The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-19 00:00:00

• SPORTING REVIEW.

The principal and best embellishment in this
number is a portrait of " Coronation," the winner
of the last Derby. Among the literary contri-
butions, which of course are all on sporting sub-
jects, we find some sensible remarks by the Hon.
G. Berkeley on tha preservation of game.

THE BUDE LIGHT.
Cunningham, London, 1841.

✓
A clever, lively little work, full of anecdote
and epigram, and containing several whimsical
caricatures.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, SUNDAY,—The Queen and Prince Albert
and the Royal party, including the Dowager Lady Lyt-
telton, Hon. Harriet Pitt, Hon. Sarah Mary Cavendish,
Viscount Melbourne, Lord anal Lady Robert Grosvenor,
Colonel Buckley, Mr. Rich, and Colonel Bowater, at-
tended Divine Service this morning, in the Chapel Royal,
St. George.
The Rev. C. W. Knvvett chanted the first part of the
Service. The Hon. and Very Reverend the Dean offici-
ated at the Communion. The Dean preached a most ex-
cellent discourse from the 63d verse of the 119th Psalm,
" I am a companion of all them that fear thee and keep
thy commandments." The Musical Service was King in
1). The Anthem, "We will rejoice" (Croft). Mr.
Elvey presided at the organ.
The Queen of the Belgians, Countess Vilain XIV., Earl
of Fingal, General Goblet, and M. Van de Weyer, at-
tended mass at the Catholic chapel at Clewer.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked through the
Terrace to the Slopes this afternoon, and eontinuee, pro-
menading some time, returning through the Terrace,
which was more numerously attended than at any for-
mer period this season by company. TV splendid band
of the Royal Horse Guards Blue, and. the fine band of
the 72d Highlanders, in their picturesque costume,
played on the Terrace from fire to seven o'clock. Her
Majesty and the Prince dung their walk were attended
by their whole suite.
The Duke de Brabant is somewhat better.

The Queen an :1 Prince Albert walked out yesterday
as usual in the new grounds of the Homo Park, and the
Princess Tioyal was taken her usual airing.
Her Majesty honoured Mr. W. C. Ross, A.R.A., with
the final sitting for a miniature portrait of her Majesty
yesterday and the Queen of the Belg:tans also honoured
Mr. Ross with a last sitting for hel• miniature.
The Royal party took an airing yesterday afternoon,
the Queen and the Prince in a pony phaeton and pair,
and the suite in open carriages.
M. Van de Weyer arrived yesterday, on a visit.
The Hon. and ;lery Reverend the Dean of -Windsor,
Lord and :nay Kinnaird, and Colonel Arbuthnot, 72d
Highland',:rs, had the honour of joining the Royal dinner
circle yesterday evening.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, and the Princesses Augusta and Mary of
Cambridge attended Divine Service yesterday morning
in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley-street. Lady
Augusta Somerset, and Baron Knesebeek were in wait-
ing on their Royal Highnesses.

—Her Royal Ilighness the Duchess of Cambridge, ac-
companied by the Princesses Augusta and Mary of
Cambridge, and attended by Lady Augusta Somerset,
took an airing yesterday afternoon to Kew, returning to
Cambridge House in the evening.
M. de Montezuma, the Brazilian Minister, transacted
business at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, on Satur-
day.
Despatches from Major-General Napier, Governor of
the Cape of Good Hope, were received yesterday at the
Colonial-office.

Lord Morpeth has arrived in town from the North.
Despatches for the Lord High Commissioner of the
lonian Islands, and for the Governor of Gibraltar, were
sent off from the Colonial-office on Saturday evening.

TAXATION IN FRANCE.—The Moniteur pub-
lishes the returns of the proceeds of the indirect taxes and ro-
venues during the six first months of 1841, which amounted,
on the 30th of June last, to 341,989,000 f.—viz.,.—viz., 163,462,000 f.
for January, February, and March ; and 178,527,000 f. for
April, May, and June. As compared with the revenue, dur-
ing the corresponding period of 1839, there is an increase of
28,241,000 f., and of 8,273,000 f. over 1840. The items which
exhibit the greatest augmentation are-1, foreign sugars, the
duties on which exceed those of 1840 by 4,136,000 f., whilst
there was a falling off of 1,407,000 f. in those on colonial
sugars; 2, liquors, 1,609,000 f. ; 3, home made sugar,
1,408,000 f. ; 4, customs and navigation, 1,266,000 f. ; 5, public
carriages, internal navigation, &c., 1,528,000 f. ; tobacco,
1,412,000 f. ; 6, postage of letters, mails, steam-packets,
1,100,000 f., &c. The only articles in which there is a reduc-
tion are the duties on the registrations and mortgages, amount.
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ing to 1,579,000 f. ; those levied on the consumption of sugar
along the coast, 1,359,000 f., on gunpowder 163,000 f. and co-
lonial sugar.