The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-29 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR

Tie Queen wi:l hold a Privy Council, this aftornoon, at
Pa'ore.
Her :ii,jet,ty rune out on horseback yesterday afternoon,
aceont awed I v thiir Serene Highnesses the Duke Ferdi-
nand of Saxe Cc.iinurg, and Prince Augustus and Prince
doff.
cf S,xo Cobourg, and Count Alexancicl• Mens-
The unite included Baroness i,ehzen, Miss
A Colonel BucklP
MurrAy. ,y, and the lion.
C. l.
Ti.e Alarquia of
N°"""l3,v Viscount Melbourne had
audiencos yeet. rdey of the t-lueen.
The 11"Yal tiaLer h in.last evening included the Duke
the -Duchess of Sutherland, Earl and
I,te's (.4 Gree,:ille, Earl of Minto, Viscount Ma.
ourne sr; tl,. Lon. General Upton.
blivj• of the Coldstream Guards attended at the
Placewing the evening.
ThL Duc!cis cf Kent honoured Mr. Hayter yesterday,
ktl3u::kinghani P.:.iace, with a sitting for her portrait in
s peture of her Majesty's Coronation.
Ponlett Thomson had an interview with the Mar-
quis of Normanhc yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Prince Augustus of Saxe Cobourg and Count Alexander
nicrisdorf htteneed toe inspection of the troops at Worm.
wood Scrubs osierday.
Viscount liancannon has left town for Ireland.
The French Charge d'Affaires, and Vernon Smith,
transacted business yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Viscount Palmerston Mt town ye%terday for Tiverton.

FASHIONABLEINTELLIGENCE

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DEP '....RTURE S.
from Lord and Lady Fivroy Somerset and Miss Somerset,
Great Stanhor,e-street, on a visit to the Duke of
NV ii•
e Ington, at V.tralmer Castle; Lord Canterbury, from
the Clarendon *Hotel, Bond-street, for ditto; the Right
yllin. Henri and Lady Harriet Corry and family, from
rosvenr-square, for the Isle of Wight Lad Augusta
Jaterset from Park-place, for ditto; Lord Decy ies, from
his . ? •
"1] 111 the HA-row-road, for Northumberland; Mjaor_ ticrerA Sir Frederick Trench, on a continental tour;
°it' th 4nd Lady Sussex Lennox and family, on a tour up
rt• Rhiue; Lord .ind Lady George Lennox, by the Soho
e"nPacket, for Antwerp, en roue for Baden Baden ;
Bart., from Belgrave-strect, for Den-
!l'iuse. rear Grantham; Mr. Robert and Lady Mary
Ce-4.lcl)her, from Eaton square, for Bloxholme Hall, their
rin Lincolnshire; Mr.' Bainbridge, M. P., from Gros-
;eo,-quare, cite Moors; the Marquis Camden, for
v`r; G.:oi.oe and Lady Pocock, from York-street,
t c'orcan..- . Middleton Biddulph, for
, k
a tour; Mrs.
Cz3tic, near Wrexham; the Indian Prince of Ondo
;''d suite, f= ore Sussex. lace for Paris; Lady Poore,
tae Burlington Hotel, Cork-street, for Cuffnels,
Mr. an,i Mrs. \Vvndliam, from ditto, for their
seat,
115"1°" House, ter Salisbury, Wilts.
CHANGES.
‘‘,The Duke and P_:tothess of Beaufort and the Marquis of
f ',reter, Et Bolen Baden, from Frankfort-on-the-
ce ; 1.,-,r,tand Lady Jersey, at the scat of Lord Shrews-
! 4!.Y' Altort.Torecrs. Staffordshire, from the Duke of Rut.
; the rs-'arl and Countess of Cavan_ at
of tkL.,r.-(!tdt Ledge, -.a the New Forest, from Cowes., Isle
, 'ilgett; the Countess Flahaut and the Hor, Misses
rPh,jr:'tone, from the Rose Hotel, Sittingbe-orne, for the
nent ; Lord end Lady Poltimore, from ditto, for
de 4eoeo-cresce4t, Dover; Lord sad Lady Willoughby
p '''roke, at their :eat Comon Verney, Warwickshire,
rn,a tour ; the Areht,i4ttp of -Dublin and Mrs. Whately,
itltaßedeadale, theit•at, near Dublin, from a tour in Gut--
colt, Prince i;:tt ward df Saxe Weimar, at Sandhurst
at 13(:14:he' frorn a, ro her Majesty the Queen Dowager,
lute ; the Hon. Lady Noel Hill, at Chelten-
oflNV, 'lPar, Lady, and Miss Rivers, at Cowes, Isle
Lad, 'gql., frora their seat, near Hertford Bridge, Hants ; La.. I lithc.44 Iliachford, at Osborne House, from Cowes;
Win_Weaughbv d'Eresby and the Misses Willoughby, at
f ,„,"'"4sna, from Heidelberg ; the Duke of Richmond,
Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, for Gordon Castle.

The Commons sat, during the Session just ex-
, Tired, 133 dais; the Lords, 111 days.
hlic enthusiasin with which the Quee n was re-
Zceived on her way to Parliament, and on her return, ex-
!_eds all belief. One luckless individual, attempting a
in the neighbourhood of the House of Lords, was in.
V""tle knocked down by an indignant bystander. The
Posure of the agency by which an attempt of the same
was
!heir ggotuar up near the Palace, probably put the parties
d ; and so the individual who hissed yesterday,
4y
,ooopes probably of obtaining the countenance of some
Lord, was unfortunate in his speculation.—Morning
Chronicl.
Taft MARCH OF IMPUDENCE,--AS the Queen
*as returning on Tuesday from the House of Lords, a fellow
welts ng " The New Police Act, contain the
')Priech, price only one penny!" g Queen's
-Al ARCH OF MIND AND MAJESTY I—ln a
Conservative-coloured account of her Majesty's procession
to Parliament on Tuesday, the Morning Herald furnishes
the following; pro f that even the sight-seeing populace
have become less noisy :and irrational than they formerly
Were :—" With the exception of three or four faint cheers
from a number
.of persons who kept pace with her Ma-
Isst)'s carriage, *.de Y)rocession may be said to have passed
in soli mn fr.om its egress from the Palace to the
ItiorFe_gitneus, " Yet" (continues our, in this instance,
leannditi 12iettemporary) " this comparative silence was Be.
lin,l:ed with the greatest personal respect towards her
WaP jest3,'', not a solitary offensive gesture or observation
indelged in, and throughout the whole line of prom-
esi" the spectators uncovered immediately her Majesty's
sArVage came al:reast of them."
tate
In a letter received from Oporto last week, it
in44ha thet the heat has been so excessive as to prevent the
steed ittetBo. ts front bathing. At midnight the thermometer
Dublin City Tories claim on the present
ree"'!,,ti.i. up to Saturday last a majority of 179, composed
".ew Vol..rs and 132 re-registrations. The greater
Part et,
p latter are the old freemen.
1061tibe l'iest thing for stopping 7., leak in a cask, is
tur,ig neaten up with cote) yellow soap ;if this mix-
it aff ' well rubbed the leak, it will be found to stop
everythirr else has failed.
t.
aAr°l-e rye-grass seed has been cured this year
p was be t' known in the south of Scotland.
v ore ever
,;1 for exportation it has become an article of traffic, as
14)1. is said, as. the United States and British America,
3:.1c80,15 the beginning varied, for good samples, from
since
tetees. per bushel of 241bs. ; but they have receded
ee te about 3s. &1.--.Dumfrie.s Courier.
ABE
RNETIIY AND HIS PUPILS.—Mr. Aber-
nethy hcid
alcud.
Oh a most fearful practice of thinking
when On the day of one of his introductory lectures,
Ns: • theatre of St. Bartholomew was as full as it
te411:3.1 ere uld be, and the cheering on his entrance had
ell.: he was observed to cast his eyes around, seem-
;Lert.:LY • 'insensible to the applause with which he bad been
tt ed, and exclaimed with great feeling and pathos,
odlhelp vou all I what is to become of you ?" evidently
tut, ch moved- by the appearance of so great a number of
tr.ediesl students, seeking for information to be fitted for
practice.—Phy,ie and Physicians.
GIGANTic
while It ENIAINS.—On Monday the 12th
inst., Mr. John Bremner, farmer, Toffkemp, in the
parish of flower, was digging for merle in a moss on the
estate of Thura, he discovered the bones of some animals
of the ox epeeice, of a size, we believe, unparalleled in
Caitlinere The remains were upwards of three feet under
bthe sus race, end were in a high state of preservation. Two
eadswere found locked together by the horns, as if the
:11nual'‘ had killed each other. One of the heads is pre-
tervett► end, e ith various other bones, was measured in the
roittlse'iee of several individuals. The sloughs of the horns
.I,IIY remain. The following are the exact measurements :
..Vee
cur form a graceful curve, but, if distended,
Inca-
five feet ten inches from tip to tip ; breadth of the
till
c eesoss the eyes, one foot six inches ; one of the ribs
Rsures three and a half inches at the broadest part, and
exceeds thtee ft et by little more than an inch in length
tel?e larrest joint of the leg bone measures nine inches in
°llk
'of ranee,hut the bone itself is comparativelyshort.—
0' Groat Journal.
LSOUTH SEA EXPEDITION--During the last
etleight the visitors to Chatham dockyard have been very
uorneroue, to inspect a vessel, the Erebus, fitting out for a
tey,hee ''ears' vovag e to the South Pole and Pacific Ocean.
The P.rebus has been in dock several months. She was
Put out last week, end is rigging with all dispatch. The
Terror komb will accompany her. Both these vessels are
tfiette,t,l he Gevernment, but are only lent by the Admiralty
aTe ''3o Board of Aqs and Sciences for the expedition, by
;nom the whole expense of stores, &c. is to be defrayed.
tees, ships arc made exceedingly strong, to encounter dis-
,o 01 weather. The wales are doubled with I-inch oak
trice and the bottom with plank of 3 inches: the holds,
oen ceiling of which is doubled with two thicknesses
li-inch Afriean teak, crossing each other at right
'riffles. the bulkheads in the holds are built in like mariner
Rand made weter tight, so that should the bottom be stove
ift any part by the sheets of ice, the safety of the ships
not be endangered. Tbo pumps fitted are th of Massie's patent. The weather deck is also doubledese with
3-inch fir plarike, with fearnought dipped in tallow laid be-
tween them. It is stated the two ships will sail on Sa-
turday, the 31st inst. Many persons, however, think the
Erebus cannot be ready for- a fortnight. The Erebus is
commanded by Capt. Ross, nephew to Capt. Ross, who
attempted a North West passage. The Terror banded by Captain Crosier.—Kentish Gazette. is cam
SERIOUS COACH ACCIDENT.—On Saturday
evening, a very distressing accident occurred at Ingliston
tutishar, about six miles to the west of Edinburgh, on the
bathga'te road. The Enterprise coach, which left Gies-
gcvv at four o'clock in the afternoon, came up at a rapid
Lra,te, the fore-wheels ran clear of the Fate, but one of the
"11c1-wheels struck against the stone pillar of the gateway
with such violence, that the concussionur inside and
notnnlyfifteen
unseated
„
the Passengbut carriage
of whom there were f
o,l,l'..side, exclusive of the driver,) also broke the
Wn, the horses running off with the fore-wheels and
ec driver's box, toeether with the entire front of the
eo2ch, while the body, which remained with the hind
tviheels, was nrecin'tated violently forward, and the in-
i '
armade peiscne. ers also thrown out. One gentleman
Acl his ' fractured, another his shoulder joint
d a le'?), was cut across the face, three
gentlemen received severe contusions, and
the remaining
hirteen passengers were all more or less hurt, the coach-
men alone escaping without injury. Dr. Craig, from
ititthe with his a-sistant, Mr. Welsh, were on the spot '
won after the acci lent, and rendered all the aid in their
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dissa ''t.e. A messenger was despatched to the office in Ein
burg. to procure conveyance for the
passengers, and much
tisraction was expressed when only one coach was sc ri,.,
the injuries of several being such as would have required_
irate conveyances for each, and these must have suffered
peel much from the cramped position in which they were corn-
Two or three weeks ago, the Defiance coach,
Which leevee this fur Glasgow at two o'clock, was upset at
Ilttbridge, when a lady, an inside passeenger, was
.severely
u and most of those on the outside were also injured,—
•EdieLitryls