The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-12 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Their Majesties, accompanied by the Princess Augusta, the
Landgravinc of Hesse Homberg, Prince George of Cam-
bridge, the Land rave of Hesse Homberg, and Prince Ernest
of Hesse Philippstbal, left Windsor Castle yesterday morning
for the old Palace at Kew. Their Majesties were joined, on
their arrival at Kew, by the Duke of Cumberland, and Prince
Charles of Solms. A dejeuner was served to the Royal and
Illustrious party.

In the afternoon, the King and Queen and the Royal
Family rode out in the drives of the palace grounds. Their
Majesties remained at Kew to dinner. In the evening the
Princess Augusta, the Landgravine of Hesse Homberg, and
Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal, came to town from
lie w.

The Duke of Leinster, Marquis of Downshire, Marquis
of Westmeath, Earl of Charleville, Lord Clonbrock, Messrs.
Evans, E. Chapman, Hamilton, French, Vesey, &c., had
an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer
in Downing-street, respecting the Dublin and Drogheda
Railway.
Messrs. Wallace and Ward had an interview yesterday with
Viscount Melbourne, in Downing-street.
The French Ambassador and the Bavarian Minister trans-
acted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Mr. French had an interview with Lord Glenelg yesterday,
at the Colonial-office.

The Judical Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday,
and were occupied during the whole of the day with an ap-
peal from the Vice-Admiralty Court at Gibraltar; William
Sherwill, of Gibraltar, merchant, v. Our Sovereign Lord the
King and Iltid Nicholl, Esq., his Majesty's Procurator-Ge-
neral, respondents. Sir William Follett and Dr. Phillimore
were heard for the appellants ; the King's Advocate and Dr.
Burnarby were heard for the Crown.
Lord Wynford, on the part of their Lordships, gave judg-
ment, and allowed the appeal.
The Lords present were Lord Wynford, Sir J. Bernard
Bosanquet, Sir Herbert Jenner, and the Chief Judge in
Bankruptcy. The Honourable W. Bathurst was the Clerk of
the Council in Waiting.

TH23 DUKE OF SUSSEX. The Freemasons of
England bald an especial Grand Lodge meeting, in their
Hall, on Friday, to vote a congratulatbry address to the Duke
of Sussex, the Grand Master, on the successful operation re-
cently performed, whereby his Royal Highness is likely to be
restored to the blessing of sight and to society in general,
Lord Dundas, Pro-Grand Master, in the Chair. His Lord-
ship reported that he had received letters of apology for their
non-attendance at the Grand Lodge from several grand offi-
cers, through unavoidable causas ; amongst whom were Lord
Monson, the Hon. T. Dundas, M. P., and Sir John Soane.
The meeting was attended by Lord John Spencer Churchill,
Deputy Grand Master ; Colonel H. Baillie, M. P. ; John
Ramsbottom, Esq., M.P. ; C. J. K. Tynte, Esq., M.P.,
P. G. M. ; the Earl of Scarborough, S. G. W. ; Benjamin B.
Cabbell, Esq., J.G. W. ; the Rev. W. Fallofield and Rev.
John Vane, G. C. ; Doctors Moore and Granville ; M. M.
2,achary, Esq. ; T. F. Savory, Esq. ; W. Shacibolt, Esq. ;
Z.aurie, Esq. ; Benjamin Lawrence, Esq., and :;bout 30
other errand officers, together with a numerous assemblage of
the officers of various lodges, to manifest their devotion and
attachment to their Royal Grand Master. At three o'clock
Rowland Alston, Esq., M.P., moved that an address should
be presented, .2nd Lord Scarborough moved the address it-
self. Mr. Lytlig'oe moved that the address be presented by a
deputation, consistsng of the grand officers of the year, and
the members of all ia:etaopolitan Lodges. At four o'clock a
Grand Chapter was held ler a similar purpose of congratula-
tion, which was attended by Lord Suffield, and many other
companions of distinction.
THE AUTHOR OF " PAUL PRY."—One of the
!milt lively papers which have yet proceeded from the pen of
this most agreeable of humourists, is in the present Number of
the " New Monthly Magazine." It is the history of a love
affair, conducted under circumstances that are most pictures-
quely ludicrous, and that serve to bring out some exquisite
points of character. The scene is a boarding-house at
Brighton; and the " delicate attentions" practised by the
elderly inamorato furnish the name of the piece, which has all
the gaiety and broad contrast of a farce ; and is, indeed, an-
nounced accordingly to be in process of stage preparation by
the author himself.
At Wolf-Clyde, parish of Culter, Lanarkshire, a
curiosity may sometimes be seen, viz., the Clyde running into
the Tweed. The vale of Biggar-water, which here stretches
between two rivers, is but slightly elevated above the bed of
the Clyde. During a topflood, part of the latter river some-
times finds its way into Biggar-water, and is thereby carried
,into the Tweed ; and this happens perhaps once in three or
fiatir years. Hence it will be seen that it were an easy matter
to fend the Clyde to Berwick instead of Glasgow. Indeed,
a common tradition is prevalent in the Upper Ward, that the
famous magician, Michael Scott, had nearly accomplished
this. Thy story is, that he was marching down the vale of
the Biggar-water, with the Clyde following at his heels, but
that, being alanmed by the sound of the water as it came
roaring behind hh.l, he looked back, and so the spell was
broken, and the vagrant waters returned into their wonted
channel. Of course, 11:11e were the then Clyde Trustees
dreaming of the peril to sn::.ich Glasgow was at that moment
exposed !—Nen, Statistical ...lccount cf Scotland.
BERKELEY CASTLE.-- A romance, founded on
one of the legends of this magnificent place, so renowned for
ins historical associations, will soon ap,-,ear, from the pen of the
lion. Grantley Berkeley, M.P. A wo,-L like this, connected
with so ancient and chivalrous a spot, and Joming from such a
writer, cannot fail to enrich the world of fictalan. " Berkeley
Castle," by a Berkeley, is, indeed, a stirring anoouncemeni.
1311.1:37:01, AND 6LOUCESTERSHIRF. 11.1;ILROAD.
—Mc traffic on this road -now increases rapidly. The coal
brought down the railroad in the six months ending with May,
exceeds by eOO tons the quantity which passed down during
the whole optic. year 1834.—Grista Mercury.
LONGEVITY IN WA LES.—The following in-
!lances of the term of human life being extended far beyond
the usual period, have recently occurred in the parish of Poole,
Montgomeryshire : Mrs. Anne Webster died on the 20th
alt., aged 103 years. She retained to the last full possession,
of her faculties, and within the short space of a week of her
daath, walked a distance of four miles. About the same
time died John Griffiths, of Poole Quay, an idiot, at the age
of 109 !—C'cuahrian.
INQUF.sTs.-011 Saturday the inquest (which has
occupied three several nights) on the body of Harriet Fox,
one of the domestics in the Duke of Buccleuch's service, was
reamed. In April last the deceased and others went on
board the Soho steamer, lying at the Brunswick Wharf, Black-
‘vall. On leaving the vessel for some refreshment they had
to cross a gangway-board, which, from not being securely fas-
tened, gas e ors„ , and precipitated three persons into the river,
when the deceased was unfortunately drowned. The body
was not found until the 29th ult. The jury, after hearing
much additional evidence, returned a verdict of accidental
death, with a deodand of al. on the steam-vessel, and 9/. on
the gangway-board belonging to the wharf. The jury at the
same time expressed their, unanimous opinion that great
aieglect was attributable both to the servants of the East
kdia Dock Company, and to the captain and crew of the
steamer, and they trusted that measures would he taken by
both parties to prevent a recurrence of a similar melancholy
;accident.—A second inquest was held at the Half Moon,
Broadgreen, Surrey, on the body of an elderly man named
John Barnes, a labourer, in the employ of Mr. Steadman, a
gentleman residing near that place, who dropped down dead
.on Thursday • morning. The circumstances connected with
ti:e case were most extraordinary. On Saturday week the
Earcther of the deceased, who was also in Mr. Steadman's em-
ploy, was at work in a field belonging to that gentleman, when
he suddenly, and without any previous illness fell, and ex-
pired immediately. A verdict of died by the Visitation of God
IA as returned by the Jury who held an inquest upon the body,
On Thursday morning last the deceased was at work in the
same field where his brother died, and about the same hour,
and Mr. Steadman was in the act of going towards him to
give him some directions, when he observed him stagger and
:fat', and when he came up to him he was a corpse. The Co-
roner and Jury made some remarks upon the melancholy and
extraordinary nature of the occurrence ; and, after a brief deli-
beration, they also returned a verdict that the deceased died
by the Visitation of God

EXTRAORDINARY CURE.—A cow belonging to a
Door man o! the name of John Harvey, of St. Columb, which
t, ad suffered much in calving, the calf having been extracted
by force, an obstruction of the stomach subsequently came on
whi, ',.11 threatened to prove fatal. The stomach was, however,
open
ed by Mr.Geake, a farrier of St. Columb, and a large
whee, 'barrow-full of its contents removed, after which it was
sewed up again, and now, ten weeks after the occurrence, the ,
cow is t *ring and doing well.— West Briton.