The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-30 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The continuance of unfavour-
able weather has prevented her Majesty taking eques-
trian exercise.

Viscount Melbourne took his departure from the
Castle this morning.
Tile Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
is expected to include the fo'llowiag guests :—Her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kew, the Earl of Errol, the
Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, the Ladies Eleonora
and Contance Paget, Sir Henry Wheatley, Colonel
Brow:), of the 2d Rifle Brigade, Lady Barham, Lady
Fanny Howard, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Anson,
Lady Gardiner, Baroness Lehzen, Lord Lilford, Colonel
Armstrong, Lord Alfred Paget, and the Hon. C. A.
Murray.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager left Belvoir Castle,
Lci estershire, on Thursday morning, attended by her
suite, on a visit to the Earl of Denbigh, at Newnham
13a,!(ice,1;q, Warwickshire.

Tae Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the
Princess Augusta of Cathbridg,e, and aLended by Miss i
Kerr and Baron Kneseheck, honoured the Haytnarktt
Theatre with her preSenee on Thursday evening. Her
Royal Highness and the Princess Augusta of Cainbridgc
returned to hew afterwards.

A Cebinet Council was held at three o'clock yester•
day afternoon, at. the Foreign Office. Viscount Mel-
bourne arrived in town soon atter three o'clock from
Windsor Castle, to attend the Council. The other
Ministers present were the Lord Chancellor, the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne, Viscount Duncannon, Marquis of
Normanby, Viscount Palmerston, Lord John Russell,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Minto, Mr.
Labouchcre, and Mr. Macaulay. Lord Holland was
prevented from attending the Council by indisposition.
The Council sat an hour and a h:Af.
The Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's most
Honourable Privy Council on Education had a meeting
at one o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the Council Offire.
The Lords present were the Marquis of Lansdowne,
Viscount Duncannon, Lord John R.utell, Lord Mont-
eagle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Labouchere,
and Sir George Grey. Dr. Kay, Secretary to the Com-
mittee, attended. Their Lordships broke up at three
o'clock.

A. Deputation from the British American Laud Com-
pany, consisting of Mr. G. R. Robinson, Governor ; Mr.
N. Gould, Deputy Governor ; Messrs. Win. P. Crau-
ford, Russell, Ellice, William Pemberton, and J. ShutPr,
Directors ; and Mr. H. P. Bruveres, Secretary, had au
interview with. Lord John Russell yesterday at the Co-
lonial Office.

Lord Hill had an interview with Viscount Melbourne
yesterday in Downing-street.

- The Grecian Minister transacted bubiness yesterday
at the Foreign Office.

'File Commander of the Forces had an interview with
the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home Office.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENC

ARRIVALS.

Mr. Robert Hellond, M. P.,:in St. Jatr.es:'s-squure, from
Paris ; Mr., Mrs., and Miss Teed, at .Scanmore Hall, front
Paris ; Lord and Lady Fitzalan, at tile Hyde Park Hotel,
Hyde Park-place, from Suffolk; J. Gurdon Rebow, E.q.,
and Lady Rebow, at ditto, from righton; Mr. arid M.
Lonergan, at ditto, from Cadiz; the Hon. Mr. and Mra.
Preston, at ditto, from Ireland; Lord and Lady de Gre7,
Sir David Scott, Sir William and Lady de Bathe, Lord
and Lady Beauchamp, Lord Strangford, the Earl and
Countess of Kenmart, Lord Thomas and Lady Sophia
Cecil, the Hon. Mrs. Seymour Bathurst, Mr. Quintin
Dick, M.P., Viscount Middleton, Mr. H. G. Ward, M.P.,
the Hon. Fredereck Methuen, Lord John Fitzroy, M:.
Charles Greyille, the Marquis of Down,hire, Sir Hee-,
meta, Bart., the Bishop of Peterborough, Mr. Rs';aes
Currie, M. P., Lord and Lady Dunally.
DEPARTURES.
Gentral and Mrs. Fraser. Sir Charles and Lady Doyir.,
Sir Charles Daibiac, Lord and Lady CP.rnwath, Admiral
Sir Robert Ottvay, Admiral Sir P-dward Codtington,
Captain Rache, 2d Life Geards the Hon. Lady Hopi.,
on a visit to Sir Harry and Lady Verney, at Claydoil
House, Bucks ; Sir Robert Dal:tas, Mr. Ellis, M.P. ; Sir
Montague Cholmely, for GrF.ntham; Sir Henry and Lady
A7,kew, for ditto ; the Dowager Marchioness of Queens-
berry, and the Ladies Douglas, for Leamington; Earl of
Lichfield. for Renton Abbey; Count Potocki, for Paris ;
Sir Charles Grey, for the Oaks; the Right Hon. Wilson
Croker, for West Moulsey ; the Hon. Wellington Cotton,
for the Cavalry Barracks at York ; Hon Mr. and Ml s.
Aslihurnham,lLord Frederick Fitzclarence, f r Etal Ho Ise ;
his Highness the Prince Nardir, from the Hanover, Hotel,
Hanover-square, for Turkey ; C. Scydons, Esq., from
ditto, for Brighton.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Princess Augusta, attended at Bar,
Knesebeck and Miss Kerr, occupied her Majesty's 'o„x
at the Haymarket, on Thursday evening.
j
The Duke of Beaufort will give a grand el, euner
to-day, at Badminton, to the noblemen and •gt„deim,„
who hunt with his Grace's hounds. The hounds will
meet on the lawn.

The Duke of Norfolk will lea•ee St. James-
square to-day, for Arundel Casale, Smssex.
BRIGHTON, Nov. 27.—Lady Brougham is
detained in Brighton, in consequence of the continual
indisposition of her daughter. Lord Brougham pay.
short visits to his family every week. Lord and La:Ay
Thomas Cecil, who have been on a visit to Mr. L. anti
Lady Jane Peel since their return from the continti,.
purpose leaving Brighton to-morrow for tho met.
pol.s. Lady de Roos left the residence of Mr. P,
this morning to join the party assembled at. the seat
of
Earl Delawarr, at Buxsted. Lord de 'Nos is e x eeted
at Buxsted from London. Sir Gregory and T.,..,adyp Way
took their departure this morning, for London.
ROYAL MARRIAGES.----VIENNA, Nov. 16.
--The King of Wurternberg, wh.o is (levotedly attached
to his daughter, the Princess 7`Aary, has written to his
bro;her-in-law, the Emperor Nicholas, to communicate
the approaching marriage of the Princess with the
handsome y0...21).- Count de Neipperg. The Emperoy;
has replied, "As I gave my beloved daughter to a Du',:e
of Leuchtenberg, you need not hesitate to bestow yours
on the Count de Neipperg."—Leipzic Gazette,
Silt JOHN MOORE.—John Thompson., the •J1(1 servant of the Hero of Corunna, who received his
wounded master in his arms, and afterw-..rfls took a con-
Ticuous part iu the " Soldier's Grave," is stilAl living,
and now drives one of Wilson's 1-1,-)iloway 'utnnibuscs.
He is a fine looking, obliging P.nd speaks of
his distinguished master in tl highestp',Asible terms of
affection.

Prince Puckler
T..usk„, according to a letter
IV
from Pesth, is likel.e to make some stay in that ci .v,
having taken an...rtments for several months. "In ',it
suite," this letter adds, " besides a young and beat-ode:I
Abyssinian girl, who speaks Italian, and is very am;4l,p,
in her mariners arc a Turkish dragoman, a young d
nandsome Greek and a young negro from Senile•
last three, with two footmen, always wait at tab;ie. They
wear liveries."
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BILLINGSGATE ANNIVERSARY.—
; For Several
,
years past it has been the custom at Bill
`22d of November, to celebrate the fat' ngsgate, th e
sale fish-market at Hungerford I%" 'ore of the whole-
..arket, Strand, by
letting off fireworks, displaying flags, and the attendance
of a band of music. It was tine intention of the fish-
salesmen, their servants, and others employed about, the
place, to celebrate the event in the usual manner o a
Fri ':,ay in last week, but a complaint having been lr.id
Before the Lord Mayor, the city police were directeo.lo
prohibit the annual festival. A boy who f,red a squib,
and two firework-makers, were brought before Coe Po-
lice Committee of Aldermen, at Guildhall, when the
lad was fined and reprimanded, and, the firework-makers
were ordered to find bail to aprear r.t the next London
Sessions.
MORE DESTRUCTI VE FlRES..—During Thurs-
day night last, :Anil while t"ne fire was raging in the Wal-
worth-road, se',eral other fires happened in the metro-
polis. At el,even o'clock the dwelling-house of Mr%
Bertram, r,ancy soap manufactory, adjoining the factory
in WO...worth-buildings, City-road, were discovered to
be on fire. The flames were extinguished befa,..e any
great mischief was done. Tie building is iosureed in the
0 erarpation of
Union Fire Office. Another fire, attended with far
more serious consequences, occurred at No. Ti , Upton-
sNtirre.c tN,v ning t osnh,a tripe rs
tat
throncehro church
d m, in
uths
ice
A 1 iricrument-
maker. It broke out in the shop (thro,u.gh the gas) and
was not got under until considerable ,4arnage had taken
place. Other fires broke out on tl premises of Mr.
Dainbone ton, ton,N
hoveo. 57,
of Upper Mary' .!bone-street, Alaryle-
S ; the
ectnele-all Mr. Engli-;e, pork butcher, No. 7,
pry, Whiteha pel •; nd at the tea warehouses
of Messrs. Ridgeway and Co., King illiam-
London-bridge. In the last-named case` the firestreet arose from an, explosion of gas.
S',TrrOSED SEDUCTION AN'D SUICIDE.—On
reursday evening, about seven o'clock, a gentleman 1
came to the receiving-house of the Royal Humane So-
ciety, in Hyde Park, and gave information of having
found a bonnet and shawl on the south bank of th a
Serpentine, about one hundred yards from the waterfn:ll.
Knight, the chief boatman, immediately put off for
spot with his drags. After throwing his drags for
about two minutes, he brought up the body of a young
woman. The body was immediately taken to the re-
ceiving-house, placed in a warm bath, and Dr. Wooley,
the honorary surgeon to tide institution, used every means
to restore life, but without success. 'The body is that
of a fine-made wcoaran, apparently about twenty-six
years of age, dark complexion, rather pock-marked.
She was cxcicntf,. Her dress (Jonsisted of a white straw
hn. I - d cotton shawl, of a .lark mixture and
~no, ...n
large patt‘Jrn, a cotton gown. with black stockings and '
shoes.
None of the linen was marked, nor were there.
aril. documents found upon her persoe that could tensl
to discover who sire The body was removed to
was.
the Halfway House, Kensington.
The letters from Glasgow this morning ar,nounce
tv% o considerable failures there!. °tie of them frit 80,0004
an'd the other for 60,000.1. J.:abort° SeottAnd appears
to have escaped the im,rarious effects ()v.. this mope ally
now crisis much better tbe.o England, but 44,:tley are beginni
to complair. that the storm
}gas overtaken them at
last.— WO!.