The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-12 00:00:00

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The Queen held a Privy Council at hal'-past tit
o'clock yesterday afternoon, at Windsor Castle.
It
was attended by the Lord Chanc.:,lior, the Lord Priv:
S the Finer Lord of the Tritn,ui c, Seer:4ary et_
State, for the Colonies, the Chancellor of the Duchy 0!.
Lancaster, the President of the L do Board, the Lord
Chamberlain, and the Master of the Horse.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert was introduced
at the Council, and was, by command of the Quec).,
sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Coupe°
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His Royal Highness afterwards took his place at the
Council Board.
A new Official Seal for Canada was submitted to her
Maje Ay in Council, and was approved of.
Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Conned is
Waiting.
The Queen Dowager took an airing yesterday after'
noon in a carriage and four.
The Lord Chancellor went lion] his residence at
Cope Hill yesterday morning, to attend the Pril
Council held by her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
The Earl of Clarendon left town yesterday
morain
for Windsor Clastle, to attend the Privy Council.
Lord Holland went from Holland House, Kensior
ton, yesterday, to attend the Council at Windsor
Castle.
of Goo
Despatches from the Governor of the Cape
Hope were received yesterday at the Colonial-office'

PRINCESS AUGUSTA.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager paid a visit to the
Princess Augusta yesterday morning. The Duchess°,
Gloucester and the Duke of Cambridge also visite!
their afflicted relative. Sir Henry Halford attended
the Princess morning and evening, and Mr. Moore was
in attendance on her Royal Highness during the 1:12,•11
The following account of the health of her Roy
Highness was issued in the forenoon : iet
" The Princess Augusta has been tranquil and qa .
through the night, and her Royal Highness continues'
the same state as yesterday.
" Clarence House, Sept. 11."
Tier Royal Highness continued free from P
throughout the afternoon. Wiss Wynyard bas been to
constant attendance on her Royal Highness.
Among the inquiries at Clarence House, St. Tamer'sl'
yesterday, were the French Ambassador, Prince Castel
-
cicala, .the Neapolitan Minister, the Hanoverian
ter, the Danish Charge d'Affaires, and Countess 131
Brake, the Duchess of Inverness, the Marchioness.
Wellesley, Lord and Lady Mahon, Lord VVY'AI°II"
Lord and Lady Strafford, Lady Ridley, Lord `deorg6
Quin, Lady Arden, Lady Stepney, Admiral S',r Ge°rgl
and Lady Martin, Lady Stratheden, Colonel 'Sir Sio,u"
G. Higgins, the Bishop of Rochester, mi.. Uncler-
Sheriff France, Mr. Under-Sheriff Jackson, and :dr'
and Mrs. Backhouse.

Earl and Countess de Grey have been entertain'
ing a large party at West Park, near Biggleswade.
Duke and Duchess of Bedford, Marquis and Marchione t Clanricarde, Earl and Countess Cowper, Earl Bathers ;
Count Pablen, Lord and Lady Radstock, &c., have be
among the visitants.
Lord and Lady Cowley, Lord and Lady Fi'izr°4
Smerset, and Lord and La
ton dy Mahon, are expec,ted
jin the Duke of Wellinle
g's party at Walraer: Ca,tod
early in the approaching week. His Grace is in g
le‘alth, and takes his daily drives to Dover, Deal, 11-
Waldershare.
The Earl of Chesterfield has returned to nret-br
Hall, near Ashbpde-la-Z.uuclie from Windesmill 11
the shooting lodge whie'n Lordship erected, in
v
junction with Mr. Masse.),
Stanley, for the rouse shoa
The Earl I_,erby continues to improve oat
health, The lirn. Captain and Mrs. Charles Stanley
ego
will on a, frilt to the Noble Earl, and will eet,„, 0,1
Knowsley 'until he returns to do duty with his regime
the Grenadier Guards.
FIRES IN LONDON.— ma
'ac the returns ',O I)lies
the Fire Establishment to the various Insurance Co'APa- „the
of the fires that have occurred in the metropolis datting„,3,
present year (commencing on the Ist of Januar, to 7;0
tember 7) it appears that they have been more. curaf,
and extensive than those of the years 1835, 183618g
1838, and 1839, their number being 640.
'lced
The London Missionary Society has commence
a subscription in aid of the bereaved family of the
f ErOnlia.
John Williams, whose murder by the savaes 0 contributions we.
we lately had to record. In the list of hose'
find Earl Fitzwilliam 50L, Dr,ke of DevonshireP" the.
guest Mr. Williams was wheel last in Englarid.;hlrletai
benefit of his health) 25/., the Duke of Northam
251,, and thu Bishop of London and family 131 7'l.
serious a • Wilson, the vocalist, who met with a seri
covered
eident by his chaise upsetting near Dalkeith, l'as re club of
from the injuries he received, and the Shakweare eau
Scotland have invited him to dinner, at the
Rooms, on Thursday next. Iste
There has been an omission in not noticing tll:se
constant attention of her Royal Highness the Prine ted
Sophia during the period of the severe and the protracted
illness of her sister the Princess Augusta. Notwithsts"
log that the Princess Sophia is suffering the greste.,,
:i
pain, she has not neglected calling daily, with her ROY
Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Clarence Houffi
to nuke her personal, her anxious, and affectionate ince
ries for her suffering sister.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
has been nightly indisposed with an attack of gout at CAI'
bridge House. The Duke was out on horseback
day, and visited the Princess Augusta at Clarence
The Duke appeared to suffer from lameness as he Well"d
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the steps of the mansion. '
INCREASE OF POPULATION.— .0.
Whilst the
art' ,
crease of population in England and Wales in thirty ler( i
f
from 1801 to 1831, has been something more than 4/
cent., the actual increase in the number of inhabitiglaci.
five of our most important provincial towns has Teri °o, F
doubled that rate, being—Manchester, 109 Per cep
0
0001
Glasgow, 108 ; Birmingham, 73 ; Leeds, 99 ; Live'
100.

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Yesterday morningall those performers residial ~.
in London who arc engaged for the ensuing Musical F g
tival at Birmingham assembled at the Hanever-sc ore
Rooms, to rehearse the two new compositions by Me" eip-
sohn, written purposely for that occasion.
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It is our melancholy duty this week to remrd -,.,is thb
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s idden death of our highly respected townsman, jerese-on 1
Fielding, Esq. This melancholy event took. placeok s
Monday night. Mr. Fielding, some years ego, 100. '
prominent part in the public affairs of the town of
chester.—Manchester Chronicle.
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STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENTS. The -13 r
r, 400
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Queen, a barge belonging to Mr. LockeSt, limebereg I
a
Northfleet, was on its way up the river on Tb,„ur„seob) . ;
afternoon, with the tide, when she came into Long "- of
The Britannia, a large steam-ship, belonging tlispe•
General Steam Navigation Comp-troy, trading to sye
burgh, was at this time observed by Mr. Talton' rat
master of the British Queen, veining down the river
full speed in the direction of his craft. He endenvted
to put his barge about, but before this could be exect, oe
the Britannia came into collie ion, striking the bargseels
her starboard bow, the violence of the shock being so
that his vessel instantly commenced filling with water'hrad,
es
t jade
in less than two minutes went down. There
were
persons on board at the time, Mr. Talton, his son, 8 bad
and a man who assisted in working the barge. They 000"
a very narrow escape. The barge was laden with „400
bricks, which were to have been landed in Per-001
Creek. She is a new vessel, and valued at about 4. 0
She lies in about twenty feet at ebb tide. About eifo,
o'clock on Thursday the Topaz, a Gravesend k
pee et, .to
longing to the Diamond Company, came violently 'og
collision with the Water Lily, a Greenwich stealuerr el
the entrance to the Surrey Canal, at Deptford. Non-
e
the passengers were injured.
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FIRST LOVE.—The eyes of that young d 31111,00
as she reclines upon her lover's arm, beam with
more t
oa
usual animation and brilliancy. Gentle reader, 13'1°2 in
ever, in the spring time of youth, wandered forth
a,„'°"use
the green fields, at that period of the year when P!ii„g
holds her carnival, and one universal sound of rejolecver
seems to extend throughout Creation ? Have yo f its
inhaled the pure breath of morning, without tasting e
the
sweetness? Have you ever heard with indiffereneniee
notes of the skylark high soaring in the air ? Haleolei
ever looked upon the sunny landscape outstretched bet
rot
you, interspersed with trees, with fruits and flowers„,' dit have heeded not its beauties? Have you ever expellen-eces,
lonely and undefined sensation, under such circuaistteb
steal over your senses—that has impressed your heart -
re
a feeling of its own loneliness and desolation? 11:°‘,tiallels,
easy in circumstances, have kind relations, fostering 04-„-sa. and naturally inquire whence arise these mysterious se- Us
tions, now experienced for the first time? Your heart to
you, to use the words of Byron, that
" You wish for some g Hapentle being piness was born a twiner
b
, ont
of the bette• . you can confide, to share the joys or the sorrowssex, ,
that ,'.,,t
01-es
you in your journey through life. Those are the sYmPt°
of first Love.—A Summer's Day at Greenwich. THE METROPOLITAN PRISONS lOn -1-' n
•--rBT.
—At the present period there are confined in the Queene:.
Bench Prison somewhere about 120 persons, and 21 5°71,0
what similar number in the Fleet Prison, besides a„,,
persons residing in the rules of both. In
street about 330, and nearly 100 on bail under the (I' r,
tion of the Insolvent Debtors' Court. In Horsernongeo.-
i lane 128, and the Murshalst a 44. There arc a few Po- 0
sons in the Borough Coin ter. a prison where F?l.site.•
are taken in execution from the Borough Court 0' ,hey
cord and the Southwark Court of Requests,
where 'To
reside in certain parishes of the Borough. A nie,
Qucen's Bench' and Fleet present a cheering an fOC
lancholy appearance—cheering to the advocete„rtetti
Whitecto:c,
the abolition of debt, and melancholy from their dinette
state; a desertion for the best. There were, in 'es its
past, about 800 in each prison, three or four Pertnj-wero
one room, including two churns (lodgers, as they,
termed, but, at the present period, those) who Er% ll
(Trilled can be .iecommodated with a sitting as we. sorem
bed mom! In Whitecross-street prison there are ; than in all the others, and for a very obvious reason
it is the Sheriff's prison for Landon and Mitll;,,letieoo,
nas
where all persons residing in the twoiaw
jur
are conveyed, e hen taken in execution, and a
ayail
early the ehole have it La their intention I,an pot
themselves of the benefit of the Act, they In the procure their removal by a writ of habeas corpus
~,, of
forthcoming measure
0,11 the difficult and important will be
dt•lvor and creditor, it is hoped that some means . self in
d?vised whereby a man will be enabled to stop b.r_hould
his business without the fear of a prison, or if 1;0;3,--tlfs
be tskert in sxectitiort, that he should,Present
system, thecannot dig,
obtain his liberty in two or three de s.
system, if a person i 5 provided with bail, be eannte
_edi,
charged until nearly a fortnight, no matter bow . lig the
tiously his proceedings may be prepared and filed
Insolvent Debtors' Court, if be actsl 1,3