The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-11 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert
took an early airing in a pony phaeton this morning.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, rvid the Princess Alice, were taken
a carriage airing in the forenoon.
Divine service was performed to-day (Good Friday)
in the prirate chapel of the Castle. The lion. and Rev,
C. Leslie Courtenay officiated. Her Majebty and Prince
Albert attended the afternoon service.

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Thou. Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Royal were taken out in the pleasure grounds
of the Castle this afternoon.

The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Gloucester, on Thursday, at Gloucester
House.
The Dean of Westminster preached the sermon
yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St, James's. The
prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Vivian, the lessons
by the Rev. Dr. Dakins, and the Communion service by
the Sub-Dean. Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, Lords
St. Germans, Hawarden, and Vivian were among the
nobility present.

MINISTERIAL MO VEMEN TS.
The Duke of Wellington intends to remain at Strat.h-
fieldsaye, Hants, until next Saturday, and during the
ensuing week will receive a select circle of fii ,nds for
the holidays. The Earl and Countess of Wilton and
family, and Viscount and Viscountess Mahan, arein-
vited to join the party. The Marquis of Douro pur-
poses to return from Paris the week after next.
Sir Robert Peel does not return to town from Drayton
Manor before Thursday next, according to present ar..
rangements. The party at the Right Hon. Baronet'.:
seat will this Elster be confined to the family. Viscount
and Viscountess Villiers are expected at the Manor from
Upton-house, Warwickshire. We hear that Mr. Robert;
Peel, eldest son of the Right lion. Baronet, will shortly
leave on his return to Spain, having received a higher
appointment in the British embassy.
The Earl of Ellenborough returns to his official resi-
dence at the Admiralty on Monday next, from Southam
House, Gloucestershire.

The Duke of Buccleuch, the Lord President of the
Council, is expected to return to town on Saturday next,
from Boughton. house, near Kettering, when the Duchess
and family return to Montagu-house. The Duke and
Duchess purpose giving a series of splendid entertain-
ments at their town mansion next month.

The Right lion. Sidney Herbert has gone on a visit to
the Dowager Countess of Pembroke, at Wilton-house,
near Salisbury, where a family party is assembled.
The Earl and Countess of Ripon have left Carlton-
house-terrace for their villa: at Putney for the holidays.
The Earl of' Aberdeen leaves Argyll house to-day for
the Priory, Stanmore, on a visit to the Marquis And
Marchioness of Abercorn, and early next week will pro-
ceed to St. Leonard's, near Windsor, to visit Lord and
Lady Haddo, who have removed there from the Ranger's-
lodge at Blackheath. The Noble Earl will resume his
diplomatic dinners at Argyll-house early in the ensuing
month.

The Lord Chancellor and Lady Lyndhurst and the
Hon. Misses Copley are passing the Easter recess at
Turville-park, near Henley-on-Thames. The Noble and
Learned Lord returns on Wednesday morning to town,
to receive the judges and law officers at his customary
breakfast at the commencement of Easter term.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROSt OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
APRIL 10.—Her Majesty's brig Contest is to be
launched from Mr. Joseph White's yard, East Cowes,
to-morrow (Saturday). In the opinion of those whose
experience ought to enable them to form a correct judg-
ment, a more beautiful and powerful vessel of her ton-
nage was never built.
Her dimensions are as follows :

Feet. Inches.
Length for tonnage no 8}
Keel for tonnage B6 6
Extreme breadth 3l 7
Breadth for tonnage
Breadth moulded
Depth of hold
Burden, 459 76-94 tons.

She is completely finished below, and her fittings and
accommodations for the men are far superior to any
other vessel of her class.

The following members have been at the Royal
Yacht Squadron House this week :—The Earl of Yar-
borough, Mr. Bentinck, Marquis of Blaudford, Mr.
Peareth, Lord Clarence Paget, Sir William Montagu,
and Mr. De Horsey.
Contracts have been entered into by the Cowes Im-
provement Commissioners to widen the parade hi front
of the Royal Yacht Squadron House, and construct a
causeway from it. It is intended to widen the pavement
by the parade-wall to ten feet, and otherwise improve
that part of the town.
The annual meeting of the members of the Royal
Yacht Squadron is fixed for the Bth of May, at the
Thatched House Tavern.

There have been numerous applications for houses
during the past week, particularly in East Cowes Park,
but there is only one of those beautiful villas furnished.
Sir Edward Paget has taken Egypt House, and Sir
Richard Rycroft Oak hill llous West Cowes.
Died, on the 9th inst., Mr. J. K. Ward, the highly
respected proprietor of the Grapes wine-vaults, in his
74th year, from an attack of gout i❑ the stomach.
The continued rains have given the wheats a very
sickly appearance, and changed them from a healthy
green to a dirty yellow. There is a large breadth of
oats unsown, and the hind has been so wet that dunging
and ploughing was out of the question, and very little
ground has been got ready for barley sowing.

CAPTAIN MAN BY,
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—ln your paper of the 19th instant, there is an
article headed " Experiments at IVoolvvich," and I con-
sider I have some right to command and claim a small
space in your excellent journal, to satisfy the public. I
am the psrent of the modes of saving life from ship-
wreck ; in other words, I led the van by introducing my
mortars into practical uses. You are also aware that I
have spent my time, my mental and physical abilities,
and the means I vissessed, since the year 1807 to the
present moment, in pursuing my theory and practice,
and that my exertions have been acknowledged by my
gracious Sovereigns, a liberal Parliament, with many of
the reigning monarchs of Europe, which are testimonies
of high value to my zeal ; and continue to urge me,
even in my 81st year, to emerge from my retirement to
defend an opposition directed against the established
simplicity and practical successes of my apparatus all
round the kingdom.
I take your article just adverted to for the authority,
and therefore a duty I owe to myself to confute. It
says, " Captain Jerningham, commanding the Coast-
guard at Yarmouth, has had many opportunities of wit-
nessing the complication and inefficiency of the plan
adopted at present." Sir, this is an assertion as extra-
ordinary as it is astounding ; and I shall reply to it by
stating. not only from my own knowledge, but from
general society in Yarmouth, he never has seen, nor had
an opportunity of seeing, a life saved by my apparatus,
or lite lost by shipwreck on the coast, since he had the
command. I must, therefore, consider his assertion, as
to the complication and inefficiency of my plan, to be
most unfair and unfounded. Holding, as 1 do, the sim-
plicity of all my arrangements to be perfect, and from
the uninterrupted success that has attended them, ought.
not to have been violated or infringed upon, without
some more simple, less expensive, and certain expedient
was required from the failure o' my plan, and then only
confirmed by practical experienced men competent to
decide.

My very advanced period of life, and declining state
of health, prevents my commenting upon other parts of
this extraordinay article, especially in reference to the
laying of the rope ; but I cannot conclude without con-
sidering the article named, evidently to detract from the
labours so long devoted to the welfare of my fellow-
men and my country's good, to obtain a spurious reputa-
tion therefrom.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
(Signed) GEORGE W. MANI3Y, Capt., F.R.S.
Pedestal House, Southtown, Great Yarmouth,

March 27.

ROYAL ARTILLERY.— WooLivicn, APRIL 9. The
non-commissioned officers and men appointed to form the
10th battalion of Royal Artillery assembled at two o'clock
r.si. to-day on the guard mounting parade in heavy march-
ing order, in the presence of Major-General Sir 11. D. Ross,
K.C.8., Deputy-Adjutant-General of Artillery ; Colonel
Turner, C.B. ; Lieutenant-Colonel Bastard, Lieutenant-Co-
lonel orden, Lieutenant-Colony 1 Blachley, and Lieutenant-
Colonel Strangways, the latter having the command of the
battalion. Brigade-Major Cuppage, and the captains ap-
pointed to each of the eight companies—Captain Grant, Ist
company ; Captain Mitchell, 2d company ; Captain Beres-
ford, 3d company ; Second-Captain Dickson, in the absence
of Captain Crawford, 4th company ; Captain St. George,
sth company; Captain Yedham, 6th company ; Captain
Fraser, 7th company; and Captain Warde, Bth company—
were present to inspect the kits of the men, which was done
on the barrack field, and they were then marched to the
quarters assigned to them, and will commence messing toge-
ther for the first time to-day. At 10 minutes before 9 o'clock
A.m., one sergeant, two corporals, and 70 privates of the
Royal Marines, left Roff's-wharf, for Blackwell, under the
command of Lieutenant M'liillop, for a passage to Graves-
end, en route to Chatham, to make room in the barracks at
Woolwich for the men of the 10th battalion.
DEATH OF LADY ELIZABETH PERCEVAL.—We have
to notice the demise of the above venerable lady, sister of the
late Right Hon. Spencer Perceval, the unfortunate Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, who expired on Saturday last, at
Odell Castle. Her Ladyship, who was daughter of the
second Earl of Egmont, was born Dec. 12, 1763. By her
Ladyship's decease, the families of Lord Redesdale, the Earl
and Countess of Egmont, &c., are placed in mourning,
SALE OF COINS OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR, &C.—
On Thursday the valuable collection of gold and silver coins
of every EngFa't Sovereign or other form of Government,
from William the Conqueror to George IV., inclusive, col-
lected by the late Mr. John Paget, of Cranmore Hall, Somer-
set, were disposed of by auction by Messrs. S. Sotheby and
Co., at their auction-rooms, 'Wellington-street, Strand, some
of which were purchased on account of the British
Museum. There were 143 lots, of which the follow-
ing were some of the prices :—A penny of William the Con-
queror, canopy type, IL 15s. ; a ditto, full faced, sceptre as
each side, 17s. (1066); a penny, William Rufus, star on each
side (1087), IL ls. ; a penny, Henry I (1100), 10s. ; a ditto,
Stephen (1135), 12s ; a groat, silver, Richard 11. (1377),
struck at London' 178.; a halfpenny and farthing ditto, 7s- ;
a noble, Henry IV. (1399), gold, ls. 16s. ; a quarter noble,
cross corslet, gold, Henry V. (1413), 17s.
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angel,
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Richard
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