The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-26 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
Murray, Esq., Mrs. Murray, and family, at Marshall
iCeet,Pson's Hotel, Cavendish-square, from the Continent;
p___lty. Mr. and Mrs. Lillington and family, at ditto,
Ramsgate; Lord Bexley; Sir Walter and the Hon.
CY Stirling ; Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Beaumont ; Sir
Bannerman, at the Burlington Hotel ; Colonel
Luiltins; Lord Blayney ; Lady Deerhurst ; Lady Eliza-
eta Monck ; Sir John and Lady Pechell ; A. Foun
14illes Esq.
DEPARTURES.
Lady William Powlett, for Lowther Cestle, Penrith ;
e RQV. Charles and Miss Wetherell, from Thomas's
Hotel, for Northampton; the Dowager Countess of
l'!lcirton, and E. Godfrey, Esq., for Suffolk; Sir
ism and Lady Templar Pole, for Devonshire ; the Earl
V. St. Germains, for Clifton; Colonel M. Adam, K. H.,
fo
r Brighton ; Sir Richard and Lady Bulkeley, for North
II ales; Rowland Errington, Esq., for the Moors of Dur-
barn ; the Earl of Ilchester, for Germany; Sir Hesketh
eleetwood, Bart., M.P., for Brighton ; the Hen. J. E.
M.P., and family, for Roxburghshire ; Lord Ken-
stington, for Carmartheushire ; the Hon. John Charles
u"(las. M. P., for Yorkshire ; Mr. Hyde Greg, M. P.,
front Joseph
the Burlington Hotel, for Lancashire; Colonel Sir
dasePh and Lady Whatley, for Erglefield House, Berks.

her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
Presented a donation of 51. to the collection at Wimble-
aham Church,
near Bagshot, after a sermon on behalf of
the Church Missionary Society.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex and
the Duchess of Inverness will leave Kensington Palace in
the ensuing month, for a tour of visits, in the course of
Which his Royal Highness will honour Sir B,•njarnin and
Lady Hall with his company at Llanover Court, Aber-
gavenny.
The Ftrst Lord of the Admiralty, accompanied
by Viscount Admiral Sir Charles Adam, K. C. 8., Rear-
Admiral Parker, K C.B , left the Admiralty yesterday on
an official tour of inspection of several weeks. Lord
Melgund, M. P., will accompany the Commissioners.
The Earl and Countess of Jersey and' Lady
Sarah Villiers, who have been erroneously included among
the company visiting the Duke of Rutland at Longshawe,
have not removed from Middleton Park. The Noble Earl,
• who has suffered severely from gout, is greatly improved
in health, and will shortly see company at the above scat.
LETTER SORTING.—A plan is in contempla-
tion, very similar in the modes operandi to that which
obtains on the railways, namely, that a Post-office agent
shall be employed on board each steamer to sort the letters
on the voyage down to Bombay, so that on the arrival of
the vessel the various packets may be despatched to their
destination immediately.

The weather, during the last few days, has been
11l Oat could be wished for at this season, and we hear
!links. accounts from various parts of the country. Al-
_ ,t!igh tic storm of last week was very severe, it is now
way that the result will not prove so detrimental as
at one time dreaded.—Glasgow Argus.
frollie Pollock and Govan Railway was opened
011'4 Ruthergien to the Broomielaw harbour, on Saturda,
ofe 22d inst., with a train of carriages containing the son
the spiiited proprietor, William Dixon, Esq. of Govan.
alid friends, the engineer and contractors upon the
line, and also trains of coal waggons. The contemplated
• Extension of this line of railway, with a terminus at
reomielaw harbour, to the Monkland, Wishaw, Coltness
rfd,Hamilton coal and iron-stone fields, will render it one
;tae most available means of opening up the richest dis.
1,-
let in Scotland.— Glasgow Argus.
THE QUEEN AND MISS JANE PORTER.—
Though no poetess on ordinary themes of imagination, my
heart
was my muse here ; and I cannot forbear closing my
little store of remembrances with a few lines which my
awakening faculties seemed to address to one of the illus.
t. trio us and interesting subjects of my meditation. They
Were the thought of the moment, and were written down
..
soon as I arose :-
4' Wake, Albert, wake 1 from dreams of hope arise,
To clasp with blissful arms the hov'ring prize 1
A snow-drop from its heavenly Eden bends
To seek thy bosom, and in light descends ;
Not cold, but pure and spotless as its hue ;
It breathes of Paradise—and breathes for you I"
Feb. 10, Six in the morning.
perhaps I ought to explain that the snow-drop has always
,en an emblem to me of the innocence and unblemished
fairness of of my young, and lovely, and honoured sovereign.
P.—Queen Victoria, from her Birth to her Bridal
TRAVELLING Tu PAISLEY.—The number of
Irsons who passed along the joint Railway to Paisley on
Frfirst day of the races (Thursday) was 6,500; and on
iday, 8,200 ; when there were twenty-five trains up and
tiventy..fiy, down. On the line from Avr there were
."'"A 3,000 to 4,000. By the railway from Renfrew,
:here there were thirty-six trains, there travelled, on
l'hursday, 2,800, and on Friday nearly 6,000. The canal
boats were also crowded with passengers ; but, notwith-
standing the increased facility for travellit.g which is now
afforded betwixt Glasgow and Paisley, the greatest diffi•
eulty was experienced in getting either out or in, in con-
!.Silenee of the pressure, particularly at the railway sta-
tions. The scene at both ends frequently baffled deccrip-
tlne ; and not a few might be seen who had with difficulty
emerged from the crowds minus the skirt of their coat,
while others sustained injuries of a more serious descrip-
-11". One woman had her leg broken at Paisley, while
struggling to get across to the train ; and many more
areaofully squeezed.
PRINCE METTERNICH.—At twelve o'clock

pas
with Prince Metternich. This interview was the main
'abject of my journey to Vienna. After all the warnings
and advice I had received, in direct opposition to which I
was fully determined to act, I might naturally have felt
1:11e uneasiness. Convinced, however, that I had to do
94144 a really great statesman, I knew that the open
4.traight-forward course was the best. In reply, therefore,
L° the Prince's first question, I informed him without re-
serve of the real objects of my proposed journey. My
audience lasted for an hour and a half. I spoke as little as
possible myself, while the Prince discoursed away with the
openness, clearness, practical good sense, and total absence
of empty abstractions, which characterize the superior
,Statesman—a style as oppcsite as possible to the finesse,
4111; igUity, and mendacity of T and his sophisticated
schoo2. The Prince asked me more than once, whether 1
'Jag not of his way of thinking ? It could to him have
been of very little importance whether I was or not.—
.laumur's Italy and the Italians.
NARROW ES.CAFE OF TIIE QUEEN—It has
before been remarked that the Princess Victoria had nearly
lost Ito- life through the carelessness of a boy firing close to
her nursery windows. A second providential escape from de-
struction masked her homeward voyage to Norris Castle, Isle
of Wight, in the Emerald yacht. This vessel ran foul
of the Active bulk, and the mainmast of the Emerald
being sprung, her sail and a piece of heavy wood were de-
tcehed ; when the pilot of the Emerald, seeing them about
to fall on the very spot where the Princess stood, seized
her Promptly in his arms, and lifted her into a place of
safety. Tile instantaneous fall of the heavy rigging on
the very space on the deck tccupied by the Princess an
instant bciiire, sent a shudder and a cry of horror through-
out the vessel; for it is evident si.e must have been crushed
if she had not been suddenly removed.-Queen Victoria
from her Birth to her &idol.
At the late Downsitife Assizes, Martha Ed-
munds was arraignegl for the poioning of her husband,
George Edmunds, at Ballyveagh, oecr Kilkeel, on the
2th of April, by adnainizuring to him a quotity of ar-
senic, mixed with water and whisky. A most hearirend,.
ing scene occurred in the coursfi, of the trial. Counsel
for the Crown produced a mere child, a little girl, to give
cifidence against her mother. The prisoner remained, up
tes this moment, composed and apparently unconcerned,
but on the production of the child the strong feelings of
Pature gave way, and she shrieked in hysterical phrensy.
The sensation produced in Court is not ,tp be described.
The good old Ridge Burton) wept—the Jury ,:laireated
the removal of the from the table—the itiotiier
grasped it convulsively to i..er breast Almost every
.creature was in tears, and the tinforits:c.at prisoner, over-
come by her maternal feelings, sank down g fit, which
Ncaa succeeded by a second, more violent than-tin. brit,
before medical aid finally restored her. The child was
not examined, and when the case closed, Lad the Jury re.,
tired to consider their verdict, one of these also, doubtless
overcome by his fe.elings, was seized in tha Poo4p with an
apoplectic tit. The eoneequence was, that no verdwt vvas
pronounced, as the Jury had to be discharged. The un-
fortunate woman was next day aga=te, put on her trial, when
a. verdict of manslaughter was pronounced against nor.