The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-10 00:00:00

COURT

The Queen held a Court and Privs, Council on Satur-
day afternoon at Buckingham Palace. The Council was
attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Lord
President, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Privy Seal.
the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State
for the Foreign and Colonial Departments, the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer, the Lord Steward, the Lord Cham-
berlain, and the Master of the Horse.
Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right
Hon. William Lord Bateman to be Lord Lieutenant of
'the County of Hereford, his Lordship took the oaths ap-
prioted to be taken thereupop.
Sir Augustus Foster, a member of his late Majesty's
pricy Council, was re-sworn of her Majesty's Most
Hodoorable Privy Council.
The ;Jon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting.
At the Cow 7t
~ Mr. Van de Weyer, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plei:
ipotentiary from the King of the Bel-
gians, had an audiem"e of her Majesty. His Excellency
was introduced by Viunt Palmerston, G.C.8., her CMa-
jesty's Principal Secretary if State for Foreign Affairs.
Her Majesty gave audiences" So Viscount Melbourne
and the Lord Chamberlain.
The Court was attended by:the E1...r1 of Listowel, Lord
in Waiting ; Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting ; Sir
Frederick Stovin, Groom in Waiting ;__ Lord Alfred
Paget, Equerry in Waiting, and Colonel Wylde, Equerry
in Waiting on Prince Albert.
After attending her Majesty's Court, his Excellency
M. Van de Weyer had an audience of his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert, at Buckingham Palace.
The Queen and Prince Albert attended Divine Service
-yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
Tile Sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr.' Mills. The
Oervice was read by the Rev. Mr. Packman ; the Lessons
by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the Communion Service by
the Key. Dr. Wesley and the Rev. Mr. Packman. The
Musical Service was Barrows in F., the Sanctus, &c.,
Davy. The Anthem was " Bow down thine ear."
The Dean of Hereford was the Deputy Clerk of the
Closet in Waiting. The Royal Suite consisted of the
Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, Lady Caroline Cocks,
Hon. Miss Cavendish, Earl of Listowel, Lord Robert
Grosvenor, Earl of Morley, Sir Frederick Stovin, Lord
Alfred Paget, Captain Francis Seymour, and Colonel
Wylde.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty and Prince Albert yesterday and on Saturday.
The Duke of Sussex visited his Royal Highness Prince
Albert yesterday. The Duke of Cambridge visited his
Royal Highness on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was taken an
it; ring yesterday in the garden of Buckingham Palace.
Her Serene Highness the Princess of Leiningen at-
teneled Divine Service yesterday morning in the Royal
German Chapel. Baroness Spaeth was in waiting on
his Serene Highness. The sermon was preached by the
Rev. Dx Kuper. s
The Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Hill had au-
diences of his Royal Highness Prince Albert on Saturday.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert and the Duchess of
Kent honoured the Italian Opera with their presence on
Saturday evening.
Their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Leiningen accompanied her Majesty and Prince Albert.
The Royal Suite included the Countess of Mount Edge-
cumbe, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Earl of Listowel, Right
Hon. George Stevens Byng, Sir Frederick Stovin, Lord
Alfred Paget, and Colonel Wylde. Lady Anne Maria
Dawson was in waiting on the Duchess of Kent.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended
Divine Service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal,
St. James's. Lady Anne Maria Dawson was in waiting
on her Royal Highness.
The Duke of Cambridge had a dinner party on Sa-
turday at Cambridge House. The company included
Lord Hill, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Major Stephens, Co-
lonel Keate, and twenty officers of the 60th Royal Rifles.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at
the residence of the Marquis of Normanby (the Noble
Marquis being indisposed) in Hill-street. All the Mi-
nisters were present with the exception of the Earl of
Minto.
The Council sat two hours and a half.

Mr. Thornton, the Chairman of the Spanish and Por-
tuguese Committee, attended at the Foreign-office on
Friday, and again on Saturday, on the subject of the
claimants on the Government of Portugal.
A Deputation, consisting of the following gentlemen,
from Manchester—Mr. Brotherton, M.P., Sir Thomas
Potter, the Boroughreeve of Manchester, Mr. William
Read, Mr. William Gibb, Mr. Thomas Townend, the
Town Clerk of Manchester, and Mr. Thomas Ogden
Lingard, had an interview with the Right Hon. H. La-
bouchere, at the Board of Trade, on Saturday.
The Russian Minister transacted business on Saturday
at the Foreign-office.
Despatches from the Lord High Commissioner of the
lonian Islands, and also from the Governor of Gibraltar,
were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.

I FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.
BRUSSELS, MAY 6.—On Tuesday afternoon great
damage was done in various places by a violent thunder
storm, accompanied with a deluge of hail and rain. At
Binche the hailstones were as large as pigeons eggs ;
several sheep were killed. At Namur and the environs
the roads in various directions were inundated so as to be
wholly impassable. We hear that cows and horses were
killed in the stables. Much damage was done in some
places to the iron railway.
GHENT, MAY s.—On Monday last, the Nestor of all
the prisoners in Europe, died in the prison of Ghent.
Pierre Joseph Torte was condemned in 1773, to be
broken on the wheel for having murdered a young girl.
He was then 17 years of age. On a petition presented to
the Empress Maria Theresa, his punishment was commu-
ted into imprisonment for life. .In 1814 he was
set at liberty by Count Bichaliff, Hetman of the Cossacks,
whose head quarters were in this city, but being desti-
tute of means of subsistence, of relations and friends,
after thirty-six years' captivity, he solicited as a favour
to be suffered to return to the same prison which had
been so long his abode. The request was granted, and
and he remained in the Rasphaus twenty-seven years
more (in all sixty-three years), and died on Monday, at
the age of eighty years.
BRUSSELS, MAY 7.—The papers of this morning con- I
tain the most affecting details of the damage done by
the storm on Tuesday ; the chief mischief was done by
the sudden inundation, but besides that several build-
ings were struck by lightning.
POLISH FRONTIERS, APRIL 24.—The news that
Russia will send this year a considerable army against
the still unsubdued tribes of the Caucasus is entirely
groundless. Russia has at all times had troops, but the
nature of the country renders the development of great
masses of troops wholly impossible. The contest will
continue this year as heretofore in the only way that can
be successful ; forts will be erected at certain intervals,
and by that means more ground be gained from the
enemy. We must hear in a few days whether the hopes
will be realised of the publication of an extensive amnesty
on the marriage of. the Imperial Prince.
AMSTERDAM, MAY 6.—The Prince de Joinville,
third son of hit Majesty the King of the French, is ex-
pected here on a visit between th 10th and the 15th of
this -month.
AMSTZRDAM, MAY 7.—We have a letter from the
Hague, wlich says—" A general subject of conversation
here is the diovery of highly important state papers,
which throw an entirely new light on preceding events,
and which have corile, by a particular chance, into the
possession of our Government." (The writer then
makes conjectures respectiog the state papers, which
show that no dependence could be placed on his commu-
nication.)
DUTCH FUNDS.—Amwritcoam, MAY 7.
Money. Bills.
actual Debt, 234 per Cent 51% 52
Jilt°, ditto 5 per cent.
A met t Syndic, 454 per cent 9, ;ii 91
Ditto, ditto, 314 per cent ..... ........ 7454 743(
Commercial Company, 414 per cent ..... 165} 1C5%
Ditto (1535 and 1837) 5 per cent. 10154 102
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 97% 975(
Exchange on London, One month l2l 234
Twomontha It 9:04
Dutch Papers, May 8.
BELGIAN M U NDS—BaussaLs, MAY 7.
Actual Debt. 234 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cant NO%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 2)6
3 per Cent.
1-441) lOO%
Loan or City, 18::12, 4 peiCent. .........
Society of Commerce, 454 per Cent lOO
Bank of Belgium, 5 per 78
National Society
Exchange on London (short)
Brussels Papers, May 7.
AUSTRIAN FONDS.—Vionna, APRIL 29
Sleeper Cents. Metalliques
Fottr per Cents. ...........«.......».« ................« 99%
Three per Cents. ................. ....... 77
Bank Shares ....... . ............ 104 7
Allgemeine Zeitung,
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.--BERLIN, MAY 4.
Prussianßills. Money.
St. Sch
glisuldE.nSch..h4L,apne:lcal.4 ,104 Iq~s
per
Ifachange on London, three rrionther,' 67914
—Prussian ''"," May 5 • • - '5

Thirty.seven

THE LIFE oF HENRY (RATTAN.—The
third volume of this important work is now before the
warld, and its materials prove to be, if possible, of still
s ronger interest and value, both personal and political,
than those of the two preceding volumes. Many of the
letters now for the first time made public, from the great
p ditical leaders of the day —such as Burke, Fox, the
Marquis Wellesley, Lord Northington, Lord Castlereagh,
Lord Charlemont, the Duke of Portland, General Bur-
goyne, &c., and in particular those of Henry Grattan
himself—are of the highest interest and importance, and
some of them, those, for instance, of Mr. Fox to Lord
Northington, and the replies to them—throw a new light
on the crisis to which they relate. Some of the extracts,
too, from Grattan's speeches display the most dazzling
eloquence, clothing the deepest political wisdom. The
manner also, in, which the personal and domestic life of
t it great Irish patriot is blended with his public career,
a l•ls great interest and value to the work.
' BREATHE NOT ISIS NAME."—A chip o
;ris ocracy, living in the Broachn ay, hada very lcng and diffi-
c nit name, and
nd or, a stranger trying to pronounce it t'other
y his
got entangled in his teeth, and he could not get
i
a
disengagedg
a:n until some one advised him to spell the word
ht eekwa
7.ds.— Yankee Paper.
CURIOUS CASE.—About six or seven years
ago, Brotherton, the Edinburgh and Salton carrier, proceeded
to Salton Hall, where he received from the butler and house-
keepere sumo ohfisBow/a. ,ytohopmaye fhoer various
was,
according articles
ebteiee
do of
nth thEdinburgh.e family
th
to his account, set upon by two men, who knocked him down,
and cut away the pocket containing the money, with which
could be obtained of the
direction at the time, but no •trace
they made clear off. Investigation was set on foot in every
robbers, and the case was allowed
having kept the
money, and contrived the story of the ..
rtsuspi-
to drop, not without some
suspicion attaching to the carrier himself
informa-
(inn from himself. Within these few days, however,
robbery to dive
tion was received at the County Police-office that a man named
Mitchell, living in the Grassmarket, and another named Peas-
ton, living in Lasswade, were implicated in the robbery, they
both having been employed at the time of the robbery with a
shoemaker in the village of West Salton. They were both ap-
prehended, and, after investigation, the men have been com-
mitted for trial.--Ayr Observer.