The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-05 00:00:00

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

East Essex hds., Tues., Blsekwater-street ; Thurs.,
Massing-street; Sat., Lyons Hall, Leigh-101.
Bramham Moor hds., Mon., Little Almscliff; Wed.,
Brayton; Fri., Bramham Park-10i.
Suffolk hds., Tues., Gipping Hall; Fri., Horseleath
Worcestershire hds., Mon., Himbleton; Wed., Rad-
ford Gate; Fri., Cotheridge-10i.
Ledhury hds, Mon., Dymock Village; Fri., secand
mile•stone, Tenbury Road-10i.
Mr. Farquharson 'a hds.. Mon., Milton Park.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, THURSDAY.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked this morning
in the Slopes.
The Royal Family took their usual airings.
The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
the Duke of Wellington, the Lady in Waiting on the
Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Speth, Lord
James Murray, Major-General and Lady Isabella
Wemyss, Sir George Couper, and Colonel Hall (Ist
Lite Guards).
The band, of the Ist Life Guards will attend during
dinner. Her Majesty's private band will afterwards
attend.

The Queen's private hand was in attendance
yesterday evening in the Castle, and performed the
following pieces :
Overture (Op. 15)
Scena and Aria, " Freischute Weber.

Adagio and Allegro, Sinfonia, No. 2 .... Mozart.
Selection, La Part du Diable"

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
honoured the Royal Society of Arts in John-street,
Adelphi, with a visit yesterday. The Royal Duke
visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
yesterday at Gloucester House.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.-
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDk;NT.)
COWES, Aram 4.

FASHIONABLE VISITOES.—A great influx of com-
pany has taken place during the past and present
week, principally to view the splendid furniture of
Northwood House, the property of the late G. H.
Ward, Esq. After a fruitless attempt to let it, as it
is, the whole of the elegant and costly furniture,
ntate, &c., are to be sold by auction. There are few
noble mansions in England that are so expensively
furnished, and before this can hardly be call‘d
finished the princely owner dies, and the whole goes
to the hammer. Sic transit gloria mundi.
The beautiful schooner yacht, building for the
Marquis of Uonyngham, by White, is in a very for-
ward state. She is to be launched next week ; she
measures 225 tons.

Captain Smith is having his yacht, the Talisman,
fitted for the season, and several others are making
preparations.

THE RIVER PLATE.

We have letters, by the Ipswich, from Buenos
Ayres to the 17th January. The Governor had de-
livered his annual message, which filled, in moderate-
sized type, 250 octavo pages, and was chiefly devoted
to self-gratulations on the subject of the success of
his effOrts in bringing the English Government round
to subscribe precisely his own terms, in the treaty
lately arranged. On this subject the message was
extremely diffuse; but the bulk of it is without in-
terest for the English public.
The commercial intelligence is important. Some
purchases of tallow at high prices had been nego-
tiated, and the market was entirely cleared of the
article. The accounts from the country districts
were deplorable, the entire face of the country was
likely to be covered with the flights of young locusts,
which had not received any check trom the
weather, and, in case rain did not arrive soon,
ould destroy every vestige of vegetation. The au-
thorities had stopped the working of all the Estan-
cias ; the proprietors of cattle were forbidden to in-
terfere w ith their herds in any way, even so much as
to move them from one pasture to another; and this
restraint was not to be removed until one month after
the rains had set in. If rain did not come soon the
cattle would be all destroyed ; as it was, all the salt-
ing establishments were at a dead stand ; and what
few miserable beasts were driven into Buenos Ayres
had not a pound of tallow in them. It was impos-
sible to procure salted hides suitable for the English
market at any price, there being none at the Sa-
laderos.

Freights still very low, but not considered to have