The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-10 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

BALMORAL, OCT. 8.
The Queen yesterday accompanied the Prince to the
Balmoral woods, which were driven for deer. The
Princess Royal was also with her Majesty.
In the evening Sir James and Lady Clark, and Mr:
and Mrs. Clark, had the honour of dining with her Ma•
j es ty

The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert had an interview
with the Earl of Clarendon yesterday.
Despatches from the Lord High Commissioner of the
lonian Islands, and also for the Governor of Malta,
were sent yesterday from the Oolonial-office,

His Excellency James Buchanan, the United States
Minister, accompanied by his niece, Miss Lane, has
left town on a continental tour. Daniel E. Sickles,

Esq., Secretary of the Legation, is accredited Charg
d'Affaires ad interim.

General Joseph Chlopicki, well known during the
Polish revolution, died after a long and painful illness
on the 30th of September, at Cracow. At the commence-
ment of the revolution he was placed as dictator at the
head of the movement.

The Marquis of Salisbury is expected to leave the
Island of Harris this week, on his return to Hatfield
House, Herts.

The Earl of Selkirk has been on a visit to Major
Cumming Bruce, M.P., at Dunphail.
NEW ZEALAND.—The New Zealand journals up to the
17th June contain an account of the opening of the
New Zealand Legislature, on the 27th of May, by
General Wynyard. In the House of Representatives,
on June 2d, a debate took place on responsible govern-
ment. A motion was made, the object of which was
to establish the principle that the ministers in and out
of the house, the office-holders, and members of the
executive council, should resign office if they were
defeated on any vote by the representative body. The
motion was carried by 29 to 1.
THE BRIMSTONE TRADE.—The imports of this article
during the eight months ended the sth ult. amounted to
1,135,181 cwt., against 580,798 during the same period
of 1853, and 495,550 in that of 1852. During the single
month ending at the same period of each year the impor-
tations respectively were 60,689, 227,257, and 333,634
cwt. The lowness of freights which has recently pre-
vailed in the trade has considerably contributed, no
doubt, to this great increase of importation ; but we
trust, at the same time, that it may be attributed in
part to a continued activity in manufacturing industry
on the banks of the Tyne.—Gateshead Observer.
THE PRICE OF WHEAT IN FRANCE.—The Moniteicr
publishes a decree founded on a report of the Minister
of Agriculture, stating that the price of wheat, although
abundant, is kept up in consequence of the farmers be-
ing engaged in outdoor work, and consequently not
thrashing out their corn, and also from many mills being
prevented working from the want of water, prolonging
to the 31st of July next the delay fixed by the decree of
the 24th of June last, for different measures relative to
articles of food.

GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—SOUTEIMPTON, Monday.
—Yesterday, a fine frigate-built ship, named the Tudor,
of 1064 tons burden, belonging to Messrs. T. and W.
Smith, and commanded by C. R. Lansdowne, sailed for
Melbourne, with 416 Government emigrants on board,
under the charge of Surgeon Superintendent R. Wilson,,
who has already been 6 voyages in the commissioners
service. On Saturday the ship was visited by Viscount
Palmerston, Sir Wm. Temple, and Dr. Waller Lewis
(medical superintendent of the Board of Health), all of
whom expressed themselves much pleased with the con-
struction of the berths, all of which are arranged in ac-
cordance with a plan suggested by Mr. E. A. Smith,
emigration officer at this port. The general arrange'
ments for the comforts of the emigrants were also highly
approved of.

THE DOBEUDSCHA.—This large country, lying be-
tween the sea and a navigable river, is the most miser-
able desert that can be conceived, and the er,aole of
the Dobrudscha can hardly contain more than
20,000 inhabitants. As far as the eye can reach
not a tree or a hush is visible. The hills are co'
vered with a tall grass, burnt of a yellowish-h royal
by the sun, and which undulates like the surfa, ee of
the ocean before the wind. The Romans ever regarded
the Dobrudscha as a country which ought to , be
given up to the northern barbarians„ and separat ed it
from Mcesia by a wall running from the neighbour hood
of Rassova, to Kustendje. During the campeiie, on of
1812 and 1828 the Dobrudscha suffered consider ably.
At least a third of the villages entered on the map s are
no longer in existence, though not entirely in c wise'
quence of the war. Hirsova contains only 30 he ,uses,
and Isakdji and Tulteha have retired from 1,000 to: 3,000
paces from their old. position.—Turkey; by Sir 6 •eorge
Larpent.
SOUTHAMPTON, Monday.-.. The following addil: tional
particulars in connection with the departure ty f the
General Screw Company's steam-ship Argo, whi all left
on the 4th inst., with the Australian mails, ha' eh been
forwarded to us :—A.mongst her passengers w are Sir
William and Lady A'Beckett, Mr. and Mrs. 1 innock ,
and family, Captain and Mrs. Rolletson, Mr. ar el Mrs-
Crosbie, Captain and Mrs. Wilson and family, Sir J.
O'Donnell, Mr. and Mrs. Ramaden and family, Dr.
Crauford, Mr. F. Gossling, and Mr W. H. Day.. This
latter gentleman, who had been making prep: ir ationS
for the sending out to Australia a large iron theat e, had
taken his departure in this vessel for the purpo ,se of
making the necessary arrangements as to the , situa-
tion, &e., in which it is to be placed. Previo us to
his departure Mr. Day completed an engage went
with the celebrated tragedian, G. V. Brooke, wi ho is
now performing at Drury-lane Theatre, to perform o 200
nights at 501. per night, in this theatre when it is ere cted.
Ile will follow shortly. The providing the Argo , has
been very liberally attended to by Messrs. Coup .land
and Barnes. A very superior German band has an cons-
panied the ship for the purpose of affording a little
musical pleasure to the passengers during the vt 'age-
Captain Hyde, commander of the Argo, departe, i eery
sanguine of quite equalling, if not surpassing, his i rs,riner
passage to Australia and back. The Argo h ad on
freight a full cargo of general goods.
HOSPITAL FOR CONSIIMPTION.---A. meeting I re the
committee of this valuable institution was held on 'lure-
day, at the Boardroom of the charity, at Bro: lepton.
The usual routine business having passed, it was :stated
that a bazaar and fancy fair had been held at B bourne-
mouth, Dorset, under the patronage of the Duel Less of
Argyll, the Marchioness of 'Westminster, and other
ladies of distinction. It is at Bournemouth th t the
sac:Am.urn of the Consumption Hospital is sit a ated,
and as it is known that the treatment of the Lo radon
institution is in no small degree facilitated by th e ad'
vantages of the Bournemouth Sanitorium, the syrup; %thy
of the neighbouring gentry and others was so far u
fested that the contributions to the bazaar were exe eled-
ingly liberal, and a handsome amount was realise d for
the funds of the charity.
ROYAL MAIL STEAM COMPANY.—The report of this
company issued yesterday, preparatory to their me e ding
on Thursday, shows a surplus on the working ac count
for the half-year ending the 30th of June of 112, 2071.,
being equal to 12A per cent, on the company's cap ital of
890,4001. Out of this, however, allowance has to be
made for depreciation. The dividend proposed is the
same as for the previous half-year—namely, 2t per
share, or at the rate of 61. 13s. 4d. per cent, per a mut=
on the amount paid up. The disbursements have :been
increased by the freight of coals, &c., but, on the o ther
hand, with one exception, there has been an incis.3ase
upon every head of receipt for freight and pas: sage-
money, while the amount received for the convey isnce
and victualling of troops has been 65,7201. Refer *rice
is made to the satisfactory speed attained by the Ta dear,
the Atrato, the Solent, and La Plata, and anticipateions
are expressed that the Tyne, now fitting at Black wall,
will exhibit an equally good result. The fleet of. the
company consists of 22 ships, and as they now ref quire
only 20 for the contract service, they propose nitre ately
selling the extra four.
COATES, the pedestrian, is reported to have f finish-
ed his task of walking a thousand quarter mil es in
a thousand quarter hours on Monday evening. \lle saw
him about nine o'clock on Saturday evening, when he
looked fatigued, the undertaking being one of the most
exacting nature, as it never gave him more than twenty
minutes rest. His practice was to walk a half mile at
once, one quarter mile being performed in the latter
part of the quarter hour, and the other quarter in the
commencement of the next quarter hour, so that he was
enabled to get twenty minutes rest. We believe that
this feat of endurance was not done for a wager, but
that it was a speculation between the pedestrian and
the innkeeper who had hired the ground. Coates is an
athletic man, of five feet ten, and past the middle age of
ltiefae.being His habits
yits are very abstemious in respect to drink,
his only beverage ; but his consump-
tion of animal food was stated to be enormous. His
sleeping time was at the intervals between eleven and
three in the morning, when, we are teld, as soon as the
two quarters of miles were performed, he would fall
down into a deep sleep for twenty minutes and remain
till called, when he would spring up suddenly and corn.
mence his walking. These slender intervals between
eleven and three were stated to be the only times he
took sleep. It is to be regretted that so much animal
exertion is thrown away upon so useless an object.—
Western. Times.
ACCIDENT AT BRIGHTON.—The gentleman to whom a •
correspondent referred in a late number, as having with
such intrepidity and coolness arrested an affrighted
horse in a crowded thoroughfare in Brighton, is, we are
informed, Mr. Alfred Eames, who is, we understand,
secretary of the Royal Naval School, New.cross, and
whom we beg to congratulate upun l; :Ping, in all 1,1'4/a-
-bility, been the means of preventing similar serious re-
sults to those which have this week occurred from an•
other accident of the same kind,—Brighlott