The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1854.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prince of
Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, Princess
Alice, and Princess Helena, left Buckingham Palace
at 20 minutes to 8 o'clock yesterday morning for Edin-
burgh en route to Balmoral.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were attended
by the Duchess of Wellington, the Hon. Eleanor Stan-
ley, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Major-General the
Hon. C. Grey, and Sir James Clark.

The Royal party proceeded in five of the Queen's
carriages, escorted by a detachment of Carbineers, to
the terminus of the Great Northern Railway at King's-
cross, where a special train was in readiness to convey
her Majesty to Edinburgh.
The Queen and Prince were conducted to their car-
riage on leaving the Palace by'Lord Charles Fitzroy,
Captain the Hon. Dudley de Ros, and the Master of the
Household.

Sir George Grey, Secretary of State for the Colonies,
is in official attendance on the Queen.

The Earl of Aberdeen left town on Wednesday, for
Southampton.
7'espatches were sent from the Colonial-office yester-
day to the Governor of Van Diemen's Land.

Hi■ Majesty King Leopold, accompanied by the Duke
and Duchess de Brabant and the Princess Charlotte,
arrived on the 12th inst. at Tournay from the palace of
Lacken, near Brussels, where the Royal family will re-
main during the Pei which have been some time in
preparation to receive them. His Belgian Majesty, we
understand, returns annually to the British Treasury
about 14,0001. out of the Parliamentary income of
50,000/. per annum, which was voted to him on the oc-
casion of his marriage with the late Princess Charlotte,
daughter of the late King George IV.

The Duchess of Buccleuch, who is still staying at
Walmer Castle in improved health, is expected to arrive
at Montagu House, Whitehall Gardens, early in the
ensuing week, cm route to Scotland.

The will of the lion, and Right Rev. Richard Bagot,
D.D., Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, has been proved
under 14,0001. personalty, which ho has left to his
widow.

The Hon. Major and Lady K. Evans Freke have
arrived in town from Vienna.

BRIGHTON.—The town is getting very full of visitors,
and fresh arrivals are pouring in daily. 'We do not
remember to have had so large an assemblage of com-
pany in the months of August and September in any
previous year.—Brighton Gazette.
THE CLARENDON HOTEL.—Arrived—Viscount Falk-
land, from Scutterskelfe, Yorkshire. Departed—Mr.
and Mrs. Gleason, of Boston, who have been making a
tour in Europe, on their return to the United States via
Liverpool.
EDWARD'SPRIVATEHOTEL.—Arrived—Mr. Alexander
Bruen, with Mrs. Bruen and suite. Departed—Mr. J.
G. Gayland and Mrs. Gayland, for Paris.
His Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant has been pleased
to offer the Archdeaconry of Ardagh, vacant by the ap-
pointment of Archdeacon Beresford to the bishopric of
Kilmore, to the Rev. J. C. Mertin, D.D., rector of
Killeshandra, and formerly Feilow of Trinity College,
Dublin.

The Duke of Norfolk has presented the Rev. A.
Gibbons, B. A.., to the rectory of St. Peter's, Thetford,
with the incumbency of St. Cuthbert's annexed, ren-
dered vacant by the death of the Rev. Thomas Sworde,
M.A.

The Rev. J. L. Gilborne, 8.A., curate of St. Paul's,
Hammersmith, and the Rev. John Meredith Lewes,
8.A., curate of Stroud, Gloucestershire, have been ap-
pointed chaplains to her Majesty's forces in Turkey.
The incumbency of Farndon, in the diocese of Chester,
has become vacant by the death of the Rev. John Pic-
cope, M.A. It is worth 1501. a year, and is in the gift
of the Marquis of Westminster.

The arrival of Smith O'Brien in Belgium is again
contradicted.

Father Mathew, better known as the Apostle of
Temperance, is obout setting out for Madeira, being
afflicted with paralysis.
The dollars brought by the last West India packet
were sold yesterday at 62id. per oz., being an advance
of id. on the price obtained for those by the previous
steamer. They were purchased for the Chinese market.
ANOTHER RUSSIAN VESSEL SEIZED.—The Russian
brigantine Rapid has been seized at Hull by the Cus-
tom-house authorities.

LIEUTENANT PERRY'S DEFENCE AND TESTIMONIAL
FUND.—Subscriptions continue to pour in daily, and
amount now to a total of 1,0001. On Tuesday 501. ar-
rived from Lord Ashburnham ; and on Wednesday it
was announced that the Earl of Shaftesbury had paid
101. to the credit of the fund into the bank of Williams,
Deacons, and Co.
ARRIVAL OF AUSTRALIAN VESSELS.—Five Austra-
lian vessels arrived yesterday with gold—three from
Port Philip and two from Sydney, and the total quantity
is 149,818 ounces, valued at 599,2721. One vessel, the
Briseis, in addition to 43,600 ounces of gold, has 10,000
sovereigns on freight. The other proportions are,
Indian Queen, 60,859 ; Nelson, 14,234 ; Washington
Irving, 13,734 ; and Nile, 17,391 ounces.

FAILUDA.--An important failure has been announced
from Manehester—namely, that of the old-established
firm of Messrs. David Scott, Richmond, and Co. Their
liabilities are believed to be heavy, and it is feared that
the disaster will materially influence the standing of
several mercantile houses in Liverpool and elsewhere.
SWEDISH LINES.—The completion of the railway corn.
munication between the east and west is now before the
Swedish Diet. The committee on the subject has re-
ported favourably, and has recommended that a sepa-
rate sum should be constituted for this purpose by. the
aid of a state loan.

GHOST IN PORTSMOUTH.—During the last two nights
(says the Portsmouth Guardian) the neighbourhood of
the Jewish Synagogue has been for hours well nigh im-
passable. Crowds have collected despite the efforts of
the police, in order to catch a glimpse of a ghost, which,
it is affirmed, disports its unearthly form in that locality.
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ESTABLISHMENT OF A HOP MARKET AT HEREFORD.
—A large and influential public meeting was held at the
Old Town Hall, Hereford, last Wednesday, the Mayor
presiding, for the purpose of establishing a hop market.
Resolutions in favour of the project were carried nem.
con.—Local Paper.

CHOLERA AT MANCHESTER.—Yesterday morning a
woman named Mary Ann Phillips, aged 49 years, died
of Asiatic cholera, in Hall's-place, Oldham-road, Man-
chester, after 17 hours' illness, during three of which
she had bee❑ in a state of collapse. According to a
report presented to the watch committee by Captain
Willis (the chief constable) yesterday, this is only the
second death from cholera in the last mouth in Manches-
ter, and the town is generally in a very healthy state.'
TRH ISLE OP MAN.—By the 20th section of the act
17 and 18 Viet., cap. 122, of last session, the Isle of
Man is to be deemed and taken to be part of the United
Kingdom for the purpose of that or any other act relat-
ing to the customs, save as to the rates of duties and
drawbacks charged or allowed.

AUSTRALIA.—The Nile, Capt. Byles, which left Syd-
ney April 18, put into Falmouth on Wednesday, and
landed a heavy mail and several passengers. The letters
were sent on from Plymouth (whither they had been for-
warded by coach) by the mail train on Wednesday even-
ing, and the remaining portion of the mail on Thursday.
Some of the passengers wept up by the South Devon
Railway on Thursday morning.
THE TWENTT•SIX GUN FRIGATE RADETZKY.—The
Austrian steam screw-frigate Radetzky. 26 guns, was
hauled out of the East India Docks into the River on
Tuesday, and is moored at the buoy off Black wall stairs.
A frigate, belonging to the same Government, which
arrived off Greenhithe a few days since, has the Ra-
detzky's crew and officers on board, and they will, it is
expected, be transferred in the course of the ensuing
week. The Radetzky was built at Mr. Wigram's yard,
where two others, we understand, are building.
THE RECEIPT STAMP.—It was mentioned on Friday
last that the Treasury had given notice they would hold
all letters of acknowledgment passing between the
branches of a bank liable to the receipt stamp, and the
impropriety of a regulation of that nature was at the
same period pointed out. It appears, however, that
the Government had no such intention, and that the
statement arose from a clerical error in that answer to
an inquiry on the subject, the words "We shall hold
they are liable to the receipt stamp" having been
erroneously used, instead of "We shall hold that they
are not liable to the receipt stamp.
EXTENSION OF BAYSWATER.—A little more than 20
years ago there were but two or three streets and a
square to the west of Edgeware-road, all beyond being
fields leading to the country westward. Now you nay
walk for nearly a mile and a half to two miles through
an endless number of magnificent terraces, streets, and
squares, all inhabited by gentry and merchants, and
wealthy City men, and even then you are only on the
threshold of an enormous district of mansions of the first
class, extending for nearly another mile into the coun-
try. Buildings of the first class are being erected fur-
ther westward, and there is no doubt that it will become
the most attractive portion of the metropolis.
NEW ENTRANCE TO KENSINGTON GARDENS.—A new
entrance to these gardens is in courso of erection, con-
sisting of a carriage entrance, with one on either side for
pedestrians. It is immediately opposite the new church
now erecting in the Bayswater-road, and will form an
entrance to the broad gravel walk leading directly across
the gardens to Kensington-gore the opposite end of the
walk being occupied by the handsome bronze gates pur-
chased by the Government at the Great Exhibition.
None of the other entrances to these gardens consist of
anything more than a gate for pedestrians, and it is be-
lieved to be the intention of the authorities to form a
carriage-road and thoroughfare across this part of the
gardens from Bayswater to Kensington for the conve-
nience of the public.
CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.—On Thursday, the 21st instant,
being St. Matthew's Day, the Lord Mayor, aldermen,
sheriffs, and governors of the several royal hospitals will
attend Divine service at Christ Church, Newgate-street,
where a sermon will be preached by the Rev. G. A.
Jacob, D.D., late fellow of Worcester College, Oxford,
head waster of Christ's Hospital. After which they will
repair to the Great Hall in Christ's Hospital, where
four orations on the benefits of the royal hospitals will
be delivered according to the annual custom :—ln Latin
by J. C. Barker ; in English, by 11. T. Armfieid ; in
Greek, by J. W. Furrell ; and in French, by C. "W. P.
Watts. After which will be recited translations from
Shakespere and Longfellow, by Messrs. Foster and
Tebbutt, and an English poem on Constantinople by
3- W. Furrell. Also, the Richards' prize poem on
the Don Cossacks will be recited, but has not yet been
adjudged