The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-02 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

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WINDSOR, FRIDAY.--71-lis Royal Highness Prince
Albert passed an hour in the forenoon shooting in the
Little Park ; but the weather, has been so unfavourable,
that her Majesty and the Princess Royal have not left
the Castle to-day.
.Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by
Lady Anne Maria Dawson, Colonel Wylde, and Capt.
Francis Seymour, arrived at the Castle at three o'clock
this afternoon from Woolwich, where her Royal High-
ness arrived about noon from Ostend, in the Firebrand,
Capt. S. B. Cooke, which left Ostend at eleven o'clock
last night, and had a fine passage:
The Earl of Jersey, Master of the Horse, arrived at
the Castle on a visit to the Queen.

Colonel Bouverie has succeeded Major-General Sir
Edward Bowater as the Equerry in Waiting on his Royal
Highness Prince Albert.
Lord Charles Wellesley, the Clerk Marshal, has suc-
ceeded Colonel Wemyss as the Equerry in Waiting on
her Majesty.
Colonel Arbuthnot, 72d Highlanders, will have the
honour of joining the Royal Dinner Party at the Castle
this evening.
One of the coaches belonging to the Steam Coach
Company was, by permission, exhibited to-day to her Ma-
jesty and her illustrious Consort in the Quadrangle of
the CaStle. The carriage was under the superinten-
dence of Mr. John Squire, the Company's Engineer.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were graciously
pleased to express themselves gratified by this novel and
interesting piece of mechanism.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Anne Maria Dawson, Sir George Couper,
Bart., and Capt. Frencis Seymour, landed at Woolwich
Dockyard yesterday morning from a Government steam-
packet from Ostend. Her Royal Highness was received
on landing by Col. Wylde, Equerry to his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, and immediately entered one of the Queen's
carriages and four, and left the Royal Dock-yard for the
metropolis. Her Royal Highness arrived at the Royal
Mews, at Pimlico, at one o'clock, and after a very short
stay proceeded to Windsor Castle, attended by Lady
Anne Maria Dawson, Colonel Wylde, and Capt. Francis
Seymour, on a visit to her Majesty.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge,
and the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, at-
tended by Baron Knesbeck, left Cambridge House on
Thursday evening on their return to Kew.
His Excellency Chekib Effendi, Turkish Ambassador
at this Court, has left London f.n. Paris, and Foad Ef-
fendi, First Secretary of the Embassy, is appointed
here Charge d'Affairs pro tern., by the Sublime Porte.
Despatches from Lord Sydenham, Governor of Ca-
nada, and also from the Governors of New Brunswick
and Nova Scotia, were received yesterday afternoon, at
the Colonial-office.

Despatches were sent off last evening from the Colo-
ninl-office, fur the Governors of the West India Colonies.
Baron Brunow, the Russian Minister, the Austrian
Charge d'Affaires, and the Prussian Charge d'Affaires
visited the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday afternoon at the
Foreign-office. Foad Effendi, Turkish Charge d'Affaires,
also transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.

WESTMINSTER HARMONIC
SOCIETY.

The Westminster Harmonic Society gave a grand con-
cert of Sacred Music, last evening, at the Temperance.
Hall, Broatiway, Westminster. This is one of those
Societies which hare been formed of late years for the
cultivation of choral music, and which are destined to
form a- prominent feature in the future history of
music in England. If a taste for fine and clas-
sical music is ever to Pe regenerated amongst us—
it we are hereafter destined to attain, and to maintain
the same high rank in music we have already attained
in other liberal arts—it must be mainly through the in-
strumentality of such .Societies as these. Sincerely,
therefore, do we. rejoice to record their triumphs—cor-
dially do we bid them " God speed," and gin would we
see a Choral Society established in every town and vil-
lage of the empire. The concert of last evening con-
sisted of a grand selection from the oratorios
of the Messiah and Judas Maccabees, the solo pas-
sages being given by professional vocalists, one of whom,
Miss Cubitt, was in excellent voice, and sang with
exquisite taste and expression, while the choruses were
sustained by the members of the Society. The manner in
which the choruses were given reflects the highest credit
upon the 'Westminster Harmonic Society. There was a
firmness and precision exhibited which isnot often met with
even in the regularly trained chorus of our public esta-
blishments. It was evidently a labour of love—every
one who took part in it had become imbued with the
spirit of the sublime master. Each thoroughly appre-
ciated the composition as a whole, and the consequence
was that all the choral effects were completely under-
stood, and as completely developed. We have never
heard the grand Hallelujah chorus better given.
The orchestra, which was full and efficient, was
ably led by Mr. Pringle, and the concert was conducted
by Mr. Webb. This gentleman would be an excellent
conductor if he would break himself of the evil habit
which he has contracted of slapping his baton audibly
upon his book at the conclusion of every.bar. This mars
the effect of the finest passages, and the "Westminster
Harmonic Society is composed of those who are far too
good musicians to stand in need of such auctioneer-like
practices to keep them to their time. We sincerely con-
gratulate the members of the Westminster Harmonic So-
ciety on their triumph of last evening, and hope to have
the pleasing duty of recording many a similar one. The
audience was numerous, and, we are glad to say, most
attentive.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in
the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes
Registered in the week ending Sept. 25, 1841." The Table is
issued from the Office of the Registrar-General :

CAUSES OF DEATH.

Weekly
Total. Average

1838-9-4-0
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases l6B 204
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 159 151
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration
Diseases of the Heat and Bloodvessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion 69 60
Diseases of the Kidnoys &c.
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Museles
Diseases of the Skin, &c 0 • 1
Diseases of Uncertain Seat.-- lll 103
Old Age, or Natural Decay 52 71
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemperance 31 25
Causes not specified
Deaths from all causes 857
Average Weekly Deaths . .. 926
Deaths in the Average Weekly
Week. Deaths, 1838-9-40
Western Districts ... 112 —:.— 139
North Districts
Central Districts 204 ..... 190
East Districts 224 ...... 211
South Districts ... 181 223

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Total 857 926
It is stated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the
32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon-
don 11th and without the walls, the City and Liberties of
Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality--
and the parishes of St. 31ary1ebone, St. Pancras, Kensington,
Fulham, Hammersmith( Chapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), Pad-
dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard (Brom-
ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camber • ell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas
and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The populatim, as
enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890. The weekly averrge for
1838, 1839, and 1840, was obtained by dividing the deaths in
the three years by 156.
TESIPERATUKE IN THE WEEKS ENDING
Sept. 18. Sept. 25.
79 70°
50 51
66 61
30, 1811.

Highest .....................
Lowest ................
General
Daily Mean ........
d ce, Segister Offiept.

SERIOUS ACOIDENT.—On Wednesday evening;
at seven o'clock, as the omnibus called Taglioni, running
between King's-cross and the Elephant and Castle, was
approaching the foot of 131ackfriars-bridge, it came in
contact with a cab coining in the Opposite direction ;
both vehicles being furiously driven, the collision was
dreadful. ;['he cabman was thrown headlong. to a consi-
derable distance, and was conveyed in a senseless state to
St. Bartholomew's Hospital. The near horse of the
omnibus was killed upon the spot, while the cab-horse
was so injured as to be for ever rendered unserviceable.
It is impossible to say with whom the blame rests.
RIOT IN DURNESS, SUTHERLANDSIIIRE.--
Information has reached us, that, on the night of Satur-
day the 11th instant, the Sheriff-substitute and Procu•
rator-fiscal of Sutherland, with a party of Sheriff-officers
and constables, were deforeed in the execution of their
duty, and attacked by a mob of about 400 people, con-
sisting of men and women, armed with bludgeons and
other weapons, at the inn of Duthie, in the parish of
1 )
in Lord Reay's country ; the whole party were
less injured, and some narrowly escaped with
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