The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-26 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert rode out on horseback, on
Thursday afternoon, attended by the Equerries in Waiting.
Their Royal Highnesses the l'rince of Wales, Prince Alfred,
the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken an
airing in a carriage yesterday.
Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their usual early
walk yesterday morning in the pleasure-grounds of Osborne
House.
The Earl of Aberdeen arrived at Osborne House yesterday
afternoon from town on a visit to the Queen.
The Royal dinner party at. Osborne House yesterday evening
was expected to include his Majesty the King of the Nether-
lands, his Excellency Baron Dedel, the Earl of Aberdeen, his
Excellency M. Bond, Count Bylandt, Viscount Hawarden,
Colonel Baron Coehoorn, and the Non. Captain Hood.
The Duke of Wellincton had an audience of his Majesty
the King of the Netherlands, yesterday morning, at Mivart's
Hotel.
The King of the Netherlands left town yesterday afternoon,
to pay a visit to the Queen, at Osborne House, Isle of Wight.
His Nlajesty left Mivart's Hotel, in one of the Queen's car-
riages, at twenty minutes before two o'clock, attended by his
Excellency Baron Dedel, Viscount Hawarden, and the Hon.
Captain Hood. M. Boud, Colonel Baron Coehoorn, and
Count Bylandt followed in another royal carrige, to the Nine
Elms terminus of the South-Western Railway. His Majesty
and suite took their departure by a special train for Gosport,
where they arrived at ten minutes past four o'clock, and imme-
diately embarked for Norris Castle, Isle of Wight.
Yesterday was the birthday of her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Cambridge. Her Royal Highness the Ductless of
Gloucester arrived in town in the forenoon from Panshanger,
Herts, the seat of the Earl and Countess Cowper, and paid a
visit of congratulation to her illustrious relative at Cambridge
House.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and their Serene Highnesses
the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar and the Princesses Anna and
Amelie of Saxe Weimar, left Bushy House, Bushy Park, at a
quarter before twelve o'clock yesterday morning in a carriage
mad four for town, arriving at Marlborough House soon after
one o'clock. The Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Duchess
and the Princesses, proceeded to Cambridge House to
pay a congratulatory visit to her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Cambridge. Soon after two o'clock a dejeune was
served at Cambridge House, to her Majesty the Queen Dow-
ager, his Royal Highness Prince George, and their Serene
Highnesses the Duchess Ida, Prince Edward, and the Prin-
cesses Anna and Amelie of Saxe Wiemar.
Several of the Diplomatic Corps, and many of the Nobility
and Gentry called at Cambridge House during the afternoon,
to pay their respects to the royal Duchess on the auspicious re-
turn of her natal day. Among them were the Netherlands
Minister, the Russian Minister and Baroness Brunow, the Ha-
noverian Minister, the Wurtemberg Minister, the Prussian
Minster and Madame Bunsen, the Brazilian Minister
and Madame Marques Lisboa, Prince Paul Lieven, Baron
Thile, Baron Radgeville, Count and Countess de Farnae,
the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, the Duke and Duchess of
Grafton, the Marquis of Winchester, the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Westminster, the Marquis and Marchioness of Ayles-
bury, the Earl of Wilton, the Earl and Countess of Chester-
field, the Earl and Countess Brownlow, the Countess of Jersey
and the Ladies Villiers, Lady Caroline Murray, Lady Alicia
Gordon, Lady Catherine Buckley, Lord Claud Hamilton, Lord
and Lady Wharneliffe Lord Forester, Lord and Lady Foley,
the Attorney-General and Lady Thesiger, Lady Reynell,
Colonel and Lady Laura Meyrick, Miss Meyrick, Lord Redes-
dale, and Miss Mitford.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had a dinner party
yesterday at Cambridge House. The company included her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, his Serene High-
ness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, his Excellency Count
Kielmannsegge, the Lord Chancellor and Lady Lyndhurst, the
Prince and Princess Radzw•ill, the Marquis of Winchester, the
Countess of Jersey, Lord Frederick Fitzelarence, Lord Fo-
rester, Lord Cantilupe, and Sir James Reynett.
In the evening the tradesmen of the Royal Duchess illumi-
nated their houses.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by their
Serene Highnesses the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar and the
Princesses Anna and Amelie of Saxe Weimar, left Marlborough-
house at half-past four o'clock yesterday afternoon, on • her re-
turn to Bushy-park.
The Secretary of State for the Colonies received a deputa-
tion yesterday, comprising Captain Richardson, Sir R. Brown,
and Mr. Bridges, at the Colonial-office, relative to a railway
to connect the capitals of Nova Scotia and Canada, through
New Brunswick, the Company having power to purchase and
Fettle lands on the line.
Baron de Cetto, Bavarian Minister, transacted business yes-
terday, at the Foreign-office.
Walford had an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer yesterday,
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday.
The Lords present were the Lord President, Lord Brougham,
the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, and the Judge of the
Admiralty Court.
Mr. Purton Cooper, Q C., and Mr. Wilde, were heard
upon a motion respecting an appeal of Walker v. Flint, from
the Supreme Equity Court of Australia.
The appeal, Cochcraft and Tooze v. Rawles was resumed.
The Attorney-General and Dr. Addams were heard for the
respondent. The Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce then gave
judgment on the part of their Lordships, that the instrument
propounded as the will of the deceased dated 1838 was not
established. The Court then rose.

CONCERT ROOM MANNERS.—Madame Dorus Gras
is warbling one of those exquisite arias from Meyerbeer's
_Robert le Diable, in the execution of which we thought
she was unrivalled, until we heard the more voluminous
voice of the gifted Laborde in the same thrilling passages ;
now your friend, although not a very frequent visitor of the
concert room, nor remarkable for the accuracy of his judg-
ment in musical matters, is not backward at giving his opinion;
when the piece is concluded, therefore, he waits till the ap-
plause is over, and all being quiet, he remarks to you, in a
loud self-satisfied tone, that it was very well sung, but that
for his own part he preferred Staudigl's rendering of that com-
position I A half-suppressed titter is heard around you, and
again you become conscious of the eyes of your neighbours.
You look about to see if there is any possibility of escape—but
the company have closed you completely in, and you resign
} ourself to your tormentor with the patience of a martyr.
Presently, during the performance of a vocal quartet, your
friend in the coloured gloves turns round to you with the
inquiry, " Who are these ? Are they the Distin
family ?" What is the use of a programme to such an " uncom-
fortable man !" he makes you at once his programme and his
scapegoat, and instead of enjoying a pleasant evening, you are
sensible that your friend is making himself look very much
like a fool, and that you, his victim, are perhaps by this time
beginning to obtain a small portion of pity from the half-
amused half-disgusted persons by whom you are surrounded.
Drarnatic and Musical Review.
YUCCA GLoRIOSA.—A splendid specimen of this
superb plant may be seen in full flower, at the Royal Surrey Zoolo.
gical Gardens,
FATAL ACCIDENT ON TDB RIVER.—On Thursday
afternoon an inquest was held before Mr. Carter, at the Red-house
tavern, Battersea-flews, on the body of Edward Lockyer, aged
forty-two, a shoemaker, who, with his wife was drowned by the
upsetting of a sailing-boat off the Battersea timber-docks. The
evidence given was very voluminous, but the facts are these :—A
party, six in number, all working people, met together on Tuesday
afternoon last, and agreed to take an excursion up the river in a
sailing-boat belonging to a sawyer named Nott, one of the party.
They proceeded safely as far as Deuce's timber-dock, Battersea--
marsh, and were making for shore, when John Nott, junior,
climbed up the mast and commenced singing. His father
called out to him, telling him he had no business there, but
he took no notice of what was said, and in about half a
minute afterwards David Sanders also climbed up, when the boat
careened and fell with her mast towards the Middlesex shore. The
four persons in the body of the boat, including the wife of the de-
ceased, were immersed in the water. The woman clung to a man
named Chatwin for some time, but he at lrat got clear and swam
to shore. Sanders and Mott, jun., who clung to the mast, were
rescued by a boat, and Nott, sen., swam to shore, but the deceased
and his wife sank and were drowned. The body of the deceased
was recovered in about an hour afterwards, and taken to the Old.
house-at-Home beer shop. It was :clearly proved that the young
men who ascended the mast did so merely out of bravado, and not
with the remotest intention of upsetting the boat, and the jury,
satisfied that the occurrence was purely accidental, returned a ver.
diet to that effect. It was stated in the inquest-room that the de-
ceased, who lived at No. 6, Holland.street, Westminster, had left
four children wholly unprovidcd for.
FALL OF TWO HOUSES IN CLEMENT'S-LANE.—YeS•
terday morning, between twelve and one, the utmost alarm wa
excited in the neighbourhood of Clement's-lane, Clare-market, by
the fall of two houses. These tenements have been for a consider-
able time condemned, and for the safety of foot passengers a strong
hoarding was put up in front of them. Adjoining these" con-
demned " buildings there still stand other buildings of considerable
height, tenanted by several families, the party walls of which are ex-
ceedingly unsafe ; and it is extremely providential that no one was
killed or suffocated, as not the slightest warning was given of the
downfal of the premises. The houses, which it was stated were built
in the reign of Queen Anne, and were in a state of extreme dilapi-
dation, tell inwards with a tremendous crash. Upon the occur-
rence taking place the police instantly called Mr. Cadogan, the
surveyor of the parish, who, having inspected the ruins, remained
for a considerable time, and at length left, declaring that no further
danger of the falling of the contiguous premises need be appre-
hended, at two o'clock. The families were kindly taken in, in
their night dresses, by Mr. Voller, of the White Hart, Clement's-