The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-10 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council
.at half-past two
o'clock this afternoon at Windsor Castle.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived
in town yesterday from his residence at Kew, and paid a
visit to the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House.
His, Royal Highness, attended by Col. Jones, returned
to Kew in the evening.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
the Foreign Office. The following ➢linisters were pre-
sent :—Sir Robert Peel, the Lord Chancellor, Lord
Wharncliffe, the Earl of Aberdeen, Sir James Graham,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Ripon,
Lord Fitzgerald, Sir Henry Ilardinge, Sir Edward
Knatchbull,and the Earl of Haddington. . _

The Ministers assembled soon after four o'clock, and
broke up shortly before six o'clock.
M. Dedel. the Netherlands Minister ; Baron de Mon-
corvo, the Portuguese Minister ; and Baron Gensdorff,
the Saxon Minister, transacted business yesterday at the
Foreign-office.
Mr. Hawes, M.P., with Mr. Apsley Pellatt, and Mr.
Chrysty, and a deputation of Glass Manufacturers, had
an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yes-
terday, at his official residence in Downing-street.

Sir Hobert Peel arrived in town yesterilay from his
residence, Drayton Manor, Staffordshire.
The Earl of Aberdeen had a dinner party last evening
at his residence in Argyll-street.
The Earl of Delawarr arrived in town yesterday from
his residence, Buckhurst Park, Sussex.

POST OFFICE.

MONTHLY STATEMENT OF LETTERS DELIVERED IN

THE UNITED KINGDOM :
Week ending Nov. 21, 1841 . . 3,846,122
Week ending Nov. 22, 1840 . . 3,456,115
Week ending Nov. 24, 1839 . . 1,585,973
Increase since 1840, on the week's
letters . . . . . . 390,007
Increase since 1839, on the week's
letters . . • • • 2,260,149

Major-General Lord Saltoun left town with his
Aide-de-Camp, Captain A. Cunynghame, 60th Rifles; ,for Ply-
mouth, on Wednesday night, by the Great Western Railroad.
The Gallant Lord is accompanied by his brother, the Hon.
William Fraser, General Brown, and his oldest military
com-
panion and subaltern at Waterloo, Colonel Charles Ellis, who
will take leave of his Lordship at Plymouth, where the Belle..
isle is under orders to convey the Noble General and the 98th
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first class remaining as
before, Bs. 6d. It has been done with the intention of com-
peting with the steam-boats, and it appears has been successful,
for those trains which used to carry little or nothing before are
now very fairly loaded. The distance is 52 miles. We are
glad to hear that this line is likely to make a dividend at the
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whichpe rannum at the next half-yearly meeting.
of the shareholders met to wasbreak
once at so low an ebb that some
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he has been recently promoted. _Plymouth Journal.
EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE. Yesterday
morning a boy, about twelve years of age, was amusing himself
leaning over the parapet wall of London-bridge, when be over-
balanced himself and fell into the river, from the height of
fifty feet. At the moment a steamer was passing under the
arch, and the poor boy fell within a foot of it. A drover, who
observed the accident, ran down the steps of the bridge, and
ibeing an excellent swimmer, he threw off his coat, and rushed
nto th e river, and succeeded in bringing the lad safe on shore.
STOPPAGE OF THE BERWICK BANK.—TO
the already long list of failures of country banks, we
regret to add that of the house of Messrs. Batson, Berry,
and Co., of Berwick-upon-Tweed, which was announced
in The Sun of Wednesday. It was known in the City on
Monday, that a screw was loose in the concern, as their
town agents, Glynn, Halifax and Co. declined to pay their
notes and bills until " further orders." The full extent
of the difficulty has been ascertained ; and its results
will, we understand, be most calamitous to the popula-
tion of the district within which their notes circulated,
as well as to the numerous small farmers who had
placed cash in their hands. Of these the cattle-jobbers
and graziers of the border form a considerable portion.
We understand the liabilities of the firm are large, and
that fears are entertained that but a small dividend will
be realised.