The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-10 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, the Queen of the
Belgians, the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Prin-
cess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princess He-
lena, arrived at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, at six
o'clock en Friday afternoon from town. The Royal
suite consisted of the Countess of Charlemont, the
Countess Vilain XIIII., the Dowager Lady Lyttelton,
Colonel Bowles, Major A. d'Hains de Moerkerke,
Dr. Prmtorius, Lord Alfred Paget, and the Hon. Cap-
tain Gordon.

On Saturday morning the Royal Family took their
usual walks and rides on the sea-beach. Yesterday
morning their Royal Highnesses went in the pleasure
grounds.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by her
Majesty the Queen of the Belgians, took a carriage
airing on Saturday.
His Majesty the King of the Belgians arrived at
Osborne House, at seven o'clock, on Saturday evening,
from Claremont.

Yesterday her Majesty and her Royal Consort, and
the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, attended Divine
service in Whippinghatn Church.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited
her Ro) al Highness the Duchess of Gloucester on Sa-
turday, at her residence at Richmond.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Ilereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of
Mecklenburg Strelitz, attended by Baron Knesebeek and
Mr. Edmund Mildmay, honoured the Duke of Devonshire
with their company at dinner on Saturday, at Devonshire
House. Their Royal Highnesses honoured the perform-
ance of the Italian Opera with their presence in the
evening, and afterwards went to Kew.
A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock on
Saturday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. The Minis-
ters present were Lord' John Russell, the Lord Chan-
cellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto,
Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir
John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, the Earl of Clarendon,
the Marquis of Clanricarde, Viscount Morpeth, the
Right Hun. T. B. Macaulay, and the Right Hon. H.
Labouchere.
The Council sat an hour and a half. _ .

The Hon. Henry Wheaton, late Minister of the
United States of America at Berlin, arrived in town on
Friday.
Colonel Tynte had an interview with Lord John Rus-
sell on Saturday.
A deputation on the subject of the abolition of capital
punishments, had an interview with Sir George Grey,
on Saturday, at the Home-office. The deputation con-
sisted of Lord Nugent, Messrs. William Ewart, J
Brotherton, F. Lenthall, C. Gilpin, F. Rowton, and
William M. Christy.
Mr. Benj4min Harrison, Chairman of the Public
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'orks Loran Commission, had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, at his official
residence in Downing-street.
Dispatchrs were sent off on Saturday evening from
the Colonial-office for the Governor of West Australia.

Lord Engestre had an interview on Saturday with
Lord John Russell, at his official residence in Downing-
street.

The Marquis of Lansdowne left town on Saturday
afternoon for his seat, Buwood Park, Wilts.

The Duke of Wellington and Sir Fred. Trench, at-
tended the early service yesterday at the Chapel Royal,
St. James's. The Rev. Mr. Haden officiated and preached
the sermon. At the daily service the prayers were read
by tlp. Rev. Dr. Knapp, and the lessons by the Rev. Dr.
11. Dakins. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr.
Sleath. Mr. Cooper presided at the organ. The Duke
of Leeds, the Aiarquis of Normanby, and Earl For-
tescue, were among the nobility present.

THE LATE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS.—A tablet to the
memory of this lamented nobleman has (by order of the
Marchioness of Hastings) been recently executed by Mr. E.
Hall, of Derby, and on Wednesday last it was placed imme-
diately over the family pew in the chancel of Castle Don-
nington Church. It consists of a large black marble slab, on
which the family arms and crest are raised in fine white
Carrara marble,' beneath which the following. is inscribed in
Roman capital gilt letters, viz. :—" Sacred to the Memory of
the Most Honourable George Augustus Francis Rawdon
Hastings, Earl of Rawdon, and Viscount Loudown, of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; Earl of
Loudown and Baron Loudown, Tarrinzean, Manchleire, in
Sc,tland; Earl of Moira and Baron Rawdon of Moira, in the
county of Down, in the kingdom of Ireland; Baron Hast-
ings, Hungerford, Bortreaux, Moels Moleyns and Newmarch
in England ; Baron Rawdon, of Rawdon' in the county of
Yoilt, in the peerage of Great Britain, and a baronet of Eng-
land. He departed this life January 13, A.D., 1844, univer-
ally beloved and regretted, in the 36th year of his age."—
erby Mercury.
VICTIMISING EXTRAORDINARY AT WORCESTER.—Our
city has been visited during the last week by a couple of
accomplished swindlers, who have managed to victimise a
number of our fellow citizens to a very unpleasant extent.
Under the names of Thompson and Harris they obtained
from Mr. Nash, house agent, the possession of Trimmer's
late Brewery in Quay-street, where they said they intended
carrying on the business of dry salters, engaging workmen
to make the necessary alterations. For their abode they
took a house in Chesnut walk, and commenced furnishing
it at other people's expense. Messrs. Sparkes and Thompson,
ironmongers, and
,Mrs. Nichools, furniture agent, High-
street, Mr. Brimmell and Mr. Moseley, roe-makers,
Mr. Davis, cheese-factor, Mr. Bevan, hatter, Mr. Wood,
Blackfriars, and many others, were " honoured" with
their commands, and they thus got together a large
quantity of furniture, spirits, ale, and other requisites
for housekeeping, and we need scarcely say that they paid
for nothing in ready money. As they had not actually com-
menced their residence at the house, Mr. Holmes employed
his gardener to see the premises fastened up at night, and
when he left the place on Tuesday evening, everything was
as it should be. On going to the house the next morning,
his surpise may be better conceived than described to find
th .t it had been stripped of everything it formerly contained ;
the furniture was all removed, the head of the ale barrel had
been taken off, and its contents transferred to more portable
vessels, the garden was robbed of its apples, wall-
fruit, filberts, &c. &c., more than half the grapes, not at all
ripe, were removed from the hot-house, and all the things,
together with the gentlemen tenants, had mysteriously
disappeared. It seems probable that a horse and cart were
used for the more speedy conveyance of the articles, as a
quantity of oats and beans were found in the manger, but, as
the canal runs hard by, they might very easily have been
put into a boat and wisked off conveniently enough. 11l
news flies apace and the unfortunate dupes of the swindlers
besieged the police office in the morning filling the Inspec-
tor's ear with their numerous complaints, but, as yet, nothing
that we can learn has been done towards their pursuit and
apprehension. Both the men had a respectable and trades-
men-like appearance, were very stout, Thompson being about
the middle height, and Harris, who was tall, made use of
the Staffordshire brogue in his conversation. It.seems that
they had been lodging for a fortnight in the Lowesmoor, and
had not paid any rent. We trust they may be caught.—
' Worcester Herald.
ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB.—The monthly meet-
ing of the above club took place on Thursday evening at the Piazza
Hotel,Covent-garden, Captain Harwell, the vice-commodore presid-
ing, in the absence of Lord A. Paget, the commodore. The minutes
of the last meeting having been read and confirmed, the Marquis of
stafford and seven gentlemen were hallotted for, au( elected mem-
bers of the club. Captain Wheeler, the treasurer, announced that,
in obedience to the vote of the club, 3001. had been invested in the
Three per Cent. Consols. Several gentlemen were proposed for bal-
lot at the next meeting, and after thanks had been awarded to the
Marquis of Anglesey and Lord Paget for having sent the band of the
blues to the recent sailing match, and the same compliments having
been given to the vice-commodore, as ehairman of the evening, the
proceedings terminated.
OPENING OF MANCHESTER PARKS.—W. B. Watkins,
Esq., the Ma7or. and Malcolm Ross, Esq., the deputation from the
Public Parks Committee, to solicit the presence of Sir R. Peel and
Lord Ellesmere at the opening of the parks, proceeded to London, to
wait upon Sir R. Peel, on IVednesday, and returned to Manchester
by the express train last night (Thursday). We understand that the
deputation succeeded in obtaining an interview with the Right Hon.
Baronet, and were received with gi eat courtesy ; but Sir Robert de-
alined compliance with the invitation, on the ground that his health
had suffered 4o severely from the pressure of public business, that he
was physically, unequal to the task, however flattering the accepta-
tion-- • invitationht be to his feelings, from the manner and
of the in.g
under the circumstances in which it was conveyed. We have plea-
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WORLD'S TEMPERANCE CON-
VENTION.
FIFTH DAY'S SITTING.

On Saturday there was a fifth meeting of the Convention,
although it was previously understood, according to the ar-
rangements originally proposed, that the great " monster "
demonstration at Covent-garden Theatre, on Friday night,
was to terminate the proceedings. In consequence, how-
ever, of the great mass of business that remained yet un-
considered, the committee having the management Of this
Convention, thought proper to appoint an extra day for the
purpose of consummating their operations, and accordingly
the Convention met again at the Literary and Scientitic
Institution, in Aldersgate-street. The chair was taken at
ten o'clock, by W. Cash, Esq. The meeting was but thinly
attended. After some formal matters of business had been
disposed of, a resolution was agreed upon referring a large
mass of papers, yet unread, back to the committee, as it
was impossible they eoula be considered by the Convention
within the time to which their sittings were limited. A warm
and animated discussion then ensued in consequence of cer-
tain observations made the night before by Frederick Doug-
lass, the escaped slave, at Covent-garden Theatre, by which
it was supposed by some members of the body that a charge
was made against the Temperance Society in America, of
supporting the obnoxious system of slavery. It will be re-
collected by our readers, that after Frederick Douglass had
concluded his very able and interesting address upon the
night in question, the Rev. E. N. Kirk, from Albany, sought
to procure a hearing with a view of removing the impres-
sion which he thought the language of the independent-
minded Virginian negro was calculated to make upon the
public mind. He was, however, prevented from proceeding
with such explanation by the vociferous cheers with which
the speech just uttered by Douglass was received, which
cheers were continued for several moments after the object
of their admiration had resumed his seat. The subject was
therefore brought before the Convention on Saturday, in the
absence of Douglass, although we believe it was generally
understood that the man never had the smallest intention of
Taking any such representation against the temperance body
in America. The subject was at length dropped in conse-
quence of the interference of the chairman, and the regular
business of the meeting was resumed.
A resolution was passed, expressing their gratitude to Pro-
vidence for his goodness in bringing so many of their brethren
in safety from different parts of the world to aid in the ex-
tension of that great principle which they hoped to see every-
where adopted. This subject occupied their attention up to
the time of their adjournment, about one o'clock.