that the resolution of the
Court agreeing with the report of the Committee en
General Purposes to offer a sum of 3001. per annum
for offices for th. use of the surveyor, instead of his
pre-ent offices, held at a rent of 601. per annum, be re-
scinded. He stated that
apartmentsas no doubt the unoccupied
of in the tovvn-clerk's house under the roof
the Guildhall could be appropriated to the purposes
of the increased busineis of the surveyor, there could
be no pretext for additional calls upon the poor-rate
Payer fur what might be considered dy some to be a
necessary accommodation for their officer.
The Court agreed to the motion, and also to a motion
by Deputy Harrison to the effect of conferring with
the Court of Common Co
alternative unbil on the subject—an
which seemed to be considered necessary
upon the occasion.
Upon the motion of Mr. ELLIOTT, a return was
ordered to be cows made of the number of places wherein
are kept in the city of London, and the number
of cows kept in each place.
Letters were read from the Chartered and the City
Gas Companies expressing the wngns of
company to have its gas tested by sciillientifices men. each
Entered upon the journals.—adjourned.
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Ine vicarage of East Langdon, Kent, has become
vacant by the death of the Rev. P. De Chair, M.A. ; it is
worth about 200/, per annum, and is in the gift of the Earl
of Guildford. The rectory of Blanton, near Kirton-upon-
Lindsay, Lincolnshire, has also come vacant by the death
of Mr. De Chair. It is worth 1001, per annum, and is in the
gift of Mr. W. Dallison.
The rectory of Aston, near Rothham, Yoshire,
has become vacant by the death of the Rerev. WilliamrkAlder-
son. The benefice, which is worth about 9001. a year, is in
the gift of the Duke of Leeds.
DESTRUCTIVE WIIIRLWIND.---On Sunday last, be-
„rtween three and four o'clock in the afternoon, the town of
Lyme Regis, in Dorsbtshire, was visited by a terrific whirl-
Wind, by which a stack of hay in the Home Bush fields,
Weighing upwards of five tons, was carried up into the air
and scattered about the country In every direction. A field
of fax also, at a short distance off, was torn up by the roots
and scattered about the neighbourhood. The damage done
to the farm and land upon which the storm fell 'with its
greatest fury is very considerable. In addition to this, an
immense body of water from the sea, just off the end of the
Cobb Walk, was drawn up into the:air on high, like a water-
spout, to the great astonishment and alarm of the good people
of Lyme. Ilappily, the waterspout did not discharge the
main body of its contents upon th. town itself or the ad-
joining lands, as in that case the damage done must have
been incalculable. During the whole of the day the sky had
assumed a very strange and lurid appearance, as if a violent
thunderstorm had been coming on. But no rain actually
torren,s (to uosoen,tinhge
twoogrodtsh
eorf
fell until after the whirlwind, when it continued far about
half an hour to pour in heavy
~ ery partial in
citosasvti.sitalt,ihoen,roaandd
an eye-witness), as if heaven and earthlw.ere
The storm, however, was
did not extend far either way along
the immediate
however, has been partly washed away near • ,
Scene of disaster.
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FORTIFICATIONS OF MILFORD HAVEN.—The con
raittee of fortifications,
erected on
on their recent tour
been of inspection.
visited the large martello tower which had
the Stack Rock for the defence of the arsenal, and the idea
occurred that the building was easily accessible by means of
directed to take
scaling ladders. Accordingly the captain-superintendent of
the dockyards, Sir Thomas Pasley, Bart., was .
.Is
im-
portant the proper measures for the due ascertaining of M
point, and a few days ago, at the head of a party
of seamen and Marines, who were properly provided with
ladders and other equipments, the captain-superintendent
landed on the rock, and in a short space of time the seamen
Proved to a certainty that the fortification was very ineffi-
cient,
This was found to arise from the fact that the face
of the rock had not been sufficiently cleared, and some rising
points offered every facility for scaling. These will have to
be cut and cleared away, and it is hoped that the whole can
done without injuring the foundations of the building.
The workmen are progressing with the sinking of the ground
doubtless, every care will now be taken that the rock is pro-
rlY and efficiently scarped, so as to avoid the necessity
of any additional expense when the work has been considered
finished
TalytiZlraAtr,_ ARTILLERY.—WOOLWIC 11, OCT. s.—Captain
forenoon fT°l:, of Royal Horse Artillery assembled yesterday
Commandarntthe inspection of Colonel Whinyates, C. 8., K.H.,
Bloomfield,
c, who was accompanied by Lieutenant-Colonel
and Captain 'i't,;lllcludita ndi n g officer of the Royal Horse Artillery,
ral of Artillery. n%Deputy-Assistant Quartermaster-Gene-
square ia co,se 14 inspection took place in the east
weather. The trquet ea
of the unfavourable state of the
for Canterbury, oop will march on Thursday, the 7th inst.,
, where it is to be stationed. 'Recruiting par-
ties have been recentl3:addedtaiched from the companies sta-
tioned
fat Devonport
both men and horse will is expected an augmentation
new only two troops of the Horse brigade at Woolwich, the
Master-General, now Commaealtrinent of Artillery. The late
Chief of the British
army, has always placed great reliance on the artillery
branch of the service, and it is
psaeiodfto be in contemplation
to send four companies to the Ca
Good Hope, to aid in
putting an end to the war in th t 1
a colony.
DUPLICATE TELEGRAPH EET VC/PEN I IVERPOOL
ANT) MANCUESTER.A second line of telegraph has been '
constructed at a cost of 5,0001. for the thirty-eight miles be- ,
°Teen at
And UguclivitQr, With 14.141e§um meg. '