The Sun.
London, England, 1838-04-17 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cambiiege
visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Mt4A-
borough-house.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George. and
the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Col. Corn-
wall, visited Christ's Hospital on Sunday evening.
The Duchess and the Princess Auguste of Cambridge vi-
sited the Princess Augusta yesterday, at Clarence House.
Her Majesty's royal gate alms (formerly distributed at the
gate of Whitehall Palace) were given away by Mr. Hanby at
the Almonry-office, to 168 poor men and women, all of them
infirm, and above fifty years old; except where labouring under
some infirmity, both men and women received thirtoer; shil-
lings each.
Viscount Melbourne arrived in town on Sunday, from his
seat, Brocket Hall, Herts. His Lordship left town yesterrTay
afternoon Ors a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
Lord and Lady John Russell left their residence in Wilton-
crescent yesterday afternoon, for Windsor Castle, on a vi,t to
the Queen.
The Military Secretary tc the Commander of the Forces
had an interview with Lord Gle:lelg yesterday, at the Colonial
Office.
The Marquis of Lansdowne bad a small dinner party, in-
cluding Lord Glenelg, the Chancellor oc the Exchequer, and:
Mr. Poulett Thomson, on Sunday, at his residence at Rich-
mond.
The Bishop of Derry bad an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday, in Downing-street.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Theodosia
Spring Rice, had a dinner party on Saturday, at their resi-
dence in Downing-street. The company included the Bishop
of Norwich,. the . Rev. Mr. Peacock, Mr. Mrs., and Miss
Marshall, Messrs. Hutton, Hallam, M'Culloch, Horner, and
Drinkwater Bethune.

The Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury will give a
splendid banquet at their mansion in Park.lane, on the sth of
next month, to their Royal Highnesses the Duke ttod Duchess
of Cambridge and Prince George. The Countess will hold

an assembly in the evening.
Captain Sir Thomas and Miss Cochrane's ball avid
supper in Cumberland-place, Hyde-park, will be given on
Monday, the 30th instant.
Lord Howard de Walden, after a diplomatic service
of five years at Lisbon, is expected daily in town from twat
capital. His Lordship awaited only the arrival of his Secreta, y
of Legation, the Hon. George Seeley Orde Jerningham, from
Turin, to proceed to England.
The Hon. Edward Littleton, son of Lord and Lady
Hatherton, is in a very delicate state of health. He has been
passing the winter at Rome, for the advantage of a warm climate..
General Lord Wm. Bentinck left Vernon House,
Park-pla:-c, St. James's, ycsterd.iy, for Paris, there to p.Ass
the recess. Lady William Sentinel( has beet residing at
Pars during the winter season. His Lordship returns on
tt.e re-assembling of Parliament.
STATE OF TRADE.—Our markets for every de-
scription of manufactured goods still continues languid, and
there is great difficulty experienced in obtaining remunerating
prices. The demand for yarn has been very contracted. with
the exception of a few heavy purchases made, on speculation ;
for the export markets at very depreciated prices, and there
appears r.o immediate prcadect of improvement in this depart-
ment of our trade, so long as the spinners continue to work
full time, for the stocks on hard (which are now almost un-
precedentedly heavy) are still inereasing.—Pieston Observer.
LORD OLENLYON.—On Friday the Right lion.
George Augustus Frederick John Murray, now Lord Glen-
lvon, was served before a jury and. Mr. Sheriff Anderson, in
the Sheriff Court Room of Pertli, nearest and lawful heir of
the marriage bctwixt the now &ceased Lord James Murray,
afterwards Lord Glenlyon, his father, arld the Right Hon.
Emily Percy, youngest daughter of the m,,st noble Hugh Doi e
of Northumberland, his mother.—Edinburgh Courant.
The Duke of Argyll (Lord Steward of the house-
hold), left Park-llne, ye,-terday morning, on a visit to her
Majesty and the Duchess of Kent at Windsor Castle. The
Court will remain, it is understood, at Windsor until the 23th
instant, when the Queen will come to town to held her s•,,r,und

drawing room on tic day following.
Lord de Lisle and Dudley left town yesterday for
Copt fl,ll, the ho;pitable seat cf Colonel Conyers, in Eisex.
Lord Fi'zroy Somerset and other fashionables will join the

party to morrow.
Turnbridge Wells is filling very fast, and a very
good season is anticipated. The arrivals during the past week
included the Earl and Countess of Wicklow and the Ladies
Howard, in Badford-place ; the Earl and Countess of Hun-.
tingdon, at Stone Cottage ; the Earl Fitz ailliam and the La.
di,ss Fitzwilliarn, on Meadow Hill ; Baroness Nileken, at
Abergavenny Villa ; Lord Colville, Grecian Villa ; Viscount
Nevill, at Nevill Park ; Sir Edward Codrington, in Wel-
lington-place ; the Dowager Countess Cowper, Hon. Gene-
ral O'Neill, Mr. Quintin Dick, M. P , General and Mrs.
Sharpe, Lady Fanny Cowper, Lord and Lady Ashley, Sir
George H. Rose, M. P., Mr. R. Steuart, M. P., Lady Eliza-
beth,Moore, Lady Fawcett, Sir I'. and Lady Watkins, &c.
It is stated that the long dormant title of Earl of
Derwentwater, so intimately connected with the county of
Northumberland, is to be revived in the person of the Roman
Catholic Peer, Lord P; ire.
At a meeting of the parishiners held in the parish
of \Valcot, Bath, on Thursday last, for considering the best
mode of conveying some mark of their esteem fur their late
curate, the Rev. Gains Barry, it was stated that the. Rev.
Gentleman had zealously and faithfully filled the office of
curate of Walcot, one of the most populous and extensive
parishes in the kingdom, for more than 40 years, that the ar-
duous nature of his duties frequently employed him from sun-
r:se to sun-set without intermission, and that during the whole
of the above period he had never been absent from his post on
any one occasion for more than a fortnight.
On Saturday an inquest was held at the Hero of
Waterloo Tavern, Waterloo-road, Lambeth, on the body of
a new born infant, which was found under the second arch of
Waterloo-bridge on Monday morning, wrapped up in a brown
paper parcel, and attached by a string to a brick. The left
arm, left leg, and thigh were separated from the body, which
was very much mutilated, and consequently it was impossible
to say whether the child had been born alive or not, or what
was its sex. The Jury, after a long consultation, returned
the following vet list :—" That the dec. aced child teas found
dead in the river Th..mes. with the left arm, left leg, and
thigh separated from its body ; that there is no proof as to its
sex, wheth,..r it was born alive or not, or by what means it
came into the water."
SHEFFIELD.—On Tuesday, Cap'ain Jehh, the
Commissioner from the Privy Cnunc.l sent. to Sh, ffield to in-
quire into the necessity for a Corporation, commenced his
labours by examining tin! alleged subscribers for and against
the Charter. Captain Jebb ascertained that a number of sig.
natures to both petitions wtre spurious, the gentlemen whose
names had been used having denied either signing or autho-
rising any person to sign for them. These names were, in con-
sequence, immediately erased. There seems to be no doubt
that the Privy Calmed will recommend the Crown to give a
Charter.— Sheffield Iris.
On Tuesday last, Mr. John Harrison, farmer, of
Higher Salter, Roeburndale, went out to numb er his sheep,
accomranitd by his trusty doir. When he got to Hiv k dread-
gill, the dog ‘• set" a sheep in a drift of snow, at d after much,
exertion Mr. Harrison succeeded in extricating a two-year old
wether sheep from the drift, where it had 'oeen under the snow
for nineteen days. When got out the sheep was able to stand;
but was very weak. The spot on uhich it was found was
without herbage, and it appeared that the poor animal had
subsisted by eating the wool from its back. It was taken
home, and seems likely to recover.—Lancaster Guardian.
DISMAL MERRIMENT T.—" PITY THE SORROWS
or A POOR OLD Max."—A very sup.dieating canvass has for
the last fortnight been carried on in Huddersfield end the
neighbourhood by certain Tories and Radi.als, to induce re-
spectable persons so far to commit themselves as to sign their
names to participate in a dinner to be given to that decayed
exile of Westminster, generally known as " Old Glory,"
otherwise Sir Francis Burdett, on the 20th instant, at the
Philosophical Hall, in that town. Messrs. Jerry Blos-
som, and Sir Adam \Vrcnghead. have been indefatigable in
eir exertions and applications, but hitherto with little success.
The list of signatures exhibits a singular heterogeneous amal-
gamation, altogether unprecedented in the annals of Hudders-
field. To particularise might (by the subscribers) be' con-
sidered insidious, especially when st mach and well varied
virtue and talents are concentrated ; nevertheless, to the un-
initiated observer it might appear that a preponderance of
imbeciles and incapables prevailed. The usual hacks appear
to be employed as whippers in on his occasion, and, as here-
tofore the " unwashed attorney" plays his part ; as subor-
didinate rat-catcher he is inimitable. In the list we also
observe the names of several Divines, of course " as by law
estalislied ! Truly there is no lack of polilical parsons in
Huddersfield.—Leeds Mcr. ury.
On Thursday, the 99th ultimo, a fearful accident
befel one Evan Thomas, a single man, aned thiray years, a
workman emplaced by the Dowla's Iron Company. It hap.
pened as follows :—The deceased, who had been drinking in
the beginning of the day, went between twelve and one o'clock
to the refining furnaces, at the time the metal,
which had
undergone the refining process, was being tapped; notwith-
standing the caution of the men at work, the infatuated man
took one of the tools to enlarge the opening. through which
the metal was running, open, losing his footing, he was pre.
cipitated into the boiling metal. He wss taken out as soon
as possible and conveyed to his lodgings, where he el.
ptr • cd on the following morning, alter has ing suffered the moat
excruciating tortures.—Cumbrian,