The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-10 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by Lady Bar-
ham, lion. Miss Anson, Ear! of Li,towel, Lord Alfred
Paget, and Colonel Bouverie visited and inspected the
Royal Fl spital at Chelwa, yesterday afternoon. General
Lord Ilia received the Queen and Prince Albert on their
arrival at the Hospital, and hfterwards attended the Royal
party to thr Royal Military Asylum. The boys of the
Institution went through their different exercises.
The Royal party returned in two open carrianes to
Buckingham Palace.

Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty
yesterday.

The Queen and Prince Albert took an airing yesterday
afternoon in an open carriage and four.
The Royal dinner party at the Palace, last evening, in-
cluded her Royal flightless the Duchess cf Kent (At-
te:A-A by Lady Anne Maria Dawson.) Marquis of Co-
oynghatn, ViSTOLITIIeSS Milton, Viscount Melbourne,
Lord Robert. Giosvior, Hon. General Upton, Colonel
and Lady Catherine Harcourt.

The lion. Miss Anson and the Hon. Miss Paget have
succeeded the Hon. Miss Murray and the Hon. Miss
Lister, as the Maids of honour in waiting on her Majesty.
A Deputation from the Royal Humane Society waited
on his Royal Highness Prince Albert yesterday, at Buck-
ingham Palace.
The Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Cambridge,
and Prince George, visited the Princess Augusta yesterday.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George
and the Princess Augusta of Ciiibridge, attended by
Lady Augusta Somerset and Baron Knesebeck, honoured
the Bishop of London and Mrs. Blomfield with their
company yesterday afternoon, at their residence at Fulham.
A Deputation from Glasgow, consisting of Principal
Macfarlane, Mes,rs. John Leadbetter, and Hugh Pennent,
in regard to the Ilause of Refuge at Glasgow, had a❑ in-
terview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday
in Downing-street. _ _

His Excellency Andrew Stevenson, the American Mi-
nister, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office.
Mr. Ludlow 13ruges, and Mr. Long had an interview
with the Marquis of Nornianby, yesterday, at the Home-
office.

Despatches from Major-General Napier, Governor of the
Cape of Good Hope, and from Captain Prescott, Governor
of Newfoundland, were received yesterday at the Colonial
office.

A Deputation consisting of Lord Gosford, Lord Charle-
raout, Lord Lurgan, Lord Marcus 11, Colonel Rawdon,
Mr. D. C. Brady, and Mr. Caraher, had an interview
yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.

The Hon. Mr. Douglas, at Escudier's Private Hotel,
Piccadilly, from Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire ; Sir Samuel
Brawn, the Dowager Lady Lyttelton ; Count Bjornst-
jerna and suite, at Farrance's Hotel ; Mr. Kemys Tynte,
at the Clarendon; Captain Millie Hamilton, at the Pul-
teney Hotel ; Sir John and Lady Williams;• Lord Clon-
brock ; Lady Spencer Chichester ; Mr. and Mrs. W. R.
Hamilton ; Colonel Reid ar.d Captain Gardimr ; the Hon.
Brownlow Bertie ; Mr. Hamilton Anson ; Lord Archibald
St. Maur , Captain Hope Grant, at the St. James's Ho-
tel ; Captain and Mrs. Charles Stuart ; the Rev. Mr.
and Lady Isabella St. John ; the Hon. Major and Mrs.
St. Vincent Saumarcz; Rear-Admiral Sir Arthur Far-
quhar.
DEPARTURES.
The Countess of Darnley and family, for Kent; Major
Gage, for St. Leonard's ; Sir Charles Hopkinson ; Mr.
Ifo
Cowes; i.Pg for Herefordshire; the Hon. Capt.
Grey, rfd for r Burr,ow C Sir Charles Ibbotson, Bart., for gßou-
logne ; Lady Cunningham Fairlie, for Brighton ; Sir
Robert and Lady Wilmot, for Derbyshire ; Lord Hood,
for Brighton ; Sir Bentinck Doyle, for ditto ; Lord and
Lady Galway ; the Hon Lady Duncan ; Sir Chas. Chad,
LordMr . G
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,
NyLPS;u; Sir John Guise, for Cheltenham ;
rnarez, for Germany; Colonel and
Mrs. Ashworth, fir Kemptown; Sir Timothy and Lady
Shelley for Brighton ; the Dowager Lady Dillon, for Tun-
bridge-wells ; the Dowager Lady Grey, for ditto ; Sir
George and Lady Rose for ditto ; the Rev. Mr. Anson,
for Hastings ; B. B. Williams, Esq., from Portland place,
for Fonthill Abbey ; Reginald Stewart, Esq., from Escu-
dier's Private Hotel, Piccadilly, for Ostend; Hilton Ro-
bertson, Esq., from ditto, for Isle of Wight; Mr. and Mrs.
Morley, from ditto, for Bristol.

MASONIC CHARITY.—At a quarterly genera
court of the Governors of the Royal Freemasons' School for
girls, held on Thursday, Mr. Lee Stevens in the chair, ten va-
cancies were declared for the election in October, for which
only nine candidates are proposed, so that the expense and
trouble of canvassing will be happily saved.
PRESENT FROM HER MAJESTY.—The Queen
brought Zoological
from
0 riG Garde nisi i am Nm'earylavb.aenaumtifotullnstapienesi.menltofararivdeederyelately
has been most graciously pleased to present to the Surrey
day from Windsor, and was safely deposited among the Rumi-
nants at the Gardena. The young Wapiti, recently produced
at the same establishment, is doing remarkably well.
STATE OF THE JEWS IN PERSIA.-1 con-
versed repeatedly and freely with the Khakharn, or Chief Rabbi,
and others of their chief men, and was struck snore deeply
than ever with the terrible fulfilment of prophecy in their in-
stance. Their common occupations at Hamadan are as work-
Persians, and when abroad speak
work-
ers in silver, twisters of silk, and sellers of old. coins. They
are extremely
demeanour which is everywhere the badge of oppression.
They know little even about themselves. T hey dress. like the
ignorant and 'wear that cringing and slavish
1,0, nAgnedd
wthoertehearteritbhee
TofenJEld,ratlhi,esa:!
home Hebrew. Persian or Turkish, but at
I asked the Rabbi whether they had
the Jews who were brought any tradition among them of the time. when their an-
He said that they be-
longed came to this country.
were descended
.from
do you not return to the land of
eaptivle
aisnkteod.t,l,TeArepgairotnos.f
them are in Bokhara and the rest are scattered.
~ " But why
I pointed him to Jesus of Nazareth, but
fathers ? "We are
waiting for the INlessii.h who will restore us with all our race."
other. country?
his head and sighed. I asked him again, why, if they were so
but the old man only hung
oppressed as he represented, they did not remove into some
without a written perrnisaion from the Governor, which it was
impossible to procure • that, if they attempted
.to escape, they
should be overtaken and' brought back, and their misery would
He replied that they could not leave. the city
be greatly aggravated. The TI ' had three synagogues in Hama-
dan.
A fourth had recently been erected, but was at once
torn down by the Mussuirnans.—Southyate.
VESSEL BURNT AT SEA,
AND PROVIDEN-
TIAL PRESERVATION or 'rim OLE".
.---The Sardinian brig
Telemachus, Captain Suvoashy, from Genoa, hound to the
Brazils, was discovered to he on'fire on the lst of June, when
about on the Equator. The captain and crew, after endea-
youriaig to extinguish the fire finding that, instead of diminish-
ing, it gained on them turned their thoughts towards their
own immediate
safety, 'and hoisting out their boats (two in
number), bid adieu to the ill- fated craft. After experiencing
for five days and nights the horrors which the uncertainty of
their final safety &era their immense distance from land would
naturally_ create, they were on the 6th, in lat. 5 N., long.
2./ picked up in a very weak state (by the Orient, Captain
William Taylor,
from Sydney, New South Wales (since arrived
in the Downs), and received all the attention which they re-
quired, and Captain Taylor was able to render them. Thus'
thirteen human lives, after suffering the worst of sea perils,
have, un ler Providence, ?seen safely restored to their families,
It ;s needless to say, that with the exception of what the men
had on at the time in the shape of clothes, they have saved
nothing,