The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-16 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND

Vittatt eptuton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGMT.

On Thursday the King of the French came to Paris,
and held a Council of Ministers. His Majesty returned
to Neuilly to dinner.
The Ministers of the King of Wurtemberg, the Grand
Duke of Mecklenberg Schwerin, and the Grand Duke of
Mecklenberg Strelitz, had audiences of the King, to
deliver to his Majesty letters from their respective
sovereigns in answer to the notification of the birth of
the Duke d'Alencon. The King has also received
similar letters from the King of Norway and Sweden,
and the free towns of Lubeck, Bremen and Hamburgh,
and Frankfort-on-the-Maine.
On Thursday evening their Majesties received the
Minister of Marine, the Marquis de Mornay, Generals
Baudrand, llecquet, and Gazen, Captain Pujol, and M.
Desmousseaux de Givre.
Letters from Rio Janeiro of the 9th of July announce
that the Reine Blanche frigate, on board of which Ad-
miral Dupetit Thouars is returning to France, was daily
expected in that harbour.
" We are assured," says the Presse, " that the King
has expressed a desire to review the National Guard of
Paris, on the occasion of the successes which our armies
by sea and land have obtained on the coast of Africa.
This review is fixed for Sunday, the 29th instant."
General Negrier, Commandant of the 13th military
division (Rennes), is removed to the 16th (Lille), in
the room of General Corbineau, who goes on the re-
tired list.
The Havre journals state that a seizure was made
there a few days ago, at one of the provision shops, of a
quantity of potted game, on the supposition that the
game was killed during the period of the year when the
killing of game is prohibited by the new law. Tie shop-
keeper has given notice of appeal, in order tsat the
question may be tried.
Preparations are being made to crown the Arc de
Triomphe in the Champes Elysin. A statue of France
is to be place on an antique car. Around it, oa foot,
will be the genii of the French nation. All these works
are to be of colossal size, and in bronze. A pasteboard
model will be shortly erected.
The King has engaged M. Horace Vernet to paint
three pictures, representing the bombardment of Tan-
giers, the taking the island of Mogadore, and the battle
of Isly.
The Alnianach Royal for 1844 contains the insertion of
the name of Capt. Bruat, under the designation of Go-
vernor of the Marquesas Islands, and King's Commis-
sioner to the Queen of the Society Islands.
A letter from Meta, of the 10th inst., announces the
arrival of Duke Edward, the son of Duke BernarJ, of
Saxe Weimar, accompanied by Captain Gordon, a son
of the Earl of Aberdeen. They were received at the
Prefecture by the Duke de Montpensier, the Duke de
Nemours being with Duke Bernard at head-quarters, at
Bitchy, where the two foreign Dukes, and the personages
who came with him, will remain with their Royal High-
nesses as guests until the reviews and other military
operations are over.

- The Journal du Havre announces the arrival on
Thursday of the Thbodore, from Guadeloupe, with the
Commissioners sent out by the Government at the re-
quest of M. Caillomi, to•explore the great sulphur mines
in the neighbourhood of Basse Terre. The report being
favourable, the Colonial Council had made a grant of
the mines to M. Caillou‘ for fifty years, on condition that
they be brought into full work within five years from the
present time. M. Cailloue went out with the Commis-
sioners, and has returned with them to make arrange-
ments for carrying on his undertaking.
Letters from Vienna of the 4th say, that Admiral
Bandeira has been called on by the Austrian Govern-
ment to disprove, before a military commission, all par-
ticipation with his unfortunate sons in their late attempt
at revolution in Calabria.

A letter from Alexandria of the 28th of August states
that amongst the passengers who had arrived in that
city from Calcutta by the Bentinck, were Count Ratti
Menton and family.
A letter from Athens of the 25th ult. says—" On the
22d ult. the mail was stopped in the middle of the Isth-
mus by 25 well armed brigands, who had gained infor-
mation that it contained money. They forced open the
carriage, and took a sum equal to about 10,000 f. ; they
broke the seals of the dispatches to Ambassadors ; and
also broke open the trunks of the travellers, and carried
off all they thought worth keeping. The courier col-
lected all the scattered papers and took them to Luiaki.
General Prokesch, on being made acquainted with the
occurrence, set out for the Isthmus, to make a personal
investigation. It had no political character. We are
afraid, also, that our waters are infested with pirates, for
a Post-office steam-packet, known to have large remit-
tances on board, has disappeared, and the crew are
feared to have been massacred, as bodies have been seen
floating in the sea."
The Moniteur Parisien states that no intelligence from
Otaheite of a nature to confirm the account of a conflict
between the French troops and the natives, given in a
letter said to have been received by a Mr. Salmon, and
published by the English papers, has been received by
the French Government.
The Hcraldo informs us that the son of Sir Robert
Peel, who is an attache of the British Legation at Ma-
drid, had left that city for Cadiz, with a courier of the
French Embassy, bearing dispatches for the Prince de
Joinville.

COVIRT-PASNIONATIMI.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accompa-
nied by Countess Wratislaw, and attended by Lady
Charlotte Dundas, is expected to honour Earl Howe
with a visit shortly, at Gopsal Hall, Leicestershire.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, accom-
panied by the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh
Strelitz, is expected to leave Ravensworth Castle to-day,
where they have been staying on a visit to Lord and
Lady Ravenswortls, on a visiting tour in Scotland.
His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar
intends to return to this country from the Continent
early in the ensuing month.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland and Miss
Percy leave Leamington Spa this week, for Alnwick
Castle, Northumberland.

The Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Caroline Leve-
son Gower, the Marquis and Marchioness of Lorn, the
Dowager Lady Blantyre, and the Hon. Misses Stuart,
have assembled at Erskine House, N. 8., on visits to
Lord and Lady Blantyre.
The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, accompanied by
Lords Edward and Bernard Howard and Lady Mary
Howard, left St. James's-square, on Saturday last, ron
their return to Arundel Castle. Owing to the recent
demise of Lady Brooke Pechell, the Duke and Duchess
do not intend to see company at the Castle for some time
to come.

Lady Brougham arrived at Brougham Hall on Sunday
last from London, and on Thursday last Mr. Baron
Parke and the Hon. Charles Howard and lady, who had
been on a short visit to Henry Howard, Esq., of Grey-
stoke Castle, joined Lord Brougham, at Brougham Hall,
for a few days.
Mr. and Lady Fanny Howard have arrived at Holkar
Hall, near Milnethorpe, on a visit to the Earl of Bur-
lington.

Sir William Massey Stanley, Bart., has returned from
his shooting-box in the Highlands. The respected Ba-
ronet visited Lady Stanley, at Haggerstone, Northum-
berl2nd, on his way south.
The Bishop of Ripon has returned to the Episcopal
Palace from his annual visitation. His Lordship was
the guest of Gaskell, Esq., at his seat near Wake-
field, early in the week.
The Earl of Stradbroke arrived at his seat in Suffolk
the week before last, from visiting his estates in Ire-
land. The Noble Earl and the Hon. Captain Rous,
M.P., were to leave Henham Hall on Saturday, for Don-
caster.

The Earl of Harrowby and Viscount and Lady Frances
Sandon and family arrived at Harrowgate, on Thursday
last, from Sandon Hall, Staffordshire.

naBGELLEINEOUB.
The Lords of the Admiralty have arrived at Devon-
port on their usual visit of inspection. They left Lon-
don on Wednesday afternoon, and arrived at Exeter by
the Great Western Railway on the same night. They
slept at Exeter, and reached Devonport on Thursday.
Incendiarism has again commenced in Suffolk. A
most destructive fire took place on Wednesday night on
a farm, the property, and in the occupation of, Mr. John
Phillips, at Great Barton. The property destroyed con-
sisted of a large barn, in which was 100 coombs of wheat
and 200 coombs of oats, which had been got up about a
week ; a row of cart-sheds and other out-buildings, a
waggon, &c., and a quantity of agricultural implements.
The property was insured.
We regret to state that fire after fire has taken place
in Dorsetshire during the last six or seven days, and all,
there is every reason to believe, the work of vile incen-
diaries. Much property has been destroyed. A lad
has been committed for trial charged with one of the
offences.

According to the Post Anti Gazette, the news of the
acquittal of Mr. O'Connell has produced an extraordinary
sensation at Frankfort. Immediately after its arrival
his portrait was exhibited, surrounded with garlands, and
even an illumination was talked of. An Englishman,
who had become notorious for his anti-Irish opinions, has
considered it prudent to quit the city.
Alderman Brown will resign the aldermanic gown of
Billingsgate to. morrow. At present them is only one
candidate in the field.
On Saturday morning a task of deep solemnity was
performed in the removal of a number of coffins from an
old vault belonging to the parish of St. John Zachary, in
Maiden-lane, City. The old church was burned down
by the great fire of London, after which a very large
house was built over the vaults, which, however, has
continued in use. The removal, as well as other bodies
from a portion of the churchyard itself, took place in
consequence of the ground being required for City im-
provements. The coffins in the vault, and the mortal
remains of those interred in the churchyard, were de-
posited in what will probably be their final resting-place,
a large vault formed in another part of the churchyard.
Captain Layard, M.P., has been, and continues, we
understand, dangerously ill, at Benown, the seat of
Arthur I). Chaigneau, Lsq., county of Westmeath.

Lord and Lady Lilford, the Hon. and Rev. Richard
Bruce and Hon. Mrs. Stopforcl, the Hon. and Rev. L.
and Mrs. Powys, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Colquhoun,
Sir John Murray and Hon. Lady Nasmyth, &c., are
placed in mourning by the demise of the Hon. Miss
Emily Powys, who died at Clifton, near Bristol, on
Tuesday last. The deceased, who was third daughter
of Thomas, first Lord Li'ford, was born May 18, 1784.
LISKEARD.--On Sunday last the Rev. F. Todd re-
sumed his services in the church here, after his suspen-
sion by the Bishop, for omitting a part of the burial so
vice.— West Briton.

► HER MAJESTY at BLAIR ATHOL.
BLAIR ATHOL, FRIDAY.
There is little to record of the movements of her
Majesty and the Court here beyond the mere ordinary
routine, so strict is the privacy desired and obtained.
For the purpose of retirement a more favourable spot
could scarcely have been obtained, combining as it
does such exquisite natural beauties with such abso-
lute quiet and seclusion from the bustle and turmoil
of the world.
Athol House itself is a building of the most un-
pretending character. It is a plain structure, all
white from the great entrance to the out-offices, and
planned without the slightest assistance from the rules
of architectural beauty. It is, however, commodious,
and the interior has been prepared, under the direc-
tion of Lord Glenlyou, by upholsterers from Lon-
don, in a style rendering it a fit abode for the Queen
in the retirement which she seeks. It is delightfully
situate in the centre of a glen, or, more properly
speaking, a valley, surrounded on all sides by high
hills, one of which, Ben-y-glo, almost aspires to the
rank of mountain. Some of these hills are clothed to
the tops with fir, relieved by masses of rich verdure ;
others are more barrea, but strikingly grand. At
all hours of the day—from the early morning, when
the summits of the hills are hidden in mists, to the
night, when their bold outlines form a grand amphi-
theatre enclosing the domain—the scene is beautiful
in the extreme. Repose and seclusion are, however,
claims it possesses in an extreme degree, and which
give it apparently a value in the eyes of her Majesty
in addition to its great natural advantages. The in-
terior of the grounds afford extensive walks and
drives, of which her Majesty avails herself, and the
Prince is enabled to enjoy shooting on the hills.
Deer-stalking will, it is said, be added to his Royal
Highness's amusements. The utmost care is used to
exclude all strangers from the house and grounds.
A guard of the Athol Highlanders, under the com-
mand of Captain Drummond, mount guard over it,
and there is a body of the London police, under the
orders of an inspector Steed, who also lend assistance
in maintaining order and preventing intrusions from
the curious. The views in the neighbourhood; it is
needless to say, are full of beauty and interest.
Every guide-book to Scotland teems with their
praises, but scarcely does them justice. It is under.
stood that her Majesty will from time to time visi
them all.

Very little beyond mere Court routine has to be
recorded.

Yesterday (Thursday) only the Prince and Queen
walked on the hills adjoining the house, accompanied
by the Princess Royal. Her Royal Highness also
took walking exercise in the afternoon. The Queen
and the Prince in the afternoon drove out in the pony
phaeton.
The dinner party yesterday consisted, besides the
Queen and Prince Albert, of Lord and Lady Glen-
lyon, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Liverpool,
Viscountess Canning, Lady Caroline Cocks, the Hon.
Charles Wellesley, Sir Edward Bowater, Sir James
Clarke, and Mr. Anson.
This morning (Friday) her Majesty and the Prince
breakfasted at half-past eight. They then took walk-
ing exercise in the grounds, accompanied by the
Princer w provided. The
outwh m
shooting,a pony as o
attended by Sir E.
ri nces
then went fort
Bowater, and accompanied by Lord Glenlyon. Her
Majesty drove out in the pony phaeton, accompanied
by Lady Canning.
The escorts of Scots Greys have been dismissed for
the present. Her Majesty is now under charge of
the Athol Highlanders.
Her Majesty will attend divine service on Sunday
at the church of the parish. A large pew has been
fitted with ottomans, and covered with crimson cloth,
to receive her Majesty and suite, and there are crimson
coverings to the rest of the pews.
During Friday afternoon, when the Queen and
Prince drove out, they went to the old village of
Blair, where the sheep-shearing was going on, with
which her Majesty was much amused. She also par-
ticularly noticed some Scotch terriers. They then
proceeded towards Glen Tilt, where, near a marble
quarry, where there is a beautiful vein of green mar-
ble, they entered a hut The gude wife was spinning,
and the Queen sat down and conversed with her very
affably for some time. The inmates did not know the
rank of their visitors, and, in accordance with the
custom, they put a bottle and glass on the table, and
asked them to taste the mountain dew.

BLAIR ATHOLL, SATURDAY MORNING.

There appear to be some indications this morning
of a change in the weather, and if the sun should be
compelled to retreat before the rain and mist which
have begun to invade the present abode of royalty,
there is but little likelihood that her Majesty wil
prolong her visit to the end of the month. Within
the last few days,
.however, there has been a fresh
influx of visitors and tourists, who are anxious to
combine the pleasures of seeing their Sovereign and
the beauties of Scottish scenery. The two hotels,
the Blair of Atholl irnn and the Bridge of Tilt Inn,
are completely inundated—people are glad to be
allowed to lie down indiscriminately under the dining
tables like " four-and-twenty blackbirds all of a
row ;" every bed-room boasts of three or four occu-
pants, and when they wake in the morning they find
themselves placed by the side of some drowsy
stranger, with whom they had not the honour of any
previous acquaintance, and who had been billeted
upon them by an unceremonious landlord during
their peaceful slumbers. Misery, however, makes us
acquainted with strange bedfellows, and yet the most
exorbitant charges must be submitted to from " mine
host," who levies a sort of black mail on the unwary
travellers, by means of this ingenious, but somewhat
Irish, method of multiplying accommodation.
In the course of the afternoon of yesterday, her
Majesty drove out in a pony phaeton along the high
road to Inverness as far as the Falls of Bruer, but
unfortunately a shower of rain prevented her Majesty
from alighting to view the most picturesque portion
of this beautiful waterfall. The beauties of the Falls
of Bruar have been considerably enhanced by a rich
clothing of fir and oaks, fringing its rocky banks,
which were formerly as bleak, bare, and desolate as
the summits of the surrounding hills, amidst which it
lies embosomed. These plantations were formed by
the late Duke of Atholl, in compliance with the cele-
brated poetical epistle of Burns, who begged that
some might be placed upon the naked rocks;
and rant birks are now dressed in woodbines,
a
cliffs are now adorned with the firs
al
y which Scotland's poet petitioned in
indd
t hthornsclothinge
thef:reur fragrant
;craggy
such glowing language.
It is, however, positive that her Majesty will make
a second effort to view these Falls during her sojourn
here. In her drive yesterday her Majesty was ac-
companied by Prince Albert, who had returned early
from grouse shooting on' the hills, where his Royal
Highness had some excellent sport; several black cock
might be prepared for her Majesty's luncheon,
were sent to the Castle by the Prince, in order that
they
and at half-past three his Royal Highness rode back
to the Castle, and drove her Majesty out in the pony
phaeton, preceded by outriders—Lord Glenlyon and
Sir Edward Bowater rode on either side of the
carriage, the Highland chieftain wearing the two
Majesty to the Castle, a Scotch peasant, who
eagles' feathers in his bonnet. On the return of
her
bad been evincing his loyalty in copious libations
in honour of the Queen, staggered into the Castle,
and entered the room where the illustrious party were
assembled with far less ceremony and discrimination
than were displayed by the " boy Jones." The in-
truder was forthwith handed over to the tender
in
police,hat energy and vigour for
who appear to perform
therirci onerous
ofo us the u t
ileal i
th
which the renowned followers of Dogberry and
Verges were so eminently distinguished.
cs A vast number of Lord
-IGnlyon's clansmen and
foresters have been out during the night driving the
mercies
deer into the Glen Tilt, in order to enable the Prince
to have a shot at them as they bound through the
passes. His Rof as Highness, accompanied by his
noble host and a arge party, mounted on shooting
ponies, left the Castle this Morning for the Glen,
where there is every probabit, that they will have
some excellent sport as the wind is favourable.
Her Majesty will attend Divine service to-morrow
morning, at the village church of Blair Atholl; the
chieftain's pew in that sacred edifice has been fitted
up with scarlet lining and tapestry, for her Majesty's
use, and great preparations are making to beautify
and adorn the church for the reception of her Majesty.
The Seceders have, unhappily,
attempted to inculcate
their pernicious doctrines within these peaceful do-
mains, and a wooden "free kirk" has been erected by
them at the further extremity of the village, but they
have, hitherto, failed in their efforts to lead away the
peasantry from those places of worship in which
their forefathers have, from time out of mind,
assembled. The ancient chapel of the Atholl
family is now mouldering in ruins, and forms
one of the most picturesque objects within
the grounds of the Castle. This ruin is rendered
doubly interesting, as being the-burial place of every
Highland chieftain of ancient descent and lofty
lineage; but the chief object of interest within its
moss-grown walls is the tomb
of the celebrated
Claverhouse, whose body :was brought to Blair
Atholl after the battle of Killiecranhie, and received
honourable interment fisem the Atholl family, against
whom he had so-sits-1g combated with such terrific
energy and effect. Every traveller and tourist makes
a pilgrimage to the tomb of this celebrated hero, and
the descendants of the Covenanters still shudder at the
bare mention of the name of the bloody Claverse.
Her Majesty'appears to be in the enjoyment of ex-
cellent health and spirits, and evidently derives the
greatest gratification from her present secluded mods
of life.- Past

To-day we learn that his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, and several of the gentlemen of his suite, eager
to enjoy the splendid sport of deer-stalking, were
stirring betimes, and enjoyed splendid sport in the
deep ravines of the Tilt. Two fine red deer were
killed by the royal party. There were various games
performed ; and her Majesty visited several of the
most magnificent scenes in the neighbourhood, and
seemed extremely gratified with the gloomy grandeur
everywhere presented, so different to the changing
glitter and artificial pleasures of the Court.—Aberdeen
Herald of Saturday.

WEST INDIA MAIL.
SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. 15.
The Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's ship
Tay, Captain Hayden, arrived here at I P.M.
' The Tay left Havannah on the Bth, Nassau 10th,
Bermuda 20th, and Fayal 31st August.
The Tay met the Severn at Havannah on the Bth
inst., proceeding to the Gulf of Mexico, and the
Clyde at Bermuda, with dates from Jamaica to the
Bth August, and Carthagena to the 2d September.
The Tay having met with an accident, being
obliged to go into Fayal, met there her Majesty's
surveying steamer Styx, to which ship the mails
were transferred, and both ships came home in
company, and landed the mails at Plymouth yester-
day, at 11 A.M.
The Tay brings twelve passengers, and left twenty-
one passengers at Fayal to come home in the Tweed,
which ship will be due here on the 21st inst.
The Tay brings 80,000 dolls. in freight.
The West India papers received by the Tay bring
little news. They are almost entirely occupied by
reports of the debates in Parliament upon the Sugar
Duties Bill, which they still seem generally inclined
to regard as ruinous to the West India interests.
With respect to the accident which had obliged the
Tay to leave several of her passengers at Fayal, we
have been favoured with the following statement by a
passenger in that vessel :
" The report of the unhappy disaster which befel
the Royal Mail Company's steam-packet Tay on the
coast of Havannah on the Bth of July last, and her
subsequent arrival in England considerably after her
time, having on board only a few of the passengers
who embarked in the West Indies, would naturally
occasion much alarm and distress to those expecting
the arrival of relations and friends ; you will, there-
fore, I am sure, be glad to give publicity through your
journal to the following statement, as regards the pas-
sengers, which I feel it a duty to offer to the public, in
order to obviate the alarm which, I am happy to state,
circumstances of a most fortunate nature have ren-
dered groundless :
"The Tay left Bermuda on the 20th of August,
with the following passengers bound to England, and
was compelled to put into the port of Fayal on the
31st of August, when the passengers and mails were
landed.

" She again, after undergoing certain repairs, took
her departure for England, in company with her
Majesty's steam-vessel Styx, to the care and atten-
tion bestowed by the captain and officers of which
vessel may in a great measure be attributed her pre-
sent safety.
" The greater number of the passengers not being
disposed to trust themselves again on board the Tay
in her then condition, remained at Fayal, in order to
proceed to their destination by the following mail-
packet, Tweed, expected there on the 12th inst. The
following are the names of the persons so remaining ;
and annexed is a list of those who proceeded in the
Tay, and who arrived at Plymouth in safety under
the convoy of her Majesty's surveying-vessel Styx,
on the 14th of September, and the Tay proceeded on
to Southampton with the Styx :
" PASSENGERS WIIO EMBARKED AT BERMUDA ON
BOARD TIM TAY.
_ _

" Remained at Fayal :—Mr. and Mrs. Jemmett,
Mr. and Mrs. Shannon, Mr. and Mrs. Moroney,
Judge Norton, Mrs. Symonds, Lieutenant Peto, Ist
West India Regiment ; Mr. Farrall, Mr. Perrey, Mr.
Knutsen, Mr. Bellot, Mr. Fleming, Mr. Burnett, Mr.
Debelette, Mr. Boisaubin, Mr. Garella, Mr. Courtain,
Mr. Coore, Mr. Deraine, and Mr. Langouine.
" Proceeded in her Majesty's ship Styx :—Mr.
Drummond Hay.
" Proceeded in the Tay :—Mr. Payer, Mr. Murian,
Mr. and Mrs. Ford and child, Mr. Watt, Mr. Bardon,
Mr. Heriot, Dr. Kennedy, Mr. Purbeck, Mr. Strong,
Mrs. Stanley, Mr. Cadin, and Mr. Briggs."