The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-18 00:00:00

IIER MAJESTY'S HEALTH.

The following bulletin of the health of her
Majesty was issued this morning
" Buckingham Payee, April 18, 1857,
Nine a.m.
ig Her Majesty's recovery goes on favourabli
" The Infant Princess continues well.
" JAMES CLARK, M. D.
" CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D.
" ROI3ERT FERGUSON, M.D.
" The next bulletin will be issued on Monday
morning."

SECRET OF THE GRAND DUKE CON-

STANT.TNE'S VISIT.

While astronomers are looking out for the
coming of an expected comet, statesmen and cour-
tiers are on the qui vive in anticipation of a pro-
mised meteor. The fiery Grand Duke Constantine
Nicolaeiwitch, Grand Admiral of Russia, is, it is
said, about to honour us with an Imperial visit.
Having seen and examined the "lions" of Paris,
and feasted with the Gallic Eagle to his heart's
content, his Imperial Highness is to favour m with
his company, is to condescend to inspect our little
curiosity shops, and to take a luncheon and perhaps
a dinner with the British lion. A pious pilgrimage
to the old haunts of his illustrious progenitor,
Peter the Great—to Deptford, where he lodged,
to the dockyard where he laboured, and to the lo-
calities where he received lessons in surgery, mathe-
matics, navigation, and shipbuilding some hundred
and sixty years ago—and a professional tour of in-
spection of our arsenals, naval yards, and maga-
zines are indicated as the probable objects of the
Grand Duke's visit. Although the Court journals
are silent on the subject, we cm add that his
Imperial Highness comes especially to thank Sir
Charles Napier for his extreme politeness in treat-
ing Cronstadt with the profoundest respect, and
that he brings with him General Todtleben, charged
to say all sorts of civil things to our old fogies at
the Hone Guards for having abstained from taking
Sebastopol as long as they could. We can also
delicately insinuate that the Grand Duke comes
expressly to sup with Sir Robert Peel, and to have
a jolly carouse, after the manner of his ancestor,
with the eccentric and rollicking Lord of the
Admiralty. —Civil Service Gazette.

The Princess Orloff Ins left the Clarendon for Edin.
burgh. The Count Coudenhove has arrived at the same
establishment from Paris.
We understand that very unfavourable accounts of
the health of the Marquis of Dalhousie have been re-
ceived in town.

The Marqu:,s of Lansdowne entertained a select circle
at dinner, last evening, at Lansdowne Rouse.
The Marchioness of Hastings left town, yesterday, for
her residents; Manor House, Ryde, Isle of Wight.
The Ear), and Countess of Fife p,re coming to town at
the end of the present month, from Duff House, Aber-
deenshire. The noble earl ar,d countess will not occupy
their nevr mansion in Belg7.ave-square (late the residence
this season in consequence of
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and alterations which the house is
in process of uncle, going.

The Earl and (Jounte-ss of Guilford and family are ex-
pect,sd in town, in a few days from Waldershare Park,
nem. Dover,

T.'120 Cr.,unto3s of Camperdown and Lady Elizabeli
Drincan come to town to-Jay from Bath.
171'4count and Viscountess Gage are ?baying at Firle
Plafie, Sane; and will not return to towa until the
la ter end of the present month.

The Prince of Oude waEexpected at Manchester yes-
terday, where it was expend he would remain to visit
its chief manufactories an, other objects of interest.
Despatches from the ;evernors of the West India
Colonies were received yeterday at the Colonial-office.
Despatches were sent to tie Governor of Canada.
There was a vague ru)our in circulation in Vienna
on the 15th, to the effect hat Count Valentin Esterhazy
had been insulted at St. letersburg, but no confirmation
of the report has been obained.
The Queen and Prince klbert are now the parents of
nine children, and have hal to mourn the loss of none.
The eldest of the royal chldren, the Princess Royal, is
17 years of age, the Princeof Wales is 16, the Princess
Alice 14, Prince Alfred 1;:, Princess Helena 11, Prin-
cess Louise 9, Prince Arttur 7, and Prince Leopold 4.
In all, four sons and five daighters.
THE APPROACHING VDU OP PRINCE ALBERT To
MANCHESTM—During tte visit of Prince Albert to
Manchester, to open the Art Treasures Palace, his
Royal Highness is expectee to be present at a concert to
be given at the Free Tracts Hall on the evening of the
sth of May, and on the folowing day to take part in the
inauguration of a statue tc the Queen in Peel-park, Sal-
ford. The statue has beer erected in commemoration of
her Majesty's visit in 1851, when 70,000 Sunday school
children were present, the money being chiefly contri-
buted by the schools theruielves. His Royal Highness
is also to visit the Peel-pack Library and Museum, and
the Exhibition of Works ty local artists, in Peel-park,
which is to be opened before the close of the present
month.

DEATH OF LIEUT.•GENE'tAL SIR R. GODDARD HARE
CLARGES, K.C.8., COLOSSI, OF 12TH FOOT.—We have
to record the demise of the above gallant General, who
expired on Monday last, at his country seat, Bitchfield,
near Grantham, death resulting from an attack of bron-
chitis. The gallant officer was son of the Rev. James
Hare, but on inheriting, a few years back, in right of
his mother, the daughter of Mr. Christopher Clarges,
younger son of Sir Wm. Clarges, Bart., he took that
name in addition to his patronymic. Sir Richard was
educated at Rugby, and shortly after leaving that school
he entered the army in 1796. By the demise of the
gallant officer another colonelcy falls to the gift of the
Doke of Cambridge.
The St. James's Theatre will shortly be opened by
the French company under the able auspices of Mr.
Mitchell, it having at all times been the favourite resort
of Royalty and the e:ite. This freehold property will be
sold by auction on Tuesday next, by Mr. Robins, in
Covent-Barden_ The theatre is elegantly decorated, and
its scenery and wardrobe so coniplete as to be available
for the ensuing season.

MlNES.—There has been a larger amount of business
transacted this week, though prices generally have not
been firm, and in some instances have given way consi-
derably. This is not so much to be wondered at when
we consider the high rates of interest obtained for money
in non-speculative transactions, and the uneasy feeling
still existing in regard to monetary affairs. The Easter
holidays, also, have had their effect upon business, just
as the dulness caused by the elections was beginning to
be got over. To give a little more excitement to the
market, one or two good discoveries are required, but,
❑nfortunately, just now, accidents are more common.—
Mining Journal of this clay.
THE CIVIL SERVICE.—The Foreign Department :
The Vice-Consulate at Caen, Normandy, has become
vacant by the promotion of Mr. Peter Barrow to the
Consulship at Rabat, Morocco. General Post-office :
A. vacancy has occurred in the account branch of the
General Post-office, Edinburgh, by the death of Mr.
Robirt Bowie. Coast-guard : Commander Thomas
Goss, R.N., has been appointed Inspecting Commander
of a Division ; Mr. James Hill Ashton, chief officer,
has been removed from Bangor to Raddeos ; and Mr.
Frederick C. Fitzgerald, chief officer, has been removed
from Fort Moncrief to Fort Twigs, vice Mr. Braith-
waite, deceased.—Civil Service Gazette.

THE KIDDERMINSTER RlOTERS.—Yesterday the final
examination of the prisoners charged with the riot at
the late election, and the savage attack upon the Right
Hon. R. Lowe, M.P., took place at the Town-hall, Kid-
derminster. The magistrates said they were unanimously
of opinion that the charge against Mr. Alfred Talbot
and Mr. Pitt should be dismissed. Benjamin Wellings,
Robert West wood, Henry Westwood, John Wood,
George Barker, Albert Perrins, John Cook, Samuel
Payne, an I B njamin Potter, for rioting at the polling
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ETON COLLEGE, Fi iday.—A college meeting of the
provost and fellows was held in the provost's library on
Wednesday last—present, the Rev. T. Carter, M.A.,
vice-provost ; the Revs. J. F. Plumtree, M.A. ; G. J.
Dupuis, M.A. ; C. Luxmore, M.A., and E. Coleridge,
M.A. The Rev. W. A. Carter, M.A., senior assistant-
master of the upper school, was unanimously elected
lower master, in the room of the Rev. E. Coleridge, M.A.,
who has recently been appointed a fellow of Eton College.
Mr. Carter is the son of the present Vice-Provost Carter,
who held the office of lower master from the year 1814
to 1829. The living at Warplesden, in the gift of the
college, vacant by the death of the Rev. G. Bothell, it
is understood, will be presented to the Rev. Chas. Lux-
more, fellow of Eton College.
DOCK DUES ON EMIGRANT SHIPS.—SOUTHAMPTON,
Fri day.—At a meeting of the directors of the Southamp-
ton Docks held yesterday a series of resolutions was
adopted with the view of effecting, by a joint effort, a
reduction of the charges on emigrant ships leaving this
port, in order to remove the objection of shipowners to
tender for Southampton except at a much higher rate.
The Dock Company, having already unconditionally re-
duced their tonnage rate on emigration ships from 9d. to
6d., agree to further reduce the rate to 4d,, provided the
pier and harbour commissioners agree to remit the
whole of the 2d. per ton hitherto charged on emigrant
ships, and that the Tug Company and the pilots also
consent to remit one-half of the charges they have
hitherto made or, those vessels.
THE NEw COMET.—The following appears in the
Glasgow :Daisy Mail :—" Sir,—The comet of Bruhns,
whist,, was discovered recently at Berlin, was seen un-
e'ammonly well here last night. It is comparatively
bright when viewed through Mr. Morton's large New-
tonian. The nucleus is welt defined, with a large sur-
rounding nebulosity. It is at present in the constella-
tion Perseus, near the star Epsilon, and was last night
in right Recension 3 hours 50 min., and North Polar
declination 49 deg. 52 min. On Wednesday evening its
position will be rigbt ascension 3 hours 56 min., and
declination 48 deg. 35 min. ; and on Thursday evening,
right ascension 4 hours 24 min., and declination 47 deg.
17 min. The motion of the comet is direct, and will
continue visible throughout the months of April and
May.—l am, &c., THOMAS LEE. Morton-place Obser-
vatory, Kilmarnock, April 14, 1857."
THE MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, Friday.—The Peninsu-
lar and Oriental Company's steamship Sultan, Captain
Neil Cook, sailed to-day for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Ca-
diz, and Gibraltar, with the mails, 14 first mid 13 second-
class passengers (including the Countess Powlett for
Lisbon, and Captain Schreiber for Gibraltar), 6,020/, in
specie, for Cadiz, and a full cargo. The Royal Mail
Company's steam-ship Parana, Captain Bevis, sailed to-
day
with the West India mails, 90 passengers, specie
value 58,0001., jewellery value 4,900/., and a large cargo.
Am sag the passengers are Chief Justice Sharp and fa-
mily, for St. Vincent ; Major Dewar, Capt. Lambert,
Lieuts. Murphy and Mackenzie, Ensign O'Callaghan,
Paymaster Wilson, &c. The screw-steamer Rhone,
Capt. Wilkins, arrived here this morning from Palermo
and Messina, with a cargo of limejuice, lemonpeel, wine,
oranges, lemons, brimstone, and sundries. A telegra-
phic despatch from Bremen announces the arrival there
of the Queen of the South steamer, Captain Beal, which
left here on Tuesday afternoon, in 44 hours hence. The
Brazilian Company's steam-ship Petropolis, detained at
Lisbon by a broken screw, has been ordered back to
Southampton, and her cargo and passengers trans-
shipped to the Teutonia, which proceeded itomediately
to the Brazils.
THE FALL OF HOUSES IN RUSSELL-PLACE.—THE
VERDlCT.—Yesterday the inquest on the body of Mau-
rice Fitzgibbon, the labourer killed by the fall of a wall
in Russell-place, was concluded at King's College Hos-
pital. Since the last examination another man, who
had received frightful injuries on the same occasion, and
undergone amputation of the leg, had died. The follow-
ing verdict was returned :—" That the deceased persons
came to their respective deaths by the falling of a wall,
some portions of which not externally visible were in an
unsound state, yet they (the jurors) are of opinion, that
through an error of judgment sufficient precaution was
not taken to secure the same." A juror then intimated
to the coroner that a public-house close by was in ate
equally dangerous state, and ought at once to be shored
up, and Mr. Mitchell said that he would call the atten-
tion of Mr. Darkin, his superintendent, to the matter.
Mr. Marks, a juror, of Tavistock-street, said that it
was intended to raise a subscription for the widows and
children of the deceased, which would in the first instance
be handed over to the magistrate at B sw-street for dis-
tribution as the emergency of each case required it.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—The Canadian department of the
palace about to open is likely to prove extremely at-
tractive—the Canadian Legislature having voted the sum
of 2,0001. for rendering it as complete as possible, and
5001. a-year for its maintenance. It will comprise many
valuable articles of raw and manufactured produce,
several of which have been already-received, well calcu-
lated to add in the development of the commerce and
resources of that magnificent province. Amongst the
striking works of art will be found a model of the Vic-
toria-bridge at Montreal, and another, exhibiting a por-
tion of one of those great canals which have been con-
structed by the Government to facilitate intercommuni-
c,:itiiionalbsoetwheeenfoduinadtanat
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sleigh, used in travelling over the snow, and which
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adds so much to the enjoyments of a Canadian winter.
Specimens of the mineral products of the country will
also be exhibited, and the cloth, saddlery, and other
manufactured articles, evidence the great advance made
by the colonists towards rivalling the mother country
in opulence and skill. The triumph achieved by Canada
at the Paris Exhibition is likely to be surpassed by that
at Sydenbam.
The new literary season promises to be rich in works
of fiction. Messrs. Hurst and Blackett alone announce
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"Rock-
ingham ;" "The Two Aristocracies," by Mrs. Gore ;
iDngarkthaendfoFilaoiwr,
" Nothing New," by the author of "John Halifax;"
"A Woman's Story," by Mrs. S. C. Hall ; " Life and
its Realities," by Lady Chatterton ; " Cuthbert St.
Elm; M.P.; or, Passages in the Lire of a Politician ;"
and a new story by the author of "Margaret and her
Bridesmaids." The same publishers also announce
among their works in general literature'
asjust ready,
"The Life of Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel," edited
by the Duke of Norfolk ; "Chow, Chow," a narrative of
lie after the War," by Mee Zunbury,
Indian Travel, by the Viscountess Falkland; and "Rue.