The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-18 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Queen and Prince Albert on Saturday morning at Buck-
ingham Palace.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
accompanied by the Prince of Wales, left town at 25
minutes before 2 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, for Os-
borne, Isle of Wight. The Royal suite consisted of the
Viscountess Jocelyn, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, Col.
the Hon. C. B. Phipps. Sir James Clark, Colonel Bou-
verie, Lieutenant-Colonel.F. H. Seymour, and the Mas-
ter of the Household.
The Queen and Prince were conducted to their car-
riage by the Duke of Norfolk, the Marquis 'of Breadal-
bane, the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Abercorn,
Lord Camoys, Viscount Torrington, Colonel the Hon. C.
Grey, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. R. Boyle, and Col.
Wylde.

A detachment of Lancers escorted her Majesty from
Buckingham Palace to the new station, at Vauxhall, of
the London and South-Western Railway. Her Majesty
and the Prince left by a special train for Gosport.
Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Royal and
Princess Alice remain at Buckingham Palace, having
been both suffering under an attack of measles for the
last three days. Their Royal Highnesses are passing
favourably through the disease. Lieutenant-Colonel the
lion. R. Boyle remains at Buckingham Palace in at-
tendance on the Princesses.

OSBORNE, JULY 17.
Her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and
the Prince of Wales, attended by the Ladies and Gentle-
men in Waiting, arrived at Osborne yesterday afternoon
at 20 minutes before 6 o'clock. The Royal party crossed
over from Gosport in the Fairy, commanded by Lord
Adolphus Fitzclarence.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Sir George Couper,
honoured the Royal Italian Opera with her presence on
Saturday evening.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended
divine service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel,
South Audley-street.
Their Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge and
the Princess Mary, accompanied by Baron Knesebeck,
attended divine service in the chapel of the Female
Orphan Asylum, Lambeth, yesterday morning. The
prayers were read by the Rev. Stephen Reed Cattley,
the chaplain, and the sermon was preached by the Rev.
John Jessopp.
A deputation of the directors and others interested in
the Electric Gas Company had an interview with the
Right Hon. E. Cardwell and Lord Stanley of Alderley
on Saturday at the Board of Trade, for the purpose of
explaining the objects of that company and supporting
their application for a charter. The deputation con-
sisted of Mr. Rigby Wason, Mr. Drummond, Mr.
Travers, Mr. Shepard, Professor Holmes, Mr. Rogers,
and Mr. Vernon Heath. ,

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A deputation from Brighton, consisting of Sir Adol-
phus Dalrymple, Bart., Mr. James Cordy, Dr. King,
Mr. Richard Palmer, and Mr. Upperton, had an inter-
view with Earl Granville (Lord President) at the Council-
office on Friday. The deputation were accompanied by
the members of the borough—Lord Alfred Hervey and
Admiral Sir George Pechell.

PROPOSED INQUIRY INTO THE IMPROVE-
MENTS OF THE METROPOLIS.

DEPUTATION TO LORD ABERDEEN.

Sir John Shelley, Bart., M.P., and a deputation from
the commissioners for improving and paving the district
of St. James's, Westminster, waited upon the Prime
Minister on Saturday on the subject of improvements
in the metropolis.
Sir John Shelley explained that the object of the de-
putation was to ask the Government to institute a gene-
ral inquiry into the improvements so much required,
not only in Westminster, but in all parts of the metro-
polis. The necessity for new thoroughfares could not
be better illustrated than the detention he had that
morning met with, of an hour, in getting from Guildhall
to the Treasury.

Mr. York, the clerk to the commissioners, read the
report, which recommends that improvements should be
classed under different heads—viz., first, cuts-de-sac re-
quiring to be opened ; second, streets or places to be
widened ; third, arcades or glazed passages for the con-
venience of foot passengers ; fourth, new streets or im-
provements to remedy the overcrowded state of the
metropolitan thoroughfares. That the various local
authorities and others of the metropolis should be in-
vited to send in plans of the improvements required in
their respective localities. That an inquiry should also
be instituted as to the best means of raising the funds,
and carrying out the most important of the improve-
ments ; and after the places had been classed and
arranged, a general act should be passed, giving autho-
rity to the board to whom the improvements should be
hereafter entrusted to purchase the property required
when a favourable opportunity occurred.
After some conversation,
Lord Aberdeen thanked the deputation for the in-
formation they had laid before him. The subject was of
great importance. He saw no objection to the proposed
inquiry, and he would confer with the Commissioner of
the Board of Works (Sir W. Molesworth) on the sub-
ject. A tax on coals was out of the question, and a
direct tax would be for the consideration of Parliament.

CABINET COUNCIL—A Cabinet Council was held on
Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing-street.
The Ministers present were—the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord
John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the
Duke of Argyll, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount
Palmerston, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of New-
castle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James
Graham, and Sir William Molesworth. The Council
sat three hours.

THE COURT.—We understand that her Majesty and
Prince Albert, who is quite convalescent from his late
attack, will remain at Osborne about a week or ten days ;
and then, should the health of the Royal Family per-
mit, embark in the Victoria and Albert to visit the
Dublin Grand Exhibition, remaining probably in the
Irish metropolis five or six days. The Princess Royal
and the Princess Alice remain at the Palace, it not
being considered safe for them to be removed. The
Heir Apparent will remain with her Majesty at the
Royal Villa.
THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOL.—His Royal
Highness Prince Albert, who consented to lay the foun-
dation stone of the Commercial Travellers' Schools for
orphans and necessitous children, at Pinner, on Wed-
nesday next, has been compelled to decline the engage-
ment, in consequence of his recent illness, and has de-
puted Mr. Masterman, M.P., to perform the duty.
OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS.—The Queen has conferred
upon the Earl of Haddington the Order of the Thistle,
vacant by the death of the Marquis of Huntly.---Mr.
Law, commissioner of the InsolventDebtors' Court, will
take the place of the chief commissioner, Mr. H. Revell
Reynolds, resigned ; Mr. Sergeant Murphy will be the
new commissioner, in succession to Mr. Law. The
Honourable Julian Fane is appointed first paid attache
to her Majesty's mission at Vienna, in the room of Mr.
Frederick Hamilton, appointed secretary of legation at
Stutgardt. —Mr. Fletcher Norton, unpaid attache at
Naples, is appointed second paid attache at Vienna.—
The Honourable Edward Vesey Bligh is appointed
second paid attaché at Berlin. —Mr. Ailliam Brodie is
appointed unpaid attaché at Stockholm.—Mr. Augustus
Griffiths is appointed assistant colonial surveyor at
Sierra Leone. —The Queen has appointed the Rev.
Charles Boston, vicar of Wickhambrook, in Suffolk, to
the rectory of Hartest, near Baxted, in the same county,
vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Maddy.—Observer.

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and much damage has been done to the crops as well as
the hay. On the Eastern Counties line immense injury
has been caused to the sheep and lambs, and some of
the crops have been destroyed. In Kent there has
been a destruction of many thousand pounds' worth of
propertl.
A WIFE STARVED TO DEATH BY HER HIISBAND.—On
Saturday, Mr. Brent held an inquest at the Clerkenwell
workhouse on the body of Martha Garnett, aged 33, a
married woman, with two children, alleged to have died
from the effects of the refusal of her husband to provide
her with food, although he is a cabinetmaker in full em
ployment. The evidence went to show that the accused,
who was present before the jury, was in the habit of
treating the deceased with the greatest amount of cruelty,
leaving her and her children without food for days to-
gether, although he was in the constant receipt of 308.
and upwards per week. He had been known to come
home and cook a steak for his own dinner, and sit
down and eat the whole of it before his wife and chil-
dren, knowing, at the same time, that they had had
no food. The deceased had frequently asked her friends
and neighbours for food, and had borrowed a half-
penny even for a candle, as her husband was out all
night nearly, as well as day, and would allow her no
light. She had obtained a medical order, a short time
since, to come into the workhouse, but, when she got
a little better, she begged her discharge, for fear of the
neglect and ill-treatment of her two children by her
husband, with whom they were left. On her going out
her treatment was just the same, and sheer exhaustion
from want of nourishment induced her again to seek an
asylum in the workhouse, where she died the day after
her admission. Mr. Gill, the parish surgeon, stated in
making a post mortem examination, that the immediate
cause of death was consumption, but he believed it to
have been accelerated by starvation and neglect. The
jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against William
Garnett, the husband, and he was committed, on the
coloaer's warrant, to Newgate.

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