The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-22 00:00:00

COURT-FASHIONABLE.

Instructions have been received at Windsor Castle for the
private apartments to be prepared for the reception of the
Court by Wednesday, the 19th of March, on which day her
Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied
by the Royal Family, are expected to arrive at Windsor for
the Easter holidays.
The Duchess of Kent will proceed to Witley Court, Wor-
cestershire, early next week, to pay a visit to her Majesty
the Queen Dowager, where the Royal Duchess will remain
for ten days or a fortnight.

The Diike of Wellington is expected to leave Apsley
House on Tuesday, for Strathfieldsaye, where his Grace will
give his annual banquet to the judges going the Western
Circuit, on Wednesday.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, and the Ladies Le-
veson Gower, who are still staying on a visit to the Earl and
Countess of Carlisle, at Castle Howard, are expected to re-
turn to Trentham Hall, Staffordshire, and do not come to
Stafford House for the season until early in April.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford are not expected to ar-
rive in Belgrave-square, from Woburn Abbey, for the season,
until after Easter. Lord and Lady Alexander Russell are
staying in the Isle of Wight, where the depot of his regiment,
the Rifle Brigade, is quartered.
MISCELL&NEOI7O.
The structure for the fountain in the eastern reservoir in
Trafalgar-square, is completed. It is constructed entirely of
beautiful red granite, so highly polished as to appear like
marble. The base is an octagon, and the pedestal, which is
of a similar form, diminishes gradually to the lower basin,
which is an immense block of the same material. On four
sides of the pedestal are elaborately carved dolphins' heads,
through which the reservoir will be filled—the fountain has
two basins, the upper one much smaller than the lower.
A cheque for 101. from T. S. G. has been received by the
magistrates at Marlborough-street Police-court, for the relief
of the poor; and the following donations have been received
at Clerkenwell Police-court :-1/., in a note dated the 13th
inst., no name ; a letter containing a cheque for 51. ss. ; 8.L.,
ss. ; S. G., 10s. ; Post-office order for I/. ; Eliza G. NV., 11.;
and a Post-office order for 1/., Highgate post-mark.
The Hon. R. H. Clive has been adopting the allotment
system, and has set apart about thirty acres, which he has
divided among the poor labourers of Catshill and the Lickey,
Worcestershire. They have a quarter of an acre each, at
the cost of about eight shillings annually.
On Thursday a fatal accident occurred to Mr. James Hulme,
a young gentleman, 22 years of age, residing at Acton. He
and his brother-in-law were skating on the Paddington
Canal, near the Old Oak-common, when the ice suddenly
broke, and Mr. Hulme fell in and was drowned. He has
left a widow, only 19 years of age, to whom he had been mar-
ried three weeks.
The members of the Surrey Club dined together at the
Clarendon Hotel on Wednesday evening, when there were
present—Lord Grantle Y, Sir Edmund Antrobus, Bart., Sir
Richard Frederick, Bart.. Sir W. H. Jolliffe,Bart„ M.P., Mr.
Holme Sumner, Mr. Denison, M.P., Mr. Trotter, M.P., Col.
Challoner, Mr. Allcock, Mr. Strahan, &c.
Letters have been received at the residence of Sir Wil-
liam Follett, in Park-street, dated Lyons, Tuesday last.
When those letters were sent off, the Attorney-General was
in good health and about to proceed to Paris in a few days.
It is expected that Sir William and Lady Follett and family
will arrive in England on Saturday or Monday next.
By the death of the Marquis of Westminster the two
following horses are disqualified for the ensuing Derby, Oaks,
and St. Leger :—Br c Falstaff, by Touchstone, out of Decoy,
and b fby Touchstone, out of Laura, besides many valuable
two-year old horses in other great stakes.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

Arrival at Patna—Clarke, from China, at Liverpool, sailed Oct.
12, and St. Helena, Jan. 8.
Arrivals at St. Helena—/Etna, Thomson, Jan. 1, from Calcutta,
and sailed 3d, to Newcastle; Magnet, Veale, from Ichaboe, and sailed
3d, to London ; ;Wild Irish Girl, Graham, 2d, from Bombay, and
sailed to Liverpool ; Heroine, Todd, from Singapore, and sailed 6th,
to Liverpool ; Giobe, Briolle, from Batavia, and sailed 3d, to Bor-
deaux ; Rockliffe, Garrick, from Colombo, and sailed 3d, to London ;
West Indian, Chapman, from Ichaboe ; Sarah Murray, 3d,
from Ichaboe, and sailed 6th, to Cork; Eliza, Jones, from
Ichaboe, and sailed 6th to Cork ; Emma Eugenia, Kettlewell, from
Mauritius and Cape, and sailed 6th to London xi
; edusa, Purdie, 4th,
from China ; Brookline, from Ichaboe to Boston ; Thomas Winslowe,
from Ichaboe to West Port ; James, Williams, from Ichaboe, and
sailed 6th to Falmouth ; Tanjore, Stewart, from Calcutta to London ;
Jane Blain, Reid, from Penang to Loudon ; Marchioness of Douro,
Woodnorth, sth, from China ; young England, Fretwell, from Ichaboe ;
Colombo, Thompson, from Calcutta, and sailed 7th to London ; Cynthia,
from Ichaboe ; Perseverant, from Bourbon, and sailed 6th to Marseilles ;
and sailed to Falmouth
Hugo Grotius, from Batavia, and sailed Gth to Rotterdam ; Brothers,
Walton, from Ichaboe, ,Earl of Liverpool,
Wilson, from China, and sailed Bth to London ; Belle Creole, Purchase,
from Mauritius, and sailed to Cape and London ; Duke of Portland,
Hamlin, from Madras, and sailed 7th to London ; Elora, Turnbull, 7th,
Prom Ichaboe ; Chateaubriand, Hardy, from Bourbon ; and sailed 7th
to Nantes ; Sucricr, from Bourbon to Marseilles ; Washington, West-
lake, from Mauritius, and sailed Bth to London; Minstrel, Bth, from
Calcutta.

THE PEHENIX STEAMEIL—The first trial of this
war steamer was made down the river on Monday last,
when, drawing 12 feet 9 inches fore and 13 feet 9 inches
aft, her speed was found to average 9.616 miles per
hours, her engines, of 260 horsd? Power, making
22.75 revolutions per minute (their legitimate num-
ber), and her propeller (Mr. Steintnaws patent
56.875. This same invention when tried a second
time in the " Rattler" war-steamer gave, drawing
10 feet 8 inches fore and 12 feet aft, a speed of 9.457
knots per hour, the engines, of 220 horse power (with
25 revolutions), making 25.244 revolutions per minute,
and the propeller 100.896, whilst that of Mr. Smith's,
when tried, a 25th time in the same vessel, and under
the same circumstances, attained a speed of 9.638 knots,
the engines making 26.98 revolutions, and the propeller
107.92, thus showing an increase of .181 of a knot (little
more than a sixth) ha 9.638 knots in favour of the latter,
when assisted by 1.756 additional engine revolutions per
minute, or 15 horse extra power.
SELF-MUTILATION.—A somewhat extraordinary
act of self-mutilation took place in Aberdeen Gaol on Mon-
day night. A person of the name of William Fentie, jun.,
from New Deer, who has been indicted to stand his trial at
the ensuing Circuit Court of Justiciary on a charge of sheep-
stealing, while in the act of cutting oakum with a small
hatchet, most unaccountably laid his hand upon the block
on which he was doing so,
and snapped it off by the wrist.
No reason that we have heard can be assigned for his doing
so. Fentie, it appears, never seemed to feel the pain conse
quent upon the act, and his arm having been immediately
dressed, lie is 119 W doing well.—Aberdeen Paper,