The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-28 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

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WINDSOR, MONDAY. - The Queen and Prince
Albert walked this morning on the slopes.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales,
Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess
Alice, took walking and pony exercise in the Little
Park. Her Royal Highness the Princess Helena was
taken for an airing.
Prince Albert enjoyed the sport of shooting this
morning. His Royal Highness was accompanied by
Viscount Canning, and was attended by Lord Water-
park, Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, Colonel
the Hon. C. B. Phipps, General Bowles, and Colonel
Bouverie.

His Excellency the Duke de Broglie, the Marquis
and Marchioness of Abercorn, and Viscount Palmers-
ton, are expected to arrive at the Castle this evening
on a visit to the Queen.

The royal dinner party this evening will at the Castle
include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his
Excellency the Duke de Broglie, the Lady in 'Waiting
of the Duchess of Kent, Baroness de Speth, the Mar-
quis and Marchioness of Abercorn, Lady Mary
Howard, Mrs. Everard Bouverie, Viscount Canning,
and Viscount Palmerston.

The bind of the Grenadier Guards will attend
during dinner. Her Majesty's private band will
afterwards attend in the Castle.

His Royal Highness Prince George has arrived in
town, from Dublin. His Royal Highness went yes-
terday to the residence of the Duke of Cambridge, at
Kew.

The Bishop of Llandaff had an interview with Sir
George Grey yesterday. The Marquis of Queens-
berry had also an interview yesterday with the Right
Hon. Baronet, at the Home-office.
Lord Campbell and Lady Stratheden left town
yesterday, on a visit to Lord and Lady Abinger, at
Abinger Hall, Surrey.

DEATH OF THE EARL OF
HARROWBY.

We regret to learn of the sudden death of the
Earl of Harrowby. The melancholy event took place
on Sunday, about four A.M., at Sandon-hall, Staf-
fordshire.

From a private communication received in town
yesterday from Sandon-hall, we gather that the
venerable nobleman had, up to Friday last, appeared
in his usual health, and had passed over his birth-day
on Wednesday, the 22d instant, in cheerful spirits.
On Friday morning he bras assailed by alarming
symptoms, and by noon that day his illness assumed
the most dangerous aspect, so much so, that letters
were dispatched to the different members of the
family apprising them of the precarious condition of
his Lordship. He continued to decline rapidly up to
to hour of his dissolution, without any favourable
change.
Viscount and Lady Frances Sandon, the Hon. G.
Dudley and Lady Georgiana Ryder, and several
other members of his family, were at the time staying
at Sandon-hall, and were consequently present at his
death.

The late Dudley Ryder, Earl of Harrowby, county
Lincoln, Viscount Sandon, of Sandon, county Staf-
ford, and Baron Harrowby, of county Lincoln, in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom, was eldest son of
Nathaniel first Lord Harrowby, and Elizabeth, co-
heir of the Right Rev. Richard Terrick, Lord Bishop
of London. He was born 22d Dec., 1762, and had
therefore completed his 85th year on Wednesday last.
In July, 1795, he married Lady Susan Leveson
Gower, sixth daughter of Granville, first Marquis of
Stafford, and aunt of the Duke of Sutherland. By
that estimable lady, who died in 1838, he had a large
family, four sons and five daughters, namely, the late
Viscountess Ebrington, Viscount Sandon (now Earl
of Harrowby), the Honourable Granville Dudley
Ryder ; Lady Mary Saurin, Lady Wharncliffe, the
Hon. Frederick Dudley Ryder, the Hon. Edward
(died in infancy), Lady Harriet Hervey, and Lady
Louisa Fortescus.

The deceased Earl entered public life soon after he
attained his majority. He represented for several
years, prior to his elevation to the Peerage, by the
death of his father, Tiverton, in the House of Com-
mons. In 1800 he was appointed Treasurer to the Navy,
by Pitt. He held that appointment up to Viscount
Sidmouth's advent to power, and after Pitt's return
to take the helm of the Government, in 1804, he was
appointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, but
only presided over that department for little more
accessionthantweltvne
office,mont i
months. On
10872 the Earl of Liverpool's
had been created Viscount 'and Earl Nobe
in
appointed Lord President of the Council, which
Lord (who
waswho
place he held up to the formation of the Right Hon.
George Canning's Administration in 1827, a case
unparalleled on record. It was during the time he
occupied that position in the King's Council that his
Lordship's name became mixed up with the notorious
Cato-street conspiracy.

SEIZURE OF AN ILLICIT DISTILLERY.—Yesterday
morning, about eleven o'clock, Messrs. J. Levvins and
John Bentnall, officers of Excise, from information they
received, proceeded to No. 8, Lion-street, Now Kent-
road, where they discovered a private still in fall opera-
tion, running off strong spirits, about twenty gallons of
spirits ready for sale, and 400 gallons of molasses wash
in a state of fermentation, ready to continue the working
of the still. The place was fitted up with the usual
apparatus and utensils used in distillation. A man and
woman were in the house attending to the still, who were
arrested by the officers. The trade of distillation,
illicitly carried on, has been on th• increase for some
months. A van having been procured by the officers,
they conveyed their prize to the Excise warehouses in
Broad-street.

BIRDCAGE-WALX..—Among the many improve-
ments lately effected in various parts of the metropolis,
with regard to the paving of footpaths and other
additions of a like description, few are more worthy of
commendation and likely to meet with more general
approbation than the paving with flag-stone of the foot-
path the entire distance from Storey's-gate, at the west
end of George-street, Westminster, to Buckingham-
gate, is immediate proximity to the Palace, and long
known by the name of the Birdcage-walk. Until now it
was almost impassable at this season of the year, from
the softness of the soil and the aecumulation of mud,
which was suffered to collect and remain on the path,
which was the more surprising considering that it is the
highway from the Palace, and the improved neighbour-
hood of Pimlico, to the Houses of Parliament, and the
law courts at Westminster. This walk is perhaps nearly
half a mile in length, and the expense incurred in thus
laying it with pavement along the entire distance must
have been very considerable. Although on the outside
of the St. James's Park, it is strictly speaking a portion
of that enclosure, and therefore the sole cost must have
been
Forests, borne, weiiresumbreLch by
the department of Woods
and of the Executive the public
to
which
are lately indebted for many improvements and additions
lately in the parks of the metropolis.
FIRE IN THR LONDON DocKs.--Yesterday, be-
tween the hours of twelve and one, considerable alarm
was occasioned by the discovery of a fire on board the
barque Tamar, 156 tons, lying at the Jetty, London
Docks, about to sail for Hobart Town, with a miscella-
neous cargo. The dock engines were speedily in attend
ance, and with great exertions the flames were subdued,
but not before the rigging had suffered considerable
damage, the mizen and gaff topsail being much burnt.
The entire escape of other ships, la-
y which she was sur-
rounded, is matter of astonishment. The fire is sup-
posed caused
to have been by sparks from the funnel
of the cabin stove.
THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.—This important do-
cument, which is expected to be brought by the packet
ship Ashburton, is now anxiously looked for every tide.
Should the ship have left New York on the Bth instant,
she is now fully 19 days on the passage. She is, proba-
bly, very near this port, as a number of vessels, inward
bound, have been passed, between Tuskar and Holyhead,
during the last few days, which are kept back by the
prevailing light easterly winds.—Liverpool Albion.