The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-04 00:00:00

CO URT CIRC LiLA

Lady Mary Stopford and the Hon. Miss Anson followed in
a pony phaeton.
This tritarning the Lord Chancellor and Lady Cottenham,
and the Baron Bulow, took their departure.
The Duke and Duchess of Oldenburg will arrive at the
Castle this evening on a visit to her Majesty.
The Earl of Uxbridge was thrown from his horse yesterday
on its suddenly shying round ; but we are happy to learn that
his Lordship escaped with only a slight bruise on the knee.
We omitted to mention that on Thursday last Miss Day,
the pianist, had the honour of performing before the Queen,
at the Castle. The pieces selected were Deehler's fantasia
and Hummel's brilliant rondo, in A, in the execution of which
this gifted child displayed so much taste and execution as to
obtain the most flattering. eulogies from her Majesty and those
of the Royal suite. The Queen was graciously pleased to
present this young lady with a handsome present, and Mr. Day
had the gratification of receiving a very flattering testimonial
of her Majesty's approbation of his daughter's talented per-
formances.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Saturday at
Windsor Castle.
Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday from Wind-
sor Castle.

The Marquis of Clanricarde transacted business yesterday
at the Foreign Department.
Mr. Fox Young transacted business yesterday at the Colo-
nial Office.

Lord Glenelg transacted business yesterday at the Foreign
Department.

The American, Russian, Turkish, and Hanoverian Ambas
sadors transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Depart.
mcnt.

Despatches were forwarded yesterday from Downiug_
street for Lord Melbourne at Windsor.
Despatches were forwarded yesterday from the Foreign
Det,artment for the Britic,h Ambassador at Berlin.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Foreign De-
partment from Madrid.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager left Marlborough House
at eight o'clock yesterday morning with her suite in three
carriages and four, for Portsmouth, to embark on board the
Hastings for Gibraltar, on her way to Naples and Malta. In
the carriage with her Majesty were the Honourable Miss
Mitchell and the Honourable Charlotte Hudson, Maids of
Honour in waiting. In the next carriage were the Earl of
Denbigh, Master of the Horse; Rev. J. R. Wood, Chaplain
to her Majesty ; Honourable Captain E. Curzon, R.N.,
Gentleman Usher; and Sir David Davis, Physician in Ordi-
nary. Her Majesty, it was expected, would dine on board
the Hastings. Earl HowejLord Chamberlain, and the Coun.
teas of Denb gh, left town for Portsmouth on Tuesday. The
Earl of Sheffield and the Countess of Sheffield, Lady in Wait-
ing, arrived at Portsmouth on Monday evening, and will also
attend her Majesty to Malta.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

The Earl of Mount Edgcumbe and the Misses M'Donald,
at Milton's Hotel, from Surrey ; the Countess Bathyany, at
ditto, from Richmond ; Hervey Aston, Esq.. at ditto, from
his seat, Aston Hall, Cheshire; George Money. Esq., at
ditto, from Wilts; Mrs. and Miss Schwabe, at ditto, from a
tour ; the Hon. Dudley Macdonald, at the Albany, from a
tour; Mrs. Davis in Portland-place; Colonel Heathcote in
Chandos-street, Portland-place; Mr. Henry Dawkins in
Queen Anne-street; Mr. William Mackinnon, M. P., in
Hyde Park-place; Colonel Nicholson, at the Bath Hotel,
from Paris; Mr. and Mrs. De la Torre from Hampton
Court ; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Thellusson, in Eaton-
square, from Germany ; the Rev. Hugh Willoughby, in Pic-
cadilly, from Herne Bay ; Mr. and Mrs. Patterson, at Mount
Clements, Stanmore, from a tour.

DEPARTURES.
Lady Ann Montagu Scott on a visit to the Duke and
Duchess of Bocci ruck, at Dalkeith Palace; Mr. Henry
Drummond for Aldborough Park, in Surrey; Mr. Charles
Drummond for Bower Hall, in Essex; Captain and Mrs.
Duff for BrigPhton; Colontl Levien for Paris; Sir Digby
Mackworth, Bart, for Cavendish Hall, in Suffolk; Mr. Wm.
Poyntz for Cowdray Park, in Sussex; Lady Agnes Buller on
a tour; Captain Plomer Cowper for Maidstone; Mr. and
Mrs. Mills Icy Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Dorrien Magens on
a tour; Mr. Fraser for Ely Grange, near Tunbridge Wells;
Lord Saye arid Sele for the Belvidere, in Kent; Colonel
Leycester for Paris; Mrs. Parker for Sherhorne Castle, Ox-
fordshire; Mr. and Mrs. Dering, from Chapel-street, Gros-
venor-square, for Ayot, St. Lawrence, Wellwyn, Herts;
Mrs. and the Misses Gunson, from Mivart's Hotel, for Scot-
land; Captain and Mrs. Dickenson and family, from ditto,
for Devonshire; Mr. and Mrs. G. Bosanquet, from ditto,
for their seat, Broxbournbury, Harts; Captain Heron, from
ditto, for Devonshire; the Dowager Lady Malet, Mr. and
Mrs. Dausey; and Miss Carew, from Crowcombe Court,
Taunton, for Italy.

Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar has left town for
Sandhurst.
The Duke of Staepoole left town yesterday trrorn-
lag by the railroad for Birmingham, from whence he proceeds,
via Scarborough, to York.

The Marquis of Clanricarde's state carriage was
taken down to the Royal Dockyard. Woolwich, on Tuesday
last, and shipped on board tile Cleopatra the same evening.
The Earl and Countess of Surrey an 4 the Ladies
Howard returned to Littlehampton on Tuesday, from a visit
to the Duke of Norfolk, at Arundel Castle.
The Master-General of the Ordnance, accompanied
by Colonel Fox and Colonel De Roos, honoured Mr. Siborn
with an inspection of his model of the Battle of
Letters were received yesterday morning, stating
yesterday with
at the Egyptian Hall.
that Lord Deerhurst continues in the same hopeless condition.
The Noble Lord has an infant son and heir by his union with
the sister of Sir Charlc! Cockerell.

.....Lord Prudhoe left town on Saturday morning for
Stanaick Park his seat in Yorkshire. After a few days shoot-
ing there his Lordship will go to Alnvvick Castle.
Lord Langale arrived in South-street, Park-lane, on
Tuesday last.
The Hon. Octavius Duncomhe is expected in town
to-morrow from the seat of his father, Lurd Faversham, in
Yorkshire, where a large party of sporting gentlemen are as-
sembled.
We are glad to learn that, in order to mark their
sense of the heroic conduct of Miss Darling, in the affair of
the Forfarshire, the Directors of the Glasgow Humane So-
ciety have sent her their honorary silver medal.—Glasgow
_Herald.

One of the most noxious of modern habits is
smoking; fortunately, however, fashion has now in a great
measure bnnisher) it from the presence of the fair sex, conse-
quently it is principally resorted to in the ban ack, the guard-
room, and the streets; and its practice is more especially pa-
tronised by soldiers, rakes. and shop-boys.

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The General Steam Navigation Company's new
p Rainbow arrived in Antwerp on Monday morning at 9,
aving left 13,ackwall the previous afternoon at one, perform-
the passage in 20 hours, including a long detention at
Flushing, wasting for a pilot.

STATE OF TRADE.—The demand for yarn con-
tinues extremely limited, and prices rather receding. For
goods of nearly all descriptions there is still a fair demand ;
hut, in consequence of the state of the cotyn and yarn mar-
kets, the buyers are somewhat cautious, and purchase only fur
present use.—Manchester Guardian.

NEW BOTANIC GARDENS.—The interior portion
of the Regent's Park, late the nursery of Mr. Jenkins, will
shortly be laid out as botanical gardens on a scientific and sys-
tematized scale, the Lords Commissioners of Woods and

Forests having granted a lease to a soci.,ty newly formed, un-
der the title of the Royal B4,tanic Society of London, 'at the
head of which is the Duke of Richmond as Pres.dent. The

objects of this society are the formation of an extensive bo-
tanic garden, and of a library, museum, and conservatories,
so that medical and scientific, at well as merely ornamental
botany, will repectively receive the attention commensurate
with their importance. Public exhibitions and lectures will
also be given periodically durii,g the season. On the council
are the names of the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Teignmouth,
Sir George Staunton, Sir Astley Cooper, Professor Don, &c.

SIR R. SHEFFIELD.-1111 Saiurday 'nothing last,
Sir Robert Sheffield was out with a friend, shooting, near
Flixbotough Stather, Lincolnshire. The Hon. Baronet car-
ried a double-barreled gun, both triggers of which he had
pulled, and was not aware of the fact that one of the charges
had hung fire until, as he was in the act of ramming down
again, the contents of the undischarged barrel exploded, and
blow off the fingers of his right hand. The hand has since
been atnpetated. Sir Robert is doing well, and in excellent
spirits.—Hull Observer.
Yesterday a pauper named Margaret Smith was
buried out of Shoreditch workhouse, after having been an
inmate there above twenty years. She was in her 103 d vear,
and till within the last few months was in possession of all her
rkculties. She bad outlived all her relations. Previous to
to American war she, with her first husband, possessed con-
lerab!e property in the United States. After the death of
her husband she placed her affairs in the hands of an agent,
who defrauded her of her property and ran away. She mar-
ried again, but her second husband dying, she became reduced,
and was forced to seek an asylum in the workhouse. For some
years past, lze.sides the parish allowance, several charitaJle
ladies have afforded her relief.
Yesterday morning, about half-past seven o'clock,
as a man named William Allen, and others were employed in
clewing a ship, from the tier of vessels lying opposite Hors-
!eydown-stairs, the ship's boat-hook slipped into the water by
accident, and on pulling it up they found some weight attached
to it, which, on arriving to the surface of the water, they dis-
cr,vered to be a human body, in the usual garb of a sailor. He
had a bruise over one of his eyes, and his nose was slightly
grazed. The body did not appear to have been in the water
above twelve hours. He was conveyed on shore, and placed
in the vaults of St. lain's Church. An inquest sat yesterday
afte, noon, but there being nothing to lead to his identity, el-
bnw he came into the water, the inquiry was adjourned until
Monds3' next.
Such is the failure of the apple crop in some parts
of Dors,.thire, that id orchards of 30 and 40 acres 'hero is not
a bushel of fruit.

WiNOSOR, OCT. 3. —Ti;is afternoon the Queen, accompa-
nied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Rent, and at-
tended by the Earl of Uxbridge, Lady Charlotte Copley,
Baroness Lelizen, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Torrington,
Hon. Wm. Temple, Hon. C. A. Murray, and the Hon. Co-
lonel Cavendish, rode in the park on horseback.