The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-24 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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Vittatr eptuton.

" Who runs may read."

COITEI T—intslitlONAßlLM.
Monday, the Ist of July, was the day arranged for the
departure of the Court from Buckingham Palace for Windsor
Castle, but it is now understood that her Majesty, in accord-
ance with the wishes of her medical advisers, will leave
town at an earlier period. Friday or Saturday, in the en-
suing week, are the days now named for the arrival of the
Court at the Castle.

Lord and LadY:B;ougham entertained the Duchess of Bed-
ford, Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Vil-
liers, Countess de Pallfy, Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn,
Viscount Cantilupe, Sir J. and Lady Williams, Colonel and
Lady Laura Meyrick, Mr. and Mrs. A. Capel, and a distin-
guished party at dinner, on Thursday last. A small circle
assembled after dinner.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland received a distin-
guished circle at dinner, on Thursday, at Stafford House. The
Duchess had a small party in the latter part of the evening.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch contemplate giving,
within a few days, a splendid fete at Montagu House.
The officers of the Third Guards gave their second banquet
for the season on Friday, at the Clarendon Hotel. There
were present Liedt.- General Sir Willoughby Cotton, G.C.8.,
Hon. Colonel Montagu, Lieut.-Colonel Dixon, Lord Charles
Townshend, Lieut.. Colonel Knox, Lieut.-Colonel Mickelwaite,
Captain Ridley, Mr. Cumberland, &c.
Lady Wenlock's ball on Friday, in Berkeley-square, was
a very brilliant assembly, The drawing-rooms were taste •
fully illuminated, and a splendid supper was laid out in the
apartments on the ground floor. The dancing commenced at
eleven and ended at four.
The Marquis of Londonderry will inspect, on Monday
next, at Worrnholt Scrubbs, the 2d Regiment of Life Guards,
of which his Lordship is Colonel ; and the same evening the
Marquis and Mnrchioness give a grand entertainment to the
officers, which will be honoured with the presence of the
Dukes of Cambridge and Wellington.

NUN CZ3taLiale EOM
The entertainment given by the authorities of Eton Col-
lege on Thursday, in the College-hall, upon the occasion of
the laying the foundation stone of the new buildings, was of
the most splendid character. Upwards of one hundred dis-
tinguished guests were present. At the conclusion of the
proceedings connected with the laying of the foundation-
stone, a dinner was given by the authorities to 1,200 poor
persons residing in the district, in Flexon's-fields.
At the late fancy bazaar, held in the gardens of Chelsea
College and Old Ranelagh, the splendid sum of nearly 2,4001.
was cleared in aid of the building fund for the new hospital
now in progress of erection at Brompton. The committee
have thus been enabled to begin with one wing. The esti-
mated cost of the whole is 16,0001.
The artists who have been engaged in the various designs,
consisting of sculpture, frescos, and cartoons, for the:embel-
lishment of the new Houses of Parliament, were to send in
their designs on or before the 15th instant, and the result
has been that about two hundred designs have been
sent in, among which are •thirty-four models Of statues of
various designs. Since then the Committee have been bu-
sily engaged in hanging and placing the designs, frescos, and
cartoons. The hall will be thrown open to the public after
the prizes have been awarded.

The General Steam Navigation Company's steam-
ship Countess of Lonsdale, arrived in the river on Friday,
with the Hamburgb mail. A passenger states that at Ham-
burgh great alarm is manifested at the non-appearance of the
steamer Manchester, that was due at Hamburgh on the I6th.
It is supposed that she is lost, and that all hands have pe-
rished. Several bales of twist were floating at the mouth of
the Elbe.
THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—Since our last
some heavy showers of rain have fallen, which cannot fail to
have produced a very beneficial effect upon the growing crops
in this riding. Up to yesterday morning the rain—in conse-
quence of the long drought—had scarcely moistened the earth
beneath the surface. About twelve o'clock yesterday, how-
ever, the rain commenced falling heavily, and continued
without intermission for five hours. Agricultural produce
must, therefore, have been greatly improved in consequence.
Should another equally heavy fall speedily take place,
the crops throughout the riding will be in first-rate con-
dition. The wheat-crops generally are looking well, but
spring-corn, barley, and oats, as well as the meadows,•
are as yet very thin. The hope of a heavier crop will
delay grass-cutting in parts where it has not commenced ;
several small patches m the immediate vicinity of this town,
and of Beverley, have, during the past week, been cut and
led. Rain fell on Tuesday morning, at Grimsby, Louth,
Gainsborough, Thome, Goole, Lynn, and on the sea coast
from Flamborough to Spurn.—lrull Advertiser.
LYCEUM THEATRE.—This theatre still continues
to draw the most fashionable.audiences. The following
distinguished persons have visited it duringlast week:—
The Duke and Duchess of Bucclench, Duchess of Cleve-
land, Duke of Leinster, Marquis of Ceranby, Lord Hill,
Lady Ramsay, Lord Ranelagh, Earl and 'Countess of
Essex, Earl and Countess Delawarr, Lord Gardner,
Lord Sherborne, Lady, M‘Donald, Lord Vivian, Vis-
count and Viscountess Barrington, Viscount and Vis-
countess Folkestone, Lord Wrottesley, Lord Dorring-
ton, Sir Edwin Stanhope, Mrs. Egerton, Hon. Miss
Mitford, Hon G. Knox, Mr. William Peel, Col. Grant,
Admiral Stopford, Lord Strafford, Rear-Admiral Chris-
tian, Sir T. Wilde, M.P., 11. Villeboisi Esq., Colonel
Wallace, George Wombwell, Esq., Lord Emlyn, Lord
Harewood, Lady CaTfoline Duncan, Sir Andrew Corbett,
Sir H. 13. Houghton, &c. &c.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN HAMOAZE.----011 Tuesday
evening an accident, of a most distressing nature, oc-
curred in Hamoaze, by which two respectable young
females met an untimely death. Two young men, named
Cole and Smith, friends of the deceased, hired a boat at
Richmond Walk, for the purpose of -taking a short
cruise, and invited them and two other youne• women to
accompany them ; unfortunately, there was no boat-
men with them, and when off the Pallas coal hulk,
in consequence of some injudicious management of the
sails, the boat capsized, and all of them Were precipi-
tated into the water. Although the weather was bois-
terous, for some time they all contrived to cling to the
boat, which was keel uppermost, but from their ex-
hausted state, twenty minutes having elapsed before
assistance could be rendered them, two of the • females,
named Hannah Dann and Mary Guswell, sunk. Cole
used the most strenuous exertions to support one of
them, which he succeeded in doing for a considerable
time, but at length became so exhausted himself, that he
was forced to leave go his hold, and the poor creature
sunk to rise no more. A boy on board a collier at some
distance saw their perilous situation, and roused the
crew, who were in their berths, when they immediately
manned their boat, and put off to the assistance of those
in distress, and by their promptness and praiseworthy
exertions, they rescued four individuals from a watery
'grave. The survivors, who were much exhausted, were
taken on board the collier where they remained all night;
they were treated with the utmost kindness and atten-
tion, and were brought on shore about eight o'clock on
Wednesday morning: The boat has since been picked
up near the Breakwater. The bodies of the unfortunate
girls have not been recovered.—Piymouth Journal.
A BIRD'S-NEST IN A LETTER-DOX.—A small bird
has built its nest, and at the present time has young ones,
in the letter-box in the gate at the residence of Mr. J. T.
Leader, M.P., at Putney; and, what is still more singular,
this is the fourth season that the same bird, or one of the
same species (tom-tit), has built its nest and reared its young
in the same place.
A FRENCH Btru...—A quarrel happening between
an old gentleman and his son, the former reproached the young man for his ingratitude. "I am under no obligation
to you," said the youth : "on the contrary, you have done
me a serious injury : for if you had never been born, I should
now have been heir to my grandfather!'

FOIXEIGIV.
The Revue de Paris says that Louis Philippe and his fa-
mily will remain in mourning for -the Duke d'Angouleme
until the first days of July. The same paper affirms that
the visit of the King of the French to England will not ex-
tend beyond the Isle of Wight.
The Hamburgh .Correspondent of the 18th instant states
that his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia left Berlin
on the 15th, together with his Majesty the King of Prussia,
his Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia, and her Royal
Highness the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Schwerin for
Stettin, where a Russian steam-frigate had arrived for the
purpose of conveying the illustrious party to St. Petersburgh.
A great number of the Professors of the University belong-
ing to the Faculty of Letters, to the Faculty of Science, to
the Normal School, and to all the Colleges of Paris and that
of Versailles, went, on 'Wednesday, to the residence of M.
Thiers, to inscribe their names, as a mark of respect and
acknowledgement for the manner in which he lately defended
the cause of the University, in the bureaux of the Chamber
of Deputies.
A column in plaster is being erected in the centre of the
Place du Carrousel, for the purpose of making an experiment
in lighting, under the direction of M. Choppin. On the
summit is to be placed a lantern, the diameter of which will
be about six feet, containing 120 burners supplied with coal-
gas. The trial is expected to be made within the next eight
or ten days, and to last at least a fortnight, if not a month.
After this, a trial on a large scale will, it is said, be made of
the electric light.
At the sittings of the Correctional Tribnnal on Wednesday,
the new game-law was enforced for the first time in the de-
partment of the Seine. The inspectors having found a dead
hare on the 25th ult., in the seat of the coupe of the Toulouse
diligence, just arrived at the Messageries Royales, the con-
ductor was cited to answer for this breach of the law, and was
condemned to pay a fine of 60f. and all costs.
The Castellano of Madrid of the 13th states that a banditti,
forty in number, infests the province of Toledo, and commits
extensive depredations.
We learn from Breslaw on the 9th inst. that the weavers
have returned to their work after having obtained an increase
of wages. They burst in during their excursions the doors of
several wood-rangers' houses, and carried off their fowling-
pieces and ammunition, but without touching anything else.
It is said that 400 or 500 smugglers, and some hundred other
auxiliaries were amongst them, and that they have carried
over the frontier the goods taken from the manufacturers.
LAW AND POLICE.
Thomas Rose, a salesman in Smithfield market, was
charged, at the Guildhall, with exposing for sale in the
market two diseased cows. They were proved to be quite
unfit for human food. Defendant was held to bail to answer
the charge at the sessions.
An old general officer was charged, at Marlborough-street,
by George Middleditch, a private in the Bth company 2d
battalion of Coldstream Guards, with having indecently as•
saulted him. The charge was evidently fabricated for the
purpose of extorting money, as the soldier had once before
been bound over to prosecute in a similar case, and had not
come forward. Major-General Thackery was at once dis-
charged. He was resolved to prosecute the soldier for bring-
ing the charge against him.
Edmund Davis, fishing-tackle-maker, No. 13, Ryder's-
court, was charged at the same office with being found on the
premises, No. 13, Ryder's-court, where gambling was carried
on without lawful excuse. The evidence not being sufficient
he was discharged.
Two persons named Duke and Riley,lightermen, who have
undergone several examinations on a charge of being con-
cerned with a third person, named Pierce, who has effected
his escape from the officers. in stealing a quantity of brandy
from the St. Katherine's Dock on the Queen's birth-day,
were, after a lengthened examination at Lambeth-street, dis-
charged.
Edward Williams and James W. Relph, both gentlemen's
coachmen, residing at Lewisham, appeared on remand at the
Greenwich-office, charged with wantonly shooting James
Clarke, a youth about sixteen years of age, in the employ of
the landlord of the Black Horse, Rushy-green, Lewisham, by
which the sight of his right eye was totally destroyed. They
were ordered to come to an arrangement with the boy and
his friends.