The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-07 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

ARDVERIKIE, SEPT. 3. In the forenoon her Ma-
jesty, on her pony, accompanied the Prince a portion
of the way to the shooting ground, returning to
Ardverikie, attended by her Lady in Waiting.
In the afternoon her Alajesty and the Prince,
accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess
Royal, went out on the Lake.
The Marquis of Abercorn and Viscount Jocelyn
join the royal dinner party.
Viscount Palmerston is expected this afternoon
from town.

OSBORNE, SEPT. 4.—Their Royal Highnesses the
Prince Alfred, and the Princesses Alice and Helena,
took their usual morning rides in the grounds at Os-
borne this morning.
Her ►Majesty the Queen Dowager paid a visit to
the Royal Children this afternoon, and after remain-
ing about an hour, returned to Ryde.
Her Majesty was attended by Lady and Miss Gore,
and by the Hon. Miss Mitchell, and was received at
the entrance hall by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton,
and the Master of the Household.

His Royal Highness Prince George has arrived at
his residence in St. James's•place, from Ireland.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of the West Indian Colonies.
Dispatches were also received yesterday from the
Governors of the Mauritius, Malta, and Gibraltar.
Sir Edward Buxton, Mr. M. 0. Ferrall, and Mr.
Hodges, had interviews yesterday, at the Home-office,
with Sir George Grey.

SOMEWHAT MYSTERIOUS. Several letters ad-
dressed to her Majesty from Osborne House, have been
opened on their transit to Scotland, and a strict investi•
gation is being made to detect the inquisitorial person•
age who has been prying into the Royal secrets. He is
suspected to be a second boy Jones in a different way.
HER MAJESTY.--A SCENE.—The Inverness Cou-
rier of Thursd ty last, in the details of the festivities at
Ardverekie Lodge, before the Queen, in honour of her
illustrious husbani's birth day, gives the following :
" A foot race closed the succession of games, her Ma-
jesty and the ladies in waiting standing at the winning-
post. Prince Albert and Prince Leiningen station( el
themselves on an eminence, about half-way up the
craggy rocks. Nine men stripped to shirt and kilt, some
with boots, others with brogues, and one or two bare-
footed, b minded off in an excell-nt style. The first
quarter was made at a tremendous pace, but few of the
competitors had bottom enougl, for the whole. One by
one they dropped behind, until they were seen trotting
along with shirt and kilt fluttering in single line like a
string of wild fowl in flight. Colin Macdonald, a Lo-
chabar man, was a long way in advance, clearing bog
and rock with the agility of a roe, until a u3alic ous stone
tripped him. and his fall enabled the second to gain a
few yards upon him. He, however, came down and
overturned into a hole. Macdonald recovered hie lost
ground, and finally ran in a winner by thirty or forty
yards. To show how little his long run had exhausted
him, he leaped over the line of rope piaci dto keep off
the crowd, and reached the spot in high triumph, where
her Majesty stood smiling applause. The second hero,
William Kennedy, from Bauchor Kingussil, came in and
dashed past the Royal party in an awkward plight—his
hair flying, his stockings about his feet, and that gar-
ment usually next the skin hanging outside his philaheg.
like a white banner waving behind. Her Mjesty turned
aside, and Lord Grey relaxed into a smile." The other
Scotch paper adds, " That the ladies in waiting on her
Majesty covered their- faces with their handkerchiefs,
and made a hasty retreat towards the Lodge."
Captain Stevens, who has just arrived from Ceylon
by the ship Persia, now lying in the West India Docks,
has brought with him a very fine male elephant, con-
signed to Mr. Batty, of Astley's Royal Amphitheatre,
Westminster-road.

LIEUTENANT MUNRO.—The interest which this
gentleman's case excites is not confined to this country,
but shared by all who have known him abroad. We
have been shown a letter from Gottenburgh, where he
spent three years of his exile, wherein the writer thus
expresses the sympathy felt by herself and the Eng-
lish community or the place for Lieutenant Munro's
misfortunes :—" I see with deep regret that Mr. Munro
is condemned to death. Will you, on your arrival in
London, try to see him, and write us all particulars re-
garding his present position, and what is to be the re-
sult ? Remember us to him, and say we all take a lively
interest in his most distressing situation.—Gottenburgh,
August 25.
DISCOVERY OF A NEW COMET Al' Moscow.—The
Allgemeine Preuissiche Zeitung of the Ist instant (re-
ceived yesterday evening) supplies the following interest-
ing piece of information from Moscow:—M. Schweizer,
the official astronomers at the observatory of the uni-
versity of that city, remarks an unknown nebula on the
night of the 11th of August between the stars B and 0
(beta and theta) of the constellation Auriga, and deter-
mined its position with reference to three small stars by
means of geometrical configuration. On the following
night (the 12th) it appeared that the nebula had changed
its position, and that it was no other than a new comet.
This new nocturnal visitant is round, and devoid of tail;
it is not visible to the naked eye, but in the " five feet
equatorial," it appears to be a star of considerable mag-
nitude' and its light becomes more powerful after having
passed the meridian. On the same night, NI. Schweizer
determined the northern declination of the comet, and
found that it was three degrees fifty. minutes lees than
the declination of Beta Auriga); the right ascension,
on the other hand, was six degrees five minutes more
than that of the star already mentioned. It was at the
same time observed, that the right ascension of the comet
diminished about thirteen minutes of time, and the de-
clination About ten mini tea of time; tlaolapae of
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