The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-06 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Yesterday the Queen and
Prince Albert walked for some time in the grounds
adjacent to the Castle, in the forenoon. On the return
of the royal party, his Royal Highness went to shoot
at Cranbourne, attended by .Mr. Anson and Colonel
Bouverie.

Her Majesty, attended by the Countess of Charle-
mont, rode out in a pony phaeton yesterday morning,
Major-General Wemyss attending on horseback.
The Prince of Wales, Princess Royal, and the
Princess Alice, were taken for their accustomed
airings yesterday morning.
The Earl of Liverpool, the Earl and Countess De
la Warr and Lady Mary West, Viscount Melbourne,
Lord and Lady Beauvale, Captain Meynell, and Mr.
Barnard, her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Coburg,
arrived at the Castle yesterday, on a visit to the
Queen. . . .

The royal dinner party at the Castle yesterday
evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, and the Countess
Wratislaw.

The band of the Royal Horse Guards was in at-
tendance at the Castle during dinner.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended,
and performed the remainder of the evening.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert took equestrian
exercise in the Riding-school for an hour yesterday
evening.
This day the Queen, Prince Albert, the Duchess
of Kent, the Court, and the Domestic Household at-
tended Divine service in the private chapel of the
Castle. The Hon. and Rev. Charles Leslie Courtenay
officiated.

The Duchess of Kent was attended by Lady Fanny
Howard.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
took an airing in a carriage on Saturday.
Mr. Fortique, the Venezuelan Minister, transacted
business on Saturday at the Foreign-office. Baron
Brunnow, the Russian Minister, visited the Earl of
Aberdeen on Saturday, at the office of the Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs.
Lord and Lady Stanley and family arrived in town
on Saturday evening from Knowsley Hall, Lancashire.
Lord Granville Somerset has left town on a visit to
Lord Ashburton, at the Grange.
Archdeacon Hamilton preached the sermon yes-
terday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. Prayers
were read by the Rev. Dr. Knapp, and the Lessons
by the Rev. J. Haden. Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord
S. Osborne, and Lady S. Des Vceux were among the
nobility present.

MR. HOOD'S PENSION.—Mr. Hood's pension was,
we understand, granted in the most hind and hand-
' some manner by Sir Robert Peel. The amount is 1004
a.year, and it is for the life of Mrs. Hood ; that of the
author being, from ill health, unfortunately (in all
human probability) of a more precarious tenure. When
we think that such poems as his " Eugene Aram,"
' " Old Oak Tree," " Song of a Shirt," and many others
of great power and pathos, not to mention his comic
originalities, will be read with delight two hundred years
hence, perhaps by the royal descendants of our Queen
and the noble descendants of our Premier, six or eight
generations removed, we could have bored that the one
hundred pounds might have been two. Bat the pension
list, we fancy, requires tender handling to make it hold
out enough, where much deserved and much wanted.
Let us, therefore, be thankful for this instalment.—
Literary Gazette.
THE REGISTRATIONS.—The progress of the regis-
tration movement has more than equalled our anticipa-
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large towns sufficient to countervail the landlord domi-
nation, so as to have everything ready for work as soon
as possible; and in the mean time we recommend every
individual free-trader who can obtain a qualificition to
do so, and not to be deterred by finding that the mono-
polist , appear to be supreme at present in the district
where such qualification is situated.—The League.
TURN-OUT OF POWER-LOOM WEAVERS.—On
Monday, the 16th ult., about 250 weavers in the employ-
of Messrs. Simpson, Thompson, and Co., of Crumpsall
Mill, turned out for an advance of wages. A few days
previous to their doing so, a deputption from the weavers
waited upon the firm, and demanded an advance of about
10 per cent. on their wages, when they were informed
by their employers that they would allow them to select
the six best houses in Manchester and Salford ; and,i`
it was found that the average wages paid by these firm•
exceeded their own, they would regulate their list a(
cordingly. This offer, however, was declined by th
weavers, who left their employment. The works wet
re-opened on Thursday last, in order to give those ham
who were willing to resume work upon the terms offerer
an opportunity of doing so ; but many of the weave.
still remain out.—Manchester Guardian,
SEASONABLE BENEVOLENCE.—EarI Spencer h
generously caused to be distributed to the poor in ti
neighbourhood of Wiseton, four pounds of beef and 1
loaf to each applicant, amounting to almost four exce
lent fat beasts, to supply their wants. The number wi
applied were more numerous than on any former ooetisiot
but not any were turned away without the noble Earl
annual gift.—Manchester Guardian.