The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-31 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Their .Royal Highneses, the Duchess of Gloucester, the.
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Augusta
of Cambridge, attended divine service yesterday in Grosvenor
Chapel. The Duchess of Gloucester was attended by Lady
Georgiana Bathurst, and Miss Kerr was in waiting on the
Duchess of Cambridge.
Colonel O'Reilly had an interview with Lord Gimelg on
Saturday at the Colonial-cffiee.
Count Polion' the Sardinian Minister, trarsacted business
on Saturday at the Foreign-office.
Dispatches were sent from the Colonial-office on Saturday
evening for the Governor of the settlement at the River
Gambia, and for Sir A. Woodford, Lieutenant-Governor of
Gibraltar.

Dispatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial-office
from the Governor of the Bahamas, Prince Edward's Wand,
and Bcrmud3.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
E. H. Green, Esq., at St. James's-place, from Sherbourn
Castle, the seat of Lord Digby; Lord-and Lady Maryborough,
in Saville-row, from their seat, Deal Castle, Kent ; Lord
Sandfs, in Curzon-street, from a visit to the Marquis
and Marchioness of Salisbury, at their seat, Hatfield House,
Herts ; the Countess 'of Clarendon, in North Audley-street,
from Deal.

DEPARTURES.
Count Ziehy, from Bond-street, for Brighton ; Lord and
Lady Ernest Bruce, from Curzon-street, on a visit to Mr.
Hope, at his seat, Deep<lene, near Dorking, Surrey; Lord
Brougham, from Grafton street, on a visit to Dr. Le Blanc,
at Cambridge; the Earl and Countess of Harrington, from
Whitehall-gardens, for their seat, Elvaston House, Derby-
shire; Lord and Lady Cranmore, for Brighton ; the Duke
of Norfolk, from St. James's-square, for his seat, Arundel,
SUFSCX S:r John and Lady Shelley, from Belgrave-square,
on a vit-it to the Duke of Wellington, at Strathfieldsaye,
Hants.

In the event of the elevatio4l of the Chief Judge of
the Court of Bankruptcy to be the new Judge of the Com-
mon Pleas, a sinecure place of 8001., held by Mr. Sergeant
Lawes, will be got rid of. Mr. B4sil Montague will suc-
ceed as Chief; and Mr. Sergeant Lawes is to hive Lis
choice of succeeding to be Accountant of the Bankruptcy
Court, or to let Mr. Gregg do so, and he to take Mr.
Gregg's work.

EARLY INTELLIGENCE.—We find the following
in the Morning Herald of this morning :
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFIL—This morning was married, by
special licence, at St. George's Church, Hanover-square, by
the Right Rev, the Lord Bishop of London, the Hon. Ran-
dal E. Plunkett, of Dunsany Castle, late M.P. for Drogheda,
and eldest son of the Right Hon. Lord Dunsany, Lord-Lieu-
tenant of the county of Meath, to Eliz,,beth Evelyn, only
daughter and sole heire;s of. Lyndon Evelyn, E,q., of Keyn-
sham Court, Herefordshire, and York-terrace, Regent's-park.
[We wish our contemporary had stated at what hour
this morning the marriage here announced took place.
The publication of the Herald, we believe, commenced so
early as six o'clock, A.M. We did not think that the Lord
Bishop at London was so early a riser.]
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Capua have taken possession of their splendid mansion in
Beigrave-square, and are already manifesting their benevo-
lent qualities, by contributing to the charities in the neigh-
bourhood. The Princess has sent a fiber I donation to
the Royal Belgrave Lying-in Institution, and has com-
manded that her name shall be placed as a Vice Patroness
to the charity. Their Excellencies the Hanoverian and
Turkish Ambassadors have also become contributors to
the Funds or that Institution.

SMUGGLING EXTRAORDINARY.—A slaughtered
pig, which bad just been landed at Hare's Wha►f, Wap-
ping, from the Dundee, Perth, and London Shipping Com-
pany's steam-ship Perth, Captain Spints, which arrived on
Friday forenoon from Dundee, was seized by the Ordeers of
Excise, in consequence of a bladder—not its own—having
been discovered in its inside, containing about two gallons
of prime Highland whiskey, on which English duty had not
been paid.

The mail from this town to London was robbed of
a banker's box, containing notes and bills amounting to
nearly 2,0001., with which the thieves have as yet esc Iped
undetected. The box which contained the notes was
sent from the office of the Newport Branch of " the
Commercial Bank of England," by the mail-cart from
Newport to Shiffnal, and was there safely lodged in
the coach-office. On the arrival of the Holyhead mail
from Shrewsbury at Shiffual, the coachman's attention was
directed to the box by Mr. Morris, landlord of the Jerning-
ham Arms, who told him it was a banker's parcel, and re-
quired his utmost care, lie promised attention, and the
box was placed under his feet, a passenger occupy ing the box
seat. On the coach arriving at Birmingham the parcel
was mired; and the coachman declaring his ignorance of
its fate, and stating that it must have fallen off on the jour-
ney, he was immediately taken into custody, and committed -
for examination, together with two other persons. On
Monday they were examined before the Magistrates of
Birmingham, when all but the coachman were discharged,
and be was remanded for further examination yesterday.
The Bank have offered a considerable reword on conviction
of the thieves ; and the numbers of the notes, with the dates
and places of their issue, are all ascertained and published
and payment stopped. On the examination yesterday, the
coachman was committed for trial at the next Warwick
Assizes.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.

THE IRON TRADE IN SOUTH WALES.--ThiS
impartaia trade is in a very flourishing and satisfactory
state. During the whole of the year the price of common
bars at the ports in South Wales has remained steadily
fixed at 91. per ton ; and although from the activity and
buoyancy of the market, an advance has frequently appeared
inevitable, no alteration has taken place. The demand at
present is very great, both for home and foreign consumption.
The Observer of yesterday contained five folio
columns of the late particulars of the arrest, examination,
memoirs, &c., of the Rev. Joseph Rayner Stephens, which
were received by express from Manchester late on Satur-
day night at the Observer-office The extensive publication
of the Observer commences at five o'clock on Sunday morn-
ings, at 170, Strand. The Observer has recently been
enlarged to 24 folio columns, the price continuing at sd.
A Monday afternoon edition of the Observer is regularly
published, which is best adapted for country and foreign
circulation.
On Friday night last an inquest was held at St.
Thomas's Hospital on the body of William Perry, aged
twenty-seven, who, while in the act of going along the
roof to visit his sweetheart, at a house four doors from his
master's, on Monday night last, fell a distance of seventy
feet, and was so injured as to expire on the following day,
Verdict—" Accidental death."

RECOVERY OF SMALL DEBTS.--The tradesi
and other inhabitants of Cullompton have held meetings':
the purpose of considering the best means to be adoptea
a cheaper, more speedy, and more efficient mode for the
,recovery of small debts not exceeding 101. ; and at their
meeting on Friday last, it was resolved that a petition be
forthwith prepared ror nature to the next Session of Par-
liament, for a General Act for so desirable an object.—
Western Times.

During boxing-day and Thursday the following
number of cases of accident (some of them of a serious na-
ture) was brought into the different hospitals of the metro-
polis, viz :—ChariNpeross Hospital, 11 ; St. George's
Hospital, 9 ; Middlesex Hospital, 8 ; University College
Hospital' 3; St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 6 ; London Hos-
pital, 9 ; Guy's Hospital 14 ; St. Thomas's Hospital, 7-67.
Of this number 58 of the cases arose from drunkenness, and
to some a fatal result is expected.

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