The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-02 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert took an airing on
Sunday afternoon, in an open pony phaeton, in the
vicinity of Claremont.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was taken
an airing in a carriage on Sunday, in Claremont Park.
Yesterday morning her Majesty and Prince Albert
walked on the lawn in front of Claremont, and also
promenaded in the gardens. His Royal Highness
Prince Albert, attended by Major-General Sir Edward
Bowater, afterwards rode out on horseback. The
Prince returned to Claremont at two o'clock.
In the afternoon the Marchioness of Douro left
Claremont for a drive in an opr-n carriage.
The Royal Family were taken their accustomed
daily airings yesterday in Claremont Park.
Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner had the honour of
joining the Royal Dinner party at Claremont.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited
the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge yesterday at Cam-
bridge House.

Her Royal highness the Duchess of Cambridge took
an airing yesterday afternoon in an open carriage.
A numerous deputation from the principal. Railway
Companies had an interview with Sir Robert Peel and
the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone yesterday, at the
official residence of the Right Hon. Baronet in Downing-
street.

The Deputation was composed of Mr. Hudson, chair-
man, on behalf of the Midland, the York and North
Midland, the Newcastle and Darlington, the North
British, and the Leeds and Bradford Railway Cora-
panics.
Mr. Entwistle, M.P., awl Capta;n Best., on behalf of the
Manchester and Leeds Railway.
Mr.. Russell, M.l'., chairman, Mr. Saunders, secretary,
and Mr. Brunel, engineer, on behalf of the Great
Western Railway.
Mr. Parker, M.P., chairman, and Mr. Ellison, director,
Sheffield and Manchester Railway.
Mr. Chaplin, chairman, South-Western Railway.
Mr. Waddington, Mr. Barrow, and Mr. Slater, on behalf
of Manchester and Birmingham Railway.
Mr. Bosa,nquet, chairman, Eastern-Counties, and North-
ern and Eastern Railway.
Captain Kelley, chairman, London and Brighton
Railway.
Mr. Glyn, London and Birmingham Railway.
Mr. Baxenda,le, South-Eastern Railway.
Mr. Wilkinson, chairman, Mr. Crowley, and Mr. Bur-
chell, London and Croydon Railway.
Mr. Barnes, Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Railway.
Mr. Oxley, Great North of England Railway.
Mr. Meynoll, on behalf of the Stockton and Darlington
Railway.
Colonel Lowther, on behalf of the Lancaster aad Car-
lisle Railway.
Mr. Locking, on behalf of the Hull and Selby Railway.
Mr. Jenes, on behalf of the Bristol and Gloucester
Railway.
Mr.. Hunt, on behalf of the Edinburgh and Glasgow And
the Glasgow and Ayr Railways.
Mr. Lang, on behalf of the Glasgow and Greenock
Railway.
Mr. Vickers, on behalf of the Sheffield and Rotherham
Railway.
Mr. Hadley, on behalf of the Guildford and Junction
Railway.
Mr. Brunel, on behalf of the Bristol and Exeter Railway.

Mr. Burke, secretary, and Mr. Lang, secretary, also
attended.

A Cabinet Council was held, yesterday afternoon, at
the Foreign-office. It was attended by Sir Robert Peel,
the Duke of Wellington, Lord Wharncliffe, the Duke of
Buccleuch, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir
James Graham, the Earl of Ripon, the Earl of 11-adding-
ton, Mr. Gladstone, Sir Edward linatchbull, and Lord
Granville Somerset. The Council sat two hours and
a half.

A meeting of the Commissioners for the Government
of the Pentonville Prison, was held at the Council-office.
yesterday. The Commissioners present were Lord
Wharncliffe, the Duke of Richmond, Sir Benjamin
Brodie, Dr. Ferguson, Major Jebb, Mr. Crawfurd, and
Mr. Russell.

Dispatches were sent off last evening from the
Colonial-office for the Governor of Jamaica, and also
for the Governors of the other West India colonies.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Queensberry have
arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-street, from
Scotland.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
LONDON, JULY I.—Wind S.E., light breezes and cloudy.
DEAL, JUNE 30.—Wind PM. E. to E.N.E., fresh breeze.—
Arrd. Freeman, Sullivan, Jamaica ; St. George transport,
Portsmouth. Sid. Agincourt, Bolton, and Asia, Calcutta ;
Urgent, Ceylon ; James, Earl Dalhousie, Herschel. Sld. Win-
ter and Superb, Ich shoe ; Julie, Bahia; Montreal, New York;
Alexander Edmund, St. John's; Enchantress, Quebec; More-
land, Cape of Good Hope. A Swedish squadron, consisting
of two frigates and a corvette, passed to the eastward of the
Goodwin Sands to-day, bound westward.
RAMSGATE, JUNE 30.—Arrd. Concord, Stockton, with
damage, having been in contact with the steamer Duchess of
Kent.

OFF HASTINGS.—Cove, St. John's, New Brunswick, to
Hull ; Mauritius, Simpson, Antigua.
OFF DARTMOUTH.—Asia, Baltimore, for Rotterdam; Fan-
chon, Pyk, Batavia, for Stockholm.
OFF KINGSBRIDGE.—FIora Muir, Brown, Macao.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 30.—Wind variable and light.—Arrd.
his Netherlands' Majesty's steamer Merapie; Ilelvoet, for Ba-
tavia. Off, Sophia, Peagelley, Jamaica; Winterfield, West
Indies, for Ilarnburgh ; Falcon, Rio, for Antwerp.
PADSTOW, JUNE 29.—Ski. Bachelor, Ichaboe.
BIDEFORD, JUNE 22.—Arrd. Viola, Wilkinson, Miramichi.
MILFORD, JUNE 28.—SId. Lady Fitzherbert, Quebec.
LIVEEPOOL, JUNE 29.—Arrd. Lancashire Witch, Taylor
Trinidad; Mantio, Drew, Mobile. 30.—Havre, Carpenter
Savannah. Sld. 29th, Jamaica, Cape of Good Hope; Speed,
Buenos Ayres; llcnrietta, Africa; Eliza Wood, Barbardoes ;
Thetis, Belize; Coronation, Mozambique, and Seraphine,
St. John's, New Brunswick ; Queen, and Yorkshire, Quebec.
30th, Diekey Sam, Bombay ; Hope, Tiber, and Violet,
Ichaboe ; Ann, Lima; Luntania, Cape of Good Hope;
Minach, St. Lucia ; Maria, Havannah ; James Calder, Charles-
ton; Leila, and Venice, Baltimore; Superior, New York;
John, Dorchester, Nelson Village, St. John's, N. B.; Con-
stancy, John Bolton, and Lord Sandon, Quebec.
CLYDE, JUNE 26.—Arrd. Medora, M‘Pherson Trinidad;
27th, Laurence, Smith, and Messenger, 11Pleandy, New
Orleans. Sld. Cassandra, Ichaboe ; Belmont, Trinidad ; 27th,
Laurel, Cape and China. Arrd., 28th, Alicia Jane, Fowler,
Yarmouth, N. S.
DUBLIN, JUNE 27.—Sld. Integrity, Quebec. •
WEXFORD, JUNE 28.—S1d.Ilibernia, St. John's, N. B.

CORK, Jtars 27.—Arrd. Coromando, Liverpoc:l for New
Orleans, with loss of bulwarks, &c., having been in contact
with her Majesty's steamer Dee.
OFF KINSALE, JUNE 27.—Strabane, Bombay ; George
Washington, New York.

LEITH, JUNE 28.—S1d. Beau Ideal, St. John's; Mariner
Quebec.

SHIELDS, JUNE 28.—Arrd. Countess Westmoreland, Clark,
Valparaiso.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
LIGHTS ON THE COAST OF NORWAY—
UDSERE, TORUNGER ISLANDS, &c.
The following has been received at Lloyd's, from the
Hydrographic-office, dated June 18, 1844 :
" The Norwegian Government has given notice that
the following lights will be established in the course of
the present year:-.7..

"Ist. Ts%7o fixed lights on the Island of Udsere, in lat
50 deg. 18 min. N., and lon. 40 deg. 53 see. 30 min. E.
visible from eighteen to twenty miles distant.

" 2d. Two fixed lights on shore, and Little Torunger
Islands at the entrance to Arendabl, in lat. 58 deg. 24
min. N., and longitude 8 deg. 53 min. E., visible from
18 to 20 mild.

3d. A fixed light on the Island Sundnigsader, on the
western side of the Channel to Arendahl, in latitude 58
deg. 25 min. 40 sec. N., and longitude 8 deg. 52 min. 10
see. E., visible from 10 to 12 miles.

" In order to prevent any of the above lights from
being mistaken for those of Markel and Lindersnoes, on
the south point of Norway, the light of Markal will be
discontinued on the Ist July next."

IMPORTANT TO OWNERS AND COMMANDERS

OF VESSELS.

Extract of a letter received at Lloyd's from their Agent
at Sydney, Cape Breton, dated 12th June, 1844 :
"I send you an extract from a provisional statute,
whereby all ships wrecked on this coast with passengers
are to be taken possession of by the Collector of the
Customs, or such other person as the Lieutenant-
Governor may appoint, and the proceeds made available
for the maintenance and transport of the passengers to
their original destinations. Perhaps it would be as well
to let this circumstance be known, that masters of ships
may govern themselves accordingly, and not dispose of
the property without proper authority."

A Supplement to Friday's Gazette was yesterday after-
noon published, regulating the authority of her Majesty's
Consuls-General, Consuls, and Vice-Consuls in the trial of
British subjects guilty of offences in the dominions of
the Ottoman Porte; and Malta is the place appointed for
holding such trials, and the punishment of such offenders.
The General Steam Navigation Company's
splendid steam-ship Soho, Captain T. Whitcombe, ar-
rived at Blackwall Pier yesterday, in eighteen hours
and-a-half, from Antwcrp. The same Company's /nail-
packet Neptune, Captain H. W. Gibbs, arrived off the
Tower early yesterday from Ilamburgh, with the mail
of Friday.
IMPROVEMENTS AT THE TOWER.—The contem-
plated improvements at this ancient fortress, which have been
laid before his Grace the Duke of Wellington, the Constable
of the Tower, and been approved, will forthwith be com-
menced. The old armoury, which was destroyed by fire, has
been cleared away to make room for the new barracks. The
ditches are all well dried up, and sewers have been cut to
carry off the soil. What was formerly a putrid and stagnant
moat round the Tower will very shortly form a fine espla-
nade, gravelled over and planted with trees for the recreation
of the garrison. There are no water mains laid down in the
Tower, and the inhabitants and the troops are obliged to
drink the Thames water, with all its impurities, which has
been the cause of many disorders; and the spring pump in
Postern-row is the only means they have of procuring pure
water. This great inconvenience has been represented to his
Grace, who is at all times most ready to study the comforts
of the troops, as well as of the residents of this little fortified
town, the population of which amounts to 3,000, and arrane-
ments are in contemplation for laying down regular mains
and pipes, so as to supply them with purified water. The
sanatory state of the Tower since the drying of the moat is
highly satisfactory.
The funeral of Mr. T. lludson took place on
Saturday, at the Kensal-green Cemetery. His son, Mr.
11. Hudson, was attended by a hoSt of gentlemen, all
anxious to show their respect for the deceased. Messrs.
Ring, Bowyn, Courtenay, Brackett, Kensitt, Grey, Peake,
Brown, Sporle, and Beuler followed him to his last home.
Many others who did not follow the melancholy pro-
cession were on the ground to pay the last tribute of
respect to departed worth.
THE LILLIPUTIAN WEST INDIAMAN.—SiIICe the
arrival of the adventurous Lilliputian sloop Hellespont, Capt.
Doe, only 43 tons register, from Bermuda, with a cargo of
arrow-root, she has been for private sale, but as the amounts
offered for her were considerably less than the sum demanded :
by the owners, she is to sail in a few days from the St. Ka-
tharine's
Dock, on her return to Bermuda, thus again daring
the Atlantic.

COLONEL STODDART AND -
CAPTAIN CONOLLY.
Captain Grover has received letters 'from Dr. Wolff,
dated from the 12th to the 15th April, 1844. The first
was written at Mere, which now belongs to Bokhara,
and the last was written in the desert distant only three
days' journey from the capital.
Dr. Wolff says—" I advance congeently towards
Bokhara, and, if the King does not stop me, in three
days I shall be in the capital."
The Doctor has received great kindness from the
Khaleefa Abd Arrahman, who is described as the
spiritual guide of the King of Bokhara,, and is dig-
nified with the title of Majesty. "He has given
me," writes the Doctor, " letters to the King of
Bokhara, and tells me positively that Stoddart is
alive, Conolly not quite certain. No public exe-
cution had taken place of either of them ! I am his
guest ; he has just now entered my room (this was at
More), and showed me a letter he has written to the
King of Bokhara, stating that it is of the highest im-
portance that Stoddart and Conolly should be given up
to me, and reparation made to England for the insult,
and not to keep me longer than three days. This letter
will be dispatched by an express Turcomaun, and will
reach Bukhara before me, His Majesty also sends with
me one of his own relations, to introduce me properly to
the King of Bukhara. His Majesty also desired me to
express to the Queen his ardent desire to become a sin-
cere friend of the British-nation."

Dr. Wolff expresses his indignation in strong terms
against Colonel Stoddart's confidential agent at Meshed,
who had intercepted the correspondence with Bokhara •
and is thankful that Colonel Slid had forwarded Cap-
tain Gros er's letters by an express messenger. lle says:
" Had Muhzm►Led Ali Serial, Stoddart's agent, received
them, the rascal would have kept them." The Doctor
concludes: "I cannot write much- for the Turcomauns
sit near me on the ground you must not expect
long letters, for I write in a stealthy manner."
Sir Rwbcrt Peel having requested Captain Grover to
communicate to him " the last accounts that had been
received from Dr. Wolff, relative to Colonel Stoddart
and Captain Conolly ;" the above extracts were sent on
Thursday last, the day Dr. Wolff's letters arrived ; they
were communicated at the same time to Lord Aberdeen
and to the Military Secretary.
Captain Grover thinks it right to state, in justice to
his absent friend, Colonel Stoddart, that among the nu-
merous letters and journals of Dr. Wolff, there is not the
slightest hint or insinuation that the Colonel had become
a .11ahomedan.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
So many of the habitual frequenters of the subscrip-
tion room attended the great public trial at Westminster
between Orlando and Running Rein, that, although the
" select few" betters round who were present evinced every
disposition to accommodate the backers of horses, very'
little businest was done. The late and ensuing Derbies,
the Goodwod Stakes and Cup, and the Doncaster St.
Leger were touched upon in the course of a long after-
noon (made more so than usual by a heavy thunder-
storm, about six o'clock), at the following prices :
THE LATE DERBY.
4 to 1 on Orlando—taken

GOoDWOOD STAKES.
12 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's R►ed Deer
14 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Croton Oil—taken
17 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's the Best of Three—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's The Pride of Kildare—taken
20 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's The Currier—taken
20 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Parthian
20 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Franchise. •
Mr. Greviville has declared that it is his present intention
•
not to start Gunter.