The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-19 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR CASTLE, MARCH 18.
Her Majesty, attended by Countess Blucher, walked and
drove in the grounds this morning.
His Royal Highness the Prince Arthur returned to Os-
borne, attended by Major Elphinstone, R.E.
Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Princess of Prussia
(Princess Royal), Princess Alice, and Prince Alfred, at-
tended by the Countess Schulenburg, the Countess of Cale-
don, Count Furstenstein, and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge,
went to Claremont and returned in the afternoon.

Lord Methuen and Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Ben-
tinek have succeeded Viscount Torrington and Lieutenant-
Colonel Cavendish as Lord and Groom in Waiting to her
Majesty.

A deputation of the builders of the metropolis, on the
subject of the Accidents Compensation Bill had an inter-
view with Secretary Sir George Grey yesterday at the
Home-office. Tho deputation consisted of Sir M. Peto, Mr.
Lucas, Mr. Ha/men, Mr. Janson, Mr. Dunnage (W. Cubitt
and Co.), Mr. G. Smith, and Mr. T. Piper, secretary.
Mr. Francis Gisborne had an interview with Viscount
Palmerston yesterday. upon the subject of telegraphic com-
munication between India and Singapore, and to Australia.

A deputation on the subject of the Metropolitan Local
Management Act Amendment Bill, with special reference
to the Latimer-road, Shepherd's-bush, consisting of the
Rev. A. D. Robinson, Mr. Spaul, medical officer of Ham.
mersmith ; Mr. Lovett, Mr. Stetter, Messrs. Keen, Morne,
Rogers, &c., had an interview with the Right Hon. Sir
George Grey yesterday. The deputation Was introduced
by Mr. Hanbury.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of the West India Islands, the Lord
High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and from the
Governor of Malta.

Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher and family have arrived
at their residence, 88, Eaton-place, from Dale Park,
Sussex.

The mail from Guayaquil has brought a remit-
tance of £2,000 on account of the dividends on the debt of
Ecuador.

The Russian Ministry of Finance has notified
the approaching cancelment by burning of the rest of the
Three per Cent. Bonds which remain unissued in the Im-
perial Treasury, in accordance with the understanding
which was come to upon the occasion of the announcement
of the second Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Loan of £8,000,000
sterling, negotiated through Messrs. Baring Brothers, and
Hope, of Amsterdam.
THE LATE MR. ALEXANDER BAIRD, OF URY.—
The Glasgow Herald learns that by the will of the late Mr.
Alexander Baird, of Ury, the sum of £20,000 has been
Placed at the disposal of his trustees, to be devoted to chari-
table purposes. Mr. Baird, who was one of the Bairds of
Gartsherrie, was unmarried, and has left a fortune of a mil-
lion and a half sterling.
PROSECUTION OF " ESSAYS AND " REVIEWS "—A
third prosecution has been commenced against the writers
of "Essays and Reviews," and the articles will be filed
immediately after the commencement of Easter Term. Dr.
Lushington will thus have three cases on his hands—two
having been argued and being now ready for judgment.
No judgment, however, will be given until the Judicial
Committee of Privy Council have disposed of the case of
Burder v. Heath, which in many of its main characteris-
tics is analogous to those of " Essays and Reviews." In
this case the Bishop of Winchester, through Mr. Burder,
his secretary, proceeded against Mr, Dunbar Heath, rector
of Brading, Isle of Wight, for having published unsound
doctrine in a volume of 19 sermons. Dr. Lushington, after
hearing the case, deprived Mr. Heath of his living, worth
£6OO a year. Against that decision Mr. Heath appeals to
the Judicial Committee of Privy Council.
DR. MONK, THE PRESTON CONVICT.—About a
fortnight ago, the Mayor of Preston, and Mr. Alderman
Spence, accompanied by Colonel Wilson Patten, M.P., and
the Marquis of Hartington, M.P., waited upon the Home
Secretary, and presented to him a petition signed by about
2,000 of the inhabitants of Preston, praying for the release
of Dr. Monk, who, at the Lancaster assizes in 1858, was
sentenced to penal servitude for life, for forgery. A few
days ago, the Mayor of Preston received a communication
from the Home Secretary to the effect that he c3uld not,
after fully considering the case, advise her Majesty to grant
the liberation of the convict.

ALARMING FIRE.—SIX LIVES SAVED BY THE
ROYAL SOCIETY'S EscArss.—Yesterday morning, at an
early hour, much excitement was caused in the immediate
vicinity of Bishopsgate street Without, owing to a fire on
the premises belonging to Mr. F. Dodewell, a grocer, car-
rying on business at 157, in the before-named thoroughfare.
One of the City police-constable succeeded in arousing the
inmates, but the suffocating smoke rushed up the stairs,
and cut off all means of escape. The following persons
made their appearance at the second floor window, scream-
ing frantically for help, viz., Mrs. Watts, aged 58 ; T.
Wood, aged 24; R. Heldron, aged 24; G. Mackenzie,
aged 41; T. Heiden, aged 24; and R. Appleyard, aged 19.
The Royal Society's escape arrived just in time. Conduc-
tor Steer fortunately succeeded in bringing from the second
floor the whole of the endangered persons. The fire was
not extinguished until the stock in trade was nearly
destroyed, and the upper part of the premises severely in-
jured. Fortunately, the sufferer was insured in the Sun
Fire-office. The adjoining premises of Mr. Lee, oil and
colour man, also sustained some slight injury, which will
fall on the County-office.
RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN PARLIA-
MENT.—Yesterday, the bill of the Spalding and Bourn
Railway, for connecting the Nolwich and Spalding, the
Bourn and Essendine, and the Great Northern Railways,
was passed in that committee; and that for the Stamford
and Essendine was epened by Mr. Calvert, Q.C., and evi-
dence taken in its favour. The incorporation of the King-
ton and Eardisley Railway, for a line between those places,
and vesting in them the Kington Railway, was approved
and passed. The bill of the Bradford, Wakefield, and Leeds,
for deviations, was thrown out ; and that of the Leeds,
Bradford, and Halifax, for a line in substitution of their
Batleybranch, opened by Sir W. Alexander, was also passed,
after opposition on the part of the Lancashire and York-
shire, conducted by Mr. Merewether, Q.C. The lease of
the Cromford and High Peak Railway was opened by Mr.
Rod well, Q.C., on behalf of the London and North Western
Railway, who propose to take the line and its liabilities.
Further evidence was adduced in the committees on the
Crystal Palace and South Junction Railway, and on the
Great Western and Andover and Redbridge Railways,
where Messrs. Ward, Fowler, and Hawkshaw, civil engi-
neers, were examined. The evidence in favour of the
Barnsley Coal Railway Extension was continued ; and the
clauses of the Weymouth and Portland Railway Bill were
considered and settled.

A horrible crime has just been committed at
Staden, in Flanders, the cottage of a farmer named Asses
having been broken into and the proprietor murdered, his
skull being shattered and seven of his ribs broken with
blows of a hammer. A fter the crime the murderers proceeded
to the chamber of the servant girl, and inquired the place
where the money was kept. They also asked for a lamp,
and then inflicted several wounds on her person,
leaving her senseless. She, however, shortly after reco-
vered and escaped from the house, giving the alarm. Near
the hedge of the farm was found the next day a boy's cap,
and at a school in the morning the boys identified it as be-
longing to one of them named Van der Zyphen, who was
then absent. The gendarmes proceeding to the residence
of the boy's father, a returned convict, named De Sodt, was
discovered there, whose clothes, as well as those of the boy
der Zyphen, were covered with blood. They were imme-
diately placed under arrest. The servant is still in a dan-
gerous state, but hopes are entertained 91' her recovery%