The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-02 00:00:00

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Her Majesty the. Queen Dowager, at ed thtl
Dowager Lady Clinton, came yesterday fiernoon to
the Palace to pay a visit to the Queen. Het--14*-srit"c
was icceivcd on hcr tirrival by the Lady Barhea,klay
in \Vaiting, Hon. Miss Pitt, Hon. Miss Paget, Maids
of Honour in Waiting, Viscount Torrington, Lord in
\Vaiting, Earl of Belfast, Vice-Chamberlain, Msjor the
Hon. George Keppel, Groom in Waiting, Col. Wemyss,
Equerry in Waiting, and Major-General Sir Edward
Bowater, Equerry to Prance Albert.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert received her Ma-
jesty in the Grand Hall, and conducted her to the
Queen. The Infant Princess Royal was presented to
the Queen Dowager.
The Duchess of Gloucester afterwards
.tiited her
Majesty.
Lord Hill had an audience of his Royal Highness
Prince Albert yesterday, at Buckir.ghnin Palace.
The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen ) esterday
morning.

Major-General Sir Edward Bowater relieved Colonel
Wylde yesterday, in the duties of Equerry iu Waiting
on his Royal Highness Prince Albert.
Among the Nobility and Gentry who called yester-
day at Buckingham Palace, to learn the state of her
Majesty, were Count Pollon, the Sardinian Minister ;
Baron Bulow, the Prussian Minister ; the American
Minister and Mrs. Stevenson ; Baron de Moncorvo, the
Portuguese Minister ; the Russian Minister and Ba-
roness Brunow ; Baron Gersdorff, the Saxon Minister ;
the Danish. Charge d'Affaires and Countess Bille Brahe ;
Count Revell ; the Archbishop of Canterbury ; the
Duke of Richmond; Duchesses of Richmond and
Inverness ; Marquis of Aylesbury ; Marchionesses
of Aylesbury, Clanricarde, and Wellesley ; Earls of Wil-
ton, March, and Denbigh ; Counteztas Carnarvon,
Wilton, Denbigh, Erroll, Stanhope, Mexhorough,
Dowager Carnwath, Mount Norris ; Viscountess Ash-
brook, Baroness Brahe; Lords W. Powlett, J. Fitzroy;
Ladies C. Gordon, Lennox, Alice Peel, Selsey, Ida
Hay, Denman, M. Stanley, J. Somerset, A. Culling
Smith, S. Savile, W. Powlett, M. Fielding, and W.
Stanhope ; Honourables Miss Otway Cave, Mrs.
Henry Murray, Miss Denman, Miss Flower, Mrs.
Annesley ; Rev. P. Y. Savile, Cust and Mrs.
Cust ; Sir Robert Chester; Lieutenant-General Sir
R. Darling ; Colonels Peel, Cowper, and Daj•le ;
Major Bell, Lieutenant Sir Archibald Macdonald, Dec-
tor Holland ; Messrs Craufurd, M.P. ; Bernal, M.P. ;
Irby, Backhouse, Labouchere, Pat Ann, M.P. ; F.
French, and Wilbraham Taylor ; Mistresses Denman,
Cowper, Labouchet e, Backhouse, Crauturd, anti Vet non
Smith ; Misses Disbrowe anti Lister.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, after visiting the
Queen yesterday, went to Gloucester House to visit the
Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cambridge.
The American Minister bad an interview with the
Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Hoarse-office.
Baron Mounier bad an interview with Lord John
Russell yesterday at the Colonial-office.

Mr. Irving and Mr. Colvile had an interview with
Viscount Melbourne yesterday in Downing-street. The
Postmaster-General had also an interview with his
Lordship yesterday.
Viscount Ebrington had an interview with the. Cha-
ncellor of the Exchequer yesterday.
Mr. J. Shaw Lefevre and Mr. T. Lewis had an in-
terview with the Marquis of Normanby yektertlay at
the Home-office.

Captain Trotter had an interview with Lord John
Russell yesterday, at the Cohnial-office,

The ktrl and Countess of Lichfield and Lsdy Ann
Anson, arrived in town on Saturday, front their seat
Kanto!' Abbey.

Mr. and Lady Alice Peel have left Farrance's Hotel,
for the seat of the Earl and Countess of Jersey, Middle-
ton Park, Oxon.

TIIE SLUGGISH" ARCHBISHOP'S
PRAYEIZS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sits,.—l lately had the pleasure of reading in the
Evening Edition of The Sun, some very appropriate, and
undoubtedly called for, remarks, on the " Sluggish
Archbishop of Canterbury's Form of Prayer," to be
offered up to-morrow in all Churches, in thanki-
giving for the birth of the Princess Royal ; and ap-
pended thereto, (by way of rider) your commentary,
(true as excellent) that the people throughout " the
length and breadth of the land" had already offered up
their grateful prayers to heaven (spontaueously), not
caring or waiting for his Grace's " Word of Conitnaud,"
which of a verity has been long of coming,
and not being so cold of heart and sou: as to remain
(ill this time) stock-still, and mute of -tongue and lip ;
uud so continue, until it should suit his Grace to arouse
from his „Nthargy, trammel them with the heavy weight
of his phleginatic "form of prayer," and then set them
" a-going," as a carter would his team, to the eupho-
nious words " nei-up "go on there !".
His Grace, being slow of movement, woull be " a
good messenger to scud for death." 1 question much
whether ho would be so " backward to oome !inward,
as Pat says, if, unfortunately, prayers. of; condolence
were necessary in this case. " There is not a wink in
his Grace, although he seems drowsy."
But, Sir, a very extraordinary feature in this " Form
of Prayer" is, as published in a previous number of your
Paper, that his Grace, it would appear, means it to be
sent as a " circular," not only to the
.eliiirehos under
his own jurisdiction, but " to
.cbareli, and the various
other places of worship" with which he hai. nothing to,
do! When you published this, Sir, were you really
serious—or were you merely joking ? If serious, " the
Sluggish. Archbishop," it must be confessed, was, though
slow concocting it, " rather strong," hoping that it
would be swallowed secundum artem ; but, seriously
speaking, this is " too bad !'' Does his Grace for
pudent one
moment presume to dictate his formof prayers to ba
used in Dissenting, or other places of ? If so,
I tell his Grace that the experiment—an im
—.will not be gulped down. The Dissenters, Sce., os
you have so well observed, have already sent up their
prayers to the throne of God : and they. are neither
disposed to wait for, nor to admit, his Grace's " forms, ,
I remain, Sir, your obedierkt servant,
LOYAL.

TIIE ADELPIII TH EA TRE.—The Manager of
this Theatre has appropriated Mr. Ainsworth's tomanco,
Tower of Lowloa, and summarily brought it to a conclu-
sion. This novelty wa . introduced to the public last night.
The piece was very successful and deservedly rn, as great
care was displayed in its getting up ; end the Manager,
I corning forward after the fall of the curtain, an" nneed it
or reprti.ion during the week amidst untning led plaudits.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—It does not often fall
to the lot of a Journalist to record an escape from sudden
destruction more wonderful than than the following
Mr. William Owen, of St. Martin's, Haverfurdtrest, a re-
lieving officer to the Haverfordwest Union, was on Friday
evening returning from Pater, in company with a lad, the
son of Mr. John Ball, Market-street. Having passed Frey.
strop, they turned into a footpath which led across a field,
close by a disused coalpit belonging to Mr. Richard Ellis,
of Morlas-bridge ; when they had arrived opposite the
pit's month, the lad said to Mr. 0 WQII, " Take care of that
coalpit." Mr. 0. turned his head towards the lad, anti
his foot slipping, he was instantly precipitated to the bot-
tom of the shaft, a depth of sixteen fathoms ! The lad
immediately gave the alarm, and between fifty and sixty
colliers were quickly on the spot, one of whom descended,
and brought up Mr Owen, who bad proxideutially received
no other injury than a few slight bruises. He had on at
the time a mackintosh cape and cloak, and it is supposed
that the air getting under it, not only gave him a buoy-
ancy, but preventeci his being injured by striking against
the side of the pit, and broke the force of his fall. Ho
ilext day described the sensation produced by his fall to
riding a sedan chair. NVe cannot but think the prac-
tice of leaving the mouths of disused coalpita open, with.
out some kind of fence to warn a stranger of his approach
to so dangerous a spot, in any situation, exceedingly re-
prehensible, but especially when a footpath leads near. IC
seems like a trap set to catch the unwary.— ll (Winton.
HORRIBLE DEATII.—On Saturday a poor
man named Sanders, went to Bromley for a load of wash
for a ecwkeeper in the City-road, but by some accident he
fell :nto a boiling copper at the distillery at Bromley, and
was so terribly scalded as to cause his death,
The Lyons papers of Saturday mentions that
gfooordust;:aarasalnof three
the quays had at length been left dry, and the shoot. p ors had been able to get into their dwelling • .aefe.,-e;
rh.nac‘te•
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of
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great.
SUDDEN DEA TOoTuesday morning, be-
tween ten and eleven o'clock
Wiseman, residing in Kilburn' as gentlemanwalking, o
atchcco
by a friend along 0 dor -street when he suddenly ex-
claimed, " My head,head namep n i eodf
nii ! and instantly tell a corpse
in the street. The body was removed to the
workhouse
to await an inquest.
On Saturday morning a stone bridge, erected
across the river Ure between Linton and Net. ton-oe-
Ouse ,
, %; as washed down by the overflowing- of the waters
and the strength of the current. No further damage was
occasioned. The bridge was built by subscription some
years ago, for the convenience of th• inhabitants of the
neighbourhood corning to this city, as previous to its erec-
tion they had come by Tollerton, a considerable distance
further round.— Yorkshirernan.
DESERTION OF SEArsIEN.—We have been In-
formed that, on the 10th of October last, the ship Fergus,
of Shields, for Embden, put into l'lymouth from stress of
Weather. \Vbile at anchor in the roads, three of the crew,namely, Edmund Frost, chief mate, Isaiah Riley, second
mate ; antt
HenryH-nry Wilson, sailmakcr, all of this port, m.„
nage
d to desert the vessel, leaving no officer on board (the
captain being on shore), and the ship at the time in a pe.
riluus situation. We understand that the owner intends
toringlnit. hold the aboof —ve individuals to justice as soon as they
canb be
FORGED BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES. For
seine time past forged Bank of England notes of 5/. each
have been circulated to a very considerable extent in the
neighbourhoods of Windsor and Eton, by a o'ani, of fel-
lows who, until within the last day or two, managod to
escape detection. One of them, however Ow three com-
panions who were with him it few minutes before he was
cauqht having escaped), has just been apprehended, after
having exchanged a forged al, lie is now iu prison at
Windsor.

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