The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-11 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the
Duchess of Kent, and the Royal Household, attended
Divine Service this morning in the private Chapel of
the Castle. The Rev. Mr. Gosset and the Rev. Dr.
Short officiated ; the latter Rev. Gentleman preaching
the sermon from the 4th chapter of Galatians, and 7th
vase.

The Hon. Miss Pitt has arrived as the Maid of
finnor in Waiting on the Queen, and has succeeded
the Hon. Miss Cocks, who left yesterday for London.
The Rev. Dr. Short and Sir James Clark will have
the honour of dining this evening with the Royal circle
at the Castle.

Her Majesty accompanied Prince Albert to the ice
yesterday morning, and enjoyed the sledge-riding for
some time, as did his Royal Highness skating. Her
Majesty was attended by the Duchess of Bedford, Hon.
Miss Paget, Earl of Fingal!, Sir Robert Otway, and
Lord Alfred Paget. His Royal Highness was at-
tended by Colonel Bouverie, Mr. G. E. Anson, and
Dr. Pretori us.

Her Majesty commanded 50/. to be forwarded to
the Rev. Mr. Gosset, and 201. to the Rev. Mr. Haw-
try, to procure necessaries for the poor. His Royal
Highness Prince Albert also sent 2.5/. to the Rev. Mr.
Gosset for the same benevolent purpose.

Prince George of Cambridge visited the Duchess o
Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House. His Roya
Highness honoured Covent Garden Theatre with his
presence on Friday evening.
Mr. Pattison, M.P., had an interview with Lord
John Russell on Saturday at the Colonial Office.
Major Mitchell and Captain Dawson had an interview
on Saturday with his Lordship at the Colonial Office.
Viscount Melbourne has issued cards for a full dress
dinner to a large party of Peers on the 25th inst., at his
official residence in Downing •street.
Despatches were sent off from the Colonial Office,
on Saturday evening, for the Governor of Gibraltar.

Her Majesty the Queen has graciously corn
mended a further order of lace from the destitute lacemaker
of Woodbury, Salterton, in Devon. Her Nlajesty has also
condescended to receive from them a lace frock ior the
Princess Royal, and has in return sent a munificent present
to the lacemakers.
Mr. John Ryves D'Arcy (?) has addressed
the electors of Reigato " upon Conservative principles."
Sir John Twisden,Bari., who died on Thurs-
day, at Bradbourn Hall„ .{eta, was born in 1785, and suc-
ceeded to the baronc,'*. in 1810. In the following year
he married I:Atherine J. Coppard, daughter of the
Rev, %Val. Copparsi, who died in 1819.
ADULTERATION OF SUGAR.—We understand
,hat the high price of sugar is likely to load to consid blc

posses.ierae
adulteration of that commodity, and we have in our
MRS. GORE'S NEW Woax.—We are re-
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ptahraits,,,Mirns.3 Gore's
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insew publishednvel, sion a sample of a substance manufactured expressly for
the purpose, and offered for sale to several grocers in this
Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, and may now town. It consists, we believe, principally of potato-starch
be had at the libraries. Mr. Colburn has also just pub-
Traditions of England, by John mixed apparently with some heavier material, probably not
lished the following new works of fiction :—i. Peter quite so innocent.—Manchester Paper.
Priggins, the College Scout, edited by Theodore Hook, COINAGE AT MA:,iCIIESTER.—We were
Esq., 3 vols., with illustrations, by Phiz. 2. Popular pretty well aware that eertain of her Majesty's subjects,
numerous wood engravings.
Roby, Esq., 3 vols., with resident here, occasionally employed themselves in fabri.
3. The Naval Surgeon, by eating base shillings and sixpences; but we did not know,
the author of Cavendish, &c., 3 vols. 4. Legendary until very recently, that a legitimate coinage of money is
Tales of the Highlands, by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, at the present time going on in the town, We base now
3 vols., with illustrations, by Phiz. 5. Love and War, 1) ieg before us some specimens of copper money for the
or the Romance gf Military Life, comprising stories of island of Sumatra, now coining by Messrs. Vivian and
France,
Switz9lind, Spain, Portugal, &c., by Captain Sons, copper merchants, of this town. The coins are
Quillinan, 3 vols. 6. The Secretary of Macchiavelli, about the a•ze of an English farthing, but much thinner,
or the Siege of Florence, by Daniel Macarthy, Esq., 3 vols. and probably not more than half the weight, and bear a
7. Oliver Cromwell, an historical romance, edited by resir strange mixture of English and native devices and
Horace Smith, Esq , 3 vols. 8. The History of a Flist, inscript ons ; some past of which, at any rats, will puzzle
second edition, 3 Vols. 9. The Cashmere Shawl, by the Sumatrans more than a little. —Manchester Guardian.
Captain White, 3 vols. ; and 10. Sandron Hall, or the MORTALITY FROM SMALL-PDX.—From July
Days of Queen Anne, b y the
lion. Grantley Berkeley, 1837, to Dec. 1839, Mr. Farr has shown that the deaths
M. P., 3 vols. from small-pox in the metropolis (Lancet, Nov. 1840),
RAILWAY CONFERENCE.—We are glad to an- amounted to 5186; the quarterly deaths rose from 257 to
nounce that the next meeting of Railway Directors will take 1,145 ; the increase was 445 per cent., or more than four.
place on the 19th, at Birmingham. As the meeting is 101 l The increase was in a geometrical progression, and
expected to be very full, only one Director from each Come the quarterly rate of increase was therefore the cube root
pany is expected to be present ; but it will be attended by of 4 45=1.65, or 65 per cent. The epidemic is now on
the engineers, and other official persons, from the different the increase; 35, 54, 60, 58 have latterly died weekly.
railways, for the purpose of collecting all the experimental This is melancholy when vie reflect that the disease might
information they can. One of the principal objects is to be .arrested in one week by vaccination. Five children at
arrange an efficient system of signals to be used on all rail. the very least are destroyed daily by small-pox in London.
ways. This is the proper course to take, both for the safety Vary the statement a little, says Mr. Farr, and what would
of the public and that of the railways. Collect and con- be the effect of the announcement in the public papers ?
centrate the results of all the experience upon railways, Five children will be thrown from London-bridge daily
and bring them before men practically acquainted with the : during the next week—the next twelve months—and the
subject, and it will be better, ten thousand times better, than , number will be raised to 6,7, and 8 daily in the next sea-
all the Government Railway Commissions, and the em. . son ; the very supposition is revolting. But the mode of
ployment of military engineers and other inexperienced death is mild compared with that from small-pox ; linger-
persons.—Railway Magazine. . ing pain, nay torture, under hideous cl-formisy—the sur-
DETECTION OF ARSENIC IN THE BLOOD (?) visors escaping as from the fire, with faces cicatrized, de-
---Dr. Van der Broeck, according to Respell, has detected . formed irreparably, and perhaps blinded for life.
arsenic in arterial and venous blood by means of Marsh's ' WALSALL, FR ID It Y.—The canvass goes on fa-
apparatus. This fact, if confirmed, will operate against vourably, and there is every prospect of the return of Mr.
the evidence of Orfila given in the instance of the trial of J. B. Smith, although the contest will be a sharp one.
Mad. Laffarge, Dr. Shaf haeutl, in this journal, in the He has received a number of pledges from persons who re-
report of the meeting of the Association at Birmingham, fused to promise their votes to Mr. Lyttelton. Addresses
showed that all kinds of iron contained arsenic. fiance to the electors have been received from the Anti-Corn-
the peroxide of iron which M. Laffarge had taken medi. law Associations in Siourbridge, Rochdale, Kendal, Car-
cinally, would undoubtedlyconvey arsenic to the system. hie, Bolton, Warrington, Great Torrington, Mitcham,
Atheneum, , Uxbridge, and Stockport.—Manchester Times,
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