The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-01 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness the
Prince Consort, with the Prince of Wales and the Prin•
cess Alice, honoured the performance at the Haymarket
Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening. The
royal suite consisted of the Duchess of Wellington, the
Hon. Beatrice Byng, the Earl of Caithness, Mojor•Gen.
Bucklty, and Col. F. H. Seymour.
His Royal Highness the Prince Consort rode on horse.
back on Saturday morning, attended by Colonel F. H.
Seymour.

Yesterday her Majesty the Queen, his Royal His h.
ness the Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales, the Prin-
cess Alice, the Princess Helena, the Ladies and Gentle.
men of the Court, and the domestic household, attended.
Divine service in the chapel of the Palace.
The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor
officiated.
The Ear?. of Derby had an audience of the Queen.!

THE NEW MINISTRY AND PROSPECT
OF MEDICAL _REFORM.

Another unexpected and violent political con-
vulsion cannot but have its effect, either for good
or for evil, on the cause which the whole profession
has so deeply at heart—namely, Medical Reform.
Lord Palmerston as Prime Minister, and Sip
George Grey as Home Secretary, both avowed
that they were its friends and supporters.
Frain Lerd Derby as Premier, and Mr. Walpole
as Home Secretary, we have every reason to
believe that the question of Medical Reform will
obtain encouragement and official aid. Mr. Wal-
role has devoted great attention to the subject, and
his mind with regard to it is fortified by enlarged
and liberal views, It is possible that the new
Ministry may make the enactment of a Medical
Reform Bill a Government question, or, omitting to
take that step, they may so far identify themeelv,i
with the measure of Mr. Headlain as to de-
clare unequivocally in its favour. The profession,
therefore, should at once prepare for combined
as well as individual action. If there be an apparent
indifference out of doors, relative to the great ques-
tion which has so long agitated the profession, a
real apathy on the subject will exist within the
walls of Parliament. It is possible that a new
organisation of medical reformers may be required
at this juncture, or that all the old combinations,
now so quiescent, should be promptly and vigor-
ously resuscitated. On these points it would be
difficult to write with precision in the present dis-
turbed condition of the political atmosphere. In a
few days all doubt and uncertainty on the subject
will be removed.—La4cet.

Ll7CtNOW.—Measrs. Smith, Elder, and Co., have just
published a "Staff Officer's Diary" of the heroic defence
of Lucknow, in one ♦olume, post svo, with a plan, price
half-a-crown

We (Era) hear that Mrs. Wilkins (widow of the Mt*
Sergeant WilkinF), is to appear at the Haymarket on
Monday, March 8, in Sheridan Knowles's comedy of
"The Love Chase," as the Widow Green.

TIl EiscLOsimx COMMISSION.— The number of cases
since the last annual report is 822 ; 226,010 acres of
enclosure have been confirmed, and 262,418 are its
progress. A long list of proposed enclosures is gives,
which will be presented when they appear in the
schedule of the bill for carrying them into effect.
A CHURCH DESTROYED BY FlRE.—Yesterday morning
a fire took place in the recently built church of St.
Paul, Herne-hill, Dulwich. It appears that according
to custom the fires were lighted on Saturday to
warm the edifice for Divine service the following
morning. About two o'clock in the afternoon of Satur-
day it was found that one of the hot air flues had,
owing to the intense heat,
become ignited, but those in
charge of the church imagined that they had succeeded
in getting the burning soot extinguished. In the
course of the night, however, flames issued from vari-
OUB parts of the building. The London engines were
quickly called into requisition, they being fed by two
excellent supplies of water from the Lambeth plugs, bat
it was found necessary to pump the engines from a die.
tance of 440 feet from the scene of conflagration, and
the water bad to be forced up the hill. They bad no
sooner got their engines into full play than the flames
extended to the galleries and the organ. The moment
the pipes of that instrument became melted the fir.
descended upon thepews and sittings in the aisle. The
damage done is thus officially reported by Mr. Hender
eon, the chief officer of brigade of the D district :—" St.
Paul's Church, Herne-hill, Dulwich, the Rev. Matthew
Anderson incumbent. The church, 100 feet by 80,
destroyed, the organ consumed, but the steeple and
vestry saved. Insured in the Church of England Fire-
office. The cause of fire supposed to be from a defective
or overheated flue."
BOILER EXPLOSION AT DUDLIZT.—THIIIn
.A11;14
KILLED.—On Saturday afternoon last, the 27th uit•tf
fearful boiler explosion took place at the Globe
tuateraus
Works (Messrs. Whitehead and Haines), i
I,COseverely
three men were killed, and four others which
Tindale, within a mile and a half of fludeiresy,,i' by
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injured that they are not likels Lci au. Eight some per
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