The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-09 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.-Prince. All;4lenjoyed the
sport of shooting, this morning, in the neighbourhood of
Sandpit-gate, attended by Sir Edward-Bowater and Mr.
George Edward Anson.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert left the Castle to-day
for an airing in a pony phaeton, his Royal Highness
driving, attended by the Countess of Gainsborough, the
Earl of Warwick, Lady Catoline Cocks, Hon. Sarah
Mary Cavendish, and General the Hon. Sir W. Lumley,
Colonel Arbuthnot, and Sir &Bowater, on horseback.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by
Lady Fanny Howard, walked on the terrace of the
Castle.

Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. G. E. Anson will have the
honour of joining the Royal Circle at the Castle at din-
ner this evening.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester had
a dinner party on Tuesday evening, at her residence,
Gloucester House. The company included their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince
George and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge ; their
Serene Highnesses the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, the
Duke of Saxe Meiningen, Prince Ernest of Hesse Phi-
lippsthal, and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar. Lady
Augusta,Somerset was in waiting on the Duchess of
Cambridge, and the Baron de Spesshardt (Chamberlain
to the Duke of Saxe Meiningen), was in waiting on his
Serene Highness.
Her Serene Highness the Duchess Ida of Saxe Wei-
mar left Marlborough House at a quarter past four
o'clock yesterday morning, to embark at the Custom-
house for the Continent. _ _

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended
by Colonel Jones, left town yesterday morning, for his
residence at Kew. _ _

His Serene Highness the Duke of Saxe Meiningen,
attended by his Chamberlain the Baron de Spesshardt,
took his departure from Marlborough House shortly be-
fore twelve o'clock yesterday, for the Continent.
Mr. George Nicholls had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official resi-
dence in Downing-street.
Despatches from the Governor of the Mauritius were
received yesterday, at the Colonial-office.

►SUICIDE BY A FEMALE.—On Tuesday morn•
ing a female named Imms, living in Gloucester-street,
New-cut, Lambeth, committed suicide by strangling her-
self with a piece of tape, which, having twisted round her
neck, she made fast to a nail of not sufficiont height from
the floor to suspend herself, and then, by bending herself
backwards, drew the ligature so tightly round her throat,
that she effected her purpose. The cause of her commit-
ting the dreadful act is attributed to a quarrel she had
had the previous evening with a man she cohabited with.
An inquest will be held on the body this day.

The Strasturgh papers state that a serious
mutiny occurred a few days sinee at Mannheim in the
HMO of Detention. The prisoners barricaded them-
selves, in a court, and several of them were severely
wounded before they submitted to the soldiers and the
police agents sent to restore order.

ATIEMP-TED SUICIDE BY A GlRL.—Be-
tween five and six o'clock on Tuesday evening, Mary
Broomhead, between thirteen and fourteen years of age,
the daughter of respectable parents living at No. 8,
Brewer's-green; Westminster, was brought into West-
minster Hospital, suffering under the effects of having
swallowed a portion of sugar of lead. She stated that
she had taken it with the intention of committing sui-
cide, as she was tired of living at home, and wished to
go out in the world, which her parents objected to. The
usual antidotes were applied, and she is expected to recover.
STATE OF TRADE,--11l Haslingden, Burnley,
Colne, and the neighbourhood, the woollen and printing
trades are very bad ; prices not only being low, but em-
PloYment scarce. The masters, in some instances, are
even going the length of making considerable reductions
in the wages of their managers. Thin calicoes, 28 yards
long, for printin, for the Persian trade, principally, are
now woven at bid. per cut, by the hand-loom
weavers,
who size their own warps also ; and numbers, although
eager to do so, are unable to get work at this rate, which
is greatly embarrassing the power-loom trade, as that
branch cannot, with any profit, manufacture them at the
same price, because the manufacturers who employed hand-
loom weavers have little capital at stake, and are at no ex-
pense either for steam power or machinery. Last week
but one, a ;manufacturer at Preston paid the wages of
200 weaver34ith 91. A gentleman from this neighbour-
hood was passing through Edenfield on Saturday last,
and saw a female prostrate on the earth. She was re-
moved into a house, and, on recovering, Was found to be
a respectable female thrown out of employment by the
stoppage of a mill, and at length had turned out to beg,
being almost hungered to death. The, day was wet and
windy ; and, being almost exhausted to commence with,
she had fallen down, being at length overpowered by
buffeting against the storm.

REPORTED LIVING ENTOMBMENT. -- A
TOUCH OF THE HORRIBLE AND RIDICULOUS.—The
town of Manchester was " thrown into a state of great
excitement" (to use an ordinary newspaper phrase), on
Thursday evening, by a report that a man had been dis-
covered to have been wandering about in the main
sewers under the streets of the town for upwards of two
days, unable to extricate himself, but that his moans and
cries of distress having at length been heard in the
streets, the authorities of the town were taking active
measures to disentomb and set him at liberty, provided
he should survive long enough. We have since heard
the following account :—lt is stated that a man was em-
ployed to empty some filth from an uninhabited house
in Dickinson-street, and was putting it down the eye of
the sewer in the street, when he was startled with a
half-smothered cry, apparently from below, of a man
who said, " For God's sake don't put any more of that
stuff down here, or you'll smother me !" When the
man's alarm had sufficiently subsided, he inquired
who the mysterious petition came from, and was an-
swered " Bill Gregson," and that he had been em-
ployed repairing a sewer in Deansgate two days before,
but having undertaken to explore the sewer to see if it
was not stopped up in another place, he had lost himself,
and been wandering about ever since. A policeman
coming up was told the same tale, and he made it his
duty to report the case at the office. The result was, that
Mr. Shorland, surveyor, was communicated with, and
feelings of humanity overcoming more prudential inqui-
ries, nearly a dozen men were set to open the sewer in
Dickinson-street. The story
.was the more readily be-
lieved by the police from the singular fact that a man of
the name of Gregson was missing, against whom a sum-
mons had been issued. On opening the sewer we believe
the men at once expressed a conviction that the whole
thing was a hoax. The sewer, it appears, does not exceed
three feet in depth, and is one of the line of sewers through
which the river Tib flows, and when opened was so deep
in water that it was impossible any living being could
have existed in it past a few hours. These facts having
been related at the Police-office, inquiries of a different
kind were set on foot. It appears that in the house
which the man was carrying the filth from there were
two painters employed, named Joseph and John Tilbury,
one of whom, being a ventriloquist, had exerted this
singular power out of a pure "lark," to frighten their
companion. The affair, however, is likely to be no
"lark" for them. It has cost the town about 121., and
the two brothers, we understand have been in the hands
of the police, and called upon to give bail for their ap-
pearance to answer any charge that may be preferred
against them, if it shall be found their offence comes
within the cognisance of the law.—Manchester Times.
We stated, a few days ago, that Sir Robert
Peel's agents were on the Continent, collecting statistical
information relative to the prices of food and rates of
wages ; but, from some information we have since re-
ceived, we are disposed to fear that those gentlemen are
not applying to the best sources if they really wish to
be accurately informed. Our vice-consuls up the Baltic
are, no doubt, very respectable men, but they are most
of them, if not all, engaged in the corn trade, and, in
many-
instances, connected with the very men who live
and thrive by working the averages. However honour-
ably men may be disposed, they are often themselves un-
conscious of the extent to which their facts and opinions
are biassed by their wishes and interests, and it would
be a wonder, indeed, if the consular body on the Baltic
were exempt from the infirmities which attach to human
nature. The hint thus throWn out may be useful, if at-
tended to in time. Sir Robert Peel's wish must be to,
receive his statistical information in as complete a form
as possible, and as nearly as possible approaching to
accuracy.
SACRED HARMONIC SociEiv.---The annual
performances of the Messiah at Exeter Hall are an-
nounced for the 10th and 17th instant, a fortnight before
the usual time..