The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-28 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—Princo Albert, attended by
Colonel Wylde, Ilon. C. A. Murray, and Captain
Seymour, left the Castle this morning at ten o'clock,
on a visit and shooting excursion to S:r Gore Ouseley.
Royal Highncss returned between three and four
o'clock.

The Countess of Sandwich has arrived to day, and
has succeeded the Dowager Lady Lyttelton as the
Lady in Waiting on her Majesty. The Dowager Lady
Lyttelton has taken her departure. The Earl of Lis-
towel arrived to-day, and has succeeded the Earl of
Aboyne (who remains on a visit) as the Lord in Wait-
ing on her Majesty. Sir Frederick Swvin arrived to-
day, and has succeeded Sir Robert Otway as the
Groom in Waiting on her Majesty. Sir Robert
has left.

The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady C. Dundas,
arrived this afternoon on a visit to the Queen.

Her Majesty honoured Mr. Partridge with another
sitting for her portrait to-day. The companion portrait
of Prince Albert, for which his Royal Highness has
honoured Mr. Partridge with a series of sittings, is
nearly completed.

The Marquis of Normanby is detained at his seat
Mu!grave Castle, by severe indisposition.

A PASSAGE AT ARMS.

An exquisite comic interlude was enacted at the Dublin
Conservative Society last Monday (the 19th). Mr. Butt
was haranguing the club with much energy, to the effect
that they must pronounce an opinion on Repeal. " I call
on you," says he, " and not I ; your country calls on you,"
when just at that moment the maggot bit the redoubted
Alderman Archer to interject, "The Trimmers call on us."

The Trimmers ! They who have read history arc aware
of what a sensation was created once upon a time, when
" A was an Archer and shot at a frog ;" but the shock
produced on this occasion was equal to anything of either
ancient cr modern occurrence. The torrent of eloquence
broke off in the middle ; a dread silence ensued—
" The convocation gap'd, but could not speak ;"
Each man stared by instinct, first at his neighbour, and
then at the Alderman, who all the while sat chuckling
and looking wise, as one proudly conscious of having made
a very palpable hit.
But Butt, the astonished Butt, at last confronted the
offender. "Am I," said he with solemn intonation, "Am
I a Trimmer?"

The crisis was fearful ; one moment more, and the
whole assembly would have been in an uproar; hut hap-
pily the Alderman (as kindred animals are said to see
the wind), discerned the coming tornado, and with a pre-
sence of mind scarcely inferior to mother wit, stopped it
before his antagonist could gather his wrath together.
" I assure the Learned Gentleman," cried Alderma 1
Archer, " I did not mean anything."
So soft an answer did the thing in a twinkling. Butt
was mollified by it as soft as butter, yet not so as to
suffer the interruption he had endured to go altogether un-
punished. On the contrary, he gave the worthy Alderman
an extremely teat tap on the nuckles, which will be a
warning to him how he throws in his expletives hereafter.
" Let MC give one advice," quoth the professor, " to the
worthy Alderman ; when next he means nothing, it w ul 1
be much better if he said nothing."
This, as we have said, is neat—" mighty nate" Mr.
Crawler' would call it—but the sentence is too severe ;
for if Aldermen must keep saying nothing until they can
put meaning into what they say, they may as well join
the Trappists at once.—Chronicle

CARLSRUHE, OCT. 18.—The exportation of
horses is to be prohibited.
HAT TON-GARDEN.—Yesterday, James Lilac-
ton, alias Shammas, was again placed at the bar before
Mr. Combe, charged with the wilful murder of Mary
Nichols. Thomas Saunders, of No. 2, Hampshire li
yard, St. Giles's, stated that on Sunday night, the ISth
instant, between nine and ten o'clock, he retired to rest,
and, after being asleep two or three hours, he was awoke
by the prisoner going up stabs and swearing at the de.
eased, when he heard heavy blows and the deceased beg-
ging of the prisoner to leave off beating her, or he would
murder her. Ellen Saunders, the wife of the last witness,
corroborated his evidence. Grace Conn, a lodger in the
ssmc house, proved having fund the deceased intoxicated
en the above night, and assisting her to her room, when
she left her in bed with an old woman named Ward. On
the following morning witness saw her covered with blood
and marks of violence, aad she was taken to the Middlesex
Hospital, where she died on the following Wednesday.
The prisoner requested witness to wash the mom, and the
sheets, which were stained with blood. The deceased
worn the gown (now produced) marked with blood on the
same night. Further particulars of the case were given,
but the substance of them has already appeared. The
prisoner was fully committed to take his trial for the wilful
murder of the deceased; and the whole of the witnesses
already examined were bound to prosecute.
HARVEST IN THE HIGHLANDS.—We be-
lieve we may now safely record the completion of harvest
even on the latest si i ations. The weather during the
present week has been dry and cold, with strong northerly
gales, and corn which was only cut last week has been
safely housed this. Our agricultural report next week
will, we hope, be able to speak more authoritatively as to
results. The turnips have swelled so finely during the last
month, that in some situations they arc lifting and storing
the early stilts in order to get the seed wheat put into the
ground in its present fine state—an indication of the sea-
son which has seldom been experienced in this climate.
Some few fields after potatoes have been sown, so that the
breadth of the autumn sown wheat is likely to be greater
than for many successive seasons by-past.
DREADFUL STORM IN SHETLAND.—The gen-
tleman in whesz house I spent last night has lost no fewer
than twelve of his tenants by the hurricane of last Wednes-
day night sc'nnight ; and his loss is comparative small. I
visited a family yesterday, consisting of father, mother, and
five daughters, whose sole livelihood depended on the ex-
ertions of the eldest brother, who with five others of the
most able seamen of the whole island perished. In another
house close by tha father and son have perished, leaving a
large number of children in the most helpless condition.
There are, indeed, fourteen whole families deprived of their
lieThried sw,
haond l e coafs tand unprotected o
Shetland
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of lamentation
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and
woo ;
all mirth has deserted the islands ; the appearance of
almost every countenance is totally different from what
it was last week. The bravest seamen and the best
fishers have lost all courage—they have no heart to ven-
ture to sea again, and no hope of success if they do. The
storm of 1432, in which eighteen boats and upwards of
100 men were lost, was not at all so strong and terrible as
this. When at Mosabank I lodged with a pout widow,
whose husband and son left their house in a b.at, and,
twenty minutes after their departure, were overtaken by a
gale, perishing, with five others, in presence of the wife
and family, but a short distance from their own door. In
another place, at Buxta, the laird had four sons and a ne-
phew (a cle,g; man), uho, with the servant, all perished in
crossing the sound in front of their house, while returning
from a party of friends. But the havoc of the storm was by
no meats confined to the sea, for the injury by land is of a
very distressing nature. I was on Monday se'nnight over
one of the islands of the west, where I saw whole fields of
corn completely destroyed. You would have imagined that
every e..,r had IK en purposely cut off by means of some par-
ticular instiument, for the whole field had precisely that
appearance.—Letter in the Glasgow Reformer's Gazette.
THE MISSIONARY WILLIAMS.—By private
letters received from Australia it appears that her Ma-
jesty's ship Favourite, which sailed from Sydney on
the Ist of February to search for the remains of the
Missionaries Williams and Harris, has been successful
in the object. The expedition was accompanied by
Mr. Cunningham, the survivor of the massacre, attended
by a Samoan chief, to act as interpreter. At the fatal
Naputi Bav, in the island of Erumango, several natives
attended the landing of the boats, who fled precipi-
tately, but being called to by the interpreters, returned,
when a negotiation commenced. The natives said that but
few bones remained, that two heads were at the west ef the
bay, and a few bones to the east. Various temptations were
offered to procure the whole, but these were ineffectual,
the natives declaring they had made a feast of the bodies
at the edge of the brook. and had cast away several of the
bones into the lagoon. It was not their custom to pre-
serve any part on such occasions, except the arm and leg
bones, of which they farmed tools and made fish hooks.
The natives stated, however, that another tribe bad made
an incursion upon them, and had taken away the whole or
most of the clothes. By dint of presents the natives were
at last induced to bring down to the beats some human