The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-21 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, J. 20.
Prince Albert, with the Prince of Leiningen, accom-.
panied by the Duke of Cleveland and the Marquis of`
Salisbury, went out shooting this morning, attended by ,F
Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps and Lieut.-Colonel F. H. F
Seymour.

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The following have been invited and are expected to
arrive this afternoon :—The Duke of Newcastle, Vis,
count and Viscountess Palmerston, and Viscount and
Viscountess Sydney.
The undermentioned visitors left the Castle to-day :
The Duchess of Sutherland. the Duke of Cleveland, the
Marquis of Breadalbane, the Marquis of Salisbury, the
Marquis of Exeter, the Marquis Camden, the Marquis
of Londonderry, the Earl Fitzwilliam, the Earl of Cla-
rendon, the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Oxford,
and Sir Augustus Clifford.
Her Majesty's private band attended after dinner in
the Castle yesterday, and played the following selec-
tion

Overture, "Le Due d'Olonne"
Terzetto and Coro, " Euryanthe"
Finale, "Le Pr 6 aux Clercs"

Auber.
Weber.
Harold.

A deputation of the Great Extramural Cemetery As-
sociation, Harlesden-green, consisting of Admiral Sir
W. 0. Pell (chairman), Captain Broadhead, R.N., Mr.:
J. A. Durham, Mr. Wm. Fairlie, Mr. Thomas Vaughan, -
Mr. G. K. Corfield 'solicitor), and Mr. Fredk. Corfield
(secretary), had an interview with Viscount Palmerston,
on Wednesday.
The Duke of Newcastle left town after the Cabinet
Council, yesterday afternoon, fur Windsor Castle.
Dispatches were received at the Colonial-office, yes-
terday, from the Governor of the Gold Coast.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Ministers pre-
sent were the Earl of Aberdeen, the Lord Chancellor,`
Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Viscount Palmer-'''.
ston, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir e
Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir'
Wm. Molesworth. The Council sat three hours.
We have reason to believe that the Hon. Villiers
Stuart is not to be Under-Secretary for Ireland.

THEATRICAL CRITICISAIIS.

In a letter addressed to a contemporary by Mr. Chas.
Mathews, the lessee of the Lyceum Theatre, that gentle-
man gives it as his deliberate opinion that "a great
many theatrical critics engaged on the public press are
the style of men to be cajoled into saying what they don't
think, by a nightly order." We attribute these words
to Mr. Mathews because he has made them his own,
notwithstanding the attorney-like dexterity with which.
he affects to quote them, or the substance of them, from a,
weekly paper. He renders the subterfuge of no avail to,
himself by adding to the allegation that the Spectator"
said so-and so, the parenthetical remark—" and I
have no doubt most truly." The lessee of the Ly-
ceum, having "no doubt " on the question is,
therefore, certain—his expression admits of no other
interpretation ; and being certain that a great many
of the theatrical critics are capable of allowing
their judgment to be biased by a bribe the most con-
temptible in amount that can well be imagined, he has
done his utmost to destroy public confidence, not only
in the honesty of the critics themselves, but in that of
the journals by whom they are employed. We might,
indeed, urge that the offence with which Mr. Mathews
charges these gentlemen is simply impossible, inasmuch
as "the nightly order" is given to the directing authority
of each newspaper, and by him transferred, as occasion
may require, to the person whom he may select to
criticise the performance. If a money payment were
required--as, by a voluntary relinquishment of privilege,
it will in future be, so far as we are concerned—the
money would be paid by the journal, and not by the
critic engaged on its behalf, so that in no event could
the admission to a theatre become a pecuniary object to
the latter.—Morning Post.

SPRING CIRCUITS OF THE JUDGES FOR 1853.

Yesterday morning the judges of the several common
law courts at WePtminster, the Queen's Bench, the
Common Pleas, and Exchequer, assembled in the F
chequer Chamber, for the purpose of determining and
arranging the circuits they would respectively proceed
for holding the ensuing spring assize of over and terrni'
ner, and general gaol delivery in and for the severel
cities and counties in England and Wales. The follow'
ing were the arrangements finally determined on :
NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Judges—The Right Honourable
Lord Campbell, Lord Chief Justice of England, and the
Right Honourable Sir Frederick Pollock, Knight, Lord
Chief Baron of her Majesty's Exchequer.
MIDLAND CIRCUIT.— The Right Honourable Sir Jobe
Jervis, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas,
and the Right Honourable Sir James Parke, Knight, one
of the Barons of the Exchequer.
HOME CIRCUIT.—The Right Honourable Sir. Edward
Halli Anderson, one of the Barons of the Court of Exche'
quer, and Mr. Justice Coleridge.
OXFORD CIRCUIT.—Mr. Justice Williams, and Mr'
Justice Talfourd:'
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Mr., Justice Cresswell, and Dlr.
Baron Martin. •

WESTERN CIRCUIT,—Mr. Justice Erle, and Mr. jllB.
tice Crompton.
NORTH WALES AND CHESTER.-Mr. Justice Maule. ;
SOUTH WALES AND CHESTER.—Mr. Justice Wightrnary
Mr. Baron Platt will remain in town as Vacat
Judge.

AUSTRALASIAN PACIFIC MAIL STEAM C°3l'
PA NY.

The first anunal meeting of the Australasian Pacific
Mail Steam Company was held yesterday afternoon, et
which the report was adopted. The following is a
densation of the principal points, the whole of the di'
cussion being merely of a formal character :—"111e
directors have to announce that her Majesty has bee-
,,
pleased to grant her Royal charter of incorporation,
limiting the liabilities of the shareholders to the amours
subscribed, and that the company's deed of settlenseeu
has been duly executed. The number of shares sub"
scribed for, and paid on, is 12,126 • leaving in the hall"'
of the directors 374 shares, which will be issued 0
they may consider desirable for the interests of the coat'
pany. After various consultations with persons in Eng
land and Scotland best able to advise as to the size and
models requisite for the service, the directors invited
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the most eminent builders and engineers in the united
kingdom to tender for providing the company wit.°
five iron screw steamships ; and they have the satin'
faction of informing the proprietors that they have eir
tered into contracts with the following firms respective'
ly :—Messrs Caird and Co., the Kangaroo, 1,550 toile?
and 300-horse power ; Messrs. Reid and Co., the Dinor"
nis, 1,530 tons, and 300-horse power ; Mr. Robert',
Napier, the Emu, 1,666 tons ; and 300-horse powers
Mr. Robert, Napier, the Black Swan, 1,620 tons, an
300-horse power ; Messrs. Miller and Ravenhill, the
Menura, 1,600 tons, and 300-horse power. The dire'
tors expect they will be in a position to commence earli
operations, the builders having undertaken to deliver
the first vessel in June next, the others to follow in
monthly succession. The contracts were entered ink
previous to the late advance in iron and other materiale•
The reports lately received of the progress of the V'
nama Railway are satisfactory. It being essential t°
the success of this undertaking that there should be
sufficient and ample means of communication between
England and Panama, the directors have the satisfaction
of informing the proprietors that, in addition to the
semi-monthly service of the Royal Mail Steam-packet
Company from Southampton direct to Colon (Navy Bari
passengers will also be booked through by the ships
the British and North American Royal Mail Steate"
packet Company from Liverpool vid New York °
Colon, and thence to New Zealand and Sydney,"

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FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT THE COLLEGE OP SURGEON' ,
—This morning, at half-past eight o'clock, a most frigili
ful accident occurred in the new theatre of the 80.
College of Surgeons, now in course of construction
Portugal-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, and immediately in
the rear of the main building. It appears that Joh°
M'llenry, a carpenter, residing at 42, Clement's-101
Strand, had just returned to his work from heeakfar,
and was engaged in moving a piece of timber, when vPi
missed his footing, and was precipitated from a height .1
18 feet to the ground. He was instantly removed tn
King's College Hospital, where it was ascertained that
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he had sustained a severe fracture of the skull beside
serious contusions, and such internal injuries that his
recovery is rendered extremely doubtful.
CORNWALL SAILORS' HOME.—His Majesty the Nil
of Sweden and Norway has been most graciously please
in consideration of the benefits which his subjects ha
received from the " Cornwall Sailors' Home" at x 1;
mouth, to contribute the sum of 501. in aid of the fun
of that institution.
SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.—A considerable redue.e-„,a
the tariff of charges for-messages between England
the continent is about to be made.
TREMENDOUS MORTALITY ON BOARD AN EMIGI
SHIP.--The Government emigrant ship, Ticondero),l
which sailed from Liverpool on the 4th August, JIT;
arrived,off Port Philip Heads, but was not allowed of
proceed further, in consequence of having upwards,,,,,
200 passengers ill with fever. She had buried 120 p-
sengers on her voyage.
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PRICE OF IRON.—The influence of the recent ris
the value of money has been manifested in the iron ro r
w,
ket to an extent that seems to justify some of the
to
gations, hitherto strenuously denied, with reger"ieb
over-speculation in that article. Scotch pigs, b
touched 78s. about a fortnight back, were sold on "
nesday at 61s_,. and yesterday at 625.
THE CITY DUTIES UPON CORN.—A meeting, cony en
' by circular, of merchants• interested in the corn trade 10" 01
held yesterday at the London Tavern, for the purpo_sd
by
obtaining a reduction at the excessive charges impes'ge.
the corporation for metage, porterage, &c., of grao*
Masterman, M.P., took the chair. Mr. E. Hales read
port, which states what the metage dues formerly Wbje.
and then goes on to say, " the committee, however,
,3.
siring to take an extremely liberal view of the retig to
tion to be paid for the work done, and having regardhe
the guarantee afforded by the superintendence °lerods
city of London, recommend that the present nurn.oved
charges, amounting in the whole to the before-meld'. eS
sum of about 4d. per quarter ex ship, and 24 of
ggrraainna,rya,nsdholuld be reduced to 2d. per quarter h'l,le.soe
heavy grain andd. on
ligonht
light nshoixp,g:lindarlyl,":„orert
paid by the importer or seller, thus avoiding the, tats
expense and trouble of collection from buyers in aI'AY
of the country." The report was adopted, and th
meeting separated.