The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-05 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and the Queen Dowager attended Divine Ser-
vice yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal St James's. The
Sermon was preached by the Rev. J. Reid, from St. Mark,
chap. xii. verse 34. The Lessons were read by the Rev. Mr.
Dakins, the Prayers by the Rev. Mr. Knapp, avid the Com-
munion Service by the Rev. Messrs. Dakins and Knapp. The
Chaunt was Hawes and Beethoven's ; the Te Doom and Jubi-
late, Boyce, in C; the Senatus, Savage; the Responses, King.
The Anthem, " God is our hope and strength" ( Green), was
sung by Messrs. Hawkins, Hobbs, Welch, and J. B. Sale.
Sir George Smart presided at the organ.
The Dean of Hereford was the Deputy Clerk of the Court
in Waiting.
The Queen was attended by the Marchioness of Normanby,
Hon. Miss Murray, Hon. Miss Paget, Viscount Torrington,
Mr. Rich, and Colonel Buckley. Her Majesty the Queen
Dowager was attended by the Countess of Sheffield, Hon. Miss
Eden, and the Hon. Mr. Ashley.
Her Majesty, attended by the Marchioness of Normanby and
the Hon. Miss Paget, took an airing yesterday afternoonin an
open carriage and four. Colonel Buckley, Equerry in Wait-
ing, attended the Queen on horseback.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Prin-
cess of Hohenlohe Bastenstein, and the Princess Therese of
Hohenlohe, visited:the Queen on Saturday afternoon at Buck-
ingham Palace. Their Serene Highnesses took leave of her
Majesty. - - - - - -

iseOunt Melbourne and Lord Hill had audiences on Sa-
turday of the Queen.
The Queen honoured the Italian Opera with her presence
on Saturday evening. Her Majesty's suite consisted of the
Marchioness of Normanby, Hon Miss Murray, Hon. Miss
Paget, Viscount Torrington, Mr. Rich, and Colonel Buckley.
Her Majesty took an airing in
.an open barouche and four on
Saturday afternoon, attended by the Marchioness of Normanby
and the Hon. Miss Paget, Colonel Buckley, Equerry in Waiting,
attending her Majesty en horseback.
The _Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Au-
gusta of Cambridge, and the Hereditary read Duke of Saxe
Weimar visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and the
Princesses of Hohenlohe on Saturday. at Marlborough House.
Their Serene Highnesses the Princesses of Hohenlohe Basten-
stein, and the Princess Therese of Hohenlohe, attended by the
Hon. Captain Curzon, and Sir David Davis, left Marlborough
House soon after seven o'clock yesterday morning for the Tower,
where their Serene Highnesses embarked in the Batavier for
Rotterdam. The Princess of Hohenlohe Bastenstein visited
and took leave of the Duchess of Cambridge on Saturday at
Cambridge House.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Au-
gusta of Cambridge, attended divine service yesterday morning
in Grosvenor Chapel. Miss Kerr was in wasting on the Royal
Duchess.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon, at the
official residence of Viscount Melbourne, in Downing-street. It
was attended by Viscount Melbourne, Marquis of Lansdowne,
Viscount Duncannon, Viscount Palmerston, Marquis of Nor.
manby, Earl of Minto, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Holland, Mr.
Poulett Thomson, Viscount Howick, and Lord Morpeth.
The Bishop of Nova Scotia had an interview with the Mar-
quis of Normanby on Saturday at the Colonial-office.
Despatches from Governor Light, at British Guiana, and
from the Lieutenant-Governor of Gibraltar, were received yes-
terday at the Colonial-office.
The French Charge d'Affaires transacted business on Sa-
turday at the Foreign-office.

I have (writes a Correspondent) in my posses-
sion a sample of Crease's Washable Paper, upon which an
elegant and costly pattern is printed for papering rooms,
which claims the peculiar advantage of permitting an ap-
plication of soap and water, even to the extent of scrub-
bing, for the purpose of cleansing the surface. The pro-
prietors of the secret, with the view of giving the public
an opportunity of testing its merits, are distributing small
portions of various patterns at their establishment in
Graccchurch-street. The material is eapable of bearing the
most delicately pencilled designs, and yet can be manufac-
tured at cost a :proportionably cheap with its evanescent
predecessor.
ANECDOTE OF DR. JOHNSON, BY ADAM
SAIITII.—One anecdote I remember, he told me of Dr.
Johnson, of whom Smith entertained a very contemptuous
opinion. " I have seen that creature," said he, " bolt up
in the midst of a mixed company, and without any previous
notice, fall upon his knees behind a chair, repeat the Lord's
prayer, and then resume his seat at the table. He has
played this freak over and over, perhaps five or six times
in the course of an evening. "It was not," Smith observed,
" hypocrisy, but madness.''—Diary of the Times of
George IV.
The Bishop of the Diocese returned to Eccle.
shall Castle on Friday—we regret we cannot state in an
improved state of health.—Wolverhampton Chronicle.
The Earl of Eglintoun has made arrangements
to leave town the week after next, to make every prepa-
ration for the chivalric fete at Eglintoun Castle, on the
28th of this month.

WHITECROSS-STREET PRISON.— Attorneys'
clerks and others, who are obliged to serve writs on pri-
soners confined in the debtors' prisons, arc subject to very
harsh treatment of late while engaged in the performance
of these duties to their employers. In Whitecross-street
Prison a short time ago, a clerk of a respectable attorney
was about to serve a writ on a prisoner named Binks, who
has been more than a year an inmate of that establish-
ment. Ile was assaulted and terrified, and his hat was
destroyed; and the Governor was obliged to give the poor
man a hat of his own. The plan is, the moment the ob-
ject of the clerk is known to bonnet him (slap his hat over
his face), and then a crowd of blackguards push and kick
him from one to the other. In the case alluded to the
Governor was ready and anxious to punish the aggresors,
but amongst upwards of 200 people it was impossible satis-
factorily to identify the offenders. Another instance has
more recently occurred, and it is believed the delinquents
are known, and the Governor will most probably make
their names public. The only way to correct the evil is
to teach the fellows who thus assail poor men who are
obliged to perform a most disagreeable duty, the discipline
of a criminal prison. Some time ago parties thus offend-
ing were convicted at the Sessions, and sent to the House
of Correction for six and twelve months.
CAUTION TO SMOKERS.—A Scotchman, who
was lodging at one of the public-houses in this town a few
nights since, on retiring to rest deposited his pipe in his
pocket, after whiffing away, as he supposed, the whole of
its contents. However, during the night, he was awoke
by a feeling of suffocation, and, having alarmed the inmates,
it was discovered that the remains of the burning herb had
sat fire to his clothes, which in a short time would in all
probability have caused the destruction of the premises.--
Chelmsford Chronicle.
The great North London and Highgate Ceme-
tery, lately consecrated by the Bishop of London, and es-
tablished by Act of Parliament, on the south side of High-
gate-hill, next Kentish Town, attracts much attention at
present, more than 7,000 persons having visited it in one
day. The elegant new Gothic chapel, harmonising with
Highgate church, Ills a beautiful window of stained glass,
exhibiting a painting of the Ascension; and the Catacombs
present the largest specimens of Egyptian architecture in
this country. The view from the terrace extends for a dis-
tance of thirty miles, and embraces the river Thames as
far as Gravesend, the Surrey hills, and the Knockbold
beeches in Kent. The Cemetery altogether is laid out
with much taste, and is ornamented with a great variety
of shrubs and flowers.