The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-30 00:00:00

COURT-PASITIONAZI.Z.

Prince Albert has become Vice-Patron of the Royal Geo-
graphical Society, vacant by the death of the Duke of Sus-
sex. His Royal Highness honoured Mr. Murchison, the
President, with a visit yesterday in Belgrave-square, to in-
spect the vase and plateau presented to him by the Emperor
of Russia.

The Duke of Wellington returned to Apiley House yester-
day afternoon, from Strathfieldsaye. The Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Douro, Lord Charles Wellesley, the Hon. and
Rev. Dr. Wellesley, Right Hon. C. Arbuthnot, and the other
visitors who have been staying with the Duke during the
holidays, also returned to town in the course of the afternoon.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Waterford have arrived
at Mivart's Hotel, from their seat in Ireland.
The Countess of Cawdor and Lady Mary Campbell are ex-
pected in South Audley-street in a few days, from Desart
Castle, where they have been on a visit to the Earl and
Countess of Desart.
The Earl and Countess of Leicester are passing the season
at Holkam Hall, and are not expected to return to town unt'
next year.

rd X CEMILANEOI7I3.
A woman named Charlotte Hall, the wife of a plasterer,
was found dead in bed in her house, in Church-street, Wim-
bledon, yesterday morning, and from the appearances pre
sented by the body there is reason to fear that she had been
strangled. The husband could not be found, and the follow-
ing notice, in consequence, has been issued by the Commis-
sioners of Police :—" Absconded, at half-past five o'clock this
morning, from Church-street, Wimbledon, leaving his wife in
bed dead, from strangulation, a plasterer, between five feet ten
inches and six feet in height, fair complexion, brown hair, no
whiskers, a down look with forbidding aspect, and his mouth
awry. He carries his head on one side. He is 40 years of
age, and was dressed in a coarse blue pilot coat, with pockets
in front, a fustian pipe- claved round jacket underneath, slate-
coloured trousers, and Blucher- boots. He is remarkable for
always carrying his pocket-handkerchief in the left breast of
his coat or jacket." Some of the neighbours heard her
scream " Murder" about 11 o'clock the previous night.
A numerous meeting of members of the Established Church,
Presbyterians, Independents, Wesleyan Methodists, Baptists,
and other orthodox Dissenters, took place in Exeter-hall, for
the purpose of adopting such measures as might be consi-
dered necessary to prevent the enactment of the Dissenters'
Chapels Bill recently introduced into Parliament by the
Lord Chancellor, and now awaiting its second reading
' in the House of Commons. Resolutions in accordance with the
object of the meeting were unanimously adopted. It is a
curious fact that Lord Lyndhurst has passed a Bill through
the House of Lords which pleases nobody.
The eighth concert of Ancient Music took place last night,
under the direction of his Royal Highness the Prince Albert,
for the Earl of Westmoreland. The performances require no
specification.
The boat• race on Monday, from Ostend to Bruges, between
Robert Newell, of Battle-bridge-stairs, and four Flemish
watermen, with a coxswain, terminated, contrary to general
expectation, in favour of the latter. He lost only, however,
by two minutes. It is but justice to the Flemish men to
state, that they behaved with great kindness to the two
Londoners, and made them a present on their departure.

ALTERATION in the DEPARTURE
of the MAILS.
Very great inconvenience having been sustained, not only
by the commercial interests, but by the public generally, in
consequence of the mails for India, &c.,-- being dispatched
fron this country previous to the arrival of the Overland
Mail, by reason of which those persons who had correspoz-
dents in India could not reply to their advices for at least a
month—to remedy this evil the following arrangement has
been made by command of the Postmaster-General, notice of
which was put up yesterday morning at the General Post-
office and the several branch offices;—
" General Post-office, May, 1844.
" The next mails for Malta, Egypt, and the East Indies,
via Southampton, will be dispatched on the morning of the
3d of June instead of the morning of the let, as heretofore,
and those via Marseilles will be dispatched on the evening of
the 7th instead of the 4th.
"The same arrangements will be adopted with these mails
for the future, the mails vid Southampton being dispatched
on the morning of the 3d, and the mails via Marseilles on
the evening of the 7th.
" When the 3d of the month falls on a Sundvy, the mail
Southampton will be closed and dispatched on the pre-
vious evening."
" The Great Liverpool, for India, &c.—Mails of the morn-
ing of the 3d of June.
" The Trent, for the West Indies.—Mails of the morning
of the 3d of June.
" The Acadia, for America.—Mails of the 3d of June.
" The Garland Grove, for New South Wales.—Mails of the
31st inst."

GRAY'S INN, MAT 29.—William Shaw, Esq., was
this day called to the degree of Barrister at Law by the
Honourable Society of Gray's Inn.
BRIGHTON, MAY 27.—The King of Saxony, who
visits England under the title of the Count de Hohensteine,
will arrive' at the York Hotel, to-morrow morning at nine
o'clock, accompanied by the Earl of Delawarr, &c.,' and im-
mediately proceed to Inspect the Pavilion. He will leave
the York Hotel at eleven o'clock for Portsmouth, calling at
Arundel Castle and Chichester on his way, and is expected to
reach London on Saturday afternoon.