The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-12 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, THURSDAY.

The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the
grounds at their accustomed early hour, and the
Royal children took pony and walking exercise to-
day.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness will, it is
expected, leave Osborne to-morrow (Friday) morning
for town.

His Excellency Abbot Lawrence, Envoy Extra-
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United
States (with his Lady and family), has arrived in
London, and entered upon his official duties.
Viscount de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister,
had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday,
at his official residence in Downing-street.
Lord Dudley Stuart had an interview with Sir
George Grey on Wednesday at the Home. office.
Mr. Wyon had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday.
Sir 11. De la Beche, Sir James Clark, and Mr.
Rowland Hill, had interviews on Wednesday with
Sir George Grey.
Mr. More O'Ferrall had an interview yesterday
with Lord John Russell. Mr. De Salts had also an
interview yesterday with his Lordship.
The Marquis of Clanricarde (Postmaster-General)
arrived in town yesterday morning from Ireland.
The Marquis of Lansdowne has left town for his
seat, Bowood-park, Wilts.

Sir George Raster has been lying ill for the last
week with a severe attack of the prevailing epidemic,
at Neuilly, near Paris.

THE CHINESE JUNK.—This extraordinary speci-
men of Oriental ingenuity is, we hear, to be presented to
the citizens or Lund.. 1...1;e3, then
it at present occupies. Nothing, perhaps, can speak
more for the interest with which it has been regarded
than the fact that it has been visited by nearly a quarter
of a million of individuals at Blackwall. Application
has been made to the navigation committee for permis-
sion to moor the junk at Temple-bar Pier, which is
situate, we may say, almost in the centre of the metro-
polis ; and if this be granted it will be a great conveni-
ence to the many thousands of our sight-seeing popula.
tion who have a shilling to spend, and will create a little
life in a neighbourhood sufficiently dull in these times.
It remains, however, to be seen whether the committee
and the water-bailiff will encourage the enterprise,
which has, at a vast expense, brought over the first ves-
sel of the kind that has ever reached this country from
China.

OPENING OF HULLAH'S :NEW MUSIC HALL.—St.
Martin's Hall, the great building in Long-acre, erected
under the auspices of Mr. Hullah, and intended for the
accommodation of his singing schools, and for musical
performances on the largest scale, is now in such a
state of forwardness as to be partially available for its
contemplated objects. The class-rooms of the different
schools and the general lecture-room are completed;
snil in the course of a few months the great ball, the
most spacious and noblest music-hall in England—pro-
bably in Europe—will be opened to the public. On
Wednesday evening Mr. Hullah opened the lecture-ball
by a performance of the pupils of his upper singing
school, attended by a considerable number of persons
inler,sted in the progress of music, among whom were
several eminent composers and professers. This hall is
very handsome room, capable, apparently, of contain-
in.4 seven or eight hundred persons, and of excellent
acoustical construction, the sound of the voices being
full and resonant, without echo or confusion. On this
occasion about four hundred pupils of the upper school
fo.:med the chorus, the solo parts being filled by Mrs.
Noble (late Miss Duval), Mr. Benson, Mr. William
St gain, :and a young lady, one of the pupils, whose
vocal attainments are very considerable.
IRONMASTERS' QUARTERLY MEETING. BIR-
31ENGHAm, OcronEa 11.—The third of the quarterly
mrt)etings of the ironmasters of South Staffordshire and
Shropshire was held here to-day. The result was to
confirm the arrangement of prices, as already an-
nounced; but to-day orders were not quite so freely
given as had been anticipated, the manufacturers being
especially cautious in this respect. This gave an appear-
ance of flatness to the trade, which will in all probability
be but temporary; certainly the heads of the principal
works speak with confidence on the subject of the main-
tenance of existing prices until the end of the year.
The forges in blast are for the most part in pretty full
work, which seems indicative of the fact that orders are
by no means scanty. The present prices—taking the
best qualities—Kill be, fur sheets, 71. 104.; hoops, 6L 109.;
bars, 61.; and pigs, 3L; of which last, especially, stocks
are smaller than usual. The final meeting of the trade
takes place at Dudley on Saturday night; but, judging
by present appearances, there is no probability what-
ever of any change in the determination to stand by
existing prices. _ . _

LIVES LOST.—An accident, involving the
instantaneous destruction of the lives of three individuals,
and the probable death of a fourth, occurred on Saturday
afternoon last, on a portion of the unfinished line of the
Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, and West Yorkshire Rail-
way, near Whalley. At about the distance of a mile
from the above town the line crosses the river. Calder, by
means of a viaduct, which, at the time of the accident,
was fast progressing towards completion. The abut-
ments of the new bridge are of stone, and the arches,
some of which were finished, are beicg constructed of
brick. At three o'clock on the afternoon of Saturday
laet, while the workmen were busily engaged on one of
the unfinished arches, the two nearest the river, on the
Billington side, suddenly gave way, and fell with an
awful crash, burying in their ruins four unfortunate
workmen, employed as labourers to the bricklayers, who
were wheeling bricks over the arches at the moment.
All the hands employed near the scene of the disaster
were immediately at work, to clear away the superin-
cumbent debris, in the anxious hope of rescuing some of
the poor fellows, who were dug out in the following
order:—At a q►tarter-past three, John Lund, last of
Clitheroe, age unknown, leg fractured, and otherwise
dreadfully injured—not expected to recover ; at half-
past three, Thomas Keefe, late of Preston, aged 40—
dead; at a quarter-past four, John Forsyth, late of same
place, age unknown—dead ; at a:x o'clock, Charles
Harrison—dead. It is expected that a searching inves-
tigation will be made into the causes which led to the
accident. At present it cannot be accounted for, as the
"centres" had been withdrawn from the arches more
than a fortnight ago.
A MONSTER WEDDING.—There was recently, in
a country town near Prague, a monster wedding. No
lass than !fifteen Jewish couples were married in ono day;
and the solemn ceremony was assisted by their children
and grandchildren! The following is th 3 solution of
the enigma. Hitherto the number of Jewish families
permitted to live in Bohemia was limited by a cruel law
to 1,000. Hence, a large number of clandestine mar-
riages had taken place among the Jews. Since, how-
ever, the emancipation of the Jews became the law of
the land, and these oppressive restrictions as to marriage
wore removed, many of the couples who had been clan.
destinely married were anxious to have their marriage
contracts legally acknowledged and their children legi-
timatised. This explains the marriage of fifteen old
couples in ono day.—Jewish Chronicle.