The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-10 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert took their accustomed
walks on Sunday in the pleasure•grounds of Osborne.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice,
took their usual airings.
The Earl of Dalhousie and Lord John Russell have
arrived at Osborne, on a visit to her Majesty.
The Queen will hold a Privy Council at one o'clock
this afternoon, at Osborne. The Ministers and Officers
of State attending the Council will travel from town to
Gosport, by a special train of the South-Western
Railway.

REVISING BARRISTERS.—The Lord Chief Justice
Denman has been pleased to appoint Lancelot Shadwell
Francis Baily, and Thomas Young M'Christie, Esquires,
to be the revising barristers this year of the list of voters
for Members to serve in Parliament for the county of
Middlesex, the cities of London and Westminster, the
boroughs of Marylebone and Finsbury, and the Tower
Hamlets.
His Grace the Duke of Northumberland has kindly
presented to the Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens three
beautiful monkeys (Grivet Cereopithecus-griseo-viridis),
which were bred at Sion House. It is,a rare occurrhacefor
monkeys to breed in a confined state, and these are most
splendid specimens of their species. A consignment of
animals, consisting of kangaroos, emus, black swans, &c.,
also arrived within the last week.
We have authority to contradict a report, to which
one or two of our contemporaries were induced to give
currency yesterday, of the death of Mr. Barnard, M.P.
for Greenwich. The Hon. Gentleman is, we believe, in
perfect health, and the rumour of his death was only
one of those stupid hoaxes to which all public journals
are occasionally liable.—Times.
HEALTH OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA.—ST. PE-
TERSBURGH, JOLT 30.—His Majesty the Emperor is
still suffering from the remains of his late severe attack,
and is by no means restored to health. The reviews
and martial exercises and experiments which are now
being made by the troops, encamped at Krasnojo-Selo,
have repeatedly been postponed for several days in con-
sequence of these attacks of the Emperor.
HEALTH OF THOMAS DUNCOMBE, ESQ., M.P.-
-Upon inquiring at a late hour last evening (Monday) at
the residence of the Hon. Member for Finsbury, Mr.
Duncombe, the answer was, " Mr. Duncombe has been
very ill, but he is better. He has been able to take an
airing to-day." The Hon Member has been labouring
under an attack of bronchitis, which at one time as-
sumed a serious aspect and alarmed his friends. He
may now, however, be considered out of danger.
DEPLORABLE STATE OF THE SCOTCH HIGHLANDS.
—By the end of the next week the Queen and her Court
will be in the Clyde, on her journey to the Highlands.
On Saturday her Majesty will visit her old castle of
Dumbarton, and steam up to the top of Loch Long. On
Monday we understand that the royal party will proceed
by Fort-William to the gloomy solitude which has been
selected for their residence during part of the present
autumn. When the Queen and her suite leave the Clyde
on the south, there will be great efforts made to convince
them that there are still men living in the Highlands.
'l he young chieftain will parade the Campbells, and
spread out the remnants of his shattered clan to the
greatest advantage. He might have had hundreds, who
are cast homeless on the banks of the St. Lawrence, busy
in reclaiming the wastes on the shores of Loch Long,
but he prefers game to men, and wastes to farms. In
everyth mile of the Queen's progress to the north and east
Oldere will be great exertions made to people the deserts.
tho LosetutmraeosswfoirlrlebdeioptaoraHdeigdioaanndd
farmers. English footmendecep-
tion
forsheep
would be apparent to a practised eye. The untilled
claim the dark
converting the Highlands
farms
of
twenty their own story most effectually.
hills and glens tell
Her Majesty is to into
a The
same wretched miles length and breadth pro-
policcharacter of that policy which is fast
oaoridgiprretaisnogrein.s the great hunting ground.
.psaamssethmroisuegrhabalelcaanudsel Athmeeseerlsfi.shTnehses
ofas
tthhea t
owners—has which d elsaoilda t
wastee desolated Si n
tdhee,
legis-
lative, if not 411 They want
wgyant a Sir Charles Napier—a Napier. They need the repeal
Highlands.
the game and
ealed, in twenty entail laws • and with
finding enty years there these laws re-
findinga population would be no difficulty in
beautiful, but to welcome
now_e the monarch on the
be
Lomond. The pine
shores of Loch Long
and
newspaper reporters Pine would flourish a
tion, whether there be would
not be weighing theagain ; and
they might rent within
be not a habitable l
North British British Mail. n ten miles of Lochouse where
Laggan.—
FALL OF AN ARCH.—Yesterday
four o'clock, one of the arches ofa afternoon, about
with the Ardrie and Monklands Junction Railway,
in connexion
the head of Buchanan-street, suddentiyluijizartilway, near
cipitating three of the men along with They- way, Pre-
were severely injured, one of them, John ruins, who
se-
verely as to require to be sent to the Royal Foy,
The other two were taken to their own homes. tuße.
men were engaged in taking down the viaduct, in con-
sequence of an alteration in the plan of the line,—.
Glasgow Courier of Saturday.
SHIPMENT OF ARMS TO SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.
—The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury
have caused Mr. Travel'yan, one of their Lordships'
secretaries, to state to the Commissioners of Customs
that, with reference to their Lordships' letter, dated 21st
July, 1845, desiring that the board would take the ne-
cessary steps to have early information given to the
Foreign-office of all shipments of arms, destined for the
ports of Spain and Portugal, which should be made at
any of the ports of the United Kingdom, he has been
commanded by their Lordships to acquaint them that
they do not consider it necessary that the returns in
question should be continued to be prepared and for-
warded, as directed in the order alluded to. In pursu-
ance of this order of their Lordships, dispensing for the
future with the official returns in question, directions
have been given to the several departments of the
Revenue throughout the kingdom to that effect.
MURDER PREVENTED.—MOBS. Alexandre Dumas
has been prevented recently, by some lucky accident,
from translating another of Shakspere's plays. We be-
lieve the dreadful act was already
begun—it was the first
of Romeo and Juliet—but Monsieur •
Dumas was slept m
time to prevent the completion of the offence. He has
been bound over to keep the peace.—Punch.