The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-21 00:00:00

CO URT CIRCULAR.

THE QUEEN'S STATE BALL.—Her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Gloucester took her departure soon af-
ter twelve o'clock.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Duchess of Kent and the Duke of Cambridge, returned
to the ball-room from supper.
Immediately on the return of the illustrious party, a
Scotch reel was danced, in which the following noble-
men and gentlemen joined, viz.!--
The Marquis of Douglas, Lord Gleulyon, Viscount
Reidhaver, Captain the Hon. James Murray, Hon. Cap-
tain Drummond (Strathallan), Captain Drummond
M•Guish, and Major Moray, of Abercaerney.
Several ladies also joined the reel.
Her Majesty's piper, Mr. Mackay, was in attendance
in the ball-room, and played a Highland reel, and the
Reel of Tulloch.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert afterwards passed
from the ball-room to the throne-room. Her Alajesty
danced in several quadrilles in the course of the night.
The Queen and Prince Albert left the state apartments
nt a quarter before two o'clock, the band playing the
National Anthem. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess
of Kent, the Duke of 'Cambridge, and Prince George
took their departure from the Palace at the same time
Dancing ceased soon afterwards.

'rho Guard Chamber was lighted on this occasion by
a rich cut glass lustre, fitted with gas, on Faraday's
ventilating principle, emitting a brilliant light, and with-
out any noxious products of combustion in the
apartment.. . .

His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Mr.
George Edward Anson, went yet,terday morning to the
office of the Duchy of Cornwall in Somerset House.
His Royal Highness rude out on horseback in the after-
noon.

Mr. L. Gruner had the honour of submitting to the
Queen and Prince Albert yesterday, the drawings which
he has been collecting in Italy for the Government
School of Design at Somerset House.
Her Majesty, attended by the Countess of Mount
Edgecumbe, Lady in Waiting, took an airing in a car-
riage yesterday. Lord Charles Wellesley, Equerry in
Waiting, was in attendance on horseback.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Leiningen, honoured the Italian Opera with
their presence, yesterday evening. The Royal Suite
included the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, Hon.
Miss Murray, Lord Byron, Lord Charles Wellesley,
and Colonel Wylde. Her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent, (attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson)
their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge (attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan and :Ir.
Edmond Mildmay), His Royal Highness Prince George
and her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess Stephanie
of Baden (attended by Baroness de Strumfedcr, and
Baron de Schreckenstein,) also honoured the perform-
ance of the opera with their presence.
The Countess of Mount Edgecumbe has succeeded the
Marchioness of Douro as the Lady in Waiting to the
Queen, and Lord Byron has succeeded Viscount Sydney
as the Lord in Waiting to her Majesty.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Royal were taken airings yesterday in the
royal gardens of Buckingham Palace.
The Queen and Prince Albert inspected yesterday the
magnificent vase intended to be presented by her Ma
jesty at the ensuing Ascot Races, which was submitted
by Mr. Garrard. The body is of a globular form, bear-
ing enrichments of the Shamrock, Rose, and Thistle,
with the inscriptions. The stem is in the Eliza-
bethan style, having grouped round it, the royal
supporters, with the arms, crowns, and helmets
cf her Majesty and Prince Albert. On the cover
is a highly finished group representing. the legend
of Saint Hubert, the patron saint of hunting, that por-
tion of the history being selected when the spectre stag
appears to Hubert, bearing the cross between its antlers ;
the affrighted huntsman at once falls upon his knees to
the vision, while his horse, unconscious of what is pass-
ing, is quietly grazing on the bank, and his hounds are
reposing by the side of their master.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, the
Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and the Grand
Duchess Stephanie of Baden, visited her 'Majesty the
Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough-house. His
iloyal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited the
Queen Dowager on Monday.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a
meeting yesterday afternoon, at the office in Whitehall.
place. There were present the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, the Bishops of London, Durham, Winchester,
Bangor, Carlisle, Chester, St. David's, Ely, Gloucester
and Bristol, Llandaff and Rochester, the Earl of Bes-
borough, the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse, the Right lion.
Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. John .Nichull, and the
Dean of Westminster.

The Duke of Roxburghe had an interview with the
Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the office of the Board of
Trade.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial
office, from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.

SOMETHING for CAPT. WARNER

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUX.

Sr/I,—ln the first page of the •Salisbss ry Journal (now in my
possession), dated Monday, June 7th, 1756, is the following an.
nouncement:—" We hear that in a few days a gentleman is to
perform an experiment before his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cumberland, his Grace the Duke of Marlborough, and Lord
Anson, of an invention of the great Marquis of Worcester, but
highly improved by himself, which is of a composition to be fired
from a oannon, and can be thrown ten miles, by which he proposes,
by being stationed in a ship at the mouth of any harbour, to
destroy every ship is it."—Yours respectfully,
Newport, Isle of Wight, May 19, 1845.

E. W.

Mr. Wilson continues his entertainments at the
Music Hall with undiminished success. Monday night he gave
" Anither Nicht wi' Burns," being a sequel to the former " Nicht,"
all the songs of which were sung and acted wi th this favourite vo.
oalist's usual thrilling style. He announced that his " Morning
Entertainments," at the Queen's Concert Rooms, commence to-
day, where he had such fashionable audiences last season; we
doubt not but they will be equally successful this time.
THE SUPPOSED MURDER NEAR HAMPSTEAD.—
Mrs. Cunningham, the wife of the unfortunate man who was
found dead in a ditch at Hampstead, states that when he left home
on Thursday evening he had with him a pair of silver spectacles,
which he purchased at Mr. Woodward's, the optician, of Clement's
Inn-passage, and gave 28s. for them. As neither these nor his
hat have as yet been found, it strengthens the suspicions that some
foul play has been practised towards him. Shortly before he was
last seen by his friends, he called at the shop of his employer, Mr.
Moody. of the Strand, and inquired respecting a coat which he
had to make, promising shortly to return. Although he was
noticed by several persons in the neighbourhood of Hampstead
upon the Friday afternoon, he is known to have bee,i seen in corn.
pany with two men in Russell-square, as late as half-past eight on
the same evening; at that time he had a small stick with him, and
was apparently the worse for liquor. His master, by whom he
had been employed between thirteen and fourteen years, gives him
a most excellent character. Deceased was a native of Yarmouth,
and has left a widow and two children, the eldest a boy about
twelve years of age.
A correspondent states that the Rev. Dr. Collyer
has presented a donation of 51. to that valuable institution the
Metropolitan Benefit Societies Asylum, in which Lord Robert
Grosvenor takes so warm an interest.
THE HA MARKET TH LATRE.— DOUGLAS JERROLD'S
COMEDY.—Time Works Wanders continues to draw crowded
houses every evening. As the actors get used to their parts
it goes, to make use of a technical expression, much better
The salient points are brought into stronger relief, and the
wit is made to tell more effectively than was possible on the
first night. Webster sustains poor Strickland's part of
Professor Truffles, and sustains it admirably. The comedy
will run 100 nights.
ABORIGINES PROTECTION SOCIETY.—The annual
general meeting of the Aborigines Protection Society was held
on Monday morning, in Crosby Hall, Bishopsgate-street. Mr. James I
Bell, the treasurer of the society, presided, in the absence of J. S.
Gurney, Esq. There ware not above thirty person' present, in.
eluding three Indians—two from North America and one from
South America. The report was read by the Rev. S. J. Freeman.
It was of some length, and entered into very minute details of the
progress made by the society in some quarters, while from a great
many very distant parts, where they possessed agents or mission.
aries, no reports had been received. It also alluded to the very
inefficient state of the society's funds, the reeseipts being so small
as to render it utterly impossible to carry out the objects for which
it was instituted. The society had deprived itself .f offices, and
of the services of a salaried secretary, to possess a larger fund for
general purposes. No financial account was presented to the
meeting, because the subscriptions had not been all received. The
report was adopted upon the motion of the Rev. J. Burnett, of
Camberwell, seconded by Peter Jones, Esq., who Is an Indian chief,
from Canada, and who rejoices in his own country in the jaw.
breaking name of Kahkcwaquonaby. Other resolutions ware
subsequently passed, urging upon the public notice the claims of
the aborigines, with regard to the occupation of their lands by
emigrants and speculating companies ; and also recommending It
to the public for support and sympathy. The resolutions were ably
supported by the speeches of the Rev. Mr. Burnett, P. Jones, J.
J. Freacan, Esq., and other gentlemen; and a vote of thanks
having been awarded to the chairman, the meeting separated.
ALLEGED ILL-TREATMENT OF AN INSANE PA-
AKENT.—Pursuant to adjournment, the inquest oh William Holding
re-assembled on Monday, at one o'clock, at the Earl Cathcart,
Munster-street, Regent's Park. After hearing some further evi-
dence of a character similar to that already reported, the jury
unanimously agreed to the following verdict:—" That William
Holding died from exhaustion, produced by discharge from large
wounds from his hips and lower part of his back, and that how
those wounds were caused there was not sufficient evidence before
the jurors to prove; and that although there was inflammation in
his skin, in the situation where the wounds afterwards appeared,
that such wounds did not exist when the said William Holding
was admitted into Armstrong's lunatic asylum at Peckham;
whereas the fact is established that they existed in a most aggra.
vated form when he was removed from the asylum. And that
the jury are decidedly of opinion that the medical treatment of
the deceased was cruelly neglected whilst he was in the asylum."
COLDSTREAM.—Among the freaks of the feathered
tribe during the time of incubation, the following is perhaps not
the least curious. A pair of robins seeking for a place to build
fixed on the sleeve of a coat hanging in a shed at the Hirsel.
garden. The hen bird is now sitting on six eggs, and undis-
mayed seems to welcome the curiosity of the numerous visitors to
her singular domicile. The circumstance is rendered still more

strange by the shed having been newly roofed during the time Of
her sitting.—Berwick Warder.

Tian MAYNOOTH GRANT.—The Reading Town
Council met on Wednesday last to consider the propriety of sup.
porting or opposing the Irish Ministerial policy, as developed in the
Bills for endowing Mayne,oth and establishing new colleges for sans.

scriptural education. Dr. Cowan proposed that the corporation
seal should be affixed to the petitions against Maynooth, and that
they should be presented. Alderman Rickford seconded the me-

tion, and after a long discussion, the motion was carried by a ma-
ority of 11 against 7.

CLASSIC SCULPTURE.—The perfection attained by
the nations of classic antiquity in the arts, especially
that of sculpture, is too well known and appreciated to
require further eulogium at the present day. We may
however cease to wonder at the excellence thus attained,
when we learn the extent to which it was practised,
since we find it recorded by an ancient writer that the
number of statues at Rome exceeded that of its living
inhabitants. It is well known that the master-pieces of
Greek and Roman skill have constantly supplied modern
artists with models and examples; and we have recently
been much' struck with the adaptation of a beautiful
specimen of ancient art, by those distinguished artists
Messrs. Perkins and Bacon, who, for the protection of
an article of deserved celebrity—the Kalydor, prepared
by Messrs. Rowland and Son, of Hatton-garden, have
produced a label depicting a classic group of eminent
grace and beauty—a further description of which fre-
quently appears ha our advertising columns.