The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-24 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, MONDAY.
The Queen and Prince, the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, Princess Alice, the Duchess of Kent,
and Princess Adelaide of liohenlohe, attended divine
service, which was performed by the Rev. T. Protheroe,
at Osborne, yesterday morning. The ladies and gentle-
men in waiting and the household were also present.

A deputation from the memorialists in favour of the
juxtaposition of the scientific societies of the metropolis
in a central 2nd convenient locality, bad an interview
with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday, at his official resi-
dence in Downing street. The deputation consisted of
the Earl of Rosse, Lord Wrottesley, Colonel Sabine,
Mr. Thomas Bell, Professor Forbes, Mr. Leonard
Horner, and Mr. William Robert Grove.
M. Musurus, the Turkish minister, transacted busi-
ness yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Dr. Paris, President of the Royal College of Phy-
sicians, Dr. Todd, sen. (censor), and Dr. Hawkins
(registrar), had an interview with Viscount Palmerston
yesterday at the Home-office.

A deputation, respecting tea, had an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official
residence in Downing-street. The deputation consisted
of Mr. Crawford, Mr. Moffatt, M.P., Colonel Harcourt,
M.P. Mr. Hadfield, M.P., Mr. Travers, Mr. Hubber-
field, Mr. Lowcock, Mr. Twining, and Mr. Antrobus.
A deputation from East and West Dover Water-
Works Company had an interview yesterday with the
General Board of Health, at their office, Whitehall.
The deputation—comprising Messrs. Joseph Walker,
George Fielding, and R. H. Jones—was introduced by
Mr. W. H. Deedes, M.P.
A deputation, respecting improvements in the borough
of Southwark, from the parish of St. George the Mar-
tyr, had an interview with Sir William Molesworth
yesterday at the Office of Works and Public Buildings.
The deputation consisted of Mr. John Camrier, and 31r.
E. Collinson (churchwardens), Mr. W. Clothier, and
Mr. James Geeze (overseers), Mr. J. J. Stevens (chair-
man of the board of guardians), Messrs. Martin, W. G.
Cross, and James White (guardians of the poor), Mr.
W. H. Matthews (late churchwarden), Mr. Charles
Anderson (surveyor), Mr. W. Rendle (medical officer),
Mr. A. J. Hiscocks (architect), and Mr. John Day
(vestry clerk).
A deputation from the Philanthropic Society, con-
sisting of Mr.:William Gladstone (treasurer), Mr. Ralph
Ricardo, Mr. John Moxon, Mr. Joseph Compton, and
the Rev. Sydney Turner, accompanied by Sir William
Jolliffe, Bart., M.P., and Mr. Monckton Milnes, M.P.,
had an interview yesterday with Viscount Pahnerston,
at the Home-office.

Thd Duke of Newcastle arrived in town yesterday
evening, from his seat, Clumber Park, Notts.

THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—The selection of the Strat-
ford for the conveyance of the Australian mails on the
4th of June, at a cost of 1,0001, is called in question in
some quarters, as not likely to realise their speedy
transmission. She is described in the packet-list as a
clipper bark, and appears to have been built at Cowes
in 1832, and her voyage to Mauritius in 1851 is said to
have occupied 92 days out and 100 days home, although
her last passage from that place was performed in 81
days, It is to be presumed, however, that the tender
was the shortest with regard to time of any of those
sent in, and that the penalties for failure are sufficient
to protect the public from loss, ftlAti also to indicate the
confidence felt by her owners in her capabilities. At
the same time, an opinion prevails that as several other
eligible ships are now on the berth, it would have been
better if, instead of chartering the Stratford to take out
the mails for all the Australian colonies, for 1,0001., the
gratuity had been divided into three sums of 3001., and
distributed to three vessels respectively making direct
passages to Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney.
REGISTRATION OF ASSURANCES.—Yesterday, the im-
portant Government bill for the registration of assur-
ances in England was printed. It contains as many as
103 clauses. A land register office is to be established,
and proper buildings provided. A registrar and assist-
ant-registrars are to be appointed. The whole of Eng-
land is to be divi led into districts for the registration of
property. The time when registration is to commence
under this measure is to be published in the London Gazette,
afterand, aofteecrotilnienateinneweinspeenctifiofed, regaisssturaratilownes f land executed
monylaberegistered
by depositing the original, or a copy of the document,
and by making proper entries. Wills affecting lands at
law or in equity in England are to 11.3;sgeriser:sietsdetre.erdednar,egea_unrlatoodi
indices arc to be kept. An index, to be called " The
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consequently delivered over by the duties, and are
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regulations above referred to,
letters forwarded in the mail to Prussia,l wouhtiothh
exceedthat any
in weight fifty grammes (about an ounce and a half), and
contain any enclosure, other than paper, are liable, on
their arrival at the Prussian frontier, to be stopped and
sent to the custom-house for delivery as freight.
THE NEW EAST GREENWICH FLOATING PIER.--We

understand that ;rangennent.; have been completed to
run four new and very fast steamboats from the Adelphi,
Blackfriar's, and London Bridge piers to the new pier
at East Greenwich direct, at the reduced fire of 3d.
The Curlew and Emmet will commence running for the
season on Sunday. The third boat will come on to the
station in the course of the present week, and the fourth
will be launched in about a month.—Kentish Mercury.

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EPSOM RACES.

Atitonina.
Saville .

Calot

Coalition

(THIS DAY.)
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

Catspaw
Ann Page—

RORTON STAKES.

Nine ran.
MANOR PLATE,

Nine ran.
lIEATHCOTE PLATE

Fourteen ran.

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LATEST BETTING.
8 to 1 agst Orestes (taken).
9 to 1 asst Sittingbourne (taken).
40 to 1 agst Jerry Kent (offered).
500 even on Sittingbourne against Pharos.
5,000 even on West Australian, Honeywood, and
Orestes against the Field (taken).