The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-12 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.

The Queen, accompanied by their Serene Highnesses
the Countess Erbach and the Princess Amelie Hohen-
luhe Schillingsfurst, walked this morning in the grounds
around the Castle.

Her Serene Highness the Princess Elise of Hohenlohe
Schillingsfurst was prevented from arriving at the Castle
yesterday evening.
The Royal Family took their usual airings to-day.
The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will
include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, her
Serene Highness the Countess Erbach, her Serene High-
ness the Princess Amelia of Hohenlohe Schillingsfurst,
Lord and Lady John Russell, Lady Augusta Bruce,
Baroness de Speth, the Marquis of Breadalbane, Sir
George Couper, the Commanding Officer of the Grena-
dier Guards, Colonel Spencer Stanhope; and the Com-
manding officer of the 24 Life Guards, Colonel M'Douall.
The band of the 2d Life Guards attend during dinner.
The Queen's private band attended yesterday evening in
the Castle and performed the following pieces:—
Overture, "Le Domino Noir" Auber.
Finale, Ist act, " Marie" Herold.
Selection " Iphigenie"
Mendels3ohn.
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DKireiegGersenzbote Marsch,

DRAINAGE (IRELAND).—A return yesterday pub-
lished by order of the House of Commons, on the motion
of Colonel Dunne, M.P., shows that the quantity of land
in Ireland originally estimated to be improved by drain-
age works amounts to 302,840 acres ; the quantity of
land found to he benefited by the proposed works to
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January, 1849, to 1,027,3531.
THE IRISH POOR-LAW.—Since Parliament ad-
journed for the Easter vacition, two blue-books have
been published in due eourse, both bearing on the subject
of the Irish Poor-law. The first is the third report from
the Select Committee of the House of Commons, appoint-
ed on the sth of February last, containing merely the
minutes of the evidence hitherto taken, which extend
over a space of nearly 200 pages. The second blue-
book contains the first report from the Select Committee
of the House of Lords appointed to inquire into the
operation of the Irish Poor-law, and the expediency of
making any amendment in its enactments. This docu-
ment is, in like manner, confined to the minutes of evi-
dence, covering a space of nearly 300 pages.
A Sow LIVING FOR FITE WEEKS WITHOUT FOOD.
—A farmer at. Brickendon lately missed from his pig-
gery a fat sow, weighing 16 stone. About five weeks
after. a servant, on entering a barn on the premises,
heard a noise something between a moan and a grunt;
she communicated her suspicions to her mistress that
the noise came from the sow; her statement was disre-
garded at the time, but as she asserted that she heard
similar sounds on entering the barn on the following day,
it was determined to inquire into the cause. The floor
of the barn was taken up, and underneath was disco-
vered a sow, worn to a skeleton. The barn is ele-
vated from the ground, being built upon transverse rows
of brickwork, and the sow had crawled under the floor-
ing, till it got fixed between two rows of the brickwork,
and was unable to turn. It must have remained in this
painful position without food for five weeks. The poor
animal, which weighed 16 stone when it was missed,
only weighed 5 stone when it was discovered, having
wasted no less than 11 stone. When released, it could
not rise from the ground; but, after having some milk,
it walked, and is now improving rapidly—in fact, getting
quite fat again.—Hereford Mercury.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Amputation again prevented
by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—Extract of a letter from
Mr. S. Smith, 69, Capel• street, Dublin, dated March 13,1849.
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to inform you ant the public, of the wonderful cure your
Ointment and Pills have effected on me. For three years I
had a dreadful wound in my leg, I tried all the Faculty in this
city, but to no purpo4e ; they informed me "that nothing could
save my life, but amputation. I was then advised by a cele-
brated doctor to use your remedies, which in a brief period
have healed my leg, and made it as strong as it formerly was.
Sold by all Vendors of Medicine, and. at Professor Holloway's
Establishment, 244, Strand, London.
NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.—Three offi-
cers of thaßoyal Engineers attempted, on Sunday af-
ternoon, between five and six o'clock, to row through
Rochester-bridge against tide, and after being thwarted
in two attempts they foolishly endeavoured the third
time, and were upset. Two of them laid hold of the
boat, the third caught one of the oars, and, assistance
being promptly rendered, they escaped with only a duck-
ing, but at the imminentoftheir '
peril
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