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

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.

Major-General the Hon. C. and Mrs. Grey, Captain
Elphinstone, 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" Meyerbeer.
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 Pere 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 Vernlam, 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 London 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 de Lavradio and
Captain Elphinstone, 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 Gungel.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended, and
played in the drawing-room the following compositions
Overture—" The Rose of Castille" • . Balfe.
Chceur et Scene—" Les Diamans de
la Couronne"
Selection—" Silvance"
Rondeau—" Le Tambourine" Rameau.
Minuet de Boeuf Haydn.
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 Stackelberg and the Baroness
de Casis have arrived at Claridge's Hotel.

The marriage of the Lady Katherine Hamilton
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.—We are informed that in addition to the
sums given by the Barons Rothschild to the general fund,
&ron Lionel de Rothschild, M.P. intends presenting the
City of London School with £2,000, to found a 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.—lewish 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 aro 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, on 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 Athenteum,
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 stayin this
city, following immediately, found that Sir James was very
unwell. Not without some difficulty, he was got into Itir.
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.—Manchester
Guardian.

OCEAN STEAMING.—LIVERPOOL, Oct. 23.—The
Cunard Royal Mail steamship America sailed to-day for
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 Saturdaynext. 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 :—" e 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 on stretchers
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 t,he 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 ho 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. He 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
angry 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 1" 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 1" 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,

L C NEWS.

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 Patrie 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 9201. ; 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 :

q per Cents. 95 50
Do. end month 95 76
3 per Cents 73
Do. end month 73 15
Bank Shares 3125
Credit Mobilier
Do. Account

Credit Fonder 640
Belgian 41 lOl 25
Piedmontese (5)
Roman 93 15
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt 421

It tIJ ATB.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern
New ditto. Bl2 50 .. 812 50
Lyons and Mediterranean 875 .. 872 50
New ditto — • •
Geneva 620 .. 620
Midi — .. 570
Western 612 50 . . 615
Eastern
Grand Central — -- .. ---.
Sardinian
Austrian
Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 15c. ; money,
25f 100. ; three months, paper,. 24f. 971 c. ; money, 24f.
921 c.