The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert took
their usual early morning walk.
The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise in the
grounds arouni( the Castle.
Viscount Mofpeth left the Castle to-day.
The Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will in-
dude her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Count Alex-
ander Mensdorf, the Lady in Waiting of the Duchess of
Kent, the Baroness de Speth, and Lord and Lady Rivers.
The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards attend during
dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attend in the
Castle.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge, and the Princess Mary, and his Serene Highness
Prince Frederick of Hesse, arrived in town yesterday from
Rew. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince
Frederick of Hesse dined with her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Gloucester at Gloucester House.

A deputation of the directors of the Regent's Canal had Jul
interview with the -Commissioners of her Majesty's "%MI
and Forests yesterday at their office in Whitehall-place. The
deputation consisted of Mr. Bethune, Mr. Parker, Mr.
Aldam, M.P., Captain Bethune, and Mr. Baxendale (direc-
tors of the Regent's Canal); Messrs. Rendall and Radboro
(engineers); and_Messrs.Ellis and Lyon (solicitors).
. .

A deputiiion of the Aborigines Pioteclion Society, con-
sisting of Dr. Hodgkin, Rev. Dr. Wright, Mr. James Bell,
Mr. George L. Neighbour, Mr. John Mayfield, Rev. Mr.
Bromley, and Mr. Henry Christy, had an interview with
Earl Grey yesterday, at the colonial-office.
A deputation from the "Light Dues" association, con-
sisting of Mr. Matthew Forster, M.P., Mr. Hutt, M.P.,
Mr. Mitchell, M.P., Mr.,Pattison, M.P., Mr. Wawn, M.P.,
Mr. Duncan, M.P., Mr. Baine, M.P., Mr. J. O'Brien,
M.P., Mr. Moffatt, M.P., Mr. Bannerman, M.P., Mr.
Philip Howard, M.P., Mr- D. Barclay, M.P., Sir Charles
Napier, M.P., and Mr. W. Law Ogilby, Mr. C. W.
Williams, Mr. Phillippa, and Mr. Pearsjn, accompanied by
Lord Sandon, M.P., and Mr. Hume, M.P., had an interview
yesterday with the Earl of Clarendon, and the Right Hon.
T. Milner Gibson, at the Board of Trade.

A deputation from Datchet, consisting of the Rev. T.
Gossett, Messrs. J. B. Jarman, John Fowler, Daniel Boulter,
and John Thomas Stroud, had an interview with Lord Mot-
path, yesterday, at the office of the Woods and Forests.
A deputation of master-spinners and manufacturers, in
favour of the Ten Hours Bill, had an interview with Sir
George Grey yesterday, at the Home- office. The deputation con-
sisted of Lord Ashley. Mr. John Fielden, M.P. (Todmorden),
Mr. John Cooper (Preston), Mr.W. Kenworthy (Blackburn),
Mr. W. Taylor ( Oldham ), Mr. Thomas Fielden ( Manchester),
Mr. John Fielden, jun. (Todmorden), and Mr. William
Walker (Bradford).
A deputation of the Birkenhead Dock Company and Com-
missioners had an interview with the Commissioners of her
Majesty's Woods and Forests yesterday. The deputation
consisted of Sir Philip Egerton, Messrs. Tatton Egerton,
Joseph Bailey, jun., Francis Mills, Joseph T. Clay, Winch,
Boothby, Lace, Radcliffe, Laird, Marcus Browurigg, Pol-
lard, and Nelson; and Messrs. Lard, Potter, Brownrigg, and
Bendel (Birkenhead Dock Commissioners).
Lady Juhn Russell passed a good night on Sunday night,
and was much better yesterday.

MONOPOLY.
TO THE kDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR, —I should be guilty of great ingratitude, did I
not return you my thanks for inserting my letter in
your valuable journal of the 27th of January, comment-
ing upon the daring, unjust, and monopoli,ing bakers
of Pimlico and Chelsea, who, instead of following the
laudable example of the more honest bakers of other
districts, of reducing the price of bread on the 22d and
25th days of January, actually advanced the price of
their bread one half-penny the 41b. loaf, thus wringing,
from the hard-earned wages of the mechanics and poorer
classes of this district, one penny per 41b. loaf more than
bakers of other metropolitan districts; and when asked
by their customers to account for such daring injustice,
replied, with all the effrontery imaginable, " Oh, it is
because we have large stocks of flour on hand 1"
I ask, Sir, could an answer be found to be • more ab-
surd, base, wicked, and monstrous?
February I.—The merciful bakers of this district did
extend their bowels of compassion, and reduced the
price of bread one half-penny the 41b. loaf, being the
half-penny advance exposed in my letter of Jan. 27.

The considerate wives and domestics of mechanics
have adopted resolutions not to deal with bakers of this
district, but twice a week repair to Lambeth for the
supply of bread, where a saving of one penny per 41b.
loaf is obtained. Many have found branch-houses, con-
nected with that most praiseworthy establishment, the
League Bread Company. May prosperity crown their
efforts I

I cannot but admire the charitable feeling that has
been exhibited in this district among licensed victuallers,
whose honourable and praiseworthy considerations, de-
spite of their monopolising and victimising brewers,
reduced the price of porter one-fifth ; thus proving the
day has arrived that the iron hearts and the iron hands
of the, monopolists, that grasped the fetters of monopoly,
shall be beaten into ploughshares, and their spears, that
pierced the hearts of the poor, be made into pruning-
books. Monopoly shall bo learned no more, and all the
nation will shout amen !—I remain, &c.
Pimlico, Feb. 5. GULIELMUS.

THE FOOD DISTURBANCES.
The Elgin newspapers received yesterday, and the
letters of of our correspondents, convey the pleasing intel-
ligence that the disturbances, arising out of the high
price of. food, have been suppressed, and that a better
feeling
Is beginning to prevail among the misguided
people who have taken part in the foolish and lawless
proceedings of the last fortnight. This happy result,
however, has not been brought about without difficulty,
and a resort to measures which show that,
long as the schoolmaster has been abroad, sound
principles of economy have not yet taken pos-
session of the minds of the multitude. Even
among persons who are tolerably well informed, there
is a lurking prejudice in favour of those absurd notions
that led to the stoning and maltreating of forestallers
and regraters, and hardly anywhere is there a clear per-
ception of the important truth, that neither legislative
interterence nor popular violence can permanently, or
at all events usefully, alter the relations that subsist be-
tween supply, demand, and price. We trust these out-
breaks will have the good effect of helping on the quos
tion of national education, as they have already been
the means of drawing forth the resources of charity.--
Aberdeen Herald.

THE
BENEFITS OF SULPHURIC ETHER.--OH Sa-
turday an operation was performed on a man at the King's
College Hospital, by Mr. Ferguson, of a most interesting
character, in consequence of its being one of the first ever
attempted. The patient, an old marine, had previously lost
the greater portion of his arm ; on Saturday, while under the
effect of sulphuric ether, the remaining portion was ampu-
tated, the blade bone cut away, and part of the shoulder bone
sawed off. At the first incision of the knife the man gave a
slight shriek, and the next moment began to laugh and talk,
calling out during the operation "clear the gangway." The
operation lasted five minutes and a half. When the effects
of the ether had gone off, the man declared he had felt no
pain, although the wound made was very large. Another
man had a cancer cut out of his upper lip without experienc-
ing any pain, while under the influence of the sulphuric ether.
DEPLORABLE REVERSE OF FORTUNE.—On Friday
Mr. Redford held an inquest at the George, Carey-street,
Lincoln's Inn-fields, on Thomas Roberts, aged 65. Deceased
had for some time past slept in those wretched casual
lodging places in which the inmates are crowded together
in dark unwholesome rooms. He was totally destitute, and
apparently friendless. On Wednesday last, his landlord ob-
serving symptoms of dissolution, endeavoured to remove
him to the King's College Hospital from Wild-street, hut the
poon man died during his transit in Vere-street. Upon his
person heaps of duplicates, some dated as late as the 31st
ult., were found, but not a farthing in money. Mr. Baker,
the beadle, said, that having observed the address of Mr.
Virgo, solicitor, on a scrap of paper in deceased's pocket,
he inquired of Mr. Virgo concerning him, who said that
deceased had been an eminent architect, and possessed large
property in Cheltenham, but of late a reverse of fortune un-
accountably took place, and he was reduced to destitution.
He also stated that his daughter, the widow of a Corsican
officer, enjoyed a pension of 851., and lived somewhere in the
metropolis. Mr. Stephens, house-surgeon of King's College
Hospital, having given his evidence respecting the post-mor-
tem examination, a verdict of" Natural death" was returned.
But the jury at the same time expressed it to be their opinion
that want and exposure to the inclement weather hastened
his dissolution.
THE NORTHERN MA ILS.—Yesterday morning the
mail was, of course, expected at eight o'clock, making allow-
ance for the usual want of punctuality. The bags, however,
did not arrive till half-past one F.M. This arose, we are in-
formed, from the breaking down of the mail-coach some-
where about Douglas Mill. The passengers reached Glasgow
about eleven o'clock, and communicated the disaster ; but,
from the extirpation of posting establishments by the pro-
gression of railways, and the want of connexion as yet of the
latter, added to the parsimony of the Post-office officials to-
wards the provincial office of Glasgow, the second city in the
empire, the guard was obliged to send to Hamilton and en-
gage one of Mr. Gowan's heavy stage-coaches to convey
himself and her Majesty's mail to Glasgow. How long is
the metropolis of the west to be treated in this manner—how
long will Glasgow submit to be so treated?—Glasgow Con-
stitutional of Saturday.
We have heard it stated, and we have every. reason
e
to believe accurately, that after the Ist of Aigna
Admiralty intend to alter the present ltionreijotf the
half-pay list of the paymastersem7bse.r
lis
en-
titled to t3s. 6d. per diem is to bei
and
pursers.rea sedt. oT3hoe, number
to 100, and the 6s. list to 200. Thencremainder are to continue
on the Ss. list.—United Service Gazette.
REPRESENTATION r WINCHESTER. A rumour
is prevalent in this city thato Mr. J. 13. East does not intend to
become again a candidate.
The subscription at Rope for the Irish sufferer::
amounts to upwards of 21000