The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-23 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen held a Court and
Privy Council this afternoon, at the Castle.
The Council was attended by his Royal Highness
Prince Albert; the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord
President; Lord John Russell, First Lord of the
Treasury ; Sir George Grey, Secretary of State for
the Home Department ; Viscount Palmerston, Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs ; Earl Grey,
Secretary of State for the Colonies ; the Earl of
Auckland, First Lord of the Admiralty; Sir John
Hobhouse, President of the Board of Controul for the
Affairs of India ; Viscount Morpeth, Chief Commis-
sioner of the Woods and Forests; the Earl Spencer,
Lord Chamberlain ; and the Duke of Norfolk, Master
of the Horse.

At the Council, Mr. Richard More O'Ferrall was,
by command of the Queen, introduced, and was sworn
of her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council.
The Right Honourable Gentleman took his seat at
the Board.

The Queen's Speech, to be delivered in Parliament
this day, was arranged and agreed upon.
A Charter of Incorporation was granted to Wake-
field.

The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting.
At the Court, the Marquis of Normanby, her
Majesty's Ambassador to his Majesty the King of the
French, was presented to the Queen, at an audience,
by Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., her Majesty's prin-
cipal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
The Queen gave audience to the Marquis of
Lansdowne.

Her Majesty was attended by the Earl of Listowel,
Lord in Waiting, and Major the Hon. Robert Boyle,
Groom in Waiting.
The Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of Nor-
manby, Earl Grey, Earl Spencer, Earl of Auckland,
Viscount Morpeth, Viscount Palmerston, Sir George
Grey, Sir John Hobhouse, Mr. More O'Ferrall, and
the Hon. William Bathurst, travelled from town, to
attend the Queen's Court, by an especial train on the
Great Western Railway.
After the Privy Council a dejeune was served in the
Castle to all the noblemen and gentlemen present at
the Court.

At a quarter before three o'clock, the Marquises
of Lansdowne and Normanby, Lord John Russell,
Earls Grey, Spencer, and Auckland, Viscounts
Palmerston and Morpeth, Sir G. Grey, Sir J. Hob-
house, the Right Hon. R. More O'Ferrall, and the
Hon. W. Bathurst, left the Castle for the Slough
station, and returned to town by a special train. The
Duke of Norfolk also took his departure from the
Castle.

The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual
early walk this morning.
The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess
Royal, and the Princess Alice, rode on their ponies,
and the Princess Helena was taken an airing.
The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
the Lady in Waiting of the Duchess of Kent, the
Baroness de Speth, and Sir George Couper.
The band of the Grenadier Guards was in attend-
ance during dinner. Her Majesty's private band
afterwards attended in the Castle.

Lord John Russell, as First Lord of the Treasury,
gave a grand dinner last evening, at his official resi-
dence in Downing-street, to a party of forty. The
guests all appeared in Court dress. The invitations
included the Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of
Commons, Mr. James Heywood, the mover of the
Address, and Mr. A. Shafto Adair, the seconder ;
Lord Anson, Lord John Hay, Lord Marcus Hill,
Lord Morpeth, Lord Palmerston, Lord C. Paget,
the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. T.
Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Sir John Hobhouse,
the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, the Right Hon.
T. B. Macaulay, the Right Hon. Fox Maule, the
Right Hon. Sir William Somerville, the Right Hon.
R. L. Sheil, the Right Hon. E. J. Stanley, the
Right Hon. Edward Strutt, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Hon. Colonel Anson, Hon. Major Boyle,
Hon. William Cowper, Hon. William Lascelles Hon.
Colonel Keppel, the Attorney-General, the Solicitor-
General, Admiral Dundas, General Fox, Captain
Berkeley, Messrs. Bellew, Charles Buller, Gibson
Craig, G. C. Lewis, J. Maitland, Parker, Rich, Tuf-
nell, H. W. Ward, Wyse, and W. Grey.
Lord John Russell read her Majesty's speech to his
distinguished guests in the course of the evening.
The Marquis of Landsdowne, Lord President of
the Council, gave a grand dinner to a party of Peers
yesterday evening, at Lansdowne House.
The Earl of Yarborough had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official
residence in Downing-street.

The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for ERgland had
a committee meeting yesterday.
Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial
Office, from the Governor of Hong-Kong.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
LEAMINGTON STEEPLECHASE.
8 to 1 agst Capt. Peel na The Chandler—taken
10 tohl agst Lord Strathmore's The Switcher—taken
12 to 1 agst Mr. Taylor na Standard Guard—taken
12 to 1 agst Mr. Elmore's Young Lottery—taken
12 to 1 agst Mr. Moseley's Richard the First—taken
The investments were in small sums, and the odds, in
every case, were afterwards offered.
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
100 to 25 agst Col. Anson's Blaze—taken and after-
wards offered

DERBY.
.5 to 1 agst Scott's lott—taken to 501.
6 to 1 agst Dilly's lot
6to 1 agst Day's lot
25 to 1 agst Mr. J. Day's Nil Desperandum—t to 251.
25 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Loadstone—taken to 501.,
and afterwards offered
40 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Rosslyn taken and
afterwards offered
40 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Whitstone—taken and
afterwards offered
1,000 to 20 agst Mr. Nunn's Tho Fowler—taken.
A draft from Mr. Mostyn's stud, and several grey-
hounds, the property of Mr. Bake, were put up for sale,
but only a few lots sold, and those at low prices.
By the death of Mr. E. Hobson, Hatherley, by De-
fence, out of Chaos, is disqualified for the Derby and St.
Leger, 1848.

LORD STANLEY'S BANQUET.—Yesterday evening
Lord Stanley, as leader of the Protectionists, gave a
full-dress dinner party to several of his supporters, at
his mansion in St. James's-square. The Peers included
the Dukes of Rutland, Montrose, Newcastle, and Buck-
ingham ; the Earl of Malinesbury, the Earl of Eglin-
toun, the Marquis of Exeter, the Marquis of Salisbury,
Lord Ashburton, the Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Bodes-
dale, Lord de Ros, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of
Winchelsea, the Earl of Lucan, the Earl of Wilton, Earl
Stradbroke, Lord Colchester, the Earl Delawarr, Lord
Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord Southampton, Viscount
Strangtord, the Earl of Carnarvon, the Eat''. of Lens-
dal ie Viscount Combermere, Lord SaltOUD.
THE SHA SUPERB NIGHT.—The d contemP late en-
tertainment in aid of the funds for the purchase of
Shakspere's house is announced to be
of December, given at Covent-
garden Theatre, on Tuesday, the 7th
when the miscellaneous performanceso
byfcertain acts
from the poet's works, voluntarily embodied
actors
of the highest eminence in the profession, will take
place, under the especial patronage of the Queen and
the Court.
Lord Brougham arrived at his mansion in Grafton-
street, on Saturday, from
his chateau near Cannes, in
the south of France. Lady Broughamhasalso arrived
in town from Brougham
all,
Westmoreland.
BIRTHDAY or THE PRINCESS ROYAL. AL.—
MONDAY.—yesterday being WINDSOR,
Highness
the birthday of the Princess
Royal, when her Royal
year, the bells of th completed her seventh
parish church rang merry peals in
This
honour of this event. his.day, at noon, a royal salute
was fired from the por n
cor aon ordnance, in the Bache-
lor's-acre, the
Virginia Water. Several rare and costly presents were
received by the Princess Royal, yesterday and to-day,
from the Duchess of Kent and other members of the i
Royal Family.;

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PRINCESS'S THEATRE. •./ •- , ;2-rf--,
A stage version of the first part of Henry Taylor's
noble dramatic poem of Philip Van Artevelde was4:4
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produced here last night with great success—a fSM 'AM
success, however, for which it was more indebted to
the superb raise en scene and the excellent acting of
the artistes engaged in its production than to the skill
of the adapter, who has used the scissors in a most
ferocious manner, cutting out everything that did not
tell in bringing out the character of Philip Van
Artevelde, sacrificing the author, the poem, and the
plot (for those who have never read the poem could •
not by possibility have understood the plot of
the play) to the one object of making
a part for Mr. Macready, and certainly Mr. Ma-
cready made a great deal of the part. He de-
claimed last night better than we have ever heard him
declaim. His speech in front of the Stadt House was
superb, and there was a quiet firmness (the quietude
of conscious power) in his manner of warning Oco
not to approach the Stadt House, which told with
immense effect. His scene with Vanden Bosch on
the summit of the Tower of St. Nicholas was very
fine. In this scene he was well supported by. Ryder,
whose coarse, yet energetic, style of acting isjust the
thing for " a leader of the fierce democracy." Miss •
Emmeline Montague and Miss Susan Cushman made
much of the two little parts (for in this version
they are reduced to two very little parts),
of Adriana- and Clara, and the other artistes exerted
themselves to the utmost. The play ends with the
conquest of Bruges, and we only see Philip as a
conqueror. The omission of all allusion to the second
part, which exhibits Philip in evil fortune, and which
concludes with his death, mars the beauty of the
poem, although, perhaps, it adds to the stage power of
the play. Macreadywas called for at the conclusion,
and was received with enthusiastic applause. The
house was crowded.

STRAND THEATRE.

Last evening Mr. Harry St. Cyr Percy, from the
Baltimore Theatre, made his first appearance before
a London audience at this attractive little theatre.
The pieces chosen for the occasion were, Ben the
Boatswain, or the Ship on Fire; andllionsieur Tonson.
Mr. Percy, who sustained the character of the hero,
Ben, is not an exception to the general run of Ame-
rican actors who have tried their fortunes in Old
England; he, like most of them, overacts to a de-
gree. This fault, and it is a glaring one, was appa-
rent last evening; ;let him study nature' a little
more, and not depend so much on declamation,
and he may reached an elevated place in his profession
He has about him all the requisites of a good
actor, a commanding figure, an expressive coun-
tenance, and a good voice, but before he can be-
come a favourite with the playgoing public of London,
he must divest himself of his glittering, but false, style
of overacting. He was ably supported by Mr. Archer
as Mark Redriff, Mr. Huntley, as Dabbleton, and
by Mr. Bethway, as Sir Arthur Trevor. Miss Love,
as Edwin Gage, looked and acted the part admirably.
Mdlle. Louise Blanche, as Palmyra, the dumb girl,
was very effective; her pantomime was excellent.
The little part of Madge Oatfield was given to Miss
J. Coleman, but that little was done well. Ducrow's
popular drama, The Dumb Man of Manchester, fol-
lowed, after which the evening's entertainments con-
cluded with the amusing farce of Monsieur Tonson, in
which Mr. Percy played much better than in the first
piece, the character of Monsieur Morbleau, the eccen-
tric peruquier, with point and vivacity. A thorough
Frenchman in pronunciation, and a good one in
gesture, he excited much merriment in his encounters
with the everlasting Tom King (Mr. W. D. Broad-
foot), and,the numerous other inquirers after Monsieur
Tonson. The pieces generally, which were well
cast, went off well. Mr. Percy's engagement is an-
nounced in the bills as limited to six-nights. His
first step on the London boards may be said to be a
successful one.

EXTRAORDINARY INCIDENTS
AT ST. JUDE'S CHURCH, LIVERPOOL.
Sunday forenoon, during the time that the Rev.
Dr. M'Neile was preaching the annual sermon at
St. Jude's Church on behalf of the Society for the
Converson of the Jews, the most extraordinary suc-
cession of incidents occurred that we ever remember
to have witnessed or heard of in any place of worship.
When the reverend gentleman was describing the
dreadful privations from home and country to which
the Jews had been subjected, and when he had been
preaching about twenty minutes, a loud scream
and some incoherent expressions from a poor man
who had been occupying one of the free seats im-
mediately to the right of the communion table, and.
adjacent to the pulpit, excited, as might naturally be
>upposed, the alarm of the whole congregation, and
caused every eye to be directed towards him. Most
01 the congregation suddenly rose from their seats,
and not a few, particularly females, made the best
of their way out of the church. The Rev. Doctor
stopped for a few minutes while the screams from
the unfortunate man continued, and while the
sexton and one or two gentlemen were conveying him
to the vestry-room. The Doctor then requested the
congregation to retake their seats, and said that an
awful instance had just occurred of the deprivation
of reason, whether arising from distress of circum-
stances, or from whatever cause, it was impossible to
ascertain.

Scarcely had he said this when the wretched man
was heard exclaiming in the vestry-room, in a voice
raised to the highest imaginable pitch, that com-
pletely drowned the preacher's voice, and re-
sounded through the whole building, " Lord, have
mercy upon me ! Christ have mercy upon me !"
The Doctor then observed, that it was necessary the
man should be removed to some distance from the
church, and he requested that some of the principals
of the congregation would assist in having him taken
away. A number of gentlemen immediately left
their seats and proceeded to the vestry-room, from
which they succeeded in removing the maniac, who
continued, until out of hearing distance, to exclaim
most vociferously.

The maniac's voice had scarely died away when
a terrific shriek from a highly respectable female
who occupied a pew close to where he had been
originally sitting, told but too plainly that her
nervous system had been dreadfully affected by
the scene she had just witnessed, and that she was
seized with a fit. Again the congregation were dread-
fully alarmed, many, as before, started from their
seats, and Dr. Al‘Neile and several of the ladies
were affected to tears at the sight. A number of
gentlemen assisted the lady, who continued her
heart-piercing screams, into the vestry-room, and,
when there, we believe she shortly returned to
consciousness, but, before she reached the vestry-
room door, a second lady, who sat in a pew at the
opposite end of the church, in the /side aisle upon
the right, commenced screaming at the top of her
voice, and was with difficulty carried out of the
'building by the front entrance. She was seized with
a nervous fit. _ _

_
These remarkable incidents followed so rapidly
upon each other, and were so dreadfully appalling,
that it was some minutes before the congregation
became again composed. In the remaining
part of the sermon Dr. APNeile twice alluded to
the circumstance, and .expressed a hope that the
congregation would be more thankful than ever for
the possession of reason, and pray for those who had
been so extraordinarily affected. lie said that during
his ministry at St. Jude's that was the first occasion
upon which any such sudden deprivation :of reason
had occurred during divine sery ice. Liverpool
Albion.

THE ROBBERY AT NORWlCH.—Yesterday infor-
mation was received by the Metropolitan Police that
upwards of 300 volumes of scarce [and valuable works,
300 different 'articles of silver plate, and an immense
quantity of plate, linen, &c. having the names and crest
erased, bad been found on the premises of Mr. G Thur-
tell, horticulturist, of Norwich, who has been committed
to take his trial at Norwich Castle, charged with a rob-
bery at the house of E. Ferrer, Esq., Sporie, Norfolk,
and the whole of which are supposed to a
afternoon
rpnr iteo stolen.ro,n a
fire
CALAMITOUS FIRE.
—Yesterday
a very calamitous character broke out upon the pre-
liaises in the occupation of Mr. William -.Morris,
taospeatpheerr
with his wife and child, were dreadfully eu
Globe
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the Occupier,
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ro
bunarna,endiplace
Be-
tween the hours of one and two loud screams were heard
to proceed from the work-shop on
. the first floor, at the
wwaesreisneenissuing through the window.
another
when part
he of
fo
sManir.eMtionirreisflawinheos
hearing the cries, ra,naunpdstiairs,theund house, se,
roomon
hleitseebhlialzde, a n the midst of the flames he
cinoualdeosmeep
endea-
vouring, but in vain, t boy
between nine and ten, endea-
to save the life of his to get out. Mr. Morris, in order
The consequence was that child, rushed through the room.
when Mrs. at his clothes soon became ig-
nited,her husband and Morris hoping to save [the lives of
Mr. Morris havinwg
hardly done so when child,
also ran into the room. She had
succeeded
1,, he r clothing oi
nt hlianygi likewiselaying
held
of took
his
child,fire.
Wife out of th
with a desperate exertion succeeded in pulling him and
hinisthe house, and tehe flames.
. Some other persons living
neighbours, on hearing the screams,
ran to render assistance. They were all three moss
frightfully burned, more particularly the boy, for it was
found when the body was touched that the flesh and
finger nails dropped off. Without delay he was removed
to the London Hospital, when the house surgeon pro-
nounced his case to be beyond recovery.
THE POTATO DISEASE.—Tbe fears which many
entertained at an earlier period of the season, concerning
the ultimate spread of disease among the potatoes, are
being unfortunately confirmed in this part of the:country,
We last week bad an opportunity of personally exa-
mining many samples in the surrounding districts, and
can affirm that in no instance which came under our
notice is there a prospect of looking forward to this
useful esculent as a means of subsistence beyond Christ-
at:
mas.—Staffordshire Mercury,
twenty-two
to‘
IMPORTATION OF HORSES.—The steamer C Illin
bine, arrived from Havre, h a sbrought,
inddi
hors 94
general cargo of French productions, , consigned to order.