The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-09 00:00:00

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.
COVENT-GARDEN.

The attraction of Les _Huguenots is so much on the
increase, and the season is drawing so near its termina-
tion, that the directors have determined on the postpone-
ment of Gulielmo Tell until Saturday next, to enable them
to play La Huguenots again to-morrow night. We have
already rpcurdea our opinion of the merits of this grand
performance, and are in nowise surprised that the ex-
citement of the public keeps pace with the high charac-
ter of the entertainment.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and attended by Lady
Gore, Hon. Mrs. Hudson, Miss Gore, Mr. and Mrs.
Ashley, and Captain Taylor, honoured the theatre last
evening with her presence. Her Majesfy's box was oc•
copied by the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, Count
and Countess Leichenstein, Lord Arthur Hay, Lady
Susan Ramsay. Among the audience were their Royal
Highnesses Prince and Princess Metternich, and her
Royal Highness Princess Melanie Metternich, his Royal
Highness the Conde de Montemolin, his Ex-
cellency the Russian Ambassador, Baroness Brun-
now, and Mademoiselle Olga de Lochner ; the
Danish Minister, Countess Reventlow, and Coun-
tess Hilda Reventlow; the Duchess of Sutherland,
Lady Constance Leveson Gower, His Royal Highness
Don Enrique of Spain and suite, Duke and Duchess of
Argyll, Duke of Devonshire, Duke of Leinster, Duke
and Duchess of Beaufort and the Ladies Somerset, Mar •

quis and Marchioness of Drogheda, Marquis of Mob-
field, Marquis of Kildare, Marquis of Donegal, Marquis
of Ormonde, Marchioness Dowager of Downshire, Mar-
chioness of Worcester, COuntess Dowager of Essex, Sir
John and Lady Walsh, Earl of Desart, Earl Mu'grave,
Earl of Eglinton, Earl and Countess of Morley, Viscount ,
Ehr►ngton, Viscount Clifden, Viscount and Viscountess
Villiers, Viscount Mandeville, Viscount Exmouth, Vis-
count Templetown, Viscount Anson, Viscount Kilworth,
Viscountess Dungarvon, Lord and Lady Wharncliffe,
Lord and Lady Carington, Lord Ward, Lord G. Fitz-
gerald, Lord Henry Lennox, Lady Webster, Lady Scott,
Lady Goldemid, Lady Wemyss, Lady Antrobus, Lord
Sheffield, Lord Bateman, Lady Morgan, Lady and Miss
Macdonald, Hon. Mr. Stuart Wortley, Hon. J. Fortes-
cue, Hon. Miss Sidney, Hop. Mr. and Mrs. C. Ashburn-
ham, Hon. D. Fortescue, Sir G. Armytage, Sir David.
Davies and Miss Morgan, Sir F. Booth, Sir W. Abdy,.
Baron and Baroness Rothschild, Sir John and the Misses.
Burgoyne, Sir H. Webb, Sir W. B. Bathe, Count de Ce-
villon, Hon. Hussey Keane, Sir A. Scudamore Stanhope,
Sir John Macdonald, Mr. T. Baring, M.P., Mr. H. B.
Baring, M.P., &c.

COURT CIRCULAR.
OSBORNE, TUESDAY.
Her Majesty and the Prince took their accustomed
early walk in the grounds of Osborne this morning, and
his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the Royal
Family, rode and walked as usual.
The Royal dinner party yesterday included, in addi-
tion to the Royal Household, the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Abercorn, and the Hon. Captain Dudley
Pelham.
Mr. Nash was honoured by an audience, and bad the
honour of laying before the Queen and Prince his views
of Windsor Castle, which were much admired by her
Majesty and his Royal Highness.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn left Os-
borne for London this morning.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by. Lady Aloe Maria Dawson and Sir George Couper,
arrived at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, at
four o'clock yesterday afternoon, from Frogmere House,
Windsor. The Royal Duchess, on her way to town,
visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester,
at her residence in Richmond Park. _ _

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager received a visit on
Monday, at her residence, Bushy-house, Bushy-park,
from her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.
His Serene Highness Prince Lowenstein had an in-
terview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home
Offize.
A deputation, including the Hon. Francis Scott,
M.P., Mr. Murk Boyd, and Mr. Charles D. Logan,
had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday ac the Co-
lonial-office.

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Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an in-
terview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday,
at his official residence in Downing-street.
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The Marquis of Lansdowne (L)rd President of the
Council) arrived in town yesterday, from his seat
Bowood-park, Wilts.

DANISH BLOCKADE.

Danish Consulate General, London, Aug. 8, 1848.

Sir,—By direction of the Royal Board of Trade at
Copenhagen, notice is hereby given that, in addition
to the harbours of Swinemunde, Wolgast, Cammin,
Kiel, with the mouth of the Schleswig Canal at iloltenuu,
now under blockade, the following places will be
blockaded by his Danish Majesty's naval forces from the
15th inst., viz.:—Greifswalde, with the eastern entrance
to Straistinu, rfie rivers Elbe, Weser, and Juhde.
This announcement has been communicated to the
Representatives of the friendly and neutral Powers, Etc-
credited at the Court of his amish Majesty, and will
likewise ho notified by the officers of the Customs to
every vessel on passing through the Sound and Belts.
(Signed) FLETC HER WILSON.
Capt. G. A. lialsteti, R.N., S.cr, tart', Lloyd's.

THAMES WATER AND STEAM

BOATS.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
After the means for flushing sewers and driving their
contents into the Thames, it is surely worth considering,
until better means be discovered, how the accumulated

liquid filth is commingled with the river water and
carried away seaward by the tide. Every old " West.
minster" knows that formerly he could get a drink of
clear water over the side of his boat about the latitude
of Putney-bridge; but he can't now, nor at a great deal
higher up the river. Although by means of improved
and increased sewage u much larger quantity of filth,
&c., is sent into the Thames, there is not so much mud
upon the shores above London-bridge as formerly; and
there can be no doubt that the agitation caused by
steam-b(,ats disperses it. Should it not, therefore, be a
matter of caution how interference with such boats be
made, that their usefulness in a sanitary point of view
be not abated.

The EARL OF WILTON'S N ENV YACHT.—This
splendid vessel sailed for C,,wes on Monday last, between
four
nnd tive o'clock, A.m. Her burden is 200 tons, length
115 feet
from figure-head to tatfrail ; below she is capacious,
and conveniently laid out, her height between decks is 7 feet ;
sher has a large berth forward for the crew, about 20 in num-
ber, with galley and every convenience for their comfort.
No expense seems to have been spared; and her saloons,
cabins, bed-places, beds, tables, sideboards, sofas, glasses,
lamps, with every possible requisite, are exceedingly hand-
some. Her mainmast is 80 feet, and her foremast 78 feet in
length
; they were only obtainable in the London river. Her
sails are proportionally large, containing about 5,000 yards of
canvas.— her oiiport Telegraph.
A
rrangettients are making by the West-end bankers
to close at four o'clock instead of five o'clock, from the Ist of
October. The Bank of England and City bankers have done
so since May last.
AN INTREPID ACT.—On Tuesday evening a young
lad, while endeavouring to walk on the edge of a coal barge
moored over a deep spot in the canal at :death, fell through
the narrow space between the bank and the barge, where he
clung for a few moments, and then sunk beneath the binge.
An intrepid man, named Anthony Williams, a glazier, who
stood on the opposite side of the canal, on learning the situa-
tion of the lad, plunged into the canal, and on arriving at the
si le of the boat, (lived beneath it, and finally secured and
brought up the body, which was afterwards restored to life,
much to the joy of his parents, who are too poor, however, to
express their gratitude in the manner such conduct deserves.
—Cambrian.
AN INFURIATED Ox.—On Monday, about three
o'clock in the afternoon, an ox of the highland breed,
overdriven and excited, broke from its drover in the
neighbourhood of Newport Market, and atter causing
great: alarm in Long-acre and Great Queen-street, found
its way into Lincoln's-inn-square. Here an attempt was
made to stop its progress by a number of butcher boys,
a crowd of spectators lending their aid, and rather in-
creasing by their occasional advance and retreat the
fury of the animal. The poor beast, after surveying its
opponents for a few moments, made a sudden rush upon
the crowd in the direction of Stone-buildings. In aa
instant the spectators were flying in every direction.
The first person attacked by the animal was the porter
of Lincoln's. inn Hall, but he having had the presence of
mind to close the iron gates escaped injury,
the ox merely butting the iron rails with great
force. A gentleman named Marrett, resident in
the neighbourhood of Lincoln's Inn-fields, and who
was entering the square from Stone-buildings,
was not so fortunate. The animal, defeated in its attack
on the porter, rushed upon this gentleman, who appeared
paralysed by its approach. and stood with his back
against the iron railings. The ox rushed upon him and
butted him with great violence, one of the animal's horns
entering his left temple. He immediately fell senseless.
The animal then passed into Stone-buildings, where
some unsuccessful attempts were made to secure it by
means of ropes. Mr. Marrett was at once picked up and
conveyed in a perfectly senseless state to King's College
Hospital, where, by a singular coincidence, he was re-
cognised by Mr. Sedgwick, the house surgeon, as an old
schoolfellow. The ox again escaping, passed through
Chancery-lane, and ran down Holborn in the direction
of Smithfield, seriously injuring several persons, and
causing the greatest alarm. At length, after passing
through several droves of cattle, it fortunately entered
Fox and Knot yard, a locality abounding in slaughter-
houses, and leaping over an iron bar imprisoned itself in
a narrow court, where by means of ropes let down from
the roofs of the houses, it was eventually secured and
slaughtered.
SIEGE OPERATIONS AT CUATIIAM.—A grand mi-
litary display will take place on Friday next, on
.which
occasion the whole of the troops of this garrisondwmill take
iners,
part in the operations. The Royal sappers an
with the Hon. East India Company's sappera,
^uns,
heavyare work
ing night and day, erecting field batteries fore.uubts
upon a.
at if approaches necessary for storming d
large scale, similar to those redoubts thatar the Duke of
Wellington caused to be erected at Torres. Vedras against..
the French army. It is expected that 6,000 men willlse
under arms. The siege will be the most extensive that
has ever yet been witnessed in this country, as as the works
stand over several acres of ground.—Canterbury Journal.