The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-23 00:00:00

!MN DON, WEDNESDAY EVEN-EN 0- urt
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COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, TUESDAY.
The Queen walked this morning on the slopes.
The Royal Family took walling exercise.
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Lieut.
Colonel Hon. C. B.,Phipps and Lieutenant-Colonel Hon.
Alexlnder Gordon, went to London at nine o'clock this
morning, to preside at a meeting of the Royal Commis-
sion for the promotion of the Exhibition, in 1851, of the
works of industry of all nations.
His Royal Highness and suite travelled by a spacial
train on the South-Western Railway, and returned to the
Castle at half-past three o'clock.
Her Majesty's private band attended after dinner yes-
terday (Monday) evening, and performed the following
pieces:—
Overture, Pastorale Kalliwoda.
Carnival do Venise, violin, M. Sainton Paganini.
Selection, Le Cheval de Bronze... ... Auber.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided at a meet-
ing of the Royal Commission for the promotion of the
Exhibition, in 1851, of the works of industry of all na-
tions yesterday morning.
His Royal Highness arrived at the Exhibition build-
ing in Hyde-park at ten o'clock, attended by Lieut.-Col.
Hon. Charles B. Phipps and Lieutenant-Colonel Hon.
Alexander Gordon.

The Commissioners assembled at eleven o'clock. There
were present the Earl of Rosso, the Earl Granville, Lord
John Russell, the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, Sir
Charles L. Eastlake, Mr. Barry, Mr. Cubitt, Mr. R.
Stephenson, M.P., and Mr. Hopkins, President of the
Geological Society. Mr. Edgar Bowring, acting secre-
tary to the Commission, was in attendance.
Col. Reid,:chairman of the executive committee; Col.
Lloyd, special commissioner; and Dr. Lyon Playfair,
special commissioner, attended.
The meeting broke up at a quarter past two o'clock,
when Prince Albert took his departure and returned to
Windsor Castle. . .

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial
Office from the Governor of Canada and from the Go-
vernors of the other North American Colonies. Dis-
patches were also received from the Governors of Ceylon,
Van Diemen's Land, the Mauritius, New Zealand, and
New South Wales.

Lady John Russell has issued invitations for an assem-
bly on Wednesday, the 30th inst., at the official residence
of Lord John Russell, in Downing-street.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, TUESDAY.

LONGFORD ELECTlON.—Yesterday, the High-Sheriff
declared the Right Hon. R. M. O'Ferrall the sitting
member, in the room of Major Blackall.
CORK ELECTION.—The election for Cork city is fixed
for to-morrow. There will be no opposition to the return
of Mr. Sergeant Murphy. Since his arrival in Cork, on
Wednesday last, the learned gentleman has been suffer-
ing from an attack of bronchitis; and, so painful has
been the attack, that it is probable he may not be able to
address the electors on Wednesday—certainly not at
any length.
Mit. SHARMAN CRAWFORD, M.P., AND TIIE TENANT-
LEAGUE.—A correspondence has taken place between
Mr. S. Crawford and the members of the Tenant-League
on the subject of a Landlord and Tenant Bill, in which
the Honourable Member for Rochdale, after expressing
his intention of retiring from Parliament on the next
dissolution, says that his wish to retire is, in some
measure, caused by a belief that, differing as he does on
certain important points from the principles laid down
by the League, "his presence in Parliament would be
rather an injury than a benefit to the cause in the form
that the League would wish to uphold it."
ARRIVALS OF FOREIGN GRAlN.—Thirty-five vessels
laden with foreign grain have arrived in Cork harbour
—twenty-seven on Saturday and eight on Sunday.
DINNER TO MR. FAGAN, LATE M.P. FOR CORK CITY.
—The Cork Examiner says:—"Mr. Fagan has re-
ceived an invitation to a public dinner from his late col-
leagues in the House of Commons representing English
constituencies. The document conveying the invitation
is signed by the leading Reformers in England, including
Messrs. Hume, Cobden, Bright, Milner Gibson, Mowatt,
Sir William Molesworth, Sir Edward Buxton, Sir
Thomas Edward Colebrooke, William Brown, and
Alexander Henry, Members for South Lancashire;
Colonels Watkins and Salwey, Mr. Haywood, of Lanca-
shire; Mr. Shafto Adair, Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley,
Colonel Thompson, Mr. Lushington, Alderman Hum-
phery, Mr. Mitchell, and Mr. Macgregor; Messrs. Bass
and Scholefield, Ellis, Horsman, and a long list of M.P.s
with whom, during his career in Parliament, Mr. Fagan
cordially co-operated in their efforts for political and
financial reform. The document, however, makes no
allusion to political subjects, and is confined to the ex-
pression of the Members' approbation of Mr. Fagan's
consistent and honourable conduct, and courteous de-
portment' during the time he sat in Parliament. We
understand Mr. Fagan has accepted the invitation, and
intends on the re-assembling of Parliament, to go over
to London to receive this honourable tribute of his late
colleagues' regard."

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, APRIL 22.

In a Convocation holden this day, an election took
place for an inferior Bedel of Law, in the room of the
late James Philip Sheppard, deceased, when the numbers
were—
For John Haines ...
Thomas Blakeman Brown ...
William Bacon ...
Henry Spackman 5
Whereupon John Haines was declared by the Senior
Proctor to be duly elected; and having taken the oaths,
was then admitted by the Vice-Chancellor to his office.

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[The following appeared in our Feu:7th Edition of
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GERMANY.

The Breslaw Gazette says that the police of Vienna
have called on the chiefs of manufacturing establish-
ments in that city, to communicate a list of all their
workmen, to indicate the nation to which they be-
long, their general conduct, whether they are in-
clined to drink or play, and their political opinions.
Several persons have, it is said,, refused to give this
information.

The Cologne Gazette says that, in its last note to
the Prussian Government, the Cabinet of Vienna again
rejects all idea of a division of the Executive Govern-
ment, and consents to restore the old Diet, subject,
however, to important reforms in the manner of voting
in the plenum and federal council, to the establish-
ment of a customs union between Austria and Ger-
many, and to a re-organization of the public instruc-
tion and the military system.

SWEDEN.
STOCKHOLM, APRIL 17.—The Comntttee of the
Storthing has pronounced against the Government
proposal, which empowers the Ministers, Councillors
of State, and the Governor to take part in the public
or secret sittings of the two Chambers. They adopted
another proposition, which, while it altogether ex-
cludes the Governor from this privilege, permits the
Ministers and Councillors of State to attend the secret
sittings with the authorisation of the Chamber.—
Prussian Stoats Anzeiger, April 19.

EXTENSIVE DEFALCATION AT

WIN D SOR.
(From the Windsor Express.)
Happily for the well-being of the royal borough,
we are not often called upon to record any startling
circumstance in connexion with its domestic history,
but an event has just occurred, of so unexpected and
unparalleled a character, and by which the interests of
so many parties have been affected, that we feel
bound to give the particulars, so far as they have as
yet transpired, every publicity. For many years past
Mr. Andrews has been a surgeon, enjoying a most
extensive and lucrative practice in partnership with
Mr. Brown, of Sheet-street. Being unmarried, Mr.
Andrews occupied apartments in the house of his
partner, and, to judge by his constant appearance in
public, either walking or driving about the town
and neighbourhood, no man could have been more
exemplary in the performance of his professional duties.
Last week Mr. Andrews suddenly disappeared, and has
not since been seen in Windsor; nor was the cause of
his sudden disappearance long a secret, for it turn. sout,
on inquiry, that his liabilities in this town and neigh-
bourhood approach the enormous sum of 60,0001.,
entirely for borrowed money. The sufferers are
parties moving in almost every rank of respectable
society, from titled aristocracy to the humble trades-
man, and, we regret to say, no small number of the
latter. For some time past it would seem to have
been the practice of Mr. Andrews to ascertain the
pecuniary means of his patients, and wherever he
found them labouring under a plethora of ready
cash, be appears to have relieved them effec-
tually, by borrowing the whole of it either on
his own personal security, or on the security of his
friends; ladies, too, have been laid under contribu-
tion to a large amount. A wealthy relative, it is
rumoured, has been eased of something like 10,0001.
The amount due to his partner, for money lent and
liabilities, is said to exceed 20,0001. At first sight the
affair would seem incredible, and it would have been
impossible, had the creditors of Mr. Andrews used the
common precautions which prudence alone would sug-
gest. They appear generally to have been tempted by
the dangerous bait of a high rate of interest-15 per
cent. has been named—and each lender playing
the part of " Every man his own lawyer ;" the se-
cret of the fugitive's liabilities was kept intact up to
the moment when he took his departure. The imme-
diate cause of that departure has been variously stated.
It has been said that he had occasion for a large sum
of money to meet payments then due—that suspicion
had been cast upun certain signatures—and it is
quite certain that on the Sunday previous to his de-
parture he tried unsuccessfully to borrow the trifling
sum of 9,0001. of more than one person with whom
he had had no previous monetary transactions.
What steps the creditors will take, how his wealthy
connexions will act, and the precise nature of the se-
curities held, we have not yet been able to learn, but
the whole truth will be known quite soon enough, we
fear, for the parties most interested. It does not ap-
pear that Mr. Andrews has aggrandised himself by
these transactions, for we bear that he borrowed
something like 301. to enable him to leave the town ;
and there seems to be no certain clue as to bow he
has disposed of the enormous sum of money, which,
in addition to a handsome income from his profession,
he must have been receiving for years past. One re-
port points to mining speculations, and experience
tells us that it would be no difficult task to sink
60,0001. in that way ; then we are told that the delin-
quent paid nocturnal visits to the metropolis, and was
a regular attendant at the West-end gambling
houses. We do not vouch for the truth of either of
these reports, but merely give them as they reach us.
The moat remarkable part of the story, however, re-
mains to be told. The steady, sedate, and outwardly
pious Mr. Andrews has been enacting the gay Lothario
on the most extensive scale. We are almost afraid
to say how many living evidences of his prowess, we
have heard, are now quartered in this locality. This,
too, was a profound secret to all but the parties con-
cerned up to the time of his departure. And here,
again, we are struck with astonishment at his suc-
cess ; prematurely old in his appearance, so near-
sighted as to wear spectacles, bald-headed, and
scarcely a tooth in his mouth, as he rolled by in his
rumbling phaeton, enveloped in his cloak, be looked.
like anything rather than a " lady-killer." It will be
seen by a notice in another column that the partner-
ship between Messrs. Brown and Andrews has been
dissolved.