The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-12 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by Prince
Edward of Saxe Weimar, walked in the plantations of Os-
borne House on Wednesday afternoon.
Mr. G. E. Anson arrived at Osborne House on Wednesday.
His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar and
Mr. Anson joined the Royal circle at dinner.
Yesterday morning her Majesty and her Royal Consort, ac-
companied by Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, took their ac-
customed early walk.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess
Royal, and the Princess Alice, walked out on Wednesday
afternoon. Yesterday morning the Royal children walked
and rode on ponies on the beach.
His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, left
Osborne House yesterday morning, crossed in the Fairy to
Gosport, and proceeded to Winchester.
Lady Caroline Somers Cocks, Maid of Honour in Waiting,
left Osborne House yesterday for town.
On Wednesday afternoon, about half-past four o'clock,
a sad accident occurred at the new building at
Osborne. It appears that some workmen were removing a
centre under one of the arched passages of a very consider-
able portion of the building now in progress, and it is sup-
posed that owing to something slipping, one end of the centre
or framework on which the arch was formed acted as a lever
under the arch, and raising it, caused the displacement of the
materials of which it was composed, and the weight of which
falling on a scaffold below it, precipitated the whole to the
ground, together with some of the workmen who were
engaged upon it. The principal foreman of bricklayers, who
was on the arch at the time giving directions to his men, for-
tunately escaped; but we regret to learn that three of the
labourers are injured—one man named Blake very severely
on the head, a second named Gale has his leg broken, and
the third named Morris has two of his ribs fractured. Her
Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, on the alarm
being given, hastened to the spot, and gave immediate direc-
tions that the best surgical assistance should be sent for, and
everything possible to alleviate their sufferings should be
provided for them. Mr. Weedon, of East Cowes, and Mr.
Cass, of 'West Cowes, quickly arrived, and did all they
thought the cases admitted of. We regret that the report
of the medical men yesterday morning was, that they con-
sidered Blake is in considerable danger, but that the :other
two men are doing well.
The Governor of the Bank of England and the Deputy-
Governor, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-
street.

Mr. Robert Gordon had an interview with the Earl of Cla-
rendon, yesterday, at the Office of the Board of Trade.
Mr. Bagshawe had an interview with the Right Honoura-
able Edward Strutt, yesterday, at the Office of the Commis-
sioners of Railways, in Great George-street.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a gene-
ral meeting, yesterday, at their Office in Whitehall-place.

A CHEAP DINNER FOR THREE BISHOPS.--In a
book kept by the bailiffs of Oxford, at the time when Cran-
mer, Latimer, and Ridley were in custody there, the follow-
ing entry occurs of the bill of fare and expenses of the dinner
for the three prisoners on the Ist October, 1554 :—Bread and
ale, 2d.; oysters, Id.; butter, 2d.; eggs, 2d. ; lyng, Bd.; a
piece of fresh salmon, I.od. ; wine, 3d. ; cheese and pears,
2d.; the whole three dinners, 2s. 6d. What would some of
our modern Right Rev. Fathers in God say to such fare as
this ?
DEATH FROM AN EXPLOSION OF PORTABLE GAS.
—The following melancholy accident, by which a highly
scientific and much esteemed French gentleman, Baron
d'Ancet, lost his life, is related in the newspapers of Rio de
Janeiro recently received. The Baron, it appears, was about
to establish at Rio a laboratory on a grand scale, but on the
18th of December last, after entertaining a few friends, he
went to bed, and placing a portable gas-lamp on a table, he
drew it to his bedside and took a book to read. About mid-
night, the lamp not giving sufficient light, he ordered his
servant boy to bring him some more gas. At this moment, the
boy began to execute the order, and a current of air from a
in
door left open carried the gas contact with the burning
lamp; an explosion of the gas in the tin took place, the
greater part of which fell on the unfortunate baron, setting
the bed sheets on fire. with the curtains and pillow-cases.
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save him. Under this impression, and in excruciating pain,
surrounded by his physician and friends, who tried every
means to alleviate his sufferings, he expired in a few hours
after. His attention was directed more to his servant than
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to himself; the boy was seriously burnt, but hopes were en-
tertained of 1113 recovery, without the use of one arin.