The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-13 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty, attended by the Ladies of her Suite, took
equestrian exercise yesterday in the Riding School, near
Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by Lady
Charles Somerset, visited the Queen yesterday. Her
Majesty afterwards visited the Princess Augusta at Oa'
rence Housect and the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester
House.
Viscount Melbourne and Lord John Russell had audi-
ences yesterday of her Majesty.
The Royal dinner party at the Palace last evening in-
cluded the Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs. Howl*,
Earl and Countess of Tankerville, Earl and Countess OT,
Reseberry, Earl of Cardigan, Earl of Uxbridge, Earl 01
Listowel, Earl of Surrey, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount
Boringdon, Hon. Colonel Anson, Hon Edward and Mrs.
Stanley.
The band of the Ist Life Guards was in attendance at
the Palace in the evening.
The Duchess 'if Kent, accompanied by the Heredital
Prince of Saxe Coburg Gotha, took an airing yesterday
in a carriage.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured Mr. George
Patten, A.R. A., with a sitting yesterday for a full leegth
Portrait of his Royal Highness.
Prince George of Cambridge visited her Majesty the
Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House.
The Princess Augusta took an airing yesterday in $
carriage and four.
Captain Pringle had an interview with Lord John Rus-
sell yesterday at the Colonial Office.
The Earl of Roseberry and Mr Campbell, of Islay, haa,
an interview with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday 8'
the Home Office.
Despatches from Colonel Cockburn, Governor of the
Bahamas, were received yesterday at the Colonial Office'

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ARRIVALS.
The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Law, at Colonel R o fib'
ford's, in Stanhope-street ; the Hon. Captain Hood, o
Grenadier Guards, at the Marquis of Downshire's, Ha";
ver-square ; the Messrs. Carr, Lunen, and St. Vinea'
Wilson, at Fenton's Hotel, from Dublin; Lord Ongr
from Warden Hall, Bedfordshire ; Major Vivian, M.'
at the Ordnance-office, in Pall-mall ; Admiral Sir Thomas
Briggs, K. C. B. ; Colonel Clive, of the Grenadier Guards,
in Grafton-street, from Whitfield-court. near Hereford
Mr. Myddleton Biddulph, from Chuk Castle, Devonshire'
the Hon. Francis Charteris, at Lord Wemyss's, in Stafford'
place ; Major Cadogan, in St. James's-place, from Wri
peth ; the Hon. Captain Frederic Pelham, at the Earl o
Chichester's, in Grosvenor-place ; Sir Henry Bayley, fr°ltt
Dorsetshire; Lord Mount Cashell, from Moor Park, Ire"
land ; Lord Blandford, in Belgrave.square, from Castle
Bromwich, near Birmingham ; Lieut.- Colonel Hare,
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South-street ; Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Bradford, 1?
Harley-street ; Captain Wynne, at the St. James's Hotelt,
from Brighton ; Colonel Sir James and Lady KeYne itd,
from Brighton ; Admiral Sir Davidge and Lady Goul,e
from ditto; Colonel Hugh Baillie, M. P., from ditto;
Bishop of Clogher and Lady Tottenham and family, fr°
the Palace, at Clogher.
DEPARTURES.
of

Colonel Verner, M. P., for Dublin; the Countess `r
Durham and the Ladies Lambton. from Cleveland-row, i(3„.
Putney; the Earl of Harbury, for Brighton ; Captal"
Baynes, R.N. C. 8., to join the Andromache frigate at
Portsmouth ; Mr. Saunders Sobright, on a Continental
tour; Sir Francis Stanhope, for Elvaston Hall, Derby-
shire ; Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell, 97th Regiment, for
o C-many ; Sir Clifford and Lady Constable, and Miss
Chichester, for Burton Constable, near Hull ; Sir John
Edwards, Bart., M.P., for Welsh Pool, Montgomery-
shire ; Viscount Clive, for Powis Castle, Welsh Pool
the Hon. Percy Herbert, to join the depot of the 43d
Light Infantry; Sir Robert Adair, on a tour; the Bish°P
of Carlisle, and the Hon. Miss Percy, for Lose Castle,
Cumberland.
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:is ~erene Highness the Hereditary 'since
Saxe Coburg Gotha intends, previous to the termination:.
the hunting season, to honour the Duke and Duchess of Beau"
fort with his company at Badminton. It was expected aisa,
Serene Highness would have left this week ; but the frost
.v
n
prevented his Serene Highness, it being so severe as to do"o '
all sport.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston had a din
ner party on Wednesday evening on Carlton House-terrace:
The guests included nearly the whole of the corps diplongaique
Count D'Orsay entertained the Duke of Beau:
fort and a distinguished circle at dinner on Wednesday last, 3'
his residence at Kensington-gore.
The Duke of Devonshire, Earl and Countess °f
Jersey, Earl and Countess of Tankerville, Viscount Lece'°n,'
and a select party, dined with the Duke and Duchess of Sut'el.
land on Wednesday evening at Stafford House.
His Excellency Baron Brunow paid a visit to t 11:
Earl of Durham on Wednesday last, at the Noble Earl's c", 1;
on Putney-heath. The Noble Earl, although not convalesce',"
is progressively recovering.
A marriage is talked of between the Hon. Misd9,
Plunkett, eldest daughter of the Lord Chancellor of Irelau
and a gentleman of great wealth in the sister country.
The Duke and Duchess of Roxburuh have take"
Sir John and Lady Shelley's mansion, in Belgrave-square, fer
the season.
HAREWOOD HALL.--The venerable --- T, °ad
Harewood, since his domestic bereavement, haabeen surreantad:e;
by a family circle, including the Hon. G. H. and Lady L° tee
Cavendish. His Lordship will proceed to town at Eas.ee.
Lord and Lady Portman have left for their seat in Dorsetshit
Lord and Lady Wilton, Lord and Lady Mah°'
Lord and Lady Burghersh, and the Right Hon. C. Arbutlittu,i;
composed the Duke of Wellington's dinner party the eYenin
before last at Apsley House. Hie Grace, we have the pleas„'re
,
to state, continues in the enjoyment of good health, and Nla
present at the Italian Opera on Tuesday evening.
The Marchioness of Queensberry and Lady
,
Georgiana Douglas have arrived at the Brunswick get"
Hanover-square, from a tour.
The Bishop of Exeter and Mrs. Phillpotts
a'
arrived at the Episcopal Palace from town. We regret to S
that the new Dean of Exeter is alarmingly indisposed.
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The Duchess of Bedford, and the Lad:di
Georgianaand Rachel Russell, are expected at Canapdenw"-,
early in the ensuing week, from Baron's Court, Tyrone, ts
her Grace and daughters have been residing with the Marg."„'
and Alarchioness of Abercorn during the winter.
Lord Devon and Lord Courtenav will visit thei
extensive estates in the South of Ireland, previous to their re-
turn to town.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort have de'
ferred their departure for Badminton until next week•
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Grace would have left had not the frost continued, so as to
der hunting impracticable.
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FRAUDS UPON THE PRESS.—The "
figc,eiars.
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unenviable
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adopting
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measures
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policy
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the
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ty
Devonshire under contribution lately, in a manner vi
.fal,
there is reason to fear, was in too mans instances sttee°7 his
A few days before the time fixed for biingin on Sir Jo
Yarde Buller's motion for a vote of want ot cognfidence in;;;it
nisters, an advertisement appeared in one of the the
respectable of the South Devon papers, announcing
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opening of an office in London for furnishing ue"Psirne
for any required time, on the mere transmission of the nt.- the
of the person to whom they were to be sent, and---e eto
money which was to cover the time for which they
art,
be supp ied. In the following case it happened that the half
oeuvre miscarried. A gentleman sent a letter containing aen,'
sover. ign to the .‘ Penny Post Newspaper Office, Lon pro"
requesting that he might be furnished with the English
_office
sidle for two months. The letter was put into the pust„age,
in the country by a friend, who forgot to pay the I'f•ce in
and it was, consequently. refused at the newspaper o"yriser
London. Notice of such rejection was sent to the s the
from the Dead Letter Office ; and, during this delaY.'lLred.
parties at the " Penny Post Newspaper Office" disalletsce,
'Through the attention of the persons at the ne",ieeian
the half sovereign has seen returned to the ger` letter
who sent it ; but had the postage of the originalove'reiga
been prepaid, there is little doubt that the halt ,e de-
would have disappeared along with the parties at the
funct " Penny Post Newspaper Office." The public
Dew,
have forgotten either that other systematic frauds upon aha-
paper proprietors and their readers were exposed bel:hicb it
gistrates in the Justice-room of the Guildhall;
_:ur,_
about
apt eared that it is a common practice for fellows to e,.boys
the hall of the General Post-office, and incite the " h
neeliver
to purloin newspapers from their bags before they (I,,us Tar-
papers ,ncieecl
bags to the clerks at the window, and for the
loiued the scoundrels give the boys half. price, or less ; !dov.a
we have heard of one instance in which a boy sold half-a.' every'
of his master's papers for a shilling ! Of course, foreintecl,
paper thus purloined a subscriber in the c 'wary is thsaP,P. be-
CHILD EXPOSURE.—On Tuesday olga'„ing
tween nine and ten o'clock, as police constable -42 E wasa:4)in
his rounds, lie observed something lying on a dungnia_i
Jockeys-fields, Gray's Inn-road. On examination it fur 70
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to be a living male child, wrapped up in a piece of dirtUi
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and to all appearance not many hours old. tie aro I
conveyed it to the workhouse, and the parish author"
using every exertion to trace out the unnatural mother,