The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-21 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the
Countess of Charlemont, Sir Edward Bowater, and
Colonel Seymour, went yesterday to Claremont, and paid
a visit to the illustrious inmates.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the
Princess Helena, took pony and walking exercise yester-
day, in the garden of Buckingham Palace.
the royal dinner party yesterday, at Buckingham
Palace, included his Serene Highness the Prince Lowen-
stein, his Excellency Viscount de Muncorvo and the
Viscountess de Moncorvo, the Marchioness of Water-
ford, the Earl and Countess of Minto, Viscount and
Viscountess Canning, the Right Hon. Sir Francis and
Lady Arabella Baring, and the Right Hon. Thomas Wyse.
The band of the Coldstream Guards was in attend-
ance during dinner, and performed the following pieces :-
0 vertu re, " Leonora" ... Beethoven.
Quadrilles on airs from "Le Domino
Noir"
Grand Fantasia, " Sur les motifs de Za-
netta"
Valle et Galop, "De Fascination" (Alma) Costa.
Grand March from Symphony, " The
power of sound" Spohr.
Polka, " Lalia Rookh"
The Queen's private band afterwards attended in the
Palace.

Sir Thomas Fremantle, Chairman of the Customs,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer
yesterday. Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-
General to the Commissioners for the Reduction of: the
National Debt, and Mr. Tidd Pratt, had also an inter-
view yesterday with the Right Hon. Baronet, at his
official residence in Downing-street.
Mr. Anderson, Governor of the Mauritius, had an in-
terview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial-
office, from the Governor of Canada, and also from the
Governors of the other North American Provinces.

The Earl and Countess of Lichfield and Lady Harriet
Anson arrived at their residence in Stable-yard, St.
James's, on Monday evening, for the season.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BETTING AT MANCIIESTER.-TUESDAY.

LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE.-8 to 1 agst Prince
George, 7 to 1 agst The Curate (t), 8 to 1 agst Napoleon
(t), 8 to 1 agst Proceed (t), 10 to 1 agat any other.
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.-6 to 1 agst Lugar, 9to 1
agst Canezou, 12 to 1 apt Flatcatcher, 14 to 1 agat
Dacia, 18 to 1 agst Executor, 400 to 10 agst Roland (t).
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.-12 to 1 agst Loup-
garou (t), 15 to 1 agst Dacia (t); very little done.
CHESTER CITP.-20 to 1 agst Joc o' Sot, 20 to 1 agst
The Tartar, 27 to 1 agst Inheritress, 33 to 1 agst Blucher,
33 to 1 agst Peep-o'-day Boy, 33 to 1 agat Cossack, 500
to 8 agst John Cosser (t), 1,000 to 15 agst Eagle's
Plume (t).
DERBY.-4 to 1 agst The Flying Dutchman (offers to
take), 7 to 1 agst Tadmor, 18 to 1 agst Osterley, 20 to
1 apt Uriel, 25 to 1 agst Nunnykirk, 50 to 1 agst
Rebecca colt.

IRELAND.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
TRIAL OF DUFFY.

DUNEDC TUESDAY EvEmlNG.—vlcience on behalf of
the prisoner was gone into at the sitting of the Court
this day. Several witnesses were examined, and amongst
them the Right Rev. Dr. Blake, Roman Catholic Bishop
of Dromore, and the Rev. Theobald Mathew, to testify
as' to Mr. Duffy's private character and amiable quali•
ties in private life, and also to show that as far as their
knowledge went he was an opponent of anarchy or re-
publicanism, and was merely a constitutional advocate of
the repeal of the legislative uaion.
A great many members of the council of the Irish
Confederation were then produced, and proved that the
prisoner strongly opposed any movement suggested by
others which was not considered perfectly legal, and
amongst them Mr. Thomas Francis Meagher, who was
brought up from Kilmainham prison under a writ of
Habeas Corpus, and he further gave evidence to show
that he himself was the aathor of the letter to the clubs
relied on by the Crown, and that it had never been seen
by the prisoner.

-Mr. ilesgher's appearance in court was the signal
for a most marked demonstration of applause, which was
instantly checked by their Lordships.
The case for the defence will, in all probability, close
to night, and the Solicitor-General will be heard in reply
to-morrow.

MOVEMENT AGAINST TEE " RITE IN AlD."—The
Downpatrick poor-law guardians have, by a resolution,
called on their chairman to communicate with the Lieu-
tenant of Down, requesting him to summon a county
meeting, in order that the opinion of the public may
be instantly expressed upon the project of a general
" rate in aid,"—a project, they say, virtually destructive
of the interests of the ratepayers of that county.
CORN MARXET.—We continue to have a very dull
market for every description of grain. Wheat and oats
were a shade lower. Barley supported its price. Indian
corn could only be had in very trifling quantities, and
at a reduction of 6d. to Is. per quarter.

NEW POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS WITH THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA.—Notice was issued yesterday, at the
General Post-office, that the following Postal Convention has
been concluded with the United States of America and the
United Kingdom :—" The prepayment of postage on letters
posted in the United Kingdom, and addressed to the United
States of America, and vice versa, whether conveyed by
British or United States' packets, will be optional.
Combined British and United States' postage, will be the
uniform rate of Is. on a letter not exceeding half an ounce
in weight, 2s. on a letter not exceeding an ounce in weight,
and so on according to the scale for charging inland
letters. The whole postage on letters may be paid in ad-
vance, or they may be forwarded unpaid at the option of the
senders. The necessary measures with respect to the trans-
mission of letters to countries and places through the United
States, not having yet been arranged in concert with the
United States' Post-office, further instructions on this
subject will be issued. Newspapers published in the
United Kingdom, duly stamped, and posted under the
usual official regulations, may be forwarded to the United
States on payment in this country of ld. each ; and news-
papers published in the United States will be liable, on
delivery in the United Kingdom, to a postage of ld. each.
Periodical works, not of daily publication, and printed
pamphlets not exceeding eight ounces in weight, may be
forwarded to the United States under the following regu-
lations :-1, The British postage must be paid in advance ;
2. They must be sent in bands, or covers open at the
sides or end—not exceeding two ounces in weight, Id. ; not
exceeding three, 6d.; not exceeding four ounces, Bd. ; and
2d. for every additional ounce. No periodical work exceed-
ing 16 ounces in weight, nor printed pamphlet exceeding
eight ounces in weight, can be forwarded. Similar works
posted in the United States, and addressed to the United
Kingdom, will be liable to the same regulations, and will be
charged with the same rates of postage, on delivery in the
United Kingdom. The above regulations and rates of post-
age are applicable whether the correspondence be conveyed
to or from the United Kingdom by British or by United
States packets, but all letters, newspapers, &c., will be for-
warded for the present from the United Kingdom by the
British packets, unless they are specially addressed "By the
United States packets." _ _ _

It seems that a tax is levied on emigrants entering
Canada. It is pretty certain, from all accounts, that there
will be at-tacks on emigrants to California as well.-- Puppet
Show.

ADVANCE OF WAGES. The Lace-manufacturers
and hosiers, in Nottinghamshire, have agreed to advance
their workmen's wages. The condition of the working
classes, in point of wages ought to be improved.— From a
Correspondent.
FLIGHT OF A BANKER'S CLERK TO CALIFORNIA.
—lt is with pain we have to notice the eight of a young
man, nineteen years of age, teller in the Clydesdale Branch
Bank in this place, who went off by railway on Friday after-
noon last, leaving his employer, his father, relations, and
friends, in utter ignorance of his intentions. It is stated
that he has abstracted 350/. from the bank safe, of whixt_clivrua;
had charge. The bank agent, to the time of
highly satisfied with his conduct, and bad latelyhiosffe:reJ him
an advance of salary to 70/. to continue in employment.his
been brought
Nor has any other charge of improper conduct
"suspected that he
against him of any kind whatever. It is.
and two other lads have had their irnagionfactialnifsorsaoifiaretdhbayt
what they have read about the treoarsauroes.
they have set off for that new El D
DEATH OF THE HON. LIEUT. Dorado.—Fife
THHe
lrya
EldL.
inst., at Mount Dillon,
This gallant officer died on the 17
county of Dublin, after a abort iltlnhess. The deceased was
second Viscount Southwell, by Jane,
a younger son of the
second daughter of
in 1834
Esq. He was born in
1789, and married in 1834 the daughter of Thomas Dillon,
county of Dublin, and by that
lady
Esq. of Mount Dillon,
Colonel Southwell first entered the
had issue six children.
army in 1808. In 1810 he was advanced to the rank of
Lieutenant; in 1814 to that of Captain; in 1817 to that of
Major. On the occasion of the Prince of Wales' brevet, in
1841, he was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
The deceased accompanied the army to the Peninsula, and
served with distinction during the principal campaigns.
LATEST CONCERNING CALIFORNIA.—The amount
of gold to be obtained in California must be greater than we
thought, for we hear that several individuals have been making
a-way with it over the mountains.— Puppet Show.
REMARKABLE SHOT.—On Thursday last R. Wake,
Esq., in pursuing his favourite sport upon the Exe, of wild
fowl shooting, fired into a flock of teal feeding on Greenland
Banks, and killed the
extraordinary number of 49 birds.—
Devonshire Chronicle.
In the continental exchanges yesterday the rates
generally remained about the same as last post. For Paris,
however, there was a considerable demand, which occasioned
the quotations for gut place.