The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-31 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR? SUNDAY. - Yesterday the Duke of
Norfolk, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, And
Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner took their departure
from the Castle.

Prince Albert enjoyed the sport of shootkg
yesterday morning. His Royal Highness was
accompanied by Viscount Palmerston, and was
attended by Lord Byron, Mr. G. E. Anson, and
Colonel Bouverie.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert took an airing
yesterday afternoon, in a pony phaeton, the Prince
driving, attended by the Equerries in waiting,
Major-General Wemyss and Colonel Bouverie, Liu
horseback.

Their Majesties the King and Queen of the
Belgians visited her Royal highness the Duchess of
Kent yesterday afternoon, at her residence, Frogmora
House.
The royal dinner party at the Castle yesterday
evening included their Majesties the King and Queen
of the Belgians, her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, their Excellencies Mons. and Madame Van
de Veyer, La Marquise de Trazeynies, Lady Fanny
Howard, Baroness de Speth, and Major de Mott.
}Jake.

The Queen's private band attended on Friday
evening in the Castle, and performed the following
pieces :
Overture, " Sirene" .... Auber.
Selection, " Postilion" ..
March, " Zaubertiote " . . Mozart.
Selection, "La Fille du Regiment"... Donizetti,
Finale, Sinfonia .....
Carsbade Walser Labitzky.
This morning the Queen and Prince Albert took
their accustomed early walk.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales.,
Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess
Alice, took walking and pony exercise this forenoon,
in the grounds around the Castle.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Helena WAS
taken an airing.
The Queen and Prince Albert, the King of the
Belgians, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court,
and the domestic household, attended Divine service
this morning in the private chapel of the Castle. The
Hon. and Rev. C. L. Courtenay officiated.
Her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians attended
Divine service at the Roman Catholic Chapel, Spits!.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, accompanied by his Serene Highness
Prince Frederick of Hesse, and attended by Lady
Augusta Cadogan and Baron Knesebeck, arrived at
their residence at Kew, on Saturday, from honouring
the Duke of Rutland with a visit at Belvoir Castle.
Viscount Palmerston arrived in town on Saturday
afternoon from Windsor Castle.

" BONNIE SWEET ROBIN" IS " NAE DEAD

AND GANE."

(Written for the Anniversary of the Birthday of Robert
Burns, at Sheffield, January 25, 1848.)
Oh! say not in sadness the Bard has departed,
While Memory thus is enshrining his name;
For the perfume his chaplet of bay leaves imparted,
Lives fragrantly yet in the breathing of Fame.
While we think of him over the "crimson tipp'd flower,"
While we chaunt forth his soul in the " Bannockburn"
strain,
While we bend to his harp as we do at this hour,
Oh! " Bonnie sweet Robin" is "nae dead and gane.'l
His love plaints in exquisite tenderness breaking,
Still fall on our ear as the dew on the earth;
His song of proud honesty still is awaking
Man's sense of the greatness that springeth from
Worth.
While rare " Tam O'Sbanter" calls smiles to our faces,
While " Mary in Heaven" brings something of pain;
While " Puir Maillie" is mourn'd, and " Twa Dogs"
keep their places,
Oh! " Bonnie sweet Robin" is " nae dead and gane.
It is bitter to know we must tell a dark story,
Of Poverty thrusting him on to his grave;
That he struggled with Sorrow while working for Glory,
A toiler—a victim—but never a slave.
Yet his spirit now seemeth to hover beside us,
The sepulchre.stone was laid o'er him in vain,
Ile is here as God's teacher to prompt and to guide ns,
And "Bonnie sweet Robin" is " nee dead and gene.'

He lighted the beacon that burneth for ever,
lle opened the well-spring that cannot dry up;
Ho poureth Truth in the chalice he lett us, and never
Shall noble Humanity turn from the cup.
While we've hearts in our bosoms that know how to
cherish
The hands that unfasten the world's heavy chain—
Till the Good and the Beautiful utterly perish,
Oh! "Bonnie sweet Robin" is " nae dead and gane."
—Dispatch. ELIZA COOK.

CHLOROFORNI.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sia,—The public are now fully aware of the ex-
traordinary and merciful effects of chloroform, which
makes patients thoroughly insensible to pain while
undergoing the most torturing operations. Thou-
sands have already experienced its benign influence,
and amongst others the venerable Berzelius himself;
to whom it was the means of bringing relief under
the most agonizing suffering.
Chloroform not only makes patients insensible to
pain, but is, besides, a valuable remedy in some of
the most formidable diseases. Beyond a doubt it has
in more than one instance cured tetanus, cholera,
delirium tremens, and many others. Look also to its
blessed effects in midwi,ery. How many mothers,
with their offspring, hare been saved, and how many
have to be saved by it.
When ether was introduced. the, Lt,•
eara..rint-15uoli: Inc idea of alleviating pain, how-
ever, had by this time caught hold of the profession,
both here and on the Continent, and every one was
eager to distance his fellow in the discovery of some
other substance, but the problem could only be solved
by the powerful mind of a Simpson, who thus con-
ferred a boon on the human race.

When we look back on Dr. Simpson's improve-
ments in the obstetric art, and his contributions to
medicine generally, crowned by the greatest disco-
very of this or any other age, we see that his lite has
been one career of usefulness, of deep scientific re-
search, and, we are happy to add, of triumph. The
misty clouds of petty jealousy have been dispersed
by the resplendent rays of the sun of truth. He may
be said to be to medicine what Newton was to phi•
losophy, and, to adopt the language of the poet,

" When all was dark as night,
God said, Let Simpson be, and all was light."

The ladies of Britain, not to be outdone by their
continental neighbours, will surely come forward
with some appropriate testimonial to one who, with-
out fee or reward, has done so much for them ; and
surely Lord John Russell will feel proud in proposing
a grant, to which Parliament will be equally proud
to accede, rejoicing in the opportunity of marking a
nation's sense of gratitude to the benefactor of man-
kind, and the honour to his country.
Yours, &c.,
JUSTITIA.
January 29, 1848.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH
THE QUEEN V. TIIII ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.
DECISION BY ANTICIPATION.
Feb. 1, 1848.

Lord DENMAN—The question before us is one
merely of practice. As this Court never interferes with
the rules and regulations laid down by inferior Courts
as to how the form and manner of proceedings before
them shall be conducted, we declare
The rule discharged.

SPORTING IN TELLIGENCE.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER. - FRIDAY.

CIIESTER CM-25 to 1 agst Blaze, 30 to 1 agst
Keleshe (taken), 30 to 1 agat Cracow (taken), 30 to 1
agat Jonathan Wild (taken), 40 to 1 agat Clumsy (taken),
40 to 1 agst Swallow, 40 to 1 agst Swiss Boy (taken),
40 to 1 agst Lady Hylda, 1,000 to 20-1,000 to IB agst
Sally Magga (taken), 1,000 to 15 agst Glen Saddel
(taken).
DEREY.-900 to 100 agat Surplice, 13 to I agst Glen-
dower, 20 to 1 agst Springy Jack (offers to take), 20
to 1 agst Assault, 33 to 1 agst Cervus I(taken), 40 to 1
agst Keraun (taken freely), 1,000 even Springy Jack
agst Assault (offered).
NEWSIARIERIF HANDICAP.-10 to 1 agst Millwood
(taken and afterwards offered).

THE EARL Or DUNDONALD.—We understand that
Vice-Admiral the Earl of Dundonald, G.C.8., the
newly-appointed Commander-in-Chief to the West
India station, has applied to the Lords of the Treasury
for his arrears of half-pay, which were impounded
during the period his Lordship's name was not on the
Nary List. The Noble and Gallant Earl having been
restored to the same rank and position in the navy to
which he would progressively have attained had his
name not been removed, appears to have a strong prima
facie ground of appeal to the Government.—United Ser-
vice Gazette.
Captain Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, R.C.B , to
whom is offered the appointment of Surveyor of. the
Navy, is expected in England from the Pacific, via Pa-
nama, by the next West India mail steam-packet. Idr.
Edye, the Deputy-Surveyor, bas been granted the salary
of Surveyor—namely, at the rate of 1,0001. per annum,
since the retirement of Sir William Symonds.—United
Service Gazette.

The Governor of Labuan, Mr. Brooke, had an in-
terview with Lord Palmerston on Saturday afternoon, at
the Foreign-office. His Excellency will take his depar-
ture early next week for the seat of his government in
the Meander frigate, commanded by his friend, the Hon.
Henry Keppel, accompanied by his suite and by the
several officers appointed to constitute the new settle-
ment of Great Britain in the Indian Archipelago. The
Meander made one of the quickest passages on record in
the early part of the week from Sheerness to Portsmouth,
where her Gallant Captain has been exercising his crew
of picked men. So popular is this enterprising com-
mander in the navy, that several petty officers volun-
teered to enter as able-bodied seamen, and more than
the full complement were soon found to accompany him
on his distant and anterprising Toyagc—Obsorrer.