The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-25 00:00:00

EVENING .EDITION.

THE QUEEN.

SUN-OFFICE, THREE O'CLOCK.

The answer to inquiries at the Palace, up to n quar-
ter to three this afternoon, was that her Majesty and
the Princess Royal had passed a very favourable night,
and were doing exceedingly well.

The following Bulletin of her Majesty's 'health was
issued this day :
" Buckingham Palace, N0v.25, 1840.
" Half-past Nine o'C!ock, A.M.
" The Queen has passed a good night, and continues
to go on favourably.
" The Princess Royal is perfectly well.
(Signed) " JAMES CLARK, M.D.

CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D.
ROBERT FERGUSON, M.D.
RICHARD BLAGDEN."

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duchess of Kent arrived at the Palace in the
morning, and remained there until the evening, when
her Royal Highness returned to Ingestre House, Bel-
grave, square.

Her itoyal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda
arrived in town from her residence on Blackheath, and
immediately proceeded to the Palace, to learn the state
of her Majesty, and the infant Princess.
Lady Barham succeeded the Countess of Sandwich
yesterday morning as the Lady of the Bedchamber in
Waiting on her Majesty.
The Duchess of Gloucester called at the Palace in
the forenoon to make personal inquiry of the state of
the Queen and the infant Princess.

The Duke of Sussex paid a visit to his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert.

Viscount Melbourne, the Lord Steward, the Lord
Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, and the Vice-
Chamberlain attended at the Palace during the day.
Viscount 'Torrington and Major the Hon. George
Keppel succeeded yesterday Lord Byron and Sir Fre-
derick Stovin, as the Lord and Groom in Waiting, on
her Majesty.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
Colonel Wylde and Captain Seymour, rode out on
horseback yesterday.
The Duchess of Sutherland, Mistress of the Robes,
arrived at her residence, Stafford House, at five o'clock
yesterday afternoon, from Trentham.
The account of her Majesty and the Royal infant,
were uniformly favourable throughout the day.
The Palace was again thronged yesterday afternoon
by the Nobility and Gentry, to make their dutiful in-
quiries after the health of her Majesty and the infant
Princess. In several instances the parties had come to
town expressly for the purpose.
Amongst the Ladies who called yesterday, were the
Countess Bjornstjerna, Lady of the Swedish Minister ;
Madame Dedel, Lady of the Netherlands Minister ;
Madame Van de Weyer, Lady of the Belgian Minis-
ter ; Baroness de Cetto, Lady of the Bavarian Minister ;
Countess Bille Brahe, Lady of the Danish Charge
d'Affaires ; Madame Murphy, Lady of the Mexican
Charge d'Affaires ; Madame Marques Lisboa, Lady
of the Brazilian Charge d'Affaires. Duchess of Inver-
ness. Marchionesses, Wellesley. Exeter, Westmeath,
and Clanricarde. Countesses, Radnor, Dowager Chi-
chester, Fingall, and Belfast. Viscountesses, Dowager
Dillon, Palmerston, and Dillon. Ladies Lyndhurst,
Cottenham, Bloomfield, Elizabeth Hope Vere,
Polti-
more, Seymour, Mary Ross, Theresa Lister, Wheatley,
Ridley, Denman, Dowager Cooper, Dowager Hony-
wood, Mary Stanley, R. Grosvenor, T. Cowper,
Shaw Stewart, Dowager River, and Jane Bouverie.
Hon. Mrs. E. Goulburo. Mistresses Bloomfield.
Howley, Frances Walpole, Fitzroy, Kelly, Denman,
Pemberton, Maberley, Charles Law, and Greathed.
Misses Blomfield, M. Blomfield, Seymour, Lister,
Copley, W heatley, Honywood, Denman, Shaw Stewart,
Blackwell, and Pitt.
Among the gentlemen were the Turkish Ambassa-
dor, the Prussian, Belgian, Swedish, Grecian, Vene-
zuelan, and Spanish Ministers, the French, Danish, and
Mexican Charge d'Affaires, Count Revel, Sardinian
Charge d'Affaires ; Mr. Colquhoun, Agent and Con-
sul-General for the Hanse Towns; Sir Martin Archer
Slice, President of the Royal Academy ; Mr. Burge,
Q. C., Agent for Jamaica ; the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop of
London, Duke of Rutland. Marquises—of Normanby,
Headfort, and Exeter. Earls—of Powis, Fingall,
Elgin, and Thanet. Lords—Lyndhurst, Kinnaird,
Blomfield, Poltimore, Hill, Decies, and John
Russell. Baron Schleinitz, Mr. Baron Rolfe,
Sirs E. Lytton Bulwer, Thomas Phillips, Charles E.
Nugent. George Seymour, J. Hobhouse, George Chet-
ynd, John Cowan, R. Chester, Charles E. Grey, R.
Adair, John Stoddart, W. J. Newton, Hon. Hugh
Fortesque and Charles Ashburnham. Mr. Sergeant
A rabin, Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, Mr. Sergeant Spankie,
Messrs, Labouchere, Macaulay, E. G. Villiers, Lister,
George Chilton, Q.C., Alexander, Q.C., George Tur-
ner, Q C., Kindersley, Q.C., Spence, Q.C., Crowder,
Q C., Girdlestone, Q.C., Treslove, Q.C., D. Wake-
field, Q.C., Simpkinson, Q.C., Fitzroy Kelly, Q.C.,
M.P., Guthrie, Skirrow, Q.C.. George Hayter, W.
C. Ross, C. Howard, E. J. Stanley, and Sergeant
Goulburn. Generals Sir G. Murray and Mundy, Co-
lonels Cooper and Maberly, Major Mundy, Captain R.
Mundy, R.N., Doctors Henry Davies, Chambers, and
Thos. Elliotson.

The Princess Sophia Matilda paid visits yesterday to
the Duchess of Kent at Ingestrie House, and to the
Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House.
The Commander of the Forces had an interview with
Viscount Melbourne in Downing-street. Viscount
Ebrington had an interview with his Lordship on Monday.
Captain R. H. Dawson had an interview with Lord
John Russell yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Viscount Ebrington and Lord Fitzroy Somerset had
interviews with the Marquis of Normanhy yesterday at
the Home-office.

Dcspatehos from the Governors of New South Waits
and Van Diemen's Laud were received yesterday at the
Colonial-office.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Tweeddale,
and family, are passing the winter at Yester House, Hun-
tingdonshire.

The Hon. Charles and Lady Emmeline Stuart
Wortley hive returned to town, from a visit to the Earl and
Countess of Jcrsey. at Middleton Palk.

Mr. W. Fenoulhet, yesterday, had the honour of
submittin; his picture of the Palace of Gotha, painted by
express command, for the approval of his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, at Buckingham Palace.
THE ‘VEATHER IN THE NORTH.—The higher
hills in this neighbourhood ( Inverness) are now complcteiy
covered with snow—a mantle which they will in all pro's:a-
bility retain till May or June next year. The pools and
burns are also crisped with ice; but in the low grounds
there has been no snow, and the weather is chiefly wet and
foggy. Friday the 13th was execi.din,gly stormy, and at
sea it blew a perfect hurricane. The Duke of Richmond
(steamer) was forced to return to Cromarty harbour, where
several other vessels were also driven for shelter. The
thermometer now stands at 48 deg, inside the house. —ln-
verness Courier.

REMARKABLE PHENOMENON AT COMRIE.
—Yesterday evening, the I 7th instant, between seven and
eight o'clock, an interesting appearance was observed in
the sky, over this place. ' From a semicircular small black
cloud on the verge of the western horizon, at the point
N. W. by W. all the other clouds in view spun out into
long dark streaks, diverging like spokes from the nave of a
wheel, and, after extending in almost unbroken lines over
the whole sky, again converged in an exactly opposite point
of the horizon. At each focus between the spokes, the light
of the aurora borealis was very distinct, leaving no doubt as to
the cause of this unusual arrangement of the clouds, and con-
trasting beautifully with the dark dresses of the present fleecy
partners of these " merry dancers." The western focus
was at first very brilliant, and while it continued so the
other was more faint. By and bye this relative brightness
of the two ends was entirely reversed, and the eastern had
its "turn" of display for about half an hour, after which the
whole ,cone gradually broke up—the clouds, like soldiers
relieved from the cons.raint of parade, dispersing them-
selves into their usual amorphous groups over the sky.
This phenomenon establishes at least two points in mete-
orology. Ist. That the meridional lines of clouds often
observed in the daytime, extending across the heavens
from the north to the south, as well as other directions,
without, of course any visible display of the aurora,
are nevertheless the eff,ct of this electrical or magnetic
influence, and not, as some have supposed, of currents in
the air. 2d. That the height at which the aurora occa-
sionally
displays its fantastic gambols may coincide with,
or extend to, that of the clouds in the atmosphere, although
at other times its stage appears to be much more elevated.
The writer of this note, some years ago, had an opportu-
nity of calculating the altitude of the atiex of a splendid
autoral dome, consisting entirely of lights of many various
hues, that then appeared near the zenith. The calcula-
tion was made from simultaneous observations taken at
Stirling and Comrie, and gave the height at 113 miles
above the surface of the earth. —See•sine's.

THE LATE FATAL STEAM-CARRIAGE AC-
CIDENT IN SLOANE-STREET.--thi Tuesday evening an in-
quest was held before Mr. Higgs, at the St. George's
Hospital, on the body of Thomas Wadeson, eged
35, chief engineer to Sir George Caylov, Bart., who
came by his death in consequence of an accident met with
in Sloane-street on the 21st ult., whilst conducting a steam-
carriage destined for travelling on the common highways.
Certain particulars relative to the accident have already
appeared in this journal. It appeared that the accident
was occasioned by injuring and straining the springs of the
steering wheel. In the collision that took place, de-
ceased's right leg, a little above she calf, was jammed be-
tween the vehicle and the window frame, and cut by the
broken plate glass. He was instantly conveyed to the
above hospital. Mr. Thomas Tarrant, house surgeon,
said deceased was admitted shortly after the accident, with
a small wound in the right leg, which was still bleeding.
It was staunched, and deceased went on well till the 26th
ult., when he became feverish, and the limb grew swollen
and inflamed, and large abscesses formed in and around the
part injured, and from the excessive discharge and irrita-
tion caused by the said abscesses he expired on Monday
last. Verdict, " Accidental death," with a deodand Of
WI. on the steam-carriage.

TO JOHN BLACKET, ESQ.'
Y DEAR SIR,
AS Sir James Duke has made very free with
M
my name in an address to the Electors of the Ward of
Farringdon Without, dated the 23d inst , which I think it toy
duty to notice, I shall endeavour to do so. without giving t° bi°3
or his friends any ground of offence.
He states very truly that, in my offer to serve the Ward
was with certain conditions, from which I have never swer°,el
The retirement of home is so pleasing to my own feelings,
on° a
the same time conducive to health, that I think I shoulbe snA
licited before I could consent to forego such enjoyments, an"
then the deprivation would be repaid by the honour of servis;
my neitoghbours.
As a requisition, I leave others to tell how, such dee!,
ments are obtained ; they are neither consonant wiLh tnYtpc
nor in unison with the former practice of the Ward, nel
could I have consented to adopt them, although others, We'
cially those not inhabiting, may Lave deemed it right andige*
r
per to have done so; but I doubt not that could have po._
cured sufficient votes, both in number and respectability,
hal means by a largetestd majorparagemenisity, all before me.
not the slight to Sir James put
whom I believe to be a highly respectable man, when I
Irby
an opinion that so large a Wald will be seriously hum
resent
otherreturning anyof A
than one
enof its inhabitan's to rep
them in therese
ingle
for
I have had no Committee, nor have I canvassed a
'three
vote, nor been in communication with more than two erfr iends
friends on the subject, while Sir James Duke and
hisdoubt'had all the advantage of previous information, and bave
tr
lesl
taken much üble.
congratulate him and them on their succes9 and tabuVs;
pect of victory over an old inhabitant of the Ward, t and
not attempted to raise any barrier to prevent the ddoo__. :00,
who, in respectfully withdrawing from the situation of
oud /0
a candidate for the office, which he would have been pr
have filled, but which he is induced to fore
of the Ward may not be disturbed by an ontested election
to remind his opponents that had he, i the first instancefdii.
pressed a desire to be returned, they would have fond a
cult task to have preventedserlanta
I am, my dear Sir, your obliged friend and obediLLIADI
e°
West Smithfield, Nov. 24, 1840
JAMES go that the

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, THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GA•-irESII4--
,iNDER the MANAGEMENT of NIADAIVI-0 '
THIS EVENING, NOV- 2b•
Will be repeated Shaksperes ~
MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREA,u• 0 Ana, Mr.
Theseus, Mr. Cooper ; Quince, Mr. Bartley; B° Snug'
Harley ; Flute, Mr. Keeley Mrs. Snout, Mr. Meadows ;,..acialiis
Avlers.tiFis.
;Mriattthaneiivas, ;MHrse.rlinvi.aLacy Nisbett ; Oberon, .T. first
Fairy, Miss Rainforth.
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Madame.l
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On Thursday, the Midsummer Night's Dream, w
Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.;
Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 25. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. • Sec°l4 ,
7.5. ; Gallery, Is. First and Specrei:t

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. LER.,
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF Mr. BUT •
THIS EVENING, NOV. 25
FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR.
noldßALL.„'Thiedy of
Will be performed a Drama founded on Rey's I-1°
LAUGH WHEN YOU CAN.
bliss "
Gossamer, Mr. Balls ; Bonus, Mr. Brookes,- Saabo, _ c.
S. Roxby belville, Mr. St. John Horton; Emily,
Mordaunt ; Miss Gloomly, Mrs. Garrick.
After which a Burletta, from the French, called ,
THE VETERAN AND HIS PROGENY.
Phillip Gabois, Mr. P. F. Williams (from she St. Chat
Theatre, New Orleans.)
In the course of the Evening, " Lightly Tripping o'er tt
Mountain," and •" The Shepherd's Evening Bell," by 31i"
Wolfe, being her first appearance.
To which will be added,
RAFAEL THE LIBERTINE.
Rafael by Mr. Balls.
To conclude with
ENGLISH ETIQUETTE. is gt.
Mr. Handel Hibbs, Mr. Balls; Achille Townsend, P_i_tr'ick;
John Horton ; Miss Agatha Bloomington, Mrs. Oa'
Peggy, Mrs. H. Beverley.
Dress Boxes, 4s.—Olympian Boxes, 3s.—Pit, 2s --Gallerr;
Half-price—Dress Circle, 2s. ; Olympian Boxes, Is.
Pit, Is.
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THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LAN& bat
Mr. ELIASON begs leave most respe dully to announce o
t
the above Theatre is now OPENcEYERY d
FAVEI'II
with the Grand Musical Entertainments, entitle
THE CONCRTS D'HVE.
Leader, Mons. NADAUD— E
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Condu Mon Rs. 311/V .
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PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING, N03,",j..;
.....

Overture—Fidelio—BeetrhAovlt
Valses—Cacillien—Strauss. eTn.FIRST. . IC'
Overture—Goethe's Faust--Lindpainter. ,
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adnrillles—thl3coesntitlulorinesd.e Manl'ahlon—Musard. 2 . , .dtlif
Historical Melange of Old French Airs,
14th from the 1 th iu
SGorlaondCosrenleetetaioPnisftroonms—thSechi\oinesesillalhinka--Ilerr I(°"ig..,iit)iiilli
',•.s ig
Grand Overture FantastiFqAußeT—Des jubaeri.
New Quadrille—Rendezvous de Chasse-- DerMu Frieschutz—.
Fantasia Floto on The Hermit's Song from.:
13erlioz.

Valses—Les Fusms V
Gverture--Le Di olantes—Straus'.
Herr Frisch. .;,. . .
eu et la Baya er
Quadrill I '
e— .. Angleterre—Mioard•
Galop—Une bonne Fortune—A• Adarn• Is; ; Dreg
Prices of Admission'rthe Promenade, •
: to
Circle 9'•
6
; —.. d. ; Upper Boxes Is. 6d. ' o• to and
Visitor t ' • ' ~e of passint,
s • the Boxes haye the pris,ile.
from the Promenade. licationly
-I- -1-± Mr. Eliason in compliance with numerous app the ftv
begs lease to announce thatth e Lower Gallery will ter
tore Ie opcno d e.—Attber.
-- _d at the azimission of Is. to each erson.
en 0 _t
Doors --
Eigkt precisely. _.-..-04;
op,n at half-past Seven o'Clock, to comme i

PRINCESS'
This splendid Theatre is OPENTHtATREt
PROMENADE CONCERTS,
THIS EVENING, NOV. 25.—PR0GRA31.311,
Overt Under the Direction of Mr. WILLY. .e., rilil.,
ures—Dcr Freyschutz, Zarepa. i 1 estre''
Haensel's Fantasia, introducing Solos for the prinetpa
ments. firida
• EIEFRO,III V LINI
lENEGT.
Kith ,
Selection from the Mountain Sylph, introducing,' the
c Royal (his first appearance in raie
Scene. the Farewell to the Mountain, and the Fortune"
Chorus,
Solo on the OboeWaltz—Der Feen lb:It:N.1.
._olo on the Violin b Mr Will '
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Duet Cornet a Pistoyns, Messrs? i\l‘Farlane and l';eightl6l:lojl7
Quadrilles—La Princesse, La Fille du Regiment. i
Crinrrtery'
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To conclude with Beethoven's Grand Battle SyluP"°-'' nA:,
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Which an add.t* h ' i ion as been made to the already numerou
efficient orchestra. 1 r.
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Pro )o.f the A ead e
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Promenade Is.—Dress Circle, 25.—Upper 13exes, '5; at the ?.
Private Boxes, 11. Is. and 10s. 6d. each, may be ha"
Box-office, and of Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street.
ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
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Extraordinary Novelty—Increasing popularity of 1- , of the
Melodi t
,s s, and continued attraction of Wrecr.
Royal George "
THIS EVENING, NOY. 25,1
Will be acted,
THE RAVENS OF ORLEANS. ' -
•.,s fl'''
After which, 4-s. ? .ri
THE WRECK OF THE ROYAL GEORGr• ►ft1••••
OR, THE SEAMAN'S CHEST. enve•t,,,i
Preceded by a Gracd Pictorial and Scenic Induction, r Ire,
renting a Cruise round the Coast, and depicting the °ft' 1
amity, with the sinking of the Vessel, &c.• aninei .;
To be followed by JIM ALONG JOSEY and D, ec
Colsnan'e Visit to the Masquerade.
t'"‘„,4
To conclude wail the Caledonian Romance, ens
THE REIVER'S RANSO 31 ; OR, GILDER
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BONiVY BOY. ---------------- 1

ROYAL VICTORIA VIEATRE.
Great slle.'
Continued attraction of the Wizard of the Wave' ;s,_
:cess of the Female Watermen's 50ci,..4.T.
THIS EVENING, NOV. '25, -fp Ofr
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THE WIZARD OF THE WAVE • OR, THE SRA.
.7..
THE AVENGER. e.
After which, walk -..q
THE FEMALE WATERMEN'S SOCIETY; OR, .-- !:'•
RAN-DAN CLUB.
Characters by Messrs. Bender, Attwood, Miss Pettifer, Mrs' ,
WALLACE,To conclude with the Aleledrame of
Mrs. Hicks, and all the Ladies of the I3Pllet•
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Joe.
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France,v
THE HERO OF SCOTLAND.
In which Messrs. Dale, Blanchard, Coney, Mulford, iler 1.-
der. Courtney, Asbury, Miss E. Montague, and Mit§ Kemb e,
1
will appear.
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ROYAL
The Menagerie,
Under her Majesty's Immediate Patronage. Y
is highly popular and interesting resort is OPEN DAIL
SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
which r m i
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itilla l Da
ikn. rietY,
!till beauty of the specimens it contains, occupies several ifft_'_,
,sous and elegant buildings comfortably heated, and arrangc:
with the nearest possible assimilation to the natural habits .
the number, ra
...
the animals. The most important additionsrecently received
are the rare and beautiful black Leopard, le Mignon Eleehant,
a pair of the scarce Curassows, called Cushew Birds, the Sacred
leis, the Bush Cow (the only specimen in E e) a air of ~
urep ,
Cissow •
. aries, the Monster Boa (the largest ever seen in confine.
. i .
ment), &e. . ks• • ,
The splendid collection of Caraivora are fed .a.t Four 9!cll first'"
v,hich time the ferecious attributes arid amazing -rrinsewt
plwers of these forest monarabs are displayed to .the54m014:,8,7-:.--
aotage. Admission, Oise Shillings - - "1- --