The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-19 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR,

WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen and Prince
Albert walked this forenoon in the grounds .around
the Castle.

The Royal Family took their usual walking and
pony exercises.
His Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen, his Serene
Highness Prince Lowenstein, the Duchess of Suther-
land, and the Duke of Wellington, are expected to
arrive at the Castle this evening, on a visit to her
Majesty.
Viscount Morpeth left the Castle this morning. 9
The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
is expected to include her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glou-
cester, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
his Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen, the Duchess of
Sutherland, his Serene Highness Prince Lowenstein,
the Duke of Wellington, Lady Anna Maria Dawson,
Lady Caroline Murray, Baroness de Speth, Miss L.
Dawson Darner, Sir George Couper, and Major
Stephens.
The Band of the Grenadier Guards attend during
dinner. Her Majesty's private Band afterwards
attend in the Castle.

A Cabinet Council was held, at two o'clock yes-
terday afternoon, at the Foreign•office. The Mi-
nisters present were Lord John Russell, the Lord
Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George
Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chan-
cAlor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir
John llobhouse, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere,
Lord Campbell, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Viscount
Morpeth, and the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay.
The Council sat two hours and a half.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Tuesday, the
2d of November, at eleven o'clock, as the day on
which he will receive the Lord Mayor elect, in order
to signify her Majesty's approbation of his Lordship.
The Lord Chancellor will also on the same day (the
first of Michaelmas Term), receive the Judges,
Queen's Counsel, &c.
These receptions will take place at the Lord Chan-
cellor's residence in Park-lane. _ _

Viscount Morpeth returned to town yesterday from
Windsor Castle.

Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Co-
lonial-office for the Governor-General of Canada, and
also for the Governors of the other North American
provinces.

THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—The following hint how to take care of your-
self, should you chance to be rambling on the tops
of the Scottish hills without a guide, and be overtaken
with a fog, or be benighted in the cold and wet of
winter, may be useful to your readers :
The melancholy and affecting death of the two
English gentlemen, Mr. Whitebourn and Mr. Ste;
ricker, found lately on the hill of Kinlochleven, In-
verness-shire, has reminded me of an incident in my
own life, which I now write for the first time, in the
hope it may be useful to others.
About thirty years since, when I was a lad of
eighteen, full of the ardour and thirst of sight seeing,
I set out on a journey to Skye and the western parts
of Inverness-shire, and having an aged aunt in Morven,
I took advantage of a sailing-packet going in that
direction. After having spent the autumn with my
relative, I began to shape my course homewards ; and,
though it was in the month of November, I rashly re-
solved to return by the district of Moidart, in order to
see the landing -place of Prince Charles Edward. It was
on this route that I nearly perished. The first day's
journey, along the beautiful shore of Loch Suanart,
was pleasant and prosperous enough. But how short-
lived is our pleasure, and how uncertain is our pros-
perity. It was, as I stated, the month of November,
and, being three o'clock in the afternoon as I began
to ascend the Hill of Aorun, I had but one hour of
daylight, and that hour was spent in getting into the
centre of the mountain top. All at once I was enve-
loped in clouds and darkness, alone and forlorn on a
hill of storms. I now for the first thee began to see
my danger. Strangers, when looking at a mountain
from the valley below, are generally apt to imagine
that the top or surface of the mountain is a clean
flat, or equal ground, whereas the greater part of all
I have yet seen are studded with bumps, like stacks
in a barnyard, rocks, cliffs, and crags, ravines, and
precipices ; many, too, with small lakes, large enough
to drown a horse and his rider. Such was the Hill
of Aorun. In such a place to proceed was dangerous
in the dark, and to remain still was equally so in a
winter night of sleet and rain. Death stared me on
either side. I ate a bit of bread and cheese, after
asking a blessing on it. I then pulled heath, on
which, after prayers, I lay down to rest ; but
soon found,
.by cold and shivering, that this
would not do ; so I got up, and wrought the whole
night at pulling heath, and by daylight I had a
waggon load of it. I thus kept my blood warm and
in circulation ; whereas I might otherwise, like poor
Mr. Stericker and Whitebourn, have slept the sleep
of death. Both my hands were, with the labour
swollen to nearly the size of my head; and, if any
shepherd lives now who saw the heath, and could nut
account for it, he may account for it now. The finest
music I ever heard was the shrill and clarion voice of
a domestic cock, which I then heard before dawn ;
for it assured me that I was not far from a human
dwelling, though I dared not, from the precipices that
surrounded me, venture to proceed. One would
imagine that after this I should not readily be en-
trapped again in a mountain mist; yet was I very
nearly again taken, and a guide with me. It was
about fifteen years since, in the same month of No •
vember, when I was going professionally on a visit
through Knoidart ; but a blink of sun having darted
through the mist saved us ; and well it did, for my
guide became so paralysed and frightened that he be-
came useless. Had the worst happened, I would
have again wrought at the heath, as I would have
every one to do who should ever be so unfortunate.
I am, Sir, your very obedient servant,
ALEXANDER MACLENNAN,
Incumbent of Rosse Church, Fort William,
Inverness-shire.

THE LATE ASSAULT AND ROBBERY AT WEST-
MINSTER.—It will be in the recollection of our readers
that in the daily journals of Wednesday last, under the
head of " Westminster Police Court," was inserted a
report of the examination of George M'Coy and Thomas
Doyle, on a charge of having, with two or three others
not in custody, made a most murderous attack on an old
gentleman, named Bellchambers, residing at No. 44,
Wilton-street, Pimlico, while returning home, on the
night of Monday, the 11th instant, through Orchard-
street, Westminster, when, after most brutally beating
and injuring him, they robbed him of his watch and
oilier property. At the examination it was stated that
Mr. Bellchambers was lying at his residence in a state of
great danger, and quite unable to attend at the Court,
and the two prisoners were accordingly remanded for a
fortnight. We regret now to state that Mr. Bellchambers
has since died from the effects of the dreadful injuries he
received, the melancholy event taking place at nine
o'clock on Sunday night.
STRAW BONNET MAKING, WANT, AND DEATH.—
Last evening a long inquiry took place before Mr. Car-
ter, at the Feathers Tavern, Walwortb, as to the death
of Ann Gallagher, aged 65. The unfortunate deceased,
it was too evident from what was witnessed in her room,
was in an extreme state of destitution. There was but
a single chair, and a mass of mere rags for a bed. Mrs.
Young, of 10, Burton-street, stated that the deceased
lived in her house, where she had a single room. She
was a straw bonnet maker. Coroner—And what could
she earn at that ? Witness—Sixpence a day in full
work, but she could not work lately. Coroner—Was
that all she had to live on ? Witness—l believe she had
2s. 6d. a week from the parish. The witness went on
to state that she often gave her tea and other things, but
she would never let her go into the room. On Saturday
she sent for some laudanum, and took a portion of it.
She said it would assuage her pain. On Wednesday
she was found dead in bed. Coroner—Do you think
she took the laudanum for the purpose of destroying
life ? Witness said she thought she had been in such
a state of want, and as she herself said her stomach was
destroyed from want of food, that the laudanum bad
had a great effect upon her. On the Wednesday when
she saw her she thought deceased was stupified from
the effects of the laudanum. The foreman and one or
two of the jury said they had no doubt the laudanum
had accelerated her death from extreme weakness,
arising from want; but ultimately a verdict of " Natural
Death" was returned, the coroner observing that if lau-
danum had accelerated death it was not taken inten-
tionally.
DEATH OF DR. DEALTRY.—The Church has just
sustained a severe loss by the death of the late Venerable
William Dealtry, Archdeacon of Surrey and rector of
Clapham. This excellent man died at Brighton on Fri-
day last, being, we apprehend, in about the 72d year of
his age. He took his B.A. degree in the year 1796,
being the seeond wrangler and Smith's prizcman of that
year, which was one not barren of eminent men, Dr.
Wordsworth, the late master of Trinity College, being
the tenth wrangler, and Dr. Butler, of Shrewsbury
(afterwards Bishop of Lichfield), the fourth senior
optime. Mr. Dealtry naturally became Fellow of Tri-
nity College immediately after, and was soon appointed
to a professorship at the East India College, Hailey. bury.
On the death of the Rev. John Vcnn, then rector of
Clapham, he was called to that important post, which he
continued to occupy for about thirty years, and in which
he ever manifested an union of fervent piety, high re-
finement, and practical
v good sense, such as is rarely
witnessed. He was appointed Chancellor and Preben-
dary of Winchester about twelve or fifteen years back;
and, on the elevation of Dr. Wilberforce to the deanery
of Westminster, he succeeded him as Archdeacon of
Surrey. Few men have had the happiness to pass
through life amidst such general esteem and affection as
have gathered round Dr. Dealtry for very many years
past.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL.—The fact is correct which
we announced last Saturday, namely, that Lord John
Russell proposed to be in Glasgow on Wednesday the
27th current, to be inducted into the chair of Lord
Rector of the University ; but all the classes do not
meet on that day, nor for some days afterwards ; and it
is probable, therefore, that the induction of the Noble
Lord will be postponed till the week after.—Scotch
Bel:awes Gazette.