The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-12 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princ•
of Wales and the Princess Royal, went out yesterday in a
sledge, Prince Albert driving. In another sledge were
Count Alexander Mensdorff and the Hon. Misses Stanley and
Dawson. The Earl of Morton followed in a third sledge.
The Equerries in Waiting, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey
and Captain the Hon. A. H. Gordon were in attendance, on
horseback.

The Marquis of Lansdowne had an audience of her Ma-
j esty yesterday.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by Count
Alexander Mensdorff, and attended by Captain the Hon. A.
H. Gordon, visited and inspected the new palace at West-
minster yesterday.
The Queen, attended by the Marchioness of Douro and
Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, visited her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House.
_Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred and the Princess
Alice took an airing in the royal gardens yesterday.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert visited their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on Wed-
nesday, at Cambridge House.
The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yesterday
included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Count
Alexander Mensdorf, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de
Spetb, Lord George Lennox, and the Hon. and Rev. C.
Leslie Courtenay.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House.
The Duchess of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent yesterday at Clarence House, St. James's.
A meeting of 160 Members of the House of Commons
took place yesterday at the official residence of Lerd John
Russell, in Downing- street. Lord John Russell was accom-
panied by the following Members of the Cabinet :—Sir
George Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right
Hon. H. Labouchere, Sir John Hobhouse, and Viscount
Palmerston. The meeting was also attended by the Right
Hon. R. L. Sheil, Sir William Somerville, Mr. H. Tufnell,
Mr. Gibson Craig, and other Members of the Administration.
The conference lasted one hour.
A deputation consisting of the Mayor of Manchester, Mr.
Alderman Neild, and the Town Clerk of Manchester, with
Mr Milner Gibson, M.P., and Mr. Mark Philips, M.P., had
an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at the Home
Office.

The Commissioners of Metropolitan Improvements had a
meeting yesterday at the office of her Majesty's Woods and
Forests, in Whitehall Place. There were present Viscount
Alorpeth, Sir Robert Inglis, Sir Charles Lemon, the Hon. C.
Gore, and Mr. A. Milne.
A deputation from the rectifying distillers, consisting of
Messrs. Nicholson, Seager. Grimble, and Nimmo, had an
interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday,
at his official residence in Downing-street.

A deputation from the Manchester and Southampton Rail-
way Company, consisting of Lord Duncannon, M.P., Mr.
James Wilkinshaw (Deputy Chairman), Mr. James Durham,
Mr. Charles E. Deacon, Mr. Gooch (Engineer), the Solicitors,
and the Secretary, had an interview with the Right Hon. E.
Strutt yesterday, at the office of the Commissioners of Rail-
ways in Great George-street.
A deputation, consisting of Sir Philip Egerton, Mr. Tatton
Egerton, Mr. Trafford, and the Clerk of the Peace for the
county of Chester, had an interview yesterday with Sir George
Grey at the Home-office.
The Mayor of Manchester, and deputation with the Town
Clerk, and Mr. Milner Gibson, M.P., had an interview with
Lord Morpeth yesterday at his office in Whitehall-place.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester-
day. The appeal from New Grenada, " The House of As-
sembly of Grenada v. Chief Justice Sanderson," was concluded.
An appeal from Bengal, " Wise v. Kishenkoomar Bous," was
commenced.

THE FAMILY OF THE REV. J. T. J.

HEWLETT.

We noticed last week the death of the Rev. J. T. Hewlett,
the Rector of Great Stambridge, and so widely adMired in
the literary world as the author of the works known as the
productions of " Peter Priggins ;" but we were not aware at
the time that, like many eminent men who have gone before
him, his latest death-pang was embittered by the reflection
that he was leaving nine children, their mother having died
some time before, helpless and standing close upon the bor-
der of absolute want. We are assured that after his death it
was found that there was not more than five or six shillings
in the house, and nothing to bury him. And all this front
no fault of his own. The living of Stambridge is of small
amount, and burthened with a family of sixteen children, o
whom these nine are the survivors, he had laboured ince*.
santly with his pen to support them in a becoming station;
and he had succeeded till about a year and a half ago, when
the body gave way under this continued mental toil. Sick-
ness prostrated his strength, but still he refused to loosen his
grasp of the pen. "My .life," said he, "ia no use to my
children without my labour ;" poverty, that relentless task-
master, refused him rest, as he had entered into lucrative
engagements with the booksellers, and thus he went on
writing his lines with his very life's-blood; for there seems
no doubt that if his situation could have been known, and
timely succour had brought aid and rest, the graceful and
witty author might have been still alive. Happily the de-
ceased belonged to an order distinguished for its brotherly
and benevolent tendencies—he was provincial chaplain to
the masonic order, and in the hour of his family's sorrow,
when the children stood around their dead parent, bewildered
death and want, a member of the Rorlitord Lodge, alr.
Herbert Mew, who casually called in, discovered their situa-
tion, and promptly stirred to their succour. He at once un-
dertook the charge of the funeral, and the care of the chil-
dren; and not only did the brotherheod render this tempo-
rary aid, but they raised a considerable sum towards a perd-
manent provision for the family, and thus commenced fao
for this purpose that has been largely contributed_toabyathos
who knew the deceased best as a neighbour airptions fm
clergy-
man ; and we hope to see it swelled by F itrs
apeq"
uaintance
every one who has enjoyed the deligy_stseort
through the medium of his work_

-------ARTsrrrrt T.—Yesterday An
ROYAL aEA-BATHING
London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill,
extraordinary
place at
theelein a report from a committee o f
general court of the governors of the above
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medical and other governors. Mr. Alderman Gibbs (trea-
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numbermedical of patients at the infirmary (who during the season
(trea-
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were about 480) rendered it necessary to recommend that
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lidt visitors would Tberber
three additional medical officers attend two days a week
each. Considerable discussion ensued, from which it ap-
peared that Mr. Field, the resident surgeon, felt fully com-
petent to his task, notwithstanding the increase of patients,
a or three
e additional was
or that, at all events, he ought not to be placed under super-
vision; andg t 1 the
appointment accordingly namendment carrsurigeedo,nrse,croemsi:
dents of the Isle of Thanet, to assist the resident surgeon of
the infirmary. After a vote of thanks to the chairman, the
court broke up.
RELIEF FOR IRELAND AND SCOTLAND.—Yesterday
the subscriptions received by the committee of the Britieh
Association for the Relief of the Distress in Ireland and Scot-
land amounted to upwards of 130,0001. Among the recent
contributions are—the Lord Chancellor, SOU ; Sir Fitzroy
Kelly, Bart., 100/. ; remittance front Manchester, 2,0001.;
Bradford, 1,0661. ; the Hon. East India Company, LOM The
committee have purchased and forwarded to Ireland and Scot-
land 300 tons of wheat meal, 400 barrels of Indian corn meal,
327 quarters of maize, 1,540 quartets of peas, 75 tons of bis-
cuits, and 8,175 bags of rice.
The Marquis of Northampton is arrived at his
mansion in Piccadilly, from Castle Ashby, Northampton-
shire. The Noble Marquis, as President of the Royal So
' ciety, gives the first conversazione to-morrow evening.
DEATH OF LADY EMILY FELHAM.-14 e have to
record the decease of Lady Emily Pelham, who died on the
10th inst., at her residence in Upper Brook-street, aged 88.
Her Ladyship was the daughter of the first Earl of Chi-
cheater, and aunt of the present holder of the title.