The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-10 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand
Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz,
with the Prince their son, arrived at Cambridge
House from the Continent, at ten minutes before five
o'clock yesterday morning (attended by Mr. Edmond
Mildmav), Equerry to his late Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge, having travelled from Dover by
a special train on the South Eastern Railway.
The Queen and Prince Albert paid a visit of con.
dokuce to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cam-
bridge yesterday morning at Cambridge House. The
Royal Duchess was accompanied by their Royal
li.ghnesses Prince George, the Hereditary Grand
Duchess of Mtcklenburgh Strelitz, and the Princess
Mary.
Iler Majesty and the Prince remained three-quarters
of an hour w.th the Duchess of Cambridge, and then
L ft, attended by the Equerries in Waiting (Colonel
Buckly and Licut.-Colonel the lion. Alexander Gor-
don), on horse back.
Iler Royal highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge and their
Royal Highhesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and
Grat.d Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz yesterday, at
Cambridge House.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert visited her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday morning
at Gloucester House.
His Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of
Mecklenburg Strelitz visited the Queen yesterday, at
Buckingham Place. _

Theis Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prins•
Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princesses Alice,
Helena, and Louisa, took their usual walking and pony
exercise yesterday, in the garden of Buckingham Palace.
The Bishop of Norwich had an interview with Sir
George Grey yesterday. The Earl of Hardwicke had
also an interview with the Right Hon. Baronet yester-
day, at the Home-office.
Dispatches from the Governor of the Cape of Good
Hope were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, July 9.

(Sittings at Guildhall, before the LORD CHIEF BARON
and Special Juries.)

RICTIARDS AND ANOTHER V. GLEDSTANES AND ANOTHER.

Iha LORD CHIEF BARON summed up the evidence in
this case to the jury, and, after an address of three hours'
duration, charged them to consider whether at the
time the declaration was made upon which the policy
was ultimately effected Captain Clayton had indulged so
far in the intemperance attributed to him in some por-
tion of the evidence as to constitute a habit. If they
thought he had, the verdict should be for the de-
fendants; if they thought not, then it should be for the
plaintiffs.
The jury retired, and returned into court, after the
lapse of a short interval, with a verdict for the plaintiffs
damages 5391.

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Joseph Bailey and John
a charge of having endeavoured to obtain charitable con.
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ELECTION OF KNIGHTS FOR THE SHIRES. --'• All
persons entitled to vote in the election of a knight or knights
of the shire for the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Kent
Berkshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, &c., in respect of any pro-
perty situate wholly or in part within the said counties, who
are not upon the register of voters now in force, must send
in their claims to be entered on or before the Vth inst., spe-
cifying what are such claims as to property, tenements, &c.
Any person who is upon tho present register may also make
his claim if he think fit; but it is nor necessary that he
should do so if he has the same qualification and place of
abode now described in the register. No claims to the above
registration of voters, or to that for the city of London, will
be received after the,2oth inst.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF TUESDAY.
ST. JAMES'S-PALACE,-JULY 3, 1850.
The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour
of Knighthood upon John Watson Gordon, Esq.,
Limner to her Majesty for Scotland, and President of
the Royal Scottish Academy.
ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, JULY 3.
The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour
a Knighthood upon Charles Hastings, Esq., M.D.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 6.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. David
Brown as Consul at Cardiff for his Majesty the King of
the Belgians.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
Henry Minasi as Consul-General in London for the
Duke of Parma. _

The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
Meinhard Robinow as Consul at Glasgow for the Free
Hanseatic city of Hamburgh.
WAR-OFFICE, JULY 9. _

7th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Surgeon Gideon
Doimage, from the Bth Light Dragoons, to be Surgeon,
vice Foaker, Rho exchanges, July 9.
Bth Light Dragoons—Surgeon George Northon
Foaker, from the 7th Dragoon Guards, to be Surgeon,
vice D Ansage, who exchange:, July 9.
19th Regiment of Foot —Lieutenant Edward John
Merman to be Captain without purchase, vi 2e Brevt t
Major Denny, deceased; Ensign Hugh Francis Massy to
be Lieutenant, vice Ellorman, June 5.
25:h Foot—Ensign Charles Cramond Dick to be Li,u-
tenant, without purchase, vice Witch, deceased, March 15
29th Foot—Brevet Major Arthur St. Ge9rge H.
Stepney to be Major, by purchase, vice Way, who re-
tires; Lieutenant Lindsay Farrington to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Stepney; Ensign William Congreve to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Farrington ; Ensign
Edmund Watkin Kent, from the 49th Foot, to be Ensign,
vice Congreve, July 9.
33d Foot—Lieutenant Henry Ullick Burke to be Cap-
Ws, by purchase, vice Wale who retires; Ensign Wal-
ter George Nugent to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Burke, July 9.
59th Foot— Quartermaster Charles Fraser, from the
42d Foot, to be Quartermaster, vice Jones Duke, who
retires upon half-pay, July 9.
84th Foot—Ensign Thomas H. P. Semen to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Bolton, deceased,
April 12; Ensign Robert Barry, from the 97th Foot, to
Ensign, vice Kennan, July 9.
23 West India Regiment Lieut. James Owen
Bovill, from the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be Lieu-
tenant, Vice Cornes, appointed Paymaster 79th Foot,
July 9.
3d West India Regiment—Lieut. Andrew Campbell
Knox Lock, from the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be
Lieutenant, vice Wemyss, appointed Paymaster Cape
Mounted Riflemen, July 9.

The Royal Commissioners for the Exhibition of In-
dustry of all Nations for 1851 have been pleased to
appoint Lieutenant-Colonel Lloyd, her Majesty's Sur-
veyor-General and Civil Engineer- in- Chief at Mauritius,
and now on leave of absence, Special Commissioner, to
co-operate with Dr. Lyon Playfair.
REDUCTION OF THE NATIONAL DEBT.

The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury
hiving certified to the Commissioners for the Reduction
of the National Debt, in pursuance of the Act, 10th
Geo. 4th, c. 27, sec. 1, that the actual surplus revenue
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
beyond the actual expenditure thereof for the year
ended the sth day of April, 1830, amounted to the sum
of two millions five hundred and thirty-eight thousand
five hundred and one pounds eighteen shillings and
fourpence : The Commissioners for the Reduction
of the National Debt hereby give notice, that the
sum of six hundred and thirty-four thousand six
hundred and twenty-five pounds nine shillings and
sevenpence (being one-fourth part of the said surplus
of two millions five hundred and thirty eight thousand
five hundred and one pounds, eighteen shillings and
fourpence) will be applied under tie provisions of the
said Act, between the 7th day of July 185, and the
10th day of October 1850, to the following pur-
poses; viz.,
To be applied to the purchase of
Stock £634,625 9 7
Add Interest receivable on account
of Donations and Bequests, to be
appliei to the purchase of Stock

3,787 3 7

.£638,412 13 2

National Debt Office, July 8, 1850.
JAS. lIIGE I AM, As3istant Comptroller.

WHITEHALL, JUNE 29.

The Lords GJaimissi,iners for the custody of the Great
Foal have appointed William Pain Beecham the younger,
of Ilawkhurst, in the county of KPnt, Gent., to be a
Illast3r Extraordinary in the High Cuurt of Chancery.