The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-14 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert visited her Majesty
the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were attended by
Major• General Wemyss and Captain the Hon. A. H.
Gordon.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse-
back yesterday attended by his Equerry in Waiting.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the
Countess of Mount Ed_ecumbe, Hon. Miss Kerr, Hon.
Miss Cavendish, Lord Byron, Major-General Wemyss,
and Captain the Hon. A. H. Gordon, honoured the per-
formance at her Majesty's Theatre with their presence
yesterday evening,
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
honoured her Majesty's Theatre with her presence last
evening.
The following members of the new Bishoprics' Com-
mission attended a meeting yesterday in Whitehall place:
—The Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord John Russell,
the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Winchester, the
Bishop of Chester, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Chi-
chester, and the Earl of l'owis
Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday from
his seat. Broadlanda, Hants.
Mr. Tancred had an interview with Sir George Grey,
yesterday, at the Home Office.
The Earl of Clarendon arrived in town yesterday from
his seat, Grove Park, Herts.
The Duke of Wellington has arrived in town.

The Lord Advocate—of Scotland and Mrs. Rutherford
arrived at Farrance's Motel, Upper Belgrave-street, for
the season, yesterday, from Edinburgh.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

1 Due Foscari was repeated here last evening with, if
possible, greater effect than on the first night of its pro-
duction. Madame Montenegro, who was in excellent
voice, having completely got rid of the nervousness inci-
dent to a first appearance, sang the music with greater
smoothness and mellowness than on Saturday, while her
acting was full of enthusiasm. Fraschini was in excel-
lent voice, and sang and acted a,dmir thly ; and Coletti,
as the old Doge, was sublime. Nothing could exceed
the enthusiastic cheering which his last scene elicited.
It is, indeed, the very perfection of histrionic art. The
house was crowded with fashionable and dilettanti.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince ilbert
honoured the performances with their presence.
The Royal suite comprised the Countess of Mount-
Edgecumbe, the Honourable Miss Kerr, the Honourable
Miss Cavendish, Lord Byron, Major-General Wemyss,
and the Hon. Captain Gordon. The Queen Dowager's
box was occupied by the Earl and Countess Cawdor and
party. There were also present her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knesebeck,
the Prince Lowenstein, the Duke of Wellington, the
Duke and Duche&s of Montrose, his Excellency the
Russian Minister, Baroness Brunow and Mademoiselle
Olga de Lechnner, his Excellency the Baron Hugel, the
Marchioness of Douro, the Earl of Falmouth, the Earl
of Munster, the Earl of Chesterfield, the Countess of
Blessington and the Misses Power, Lord Willoughby
d'Eresby, Lord William Lennox, Lord and Lady
Templernore, the Hon. Misses Chichester, Lady Dillon
and the Hon. Misses Dillon, Lady Freemantle, Lord
Poltimore, Viscount Duncannon, Viscountess Ha-
warrden, Count de Barko, Count de Courcy, the Hon.
Miss Fitzroy Somerset, Baron and Baroness Dimsdale,
Baron Nicholai, Count d'Orsy, Sir T. Bare, Sir Ralph
and Lady Howard, Sir J. Bayley, Mr. Justice Erle, the
Hon. A. Liddell, the Hon. S. Ponsonby, the Hon. G.
Bvng, Colonel Wildman, Count Kondriaffsky, Mr. and
Mrs. Hubert De Burgh, Mrs. Sandford, Mrs. Hodgson,
Mr. Ewen, Mrs. Charles Mills and Miss Mills, Mr. C.
Arbuthnot, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, Mrs. Packe Read-
ing, Captain Meynell, Captain Lyons, Sir George,
Wombwell, &c.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.
COVENT-GARDEN.

Last night, Lucia Di Lammermoor was produced here,
with Madame Persiani as Lucia, Salvi as Edgardo, and
Ronconi as Enrico. Madame Persiani was received on
her appearance with immense applause, which lasted
for some minutes, and which she gracefully acknow-
ledged. She is looking very well, and was in excellent
voice. Her fioriture was marvellous for its richness, and
her powers of execution are as great as ever. Her scena
a'intiata was equisitely given, and was deservedly
encored, as was the duet with Salvi, at the con-
clusion of the first act. The mad scene too
was finely given. Salvi's Edgardo is remarkable
rather for pathos than for impassioned energy.
Hence he was greatest in the more tender passages.
His finale was exceedingly beautiful. The Fra Poco"
was deliciously given. Of Ronconi it would be unfair to
offer an opinion, as an apology was made for him on
account of hoarseness under which he was evidently
labouring. Signor Polonini appeared as Bide-the Bent,
and made much of a small character. The principal
articles were called for at the end of each act, and et
the conclusion of the opera Salvi was called on, and
loudly applauded. The house was crowded in every part.
Among the company present were Lord Foley and the
Hon. Miss Foley, Lord Henry Lennox, Lord Alexander
Lennox, Countess of Essex, Lady Eleanor Graham,
Viscount Duncannon, Marquis of Granby, Sir Belling-
ham and Lady Graham, Sir John H. Lowther, Lord
George Paget, Sir William de Bathe, Sir Henry Webb,
Sir William Abdy, Lord Grey, Lady Jodrell,
Marquis of Douro, Lord Carrington, Sir Charles
Des Vceux, Henry Greville, Esq., the Earl of
Munster, Captain Duffield, Count D'Avigdor, Lord
Sandys, Earl of Clare, Lord Ernest Bruce, Earl of Ca-
dogan, Viscount Chelsea, Hon. A. Upton, General Sir
A. F. Barnard, Hon. Mr. Hope, Henry Thomas Hope,
Esq., Lady Lilford, Viscount Templetown, Earl of
Darnley, Hon. G. Anson, Viscount Ossulston, Vis-
countess Newport, Hon. Mrs. Anson, Count Isturitz,
Lord George Manners, Hon. Mr. Mulles, Captain Wood,
Lane Fox, Esq., Marquis of Donegal, Lady Atkinson,
&c., Lc.

PATENT GALVANISED IRON COMPANY.—Yesterday
the half-yearly meeting of this company was held at the
London Tavern. The chair was taken by Mr. Malins,
when the secretary read the report, from which it ap-
peared that the defendants in the late suit had admitted
the validity of the patent of this company, and had agreed
to refer the question as to compensation for the past to
eminent counsel on both sides. The directors referred
to the great advantages to be expected to this company
from the amalgamation of the Lynvi and the Porth Cawl
Railways, and the co-operation of the South Wales Rail-
way Company, by the aid of which their great resources
in South Wales, both as to coal and iron, would be fully
developed, and they would be brought into communica-
tion with their works in Staffordshire, to which now so
many local difficulties were opposed. The balance of profit
was 6,9131. 13s. 10d., out of which the directors recom-
mended a dividend of 2 per cent. for the half-year, clear
of income-tax, The working capital having now be-
comes so insuficient to the demands of the increasing
trade of the company, the directors had been negotiat-
ing for a loan of 30,0001. ; but from the tenour
of the deed, it could not be completed, which would
render it necessary for them to propose an alters .
tion in the deed, which limited them to raise money
only when the capital was paid up. In the event of this
negotiation going off, the directors thought it advisable
to make a further call of IL per share, so that the com-
pany might not be any longer inconvenienced by the
want of sufficient capital. The cash account showed the
balance of bills and cash in hand to be 5,236/. Bs. 6d.
From the statement of the Chairman it appeared that
the produce of pig iron at the works in Wales had
doubled, and the average produce of coal was about 300
tons per week. They had from thirty to forty steam-
engines at work, and from 2,000 to 3,000 men employed
in Wales and Staffordshire. The whole of their works
at present, and for some time past, had been in a high
stat,!, of productiveness. Up to the sth of March they
had been producing about 600 tons of pig iron per week,
and when all the additional turnaces were complete, he
said it would average 1,000 tons per vieek. By means
of the railways he had mentioned, they would have their
produce brought to ports from which they were now all
but excluded, and would be nearer the port of Cardiff
than were the works of Merthyr Tydvil. The report,
after some discussion, was adopted unanimously. The
meeting was then made special for the amendment of the
deed, and the consideration of the subject of a further
c ill of 1/. per share or. the new capital. The resolutions
for this purpose were agreed to unanimously, and a vote
of thanks was passed to the Chairman, when the meeting
adjourned.

DISTRESSING SUICIDE FROM REVERSE OF FORTUNE.
—Yesterday morning an inquest was held before Mr.
Charles Lewis, coroner, at the Red Lion public-house,
Leytonstone, respecting the death of Mr. Alexander
M'llougal, aged forty years, of No. 3, Gratton-street,
Bethnal Green, who committed suicide under the fol-
lowing very distressing circumstances. It appeared
from the evidence that the deceased was formerly in
possession of very large estates in Scotland, but in con-
sequence of his very intemperate habits he was compelled
to mortgage them. He became very much reduced and
embarrassed, and his wife and children were on several
ocoa.ions unable to procure the common necessaries of
life. He was considered very imbecile, and for some
time past had been very low and desponding. On
Saturday morning last he left home, apparently in his
usual state of mind, and on the afternoon of the same
day he was discovered lying on his face in a ditch, in
Church-lane, Leytonstone, with his throat cut and quite
dead. He was immediately removed to the above public-
house, where he was examined by Mr. Mackenzie, a
surgeon, who found three very extensive cuts on the
throat, the head almost being severed from the body.
On the ground where the deceased was discovered was
found a razor covered with blood, and also a razor case.
The jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity."
EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—On Saturday, Mr. Lewis,
Coroner for Rochester, applied to the magistrates for a
warrant for the apprehension of Elizabeth Mitchell, a
servant in the family of Captain Jenkins, of Mansion-
row, Brompton, who had delivered herself of a male
child on Thursday morning last, al,. concealed the body
in a box in her bed-room. On Mori! .y a jury assembled
in the council chamber of the Guildhall to investigate
the case, when Captain Jenkins and Susannah Arman,
cook in the employ of that gentleman, were examined ;
after which the inquiry was adjourned for the purpose of
obtaining the evidence of the surgeon and other wit-
nesses. The most extraordinary feature in the case ap-
pears to be, that when the medical man had elicited from
the woman that she had been delivered of a child, and
the place of concealment had been pointed out to him,
the conclusion come to was that the child was dead.
Some time afterwards, on the arrival of a police officer,
the box was unlocked, and an apparently fine healthy
child was found wrapped in an old dress, and alive. It
was then given to Susannah Armen, who washed and
dressed it, and it lived for two days afterwards, but re-
fused to take any kind of sustenance. The woman
having been removed to the house of a relation in Ro-
chester, the matter has thus come under the jurisdiction
of the coroner for that city.

General and Lady Susan Reeve and family have
arrived at their house in Portman-square.