The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-11 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WHITE-LODGE, RICHMOND-PARK, MAY 10,

Her Majesty, aCCOMf anied by Princess Helena and Prin-
cess Beatrice, drove out yesterday afternoon. Lady Caro-
line Barrington and Lieut.-General the Hon. C. Grey were
in attendance.

The Prince Consort and Princess Alice rode on horseback,
attended by Major Du Platt.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur and Prince Leo-
pold, attended by Maj .r Elphinstone, visited her Majesty.

A deputation had an interview with Earl Gran-
ville yesterday at the Privy Council-office respecting the
opening of the Glasneven-gardens on Sunday.
Despatches were received yesterday at the
Colonial-office from the Governor of Canada and the Lord
High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. Despatches
were sent to the Governors of the Bahamas, Hongkong,
Ceylon, and Malta.
MANSION-HOUSE BANQUET TO THE JUDGES.—
The Lord Mayor last night gave the usual entertainment to
her Majesty's judges and the:most distinguished members
of the English bar. The Egyptian-hall, in which the
banquet took place, presented a brilliant scene when the
company, numbering about 300, took their seats.
THE SWISS SINGERS still continue their success-
ful career at St. James's Hall. Their entertainment has
the virtue of being light and agreeable, without being too
long. This latter is a great point, for the audience are
never sent away with a feeling of fatigue, but invariably
leave with a desire to go again and hear more.
AIR. GEORGE TURPIN, so well known in con-
nexion with the Haymarket Theatre, where he has long
fulfilled the duties of Box-Bookkeeper with equal assiduity
and courtesy, announces his annual benefit for Wednesday
next, when a number of those who have experienced his
attention and urbanity, will be glad to acknowledge the
claims of the occasion.—Era.

ATOP ROOM IN THE TEMPLE.—Alterations bare
been made in that part of the Temple since that time, and
it has not now so lonely a character as it had then, nor is
it so exposed to the river. We lived at the top of the last
house, and the wind rushing up the river shook the house
that night like discharges of cannon or breakingepof a sea.
When the rain came with it and dashed against the windows
I thought, raising my eyes to them as they rocked, that I
might have fancied myself in a storm-beaten lighthouse.
Occasionally, the smoke came rolling down the chimney as
though it could not bear to go out on such a night ; and
when I set the doors open and looked down the
staircase, the staircase lamps were blown out; and when I
shaded my face with my hands and looked through the
black windows (opening them ever so little, was out of the
question in the teeth of such wind and rain) I saw that the
lamps in the court were blown our, and that the
lamps on the bridges and the shore were shuddering, and
that the coal fires in barges on the river were being carried
away before the wind like red-hot splashes in the rain. I
read with my watch upon the table, purposing to close my
book at eleven o'clock. As I shut it, Saint Paul's, and all
the many church-clocks in the City—some leading, some
accompanying, some following—struck that hour. The sound
was curiously flawed by the wind ; and I was listening, and
thinking how the wind assailed it and tore it, when I heard a
footstep on the stair.—" Great Expectations," in Dickens's
" All the Year Round."
AN UNREHEARSED EFFECT.—The Sheffield Daily
Telegraph says :—" We regret to announce that on Friday
evening a circumstance of a painful and exciting nature
occurred at this popular place of amusement. During his
engagement at Hengley's establishment, Mr. Dan Castello
has been exhibiting his beautiful and highly-trained horse
Ducrow, and a ponderous buffalo, which he bought on the,
prairies of America, and which the Indians had named
Yellow Thunder,' after one of their chiefs, who was of
huge proportions. In order to provide against accident in
the event of the buffalo turning violent, Castello held the
animal by a rope, which was fastened to a hook through its
nose, and whenever it exhibited symptoms of obstinacy he
applied a whip. On Friday evening the buffalo gave evidence
of more than ordinary stubbornness, and did not perform
some of the customary tricks, and when it came to that
part of the programme at which it should leap over a num-
ber of bars placed against the side of the arena, it cleared
one, and then, in the twinkling of an eye, turned upon Cas-
tello, and knocked him down. It fell heavily upon him, and
attempted to gore him, but Castello, being an active and
powerful man, struggled to free himself, and succeeded in
avoiding much of the injury which would otherwise have
been inflicted on him. The horns of the brute struck
several times against the side of the arena, and tore down
some portion of the red cloth covering. The utmost alarm
was created in the place, and great fears were entertained
for Castello's safety. The audience, which was very large,
scrawled and shouted, and several people ran out of the
place. At length Castello succeeded in escaping from his
powerful assailant, and jumped into the boxes. The buffalo,
on losing its victim, immediately ran out of the arena the
sameway
that it had entered, and order was soon afterwards
restored. On inquiry, we are informed that Castello was
not dangerously hurt, that he was able to walk to a cab, and
that the most serious injetry is a WOllll4 in the golly part of
cue of Ws legs,"