The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-29 00:00:00

COURT C.I.ACUL...h.

The Queen and P:iuee .Albert left Osborne House, in
a carriage end four, yesterday morain.z, and took a
drive to the blelc of the Isle of Wight.
The juvenile royal faintly were taken their ac: ustomed
walks and rides yesterday, in the pleasure grounds of
Osborne House.

THE KING OF THE NETHERLANDS. —Hid Excellency
Baron Dedel visited his Majesty yesterday morninz, at
Mivart's Hotel.

The Earl of Dz.lawarr, Lord Chamberlain of the
Queen, had an audience of the King yesterday.
His Majesty went to Kensington yesterday, and
visited her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia. The
King also paid visits to her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Gloucester, at Gloucester House ; and their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, at
Cambridge House.

His I,Westy, attended by Count de Bylandt, honoured
Messrs. Storr and Mortiiner's establiihment, in New
Bond-street, with a visit, and remained upwards of an
hour. His Majesty was pleased to express his gratifi-
cation at the magnificent display of plate and jewellery.
In the evening the King honoured the Duke and
Duchess of Norfolk with his company at dinner, at their
residence in St. James's-square. His Exc(ll, my Baron
Dedel, his Excellency M. Bond, and Viscount Ilawarden
(Lord in Waiting) were in his Majesty's suite. Their
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
and a select circle were present to meet his Majesty.
The King has appointed this day for the reception of
a deputation of the Consistory of the Dutch Church,
who will present an address to his Majesty.
The King will also hold a Diplomatic Levee at Mi-
vart's Hotel. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glou-
cester will receive his Majesty at dinner in the evening.
Mr. Francis Jackson, Provost-Marshal of Grenada,
had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday at the
Colonial-office.
Lord Lilford had an interview with the Earl of Dal-
housie yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade.
The Ecclesiasticaltommissioners for England had a
meeting yesterday afternoon at the office in Whitehall-
place. There were present the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Chichester,
the Bishop of Norwich, the Bishop of Rochester, the
Earl of Devon, and the Dean of Westminster.
Mr. Pakington, M,P., had an interview with Lord
Stanley yesterday.
The City Remembrancer had an interview yesterday
with the Earl of Dalhousie, at the Board of Trade.

Dispatches from the Governor of Cape Coasleastle,
and also from the Governor of Sierra Leone were re-
ceived yesterday at the Colonial office.

PO RTSMOU TIT—SATURDAY,
The Fairy, tender to the Royal yacht, Master-Com,
mander Thain, arrived from Cowes yesterday afternoon-
with dispatches for the Commander-in Chief. She left
on her return in the evening.
In Harbour—The Victory, Excellent, Black Eagle,
Lightning, Comet, Fearless, and Echo (steam-vessels) ;
and Seaflower.

In the Basin—Athol, Kingfisher, and Scourge steam-
sloop, building.
In Dock—Prince Regent, Amphitrite, and Trincoma-
lee, razeeing ; Carysfurt, overhauling ; rand Centaur
steam-frigate, building.

FRIGHTFUL AND ALARMING
STATE OF LEI TRIM.

(From a Correspondent of the Armagh Sporting Chronicle.)
On Saturday last, three men (strangers). were seen lurking about
the demesne of Strand Hili, the residence of James Fawcett, Esq.,
J.P., and on the following day (Sunday), shortly after that gentle.
man and his family, with some friends who had been on a visit
with him, had left for Drumkieran Church, the same three men
were seen to secrete themselves in the plantation immediately
adjoining the avenue leading to Strand House, and from the
anxious inquiries which they had been making, relative to Mr.
Fawcett, it was at once suspected their visit was one of bloodshed.
Mr. Fawcett and family were actually on their way home; but,
having received Intelligence of what they might expect, imme-
diately returned to Drumkieran, and got the police, and were
joined by that active magistrate F. N. Cullen, Esq., of Curry
Lodge, and about twenty of the well-disposed Inhabitants, who
searched the country in all directions until eight o'clock in the
evening, but without effect. The police, however, were unre-
mitting in their exertions, and after a long and harassing march,
succeeded, I am happy to say, in arresting tl:ree men lying in one
bed in a house near the iron-works, and on the person of one of
them was found pistols. The police brought thorn the next
morning, at five o'clock, to Strand Hill, and the man on whom the
pistols were found was fully identified as being the person who was
so anxiously inquiring after Mr. Fawcett on Sunday. The only
reason that can be assigned for this intended assassination was that
Mr. Fawcett gave the use of his boat to Mr. Slade, S.M., and the
police, to go across Lough Allen, in pursuit of the Molly Maguires,
who had been plundering the country of fire-arms and committing
outrages the night before. In a few nights after this occurrence
Mr. Fawcett's boat was maliciously sunk, and a threatening notice
served on himself.

Such is the dreadful state of this country, in which Neither life
nor property is safe. The Government has been tnemorialiscd to
put both Leitrim and Cavan under martial law, the necessity of
which is now beyond doubt.

"Cur. GOODWOOD Cur.—The subject of the silver
cup, which is to be run for to-day at Goodwood, is an incident in
the life of Mary Queen of Scots, taken from Sir Walter Scott's
" Tales of a Grandfather." When Mary, shortly after her first
matriage, was threatened with an attack by the lords of the Cove.
Pant, she is reported to have placed herself at the head of her
troops, and appeared so fully prepared to receive them, that, their
courage failing, they turned their horses' heads and rode off the
field without tusking any attempt. This was called in derision
" The roundabout raid." The composition represents Mary
meunted on a spirited charger. She is clad in light armour, and
has pistols at her saddle bow ; an attendant is on one knee beside
her, and they both seem to be watching the retreU of the foe. The
group is simple in design, and in execution is in no way inferior to
the many excellent specimens in this style of art for which the turf
is indebted to the genius of the sculptor, Mr. Cotterill. It is
mounted on a tasteful base, of ebony, richly studded with silver
decorations.

DREADFUL AND FATAL ACCIDENT.— Another of
those frightful accidents, the consequence of gross misconduct or
carelessness, that are unfortunately too frequent, occurred at the
toll-house of Crossonen turnpike.gate, on the evening of Sunday,
the 20th inst. Wm. Collard, the keeper of the gate, left it in the
morning to the charge of a little boy, named James Prosser, and
put a gun, loaded, in a corner of the house, telling Prosser that he
was not to touch it, as it was loaded ; he then went away, and
called at several inns, desirous of having a horse and gig, but
failed. About six o'clock Wm. Prosser, a younger brother of the
boy left in charge of the gate, took some food for him to the house,
and soon afterwards it was discovered that Wm. Prosser had re-
ceived the contents of the gun in his left temple; his head was so
frightfully mutilated that no hope could be entertained of his reco.
very. The wretched boy was carried home, where death termi..
nated his sufferings the same night. An inquest was held on the
body on Monday, before T. Hughes, Esq., and adjourned till Wed-
nesday, when, after the examination of seven witnesses, the fol-
lowing verdict was returned :—" That the deceased died in conse.
quence of a gun-shot wound, but by whom inflicted, not known."
The conduct of Collard, in leaving the gate all day to the care of
a little boy, was most reprehensible, and well deserved the repri.
mead he received from Mr. Hughes.—Monmouthshire Merlin.

SEWERAGE OF THE METROPOLIS. Yesterday, a
meeting of the Commissioners of Sewers for the Holborn and
Finsbury divisions, Mr. Mills in the chair, was held at the Com.
missionere Rooms, Hatton.garden, when a rate of 6d. in the
pound was made upon the district. The last rate, amounting to
17,6091., collected up to the 25th of April, left a balance due of
only about 1,000/., the greater part of which was on account of
empty houses, and it was stated by the chairman, that in conse-
quence of the great improvement in the health of the inhabitants
of the neighbourhoods where sewers were erected, the rates were
readily paid. Several sums of money were ordered to discharge
contracts, and contracts were taken for some thousand feet of
sewers. About 400 feet of the Fleet River, in the vicinity of the
King's-road, St. Pancras, was offered to be arched over by Mr.
Cubitt, the builder, where many new houses are about to be erected.
In Liquorpond-street, a new sewer, 380 feet long, to cost 6501.,
towards which 4001. will be advanced by Messrs. Reid and Co.,
was ordered to be formed. Another sewer was also directed to be
formed in Wilson-street, Finsbury, which will be connected with
one constructed by the City Commissioners, by which there will
be a continuous sewer to Ball's Pond, and it is proposed to con-
tinue it to Stoke Newington.
NEW STOCK EXCHANGE.—A new Stock; Exchange
was opened in Liverpool on Monday last, in a large room of the
extensive premises, in Moorfields, recently occupied as the British
Hotel. The members of the new Association commenced business
with great spirit and energy, and the transactions of the week have
been, considering the infancy of the concern, tolerably numerous.
The lists of current prices and of the daily sales have been duly
issued, and have exhibited a very fair amount of operations, par-
ticularly in that description of stock that has been most popular in
the market. The new Association has received the designation
the
the Royal Stock Exchange. The rates of commission
businessar
same as those in the elder Association. Strangers . having
admitted to to observe
with, and being introduced by members, are
the mode in which the business is transacted,lim itthaeddernnUmbers allowed
to four, in order
to be present at one time being, howesr,ebr,.
regulation Is necessary,
to prevent inconvenient crowding.
in consequence of the
bd area of the room. The Mem-
bers have it in contemplation to uild a suitable edifice for the pur
poses of their business somewhere contiguous to the great centre of
commercial transactions.—Liverpool Albion.
ACCIDENT ore TII DOVER RAILWAY.— he half-
past -
six o'clock train from Dover, on arriving yesterday evening at
the Penshurst station, was run in upon by an engine which had
been assisting behind, when the train was stationary. Three:or
four carriages were doubled up, and one dashed to pieces. About'
30 persons received contusions and cuts. One gentleman had his
log fractured, and another received a severe injury in his back.
Mr. Cubitt, who was with the train, states, that the accident oc-
curred from the red lights not being placed on the last carriage at
Tunbridge, and that the engine which occasioned the mischief was
following to bring up the lights. But most of the passengers state
that the engine had been assisting behind all the way from Dover.
The danger of having engines behind cannot be too strongly im-
pressed upon the directors of railways, as most of the accidents
which have occurred have arisen from this cause.
AIDE-DE-CAMP TO THE AIASTEIit-GENERAL OE TIIE
ORDNANCE.—By general order, dated July 2, 1845, the Master_
General has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant George Boyce,
of the 2nd Life Guards, to be his aide.de-camp, in room of Captain
Paget, resigned.