The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-23 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.
The Queen and Prince Albert, with their Royal
Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal,
the Princess Alice, Prince Alfred, the Princess
Helena, and the Princess Louisa, left Windsor
Castle for her Majesty's marine residence, Osborne,
Isle of Wight, at ten o'clock, A.M. Her Majesty and
his Royal Highness were attended by the Marchioness
of Douro, the Hon. Miss Dawson, Lord Waterpark,
Colonel Buckley, Captain the Hon. A. Gordon, and
Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps.
The royal party left in four carriages and four,
escorted by a troop of the 2d Life Guards, for the
Slough station of the Great Western Railway, tra-
velling by special train on that line to Basingstoke,
and thence by the South-Western Railway.
The royal party arrived in the Royal Clarence Vic-
tualling establishment, Gosport, at ten minutes past
twelve o'clock, when the standard was hoisted, and
royal salutes fired by all the ships in harbour, dressed
as usual. On alighting from the train, which had
come from Basingstoke in charge of Mr. Cornelius
Stovin, the manager of the South-Western Railway,
her Majesty was received by Admiral the Hon. Sir
Bladen Capel, K.C.8., the Commander-in-Chief;
Major-General Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, the
Governor of the garrison ; Rear-Admiral Sir Charles
Napier, K.C.8.; Rear-Admiral Prescott, C. 8., Cap-
tain Sir Edward Parry, Captain Lord Adolphus
Fitzclarence, Flag-Lieutenants Cochran, Phelps, and
Aplin ; Majors Harvey and Purves, the usual officers
of the Victualling establishment, and a guard of
honour of the Royal Artillery companies of the Royal
Marines, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel
and Commandant D. A. Gibsone. The Court em-
barked in the Fairy at twenty-seven minutes past
twelve. Her Majesty received the usual loyal greet-
ings from the officers and crews of the ships in har-
bour as the yacht passed, and arrived at the landing-
place, East Cowes, at eighteen minutes past one, P.N.
The royal standard on the tower at Osborne denoted
the arrival of her Majesty at thirty-three minutes
past one, P.m.
The Marchioness of Normanby took leave of her
Majesty and Prince Albert yesterday forenoon, and
left the Castle.

The Queen's private band attended in the Castle
on Tuesday evening, and performed the knowing
pieces :

Overture—" Der Freyschutz" C. M.von Weber.
Quintett (in C), two violins, viola,
and violoncello: Messrs. Sainton,
E. Chipp, Hill, Nickel, and H
Chipp
Notturno—two clarinetti, two oboe,
two fagotti, two conj.: Messrs.
Willimns, Egerton, Malsch,
Flocke, G. Waetzig, Win. Card,
P. and G. Hardy Mozart.
Mr. Forster, Mr. Hoare, and Air. Rew, from the
Refuge for the Destitute, had an interview with Sir
George Grey on Tuer,day, at the Home-office.

THE AURORA BOREALIS. --- On Friday evening
the heavens presented one of the grandest display 8 we
ever witnessed of this the most beautiful of the celes-
tial phenomena. Between seven and eight o'clock an
unusual degree of light appeared in the eastern hemi-
sphere, and at about tho lattt r hour the heavens in the
same quarter glowed with a red tint of considerable
breadth, which gradually assumed a pyramidal shape
and limited at the zenith with a pillar of a similar hue,
which sprung up from the western horizon, thus
forming a complete arch of crimson light. This ap-
pearance continued with slight variation for upwards of
an hour, during which time the aspect of the heavens
was extremely beautiful, the stars being distinctly visible
through their coloured veil; occasionally the line of the
arch became very broad, particularly at the extreme
points, and again the rays of light diverged in several
directions, and spread over nearly the entire
expanse of the heavens. Between nine and ten
o'clock the northern hemisphere shone also with
great brilliancy, from innumerable streams of pale and
rose coloured light which shot upwards, but this effect
was of short duration. Soon after ten o'clock, the lurid
appearance subsided, and was succeded in the eastern
horizon by splendid coruscations of pale light, the co-
lumns of which reached to the zenith; these continued to
illumine the heavens until the rising of the moon soon
atter eleven o'clock, when they faded before her supe-
rior briliiancy.— Essex Herald.

SMUT IN WHEAT--We have received a letter from
a practical farmer in reference to this subject, in which
he says—" Observing in your columns a paragraph
respecting the smut in wheat, I beg leave to give you
my opinion on the subject. I confess lam at a loss to
know exactly what produces bags. but I assure you
I never have any, and when I explain to you the
mode in which I prepare my seed and corn, and the results,
perhaps all who can do so will be induced to follow my
example. A fortnight before I use it I fetch up as much
salt water as I shall want, which I use for the purpose;
and I am of opinion that if wheat be impregnated with
bad salt water, well limed, and sown by hand, the smut
will be prevented, and vermin will be often kept from
eating the corn in the ground. The stench of bad salt
water is very offensive, but I havo often stood over it a
considerable time, mid never found any evil effect from
it as regards health.—Essex Herald.

SOWING.—From the continued and heavy
rains which prevailed at the usual period for resuming
the labours of another agricultural year, when, after the
lull which follows the ingathering of one harvest, we
prepare to deposit in the earth the seed which in due
time is to burst into the golden crops of another, it was
feared that no little inconvenience and loss would be sus-
tained. The farmer looked around in doubt upon the
saturated fields, upon which neither plough nor harrow,
scarcely the foot of husbandman, could venture ; the
markets began to rise; the speculator was keeping a
sharp watch upon the weather, and there seemed some-
thing like a cloud hanging over the future. Happily, this has been dispelled by the sunshine of the past fort-
night, which in favourable situations has brought the
lard into working order, the sharp touches of frost
hailing assisted the operation by rendering the soil more
frilible; and the plough actively commenced its opera-
limits in all directions. About Colchester and that dis-
trigt we are told the wheat seeding has progressed very
favpurably; similar statements reach us from other parts
of the county; and though no doubt is particular lo-
calities the land is too wet to be worked with satisfac-
tioO, and the season's tillage is to some extent delayed,
there is now no ground for fearing that the breadth of
the, next year's crop will be actually diminished from the
husbandman being compelled by the weather to stint
the; fruitful earth in its accustomed seed.—Chelmsford
Cl4enicle.

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