The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-26 00:00:00

THE QUEEN DOWAGER.

His Serene Highness the Duke of Saxe Meiningen,
attended by Sir Andrew Barnard, Clerk Marshal to her
Majesty the Queen Dowager, arrived at Marlborough
House, Pall-Mall, at half-past six o'clock yesterday even-
ing, from a visit to his August Relation at Sudbury Hall.
The bulletin of her Majesty's health exhibited to
the Nobility and Gentry yesterday at Marlborough House
was as follows:

" The Queen Dowager has passed another good night,
and her Majesty feels herself better and stronger this
morning. " DAVID DAVIES, M.D.

" Sudbury Hall, Nov. 24, 1841."

NATIONAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION...--
The annual general meeting of the above charitable in-
stitution was held yesterday forenoon at the Freemasons'
Tavern, Henry Pownall, Esq., presiding. The meeting,
which was well attended by respectable and benevolent
persons of either sex, was held to hear the annual Re-
port of the. Committee of Management, and to elect from
a list of 114 candidates 15 pensioners. By the report it
appeared that 220 persons, whose average age was 70, had
been relieved by the Society since last Christmas. Had it
not been for the liberality of the institution the closing
career of those individuals would have been embittered
by privation. The only regret the Committee had was
that their funds precluded them from extending further
their means of relief, and they therefore solicited the
benevolent to aid them in widening the bounds of cha-
rity. Still, and it was a proof that the public thought
well of the institution, its funds had increased, which
enabled the Committee to elect a greater number of pen-
sioners at that meeting than at any former one.—(Ap-
plause.) Besides the 15 successful candidates four other
would be chosen, viz., two who polled the highest after
the 15, and two whose names had been longest on the So-
ciety's books. There was in the hands of the treasurer
a balance after all the disbursements had been paid out
of the annual income, .which was 8,000/. The Report
having been adopted, and 19 pensioners chosen, the
meeting separated.
REMOVAL OF BODIES PROM THE VAULTS
OF CHRISTCHURCH, BLACKFRIARS, TO THE CEMETERY
AT NORWOOD.—Yesterday a great number of persons
assembled in the Blackfriars-road to witness the re-
moval of several coffins from the vaults under the church
of the parish of Christchurch, Blackfriars, to the ceme-
tery at Norwood. A report, although erroneous, was
generally spread that the church-yard was to be closed
up, but the fact was that a faculty had been obtained by
the relatives of the family, named Gilbert, who for many
years resided in the Blackfriars-road, to remove the re-
mains of those deceased from the above vaults to the
cemetery at Norwood. Some of the coffins had been
under the church for more than forty years, and were in
such a state that it was found necessary to cover them
with cloth. After they had been brought up they were
placed in six hearses, which moved off at a funeral pace,
followed in a mourning coach by some of the friends and
a number of persons who had witnessed the removal.
The bodies were ultimately re-interred in one vault in
the cemetery.
A MAN THROWN FROM A WINDOW.---
Yesterday morning, at half-past three o'clock, a man,
respectably dressed, was thrown from the second-floor
window of a house of ill-fame in Leg-alley, Long-acre.
The police-constable on duty, hearing dreadful groans,
proceeded to the spot, where he found the man lying
insensible. He was removed to Charing-cross Hospital,
where it was found that his left leg had received a severe
compound fracture, besides other injuries.
WATERMEN'S STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.--•
On Wednesday the first annual meeting of the Share-
holders of the Watermen's Steam-packet Company was
held at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill, to receive
the Report of the Directors, to declare a dividend, and to
decide upon increasing the resources of the Company by
the building of additional boats. Mr. Robert Charles
was voted to the chair. -The Directors recommended
that a dividend of eleven- 'per cent. be forthwith paid,
1,5001. be kept as a reserved fund, and that a donation of
fifty guineas be presented to the almshouses for aged and
decayed watermen and lightermen at Penge. It having
been industriously circulated that watermen did not be-
long to the Company, the Directors, in contradiction of
this assertion, stated that 250 watermen had taken shares,
and that the Trustees were members of the Court of the
Watertnen's Company. It was unanimously resolved
that the Report be received, adopted, and entered on the
minutes. It was then agreed upon that a dividend of
eleven For cent. be paid. A vote of thanks was carried
to the Managing Director for his able services, and also
to the auditors and chairman, and the meeting separated.
THE COURT OP CHANCERY. Yesterday
being the last day of Michaelmas Term, the new orders
in Chancery came into operation, with the exception
of the first five, which by a recent order are sus-
pended until next Easter Term. Those that are
pended relate to the entry of the names of every so-
licitor In a book to be kept at the Six Clerks'-office,
with their residences, where papers in every suit could
be left, in order to dispense with the present plan
of serving the necessary papers upon the Clerk in Court
of the respective parties. It is expected that some new
order will be made in the interim. The operative
rules create some important changes with respect to
pleadings and the mode of enforcing the orders of
the Court. Among many salutary regulations is one,
where no direct relief is sought against any party but who
is necessarily made a party for the sake of conformity ; in
such cases, instead of a bill and answer, a copy of the bill
is to be served on the parties. In cases where it was ne-
cessary to obtain attachments for not obeying a decree
or order, which practice was attended with much ex-
pense, it is provided by the new rules that every decree
or order shall stipulate the time in which the act re-
quired to be dome is to be performed, and on proof of
service of the order and non-performance, the body of
the individual is to be attached. Considerable benefit is
expected from the orders and the commission recently
issued. The routine of the Mastcr's Office, and the
necessity imposed on every party in a suit to take office
copies of the different proceedings, will, it is understood,
form a portion of the inquiries under the Commission.
COURSING.—E. J. Esdaile, Esq., obligingly
gave his neighbours one day's coursing on Monday last,
in Cothelstone Park. Five brace of greyhounds were
on the ground, and upwards of forty fine courses took
plaoe, during which sixty hares were killed.—Tausgon
Courier.