The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-22 00:00:00

ANECDOTES OF THE QUEEN.

Two characteristic anecdotes, received on excellent
authority, have just come to our knowledge. One of
them illustrates in a delightful manner the proverbial
kindliness of disposition and humility of our Gracious
Sovereign, and the other evinces a love of practical
joking of such a kind as the " Merry Monarch"
might have related in his calmer moods. About a
fortnight ego a carpenter, who was employed by her
Majesty in the erection of houses for the poor people
in the neighbourhood of Balmoral, wounded his leg
severely when handling an adze. Her Majesty's
physician, Sir James Clark, by permission, or express
desire of his Royal Mistress, visited the sufferer, and
in a short time afterwards, when the Rev. Mr. Ander-
son was in the house, a gentle tap was heard at the
humble cottage-door, and on being opened the sym-
pathising face of our Gracious Queen met the asto-
nished and delighted gaze of the inmates. Hearing
of the accident her Majesty had ordered her car-
riage, and visited the humble patient, to express
her sympathy and insure attention to his wound.
, The other incident to which we refer is inte-
, restinr, as an indication of her Majesty's liveli-
ness of disposition, increased, we doubt not, by
the exhilarating effects of the mountain scenery
and atmosphere of her Highland home. Prince
Albert, who is almost as keen a sporteouan with the
rod as with the gun, bad employed a number of men
to drive the few salmon and trout which the river
contained towards the nets placed further down. Up
to the waist himself in the water, he urged on the
others to active exertion with their spears. liar
Majesty was looking on from the bank, and observing
one of the party standing on a stone in a range of
stepping-stones across the river, asked a little boy,
with the offer of a shilling, to steal gently behind the
dry spectator, and by a neat push to immerse him in
the cool element among those whose labours he was
contemplating. The little fellow, unconscious of the
dignity of the lady who spoke to him, and perhaps a
little timorous of the result of such a joke, practised
upon the formidable form of Mr. —, declined the
tempting bribe, and Mr. escaped an impending
--
ducking. A reverend gentleman relating the two
stories above noticed to a homely individual, residing
in the neighbourhood of Balmoral, received the fol-
lowing reply :—" Hoots, is that a' ye ken about it ?
Auld Janet, up bye, an' the Queen are great freens,
and her wither tee (the Duchess of Kent) is a rael
nice bodie,"—lnverness Advertiser.

SHIP NEWS.
QUARANTINE NOTICES.

Leghorn, 0ct.,12.
The quarantine on all arrivals horn Ystad up to Got-
tanburgh, from Hamburgh and all the other ports at
the mouth of the Lib?,, Lubeck, Travemunde, Rostock,
and Wismar, has been fixed at six thy
Owing to the appearance of cholera at Ithaca, the
Board of Health has decided to subject all vessels from
that island to the quarantine enforced on arrivals from
Cephalonia, viz,, 12 days.

crew saved. A Swedish
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THISTED, OCT. 12.—A. ot.lawThe with foremast cut
away was stranded on Ronne, Oct. 9. The Norwegian
brig Julie, from Christiana for France, was stranded in
the Vester Agget, Oct. 9; .
vessel, laden with pitch and tar, s reported to bo stranded
on Harboore.
RIGA, OCT. 14.—The Sarah Barry, loading masts and
timber, drove on shore near the lighthouse at BJldera,
and it is feared will become a wreck.
EJoRTING, CCT. 12.--The Myrtle, of Inverkeithing,
from Fraserburgh for Bremen, came on shore on the
Skulling, Oet. 10, a derelict.
Letravro, OCT. 10.—rhe Princess, bound for St.
Petersburgh, coal laden, was stranded yesterday during
a heavy gale from Ton Fideltring, near this
place, and went to pieces; craw saved.
SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, JULY 31.—The brig
Lady Bowden has been wrecked at the Fejee Islands. N.E., fresh, cloudy.—
GRAVESEND, OCT. 21.
Arrd. the Gloria, from Bilboa; the Border Chieftain,
from Charente; the Ann, from Amsterdam; the Ma.
tilda, the Reward, the Dee, and the Donna Celina, from
Guernsey; the Judith, from Rostock; the Princess, from
Charente; the Stolpe, from Dar,.ze; the Vests, from
Wyborg; the Wave, from Seville; the Roscommon,
from Harlingen; the Director, from Jersey; the
Plicenix and the Scandinovian, from Callao; the Fye-
noord, from Rotterdam; the Achilles, from Christiana;
the Hero, from St. Pctersburgh; the Neptune and the
Venezuela, from Havre; the Giraffe, from Tonningen;
the Soho, from Antwerp; the City of Boulogne, from
Boulogne; the Preciosa, from Oporto; the Caledonia,
from Hamburgh ; the Ranger, from Amsterdam; the
Magnus, from Rio de Janeiro; the Jane, from Cron-
stadt; the Hebden, from Port.au-Prince; the Mary
Caroline, from Archangel; the Lady Rebow, from Ma-
laga; the Challenger, from Callao; the Joseph Fenton,
from Charente.' Sld. the Tiger and the Wilberforce, for
Tonningen; the Albemarle, for Shanghai; the Huron,
for Boston; the Ingeborg, for the Baltic; the John Bag-
ahaw, for Guayaquil.
VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—The Shenandoah, frcm
Liverpool, Oct. 3, in long. 18. A large steamer, bound
a, outward bound, Oct. 13, in lat. 48 N.,
W., Oct. 13, at 19 P.M., in long. 13. The Nautilus, of
Dartmouth, Sept. 17, in lat. 37, long. 10. The ship
Kirkman Finly,
long. 10 W. The ship William Ward, of Liverpool,
outward bound, Oct. 13, in lat. 50 N., long. 9W. The
schooner Eliza Cornish, of Liverpool, outward bound,
July 28, in lat. 57 S. long. 63 W. The brig Pauline, of
Antwerp, for Rio Janeiro, Aug. 31, in lat. 10 S., long.
26 W. The ship Earl of Hardwicke, outward bound,
Sept. 15, in lat. 16 N. long. 27 W. The ship Sandford,
Oat. 6, in lat. 36, long. 12. The brig Wilhelmina, from
Liverpool for Natal, Oct. 16, in lat. 52 N., long. 7 W.
The brig Isabella, for Constantinople, Sept 2G, in let. 36
N., long. 7 W.

A CHILD CUT TO PIECES.—A sad and fatal occur-
rence happened at Newton, near Mabgate, on Wednesday
week, when a little boy, only seven years of age, was literally
cut to pieces. lie was the son of Smith Deuce, a brick-
maker, and on the evening already named, accompanied by
some other boys, he went into the brick shed where his
father worked. The clay in this yard is worked by ma-
chinery, being put into an aperture tilled with clay knives,
and the whole set in motion by steam power. The engine
on this occasion was at work, and the poor child, Richard
Deuce, accidentally tell in anungst the Icnive.7, and was in-
stantlykilled in the manner de.scribed. The co:oner held an
inquest on view of the body at the Leeds Court-house, on
lhursday, when the jury returned a verdict of "Accidentally
k Wed."— Leeds Mercury.