The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-28 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The• Queen held a Privy Council yesterday at Osborne
House. It was attended by his Hoye] Highness Prince
Albert, the Lord President, the First Lord of the
Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home,
Foreign,•and Colonial D:Tartzneuts, the Chancellor• of
the Duchy of Lancaster, the Firit Commissioner of the
Woods and Forests, the Paymaster of the Forces, the
Chief Stosetary or Ireland, the Lord Chamberlain, and
the Master of the Horse.

At the Council the Queen's Speech, on closing the
Session of Parliament, was arranged and agreed upon.
Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in
Waiting.
The Cabinet Ministers and the Lord Chamberlain
travelled from town to attend the Council by a special
train on the South-Western Railway, landed at East
Cowes, and arrived at Osborne House at half-past twelve
o'clock.

Th• Master of the Horse arrived to attend the:Council
from Arundel, Sussex.
A dejeuner was served at Osborne House to the noble-
men and gentlemen attending the Council.
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Lord John Russell and the other Ministers took their
departure in the afternoon on their return to town.

The Queen and Prince Albert rode cut in a pony
phaeton on Wednesday afternoon, attended by the Hon.
Captain Gordon on horseback.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, rode
in the plantations on Wednesday afternoon, and her
Royal Highness the Princess Helena was taken an
airing.

The Royal dinner party in the evening included her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady A. Paget,
Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Baroness de Speth, Hon.
Mrs. G. E. Anson, and Sir George Couper.
The band of the 74th Highlanders was in atten:lance
during the dinner, and also performed a number of
favourite pieces in the course of the evening.
Yesterday morning her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent went in a pony carriage to the beach. Prince
Alfred and the Princess Alice also went to the beach in
the forenoon.

The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the
Princess Helena took their usual airings yesterday.
The tradesmen of his Royal Highness Prince Albert
had their annual dinner, on Wednesday, at Willis's,
Thatched House, in honour of his Royal Highness's
birthday, Mr. Graves in the chair. Two fine bucks
were presented by his Royal Highness.
The Milbank Prison Commission had a meeting yes-
terday at Gwydyr House, Whitehall.
Lord Monteagle had an interview with the Earl of
Clarendon yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade.
The Marchioness of Hastings, and Captain Hastings
Henry, RN., left Farrance's Hotel yesterday, for their
seat, Efford House, Lyrnington.

DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAILS.

THE HAGUE, AUG. 26.—The Stoats Courant of this
day publishes, in the Dutch and French languages, the
treaty of commerce and navigation between the Nether-
lands and Belgium, concluded on the 29th of July, 1846.
It fills eighteen columns of the official paper.
THE HAGUE, AUG. 25.—Accounts from Malta, of the
13th of August, announce that the squadron under the
command of his Royal Highness Prince Henry, arrived
in that harbour on the 10th inst.

ZIERIKZEE, AUG. 21.—Yesterday evening about nine
o'clock, Franz Antoon Berwald, commanding the fish-
ing boat, the Jonge Frederick of Zierikzee arrived here
with six of the crew of the Helen, Capt. F. Orfeur, an
English schooner from Liverpool, bound to Dordrecht,
which was stranded and went to pieces yesterday morn-
ing in the Banjarcl. The wind was so high, that though
many boats attempted to approach the wreck, this was
the only one that succeeded in rescuing, after great
efforts, these men from the most imminent danger. Ti eir
gratitude and joy were unbounded, and fully participated
by their brave companions.
BATAVIA., JUNE 26. The epidemic disorder in Ka-
doria has again broken out with increased violence. Up
to 29th May, 588 persons had fallen victims to it, and
1,160 were still ill.
BRUSSELS, AUG. 24.—The trial of Messrs. Ridder
and Borquet will probably be concluded on Wednesday
evening. The list of witnesses for the defence was ex-
hausted to-day, and the Attorney-General commenced
his address. The witnesses examined to-day, who re-
ceived orders from De Ridder, gave evidence of his soli-
citude for the interest of the Government, as well as to
the pains he took to contract for thelowest prices possible.
M. de Dordolot stated, that in consequence of the re-
duction which De Ridder caused him to make in the
prices, the Government gained a sum of 800,000 francs.
The King and Queen, the Duke de Brabant, and the
Count de Flandre went yesterday, at ten o'clock, to Ant-
werp They went to the exhibition of paintings, where
the King desired to see several artists, with whom their
Majesties conversed with great affability. In the room
allotted to the engravings his Majesty stopped a consi-
derable time before ten splendid engravings on wood by
Mr. Henry Brown, professor in the academy. The King
desired to see him, and their Majesties complimented
him in the most flattering terms. Their Majesties re-
turned to Brussels the same evening.
It appears from the further accounts respecting the
murder of M. London, that there are several errors in
the statement, and especially that there was no violent
struggle between him and the murderer, as represented.
Nothing is yet known respecting the murderer, though
the mo:4, diligent inquiries are being made.

MRS. TROLLOPE AND THE COLD-WATER CURE.—In
the new work, entitled "Travels and Travellers." just laid
before the public, from the pen of the cleverest and most
spirited of modern female writers—Mrs. Trollope—there will
be found some revelations of perhaps the greatest of modern
mysteries—those of Graffenberg. The pamphlet of Sir Ed-
ward Bulwer Lytton has already attracted public attention,
in no ordinary degree, to the physiology of the cold water
cure ; and should it prove that so acute and talented an ob-
server as Mrs. Trollope has been led, from experience, to form
similar notions upon the matter, there can be little doubt
that the medicine-men among our tribes have amply suf-
ficient cause to set their house in order.

THE BERWICK BANK BCABBERY.—RECOVERY OF THE
STOLEN PROPIRTY.—The magistrates of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, aided by the superintendent of police from New-
castle, continued their inquiry on Monday into the circum-
stances attendant upon the robbery of the North of
England Joint-Stock Bank in the former town. The house
and premises had previously been searched by the Berwick
police, with no other discovery than four parcels of silver in
the yard. It was evident, however, from various circum-
stances, that the robbery had been effected by a party or
parties well acquainted with the bank. On Monday, ac-
cordingly, the authorities procured the assistance of a black-
smith and joiner, in order thoroughly to gut the house. This
fortunately was not necessary, as 3001. in gold, and the re-
maining portion of the silver were found in the kitchen,
secreted under the stairs. Meanwhile other parties were
examining the bed-rooms, and in that occupied by Mrs.
Thompson, the wife of the manager of the bank, the whole
of the notes were recovered. There were 1,0001. Bank of
England notes, 8301. in notes of Scotch banks of various de-
nominations above 1/. ; and 6131. in ditto of 11. each ' • and all
these were discovered sewed up in the bolsters and bedding
of Mrs. Thompson's bed. Every farthing therefore, amount-
ing to very nearly 3,0031., has thus been recovered in a
surprisingly short period. Mrs. Thompsoni on being ap-
prised of the discovery, was taken ill, she was however taken
into custody, though allowed to remain in the house under
the care of one of the matrons of the Berwick gaol. It is not
considered probable that the proceedings will be carried fur-
ther, though on this point the intentions of the bank directors
remain a secret.

SLAVE TRADE.—By a Parliamentary document (pro-
cured by Mr. Hume), it appears that there were in the year
1845 (the return being made up for the Ist of July, as an
average for the force employed for the whole of the year)
56 ships, of 886 guns, and 9,289 men, employed in the sup-
pression of the slave trade; of which 27 of the vessels, with
282 guns and 3,334 men, were employed on the west coast
of Africa station. Although the ships were furnished with
slave-trade instructions, they were only employed in cruising
against slave vessels as the other duties of the station on
which they were respectively employed would permit. By
the second branch of the document it seems that the charge
for the ships of war employed in the suppression of the slave
trade in the course of last year was 706,4541., and the deaths
of officers and men numbered 259, and others invalided to
271; making a total of deaths and invalids in one year 530.
The mortality in vessels on the west coast of Africa was
166, and the invalids 104 ; and the vessels not exclusively
employed on the west coast of Africa, respectively 93 and 167.
Thus it will be seen that the expense of vessels to suppress the
slave trade in one year was 706,4544 and the deaths and
invalided officers and men 530.

INTERESTING DISCOVERY AT GLOUCESTER.-A dis-
covery of a curious and interesting nature has just been made
at the Gas Works near the Quay, in this city, where the
workmen, in sinking the ground for the erection of a new
gasometer, have arri7ed at what was evidently an old quay
wall, consisting of large stones, three or four feet aqua-e, and
rather more than afoot thick, laid upon piles. This old quay
wall runs parallel with the present quay, but not less than 120
feet distant from it, showing that the course of the
Severn has receded very much, and that the houses,
warehouses, part of the gaol, &c., now standing along-
side the Quay, are situated on what was anciently
the bed of the river. This change was probably
the work of very many years, and caused by the current
gradually washing away the alluvial soil on the opposite
shore. The discovery is highly curious in another point of
view. This old quay wall is no less than eighteen feet below
the surface of the ground, and leads to the natural inference
that the level of the city of Gloucester at the date of the
erection of that wall, which was probably in the time of the
Romans, was eighteen feet below the present level of that
city. The spot has been visited by several of the archaeolo-
gists now in Gloucester, and by other gentlemen, and they
all, we believe, concur in the opinion that this excavation
has brought to light some of the work of the Roman occu-
pants of the old Caer-Glow.—Gloucester Journal.
MYSTERIOUS AND HORRIBLE AFFAIR.—It was only
on Saturday last that the Coroner of Rochester made a re-
presentation to the Magistrates of that city of the frequent
exposure of the dead bodies of infants within his jurisdiction,
but the case we have now to describe far exceeds in atrocity
all the, acts of which he then complained. On Monday
morning, between two and three o'clock, Mr. Richardson, a
coke and lime burner, living at Chalk-pit-hill, Chatham,
was awoke by the barking of his dogs, and on looking out of
his bed-room window, saw on his premises the, figure of a
woman, apparently with only a petticoat and shawl thrown
over her, but thinking it might be an old tramping woman
who occasionally slept about his place, he thought little of
the circumstance. The dogs still barking, he looked again,
when he saw the same woman approach the mouth of the
coke oven, and suddenly throw something into it, when a
bright flame burst forth from the same, and appeared to
scorch her, as she quickly drew back, as if to avoid being
burnt. The heat of the furnace at the time must have been
intense, as it had been burning 18 hours. Having accom-
plished her purpose, she hastily quitted the yard. He re-
lated what he had observed to his wife, who remarked that
most likely it was something the party had stolen and wanted
to get rid of, and under this impression he retired to rest. In
the morning, when he went' to the oven, he was horror-
struck at beholding what appeared to him to be the remains
of a child lying in the burning mass. The bones in shape
were distinctly to be seen, but on disturbing them crumbled
into ashes. They were carefully extracted from the furnace,
and conveyed to Mr. Steddy, surgeon, of Chatham, but of
the original it does not appear that anything can be pro-
duced on which an inquest might be held. The case is in-
volved in the greatest mystery, and has produced, as may
be imagined, an extraordinary degree of horror and excite-
ment in the neighbourhood.