The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 14, 1854.

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Queen yesterday, at Buckingham Palace.
Prince Albert, attended by Major-General Wylde and
Colonel Seymour, left Buckingham Palace at twenty
minutes past one o'clock yesterday, for the purpose of
viewing the siege operations at Chatham.
His Royal Highness proceeded to the London-bridge
Terminus, travelled by a specialitrain on the North Kent
branch of the South-Eastern Railway, and returned at
twenty minutes before eight o'clock.
Her Majesty with Prince Arthur and the Princess
Louisa, attended by the Hon. Matilda Paget, took a
drive in an open landau and four in the afternoon. Lord
Alfred Paget and Lord Charles Fitzroy were in attend.
ance on horseback.
The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, attended by
Mr. Gibbs, visited the Exhbition in St. Martin's Hall in
the forenoon.

The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Hon.
Matilda Paget, the Hon. Mary Seymour, Earl Somers,
Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel Seymour, honoured the
Royal Italian Opera with their presence last evening.
Her Majesty's private band attended in Buckingham
Palace after dinner on Wednesday evening, and played
the following pieces :
Overture, " Le Bel d'Andore
Duo, " Etoile du Nord" Meverbeer.
Selection, " Faust" Spohr.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by
Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Sir G. Cooper, honoured
the Olympic Theatre with their presence last evening.
A deputation from the Birmingham Assay-office, con-
sisting of Messrs. Rotton, Sharpe, Elkington, and A.
Ryland, bad an interview with the Right Hon. E. Card-
well yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. The
deputation was introduced by Mr. Spooner.
Mr. J. A. Franklin had an interview with the Right
Hon. E. Cardwell yesterday, on the subject of the
Standard of Gold Wares Bill and decimal coinage.
The Chief Secretary for Ireland, Sir John Young, en-
tertained the following distinguished guests to dinner,
at the Trafalgar Hotel, Greenwich, on the 12th inst. :
The Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount Monk, Lord Elcho,
Lord Alfred Hervey, the Right Hon. G. W. Hayter,
the Solicitor-General for Ireland, the Lord Advocate ;
Messrs. R. Lowe, M.P., W. Monsell, M.P., John
O'Connell, M.P., Daniel O'Connell, M.P., John Sadleir,
M.P., James Sadleir, M.P., Loftus Bland, M.P., Pol-
lard Urquhart, M.P., W. Birk, M.P., G. Bowyer,
M.P., F. Scully, M.P., J. D. Fitzgerald, M.P., J. M.
Fox, M.P., J. Esmonde, Esq., M.P., W. Fagan, M.P.,
Major Brownrigg, and Mr. G. Dalton.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
yesterday, and heard an appeal from the Court of Ad-
miralty, " Valentine and others v. Cleugh (the Tele-
graph).

COURT.—We understand that her Majesty and
the youthful Royal family will, according to present ar-
rangements, leave Buckingham Palace on Monday next,
for Osborne, Isle of Wight, where the Court is expected
to remain until after the prorogation, which will take
place about the second week in the ensuing month.
The Queen Marie Arnelie, the Dukes de Nemours
and D'Aumale, and the Prince de Joinville, have most
generously contributed to the funds of the French Bene-
volent Society (Societe Francais° de Bienfaisance). This
society has been, since its foundation (a period of nearly
13 years), under their distinguished patronage, and has
been the means of distributing upwards of 8,0001. to
indigent Frenoh persons in this country.
The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk and Lady Adeliza
Fitzalan Howard, have left St. James's-square, for
Arundel Castle, for the season.
The Duke of Sutherland leaves Stafford House to-
morrow' on his annual visit to his vast domains in the
west of Scotland. The duchess and family leave town
early in the ensuing week, for Trentham Hall.
The Duke of Devonshire continues to go on favour-
ably, at Brighton, where the noble duke is expected to
remain until until the close of the month. His grace
has recovered the use of his right arm, which it was
feared would become permanently affected by his late
attack.

DEATH OF LADY ELIZABETH ALEXANDER.—We have
to record the demise of this lady. She was sister to the
late Earl of Caledon, and aunt to the present holder of
the title, and was connected with the noble families of
Caledon, Craven, Clarendon, and Radnor.
HONOUR TO OMER PACHA.—An Imperial decree pub-
lished in the Moniteur, confers on Marshal Omer Pacha,
General-in-Chief of the Ottoman Army, the dignity of
grand cross of the imperial order of the Legion of
Honour. _ _

TIRE OFFICERS of the TIGER, who were prisoners of
war at Odessa, have been exchanged and released.
THE SECRETARY OF WAR.—An amended estimate of
the expense of this department has been issued, adding
a charge of 2,9931. as the estimated amount of postage
to be defrayed in consequence of the abolition of official
franking. The vote therefore will be, not 14,3071., but
17,300/.

CRYSTAL PALACE. THURSDAY (SHILLING DAY).—
Number of season tickets sold to this date, 20,370. Ad-
mission at the doors, 15,614 ; admission by season
tickets, I,4lo—total, 17,024.
THE Balm of ENGLAND. —Yesterday morning the
usual quarterly general court of the governors of this
corporation was held, pursuant to the terms of the
charter, at the offices, Threadneedle-street, Mr. J. G.
Hubbard, the governor, presiding, when the minutes of
the previous courts having been read, and the election
of the governor, deputy-governor, and the directors con-
firmed, the meeting broke up.
TRYING NOR GOLD IN ENGLAND AND WALES.—
Yesterday a Parliamentary paper was printed con-
taining copies of reports from the commissioners in
charge of the land revenue of the Crown on the sub-
ject of arrangements to be entered into with persons
desirous of trying for and raising gold in England
and Wales. It is recommended, in order to place
some limit on the excitement of mere speculation
that, if sufficient inducements do not exist to warrant an
annual outlay of 101. or 201., it would not be worth
while to occupy official persons, or to intrude on private
grounds.
THE ENCHANTER.—This vessel is announced from
Geelong, whence she sailed the 17th of March, with
10,566 ounces of gold, valued at 42,0001. This amount,
however, will immediately be purchased for transmis-
sion to Paris, as the French exchange continues with a
declining tendency. Gold is likely to be sent from the
Bank of England, unless further sums from Australia
shall soon arrive.

GENERAL SCREW STEAM COMPANY.---It is understood
that a negotiation is pending between the Government
and this company, which will result in the purchase, on
satisfactory terms, of the new ship Prince, of 2,700 tons,
belonging to that company, for the purpose of a steam
transport.
DEATH OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN IN THE SERPENTINE,
HYDE-PARK.—Yesterday morning an inquest was held
by Mr. C. Bedford, the coroner, at the Rose and Crown
Tavern, as to the death of Mr. Enoch Dyer, aged 18.
It appeared that the deceased had gone on Monday
evening to bathe in the Serpentine, and got into one of
the holes, and never rose again. Griffiths, of the Royal
Humane Society, shortly after got him out, when he
was taken to the society's receiving-house, where Dr.
Christian for two hours endeavoured to restore anima-
tion, but without effect. The jury returned a verdict of
"Accidental death."

ROYAL COLLEGE or SIIItEONS.-At a meeting of the
Council on the 13th inst., Mr. G. J. Guthrie, F.R.S.,
was elected President, and Mr. W. Lawrence, F.R.S.,
and Mr. B. Travers, F.R.S., were elected Vice-Presi•
dents of the College for the ensuing year. It is worthy
of observation that the present is the third occasion on
which Mr. Guthrie has been elected President. The
following members of the College having undergone the
necessary examinations, were admitted licentiates in
midwifery at the meeting of the Board on the 12th inst. :
Messrs. John Dixon, Hemsworth,
Yorkshire, diploma
of membership dated March 31, 1854 ; Charles Young,
Worth, Sussex, July 12, 1850 ; Edward Towndrow
France, Sheffield, April 24, 1854 ; Edward Wadman
Ward, Leeds, April 21, 1854
• William Henry Medd,
Stockport, Cheshire, April 7;1854 ; Charles Vicary,
Warminster, April 21, 1845 ; Charles Buckworth Herne
Soame, Elstow, near Bedford March 27, 1854 ; Daniel
Benjamin Hine, Nottingham, April 17, 1854 ; Charles
Muscroft, Pontefract, April 11, 1845 ; William Moxon,
Rugeley, Staffordshire, Juno 2, 1854 ; John Gregory
Booth, Haslingden Lacashire, June 2, 1854 ; Edward
Pratt, Appledore, Devon, April 11, 1853 ; William
Deamer, Bentinek-street, Manchester-square, June 2,
1854 ; and Frederick Blackman, Blackfriars-road, April
21, 1854.

EXTENSIVE NEW BUILDING FOR THE TOWER HAMLETS
MlLlTlA.—Yesterday at the meeting of Middlesex magis-
' trates, the county treasurer made a representation to the
) Court that he had been informed by the clerk of the Liberty
of the Tower that the sum of 14,5001. would be required
) for the erection of storehouses and dwellings for the two
r regiments of Tower Hamlets Militia. Ths matter was
referred to the committee of financial and general pur-
' Poses, with an instruction to them to inquire of the
Lieutenancy of the Tower Hamlets why so large a sum
was required.
ALLEGED DEATH FROM IMPROPER MEDICAL TREAT-
MENT.—Yesterday Mr. Bedford, coroner for Westmin-
ster, held an inquiry at the Rising Sun, Charles-street,
Grosvenor-square, into the circumstances attending the
death of Mary Ann Thatcher, aged 22, a single woman
and a domestic servant, late in the service of Mr. Jay,
a medical practitioner and registrar of births and deaths,
residing at 51, Park-street, Grosvenor-square. After
hearing the evidence, the room was ordered to be
cleared, and the jury having deliberated with closed
doors for nearly an hour, the foreman handed in the
following verdict :—" Deceased died from inflammation
of the peritoneum, which the jury, without imputing
any malicious feeling or criminal neglect to her master,
consider to have been greatly promoted by improper
medicines administered by him to the deceased."
MIDDLESEX SESSlONS.—Yesterday the court sat at
the Sessions-house. Mr. Pownali was re-elected chair-
man of the bench for one year ensuing. On the recom-
mendation of the Commit tee for Financial and General
Purposes, the court ma de an order on the county
treasurer for the payment of salaries and demands to
the amount of 13,7641. 2s. 3d. ; and an ordinary county
rate of Id. in the pou'ad on the rental of the county was
ordered. A half-penny rate was ordered for the lunatic
asylums. A somewhat desultory discussion followed
relative to the pro visions of the North Metropolitan
Railway Bill, affec ting the county property in Coldliath-
fields. It was stated that the opposition to the bill
was withdrawn, and that the company would provide
the county with another prison in lieu of the Coldbath-
fields House of (Correction, according to the terms em-
bodied in the bil 1. A number of reports were received,
and the usual fc rmal business having been gone through,
the court adjou reed.
RISE IN TITZ PRICE OF NEWSPAPERS.—The Dundee
.Advertiser has been the first paper in Scotland to ad-
vance in price, It is understood that others will soon
follow the ears aple. -