The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-08 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Qth'ell and Print,. (.7..e.:'-mpsnled by
; - Prince of Wales, PrincP Alfre.d, tio2 Prince:is
and ihf, and attended by the
V !countess Jocelyn, the- l)owaz'r Lady Lyttelton,
C,,lonel Bowles, Major-General Wetnrss, and Colonel
Bouverie, arrived at Claremont, from Windsor Castle,
at twenty minutes before five o'clock on Tuesday
aftvrnoon, The royal party occupied four carriages
and four, and was escorted by a party of the 4th Light
Dra4oont.-

Yesterday morning bcr Nlttjesty and 1-m. Royal Con•
sort took thcir accustomed early walk in Ciaretnoni
Park. Prine Albert afterwards went out shooting, at•
tend, ,d by Mr. George Edward Aneon and Colone]
Bum erie.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Royal were taken out on ponies in Claremont
Park yesterday forenoon.

The Duke of Buceleueb arrived in town yesterday.
Sir James Graham and other Cabinet Ministers visited
Sir Robert Peel yesterday.
His Excellency the Prussia❑ Minister transacted busi-
ness yesterday at the Foreign offiee.
The Earl of Dalhousie had an interview with Sir
James Graham yesterday, at the Horne,office.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of the West India Colonies.

Dispatches were sent off last ev, fling from the Colo-
nial-office for the Lord High Commissioner of the
lonian Islands, and also for the Governors of Malta and
Gibraltar.

COURT OF LIEUTENANCY,
GUILDHALL.

Yesterday a Court of Lieutenancy was held at Guild-
hall, to take into consideration a letter from the Right
Hon. Sir James Graham, Secretary of State for the
Dome Department, communicating her Majesty's com-
mands for the completion of the permanent staff of the
regiment of Royal London Militia; the retirement of the
present, and the appointment of another adjutant, the
filling up of the vacant commissions in the regiment, and
on other business-; the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor in
the chair.

There were present, besides the Lord Mayor, Alder-
men Sir C. S. Hunter, the Colonel of the Royal London
Militia, Farebrother, Wilson, Sir W. Magnay, Bart.,
Sir Chapman Marshall, Hooper, W. Hunter, and Challis;
also Sir Moses Montefiore and a large number of the
Common Councilmen, who are officers in the Lieutenancy.
Mr. Smith, the clerk, read the letter of Sir James
Graham, w hich stated that it was the intention of her
Majesty to call out the militia early in the ensuing year,
for whkh reason the Lieutenancy was requested to make
as early a return to the War-office as possible of the
officers necess,ry for the performance of the duties of
the regtwent

Th.Thst of the names and residences of the present
offic. rs was then read, and several vacancies were de-
clared.

A Committee was appointed to take the subject of the
Secretary of State's letter into consideration, and to in-
quire into the present state of the staff of the regiment,
and the vacancies to be filled up, and to report to the
next Court of Lieutenancy, to be held in tke course of
the present month.
The Committee consists of all the Aldermen present,
together with Sir Moses Montefiore, Deputies Fumes
and Allan, Mr. James Anderton, Mr. Richard Lambert
Jones, and Mr. D. W. Wire.

There are, we are given to understand, some corpora-
tion members of the Court of Lieutenancy who, although
in consequence of a remarkable physical debility they
are wholly incapacitated from performing the most in-
significant duties, show great reluctance to resign. To
those officers a remonstrance w►ll be sent by their bre-
thren calling upon them to resign, and if such remon-
strance prove ineffectual, then immediate measures will
be adopted to strike them off the list as incapable any.
refractory.

RATING OF PRINCE ALBERT'S

FARM AT WINDSOR.

WINDSOR, TUESDAY EVENING.—In consequence of
a memorial addressed to Prince Albert on the subject of
the alleged claims of the parish upon his Royal Highness
for arrears of poor rates, amounting to 2281, due upon
Flemish Farm, signed by the whole of the parochial au.
thorities, the Prince commanded a case to be drawn up,
setting forth the'nature of his Royal Highness's occu.
pation of the farm in question, as well as the grounds
upon which the payment was resisted, and submitted to
the law officers of the Crown for their opinion thereon.
It may be recollected, that at the last vestry meeting
which took place at Windsor, resolutions were unani-
mously carried that his Royal Highness, having a bene-
ficial occupation in Flemish Farm, was justly liable to
pay all rates and taxes due for the said property, and
that the Prince be applied to by the collector to pay the
arrears then due.

This morning Mr. Darvill, solicitor (who had been
professionally engaged in the matter on the part of the
parish), accompanied by Mr. Thomas Adams, the mayor
and vicar's warden, Messrs. John Clode, jun., and In
galton, churchwardens ; and Messrs. T. Cleave, Noke,
and Chisholm, overseers, waited upon Mr. Anson, the
Prince's Private Secretary at the Castle, agreeably to
the request of Mr. Anson, for the purpose of having
communicated to them the opinion which had been ob-
tained by the Prince from the law officers of the Crown,
as well as to be informt d of the final determination of
his Royal Highness. Mr. Anson informed the parochial
authorities that cases had been submitted to Sir Fre-
derick Thesiger, and also to Sir Thomas Wilde, and
that both those eminent legal authorities agreed in opi-
nion that the Prince Consort, under the circumstances
which had been brought before them, although the farm
was tided and a large portion of it used for fattening
the cattle of his Royal Highness, was not liable to be
rated, inasmuch as the property in question belonged to
the Crown. It was further stated to the parish officers
that the Crown had granted no lease of the farm to the
Prince Consort, and that his Royal Highness occupied
the land rent free. It was also denied by Mr. Anson
that the Prince had beneficially occupied the farm ; and
the parish officers, it was submitted on the part of the
Prince. must prove that his Roy al Highness really had
a beneficial occupation before they could legally recover
the amount claimed by them for arrears of rates.
Mr. An-on declined to furnish the parish with a copy
of the case submitted to Sir Frederick Thesiger and Sir
Thomas Wilde, together with their opinion thereon, in
consequence of the parish, on their part, not being pro-
vided with a case and opinion also. It was stated, how-
ever, that if the parish had submitted a case to counsel,
and obtained an opinion, there would have been no ob-
jection, on the part of the Prince Consort's advisers, to
'have exchanged copies of the same; but this not having
been done, no copies could be furnished to the parish of
the case and opinion by which his Royal Highness would
be gnided in resisting the claims of the patish. It was
also stated, that it was the opinion of Sir Thos. Wilde,
that if the parish proceeded to extremities in enforcing
the payment of the alleged arrears, and any future rates
that might be made, by levying npo,l the property upon
the farm, it would find itself in great error.
A vestry meeting has been called by the parish officers
to make another rate (a large sum being demanded im-
mediately by the guardians of the Windsor Union),
when the whole of the correspondence which has passed
between the legal adviser of the pariah and the Prince
Consort, as well as the determination which has been
come to by the Prince, will be laid before the inhabitants,
in order that they may decide upon their future pro-
ceedings in the matter.
There are several persons who have not paid, the last
rate made as long since as September last. Summonses
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After the return of the Lord Mayor from Windsor,
on Saturday last, the Lord Mayor, in the high spirit
of hospitality by which he has been long distinguished,
entertained, at the Mansion house, the Lord Mayor of
Dublin, and the Irish deputation who accompanied him,
together with about forty members of the Corporation
of London, and Aldermen Humphery and Hooper. The
entertainment was quite unexpected. The members of
the City Common Council had entered their names for
a dinner at the Albion Tavern, in Aldersgate•street, and

had sent an invitation to the chief magistrate to take the
chair, and it was not until their arrival at Windsor
they were made acquainted with his Lordship's inten-
tion to entertain them at the Mansion- house. The old
English hospitalities of the Mansion-house were kept up
to a late hour, and the warmest acknowledgments of the
excellent feeling of the Lord Mayor of London were
made by the chief magistrate of Dublin and his jovial
associates in the mission to the Queen.
FUNERAL OF THE LATE Ray. R. ASPLAND.
Yesterday the remains of this eminent divine were interred
in a vault erected on a spot selected by himself, in the burial-
ground of the new Gravel-pit Chapel, Hackney, of which
he had been pastor upwards of 35 years. A. number of
carriages, and about 200 members of the congregation, fol-
lowed the mourning coaches containing Mr. Aspland's nu-
merous family and some distinguished Dissenting divines.
The children connected with the school appeared in mourn-
ing armlets. The funeral service was conducted by Dr.
Thomas Rees, who delivered an address, in which he drew
a strong portraiture of the deceased's character, and de-
scanted with peculiar effect upon his exertions in the cause
of civil and religious liberty. Dr. Rees stated that the
reverend deceased's high character bad brought him into
intimate connexion with many of the eminent statesmen of
his time, and that the Test and Corporation Act repeal, the
passing of the Dissenting Marriages Act, and other liberal
measures, were owing in no small degree to his exertions.
At the close of the address the body, preceded by Dr. Rees,
and the Rev. J. Madge and Dr. Hutton, was consigned to
the earth. Upon no occasion since the death of the Vener-
I able Archdeacon Watson, have the inhabitants of Hackney
evinced so much respect to a deceased pariehoner, many of
the shops being closed, and a large concourse of persons, of
all religious and political views, joining in the mournful
procession.
A THIEF OUTDONE.--SINGULAR DETECTION.—On
Friday night a man went into a pawnbroker's shop, and
offered a metal tea-pot in pledge, The broker, upon
opening the lid of the tea-pot to examine it, discovered
a quantity of bank notes. Neither did their appear-
ance escape the notice of the thief, who imme-
diately snatched the pot from the pawnbroker's hand,
and endeavoured to make his escape, but was followed
by the broker, and given into custody ; and upon being taken
to the police- office, there appeared to be sixteen notes of 1.
each in the teapot, which had never been observed by the
prisoner until he offered it In pledge. The prisoner stated
that he had stolen the article from his mother.—Caledonian
Mercury.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—As the train from Morningside
was coming to Glasgow, on Thursday evening, in the vicinity
of Summerlee, the guard observed that the carriages
passed over some object, and on sending back to ascertain
what it was, the body of a man was found shockingly
mangled lying upon the line. The deceased had in all
likelihood been tipsy, and had fallen or lain down upon the
rails while the train was approaching and thus met his me-
lancholy, fate. The manager of the Glasgrtyv and Garnkirlc
Railway ordered a iheent•coifin In which to put the remains'
and so far as we have heard they have not yet been identified.
Glasgow Argus.