The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-08 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, J. T.
The Queen and his Royal ilighntss Prince Albert
took their usual morning walk.
The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise
in the Slopes and Windior Park.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
went out bunting this morning. His Ito:, al High-
ness was attended by Major-General Wemyss and
Lieut. Colonel P. H. Seymour.
Lord and Lady John Russell 2nd the Speaker and
Mrs. Shaw Lefevre are expected to arrive at the Castle
to-day, on a visit to the Queen and the Prince.
The Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
will include her R,,y al Highness the Duchess of
Kent, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
the Duchess of Sutherland and Lady C. Leveson
Gower, Lord and Lady John Russell, Lady Fanny
Howard, Baroness de Speth, the Right Hon. the
Speaker and Mrs. Shaw Lefevre, and. Colonel the
Hon. Charles Grey.
The band of the Coldstream Guards will attend
during dinner. The Queen's private band will after-
wards attend in the Castle.
The band of the Royal Horse Guards was in at-
tendance during dinner yesterday evening, and per-
formed the following selection :
Overture
Waltz, " Tony"
Charivari
Quadrille," Massaniello"
Polka, " Jetty Treffi' Bohlmen.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended
in the Castle, and played the following pieces:—
Overture, " Ahnenschatz"
Duo, "Le Songe d'un Nuit d'Ete Thomas.
Adagio and Polonaise, " Grass au das
Vaterland"
Selection, "Robert le Diable"

A deputation, consisting of Mr. William Burton,
Clerk to the commissioners of St. Leonard • Mr. J.
M. C!abon, agent for the West Hastings Improve-
ment Bill ; and Mr. P. Barnes, had an interview
with Lord Seymour yesterday, at the office of her
Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests, in
Whitehall-place, on the subject of the application of
the Health of Towns Act to Hastings.
Lord and Lady John Russell left their residence,
Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, yesterday, for
Windsor Castle.
Dispatches from the Governors of Canada and the
other North American colonies, and also from the
Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, were received
yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Dispatches were sent off last evening from the
Colonial-office, for the Governors of Ceylon and Hong
Kong.

STATE OF TRADE.—MANCHESTER, JAN. 7.—We
are this morning in possession of the letters per the America,
with dates from New York to the 24th ult. The advices
hence per the Africa, 7th ult., showing the strong proba-
bility of peace being maintained on the continent, and an
advancing cotton market, had stimulated the demand for
cotton, and rates had considerably advanced, say, from the
lowest point, :!tic. to lc. per lb., Uplands being most favourably
affected. The receipts into the ports are, 690,000 bales,
against 748,000 bales last season ; the exports to Great Bri-
tain, 219,000 bales, against 93,400 bales ; and the stock,
350,000 bales against 400,000 bales. There is a
disposition to lower the estimates of the ultimate
yield on the part of some who, only last mail were
seeking to exaggerate it, and whose motives we have
all along questioned and exposed. From New York we are
advised, "We anticipate much higher prices in the early
spring, believing the question of the crop will gradually nar-
row down to 2,00,000—t0 2.100,000 bales." From Mobile
they write, the 14th ult.:—" The crop is now about all
picked out, and probably seven-eighths of it is hauled to the
river landing ready for shipment, and we hear the yield is
not so great as was estimated a few weeks since, so that a
good many persons are reducing their estimates. We con-
sider that 2,250,000 bales are perfectly safe for outside
figures, and should not be surprised if they turned out consi-
derably less." We have a strong and healthy feeling to-day,
and, stocks being low, producers, whether of cloth or yarn,
are quite firm in their demands. It is yet, however, too early
in the year for regular operations to commence.

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APPREHENSION OF THE UCKFIELD BURGLARS.—
In a paragraph which appeared in our paper a few days ago,
it was erroneously stated that the residence of Misses
Farnscombe was in the neighbourhood of Fiimley. Down-
lands is rear Uckfield, abdut seven miles from Lewes, in the
opposite direction to Brighton. Six of the burglars have
been apprehended. The apprehension of three of them was
accidental, and took place on the evening of the burglary on
another charge. The names of these men are John Hamil-
ton, John Smith, and James Smith. They were at a vil-
lage called Groombridge, where Hamilton gave John Smith
into custody on a charge of having taken a sovereign from
him. In the meantime the police of the Tunbridge Wells
district having received intelligence of a burglary committed
at a Mr. Kenward's, at Hartfield, and thinking the whole
party auspicious characters, proceeded to search them, and
tound upon them a 51. note of the Lewes Bank, a coat, um-
brella, and mask. These were taken to Downlands, and the
coat and umbrella were at once recognized by the butler
and housekeeper of the Misses Farnscombe. Two more,
named Hillyer and Morgan, were captured, after a desperate
resistance, by the Guildford police in a beer-shop in that
town, and several of the articles stolen from the house at
Downlands found upon them. Another man, named Joseph
Carter, was taken at Woking, on whose person was also
found part of the stolen property, and a pistol loaded with
slugs. Morgan has been identified by the butler as the man
who knocked him down with the pistol, and Carter as the
man who kept guard over him.
THE GREAT FALLS OF NIAGARA.—OH Tuesday
evening last our citizens were startled on hearing a lend and
terrific noise, resembling, as near as we can describe it, the
heavy booming of artillery in quick succession, which shook
the earth around us very sensibly. Part of the Horse-Shoe
Fall on the Canada side had fallen, carrying away about ten
rods of the rock in length, by four in width. The canal
boat, which had been lodged for the last few months on the
brink of the rock which has fallen, and which has excited
the admiration of all who beheld it, was also carried over
with the rock. It is now in the whirlpool, two miles down
the river, dancing attendance on the freaks of that great
maelstrom. The crash occurred about seven o'clock in the
evening, and it is indeed providential that it fell at such an
hour and at this season of the year. Had it been in the
summer, when so many thousands of strangers are here, there
undoubtedly would have been persons crushed to death ; for
it is precisely the spot whence so many contemplate the
grandeur of nature and behold the waters of the mighty
cataract above them rushing terrifically over their heads that
is now filled with huge masses of rock which have fallen
from above. The loss of this portion of the rock has not in
the least diminished in appearance the view of the Falls, but
has, in tur opinion, added to the scene, which looks grander
and more sublime, if possible, than ever.—iViugura Fulls Iris,
Dec. 14.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE WEST INDIA DOCK AND
iILACKWALL JUNCTION RAIL NVAY.—An accident of a fatal
character took place on this line on Monday night, near the
viaduct crossing the Great Northern Railway, at Maiden-
lane. A poor man named Henry Harris, aged 35, residing
at Alpha cottages, Maiden-late, was employed on the line as
watchman, and about half-past ten o'clock he left his post for
the purpose of going home to ge., his supper. Whilst pro-
ceeding along the line, which at this spot is on a consider-
able inc.ine, he was knocked down by a pilot-engine, which
passed over his body and mutilated it in a frightful manner.
The skull was dreadfully frae.ured, and death must have
been instantaneous. The night was rather foggy, and from
the circumstance of the engine being without carriages, and
the spot being an incline, it is believed that it made so little
Rio ise that the unfortunate man was not at all aware of its
'rose proximity to him, and that his back was turned towards
it when he was struck. The deceased has left a widow and
four young children. Mr. Wakley held an inquest on the
body, at the Fortune of War, Maiden-lane, yesterday after-
noon, and a verdict of "Accidental Death" was recorded.
JERSEY.--Judge d'Avranche, we regret to have to
announce, died on Tuesday evening last, after a long and
severe illness. The late judge had been 42 years on the
Jersey bench. Mr. Marett was a man of talent and learn-
ing. He was formerly an advocate of the Royal Court, and
after his election to the judgeship he acted as lieutenant-
bailiff both to the late Sir Thomas le Breton (father of the
present bailiff) and to the late Sir John de Veulle.—Brittsh
Press, Jan. 3.
THE 1848 HOP DUTY.—We are happy to state
that the duty has been pretty generally paid, but we hear
that some parties are still defaulters. After the various inti-
mations which we have ventured to give as to the possible
result of non-payment, and the way in which the duty has
been since paid by most, we must suppose that such non-
payment has resulted from inability. We still urge de-
faulters to make a new effort to meet this liability, as we
have reason to believe that after Thursday next (Jan. 9) the
collector at Maidstone will not receive any further duties i n
this account, the collection of which will then pass into the
hands of the solicitor to the Board of Excise, who will im-
mediately issue process.—Muidstone Gazette.
EXHIBITION OF 1851.—PROTECTION OF ARTICLES
OF INVENTION FROM PlRACY.—Exhibitors will be glad to
learn that her Majesty's Government intend to bring in a Bill
for the purpose of protecting from piracy inventions, &c., not
already protected by the Designs Act of last year.
FOREIGN PLAYING CARDS.—An importation having
taken place from Hamburgh of a parcel of foreign rianufac-
tured playing cards, which were on examination found to
have not the proper descriptive marks as required by law,
they were detained by the officers of the revenue, for the
directions of the authorities in the matter. The cards were
officially reported as being for exportation only, and were
intended for immediate shipment to the Indies, but under
the circumstances, the parties requested that the forfeiture
of the cards which had been incurred by the infraction of
the law, might be waived in this instance, and permission
given for them to be returned to the port of shipment,
which on consideration of the matter, although the cards
were strictly and legally liable to forfeiture under the 33d
section of the act of 9th Geo. IV., cap. 18. for not having the
maker's name and place cf residence on the cards, and also
on the wrapper, has been granted on payment of a small
fine to the Cro;vu.
THE LATE MR. GEORGE DRUMMOND.—The coro-
ner, Mr. Bodford, held an inquest yesterday on the body of
the lamented deceased, when on the evidence of Lieutenant
E. A. Drummond, R.N., cousin of the deceased, and Dr.
Synnett, the jury returned a verdict of " Natural Death from
disease the heart."
I', is rumoured in fashionable circles that Viscount
Hinton is about to be married to a Somersetshire lady of
great personal attractions.— /Vestern, Flying Post.
LORD DALMENY.It is gratifying to state that the
health of this Noble Lord continues to improve, the latest
accounts from Dalmeny Park representing him to be still
progressing favourably, and giving hopes of his speedy resto-
ration to good health.

A GANG OF RAILWAY THIEVES.
At the Bristol Quarter Sessions yesterday (Tuesday)
a young man of respectable appe3reirce and connexions,
and of good address, named Jams Simpson, was sen-
tenced to ten years' transportation. The circumstances
of the case are somewhat singular, and the subjoined
brief dttdil may lead to caution on the part of ladies tra-
velling in first-cia,:s carriages. Ic appeats the prisoner
was at the head of a gang of thieves who have long in-
fests d that portion of the Groat Western Railway which
lies between Bath and Bristol, and particularly the
Bristol terminus. The prisoner had been noticed re-
peatedly of late to travel betwt-en Bristol and Bath, al-
ways taking a first-class ticket, and as several robberies
had recently been complained ot; suspicion was aroused,
but so skilfully were the operations of the gang conducted
that for some into all E fl'orts for the detection of the
thieves were fruitless. On the 2a of November last, how-
ever, a lady named Cook went with her servant from
Bath to Bristol by the express train, and on their arri-
val, as the servant was engaged in getting her mistress's
luggage, the lady noticed the prisoner push against
her, and shortly after two wher men, standing
close by, walked away. On the servant feeling in ha r
pocket she found that her purse, containir g a quantity
of silver, was gone. A hue and cry was raised, and the
prisoner having been suspected, was stopped by some of
the railway officials. In his possession were found se-
veral sums of money, and he was also seen in the act of
patting gold into a purse. On the pane being opened there
were 'twelve sovereigns in it. Through the exertions of
Mr. Burton, superintendent of the Great Western Rail-
way police, this purse was subsequently identified by a
M iss Powell as her property, which she said, with a good
deal of money in it, was stolen from her a day or two
before whilst waiting on the railway platform to see a
friend off. Mr. Stone, one of the Western Circuit, de-
fended the prisoner, and by his advice he pleaded
" guilty." When sentenced he endeavoured to excite
commiseration by throwing up his hands and pretend-
ing to faint, but as he was t emoved from the dock he
was observed to put his tongue out and laugh to some of I
the gang in the court anxious to hear Ilia fate. The
prisoner, by his good address and respectable appear-
ance, has for some time pursued successfully a systema-
tic plan of thus plundering ladies travelling in first-class
carriages. It is hoped his committal and sentence will
operate in breaking up the gang.

MONEY MARKET—The quotation of gold at Paris
is at par, which, at the English Mint price of
3/. 17s. 101 d. per ounce fur standard gold, gives an ex-
change of 25.15; and the exchange at Paris on London
at short being 24.971, it follows that gold is 0.70 per
cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from
Hamburgh the price of gold is 419 per mark, which,
at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 1014. per ounce for
standard gold, givis an exchange of 13.18; and the ex-
change at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.3*,
it follows that gold is 0.89 per cent. dearer in Lon-
don than in Hamburgh. The course of exchange
at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight
is 1101- per cent., and the par of exchange between
England and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it fol-
lows that the exchange is nominally 0.92 per cent. in
favour of England, and, after making allowance for
difference of interest and charges of transport, the
present rate leaves a profit on the importation of gold
from the United States.

CALIFORNIA FASHIONS.—The newly-arrived Cali-
fornians, who appeared in large numbers in the streets yes-
terday, attracted no little attention. They seemed to vie
with each other in the uncouthness of their garbs. Coats of
all manner of shapes, trousers of all sorts of colours, and
hats or caps of all descriptions of shapes were observable.
One person, who put up at a number-one house, and, ergo,
must have had some " rocks," was adorned with an in-
d

_escribable coat, of large dimension, the colour of which
appeared to have been sheep's gray, pantaloons which bore a
colour entirely unknown in this part of the world, and which
had been worn off around the teet, as though they had been
too lung for him originally. On his head he wore parts of
two wool hats, the whole made to answer very well the
purpose of a chapeau. This thatching to the Californian,
when viewed at a small distance, appeared like an ordinary,
tin wash-hand basin inverted. But, with all the grotesque-
ness of garb which these men assumed from choice, or re-
tained from necessity, when leaving the golden land, they
were a fine-looking set of fellows, and looked as if 60,000 or
80,000 of t hem might make a state and build a city wherever
interest might induce them to their energies into action.
No one of them looked dull, but all seemed to convey the
idea that they were but in disguise here, whatever might
have been the appropriateness of their garb in California.
These are not the men who have been out to the new state,
and, on the con,ummation of some pre-arranged speculation,
returned before the clothes they took were worn out. No,
they were the men that last year, and the year before,•and
the year before that, left by scores and hundreds in every
sailing-vessel and steamer that started for San Frenciso.
They are of those jolly crews who used to go down to the
ships with a bag or two of clothes as their baggage, and a
rifle at their shoulder. Alas I they have left many of their
then hardy companions to fill rude graves. But they have
come safely home themselves, to bless the longing eyes of
parents or wives, who otherwise might save lived in straitened
circumstances, but who now may have a competency.—. New
York Herald.

IMPROVED PROSPECTS FOR IRELAND.—If we anti-
cipate anything for the next year, it is that steady industry
will go forward; that men will learn to depend more and
more upon themselves and less upon Governments; that our
trade and commerce will advance, under an average season;
and that the slow but effective pressure of the nation on
behalf of free education will be felt, and will advance the
cause of enlightenment. Our country has been long enough
the victim of sects and factions, of political impostors and
sectarian schemers; and it now exhibits some satisfactory
symptoms of a determination to act a little for itself. The
railway and the steam-ship, the flax-grower and the flax-
steeper, the spinner and the bleacher, are all in activity, la-
bouring, each of course for his own separate advantage, but
all nevertheless far more effectually struggling to advance
the nation, and give it a real rank among the nations of the
world, than if they had, or pretended to have, that object in
view, and were straining their lungs like so many enthusias-
tic patriots. We therefore entertain strong hope and take
high courage; and much as Ireland is advanced now, com-
pared with what she was at the beginning of the century,
that advance is little in comparison with what may be anti-
cipated from the career which seems to be opening for her as
she glides into the second half of this great centenary cycle
of our race.— The Northern Whit.

THE LATE QUARTER-M ASTER- GENEEALe—The
remains of the late Quarter-Master-General Sir Willoughby.
Gordon are to be removed from his residence, Chelsea Col-
lege, on Friday next, to his house at Knighton, in the Isle of
Wight. The funeral (which will be quite. private) is fixed
to take place the next day (Saturday) at the parish church
of the above place.
The mortal remains of the late John Hume
Viscount Alford will be removed on Friday next from Ash-
bridge Park, for interment in the family mausoleum at Belton
House, near Grantham, Lincolnshire.
DISTRESSING DOMESTIC EFFECTS OF PUSETISM.
—We understand that very distressing effects have resulted
from the adoption of Puseyite principles, recently terminat-
ing in Popery, in the family of a late clergyman of the An-
glican Church. The particulars have been communicated to
us, but they are too delicate and painful for publication.
We may, however, state, that one of the consequences to
which we allude, is, the separation of the husband from his
wife and a numerous and interesting family. What makes
the matter still worse, is the fact, that the lady, when mar-
ried, brought her husband a handsome fortune, and that she
has no longer any control over that portion of it which still
remains. A near relative of the lady's—a lady by title, and
belonging to one of the most respectable families in England
—has had her feelings so outraged by the husband's seces-
sion to Rome, under the distressing circumstances of the
case, that, within the last fortnight, she publicly addressed
the large congregation of which he was recently the pastor,
on the domestic misery which had been produced by the
course he had adopted. As might be expected, the lady,
whose name we forbear to give, was in a distressingly nervous
slate while addressing a large public assembly, who had met
together for Christian worship.—Advertiser.
\V INDIN G....UP OF JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES.—The
Master in Chancery Brougham issued the following order on
the 21st of last month :—" I direct that all official managers
appointed by me shall bring into my office their accounts to
be passed, and pass the same three times in every year, that
is to t,ay, once during the last fortnight in the month of Janu-
ary, once during the first fortnight in the month of June, and
once during the last fortnight in the month of November, and
at the time of passing each account shall leave in my office
I for examination their time accounts made up to the day of

their leaving the same."
THE NEW MAYORALTY.—The Lord Mayor and
the Lady Mayoress have taken up their residence at the Man-
slow house. His Lordship commenced the new year by re-
ceiving a family party at dinner on New Year's Day, and has
issued cards of invitation for a dinner to be given to the alder-
men and their ladies on the 31st of January, and for an even-
ing party on the same day. The usual household dinner will
be held according to ancient custom, on Plough Monday, and
his Lordship will entertain the directors of the Monarch As-
surance-office, of which his Lordship is chairman, on Mon-
day, the 21st inst.
SINGULAR MISTAKE.—In the early part of last
week Mr. Simpson, high bailiff of the York County Court,
being about to leave York on a Christmas visit to his family,
depthited a parcel containing silver plate, in the hands of
M. March. publican, Goodramgate. The plate consisted of
a silver mug, two pairs of sugar tongs, gravy spoons, tea
spoons, &c. Mr. Simpson and his wife returned on Saturday,
and in the evening called on Mr. March for the property,
which was hande to them by Miss March. They left the
house about eleven o'clock, when Miss March discovered
they had not taken the parcel with them. She immediately
sent a lad, about sixteen years of age (who is in Mr. March's
service), after Mr. and Mrs. Simpson, to whom he was to I
deliver the parcel in question. The lad, on reaching Mr.
Darby's public-house, Monk Bar, saw a man and woman
standing. He gave the parcel to the latter, who very po-
litely replied, " Thank you; I have dropped a parcel." The
youth returned, little suspecting the error he had so unwit-
tingly committed. Mr. Simpson had not reached home be•
fore he discovered that he had lett the silver goods at Mr.
March's, whither he retraced his steps, but to his dismay, he
became aware of the above facts. Information was given to
the police authorities, whose exertions were rewarded by the
discovery of the parcel in Grape-lane, in a house occupied by
some of the lowest characters, locked up in a box. Much
credit is due to the police for their dexterity in the affair.
Yorkshire Gazette.
THE CASE CF THE SLOANES.—At the Central Cri-
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minal Court yesterday, the grand jury returned a true bil
against George Sloane and Theresa, his wife, for a misde•
meanour.

The widow of Lieutenant Wagborn has been add

tionally pensioned by the liberality of Sir Jamset-jee Juju,
bhoy, the wealthy native merchant of Bombay. The well-
known Parsee Knight has bes:owed 201. per annum on
Lieutenant Waghoru's relict.
A BORROWED COUNTENANCE.—A Gascon officer,
demanding his salary from the Minister of War, maintained
that he was in danger of dying of hunger. The Minister,
who saw that his visage was full and ruddy, told him his
face gave the lie to his statement: "Ah t Sir," said the
Ga,,con, " Don't trust to that; this face is not mine. It
betengs to my landlord, who has given the credit for a long
time past."
The Rev. T. T. Coxwell, A.M., Surrogate of
Bucks, Berke, and Oxon, has been instituted to the Rectory
of Horton, Bucks, on the presentation of T. P. Williams,
M.P.

'.one Duke of Beaufort, we regret to state, in
answer to inquiries last evening, continued very much in-
disposed at Beaufort House, Arlington-street. The Duchess
and oche branchea of the family remain in town.