The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-03 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR

WINDSOR, TuEsnAr.---Her :Majesty and his Royal
Highness Prince Albert promenaded in the precincts of
the Castle this afternoon.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by
his Serene Ilighness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar,
and attended by Lord Rivers, Colonel Arbuthnot, and
Mr. G. E. Anson, went out shooting in the royal pre-
serves this morning. The party afterwards returned to
the Castle.

Captain the Hon. Arthur Duncombe, RN., arrived
at the Castle to-day, and has succeeded the Hon. Captain
Nelson Hood as the Groom in Waiting on her Majesty.
The Royal Family have been taken out fur their
usual exercise in the course of the day.
Captain Francis Seymour left the Castle to-day, for
Winchester, to join a detachment of his regiment doing
duty there.

Mr. Edward Puckle had the honour, this morning, of
submitting to the inspection of the Queen and Prince
Albert, a finished proof of a portrait of her Majesty,
from a paining by Sir W. C. Ross, of which both her
Majesty and his Royal Highness were graciously pleased
to express their approbation.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert will dine this evening
wish her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at her
residence, Frogmore Lodge. Almost the whole of" the
Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting on her Majesty and
her Royal Highness will have the honour of dining with
the Royal Duchess at Frogmore.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester had a
select party at dinner yesterday evening,4lit her residence,
Gloucester House.

Mr. Everett, the American Minister, transacted busi-
ness yesterday, at the Foreign-office.
The Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers
left town yesterday, for the residence of the Hon. Frede-
rick Villiers, in Northamptonshire.

Dispatches from the Governor of New Zealand were
received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Dispatches
were also received from the Governor of Sierra Leone.

BANQUET AT FROGMORE-HOUSE
W.mnsoa, TUESDAY EVENING.—A grand banquet was
given this evening, by her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, to her Majesty, the Prince Consort, Prince Edward of
Saxe Weimar, and a distinguished circle, in honour of the birth-
day of his Serene Highness Ernest Antoine Charles Louis, the
reigning Duke of Saxe Cobourg and Gotha (the father of his
Royal Highness Prince :Albert), who was born on the 2d of
January, 1784.

Covers were laid for sixteen, in the large dining-room.
The Royal dinner party included, in addition to the Queen
and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, his Serene Highness
'
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Marchioness of Douro,
the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, the Hon. Clementina Hamilton,
Lady Fanny Howard, Lord Rivers, Captain the Hun. Arthur
Duncombe, Colonel Arbuthnot, Major-General Sir Edward
Bowater, the Hon. and Rev. Charles Leslie Courtenay, the
Hon. C. A. Murray, Colonel Sir George Cooper, Bart., and
Dr. PrEetorius.

At the conclusion of the banquet her Majesty, the Prince
Consort, the Duchess of Kent, and her Royal Highness's die•
tinguished guests, retired to the grand drawing-room, where
a concert was performed by the band of the Ist Life Guards.

OBITUARY of the NOBILITY and
ARISTOCRACY for 1843.
Amongst the other important events connected with the past
year may be enumerated the great number of deaths which have
taken place in that class of society termed the aristocracy of
the country. Many of those who have played prominent parts
on this world's stage have departed. Amongst them we find a
Prince of the Royal B!ood
His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex.
The Dukes of Manchester and Dorset.
The Marquis of Winchester.
Earls—Re Reede De Ginkell, Athlone, Abergavenny, Hope-
toun, Coventry, Glasgow, and Plymouth.
Viscounts—Ferrard, and Hinton, the eldest son of Earl
Poulett.
Lords —Duffus, Abercromby, the son of Sir Ralph Aber.
cromby ; Forbes, (General); Fitzgerald and Veaci Robert;
Ker. Rodney, Lynedoch, and Inverury, the eldest son of the
Earl of Kintore.
Baronets— J. Hesketh, C. B. Codrington, J. P. Murray,
F. Sykes, T. W. Vaughan, A. K. Jackson, E. Synge, M.
Wood, J. Shaw, R. Fitzwygram, J. Gordon, and J. \V. Mac-
naughten.
Knights—T. Robinson, and T. C. Morgan.
Bishop Lichfield.
Judges—The Right Hon. Charles Kendal Bushe, ex-Chief.
Justice of Ireland ; and the Right Hon. J. Radcliffe, Judge of
the Irish Prerogative Court.
Generals—The Hon. Sir Charles Colville, Sir W. Brooke
Thompson (the senior General but one in the British service),
Sir John Fraser, C.C. IL, and Sir John Taylor.
Majors-General—Percy Drummond, C. 13., Director-Ge-
neral of the Royal Artillery ; Sir John Thomas Jones, Bart.,
K. C. B. ; Edward Hutchins Bellasis, Sir Donald Macleod,
K. C. B. ; Sir J. O'Halloran.
Lieutenants-General-01Loghlin, Beever, R. A., and Sir
Archibald Campbell, G. C.B.
Colonels—Clements, M. P., fer the county of Cavan ; Sir
Horatio G. P. Townsend, K.C.H. Lieutenant-Governor of
Windsor Castle; Fortescue Ellison, and Dertemet G. Muirhead.
Lieutenant-
Colonels—Forbes, Champagne,Ullerton, William
L. Wood, K. li., Archibald Cameron, Richard Murray, Sir
William 'Thom (Author of " The History of the War in
India, under General Lord Lake,") Morgan, George Hart
Dyke, and Williamson.
Admirals—Thomas Alexander, and Sir R. Barlow, K. C. B.
Rear-Admirals—R. Henderson, and Sir Arthur Farquhar,
K. C. 11. and K. C. H.
Vice-Admirals—Sir Edward Brace, K.C. 8., Commander-
in-Chief at the Nore.
Right Honourables—J. A. Stuart Mackenzie, Governor of
Ceylon, and afterwardi Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
Islands.
Honourables—Wm. Howard ; Robert Kennedy, brother of
the Marquis of Ailsa ; Henry Browne, the youngest son of
Lord Oranmore ; R. G. Quin, brother of the Earl of JDunraven ;
and F. T. Tollemache, brother of the Earl of Dysart.
Members of Parliament—Major G. Brown, for the county
of Kilkenny ; and Valentine Maher, Esq., for the county of
Tipperary.
Late Members of Par:iament—C. F. Palmer, G. A. Mus-
keit, W. H. Sarsfield, A. Blennerhassett, J. B. S. Merritt,
J. B. Hoy, G. W. Wood.
Private Secretaries—Edward Drummond, Private Secre-
tary to Sir Robert Peel ; and Colonel Shaw, Private Secre-
tary to the Marquis of Wellesley, when Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland.
It will thus be seen that during the past year one Prince of
the Blood, two Dukes, one Marquis, six Earls, two Viscounts,
eight Lords, twelve Baronets, two Knights, one Bishop, two
(Irish) Judges, five Generals, five Majors-General, three
Lieutenants-General, , seven Colonels, nine Lieutenant-Colo-
nels, two Admirals, two Rear-Admirals, one Vice-Admiral,
one Right Honourable, five Ilonourables, two Members
of Parliament, seven late Members of Parliament, and two
Private Secretaries, have died—making the total eighty-
eight individuals, who during their lives were what are termed
public men, by their connection with the Government of the
country.

on New Year's nay, in
DEATII.—At Shoe-lune,
the ordinary course of nature, the double sheet of the Morning
Herald. Post.
We have really been so much amused at a New
Year's manifesto by one of our contemporaries (the Morning
Herald) that we feel bound to rescue it from the obscurity in
which its own limited circulation might otherwise leave it, by
offering it the additional notoriety of our own columns. Our Con-
temporary appears to be in a state of revolution , it has changed
its size—it has changed its managers ;it appears conscious of
having (" not essentially") changed its politics ; it has, if we
mistake not, changed its type (at least we recognise here and
"spick and span,"
there in its columns the familiar letters of an evening contem-
porary ), and out it comes,on New Year's.
day, to pay its readers the compliments of the season in its new
dress.— Times.
ACCIDENT TO THE EARL OF MOHNTCASHEL.—In
consequence of a statement having appeared in the account
given of the meeting of magistrates lately held at Fermoy, that
the Earl of Mountcashel had received but a slight injury by
his carriage being upset, we are authorised to say, that the
accident was of a much more serious nature. On Thursday,
the 21st, as his Lordship was returning from the mountains,
where he had been shooting, the horse took fright, and running
away down a hill, the carriage in which he was seated came in
contact with a stone fence at the side of the road with such vio-
lence as to separate the two hind wheels from the body, and he
was dashed (at with considerable force. t-r
a
—e was taken up in-
sensible immediately afterwards by some persons who were
hpaeshsiansgb,
been
nd
ccoanrfirineeddi ntotohaisn
bed,
cottage. For the last week
sufferingmuch pain, but is now
out of all danger.—Cork Paper.
'We are informed that Mr. and Mrs. 'Wood are en-
gaged at the Princess's Theatre, and will make their first ap-
pearance in a few days in the opera of The Maid of Judgh.