The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-11 00:00:00

WINDSOR-WEDNESDAY.

Viscount Duncannon and Lord John Russell. to. ether w;th
Sir Jeffrey Wyattville, inspected the whole of the castle yes-
terday.
Lady Portman, as Lady in Waiting, upon her Msjesty for
the present month arrived yesterday.
Mr. and Lady C. Digby and Viscount Palmerston also ar-
rived yesterday.
The Queen lies not been out either yesterday cr to day.
The Royal dinner party yesterday evening consisted of the
Queen, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Viscount
Melbourne, Viscount Duncannon, and the Hor!. Miss Pon-
sonby, Viscount - Palmerston, Lady Portman, Hon. Mrs.
Campbell, Viscount Torrington, Hon. Mr. a:•.d Miss Murray,
Mr. and Lady C. Digby, Lord and Lady John Russell, Hon.
Misss Davys, Leycester, and Cavendish ; Hon. Col. Grey,
Baroness Lehzcn, Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Baron S:.ock-
mar, &c.

It is now arranged that the Court shall leave Windsor for
Buckingham Palace on Tuesday next.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

MANCHESTER.—TUESDAY EyE2mva.
CHESTER TRADE CUP.
10 to 1 on the field—offered
11 to 1 agst Mr. 2%lostyn's Birdlime
11 to 1 agst General Yates's Sylvan
11 to 1 agst Mr. Fairlie's Abraham Newland
15 to 1 agst Captain Lamb's Chit Chat—taken
16 to 1 agst Mr. Walters's Prime Warden—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Lord Stafford—taken •
25 to 1 agst Mr. Robinson's Whaley—taken
26 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Potentate—taken
100 to 2 agst Lord Derby's Parolles—taken
Offers to give 9 against the field, and take 10 freely
THE DERBY.
0 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's D'Egville
12 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Cobweb colt
100 to 7 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Gsey Momus
15 to 1 agst Mr. E. Peel's The Early Bird
16 to 1 agst Mr. Armitage's Nonplus colt
20 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's lon—taken
25 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's c. out of Tranby's dam—taken
25 to 1 agst Sir J. Mills's Volunteer—taken
27 to I agst Lord Suffield's Bamboo—taken
100 to 3 agst Mr. Worrall's Dormouse—taken
1000 to 20 agst The Early Bird and Nin:.y winning the Derby
and Oaks
[OOO to 20 agst Grey Momus and Ninny for the same events—taken
200 to 4 agst D'Egville and Lord Jersey's f. Glenara for the
same races—taken.

Viscount Melbourne left town at half-past three
o'clock yesterday afternoon, to a visit to her Majesty at
Windsor Castle. Previous to the departure of the Noble
Viscount Lord Glenclg and Viscount llowiek had interviews
with his Lordship. • Captain Mason, R.N., Lad also an inter-
view with the Noble Viscount. •

Despatches dated the 31st ult. were received yester-
day at the Foreign Department from Sir George Villiers, our.
Ambassador at Madrid.

Despatches from Lieut.-General Sir John Col.
borne, Commander of her Majesty's Forces in Lower Canada,
were received yesterday at the Colonial Office.
. .

The venerable Lord Lynedoch has arrived i►r town
from Paris, in excellent health.

Lord John Browne, third son of the ?Jarvis of
Sligo, has just been appointed Volunteer of thu first dais in
her Majesty's ship Racehorse, fitting at Plymouth, from Dr.
Burney's Academy, Gosport.
Lord Huntingtower continues at Buckminster Park.
He has lately added three considerable Lordships to his pre-
vious large property in the County of Leicester, viz., Gunby,
Stainby, and Coston.
Sir John Hayford Thorold, Bart., who attained his,
majority last summer, and an estate of 25,000/. per annum,
still sojourns in Italy.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Stephen
Spring Rice arrived in Downing-street yesterday afternoon
from South Hill Pat k, Berks, the seat of the Earl of Limeriek.

DEATH Or SIR HENRY VACASOUR,

We regret to hear that the above worthy Baronet died at his
seat, Melbourne Hall, Yorkshire, on Thursday last. He was
a Major-General in the army.
ACCIDENT TO LORD RENDLESHAIVIo—We are
concerned to hear that the above Noble Lord has met with a
serious accident by the overturning (owing to the eareLssnoss
of the driver) of his gig in Rendlesham ITs Lordship
had his collar-bone broken by the fall, but N",(3 are happy to
state is going on favourably.
PLAUSIBILITY OF LAWYERS.—It is related of
one of our English Kings, James the First, I think, that after
having, on one occasion, entered a Court before his accession
to the Throne, while a very important case was before it, he
was so struck with the zeal and ingenuity the Counsel dis-
played for his client, that, on resuming his seat, the Prince
observed to a Noble Friend who was with him, that the gentle-
man who had just spoken had not only the justice of the case
clearly on his side, but that he was one of the most humane
men he had ever seen. The Counsel on the opposite side
immediately rose to reply, and had not been a quarter of an
hour on his legs when be evinced an equal amount of zeal and
ingenuity for his client. The justice of the case seemed now
to be all on the side of the client, whose cat s° the latter was
advocating. The young Prince was quite confounded, and
abruptly left the Court, exclaiming " IZogues all I rogues
all I"—The Bench and the Bar, by the Author of " Random
Recollections."

CARLISLE MAIL.—On Tuesday this mail coach,
on its way to Glasgow, came, by some means which we have
not beard explained, in contact with the side of a bridge about
four miles from Beattock. The coach was not overturned,
but such was the shock that the guard and driver were both
flung from their seats with peat violence to the ground. On
help coming up, they were raised in a state of insensibility,
and on Wednesday they were sent back to Carlisle, still in a
very dangerous state. The only passenger, a lady in the in-
side, stepped out unhurt. As the fore Evart of the coach
was brok!ri by the accident, Mr. Wilson, of Beattock, sent
on the bags in a post-chaise to Glasgow.--Glasgow Herald.

SA RCOPIIA G US.—Last week, while the grave-dig-
ger was employed in opening a grave in Cerluke churchyard,
he came to en ancient sarcophagus. On removing the lid,
which was heavy, it was found to contain a human skull end
other bones, and some reddish hair. The skull was very
strong, and the bones proportionally large. The length of
the stone is six feet, and hollowed out exactly to fit the form
of the human body, the same as a person had laid himself
down in the snow. On the head end of the lid were some
curious cut figures in relief; and a cast has been taken of
them in plaster of Paiis. How long this way have been de-
posited in the earth, or to whom it belonged, cannot be ascer-
tained; only the initials of the name, in ancient characters,
arc visible on the cover.—Glasgow Herald.
Mr. John Challice, the butler of Pembroke Col-
lege, Cambridge, who had been extremely nervous and ex-
citable fur some time previously, drowned himself on Tuesday
near the Gr.velpit-close.
GREENWICH RAIL WA Y.—The severe frost on
Tuesday morning caused some of the tubes in one of the en-
gines to burst. This accident caused a temporary delay,
during the morning in the running of the trains, but the re-
pair of the engine was quickly effected. This will no doubt
be an useful hint to other railway Companies to keep fires al-
ways burning in their engines during the prevalence of frost.
The well-known and splendid steam-ship, the
Royal William, left the North Wall, for Belfast, on Friday,
the sth inst., at four o'clock P. M., and dropped anchor in -the
Lough at ono o'clock A.M. on the morning of Saturday, the
6th inst., having performed the voyage in the short space of
nine hours.

A very eccentric character, called Betty Darnill,
was found dead in her bed at Louth en Thursday the 28th
ultimo. She had about twenty coverings over her body,
while her house presented a scene of wretchedness that beg-
gars description. At the inquest it was proved that she bad
died from natural causes, and a verdict was returned
,ac-
cordingly —Lincoln Gazette.
REMOVAL OF TILE PACKETS.--A meeting was
held at the Town-hall, Falmouth, on Monday at noon, for the
purpose of taking into consideration the measures that should
be adopted on account of the Peninsular Steam-packet Com-
pany having obtained the permission of the Admiralty to run
with the mails from Plymouth to Vigo. Lisbon, Cadiz, and
Gibraltar, instead of sailing, as they have done hitherto, ac-
cording to the con litions of their contract, from Falmouth.
The Mayor was called to the chair, and a communication
from Sir R. M. Rolfe was read to the meeting, stating that
he had called on Lord Minto, and had learned from his Lord-
ship that the Lords of the Admiralty had positively assented
to the new arrangement, and had dispensed with the article in
the contract undfr which Falmouth was to be the port of
arrival and departure. Several gentlemen addressed tho
meeting upon the great loss which the town would experience
through the removal of these vessels, and they added that
such a step was likely to be the prelude of a more serious one
—namely, the choice of Plymouth as the station for the
steamers which arc intended to run to the West Indies, and
finally the entire annihilation of the packet establishment at
this port. The business was concluded by the appointment of
a committee to memorialize the Admiralty on the subject.—
Cornwall Gazette.

The exportation of gold and silver coin from the
port of London to foreign ports puring the past week, ending
the oth inst., is as under : gold corn to British West Indies.
125 oz. ; New South Wales, 177 cz. ; silver, New South
2,600 oz. ; Rotterdam, 14,282 oz.
In the New York Papers received to-day, we no 7
tice the death of Doctor Physick, prof.•ssor in the medical
school of the University of Pennsylvania; he was in the 70th
year of his ago.
Oa New-Year's morning a young man, while under
the influence of ardent spirits, took a wager to swim a cross
the Clyde. He plunged into the water, but being unable to
complete the tatk he sunk, and would have undoubtedly
perished bad it not been for the timely-assistance of Mr. Bar-
ton, who, with his accustomed activity and humanity, rescued
,him from his perilous sAtultion.—Glasgow Herald.