The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-18 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual early
walk in the Royal Gardens of Buckingham Pattie:'.
His Royal Highness Prir.--ct, Albert rode out on horse•
back yesterday, attended b) Lritijor- General Sir Edward
Bowater. The Prince visited her Royal Highness the
:Duchess of Kent at her residence, Oarence Hous,', St.
J dines's.

Their Royal Highnesses the Pri' cc of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess H. yal, and the Princess Alice,
were tilten airings yesterday in the Royal Gard.-m.
Her Arjesty hsd a dinner party, yesterday. at Bucking.
ham Palace. The company included her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent, her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucever, his Excellency Couct Kielrnan.
segge, the Duke' and Duchess of Bedford, Lady Fanny
Howard, Lady Caroline Murray, Baroness de Sueth, the
Earl of Aberdeen, the Countess of Licklield, and Lady
Harriet Anson,. the Earl Jertnyn, Lord and Lady Col-
ville, Capiain the Honourable Alexander Gordon, and
Mr. George Edward ;gill the Honourable 1r Anson.
The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards was in at-
tendance during dinner.
Her Majesty's private buel rwards attended in the
Palace.
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Castigliano, who appeared as Ernani ; and Signor Ben-
chich, who was the Dun Carlos. Madame Pasini is a
pure soprano, with a voice of somewhat high r,gister,
and rather thin in quality. It h.'s. however, been
well regulated, and her acting is impassioned. She is
.moreover, a good musician; and in theconcerted pieces she
was very good, her upper notes telling with great effect.
Signor Castigliano is a tenor, a pure tenor, a voce di
petto. Throughout the opera he never uttered a falsetto
note. He possesses considerable power ; and- if he did
not occasionally sing in his throat, he might take the
highest rank in his profession. This throaty-singing
however, is perhaps attributable to the nervousness in.
separable from a first appearance. It was most con-
spicuous in the first act, but he gained con-.
fidence as be went on ; and it was not
at all perceptible towards the conclusion of
the opera. The splendid concluding trio, " Ferree,
crudele estinguere," was magnificently given by
Pasini, Signor Castiglione, and Fornasari, and was en-
thusiastically encored. Signor Benchich is a barytona
of great purity and power; his singing left nothing to
be desired, and if his action were a little less exuberant,
and his poses not quite so angular, he would be
as good an actor as he is a singer. As
it is, he is a great acquisition to the company.
Fornasari's Buy Gomez was superb ; that tremulousness
of voice, of which some hypercritics have (in our
opinion most unjustly) complained was in this character
a help towards p-Tfection; it was the tremulousness of
a strongly-excited, madly-impassioned old man ; and
never has the union of old age with intense passion
been more brilliantly exhibited than it was by Fornasari
last evening. His ltuy Gum.•a is a perfect triumph of
art—it is equal to the Lear of John Kemble.
The fine chorusses were beautifully given, end full jus-
tice was done to the fine accompaniments by the or-
chestra, under the judicious superintendence of Bane,
who entered thoroughly into the spirit of the music, and
who supported the singers, and worked in the lights and
shadows (as it were) of the picture, by means of the in-
strumental accompaniments, as only one can do who has
himself been a dramatic singer, and, therefore, practically
understands where the accompaniment is to be subdued
and were brought out in lull force, sots to produce the
greatest effect as a whole. Nothing could be tuore
musician-like than the manner in which Balfe conducted
this opera. Castiglione, and Fornasari were
called for at the fall of the curtain, and received the
usual homage. The delightful ballet of Catarina, with
Lucile Gratin as the heroine, and Louise TagliGiti as the,
modele concluded the performances. The house was
crowded with the elite of the beau monde.

DEPARTURE of FOREIGN MAILS.
POST Of FICE NOTICE.
On Tuesday the following notice relative to the departure
of the next foreign mails was posted at the chief office, St.
M artin 's- le-Gran d :
Peninsular Mails.—The next mails for Vigo, Oporto, Cadiz,
Lisbon, GibraltAr, Spain, and Portugal, will be dispatched
on the morning of the 27th instant.
Mails for India and China.—The next mails for Gibraltar,
Malta, Greece, the lonian lsiands, Egypt, India, aid China,
via Southampton, will be dispatched on the morning of the
20th instant.
The Achilles, for the Mediterranean, India, China, &Q.,
mails of the morning of the 20th instant.
Mails for India and China via Marseilles.—The next mails
for the INlediterranean, Egypt, Ceylon, India, and China, will
be dispatched on the evening of the 24th instant.
West Indies, &c.—The next mails for the British and
foreign colonies in the West Indies (except Bermuda) Vene-
zuela and Madeira.
Sydney and New South Wales.—The next mails will be
dispatched on the evening of the 31st.
America.—The Caledonia for the mails of the evening of
the 3d of April.
Madeira, Brazil, and Buenos Ayres.—The next mails will
be dispatched on the evening of the 7th of April; from
August to January the packet touches at Pernambuco and
Bahia on her outward passage to Rio de Janeiro, and the
other six months on her homeward.
Valparaiso.—A mail will be made up for Valparaiso, to be
forwarded by her Majesty's ship Calypso ; all letters in-
tended to bo forwarded must be addressed " By H.M:S. Ca-
' lypso," and ill be liable to the packet rate of postage of ls.
not exceeding half an ounce; newspapers will be liable to a
rats of 2d.

ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—
nlionday afternoon an accident occurred on this line, which might
have been attended with the most fatal results, It appears that the
ens o'clock down goods train left the station at Woking half an hoar
before the three o'clock fast train was due. About three miles from
Woking the goods train was unable to proceed, owing to the strong
wind that was blowiug ; indeed the guards say it blew a perfect her-
' ricane which entirely impeded the progress of the train, vast as was
its weight and bulk. The conductor of the engine of the fast train
observing no signal given by the conductor of the goods train, ran
into it, although It was broad daylight, and quite disabled the engine,.
of whom, by the violence of the
collision, were thrown from their seats, and received some severe in-
eited amongst the passengers, many
rendering it unfit for further service. Considerable alarm was ex-
juries. Fortunately no lives were lost, which was rather wonderful.
considering tile serious nature of the accident. The stokers and
t'riengines escaped unhurt. A pilot engine was dis-
patched f both
dotrorn Woking to remove the disabled engine to that station.
and after a delay of upwards of an hour, the passenger train pro-
ceeded on its journey, all the passengers being very thankful for their
providential escape.
[BE LATE MURDER IN ST. LUIEE'S.—On Tuesday
Air. W. Baker held an inquest at the Curnberlaud's Head, City-road,
en the body of Mary Murray, who died from the effects of injuries
received at the bands of a labourer named Martin Jennings, now
is
custody on the charge of murder. A great number of witness's
were exemined, but as their evidence applied only to facts which
have already appeared, it is unnecessary to repeat it. This following
additional lasts were elicited at the inquest :—Sarah Angehmk Ileeett, of George-yiud, said that she heard on the morning in
question a loud cry of Martin. Martin. don't murder me." That
..ccurreti whilq witness was in, bed. She heard something like a fall
under her window. Seine time alter she heard a person say. " The
police are corning, thu woudui is dead." About fifteen minutes
elap,ed trout the comumneement to the end of the affray.
John Waldron said that he sdtv Jennings take hold of ee.,
erased by the hair of the head, and then strike her with
his fist or hand on the face. Witness then laid hold of the collar of
Jennings, and pulled him from the deceased, Mr. John Courtney.
surgeon, of 5, Finsbury-terrace, said that he had made a post short
en
examination of the body of deceased. On removing the covering of
the skull a small bruise presented itself on the frontal bone, over the
right eye. The vessels of the brain were gorged with blood. At
lelexrc_epit tbthalitevitewtahsartattihteer
dneio,,ertas vettaseduileadritrhoanili
the ordinary.effusion E 4
least two ounces of blood were effused into the base of the brain.
and extended down the spinal cord. The substance of the brain was
the brain. The effuei
d
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lbtillekosettloyrun,
011 Was so general, that I could not. trace
think that
tthoaatntyhep
bseildi*byvingthebeennlndßtyheaisurtat°er—of
excitement consequent thereon, tog ether with the quarrelling, pro-
duced that effusion, Mere excitement h • d
witnesses,t u re ruptured.
it e cruse the same
mischief ; but ail there were blows administered, it is quite likely that
they prcuoed it. The jury returned a verdict of "Manslaughter
against Martin Jennings,"
Sir Thomas, Ladv, and Miss Lethbridge lave arrived
at Mivart's HMO from heir seat, Sandhill-park, Semersetshire.
ROYAL. MARINES.—Lieutenant Arnold has been g 4,
sotto(' out of that corps on half-pay, and appointed to an adjutantcy
in one of the Scotch regiments lit militia. A great promotion, it is
expected, will shortly take place in the ccrps of Maxims by the re-
tirement of a number of old officers upon full pay. It is also ex-
pected that one or two of the ccinmandie,ts of divisisns will retire.
WooLWIeH.—CONVICTS FOR NEW SOUTH WALES,—
The Lord Auckland, (government transport, for the conveeancesf
male convicts to New South Wales, is now lying off the Arsenal at
Woolwich. A. convict guard alter Majesty's 65th Regiment of Foot,
under the command of Lieutenant Gordon, will embark from the
Royal Arsenal on board the same vessel, far a passage out to New
South Wales, where the regiment is ordered to do duty.
TEE CONVICT Wicgs.—What appear to be the rea-
sons for doubting the sanity of Wicks ? There is grinned to believe
that in infancy his brain was injuriously affected by disease. A
distortion of the eyes, accompanied with great weakness of the optic
Nerves, re
ev ,is known to have attended hint from early childhood. Mon
lately ee suffered Itom a concussion of the brain, which, even after
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recovery from its immediate effects, exhibited permanent results in
strange eccentricity of conduct, Ever since his apprenticeship he
seems to have cherished the motion that his master had taken him
for the sake of the ten pounds premium paid when he was inden-
tured, For this supposition no real ground existed; and yet, so mete
pletely •
ad It got possession of the youth's imagination, that in Sep-
tember, 1143, under its influence,
he attempted to kill himself'
by
swallowing laudanum. Frustrated in this design, he still brooded
over his imaginary wrongs, and, while he was in this state of mind,
the deduction by his master of eleven shillings erem his wages, to
make up for an equal amount of money beinging to the master
which the apprentice had either lost he himself alleged) or em-
bezzled (as the other suspected), breee t Wicks' resentment to that
pitch under the impulse of which he devised and. accomplished the
assassivation of his fancied oppressor. To all this may be added the
utter apathy that charecterised the miseratee convict throughout the
trial. Neither the impearaece of his mother hi the witness-box, nor
the summing up of the presiding judge, nor the period of suspense
during the copseltation of the jury, nor the announcement of the
adverse
verdict, nor even the pronouncing by the judge of the aw
sentence orthe law, inovedlini in the least; but, from first to
lie maintained the some stolid, and, as it were, inanimate in
untie.--Th•

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public -favour to an English audience. They were -
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h Madame Pasini, who took the part of Elvira ; Signor

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

(THIS DAY.)

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