The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-22 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday
morning in the garden of Buckingham Palace.
Lurd John Russell had an audience of fact. Majesty
yesterday.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse-
back yesterday morning, attended by Lieut.• Colonel the
Hon. Alexander Gordon.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess de
Nemours visited her Majesty yesterday. Their Royal
Highnesses afterwards went to Clarence House, St.
James's, and paid a visit to her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent.

The Royal Family took their accustomed pony and
walking exercise yesterday, in the garden of the Palace.
The Queen had a dinner party yesterday, at Bucking-
ham Palau.. The company included her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent, his Excellency Mons. Tri-
coupi and Madame Tricoupi, the Marquis of Donegal,
Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, Lord and
Lady Stanley, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, the Right Hon.
William Sebright and La iy Caroline Lascelles, Vice-
Admiral Sir George and Lads Seymour, and Colonel
Wylde.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at
Gloucester-house.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at three o'clock
in the afternoon, at the Foreign-office, the summonses
for the meeting having been issued in the forenoon.
The Ministers present were Lord John Russell. the
Lord Chancellor, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmer-
ston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir
Francis Baring, Sir John Hobhouse, the Right Hon.
Henry Luhouchere, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the
Right Hon. Fox Maule.
The Council sat three-quarters of an hour. After the
Council Lord John Russell went to Buckingham Palace,
to have an audience of her Majesty.
Mr. Scholefield, M.P., and Dr. Birt Davies, Coroner
for Birmingham, had au interview with Sir George Grey
yesterday, at the Home-office.
Ur. M Gill, from Canada, had an interview with Earl
Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the. Governors of West Australia, the Mau-
ritius, and Malta, and from the Lord High Commissioner
of the lonian Islands.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes•
terday. Present, the Master of the Rolls, the Chan-
cellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, the Judge of the Ad-
miralty Court, and Sir Edward Ryan. An appeal from
Bengal, "Baboo Sheodass Narain v. Mussunaat Khawal-
has Kooer" (part heard) was resumed; Mr. Turner,
Q.C., and Mr. Forsyth, and Messrs. Wigram and Lloyd,
Q.C., appeared for the respective parties.

CALEDONIAN SOCIETY OF LONDON.
The anniversary ball of this patriotic and national in-
stitution took place on Thursday evening last, at the
Hanover-square Rooms, where the members and their
friends gathered in great numbers. This society is now
in its twelfth year, and its pretensions are " social
friendship, and charity." These are carried out, in the
true acceptation, and with a thorough regard of these
virtues, by its committee of management; always re-
membering that to do them well, must needs be to do them
gracefully, and in this way they apply the surplus of
their annual balances between the Scottish Hospital and
the Caledonian Asylum, worthy objects of their pa-
tronage. The ball last evening was for the double pur-
pose of the society's objects, giving an opportunity for
friends to meet in one common hall of friendship, to pa's
the night in mirth and glee, which the natives of Cube-
donia never forget to do on such merry occasions.
There was present last evening upwards of th-ee
hundred persons, and their varied and handsome ti igbland
dresses had a fine effect; the rooms were tastefully deco-
rated with heraldic emblem, shields, spears, and national
flags, the whole draperied with various clans' tartans.
Supper was served in the spacious hell below, where
everything that was of good cheer was to be had, the
stewards ever active in their attention to the:comforts of
the company. This festivity over, dancing was resumed
and maintained with unabated vigour till an early hour.
The modern fiances of every description had due places
on the proferamme card, also strahspeys and reels, toge-
ther with the country-dative, and the goold old.favourite
Roger de Coverley, which should ever ant as the rear-
dance of a British ball. The music was of the choicest,
and Mr. Mackay, her Mejesty's piper, assisted by Mr.
Ma3beth and the Marquis of Dougla.,'s piper, attended
to play the martial music of the North. It was a happy
and pleasant assembly, and those that partook of that
enjoyment owe it to the excellent arrangements of the
management and the indefatigable secretary, M. r. Gray,
to whom, as a matter of course, belongs the major part of
the labour attending the getting up such a meeting.

ANTIDOTE AGAINST POlSON.—Hundreds of lives
might have been saved by a knowledge of this simple recipe
—a large teaspoonful of made mustard mixed in a tumbler
of warm water, and swallowed as soon as possible; it acts
as an instant emetic, sufficiently powerful to remove all that
is lodged in the stomach.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY ON A RAILWAY.—On Thurs-
day evening, as a gentleman named Alford, residing in Blan-
chester, was waiting the arrival of the train at the Bolton
Railway station, New Bailey-street, Salford, some adroit
thieves contrived to abstract a red morocco pocket-book
containing 8001., from his person.
The Sunderland Herald says that the sailors' strike
in that port is virtually at an end, as stern necessity is driving
children
thevi h
o deponentshow eshowed
the men, one after another, to take employment.
An Irishman swearing the peace against his three
sons, concluded his affidavit
ofth
further saith, that the only One
his'
youngest, Larry, for he
him auy real affection was r,
)aver struck him when he was •
ALLEGED POISONING AT SODBURY, NEAR BRISTOL.
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—The little town of Sodbury has been placed in a state of
considerable excitement in consequence of Mrs. Jane Rath-
way,wife of a person keeping a
way, the small public-house,
having died somewhat suddenly under suspicious •
An inquest upon the body has been circuits-
stances. commenced.
The deceased was seized with her last illness after having
partaken of some onion broth given her by her husband.
After partaking of it she was seized with
which usually follow the administration f the symptoms
0
sur-
geon was called in, and she died. It arsenic. No
band and herself hadj lived upon unhappy terms. It is also
appears that her bus-
alleged that during her lifetime h
exhibited marks of violence cauer person had frequently
sed by her husband. The
contents of the stomach and viscera have been submitted to
Mr. Herapath, the analytical chemist, and the inquest has
been adjourned to await his examination of their contents.
NORTH CAROLINA COAL.—A space of fifteen miles
in length, by four to five miles in width, situated in Moors
and Chatham counties, North Carolina, has been lately ex-
plored, and unmistakeable signs found of a deposit of the
best kinds of bituntinoti, semi-bituminous, and anthracite
coal. The deposits extend a distance of thirty miles by four
or tive miles in width, embracing a space of about 150 square
miles. They reach a depth of seven feet two inches.
ATTEMPT TO OVERTHROW A RAILWAY TRAIN.—
James Prior, a labourer, was yesterday convicted at the
Aylesbury Quarter Sessions, of having attempted to upset
the express train of the North-Western Railway Company,
from Liverpool to London, on the 19th November last, by
placing a large piece of iron-rail, and several chains, on the
rails. He was sentenced to two years imprisonment, the
highest measure of punishment allowed by law.
PRESENTS TO .THE SULTAN....4t. Turki,h officer,
named Rassim Effendi, serving on board her Majesty's ship
Arab, has landed at Portsmouth some packages containing
curiosities from China, which are intended to be immediately
forwarded to Constantinople as presents to Mahomet Pasha;
and Sir Godfrey Webster, who has been appointed by the
Admiralty to attend on the Turkish officers during their so-
journ in this country, has made arrangements for them to be
shipped on board the Turkish frigate Maritz Zafer, now
lying in Portsmouth harbour, for transmission to their des-
tination.