The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-06 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.
A change has taken place in the intention which
we announced respecting the Lying in State of the
remains of her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia
Matilda, and we understand that the ceremony will
now take place at the Ranger's House, at Blackheath,
on Monday next, the 9th instant, from twelve to four
o'clock.
WINDSOR, TITURSDA.T.—The Queen and Prince
Albert walked for some time in the pleasure-grounds
adjoining the Castle this morning.
The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess
Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken for air-
ings in the forenoon on the Terrace and pleasure-
grounds around the Castle.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited
her Majesty and the Duchess of Saxe Coburg and
Gotha to •day.
Mr. D. Macnee had the honour of submitting to the
Queen, in the presence of his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg, and
the Duke Ernest of Wurtemburgh, the portrait of
her Majesty, which he has been commissioned to paint
for the Municipal•hall at Glasgow, by the Lord
Provost and Magistrates of that city.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert was pleased, on
the part of her Majesty and himself, to express his
entire satisfaction at the manner in which Mr. M. had
fulfilled the commission entrusted to him.

His Excellency M. Dedel transacted business on
Tuesday at the Foreign-office, and embarked the
following morning for Rotterdam.
Mr. Ashbel Smith, Charge de Affaires of Texas,
had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen on the
Ist inst., and has since left town for Liverpool, en route
to Texas.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners fur England had
a meeting yesterday afternoon at the office in White-
hall-place. There were present the Bishop of Llan-
daft; the Bishop of Ripon, the Bishop of Salisbury,
and the Dean of Westminster.
The Marquis of Bristol had an interview with the
Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the office of the Board
of Trade.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
yesterday, and resumed the appeal from the Preroga-
tive Court, " Jones v. Godrich." Dr. Haggard was
heard in support of the appeal.
MARRIAGE IN lIIGII LIFE.—The marriage of his
Excellency Baron de Nieumann, the Austrian Mi-
nister, with Lady Augusta Somerset, daughter of his
Grace the Duke of Beaufort, took place yesterday
in St. George's Church, Hanover-square. The Duke
and Duchess of Beaufort, the Ladies Somerset, Lord
and Lady Fitzroy Somerset, and a numerous party
of relations and friends of the noble family, including
the Duke of Wellington, together with a number of
the corps di plomatique, witnessed the solemnity. The
Duke of Beaufort gave a grand entertainment, in ho-
nour of the event, at his residence in Arlington-street.

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(From Tuesday's London
We, the undersigned, being the
sioners of her Majesty's Treasury,
the power or authority in us vestet
under our hands, order and direct
in which a letter addressed to any
officer of the army, navy, or ordnance, or any of the
departments belonging thereto, respectively, employed
on actual service in any of her Majesty's colonies,
or any foreign station, shall be forwarded by the post,
and, before the delivery of such letter at the place of
its address, the officer to whom it shall be addressed
shall, in the execution of his duty, have removed from
that place to any other place (whether at home or
abroad), the letter shall be forwarded to the latter place,
and shall not be charged with more than the postage
which would have been payable for the letter, in case
the same had been delivered at the place to which it was
originally addressed.
We further direct, that on all letters not exceeding half
an ounce in weight, transmitted by the post from the
United Kingdom, or from Gibraltar, Malta, the lonian
Isles, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Turkey,
Syria, or Egypt, to Bombay, or Madras, or Cal-
cutta, in the East Indies, and forwarded from
such port or place of arrival by packet-boats
or private ships to any port or place situate
or lying to the eastward of such port or place of
arrival (Ceylon only excepted); and on all letters sent
by packets-boats or private ships to Bombay from any
ports or places situate or lying to the eastward
of Bombay, or sent by packet-boats or private ships
to Madras from any ports or places situate or lying
to the eastward of Madras, or sent by packet-boats
or private ships to Calcutta from any ports or
places situate or lying to the eastward of Calcutta
(Ceylon, in every case, only excepted) ; and from
Bombay, Madras, or Calcutta, respectively, transmitted
by the post to the United Kingdom, or to Gibraltar,
Malta, the lonian Isles, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy,
Greece,Turkcy, Syria, or Egypt; and on all letters not ex-
ceeding half an ounce in weight passing between any of
the British colonies or any foreign country, and any port
or place situate or lying to the eastward of Bombay,
Madras, or Calcutta (Ceylon only excepted), and sent vex
the United Kingdom and Bombay, Madras, or Calcutta
(the conveyance between eny such eastward port or place
and Bombay, Madras, or Calcutta, being by packet -boats or
private boats), there shall be charged and taken (in
addition to all other rates of postage payable by
law on such letters) one uniform rate of postage of
fourpence ; and that on all letters transmitted and
sent as hereinbefore in this clause mentioned, exceed•
ing half an ounce in weight, there shall be charged
and paid (in addition to all other rates of post-
age payable by law on such letters) progres-
sive and additional rates of postage, each additional rate
being estimated at fourpence according to the scale of
weight and number of rates fixed and declared by the sod
Act of the third and fourth years of her present Majesty ;
but the additional rate of fourpence hereinbefore men-
tioned is not to extend to the letters of soldiers or sailors
in the service of her Majesty or of the East India Com-
pany, provided such letters do not exceed half an ounce in
weight, and are forwarded in conformity with the existing
regulations; provided also, that such postage of fourpence,
and such progressive and additional postage on such letters
sent from the United Kingdom, or posted in Gibraltar,
Malta, the lonian Isles, or in any British colony or foreign
country, shall be pre-paid at the time of posting the same,
except as to letters addressed to the island of Hong-Kong,
in China, and forwarded via Southampton and the Medi-
terranean packet-boats, on which letters the pre-payment
of such additional rates of postage shall be optional with
the sender.
And we further direct, that on all printed British, fo-
reign, and colonial newspapers transmitted by the post
from the United Kingdom, or from Gibraltar, Malta, the
lonian Isles, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece,
Turkey, Syria, or Egypt, to Bombay, or Madras, or Cal-
cutta, and forwarded from such port or place of arrival
by packet-boats or private ships to any ports or places
situate or lying to the eastward of such port or place of
arrival (Ceylon only excepted) ; and on all such news-
papers sent by packet-boats or private ships to Bombay
from any ports or places situate or lying to the eastward
of Bombay, or sent by packet-boats or private ships to
Madras from any ports or places situate or lying to the
eastward of Madras, or sent by packet-boats or private
ships to Calcutta from any ports or places lying to the
eastward of Calcutta (Ceylon in every case only ex-
cepted) ; and from Bombay, Madras, or Calcutta, re-
spectively, transmitted by the post to the United King-
dom, Or to Gibraltar, Malta, the lonian Isles, France,
Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Syria, or
Egypt ; and on all printed colonial and foreign news-
papers transmitted by the post between any of her Ma-
jesty's colonies or any foreign country, and any port or
place situate or lying to the eastward of Bombay,
Madras, or Calcutta (Ceylon only excepted), and sent via
the United Kingdom, and Bombay, Madras, or Calcutta
(the conveyance between any such eastward port or place
and Bombay, Madras, or Calcutta being by packet-boats
or private ships), there shall be charged and taken, in
addition to all other rates of postage payable by law on
such respective newspapers, one uniform rate of postage
of twopence ; provided that such additional rate of two-
pence on newspapers sent to any port or place situate or
lying to the eastward of Bombay, Madras, or Calcutta
shall be pre-paid at the time of posting the same, except
as to newspapers addressed to the said island of Hong-
Kong, and forwarded via Southampton and the Medi-
terranean packet-boats, on which the re-payment of such
additional rate of postage shall be optional with the
sender.
And we further direct, that on every printed colonial
newspaper sent by the post between any of her Majesty's
colonies and any foreign country through the United
Kingdom and Holland, there shall be charged and taken,
in lieu of the rates of postage now payable thereon, one
uniform /rate of one penny, in addition to any foreign
postage to which any such foreign newspaper may be
liable, and also in addition to anyirate to which any such
newspaper may be liable under the clause lastly herein-
before contained.
Every additional supplement, or additional slisct, to
any newspaper, shall be deemed a distinct newspaper,
unless sent in the same cover, or together with the news-
paper to which it is a supplement or addition.
On every printed price current and every printed com-
mercial list sent by the post between the L nited King-
dom and the East Indies, via France, there shall be
charged and taken one uniform rate of postage of three-
pence, provided that such rate of postage on printed
prices current and printed commercial lists sent from the
United Kingdom shall be pre-paid at the time of posting
the same.
No printed newspaper, either alone, or together with a
supplement or addition, or any separate printed supple-
ment or addition to a newspaper, or any printed prices
current or commercial list, shall be conveyed by the
post under the regulations of this present warrant, unless
the same shall be sent without a cover, or in a cover
open at the sides, and that there be no word or commu-
nication printed on the paper after its publication, or
upon the cover thereof, or any writing or marks upon it,
or upon the cover of it, except the name and address of
the person to whom sent, nor any paper or thing en-
closed in or with the same.
And we further direct, that all British and colonial
newspapers sent by the post, addressed to any commis-
sioned or non-commissioned officer, employed in her Ma-
jesty's navy, or in her Majesty's regular forces, fencible
regiments, artillery, or marines, or to any sailor, soldier,
or marine, while such commissioned or non-commissioned
officer, sailor, soldier, or marine shall be actually em-
ployed in her Majesty's service, in any foreign country,
or on any foreign or colonial station, may be forwarded
thither by packet-boat, whether re-directed or not, free
of postage
N .
o letter or packet shall be forwarded, conveyed, or
delivered by the post, either within the United Kingdom
or any of her Majesty's colonies, containing any of the
following enclosures—that is to say, any glass or class
bottle, any razor, scissors, knife, fork, or other sharp er
pointed instrument ; any leeches, game, fish, flesh, fruit,
vegetables, or other perishable substance; any bladder
or other vessel containing liquid, or ary article, matter
or thing whatsoever, which might, by pressure or other-
wise, be rendered injurious either to the officers of the
Post-office or to the contents of the mail bags.
This warrant, except so far as respects the letters
hereinbefore made liable to the additional rate of four-'
pence, and the newspapers hereinbefore made liable to
the additional rate of twopence, shall come into opera-
tion on the Ist day of January, 1845 ; and, as to such
last-mentioned letters and newspapers, this warrant shall
come into operation on the Ist day of March, 1845.
Whitehall Treasury Chambers, this 28th day of No-
vemher, 1844. HENRY BARING.
II ENI2,Y G 0 ULBUR N.
J. MILNES GASKELL.

It is stated that the attempt to erect a lighthouse
on the Goodwill Sands has been successful, so tir as it
has yet proceeded; the iron shaft having been raised on
the caisson to the height of twenty feet, or above high-
water mark. This shaft penetrates through the various
iron chambers of the caisson, and is firmly sustained in
its perpendicular position by two iron plummer blocks of
great strength. It is also farther secured by iron :4
tya
or braces, which are bolted to the outer part of the
caisson, and attached to the top, as well as the centre of
the column. The new light will have an elevation of
thirty-three feet above high-water mark, and the light-
house will be approached by a light iron spiral stair,
which winds round the exterior of the. column, and :s an
octagon of about ten feet in diameter, surmounted by a
plate-glass lantern. The colour of the light is to be a
pale blue, which will distinguish it from any other in the
locality of the Goodwin.
Low TIDES.--For some days past at low water
the river has had a very curious appearance, owing to
the tide receding to a greater extent than usual It has
given employment to numerous men and boys in digging
up different parts of the bed of the river in search of
coin and other articles. Oel Wednesday the tide re-
ceded on the east side of Blaekfriars-bridge, leaving &
very small space indeed between the opposite shores.
Several ancient coins were found near Hoppe's wharf ;
some of them were in excellent preservation ; among
them were some pieces of the reign of George the Se-
cond, a half-crown of Charles the First's reign, and
several small Dutch coins, which could not be distin-
guished. At most of the piers extra lighters were
thrown out to enable the steamers to embark and dis-
embark their passengers.—[We give the statement about
the finding of coins as received from a contributor : we
know nothing of the fact.]
SINGULAR ACCIDENT.--A few days ago, a valu-
able spring calving heifer, the property of Mr. IW.
Threfall, Hall Cross, Freckleton, was found hanged be-
tween two branches of a tree, in the hedge row. It is sup-
posed that the animal must have beefy rubbing its nee'.
between the branches, which protruded from the mnin
stem in the form of the letter V, and her feet slipping
into the ditch, she was immediately susper,i4:4 VAN)
imic and choii,el,--Cumbfrian Paque.