The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-08 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert
walked this morning in the Home Park and grounds.
The Earl of Warwick has succeeded Viscount Hawar-
den as the Lord in Waiting on her Majesty, and General
the Hon. Sir William Lumley has succeeded Mr. J. R.
Ormsby Gore as the Groom in "Waiting.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by
Lady Fanny Howard, arrived at the Castle at two
o'clock this afternoon.

Her Majesty will join the Royal Dinner Circle this
evening, for the first time since her accouchement.

Her Majesty's private band will be in attendance dur-
ing the evening at the Castle.
The Hon. C. A. Murray arrived at the Castle to-day.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by
Lady Fanny Howard, left her residence, Clarence House,
St. James's, at eleven o'clock yesterday morning, on a
visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.

Their Serene Highnesses the Duchess Ida of Saxe
Weimar, the Duke of Saxe Meiningen, and Prince Ed-
ward of Saxe Weimar, after their arrival in town on
Monday evening, received a visit at Marlborough House
from her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge.
Their Serene Highnesses, accompanied by Prince Ernest
of Hesse Philippsthal, afterwards visited the Duchess of
Kent, at Clarence House, St. James's.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, arrived in town yesterday from their resi-
dence at Kew.

Baron Brunow, the Russian Minister, transacted busi-
ness yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had an interview
with the Earl of Ripon yesterday at the office of the
Board of Trade.

Mr. Tillett transacted business yesterday at the Colo-
nial-office. _ _

Lord Wharncliffe, Lord President of the Council,
arrived in town on Monday evening from his residence,
Wortley Hall, Yorkshire.
The Attorney-General transacted business yesterday
at the Home-office.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes-
terday. The Lords present were the Lord . President,
Lord Brougham, Mr. Justice Erskine, and the Judge of
the Admiralty Court. Sir A. Johnston and Sir E. East
sat as Privy Councillors.

Mr. Pemberton, Queen's Counsel, was heard on an
appeal from Bengal, " Maharajah Milterjeet Singh v. the
heirs of Jeserent Singh." Mr. Jackson followed on the
same side.

The case was adjourned forlfurther hearing till Thurs-
day next.

DEATH OF THE HON. ANN LUCY

FORTESCUE FROM FIRE.

We regret to have to record the melancholy depth of
this lady, which took place at Brighton on Friday morn-
ing last, in consequence of injuries received from fire.
The circumstances under which it took place are detailed
in the following evidence, which was given at an inquest
held at the City of Hereford Inn, Brighton, on Saturday,
before J. F. Gill, Esq., Coroner, and a respectable Jury.
Sarah Cooper deposed—l was maid to the deceased,
who resided in Charlotte-street, Brighton. She was
a single woman, and was in her 78th year. On
Thursday morning, the 23d of November, between
nine and ten o'clock, I had dressed her in all but her
upper garments, and had then left her and retired
into an adjoining room, as was my custom, until she
washed. About half an hour afterwards I heard a noise
as of the stamping of feet. I opened the door immedi-
ately, and found the deceased in the middle of the room
enveloped in flames. I went up to her and got a carpet
and put it over her, and then rang the bell. I screamed
loudly. The two female servants and the nurse came up
immediately. The servants threw water upon her and
extinguished the flames, and we then put her to bed. I
then discovered that her left arm and thigh and round
her throat were much burned. She was not able to
speak much. She asked me how it happened but I was
unable to tell her. There was a fire in the room, but
there was no guard on it. The flames appeared to me to
have caught the lower part of her clothes. Medical as-
sistance was immediately obtained, but she died about
half-past two o'clock on the night of Thursday. I had
been accustomed to leave her in her room with a fire in
it. I had placed her gown before the fire to warm it.

Mr. R. P. Phill-Pots, surgeon, Devonshire-place,
Brighton, deposed :—I was called upon to attend the de-
ceased on the morning of Tuesday, the 23d ult., in con-
sequence of her having been burned. Being out, my as-
sistant went before me. On my arrival I found him
dressing wounds of considerable magnitude on the left
arm of the deceased. ller chin, throat, and left thigh
were also very much burned. I continued to attend her
up to her death. She died of fever, the consequence of
injuries to the skin from the burning. She was unable
to give any account as to how it happened.
The Jury immediately returned a verdict of " Acci-
dental Death."

The deceased was sister to the late and aunt to the
present Earl Fortescue.

TO RATEPAYERS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sia—May I request you to insert in your liberal paper
the following important fact, namely, that all rates made,
or collected, after the 31st inst., will be illegal, unless
stock in trade is included, as the Act to exempt the same,
passed by the Whig Ministry, expires the last day of this
year. This circumstance, if no other, may induce Sir
Robert Peel to lose no more time in ordering his Parlia-
ment to assemble. I am your obedient servant,
London, Dec. 7. A RATEPAYER.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
TIMES.—The following official letter •was
written in answer to an application respecting
the distribution of the money obtained through
Captain Elliot's arrangements with Canton :
" Foreign-office, Dec. 2, 1841.
" Gentlemen—With reference to your letter of the Ist
of Islovember,' requesting information as to the intentions
of her Majesty's Government with respect to the distri-
bution of the money obtained from the Chinese authori-
ties at Canton under the arrangements entered into by
Captain Elliot with those authorities on the 27th of May
last, I am directed by the Earl of Aberdeen to acquaint
you, that the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's
Treasury have stated, that they are precluded from en-
tertaining the question submitted in your letter. The
money to which you refer, having been obtained from
the Chinese authorities at Canton, in order to relieve
that city from hostile pressure, is a droit of the Crown ;
and as such, after paying what her Majesty may graci-
ously be pleased to grant to the forces employed at
Canton, it must be carried to the account of the Conso-
lidated Fund.
" I am, Gentlemen, your most obedient humble servant,
" CANNING.
" Sir G. De H. Larpent, Bart., J. H. Palmer, Esq.,
J. A. Smith, Esq., G. Lyall, Esq."
Our letters from Amsterdam, alluding to Ba-
ron Rothschild's interviews with the Finance
Minister of the Hague, for the purpose of capi-
talising the Belgian part of the Netherlands na-
tional debt, mention it as generally believed that
the Baron's last proposition was to give in several
instalments the sum of 95,000,000 florins, from
which lie would obtain from Belgium 100,000,000
florins, in 5 per Cent. stock. It is further sup-
pused, though it is hard to say with what degree
of certainty, that if these terms are accepted, the
Government will use the money in cancelling
the old 5 per Cent. Stock, and this supposition is
used to explain a peculiar state of the Dutch
Stock-market. The Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
have been buoyant, but the Five per Cents. very
fiat, and this is attributed to the notion that the
Government will cancel them at par.
POST.—The view we have taken of the
manner in which" the questions put by the
deputation of the Committee of Spanish Bond-
holders were met by the new Envoy from
Madrid, Senor Sancho, seemed to be fully ac-
quiesced in by the more calculating part of the
public interested in the subject of them. That
Spain should in the course of one short twelve-
mouth, namely, on the Ist of January, 1843, be
able to resume payment in full of the interest of
five per cent. on her general home and foreign
debt, which approaches sixty millions in amount,
and will require a surplus revenue of three mil-
lions sterling per annum, is, in the present diffi-
cult circumstances of the Treasury, deemed
wholly chimerical. We witness the struggle
that is making against the Ist of January next,
and which we are by no means prepared
to say will be a successful one, to provide
the small sum necessary to cover the two
half-years' dividends, at the rate of three
per cent. per annum, on ten millions of
coupons it is intended to capitalise, namely,
three hundred thousand pounds. The depu-
tation appear to be sanguine, but those who
know anything of the financial proceedings of
the two Peninsular Governments, know perfectly
well, and no one can be more cognisant of the
fact than the worthy chairman, Mr. Thornton,
himself, that, if he (Mr. Thornton) does obtain
the punctual payment of the full (5l per cent.)
interest on the Treasury Bonds, or Exchequer
Bills, of Portugal, neither his exertions, nor
those of his zealous coadjutor, Mr. Tasker, have
been sufficient, although snore than five years
have elapsed since Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid
issued similar securities, to extract one single
sixpence in the shape either of principal or inte-
rest in the instance of Spain. And yet there is
this marked and most material differencebetween
the two cases—the Treasury paper of Portugal
was never advertised to be paid off, whereas that
of Spain was, and this in the most imposing lan-
guage too, that the London embassy could use
so far back as the year 1837.
We return thus sepl
ndcilliyoly to
retrospect tile übj
wet' be-
cause, from e m
of the past financial career of the Spanish eaesec leave
Go-
vernments and their unscrupulous agents, and
the extensive misery of which they have been
the occasion, we feel that we cannot put our
readers too fully on their gnard.
Letters from the north of England mention
the suspension of payment of a private banking-
house, at a considerable town on the borders of
Scotland. The intelligence caused much anxiety
to parties interested, and is probably but too
' true, as, upon application being made at the
house of agency in London, it was found that
payments on account of the party in question
were refused. No explanation was, however,
afforded.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Dcc. 7.
NEILSON V. HARFORD.

This case came before the Court upon motion to renew
an injunction which had been granted by the Vice-
Chancellor of England, but dissolved by Lord Cotten-
ham, for the purpose of restraining the defendant from
infringing a patent that had been granted to the plaintiff.
The patent in question had been taken out on the 11th
of September, 1828, and it would therefore expire in a
few months. The nature of the patent was for an im-
provement in the smelting of iron, and the great disco-
very that had been made by the plaintiff was
applying air that was used in blast furnaces in a
heated state. Before this discovery the mode
of smelting iron had been to put the iron
and fuel into the melting furnace, and then by a strong
blast, to blow cold air into the furnace. At this time it
was the general opinion of the manufacturers of iron that
cold air was preferable to hot. Mr. Neilson having dis-
covered the rise of the hot blast, obtained a patent for it;
the invention had turned out to be a most invaluable one,
and a great number of manufacturers had taken out li-
censes for using it. It having been discovered that
the defendant was infringing the patent, a bill was
filed in December, 1840, and an application was made to
the Vice-Chancellor of England, for an injunction to re-
strain the infringement. The Court granted the injunc-
tion. Upon an appeal being brought before Lord Cotten-
ham against that decision, his Lordship ordered the in-
junction to be dissolved, upon the defendant undertaking
to keep an account, and the plaintiff bringing an action
at law to try the validity of the patent. Accordingly
an action was brought against the defendant, which was
tried in the Court of Exchequer, and a verdict was
given in favour of the plaintiff in all the material issues.
In this state of things, the plaintiff baring established
the validity of his patent in a Court of Law, now ap-
plied to the Court for the renewal of the injunction.
The Solicitor-General, Mr. Bothell, Mr. Campbell,
and Mr. Butt appeared for the plaintiff, and the Attor-
ney-General and Mr. Richards were Counsel for the de-
fendant.

ROLLS' COURT, Dec. L.
The Master of the Rolls was occupied all the morning
in hearing consent petitions and short causes of little
general interest.