The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-20 00:00:00

EV ENI I'l] !HT lON.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—Her Majesty walked to-
day, for nearly two hours on the East Terrace and on
the South front of the Castle attended by the Mar-
chioness of Normanhy, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss
Anson, Viscount Melbourne, and the Earl of Fingal'.
The Royal Dinner party at the Castle this evening
will be the same as yesterday.
Last night the Band of the Rifles attended at the
Castle, and played as follows :—March, de la Tete de
Bronze ; Sinfonia, Sposa de Provincia, (Melilotti);
Aria, Finale &Alla di Roma, (Donizetti); Quadrille,
Les Plaisirs du Salon, (Creusey) ; Haldigungs
Walzer, (Fdtrauss) ; Quadrille, Le Postillion de Lon-•
gltemeau. ; Chor., Preciosa, (Weber); Aria, Lucia di
Latmr.ermoor, (Donizetti.)

. The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the
Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, and
Prince George of Cambridge, and attended by Miss
Kerr and Baron Knesebeck, took her departure yester-
day morning from the seat of the Duke and Duchess
of Beaufort, at Badminton, Gloucestershire, on her
return to her residence at Kew.

The Princess Augusta took an airing yesterday in a
carriage and four.

Mr: Duncombe and Mr. Lynch had interviews with
the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home Office.
Lord Holland has returned to Holland House, Ken-
sington, from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Tan-
kerville, at their seat at Walton-on-Thames.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial
Office from the Governor of the settlement at the River
Gambia.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
Mr. and Mrs. Thurlow and family, at Marshall Thomp-
-lon's Hotel, Cavendish-square, from Norwich ; Captain
Hinde, and Mr. C. J. E. Hinde, at ditto ; George Bur-
don, Esq., and family, at ditto; Rev. Drake, at ditto ;
William Leigh, Esq., at ditto, from his seat, Alton Hall,
Lichfield ; Colonel Reeve, at ditto ; Lord and Lady Cow-
ley, the Hon. Miss Wellesley, Hon. Captain Macdonald,
Captain and the Hon. Mrs. \Varrender, the Hon. William
and Lady Louisa Duncombe, Colonel Lambert, the Hon.
Twistleton Firnnes, Viscount Burghersh, and the Dowager
Countess of Westmeath.

DEPARTURES.
William Rhodes, Esq., and Mr. and Mrs. Lockyer, from
Marshall Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square, for Ply-
mouth, Devonshire ; Lord and Lady de Tabley, on a
Continental tour ; the Dowager Countess Listowell, and
Miss Busbe, for Leamington Spa; the Dowager Countess
and Lady Louisa Craven, for Clarendon Park, Wilts ;
Lady Sandford Graham and family, for Dover ; the Hon.
Lieutenant-Colonel James Knox, for Paris; Mr. Stewart,
M. P., for ditto ; Captain and Lady Mary Vyner, for
Wrest Park ; the Duchess of Marlborough, for Brighton.

Lord Maryborough is enjoying the sports of the
season in the neighbourhood of Deal Castle, hunting
always three times a week, although at rather an ad-
vanced age. His Lordship and Lady Maryborough
intend to remain at the above seat until the second
week in January.
The Earl of Caledon will entertain a party of
fashionables, during the holidays, at Caledon Hall, near
Armagh. His Lordship, who succeeded to an unen-
cumbered estate of 30,0001. per annum on the death of
the late Earl, will not, it is expected, again proceed to
Canada, to rejoin the Grenadier Guards.

The Earl of Minto left the Admiralty yesterday
for Minto Castle, Roxburghshire. The Noble Earl
will return to town shortly before the meeting of Par-
liament ; and the Countess and Ladies Elliott are ex-
pected to come to town before February.
The Bishop of Rochester and Lady Sarah Mur-
ray have arrived at the deanery, Worcester, from Brom-
ley Palace, Rent.

Lord Monteagle, the Hon. Mr. Spring Rice,
and the other members of the family, have arrived at
their residence, in Mansfield street, from Hastings.
The Duke and Duchess of Richmond, and the
Lords and Ladies Lennox, have arrived at Goodwood
Park, where the Noble Duke and Duchess intend to
pass the holidays.

The Earl of Yarborough, who has been visiting
Mr. Bridgeman Simpson, at his scat in Yorkshire, has
gone to Sprotsborough Hall, the seat of Sir J. and Lady
Charlotte Copley.
The Marchioness of Bath and the youthful Mar-
quis, now in his ninth year, will pass the Christmas at
Longleat, the splendid family seat near Warminster.
Lord Stanley was to return to Knowsley, yester-
day, from Hawkstone, where his Lordship has been vi-
siting Sir Rowland and Lady Hill. There was a grand
battue at the game preserves, at Hawkstone, on Satur-
day, when Sir Rowland Hill, Lord Stanley, Baron
Austin, and the Hon. major-General Hill killed up-
wards of 250 birds.

THE MARQUIS OF SLlGO.—Letters have been
received in town this week from the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Sligo, at Naples, and state the Noble
Marquis to be in the enjoyment of most excellent
health, having quite recovered from the recent para.
lytic attack, which at the time much alarmed the Mar-
chioness and family. The family mansion in Mansfield-
street is given up, and is to be let.
The Countess Dowager of Pembroke, and Lady
Georgiana Herbert, will remain in Italy until Easter.
Mr. Knight and Countess Nelson, who have
lately returned from the Continent, have left their resi-
dence in Great Cumberland-street to pass their Christ-
mas at Dowager Viscountess Torrington's, in Kent.

The Rev. Lord Charles Thynne and his lady,
niece of the Countess of Jersey, have arrived at the
Rectory-house, from a visit to the Bishop of Oxford
and Lady Harriet Bagot, at Cuddesden Palace, near
Oxford.

The Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., will leave
Rome next month, to attend his Parliamentary duties.
BADMINTON, WEDNESDAY.—The festivities
at this e'en-ant and hospitable seat are drawing to a
close. There has been a ball every evening, the last of
which takes place to-night. Weippert and his band have
been here since the commencement. His Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge and Lord Fitzroy
Somerset left on Monday morning on a visit to the
Earl and Countess of Cardigan, at Deene Park.
On Monday the Duke of Beaufort, accompanied
by Prince George of Cambridge, the Earl of
Chesterfield, Earl Bathurst, Mr. C. W. Cod-
rington, Viscount Villiers, and party, shot on the pre-
serves at Doddington Park, Sir Bethel Codrington's
seat. Yesterday, the Duke and guests had some excel-
lent sport at Earl Bathurst's, Oakley Park. A con
siderable number of birds was killed. Their Royal
Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George
and Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, at-
tended by Baron Knesebeck and the Hon. Mies Kerr,
leave to-morrow for Kew Palace, The Earl and Coun-
tess of Chesterfield, Earl BaQ,urst, Hon. Mr. Bathurst,
Lady Fitzroy Somerset, sf.nd the Hon. Miss Somerset,
take their departure to. morrow. Earl Bathurst and
the Hon. Mr. Batla,:trst go to Oakley Park. Earl
Chesterfield goes 'to Northamptonshire, the Countess
proceeding to ;,own. Mr. and Lady Caroline Maxse
arrived this -anorning, on a visit to the Duke and Duch-
ess of BP,aufort, who intend to receive a succession of
visitors during the winter. There is to be a grand in-
sr„ection of the Gloucestershire yeomanry cavalry to-
morrow, in. the great park, previous to the Duchess of
Cambridge leaving, and the troop Will escort her Royal
Highness some distance towards town.

The Lord Bishop of London intends holding an
ordination en Sunday morning next, at the parish Church
of St. James, Piccadilly. The number of candidates,
we are informed, is more numerous than on any former

occasion.
Viscount Dungannon, Sir Watkin Wil-
liams Wynn, Bart., M.P., and the Hon. Thomas
ligayon, have respectively given the liberal sum of 100/.
towards the erection of a new market-place at Os-
westry. Mr. Wm. Ormsby Gore, M.P., has presented
the munificent sum of 200/. in aid of the same object.
At a meeting of the Central Rent Committee
and the Finsbury Defence Committee, held at Lunt's
Coffee-house, Clerkenwell Green, on Wednesday last,
the sum of 10/. was voted towards the expences of
Powell and others in Montgomeryshire, and the sum of
15/. in aid of the defence of Mr. Frost and the pri-
soners in South Wales.
A Ministerial Evening Paper
head of " Royal Navy," that reports, under the
Preparations, which are
of a most formidable character, are making at Ports-
mouth. Several ships are, it seems, fitting out for India.
By this our mercantile men understand China to be the
destination really contemplated for them.
CRONSTADT, DEC. 3.—.0n the 30th ult. the
Gulf was frozen over as far as the Lighthouse, and be-
yond it an immense body of ice was seen floating up to
the eastward, and joining the new formation. On the
Ist it blew a storm at S.W., and again broke up the
thin ice. On the 2d, between the snow storms, the
Army was discovered about four or five versts below,
In the course of the afternoon some men were sent, with
' a life-boat, to communicate with her, but could not get
oa board. This day the people joined her, and the re-
port from the Captain is that all is well. Measures are
taken to cut her into harbour. Owing to the severe
frosts of yesterday and to-day, the Gulf appears covered
with ice as far as the eye can reach ; and it is to be hoped
the roads to Oranionbaum may be strengthened, as
hitherto they have been very dangerous, and no goods
could be forwarded with common prudence, nor are the
direction posts put, as yet, or the cracks bridged. Wind
N.W., ni degrees of frost.
FIRE AT GREENVVICII.—ShortIy after twelve
o'clock on Wednesday night an alarming fire occurred
in Trafalgar-road, Greenwich, and was very nearly
attended with loss of life. It originated within the
dwelling-house of Mrs. Reeve, No. '2, and, it appears,
through the negligence of one of the domestics, by
leaving a lighted candle near some bed-curtains, which
caught fire, and, by the time it was discovered, the
\ flames were bursting from tbe windows. Engines were
speedily on the spot ; but before it was got under, very
considerable damage had been done.
A vineyard, on an extensive scale, is now forming
at Shirley, near Southampton.

THE GEORGE THE FOURTH,
INDIAMAN.

This fine vessel, 1,438 tons register, formerly belong-
ing to the East India Company, and latterly purchased
by the spirited proprietor of Nicholson's Wharf, has
just arrived with the most valuable cargo of produce
ever brought into the Port of London. The following
is a copy of the report in the Custom House list this

morning :
George the Fourth, from Canton, of London ; 89 men ;
J. Drayner ; 1,438 tons ; East India Docks, and Ni-
cholson's Wharf. Nicholson. Packages.
Packages of Tea ..
Also—consisting of Raw Silk, packages of
China Ware, Ginger, Antimony, Ore,
Sherry, Furs, Soy, Silk, piece Goods, and
other Merchandise 294

In all 24,070
Mr. Nicholson has introduced a new mode of paying
the sailors, which appears to work well. This is the
short account given of it by himself in an address to the
men on board the ship : _

" In the first place, you will have monthly wages,
at the current rate paid to other ships ;—ln the second
place, you will have the privilege of acting on your own
account as merchants, both in your outward voyage and
home : you may, if you think fit, take out Scotch manu-
factures, or any c.ther goods, to Batavia or China, and
you may barter the same with the Chinese in exchange
for tea,silk, China root,ginger, or any other produce.
" In the third place, you may take as nzuch money or
as little as you please, and whatever sum you take or
have due to you for wages, I will give you credit in
China to an equalamount, in addition to your own ; so
that if anv of you take out one hundred pounds, you
will be able with my advance to bring home two hun-
dred pounds' worth of China produce."
The following is the account given of this valuable
cargo, copied from the Commercial Gazette of Wednes-
day :

" The George the Fourth contains a cargo of pretty
nearly 2,000,0001b5. weight of Tea, which will contri-
bute about two hundred thousand pounds to her Ma-
jesty's Exchequer.
" In addition to her cargo of Tea, she also contains
an abundance of Silk, Ginger, Soy, and other valuable
commodities, the produce of 'the Celestial Empire.'
" The Value of this cargo, at the present LOW
PRICES, is little short of half a million sterling ; and it
may realise, with the Duty, more than one million
sterling; and even then, TEA will be ttucti CHEAPER
than in the time of 4 the old East India Company.'
" This cargo of Tea, large as it is, is only sufficient
to supply the demand for three weeks' consumption of
this country !"
In addition to these, she landed a large quantity of
Tea at Hong Kong and the Cape, and brought home
the most rare and valuable article of all—a fine ourang-
outan.