The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

COURT CIRCULAR.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Augustus of Saxe Coburg Gotha vi-ited the Dnches of
Kent on Saturday morning, and took leave of her Royal
Highness on their departure from town.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert visited her Ma-
jesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough-
house.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the He-
reditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklen-
burg Strelit z, visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday.
The Queen and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent,
the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the do-
mestic household, attended Divine service yesterday
morning in the private chapel at Buckingham Palace.
The sermon was preached by the Bishop of Oxford;
the prayers were read ,by the Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie
CourtenaY.
The nobility and gentry thronged Buckingham Palace
yesterday to make their dutiful inquiries alter the state
of her Majesty. The answer given was, " The Queen is
well."

Among the numerous visitors were his Royal High-
ness the Count of Syracuse, his Serene Highness Prince
Ernest of Hesse Philippstahl, his Serene Highness Prince
William of Hesse Philippstahl, the American Minister
and Mrs. Bancroft, the Prussian Minister and Madame
Bunsen, the Netherlands Minister and Countess Schim-
melpenninck, the Russian ;Minister and Baroness de
Brunnow, Mdlle. Olga de Lechner, the Portuguese
Minister and Viscountess de Moncorvo, the Swedish
Minister and Baroness de Rehausen, the Belgian
Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, the Costa Rica
Minister, the Austrian Minister and Countess Colloredo,
the Turkish Ambassador, Mr. Colquhoun, Agent and
Consul-General for the Hanse Towns, Mrs. and Miss
Colquhoun, the Brazilian Minister and Madame Lisboa,
the Neapolitan Minister, the Hanoverian Minister, the
Bavarian Mini,ter and Baroness de Cetto, the French
Charge d'Affairs and Madame de Montherot, the Earl of
Clarendon, the Earl and Countess of Yarborough, Lady
Isabella Wemyss, the Earl and Countess of Kin-
noull, Lady Frances Hay, Viscount Dupplin, Mr. E.
Taylor, Sir E. Cust, Hon. Mr. P. and Mrs. Cust,
Lord Elphinstone, Major Thurlow, Colonel Reid, Sir J.
South, Lord Sudeley, Captain M.Donald, Sir C. and
Lady Mary Wood, Colonel Fergusson, Mr. G. Duff,
Lord, Lady and Miss Barrington, Sir A. and Lady
Dalrymple, Mr. Whateley, Q.C., Lady H. S. Churchill,
Mr. and Mrs. Amtrobus, Sir G., Lady, and the Misses
Dashwood, Mr. and Mrs. Milner Gaskell, Mr. H. Lind-
say, Hon. Mrs. Phipps, Earl and Countess Talbot, Col.
and Miss Verner, Mr. And Mrs. W. Beckett, Mr. and
Mrs. Brand, Lord and Lady Enfield, Mr. F. Strangways,
Mr. N. and Mrs. Montefior,e, Sir J. and Lady A. Mac-
kenzie, Mr. and Mrs. Holloway, Hon. C. and Lady M.
Ponsonby, Viscount and Viscountess Beresford, General,
Miss, and Mr. F. Cavendish, Lord and Lady Sefton,
Mr. and Lady Anne Tull:tell, Earl and Countess Wil-
ton, Earl and Ladies Fitzwilliam, Marquis of Granby,
Lord Ashley, Earl and Countess of Haddington, Sir
J. Pakingtou, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney,
Mr. and Mrs. Stafford Jerningham, Mr. G. and Mr.
E. Jerningham, Sir R. and Lady Peel, Sir
H., Lady, and Miss Davie, Marquis and Marchioness
Ailesbury, Mr. and Miss G. Berkeley, Marquis
and Marchioness of Kildare, Baroness de Delmar, Lord
and Lady Aberdour, Countess Clanwilliam, Mr. C. Gre-
vale, Mr. William Rose, Sir A. and Lady Rothschild,
Sheriff Finnis, Sheriff Goodhart, Lady B. Bury, Duke
and Duchess of Norfolk, Ladies C. and H. Somers Cocks.
Sir F. and Lady Kelly, Baron and Baroness Lionel
Rothschild, Sir Henry and Lady Wheatley, Misses
Wheatley, Sir Peter Laurie, Mr. Laurie, Duchess of In-
verness, Earl and Countess Minto, Viscount and Vis-
countess Melgund, Dowager Lady Cowley, Sir H. and
Lady Lytton Bulwer, Lord and Lady Monteagle, Dr. and
Miss F. Chambers, Mr. and Hon. Mrs. Smyth, Lord
and Lady F. Gordon. Marquis and Marchioness of Done-
gal, The Chisholm, Rev. J. R. Wood, Lord and Lady M.
Hill, Earl of Lincoln, Captain Meynell, Sir B. Brodie,
Mr. Teed, Q.C., Colonel and Lady C. Buckley, Count and
Countess de Flahaut, Rev. Sir :Harcourt Lees, Mr. and
Mrs. Fox Maule, Earl and Countess of Camperdown, Sir
J. and Lady Graham, Lady A. M. Dawson, Mr. Under-
Sheriff Tamplin, Mrs. Tamplin, Lieut.-Colonel A. and
Mrs. Liddell, Viscount Chelsea, the Hon. Captain Gore,

the Ladies Gore, Sir W. Fremantle, Earl and Countess
Spencer, Earl and Countess Granville, Viscount and
Viscountess Melbourne, Marquis of Abercorn, Coun-
tess of Pembroke, Countess of Dunmore, the Hon. T.
and Lady E. Vesey, Earl and Countess Bruce, Miss
Burdett Coutts, Marquis of Breadalbane, Mr. and Mrs.
Hoare, Earl and Countess Grey, Sir J. and Lady Croft,
Earl of Clare, Lady J. Fitzgibbon, Archbishop of Can-
terbury and Mrs. Sumner, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord and
Lady Claud Hamilton, Dr. and Mrs. Aldis, Mr. and
Lady A. Duff, Colonel and Mrs. E. Bouverie, Duke and
Duchess of Buccleuch, Sir W. and Lady Lumley, Sir
Howard, Lady, and Miss Douglas, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs.
Sanderson, Lord E. Howard, Lord and Lady Canning,
Colonel and Mrs. B. Drummond, Earl and Countess St.
Germans, Earl of Bessborough and Countess of Lei-
cester Marchioness of Westmeath, Mr. and Miss B.
Estcourt, Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. J. B. Est-
court, Mr. H. Bucknall Estcourt, Dr. Richard Bright
Lord and Lady Aylmer, Mr. and Lady Caroline Las-
celles, Countess of Charlemont, Bishop of Ripon, Vis-
count Adare, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Herbert, Captain
and Mrs. Pechell, Sir H. and Lady Shiffner, Rear-Ad-
miral Bowles, Sir A. and Lady Clifford, Mr. and Mrs.
Adair, Lord and Lady Sondes, Earl and Countess Jer-
sey, Lady C. Villiers, Viscount Stranglord, Sir E. and
Lady Antrobus, Mr. and Mrs. J. Stuart Wortley, Mr.
Tisdall, Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, Mr.
and Lady C. Sanford, Viscount and Viscountess New-
port, Viscount Emlyn, Viscount and Viscountess
tirackley, Lord and Lady Byron, Viscount and
Viscountess Ponsonby, Earl Somers, Viscount Eastnor,

Duke of Rutland, Lord J. Manners, Mr., Lady M., and

Miss Stanley, Countess of Morton, Ladies Ellen and
Alice Douglas, Mr. and Mrs. G. Cavendish, Lord
and Lady Ruthven, Mr. C. and Lady Catherine
Cavendish, Mr. W. Cavendish, Mr. and Mrs. Brand.
Lord, Lady, and Miss Campbell, Mr., Lady L., and
Miss Cator, Mr. and Hon. Mrs. Fellowes, Sir J.
and Lady Thorold, Mr. Beresford, M.P., and Mrs.
Beresford, Earl and Countess of Arundel and Surrey, Sir
E. Lyons, Mr. and Mrs. J. Abel Smith, Sir J. and Lady
East, Sir B. and Lady Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert, Mr.
H. and Lady C. Russell, Mrs. and Miss Ricardo, Lord
and Lady Vivian, Hon. Captain and Mrs. Vivian, Via.
count and Viscountess Combermere, Miss S. Cotton, Sir
J. and Lady Young, Lieutenant-Colonel Parker, Mrs. G.
Leigh, Mr. Lane Fox, Sir C. Slingsby, Hon. G. W.
Mulles, Lord and Lady Courtenay, the Speaker, and
Mrs. Shaw Letevre, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Lord and
Lady Willoughby d'Eresby, Sir. E. Codrington, Sir C.
Lemon, Sir W. and Lady Clay, Archbishop of York,
Lord and Lady Walsingbam, Earl and Countess Brown.
low, Earl Jermyn, Mr. Montague Gore, Lord J. Mur-
ray, Bishop of Salisbury and Mrs. Denison, Earl and
Countess of Mulgrave, Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. 8..
Boyle, Mr. Under-Sheriff Shearman, Earl of Cork, Mr.
and Mrs. Robarts, Mr. and Mrs. Ashley, Lady Taylor,
Mr. and Mrs. Bridges Taylor, Earl and Countess For-
tescue, the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress, the
Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, and numerous others.

RAILWAY SHAKE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 19.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The Share market was rather better to-
day, the business doing larger, and prices were a shade higher. The
sales are—Eastern Counties, 8 4 East Lancashire, New, 8—
Ditto, Quarters, 44 -Great Northern, 94—Ditto (A), 5 %—Lan-
caster and Preston. p.—Ditto, Three-quarter Shares, II % —Ditto,
Quarters, 13? dis.—Great Western, Quarters,:6% —Lanashire and
Yorkshire Piths, 4% dis.—London and North-Western, 130 —Ditto,
New Quarters, % p.—Midland, Halves, 10% dis.orth British,
New Preference, Is. 3d. p.—North Staffordshire, 4N dit.—Shrews-
bury and Chester (N. W. M.), IN dis.—Ditto, New 131. 65. Bd.
Shares, %—Oswestry and Chester, i% dis.—Ditto, Prefereffie, gua-
ranteed 8 per cent., 154—South-Eastern and Dover, 21% —Ditto
(No. 4), 61. 18s. 9d.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Extension,
Nos. I and 2), 6—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), guaranteed 6 per
cent. till 1850, 71s. 3d.—York and North Midland, 32'.
BIRMINGHAM, MAY 19,

STOCK ExCnANGE.L.Th7re wore sellers of Eastern Counties at
6%, London and North-Western, New Quarters, at 3!4 p., North
Staffordshire, at 4% dls., and Shrewsbury and Birmingham ( A.)
at 5% dis., but these prices were net to be obtained. Birmingham.
and Oxford Junctions were done at 25%.
YORK, MAT 18. _ . _

Broca ExcitiNoa —The business transacted to-day was as fol.
lows :—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 41. Is. 3d

HULL, MA 19.

&rocs EICHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as follows :
Hall and Selby, guaranteed 10 per cent.. 93%—Midland, 50/. Shares,
10% dis.—North British. Pteference, 21s.— orth- Western, 8% dl3.
York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Extension No. 1), 6 dis. -York and
North Midland, 31%.
NE WC A STLE-VPON-TYNE, MAY 18.
STOCK EXCUANGE.—ThP following are to-day's transactions :
North British, Thirds, 3L 16s.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 20%.
GLASGOW, .3IAx 18.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The business done in the Stock Exchange to•
day has been as follows :—Arbroath and Forfar, 4/. ss.—Caledonian,
Preference, 11U— Edinburgh and Northern. IS —Glasgow, Kilmar-
nock, and Ayr, Halves (No. 1), 61. 1 ls.—Ditte (No. 2).61. 16s.—
North British, Preference, 215.—Scottish Midland Junction, 11%.

POISONINGS : THEIR PREVENTION.—The horrible
frequency of murders by poison, indicating a far more
extensive and dreadful prevalence of the practice than
has been or can be detected (for most of the cases
brought to light appear to be found out by mere ac-
cident), suggests the necessity for imposing, if pos-
sible, some check on the continuance of this ap•
palling depravity. Many suggestions have been
I thrown out for this purpose, but the best of them
seem rather calculated to guard against mistakes than
everyst some to prevent deliberate guilt. An entry in their books by
apothecaries, chemists, and practitioners, or retailers of
drugs
consequence
in
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butfirst
step o
fk nd who soil
one farther would be tenfold more
efficacious. It
should be i s mply that every vendor alluded to should
require the name and residence of the party to whom
quantity
he sold poison, and that, on any largebeing
asked for, or the call for small quantities being
frequently
repeated, he should send a letter stating leate r
dates and facts to the overseer of the parish in which
the applicant resided. This would be very little trouble,
and the expense of postage is now so trifling, that it
ought to interpose no obstacle to the furnishing of this
important information to quarters where the least de-
parture from the ordinary health and mortality of the
locality must be noticed. If this were done, families
would not perish in succession, as in the recent atrocious
instance at Guestling, where a woman has;beencommitted
for trial, as the poisoner of her husband and three sons;
and even a single suspicious death, where it was fore-
known that poison had been purchased, would excite a
wholesome suspicion, and immediate investigation of the
circumstances. And the very fear of there having been
such intelligence given, must have a strong deterring
influence and general effect on the wicked beings pre-
di.posed to the commission of such monstrous and un-
natural crimes. The plan, to our minds, would be un-
attended by any serious impediment, and we would re-
spectfully suggest it fur public consideration. It might
be advisable to modify what are called Burial Societies,
which appear to offer sore temptations to mued9r, !Ind
limit their operation to the assistance of members in sick-
ness.—The Literary Gazate.
We understand that the magnificent estate of Chief-
den, near Maidenhead, late the residence and property
of Sir George Warrender, Bart., with all the costly effects
has been purchased by Messrs. Farebrother and Co. for
his Grace the Duke of Sutherland.