The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-02 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, his Royal
Highness the Duke of Saxe Meiningen, her Serene
Highness the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, and his
Serene Highness Prince Gustavus of Saxe Weimar,
attended by the Earl of Denbigh, left Osborne at
half•past twelve o'clock yesterday, for town.
The Queen and Prince Albert accompanied their
illustrious visitors to the pier, whence the Queen
Dowager and party embarked on the Fairy for Ports-
mouth, to honour the Admiral with a visit, and
afterwards to inspect the " Howe."
The Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Duke
of Saxe Meiningen, and the Duchess Ida and Prince
Gustavus of Saxe Weimar, arrived at her resilience,
Marlborough House, at a quarter-past seven o'clock
last evening. The august party left Gosport
at half-past four o'clock, by a special train on the
London and South-Western Railway, and proceeded
to the terminus at Nine Elms.

Sir Edmund Head had an interview with Lord
John Russell yesterday. Mr. Craven Berkeley had
also an interview with his Lordship, at his official
residence in Downing-street.
The Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson arrived in town
yesterday.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from
the Colonial Office for the Governors of the West
India Colonies. _ .

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial
Office from the Governors of Hong-Kong, the Mau-
ritius, Gibraltar, and Malta.

RAILWAY LIABILITIES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

- -
SlR,—There would appear to be a very palpable I
and positive delusion prevailing in the public mind,
just at the present moment, in reference to railway
liabilities in connexion with our monetary affairs.
Gentlemen at Newcastle complain of a restriction
of the means of legitimate trading ; and committees
are formed, or forming, at Liverpool, Manchester,
Leeds, and many other places, to wait upon directors
of railway companies, with a view to induce them to
suspend all calls for the present ; and a currency con-
gress is now sitting in London, to devise the means of
staying the plague, if possible.
Now, Sir, with all possible respect for the opinions
of these " practical " men, I would beg to suggest
that, as regards railway liabilities, the public are
much in the same situation as the clown in the fable,
who called upon Hercules to help him to get his
waggon out of the rut, and received for answer that
it would be as well to try, in the first instance, the
effect of his own shoulders to the wheel.
Do the shareholders in railway companies want to
limit, restrict, or suspend the calls, nothing is easier.
The law gives to the shareholder, in all companies
formed since 1845, the power to call extraordinary
meetings, and to control and regulate the acts of the
directors. If, then, the shareholders in any particu-
lar company are convinced of their folly—if they are
unable to pay the calls, or carry out the works—let
them meet and apply the remedy, but let them cease
to complain of a burden which their own supineness
only renders intolerable.—l am, Sir, your: obedient
servant, W. F. SPACKMAN.
Guildhall Chambers, Basinghall• street,

Oct. 1, 1847.

CHARLES BUTLER AND MR.
SERGEANT ADAMS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIE,—I fully expected from the notes in my case,
given to Mr. Wilde on Tuesday last by Mr. Sergeant
Adams, that I should have obtained some clue to the
parties who, he stated, attended at my sentence to
make other charges against me, but I am left, as
heretofore, to deal with a shadow, as they do not
contain the least information on the subject; I am
thus compelled to challenge Mr. Sergeant Adams to
produce a single person who attended for the purpose
he stated; failing to do this, how will he attempt to
justify his destroying sentence upon me of trans-
portation, for an admitted first conviction, the just
sentence for which, I am assured in my case, should
have been three or six months' imprisonment.
The detention of the notes for so long a time from
Mr. Wilde is unaccountable, and particularly as I am
prepared to prove that the Learned Sergeant was at
his chambers, in Sergeant's Inn, and in Connaught-
square, on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of last
week, and the reason far from conclusive.
If, however, the Learned Sergeant's memory is so
treacherous as to make such mistakes after an interval
of three days only, no one can be surprised at his
judicial mistakes on the hench.—l am, Sir, your
obedient servant,
CHARLES BUTLER.
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Saturday, Oct. 2, 1847.

INCENDIARY FlRES.—Yesterday (Thursday) morn-
ing, about four o'clock, a fire broke out in the stackyard
of Mr. Lister, of Coleby Heath. A wheat stack, three
straw stacks, and two or three fother stacks, were con-
sumed. An incendiary fire occurred at Ropsley, near
Grantham, on Wednesday night, on the premises of Mr.
John Swain; three corn stacks and a straw stack were
destroyed.—Lincoln Mercury.
SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 1. The Oriental Company's
steam-ship Indus, Captain Soy, arrived in the river early
this morning, and landed the remainder of the overland
mails, under charge of Lieutenant Brady, R.N., which
was forwarded to London by the express train at 9 A.M.
She left Alexandria on the 13th of September; Malta,
the 18th; and Gibraltar, the 24th. The Indus brings a
full cargo of silks, &c., also 100 passengers, among
whom are Lord Cochrane, from Cbina, and Mr. Brooke,
from Borneo. Shipping at Malta—Her Majesty's ships
Ceylon, Hibernia, Trafalgar, and Superb; steam-frigate
Gladiator; steam- sloops Bull Dog, Ardent, and Volcano.
French steam •ships, Panama and Cerbere. Shipping at
Gibraltar—Her Majesty's steam-sloop Virago.
INGENIOUS EOBBERY.—A gentleman residing in
the New-road was recently robbed of a frock-coat and a
shooting-coat by the following manoeuvre:—The above
articles, which he had ordered of his tailor, were duly
delivered at his house, and about ten minutes after-
wards a man, representing himself to come from the
tailor, called and stated he had been sent for the purpose
of seeing whether they fitted. He was shown up-stairs,
and the clothes were tried on in his presence. He found
fault with the fit, and with many apologies requested
leave to take them back to be altered. This was as-
sented to as a matter of course, and the fellow went off
with the bundle under his arm. It was afterwards as-
certained that no messenger had been sent from the
tailor, and in short that the man was a swindler, and
had been replenishing his own wardrobe at the expense
of the gentleman.
DR. CUMMING'S LECTURES AT EXETER-HALL.

These lectures, which have awakened so wide and in-
tense an interest, and which are now being published
have been sent for trout the highest place in England'
and are at this moment read, there is reason to believe
by the mot &Alicia rump ig the rmliuf