The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-15 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Prince GEORGE of Cambridge, accompanied by his pre-
ceptor, the Rev. Mr. Woon, arrived in town about nine
o'clock yesterday morning, from Windsor Castle. His
Royal Highness stopped at Cambridge House about an
hour, and then left town for Dover. His Royal High•
nese is expected to cross from Dover to Calais, and from
thence to proceed to Hanover.
The Commissioners of the West India Compensation
Fund held a meeting, yesterday, at the office of the Secre-
tary of State for the Colonial Department.

Lord Auckland visited Viscount PALMERSTON yesterday.
Despatches from the Governors of Barbadoes, St. Vin-
cent's and British Guiana, were yesterday received at the
Colonial - office.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

DEPARTURES.

The Duke of Rutland, for Newmarket ; the Marquis of
Tavistock, for ditto ; the Earl and Countess of Albemarle and
Lady C. Keppell, from Hampton.court, for Windsor Palace;
E. B. Hartopp, Esq., from Dalby-house near Milton, on a
Continental tour; the Marquis of Northampton and family,
from Castle Ashby, for Italy; Rowland Errington, Esq., from
Hill-street, for Milton; Massey Horsley, Esq., for ditto; the
Honourable Algernon Tollemache, M.P., on a visit to Lord
Huntingtower, at Buckminster Park, in Lincolnshire; Mr. and
Mrs Beauchamp Cole, from Twickenham, on a tour ; Mr.
William George Cavendish (10th Hussars), from Burlington_
house, for the Continent ; the Earl and Countess Poulett and
family, from their seat Hinton St. George, for Weymouth;
Lady Hood, for ditto.

Lord John Russell is not expected to return
to town from his tour in Ireland for a fortnight. His sister,
Lady Georgiana, is with him.
LORDWILLIAMRUSSELL.—We understand
►hat private letters from Lord William Russell for the
Bpdford family, dated the 7th inst., at Lisbon, were re-
ceived yesterday at the residonce of his brother, Lord
John Russell, at the Army Pay-office, at Whitehall, and
at which date his Lordship had not quitted the Embassy
on his return to England. It was erroneously stated that
Lord William and his family had landed at Falmouth on
Friday last from the Confiance Government steamer.
It+ Lordship, we believe, is very shortly expected. It is
rumoured here that his Lordship has been recalled at his
own request.

Lord Godolphin's eldest son, who holds a
commission in the army, has been presented by Govern-
ment to the Treasurership of St. Lucie. The emoluments
are SOO/. per annum.

The Right Hon. Edward Ellice, M.P., his
Majesty's Secretary at War, arrived at the Royal Hotel on
Tuesday last from a visit to the Duchess of Bedford, at
the Doune of Rothiemurcus. The Right Hon. Gentle-
man dined with the Member for the City. and proceeded
next day to Brechin Castle, the seat of Lord Panmure,
on his way to London.—Aberdeen Herald.

We have authority to say that there is no
truth in the reported death of Sir Richard Goodwin Keates.

It is reported in the theatrical circles that Mr.
Charlea Kean will very soon be married to Miss E. Tree.
THE CONIPLIM ENT ROYAL.—The Lessee
of the Theatres Royal has, we are informed, received the
following delicate and very appropriate compliment

"Sir Lumley Skeffington has the honour to present his
friend y compliments to Mr. Bunn, and with many thanks, ac_
knowledges the freedom of the Theatres Royal Drury-Lane
and Covent-Garden, houses which, like those of York and Lan-
caster, are now consolidated into one interest, and secure of
happiness under one chieftain. As the red rose and the white
gave reflected lustre to each other, and in their union turned
the storms of anarchy, so will the combination of the dramatic
talents establish dignity and quell dissension.—London, Oct.
5, 183.3."

There is no truth in the statement in a
paragraph which first appeared in the Morning Chronicle
that '' the lamdv of Miss Kemble is about to quit this
country for the United States." The Kemble family con
mists of Mr. J. Kemble, who is pursuing his studies with
great distinction at Cambridge, ..nd a younger son, now
with his regiment in Ireland. Mrs. Charles Kemble has
been residing for come months at Paris, for the education
of her daughter Adelaide; and, so far from intending an
exeuision to America, it is the earnest desire of Miss
Kemble's friends that her marriage should take place in
England. The engagemen.s of Mr. Chatles Kemble and
his daughter in the United States will detain them there
'ill the spring, when Miss Ketnble's marriage with Mr.
Butler will be solemnized, and her father proceed to Itily
with his wife and daughter, to complete the musical educa-
tion of the latter, a young lady of great beauty and pro-
mise. We heartily wish that Hiss Kemble mitn,lit be
induced to take leave of the English stage, by giving a
series of representations of her favourite characters.
The Rev. Mr. Elliott, a near relative of Lord
Minto, who at ',resent holds the living of Barminz, near
Maidstone, so long in the possession of the Rev. Mark
N.ble, it is said, has been pr-sented by the Lord Chan-
cellor with the Rectory of Kirby Thore and Brougham,
in the county of Westmoreland.

The Metropolitan Road Commissioners, it is
said, has it in contemplation to divert the present line •,f
the western road from the town of Brentford by carrying
it at the hark of that town.

SINKING FUND.—The following notice ap-
peared in Fiiday's Gazette:—

" The Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury having
certified to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na-
tional rebt, in pursuance of the Act 10th of George IV., chap.
27, sec. 1, that the actual surplus revenue of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, beyond the actual expendi-
ture thereof, for the year ended the sth day of July, 1833,
amounted to the sum of 1,501,9321. 18s. 9 d.,
" The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt hereby give notice, that the sum of 375,4831. 4s. 8 d.
(being one-feurth part of the said surplus of 1,501,932/. 18s. 9
will be applied under the provisions of the said Act, between
the 12th day of October, 1833, and the sth day of January,
1834, to the following purposes, viz.:—
" To repay the Bank of England, per sth George s. d.
IV., c. 45, the sums advanced by the Bank
to pay the proprietors of 4/. per cent. Stock,
who did not assent to receive 3/. 10s. per cent
Stock in lieu thereof 389 8 5
"To be applied to the purchase of Stock 375,093 16 3

375,483 4 8

" Add interest receivable on account of dona.
tions and bequests, to be applied to the pur
chase of Stock 3 5 5

373,486 10 I
" S. ITIGHAM, Comptroller-General.
" National Debt-office, Oct. 11."

It appears by a statement made by the post-
master of Boston, showing the nec,ssity of enlai ging the post.
office, that in the office of that city, for the quarter ending
June 30, 1830. a profit i,f 12,398 dollars accrued to the
General Post Office ; and that for the year ending June
30, 1833, the profit amounted to 19,358 dollar., being an
in. tease of 6,952 dollars.

A curious sensation has been excited at
Portsmouth by the following incident:—Wren the Queen
of P.m, tigal was there, Sir J mes Graham, in eiving di-
rections for the reception of her Majesty, ordered Sir F.
M itlan i to emb ilk and proceed to the steamer to escort
her on shore. This order was being complied with, when
Sir Thon•as Williams int rpnsed, and said to Sir F
" YOU Will ohse:ve, Sir, my flag flies at the main—yours
at the mien !" A reference wds then to tde to the First
Lord—the ctms•quenee of whit:, was, that he was 'elm,
tantly compelled to rrsc,nl his first order, made in total
inorunce. Sit Frederick rem iined behind—and Sir
Thomas received the Queen, much to the mortification of
the f.rmer, the think happeniue, as it did in the presence
of the boat's crew, and the people of the yard.

The effect produced upon the constituency
which it was intended to increase by the opera ion ..f the
Reform 8.11 is demonstrated in a strong point of view by
the results of the Revision Courts for the parishes of St.
Luke, Middlesex, and the borough of Finsbury. In these
there are 6,820 aspirate and di-tinct premises. Of these
980 are below 101. per annum, and consequently 5,840
at and above that sum, which by the theory of the Reform
Bill should give an r qual number of voters. When the
fists for these parishes were revised by the hamsters last
year they were found to be 1.436 voters qualified. In
the present year it has been found that not more than
1,244 voters have been declared as qualified, showing a
deficiency, as compared with the revision of boat year, of
192, and leaving 4,596 occupiers of houses rated at above
101. a-year disqualitie:.
LONGEVITY OF TREES.—Decandolle holds
that t' trees do clot die of old age, in the real sense of the
word,' by which he seems tO mean that they would live
for ever if provided with an unlimited supply of nourish
meat, and not destroyed by storms or some of the many
accidents which gees are heir to. The baobab tree, sc.
cording to Adanson's ingenious computation, might be
5,000 years old, but it grows in chines unlike ours, where
it escape. the hurtful vicissitudes of frost and beat. In
our own country there are us.ks, elms, and yews, 'till

flourishing in all the pride of the forest, which have pro-
bably been the contemporaries of David and Solomon.
Decandolle thinks that the yews of Fountains Abbey, near
Ripon, may have stood 1,200 years ; those of Crowburat
church-yard, in Surrey, 1.450 ; the yew of Fortingal, at
the entrance of Glenlvon, Perth, 2,500 ; and that in Bra
burn church-yard, Kent, 3,000. These are startling
statements, but they proceed from a high authority, and
are based on observations that entitled them to respect.
At Halifax the Excise officers had succeeded
in seizing contraband teas to the value of 2,000/.

The crops in Canada were stated to be every.
where abundant, but that the weather was extremely
favourable for the harvest, being very rainy.

By advices from Buenos Ayres we learn that
the Government had issued a decree, permitting the ex.
portation of coined gold and silver.

The number of deaths by cholera during the
week, as returned in the bills of mort dity, i 4 only eight;
and the deaths from diorrkei only one.

The accounts, not only from this district, but
front nearly all parts of the country, agree in stating tha.
so great a degree of confidence in all departments of trade
has not existed for some time.—Birmingham Advertiser.

A LONG YARN.—One pound of cotton
(says Mr. Gordon) which formerly could only be spun
Into a thread of 108 yards long, can now, by the applica•-
tion of steam, produce a thread of 167 miles in length.

It appears that the population of Prince Ed-
ward's Island has nearly doubled during the last six years.
By a recent census, the population was 32,349. The
island was very fertile, almost every foot being cultivated.
The number of males was 16,840; females, 15,452.

The collector of the port of New York had
pissed to the credit of the United States Treasury the
rum of 603,000 dollars, as the amount of duties paid in
one week, being the largest sum ever rereived in that
branch of the administration for a similar period.

VIDOCQ has just obtained a patent for the
manufacture of paper f. em which no writing or print,
once impressed, can be effaced or altered. The Directors
f the Stamp-office long ago offered a premium for the
discovery of this Firr.

A very intelligent gentleman, recently reiurned
from a tour in France, reports the silk manufactory to be
in a state of great activity ; all the looms are employed.
The cotton manufactory, likewise, is, throughout France,
in a most prosperous condition.

For the last four months the number of pass-
ports of persons arriving from England, signed at the
English Embassy, has been daily, on an avenge, airy.
Hence it appears that 1,800 English famil;es or indivi-
duals visit France every month.—French Paper.
The Berlin State Gazette of the sth inst.
announces a communication by steam-vessels is to be
established between Dtntzic and St. Peteraburgh, for
which purpose a steamer is being built at the former port.
It is expected that by these me ins the commerce between
Prussia and Russia will be greatly facilitated.

The gardener of Mr. Bruges, of Seend, lateh
tied a string round the neck of a robin which frequented
his hot-house, and then sent it in a bag to Sandridg.,
about three miles distant, when he turned it out. In a
few days afterwards the little bird returned to its former
situation at Seend.—Devizes Gazette.

In consequence of the present East India
Company ceastng to be a trading company after April, a
joint-tr ock shipping company is to be forthwith established
on a magnificent scale, to trade with all the Presidencies,
as well as China. The East India Proprietors are largely
concerned in h.—Hampshire Telegraph.
MR. MARTIN'S ACT.—The officers of the
Animal's Friend So•iety last week caused the nib drivers
1,634 and 1,635, John Fogerty, omnious driv r 2,312,
drover 90 H, and James Bryant's driver, to be charged
with cruelty to their cattle. The three first were Snell by
Messrs. Wedgetvooti and Trail], and the Lord Mayor ; the
other two evaded.

We learn by the commercial accounts from
Constantinople that the crop of silk had failed, and that
oriees were advancing. Ti e crop of opium was equally
drficient, and as a large delft of this article had 13. en
destroyed in the recent fire at Carboni, this was also rising
in price. There was no material change in the value of
colonial articles. Coffee was 810 to 850 ; Bengal indigo
was 80.

MARGATE, OCT. 13.—Mr. HUNTER, the
brewer, committed suicide by cutting his throat on Wed-
nesday last. It is stated that his affairs were in a bad
way. The Coroner's Inquest have brought it in felo de
se. The Commissioners of the Harbour have determined
on re-building the jetty in a superior style. so as to stand
the shock of any future hurricane, and afford a pleasant
promenade to the public.

COSTUME OF THE ACADEMY or MEDl-
c",.___The King of the French has evidently a strong
leaning towards the old times of legitimacy; he has just
ordered, through his Minister of Public Instruction, that
the Academicians of the F.culty shall in future wear a
sort of Court dress at their .ittings. Their uniform is to
I.e a black coat, with violet-coloured embroidery for the
facings and collar, a sword with gold mounting, and a
cocked hat.

Loss OF THE SHIP ESSEX BY FIRE.--AVe
regret to have to announce the total destruction of the fine
ship Essex, of this port, by fire. She was on her voyage
from New Orleans fur Liverpool, and was discovered on
fire nn the 10th of August, to the southward of Bermuda.
Her Captain (Vaughan) died the previous day. The crew
were landed at Nrw Providence. The mate and six of
the crew are on board the Lydia, from Nassau, N. P.,
now off this port. The Essex• was burnt to the water's
edge.—Liverpool Paper.
DINNER ANECDOTE OF GENERAL JACK-
is stated in the New York Whig, that when the
President sat down to the dinner prepared at the City
Hotel, in Providence, and which consisted of everything
which could possibly be procured to gratify an epicure, and
when he was asked ro what he would he helped, he re-
plied, "To a bowl of boiled rice and milk." Great was
the disappointment to the landlord, as all the milk hail
been used in the pastries and nick narks prepared for the
General. Great also was the punishment of the hungry
gourmands, who, in derency, were obliged to wait till milk
was sent for and the rice boiled. Neither were the choice
and costly w;nes which bad been furnished tasted by the
President. His only beverage was water.—Boston Even.
ing Journal.

RAMSGATE, OCT. 13.-INFANTICIDE.--
FOUR PERSONS COMMITTED FOR !MURDER.-A coroner%
inquest was held here on Monday last before Bradley,
Esq., Masor of Sandwich, and continued by adjournm.nt
on Tuesday and Friday, on the body 1.1 a new-horn
infant, faunal on the bathing rands ,an Sunday morning
Oct. 6, wrapped in a coarse towel. Two medical gentle-
men, Messrs Ayres and Lang, who examined the body,
rgated on oa,h, that they believed the cl ild had been born
alive, and had come to its death by strangulation or suffe.
cation. S .me evidence having been given touching the
appearance of a single woman named Mary Kidnk r, strong
•u•picion of her guilt was canard lay her suddenly leaving
the town. A watt ant was therefore issue,: fur her appra-
liension, end she was followed, brought back On Thuisday,
and the inquest having been restimA on Friday, alter a
painful and protracted investigation, a verdict of Wilful
Murder was returned against Edwtnl Kidner the father,
Mary Kidner, his wife, Jane Kialo-r his daughter, and
Maty Kidner her s wer, the supposed mother of the
murdered infant, who were forthwith committed to Sand-
wich gaol for trial at the ensuing sessions.

STEAM CARRIAGES.

EXCURSION TO GREENWICH.

In pursuance of public announcenient Sir Charle,
Dance's omnibus, drawn by steam, took three trips
on Saturday from Wellington-street, Waterloo-
bridge, to Greenwich. The object of this exhibi-
tion was to show to the public the security and cer-
tainty with which journeys may be performed on
the common roads by the power of steam; and as
far as the experiment went, it was eminently suc-
cessful. Shortly before eleven o'clock the carriage
drew up in front of an office taken for the purpose
of booking passengers, where persons, on paying
half-a-crown each, were entitled to ride in the om-
nibus to Greenwich, and for a similar sum were
brought back by the same means. The price was
fixed thus high in order to keep the company more
select. Although the notice of the proposed ex-
cursion had only been given the preceding day, an
immense crowd assembled ; and when all was ready
fourteen adventurers were soon obtained, and pre-
cisely at eleven o'clock the machine was put in mo-
tion, amidst loud cheers. It passed over Wa-
terloo-bridge at a tolerably quick pace ; and, on
reaching the station-house on the Waterloo-road,
a supply of water was conveyed to the boiler; this
operation did not occupy above two minutes,
when the carriage moved on, and did not again
stop till it reached the end of London-street, Green-
wich, where it was turned round, and a second sup-
ply of water being obtained, it returned to Wel-
lington-street, performing the distance to and from
Greenwich, as near as possible, at the rate of ten
miles hn hour, including stoppages and occasional
interruptions, which the drivers of some of the
Greenwich stages seemed sufficiently willing to offer
to its progress. The whole road was lined with cu-
rious spectators, who evidently took great interest in
the success of the trial. Parts of the journey to and
fro were accomplished at the rate of twelve and
fifteen miles an hour, and in turning and passing
through the dense crowds collected at the Elephant
and Castle and Bricklayers' Arms the precision and
accuracy with which the engineer guided his course
could not be exceeded by the most expert drivers
of ordinary carriages. To each of the two succeed-
ing journeys the same remarks are applicable ; and
the whole were brought to a conclusion precisely at
four o'clock, without the slightest accident or irre-
gularity beyond the wilful collision of a Greenwich
coachman, thus affording a conclusive proof that the
difficulties which have been so repeatedly experi-
enced in similar scientific experiments have been
completely conquered. Similar trips are to be
made this day and during the whole of the
week. It is needless to say, that the high
charge will not be continued, as Sir Charles
Dance remarked that arrangements might he made
to carry passengers at 6d. a head, as the quantity of
coke consumed on the journey does not exceed in
value 6d. per mile. On S r Charles Dance taking
his seat in the vehicle, to return to Mr. Maudsley's
premises in the Westminster-road, where it re-
mained, he was saluted with reiterated cheers. Sir

Charles's co-patentee, Mr. Field, undertakes tobuilil
engines which he will warrant to perform with cer-
tainty, and some of which have already been ordered
with a view to the public conveyance or passengers.
Mr. Wheatley, one of the Greenwich coach proprie-
tors, travelled up and down in the second journey.
and will, in all probabi;ity, take the lead among his
contemporaries in starting by steam. He expressed
himself much pleased with the success of the experi-
ment. We have already stated that the boiler of
Sir Charles Dance's engine is composed of a siteces-
stun of small tubes, not much thicker than a musket,
so that no possible danger can result from it. burst-
ing. The omnibus is built upon precisely the same
principle as the Post-office omnibuses, open, with
drawing curtains all round, and four men are em-
ployrd—the guide, two stokers to attend the engine,
and a conducteur, as in the common orniiihu=es, who
stands bAcitici. The engine, which is of sixteen-
horse power, precedes the car.iage.