The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-25 00:00:00

ME SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1858,

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, OCT. 23.

The Portuguese Minister and Countess de Lavradio ar-
rived. yesterday afternoon, and had the honour of dining
with her Majesty.
ntijor-General the Hon, C, and Mrs. Grey, Captain
F:Aphinstone, R.E., and Lieutenant Cowell, R.E., had the
'honour of being included.
The band of the Grenadier Guards played during
dinner :
Overture—" Fra Diavolo"
Waltz—" Adelaide"
Selection—" Les Huguenots"
Quadrille on Welsh airs
The Florence March Angelo Mariana.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards performed in the
Drawing-room the following airs :
Overture—" Le Ptlre Gaillard"
Benedictus—" Requiem" Mozart.
Cavatina—" Les Diamans de la Couronne" Auber.
Menuet du Bceuf
Leopoldstadter Polka

The Queen, with Princess Alice, rode out on horseback
this morning, attended by the Countess of Caledon, the Earl
of Verulam, Major-General Hon. C. Grey, Col. the Hon.
A. Liddell, and Colonel F. H. Seymour.

His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, attended by
Captain the Hon. D. de Ros, went to Lendon by a special
train of the Great Western Railway and drove to Bucking-
ham Palace.

Prince Alfred, attended by Lieutenant Cowell, R.E.,
went to London by an early train.
The Prince Consort and Prince Alfred returned to Wind-
sor in the afternoon.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales arrived from
the White Lodge. Sir John Pakington also arrived at the
Castle.

The Portuguese Minister and Countess do Lavradio and
Captain Elphinstono, R.E., returned to London in the fore-
noon.

Her Majesty's dinner party included her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent, his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales, her Royal Highness Princess Alice, his Royal
Highness Prince Alfred, her Royal Highness the Princess
of Leiningen, his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen,
Lady. Anna Maria Dawson, the Right Hon. Sir John
Pakington, Sir George Couper, Mr. Gibbs, Major Lindsay,
and Lieutenant Cowell, R.E.
The band of the 2d Life Guards performed during
dinner.
Overture Thomas.
Selection—" Zampa"
Polka

Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended, and
played in the drawing-room the following compositions :
Overture—" The Rose of Castille" Balfe.
Chcour et ScCne--" Les Diamans de
la Couronne"
Selection—" Silvance"
Rondeau—" Le Tambourine"
Minuet de Boeuf llaydn.
Hochzeits Marsch
SUNDAY, Oct. 24.

The Queen and Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales,

Princess Alice, Prince Alfred, and Princess Helena, the
ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic house-
hold, attended divine service this morning in the private
chapel.
The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor per-
formed the service.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governor of Malta.
Despatches were sent on Saturday to the Governors of
the colonies on the West Coast of Africa.

His Highness the Maharajah Duleep Singh has
left Claridge's Hotel, for Mulgrave Castle, near Whitby.

His Excellency the Swedish and Norwegian
Minister and the Countess Platen have returned to the re-
sidence of the Legation, from Sweden, after an absence of
three months.

The Countess de Stackelbcrg and the Baroness
de Casis have arrived at Claridge's Hotel.

The marriage of the Lady Katherine Hamilto]
with Viscount Valletort will take place to-morrow.

Lady Simpson and Miss Simpson have arrived
at the Brunswick Hotel.

THE NATIONAL GALLERY.—The National Gal-
lery and Vernon Collection, at Marlborough-house, Pall-
mall, was reopened to the public this day. The days
for public admission are changed to Mondays, Tuesdays,
Wednesdays, and Saturdays ; Thursdays and Fridays being
set apart for the admission of students only.
COMMEMORATION OF THE ADMISSION OF JEWS
TO PARLIAMENT.—`Venue informed that in addition to the
sums given by the Barons Rothschild to the general fund,
Baron Lionel de Rothschild, M.P. intends presenting the
City of London School with £2,000,9 to found pa scholarship
of the value of £6O per annum. Thus he marks his appre-
ciation of the exertions and feelings of the eleCtors of the
City of London, to whose children this reward of merit will
be open.—Jewish Chronicle.
THE END OF THE LONG VACATION.—The long
vacation terminated on Saturday, and to-day the several law
offices of the common law courts will be opened at the usual
hours, as also the judge's chambers, in anticipation of the
forthcoming Michaelmas Term, commencing on Tuesday
week, when the new Chancery orders are expected to be
issued, and when the new Chancery Amendment Act will
come into force, under which the novel. appearance of a
" jury" will be seen in the Court of Chancery, assigning
damages for wrongful acts on injunctions, and under
breaches of agreements, &c.
PROPOSED BANQUET IN MANCHESTER TO MESSRS.
GIBSON AND BRlGHT.—Circulars signed by Mr. George
Wilson, have been issued, stating that "it has been sug-
gested that it is highly desirable that a banquet should
take place in the Free-trade Hall, en an early day, for the
purpose of congratulating the hon. member for Birming-
ham on his restoration to health; to celebrate the return of
himself and his late colleague (the Right Hon. T. M.
Gibson) to Parliament for the boroughs of Birmingham
and Ashton ; and to express our thanks to them for their
patriotic conduct during the last session of Parliament, as
well as for their long and faithful services as representatives
for this city."
ILLNESS OF SIR JAMES BROOKE.—It Will be
remembered that Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, ad-
dressed those assembled at the soiree of the Athenaeum,
in the Free-trade Hall, on Thursday evening. Just before
the conclusion of the proceedings, Sir James, who had not
previously complained, retired hastily from the platform;
and Mr. Thomas Fairbairn, his host during his stay in this
city, following immediately, found that Sir James was very
unwell. Not without some difficulty, he was got into Mr.
Fairbairn's carriage, and conveyed to the residence of Mr.
Ransome, surgeon, St. Peter's-square, when that gentle-
man found that Sir James had been attacked by paralysis
The attack was, however, slight ; and we are happy to add
that there is no doubt of Sir James's speedy and complete
restoration. He remained at Mr. Ransome's until yester-
day afternoon, when he was removed to Northwood-house,
Sedgley-park, the residence of Mr. Fairbairn.-31anehester
Gnltedian

OCEAN STEAMING.—LIVERPOOL, Oct. 23.—The
Cunard Royal Mail steamship America sailed to-day for
I Halifax and Boston, having on board the usual mails, a
large and valuable cargo, and 120 passengers. The next
vessel in connection with this fine fleet of steamers to leave
the port will be the Asia, which takes her departure for
New York on SaturdayneAt. The screw steamer Kangaroo,
belonging to the Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia
Steamship Company, arrived here this afternoon from the
Clyde, where she has been receiving new boilers and con-
siderable enlargement. She is appointed to take out the
United States' mails from this port for New York on Wed-
nesday next, the 27th inst. 'To-morrow afternoon (the 24th)
the steamship Athenian sails hence on her first voyage un-
der the new African postal regulation, which orders the
Royal mails to be forwarded direct from Liverpool and Ma-
deira, Teneriffe, and the West Coast of Africa. She has on
board a heavy mail, a fair cargo, and a full complement of
passengers. The Liverpool agents are Messrs. W. Laird
and Co., Castle-strreet.
PRIVATE LUNATIC ASYLUMS.—At the Essex
quarter sessions this week an application was made by Mrs.
Allen, the widow of Dr. Allen, for a renewal of the licence
of a private asylum, for many years carried on at High-
beach, near ;Epping. The Rev. Mr. Lewis called
the attention of the Court to the report of the
Lunacy Commissioners, made three or four years ago, in
which they said :—" We found four female patients fas-
tened in one of the upper rooms, without a fire, and with
the window open; they were poorly clad, and their sleeping
accommodation very deficient. The small room occupied by
one of these patients was very offensive, and the blankets
were wet with urine. These four patients sleep onstretchers
with only blankets under them, and another patient at Leo-
pard's-hill (a man) sleeps on a stretcher, having not even a
blanket beneath him. There is altogether a great deficiency
of general comfort in 'the establishment." -Mrs. Allen un-
dertook at the time to remedy these things, but the rev.
gentleman assured the Court the asylum was now in the
same condition. It appeared that some of the patients paid
£2OO a-year, but Mr. Davis and Mr. Gurney Fry, two ma-
gistrates appointed to visit the house, said they found the
sleeping accommodation inadequate for the 16 patients they
found there, and the ventilation bad. They heard no com-
plaints of unkindness, but the patients did not look so well
as they ought to do, and there was an air of poverty about
the place. In consequence of this the Court declined to re-
new the license, and at the expiration of the old one the
asylum will be closed.
The Tiden of Stockholm relates another case of
religious persecution in that country :—" A persoon named
Hejdenberg, of Elftdalh, thought fit in 1856 to abjure Lu-
theranism, and to adopt the Baptist form of worship ; and
he taught his new creed. For the abjuration and the
teaching he was brought to trial before the Royal Court of
the town. •As however it appeared that he had not re-
ceived from the clergy the warnings' which are required
to be given to abjurers, he was acquitted on the first
charge ; but as, with respect to the second, it was
shown that he had on a Sunday held a meet-
ing and had expounded the Scriptures, he was de-
clared guilty of violating the law of conventicles, and of
profaning the Sabbath ;' he was accordingly fined 69 rix-
dollars. Ho appealed to the Supreme Court at Stockholm,
but the condemnation was confirmed. He very recently
presented a petition to the King for pardon, but it has just
been rejected."
An extraordinary suicide was committed three
days ago at Oullens, a village near Lyons. A grocer of
that place on Tuesday having been teased by his cat killed
it, and his wife, who esteemed the animal greatly, was very
angay and reproached him. At supper the woman again com-
plained of his having killed the cat, and she persisted in
talking about it, in spite of his repeated requests to let the
matter drop. At length he flew into passion, and a violent
altercation ensued. The woman said something which
wounded him deeply, and seizing a large knife he cried, " If
you do not instantly demand pardon I will kill you !" She
refused, and with a violent blow in the face he felled her to
the ground. Seeing that blood flowed and that she
remained senseless he raised her and placed her in a
chair. At this moment a police officer who had heard
the altercation entered and asked, " What is the
matter ?" " Something serious !" answered the grocer, and
so saying he plunged the knife into his heart and fell dead.
About two years ago he was bitten by a mad dog, but the
bite was cured.

LATEST 1N WS.

FRANCE AND PORTUGAL.

LISBON, SUNDAY.

The Portuguese Government delivers the Charles-
et-Georges to France, declaring it cedes only to the
threatened employment of force.

PARIS, MONDAY, OCT., 25, 8.30.A.m.

The Moniteur announces that the Portuguese
Government has restored the Charles-et-Georges,
and set the captain at liberty.
The Patric says—" Portugal has yielded, not
from fear, but from wisdom. It has less considered
the insufficiency of its army than the weakness of
its cause. It was a cause without justice, and con-
sequently without authority over public opinion,
and without support in Europe."

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
We have received files of papers from Cape
Town to the 4th of September. The small-pox still
prevailed there, and had spread to Worcester.
Great sanitary precautions had been adopted,

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAY.

BOURSE, Oct. 23.—The market was heavy at the
opening, but afterwards rallied on a report that
the ultimatum of France had been accepted by the
Portuguese Cabinet. Threes, after having been
done at 73f., 10c. and 72f. 95c., rallied to 73f. 20c. ;
Mobilier varied from 900 f. to 920 f. ; Austrian, 661 f.
25c. to 663 f. 75c. ; Orleans, 1,347 f. 50c. to 1,352 f.
50c. ; Lyons, 870 f. to 875 f. ; Southern, 567 f. 50c.
to 570 f. ; and Northern, 967 f. 50c. to 970 f. The fol-
lowing were the closing quotations :

If per Cents. .... 95 50 Credit Fancier 610
Do. end month .. 95 75 Belgian 4} lOl 25
3 per Cents 73 Piedmonteso (5) ..
Do. end month 73 15 Roman 93 15
Bank Shares 3125 Austrian
Credit Mobilier .. 910 Spanish Threes
Do. Account 915 Home Debt 421

the son of a count, marquis, duke, or baron
shall not be considered as giving the right
of viscountship. The Gazette also contains
a notification by which grandees and other
persons holding titles are informed that
those who have any claims to make with reference
to having their names inserted in the official guide
(" Guia de Foresteros") for 1859, must make them
in writing before the 15th of next month; .and it is
declared those persons who use a title which is not
set down in the official list as belonging to
them will be liable to pains and penalties.
The other journals are filled with election mat-
ters. The Espana had again been condemned to a
fine. As a proof of the height to which party
spirit is now carried, a letter has the following :
" The tribunals have become now a sort of arena in
which things which cannot be printed can be
spoken with impunity. Newspaper prosecutions
are very frequent, and the advocates who are
charged with the defence of editors, being generally
public men, employ to the utmost the latitude
allowed to the bar, not to defend their clients, bnt
to aggravate the attacks and the libels for which
they are prosecuted. When such trials take place,
the benches and every standing place are occupied
by well-dressed persons, who take delight in the
polished invectives that are thus delivered against
public men."

The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa states that the
Odessa Company is displaying the greatest activity
in turning the Villafranca establishment to account.
The directors of the works have already arrived ;
the necessary stores and supplies have been ordered
at Toulon, and upwards of 200,000 metres of timber
have been bought for the buildings to be erected.
The steam-engines are to be sent from England.

Count O'Donnell, aide-de-camp of the Emperor
of Austria, who went to Warsaw with an autograph
letter from his Majesty to the Emperor Alexander,
has accompanied the latter to St. Petersburg.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ARABIA.
LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY, 12 P.M.

The royal mail steamship Arabia has arrived
from New York, with advices to the 14th inst.
She brings 82 passengers and 453,000 dollars in
specie.
On the 14th she passed the Africa, Indian Em-
pire, and North Star going into New York.
The news from the States is of no interest.
The mail from California had arrived at St.
Louis, but the telegraphic accounts arc meagre.
The water at Fraser River was too high for mining,
and business was much depressed at Victoria.
Several skirmishes had taken place with Indians
in Oregon.
In Kansas, so far as known, the elections were
in favour of the Republicans.
Two late despatches have been received from
Mexico. One says that Gen. Vidaurri had been
defeated by Miramon near San Luis • and the
other, Miramon had been routed by Vidaurri, and
had blown out his brains in despair.
Governor Garza had levied a contribution on all
foreigners at Tampico, to the amount of 100,000
dollars.

The Administration at Washington has received
an official document from those in power in two of
the Society Islands, proposing a surrender of them
to the United States.

Havana advices to the 10th contain nothing poli-
tically important orinteresting. Sugars were quiet
a'nd declining.
Freights were dull at New York on the 13th.
The business in stocks was small, but in the Ex-
chaige market the scarcity of commercial bills
enabled drawers to obtain a good price for their
exchanges. There was a fair 'business done in ster-
ing, at 110 to 109-Z-, and in francs at 5 121. Money
was without alteration in pilice. The news by the
City of Baltimore from this port tended to depress
the market for breadstuffs.

The cotton market was heavy, and prioes unsettled.
The pork market was heavy, and prices had declined
--especially for old. Beef was unchanged. Prime
mess and hams were quiet and nominal. Lard was
plentiful, and prices unsettled.
In freights there was rather more offering, and
rates at the close manifested a little more tone.

At Baltimore, on the same day, flour was dull and
heavy, but wheat unchanged.
At Cincinnati wheat and flour were both dull,
but there was no change in provisions.
At Buffalo rather more was doing in flour, and
prices were easier; wheat, however, was dull and
heavy.
At Oswego flour was inactive, and wheat a
shade lower.