The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-16 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of %Vales, Prince Alfred, and the Princess Alice,
took an airing yesterday in an open carriage and four.
Col. Seymour attended on horseback.
The Princess Royal and the Princess Helena took
their usual walking exercise yesterday.

The Duke of Wellington, the Earl of Carlisle, Lad)
Alfred Paget, Col. the Hon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps, and
Dr. Meyer, had the honour of dining with her Majesty
at Buckingham Palace yesterday craning.
The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards was in attend-
ance in the Palace during dinner.

A deputation, on the subject of the Borough of Bir-
mingham Bill, consisting of Mr. Scholefield, M.P., Mr.
Muntz, M.P., Mr. Thornton, Mayor of Birmingham, Mr.
M. D. Hill, Recorder, Mr. Alderman Geach, Mr. Bray.
Town Clerk, and Mr. Clabon (London), had an interview
with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office.
Mr. Alexander Ilastie, had an interview with
the Right Hon. H. Labouchere yesterday; Major Mac-
donald had also an interview with the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman yesterday, at the office of the board of Trade.
Mr. John Wood had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing-street.
The Judicial Committee of tho Privy Council sat yes-
terday, and resumed the hearing of an appeal from
Bengal, (part heard at a former sitting) " Huradhun
Mookurjia v. Muthoranah Mookurjia.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TAT TERSALL'S.—YEsTEnDAY.
So very little was done yesterday, that we have only
to direct attention to two or three changes in the Liver-
pool Steeplechase quotations, and to record a further ma-
proveinent in Lugar for the Metropolitan Handicap, and
a rather marked feeling against The Tartar and Lady
NVildair for the Chester Cup. Of the few horses backed
for the last-mentioned event, Halo and Peep o'Day Boy
appeared to be most in favour.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
7 to 1 agst Mr. T. Mason's Prince George—taken
9 to 1 agst Mr. Brettle's The Curate
10 to 1 agst Mr. J. 13ateman's Napoleon
20 to 1 agst Mr. Coghlan na Edward the First—tkn
22 to 1 agst Mr. Russell's Arab Robber—taken
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
15 to 1 on the field
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
13 to 2 agst Lord Eglinton's Lugar—take 7 to 1
li to 1 agst Mr. Grevillo's Clarissa
20 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Fugleman
CHESTER CUP.
20 to 1 agst Mr. F. Clarke's Joc o'Sot, 5 yrs, Est 111 b
—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. J. B. Day's The Tartar, 5 yrs, ist
81b—taken and afterwards offered
40 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Lady Midair,
aged, Bst
40 to 1 agat Lord Howth's Peep-o'-Day Boy, 5 yrs,
Bst 51b—taken and offered
40 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Halo, 5 yrs, 7st
101 b—taken and offered
45 to 1 agst. Mr. Quin's Farewell, 4 yrs, Est 101b—tk
50 to 1 agat Lord Eglinton's Lugar, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b—t
50 to 1 agat Mr. Merry's Chanticleer, 6 yrs, Oat olb
—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Adams's Ellerslie, 4 yrs, Tat—taken
and offered
50 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Clermont, 5 yrs, 7st 61b
taken and offered
DERBY
4 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Flying Dutchman
7 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Tadmor
50 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's c out of Flambeau's
dam—taken
500 even between Uriel and Nunnykirk
OAKS.
12 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wadsstra filly
20 to 1 agst Mr. Cuthbert's Emma Donna—taken

NAPOLEON'S BIRTII-PLACE.—The great boast of
Corsica consists in its chief town having given birth to
Napoleon :—Cowan in his " Six Weeks in Corsica "
says :—" On asking permission to sketch the interior
my request was courteously granted; but I observed the
worthy family studiously avoided coming in contact
with me, owing to the false report which the agent of
the French police had set afloat respecting my being
employed by our Government as a spy. A servant of
the house was allowed to wait upon me, and from her I
learned the particular history of this noted mansion.
All the rooms were respectably furnished; the one in
which Napoleon was born had curtains hanging from
its windows as tender almost as tissue-paper, which
the female attendant informed me, were not
allowed to be touched except with the greatest possible
care : For all things here,' said she, even to the
chairs and tables, are held in the greatest veneration
by the family who oceupy the house, and are, indeed, re •
garded as sacred, because they all existed when Nap
leon was born in this apartment.'
GOLD IN SCOTLAND.---It may not be generally
known that gold is to be found in Scotland. Gold
dust was gathered in the rivers, near Crawford, in
Lanarkshire, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and
since, by the Earl of Hopetoun, at Leadhills,
to little profit. It was also dug in Bathgate-hills, Lin
lithgowshire; in Perthshire, and other parts of the
country. It is still to be found on tho tops of the rocks,
and also mixed with other metals ; but the searching
for it is rather a matter of amusement than of serious
occupation. Oar ancestors had the good sense to
discover a better kind of diggings, viz., the application
of the spade and the plough to our thin barren soil, anti
of the result let those judge who choose, by an inspec-
tion of our rich fields and cultivated farms, or we may
refer to the well-known character of our farmers and
Scotch gardeners .—Correspondent of Kelso Mail.