The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-27 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the
Royal suite, honoured the performance of the concert
of the Philharmonic Society with their presence yes-
terday evening. The royal party arrived at the
Hanover-square Rooms at eight o'clock, in four car-
riages. In the first carriage were her Majesty and
Prince Albert, the Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady in
waiting, and the Master of the Horse. In the second
carriage were the Hon. Miss Cavendish and the Hon.
Flora Macdonald, Maids of Henour in waiting, the
Groom of the Stole to the Prince, and Lord Elphin-
' stone, Lord in waiting. In the bird carriage were
Lord George Lennox, Lord in waiting to the Prince ;
Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Robert Boyle,
Groom in waiting, and Colonel Wylde, Groom in
waiting to the Prince. In the fourth carriage were
Colonel Buckley, Equerry in waiting, and Colonel
Bouverie, Equerry in waiting to his Royal Highness.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Augus Bruce And Sir George Cooper, also
honoured the performance of the Philharmonic Con-
cert with their presence.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on
horseback yesterday, attended by Colonel Bouverie.
Prince Alfred, the Princess Helena, and the
Princess Louisa, accompanied by the Dowager Lady
Lyttelton, took an airing yesterday, in an open car-
riage and four; and the Prince of Wales, the Princess
Royal, and the Princess Alice took airings in the
gardens of the Palace.
Mr. C. K. Murray had an interview with Sir
George Grey yesterday; Sir Benjamin Hall had also
an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. Baronet,
at the Home-office.
A deputation from malt distillers in the west of
Scotland, consisting of Mr. Charles Grey (Glasgow),
Mr. Graham Menzies (Paisley), Lord James Stuart,
Mr. Lockhart, Mr. Forbes, Mr. Bouverie, Mr.
Alexander Hastie, Mr. Archibald Hastie, Mr. Smol-
lett, Mr. Oswald, and Mr. Macgregor, had an inter-
view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and
the Chairman of the Excise yesterday, in Downing-
street.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of Hong-Kong, Ceylon, and
New Zealand.

A deputation, interested in the manufacture of
Gold lace and military ornaments, waited on Sir
eorge Grey at the Home-office yesterday, to repre-
sent the distressed condition of the working people in
their trades. The deputation consisted of Sir de
Lacy Evans, Mr. Samuel Lambert, Mr. Firmin, Mr.
Webb, Mr. Jennens, Mr. Smith, Mr. Starkie, Mr.
D'Almaine, and Mr. Joseph Brown.
Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Napier had yesterday an
interview with Secretary Sir George Grey.
A full-dress inspection of her Majesty's Hon.
Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms took place yesterday,
by their Captain, Lord Foley, in St. James's Palace.
The Noble Captain expressed his approbation of the

corps.
The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council had a meeting yesterday.
The Lords present were—Lord Brougham, the
Master of the Rolls, the Chancellor of the Duchy of
Cornwall, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Prince George of
Cambridge visited her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday
evening. Prince Leopold of Naples (Count of Syra-
cuse) and the Duke of Wellington were also present.
In addition we observed the Duke and Duchess of Beau-
fort, the Duke of Leeds, the Duke and Duchess of
Montrose, the Duchess of Leeds and Miss Lane Fox,
the Duke and Duchess of Leinster, the Duke of Bed-
ford, the Russian Minister, Baroness Brunnow and
Mdlle. Olga de Lechner, the Sardinian Minister, the
Hanoverian Minister, the Swedish Minister and the
Baroness Rehausen, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Kildare, the Marquis and Marchioness of Aylesbury,
the Marquis and Marchioness of Sligo and the Ladies
Browne, the Marquis of Huntley, the Marquis of
Donegal, the Marquis of Granby, the Countess of Rose-
bery, Lord and; Lady Waterpark and party (who eccu-
the Earl and Countess of Sef- pied her Majesty's box),
ton, the Earl of Chesterfield, the Earl and Countess of '
Wilton, the Earl of Bruce, the Earl of Munster, the
Countess of Lichfield, the Earl of Cadogan, the Earl of
Lonsdale, M. de Berg, Count de Burke, the Baron
iyugglas, the Baron Nicolay, M. C. Koudroaffsky, the
Viscount Enfield, Viscount Ranelagh, Viscount Somer-
ton, Viscount Exmouth, Lord Southampton, Lord
Gardner, Lord and Lady Carew, Lady Morgan, Lord
Adolphus Fitzclarence, Lord Foley, Lord Sandys, Lord
George Lennox, Lord Ernest Bruce, &c.
DEATH OF VISCOUNT LASE.—We regret to have
to record the demise of the above nobleman, who ex-
pired on. Saturday morning, at his temporary residence
in Park-street. His Lordship had only been taken un-
well early in the week, and his death was unexpected by
the members of his family. The deceased Warwick
Lake, Viscount Lake, and Baron Lake of Delhi and
Laswary, and of Ashton Clinton, county of Buckingham,
was third son of the gallant Viscount Lake, who ob-
tained a peerage for his great military services in India.
He was married in November, 1815, to Miss Elizabeth
Duncan, daughter of Mr. James Beveridge Duncan, by
whom, who survives his Lordship, he leaves issue two
daughters; the Hon. Isabella and the Hon. Elizabeth
Lake. On the death of his elder brother, Francis Ge-
rard, in May, 1836, he succeeded to the viscountcy,
which now becomes extinct by default of male issue.
The Dowager Countess of Pomfret, the Hon. Lady Bo-
rough, the Earl of Pomfret, Sir Thomas and Lady Anna
Maria Hesketh, Sir John and Hon. Lady Harvey, &c.,
are placed in mourning by his Lordship's death.
The executors of the late James Watt, Esq., have
requested us to state that there is no truth in the report
of a sum of money having been bequeathed to Lord
Brougham by Mr. iVatt.

ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY.

WOOLWICH, JUNE 26.—Au examination of gentlemen
cadets for commission in the Royal Artillery and Royal
Engineers took place to-day in the examination-hall in
the practical class department at the Royal Arsenal.
The board of officers consisted of Lieutenant-General
Sir Thomas Downman, C.B. and K.C.H., Commandant
of the garrison ; Major-General Sir J. F. Burgoyne,
K.C.8., Inspector-General of fortifications; Major-
General J. Webber Smith, C. 8., Director-General of
Artillery (Lord Clarence Paget, Secretary to the
Master-General of the Ordnance, sat on the left of the
Commandant); Major-General J. B. Parker, C. 8., Lieu-
tenant-Gbvornor of the Royal Military Academy;
Colonel J. E. Jones, Assistant Adjutant-General;
Lieutenant-Colonel English, Commanding Royal Engi-
neers; Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon, Inspector of the
Royal Carriage Department; Lieutenant-Colonel Dun-
das, C. 8., Inspector of Artillery; Lieutenant-Colonel
Ilardinge, K.H., Director of the Laboratory; and Bri-
gade-Major Walpole, Royal Engineers.
Amongst the other officers present were—Lieutenant •
Colonel W. D. Jones, Inspector at the Royal Military
Academy; Lieutenant-Colonel Anderson, Royal Horse
Artillery, Brigade-Major Cuppage, and Captain Tylden,
Deputy-Assistant Adjutant General of Artillery; Cap-
tain Stotherd, Instructor in Surveying, and the officers
attached to the establishment.

At the conclusion of the examination the following
gentlemen cadets were passed for commissions in the
Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers, subject to the ap-
proval of the Master-General, when they will be ga-
zetted:-1. Edward Taddy; 2. Henry Crofton Singer;
3. Wilbraham Oates Lennox; 4. Arthur Leahy; 5. Ed-
ward Loftus Bland; 6. Charles Edward Stuart Baynes;
7. Charles le Gallais; 8. Anthony William Durnford;
9. Donald Alexander Frazer; 10. Henry George Tees-
dale; 11. Thomas Molyneux Graves; 12. William
Christian Anderson; 13. John Bawden Parkin; 14.
Charles Johnston; 15. Thomas S. Poor Field; 16. Law-
rence Augustus Bradshaw; 17. John M'Candie Camp-
bell; 18. William French; 19. Sir W. George Johnson,
Bart.; 20. Edward Adolphus Seymour.
The Commandant, after congratulating them on the
highly creditable manner in which they had passed their
examinations, called forward and presented a handsome
regulation-sword to Arthur Leahy, and a prize to Wil-
braham Oates Lennox, for special proficiency.
Prizes were also awarded to the following gentlemen
cadets for acquirements or great proficiency in study:—
First Class Mathematics, Mr. Koe; Second Class Mathe-
matics, Mr. Hawthorn: First Class Fortification, Mr.
Oldfield; Second Class Fortification, Mr. Wolfe; French,
Mr. Higgins; German, Mr. Andrews; History, Geo-
graphy, Military Plan Drawing, and Sketches, Mr.
Birch; sth Room Landscape Drawing, Mr. Luard; 6th
Room Landscape Drawing, Mr. J. Adams.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.—CHATHAII, JUNE 26.
—OFFICERS FOR INDIA.—The undermentioned officers
from the Provisional Battalion at this garrison are under
orders to proceed to India to join their respective regi-
ments serving in the presidency of Bengal:-18th Royal
Irish, Lieutenant A. W. S. Armstrong, Lieutenant C.
Woodwright, Lieutenant Charles Crompton Abbott. and
Ensign G. A. Elliot. 24th Regiment, Lieutenant F.
Spring, Ensign Robert G. Montmorency, and Ensign J.
C. W. Kippen. 29th Regiment, Lieutenant Joseph
Singleton. 32d Regiment, Lieutenant R. Stacy Coils,
Ensign E. Chippendale, Ensign J. Birtwhistle, Ensign
W. L. Inglis, and Ensign John Hadley. 53d Regiment,
Captain C. Lempriere, Lieutenant G. . Herbert Cox,
Lieutenant E. Dyne Fenton. 61st Regiment, Lieutenant
W. Maycock, Ensign C. Bisset Fenwick, and Ensign J.
G. M. Strode. Convict Guard.—On Wednesday,
.the
28th inst., detachments from the Provisional Battalion,
consisting of 1 sergeant, 1 corporal, and 20 privates of
the 11th Regiment, and 2 corporals and 26 men of the
96th, forming a convict guard, march from this garrison
en route for Woolwich, there to embark on board the
ship Ratcliff, to proceed with convicts for Van Diemen's
Land. Lieutenant Richard Maunsell, of the 11th, and
Ensign William A. Swift, of the 96th, with Sergeant-
Major Charles Hopkins, .of the 58th, transferred from
the Scots Fusilier Guards on the Ist of the month for the
purpose of being appointed sergeant-major, vice William
Moir, promoted to quartermaster of the 58th.
THE ALLEGED MURDER IN HYDE-PARK.••••••YeS.
terday
Mr. Bedford resumed, at St. George's Hospital,
the adjourned inquest respecting the death of George
Jemmitt, aged 40, a mendicant, who, it was reported,
had been murdered in Hyde-park. From the evidence'
taken yesterday, it appeared that the deceased, on
Monday week, went into a tripe shop at No. 47, West-
minster-road, to solicit alms, when Thomas Brown, who
was behind the counter, ordered him to leave. The
deceased not going out as fast as requested, Brown
came behind him, and laying hold of his shoulders
pushed him off the step of the door, and he fell with
great violence, with his head upon the pave-
ment. Ho was picked up and carried into the sur-
gery of Mr. Burrell, Mount-street, Lambeth, where,
the wound was strapped up by the surgeon's
assistant. The deceased then walked on to Hyde-park
in the company of his son, where he was seized with a
fit. He was removed on a stretcher to the ,above
hospital, where he expired the following morning. Mr.
Cowell, the house surgeon, who had made a post mortem
examination of the body, proved that the deceased's
skull ;was fractured, which had caused an effusion of
blood on the brain, and which had caused death. The
fracture might have been produced by a fall or by some
blunt instrument—the former, in witnosse's opinion, was
the most probable. There being some doubt in the
minds of the Jury as to whether the injuries were
caused by the deceased being pushed down, or by
his striking his head when he fell down in a fit, they
returned a verdict That death was caused by a fracture
of the skull, but by what means produced there was no
evidence to prove." The Coroner stated that as the
verdict was lel t open, he would recommend the police to
make further inquiries into the:case.
The sinecure office of Gazette writer for Scotland
has been abolished. It was created in 1810, for the ex-
press purpose of rewarding the celebrated Dugald
Stewart, Professor of Moral Philosophy in the Univer-
sity of Edinburgh, and was to continue in his family for
forty years, which period expires, of course, in 1848.
Theincome was 6001. per annum, on receiving which
Mr. Stewart resigned his chair. Mr. Lawrie, who has
for sometime been the depute printer and actual manager
of the Edinburgh Gazette, receives the appointment,
minus, we believe, the salary, but the tariff of charges so
remaining as to make it still a place of some emolument.
Had Scotch forms of law not been somewhat cumber-
some, the all-devouring centripetal gorge of London
would probably have made the Edinburgh Gazette an
appendage to the London Gazette, and so suppressed it
altogether.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.---Her
Majesty the Queen, accompanied by his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert, honoured the theatre with their
presence on Saturday eveniug. In attendance on her
Majesty and his Royal Highness were the Viscountess
Jocelyn, the Hon. Miss Cavendish, Lord Elphinstone,
Colonel Buckley, and Colonel Bouverie. The Duchess
of Cambridge and the Princess Mary also honoured the
theatre with their presence; their Royal Highnesses
were attended by Baroness Bose, Baron Knesebeck, and
Mr. Edmund Mildmay. Among the visitors were the
Duke and Duchess of Montrose, Lord and Lady Ernest
Bruce and Viscount Cantelupe, and the Duke and
Duchess of Beaufort and the Ladies Somerset, the
Duchess Dowager of Bedford and Lady Rachel Rus-
sell, the Marquis of Tachfield, the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Ailesbury, Earl of Besborougb, Earl Sid-
ney, Earl Bruce, the Countess Dowager of Essex and
Miss Johnstone, Earl of Munster, the Earl of Cardi-
gan, Viscount Templetown, Lady Charlotte Denison,
Lady Harriet Baring, Lady Caroline Capel, Viscount
Clifden, Viscount and Viscountess Maidstone, Lady
Adelaide Paget, Lord and Lady Carington and Hon.
Miss Cotton, Lady Macfarlin and party, Lord Suffield,
Lady Morgan, Lady Scott, Lady Webster, Lady Jod-
drell, Lady Jervis, Lady Lyndhurst and the Hon. Miss
Lopley, Hon. Miss Maynard, Hon. G. Miles, Hon. J.
Fortescue' Hon. Mrs. Pierrepont, Sir John and Lady
Thorold, Sir Jasper and Lady Atkinson, Sir John and
Lady Walsh, Sir Henry Webb, Sir William and Lady
Molesworth, &c. &c.
DESTRUCTIVE CONFLAGRATION AT THE PAPER-
MILLS, BITToN. BRISTOL, JUNE 25. About two
months ago I sent you some particulars of a destructive
conflagration at the extensive paper-mills at Bitton, near
this city, known as Bevan's Mills, and by which the dry-
ing-room, a large portion of the machinery, and other
parts of the property, were reduced to a heap of ruins.
Yesterday the same mills were the scene of another most
alarming fire. Expresses were, upon the breaking out
of the conflagration, dispatched for the assistance of fire-
engines, and several were dispatched with all speed from
this city; but before they could arrive the whole of the
buildings not previously consumed were wrapped in
flames, and although every possible effort was made by
the firemen and others, the devouriug element could not
be got under till the whole range of buildings was com-
pletely destroyed. I have been unable to ascertain the
premise amount of damage, but it must be considerable.
The premises are understood to be insured.
SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 26.—The Oriental Com-
pany's steam-ship Hindostan, Captain Luvis, arrived
here last evening, from Alexandria, and landed the re-
mainder of the East India mails, which ware forwarded
to London by one o'clock A.M. this day. The Hindos-
tan left Alexandria on the 9th inst., Malta 14th, and
Gibraltar 20th. She has brought 105 passengers, 63
packages of specie, value 18,0001. Her cargo consists of
30 packages of silk and 150 various. The new iron
steam-vessel Canton left the river this day for Hong_
Kong and Canton station, where she will remain for
some years. She is commanded by Captain Jamieson.
The Indus arrived here yesterday from London, having
undergone her repairs. A very fine brig, the Brilliant,
from Madeira, arrived here on Saturday, with a full
cargo of wine and fruit, also 40 passengers. She left
Madeira on the 11th inst. The Transit, a new small
steamer, arrived here at twelve o'clock this day, from
London, and, as soon as ready, will be seat toAlexandria
Tan WORKING OF THE BALLOT.—Lord John also.
observed, that the ballot in France has been no security
against revolution. No ; yet what the ballot did, in
' France notwithstanding te influence of corruption upon
a small electoral holy, comprising a large proportion of
officials, is truly wonderful. The existence of a mino-
rity opposed to the Government was referable solely to
the ballot. But let us see how it worked after the revo-
lution. It was the buckler of the moderation of France.
It baffled mob-intimidation ; under cover of it the
friends of order marshalled their forces, and put forth
their chosen leaders. The rage of the anarchists and
terrorists was directed against the electoral urns,
_ which
in many places they attempted to destroy, but the crypt
of political liberty was too strong for them, and the
mind of the country pronounced, beyond the shadow of
a question, for order and law. But for the protection of
the secret vote, this happy result would either net have
been obtained, or obtained at the cost of a fierce etreggla,
and vast effusion of blood.--,Examiner,