The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-07 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, DEC. 6.

The Queen and Prince, accompanied by the Duchess
of Brabant, rode out on horseback yesterday morning.
The Earl of Clarendon, Count Lavradio, Portuguese
Minister, and General Lopez, on a mission from Para-
guay, arrived at Osborne yesterday, and had audiences
of the Queen. The Earl of Clarendon and Count La-
vradio remained on a visit. .

Sir William C. Ross, R.A., had the honour of taking
the last sitting for a miniature of her Imperial Highness
the Duchess of Brabant, painted by command of the
Queen.

A deputation from the Board of Guardians of the
Hackney Union, consisting► of Mr. George Offer, Mr..
John Edward Clennell, Mr. Percy Sadler, Mr. William
Turner (of Upper Clapton), the Rev. Thomas Davis
Lamb (of the Rectory, West Hackney), accompanied by
Mr. Charles Horton Pulley, the Clerk to the Guar-
dians, and introduced by Sir William Clay, Bart., M.P.
for the Tower Hamlets, had an interview with Viscount
Palmerston yesterday at the Home-office on the subject
of the defective sewage and drainage of the important
district of Hackney, and on the great necessity for local
powers to carry out all connecting sewage with the
great trunk sewage, and also the making of new roads
and drainage to all intended new houses prior to their
erection.
A deputation of the Cosmos Institute, consisting of
Sir John Dorat, Mr. John Disney, Mr. Hyde Clarke,
Mr. Thomas Baker, Mr. James Wyld, Mr. Stephen
Geary, Mr. Charles Osborne, Mr. Joseph Haynes (soli-
citor), Mr. John Newall (parliamentary agent), Mr. W.
Jordan, and Mr. W. Jenkins (secretary), had an inter-
, view with Sir W. Molesworth yesterday, at the office of
Works and Public Buildings in Whitehall-place.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. G. B. Greenough,
F.R.S., Mr. H. Emanuel, Mr. A. Patten, Mr. R. Ran-
gell, Dr. Smith, and Mr. Twentyman, had an interview
yesterday with Viscount Palmerston, on the subject of
the St. John's-wood Burial-ground. The deputation was
introduced by Dr. Gourlay.
Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yes-
terday, from the Governors of the North American Pro-
vinces, and the Governors of Hong Kong and Ceylon.
A deputation from Fulham, consisting of the Rev. It.
G. Baker, Rector of Fulham, the Rev. S. Byers, Incum-
bent of St. Mary's, Fulham, the Rev. J. L. Gilbourne,
Curate of Hammersmith, Messrs. W. Bird, J. Bowling,
V. Stevens, J. Crookes, C.Wing, J. Blackford, and W.
D. Salter, had an interview with Viscount Palmerston
yesterday, at the Home-office.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
de Brabant and suite are expected to take leave of her
Majesty and Prince Albert to-morrow, and proceed to
Brussels, via Dover and Ostend.

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His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has
arrived in town, from visiting Lord and Lady Huntingfield,
at their seat in Suffolk.
The Duke of Devonshire left town yesterday for
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, where the noble duke will
shortly entertain visitors.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Waterford are
entertaining company at Curraghmore House.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn and
the Ladies Harriet and Lady Beatrice Hamilton left Ches-
terfiold House for St. Leonard's-on-the-sea, where they
intend to remain until Christmas.
The Earl of Leicester came to town yesterday,
from Holkham Hall, to be present at the annual great
cattle show.
The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli
have arrived at Grosvenor gate from Wimpole, where they
have been on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Hard-
wicke.
The Count and Countess Flahault, and the
Hon. Miss Elphinstone, arrived in Grovesnor-square yes-
terday, from Tullyalan Castle, Perthshire, for the season.
The Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor, who
were staying at the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland's,
Trantham Hall, left their seat, Clalvaney Park, Cheshire,
yesterday.
ROYAL ENGINEERS.—The death of General Sir
A. De Butts, K.C.H., of this branch of the Ordnance
corps, leaves a vacancy in the Colonels Commandant, and
it is expected that Lieutenant-General Sir C. W. Pasley,
K.C.8., will be appointed Colonel Commandant in the
room of General Sir A. De Butts. Major Benjamin S.
Steblin, at present serving at Montreal, is promoted to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Phillpots deceased, and ordered
home,
DEATH OF LORD FULLERTON.—We regret to
state that this venerable judge and distinguished lawyer
died on Saturday afternoon, at his residence in this city.
It is only about three weeks since his retirement from the
bench (which he so long adorned) was announced. On
Monday last he was seized with symptoms of British
cholera, which it was hoped would yield to the treatment ;
but on Thursday the aspect of matters became serious, and
at a consultation of his medical advisers, we believe, little
or no hope was entertained that he would rally, though he
lingered until Saturday afternoon. Lord Fullerton came
to the bar so far back as 1798, or five years after Sir
Walter Scott. He was then in the 23d year, having been
born on the 15th of December, and consequently had at-
tained his 78th year. After a practice of 30 years at the
bar he was called to the bench, in 1828, through the in-
strumentality of Sir Robert Peel, then Home Secretary,
and, we believe, on the earnest representation of the pre-
sent Lord Justice Clerk, then Solicitor-General. Lord
Fullerton well justified the choice. At the bar, and when
he was surrounded by a phalanx of eminent men—Erskine,
Clerk, Cranstoun, Thomson, Moncrieff, Jeffrey, Cockburn,
and, we may add, Keay, Jamieson, and Skene—some being
his seniors and some his juniors, it will be recollected by
many that Lord Fullerton was still deemed one of the
soundest, most learned, and accomplished. lawyers on tho
board, and, in the latter years of his practice, second as an
authority in the feudal and higher branches of the law to
none.—Caledonian, Mercury.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—The forthcoming pantomime
is from the pen of the accomplished author of Box and
Cox, the comic scenes being the production of the inge-
nious Mr. George Ellis. assisted by Mr. Cormack. Mr.
Huline is to be the Clown ; Mr. Cormack, the Harle-
quin ; Mr. Paulo, the Pantaloon ; and the graceful
Miss Desborough, the Columbine.
STRAND THEATRE.—A tower of strength is added to
this establishment. The celebrated Flexmore, who has
recently returned from a continental tour, has accepted
an engagement here for the Christmas holidays. So
that, with Tom Matthews at Drury-lane, and Huline at
the Princess's, the three kings of Clowndom will be
reigning at the same season in the metropolis, to the
superlative delight of all lovers of genuine pantomime.
Afterfulfilling his term of engagement with Mr. Allcroft,
Flexmore returns to the French capital, where he is an
extraordinary favourite ; but it is to be hoped he will
not long be an absentee from London.
CUSTOMS.—Mr. Joseph H. Rolls, who has been ap-
pointed to the post of Surveyor-General of Customs,
vacant by the retirement of Mr. Fennings from the ser-
vice, was especially employed, at the time of the Great
Exhibition of 1851, as the principal officer to superintend
the business on the part of the Customs department at
the Crystal Palace, in Hyde Park, on which occasion he
gave the greatest satisfaction to the Government and all
parties concerned. Mr. Rolls was subsequently ap-
pointed Inspector-General of the Port of Liverpool, and
is now again promoted to the superior office of Surveyor-
General of Customs for the United Kingdom.
DISASTER AT SEA AND Loss OF LIFE.—The packet-
ship E. Z., Captain Hartshorne, which sailed from
Liverpool for New York on the 13th ult., put back to
Liverpool on Monday afternoon, having encountered a
gale on the 29th ult., which swept the decks and washed
over thirteen of the passengers and five of the crew.
AMERICAN AFFAIRS.—The amount of gold brought
by the New York steamer—namely, 87,0001., is again
larger than had been anticipated. At the same time,
the reports of the stock and money market, and also of
the prospects of a sustained demand for manufactured
goods, are very satisfactory. No further failures had
taken place, with the exception of four firms, chiefly
engaged in produce business, at Cincinnati, nor were
any fresh ones anticipated, a prosperous period of many
months being now looked for in all departments
of trade. The amount of stocks extinguished by pur-
chases on the part of the Government continued to be
at the rate of about 120.0001. a week. The accounts
received from Brazil of the proceedings of the party of
American adventurers who are about to explore the
river Amazon continued to excite interest. They ex-
pected to have two steamers which had been taken out
for the purpose put together in a short time, and to start
on their expedition up the river about the first week in
December. A new principle of ship-building was about
to be tested at New York, the most prominent feature
of which is described by the Journal of Commerce to be
"the application of the curve to every part of the model,
by which an egg-like and buoyant shape is imparted, and
the centre of gravity made invariably to fall precisely
amidships." A schooner called the Eclipse had just
been constructed to illustrate the invention, and it was
also intended to build a full-sized vessel on the same
plan.