The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-02 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a Court and Privy Council at half-past
two o'clock yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace.
At the Court Chekib Effendi, the Turkish Ambassador,
ba'l an audience of her Majesty to deliver a Letter. His
Excelency was introduced by Viscount Palmerston,
G. C.B. , her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Cheater,
Master of the Ceremonies.

Lord Holl&nd was presented to the Queen at an au-
dience by Viscount Palmerston to take leave.
Viscount Palmerton also presented Mr. Hamilton Ha-
milton at an audience.

The Privy Council was attended by the Lord President,
the LGrd Chancellor, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord
of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home
and Fereign Departments, the President of the Board
of Control, tlie Secretary. at War, the Lord Steward, and
the Lord Chamberlain.

M-. C. Grevlle was the Clerk of the Council in
Waiting.
Her Majesty gave audiences to the Lord Chancellor, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, Marquis of Normanby, and Vis-
count Melbourne.

The Coutt was attended by the Marquis-of Headfort,
Lord in Waiting ; Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting ; Sir
Robert Otway, Groom in Waiting ; and Colonel Bou-
verie, Equerry to Prince Albert.

The Duke cf Cambridge visited her Majesty and Prince
Albert yesterday.
Colonel Bon% erie has relieved Major-General Sir Ed-
ward Bowater in the duties of Equerry in Writing on his
Royal Highness Prince Albert_

Mr. W. C. Ross., A.R. A., was yesterday honoured
with the second sitting for a portrait of her Majesty, at
Buckingham Palace.

The —Ropl dinner party at Buckingham Palace last
evening included the Duchess of Sutherland, Earl of
Surrey, Viscount Melbourne, Dowager Lady Rivers,
Lord George Lennox, Baron Stoekmar, and Sir George
Anson.

The P►incess Sophia Matilda came to town yesterday
from Ler residence on Blackheath, and paid a visit to her
Majesty the Queen Dowager at Marlborough House; her
Royal Highness also visited the Duchess of Kent at In-
gestrie House. Belgrave-square.
The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anne Maria
Dawson and Colonel Cowper, honoured Covent Garden
theatre with her presence last evening.
Mr. Holmes, M. P., had an interview with Lord John
Russell yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Mr. George Nicholls had an interview with the Marquis
of Normanby 5 esterday at the Home-office.
Despatches were sent off last evening from the Colo-
nial-office for the Governor of Jamaica and of the other
West India ColonieF.

DEATH OF JAMES WOLFENDEN, THE MA-
THEMATICIAN.-On Monday last, died at Hollinwood, in
the 67th year of his age, James Wolfenden, one of the
first mathematicians, and one of the most extraordinary
teen that this neighbourhood has produced. Though
brought up a cotton-weaver, working the greater part of
Lis life at the loom, and labouring under all the dis-
courager-I:eats which poverty and want of leisure
could offer, he pursued the study of the mathematics
with a degree of intelligence and perseverance which
speedily rendered him conspicuous even in a neighbour..
hood which has long been celebrated for the num-
ber of persons in humble life, who have distinguished
themselves by their :mathematical attainments, and
by the valuable contributions they have made to
various scientific periodicals, as leybourn's Repository,
the Ladies' and Gentlemens' Diaries, the Mathematical
Companion, &c. Amongst the contributors to these
works, Wolfenden was the most conspicuous, both
for the number and the value of his communication ; and
time
agoin
he was, consequently, frequently applied to for instruction
tea eahned rs. Simpson,
A aho rt wastim seldom
pe
in the higher branches of the science at a time when
a knowledge of the Principia of Neaton, and of
tl
consequence of his great age and growing infirmities, a
few members of the Literary and Philosophical Society,
ores , higher
a aed
by works
mathematical of Emerson
of Manchester, and others anxious to testify twit- admi-
ration of his acquirements, obtained under such discou-
raging circumstances, had entered into a subscription to
secure to him a comfortable subsistence for the remainder
of his life; and also to encourage such praiseworthy ex-
ertions in the pursuit of knowledge. The death of Wol-
fenden will, of course, render their intentions towards
him nugatory ; but a handsome sum having been sub-
scribed, a part of it will be appropriated to his decent in-
terment, and to a suitable memorial to be placed over
his grave.—Manchester Paper.
PORTABLE FORGE FOR SHOEING HORSES.
—There was something in this shed, besides the bed of
the poor " meat horse" as they call him, that particularly
attracted my attention, and I was much pleased with its
extremely neat and compact nature. This was neither
more nor less than a portable forge, consisting of a frame
work, about 4 feet long by 2 in breadth, and which contained
a complete apparatus for shoeing horses.
.At one extremity
book, and which, when raised and opened (tor tdhey turn
are two iron plater, which fold together like the cover of a
securedtlr
down close to the frame-work on ahingoe
i 9
hecoal, or blacksr.niethrn't;
affixed t ),ono of
bfoyrma,
tsrealllowireorn
rebeaerptwaiehliechfor
t,
breeze, and the upper
worked a screen,
c'beyn
tholtheeins i tdhee.
which the matte of the bellows
bottom part of the back
ofself fixes into the back-
passes. The bellows it part of
at h rol :Ng.
el: aa_
the frame, and is when
f the apparatus, taken to pieces, fits
into portion o
and may be carriedabout '
into the frame-work, -e at ten in a light
cart, and used at,Pc 'c' minutes.' notice. The
who was an extremely civil a-id attentive
stud-groorn,
,lat since they had used this man,
informed me t
labour of portable forgo
had saved the one man,whose
they
ltaken in •
al-
mostcntire y
backwards and
to the smith's, a distance cf three miles and
for-
wardsback. Now a farrier attends regularly twice a-week,
and the horses are only kept out of their stable while their
shoes are being fixed. The patentee of this very clever
invention is Mr. Cherry (I presume the veterinary surgeon
of Clapham), and his apparatus, if more extensively known,
would I am sure soon be in much more general use, as its
utility in very many situations must be apparent—Old
Sporting Magazine for February.
ABSEYCE OF MIND.—A few Sundays ago, a
titled clergyman, residing not a hundred miles from
Brcomsgrove, ascended the pulpit, as usual, "spectacles
on nose," and shortly afterwards abstractedly pushed them
up to his forehead, of which circumstance he appeared to
be in a happy state of ignorance, for when it was nacos_
nary for him to begin to read his sermon, he looked as be-
wildered as his reverend brother did when he left his ser-
mon at home. After looking hither and thither without
success, he descended the pulpit and despatched a servant
to his house to bring the missing spectacles, when, lo and
behold, the mistake was discovered, and the sermon pro.
ceedel, we were going to say, as usual, but this would
have been an untruth, for the circumstance had so tickled
some of the reverend gentleman's hearers, that they had
Ito little difficulty in keeping their risible muscles under
due control Worcestershire Chronicle.
The Lord Lieutenant will sail for Bristol
on Saturday text, on his way to Devonshire. We under-
stand that Lis Excellency will not be absent from Ireland
for more than a for tulght.--Dublin Evening Post.