The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-02 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, JAN. 1.

Her Majesty the Queen took an airing yesterday.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Prince
Louis of Hesse, attended by Lieutenant .General Knollys,
Captain Grey, and Captain ‘Vesterweller, crossed over to
Southampton yesterday in the Royal yacht Fairy, and went
to Winchester to visit the Cathedral and the Hospital of St.
Cross.

Their Royal Highnesses returned in the afternoon.
Her Royal Highness Princess Louis of Hesse drove out,
attended by the Hon. Mrs. Bruce.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial• office
from the Governors of Malta and Canada. Despatches were
sent to the Governors of the West India Islands, British
Columbia, Bermuda, and to the Lord High Commissioner
of the lonian Islands.

The Countess Fortescue was safely delivered of a
daughter, on Wednesday, at Castle Hill.

M. Alexandre de Laski has arrived at Claridge's
Hotel from Paris.

Mr. and Lady Henrietta Morant have arrived at
16, Park-lane, from their seat, Brockenhurst Park, Hants.
Mr. and Lady Eleanor Balfour have left Cla-
ridge's Hotel for Bournemouth.
The marriage of Marshal Canrobert with Miss
Macdonald, of Grove House, Windsor, will be solemnised
early in the pro,ent mcnth. The Emperor and Empress
have sent the bride elect an autograph letter, accompanied
by a present of diamonds.

Madame Tcherkoff and family have arrived at
Claridge's Hotel,

K and Madame Delahaute have left Claridge's
Hotel for Paris.

M. and Madame de la Bouillim have left Cla-
ridge's Hotel for Paris.
We have to announce the death of the Dowager
Lady Stourton, in her 85th year. Her ladyship was third
daughter of Mr. Thomas Weld, of Lulworth Castle, Dor-
setshire, and married in 1800 the Hon. William Stourton,
son of the Right Hon. Charles Philip Stourton, who after-
wards became the 17th baron, by whom her ladyship had a
numerous family.

Mr. kind Mrs. Charles Kean gave a "reading" at
Kilkenny on Monday. The attendance of the aristocracy
and gentry was large. They next will appear in Galway
this evening, and on Monday, the sth inst, in Dublin.

AN OLD FRIEND IN A NEW DRESS.—Le Nord
of yesterday evening assumed an entirely new ap-
pearance, and was published in Paris instead of Brussels.
It has been increased in size, contains six columns to the
page in place of five, and is printed in entirely new type.
In its programme, it claims to be regarded as a cosmopo-
litan organ, animated exclusively by those international
ideas which it informs us have already so far united all
civilised countries that they are now adopting " the same
form of government, the same code, the same tariffs, the
same system of weights and measures." It furthermore
says that it removes to Paris because that city is the pp-
litical, industrial, and commercial capital of the whole
world. l'o place its cosmopolitan character beyond doubt,
the Nord prints in its first column a string of advertise-
ments in all the European languages.

SHOCKING CASE.—On Thursday morning last the
wife of a man named M'Cann, living at Rowantrees,
near Chapelhall, Airdrie, was found dead in bed, during
her husband's absence from home. The husband is in very
poor circumstances, and had only 2s. in his possession
when he returned on Friday evening ; Is. 100. of this sum
he expended in purchasing cotton for a shroud. His finances
thus exhausted, he applied to the inspector of poor for the
parish of Bothwell, to get assistance towards the burying of
his wife's remains. This the inspector declined to do, on
the ground, we are informed, that the man was ablebodied ;
and so the corpse remains unburied up to the present mo-
ment, and is now, of course, rapidly approaching a state of
putrefaction. The case has been reported to Sheriff Logie.
Glasgow Morning Toarnal.
The Freeman's Journal records the death of john
Patrick Somers :—One of the last, if not the very last, of a
peculiar and remarkable race of men, of which he may be
said to have been the type, has passed away after a long
and painful illness. For many years Mr. Somers repre-
sentedas the town of Sligo. He was educated in a school that
h
long ceased to exist. Attached to the turf, fond of all
the cognate excitements, the habits he acquired were ill
suited
to the role of an Irish member of parliament, which
he so long played. Few men possessed more of the friend-
ship and confidence of leading men than did Mr. Somers.
O'Connell always took an interest in his re-election, and
.
whenever a sturdy and determined course had to be taken
with factious individuals he relied upon the pretence and
support of Pat Somers, a reliance that never
proved to be
misplaced. The personal regard entertained for him by
the present Premier is said to be something very uncom-
mon. To the last they corresponded as old friends, and at
all times during his public career " my friend Pat Somers"
was a welcome guest at Lord Palmersten's private resi-
dence,
THE SITA KESPEARE PROPERTY AT STRATFORD.
—Mr. J. 0. Halliwell has for some weeks lately
been deeply engaged here in „
examining the records belongin, to lookingthe over
corpora
t and
ionful
of thisly
borough, and the result of hiq labours and painstaking has
care
been that the archives will be removed from their present
place and put into a part of
"The
which will be expressly fitted up for the
greater security given for their p B
reservation.Birthplace,''
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The Town
Council held a meeting on Friday last, at which they
agreed to the propositions of Mr, J. 0. Halliwell.--Bfr-
mingham Gazette. Flat Ppoosret,i ona
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