The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-07 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and the Duchess of Kent attended divine
service yesterday morning, in the private chapel of th ‘ new
palace in St. James's Park. The Dean of Chester officiated,
and the Bishop of London preached the sermon. Her Ma-
jesty was attended by the Countess of Mulgrave, Lady in
Waiting ; Viscount Falkland, the Hon. W. Cowper, and
Colonel Buckley, the Lord, Groom, and Equerry in Waiting.
Her Majesty gave audience yesterday to Lord Melbourne.
Soon after five o'clock, the Queen left the p dace for a
drive in an open carriage and four.
A select party, including the Lord Steward, the Lod
Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, and the Vice-Cham-
berlain, dined with her Majesty and the Duchess of Kent
yesterday.

- The Queen gave audience on Saturday to Lord Hill.
The Queen and the Duchess of Kent honoured the per•
formance of I Pwitani, at her Majesty's Theatre, on Sa.
turday evening, with their presence.

Iler Majesty took a carriage drive on Saturday.
The. Bishop of London, Sir Alexander Johnston, and Sir
Frederick Wetherall, had interviews with Viscount Mel-
bourne on Saturday, in Downing-street.
Reschid Bey, the Turkish Ambassador, Count Ludolf;
Neapolitan Minister, and the Chevalier de Ribiero, tl e
Portuguese Charge d'Affaires, transacted business on Satur-
day at the Foreign Office.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer had a dinner party on
Saturday at his residence in Mansfield-street. Among the
company were M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister,
Baron Moncorvo, Earl and Countess Charlemont, Viscount
Melbourne, Lord Hill, Lord Glenelg, Lady Elizabeth
Clements, the Solicitor-General, Sir James Kempt, Sir
Augustus Calcote, Messrs, Philips, George Anson, and
Peacock.

Dispatches wcrQ received yesterday at the Colonial
Office from Sir John Franklin, Lieutenant:Governor of Van
Diemen's Land.

Baron Biome, the Danish Minister, left to►vn on Friday
night for the Continent.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lord Mun-
ster to the office of Constable of the Tower of Windsor Castle.
The Duke of Rutland returned to town on Friday
last, arid proceeds to Belvoir Castle this day; and thence on
Thursday next for his scat in Yorkshire, having invited a large
party to shoot grouse at the commencement or the season.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland will leave
Stafford House on Wednesday uextfor Dunrobin Castle, where
much company is expected.
The Dukc and Duchess of Portland, the Ladies
Bentinck, and Lord George left Harcourt House last week
for The Priory, Welbeck. The Marquis of Titchfield left town
to-day for the same place.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort have returned
to Park-place from a week's visit to the Duke and Duchess of
Richmond, at Goodwood Park, where upwards of thirty dis-
tinguished fashionables have been staying during the week.
There are to be twelve new Peers and four new
Dukes created before the opening of Parliament. Amongst
Ole latter the Marquis of Anglesey is to be created Duke of
Mona.

It is confidently reported, in the host informed cir-
eke, that Sir Jacob Astley, Bart., will be raised to the Peerage
before the meeting of Parliament.
His Excellency Prince Esterhazy still remains at
Chandos House, and the time of his departure for the Conti-
nent is uncertain.
The Duke d'Osuna and Marquis dc Los Llanoa have
returned to Mivart's Hotel, from Brighton.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne and
Lady Louisa Fitzmaurice, left Berkeley-square on Friday last,
for Bowood Park, Wiltshire. The Earl of Shelburne joined
elem. having returned from his long tour.
The Marquis of Douro arrived at Apsley House on
Friday. To-day he left town to rejoin his regiment.
The Marchioness of Londonderry left Holdernesse
House on Saturday last, for the Castle, at Wynhard. Lord
Seaham and Lord Adolphus Vane departed on Saturday last
for the same place.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ely and Lord
George and the Ladies Loftus have arrived at Ely Lodge,
Fermanagh, from Cheltenham, where they have been sojourn-
ing fora few weeks. .

The Bishop of London, Sir Alexander Johnston,
and Sir Frederick Wetherell had interviews with Viscount
Melbourne on Saturday, in Downing-street.
The Countess Cadogan, and Ladies Augusta and
Honora Cadogan, leave Cadogan-house to-morrow for Dover,
en route to Cologne, via Dunkirk. The Noble Countess and
her daughters intend to stay in Germany for some months,
and will visit the baths at Elms and Carlsbad previous to their
return. The Earl of Cadogan leaves town early next week
for Scotland, to pass the fishing season.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbuty have
made arrangements to leave town on Thursday next, for their
tour in France and Germany. The Noble Marquis and Mar-
chioness will return to England early in March next.
The Earl of Wilton has returned to Grosvenor-
square, from Goodwood. It is not the intention of the Noble
Earl and Countess to leave town for Heaton Park, near Man-
chester, until after her Ladyship's aceouchement, which is ex-
pected to take place the latter end of this week.
The Hon. William Bingham Baring and Lady
Harriet left Park-lane on Friday, to join the family now as-
sembled at Lord and Lady Ashburton's, at The Grange.
On Monday John Jones-went down into the Duck-
enfi eld Mine, taking with him a lighted candle, which coming
in contact with a stream of choke damp, exploded and killed
the man on the spot. The deceased had a safety-lamp with
him, but refused to use it. The accident fortunately hap-
pened while the works were suspended for the daily change of
bands, or the mortality might have been dreadful.—Stockport
Advertiser.

On Thursday last the two sons of Mr. Reeves, of
Corsham, being left alone in the house, got a powder flask,
and began playing with the gun-powder. Whilst thus em-
ployed the powder in the flask, which was in the hands of the
younger boy ignited, and both the child's hands were blown
off by the explosion. The elder boy was also much injured.
—Devizes Gazette.

It appears by information from all quarters that the
prospects of a good grouse season are highly flattering. On
the lower hills, in particular, the covics are numerous, and
the birds strong. Indeed, a sportsman of treat experience in
the Perthshire Moors states that he has not unfrequently found
them no further advanced on the 12th of August than they are
at the present time.—Leeds Intelligencer.
So anxious are the Tories to return the Hon.
H. T. Liddell for the northern division of Durham, that the
pious and immaculate Mr. Trevor, the Tory representative for
Durham, and a great supporter of Sabbath legislation bills,
accompanied by an exemplary clergyman of the Established
Church, resident in the neighbourhood, actually canvassed for
the Hon. Candidate on Sunday last ! The scene of their pious
li labours was Dalton-le-Dale, Seaham, and Murton 1 What will
Sir Andrew Agnew say, when he hears this sad account of his
late zealous coadjutor ?—Sunderland Herald.
Hortense Bertrand, the daughter of the general of
that name, who, whilst a child, shared the captivity of the pri-
soner of St. Helena, and with the gaiety of a lively child so
often cheated Napoleon of a sorrow, has been with her hus-
band, the Marquis de Tuyeres amongst the visitors at Coblentz
this year, and is thence gone to Schwalback.
Captain Barclay Allardice, of Airth, has presented
a petition to the Crown, praying for the acknowledgment of
his hereditary tight to the title and dignity of Earl of Airth,
and it has been referred in-the usual manner to the House of
Lords, and stands for consideration before the Committee of
Privileges. This earldom was first created in 1633 by letters
patent, The claimant contends that the title has descended
to him as heir-at-law of William, second Earl of Airth, who
was grandson of the patentee.
At the approaching assizes for Cheshire there are'
on the list of prisoners the astonishing number of 12 cases of
bigamy for trial.

The following judicial pun was given by the Learned
Lord on the bench, at the opening of the Beaumaris Assizes.
There was neither cause nor prisoncr for trial. His Lordship
thus laconically addresszd the Grand Jury :—" Gentlemen,
there are neither causes nor prisoners, so my only charge is to
discharge you."—North Wales Chronicle.

On Tuesday afternoon, as two men, Collins, a sawyer,
and 011erenshaw, a plasterer, were wrestling at Glossop, Collins
was thrown by his antagonist with such force to the ground,
that he received injuries that, notwithstanding the assistance of
three medical men, produced death in a few hours. —Derby
Mercury.
The ship Aliquis, Captain M‘Fee (now in Waterloo
Dock), a. t her whole topsails at the Brunswick Dock gate,
on the 15th September last, and sailed 16 500 miles in 117
days, when she arrived at Bombay, without once taking a reef
in her topsails, a circumstance never before recorded. —Liver-
p 00l Advertiser.

•
Her Majesty has expressed, through Sir Henry
Wheatley, her sympathy in the afflictions of Mrs. Cocking
since the death of her late husband, and most generously and
considerately bestowed on her the very liberal donation of
fifty pounds. We are likewise glad to see that from the li-
beral conduct of the proprietors of Vauxhall, as well as that
of Mr. Green, all classes of the public will be enabled to
contribute their mite towards the relief of the above unfortu-
nate lady, lately bereaved of her husband under such distres-
sing circumstances. Next Wednesday is fixed for her benefit,
and the ascent of the Royal Vauxhall Nassau Balloon, and we
feel assured that its monstrous powers have never beelk pui
into requisition in a better cause.

Greensmith, the murderer, wlitA was convicted
his four children, is perfectly
at the last Assizes of murdairing
resigned to his fate, and ezpreses himself to ho ready to die,
Pr. BlhkF and other medical men have used every exertion
to, obtain t commutation of hiR 2041t0n0 oa the ground of in-
sanity, but without (el pt. if no reprieve (which seems now
to be clespairod ot) should come down, the miserable man
will ho executed on Wednesday morning next.--Natiinpian4
Review.
On Friday last, duriikg t h c_, time of taking the poll
at Gringiel-tan-the-Ifili, one'of the Dassetlaw polling. districts,
James rarliarn, aged 10=3, and John Crackles, aged 90, both
franc; Mlstertml, answered the.respective questions put to them
1: the poll,clerk as promptly and as correctly as any persons
In the booth,--Dencester oa;ette,

BRECON (COUNTY).
AUGUST 2.—The polling for this county commences on
Monday. The friends of Major Halford, the Liberal can-
didate, are very sanguine of success, though every base
means has been employed against him by the Tories. The
tenants of the Duke of Beaufort have been. ordered to vote
for Colonel Wood, who is a rank Tory, and the father of
the young man, so " well known at Crockrord's," who is
now opposing the Liberal candid tte for Middlesex. Col,
Wood, it will be recollected, was api ointed by his Icte Ma•
jesty as his executor.

FLINTSHIRE.
This nomination took place at Flint on Saturday, when
F. R. Price, Esq , of Brignigpys, proposed their late tried
and valued representative, the lion. E. M. L. Mostyn
and Major Jones briefly seconded the nomination. Sir
John Hanmer then proposed, and Sir John Williams se,
conded, the Tory, Mr. Stephen R Glynne. The eandi•
dates then addressed the electors, and,-on a show of hands,
the majority appearing to be largely in favour of the Re-
formers, a poll was demanded for Sir S. Glynn. It wilt take
place to-morrow and on Wednesday, and the Reformer*
feel confident of success.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-( THU! DAY.)
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DEAL, AUG. s.—Wind N. E.—Sailed the whole of tie
outward bound, to their several destinations.
Poarsmotru, AUG. s..—Wind E. N.E.—Arrived her Ma-
jesty's ship Pearl, from Lisbon; Narcissus, Curry, from Cey,
lon ; Windsor, from Bengal ; Robert Small, from dittol
Moira, from ditto ; 1.4,)rd flungerford, from ditto; &Kan,
from Van Dieman's Land ; Pacific, from the South Setts ; and
Scotia, from Bengal.
FALMOUTH, AUG. 5..--. Wind N. N. W.—Sailed. the Pandora
packet, for Madeira and the West Indies; and the Hope
packet, for Helifax..
PLYMOUTH, AUG. s,—Wind lanthes, Q.
HASTINGS.—Off port, the Pomona, Liddle, from Queuebbec.
ec
SHOREHAM.—Off- port, the Lion, Tode, from Memel.
COWES.—Arrived the Reidolf, from Stettin.
SwANAGE.—Off port, the Orator, Terry, from Calcutta.
TORBAY, Ana. 6. Arrived the Dele.res, Alders, from
Began, leaky, bound to Oporto.
JERSEY.—Arrived the George, Moller. from Dantzic.
BRISTOL.— Arrived the John Russell, Clark, from St.
John's, New Brunswick.
NawkoaT.—Arrived the Troughton, Shormell, Quehet%
MiLsoau.—Arrived the Croker, from Quebec; Prosser, from Pugwash.
LIVERPOOL.—..Arrived the Britannia, Taylor, from Mira-
machi ; Atalanta, Newman, from Dantzig, ; Eiitabetn, from
Stettin ; Johann, Ranor, from Pernam ; Aunail'a, from ditto.
HOLYHEAD, AUG 5. —Arrived the L;:iy, Hey table, from
Newport—towed in, dismasted, bound tn, Naples.
MONTROSE.—Arrived the Jane, Simpson, from Riga ; Eliza
Swan, from Greece.
LElTH.—Arrived the Martha Poll, Lyall, from Greenland.
Ponn.i.NA.—.A: rived off the Florantha, Latole, from Sydney.
Betotta•oN.—Arrived off the Dement, Ruddall, front Van
Diernan's Land.
GREENLAND FISHERY.
PETERHEAD, AUG. 2.—The Eclipse, arrived here from
Greenland, has brought the following accounts:_
HULL.._ Abram, Hibbs, 2 fish, 1,800 seals.
Evethorpe, Johnson, 2 fish, 250 seals.
Riby, Grove, Parish, 5 fish.
Sisters, *Kenzie, 2 fish, 200 seals.
Arrived, Venerable, Ward, 2 fish.
True Love, Manger, 1 dead finner,
The Zepli:„r, Ash ; Ellison, Lee, in the ice.
Pireanaso.—A:rived, Commerce, Martin, 2 lids.
Eclipse, Gray, 4 fish, 3,500 seals.
Hannibal, Burnie I -fish, 1,400 seals.
seals.
LElTH.—Arrived, the William Pole,Lvalt, 1 fish, 3,500

AloN:raosE.—Thc Eliza Swan, Crfaranond, two fish. The
above were seen about the end of Jane. The ships hay re-
turned from the northward, and were endeavouring to get
through the ice to the W. land.
AIONTROSE„AUG. 3.—. Several vessels, supposed from Green-
land, passed this port to-day.
MARI PORT, AVG. s.—Arrived the Ocean, Thompson, from
Bathurst; Sally, —, from Bay Chaleur.
A LERDEEN, Ago. 4.-- Arrived the Patrick, Dennison, Riga.
PETERHEAD.—Arrived the Eclipse, Gray, from Greenland,
4 fish and 3,500 seal ; Commerce, Martin, from do. ; Hannibal,
fr.nn Bernice, do., 1 fish 1,460 seal,
The Mary, Gowan, of Carnarvon, is totally wrecked at St.
Grogan's Head—crew saved.
The Hope, Nicholson, from Galway, arrived at Kiruth
leaky, bound to London.
The Rosalind, from Jamaica to Liverpool, was on shore on
Peckles Reef June 23, and bilged. Part of her cargo saved.
Mary Kimball, from Savannah to Liverpool, was near Cock-
spur June 8, with seven feet water in the hold, after being on
fire, and cargo much damaged.
The Isabella, from Launceston to Spencer's Gulf, was to-
tally lost preiious to April 7. Crew saved.

On Saturday last John Forster, a miner employed
at the salt mines at Wilton in this county, met instant death
under the following circumstances :—Fester had laid a train
under an immense mass of rock salt, which he ignited, bat it
not exolodin,,,u immediately, he went to see what was the mat-
ter. The unfortunate man hal scarcely reached the rock, when
the explosion took place, and one mass of the rock, weighing
upwards of a ton, was thrown upon his body, crushing him
com:detvly flat.—Stockport Advertiser.
A tumbler pigeon was let loose at Shrewsbury, at
five minutes past twelve o'clock at noon, and arrived at *New-
to.vn at twelve minutes past one; thus accomplishing the dis-
ta ice of thirty-two miles in one hour and seven minutes, car-
rying with him a card stating the time it was loosed, signed by
the gentleman who saw it start. —Shrewsbury Chronicle.
On the last day of the sitting of Parliament an Act
received the Royal Assent, declaring that persons who are now
required to paint their names, &c., on waggons and
carriages, in order to entitle them to exemption from taxes,
need not have them painted in letters of two inches in length,
as was previously necessary, but that letters one inch in length
would be sufficient for the future. The Act is Ist Victoria,
cap. 91.

Baron Brockhausen, who is the Prussian Ambas-
sador at the Court of Sweden, has left Alivart's Hotel for
Hantburgh, en route to Stockholm, to resume his diplomatic
duties.

A heavy storm of wind and rain, on Friday and Sa-
turday night last, occasioned considerable mischief among the
orchards, large quantities of apples have been dislodged,
boughs separated, and a great number of trees prostrated.
The corn crops, especially the wheat, have also suffered con-
siderably front being flattened by the rough weather; which,
condition will not only delay their maturity, but when ripe
will impede the operations of the sick!.. ,

N EWSPA PERS.—Nothing but the assistance of
steam could, indeed, enable the great daily newspapers to ac-
complish their present task. When the reader calls to mind
that the debates in the House are sometimes kept up till two
or three o'clock in the morning; that the reporters, relieved
every twenty minutes, have to carry all their communications
to the office ; that all this matter has to be arranged, put in
type, and then worked off, and that, notwithstanding this, the
double sheet of matter is on thousands and thousands of tables
by nine o'clock the next morning, it is really wonderful how
it can be accomplished. Saturday night appears to be the only
night on which those connected with these immense undertak-
ings can be said to have any repose from year's end to year's
end. What a life of toil I what an unnatural life must theirs
be, who thus cater during the hours of darkness for the infor-
mation of those who have slept soundly through the night, and
rise. to be instructed by the labour of their vigils! It can be
effected in no other country in the world. It is another link
in the great chain of miracles, which proves the greatness of
England. —New Monthly Magazine ,/or August.
MINERAL WATERS AT PULLNA.—About ten
years ago, on passing through the neighbourhood of Pullna,
heated from a journey of 2,000 miles, performed without stop.
page by night or by day, and from that habitual state of t..k.e
body for which I had, like many more of the inhabitants of
London, taken bushels of aperient pills, in the preeedinr years,
was induced, on principle, to try the effect of th'e Bitter-
waster. The result of that trial was, that I recovered my
health—conquered my habitual difficulty of digestion—aban-
doned all pills—have never taken any since—and find it neces-
sary only to drink about two ounces of the Puilna water to
keep all straight. But as the real Pullna is not to be had easily
in England, and is not very good when one gets it, I had re-
course to the artificial one prepared at Brighton.—Dr. Gran*
villa's Spas of Germany.
On Saturday morning, between nine and ten
o'clock, the following serious accident occurred in the Hamp_
stead fields, which had nearly proved of fatal consequences. It
appears that a gentleman of the name of Elphinstone, accom-
panied by his son, were proceeding from their residence at
H impstead to London, across the fields, when they arrived
near Primrose Hill, walking along the footpath by the side of
a hedge, some boys, who were on the other side, unobserved
by Mr. Elphinstone or his son (a young gentleman sixteen
years of age) fired at some sparrows in the hedge, the princi-
pal part of the contents of the fowling-piece entered the thick
part of Mr. Elphiestonets thigh, and some shots entered the
son's shoulder ; Mr. Elphinstone screamed out, from agony ;
his son bound the wound up with a handkerchief, and procured
assistance to remove his father home. The boys escaped on
hearing Mr. Elphinstone call out.
POETRY OF EARLY RISING.
.—eery hour, you will find a set of am ;',cur
day, at the
7.:teur surveyors of the work
punctually at their posts on th. 2, opposite side of the way, ob-
serving how matters go ca and feeling a growing interest in
the growth of some old company's new hall—a pile of new
buildings for co*.nmercial purpsses—or a new street. These
squere-toed old fellows arc the early risers of the neighbour-
hou6, and have an hour to spare before breakfast in picking
up an appetite for it. and nothing seems to whet it so much as
this morning visit to the works in progress. When that fails,
and the work is done, the parish pump is pretty sure to want
painting, or the churchyard rails: or a tomb is rising in the
yard to the memory of a late great man in the ward ; or the
vase of the church is undergoing a regilding, or is being made
to answer to the wind when spoken to, which your city vanes
do not always do ; or a new spout of modern zinc, not lead, is
being set up against the north end of the church ; or the two
St0:10 cherubs at the east end are having their dear little snubs
noses repaired—one of them having been broken by the pr."-
fane pelting's of the ward boys, and the other by the curious
fingers of old Time, who could leave it alone till he snap ped it
short off. These repairs the early risers superintend till the
work is done.—New Monthly Magazine for August,