The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-16 00:00:00

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JANUARY 16, 1851.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, JAN. 15.

_ .
The Queen walked this morning in the Slopes.
The Royal Family took walking and pony exereis.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went nut f, hoot•
ing this morning, accompanied by Sir George Grey.
Lord Watermark, Lieut.-Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps,
and Lieut.-Colonel P. H. Seymour, were in attend-
ance upon his Royal Highness.
The Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, the Earl
of Aberdeen, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, the
Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, and the Rev. Frederick
and Mrs. Anson.

The Queen's private band will attend in the Castle
after dinner.

The Duchess of Norfolk has relieved the Mar-
chioness of Douro in her duty as Lady in Waiting to
her Alijesty.
The band of the Coldstream Guards was in attend-
ance yesterday (Tuesday) evening, and played the
following selections :
Overture, " Le Val d'Andorre" Haltvy.
Waltz, "The Garland"
Grand Selection, "Llijah" Mendelssohn.
Quadrille, " The British Navy" Juilien.
Quick March, " Camp of Silesia" Meyerbeer.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended in
the Castle and performed the following pieces :
Introduzlone Andante Maestoso,
Allegro Moderato, Scherzo
Presto ; Sinionia Taeglichsbeck.
Selection, " Huguenots" Meyerbeer.

Lord John Russell gave a Cabinet dinner last
evening, at his residence in Chesham-place. The
Ministers present were the Lord Chancellor, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Viscount
Palmerston, Earl Grey, the. Chancellor of the Ex •
chequer, Sir John Hobhouse, the Earl of Carlisle, the
Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, the Marquis of Clan-
ricarde, and the Right Hon. Fox Maule.
Mr. T. B. Crompton and Mr. Borthwick had an
interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yes-
terday, at his official residence in Downing-street.
Mr. W. Beckford and Mr. Morten had an inter-
view with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-
office.

Lord Monteagle had an interview yesterday with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colo-
nial-office, from the Governors of New Zealand and
the Falkland Islands.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY.
The investments upon the Chester Cup to-day took a
wider range than heretofore, and gave more imdortance
to the proceedings than anything which has previously
occurred since the entry and appearance of the weights.
Rhesus was in very strong demand, and was backed for
a couple of hundred pounds at 15 to 1. Raby was also
i❑ good favour at 40 to 1, and Knight of Avenel at the
same figure, the latter being supported for near 501.
900 to 20 was taken about Haricot, 1,000 to 20 about
Trouncer, and 1,000 to 20 twice about Flying Gout (late
Dahcotah Chief). The Metropolitan Stakes, Liverpool
Steeplechase, and Deroy were only slightly touched,.
upon. Latest prices : •
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.

100 to 8 agst Lord llowth's Sir John—offered
100 to 8 agst Mr. Vever's Vain Hope—take 200 to 14
20 to 1 agst Mr. Treadgold's Maria Day—take 25 to I
No others mentioned.
3IETROPOLITAN STARES.
100 to 6 on the field—offered
CHESTER CUP.
15 to 1 egst Mr. Treen'a Rhesus—taken to 2001.
40 to 1 agst Lord Egliuton's Knight of Avenel—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Raby—taken freely
40 to 1 agst Mr. Barton's Haricot-45 to 1 taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Italian—tike 45 to 1
40 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Lady Evelyn—off.
50 to 1 agst Mr. Combe's Trouncer—taken
50 to 1 agst Lord Caledon's The Flying Gout—taken
50 to 1 agst Sir J. Hawley's Vatican—offered
9 to 1 agst all the three yrs old—offered
DERBY, 1851.
5 to 1 agst Mr. Howard's Grecian—offers to take
7 to 1 agst Mr. Halford's Prime Minister—offers to
take

COURSING.
BORDER UNION MEETING.
The Border Stakes of 3 guineas each (16 dogs) were
won by Mr. bharpe's Dr. Hornbrook; Mr. Ratcliffo's
Splendour ran up.
The Puppy Stakes were won by Mr. Holliday's Pick-
pocket.

DICCA.R CLUB MEETING.
The Abington Champion Cup was won by Dr. Brown's
Brunswick.

The Douglas Stake was won by Mr. Paterson's
Craigie Burn.

The Upper Ward Stakes were won by Mr. Green-
shield's Venture; and
The Lanarkshire Cup by Mr. Greenshield's Vestris.

ANOTHER COLLIERY EXPLOSION IN DURIIAM.—On
Tuesday morning last an explosion occurred in the Black
Boy Colliery, about two miles from Bishop Auckland, which
unfortunately resulted in the loss of two lives. About two
o'clock in the morning some of the men had proceeded to
work, when the overman and a boy entered a drift recently
opened; they had proceeded upwards of a mile with naked
can(lles, when it is supposed tLey had come in contact with
a " Blower," or pent-up quantity of gas, which instantly ex-
ploded, and both were instantly killed by the blast. Hap-
pily no other men were in the neighbourhood, otherwise the
consequences must have been very disastrous. The bodies
were taken out during the day without farther accident.
Mr. Dunn, one of the Government Inspectors, visited the
colliery last week, and pronounced the Black Boy pit one of
the best ventilated mines he had visited. An inquest will be
held on Thursday.

THE SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST THE SOUTHAMP-
TON BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—The adjourned inquest was
resumed for the fourth time yesterday, at the Guildhall,
Southampton, and after sitting eight hours in hearing addi-
tional evidence, the coroner further adjourned the case until
this day, when it is expected the coroner will sum up the
evidence, and the jury will return their verdict.
INFANTICIDE AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT LOWE..
grorr.—A deplorable case of supposed infanticide and at-
tempted self-destruction occurred here on Tuesday morning.
The wife of a twine-spiner, named Isaac Bly, was discovered
by her mother with her own and her infant's throat cut. In
the mother's case the wound was not fatal, and, being
promptly attended by several medical gentlemen, hopes are
entertained of her recovery. The mother has been labouring
under fever, which produced delirium.
WHY QUAKERS WEAR THEIR HATS.—Quakers in-
variably wear their hats in places of public worship, or i❑
public assemblies, but few are aware how this custom origi-
nated. Fox, the founder of calarless coats and broad brims,
was in the habit of attending the Episcopal Church, when the
preacher uttered sentiments of which he disapproved, he
would solemnly put on his broad-brimmed hat, and take it
off again whenever more welcome doctrine occurred. If he
sat long with his hat on, and the ill-sounding proposition or
fulmination continued, he would rise slowly and silently walk
out. Thus it appears that it was for the purpose of habitual
protest that the Quakers first learned to sit in places of wor
ship with their hat on.

DEATH OF A. CELEBRATED RACER.---Died on the
9th of January, at Brownstown House Paddocks, Curragh
of Kildare, the celebrated mare, Guiccioli, at the age of 30
years—the dam of Birdcatcher, Foigh-a-ballagh, George,
May Boy, &c. She was also the granddam of Mickey Free,
The Baron, Carouche, &c. She was interred with all due
honours, and a suitable monument will be erected over her.

EMBEZZLEMENT.—Hetiry Fordham, an innkeeper,
residing at Brotherton, near Pontefract, is at present in cus-
tody at Leeds, on the charge of having embezzled various
sums of money belonging to Messrs. Tetley, common brewers,
of Leeds. The prisoner keeps the Punchbowl Inn at Bro-
therton, and, while acting as agent to the prosecutors, he ap-
propriated money belonging to his employers. He has not
yet been examined by the magistrates, but stands remanded
ill the latter end of the present week.

CORNIIILL WARD.—Monday being Plough Mon-
day, the inquest for the ab,ve ward proceeded to make their
presentments to the Court of Aldermen, and afterwards dined
with their foreman, Mr. ex-Sheriff Nicoll, who had also in-
vited the alderman, Sir John Pine, Bart., the members of the
Common Council, with other ward and parochial officers.
The large room in that ancient and well-known tavern,
Tom's Coffee-house, was fitted up for the occasion, and
every delicacy in and out of season was liberally provided.
After the usual loyal and civic toasts, followed by others de-
dicated to the rector (the Rev. Mr. Wrench), Messrs. Leg-
gatt, Saxton, and Hoppe, the company separated, having
heard some well executed glees, &c., from Messrs. Edney,
Shoubridge, and Holm, and all seemed well pleased with
the worthy ex-Sheriff's hospitality.

FOREIGN POTATOES.—The following numerous
and large arrivals of potatoes have taken place within these
few days, from the foreign ports mentioned : —The vessel
Omnibus, from Calais, brought between 50 and 60 tons
weight ; the Jeune Anyse, from Calais, 82 tons ; the
Amelie, from Rosen, 86 tons ; the Thomas and Anne, from
Dieppe, 61 tons ; the Corkscrew, from Dunkirk, 10 bls. ; the
Sirene, from Rouen, 100 tons ; the Charles and Caroine,
from Calais, 60 tons ; the Pauine, from Dieppe, 60 tons ;
the William Frederick, from Rouen, 50 tons ; the Thomas
from Rouen, 180 tons ; the Venu,, from Rouen, 130 tons;
the Venir, trom Rouen, 110 tons ; the Elizabeth Middle-
ton, from Rouen, 70 tons ; the Oak, from Rouen, 82 tons
the Dandy, from Rotterdam, 100 tons ; the John and Jane,ris
from Rouen, 112 tons; the Penguin, from Rouen, 07 tons;
the Savannah, from Rouen, 175 tons; the
LPII be observed,
Rouen, 83 tons; the Mountcharles, from Rouen, 120 tons ;
the Constance Augustine, from Dunkirk, !P
of London, 134 sacks ; the Dove, from 63
te:rhstipsetn le
Rotterdam,
entire
loadnr t3rraht egi,rete' fromt
,e Csrutoltrn3,' .
ishampers ; the Thomas and Mary,Rouen,psrofroddoumltctheewoStf an d importedtl.
the Elvine, from Nantes, 6 tons;h
Rouen, 51 tons weight .of the article.
0. t , served,
that, with a few exceptious, thee whole
plies of foreign potatoes were the
. recently
from France, and beingbulk-, and formitng
inentitled to the privileges
discharge and
car-
goes of the vessels,
delivery to their destination.
conceded by the autwhoerrieties
hf oNtrvatinhndedi
efrorslinlieweercitenygL
during the
Now, supposin-
LthAEniT
Year's-day, makoernoinngN, roseew
g it measured twelve
miles to ilinr:leEinni:tdhhuEl(i and we believe it is not far short) and to
measure on an average half-a-mile, or 800 yards in breadth,
the increase of water during the night would be 118,585,600
solid yards. Again, suppose a cubic foot of water to weigh
1,000 ounces, there would be 14,001,428 tons, 11 cwt., 1 qr.,
20 lb. Lastly, suppose 277,42 cubic inches make a gallon
(Imperial measure), there -would be 3,127,338,858 gallons
of water, which fell in siN. hours. Our readers may ima-
gine what sort of a shower it was.—Cumberland Pacquet.
StIreRSTITION IN THE 19TH CENTURY.-I.WO ap-
parently respectable women applied at the surgery of a public
establishment yesterday (Thursday) to be permitted to
place the hand of a man who had been drowned the previous
day on the knee of one of the women, as a cure for the king's
evil, with which it appears sae was afflicted. The surgeon
inquired what place of worship she attended, when she re-
plied, " High Church ;" by which it was understood
she referred to St. Stephen's or St. reter'a!—Devonport Te-
legraph,

INTERVIEW WITH KOSSUTH

BY A LEEDS GENTLEMAN.
(num the Leeds Mercury )
A private letter, dated Broom, December, 1850,
I has just been received by a gt nlletnan convicted with
the Leeds Mercury, from which we are favoured with
some extracts. The writer is an intelligent profes-
sional gentleman, a native of Leeds, who for the last
few years has resided in Asiatic Turkey, and who,
it appears, has had an interview with Kossuth, the
Hungarian patriot, who, with his companions, is now
an exile at Kutaya. The extracts will be read with
interest. The writer says :
" You know, of course, that Amer Bey is now in
America as the representative of the Sultan; the first
occurrence of the kind in the history of Turkey. To
me it is a particularly interesting fact. I believe he.
is accompanied by Mr. Brown, the American dragoma
to the American Embassy, on his return to .ts;ew
York a few months ego. I know Mr. Brown well,
and in him the Turkish representative to the United
States will find a valuable friend. The American
missionaries here (for the East is the special field of
American missions) anticipate great results to their
own country front this new embassy to America.
The United. States have done nobly in granting
10,000 dollars to pay the expenses of the Sultan's
representative. It will enable him to see the grand
achievements of the Franks.
" A few days ago the Protestants obtained a firman
from the Sultan, for ever establishing them in their
privilege to build churches like other Christians, as
the Armenians and Greeks. This was obtained through
the intervention of Sir Stratford Canning, who after
the Sultan had granted the request, called the chief
men of the Armenian Protestants to his own house, at
Therapier, when he addressed them in the Turkish
language, and so affected were they that they all shed
tears. The Turks like the Protestants better than
other religious sects because of their hatred to images,
relics, and other fooleries of the Roman Catholics.
Our friends in Leeds will rejoice in this spread of
civil and religious liberty. How singular it is that
the Crescent of Mahommedanism should be a pro-
tection to the Cross, as it is the case in thousands of
instances at the present time, where the Sultan ex-
tends the aid of his sovereignty over Christians
driven by persecution from their own land.
" A friend of mine has just returned from Coniah,
the ancient Iconium (see Acts of Apostles) visited by
the Apostles. It is eighteen days' journey from
here at the rate of thirty miles a day. The people
are little removed from barbarians, and at this day
they live in houses built of mud, with flat roofs. in
winter the streets are impassable, consequently men,
beasts, and cattle all walk upon the roots, from one
house to another, instead of in the streets, which are
filled with snow, thrown every morning from the
house tops. Coniah has about 60,000 inhabitants. A
revolution in religious opinions is needed to work a
change ; they are nominally Christians, but a sad
specimen of Christianity, as they live by fraud and
deceit.

" I have not been to Kutaya to see Kossuth (the
Hungarian patriot). I saw him in Broosa. Oh, the
spirit of patriotism that circulates in his soul ! It
would almost enchant you to hear him talk in Eng-
lish. What then must be the effect of listening to
his eloquence in his own native language ? My inter-
view with him was delightful. I don't wonder at the
enthusiasm with which he is regarded by his country-
men. I believe he is yet destined to accomplish
great things for his country. You will per-
haps scarcely believe it, but he seldom sees a
newspaper, end is ignorant of many of the trans-
actions now going on in Europe, because the
post is very irregular to Kutaya. I should like to
send him two or three numbers of the Mercury,
which I occasionally receive. Many travellers in
passing to Kutaya call at our house, and thus
we have a certain opportunity of forwarding let-
ters, papers, or parcels, as Franks, American or Eng-
lish, are not searched. A friend, an American, from
Kutaya, called a week or two ago. He says' Kossuth is
much dissatisfied with his situation.' He spent two or
three days with him. They (the exiles) live in a
kind of barracks. 1 believe the Turks do all
they can to make him and his associates comfortable,
but you can have no conception of the grand diffe-
rence between English comforts and those of this
country. Here there are no household comforts but
those of your own creation. "Without fur coats you
cannot in winter keep yourselves warm, for the
houses are made to let in and not to keep out the
cold; and the winters here are intensely cold. Kos-
suth, you know, is under the care of Suliman Bey,
who is a remarkably nice fellow. I had the pleasure
of visiting him here at the palace. He reminded me,
in his looks and manners, of George Goodman, Esq.
(of Leeds); he is like him, too, in form. He is, I
believe, one of the best men Kossuth could have
been placed under, for kindness and urbanity. It
will be pleasing to Kossuth's friends in England to
know that the Hungarian patriot is in the hands of
so kind a keeper as Suliman Bey.
"Nearly all letters to the exiles are opened, ex-
cept such as we have sent through Englishmen or
Americans visiting Kutaya. 11r. Longworth, an
Englishman, has married the daughter of the British
Consul, and next month (January) comes to Eng-
land to publish the history of the Hungarian strug-
gle from Kossuth's

FATAL ACCIDENT TO A SOLICITOR.-011 Monday,
at Abingdon, an inquest was held to inquire into the death
of Mr. Thomas Frankum, solicitor. and for many years clerk
to the magistrates in that town. It seemed that on Friday,
the 20th ult., the deceased, with a Mr. Nichol!, went in a
dog cart to Lechlade, Gloucestershire, accompanied on the
way by Mr. E. Harris, draper, and his servant, who were in
another vehicle. When the business which took the parties
to Lechlade was concluded they dined and drank mode-
rately, and returned from there about seven o'clock in the
evening. On their way home they stopped at Farringdon
and Pusey Furze, at both of which places they had refresh-
ments. It was about ten o'clock when they left Pusey
Furze, and when between that place and Kingston Bag-
puize Mr. Nicholl's horse swerved from the road and went
up a by lane, when Mr. Harris passed him, and the former
on getting into the road again whipped his horse, and
passed the other vehicle at a gallop, and then his horse
slackened his pace, and Mr. Harris again passed him, and
they kept in that position at the rate of about twelve miles
an hour, until on coining to a part of the road where some
heaps f stone were placed at the side for repairs, the
vehicle of Mr. Nicholl came in contact with them, and
threw both him and Mr. Frankum out violently, and it was
subsequently found that the thigh of the deceased was frac-
tured by the fall. The coroner ordered a post-mot tent ex-
amination to be made, and the medical evidence showed
that death ensued directly from congestion of the brain.
The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death."
DEATH OF THE AUTHOR OF " WILD SPORTS OF
THE WEST."—We regret to announce the death of a writer
whose genial and sportive pen has delighted thousands.
Maxwcll, the lash novelist, and author of innumerable
humorous sketches in the periodical literature of the day,
expired on the 29th of December, at Musselburg, near the
Scottish capital. His generally vigorous health had of late
broken down, and he crept into the retirement of this se-
questered village to die. lie had been in early life a captain
is the British army, and was, of course, the delight of the
mess-room, and a general favourite in social circles. He
subsequently entered the Church, and was some years pre-
bendary of Balla, a wild Connaught church living, without
any congregation or cure of souls attached to it; though it
atforded what he was admirably capable of dealing with,
piety of game. Of a warm-hearted, kind, and manly tem-
perament,
ther the circlemadetiie of hismisorall
aweghuoacinamtaencwithin thwerane
of his wit, the
founder of that school which counts the " Harry Lorrequers"
and others among its humble disciples; but " The Story ,of
my Life" and " Wild Sports of the West" will not be easily
surpassed in the peculiar qualities of that gay, off-hand, and
rollicking style of penmanship, of Iv hich be was the origi.
nator.

THE LATE PRETENDED POPISH MIRACLE AT
LYONS. The Gazatie de Lyon contains the following :—" We
learn that the Commission appointed by the Archbishop of
Avignon, to examine into the facts affirmed with regard to
the picture in the chapel of St. Salumin-les-Apt, has decided
unanimously that there are no grounds for proceeding any
further in the matter, as the facts have nothing of a super-
natural character in them. A letter which w
n 0 Inagun
we haiveefininrsittfioo
re-
ceived, and which emanates from a person as remarkable r
his intelligence as for his perfect good faith, anenuosuirets to us
conclusion proves how that everything which has appeared mirmacisul
for
resulttheneces-
sary the deci-
sionwe cannot
_. too much applaud our-
selvesquesti"softauthorities,
has been given to us. Tbishcoi
of the ecclesiastical
who are alone compe-
tent,
for having followed
and, for our parts
prudence in our
reserve on this subject.
CITY
DISPHNssEY.—The half-yearly meeting of
the friends and patrons of this charity took place yesterday,
at the Hospital, 76, Queen-street, City; Nathaniel Ainger,
founded in the year 1
idEiiessqrPoe'nfisntalritYeh'esNivcchkhaiacirhn,dwdashi seased poor, in all cases7Br9e,
appeared from the report that this
Glfor
itnhge
ir
lir ee:
dical and surgical care, had since its opening cured and re-
lieved upwards of 306,759 patients. Upwards of 83,000
visits had been paid to the patients, at their own houses.
The committee thought that the great improvement in the
sanitary condition of the metropolis was to be ascribed to the
facility afforded by dispensaries of checking incipient sick-
ness. The receipts for the past 3 ear had amounted to 5581.
ls. 2d.; and the expenses to 5381.108. ; leaving a balance of
19/. Ils. 2d. The report was adopted, some formal business
transacted, and a committee appointed for the eniming year,
after which a vote of thanks to the chairman passed, and the
meeting separated. _

CELEBRATION OF THE EARL OF STAMFORD'S
BIIMIDAY.—On Tuesday, his Lordship's birthday, the Earl
of Stamford and Warrington, gave a ball and sup per to his
tenantry, at the Cat and Partridge Inn, Enville.
THE GREAT (EXPECTED) SEASON OF I
Every one is expecting to make a fortune in the Great Ex-
hibition Season of 1851. Beds are, by anticipation, going
up in the environs of London, and a large broker, iiißroker's-
alley, is selling so many bedsteads that he is making a for-
tune at full gallop with four-posters. Somebody has even
proposed to make the bed of the Serpentine available, and
perhaps it would not be a bad idea to throw a Macintosh
cover across the whole surface, and thus turn it into or to of
ce palls;
promoting would have
thtelice o dot
nv,
those water beds which are sometimes so strenuously rec om-
d
mended by " the faculty. tble
effect of hiding an offensive object
once of the public while the Serpentine itself is well adar ited
for the purpose. of repose, as when anything is said ab out
cleansing the river the authorities seem determined to go to
sleep upon it.—Punch.
SPRING FLOWERS.—During the past week, prin
roses have been offered for sale in great quantities, wal 1-
flowers and polyanthuses may also be seen blossoming in
gardens in the neighbourhood. The appearance of t hese
heralds of sunnier days indicates the unusual mildness of the
present SensiOn.—Sussex Advertiser.