The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-20 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

Colonel Lord Howden, from Hereford-street, for Paris,
the Misses Tylney Long, and Miss Victoria Long Welles.,
ley, for Waterloo-crescent, Dover; the Hon. Mr. Forbes,
for ditto ; the Hon. Mrs. and the Misses Gardner, for
ditto; the Hon. Captain Howard, R.N., from Grosvenor-
place, for Morpeth ; Earl Waldegrave, for Melton Mow-
bray; the Rev. Cholmely Doring, for Dover; Colonel
Groves and family, for Dover; Mr. Fector, M. P., for
Kersney Abbey, Kent ; the Hon, Edward Leveson Gower,
for Oxford ; Earl and Lady Canning, for High Cliff, near
Christchurch ; Sir Charles Lamb and Lady Montgomerie,
from the Clarendon Hotel, for Beaufort Castle, near
Battle, Sussex; the Hon. and Rev. Edward Moore and
family, from Crawley's Hotel, for Paris ; the Hon. Major
Massey, for Bath ; the Marquis of Granby, from the Bur-
`ington Hotel, for Belvoir Castle.
Th- Leed

_ ..e -eeds Times, a journal which we appre-
hend may be called republican without any very palpable mis-
nomer, in allusion to the gaieties and gratulations of the past
week, says—" For our own part, we cannot look upon this idol
worship of Kings and Princes without pity, not unmingled with
eontempt. There is nothing rational in it—nothing calculated
to improve the mind or pur fy the heart; while it exhibits
men, the tip-top nothings, perched on their pedestals of vanity,
blown up by applause, the creatures of pride, and pomp, and
empty circumstance—

;" - lording it o'er their fellow-men
With moat prevailing tinsel ; while they unpen
Their basing vanities, to browse away
The comfortable green and juicy hay
From human pastures.' "
COURT OF ALDERMEN.--A Court was sum-
moned to meet yesterday, for the purpose of addressing the
Queen en her marriage. At half past three only nine Alder-
men were present, and on the entrance of Sir Peter Laurie,
a eon7ersation commenced. Sir Peter objected most strenu-
ously to any address, as the Coart of Common Council had
come to a resolution not to go to the foot of the throne without
the Sheriffs. Sir William Heygate could not see why on earth
the Court of Aldermen should not go up with their address, or
what connection there was between the Royal marriage and the
incarceration of the Sheriffs. Mr. Alderman Farebrother ex-
pressed the same opinion. Sir Peter Laurie said there was no
precedent for the Court of Aldermen going up, without
the Court of Common Council. Sir William Heygate
and Sir Claudius Hunter said they knew several in-
stances in which the Court of Aldermen had gone up
to the foot of the throne separately. Alderman White said
that a manoeuvre had taken place at the last Court. When
that Court had a number of Aldermen present the resolution
to address her Majesty was unanimously agreed to, but after
the majority had left the Guilthall, and five Aldermen only
remained, a short resolution was tacked t r the other, to the ef-
fect that the Lord Mayor and Aldermen should be attended by
the Sheriffs. He considered that proceeding an extremely un-
fair and uncandid piece of trickery. Sir Peter Laurie remained
inexorable, and the Lord Mayor and Aldermen departed as they
entered, there not being a sufficient number of members to
form a Court.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT._A sailor, nam( d
John M'Dowell, belonging to the steamer Mercury, while as-
sisting in getting up the top-sail yard as the vessel was entering
the harbour on yesterday mcrning, slipped from his elevated
position, fell head foremost on the top of a carriage that was
placed on the deck, and suffered a severe compound fracture of
the frontal bone. He was removed to the Hospital, and for a
considerable time resisted the efforts of Dr. D. B. Bullen, the
medical gentleman there, to examine his head. This obstinacy
was the result of mental aberration,— Cork Standard.