The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-11 00:00:00

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WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Yefterclay his R yal fitgn4
ness Prince George arrived at the Castle, and had an
audience of the Queen. Prince George remained to
luncheon with her Majesty and her Royal Consoxt,
and left the Castle in the afternoon.

Mr. Charles Buller, Judge Advoale4-General, ar-
rived yesterday afternoon at the Cast-le, and had an
audience of the Queen to submit to her Majesty the
proceedings of some Courts-martial. Mr. Buller took
his departure in the afternoon.
Lord and Lady John Russell arrived in the after-
noon, on a visit to her Majesty.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked out yester-
day afternoon.

The. Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the
Princess Alice, took walking and pony exercise yes-
terday forenoon in the Castle slopes and grounds.
The royal dinner party yesterday included her
Royal Hikhness the Duchess of Kent, Lord and Lady
John Russell, the Lady in waiting of the Duchess of
Kent, the Baroness de Speth, tbN Hon. Mrs. C. B.
Phipps,.and ALss Lott;sa Dawson Danner.
The band of the .11,:iyel Bore Guards was in at-
tendance during dinner. ger Alejesty's private band
afterwards attended In the Castle.
This morning the Queen and Ids Royal Highness
Prince Albert, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court,
and the domestic household, attended divine service in
the private chapel of the Castle. The -Hon. and Rev.
C. Leslie Courtenav officiated.
The unfavourable state of the morning prevented
her Almjesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
taking their usual early walk. The same cause pre-
vented the Royal Family leaving the Castle.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied
by their Serene Highnesses, the Duchess Ida, Prince
Edward, and the Princesses of Saxe ‘Veimar, left her
residence, Marlborough House, shortly before eleven
o'clock on Saturday morning, for the terminus of the
London and South-Western Railway at Nine Elais.:
Her Majesty suite consisted of Frances Lady Clin-
ton, the Earl Howe, the Earl of Denbigh, Sir Horace
Seymour, Miss Seymour, Colonel and Mrs. Cornwall,
Captain Taylor, Sir David Davies, Rev. G. T. Hud-
son, and Mr. Bedford.
The Queen Dowager and party left the railway
station by a special train for Gosport, to embark in
the Howe for Madeira.

The Earl Howe, the Earl of Denbigh, and Captain
Taylor, returned to town on Saturday night, after the
embarkation of her Majesty.
The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Major Ste.
phens, honoured the Lord Mayor with his company
at dinner on Saturday. Yesterday morning his ltccal
Highness attended divine service in Grosvenor Chapel,
South Audley-street, and in the afternoon attended
divine service at St. James's Church.

•His Excellency the American Minister had an in-
terview with the Chancellor of the- Exchequer on
Saturday. The Postmaster-General had also an in-
terview with the Right Hon. Baronet, at his official
residence in Downing-street.

Dispatches were received on Saturday at the Colo-
nial Office from the Governors of the Mauritius,
Sierra Leone, and Gibraltar.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, OCT. 9.—The Vice-Chancellor (the Rev.
Dr. Syrnond's, warden of Wadham) was this day
nominated by the heads of houses, according to
annual custom, before the commencement of term.
This is his fourth year of office.
The Professor of Pastoral Theology will commence
his lectures on the 25th inst.

The Rev. Messrs. M'Dougall, of Magdalen-hall,
and Wright, of Queen's College, are about to proceed
on a mission to Sarawak, in Borneo.

THE TAY.

The recent heavy rains have caused the river to
overflow, and to cause great damage to property. The
mills have been stopped, and the navigation seriously •
impeded. it is said that the water has risen 16 feet.
The two Inches are entirely covered, the water being
over the parapet wall between the one on the north of
the town and Rose-terrace. In the shops in North
Port and west end of Castle Gable, and all the places
upon the. same level, the depth is about five feet.. The
Edinburgh road which passes through the South Inch,
being raised two or three feet above its level, is yet
passable, although it also is partially covered. The
damage up the country must be fearful. The con-
tractors for the bridges across the Almond and Tay,
now constructing for the Midland Railway, must be
large losers, as the quantity of wrought timber which
has floated past the town is immense. A great num-
ber of men have been employed the whole day in
catching it in its progress towards the sea, and they
certainly have been very successful; but with all
their exertions, what they have brought ashore is not
a tithe of what has passed them. Carcasses of sheep
and cattle, trees, stacks, apparently in as good order
as they stood in the stack-yard, have all been observed
in the course of the day in their progress seaward. It
is also reported that a great number of Memel logs
that were to be used by the Dundee Railway Com-
pany in erecting the bridge across the Tay, have been
floated off Moncrieff island. One good etket of the
flood will be to show the engineers what they will
have to provide against in the construction of their
bridges; a number of practical men thought that they
were not enough alive to the importance of having
thein of the most substantial description.
On Thursday the water ruse fully another foot.
Parts of the town, which it was thought would be safe
from all inundation, are (says the writer of the ac-
count) getting under water by the bursting of the
common sewers. The sunk flats in Rose-terrace and
Barossa-place are now nearly filled to the ceiling.
The Blair-Atholl coach, which should have reached
this forenoon, has not yet arrived. It is supposed some
of the bridges must have fallen. The Aberfeldy
evening coach came about an hour after her usual
time. Some parts of the road were so flooded that the
water covered the seats inside. It is reported that the
whole of the scaffolding, erected for throwing the
arches of the bridge across the Tay, at Kinclaven, has
been swept away, and that one of the piers has gone
along with it. A person says that, among other
things observed floating past, was the carcase of a
horse, saddled and bridled.

The last accounts received state that the water was
still rising, and that the Edinburgh road is nearly
three feet deep at Marshall-place.
During the gale on Thursday night, about ten
o'clock, as Captain Neilson, of the scl;ooner Johan
Augusta, now under repairs in Victoria Dock, was
passing the north corner of the Custom -house, he was
blown into the dock by a heavy gust of wind ; for-
tunately his cries were heard why the watchman of
Arbroath Railway station, who lost no time in giving
the alarm, when the captain was taken out and con-
veyed to the bath at Earl Grey's Dock, where, we are
happy to be enabled to state, he recovered.

The first Cabinet Council of the season will be
held to-morrow, the 12th in,tant, at the Foreign-office.
It is expected to be attended by all the ministers except
Lord Minto, who is abroad.
REPRESENTATION OF WINDSOR.—The Berkshire
Chronicle says, ‘‘ that there is a great probability of
Colonel l'eid being offered, by the Whigs, ' either a
companionship,
or a governorship of one of our small
colonial possessions,' in order to induce him to retiro
from Windsor for the purpose of making an opening for
one of the four members of the Government, who was
rejected by his former constituents at the last e:ection."
Colonel Reid has not expressed any intention to resign
the representation and is about to leave for the COLL-
itnent.

THE MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 9.—The Ocean
to
Steam Navigation Company's steamship Washington,
n and
,
Captain Heurt, arrived at Cowes late Jest evening,
this port, in time for
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ork at noon the seven o'clock A.M. w n
fifteenn on
days and a half,
the 23d of Septem-
ber, performing the voyage in
having experienced
retarded
head sea, which much
contrary winds and a
Washington
which place she will has 35 passengers, and
her passage. The
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extremely boisterous weather, with
here in about six
'outward trip to New York on
days, to prepare for her
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the 24th inst.
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TEE HORRIBLE TREATMENT OF A WIFE ET HER
HUSBAND IN GLASCONV.—NIrs. Fay, the unfortunate
several
woman who was confined for several months in a water-
closet by her husband died on Thursday morning in the
Town's Hospital. The Procurator Fiscal has ordered
a medical examination; but, owing to the secresy in
which all such inquiries are conducted in Scotland,
it is
impossible to ascertain the particulars of this investiga-
tion, or of the previous ones. Great surprise was
manifested at the liberation of Fay on a paltry bail-bond
of 151.

HORRIBLE DEATH FROM MACHINERY.--011 Sa-
turday afternoon an accident, by which a young man
named henry Ford lost his life under circumstances of a
horrible description, cccurred at the St. rancras steam
sawing and plaining mill, Agar-town, Old Pancras-
road. It appears that about one o'clock the unfortunate
&ceased, having returned from dinner, went into one of
the sheds where an immense circular saw, driven by
steam power, is used for the purpose of cutting large
logs of timber. The object the deceased had in
going in
cannot be ascertained ; but whilst he was in the ma-
chine was set in motion, and ho was caught in the
shoulders by the teeth of the saw. lie shrieked, but
before the machine was stopped the whole of the upper
part of the body was nearly sawn through. On being
brought out from the shed life was quite gone, the body
presenting a frightful spectacle, It was removed to St.
Pancras workhouse, where it awaits an inquest.
EXPLOEION IN A COAL. PlT.—.?in explosion of fire•
damp took plAce on Tuesday morning last at Bickershaw
colliery, near Wigan, by which two ponies Were killed,
and several colliers seriously injured. Tne explosion is
stated to have been calls, dby the firing of a shot. The
mine has since been on fire, and the shafts have been
closed to i
extinguish t.—Manchester Guardian.