The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-16 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—Yesterday afternoon, the
weather continuing unfavourable, the Royal Family
were prevented from taking their usual airings.
This morning their Royal Highnesses the Prince
of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice,
accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, were
taken an airing in a pony carriage, preceded by out-
riders. The royal party returned to the Castle at a
quarter before eleven o'clock.
His Royal Highness Prince Alfred was taken out
in the forenoon in the walks adjoining the Castle.

We have authority to state that a paragraph which
has lately gone the round of the newspapers with re-
spect to the Prin6e Leinengen, is totally devoid of
foundation :so far as Prince Leinengen, the son of her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and his family,
are concerned. At the period when the occurrence
in question is reported to have taken place at May-
ence, his Serene Highness was residing on his estates
at Hohenburg, in Bavaria.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester,
on leaving Frogmore House, on Monday morning,
went to Kew, to the residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, and remained to lunch with
their Royal Highnesses and the Hereditary Grand
Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz. The
Royal Duchess afterwards proceeded to Kew.
His serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe
Weimar left Marlborough House yesterday on a visit
to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, at Witley
Court, Worcestershire.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duke and
Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, arrived at Cam-
bridge House yesterday morning. Their Royal High-
nesses returned to Kew in the afternoon.
Lord Ellenborough had an interview with Sir R.
Peel yesterday.
Captain Ramsay, R.N., Vice-Chairman of the
Edinburgh and Northern Railway through Fife, ac-
companied by Mr. Grainger and Mr. Webster, had
an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie, at the office
of the Board of Trade yesterday, on the business of
that undertaking.
His Excellency the American Minister, and the
Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, transacted busi-
ness yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Mr. Michael Ellison, and Mr. R. J. Gainsford, on
the part of the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction
Railway, transacted business yesterday at the Board
of Trade.

A deputation, consisting of Mr. John Gott, Chair-
main, and Mr. Joseph Bruoke, Director ; Mr. Atkin-
son and Mr. Hesp, Solicitors ; and Mr. Grainger,
Engineer, of the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester
Junction Railway, had an interview yesterday with
the Earl of Dalhousie.

The Duke of Wellington, the Earl of Aberdeen,
and Sir James Graham; had interviews with Sir
Robert Peel yesterday. •
Mr. William Rand and Mr. Murgatroyd, Directors
of the West Yorkshire Railway, had an interview
with the Earl of Dalhousie at the Board of Trade
yesterday.
Dispatches from the .Governor-General of Canada,
and also from the Governors of the other North Ame-
rican provinces, were received yesterday afternoon at
the Colonial-office. .

Sir Robert Peel left his residence in Whitehall-
gardens yesterday afternoon, for Brighton.
A deputation from the Leeds and Thirsk Railway,
consisting of Mr. H. C. Marshall, Chairman ; Mr.
Newman Cash and Mr. W. Williams Brown, Direc-
tors ; Mr. Eddison, Solicitor; and Mr. Grainger,
Engineer, had an interview :'with the Earl of -
Dal-
housie yesterday. - ,

HUMANITY CHAIR, ST.-,ANDREW'S.—We are gra-
tified to learn that Mr. Pyper, of the High School, Edin-
burgh, and long esteemed as an gminent classical teacher,
has been appointed to the shore chair by the Duke of
Portland, the patron. This,pAection, in which his Grace
was solely guided by the very preponderating testimony
in favour of Mr. Pyper, is.yrelt calculated to sustain the
fame of this ancient Univergityi; but as the Lord Pro-
vost has hinted, the task will nAt be so easy to procure
an adequate successor to MT. 'yper in the High School.
—Caledonian Mercury.
QUICK PASSAGE.—The Lady Milton, at Liverpool
from Quebec, made the passage out to, and from Quebec
home, in sixty-three days. ,
THE FIRST LOCOMOTIVM-r—Just forty years ago
Mr. Trevethick, a mining engineer, constructed the first
locomotive engine at Merthyr Tydvil, and applied it suc-
cessfully to the traction of coal and coke,—Cambrian.