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

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The severity 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
Wharnclifl'e, the Duke of Buceleuch, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord
Stanley, Sir Jaiiies 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 of Canterbury,
the Bishop of London, the Bishop of 'Exeter, the )3ishop of
Lichfield, the'Bishop or Ripon, the Bishop of Rochester, the
Bishop of Salisbury, the Judge of the Prerogative Court, the
Earl of Devon, the Earl of Chichester, the Earl of Harrowby.
the Right Hon. B. Hobhouse, the Right 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.

COURSE OF EXCIIAN
Amsterdam CF. 12 6
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 6i
Antwerp "25 95
Ramburgh M. 8.-18 15
Alton
Paris, 3 days' sight
Ditto, 3 months 25 85
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 90
Frankfort on Maine
_ 122.

IGE.—( YESTERDAY. )
Gibraltar
Leghorn . 30 75
Genoa .... ............ 25 95
Milan
Venice
Naples
Palermo, per or 118 i
1 isbon
Oporto b3
Rio Janeiro 23
Bahia
Buenos Ayres ......
New York, 21 days sight
Philadelphia
PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin.. 3 17 5
New Doubloons ~...0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 9
Silver in Bars... 0 4 1l

Petersburgh, 3 U 5.:... 36i
Berlin

Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 955
Trieste, ditto 9 56
Madrid ... 361
Cadiz
Bilbao 36
Barcelona

Seville . ..._.. .

CURIOUS PHENOMENON.—A good many years since
a breast-wall or quay was built at Ardentallan, in Argyllshire,
for shipping stones from a quarry at which much work has
been done. When Mr. David Smith, builder, at Oban, was
erecting the beacon •f Skervuil, in Jura Sound, for the
Northern Lights' Board, he fitted the courses of blocks for
that work to their places on the quay, and has occasionally
had upwards of 200 tons of stones upon it at a time, without
accident. The quarry has lately been worked for the repairs
of the Caledonian Canal, and on the 23d ult. there were
between 170 and 180 tons of dressed stones lying upon the
quay ready for shipment, when, to the astonishment of
the quarriers, the crane upon the quay was observed to move
and shake without any visible cause, and some openings ap-
peared at the surface of the quay, which were rapidly
widening ; the men on the instant cried out
its crane
foreman,
who rushed to the spot, and saw the quay, with crane and
the cairn of blocks upon it, moving outwards from the
shore, and sinking in the deep water; and in less than two
hours the whole had proceeded seaward about 50 yards,
and settled with a depth of 11 feet water over them.
The whole mass is now so completely absorbed in mud
and clay, that although the height of the quarry and
materials could not be less than 20 feet, it has not
lessened the depth of water at the entrance of the place.—
Scotsman.

STATE OF THE STREETS.—Yesterday the Court of
Sewers, Guildhall, met at the usual hour for the transaction
of business, Mr. Alderman Gibbs in the chair. At the last
meeting of the Commissioners the Court directed summonses
to be issued to Mr. Gore for having neglected to have cleansed
about 200 streets within the City of London, by which he had
incurred penalties varying from 208. to 40s. for each neglect.
The inspectors, Messrs. Bowler, Paynter, and Mortimer, were
called in, and also Mr. Gore. The latter, however, was re-
presented by his foreman. Mr. Dawse, the chief clerk„,then
read the reports, from which it appears that Mr, BOwler's
complaints for neglect amounted to sixteen, Mr. Mortimer's to
thirty, and Mr. Paynter's to sixty-seven ; in addition to
these they each had second summonses for a number of the
streets. The foreman, in reply to the various summonses,
said that he had been but a few days in the contractor's em-
ploy ; his predecessor, whose duty it was to see that the
streets were kept cleansed, had, without notice, left Mr.
Gore. The neglect arose from that person not doing his
duty, for Mr. Gore had authorised him to put on a sufficient
number of men to clean every part of the city ; and as the
same powers were given to him (the foreman), he could
assure the Commissioners that neither they (the inspectors),
nor the Fpublic, should in future have to complain. Mr.
Williams observed, that looking at the conduct of the late
foreman, and the promise that no further grounds of com-
plaint should exist, he thought the Court would deal fairly
between the contractor and the public if it inflicted, instead
of double and treble penalties, only a single one. Mr.
Christie thought that the neglect was intentional, for it cer-
tainly appeared to him that the contractor saved more money
by neglecting the streets than what the penalties would
amount to. Mr. Alderman Gibbs then put the question that
but one penalty be imposed for the neglect which had taken
place in cleansing the streets on Saturday, Monday, and
Tuesday last, which was carried unanimously. The amount
of penalties inflicted by this decision is about 1201.
Princess Galitzin, grand-daughter of the renowned
Russian General Suwarow, has arrived at Berfoix (Switzer-
land), where the Princess resided for several years after she
embraced the Protestant faith. During her last residence
in the Russian dominions, she was, by orders from high au-
thority, confined in a convent, from which it cost the Prin-
cess much trouble to get liberated. Her children are not per-
mitted to be with her.

A MOST EXTRAORDINARY NURSE.—III the room
in which dinner was laid out, a fine-robust-looking woman
was walking up and down, carrying on her arm an oblong
tasket, covered with a cloth, out of which there proceeded
at intervals little plaintive cries and whinings, not unlike
those of a very young child. This puzzled me a good deal,
because the basket was so small that any infant contained
in it must have been a Lilliputian phenomenon, fit only to
exhibit at a fair. The riddle, however, was soon solved.
The nurse—for such she was—sat down in a corner, took
a little, coffee-coloured dog out of her basket, and began, very
gravely, to suckle this extraordinary nursling. She was a
peasant woman, from the province of Santander, and was
proceeding to Madrid, where she was engaged as wet-nurse.
Fearful of being disqualified by the interval between leaving
her own infant and joining her foster-child, she had provided
herself with this canine substitute.—Gautier's Travels in
Spain.
Two fine lions have just arrived from Havre—male
and female—bought by Mr. Tilus for Van Amburgh—cost
2401. They are handsome animals. The lion is nearly four
feet high—only three years old. They are from Africa, iltnd
were transferred from llavre to London per the James Wa .