The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-17 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—Yesterday afternoon, at
four o'clock, her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent arrived at the Castle to visit the Royal Family.
The Royal Duchess afterwards returned to Frogmore
Lodge.
This forenoon her Royal Highness the Princess
Royal was taken out on a pony in the pleasure-
grounds of the Castle.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and
the Princess Alice, accompanied by the Dowager
Lady Lyttelton, left the Castle at half-past nine
o'clock, for a carriage drive.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left
Frogmore House yesterday morning in a carriage
and four, for town, arriving at her residence, Clarence
House, St. James's, shortly before eleven o'clock.
Her Royal Highness went to Gloucester House, to
visit the Duchess of Gloucester, and remained to
lunch with the Royal Duchess.
In the afternoon the Duchess of Kent left
Gloucester House in a carriage and four, on her
return to Frogmore Lodge.
A deputation from the Newport, Nantyglo, and
Blaenatbn Railway, consisting of Mr. Reginald J.
131ewitt, M.P., Mr. W. S. Cartwright, Mr. John
Fraser, Mr. J. H. Ravenshaw, and Mr. J. Francis,
attended by Mr. Secretan and Mr. W. 0. Hunt, soli-
citors to the Company, and by Messrs. Hodgkinson
and Barber, the engineers, had an interview with the
Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the office of the Board
of Trade.

Colonel R. Wright, late Agent and Consul-General
for the State of Equador, left town yesterday for
Southampton, to embark in the Tweed, on his return
to Quito.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from
the Colonial-office for the Governor of Malta. Dis-
patches were also sent off for the Governor of
Gibraltar.

Count D. Nesselrode and suite embarked early
yesterday morning, from off the Tower, on board the
General Steam Navigation Company's mail-packet
William Jolliffe, for Ilamburgh.
TRADE or DUBLIN.--The quarter ended on the
10th instant gives a customs' receipt in this port of
274,7341. against 263,759/. received in the similar period
of 1843 ; showing an excess in favour of the current year
of 10,975!. The year ended the 10th of October, 1843,
the receipts in Dublin amounted to 938,991/. ; the year
ended on last Wednesday gives a receipt of 1,037,7691.,
being 98,778/. of an increase in favour of this year. The
number of documents passed to liberate the various
goods, and the necessary labour exercised in the respec-
tive departments of the customs, have increased much
more in proportion to the receipts of the money, as will
be seen when the statement for the quarter ended 10th
of October pronounces the issue of 6,129 documents--
that of 1844, 6,898, or an increase of one in nine; the year
to the 10th of October, 1840, 20,910 ; while the present
gives 25,396, or nearly double the number passed in 1830,
when the number of hands in the employ of the Board
of Custoths at this port were nearly twofold what they
are at the present time. The cost of the collection and
management of the customs' revenue here amounts to
the extravagantly incalculable sum of one five-sixth per
cent. on the sum collected —Freeman's Journal.
DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT CoiNs.--Yesterday, as
Mr. Pope, a farmer, residing at Kilburn, was engaged
ploughing a field on his farm at Kilburn, adjoining the
London and Birmingham Railroad, several pieces of
ancient gold, silver, and copper coins were turned up,
including some of the reign of Oliver Cromwell, in
excellent preservation. Some centuries ago, on the site
of ground stood an extensive convent and burial-ground,
and during the period the London and Birmingnam
Railroad was being made, the excavators found, in the
same field, numerous stone coffins, skeletons, similar
ancient coins, and plate,