The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-18 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Royal Family sent yesterday morning to Buck
ingham Palace to inquire after the state of the Queen
and the Infant Prince. .

Her Majesty going on favourably, and the Infant
Prince continuing well, no bulletin of her Majesty's
health was issued yesterday.
His Serene Highness the Duke of Saxe Meiningen,
arrived at the Palace in the afternoon, and made inquiry
after the health of her Majesty and the Royal Infant.
The Countess of Charlemont, Lady in Waiting on
her Majesty, the Earl of Hardwicke, Lord in Waiting,
Captainj Meynell, Groom in Waiting, and Colonel Ar-
buthnot, Equerry in Waiting, having arrived at Buck-
ingham Palace, at three o'clock the following Ladies and
Gentlemen wore received :—The Countess of Poulett,
the Countess of Hardwicke, the Countes► Delawarr, the
Lady Stratheden, Lady Langdale, the Lady Colville,
Lady Emily Seymour, Honourable Lady Correy, Lady
Elizabeth Osborne, Dowager Lady Brownlow, Lady
Seymour, Lady Fitzroy Somerset, Lady Agnes Buller,
Lady Frederic Smith, Hon. Miss Campbell, Hon. Mrs.
Portman, Miss Cust, Miss Seymour, Miss Somerset,
Miss Hamilton, Miss D3uglas, the Duke of Rutland, the
Duke of Leeds; the Earl of Oxford, the Earl Dela-
warr, Hon. Berkeley Paget, Hon. Edward Phipps, Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Sir Frederic Smith, Colonel Webster,
Mr. Alfred Montgomery, Mr. Vincent, Mr. Osborne, and
Mr. B. Brookes.

After having had candle served, several of the No-
bility above named had the honour of being conducted
to the north wing of the Palace to see his Royal High-
ness the Infant Prince..

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty yesterday afternoon.
Among the inquirers at Buckingham Palace yester-
day were Mr. Colquhoun, Agent for the Hanse Towns,
the Duchess of Leeds, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Wellesley, Earl and Countess of Jersey, Earl
of Wiltshire, Earl and Countess of Clarendon,
Earl and Countess of Denbigh, Lady Mary
Fielding, Bishop of Winchester, Viscount Hinton, Lord
harnclifft, Lord Fitzgerald and Vesei, Lord Charles
Wellesley, Lord Walter Butler, Lady E. Lepton, Lord
Punboyne, Dowager Lady de Clifford, Lady Augusta
Onslow, Lord and Lady Mostyn, Lady Kemeys, the
Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress, Marquis of Bris-
tol, Lady Clark, Lord Adolphus Fitzclareuce, Sir Au-
gustus and Lady Albinia Foster, Sir John and Lady
Rae Reid, Right' Honourable H. Goulburn, Sir
John Scott Lillie, Honourable Mrs. G. Villiers,
Sir John Key, Sir Frederick Hamilton, Sir G. and
Lady Larpent, lion. Colonel and Mrs. Parker, Sir George
Murray, Sir George Chetwynd, Lord Campbell, Sir J.
and Lady Hensler, Sir Robert H. Inglis, Sir Thomas
Phillips, Mr. Sheriff Magnay,
.Mr. Sheriff and Mrs.
Rogers, Mr. Under-Sheriff Pritchard, Rev. Dr. Foord
Bowes, Rev. Dr. Vivian, Rev. Dr. Kuper, Rev. IL Tho-
mas (Lord Mayor's Chaplain), Mr. Sergeant and Mrs.
'falfourd, Mr. Aldermen Wilson, Queen's Harbinger,
~111-s. Wilson, Mr. C. Lee Wilson, Mr. Alderman T
wyod, Mr. Alderman Lainson, Col. H. Montagu, Col.
waom, Major and Mrs. Weymouth, Miss Meynell,
• I:V. Pritchard, Capt. It. D. Pritchard, Capt. John-
son, Mr. and Lady T.Lister,Mr.Boddington,
Capt.
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Norman Macdonald, Mr. Rowland Alston, Mises
Alston, Air. Locker,- Mr. B. Botfield, M.P.; Mr. and
Ir. Balguy, Q.C.; Mr. W. Erle, Q.C.
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Continent. The bulletin of heriSlaksty's health, issued at Sud-
bury Hall last evening, was as follows :--
" The Queen Do•,vager slept several hours during the
night, but her Majesty's cough and other symptoms
remain the same. " DAVID DAVIES, M.D.
" Sudbury Hall, Nov. 17, 1841."

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GREENWICH, Nov. 16.—Richard Weeks, a
pensioner of the Itoval Hospital, at present in the White
House Lunatic Asylum, Bethnal-geen (quite insane), has
been left the enormoi is sum of 120,0001.

WOOLWICH—WEDNESDAY.
ROYAL ARTILLERY.
• Captain Greenwond's company, about to proceed to
China, attended coherne practice this morning on the
Upper Common. As this is a description of exercise
seldom performed here, it may be necessary to observe
that a coherne is an engine of a similar construction to
a mortar, but so small that two men can carry it on a
hand-barrow. When used in actual warfare it is carried
to within from 100 to 200 yards of the spot against which
the missiles discharged from it are to be directed, the
chamber for containing the powder being so small that it
cannot contain a charge sufficient for a greater range.
The shells fired from the cohernes this morning were
about four inches and two-fifths in diameter, and the
practice showed they are excellently adapted for firing
over an elevated wall to dislodge troops stationed on the
inside of it. In the afternoon the company attended
rocket-practice in the marshes, and have evidently ac-
quired a thorough knowledge of the various branches of
the science, surprising, Considering the short period they
have been under instruction.
Yesterday the muskets of the company were called in,
and placed amongst the'Stores of the Royal Arsenal, and
to-day they are to be served with handsome carbines, on
the new construction, with percussion locks. It is a
positive fact, that the certainty of the men being served
with the new and approved arms previous to embarking
on this expedition has raised their spirits, which were
otherwise good, fully 20 per cent., for they cordially
hated and detested the present cumbersome musket, and
there is but one general feeling throughout the regiment
in favour of the carbine, and a hope that they will soon
be issued to every individual.
Orders have been issued to the men of the company, to
hold themselves in readiness to embark in a steam-vessel
here on Saturday morning next, for conveyance to Ply-
mouth,
where they will be transerred to the Belleisle,
Captain Kingcombe, formerly a 72-gun ship, but now
converted into a troop-ship, with 24 guns, and a crew of
280, for the conveyance of her Majesty's troops. It was
originally intended that the company should embark in
the Apollo troop-ship, about the Ist of next month, but
400 extra workmen having been put upon the Belleisle,
she will be ready for sea by the time the Royal Artillery
arrive at Plymouth, and will sail almost immediately
after their embarkation.
By converting the old ships of the line, as in the in-
stance of the Belleisle and several others, contemplated
by Government, an immense saving will accrue to the
country, compared with.employing hired transport-ships,
as the former vessels will be commanded by officers of
the Royal Navy and be under the entire control of the
Admiralty, which the hired vessels were not, having
merely an agent on board. The country may now cal-
culate on having efficient vessels of its own in the
transport service, and the troops will be far better ac-
commodated, in spacious and airy ships, with ample
room betwixt decks, and many valuable officers of the
navy be kept in active.. emplqment in the service of
her Majesty, instead of being idle on shore. Besides,
another great saving will be derived, by converting the
majority of 72 -gun ships into troop-ships, instead of
into 50-gun frigates, as recommended by some, as to
effect the latter an expense would be incurred amounting
on every vessel to a sum nearly equal. to what she would
cost if built entirely of new materials.
The Boyne transport-ship will sail to-morrow from
Deptford, having taken in her stores, and will proceed
round to Cork, to embark troops for Malta.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Brighton Gazette.)
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 17.—The Apollo, troop ship, is
making rapid advances towards completion, and report
says is to take Major-General Lord Saltoun to China,
with the 98th Regiment, which will 'embark at Cork.
The Commander of the Apollo (Festing), is now at
Hasler Hospital, suffering from indisposition.
The Tyne, 26, Captain Townshend, arrived on Sun-
day from the Mediterranean, and exchanged salutes
with the port flag-ship St. Vincent. She left Malta the
15th October, and has had very boisterous weather in
crossing the Bay. Left in port the Powerful, 84, with
Sir John Ommaney's flag. Howe, 120, Rodney, 92, Cal-
cutta, 84, Vanguard, 84, Indus, 80,,and Inconstant and
Magicienne frigates. The Implacable, 72, had left for
Gibraltar, to join the Monarch, 84, on that station.
Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Mason was daily-looked :for in
the Impregnable, 110, to succeed Sir John Ommanev,
who, it was thought, would proceed home overland. The
Tyne will be paid off at this port.
The Queen, 11.0, Captain Rich, it is expected, will be
moved out to Srithead in about a fortnight. and complete
there for the Mediterranean. Vice-Admiral Sir Edward
Owen, K.C.8., goes out in a steamer to Malta, to assume
the command. _ _

Ferret, Lieut. Lapidge, is to return to the coast
of Africa, and awaits orders at Plymouth.
The Crocodile, 26, Captain Milne, from Halifax, and
Scorpion, 10, Lieut. Gayton, from Gibraltar, have left
Spithead, to be paid off at Plymouth.
The brig Rapid, 10, Lieut. Tryon, returned from Cork
on Saturday, with volunteers for general service.
The Viper brigantine, fur the Brazils. will sail from
this harbour about the 15th of December.
The steamer Devastation, Commander Henry, is daily
expected from Woolwich for the Mediterranean. Com-
mander Wilson to join the Cambridge, 72, will take a
passage in her ; also the new Bishop of Jerusalem, the
Rev. M. Alexander, law Hebrew Professor at King's
College, Cambridge.
The Illustrious, 72,'Captain Erskine, is awaiting the
embarkation of Sir Charles Bagot, for conveyance to
New York, on his way to Quebec. She will sail imme-
diately afterwards, and will ultimately receive Sir Chas.
Adams's flag in the West Indies.
The Pique, 36, Captain Yates, is under orders to refit
with all dispatch, it is supposed to proceed to China.
At Spithead—lllustrious, 72, Tyne, 26, and Pique, 36.
In Harbour—St. Vincent, Queen, Victory, Royal
George yacht, Excellent, Vindictive, Warspite, Belvi-
dere, Sapphire, Hazard, North Star, Apollo, Viper, and
Rapid.

IRELAND.
LORD DE GREY'S FIRST LEVEE.

DUBLIN, Nov. 16.—The levee of Lord De Gray, to be
held to-morrow, will be very numerously attended. The
Orange and Tory gentry, who so factiously avoided the
Castle during the viceroyalties of Lord Normanby and
Lord Fortescue, are crowding into town from the most
distant parts of the country ; and even from London,
Mr. Emerson Tennent and some other small officials
conected with Ireland, have come over.

The Reformers have determined to pursue a totally
different course from that adopted towards Whig. G-
overnments by the Tories. They will attend to-morrow as
a matter of duty towards the representative of the Queen;
for theirloyalty is still the same, whether Whigs or Tories
govern. The leading Liberals, Protestant and Catholic, will
appear at the Castle to-morrow—such men as the Duke of
Leinster, Lord Charlemont, Lord Fingal, and, Archbishop
Murray. No matter how factious may be' the conduct
and the appointments of the present Executive, it is the
duty of the Reformers to pay their respects to' the Queen's
Viceroy, especially at a levee held so soon after the birth
of an heir apparent to the throne, and that duty they
will perform, however painful it may bo to their feelings
to mix in a Court where faction and intolerance reign
triumphant.
The following notification appears in the papers this
morning:—" The Lord Mayor requests that such of the
Aldermen and Councillors as intend to do him the ho-
nour of accompanying him to the levee, will be so good
as to be at the Mansion-house in their gowns at twelve
o'clock precisely. The Lord Mayor's carriage will leave
the Mansion-house at a quarter after twelve.
" Mansion-house, Nov. 15, 1841."