The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-01 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Ocr. 31.

The Queen and the Duchess of Brabant, drove out
this morning, in an open pony phaeton, Colonel the
Hon. Charles Grey attended on horseback.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, with His Majesty
the King of the Belgians, accompanied by Earl Gran-
ville, went out shooting.
The Duke of Brabant and the Count of Flanders,
attended by Baron Prisse and Colonel Wylde, left
Windsor this forenoon by the South-Western Railway
for Woolwich.

Earl Granville, the Portuguese Minister and Countess
Lavradio, the Marquis of Breadalbane, Lord John
Russell, and Viscount Hardinge left the Castle to-day
for London.

The French Ambassador and Countess Walewski,
Madame Van de Weyer, the Marquis of Lansdowne,
the Earl of Elgin, Lord Elphinstone, Lord Raglan,
Major-General the Hon. Sir Edward Cut, and Sir
James Graham have been invited, and are expected this
afternoon.

The Turkish Minister visited the Earl of Clarendon
yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office.
Earl Granville returned to town yesterday afternoon
from Windsor Castle.

CORPORATION REFORM.—The Committee of the Court
of Aldermen have commenced the business of corpora-
tion reform by ordering that the clothes of the Mansion-
house and Guildhall officers shall be made by the prison-
ers confined in Holloway gaol. The officers have been
already measured by the Holloway tailors, upon whom
they waited for that purpose, within the last few days,
by the direction of the committee. '
MR. G. V. BROOKE appeared at the Theatre Royal,
Liverpool, on Monday evening last, in the character of
Othello. The enthusiasm of the audience was great,
Mr. Brooke being summoned several times during the
progress of the tragedy to receive their congratulations.
BEET ROOT SUGAR.—The first meeting of the Irish
Beet Root Sugar Company was held yesterday, when a
very satisfactory report from the directors was read and
unanimously adopted. The works have all been erected
and operations have commenced. The sugar produced
has been pronounced extremely good, and the prices
obtained in London, Dublin, and Belfast, "have proved
beyond question that the sugar obtained from beet can
compete successfully with the colonial produce of the
cane."
ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN GOLD MINING COMPANY.--The
second annual meeting of the proprietors was held yes-
terday, at the Freemasons' Tavern—Mr. Cotterell in the
chair. The report stated that of the 1,0001. re-
muneration voted to the directors, the board had
not drawn that amount ; and that of a sum of
4,500/. borrowed from the bankers, 4,0001. had been re-
mitted to California for the express purpose of pur-
chasing the Fleuchan lode, in addition to the property
purchased at Dicksburg. That purchase has not been
completed, and the 4,000/. now forms part of the funds
in the hands of Sir H. Huntley. The quartz from
the different lodes at Dicksburg has been tested,
and the yield has varied from 4/. to 101. per ton. An
arrangement had been entered into by Sir H. Huntley
with the Brown's Valley Company on his own responsi-
bility, and he had determined to defer working the
Dicksburg mine until the arrival from England of
the further machinery then on its way, the reason
assigned by him for this step being that the quality
of the quartz in Brown's Valley is superior to any he has
yet seen in the country. The chairman moved the
adoption of the report, which was seconded pro forma.
Mr. Cook moved, and Mr. Robertson seconded, that a
committee of investigation be appointed, which, upon
being put, was negatived, and the original motion carried.
The chairman moved that the capital be increased to
the extent of 15,0001., and that such capital be raised
by the issue of 30,000 additional shares at par. The
motion having been carried, and the retiring directors
re-elected, the meeting separated.
"THE MINT" IN THE BOROUGH.—The turning at the
south end of High-street, opposite St. George's Church, is
Mint-street. Here stood Suffolk-place, a noble man-
sion, erected by Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk.
A view of it is given in a drawing by Anthony Van
Den Wyngrerde, made about 1546, and given in Mr.
Brayley s excellent " History of Surrey." The Duke
gave this house to Henry VIII. who was his brother-
in-law, in exchange for a palace in St. Martin-
in-the-Fields, and in it the king established a
mint for coinage. We may say, by the way, that
there was a mint in Southwark in earlier times, but
manyincr e a
this was without doubt in the old town, the Guildable
Manor. After vicissitudes, Suffolk-place, or " the
itsto site
the
Mint," was sold ; a great part of it was pulled down,
and
sismallng o f cottagesbegga werebeggars
n
built,the B ao s r
oSutgohw:e
says,.
The district became the resort of lawless persons, the
privilege of exemption frofa legal process being claimed
for it ; it was an Alsatia, a sanctuary for evil ; nor was
any proper control obtained there until 1725. Here
died Nahum Tate, once poet laureate ; and Pope con-
stantly refers to the place as a residence of poor poets
in his writings. Mat o' the Mint, itwill be remembered
is a character in the " Beggars' Opera.'—The Builder,
EVICTIONS IN SKYE.—We have, with inexpressible
pain, says the Inverness Advertiser, to announce the
receipt of very melancholy and startling intelligence
from Skye. According to our information, a series of
very ruthless and inexcusable ejectments have been made
•n the property of Lord Macdonald. The noble lord,
whose name is inevitably mixed up with the transaction,
is in nowise responsible for its character, and there is
good reaaon to believe it has been forced on without his
concurrence, and against Lis inclination.
SUICIDE IN TIORNSEY WOOD.—On Sunday afternoon
great sensation was created in the neighbourhood of
Hornsey, from the report that a man was hanging from
a tree in the wood, near Hornsey-wood house. It ap-
pears that a woman was the first to make the discovery.
She immediately hastened to the above-named house,
and gave the alarm. Four men instantly started off in
the direction and after looking about for some time, one
who was in advance suddenly came up to the body, and
cut it down. The deceased was a middle-aged man and
apparently from the country.