The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-24 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

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WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—Last evening the Earl of Surrey
arrived at the Castle on a visit to her Majesty. and the
Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, and the Ladies Eleanora
and Constance Paget, had the honour of joining the
loyal circle at dinner.

This morning her Majesty and Prince Albert walked
out as usual in the Park, and her Royal Highness the
Princess Royal was taken to Adelaide Cottage.
In the afternoon her Majesty and the Queen of the
Belgians rode out in a carriage and four in the Park,
accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert on
horseback, and attended by the Dowager Lady Lyttel•
ton, Countess Vilain XIV., the Marquis of Headfort,
and other ladies and gentlemen of the Royal suite, either
in carriages or on horseback.

Her Mitjesty inspected to-day the finished etching by
Samuel Cousins, A.R.A., from the original picture, of
the Queen receiving the Holy Sacrament at the Coro-
nation, by C. R. Leslie, R.A. (the property of the
Queen), which was submitted by Mr. Moan. Her Ma-
jesty was most graciously pleased to express her ap-
proval.
His Royal Highness the Duke de Brabant is much
better.

Lady Caroline Barrington and Mr. George E. Anson
will have the honour of dining with her Majesty at,the
Castle this evening.
It is expected that her Majesty and Prince Albert will
leave Windsor on Monday for Woburn Abbey, to honour
the Duke and Duchess of Bedford with a visit.

Prince George of Cambridge left town on Thursday,
on a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glou-
cester,, at her residence, Bagshot Park. The Prince
returned to town yesterday afternoon.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, ac-
companied by the Princess Mary of Cambridge, took an
airing on Thursday to her residence at Kew, returning
to Cambridge House in the course of the afternoon.

N. Moretis, the Buenos Ayrean Minister at this Court,
has returned from Paris, where he has been on a tem-
porary absence. _ _

Viscount Palmerston left town on Thursday afternoon,
on his return to Windsor Castle.

Despatches from Sir John Franklin, Governor of Van
Diemen's Land, and also from the Governor of the
Bahamas, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.

MR. WILSON.

Last night this celebrated vocalist delivered the last
of a series of lectures on Scottish song to a crowded and
delighted audience, at the MechaniCs' Institution,
Southampton-buildings. The more immediate object of
the lecture was to prove the merits and claims to anti-
quity of Highland melody, and its close and intimate
alliance with the music of the sister kingdom of Ire-
land ; and in this arduous task Mr. Wilson relieved the
dry and uninteresting (except to the initiated) details of
antiquarian research with humorous anecdote, and soft-
ened down and made delightful rugged argument
and clOSe reasoning by apt and felicitous illustrations
from the wild and soul-stirring, but frequently touching
and pathetic, music of the land " of the mountain and
the flood." We have often been enchanted listeners to
this delightful warbler of his country's song, an heard
with pride and satisfaction the rough sough of wild
and unrestrained applause which greeted and
rewarded his sounds of fire and notes of woe ;
but never until last night did we think that Mr. Wilson,
or any other favoured son of song, could infuse into an
English translation of the notes of Ossian's lyre the soul
and animation which makes us forget that we are specta-
tors, and for the moment think ourselves the heroes of
the tale. As we advocate, as we have always done, the
advancement of education and of information in every
walk, we have much pleasure in giving our meed of
praise to the exertions of Mr. Wilson, in thus familiar-
izing the beauties of poetry and the charms
of song to the humble and the lowly ; and
it is a great and gratifying evidence of
the advancement of civilization and the growing love of
information which has been in our day engendered in
our fellow-countrymen, that we find them thus seeking
after, and encouraged by, one who is peculiarly qualified
to touch those tender cords which tend to filial love,
and to strike that harp of harmony and brotherhood
which enables and induces us to improve and cultivate ,
" the mind which makes the man."

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.

[Some inaccuracies having appeared in our account of

the gentlemen who were examined, in justice to them we
now publish a correct list.]
FIRST EXAAIINATION IOR THE DEGREE OF

BACHELOR OF MEDICINE, JULY 1841.
EXAMINATION FOR HONOURS.

;The names are arranged in the order of proficiency.)
ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY.

Ballard, Edward, exhibition and gold medal, University
College.
Matthew, Thomas Patrick, gold medal, University Col.
Tapson, Alfred Joseph, University College.
Stedman, Silas Stilwell, University College.
Inman, Tho Mas, King's College.
Davies, John Jones, London Hospital.
Fox, Joseph John, University College. •
Swayne,
.Joseph Griffiths, ,Bristol Medical School.

CHEMISTRY.
Ballard, Edward, exhibition and gold medal, University
College.
Fox, Joseph John, gold medal, University College.
Inman, Thomas, King's College.
Humble, William Edward, University College.
MATERIA MEDICA AND PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY.

Inman, Thomas, exhibition and gold medal, King's Col.
Davies, John Jones, gold medal, London Hospital.
Tapson, Alfred Joseph, University College.
Humble, William Edward, University College.

Bog—We understand that a new work, edited
by this celebrated author, under the title of "ThePic-nic
Papers," is announced for publication under the auspices
of that indefatigable and successful caterer for public
taste, Mr. Colburn ; and which is, as we are informed, to
be illustrated by George Cruikshank, Phiz, &c. &c.

THE CROPS IN CONNAUGHT.—We regret
that accounts from the west of Ireland 'represent the
state of the potato crop to be very unpropitious. In
many places they have come up thin in the ground,
whilst in other districts the vegetation has been too
rapid. On the whole, the appearances in Leitrim, and
some of the neighbouring counties, is very disheartening.
Among the black cattle the distemper is still raging,
and in some districts with increased fatality. —Dubliu
Evening Post.
GREAT DEMONSTRATION OF TEMPERANCE
SOCIETIES.—We hear that on Monday, the 2d of Augu-t,
the Temperance Societies from Birmingham, Tamworth,
Chesterfield, Belper, and the intermediate places, will
assemble in Derby by railway excursion trains. A pro-
cession through the principal streets of Derby is ex-
pected to take place about eleven o'clock ; after which
the Societies will dine together. In die afternoon they
will proceed to the Arboretum to take tea in the Arbore-
tum Pavilion.

Sheridan pacified a quarrelsome fellow one even-
ing by observing, " I should not like to g 9 up in a bal-
loon with you, fur fear of our falling out."