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

COURT CIRCULAR.

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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
attended divine service yesterday moi-ning in Grosvenor
Chapel, South Audley-street.
His Excellency Edward Everett, late envoy Extraor-
dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the -Crated States
at this Court, with Mrs. Everett and family, leave town
this day, ;Ind embark at Liverpool in the Bor.on and
Halifax steamer on the 4th of September.
Dispatches from the Governor of Van Dieman's
Land were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Marquis oe Anglesey and the Earl and Countess
of Listowel attendA divine service yesterday, in the
Chapel Royal, St. James's. Prayers were read by the
Rev. J. Haden, the lessons by the Rev. W Hall, and
the communion service by. the Rev. Dr. Sleath. The
sermon was preached bv the Rev. Dr. Sleath. The
anthem was," 0 God, thou art my God," (Purcell).

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HER MAJESTY'S VISIT 'l'o
GERMANY.
Prince Albert..
.ce
Connua, AUG. 2.o.—Her Majesty an,'
with their suits., arrived safely at the 1...a1a of the
Grand Duke of Saxe Coburg at about halt past Live
o'clock yesterday evening, having left NlTurzburi .at half-
past six in the morning, and travelled all day.
There wits a very hriliant reception at Coburg. 1:1e,
town was diuminated, and troops lined the principal
streets. They fired salutes as the royal travellers
arrived. The hour at which this dispatch leaves
Coburg precludes the sending any further particulars
at present, except that her Majesty and the Prince are
quite well.

CHURCH-RATE CONTEST.—(FTOIII a Correspondent.)
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 on the occasion
of a Parliamentary election. The contest commencer: on Mon-
day last, the 18th inst. The polling of the rate-payers com-
menced at ten o'clock, and has been continued each day sind'•
The majority in favour of the anti-rate party up to Saturday
night was 111. Every means, iair and foul, have been used by
the Church party to coerce the opponents of the rate into corn,
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.
Wakefield is the head-quarters of a division of the Sappers and
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 commavdant of
the division, has polled four votes in favour of the rate for a iarge
tenement which is rented and the rates pail by Government
for the Ordnance survey. It has always been understood thaa
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 party who are obliged to call upon
the military of the kingdom for the support of their cause.
FORI:1(:N FRUIT AND PROVISIONS.—The Batavier
steam-ship, from Rotterdam, brought on her last voyage.
besides cattle, 203 packages of peas, 82 packages of plums, 371
of melons, 7 of yeast, a quantity of poultry, and other articles
of Dutch produce and manufacture. The General Steam
Navigation Company's vessel Rainbow, which arrived on the
same day from Havre, 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 faveurite 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
board, 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 BRONINVICH.—FATAL ACCIDENT FROM THE
FALLING OF A THEATRE.—An inquest vas held by Geoqte
Ilincbliffe, Esq., coroner, at the Hare and Hounds, Mare's
Green, West Bromwich, on Thursday evening, on the view of
the body of Benjamin ltubery, 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 ISO persons had assembled in the theatre, to witness the
performance, and in five minutes after the curtain 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 premed 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,
and the platform falling upon him, crushed him to death. It
was proved by the evidence of several witnesses, that theac
was no negligence on the part of the proprietor of the theatre,
and the jury returned a verdict of accidental death.—Birming-
hani Journal.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—LURE FOR DROI'SY BY 1101,
LOWAV'S PILLS AND OINTMENT.—Captain James Eyre, of
the Company's service, residing at Boulogne, had been tapped
thrice within seven months, twelve quarts of water were taken
from him each time; notwithstanding which operations ho was
about falling a victim to this terrible complaint, when he com-
menced the rubbing in of Holloway's invaluable Ointment,
and as effectually as salt is forced into meat—besides this, he
took large doses of his wonderful Pills, which in nine weeks
effected so extraordinary a cure, as to enable him since to walk
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.

11111.1TARY COURT-MARTIALS.—On Friday morn-
ing, the 22d inst., the Ist battalion of Grenadier Guards, unde
the command of Colonel Lascelles, were assembled at St.
John's. wood Barracks, to hear the following sentences read:—
The first on private T. Roadknight, of No. 6 Company, whet
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
within seven years), was sentenced to undergo three months'
imprisonment with hard labour. The second sentence was on
private J. Emery, of No. S Company, who had been tried by a
battalion court-martial, for absenting himself six nights with-
out leave. lie was fourp' guilty, and sentenced to forty days'
imprisonment, with hard labour. The prisoners were imme-
diately placed in irons, and marched by an escort to the new
military prison at Chatham.