The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-06 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince
Albert walked this morning on the Eastern Terrace
and slopes.
The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert enjoyed the
sport of shooting this morning, accompanied by the
Duke of Cambridge and Prince George, and Earl
Delawarr, and attended by the Right Hon. W. S.
Lascelles, and Colonel Seymour.

The Earl of Aberdeen and the Earl of Auckland
are expected to arrive at the Castle this evening, on
a visit to her Majesty.

The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
will include her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and the
Princess Mary, his Serene Highness Prince Fre-
deri,:k of Hesse, the Earl of Aberdeen; the Earl and
Countess of Delawarr, the Earl of Auckland, the Lady
in Waiting on the Duchess of Kent, the Lacy in
Waiting on the Duchess of Cambridge, Baroness de
Speth, the Right Hon. William S. and Lady Caro-
line Lascellts, and Mr. Edmond Mildmay.
The band of the Genadier Guards will attend
during dinner. The Queen's private band will after-
wards attend in the Castle.

. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived
at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, at
twelve o'clock, yesterday, attended by Sir George
Couper, from Frogmore House, near Windsor. Her
Royal Highness left town at two o'clock in thr: after-
noon, on her return to Frogmore House.

Lady John Russell has been indisposed at Woburn
Abbey, but is better.

THE APPOINTMENT OF DR.
HAMPDEN.
The following memorial has been presented to the
Queen:—

TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

ROYAL SANTIAGO MINING
COMPAN Y.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was held
yesterday, at one o'clock, at the' offices in Broad-
street-buildings; Baron Goldsmidt in the chair. The
report showed an excess of expenditure over income
of 5,9061. 12s. for the half-year, the quantity of ore
raised being 107 tons in the months of July and
August, and 310 tons during the three following
months. The money capital in hand amounted to
40,8751. 19s. 3d., but although this sum was made up
in part of accumulated profits, the directors did not
recommend any division until they should be in a
position to determine to what extent the mining
operations which were now going on, according
to the report of Mr. Mitchell, the manager, and
with a prospect of the most favourable results (se-
veral 'new veins of ore having been opened, and
others, which, in consequence of the expense of
working them, promised to be unprofitable, dis-
continued), should proceed, the directors being de-
sirous of avoiding the necessity of making calls' on
the shareholders. It was also important that the
directors should have the means in hand to prosecute,
should they be so advised, their suit against the
Cobre Company, who had wrongfully taken posses-
sion of the Cobra mine, to the prejudice of the
Santiago Company. Although the operations of the
company for the last half-year, for the first time, ex-
hibited a loss, the produce of ore during the last
three months had rather more than paid expenses,
and was increasing. The directors hoped to be able
to lay before the company at the next half-yearly
meeting a full account of the extent of the proposed
operations and the capital required, and promised to
make a division of the accumulated profits at as early
a period as possible.
The letter of the manager, detailing the progress
and present position of the works, was read.
The CHAIRMAN, in answer to questions put by
certain shareholders, more fully explained the state-
ments of the report,.and the business terminated with
a unanimous vote of thanks to, arid confidence in, the
directors.

THE CAUSE OF THE DEFEAT OF

THE SONDERBUND.

The National publishes the following story of the
Jesuits of Lucerne :—The Reverend Fathers, it ap-
peared, possessed a Gothic reliquiary of most exquisite
workmanship. In order to provide against the hard-
ness of the times which the war might bring on them,
they bethought them that they would turn S this
reliquiary into money, and a Hebrew dealer in
curiosities, residing at Geneva, purchased it of them,
and paid them in Napoleons. Whether it was that
the sight of the gold dazzled the eyes of the Reverend
Fathers, or whether it was that they cared nothing
for the relic shut up in the reliquiary, certain it is
that the purchaser was permitted to carry away with
his purchase a little phial, sealed with several seals,
which was shut up therein. Some time after, the
Genevese dealer sold to a Parisian dealer the reliquiary,
but whether with or without its precious contents
does not appear, in consequence of the little interest
which either vendor or purchaser attached to the
matter. But the Genevese dealer was much asto-
nished a few months afterwards, when matters were
going badly at Lucerne, at receiving a letter
from the Reverend Father, Superior of the Jesuits of
Lucerne, demanding from him " a little bottle con-
taining something of a.black colour, a relic to which
the inhabitants of Lucerne appeared to attach the
highest value, but which was of no value to the pur-
chaser, and'had not been included in the bargain."
The dealer replied that the reliquiary had been again
sold by him, and that it was actually in the possession
of an amateur in Paris. He now received another
letter much more pressing than the first, in which
he was informed that the bottle contained the blood
of St. Francois d'Assises—that the inhabitants of
Lucerne attached the utmost importance to its pos-
session, and that it must be restored. The civil war
interrupted this correspondence, and the misfortunes
of the arms of the Sonderbund must be attributed to
the absence from Lucerne of the blood of St.
Francois d'Assises. The Geneva curiosity-dealer,
who is an Israelite, offers the correspondence of the
worthy father's for sale.

FRIGHTFUL DEATH ON. THE NORTH. MIDLAND
RAILWAY.—DERBY, JAN. 4.—The following very shock-
ing accident on the North Midland railway, by which a
much respected inhabitaut of Belper, Mrs. Hannah
.Halsman, the postmistress of the town, lost her life, was
,the subject of a Coroner's inquiry yesterday before Mr.
Mozeley, the Coroner, and a respectable jury. It
appeared that the unfortunate female was a passenger
by the " accommodating" train, on the evening of the
30th ult., from Leeds, Sheffield, &e. which reached
Belper about half-past seven o'clock. Here she seemed
in great haste •to leave the train, and in apparent
anxiety to reach home, made an attempt to cross
the rail before the train had really started. The
light which reflected on the steps descending from the
platform was in some way obscured, and on her pro-.
c,cding to go down there, she missed her footing and
fell forward in the small space between the front of the
carriegi s and the edge of the platform. The train being
'then in motion, she was immediat,ly pinned between
the steps of the carriages and the side walk of the plat-
form. ter dreadful ;ate was instantly observed, but it
was impossible to intimate to the engine, driver to stop
the train ere it had proceed( d more than fifty yards, the,
whole of v.hich distance she was dra:4ged by the head
and neck. When she was taktn op life \vas quite extinct.
Alter considerable ditcussion its to whether the station'
was lighted sufficiently for the clue protection of the
public,- the ; jury returned a , verdict of " Accidental.
death," with a recommendation that the platform should
be better lighted. A gentleman connected with the
company, who was present, promised that the sugges-
tions of the jury sht.uld be adopted.
The Boston 21ail mentions the following remark-
able instance of American delicacy :—A young lady
fainted, last market morning, when told by one of the
country chaps that he had chickens for sale, but they
were undressed.

THE HAT TRADE.—This branch of business at
Denton is still in a very depressed state. We hear that,
of 3,000 persons formerly employed at hat-making in
this township, there are scarcely so many hundreds now
working in the hattincr department. There is much
poierty in the neighbourhood consequent upon this state
of things.—Manchester Courier.

" Why," says the Alabama Flag, "is the career of
the editor of the Louisville Journal through life like a
celebrated tune? Because it is the rogue's march."
•"Arhy," retorts the Louisville Journal, " will the editor
of the Flag, et the close of his career through life he
like a tune of Paganini's? Because he will be executed
on a single string.' "
A FEUDAL BARON.—The Mankeim Gazette states
that M. d'Erstleben, dean of the chapter of Branden-
burg, and head of the forty nobles of that province, who
addressed the famous address of loyalty to the King, is
to be prosecuted for having taken a poor peasant, who
had frightened his horse, and ordered him to be hung by
his legs in the stable of his castle. The man would, in
all probability, hav,e perished, had not M. d'.Erstleben's
daughter gone in the night time aad cut him down.
The Duke of Ilainilton, with his accustomed libe-
rality, and well timed consideration for the wants of the
poor of the town of Hamilton, on New Year's Day
caused to be supplied a quantity of oatmeal and butcher-
meat to upwards of eight hundred individuals, thereby
many to pass the day in comparative comfort
who otherwise must have done so under circumstances
enabling
widely different.—Scotch Paper.

THE ALDERMANIC GOWN or TOWER WARD.—
Yesterday the Lord Mayor gave directions to issue a
precept for the election of an alderman for the Ward of
Tower, in the room of Mr. Mathias Prime Lucas, de-
ceased. The election will take place at Bakers' Hall,
Harp-lane, on Monday next. The only candidate who
has appeared is Mr. Finnis, who has been for some years
deputy of the ward, and upon whom a deputation, most
numerous and respectable, of the inhabitants has waited
with a requisition, to which a favourable answer has, we
understand, been returned.
THE WEATHER AND MAILS AT DOVER.—There
was so great a sea off Dover yesterday, that H.M.S.
Onyx, from Ostend, was unable to land her passengers,
at the time she transhipped her mails into a small boat.
The French day mail from London, which arrived at
Dover by the 3, P.M., train, could not be shipped, and
was conveyed by land to Deal, to be put on board the
French screw steamer which awaited it off that port.
HOP DUTIES.—The hop-growers of the county of
Kent are about to petition Parliament for the repeal of

the Excise Duty on home-grown hops.
SUICIDE OF A NEwsmax.—Yesterday Mr. Bed-
ford held an inquest at the Bedford Head, Maiden-lane,
on the body of William Hancock, aged 67, a newsman,
residing at No. 14, Maiden-lane. The deceased had for
the last year been suffering from cataract, which pai
tially incapacitated him for business ; and not long ago
wasg not deemed
he attempted to drown himself by leaping from ti
hGirsasvoersreonwd steam-boat
whatai be
oat;habdutdoenftee,rarne(cloivterin, expressed
necessary to place him under restraint. On Wednesday
week he was found in
throat cut, and a com-
mon table-knife by his side. bed
with his
•He died on Sunday last.
Mr. Tornpson, surgeon, said the deceased appeared to be
recovering from the wound, which in itself might not
have caused death. He could not state positively what
was the cause of death without a post mortem examina-
'ion. The inquest was adjourned until Friday, in order
that the body might he opened. •
SUDDEN DEATH OF AN AFRICAN LION.—OR Wed-
nesday morning last, a large African lion, named Wal-
lace, died suddenly in Batty's menagerie, which for a
few days had been opened to the public at the bottom of
the new market. The noble beast haying been well and
lively until the day previous, it was strongly inspected
it had been poisoned; the carcase ~was, therefore, re-
moved to the Museum in Harrison. road, where a minute
examination took place, but although the stomach and
intestines were somewhat inflamed no mineral poison
could be detected. The lion was said to have been the
largest African lion in England. It was captured about
two years ago in Africa, and was subsequently trained
by Mr. Carter, and became the property of Mr. Batty a
short time ago, as a " performing lion." He was valued
at 3001. The loss, of course, will be a severe one. The
sudden death of a fine bear on Monday, and a horse
since the menagerie came to Halifax, and also a valuable
panther a few days ago, makes it exceedingly suspicious
that Mr. Batty has been subjected to some foul play. 7.
k Halifax Guardian.