The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-24 00:00:00

EVENIIVG SU N

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, lIONDAL—The Queen Dowager and his
Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthall
arrived at half-past two o'clock at the Castle on a visit
to her Majesty and his Royal Highness, who with the
suite received her Majesty on alighting at the Palace.
Francis7Lady Clinton and the Earl of Denbigh attended
her Majesty, Who remained to lunch, and took her depar-
ture; accompanied by Prince Ernest at four o'clock for
Bushy Park.
Prince Albert, attended by Mr. G. E. Anson and Co-
lonel Wyide, returned from town at ten minutes past two
o'clock this afternoon.

The Queen and Prince Albert rode out this .afternoon
in a'pony phaeton, the Price driving, attended by Lord
Alfred Paget and Colonel Wylde on horseback, and fol-
lowed in a carriage and four by the Duchess of Bedford,
Lady Caroline Somers Cocks, Hon. Sarah Mary Caven-
dish, and the Earl of Fingal.
The Princess Royal has been taken her usual airings
to-day.
The Earl and Countess of Albemarle, Marquis and
Marchioness of Lansdowne. Earl Fitzwilliam, Viscount
Murpeth, Lord and Lady John Russell, Viscount Mel-
bourne, and Admiral Sir R. Stopford, left the Castle
to-day.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Mr.
George Edward Anson, Treasurer of his Househoa and
Colonol Wylde, Equerry in in Waiting, arrived at the
Paddington. station of the Great Western Railway, by
a special train, yesterday morning, from Windsor Castle.
His Roy-ul Highness proceeded to the office bf the Duchy
of Cornwall in Somerset House, and from thence went
at half-bast twelve o'clock, to attend a meeting. of the
School of Design in Somerset House. After the meet-
ing his Royal Highness returned to Paddington, attended
by his suite, and left, by a special train, for Windsor
Castle.
" At the Privy Council, held at Windsor Castle on Sa-
turday afternoon, Robert Vernon Smith, Esq., was, by
comma:id of the Queen, sworn of her Majesty's Honour-
able Privy Council, and took his place at the Board.
Viscount Melbourne, the Marquis of Lansdowne,
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, and Lord and
Lady John Russell, returned to town yesterday, from a
visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
The C,

Jommittee on Education of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council held a meeting yesterday
afternoon at the Council-office, The Lords present were
the Lord President,:the Lord Privy Seal, the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer, the Chief Commissioner of the
Woods and Forests, the Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster, and the President of the Board of Trade.
Their Lordships assembled at one o'clock, and sat
until four o'clock.

Grand Parliamentary dinner parties were given last
evening by Viscount Melbourne and Lord Lord John
Russell, at which her Majesty's Speech on opening the
sessions of Parliament (by Commission) this day was
read by the two Ministers to their respective guests.
The company all appeared in Court Costume.
Viscount Melbourne's dinner party was given at his
official residence in Downing-street, and the following
were the 'Peers present : The Earl Spencer and the
Marquis of Clanricarde, the Mover and Seconder of the
Address, his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, the
Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, the
Dukes of Norfolk, Somerset, Sutherland, and BedfOrd ;
Marquises of Anglesea, Westminster, Lansdowne, Head-
fort, and Normany ; Earls of Radnor, Fitzhardinge, Cla-
rendon, Errol, Surrey, Charlemont, Lichfield, Bruce,
and Albemarle ; Viscount Duncannon ; Lords Foley,
Byron, Vivian, Lilford,Kinnaird,and Poltimore.
Lord John Russell's dinner party was given at the
Foreign-office, Downing-street, to a: large party of
Members of the House of Commons, including. the Earl
of Listowel ; Viscounts Ebrington and Palmerston; Lords
Seymour, M. Hill, Dalmeny, and A. Paget ; the Attor-
ney- General; Sirs T. Trowbridge, J. Hobhouse, and G.
Grey ; Right Honourables G. S. Byng, R. L. Shiel, Fox
Maule, H. Labouchere, T. B. Macaulay, F. T. Baring,
and IL Vernon Smith; Hon. W. Cowper ; Colonels Fox
and Anson ; Captains Plumside and Deans Dundas ;
Messieurs Tufnell, Rutherford, J. Parker, Pigot, More
OTerrall, Hormati, J. Howard, W. Clay, C. Buller,
and Bannerman.

Messrs. Bowes, Hutt, Wilshere, T. Duncombe, and
D. Salomons, had interviews with the Marquis of Nor-
manby yesterday at the Home-office.
A very numerous meeting of Members of the House
of Commons was held yesterday 'afternoon, at the
Foreign-office, at four o'clock. Socn after that hour
Lord John Russell arrived at the Foreign-office, and was
shortly folloxed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir
George Grey, and Mr. Labouchere. The meeting broke
up at half-past four o'clock.

Vice-Admiral Sir Patrick Campbell, K.C.8.,
whose death we announced yesterday, was a most zealous
end active officer. In July, 1799, when in command of
the Dart, sloop of war, and serving under Captain Henry
Inman, of the Andromeda, in an attempt to destroy a
French squadron lying in Dunkirk harbour, he carried
and brought out La Desiree, mounting 40 guns,
long 24-pounders on the main deck, with a com-
plement of 350 men, some of whom were on shore.
Captain Inman in his official latter to the Admiralty
says—" That the handsome and intrepid manner of his
completely carrying her, in less. than a quarter of an
hour, and bringing her out, must 'convince their Lord-
ship:, of his unparalleled bravery, 4114 the very gallant
conduct of his officers and ship's company, as the ene-
my's frigate was so.much superior in force." The Dart's
loss on this occasion amounted 16 no Mere-than.one man
-slain, and her first lieutenant and ten men wounded ;
La Desiree is said to have had nearly one hundred
killed and wounded, including among the former every
officer on board, with the exception of one midshipman.
The Earl St. Vincent pronounced this to have been
ona of tl e finest instances of gallantry on record. Three
days after this capture the deceased was advanced to post
rank in the Ariadne. In 1807 we find him command-
ing L'Unite frigate, stationed off Corfu. During the
ensuing year he captured a French xebec of six guns, and
three Italian brigs of war, each mounting,. 16 brass 39-
pounder carronades, admeasuring about 400 tons. From
L'Unite he removed into the Leviathan, 74 ; and in the
year 1812 performed active service in the Mediterranean.
In July, 1830, he was promoted to the rank of Rear-
Admiral ; and in May, 1834, appointed Commander-in-
Chief at the Cape of Good Hope. In 1838 he was ad-
vanced to the rank of Vice-Admiral. This gallant
officer was rewarded for his services by his Sovereign
bestowing upon him the insignia of Knight Commander
of the Bath.

The Havre Journal mentions au incident
which occurred to some whale-fishers during a recent
voyage, which, it observes, would be incredible, if it
were not attested by the Captain and his men. Captain
Deglos, of the Gustave whaler, was fishing off the coasts
of New Holland, and was giving chase in a boat with
five men to a large cachalot whale, which they soon
came up with and harpooned. The animal, as soon as
he felt the instrument, went down perpendicularly, and
carried out a great quantity of line. The crew remained
with their oars raised waiting for his re-appearance,
when ,on a sudden they saw an enormous jaw rise on
each side of the boat, far above the gunwale, which was
thus caught in the mouth of the whale, and was ready
to be crushed in an instant ! The men were so parlysed
by fear, that they could not obey the Captain's orders
to get out their saws and work away at the animal's
mouth ; but gradually the jaws began to sink, and after
giving the boat's side a terrible grating disappeared be-
neath the water. One of the men fainted away on his
seat when all was over. The whale was taken, and pro-
duced 75 barrels of oil and spermaceti, and the boat still
bears the marks of his jaws ! •
The Federal of Geneva states that the Count tie
Bombelles,Austrian Minister in Switzerland, has recently
received further dispatches from Prince Metternich, in-
structing him to recommend the Confederation to ob-
nseortvteo follow a
punctually;atdlifeeal lineof
terms of
policythele,deral Compact, and
the destruction of the Confederation. which m
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convent of Austria, on the affair of the convent of Muni, are not
renewed for the moment, because that Power is confi-
dent, the Prince says, that the Diet. will not allow the
compactthe aFederaland
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be observed by Ararau, then the Emperor will feel him-
self obliged to use all the means in his power for enforc-
ing his rights with regard to this convent. Prussia, Rus-
sia,tif
and France support this note.
In the evening of the 17th inst., the day of
the. Duke cy,tuinale s arrival
illuminated. Oa the Duke's withith his regiment at Va-
lence, the Municipality gave lus Royal Highness a grand
ball, and the town wai
ar-
riving in the town, his Royal Highness received compli-
mentary addresses from the Mayor and the Prefect. The
Prince's replies were as follow :--" M. le Maine, I do
not accept for myself the eulogiums which you are pleased
to bestow, but 1 nil! accept them for the 17th reoiment,
which has so well merited them by its labours tun com-
bats in Africa. I hope in time to merit them in my
turn, and thus to justify your hopes and my own. I am,
however, very grateful toyou for the sentiments which
you have just expressed in the name of the inhabitants
of Valence." "M. le Prefet,—We are, as you say, in
our family, from father to son, devoted to France. Our
sole desire—and it is mine also—is to do something for
her, and we shall he happy to shed our blood in her ser-
vice. In the name of the. 17th light infantry, I thank
you for the flattering things which you have said."
The Constitutionnel states that M. Humann has
decided on preventing, as much as possible, the melting
down, by moneychangers and others, of the five-franc
pieces of a particular coinage, which contain a small
portion of gold, and performing the same operation for
the public benefit. According to the Constitutionnel,
private speculators have realised not less than twenty
millions of francs from melting down these five franc
pieces, but there are still enough in circulation to yield a
profit of twelve to fifteen millions to the Treasury, by a
similar operation.
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A letter from Berlin, 13th inst., in the German
Journal of Frankfort, says, " M. Thiers arrived here yes-
terday evening with his wife, and took up his residence
at the Hotel de Russie, where an apartment had been en-
gaged for him by Count Bresson, the French Ambassa•
dor, to whom he paid a visit next day. We understand
the Court will not notice his arrival unless he should so-
licit an audience. Before he left Weimar, he visited the
ground on which the battles of Jena and Auerstadt had
been fought. Professor Wachsmuth of Leipsic, who is
engaged on the same historical researches as M. Thiers,
paid him a visit at Weimar."
A physician of Narbonne, named Gautier, was
a few days sinse returning in a cabriolet, from a country-
house on the Canal de la Robine, with his wife, her bro-
ther, and
child, when the horse suddenly took fright,
backed, and fell into the canal, dragging with him the
carriage, and all who were in it. Dr. Gautier, being in
front, easily gained the land, and the infant, which float ed
by its long clothes, was taken out of the water with out
injury ; but Madame Gautier, who was only 25, and her
brother 17, were drowned, and their bodies were nof
discovered till next morning. The horse was stifled in
the mud.