The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-09 00:00:00

EWENING EDITION

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—His Royal Highness Prince Al-
trt, attended by Colonel Bouverie and Lord Alfred
let, Mr. George Edward Anson, and Dr. Pretorius,
140 k the exercise of skating on the lake at Frogmore'this
211Orning.
Her Majesty and her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Sent have not left the Castle to-day.
Mr. Byrne, the blind Irish harper, had the honour of
gqing national airs before. her Majesty at the Castle
ISt evening.

His Excellency Monsieur Van de Weyer, the Belgian
Minister, and Madame Van de Weyer, left their residence
14 Portland-place yesterday morning, and embarked on
'hoard a steam packet for Ostend, en route for Brussels.
Mr. Drouet, Secretary of Legation, arrived in town on
Thursday from the Continent, and will officiate as Charge
d'Affaires during the absence of his Excellency.
Baron de Bourqueney, French Charge d'Affaires, trans-
meted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
The Attorney-General, Sir Harry Verney, ant Mr.
!lames, had interviews with Lord John Russell yester-
day at the Colonial-office.
, The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Most Honour-
We Privy Council sat yesterday. The Lords present
!ere. Lord Brougham, the Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Justice
4rrltiue, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court.
bMessrs. Pemberton and Burgo, Queen's Counsel, were
eard for the respective parties in an appeal from Jamaica,
Vidal v. Girod." The Vice-Chancellor gave judgment
I'll.o the part of the Court, reversing the decree of the Court

Sir William Follett and Mr. Edmund Moore, for the
Vpellant, were heard in " Magnus Smith v. the Judges of
tierra Leone." Lord Brougham gave judgment on the
Part of their Lordships, that there were no grounds for the
Girder disbarring Mr. 0 Smith, and that there was nothing
IN:,hatever in the proceedings, which in any way affected
Lip character.

WINDSOR-FRIDAY.

The greatest possible excitement prevailed yesterday
evening in the Castle in consequence of a packet of im-
portant letters addressed to the King of Belelum, and a
~9x of valuable jewellery belonging to the Duchess of
teem, having been lost by one of her Royal Highness's
'errant!. Is is:said that the servant was dispatched from
the Castle in the early part of the evening to eon-
the packet to London, but before he had or-
, rived at Slough he made the unpleasant discovery that the
za_Pikrecipialtey with which he had been entrusted was lost. He ire-
returned to 'Windsor, making anxious inquiries
as he proceeded for the lost packet, of which un-
Sartunataly he could collect no tidings. Supposing that
e Property had fallen into the hands of some dishonest
person, he at once determined on making his misfortune
own to his Royal mistress, and her Royal Highness was
Wvthwith acquainted with tne loss of her jewellery and
lett!ers. The information was soon spread over the castle.
'Without the delay of a moment, a number of servants, by
"order of the Duchess of Kent, were despatched in the direc
‘tiew of Slough, with instructions to institute the most
diligent inquiries for the recovery of the property. Her
Royal Highness seemed greatly annoyed at the unfortunate
'occurrence, and evinced the utmost anxiety for the safety
IA her letters. The uneasiness of her Royal Highness.
however, was not permitted to •continue for any length
of time, for shortly after the servants had left the
Casele a servant of Captain Sidwell, of the Ist Life
GuaTels, arrived with the missing packet in his possession.
The men stated that as he had been walking through Eton
'he Cowie it, and supposing from its appearance that it be-
longed to some of the distinguished party at i,he Castle,
te irnmedietelv proceeded thither in search of its owner.
'When 11,
li)u intelligence of its recovery was conveyed to the
Duchess of Kent, her Royal Highness expressed herself
e,,,eT
lgrillY delighted at its restoration. A reward of one so-
' • 1,g4 Was Oven to the man for hi= honesty "
Was
has ben most intense here for some days past,
much
so that the Thames is frozen across at Windsor-
fo, et, a circumstance which has nut been known before
r ''erel years.—Times Correspondent.