The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-21 00:00:00

OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE

UNIVERSITIES.

TO THE EDITOR OF TILE SUN.
SlR—Allow me to inquire through your journal whe-
ther at the time of Queen Anue surrendering the First
Fruits sad Tenths of certain Ecclesiastical dignities,
offices, benefices, and promotions to the Corporation for
augmenting small livings (more generally known as
" Queen Anne's Bounty,") her Majesty did not sur-
render to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge the
''first Fruits and Tenths of all livings in the patronage
various Colleges and Halls in those Universities,
of tho '—ir offices, dignities, and promotions in consider-
and of all t._ 4 open lectur-s being delivered to the
anion of free au._ .csor being paid from the revenues
public, and the PrOu.... I am, Sir, yours, &e.
to surrenderei ? GQADItig.
Ilfracombe, Dec. 17, 11402
[Perhaps some of our clerical rtft&T4 Will solve the
question ; if not, we would recommend our Correspondent
to apply to the Hon. Member for Leeds, who is well ac-
quainted with the history of First Fruits and Tents j

NAVAL PROMOTIONS.

The following promotions have taken place :
The undermentioned Commanders to be Captains.
Commissimas to be dated the 4th November, 1340 :
William Luckrapt Lewis T. Jones
Thomas Henderson Francis Siordet
F ancis D. Hastings Sachett Hope
Robert F. Stopford
George Hathorn
The following Commanders to be Captains. Commis-
sions to be dated sth November,, 1840 :
Henry J. Worth k. g. Robinson
The following Comrnanaers to bet promoted to Captains
'Wien they shall have served their time :
Thomas L. Massie Hon. C. G. J. B. Elliot
W. J. Williams
The following Lieutenants to bo made Commanders.
Commissions to be dated 4th Novembr, 1840 ;
William Clark Thomas Stuart
H. Hope Baagliam Douglas Curry
Charles C. Birkett Francis T. latosen
Gower Lowe John Fulford
William H. Hall John Russell (bj
Joseph Batt George N. Broke
William Maitland William Knighton Stephens
Wm. Fanshawe Glanville Charles GE. Patey
Robert H. Elliot
The following Lieutenants to be Commanders. Corn-
misvons to be dated Oth November, 1840:
Charles Thomson George Gitrard
Sidney Grcnfell E. P. Charlewood
The following Lieutenant to be Commander, when he
shall have completed his time :
Jas. S. A. Dennis,
The following Mates to be Liewtsinenta. Commissions
to bn dated ...gb November, 1340 :---:-
George Wyke John Sandersoi
Charles E. O'Brien Charles J. Walton
G. J. R Snow Charles S. Norman
John A. Shears Arthur Farquhar
Richard Williams Willoughby J. Lake
George Johnson ft,„... ur W. Wood
Ashley La Touche G. H. C. t;;;,nderland
Thome' Heard R. M. Flood
Edwin W. Sanders M. S. Kirkes
T C. O'Donnell Whipple Henry Stewart
George E Patey John Blackmore
R. D. Stupart Jas. M. Boxer
Henry Warren M. H. Rodney
Lindsey P Burrell William C. Cbernh-erlain
The following Mates to be L'eutenanta. ecirorriisaiene
to be dated sth November, 1340 :
Douglas Reid F. H. Stanfell
William I'. Disney J. M'Dowall Smith
Richard Hoops W. W. Pridham
.--. muel F. Short R. D. White
Juan Dunsterville Charles Buller
John Allen (b)
The fol!owing Mates to be Lieutenants, being men-
tioned in the Gazette. Commissions to be dated 5.11 of
N somber, I 840 :-r
James H. Cockburn William Butler
The following Assistant- Surgeons to be Surgeons.
Warrants to be dated 4th November, 1840 :
Will'am Houghton Henry Baker
Dr. Peter Niddri Alfred B. Cutfield
Joseph Plimsoll
Five Second Masters, who have passed for Masters
arc promoted, and six others, who have not passed, to be
promoted when they shall have passed for Masters.

ATTEMPT TO ENTER BUCKING

HAM PALACE.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT OF THE SUNDAY TIMES.)
'rue following particulars relating to the lady who
acted so strangely at Buckingham Palace, on Tuesday
afternoon last, have not as yet been published, and their

authenticity may be relied on :
The Countess came to England in the early part o
March last, and took up her abode for two or three days
at Long's Hotel, in London. At the expiration of that
period she proceeded to Windsor in her own travelling
carriage, which she had brought with her from the Con-
tinent, and hired a house in Clarence-crescent, of Mr.
Ald. Bedborough, for three years, at a rental of 501. per
annum, paying twelve months rent in advance, from the
20th of last March.
It was supposed, upon the Countess's arrival at Wind-
sor, that she was not unknown to Prince Albert, but it
has since been ascertained that she never saw the
Prince till about four months ago, and that upon his
Royal Highness's return to Windsor Castle from a visit
to Eton College.
A considerable portion of the furniture in her resi-
dence, at Clarence-crescent, was brought by the Coun-
tess from the Continent. The remainder was put.-
chased of an upholsterer at Windsor. During her re-
sidence there she lived in great privacy, scarcely ever
going out, and then only to walk in the inclosed gardens
opposite her house, which are solely appropriated to the
use of the inhabitants of the crescent.
On the I,sth of October last the Countess proceeded
in her carriage, with a lady's maid and footman, from
Windsor to Slough, and from thence by railway to
London. On arriving at the Paddington station she
ordered her horses to be put to her carriage, and de-
sired the postboys to drive to Buckingham Palace.
The carriage was first driven to the private entrance,
but afterwards, by directions of the Countess, she was
driven to the grand entrance, where she demanded of
the porter to be shown the apartments. He told her
it was impossible to comply with her request, unless
she had an order to see them from the Lord Cham-
berlain. She then inquired who was the owner of the
building; and, on being told it was the residence of
her Majesty, she replied, " Oh ! that's impossible that
so mean and common-looking a place can be the abode

U a Queen."
The postillions were then told to drive to the Green
Park Hotel, and from thence to various others. At
last, after driving about for some time, she determined
upon taking up her abode at Gordon's Hotel, Albe-
marle-street, where she alighted. After having exa-
mined a suite of apartments, she expressed a wish to
engage them for three months. The proptietor, how-
ever, declined to let them for that period, and the
Countess then said that she should take up her abode
there until other apartments could be obtained.
Two days afterwards (on the 17th of Octoleer), in
consequence of the extraordinary conduct of the
Countess, and from other circumstances, Mr. Everall,
the proprietor of the hotel, requested that she would
leave. She immediately ordered her bill, but on its
being presented to her she declared her utter inability
to pay it, assigning as a reason that she had no money.
She told her maid that she had determined to leave
England for the Continent on the following day (Sun-
day,) and directed her to dispose of all her property at
the hotel, including her carriage, and with the proceeds
pay Mr. Everall his bill, and keep the surplus herself.
The property, however, was not sold as she desired.
From the morning of Saturday (when the bill was
presented to her) until the following morning she
locked herself into her bedroom, suffering no one to
enter but her female domestic. During the whole of
that period she partook of no food, nor did she retire
to rest, and she was all the time without fire or candle.
On Sunday, having dismissed her servants, she left
Gordon's Hotel, en dishabille and on foot, and nothing
more was heard of her until she was discovered to be at
Richmond. From thence she went to Mr. Redford's,
at the King's Arms•inn, Hampton-court. While there
ber conduct was eccentric and extravagant in the ex-
treme. She one morning went to the Palace (which
she maintained from the first was her property), and
after commanding the workmen to discontinue their
labour, declared that she was the wife of Prince Albert
previously to his marriage with her Majesty.
The police at Hampton Court kept a strict watch
upon her movements, and were only prevented taking
her into custody through the kind intercession of Mr.
Retford, who then wrote to the Mayor of Windsor
upon the subject.
In the meantime, however, the Countess received a
remittance from Prussia, which enabled her to pay her
bill at the King's Arms. From thence she proceeded
to the Toy Hotel, where, after a brief sojourn, she re-
traced her steps back to Gordon's Hotel, in Albemarle-
street, paid her bill there also, and redeemed her car-
riage and other property, and shortly afterwards (on the
sth of November) returned to her residence at Windsor.
Upon her arrival there she charged her servants with
having purloined certain property, consisting of jewellery
and clothes. The case was beard before the Magistrates
at the Town ILA but, no evidence being adduced to
implicate her domestics, it was dismissed.
The day after the decision of the 'Magistrates (which
was Saturday, the 18th ultimo), the Countess locked
on her house, in which state it now remains, and left
`Windsor for town.
Previothly to leaving, she disposed of a great portion
of her furniture to a broker at Windsor, leaving but
little Property of value in the house.
The Countess was first married to Captain George
Pitt R 055, and was at Canterbury some fourteen or
fifteen year
_when the regiment to. which her
,hus-
band belonged was
stationed that city. There is a
on now living by this marriage, who is in the Prussian
service. The Countess has but one son, and not two
a, some accounts have stated.

The Earl of Sefton has quite recovered from the
effects of his fall,
last week, while hunting. His Lord-
ship's face was severely bruised, Irons corning in contact
with the lune of his horse,