The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-13 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council at two o'clock
this afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty held an Investiture of the Most Honourable
Military Order of the Bath at three o'clock yesterday
afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.
The nights Grand Crosses of the Order were robed
by Mr. Hunter in their splendid mantles, and wearing the
collars of the order. There were present his Royal High.
ness the Duke of Sussex, Acting Great Master of the
order. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge.
General Lord Hill, Lord Viscount Palmerston, the Earl
of Minto, and the Right Hon. Lieutenant-General Sir
Hussey Vivian, Bart. 'I he Officers of the Order in attend-
ance were Mr. A. Grevillc, Baton King of Arms, and
Mr. Albert William Woods, Deputy Registrar and Secre-
tary.
Her Majesty, wearing tho mantle and collar of the
Order, hr.vmg entered the Yellow Drawing Room, the
Knights Grand Crosses and Offices of the Order were in.
troduced, his Serene Highness the Duke Ferdinand of
Saxe Coburg walking between two of the Knights Grand
Crosses.

Her Majesty having received the Sword of State from-
Mr. Martins, Gentleman Usher in Waiting. was pleased
to confer the honour of Knighthood on the Duke Ferdi-
nand of Saxe Coburg (uncle to her Majesty), and then
invested his Serene Highness with the Ensigns of a
Knight Grand Cross of the most Honourable Military
Order of the Bath.

Prince Augustus. and Prince Leopold of Saxc Coburg,
Count Alexander Mensdorf, and the First Lord, of the
Treasury, were present a i the ceremony.
The Court was attended by the Marchioness of Nor-
manby, Lady in Waitieg,. the Lord Chamberlain, Lord
Byron, Lord in Waiting, Hon. Colonel Cavendish (Clerk
Marshal), Silver Stick in Waiting, Mr. Rich, Groom.ie
Waiting. Colonel NVemyss, Equerry in Waiting, sad
Master Cavendish, Page of Honour in Waiting.
Her Majesty gave audiences to Viscount Melbourne,
Viscount Palmerston, and Sir Hussey Vivian.
Her Majesty took a drive yesterday afternoon, in an open
landau and four, accompanied by Prince Leopold of Sale
Coburg, and the Prince and Princess of Leinergen. The
Hon. Miss Spring Rice, the Hon. Miss Paget, and the
Baroness Lehzen, followed in another carriage and four.
The Royal dinner party at the Palace last evening,
eluded Viscount Melbourne, Lord Morpeth, Lord Alfred
Paget, tt, Right Hon. George Steven Byng, and Mr.
George Edward Anson. .
The Band of the Coldstream Guards attended at th!
Palace during the evening.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by Lady
Clinton, Hon. Miss Hope Johnstone, Hon. Miss Boyle,
Earl Howe, and Lady Georgians Curzon, Sir Horace soil
Miss Seymour, and the Rev. J. R. Wood, honoured Mr.
Burfard's Panorama of the 't Grand Harbour of Malta,':
in Leicester-square, yesterday, with her presence, and was
pleased to express her approbation of the view. Her
Majesty also visited the Panorama of Rome.
The Princess Augusta, the Duchess of Gloucester, an 4
the Duke Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg, visited the Queeli
Dowager yesterday, at Marborough House. n.
Mr. John G. S. Lefevre, and Mr. Lewis ( Poor-last
Commissioners) had an interview with Lord John Russell
yesterday, at the Home-office.
His Excellency Mr. Stevenson, the American Minister,
transacted business on Tuesday at the Foreign Office, sod'
at the Treasury.
Sir Martin Shee, Mr. George Ponsonbv, Sir George
Grey, and Mr. Wallace. had interviews with Lord Jo"
Russell, at the Home Office, yesterday. .
Captain Pechell, M. P., and the Hon. J. E. Elliot,
M. P , had interviews with Viscount Melbourne, yesterday,
in Downing-street.
The Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Richmond, Lora
Hill, and other members of the Naval and Military Com-
mission, attended a meeting yesterday, at the official resi-
dence of Viscount Melbourne. The Commissioners sot
two hours.
Dispatches from the Governors of the Cape of Good
Hope, Ceylon, and Van Diemen's Land, were received
yesterday et the Colonial Office.
Mr. Forster and Mr. Dunn had an interview with Lor4
John Russell yesterday.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. •

ARRIVALS. •
Lord and Lady Shrewsbury and suite, at Mivart's
from Rome ; Lord Pollington, at Lord Mexborough% 6°-
ver-street, from a tour ; Mr. Young, M. P., from HaillP"
ton Court ; Captain and the lion. Mrs. Grantham,
in
liryanston-square, from their scat in Yorkshire.; 1-A r"
Fitzalan, in Hyde Park-place, from Worthing ; Lord
Says and Sele, from Brighton ; Mr. Grey Hamilton, from-
a visit to Mr. and Lady Caroline Baillie Hamilton, at
their seat in Oxfordshire , Dowager Lady Clittt,"el
Marlborough House, from a visit to her, father,
Poyntz, Evq., at Cowdray Park, Sussex ; CaPtaln
and Mrs. Price Blackwood, from Bookham Ledge. the"...
villa in Surrey ; Colonel and Lady Laura Meyriek, in
Berkeley•square, from Auberies, their scat in Suffolk ;
lion. Col. Caradoc, in Hereford.street, from Paris.

DEPARTURES.
Dowager Lady Farqulvir, from King. street, St. J'anes'st
on a continents] tour; Mr and Lady Augusta 'Milbank,
for Brussels ; Captain and Mrs. Inglefield and family,
Pot
Dover ; Lady Harriet Bagot and tatr.ily, for ditto ; Lord
Devon, from Bryanstoo-square, for Powderham Castle,
Devon; Hon. Mrs. and Miss Legge, for Stowell, House,
Richmond ; Mr. Parker, M.P., for his scat in Devonshire;
Lord Arundel, for Wardour Castle ; Lady Pembroke and
the Ladies Herbert, from Hay Hill, for Leamington .pit;
Charles Bunbury, Esq., from Batt's Hotel, for the seat of
his father. Lieut.-General Sir Henry Bunbury, Barton
Hall, Suffolk ' • Lord Dungannon, from Grafton-street,for
Oxford ; Sir Edmund Stanley, Mr. B. "Stanlei„ and Mr,
E. Stanley, of Cambridge University. file "their villa it
Richmond.

HIGH TEMPERATURE.—This morning at nine,
the thermometer in the shade stood at 72, and a little be-
fore noon at 81. The barometer at 30, with a sultry cast
wind.
We are happy to announce the capture of a Rus-
sian slave ship by one of her Majesty's cruisers. The
rize is now safely moored in Portsmouth Harbour.
THE FRUIT QUESTION.—At a numerous
meeting of the committees of fruit growers of East and
West Kent, London fruit salesmen, and Middlesex mar-
ket gardeners, held at Sittingbourne, on Friday, IL
Francis, Esq., in the chair, it was reported to the meet-
ing- that since the formation of the committees in Octo-
ber last, several interviews and communications had been
had with Lord Melbourne and Mr. Puulett Thomson,
and that the result of them was a letter from Lord Vis-
count Melbourne to Sir E. Knatehbull, of which the fol-
lowing is a copy
" Downing street, June 4, IS39—My dear Sir Edward
—I feel that I have many apologies to make for not having
before returned you an answer respecting the dutirs upon
the importation of foreign fruit ; but there have been so
many events, and so great a pressure of business, that WO
have not before been able to consider the question, and
come to a final determination upon it. I Ino,e now to in-
form you, that we do not think a case has been made
out which would justify us in altering the scale of duty
fixed by the bill of last year. I remain, my dear Sir Ed-
word, your's faithfully, 4` MELBOURNP.."
And the same having been read, a report was imme-
diately drawn up, and unanimously adopted :—" R.isolved
unanimously—That the said report be submitted to a gene-
ral meeting of persons interested in the growth and sale of
British fruit, to be very shortly held in London. Resolved
unanimously—That his Grace the Duke of Richmond be
solicited to name a day for the above meeting, and also to
preside at the same. Resolved unanimously—That im-
mediately the day is fixed for the meeting, that adver-
tisements be inverted in many of the London and .country
newspapers.": (Signed) "ROBERT FRANCIS, Chairman."
—Kentish Gazette.

SPECIMENS OF IRISH HUMOUR.—Not long
ago we expressed our sympathy for an Irishwoman, old
and very poor, who, in addition to her other misfortunes,
had lately lost her teeth. " Time for me to lose
'em." she replied, " w lien I've nothing for 'cm to
do." Imagine for a moment a rosy-checked Mun-
ster man, paving rather leisurely the highway in
Cheapside, and quite unconscious of the English
d'gnity of a shopkeeper, blocking up a tradesman's door
with a heap of stories. " 'Fake those stones away," quoth
the tradesman, in a fluster. "Is it the stones ?" asks
the Irishman? " Is the stones? Why, thin, where
would von have me to tike 'em to ?" " Take 'em to
h—," replies the very angry citizen. " I'll take 'em
to heaven, pe,ur honour, they'll be more out of your
way there," was Paddy's reply. Nat long since
we received a note of sympathy, that we should
have chosen a very unfortunate period for visiting the
Irish metropolis, "when there's nothing to see and nobody
to show it." And, a short time afterwards, one of the riders
of a steeple chase, finding his horse boggle at a ditch ( An-
glice, hedge) thus addressed his steed, " Leep it now, and
I'll give you a pound note." Upon being subsequently ques.:
tioned as to the effect of the promised bribe, he ad,de,l,
" and she did leep it, and fell on her face and hands '
a kin to this is the story of an Irish gentleman, who, being
in Paris, and not understanding French, drove to the
at which, having been there before, he knew an ntEng-
lish waiter attended. Ha‘ing summoned the garcon,
the following dialogue took place Waiter, bring
me some gravy soup." " Monsieur?" some—gravyt—.
soup. Will you bring me the gravy soup? Don't standt
bowing and jabbering there, sure's that what I'm wanting,
ng:
and not your civility." " Monsieur, je ne corn—
here last ")"
can't ye send me the man I saw
" Tunder and turf, man alive ;
.I,eutin don't
rn
"en 'lto illustrate the
'tbaeusnitdeaetiristtia:dme
We will only give on more anecdote
our did not forsake
ready- wittedness of Paddy, whose.
Neu). 'eat. to. confession,
hint, even in the presence of his priest,
sha-
dow of the confessional. Darby
were attached,
mision, to which various sma Penalties
an to the awful fact, that he bad
and, having detailed his several sins of omission and corn
with a groan, ,
at last came,
I sight of Father Tobin that his rererence
stolen his neighbour Kitty Mahony-s tyg ; a crime so
heinous in t
could, by no manners of means, give him absolution for
the s:ime. Darby begged, and prayed, and promised,
but to no effect ; no penance could make atonement ; nu
repentance could produce effect ; nothing, in short,
would do hut restitution, that is to say, to give
hack her own to Kitiy Mahonv. But a difficulty
arose, inasmuch as Darby and Derby's " childre "
had pig ; upon which the priest waxed
w eatenroth,ali u
and
threatened
bret„teene
d the rogue with evil here, and a
hereafter. " And now, hear me, ye
terrible destiny
vagabond cheat," said he, " when ye go up to stand yer
trial, and find yerself among the goats (for sheep ye
are not) to get yer sentence, there'll be two witnesses
against
ye ; there'll be Kitty Mahony, that ye robb'd,
and the
pig that ye ate; and what will you do then,
ye vagabond ?" " Och, plate yer riverence, and is
it true what ye say, that Kitty Mahony herself will be
there ?" " She will." " And the pig Date ; will the pig
be to the fore ?" " He will." " Oh, thin, plate your
riverence, if Kitty Mahony will be there, and the pig will
be there, what'll hinder me from saying, Kitty Mahony.
bad luck to yer soul, there's yet pig ;' sure won't that be
restitution ?" llresimi:zster Review.

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