The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-05 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, THURSDAY.
The Queen and his Royal Highness walked this
morning in the Home Park.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and the
younger branches of the Royal Family walked and
rode in the Home Park.

The -Raton -Andrian left the Castle this morning for
London.

The Chevalier Bunsen is expected to arrive at
Windsor Castle this afternoon, on a visit to the Queen
and his R4al Highness.
Her Majesty had a small evening party, yesterday
evening. The following had the honour of receiving
invitations.;.the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Mr. -and- Miss
Meynell3:,the Hon. Mrs. Phipps, and Miss Bathurst.
The, rO.S4ll'.'dinner party this evening will include,
in addition to",the ladies and gentlemen of the royal
household, her, Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
her Royal-Highness the Duchess of Cambridge and
the Princess Mary, his Serene Highness Prince Ed-
ward of Saxe Weimar, Lady Augusta Cadogan, the
Marchioness of Waterford, Baroness Speth, Lady
Fanny Howard, Mons. and Madame Van de Weyer,
the Chevalier Bunsen, Baron Stockmar, Viscount
Clifden, Benin Kneseheck, and Capt F. Seymour.

The Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na-
tional Debt held a quarterly meeting yesterday at the
office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Down-
ing-street. There were present the Master of the Rolls,
the Governor of the Bank of England, and the De-
Deputy-Governor. Mr. Iligham, Secretary and
Comptroller-General, was in attendance.

THE LATE EARL or AUCKLAND.—The deceased
Earl will be interred at Beckenham on Saturday, instead
of on Monday. The Bishop of Sodor and Man arrived
at the Admiralty on Wednesday evening; and the body
of the deceased Earl arrived at Whitehall, in a hearse,
from Lord Ashburton's, yesterday afternoon, at five.
The mournful cortege, which is to be strictly private,
will leave the Admiralty for Beckenham, to-morrow
morning, at nine o'clock.

The funeral of the late First Lord of the Admiralty
having been appointed to take place to-morrow, an order
has been issued by the Board that all men-of-war hoist
their colours half-mast high on the occasion, from nine
o'clock in the morninc, till sunset on that day, and the
Lord Mayor of London has written to the harbottr-mas-
ters of the port to intimate to the commanders of the
vessels in the river his request that they will perform
the same ceremony of respect to the memory of the
lamented nobleman.

RR STORM IN CANADA.—In my last I gave you
rather a particular description of an ice-storm, together
with some of the effects and consequences of this me-
teorological phenomenon; but, in dotng this, I omittel
to mention one of its effects, of more emsequence, per-
haps, than any other. In this country the electric tele-
graph communication is conveyed along wires supported
by upright poles, about 15 feet high and 200 feet apart,
except in two or three instances, where they cross our
immense rivers, where they are obliged to be stretched
to a much greater extent, in one instance to a thousand
feet, without any intermediate support. Now, when it
rains and freez.,s at the same time, as is the case in an

"ice storm," these wires immediately become coated
with ice, and this adds to their weight so materially as
to break them down, especially in the instances of such
long stretches as I have mentioned. Such breaks, how-
ever, are not confined to these; for since the last break
steel wire have been substituted, of so fine a texture,
that they are less liable to be broken by such means.
In the present instance they were not injured, while the
shorter stretches of less perfect materials, although three
or four times their thickness, were broken by the super-
incumbent weight, and thus the communication was cut
off so long, that we actually received the mail itself by
the Britannia before a telegraphic communication of its
principal items of intelligence could reach us.—Chronicle
Correspondent.
YANKEE RECEPTION OF THE PRESIDENT'S MRS-
SAGE.—" The country papers are loud in tin it com-
plaints of the almost interminable length of the Presi
those which do, give it by instalments.,''—frtu• York
Courier.