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cause of the catastrophe; and proceeded with the hires.
Ligation. . _

—After hearing some evidence, the inquiry was again
adjourned for the purpose of summoning General Pasley
as a witness.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, MoNDA.v.—The Queen, attended by the
Viscountess Jocelyn, walked in the vicinity of the Castle
precincts some time this morning. Her Majesty and her
Royal Consort again promenaded in the afternoon.
Prince Albert left the Castle to shoot this forenoon,
accompanied by Viscount Jocelyn, and attended by Colonel
Berkeley Drummond and Colonel Bouverie.
The Royal Family were taken their accustomed airings
this morning. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of
Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were
taken out in the afternoon.

The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will
include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady
Fanny Howard, the Baroness de Sped!, the Rev. Lord
Wriothesley Russell, Mr. George Edward and the Hon.
Mrs. Anson, and the Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay.
A military band will attend during dinner, and her
Majesty's private band will afterwards attend in the
Castle.

Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer
yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street.
The Earl of Dalhousie and other Cabinet Ministers
visited Sir Robert Peel yesterday.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of Sierra Leone.

THE QUEEN'S RE PLY TO THE

DUBLIN ADDRESS.
To the Address of the Lord Mayor and Corporation
of the City of Dublin, presented to her Most Gracious
Majesty on Saturday, at Windsor Palace, published by
us yesterday, her Majesty was pleased to return the
following reply:—
" I have heard with pain the statement which you
have thought it necessary to address to me respecting
the extreme poverty of a portion of my Irish subjects,
and the aggravation of their distress which you antici-
pate, from a deficiency of food, in the present year.
" The welfare and prosperity of Ireland are objects of
my constant care and earnest solicitude; and the failure
of the last potato crop, and its apprehended consequences,
have not escaped my attention.
• " I have directed precautions to be taken which may,
I trust, alleviate the evils unavoidably attendant on this
calamity, and I have summoned Parliament to meet on
an early day.
" I look with confidence to the advice which I shall
receive from the united council of the realm, and I shall
rejoice if measures can be devised which, under the
blessing of Divine Providence, may relieve the wants of
my Irish people, may improve their condition, and insure
their future happiness and contentment."

FLANDERS MAIL.
BRUSSELS, JAN. 3.—The King, accompanied by Mr.
Conway, set out this morning for his estate at Ardenne.
His Majesty will be absent about a week.
Baron d'Arnem had the honour, on the 2d of this
month at noon, to deliver to his Majesty, in a private
audience, the letters which put an end to his mission as
Envoy xtraordinary Minister Plenipotentiary of the
King of Russia.
The Minister of Public Works gives notice that, in
order to facilitate the conveyance of passengers and
mails to England, the departure of the first train from
Ghent to Ostend, which at present takes place at forty.
five minutes past six in the,morning, will, from the sth
of January, take place at six in the morning.
In consequence, the passage of this train through the
intermediate stations between Ghent and Ostend will
be likewise forty-five minutes earlier.
The waters began to subside yesterday.
The Message?. de Guard of yesterday, the 2d, says
—" The inundation in our city at this moment has
obliged twelve of our manufacturers to stop work.
This disaster throws a great number of workmen out of
employment, and deprives them of the means of gaining
their livelihood, for the number of days' work in a week
in these twelve manufactories is equivalent to more than
20,000 francs in wages.
BRUGES, JAN. 2.—We lately stated that a deputa-
tion of the Magistrates had gone to Brussels to ask for a
modification in the tariff of duties on German thread,
and that Mr. Bryaval, Director of the Customs, had
been summoned to the capital to confer with the Minister
of Finance on this important question.
We have now great pleasure in announcing that Mr.
Bryaval was informed yesterday of the measures just
taken by the Minister of Finance. Henceforth the thread
of Westphalia will be admitted at reduced duties, con-
formably to the desire of the petitioners of Bruges.
We do not see from these lines Q n what basis the peti-
tioners ask for the admission of Westphalia thread into
Belgium.

We presume that they solicit the admission of a
quantity of thread for the manufacture of mattresses,
equal to that which is already admitted for the manu-
facture of ticking.
The receipts of the Custom-house of Antwerp in the
month of December was 495,060 f. The receipts for the
whole year 1845 was 6,145,557 f. That of the year 1844
was 6,2B9,3o7E—Brussels Papers, Jan. 4.
BERLIN, DEC. 26.—A great sensation has been caused
among the holders of shares in the iron railway, when
the want of money is already severely felt by an an-
nouncement of the directors of the Lower Silesian and
Marks Railway that, notwithstanding the addition :of a
grant of money already obtained, they have again
made a mistake to the amount of no less than three
millions and a half of dollars, which are required to
complete the work after all the shares have been paid
up. This amendment was quite unexpected by the public,
but some speculators appear to have been aware of it,
and to have speculated on a fall of the shares, which, in
fact, are now at their nominal worth, after rising in the
spring of 1844 to 128, which was the highest prices they
ever attained.—Allgemeine Zeitung, Dee 31.

Viscount Melbourne, accompanied by Lord and
Lady Beauvale, returned to Brocket-hall yesterday, from a
visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.

The Hon. -Robert Daly, married on Saturday, by
his uncle, the 13Ishcip of Cashel; is 111th and ygungest son of
Lord Dunsandle. The fair bride, Hon. Cecilia Maria A'Court,
is the only daughter of Lord Ilaytesbury, and some years
senior to the gallant bridegroom.
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and the return mail will arrive at Gloucester at half-past
seven in the evening, in time for the north mail. Letters
from Gloucester to Hereford ought to be posted by half-past
two in the afternoon, and they will be delivered the same
night.— Carniarthen Journal.
ANCESTRY OF SIR ROBERT PEEL.—Much has
been said of the lowliness of the Peel family, and no little
misconception indulged in with respect to the obscurity of
its descent. The following details, founded on unquestion-
able data, will show that,
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through of heraldry,gh a line of respectable progenitors; the
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great granduncle of the late Baronet, the Rev. Nicholas
Peele, having held the curacy of Blackburn, in Lancashire,
so far back as 1650. The name we find originally written
with a final e, and a family of Peele was, as early as the
beginning of the fifteenth century, seised of lands in Sales-
bury and Wilpshire, districts in the lower division of Black-
burn, Lancashire. About the close of the next century,
Robert Peele left the parish of East Marton, in Craven, and
settled at Hole House, in the hundred of Blackburn, with
which his descendants have ever since been connected. He
died in 1608, leaving a son, William Peele, of Hole House,
who died in 1651, leaving by Margaret Livesey his wife,
whom he married in 1619, a son, Robert Peele, of Hole
House, whose two sons were Robert Peele, of Peele Fold,
Oswaldtwistle, and the Rev. Nicholas Peele, curate of Black-
burn. The elder, Robert Peele, of Peele Fold, married in
1681, Anne Warde, and died in 1733, leaving one son, Wil-
liam Peele, of Peele Fold, who married in 1712, Anne,
daughter of Laurence Walmesley, of Upper Darwent, and
was father of Robert Peel, of Peele Fold, who, by Mary his
wife, daughter of Edmund Haworth, of Blackburne, had a
large family, the third son of which was the late Sir Robert
Peel, Bart.—Patrician.