The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-08 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR•

Prince Albert presided on Saturday morning at a
meeting of the Council for the Management of the
Duchy of Cornwall, at the Duchy-office, Somerset-house.
His Royal Highness was attended by Colonel the Hon.
C. B. Phipps. In the afternoon the Prince, attended by
Captain the Hon. Dudley de Ros, visited the Royal
Institution in Albemarle-street.

Her Majesty had a dinner party on Saturday evening
at Buckingham Palace. The company included the
Duke of Rutland, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Abercorn, the Earl of Clarendon, the Countess of Dun-
more, Viscount Strathallan, the Bishop of Oxford, Lord
Heytesbury, and Lieutenant• Colonel Sheil.
The band of the 2d Life Guards was in attendance
during dinner, and played the following selection :

March
Overture to Oberon
Waltz—Balmoral
Grand Selection—" Il Flauto Magico" Mozart.
Bolero Espagnol Barr.
Quadrille—St. Cloud
Aria—" In questo semplice" (Op. Betly) Donizetti.
Styrieu Meladle (national).
Galop—Cuckoo
March
Kuhuer.
The Queen's private band afterwards attended in the
Palace and performed the following pieces :
Overture—"Nauderille"
Duo and Quintetto d'Ensemble—"L'Etoile
du Nord" Meyerbeer.
March ..

Yesterday the Queen and Prince Albert, the Prince
of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, the Prin-
cess Alice and the Duchess of Kent, attended Divine
service in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace.
The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated.
The Ladies and Gentlemen in Baiting and the do-
mestic household attended the service.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Lady Augustus Bruce,
and Sir George Couper, honoured the performance of
the French plays with their presence on Saturday
evening.
The Duke and Duchess D'Anmale and the Duke de
Nemours visited the Duchess of Kent on Saturday, at
her residence, Clarence-house, St. James's.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent 'visited the
Duchess of Glocester yesterday at Glocester-house.
Captain Nesham, unattached, was presented to hex
Majesty, at the Levee, on the 3d inst., by Major-
General Sir John Owen, K.C.B.

A deputation relative to Australian affairs had an in-
terview with the Earl of Aberdeen on Saturday at his
official residence in Downing-street. The deputation
consisted of Viscount Mandeville, M.P., Lord Naas,
M.P., Mr. J. E. Denison, M.P., Mr. Charles Cowan,
M.P., Mr. Edward Divett, M.P. (Chairman of the
South Australian Bank), Mr. William Brown, M.P.,
Mr. H. G. Gordon (Chairman of the Oriental Bank),
Mr. James Hutchinson (Chairman of the Committee of
the Stock-Exchange), Mr. Robert Brooks, Mr. A.
Young, Mr. Robert Campbell, Mr. J. Robinson, Mr.
H. Sewell, Mr. D. Larnack, Mr. G. R. Griffiths, Mr.
C. D. Logan, Mr. R. Tooth, Mr. John Lamb, Mr. J.
N. Smith, Mr. Alexander Denison, Mr. W. Milliken,
and Mr. T. Taylor. The Duke of Newcastle and Sir
James Graham were present at the interview.
Mr. Loch. M.P., had an interview on Saturday with
the Duke of Newcastle at the Colonial-office.

A deputation from the Eastern Archipelago Company
had an interview with the Right Hon. E. Cardwell on
Saturday at the Board of Trade. The deputation con-
sisted of the Hon. F. Scott, M.P., the Hon. Colonel
Lindsay, M.P., Mr. J. M'Gregor, M.P., Mr. W. B.
Willcox, M.P., Mr. H. Hamilton Lindsay (Chairman),
Mr. J. Melville (Managing Director), Mr. T. Buxton,
Mr. W. M'Donald, and Mr. F. C. Cobb.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland
Revenue, and Mr. Pressly, had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday at his official
residence in Downing-street.

KING'S COLLEGE DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES.

The distribution cf prizes in the medical department
of King's College took place on Saturday in the great
hall of the institution. There was a very numerous and
brilliant assembly present ; among them we observed
the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Bishop of
Cashel, Lord Clancarty, Sir Robert H. Inglis, Rear-
Admiral Lord Radstock, Dr. Jelf, Dr. Golding, and
many other gentlemen interested in the college.
The chair was taken by the Archbishop of Canterbury,
who opened the proceedings by expressing the gratifica-
tion he felt at being called upon to take part in so in-
teresting a ceremony. In his official capacity as one of
the visitors of the college, he might sometimes be called
upon to perform unpleasant duties ; but he was sure he
need have no apprehensions of the kind as long as the
college was conducted on its present principles. It was
always gratifying for him to be summoned to witness
the prosperity of an institution in which he felt so deep
an interest, and to reward those who had contributed to
that prosperity by their industry, and the successful ap-
plication of those talents with which Providence had
blessed them. He felt it a privilege to be the instrument
of rewarding the successful candidates, and he hoped the
prizes got that day would encourage them to greater ex-
ertions in the cause of science.

Dr. Guy, the dean of faculty, having read the annual
report, the prizes were awarded in the following order :
Senior Scholar—Thomas Buzzard.
Second Year—George William Lawrence.
Junior Scholars—Frederick Howlett, John Way, and
Anthony Whitford.
Gill Prize—Francis E. Anstie.
Warneford Scholars—Edwin Edmund Dayand Frederick
Howlett.

Daniell Scholar—Edward Ash Hadow.
Divinity—William Woodward, Samuel Neal, and Ed-
win Edmund Day.
Warneford Endowment—Christopher Heath, James H.
Thornton, Nottidge C. Macnamara, and Henry Townley
Bilderbeck.

Leathe's Endowment—Christopher Heath and William
Wood ward.

Anatomy—Thomas P. Teale, Francis Workman, John
C. Booth, William H. Collins, John Walters, and Edwin
E. ➢ay.
Physiology—Francis Workman, Thomas P. Teale, Rinso
R. Siccama, Frederick Simms, Samuel Spratley, William
Liddon, Edwin E. Day.
Chemistry—William S. Riding, Thomas P. Teale, Al-
fred Meadows, William H. Collins.
Medicine—John F. Straker, William Woodward, John
H. Tutin.

Surgery—Nottidge C. Macnamara, Christopher Heath,
Thomas E. Hale.
Surgical Clinical—Nottidge C. Macnamara.
Medical Clinical—William Woodward.
Medical Society's Prize—John Martin Hyde.
Botany—John H. Tutin, William H. Crossley, Charles
3. Devonshire.

Materia Medics. George W. Lawrence, H. J. Sutton.
Practical Chemistry—Geo. G. Corbould, J. H. Tutin.
Midwifery—William Woodward, John R. Kealey, Jar-
man Patrick, Edwin T. Edwards.
Forensic Medicine--Nottidge C. Maenamara, W. Wood-
ward, Gilbert B. Hadow.
Comparative Anatomy—Henry Robert Silvester.
Medical Clinical—John Martin Hyde.
Surgical Clinical—Peter Charles Price.

CAPTURE BY THE CITY DETECTIVES,
AND RECOVERY OF 5,5001.

On Saturday another of those dexterous exploits
which have recently obtained the City Detective Police
a wide-spread notoriety, was consummated by the ap-
prehension of two Antwerp merchants, father and son,
and which led to the recovery of no less a sum than
5,5001. It appears that about a month ago a person
of the name of Morris Hartoh, a merchant at Antwerp,
was entrusted with 57,000 guilders by the banking
establishment of De Cock, for the purpose of taking up
some bills for which that house was liable. Hartoh
absconded without taking up the securities, and soon
after his father-in-law, Joseph Hartoh Macmilsone waited
upon Mr. De Cock in a state of affected distraction, and
stated that his son had absconded, after robbing him of
20,000 guilders, and that if he could find the delinquent
he would bring him to Holland, and deliver him over to
the bankers. M. Macmilsone also stated that his son
had gone to America, but he would hand over all he
possessed to De Cock. The style in which Macmilsone
lived, and his reputation as a merchant, threw Mr. De
Cock off his guard. Intelligence, however, of the fraud
fortunately reached the police of the City of London,
and two of its most able members, Webb and Funnell,
undertook the difficult task of keeping a " sharp look
out" in this country. After most persevering inquiries
they found a clue at Liverpool, and, following it up from
place to place without interruption, they at length disco-
vered that not only Morris Hartoh, but his desponding
father-in-law were concealed in a Dutch lodging-house at
No. 7, Prescott-street, Whiteehapel. The officers im-
mediately telegraped for Mr. De Cock, and he arrived
in London on Wednesday evening. Mr, Haines, the
Dutch Consul, was applied to, and rendered every as-
sistance, and on Friday Mr. Justice Coleridge, while
discharging his judicial duties at Guildhall, granted a
capias against the accused. Yesterday the officers met
the offenders in Swan-street, Minories, and, after a des-
perate struggle, succeeded in taking them into custody.
They were taken into a public-house in John-street,
Minories, and upon the son was found a canvas bag,
beneath his shirt, containing 4,5001., and upon the
afflicted father-in-law 1,0001. A mob of nearly 2,000
Persons, principally low Jews, collected in the neigh-
bourhood, and the personal safety of Webb and Funnell
Cocktwoaran, in
and
considerable danger. The officers' clothes were
the
former
sustained other injury. Both Mr. De
caonudarid Mr. Haines, the consul, witnessed the capture,
was so pleased with the vigilance and
ra
ge displayed by Webb and Funnel], that he on
Saturday afternoon presented each of them with a bonus
of 100 guineas.
anduineas.
Hartoh
his father-in-law were allowed to make
themselves "scarce," after the recovery of the valuable
booty, as the English law, it was found, would not reach
them

It will be remembered that Webb and Funnel' are the
same "detectives" who recovered above 2,0001. from
the bankrupt Graves, of Manchester, and succeeded in
apprehending and bringing to justice Ifeilbron, the
traveller of 111`Intosh and Co., who escaped to America
with 7001.

£LLNESS OF THE POPE.—ROME, April 30.—The state
of the Pope's health is still very unsatisfactory. His
chest is considered to be affected, and the enormous en-
largement of his person reveals a dropsical tendency,
which is not likely to be much improved by the bleed-
ing and Sangrado style of treatment prevalent here.
On Monday his holiness was anxious to be present at
the funeral mass performed at the Sixtine Chapel in
honour of the late Queen of Portugal, as is customary in
Rome on the demise of any Catholic Sovereign ; but be
was not strong enough to do so.