The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-16 00:00:00

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The Queen, accompanied by the Marquis and
Marchioness of Normanby, and attended by the Hon.
Miss Kerr, took an airing in a carriage and four on
Tuesday afternoon.
Professor Sedgwick arrived at Osborne House on
Tuesday, on a visit to her Majesty.
The royal dinner party at Osborne, on Tuesday
evening, included the Marquis and Marchioness of
Normanby and Professor Sedgwick.
Yesterday morning the Royal Children went to
the beach, and walked and rode on their ponies.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby left
Osborne yesterday morning, embarked at Osborne
Pier on the Undine, commanded by Commander
Allen, and crossed to Gosport, on their return to town.

General Prince Castelcicala had an interview yes-
terday, with Lord Palmerston, at the Foreign-office.
The Postmaster-General had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer on Tuesday, at his
official resicknee in Downing-street. _ _

Kinnaird had an interview with Sir George
Grey yesterday, at the Home-office.
Lord and Lady John Russell had a dinner party
yesterday, at their residence, in Chesharn place.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary
Wood had a dinner party yesterday, at their resi-
dence, in Downimg-street.
Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colo-
nial-office, from the Governor of Gibraltar.

GRAND OPERA, THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE.—
Among the noble and distinguished company who were
present on WedneAay evening were—His Excellency
the Russian Ambassador, with the Baroness Brunnow
and party ; the Prince Louis Napoleon, Viscount and
Viscountess Dillon, Lady Frederick Beauclerk, Lady
and Misses Antrobus, Earl of Canterbury, Lord Henry
Lennox, Lord Robert Clinton, Lord Ward, Lord Brook,
Lord Munster, Lord Edward Howard, Sir William Ball,
Sir George Clerk and family, Sir William de Bathe,
Major-General Sir A. Clifton, Right Hon. C. R. Daw-
son, Right Hon. C. Buller, Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay,
Hon. Colonel Cavendish, General Mercer, Lieutenant-
Colonel Macdonald, Henry Baring, Esq., M.P., &c.
THE COUNTESS GUICCIOLI.—The name of Lord
Byron's celebrated favourite appearsln the Paris papers,
as about to enter once more into the bonds of matrimony.
Among the marriages published at the Mairie of the
first arrondissement of Paris is that of " M. Hilaire
Etienne Octave Bourne, Marquis de Boissy du Coudrais,
Peer of France, and Chevalier of the Legion of Honour,
widower, to Madame Therese Francoise Olympic) Gas-
, pera Gamba, daughter of the Count Rugger° Gamba
ariselli, and widow of Count Guiccioli." The Marquis
de Boissy, like his fair bride, has arrived at an age of
decided maturity. He has been for several years a
widower, having been married in the first instance to
Mdlle. de Musnier de Folleville, who, we believe, was
granddaughter and joint heiress of the millionaire Mar-
quis d'Aligre. By that marriage the Marquis had an
only daughter, who was married in 1843 to the Prince de
Leon, eldest son of the Duke de Rohan. The Countess
Guiccoli therefore becomes not only allied to some of the
noblest families in Franca, but the wife of one of the
wealthiest of the nobility in that country.
WEYMOUTH ELECTION.—WEYMOUTH, WEDNES-
DAY.—The election of a Member to serve for this bo-
rough in the room of Mr. W. D. Christie, who has ac-
cepted the Chiltern Hundreds, took place to-day at the
Guildhall. It is broadly stated in the town that the re-
tirement of Mr. Christie is the effect of a compromise
between the Liberals and Conservatives, induced by the
threat of a petition. It is, however, also rumoured
throughout the town that Mr. Christie is to be appointed
an assistant-secretary to the New Poor-law Board. The
certainty that no opposition would be offered to the re-
turn of the candidate agreed upon made the proceedings
very brief and uninteresting. The Hon. Frederick
William Childs Villiers was proposed by Sir George
Thomas, and seconded by Mr. John Francis Hodges,
and no one else being nominated, was declared by the
Mayor, Mr. W. Devenish, duly returned to serve as a
Member for Weymouth.
NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME ELECTION.—WEDNEE•
DAY AFTERNOON.—The election for a burgess in the
room of Mr. Christy to represent this borough com-
menced this morning. Mr. Ross, the father of the late
candidate, appeared as the representative of his son.
The show of hands was declared to be in favour of Mr.
Ross, and thereupon a poll was demanded and conceded.
The poll takes place to-morrow.
RAGGED SCHOOLS UNlON.—Yesterday evening a
meeting was held at the Temperance Hall, King-street,
Long-acre, on the occasion of the opening of a new
ragged school in Neal's-yard, Seven Dials; the Right
Hon. Lord Ashley, M.P., in the chair. It appeared from
the report of the local committee that the school which
they were about to open was started by the liberality of
one individual. A lady who had attended a meeting of
the committee of the Ragged Schools Union was so
much struck by the amount of good which they had
effected that she presented to the union a building in
Neal's-yard, Seven Dials, and the sum of 501. to put it
in repair, for the purpose of being used as a ragged
school. She also agreed to contribute the sum of lot.
per annum to defray the expenses, at the same time ex-
pressing a wish that her name should be concealed. A
local committee of several gentlemen resident in the
vicinity was at once formed, with a view of raising
' contributions and superintending the arrangements.
The schools which were now ready to be opened
would accommodate eighty children, and the expenses
would amount to 701. or so/. per annum. Letters
were then read from the Rev. Mr. Tyler, the rector
of St. Giles, containing a donation of 51 ; from Captain
Trotter, the secretary to the society, announcing a do-
nation of 21., to be continued annually, and from other
persons (names not given) announcing donations of 11.
The Chairman then addressed the meeting at some
length, congratulating them upon the occasion of their
meeting, and urging upon them the strong necessity of
carrying out, by their contributions, the work which
had been so well begun. They might ascertain, by per-
sonal inspection of other ragged schools, the amount of
good which had already been effected. The Rev. Mr.
Branch then addressed the meeting, and stated that an
instance of benevolence similar to the one which had been
referred to had lately come under his notice. A gentle-
man who owned two large houses in Seven Dials had
presented them to the City Mission Society, with the
sum of 1001., in order that a portion of the houses should
be applied to some purpose for the benefit of the poor in
the neighbonrhood. Several other gentlemen then ad-
dressed the meeting, and resolutions pledging them to
forward the objects of the union were adopted. A vote
of thanks having been given to the chairman, the meet-
ing separated.
MAILS BEXWEEN ENGLAND AND NORTH AMR..
aws.—The new postal contract of her Majesty's Go•
vernment for the conveyance of the mails between Eng-
land and North America, every alternate Saturday
during the winter months, and every Saturday during the
other eight months of the year to Boston and New York
from Liverpool, comes into operation to-morrow even-
ing, when the mails will be made up in London and for-
warded by the Caledonian steamer. Liverpool,
Halifax, and Boston, on the ISth. On the 31st by the
Cambria steamer, for the Ist of January to New York,
from Liverpool, and every alternate Friday till March,
and then weekly. The following important notice was
issued ) esterday at the Post-office, so as to preren dis-
appointments and delays in the correspondence between
this country and British North America:—The Post-
master General of the United States, having given a no.
tice for determining the agreement under which the cora
respondence between Great Britain and Canada hag
been conveyed in closed mails through the territories of
the United States, as well as alt other agreements
subsisting between the post-offices of the two
countries, the mails to and from Canada will hencea

forth be landed and embarked at Halifax, Nova Scotia,
instead of at Boston, as at present. All letters and
newspapers, therefore, addressed to Canada will ia
future be forwarded by the way of Halifax, Nova
Scotia, unless specially directed to be sent by some other
route ; and, as the arrangement under which United
States postage has hitherto been collected in Canada is
also suspended by the notice alluded to, all letters for
Canada which the writers desire tv have forwarded by
the way of the United States should be addressed to that
care of parties in the United States, or they will other—
wise be detained for the ,postage due for their transit
through the American territory. The postage on letters
to and from Canada, forwarded via Halifax, Nova Scotia,
will be Is. 2d. the half-ounce, as at present, but no charge
will be made on newspapers either in the United King-
dom or in Canada. The postage on letters for the United
States via Boston or New Yolk, will be Is. for every
letter not exceeding
be chargeablexceeding half
ounce,tharate
of 2d. each. The
an and so on. News-
paperswipostage on both must, in every instance, be prepaid."
The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gib-
raltar, and the West Indies, &c, will be made up
to• morrow morning, the 17th instant ; for Gibraltar,
Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon,
India, Hong-Kong, and China, on Monday morning, the
20th instant, via Southampton, and by the overland
closed mail via Marseilles on the evening of the 24th inst.
EAST INDIA COLLEGE, HAILEYDURY. The
annual
distribution of prizes at the above establishment toolc
place on Tuesday morning. Among the directors
were the Chairman (11. St. G. Tucker,
Esq.), John
Cotton, Esq., Sir James Weir Hogg Bart.,
Colonel Sykes, Sir 11. Willock, 8art.,1.P., Lieut.-
Galloway, E. Macnaughten,Major-General
Major ()infant, &c. Among tav,i Sir J. C. Whiteman,
Highness the Duke of Cambridge,visitors were his Boyd
Bart., M.P., Major. G Sir H. H. Inglis,
eneral C. Pasley, K 8., Major,
General Sir G. Pollock, B art. J. Hume, Esq., M.P
Major Chase, Major Wilkinson,' &c. Several essays
..
were read. Mr. E. J. Birch read a prize
essay on the
causes of the superiority of the Anglo Saxon race over
the French and Spanish in North America. Mr. J. I).
Forsyth read in the Ilindustanee a translation of the
character of Aurungzebe, from Dow's History of Hin-
dustan; also a translation of the Toorkoman tribes of
lihorassan, from Bailey's Travels; and a Sanscrit trans-
lation, in verse, of the description of Satan, from the
first part of Milton's Paradise Lost. The Chairman of
the East India Company then addressed the students in
an appropriate speech. The company then adjourned to
the dining hall, where the dinner took place.—Mr. Sr„
George Tucker in the chair.
MONEY MARKET.—The premium on gold at Paris
is 13 per milk, which, at the English Mint price of
3/. 17s. 10id. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex•
change of 25.47 ; and the exchange at Paris on London
at short being 25.67 i, it follows that gold is 0.80 pee
cent. dearer in Loudest than in Paris. By advices front
Hamburgh the price of gold is 4362 per mark, which, at
the English Mint price of 31. 17s. lOid. per ounce for
standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.108 ; and the
exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being
13.14 it follows that gold is 0.57 per gent. dearer in
!London than in Liggaburgh,