The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-24 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR

OSBORNE, AUG. 23.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
accompanied by Count Alexander Mensdorff, and at-
tended by the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, drove
to Ventnor yesterday afternoon.
The Earl of Aberdeen left yesterday for London, and
the Earl of Clarendon and Sir Charles Lyell arrived on
a visit to her Majesty. •
The Hon. A. Gordon has succeeded the Hon. D. de
Ros as Equerry in Waiting to the Prince.

THE MARRIAGE OF THE DUKE 'DE

BRABANT.

The civil marriage of the Duke of Brabant, with the
Archduchess Maria, took place in a hall of the Palace
at Brussels, at 10 o'clock on Monday, the bride looking
rather pale and agitated, but magnificently attired in
white and diamonds. The bridegroom wore the uniform
of his military rank, a major of Grenadiers, to which he
has been recently promoted. The King himself wore
the costume of a general, with the red riband of his own
Order of Leopold ; and all the Great officers of State
wore their official costumes and orders.

For the ceremonial marriage the Collegiate Church
had been long under repair and decoration, and here the
Roman Catholic Church, so potent in Belgium, put forth
all that pomp and splendour which is so essential a part
of her character.

In the centre of the lofty nave rose a baldaquin, which
seemed nearly a hundred feet in height ; huge old tapes-
tries, half faded with the lapse of centuries, enclosed the
space in front of the altar. A dim religious light was
all that the antique painted windows allowed to pene-
trate from the dull unfriendly outer air, but a long array
of massive candelabra poured the light of thousands and
thousands of wax lights on whole legions of priests,
clad in white, who thronged in perfect order the high
ascending gradations of the altar, in front of which
sat the Cardinal Archbishop of Mechlin, Primate of
the kingdom, on a gorgeous throne, surrounded by
his suffragan bishops, with their high golden croziers
rising over their heads. In the centre space, under the
baldaquin were the chair of the King and kneeling
cushions for the Royal pair, all as rich as gold, velvet,
and embroidery could make them ; while on each side
the diplomatic corps, the Senate, the Court, the camp,
and the city were all represented.
The Archbishop received the King and the Prince at
the great gate, where they arrived amidst the loud huzzas
of the crowd. Blasts of trumpets of full intonation,
without a single flat note, regaled our ears, and the
King, the Duchess, with long held train of silver cloth,
and the Prince, moved up the living avenue to their
places under the canopy. The bride and bridegroom
then knelt, and the ceremony commenced with a prayer.
The Cardinal Archbishop, when all were seated, read a
discourse to the Royal pair, monitory of things needful
in their new state and highly responsible position, which
was listened to with all the decorum requisite on such
an occasion.

The marriage service was then read and the nuptial
benediction pronounced, after which the deep peals of
the organ were heard and a subdued but sublime mass
choral swelled on our ears, the incense curled on high,
and at intervals a salute of 101 guns measured the pro-
gress of the scene. Last of all, with both organ and
orchestra, came Te Deum Laudainue with thrilling
powers

THE ROYAL VISIT TO DUBLIN. —ln anticipation of
the approaching Royal visit, Dublin is at present almost
Buffering from an excess of population. Standing room
is not to be had at any price iu the hotels, and lodgings
of the humblest pretensions to respectability are at a
high premium. Everything betokens a brief season of
unusual brilliancy in the Irish metropolis. The "illu-
mination" question was debated yesterday in the corpora.
tion, and a satisfactory " compromise" was agreed to.
Private houses are not to be lit, but it was recommended
that all large establishments and public places should
illuminate in such a manner as might be thought most
suitable. Fireworks are to be discouraged, •' lest a
spark by the merest chance might fall on the Exhibition-
building, and be productive of serious consequences."
Alderman Reynolds fought hard for the chandlers, but
he was overborne by the sense of the Council.
REPORTED DEATH OF LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR CHARLES
J. NAPIER.—The Standard says, that up to noon yester-
day no intelligence of Sir Charles's death had been re-
ceived at his private residence, although he was known
to be alarmingly ill. The gallant veteran has been
exceedingly unwell for the last two or three months, and
during nearly the whole of that period was confined to
his bed in Hobart-place, Eaton-square ; whence, how-
ever, he was conveyed, last Saturday week, in an easy
carriage, to his country mansion at Oaklands, near
Hants. Although the report of his decease is without
foundation, it is understood that his ultimate recovery is
'despaired of by his friends and medical attendants, who
indeed almost hourly expect his dissolution.
NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING. —On Monday
afternoon a number of children, while playing on the
towing path of the Regent's-canal, near the New Globe,
Mile-end, one, a boy about nine years of age, accidentally
fell in, and Was nearly drowned. A poor man, a jour-
neyman shoemaker, jumped in and attempted to save
him, but being afraid to venture beyond his depth, re-
treated, and left the child to perish. Mr. Horncastle,
of Poplar, coming by at the time, and hearing the screams
of the women witnessing the child sinking, immediately
sprang into the canal and brought him up from the bot-
tom, and delivered him into the charge of the police, who
conveyed him home to his parents apparently lifeless.
Mr. Horncastle, after his bath, walked off in the direc-
tion of his home amidst the cheers of the numbers who
had by the time assembled,
DIETIZESSING SUICIDE. —Yesterday forenoon an in=
quest was holden at the Eel Pie Rouse tavern, Peck-
ham-footpath, Peckham, before Mr. Carter, one of the
coroners for the county of Surrey, on the remains of Mr.
Thomas Atkinson, a respectable tradesman, whose body
had been found in the Surrey Canal, on Saturday morn-
ing, under what at first were considered suspicious cir-
cumstances. It appeared that on the previous evening
the deceased, who was a gas-fitter in an extensive way
of business, had been to Camberwell fair and Vauxhall
Gardens with a friend, whom he left at half-past four in
the morning, and at eight o'clock his body was found.
He had for some time before been very much depressed
in his mind, in consequence of his bringing two actions
against a person, and his apprehension that he should
lose both. The jury returned a verdict to the effect
that the deceased had committed suicide while labouring
under temporary insanity. The deceased has left a
widow and family to deplore his loss.
DEATH FROM CHOLERA IN THE MILLI3ANK PmeoN.
—Yesterday Mr. Bedford held an inquest in the Mill-
bank Prison on the body of Mary Keith, alias Campbell,
aged 30, a convict, under seven years' transportation for
felony. It appeared that something like two hours
elapsed before the surgeon of the prison was made
acquainted with the nature of her complaint. Dr. Baly,
the prison physician, said that on Saturday last he found
the deceased in a state of collapse from cholera. lie
saw her three times on that day, the last time about 10
o'clock at night. He had tiO hope of her recovery, and
she died of cholera bli Sunday morning at two o'clock.
In answer to questions from the coroner, Dr. Baly said
that there were no means of distinguishing between
Asiatic cholera and summer cholera. There were less
cases of diarrhoea in the prison this year than last sum-
mer. On making a post mortem examination of the body,
he found the same symptoms as in other cases of death
from the same disease. He considered that the (quip-
toms set in at half-past eight or nine in the morning. He
regretted that the deceased had not been seen sooner by
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in favour of England ; and, aftor making allowance fr:a•
charges of transport, the pres- t, ra,te leaves scarcely
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