The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-14 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

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WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—TheNeverity of the weather to-day
has prevented her Majesty and Prince Albert taking their
accustomed walks. . . .

The Royal Family have not been taken their customary
airings in the Park during the day.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge, attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt and Baron Knese-
beck, arrived at their residence at Kew on Monday evening,
from a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, at her re-
sidence, Witley Court, Worcestershire. The Duke of Cam-
bridge arrived in town from Kew yesterday morning, and
visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at
Gloucester House.
A Cabinet Council was held at one o'clock yesterday after-
noon at the Foreign Office. It was attended by Sir Robert
Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, Lord
Wharncliffe, the Duke of Buccleuch, Earl of Aberdeen,Lord
Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Earl of Haddington, Earl of Ripon, the Right Hon. W. E.
Gladstone, Sir Henry Hardinge, and Sir Edward Knatch-
bull. The Council sat three hours.
The Governor of the Bank of England had an interview
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his offi-
cial residence in Downing-street.
The Ecclesiastical Commission for England had a meeting
yesterday afternoon, at the office, in Whitehall-place. The
Commissioners present were the Archbishop
,off Canterbury,
the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Exeter he Bishop of
Lichfield, the Bishop of Ripon, the Bishop of Rochester, the
Bishop of Salisbury, the Judge of the Prerogative Court, the
Earl of Devon, the Earl of Chichester, then Earl of Harrowby.
the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse, the Rigt Hon. Sir George
Grey, and the Right Hon. John Nicholl D.C.L.
Mr. Everett, the American Minister, transacted business
yesterday, at the Foreign-office.
The Archbishop of Canterbury had an interview with Lord
Stanley, at the Colonial-office, yesterday'.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an inter-
view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday.
Lord Adolphus Fi',zclarence left his residence, in St.
James's Palace, yesterday, for Portsmouth.
The Hon. Francis and Lady Ann Charteris arrrived at
Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-str iet, on Monday.

In the parish of St. Mary, Islington, there have been offered
DESERTION OF FAMILIES DT. THEIR PARENTS.—
during the week rewards for the apprehension of seven men
who have deserted their wives and families, leaving them bur-
dens upon the parish.
QUEER ITEMS IN OLD ACCOUNTS.—In the ac-
counts of the expenses of some old municipal pageants and
processions for the city of Chester, we find the following
items :—" Paid for keeping hell head (a representation of the
mouth of hell) Bd. ; for making hell mouth and cloth for it,
4s. ; for keeping of fire at hell mouth, 4d. ; (a charge for
coals to keep up hell-fire), paid to the demon, 21d. ; while
the bishops had but 12d. and the angels only Bd. each.
There were other little perquisites to the bishops, however,
for one item runs thus :—" Paid Pilate, the bishops and
knights, to drink between the stages, 9d." Other payments
gravely set down as ordinary matter of account are still
more grotesque, as for instance—" Paid for setting of the
world on fire, sd. ;" and "paid for half a yard of Red Sea,
6d,"—Chester Chronicle.