The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-31 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

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WoDsott, FRIDAY".—The Queen and Prince Albert
took their accustomed exercise this morning on the
Terrace and pleasure-grounds adjoining the Castle.
Her Majesty rode some time in the garden chair. In
the afternoon her Majesty was driven out in the
pony phaeton by Prince Albert, for an airing. The
' Hon. Colonel Grey and Colonel Wylde, Equerries in
Waiting, attended on horseback.
The Royal Family were taken out on ponies for an
airing this morning, and were taken a drive in an
open carriage in the afternoon.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert returned to the
Castle at half-past seven &clock last evening, from the
Isle of Wight.
Sir Henry Wheatley arrived yesterday afternoon
at the Castle on a visit to the Queen, and took his de-
parture this day for town.
The Dowager Lady Lyttelton left the Castle this
morning for town. Her Ladyship is expected to re-
turn
this evening.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
arrived at Bushy House, Bushy Park, yesterday, from
KQVV, to pay a visit to her Majesty the Queen
Dowager. In the afternoon the Queen Dowager took
an airing in a carriage in the vicinity of Bushy Park
M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, transacted
business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Dispatches from Sir Charles Metcalfe, Governor of
Canada, and from the Governors of the other North
American Colonies, were received yesterday afternoon
at the Colonial-office.

MARRIED.—On the Ist of August, Mr. W. Buck-
land, of Malmesbury, Wilts, to Ann, eldest daughter of
Mr. Woodroutfe, of Waltham Abbey, Essex.
ERRATUM.—It was incorrectly stated yesterday in
a leading article in The Sun, on the subject of the pro-
ceedings before the Gravesend police, that Messrs.
Spencer and Oakes were proprietors of the Diamond
Company. We have since been informed that these
gentlemen are not proprietors of the Diamond Com-
pany, but are bondholders of the Town Pier.
SURREY THEATRIL-4` THE OLD HOUSE IN WEST-
STREET" SUSPENDED BY COMMAND OF THE LORD
CHAMBERLAIN.—Since the examination of the extraor-
dinary house in 'West-street, Smithfield, and the dis-
closures made relative to the purpose for which it was
used, Mr. Leman Rede, the dramatist, has been engaged
in writings piece for the Surrey Theatre, under the title
of The Old House in West-street, or London in the Last
Century, in which many characters representing the low-
est orders of society are brought on the stage, such, as
it is supposed, inhabited the house of that infamous
neighbourhood. The play was of course submitted for
examination, and all arrangements as to scenery, &c.,
were made for its production a few nights ago, when
Mrs. Davidge, the proprietress of the theatre, received a
letter from the Lord Chamberlain to the effect that the
piece in its present shape could not be performed. The
play was consequently withdrawn and another substi-
tuted. It is stated that the grounds upon which the
performance of The Old House in West-street was sus-
pended were, that from the locality from which the in-
cidents were drawn, and the depraved habits of the cha-
racters thus brought before the audience, its general
tendency would be to deprave the public taste and de-
moralise the public mind. The proprietress has not
entirely withdrawn the piece, and the author will soon
have it reconstructed with the omission of offensive cha-
racters.

BARTHOLOMEW FAlR.—Yesterday a deputation of
the inhabitants of Smithfield, attended by Mr. Swan, the
solicitor to the numerous body of petitioners who at-
tended before the Lord Mayor on Wednesday, as re-
ported in this journal yesterday, waited upon the Mar-
kets Committee, at Guildhall, for the purpose of urging
upon the members the restoration of Bartholomew Fair
to what it was in 1839. In the hopes that the Commit.
tee would agree to the prayer of the petitions which
were presented to the Lord Mayor, the deputation was
empowered to tender for portions of the ground, on be-
half of Messrs. Johnson, Lee, and Wombwell, for the
erection of shows. The deputation was ordered to be in
attendance at one o'clock, shortly after which hour a
long conversation took place .between the Committee and
Mr. Martin, from the office of the City solicitor; but, as
no one besides was allowed to be present, the tenour of
it cannot be
.given. After waiting some time, the depu-
tation were informed that the fair could not be allowed
any extension of privilege than it possessed last year.
Mr. Swan wished the Committee to hear the arguments
which had been adduced before the Lord Mayor in fa-
vour of the fair being placed upon the same footing as
in 1839. The Committee, however, were of opinion that
they could not interfere, and told Mr. Swan that the
application for a restoration of the fair to its termer state
must be made to the Court of Common Council.
STORM AT HAVRE.— 4 letter from Ifirfleur of
Sunday last, given by the Journal du Havre, says
" About seven this morning, during a violent storm of
rain, a hailstone, or rather a piece of ice, weighing, it is
supposed,
a kilogramme and a half (31bs. English), fell
from an electric cloud, before the house of M. Dubois,
Deputy. A woman who was passing at the time nar-
rowly escaped being crushed by it. Among the frag.
moots gathered up were several larger than a mates fist!"