The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-22 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Yesterday morning, at half-past nine o'clock, the
ceremony of churching the Queen vv:s performed
in the private chapel at Buckingham Palace, by the
Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley, her Majesty's do-
mestic chaplain.
His Royal highness Prince Albert and the
Dowager Lady Lyttelton were present.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked yesterday
in the garden of Buckingham Palace.
His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen
visited the Queen yesterday.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on
horseback yesterday, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel
the Hon. Alexander Gordon. _

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended
by Mr. Birch, took a drive yesterday in an open
carriage.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince Alfred, the
Princess Helena, and the Princess Louisa took a car-
riage drive yesterday, ad their Royal Highnesses
the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice took their
accustomed exercise in the garden of the Palace.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and his
Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, dined with
her Majesty at Buckingham Palace yesterday evening.
Her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians, and her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accompanied
by his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen,
took a drive yesterday afternoon, in an open carriage
and four.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge re-
turned to town yesterday from the Royal Military
College at Sandhurst. The Royal Duke paid a visit
to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at
Gloucester House, in the afternoon.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary arrived at Cambridge House
yesterday, from their residence at Kew. The Duchess
of Cambridge honoured the Duke of Devonshire with
her company last evening at Devonshire House.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office, from the Governor of the Falkland Islands.

CONTINENTAL TRAFFIC.—The South-Eastern and
Continental Company's steamer Prince Ernest arrived at
Folkstone, from amlogne' with 50'passengeN, one carriage,
and three horses, yesterday. The Lord Warden steamar
sailed from Boulogne, taking 212 passengers, and the Queen
of the French arrived at 7.35 P.M., bringing 54 passengers.
GKEENWICH RAILWAY.—On Whit-Monday 51,000
passengers were conveyed over this railway without a single
accident.

DEATEI OF DEPUTY-CORONER MILLS.—LASt Mon-
day Mr. George Ireland Mills expired at his residence, Bed-
ford-street, Strand, after a tedious and painful illness, which
he, bore with perfect resignation. Deceased, who had been
educated for the medical profession, acted during ten years as
deputy-coroner by Mr. H.altYW' itAkilePi.
deputy-coroner to. Mr. 'W He is succeeded as
THE ALLEGED CHILD-MURDER IN ST. GEORGE'S-
IN-THE-EAST.—Yesterday an inquest on the body of a female
infant child was resumed before Mr. Baker, coroner, and a
jury, at the Golden Lion public-house, Cannon-street-road.
Four persons were in, custody charged with being concerned
in the murder °Me 'child, and we have given hi our Thames.
police report an account of their examination and discharge
After some proceedings, Mr. IlenryLetheby, who was not
examined before the magistrate, stated that he had analysed
the contents of the stomach and intestines of the deceased,
but beyond some astringent matter and'a faint trace of mor-
phia he could not detect any poisonous substance. It was
quite possible that the deceased might have , had some God-
freY's Cordial. The coroner summed up. The jury, after
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of violence on its throat, but how it came by its death there
was net sufficient evidence fcr the jury to determine."
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EGYPT.—Among the "passengers" by the Indus, which
left - Southampton on Monday, for Alexandria, with; the
India Mail, were twelve horses, eight ponies, five dogs, about
twenty pheasants, fbur swans, half a dozen rabbits, and as
purchased in 'this
country at an enormous expense for the Pacha of Egypt.
many barn door fowls, all of which were
The whole of the united Kingdom has been ransacked to
get the choicest specimens of the various animals, which, the
Pacha required. A number of persons went out to. Egypt
The horses , were of the nice-horse breed.
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ponies were. Shetland, and were beautiftil little creatures.
They were remarkable far their diminutive size and
their resemblance one to another in height, colour, &c.
The swans were black, and noble looking birds. The phea-
sants were great curiosities, on account of the variety and
beauty of their plumage. The
esteemed The rabbits were high bred, and
by fanciers. The male
had all the points most
domestic fowls were as fine speeimens of the-British chanti-
clear as were ever seen. - The greatest curiosity, however, in
the whole collection were two bulldogs. They were thorough
bred, and so fierce and ugly that scores of persons who went
to look at them recoiled for a moment with surprise and
fear. The bulldogs were fastened to the deck with massive
in hencoop before he could be'secured. Two
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THE ARCTIC SEARCHING EnlTlorc.---Yester-
day a Parliamentary paper was printed, containing an esti-
mate of the sums required to provide for the expenses on
guarding the entrance to the infernal regions. • -
account of the Arctic Searching
.Expeditions. under the corn-
). The wages
The sueplementary estimate of
, for victuals
for the same 8,4801.; naval stores, 5,4001.; medicines and
medical stores, 550/. ; and miscellaneous services, 8,368/.;
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WATERFORD AND KILKENNY RAILWAY,—The
Waterford and Kilkenny Railway lattice bridge, having the
largest span presented by any viaduct constructed of timber
in the world, underwent the final test on Friday last, and
with all the success which could be desired, before Captain
Laffan, Royal Engineers, Government inspector, accompanied
1-iheis
coLnolrpdaany,B
Bill,
by Mr. Charles Terratt, engineer to the Waterford and Kul-
a the Admi-
ralty Railway. A loaded train, of 180 tons weight, was
passed over the bridge at various rates of speed.
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provided
the signal lights along the coast (which, heinik red, may be
confounded with, the harbour lights) are shaded, so as not to
visible by vessels seaward.
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BURNING Or THE OCEAN QUEEN.---Another in-
stance of spontaneous combustion of coal, by which a fine
vessel, the Ocean Queen, belonging to London, upwards of
810 tons burden, was totally lost, was reported yesterday at
Lloyd's. The unfortunate vessel had a full cargo of New-
castle coal, and was bound to Suez, for the supply of the
Indian steamers. On the zlst of December, the captain. „a,
informed by one the crew that smoke was issuing forth from
the hold forward, and he suspected the coal had ignited.
The batches were at once removed, when instantly flames
burst forth, and every tffort made to subdue them proved
unavailing. The ship was then in let. 2: 30 south, and
lon. 53 east, some 700 or 800 miles distant from land. The
crew, after ate unsuccessful attempt to confine the fire to the
bold, were compelled to take to the boats, and after enduring
much suffering, they were picked up by a French homeward-
bound ship, 4uo miles from the spot where the Ocean Queen
was burned. They were safely landed at the Mauritius.
By a recent return there appears to have been no fewer than
14 ships destroyed by fire from similar cause during the last
our. years.