The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-04 00:00:00

THE COURT.

To-morrow the Queen, accompanied by her Royal
Consort, will go in state to the House of Peers to close
the session of Parliament.

Sir George Grey, Principal Secretary of State for the
Home Department, accompanies the Queen during her
excursion to Scotland.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent will not
accompany her Majesty and Prince Albert to town, but
will remain at her residence in East Cowes Park. The
three younger of the royal children will remain at Os-
borne during the absence of their royal parents.

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND.
WooLwica, SEPT. 2.—The Royal Victoria and
Albert yacht left Cowes yesterday afternoon, at half-
past four o'clock, P.M., under the command of Captain
Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, G.C.H., and arrived at
moorings, opposite Woolwich Dockyard, at a quarter
before one o'clock, P.m., to-day. Mr. Bellamy, master-
attendant, superintended the mooring of the royal yacht,
which has been brought up in the stream with her head
down the river. The vessel has a very fine appearance,
the paddle-boxes being painted and highly finished with
a rich cream colour. The gigs and boats are painted
of a beautiful ultra, marine colour, and the lines and or-
naments carved and gilt in a very tasteful manner,
without the slightest appearance of gaudiness.
It is now finally arranged that the embarka-
tion of her Majesty and Prince Albert will take
place at Woolwich Dockyard betwixt four and five
o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, very shortly after the
hour of, her Majesty's proroguing Parliament in person.
Captain Lord- Adolphus Fitzclarence landed from the
royal yacht at a quarter past one o'clock, and visited
Commodore Sir Gordon Bremer, G.C.8., G.C.H., at
his office. His Lordship's carriage was in waiting in
the dockyard to convey the gallant captain to St. James's
Palace.
The Vivid Dover mail steam-packet, Captain Smitbett,
arrived at Woolwich this evening, at six o'clock r.se.,
and with the Black Eagle Admiralty yacht and Virago
war-steamer will form the royal squadron, in addition
to the royal yacht. The Black Eagle will embark a
part of the royal carriages, and the Vivid a part of her
Majesty's suite with an inspector and fourteen men of
the A division of police from the metropolis to do duty
at Balmoral. These men being well acquainted with
her Majesty's and Prince Albert's attendants and those
having privileges at Court, will prevent the intrusion of
strangers, where local police would be unavailable for
that purpose.

DERBY SWEEPS.—On Saturday, at a petty ses
sions held before the magistrates for the district of St
Anne's, Westminster, J. Whiskin, E.q., in the chair,
the proceedings which took place in the House of Com-
mons, with reference to Derby sweeps, came before the
consideration of the bench.—The Chairman (Mr.
Whiskin) said that he had that morning read with some
surprise and regret the course which the Attorney-Ge.
neral had thought proper to pursue with regard to
Dsrby sweeps. It was said by the Hon. and Learned
Gentleman that ho did not intend to interfere further
than to declare that the advertising such sweeps in the
newspapers would henceforth be considered an illegal
act. He (the chairman) could not see what difference
there could be between permitting parties having
sweeps held at their houses to publish and circulate
bills announcing such fact and allowing them to make
use of the advertisement columns of a newspaper for the
same purpose. In his (the chairman's) opinion, all
kinds of sweeps were bad in principle, seeing that they
led to results of a mischievous character to many
families, the heads of which speculated their shilling in
the hopes of obtaining considerable amounts without in-
dustrial efforts. He did think that, as magistrates, it
was their duty to do all they could in order to suppress
these " sweeps," and he must repeat his regret that the
Government had not acted more firmly in the matter. If
the Attorney-General was of opinion that the measure
he had proposed would lead to the suppression of these
clubs, he (the chairman) was of a different opinion; he
thought it would lead more probably to an increase of
the evil.—Mr. H. Rose considered that such would ine-
vitably prove to be the case. For his part, he had
never sanctioned these kind of lotteries, nor would he
do so. The Attorney-General was certainly wrong in
not putting down these gambling speculations at once.—
After the transaction of the customary business the bench
broke up.
CORONER'S INQUEST.—An inquest was held on
Saturday, by Mr. Bedford, the Westminster coroner, at
St. George's Hospital, on the body of Edward Weitier,
aged 51. It appeared from the evidence of several
witnesses that the deceased was coachman to Colonel
Sykes, and on the previous Saturday evening deceased
was going through the stables in Hyde Park-mews
West, when one of the coach horses flew at him as he
was passing the stall, and caught him by the right
arm. The animal dragged him to tho ground, where
he continued to bite and trample on the unfortunate de-
ceased, until he became insensible, in which state he was
found some time after by his wife covered with blood.
He never showed the least signs of recovery, and died in
a raving state on the following Thursday. Verdict—
Died from injuries received by the violence of a vicious
horse."

MURDER OF A CHILD ON CLAPHAM-COMMON.—OH
Saturday Mr. W. Carter held an adjourred inquest at
the Falcon, Wandsworth-road, upon the body of an in-
fant female child, about a month old, which bad been
found drowned in the spring well on Clapham-common.
From the evidence adduced at the two investigations
which took place, it appeared that the well is a bucket-
well, about twelve feet in circumference, fourteen feet
deep, and is situated a little out of the direct road, across
the common from Clapham to Wandsworth. There is a
very abundant supply of peculiarly soft water, and a
number of men obtain a living by carting and selling it
to numerous families in the neighbourhood. On Thurs-
day morning, about half-past six o'clock, the body of the
deceased child was found floating in the well; it was
naked; its hands were clenched, and its body drawn up,
giving undoubted proof of its having been cast into the
water alive, and its subsequent struggle for existence.
The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against
some person or persons unknown."
FINE ARTS.-The bronze statue of Lord Auckland,
by Weekes, designed for erection on the Esplanade at
Calcutta, was, with its granite pedestal, shipped in the
Loudon Decks a few days since in the ship Blarlborough.