The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-21 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, OCT. 20.
The following had the honour of dining with her Ma-
jesty yesterday :—Her Royal. Highness the Duchess of
Kent, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Clarendon, and
the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent.
The band of the Ist Life Guards attended in the
Castle during dinner, and played the following composi-
tions :

Grand March of the lst Life Guards Duchess of Kent
Overture, " Ruy Blas" Mendelssohn
Walzer, " Die Provinzialen"
Grand potpourri, "Les Martyrs" Donizetti.
Quadrille, " Sophien," from the opera
" Sophia Catharina"
Galop .

Gung'l
Leutner.

Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended, and
performed the following selection :
Overture, " Missolonghi"
Introduction, "Ilaydee"
Terzetto, "La villanella rapita"
Finale, (Ist act), "Oberon"

The Chaplain of the Winchester prison has
rushed into print apparently for the purpose of
defending the system under which Mr. MILLAR,
whose name has recently been brought promi-
nently before the public, languished in strict con-
finement for nearly forty consecutive years.
The Reverend Gentleman seems to think that
" his craft" as a gaol official may be endangered
by the strong impression created on the public
mind by the extraordinary and harrowing reve-
lations elicited during the inquest on one of the
victims of Winchester discipline. In the same
spirit, then, as DEMETRIUS the Silversmith, he ispre-
pared to exclaim, not " Great is the DIANA of the
Ephesians," but " wise and laudable are the rules,
the conduct, and treatment of prisoners for debt
in the New County Prison, Winchester." As,
however, he could not directly controvert the
fact that the unfortunate sufferer had remained
for more than thirty-nine years a close prisoner, 1
without once breathing the free air of heaven,
and subjected to all the vexatious regulations
framed by men, who clearly thought debtors more
deserving of punishment than felons—kept during
that weary and protracted period on a scale of
diet which brought one strong man to the grave,
and reduced another to death's door—he endea-
vours to ride off on a collateral issue—and to show
that it was MILLAR'S own fault that he remained so
long in the " 131 wing, under the felons' gaol."
Such was the singularity of his taste, that he
could not be induced to abandon the tempting
retreat provided for his reception by the humanity
of the British law !
Mr. WRIGHT assures the community that
" MILLAR was imprisoned 39 years ago, by a
regular process for debt !" We believe that no
question was ever raised on the point, although
from what subsequently falls from the Rev.
Gentleman, it appears that serious doubts may
be entertained of the validity of the pro-
ceedings. If there had been an illegal in-
carceration, some recompence might have been
obtained by the wretched man for his protracted
fferings—that is to say, if the vindictive Cre-
ditor were still alive to pay in purse or in person
for the false imprisonment of a fellow-creature.
But it was because the grievous wrong was with-
out a remedy—because men of humanity, pos-
sessing bowels of mercy for their afflicted brethren,
were excited on account of the lingerinc, torture
under which a Christian man, a citizen of a country
claiming to be " a land of liberty," lingc ered fcr. ATTEMPTED POISONING OFISIX CHILDREN AT LIVE
forty long years in hopeless solitude
endtrin ul7 R.
POOL. —'At College street Police-office, on Monday,
paralleled privations, debarred from seeing or stablea
1
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communicating with his kind, without money, or dren, under the circumstances which appear in evidence.
necessity for money—for it appears not from the Constable 37 B deposed that, being on duty in Trinity-
-1 clerical revelations, but from the sworn testinimoonne street, on Sunday last, between 2 and 3 o'clock, he was
of one who had nearly fallen a victim, that's ; iNnfoorml edstthaAtnsdixrecwhilsdtrreeenthadpbreoeeneepdoinisoniemdminedthiaetehloyutsoe
was of no use whatever, as they would not allow the house, he found the children, whgose names were
prisoners to purchase anything !" We may rea- Edward, Charlotte, and George Graham, Edward
dily grant the first position assumed by Mr. ißneiblly.i John M'Dermott, and M. M‘Derrhn.ott, someh
WRIGHT, that the " process was regular," al- were immaneddias
toemlye c oo
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per.
though it appears from his statement, that there tal, where they were conveyed
under the treatment of Dr.
IB7u,:cedr and the resident apothecary. Police-constable
was something in the case to take it out of the
prisoner
that, being called on by 37 B, he arrested
drensoumreowtshheea too
contents
excitedntents ;0
is she
bottlestatedesfh
sugar
ghaard
the
ordinary course, and to prove that poor wretched
n on the lobby of the house. She appeared
MILLAR was anything but insolvent.
It appears then that the victim " received aogfivleeand,thfeor
chthile-
small property from his father, with a bond or pwaspwhisky.inaokni making go
fthuelemehpurry, telling them that it
mortgage upon it nearly to the amount of its not whisk
y, The prisoner, however,havio,o.i;eendu
lysaciadutiiotnwecd"
value, and that the rent of the premises paid the
addingmadea
tshtaattetmheen,t, similar to that mentioned, by 174 B,
interest of the debt," so that if Mr. WRIGHT'S
hospital, but that mheedricoinf motive in
given to her in an
statement is to be credited, MILLAR had no privity children was to make merry.y The
i
childnveln.ngweirt to theh
of contract with his detaining creditor. He merely time when the poison was administered, playing e,
togetheratt
in an empty room of the house. In the absence of Dr.
inherited a property subject to a certain charge,
Butcher and the resident atpk.hec7 of the hospital, the
prisoner was remanded
' the interest whereof it was sufficient to pay. It
until o
ues ay.—Nortitern Daily
has been stated that the creditor entered into re-
Times.
ceipt of the rents and profits of the premises, and
NEWS FROM INDIA IN TEN DAYS, PASSENGERS IN
thus became
THREE
.WEEKS.—Within
a twelvemonth of the present
mortgagee in possession, and
date a railway will be completed from Ostend to Trieste,
bound to account
If to the inheritor therefor.
a distance of 1,500 miles, in which there are even now
so, it is difficult to say why he should only two considerable breaks. Letters, passengers, and
arrest his person as well as seize his property—or parcels will then occupy little more than two days from
what right he had t
the shores of the Channel to those of the Adriatic ; four
to resort to the double remedy
even if MILLAR had made lc ' days more will take them to Egypt, and by the aid of
sponsible for the debt, which-m.B°f personally re-
the railway from Alexandria to Cairo, now rapidly ad-
-was cast upon him vancing, they may within 36 hours be afloat on the Red
by the operation of the law
truly proved to be a damn°, saanhilerwhd Which in his case Sea, and in 12 days thferehaftereir l
leaving
ensafLe
oinndono.mb y, orNaVithin
If such
were the case, we can easily understand twhiitshdinatethtrheeeelweceterkics toelegtrapb,enoiwgpreparing to be laid
the re-nce with which the wretched across the Mediterranean will have reached Suez, and
yield to the gross injustice to which hmeavrna
s sub-i eu would the 4,000 miles of wire which have already_
a wTeachiethd Ctahl-
jected. He must have felt that the
raomentie port
ta will
of connect every
Bombay
; soha greta t town
before
thein
year
d
11856 expires
could have found the means to go into court we shall havecommunication by electric telegraph in
he would have obtained ample reparation.
.1. ~._ 1 ten or eleven days' time with every part of India, and
1 by steamer and rail from Bombay in twenty•one.

. Herold.
. Auber.
. Mozart.
. Weber.

(The Earl of Clarendon arrived yesterday, and left the
Castle this forenoon for London. The Earl of Aber-
deen has also left for London.
The Queen walked in the Slopes this morning.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Col.
the Hon. Charles Grey and Lieutenant-Colonel the
Hon. R. Boyle, went out shooting this forenoon.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess and Princess
Mary of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duke
and Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, visited her Majesty
to-day.

Sir Edmund Lyons had an interview with the Earl of
Aberdeen yesterday at his official residence in Downing-
street.

Sir J. Emerson Tennent left town on Wednesday for
he Continent.

The Earls of Aberdeen and Clarendon returned to
;own yesterday morning from Windsor Castle.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Monday
next, the 24th inst., at Windsor Castle.

ARRIVAL OF T LIE BELGIAN ROYAL

FAMILY.

The King of the Belgians, accompanied by the Duke
and Duchess de Brabant, the Count de Flandres, and
the Princess Charlotte arrived at Dover this morning
from Ostend, and have since passed through London en
route to Windsor Castle, on a visit to her Majesty and
the Prince Consort.

Mr. Macgregor, M.P., Chairman of the South-Eastern
Railway, was in attendance on the Royal party from
Dover to London.

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH
COAST RAILWAY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—l am desired by the directors to inform you,
that in consequence of a slip upon this line of railway,
near Balcombe, the trains will be passed on a single'line
for the next few days ; but this will be done with perfect
safety, with a delay of a few minutes only, and without
any necessity for passengers leaving their seats.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
SAMUEL SLIGHT, for the Secretary.
Secretary's Office, London, 21st Oct.