The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-31 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WlNnsoa, WEDNEIDAY.—The Qum and the Duchess
of Kent accompanied Prince Albert to the ice at Frog-
more this morning, to see the skating, and her Msjosty
participated in the amusement by being driven on a sledge
over the ice by his Royal Highness Prince Albert.
Her Majesty was attended by the lion. Misses Paget
and Cocks, Lord Lilford, Mr. Rich, and Col. Wernyss ;
the Duchess of Kent was attended by Lady Fanny How-
ard ; and Prince Albert by Sir E. Bowater, Mr. G. E.
Anson, Capt. Seymour, and Dr. Pretorius.
The Earl of Surrey left the Castle this morning for the
Rookery.
The Hon. Mr. C. A. Murray returned this afternoon.

The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knescbeck
left town yesterday morning for Richmond Park, where his
Royal Highness spent the forenoon shooting. Ills Royal
Highness, attended by Baron Knesebeck, returned to town
in the afternoon.
Despatches from the Governor of Gibraltar were re-
ct•ived vest, rday, at the Colonial-office.
The 'l!›rl and Countess of Kenmure have arrived at
'arrance's llotcl, I3clgrave•street, from their seat, Kil-
Ireland.

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REGISTRATION OF THE BIRTH OF THE
PRINCESS [OVAL-The Act of Parliament for the Re-
gistration of births applies not only to the community at
large, but also to all members of the Royal Family.
The bii th of the Princess Royal has been duly regis-
tered. The entry was made in the registration books of
the parish of St. George, Ilanover-squarc, and entered
on the 22d instant by Mr. William Pierce Jerdan, of
Lower lielgrave-street, Eaton-square, Pimlico, the iegis-
trar of births for the Belgrave district of that parish, who
attended at Buckingham Palace for the purpose.
In consequence of the failure of the vaccination
of the Princess Royal, her Royal Highness was again vac-
cinated on Monday by Mr. Biagden, in the presence of
Prince Albert, from the child of a lady residing at Bramp-
ton. The lady and her child left town for Windsor, in
company with the Court physicians.
THE \\TEA TILER.--W e have a thaw to-day,
but the weather is remarkably fine, with a bright sun, and
the wind N.W.
TRIESTE, DEC. 19.—The roads arc again pass-
able, and the mails from France and Germany, which were
delayed, have at rived to-day. The Crown Prince of Ba-
varia is expected every moment. The Duke of Hour-
deaux is gone to Venice, where, as we hear, he intends to
make a considerable stay to study practical navigation.
WARD OF FARRINGTON NVETtiouT —At
an adjourned wardmote, held yesterday, Mr. Wells, one of
the defeated candidates for a seat in the Common Council,
expressed his determination to appeal to the Court of
Aldermen, in consequence of the alleged invalidity of the
return. Mr. Wells eas one of the members last y ear,
and is a strong advocate for corporate reform.
ERRATA.—In the letter of" A Constant Reader,
M. A." yesterday, for J. E.'s long claim, read laying ; and
for most certainlyfor all, read not.
Yesterday a girl named Lancefield, about six-
teen years of age, poisoned herself. She was in the ser-
vice of a tradesman in Northgate. It appears that on Sun-
day she saw her lover (a soldier, on furlough, and quar-
tered at sonic distance from Canterbury) walking with
two other young women. The sight had such an effect
upon her that yesterday she purchased a quantity of
oxalic acid, and, going to the residence of the young man,
in Ruttington-lane, shoetly after site had swallowed it, she
died in his presence —Kentish Gazette.
HEAVY JUDGMENT.—.A judgment has been
recovered against the late Receiver-General of Canada,
Sir John Caldwell, for 84,068/. currency, for which his
large estates, consisting of the seigniory and fief of La-
cote, with extensive mills thereon, and 22,500 acres of
land, were conveyed to the Government in full satisfac-
tion.—New York Herald.
The Duke of Norfork goes to Arundel Castle,
Sussex, this week. The Earl and Countess of Surrey, and
the Ladies Howard, Viscount and Viscountess Fitzalatt,
intend also visiting the family seat fur several weeks.
The Earl and Countess of Kennaare have arrived
at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-street, from their scat Kil-
larney, Ireland.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
although absent from Kew, was not unmindful of the poor
in that parish. Ile commanded Dr. Scard to supply all
the poor families in that parish with a good dinner on
Christmas-day, and the poor in the Union workhouse be-
longing to the parish, and likewise that the children in the
Queen's Free School should be regaled on New Year's-
day with roast beef and plum-pudding at the Rose and
Crown Hotel, and to supply such of them as require it
with clothing, &e., during this inclement weather, at his
Royal Highness's expense.
FIER MAJESTY AND THE PRINCESS ROYAL.
—ln consequence of the severity of the weather since the
arrival of the Court at Windsor, the Royal infant (who is
in most excellent health, not having experienced the slight-
est indisposition since she has been at the Castle), has not
been taken beyond the nursery and the other rooms con-
nected with that department of the Royal household ap-
propriated to the use of her Royal Highness and her
several attendants. It is the invariable custom of her Ma-
jesty, upon leaving the drawing-room at night, and previ-
ously to retiring to rest, to visit the nursery for the pur-
pose of ascertaining the state of health, and taking leave
of the infant Princess.
Viscount and Viscountess Combermere have ar-
rived in Brussels front a tour of the German Spas. The
gallant Viscount and his lady will remain about three
weeks longer in that capital, and then return to this
country.
A paragraph having appeared in the London
papers, representing that the Countess of Leicester had
been alarmingly ill, we rejoice to state that her Ladyship
has not been so ill as represented, and is go'ng on pro-
gressively towards reeovery from her late very serious ac-
cident. The venerable Earl has been slightly indisposed,
but is getting better, and is at present extending the hos-
pitalities of Ifolkham to the Earl and Countess of Rose-
bery. Viscountess Anson, Mr. and Lady E. Stanhope,
the Right Honourable Edward Ellice, Sir Robert Adair,
Sir Archibald Macdonald, J. Motteux, Esq., G. Lambert,
Esq., &c. ; and Earl Spenoer is expected on Thursday.
Lord Coke completed his eighteenth year on Monday
Bury Post
THE RHINOCEROS HUNT.—Thc people inha-
habiting the woods in the province of Tshantburi are in
the habit of hunting indiscriminately tigers, bears, and
rhinoceroses, as well as stags and wild cows. Their mode
of dealing with the rhinoceros is very remarkable. Four
or five men will arm themselves with poles, made from
the bamboo, after taking care to harden the sharp
point which they give to one of the ends in the fire.
Thus equipped, they sally forth and make for the ani-
mal's haunts, calling out and clapping their hands, for the
purpose of alluring or disturbing him from his covert.
As soon as they see the enraged animal approach them
(and his rage is expressed by his opening and snap.
ping his huge jaws violently together), they pre-
pare to receive him, by holding out the point of the pole in
a direct line with his foaming mouth ; and, upor the fa-
vourable moment presenting itself, they drive the pole
with astonishing nerve and adroitness not only down his
throat, but into his stomach, and then take to their heels
right and left. The rhinoceros sets up a frightful howl,
falls down on the ground, and in an agony of pain rolls
himself about in the dust with hideous hovvlings and dis-
tortions : the hunters in the meanwhile begin clapping
their hands and vociferating their songs of triumph, in the
midst of which they rush upon the monster, as soon as ho
appears fairly exhausted by loss of blood, and despatch
bins without hazard or difficulty.
IMPORTANT SEIZURE.—A seizure has been
made off the North Foreland of a smuggling vessel and six
of her crew. The revenue cutter Desmond, Commander
Eaxby, was on the look-out on Saturday afternoon last,
when, about half-past three o'clock, a vessel under sail was
perceived. The usual signal having been made, but not
being responded to, chace was given. 'lle cutter rapidly
gained on the smuggler, and upwards of sixty shots were
tired into the cutter. The chace lasted twelve miles,
and the smuggler was observed to throw her cargo
of tubs overboard separate, and without sinking. At
length the revenue cutter came up and boarded
the vessel, which was found to be the Charlotte, of
Faversham. Joseph Beale master. The vessel belongs to
a person residing at Whitstable, whose name, we have
not learnt, and had the usual convenience of running the
tubs, &c., on board. The men were landed on Monday
morning week, at the Chest Arms, Chatham, and a hear-
ing having taken place before the county Magistrates,
tiny were committed to Maidstone Gaol for re-examina-
tion yesterday. From information received at the Cus-
tom-house, the officers have been " creeping" for spirits
sunk near the Garrison Point, Sheerness. Nearly 100
tubs of brandy, geneva, etec., have been thus recovered
during the last week.—Maidstone Gazette.
ANOTHER ROBBERY IN THE MANCHESTER
POST OFFICE.—We have beard a rumour of a robbery in
the Post-oflice here, the particulars of which have been
care fully withheld from the public, and, perhaps, pend.
ing the examination of the suspected parties, nothing
more than a general allusion to the fact- would be
considered discreet. We understand, then, that cer-
tain bills remitted through the post to a highly-re-
spectable firm in this town were abstracted. The senders
not having received the usual acknowledgment in due
course, wrote to inquire the cause, when they learnt
that the letter had never come to hand. One of the bills
having been made payable at Masterman's, in London, had
been already presented and paid before notice could be
given. A rigid investigation is, we arc informed, going
on, which it is hoped may lead, not merely to the detec-
tion of the offender in this speeisic instance, but to the
adoption of adequate measures for the prevention of similar
frauds. It is unfortunately but too certain that, from be-
ing considered the most secure medium for the transmis-
sion of letters, with or without enclosures, the Posts office
has now acquired the reputation of being the most pre-
carious.—Mancln ster Chronicle of yesterday.
THE LATE MunDER ON TIIE EDINBURGH
AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.— Information has been received
here that the individual who was apprehended last week
in Dublin on suspicion of being Denis Doolan, the alleged
murderer of the unfortunate man Green, is not Doolan.
Another person has been apprehended in Peebles, but we
suspect the 100/. reward will induce parties to make exer-
tions in many quarters with as little success as those we
have had occasion to notice. The authorities are proceed-
ingivrith the investigation, and have committed foisr of the
labourers in custody, Patrick Casgrove, James Hickie,
George Cox, and John Campbell, on a charge of having,
on the night of the 9th, conspired to murder, and in pur-
suance of that conspiracy committed murder on the follow-
ing morning. Campbell, it has been ascertained, slept
with Doolan, and all the above prisoners lodged together.
The manner in which the conspiracy was gone about, and
the language said to be used on the occasion, leave no
doubt of the intentions of the parties. We observe from
an advertisement that another individual, named Patrick
Redding, or Aitken, is likewise missing. This person is
said to have seen the poker carried by one of the indivi-
duals charged from the lodging-house to the scene of the
diabolical deed... Glasgow Constitutional.

And seemingly with the samo organs suited.
But when their faculties begin to act,
At once we find—wind wonder at the fact—

They work inversely from the common practice;
Why your disciples thus perversely stray
Out of the usual track, the beaten way,
I don't pretend to know ; but such the fact is.
To common optics objects will appear
Vim, or distinct, as they're remote or near;
Distance invariably decreasing clearness :
Whilst objects, to the philanthropic-ey'd,
At distance more distinctly are descried,
But rendered petty and obscure by nearness.
Your thorough-bred philanthropists can glance
Their pitying eyes over the earth's expanse,
Till sorrow all their bosoms discomposes
For their black brethren sold to whips and chains ;
And not a single sympathy remains
For starving whites who die beneath their noses.
To such a pitch this sable mania's grown,
Your worshippers would sacrifice their own
White brethren by the score, and drsin the nation,
Sending to scorching plains, and poisonous fen,
Whose hecatombs of honcit Englishmen

oErcd to African civilization.
The fact, my dear Philanthropy, is this—
You're now like one upon a precipice,
Or on the giddy top of some high steeple ;
Your dizzied thoughts arc carried so far out,
'Tis clear you know nc,t what you are about :
Come down, come down—look af'.er your own people.

EXTRAORDINARY PROPHECY

RESPECTING NAPOLEON.

The Memorial de Roucn was the first to publish the
following prophecy, which has since been taken up by
several French Journals, and which, if genuine, would
unquestionably be one of the most remarkable things in
history. The Rouen editor adduces various proofs of
the authenticity of this prophecy, establishing, as he
thinks, conclusively, the fact of its existence at least so
far back as the year 1793, and pledges his reputation to
the truth of his several allegations. The whole is ma-
nifestly fictitious, but it will doubtless amuse our readers.
It should be premised that Napoleon's well-knows
tendency to fatalism was frequently admitted by himself.
Napoleon (says the Rouen editor) went one evening
to Malmaison. He was very fond of" talking the mar-
vellous" upon these occasions—more especially with
his consort Josephine, whom he knew to bo very su
perstitious. Upon the evening in question he spoke of
his gigantic projects, and finished by placing in Jose-
phine's hands an old manuscript book, bound in parch-
ment, and bearing the date of 1342. The shape of the
book was duodecimo, and the paper on which it was
written, as well as the parchment cover, had the yellow
hue of antiquity. " 'Dens," said the Emperor," regarde
et lis."

Josephine read aloud—" Prediction de Maistre Noel
Olivarius."
" Well ?" inquired Josephine.
" They say that it has reference to me," replied the
Emperor.
" How, in a book published in 1542 ?"
" Read."
The Empress tried to read it, but as the style was old
French, and the characters ill-formed, she was obliged
for some minutes to run over it with her eye, and then
she read aloud as follows :

" Italian Gaul will give birth not far from her bosom
to a supernatural being. This man will spring in his
youth from the sea, will co:nc to assume the language
and the manners of the Celtic Gauls, and will open to
himself, still young, a path amongst soldiers through a
thousand obstacle., and will become their leading chief.
This sinuous path will cost hint much labour. He will
become a great warrior near to his natal country in a
lustre or more. Beyond sea he will be a warrior with
great glory and valour, and will invade the Roman
world.
" He will give laws to the Germans, will pacify trou-
ble and fear amongst the Celtic Gauls, and will be after-
wards not named Roy,' but ' Insperator,' amidst great
popular enthusiasm. He will wage war everywhere in
the empire, and chase princes, lords, and kings for two
lustres or more. Then will arise new princes, and
lords, and cry 0 sidcra, 0 sacra !' He will be seen
with an army of 49 times 20,000 men, foot soldiers
armed, who will carry arms with iron horns. There
will be seven times 7,000 horses, mounted by men, who
shall carry a large sword or a lance each, and a steel
corselet. There will be seven times seven times '2,000
men, who will set terrible machines in play, and vomit
forth sulphur, and fire, and death. The entire of his
army will contain forty-nine times 2,000 men.
" Ile will carry in his right hand an eagle, the sign of
victory. Ile will war through many nations. He will
return to the great city, ordering many great things—
edifices, bridges, sea gates, aqueducts, canals. He will
make of himself alone, through great riches, as much as
all the Romans. Ile will have two wives."
Here Josephine stopped.
" Continue," said the Emperor.
" And one son. lie will go warring to the point
where the lines of longitude and latitude cross, fifty
and five months. There his enemies will burn with
fire the great city, and he will enter there and depart
from it, front beneath ashes and ruins ; and his men
having neither bread nor water, through a great and
decimating cold shall return amidst such disasters, that
two-thirds cf his army will perish.
" Then the great man, abandoned, betrayed by his
friends, shall be chased in his turn with' great loss, even
to his own cite, by a great European population, and in
his seat will be placed the Old Cape (Capet) King.
He himself constrained to exile in the sea, whence be
came forth so young, and near to his natal soil, will
remain there for eleven moons with some of his friends,
true friends and soldiers, who being no longer seven
times seven times two thousand in number, immedi-
ately that the eleven moons shall have filled their horns
and waned, he and his will take ships and will set foot
once more upon the Celto-Gaulic soil.
" And he will set out towards the great city, where
the old Cape King will then be seated, who will straight
arise and fly, carrying Off the royal ornaments. He will
then restore things to his ancient domination, and give
many admirable laws to his people.
" Again driven from his scat by a"rrinity European
population,' after three moons and the third of a moon,
the old Cape King shall be restored to his place, and
he shall be believed to be dead by his soldier-people,
who during this time shall guard him as their rotates
near their hearts.
" The people and the Gauls shall tear each other
like tigers. The blood of the old Cape King shall
be the subject of black treasons. The malcontents shall
be deceived, and slain by sword and fire. The lily
shall be maintained, but. the last boughs of the old
tree shall still be menaced. Thus shall they war
amongst each other.
" Then shall a young warrior journey towards the
great city. He will carry a lion and cock on his
armour. The lance shall be given him by a great
Prince of the East. Ho will be seconded marvel-
lously by warlike people of Belgic Gaul, who shall unite
themselves to the Parisians to remove trouble, and
cover themselves with branches of olive. Peace for
•15 moons. Then in Lutetia shall the Seine be red
with blood, &c."
This prophecy brings matters so minutely down to
the " glorious three days" of 1830, that it is a pity the
writer has not given us all the evolutions of the Eastern
question while his hand was in. What respect can
newspaper editors in France have for the intellects of
their readers who palm off for authentic so palpably
fictitious a divination, and pledge themselves for its
having been existence for three centuries back ? It
must be added, in their justification, that the prophecy,
or at least the greeter portion of it, was published in
the " Memoirs de Josephine" in 1620 and 1827, and
again by Edouard prison, in his ".Itccueil de Pro-
phetics." The allegation concerning it is, that in 1793
it was discovered by Francois de Metz in a Benedictine
convent at Paris.

LISZT AT IlAmnultGll.—A letter from Ham-
burgh of the 10th of December, announces that M. Liszt
gave the entire proceeds of his first concert at the great
theatre there, amounting to 3,189 rixdollars (nearly
7001.), for the foundation of a pension list for the benefit
of the members of the orchestra of that theatre. The
musicians thus munificently provided for went in a body to
the celebrated pianiste's hotel with an expression of the it
gratitude. On the following evening they executed a
magnificent serenade, including some of his own chosen
compositions, beneath the windows of the apartment which
he occupied at the hotel.
HULL.—On Saturday an inquest was held on
the body of the child who was run over, and killed on the
previous Monday, when the Old Dock bridge was opened.
Several sad accidents occurred. The jury, after delibe
rating for above half an hour, returned a verdict of " Mat,
slaughter against William Walker, the driver of the mail
coach." The jury expressed an opinion, that for §igh a
thoroughfare the Dock bridge was too narrow.