The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-01 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert took their accus-
tomed early walk yesterday in the pleasure-grounds
of Osborne.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales,
Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess
Alice walked and rode out on ponies yesterday.
In the afternoon her Majesty the Queen Dowager,
his Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Meiningen, her
Serene Highness the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar,
and his Serene Highness Prince Gustavus of Saxe
Weimar, arrived at Osborne on a visit to the Queen.
The Earl of Denbigh, Master of the Horse, was in
attendance on the Queen Dowager.
The august party crossed from Gosport in the
Fairy, commanded by Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence.
Yesterday, at half past twelve o'clock, the Queen
Dowager, accompanied by the Duke of Saxe Mein-
ingen and the Duchess Ida, and Prince Gustavus of
Saxe Weimar, left her residence, Marlborough
House, for Osborne, Isle of \\Tight. Her Majesty
was attended by the Earl of Denbigh, and the Duke
of Saxe Meiningen was attended by the gentlemen
of his suite. Her Majesty and her illustrious visitors"-
proceeded to the Nine Elms Terminus, and left town
by the London and South-Western Railway.
Their Serene Highnesses the Princesses of Saxe
Weimar, attended by Lady Gore, Hon. Miss Hudson,
Miss Gore, and the Rev. J. R. Wood, honoured Mr.
Burford's panoramas of Cairo, Athens, and the Hi-
malaya Mountains, with a visit yesterday.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colo-
nial-office from the Governor-General of Canada, and
also from the Governors of the North American
provinces.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
BELGIAN FUN DS.—BRUSSELS, SEPT. 29.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent .
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ........ --
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent •• • •
Ditto Three per Cent.. • • • • • • • •
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto •.. • . •
Ditto, ditto,lB4o ................. 98%
Ditt0,ditt0,1842.........• ............ 98%
Ditto, 1844. • • .. • • ........ 91
Ditto, 1836.. ••.. • • ••••• • • • • • 89%
Ditto, 1838 .... • • .• •............ 66%
Ditto of the City, 1832 ••.• • • •... ••• 99W
Ditto, 1843 .. • . .•• 95%
Bank of Belgium...". ....... ~........ 83%
—Brussels Papers. Sept. 29.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.--VIENNA, SEPT. 23.
5 per Cent. Meta11ique5.......... lO4 14
4 per Cent. ditto.. • . . • 9414
3 per Cent. ditto • • ••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • 67
Loan, 1834 .......... ................ 153%
Ditto, 18.39 ........ • ... • ............. 119%
Bank Shares . .
Esterhazy's Loan ........
RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand • • .• . 152
Gloggnitz • • ••«-• • • •• • • • • • • • •• • • • • •• • • 120
Vienna—Milan .• • .
Leghorn • • • • • • •• • • • • • . • •
Sienna ..................
Grosetto .• •, •• .. •••• • • •
Oldenburg .. • • • • •• ••.. • •
Pesth Bridge
Apenninen ...........................• 94 :;4
LIAMBETROTI BORSENHALLE. SZPT. 25.
Bills. Money.
kustrlan 5 per Cents
Bank Shares .....• .................. 1600
Anglo-Russian Loan
Russian 5 per Cunt., llanib Certificate. 100%.
Ditto Ist series 1n5cripti0n............ 104 100%
Ditto, /lope and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 96
Ditto, in Certificate... •• • • • • ...• 96
New 4 per Cent., hops and Co.
Ditto Stieglitz .. • . .......
Spanish New 5 per Cent •. • . • •
Ditto 3 per Cent . • • • • • • • .•
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent 25
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ••• .• 55
Ditto 3 per Cent. .... • • • •
Polish New 4 pet Cent. l .oan, 1844 79
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent
National Bank Shares ...... • . • .

.• 97►%

WINDSOR CASTLE, TIIIIRSDAY EVENING.—Every
day now shows the speedy return of royalty to Windsor
Castle once more. A large portion of the royal esta-
blishment in the department of the Master of the Horse

—carriages, horses; grooms, postilions, coachmen, &c.,
were brought down from London this forenoon, by the
Great Western Railway, to the Castle mews, To•mor-

row another portion of the royal carriages, coach horses,
&c., will arrive from London, with much of the heavy
luggage used in the royal progress to Ardverikie ; and
on Saturday the Prince Consort's saddle-horses will be
transferred from Pimlico the royal mews at Windsor.
Within the castle, the officials and artisans in the Lord
Chamberlain's department are all busily at work in pre-
paring for the return of the Court for a continued resi-
dence here until after Christmas. There is a great
abundance of hares and pheasants this season in the
covers of Windsor Great Park and Forest.
IRREGULARITY IN THE _DELIVERY OF THE QUEEN'S
LETTERS IN SCOTLAND.—A LOST PACKET.—DUTHIZ the
time the Court was at Ardverikie, the whole of her
Majesty's letters, both official and private, were trans-
mitted to Scotland through the Post. office, none of the
Queen's messengers being employed upon the service, as
upon former occasions. It has already been stated that
the seals of several letters for her Majesty were found
to be broken upon their arriving in Scotland. This,
however, is not all; for other letters have been found
never to have reached their destination, and those to
which we allude, containing official documents of con-
siderable importance, have not yet been discovered. It
appears that a short time before the Queen left Scotland,
a packet, inclosing official dispatches for her Majesty,
was sent through the Yost-office to Ardverikie, by ;sir
George Grey, the Home Secretary. Many of these do-
cuments required her Majesty's signature. Amongst ,
these papers, forwarded from the Home-office, was the
patent of one of the Military Knights of Windsor, to
be signed by the Queen, upon his being raised from the
lower to the upper foundation. It has been arranged
that a new patent shall be made out. The most search-
ing inquiries have been going on for some days in the
Post- -office department, for the purpose of endeavouring
to discover with whom the blame rests. It may be
mentioned that several of the letters to persons in the
royal establishment, upon reaching Ardverikie, had been
so completely saturated with water, that the writing was
rendered scarcely legible.
SOUTH SEA. House.--The quarterly general court
was held yesterday ; Mr. Charles Franks, the
governor, in in the chair ; but after the reading of the
minutes of the last court, and the election of parties to
form a committee on the by-laws for the ensuing year,
there being no business before it, the court adjourned.
ACCIDENT FROM READING IN BED.—Yesterday
morning, between two and three o'clock, the family of
James Antrobus, Esq., 19, Seymour-street North,
Euston-square, were alarmed by loud shrieks and cries
for help proceeding from the bed-room occupied by Miss
Antrobus, on the second floor, who was found with her
night dress on fire and the furniture of the room in
flames around her, which with some difficulty were ex-
tinguished. The young lady is so severely injured that
her recovery is considered extremely doubtful. The
accident was caused by the flame of a candle, by the
light of which Miss Antrobus had been reading in bed,
and had fallen asleep without extinguishing.
We read in the Phare de la Manche—" The frigate
La Reine Blanche is fitting for sea at Cherbourg, and
will shortly sail for the Indian seas under the command
of Captain Page, who is appointed chief of the Bourbon
station. Ile will carry out an official letter, with pre-
sents for Queen Hanavalo, which he will deliver if cir-
cumstances admit."
SEIZURE OF SPIRITS. The revenue authorities
having received a report from their Accountant of Petty
Receipts, submitting, with reference to the Act 10 Vic-
toria, cap. 23, altering certain duties of Customs, that
the rewards hitherto payable under the general order
of April, 1526, for seized rum, should cease, and the
following regards be paid in lieu thereof—viz., for rum
seized in England, Ss. 7d. per gallon ; in Scotland,
4s. sd. per gallon ; and in Ireland, 3s. sd. per gallon—
it has been resolved by the Board that the suggestion
be approved, and orders issued to the officers of Ous-
toms in London, and the principals of the department
at all the outports of the kingdom, to govern them-
selves in the matter accordingly. It will be observed
that the rewards above decided upon as those to be allowed
for the future to the seizing officers of the revenue Gave
been reduced in proportion to, and are, in fact, the
same as the new rates of duty imposed by the Act.
THE " GREAT BRITAIN" A ROYAL YACHT.— Her
Majesty, it is Said, has expressed a strong desire that
the "Great Britain" should be purchased and flue d up
as an additional yacht for herself and illustrious con-
sort ; the latter suffering most especially from the
rolling of the " Victoria and Albert," in Vae cous•se of
the royal summer excursions. If secured for her Ma-
jesty, and it is anticipated that no one will, by competi-
tion, presume to frustrate this truly national object, it
will be fitted up with unrivalled splendour, its accord.
ance with H.R.H. Prince Albert's own. peculiar notions
of taste.—Plymouth Journal.