The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-06 00:00:00

MORNIN G E i'1101.4

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, TUESDAY.---Prince Albert. enjoyed :he
exercise of skating this afternoon op the lake at Fr"X"
more Gardens. Her Majesty participated in the amuse-
ment on the ice, his Royal klighne,4 driving her in a
tle,!ge ; as were the Hon. Misses Cocks and Pager, by
CaptAin Seymour and Dr. Pretorios. These Lafiws and
Lord A Paget were in attendance upon her Majesty,
and Mr. G. E. Anton, Captain Seymour, and Dr. i'rest
ter:us were in attendance on Prince Albert.
The Duchess of Kent has not left the Castle to-day.
The Belgian Minister and Madame Van de W,,-er
left the Castle this morning for London.
The Earl of Fingal has succeeded Lord Lilford gs
Lord in Waiting on the Queen, and Vice-Admiral Sir
Robert Utway has. succeeded Mr. Rich as Gremn in
Waiting.
The Lord Steward came to the Castle this morning
and left this evening. Lord John Russell arrived, at
the Castle List evenieg on a visit to her Majesty.
Last night the Officers of the Rifle Brigade sta-
tioned here, with the assistance only of the two Wse
Mordaunts, performed the play of Charles the Twelfth,
an interlude, and the farce of Me Wags of Witutsor.
for the ',click of the poor. The house was crowded,
not even standing rooni to be obtained. Tae perfor-
mance meat cif most admirably ; indeed there was so
much of exullence throughout, that it would be unUr
to particularise.
These gentlemen played some time since, and r.t
that time give to an excellent charity in this town the
handsome sum of fill. ; en the present occasion the
house was filled, and the Misses Mordaunt gave their
service, in return for which generous conduct the same
play and farce is to be performed on Friday by the same
parties for the benefit of these ladies.

ffs Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Wei-
mar arrived at Marlborough House, Pall Mall, on
Monday night, from the Continent. His Serene
Highness left town et nine o'clock yesterday morning,
by the London and Birminghamlway, for Sudbury
Hall, Derbyshire, on a visit to her Mojesty the Quce°
Dowager.
Lord John Russell left. town on Monday afternoon,
on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
A meeting of the Commissioners for the Reduetion
of the National Debt was held yesterday at the Trea-
sury. Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-Gene-
ral, was in attendance on the Commissioners.

The Lord Chancellor will receive the Judges, &c•
on Monday next, the I lth instant, the first di of
Hilary Term, at his residence in Bruton-street.
Dispatches trom the Governor of New South Wales
were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. • _

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council stit
yesterday, and resumed the appeal " Kiellev v. Cars..n,"
from Newfoundland, relative to the privileges of the
House of Assembly of that Island. Mr. Pemberton,
Queen's Counsel, concluded his address, and was fol-
lowed by Mr. Henderson. Mr. Hill, Queen's Counsel.
commenced his address for the respondent.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
Lord William Hervey, at the Marquis of Bristol's, is
St. James's-square, from Suffolk ; Lord Hotbam,
in Hill-street, from Sussex ; Viscount and Viscountess

Leveton, in Grosvenor-square, from Gloucestershire; the
Earl of EgUntoun, in Bond-street, from Badminton, the
seat of the Duke and Duchess of Beatifott; his Excel-
leney Baron and Baroness do Cetto, in Hill-street, from ,
Surrey; the Dowager Countess of Clarendon, in North
Audley-street, from; Deal Castle ; the Dowager Countess
of Charleville, from a tour; Viscount Alford, M.P., from •:
Devonshire ; Lady Augusta Seymour, in St. James's
square, from Ick worth Park ' • Lord wad Lady Marybo-
rough, in Saville-row, from Deal Castle, Kent.
DEPARTURES.
Lord and Lady Petre and Hon. Miss Petro, from Moe'
field-street, for Thorndon Hall, Essex ; Baron Bourque-
ney, from Hertford House, for Broadlands, on a visit to
Viscouni, and Viscountess Palmerston; Lord and LadY
Kenmure, from Belgrave-street, for Brighton ; Lord
Huntingtower, for Bath ; Viscount and Viscountess Fiiz-
elan, from Stanhope-street. for the Rookery, Dorking ; •
the Countess of Minto and Lady Fanny Elliot, from the '
Admiralty, for Minto House, near Hawick, N.B. ' • the
Earl of Cardigan, from Portmar*quare, for Deane Park,
Northamptonshire; Prince Achille Murat, from the
Gloucester Hotel, Piccadilly, and Berkeley-etreet; the
Earl of Belfast, from Fenton's Hotel, for Ireland.

CHANGES.
The Earl of Wilton at Egerton Lodge, Melton Mow'
bray, from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield,

at Bretby, Derbyshire ; Lord and Lady Southampton, on
a tour of visits, from Beaudesert, the seat of the Marquis
of Anglesey ; Sir John Wyldbore and Lady Smith, at
Bath, from Downe House, Dorset.

Persons have been said to be able, by habit, to
live without air a considerable time. Death generallf
occurs at the latest in one or two minutes, when respiretioe
is suspended ; but by habit some few divers of the Swint
ming School at Paris can remain under water three Int'
nutes. If the system is in an extraordinary nervous state
of insensibility, the .11>i0 ce of air, like the absence
of food or the admin, tie tion of strong agents, may he
borne for a very long time. Even fainting renders sub'
mersion less dangerous. Mr. Brydono (" Tour through
Sicily and Malta") frequently saw divers remain, in the
Bay of Naples, under water fur three minutes. In Pere
" History of Ceylon," they are said sometimes to
remain five minutes under water. Some very grandin-
stances of exaggeration on this subject will be found in an
amusing and useful book, entitled " The Uncertainty of
the Signs of Death." M D'Egly, Member of the Royal
Society of Inscriptions, declares that he was engaged to
dinner for which the fish was to be provided by a Swiss
diver, who got his living by plung;ng into the water and
pulling the fish out of their holes. The dinner hour are
rived, but no fish. Drags were employed, and the diver's
body found. The curate wished to bury it immediately,
as it had been nine hours under water, but M. D'Egly dee
termined on attempting resuscitation, and succeeded in
three-quarters of an hour. The Rev, Mr. Derbam, ir. 51110
" Physico-Theology," is more credulous than the Cote;
he quotes Pechlin for the ease of a man pensioned by the
Queen for having joined his fellow-creatures again, after
remaining upright under water, his feet sticking in the
muddy bottom, for sixteen hours, at Tronningbolm. Yet
this is nothing ; for Mr. Tilesius, the keeper of the Royal
Library, has written an account of a woman whom he saer
alive and well, after being three days under water. And
this is nothing ; for Mr. Burmann declares ho beard a
funeral sermon at Boness, in Lithovia, upon an old man of
seventy, who, the preacher protested, had fallen into the
water when six:cen years old, and remained under it for
seven weeks, Mr. Brydone was told that one diver, called
Calas, but nicknamed Pesce, could live several days in the
sea ; and Kircher asserts that this aquatic person could
walk under water from Sicily to Italy. —Dr. .Elliotson on
Human Physiology.
Several of the most eminent of the London Dis-
senting Ministers have undertaken to deliver a lecture, in
rotation, at the New Broad-strect Meeting House, at 12
o'clock on the Tuesday following the first Sunday in the
month, " on those principles of Evangelical Protestantinn
which are opposed not only to the Popery of Romanisms
but to that more specious, though less consistent, Papery
of modern Protestantism, usually designated, of late, by the
conventional term of Puseyism.
Mr. Thomas James, Registrar of St. David's
District, in the county of Pembroke, has been dismissed
from his appointment. A correspondent informs us that a
few months ago he became a party to an attempt to effect
a marriage between Mr. George Williams, a mercer at
Havcrfordwest, and a Miss Williams, a minor, residing is
St. David's; but before their plan could be carried into
execution, Williams became a bankrupt, when letters were
found amongst his papers, which so clearly showed the part
which the Registry had taken, that the person into whose
hands they fell deemed it his duty to send them to the
General Register Office. Some correspondence followed.
which was closed by a letter being sent to Mr James, no-
tifying his dismiesal from his office.— Welshman.
AN EXAMPLE FOR, THE IRISH CLERGY.•••••••
A letter is published in the Southern Reporter from. the
Rev. Edward G. Hudson, Senior Chaplain to the Lord-
Lieutenant, addressed to the Rev. E. M'Carthy, P. p. of
Ardnagnihe, county Cork, requesting bis name to be put
down for 1001. towards erecting a new Catholic chapel in
that parish. This truly benevolent Divine states further,
that-in the event of the present Catholic chapel of the
place (Which is much.teo the_ _Laws stoegreglie
tteceybeing converted into a national school for the cdu'
cation of children of all denominations, he will in that
case present the parish with an ample plot of ground,
in a better situation, for a new chapel, rent free for ever,
and make his subscription 2001. instead of 100/.
In this letter Mr. Hudson thus expresses himself :
" For some time past I have observed that the Roman
Catholic congregation of Glenville has fir outgrown the
accommodation afforded by the chapel; and I have often
been led to admire the patient devotedness of the shelter-
terless externs in braving the storm and rain rather than
forsake the vicinity of the house of worship during the
Sabbath hour of prayer. Although there are many point,
of religious belief on which our opinions are widely Ist
variance, I have never permitted those opinions to inter-
fere with my duties as a landlord ; nor have I ever pleaded
those differences as an excuse for neglecting that Christian
charity which teaches us to do good unto all men—and
which should especially prompt us to coatribu e to the
wants and comforts of our fellow Christians when assem-
bling themselves together to worship God after the manner
of their fathers."

The Treasury are about to make the follov,-
ing retirement, on sup, rminuat, d alloviauces:—.Cu--
tonis.—Two of the ..ote-t cominisse n-rs, some -1'
the old long ro iat ~ffi -ers, sere: t u4l of the water-
side office, a. landing-waiters. &c., two surveyors, scv.
clerks, and several principal officers a'outpors, 1111,1,
Bristol, &c.—quite a turn-out in this and oiler public de-
partments.—From a Correspondent of the Morning Post.
STEAM-BOAT COLLISIONS.—On Monday af-
ternoon the Duke of Sussex steam-vessel came up the
river from Southend and Sheerness, with her head knocked
and apparently much damaged, and it was report,d
th t ih, tearner had been struck by lightning
morning, and damaged, but on inquiry it turned out that
she came into collision with her Majesty's steanier Light-
ning. The collision took place at eleven o'clock on Sun-
day morning in Halfway-reach, below Woolwich. The •
Lightning also sustained sonio injury by the collision.
Both steame:s were enabled to pursue their course, and
the Duke of Sussex arrived at Sheerness the same aftor-
noon, and landed her passengers, none of whom received
•
the least injory. A few days since the Planet. Graves
end sir . r, iv i rut bird Of by a brig, vo”ci, drre-•
sternpost, and ciid other damage to a considerable •
besides driving the Planet into a schooner coming up,
which also sustained much injury by the shock.

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