The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-01 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a Privy Council at two o'clock yester-
diy afternoon at Buckingham Palace. It was attended
by the Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the First
Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the
Foreign and Colonial Departments, the First Lord of the
Admiralty, the Chancellor of the Du chy of Lancaster
the President of the India Board, the President of the
Board of Trade, the Secretary at War, and the Lord
Steward.

At the Council Sir Charles Metcalfe, Bart., G. C. 8.,
Governor of Jamaica, was sworn in.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Coun-
cil in Waiting.
Her Majesty gave audiences to Viscount Melbourne,
Viscount Duneannon, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Mar-
quis of Normanby, Sir John Hobhouse, and Lord Hill.
The Right Hon. Sir Charles Metcalfe was presented to
the Queen at an audience by the Marquis of Normanby,
her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colo-
nies, and kissed hands on being appointed Governor of
Jamaica.
The Court was attended by the Marchioness of Nor.
manby, Lady in Waiting ; the Vice-Chamberlain ; Lord
Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting ; the Treasurer of the House-
hold, Viscount Torrington, Lord :in Waiting, Mr. Rich,
Groom in Waiting, and the Hon. Colonel Cavendish
(Clerk Marshal), Equerry in Waiting.
The Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty yesterday.
The Royal dinner party at the Palace last evening in-
cluded the Earl of Surrey, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount
Falkland, and the Right Hon. T. Spring Rice.
The Duchess of Braganza, accompanied by the Princess,
her daughter, and attended by Madame de Maucomble,
and Lord Lilford, visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager
yesterday at Marlborough-house ; and also the Duchess of
Cambridge, at Cambridge-house.
The Duchess of Kent (attended by Lady Charlotte
Dundas), the Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess
Augusta of Cambridge, visited the Queen Dowager and
the Princess of Hohenlohe, yesterday.
The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duchess of
Cambridge yesterday.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Duchess
of Gloucester, honoured the Duke of Wellington, with
their company at dinner last evening, at Apsley House.
Mr. Scholetield, M. P., had an interview with Lord
John Russell, yestei day at the Home-office,
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office, from the Lieut.-Governor of Malta.

On Monday an inquest was held at the Queen's
Arms Inn, Harrow Weald, before Mr. Wakley, M. P., on
view of the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Beck, aged 41, who
died suddenly whilst travelling on the London and Bir-
mingham Railway. Mr. Charles Beck, lace manufac-
turer, of Nottingham, deposed that the deceased was his
wife. About three weeks back she became ill, and, by
the advice of a physician, went to France, accompanied by
witness. On Friday they returned to London, and put up
at the Queen's Arms Tavern, in Newgate-street, when
she appeared perfectly recovered. On the evening of the
same day they started from Euston-square terminus by the
Railway to Birmingham. The deceased went by the first-
class train. Soon after the commencement of the journey
the deceased complained of shortness of breath, and ex-
claimed " I shall die before I get to the end of my jour-
ney." A little brandy was administered to her ; she then
appeared to be better. On the arrival of the train at liar.
row the deceased was discovered to be in an insensible
state. She was removed to the Queen's Arms Tavern,
and Mr. Hewlett, a surgeon, promptly attended, who en.
deavoured to restore animation by bleeding and other re-
medies, but ineffectually, as life was quite extinct. Mr.
Hewlett, on opening the body, found that the death of the
deceased was produced by water on the chest. Verdict—
" Natural death."

CUTTING AND MAIMING.—On Monday at
Lambeth-street police-office Carol Granby, a German
skin-dresser, was charged with cutting and wounding
George Haller, a countryman of his. Police constable
Henry Barton, li 11, stated that on Saturday night, be-
tween the hours of eleven and twelve o'clock, he observed
the prisoner knocking violently at the door of the
Catherine Wheel public house, in Essex-street, White-
chapel, and on asking him what he wanted, he said
that he had been stabbed by a person inside, whom
he wanted to give into his custody for the offence.
On the door being opened he ( Barton went in, and then
ascertained that the prisoner was himself the aggressor;
that he had inflicted a serious wound upon the neck of a
countryman of his, and his hands at the time were covered
with blood. The wound was of so serious a nature that he
felt it to be his duty to remove the injured man as soon as
possible to the London Hospital, and the prisoner to the
station-house. A potboy at the Catherine Wheel deposed
to having seen the prisoner take a knife from his pocket
and inflict a wound with it on the back part of the neck of
Heifer during a drunken broil. A certificate was handed
from the house-surgeon at the London Hospital, describ-
ing the man to be in a very dangerous state from the effect
of the injury, and the prisoner was remanded for a week.
CURIOUS MANORIAL CUSTOM.—Rutland
Assizes, on Friday last, proved maiden. The Judges ar-
rived in Oakharn on Thursday night, and stopped at their
lodgings in the town until Saturday morning, when they
proceeded for Lincoln. On this occasion the bailiff of the
manor was successful in catching Lord Abinger, and assert-
ing the right to a horse-shoe at his Lordship's charge, to
grace the castle walls. On two former occasions of this
Learned Lord being in the Commission of Assize he eluded
the vigilance of the officer and the cost of compliance with
the manorial custom. Several new shoes, of Patagonian
dimensions, have been lately added to the collection in the
Castle. Amongst them are those of Lord Denman, Lord
Barham, the Earl of Roden, the Marquis of Cholmondeley,
and the Bishop of Carlisle. Lord Willoughby d'Eresby
contributed the usual (51. to lot ) and sent a real horse-
shoe—one which had been worn by his well-known favourite
hunter, Clinker. It is gilt, and nailed over the door of
the Grand Jury-room. There are now nearly one
hundred shoes, of various dimensions, hung up in
the fine old hall of the Castle, which forms the As-
size Courts. They are inscribed with the names of the
donors, and amongst them several front Royal personages,
including Queen Victoria's and the Duchess of Kent's. The
building was erected in the ) ear 1060, and it is thought an
immense iron shoe, of singularly beautiful workmanship,
which looks like the great ancestor of all the rest, is nearly
as old as the Castle itself. On its being lately removed
from the wall, for the purpose of making a new arrange-
ment of these feudal memorials, the tooth of time was
found to have so deeply indented it by oxydation, that the
iron crumbled to pieces. Lord Abinger evinced a parti-
cular desire to have his intended shoe placed near that of
the Earl of Lonsdale.—Staniford Mercury.
ATTEMPT TO MURDER A POLICEMAN.—A
desperate ruffian named Long was on Tuesday committed for
trial by the Magistrates sitting at the Town Hall, South-
wark, on the capital charge of attempting to stab a police-
man that had come to the assistance of a woman whom
prisoner was violently assaulting.
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