The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-25 00:00:00

COURT cIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, FRIDAY.The Queen and Prince Albert
walked for some time this morning in the pleasure-
grounds and the Home Park.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales,
Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess
Alice, were taken to-day for pony and other exercise.
This evening her Majesty and her Illustrious
Consort took equestrian exercise in the riding school,
attended by Major-General Weymss and Colonel
Bouverie.
The Queen and Prince Albert dined with her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at Frogmore
House, this evening. her Majesty and his Royal
Highness were attended by the Marchioness of Douro,
Viscount Sydney, the two Maids of Honour, the
groom, and the two Equerries in Waiting, the Hon.
and Rev. C. L. Courtenay, Captain Meynell, and Dr.
Przetorius.

The Duchesslof
_Gloucester visited their Royal
Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Here-
ditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz yes-
terday, at Cambridge House.
A Cabinet Council wa4 held at two o'clock yester-
day afternoon, at the Foreign-office. The Ministers
present were Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Welling-
ton, 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, and Lord Granville Somerset.
'The Lord Chancellor joined his colleagues soon
after three o'clock.
Lord Wharncliffe arrived in town on Thursday
night, from his seat, Wortley Hall, Yorkshire.
The Council sat three hours and a half.
Sir Robert Peel issued cards yesterday for a grand
Parliamentary dinner party, on Monday, the 3d of
February next, at his residence in Whitehall-gardens.
The numerous guests will appear in full dress.

HILD STRALI Friday last a man was
brought before theoNrmGtnwgistbrates of
.Wakefield on a charge
of stealing, a day
lef?re, a little boy, four years
old, at Thorns. The child is is the son of a working man
named Cannon, residing Thornes. The prisoner was
seen to take the boy inbiaisiaormrb s, and walk with him on
the canal side leading to and. was pursued and
-yvertaken, when he had got a:orYt'a mile from Thornes.
It is thought he intended to disableuwas the boy in order to
send him begging. The fellow sent as a rogue and
vagabond to the House of Correction for two months.—
Wakefield Journal.
MYSTERIOUS CASE OP POISONING IN T
li
—At an early hour yesterday morning,'theaa
S a
Alfred'sTßEET.
police
strgeant and constable were on duty near
Head Tavern, in the London-road,
attention
their
directed to a respectably dressed young female, who
was° be
was
lying on the step of a door. She appeared at fir
:asleep, but on their endeavouring to arouse her,
ra,th.ey
'
discovered that she was unable to move, and quite t
sensible. With difficulty they conveyed her tothee In-
sensible.
of Mr. Chaldocott, who, from her symptoms, judged
the had swallowed poison. She was conveyed to Guy's
hospital. The stomach pump was speedily put in re-
and by its means a considerable quantity of
arsenic was elected. Upon being restored to conscious-
ness, she was questioned as to her motive for taking the
arsenic and where she had procured it, but this she per-
tinaceoualy refused to state. She, however, after great
persuasion, said her name was Margaret Bennett, that
be was tweay-years of age, and lived at Newington.