The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-25 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 24.
The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Louise,
walked and drove in the grounds this morning.
The Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, Princess Alex-
andra, and Princess Helena, went to Kew and visited the
Duchess of Cambridge.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston loft town yester-
day for Wrest, Bedfordshire, on a visit to the Countess
Cowper.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, the Lord High
Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and from the Gover-
nors of the North-American Provinces and Bermuda.

Despatches were sent to the Governors of the settlements
on the west coast of Africa, and to the Lord High Commis-
sioner of the lonian Islands.

The Russian Ambassador and the Baroness
Brunnow have arrived at Chesham House from Brighton.

The Marquis of Londonderry still continues in
a very impaired state of health.

The Countess Granville is suffering from illness,
and her cor dition occasions much anxiety to her family.
THE SERGEANT-SURGEONCY.—Mr. Caesar Henry
Hawkins, F.R.S., has just been selected as sergeant-sur•
peon to her Majesty, in the vacancy occasioned by the de-
cease of Sir Benjamin Brodie, Bart. This gentleman has
filled the president's chair of the Royal College of Surgeons
on two occasions, viz., in 1852, and again during the past
year.

Mr. W. H. Stephenson, of the Treasury, has
been appointed chairmain of the Board of Inland Revenue,
in the room of Mr. Pressly, who has resigned. Mr. Ste-
phenson has been long recognised as one of the ablest of the
permanent Treasury officials, and no better head could be
chosen for the department over which ho is about to preside.

General Sir J. Burgoyne, G.C.8., inspected the
Engineers at Brompton Barracks, Chatham, on Thursday,
and then attended to a valuable lecture given by Mr. Pole,
C.E. (member of the Iron-Plate Committee), on Iron
Bridges, being afterwards entertained by the Director,
Colonel Harness, C. 8., and the officers of the establishment.
On Tuesday last an exceedingly interesting lecture on the
uses of copper was given by Mr. Abel, chemist to the War
Department, to the officers under instruction at Brompton
Barracks.—Army and Nary Gazette.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—The Court of Assizes
of the seine tried, the day before yesterday, a young Eng-
lishman and his wife, named Atkinson, on a charge of
passing gold coin which had been reduced in weight by the
action of acids sr by scraping. According to the evidence,
the female prisoner, on the 20th August last, bought two
pears for 20c,, of a fruiterer in the Rue des Vinaigriers, for
which she paid with a gold sfr, piece, and received the
change ; but before she had left the shop the fruiterer dis-
covered that the sfr. piece was thinner than it ought to be,
and insisted on the return of the change. During the dis-
pute which ensued, a sergeant-de-Dille came up and took
the prisoner into custody. When searched, several pieces
of gold were found in her portemonnaie, and in one com-
partment were four pieces which, when weighed, were
found too light by nearly 2 grammes, so that they were
worth sfr. 43c. less than their nominal value. On searching
the lodgings of her husband, who is a dentist, several
bottles containing nitric and sulphuric acids were found,
and a paper, in which were particles of gold, weighing in
all about a gramme. The husband was immediately
arrested, and the coins which had been found on his wife,
as well as the articles discovered at their lodgings, were
submitted to a competent person for analysis. The analyser
stated that none of the acids found in the prisoners' posses-
sion would dissolve gold alone, but would do so with the
addition of a little salt. Ho had, however, no reason to
suppose that the prisoners had had recourse to such a pro-
cess. He also stated that each of the Mr. pieces had only
lost weight to the value of 20e., and that ire all probability
the prisoner had only used the coins for the purpose of
gilding by electricity. After hearing the prisoners' counsel
and the summing up of the President, the jury retired to
deliberate, and soon returned into Court with a verdict of
not guilty. The prisoners were accordingly acquitted, and
on leaving the Court thanked the jury for having done
them justice.-- Galignani.
THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR IN DUBLIN.—A Dub-
lin paper says, in reference to the particulars of an outrage
said to have been recently committed on a young lady in
the
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conclusion that no outrage was committed.