The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-26 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen will hold a Privy
Council at the Castle on Thursday next, at half-past
two o'clock.

Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Duke and Duchess
of Saxe Cobourg and Gotha, and the Duke Ernest of
Wurtemberg, took an early promenade in the plea-
sure grounds. After the return of the royal party to
the Castle, the Prince, accompanied by the Dukes of
Saxe Cobourg and Wurtemburg, and the Earl of
Liverpool, and attended by le Baron de Alvensleben
and Colonel Arbuthnot, left the Castle in the mail
phaeton, to shoot in the royal preserves. Mr. J. E.
Anson and Colonel Wylde attending on horseback.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was taken
for pony and walking exercise.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked out in the
afternoon.

Sir Henry Wheatley arrived at the Castle to-day,
on a visit to the Queen.
The Marquis of Granby, and the Marquis and
Marchioness of Normanby took their departure from
the Castle to-day.
Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Saxe Coburg
and Gotha, and Ernest of Wurtemberg, attended by
Baron de Alvensleben and Captain Vyner rode out on
horseback in the Great Park this afternoon.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady
Fanny Howard, and the Countess Wratislaw, joined
the royal circle at dinner.
The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards was in
attendance during dinner.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended
at the Castle.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, at-
tended by Baron Knesebeck, arrived at his residence
at Kew last evening, from a visit to Colonel Wynd-
ham, at Petworth House, Sussex.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon,
at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Sir Robert
Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor,
Lord Wharncliffe, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley,
Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Earl of Haddington, Earl of Ripon, Right Hon. W.
E. Gladstone, Lord Granville Somerset, and Sir Ed-
ward Knatchbull. The Council sat three hours and
a half.

A deputation from the Committee of the British and
Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, consisting of George
Stacey, Robert Forster, J. Hinton. Joseph Cooper,
Samuel Gurney., Josiah Forster, and J. Scoble, had
an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday at his
official residence in Downing-street.
The Portuguese Minister and the Russian Minister
transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer yesterday at his official residence in Downing-
street.

Sir Robert Peel had a dinner party yesterday al
his residence in Whitehall-gardens.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colo.
nial-office from the Governor of Gibraltar.

GREAT ROBBERY AT MESSRS.
ROGERS AND TOWGOOD'S BANKING-
HOUSE.
A robbery to an awful extent was committed be-
tween Saturday night and Monday morning, in the
banking-house of Messrs. Rogers, Towgood, and Co.,
bankers, of Clement's-lane. It was stated that bank-
notes to the amount of from 35,0001. to 40,0001. or
41,0001. were stolen out of the iron safe which is de-
posited in the hall of the inner office, and that securi-
ties to a very large amount have been taken by the
thieves.

It is a remarkable circumstance connected with this
robbery, that on the morning of yesterday, when it
was first discovered, there was no internal appearances
from which suspicion could be entertained upon en-
tering the office that any robbery had been
_perpe-
trated, or attempt at robbery had been made. Every-
thing was in its accustomed order ; the iron safe, in
which the cash and securities were regularly depo-
sited, was locked, and the iron chest, in which it was
usual to deposit the master-kay of the safe, to which
there were two locks, was also secure.
It was, we understand, the practice of the partners
of the firm, of which there are said to be four, to re-
lieve each other in the heavy cash business of the
house at stated periods, and each of them keep keys
of the safe and iron chest; and it is supposed that
one of these gentlemen left behind him his keys upon
some occasion of hurry or forgetfulness, a d that
with these keys the places of former security were
violated. Some force had been used on a tin box in
which several valuable securities were kept ; but it
appeared that the thieves had made some mistake
with regard to the exact position of these documents,
for they worked on the wrong side, and are so far
disappointed. They laid hands upon enough, how-
ever, to console them for their blunder, as appears
from the enormous list of bank-notes announced in a
large handbill issued last night.
In that handbill are the particulars of the stolen
Bank of England notes, which amount altogether to
40,7101. Of those hank-notes there are 168 for 51.,
40 for 101., 37 for 201., 10 for 301., 12 for 401., 9 for
501., 10 for 100/., 5 for 2001., 1 for 5001., and 35
for 1,0001. The handbill states that further parti-
culars of the bills of exchange will be published, and
that whoever will give such information as will lead
to the apprehension of the guilty party or parties, or
either of them, and recovery of the property, or any
part thereof, shall receive 3,0001. reward, or a part
thereof proportionate to the sum which shall be re-
covered.

Mr. Nobler has been employed by the banking-
house to investigate the case, and has secured the
able assistance of Daniel Forrester, the officer. As
the firm do not belong to the Committee of Bankers
against frauds and forgeries, Messrs. Bush and Mul-
lins have of course nothing to do with the prosecution.
It appears that the money was deposited in the
iron safe ; and, as usual, a clerk was appointed to
watch over its safety during the day, and another
clerk to perform the like duty during the night. One
of the partners remaining at home yesterday, the day-
clerk asked permission to go out for a few hours,
which was granted. At the accustomed hour in the
evening the other clerk came, and remained during
the night ; but when business was resumed yesterday
morning, and the iron safe opened with the ordinary
key, it was found entirely empty ; and yet no force
whatever had been used in the employment of the
means adopted to rid the chest of its valuable con-
tents. Of course, all is conjecture upon the subject.
Notes to the amount of 35,0001. have been stopped at
the Bank ; and Forester, the active and intelligent
City police-officer, is engaged in endeavouring to
trace the party guilty of this daring and flagrant
crime.

MR. MACREADY.—The baggage and effects of this
gentleman, containing a considerable portion of the
splendid dresses worn by him in his dramatic delinea-
tions, and which he took with him in his professional
tour to the United States, hare arrived in the SL Katha-
rine's Docks, by the ship Quebec, from New York, and
this eminent actor personally attended their examina-
tion by the Customs officers yesterday afternoon, and
went through the usual forms of declaration, &c., re-
quired for their delivery as British returned private
effects, duty free. Some of the dresses are exceedingly
handsome. The majority of the company engaged by
Mr. Mitchell for the ensuing English performances in
Paris left town on Sunday morning for that capital, and
Mr. Alacready intended to take his departure at the same
time had he not been detained in order to obtain posses-
sion of his baggage. lie was to leave for the French
capital last night by the Dover Railway, to make the ne-
cessary preparations for the completion of the arrange-
ments for the performance of English plays at the Opera
Italien, which commence on Monday next.
IZEINFORCBMENTS FOR THB BAR.—During Michael-
mas Term, no less than 54 persons were called to the
bar, which at the commencement of term, as appeared
by publication of the fact, numbered 2,243 individuals.
Of the 54, 15 were called by the Honourable Society of
Lincoln's Inn, eight by the Honourable Society of the
Inner Temple, 29 by the Middle Temple, and two by
Gray's Inn.
Tlia SANATORIUM, OR HOME IN SICKNEsS.—Miss
Burdett Coutts has made the munificent donation of 501.
to this excellent institution.