The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-30 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—His Ro) al Highness Prince
Albert skaited for some time this n orning, attended ►,y
the gentlemen of the Royal Suite.
Lieutenant-Colonel Hall, of the Ist Life .Gutrds,
will have the honour of dining with the RAyal party
this evening at the Castle.

The Queen has not taken her usual drive to-day.
We understand that her Majesty and the yolng Prin-
cess Royal are exceedingly well.

The Duke of Cambridge, attended by B iron Knese-
beck, went on Monday to Coombe Wood, where his

Royal Highness spent the day shooting. His Royal
Highness in the afternoon returned to town. In the
evening his Royal Highness honoured Covent Garden
Theatre with his presence.
The Chairman of the Excise had an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his offi-
cial residence, in Downing-street.

Lord and Lady Rivers have left Farrance's Hotel,
Belgravc-street, for Brighton.

PUSEYISM.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
It may interest you to know that the pernicious prin-
ciples denominated " Putcyism," are much more active
and diffused here than is generally believed ; in fact, it
is the only living principle in the University. The
undergraduates are extensively corrupted ; the autho-
rity which it invests them with, as clergymen, is too
attractive to human nature to be resisted. As there
really is no antagonistic principle in the Church, Pro-
testantism (meaning freedom of thought—the sufficiency
of the Scriptures—their sole authority)—this having
been suffered to die out, nothing is left to check the
growth of the new-old-spiritual despotism. What will
the end be ?
Oxford, Dcc. 20, 1840.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. DEC. !9.

(Before Commissioner Sir C. F. Williams.)

TIIE BANKRUPTCY OF SPARKS AND CO., OF TIIE GUILD-

FORD BANK-IN THE ➢FATTER OF ANTHONY LEE.

This was the day fixed for the last examination of the
bankrupts. The amount proved by affidavit was
24,201/., and 5151. by deposition, which, added to the
sums for which proofs have been already received, gives
a total of 65,4951., 3s. 4d. Of that sum 60,3051. 17s. Gd.
was upon deposits in the bank, and the remainder upon
notes issued by the hank. Mr. Russell (the barrister)
attended to watch the proofs on behalf of the assignees.
The official assignee said that another adjournment
would become absolutely necessiry, as, froli the multi-
plicity of the accounts, the balance sheet could not be
got ready, with all the ability of the accountant (Mr.
Coleman), for at least a month to come. The bank-
rupt was a consenting party to the application for an
adjournment, the creditors were about twelve hundred,
and the amount of their claims about 170,000/., as far
as could be at present ascertained.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said a strict investi-
gation should be made into many of the claims, in order
to remove the clouds which burin-' over them, for, if not,
it might so happen that upon being hastily allowed,
they would ultimately have to be expunged. No cre-
ditor whose debt was just could suffer either loss or in-
convenience by a trifling delay in his proof.
The REGISTRAR. (Mr. Parry) observed that no di-
vidend could be legally made before feu months, and
that would fall on Sunday, the 14th day of February
next, and the audit and dividend could take place the
following Monday. It was right that all the creditors
should be made acquainted with that fact. The fur-
ther hearing was then deferred till the 15th of Fe-
bruary next.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Evatis.)
IN THE MATTER OF BURTON.

This was the day fixed for the adjourned choice of
assignees in the matter of this bankrupt, who as a corn-
factor had very extensive transactions with the Messrs.
Johnson, of Mark-lane, whose case occupied such pro-
minent attention in the corn trade generally a few
weeks ago. The liabilities of the bankrupt are very
heavy, but hopes are entertained that a large amount of
of property which the Messrs. Johnson obtained from
him just before his bankruptcy may yet be made avail-
able to the general body of creditors.
At the last hearing the debt of the petitioning credi-
tor (Mr. Herries), for .5,000/., was objected to, and has
been since made the subject of rigorous investigation at
the office of the official assgnee, and the bankrupt hav-
ing also been examined as to its bona fides in Court to-
day, the Learned Commissioner directed it to be ad-
mitted. A reduced claim of Messrs. Johnson for
34,000/. was not allowed, and the claim will become
the subject of litigation in the Court of Review at the
commencement of next term. "1 he other debts proved
being very few, Mr. Lee, canvas-factor, of Fenchurch-
street, together with Mr. Herries, were then appointed
assignees.

The Earl of Desart, after visiting his estates in
Ireland, embarked at Dunmore on board his new yacht
Theresa, for Gibraltar, where his Lordship arrived ater
a favourable voyage, in seven days.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Downshire and
Lady Charlotte Hill returned, last week, to Easthanip-
stead Park, 'Jerks, from a visit to the Marquis of Salis-
bury, at Hatfield House. The Noble Marquis and Mar-
chioness have entertained a party of friends during the
holidays, including Lord Sandvs, Mr. Fulke and Lady
Rosa Greville, Mr. Algernon Grey.'lle, &e. There is to
be a grand ball at Easthampstead Patk to-night.
The Earl of Liverpool will leave Pitchford
Hall, Salop, the second week in next month for Fife
House.

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His Excellency Baron Brunow has left Ash-
burnham House for Broadlands, Hants, on a visit to Vis-
count and Viscountess Palmerston.
The Earl and Countess of Camperdown, accom-
panied by Lady Elizabeth Duncan, left Lundie House,
Forfarshire, the week before last, with the intention of
making a tour of visits en route to Bath, where they intend
passing the winter. The Earl and Countess and Lady
Elizabeth have been among the guests of the Duke and
Duchess of Roxburghe, at Flours Castle, during the
Christmas.
The Earl of Clare, with the Dowager Countess
of Clare and Lady Isabella Fitzgibbon, was to leave Mount
Shannon, the family seat, in the county of Limerick, on
Monday last. The Dowager Countess and Lady Eliza-
beth are expected shortly at their town mansion, in Bel-
grave-square, but the Noble Earl is going on a visiting
tour, and will rot come to town until a few days before
the meeting of Parliament.
CHURCH RATES. A LDGATE CHURCH
CLOSED —The churchwardens of the parish of St. Bo-
tolph, Aldgate, have issued a notice, stating that Mr.
Colebach, a surveyor appointed for the purpose, having
duly examined the condition of the sacred edifice, and pro-
nounced the roof and ceiling thereof to be in such a de-
cayed and dangerous state as to render it unsafe for con-
gregations to assemble, they arc under the necessity of
announcing that the church must in consequence be closed
for divine service. This church has for some time past
been in a most dilapidated state owing to the inability of
the churchwardens to make a rate to pay for the necessary
repairs, tLe Radicals and Dissenters having succeeded in
negativing the proposition ;or a rate as often as it has
cen brought forward.
DEATH OF MRS. KNOX.—It is our painful
duty to record in our obituary of this week the decease of
Mrs. Knox, the wife of Vicesimus Knox, Esq. As early
as the month of February all hope was abandoned by her
medical advisers, Sir Charles Clarke, Mr. Blegden, and
Mr. Stone ; from that period till her dissolution on
Thursday last, she was subjected to almost constant, and
very frequently to extremely severe suffering, which she
bore with admirable patience and meek submission, till she
sunk, at length, under the effects of exhaustion. Few
have lived more generally esteemed and beloved, or died
more deeply re: rotted. The lamented lady was a sister
of Sir Henry Meux, Bart., and a first cousin of Lord
Brougham.—Essex Herald.
A HINT TO LORD MELBOURNE AND LORD
HILL.—" I alien not, whilst I have the honour to admi-
nister the government, bring a man into any office of con-
sequence knowingly, whose political tenets are adverse to
the meastres which the general government are pursuing,
fur this I hold to be a sort of political suicide.-- Vide
Washington," by 111. Guizot, Secretary of State to
Louis Philippe.
If the outer garments of children and elderly
people were made of stuff, or of any material of which
wool made the greater part, we should not have occasion
to lament so many deaths by burning. The aprons and
pinbefores, even of boys, should be made of the same ma-
terial. Those who purchase clothes for the poor would do
well to consider the utility, rather than the cheapness of
the article purchased; and parents should reflect that,
though a linen frock may cost less than a stuff, yet it is not
half so durable ; besides its liability to take fire it may be
the means of bringing a premature and painful death upon
their uffapring, or a long life of lingerint, misery.
A curious circumstance occurred at Cranbrook
last week, which perhapa may end seriously. A lady and
gentleman having made application to the Vicar to be per-
mitted to see the interior of the church, they were directed
to call on the clerk to go with them ; the Vicar, it is said,
saw them enter and withdrew. Whether the good lady
had lately had some curious dreams, or was otherwise af-
fected in her head, is not yet ascertained, but she pre-
tended to have some documents that proved she had a
legal claim by heirship to the esiate or farm called Ses-
singhurst, in Cranbrook, ard which formerly belonged to
the ancient family of the Bakers, who were buried
in a vault in the chancel of the church, where a
beautiful marble monument is erected to their
inem,ry. The good lady said there was an iron chest. buried
with the last Mr. Baker, in which were the writings
the obtaining of which won'd shot;, her right of claim to
the estate of Sessingliurst, now the property of the Esti
Cornwallis.. She accordingly procured a stonemason and
assistants to remove the slab that covered the entrance of
the vault, who began to operate, hut had not precrcded
far enough to obtain their object, before they were called
to order by the Churchwarden, the Vicar, and others, and
ordered to quit the church immediately. The lady re-
monstrated, and her " father " refused to go out : their
ejection was, however, speedily accomplished, the whole
party being threatened with a prosecution, and notice is
given of a vestry to take the case into further considera-
tion. We understand the good lady had her fortune told
before she left the place by a female adept in the science.
—Canterbury Journal.