The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-25 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duke of Cambridge arrived in town on Saturday
from Richmond Park, the residence of her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Gloucester. His Royal Highness
attend. d divine service yesterday morning in Grosvenor
Chapel, South Audley-street.
Brs Excellency Edward Everett, late Envoy Extraor-
dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States
at this Court, with Mrs. Everett and family, leave town
this day, and embark at Liverpool in the Boston and
Halifax steamer on the 4th of September.
Dispatches from the Governor of Van Dieroan's
Land were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Marquis of Anglesey and the Earl and Countess
of Listowel attended divine service yesterday, in the
Chapel Royal, St. James's. Praydrs were read by the
Rev. J. Haden, the lessons by the Rev. W. Halt, and
the communion service 1.)3 tho Rev. Dr. Sleath. The
sermon was preached by the liev. Dr. Sleath. The
anthem was, " 0 God, thou art my God," (Purcell).

IIER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO
GERMANY.

Comma, Auc. 20.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert,
with their suite, arrived safely at the palace of the
Grand Duke of Saxe Coburg at about half-past five
o'clock yesterday evening, having left Wurzburg at half-
past six in the morning, and travelled all day.
There was a or briliant reception at Coburg. The
town was illuminated, and troops lined the principal
streets. 'I hey fired salutes as the royal traveller.
arrived. The hour at which this dispatch leave.
Coburg. precludes the sending any further particular.
at present, except that her Majesty and the Prince are
cillitP well.

CHURCH-RATE CONTEST.—( From a Corresp3ndeqit.
Wakefield has been much alive with a church-rate contest
during the last six days ; the town has been in a state of excite.
ment not to be exceeded by that which prevails en the occasion
of a Parliamentary election. The contest commenced on Mon-
day List, the 18th inst. The polling of the rate-payers eons•
tnenced at ten o'clock, and has been continued each day since.
The majority in favour of the anti-rate party up to Saturday
night was 111. Every means, fair and foul, have been used by
the Church party to coerce tke opponents of the rate into com-
pliance, and hence the contest is being carried on with a degree
of warmth almost unparalleled. The pro. rate party have been
driven to the most desperate efforts to gain their object.
W'akefi, ld is the head-quarters of &division of the Sappers ant
miners for the Ordnance survey ; and the privates of the corps,
who occupy small tenements in the town, have been brought up
to poll for a church-rate. Captain Tucker, the commandant of
the division, has polled four votes in favour of the rate for a large
tenement which is rented and the rates psi I by Government
for the Ordnance survey. It has always been understood that
the military of this country were to avoid all elections and
contests of this sort ; it appears, however, that in Wakefield •
this rule is to be of non-effect. What may be the position of
the parties at the close of the poll it is impossible to say. We
hope that the inhabitants will not permit this town to be dis-
graced by the triumph of a part) who are obliged to call upon
the military of the kingdom for the support of their cause.
FoRLIGN FRUIT AND PROVISIONs.--The 13atta ler
steam-ship, from Rotterdam, brought on her last voyage.
besides cattle, 203 packages of peas, 82 packages of plums, 371
of melon., 7 of yeast, a quantity of poultry, and other articles
of Dutch produce aad manufacture. The General Steam
Navigation Company's vessel Rainbow, which arrived on the
same day from Ilavre, brought nearly 500 packages of plums,
&c., of excellent quality. The same Company's vessels
Tourist, from Calais, and Earl of Liverpool, from Ostend,
also brought en the same day a large quantity of poultry, eggs,
and butter for consumption here. The Company's ships
which were due on that day from Rotterdam and Hamburgh
did not arrive, owing to the extreme rough weather at sea.
The favourite steam-ship Antwerpen, which was due at the
St. Katharine Decks from Antwerp on the same morning, did
not arrive for several hours afterwards, owing to the contrary
winds and rough weather. She arrived shortly after the
Batavier, with the large number of seventy-two passengers on
beard, including several persons of distinction ; and the revenue
officers at the wharf stayed until a late hour at night, in order
to facilitate the delivery of their baggage and effects, and the
fruit and cattle belonging to the vessels before mentioned as
having arrived on the same day.
WEST BROMWICII.—FATAL ACCIDENT FROM THE
FALLING or A TIIEATRE.—An inquest was held by George
Hinchliffe, Esq., coroner, at the Hare and Hounds, Mare's
Green, West Bromwich, on Thursday evening, on the view of
the body of Benjamin Ruberv, aged twenty-four years, who
was killed the night before, by the gallery of a temporary theatre
having fallen upon him. It appeared from the evidence that
about 180 persons had assembled in the theatre, to witness the
performance, and in five minutes after the curtail' rose the
gallery fell in with a sudden crash, amid the screams of men,
women and children. Notwithstanding, however, that so many
persons were thrown down in the midst of benches and the
frame work of the structure, only one person (a female) was
found to be hurt, and she escaped with a few slight bruises.
When the persons who had fallen were extricated, the deceased
was pressed down on his knees under a platform, with his
hands on the ground and his head forced between his shoulders.
It appeared afterwards that the deceased, to avoid paying for
seeing the performance, had crept under the stage in front of
the theatre, forcing his way through some of the woodwork, by
which he got under the gallery. Here, it is supposed, he
displaced some of the supports, when the whole gave way,
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and the jury. returned a verdict. of accidental death.-- Birnlinfi.
was no negligence on the part of the proprietor of the theatre.
hani Journal.

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from him each time; notwithstanding which operations he was
about falling a victim to this terrible complaint, when he cora-.
menced the rubbing in of Holloway's invaluable Ointmeztk
and at effectually as salt is forced into meat—besides this, be
took large doses of his wonderful Pills, which in nine weeks
effected so extraordinary a cure, as to enable him since to wait
twenty-five miles in one day. Any unnatural swellings of t
body are effectually cured by these celebrated medicines. Sold
by all Medicine-venders; likewise at Professor Holloway's Es-
tablishment, 244, Strand. London.

MILITARY (..‘4)I RT- ARTIALS.-011 Friday luorr,-
ing, the 22d inst., the Ist battalion of Grenadier Guards, uue.o*
the command of Colonel Lascelles, were assembled at St.
Johtis- wood Barracks, to hear the following sentences read
The first on private T. Roadknight, of No. 6 Company, who
had been tried by district court-martial, for absenting himself
from the battalion three nights without leave. He was found
guilty, and on receiving a bad character from the adjutan
(having been tried by nine court-martials for similar offence
wi.hin seven years), was sentenced to undergo three monthre,
imprisonment with hard labour. the second sentence was
private J. Emery, of No. 8 Company, who had been tried o%a
battalion court-martial, for absenting himself six nights witih—
out leave. He was found guilty, and sentenced to for' ,;
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imprisonment, with hard labour. The prisoners w'
r;J;,„-;',.-
diately placed in irons, and marched by an escOe
military prison at Chatham. to the nevi