The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-07 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert took their accustomed early
walk yesterday in the garden of Buckingham Palace. His
Royal Highness Prince Albert afterwards rode out on horse-
back, attended by the Equerry in Waiting, the Hon. Captain
Gordon.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Queen yesterday, and remained to luncheon with her
Majesty and her Royal Consort.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took their
usual walks and rides yesterday in the pleasure grounds of
the Palace.

The Royal dinner party yesterday at Buckingham Palace
included the Earl and Countess of Jersey, Lady Clementina
Villiers, Viscount Canning, and Captain Francis Seymour.
The band of the First Life Guards was in attendance
during dinner, and performed the following pieces :
Overture zur Cantate—Die Veer Meucher Alter—Lachner.
Walzer—Themis Fest Klinge--Labitzky.
Medley—Scotch—Waddell.
Polka—Kenderfreuden—Labitzky.
Selection from "Linda de Chamouni"—Donizetti.
Potpourri—March—Zulchner.
The Viscountess Canning has succeded Lady Portman as
the Lady in Waiting to her Majesty.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager took an airing yesterday
in an open carriage and four.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by
Lady Augustus Bruce, Lady Fanny Howard, and Sir George
Couper, Bait., honoured the performance of the French plays
with her presence yesterday evening.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge, attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan and Baron
Knesebeck, honoured tie Archbishop of York with their com-
pany at dinner yesterday, at his residence in Grosvenor-
square. After dinner the illustrious party, including the
Noble Directors of the Concerts of Ancient Music, went to
the Hanover-square rums, to honour the Concert of Ancient
Music with their presence, the Archbishop being the Director
for the evening.
The Ecclesiastical Commsioners for England had a
general meeting yes:erday.sAtieke were present the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, ther Pelops. of Bangor, Carlisle,
Chester, Gloucester, and Bristat,llichfield, Lincoln, Llandaff,
Ripon, and Salisbury, the Judge of the Prerogative Court,
the Earl of Devon, the Earl of Bessborough, the Earl of Chi-
chester, and the Biel Hon. H. Hobhouse.
The Commissioners of the Metropolitan Improvements had
a meeting yesterday. There were present Viscount Canning,
the Right Hon. J. C. ilerries, the Lord Mayor, Mr. 11. T.
Hope, the Hon. C. Gore, and Mr. Milne.
Mr. Secretary Glacstone gave a dinner to the Cabinet
Ministers yesterday evening, at his residence on Carlton
House-terrace.

Sir Robert and Lady Gore Booth arrived at Farrance's
Hotel yesterday, from their seat, Lissadel, Ireland.

THE BLACK TERN (STERNA NIGRA).—A pair of
these rare birds, the black tern, were observed on Monday last flying
with that rapidity which characterises the whole genus, over the
river. They were first observed between Greenwich and Woolwich,
and afterwards a single bird, supposed to be one of the same pair,
was seen near Westminster-bridge ; another, supposed to be its com-
panion, was met with again near Woolwich. Several attempts_ ire}s
made to secure a specimen, but the birds were wild, and could 'not
e approached within gunshot, The black tern is occasionally seen
about Cambridge and other fenny districts, and is exceediarnu-
merous in the latitule of Newfoundland ; but its visits to thelshores
of the Thames are " few and far between." The whole tribe is gifted
with extraordinary powers of flight, which has given rise to their
popular name, " sea swallows."
WIFE-SELLIISCa--A correspondent informs us, that on
Saturday last, a fellow named Vowles sold his wife in a public-hoase,
at Axbridge, to arother man, the price paid being ss. and a gallon of
beer.—Bristol Mercury.
BEGGING PETITIONS.—The inhabitants of Clapham,
Wandsworth, andßattersea are cautioned against a well contrived
and systematic plan of robbery, which is' now, and has been for
some time past, going on in that district by means of begging peti-
tions, setting forth the extreme destitution of parties, who have sud-
denly been redne,ed-to ruin from various causes detailed in the peti-
tion, to which the signatures of the clergy and benevolent inhabits is
are affixed, as nearly as possible resembling the respective hand-
writing ofthe parties. Several of these cases have lately been dis-
covered:to be grossly fraudulent.
CURED PaovnioNs.—Mr. Grogan (Dublin) has ob-
tained a return (printed on Thorley) showing the quantities of cured
provisions imported into the United Kingdom from foreign countries
for the half-year ended the sth of January, 1846, -It appears that the
total import of salted beef was 38,201 cwt. ; of salted pork, 15,709.
cwt. ; of hams, 3,006 cwt. ; and of bacon, 38 cwt. The largest im-
port was from the United States of America: 31,000"" *t2'
of salted "beef, and 5,720 cwt. of salted pork, In the haltaYear.
The quantities retained for home consumption were', 106 r cwt.
of salted beef, on which a duty of 3001. was paid ; 266- owt.
of salted pork, the duty on which was 102/. ; 1,134 cwt. of hams', on
which the duty was 7611.; and 39 cwt. of bacon, at 81. duty. •Ighe
quantities re-exported from the United Kingdom as mere/ler/Mee"-
were, of salted beef, 2,486 cwt.; of salted pork, 2,365 cwt.; and-Sir'
hams, 468 cwt.. The quantities taken for ships' stores were mope&
tively 47,724, 13,246, and 951 cwt. No bacon was taken fer snipes,
stores, '
PAnis INVENTION.—SeveraI of the Paris journals of
iion,
Wednesday contained an account of a review at Vincennes on the
preceding day, in honour of Ibrahim Pacha. The account which we
gave was copied from the Constitutionnel. It appears, however, that
nothing of the kind took place. The Debats of Thursday says :—" It
Ibrahim Pacha had had the Constitutionnet and some others of the
Paris journals translated to him yesterday morning, he would have
been conainced that-the brilliant
which is the peculiar
faculty of the literature of the east, is not one of the least of the
qualities of the mind in France. The Constitutionnel relates a scene,
aginat
retired chamber of a castle,
as having paseeff on lavaidiY, not imagination,
some
but in the open field, for manoeuvres of troops, between St. Maur and
Vincennes—a most interesting scene, in which Ibrahim Pacha was
the hero of the piece. The details of this military fete had the only
fault of being narrated a week before it occurred, for it is not till
Tuesday next, as we learnathat the grand review, of which the Con-
stitutionnel has given u9'the recital by anticipation, will take place."
A petition to 'Parlianient on the part of certain mer-
chants,and frisder'S 'of Dublin who have formed themselves into a
body for dealing, in shares, against' the privileges of the Dublin Stock
Exchange, haS ailed forth a counter-petition from the opposite side,
in which it is prayed that the laws affecting the stockbrokers in Ire-
land may remain unaltered.
AMERICAN PROVISIONS.—The arrivals of flour and
various descriptions of provisions at the ports of London and Liver-
pool, the latter especially, from the United States of America, within
the past two at three days, have been so extensive as to be worthy
-of especial notice. The line-of-packet ship Wellington, arrived in
the St. Katharine Docks from New York, brought 2,367 barrels of
flour, 75 packages of clover-seed, and various other articles ; and the
ship Rescoe; in the same docks, from Baltimore, 5,100 barrels of
flour, 550- packages of beef, 217 of pork, and 758 of oil seed-cake,
which is used for the feeding of cattle. The following numerous ar-
rivals have taken place at Liverpool :—The Coverdale, from New
Orleans, 3,097 barrels of flour ; the Here of Sidon, also from New
Orleans, 100 peckagts of lard, 150 of beef, and 1,000 barrels of flour;
the Hero Olt:Acre, 2, 00 barrels of flour, &c. ; the Rhone, from Balti-
more, 3,421 barrels of. flour, 3,000 bushels of wheat, 3,939 bushels of
Indian corn, 52 packages of pork; 24 of bacon, and 321 of oil seed-
cake; 'the Manchester, from New Orleans, 2,249 packages of lard,
304 bakrels of, flour, and 146 sacks of Indian corn; the Huron,
from , the same port, 300 barrels of Indian corn ; the
Henry Bliss; also fawn N'eav Orleans, 109 packages of hams,
49 of pork, and other articles; the ship llottinguer, from New York,
brought 10 hampers of potatoes, 6,711 barrels of flour, 100 packages
of bread, 200 of pork, 4Of tongues,, and 26 of clover-seed ; the Sir C.
Campbell, from New Orleans; 417 barrels and 989 sacks of Indian
corn; the Lucy Wright; from New Orleans also, 2,011 packages of
lard, 28 Of hants; 300 'of beef, aed '46 of pork ;' the Miltiades, from
the same. place, 2,000 barrels of Indian corn ; and the Lady Sale, the
large number of 1,000 packages of beef awl other articles. It will be
sees how extensive, in two days only, the importations of food have
been, although this list does not comprise a tithe of the articles im-
ported ; but it is sufficient for the purpose. Looking at the extensive
supplies of food from America, coupled with the published list of
arrivals of the Sarno descriptiett of articles from Ireland, it suggests
matter for surprise and conjecture as to the quarter into which they
are dispersed and consumed. It may be mentioned that the arrivals
of shipping into the port of Liverpool as well as in London, front the
United States, equally with all other'parts of the world, have been
very numerous within the time mentioned, and the docks and
waterside are in consequence in a very busy and bustling state,
THE LATE MR& FORSTER, OF NEWCASTLE. We
are sorry to have to record, this week, the death of a very amiable
and intelligent lady, Mrs. Forster, of Newcastle. She was the
niece of the late Lords Eldon and Stowel, being the daughter of their
brother, Mr. Scott, who was a highly respectable coal-fitter in New-
castle. Mrs. Forster was a great favourite and constant corres-
pondent of her illustrious uncles, and was distinguished by her virtues
and usefulness, and, above all, the unostentationsness of her life.
She expired on the 17th ult., in the 72d year of her age, and was
interred yesterday in St. Nicholas's churchyard. Gateshead Ob.
server.
THE NEWS TRADE.—We have recently ascertained
that a system prevails at the News-hall of inserting printed bills,
advertising various publications and remarks, in the newspapers
packed up for post there, and in some instances the covers in which
the papers are inclosed are made the medium of publishing adver-
tisements of quack medicines. or notices of publications, which
could in no other way be presented to public attention. It be-
hoves the managers of the News-hall to put a stop at once to
this nefarious system, which threatens destruction to their
own business, and disappointment to their customers.
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printed bill or paper in any newspaper to be forwarded by post, or
complained Pos- of ce,printing on the cover except the address of the party
to.t whom the paper is sent, and the name of the aewsvender by whom
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and suffer the interest and coevenience of their customers to be
sacrificed by such a system. We are authorised to state, that the
full postage will be charged on all papers found to contain any
printed bill or writing, or any printed or written statement on the
envelope, except the address and the name of the newsvender. In
conclusion, to avoid fraud in any department through which the
newspapers fur the country may be transmitted, we strongly recom-
mend the name and address of the party to whom the papers are
sent to be written on the newspaper. This protection has been con-
cedea ay the Post-office.—Tames.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT AN HOTEL.—On Tue"day Mr.
Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at the London University College, on
the body of Thomas Wells, aged 53 years. The deceased was head
waiter at Hicks's Hotel, Duke.street, .Manchester-square, and bore a
moval to the hospital, and he was most excellent character. About half-past eleven on Friday night
he was about to descend the kitchen stairs, when, being seized with
a tit, he fell, and was precipitated to the bottom, striking his head
against the stone floor, and •
fatal. A surgeon was immediately
called, who recommended his re.
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in a few minutes after his admission. The TI house-surgeon
proved death to be the result of the injuries consequent upon the fall.
rdlct—" Accidental death."
GLASS MILK-PANS.—The repeal of the duty on glass,
the employment of this substance as a material which led to
pipes in the COUTe Mace
wilX-pons, Y of water, has been succeeded by its use for