The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-22 00:00:00

V :
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COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen held a Court and Privy Council at half-
past • one o'clock yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham
Pa!ace.
At the Court his Excellency Andrew Stevenson, En-
voy Fxti ordinary, and Minister Plenipotentiary from
the Unitcd States, had an audience of her 'Majesty to
take leave, and presented a letter from the President.
His Ex,2elleney was introduced by the Earl of Aberdeen.
K.G., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs.
Sir Elward Sugden had an audience of the Queen. to
kiss hands •on being appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
The Right Hon. Sir George Murray,- G.(7.13., had an
audience of her Majesty, and kissed hands, on being ap-
pointed Master-General of the Ordnance.
The Privy Council was attended by -his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert; Lord Wharncliffe,' Lord President
of the Council; Lord Lyndhurs`,,, Lord Chancellor; Sir
Robert Peel, First Lord of the Traasury; Sir James
Graham, Secretary of State for the Home D,partment;
Earl of Aberdeen, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs;
the Earl of Liverpool, Lord Steward of the Household;
the Earl Delawarr, Lord Chamberlain ; and the Earl of
Jersey, Master of the Horse.
At the Council, Parliament was ordered to be further
prorogued from Thursday the -11th November unto
Tuesday the 21st December.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting. •
Her Majesty gave audiences to Sir Robert Peel, Lord
Wharnclitre, Sir James Graham, and Earl Delawarr.
The Court was attended by the Marquis of Ormonde,
Lord in Waiting ; Lord llill, Gold Stick in Waiting ;
the Right Hon. G. L. Dawson Darner, Comptroller of
the Household ; and the lion. Captain Hood, Groom in
"Waiting.

Her Nrajesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Hon.
Misses Paget and Anson, took an airing yesterday after-
noon in an open barouche. Lord Charles. Wellesley and
Colonel Bouverie were in attendance on horseback.
The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty and Prince
Albert yesterday, at Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
had submitted to their inspection yesterday by Mr.
.T,
Mortimer, the gold service of plate manufactured for his
Majesty the King of Holland, which her Majesty and tha
Prince very much admired.
Mr. Stevenson, the Amelimn Minister, left town last
evening, to embark in the Great Western, for the United
States.

Despatches from the Governor of the Mauritius were
received yesterday at the Colonial-office.

LITERATURE:
LONDON LIFE. 2 Vols, •
Saunders and Otley,Lendon;lB4l:
The reader who is not very fastidious will find
much to answer the purpose - Of:Amusement in
these volumes, which are full of anecdotes and
observations illustrative of many of the profes-
sions and trades of London, strung together with
no great tact or ingenuity, but; nevertheles,
forming on the whole a very agreeable melange.
The first chapter is devoted to "Medical Quacks
and Quackery ;" and in the course of his. remarks
on this fertile theme, the author tells: us that
there are at least one hundred medical quacks
who know nothing of the first principles of medi-
cine, but who are at present living at the expense
of the pockets, the health, and even the lives of
the more credulous portion of the ntstropolitan
community. He adds that he is convinced there
is no exaggeration in the statement, that upwards
of two hundred thousand pounds are annually
expended on the quack medicines and quack
doctors of London ! The " Higher and Lower
Classes" is a chapter of which the least said the
better, for the author seems to be but indiffe-
rently acquainted with the habits of aristocratic
society ; his remarks on " Dressmakers' Assis-
tants," however, deserve great praise, first, for
the useful and interesting nature of the facts they
disclose, and secondly, for the kindly and bene-
volent spirit that pervades them. We are assured
that the number of young girls employed in
dressmaking and millinery in London is upwards
of 15,000; and that to the majority of these
wretched, helpless creatures air and exercise are
unknown,while to aggravate, if possible, the phy-
sical hardships of their condition, they are, in tar
too many instances, subjected to irritating lan-
guage and. gross insult from those in whose em-
ployment it is their lot to be. We subjoin our
author's account of the manner in which a Lon-
don dressmakers assistant is compelled to pass
her day :
The usual hour at which dressmakers' assistants com-
mence their labours, is seven in the morning, and that at
which they close for the day, is eleven at night. One
half hour more elapses before they can retire to rest,
and in order to be ready to resume their needle at seven
in the morning, they must at least get up by half-past
six. The average amount of time, .theretbre, which is
allotted them for rest, does not exceed seven hours. This
would be obviously too little for delicate female frames
—especially at the critical time of life at which by far
the largest portion of these girls are apprenticed—even
were their labours light and of short duration during the
day. But the very reverse is the painful fact : they ply
the needle without a moment's intermission, save the
twenty or thirty minutes allowed theM for eating their
meals, from the time they enter the work-room until
:hey lave quitted it for the night. Now, surely it needs
no medical genius to tell us, that to poor young delicate
creatures, thus worn out day after day for a succession of
months, with fourteen or fifteen hours' unintermitting
toil, seven hours' repose is not only inadequate to meet
the requirements of nature, but must be attended with
the greatest perils to the constitution.' :N6r ought I to
omit the mention of the fact, that-the honk) repose al-
lowed them is deprived of its beneficial effects, by the
circumstance of from ten to twelve •of `their number
being compelled to sleep in one small confined bed-room.

POPULAR LIBRARY of MODERN,4I.7THORS
Whittaker, Londoh;.lB4l.
The present number of this Miscellany contains
a republication of the third volume of D'Au-
big,ny's "History of the Reformation,. in the Six-
teenth Century," the two former having already
appeared. The translation is from the pen of a
gentleman named Kelly, who has executed his
task with spirit and fidelity. As a history, the
work is well-known, and of established reputa-
tion, both here and on the Continent; and no-
thing can be more creditable to the author than
the uniformly moderate and impartial tone he
has adopted, while discussing a series of momen-
tous events on which it is difficult to write with
impartiality.

THE BRIDE OF MESSINA. Ban' London, 1841.
For this translation of one of Schiller's latest
and mot carefully composed dramas, we are in-
debted to Mr. Lodge, who tells us in his preface
that he has " sometimes amplified, more fre-
quently condensed, the original ; in one or two
passages slightly varied the sense, not from
mis-
apprehension of the author, or, least of all, with
a view to improvement, but solely from inability
to express the precise meaning with more than a
bare correctness." This is taking more liberties
with the. text than is perhaps strictly allowable,
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THE-MUSICAL Tvon.Lp.
Cunningham, London, 1841.
.A cheap Weekly Magazine, devoted, for the
most part, to musical criticisms, anecdotes, intel-
ligence, &c., connected with the art.: 'Lis a v2IT
so-go affair, conducted with but little skill, aria
per-
haps, just the musical intelligence
containing nothing worth knowing, except,
we
et the e
Each number is introduced by an original article,
bright
from the first of which we quoter,;hesvehen „.,
remarks :—" We are never so h PAY Ili
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can put off our pedagoguical trenc
censorial night-cep, or our editoriali
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Friday
_—A, rencontre of the
above -
AFFAIR OF HONOUR.
Powell, M.P.,' and Jr. 1 uincll Poo
last between Mr.
in consequence of language used by
the,
law Guardian,
f the Board of Guardians • an ac-
commodation,,
,
latter at a meeting o
effected nature was apprehended in Limerick, on
- however, WaS e through th©
Iv. s• O'Brien, M.P.,. Mr. Purnell
means of Mr: • •Daring
withdrawn the objectionable passage of his seech.—Dub -
lin paper.
A GENUINE SEA SEaPERT.--.The Britt s h
Muse e
um has recently received a most ,euripus and
traordinary addition to its varieties of nature in th formea_
of a very large sea serpent, belonging to tho
Hydras, which, with some other spetimonsi hasgenu
sent there by Lieutenant Stokes, of her been
Majesty's sur-
„ying ship Beagle. This sea snake is
long, and about as thick as a man' is th nhearlty six feet
much larger than any specimens hither g • tis very
is certainly the thickest and m t 9 described, and
most wei
snake known. ghty poisonous
EFFECTS OF COACH CoM
days ago a gentleman inquiredof PETIT/ON.--A few
which had just changed hors the driver of a coach,
starting from an inn on the es, and, was on the point of
and Weymouth, the price of the
between-Southampton
It happened that the horno the fare to the next town.
ear-shot, and rapidly a of a rival coach was within
was, " What you pleasproaching. . 's
was, answer
nothing at all—jump up, Siarn,rhing—a glass of grog—
Mr. Garrett Kinsella . _Salisbury 'journal.
freeholders of Carlow, hag I one of the independent
Bruen for upwards of 61 been distrained 'by Colonel
accumulate since 18351 _ , arrears of rent, allowed to
DUNGARVON Irish Paper. . • '
PETIT SESSIONS.--A poor
man named John Gin • a iivan was fined twopence and three
shillings costs, on
charge of stealing two grass sods.
The Magistrates who pronounced this decision were
Messrs. Fitzgerald B
• B. Boathe, and It. C.Walsh.— Water-
ford Chronick.

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