The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-09 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR•

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The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow (Wed-.
nesday) afternoon at half-past two o'clock, at Buckingham
Palace..'
The Right Hon. John Nicholl, Judge-Advocate-General,
had an audience of the Queen yesterday, at Buckingham
Palace, and submitted to her Majesty the proceedings of
some courts-martial. .

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Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked yesterday' fore-
noon in the royal gardens.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited the
Queen yesterday.
The Royal Family were taken airings yesterday, in the
royal gardens of Buckingham Palace.
In the afternoon her Majesty, attended by the Viscountess
Jocelyn; Lady in Waiting, took an airing in an open carriage
and four. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
the Equerries in Waiting, Colonels Buckley and Bouverie,
accompanied her Majesty on horseback.
The Queen had a dinner party yesterday at Buckingham
Palace. The company included his Excellency the Prince
Castelcicala, the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, the
Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, Lady Lyndhurst,
Viscount and Lady Marianne Alford, Lord and Lady Robert
Grosvener, the Lord Mayor, le General Avitabile, the Right
Hon. George Dawson Darner, and Captain Francis Seymour.
The 6and of the Ist Regiment of Life Guards was in at-
tendance at the Palace during dinner, and performed a va-
riety of favourite pieces.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and
the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh
Strelitz, attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt and Baron Knese -
beck, honoured the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch with
their company at Montague House, Whitehall-gardens, yes-
terday afternoon, at the public breakfast given by the Noble
Duke and Duchess.
The Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand
Duke and DUchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz honoured
the performance of the French plays with their presence yes-
terday evening. The Duchess of Cambridge was attended
by Baroness Ahlefeldt.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the
Foreign-office. It was attended by Sir R. Peel, the Duke
of Wellington, Lord Wharncliffe, the Duke of Buccleuch,
Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Haddington, Earl of
Ripon, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Lord Granville
Somerset, and Sir Edward Knatchbull. The Council sat
three hours.

The Ecclesiastical Commission for England had a meeting
yesterday at the office in Whitehall-place. The Commis-
sioners -present were the- Archbishop of Canterbury, the
Bishop of London, the Bishop of Bangor, the Bishop of
Lichfietd, the Bishop of Norwich, the Bishop of Rochester,
and the-Dean of Westminster.
Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes had
an interview with the Chancellor 'of the Exchequer yeaterr
day at his official residence. in Downing-street

THE DUCHESS' OF BUUCLEUCH'S

GRAND FETE.
Yesterday afternoon the Duchess of Buccleuch gave a
princely flee champetre at Montagu House, at which above
1,206 personages of rank congregated, including the leading
members of the corps diplomatique, and distinguished fo-
reigners, visiting this capital. Owing to the fineness of the
weather,.. the brilliant assemblage of fashion were enabled to
enjoy to the fullest extent the attractions of the out-door
amusements, for the Noble Duke had generously offered a
purse of 60 sovereigns to be rowed for by the Thames water-
men. His Grace, the year before last, gave a similar prize,
when the Queen and Prince Albert were present.
The garden was tasteftilly ornamented for the accommoda-
tion of visitor& Turkey carpets and India matting were
placed over the lawn, and costly furniture and reclining chairs
were provided, so that the regatta might be observed by all
who chose to participate in the fat.
The terrace was laid out in the same elegant manner as we
observed on Thursday last, and the pavilions at each end
were supplied with the rarest refreshments and choice fruit,
served up in gold and silver plate. The valuable and costly
ornamental plate on the tables added to the magnificence
which pervaded the entire arrangements. In the garden the
full band of the Scots Fusileer Guards performed a variety of
music. •
The complete range of superb saloons opening on to the
terrace were thrown open ; the dining-room, as before, being
appropriated for quadrille dancing, a band being engaged for
that purpose.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived at ten
minutes past four ; and her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Gloucester, attended by Lady Georgians Murray, arrived at
twenty minutes to five, and was received at the hall entrance
by the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, by whom her Royal
Highness was conducted to the terrace.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, accom-
panied' by the Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh
Strelitz, arrived at five minutes to five ; Baroness Ahlefeldt
and Baron Knesebeck being in waiting on the Royal Duchess.
Immediately after the whole of the illustrioas visitors had
reached the terrace, the signal was given, and the first heat
of the Towing match was commenced. [The particulars of
the regatta will be found in another part of our journal.]
Shortly after the regatta had terminated, the Royal visitors
departed. The Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz
(Princess, Augusta of Cambridge) was cordially welcomed by
most of-the assembled guests of the Duke and Duchess.
The Doke of Wellington, who arrived early, honoured
the Duke and Duchess with his cempany. The Noble and
Gallant Duke appeared in the enjoyment of excellent health
and spirits.
There is no doubt that the prospect of the Waverley Ball
induced the company to retire earlier than would otherwise
have been the case,, for at seven o'clock there was conside-
rable demand for the carriages, but owing. to the vast num-
ber of the visitors on. this occasion, the majority were obliged
to vralk.some distance to their respective carriages.
Dancing was kept up with unabated vigour till the• fête
coneluded, both oir the lawn' and. in the salle a manger—
the military band performing in the garden, quadrilles,
waltzes, and the polka.
It was, after eight before the company dispersed.
We have not room for a list of the company.

EXTRAORDINIARY OUTRAGE.—On Tuesday, the 25th
ult., while Mr: J. IL Hynes, of New Quay, and the Rev. Mr.
Fullams,Protestant clergyman, were out trawl-fishing with a
crew of three men, in the Bay of Galway, a fleet consisting
of eighty to a. hundred boats, front the Galway Claddagh,
bore down on them, and nine or ten of the boats having sur-
rounded the fishing-boat, fifty or sixty of.the Claddagh
fiihermen suddenly boarded her, and. after cutting away the
tram, rushed on Mr. Hynes and his party with the most
awful imprecations and savage yells, armed with open knives,
poles, &es knocked them down, and beat them most unmer-
cifully. leaving them apparently lifeless on the deck ; they
then cut, down the sails, svhich, along with the anchor, cables,
ropes, poles, and oars, they threw overboard. Finally, they
tore upthe deck, and, with the stones that formed the bal-
last, made many fruitless attempts to scuttle the boat, after
which they departed, leaving her a complete wreck, to drift
along the sea ; fortunately she was rescued from her perilous
situation by a New Qaay boat, and towed into harbour. Au
investigation was held on Monday, at Currenrue, concerning
this most daring outrage, before Messrs. Bell and Keruan,
stipendiary magistrates, and Mr. G. Macnamara, justice of
the peace, harbour-hill. Although the lives of two of the
crew and that of Mr. Hynes- were considered in imminent
danger for four or five days, they are now supposed to be con-
valescent.—Clare Journal.
THE WILLS FORGERY CASES.—On Friday week
the convicts Barber and Fletcher were conveyed on board
the Agincourt, which vessel has for the last week been lying
off Woolwich, in the hourly expeetation of receiving orders
to sail, Fletcher a few hours after he got on board volun-
tarily and unsolicited made a written statement, declaring
that*Barber had no guilty knowledge of the forgeries which
were effected by him (Fletcher) and the ,other prisoners,
Sanders andhis wife and Mrs. Dorey. The document, which
was published .on Saturday was forwarded to the Home
Office, accompanied by a petition from Mr. Peckham, the
solicitor of Barber, praying for a revision of the case. On
Tnesday last, Fletcher made a further and still more explicit
declaration of Barber's innocence. The subsequent declara-
tion was also forwarded to the Home Secretary, who on re-
ceipt sent down to Woolwich an order for the detention of the
vessel until the case could be thoroughly investigated.
'fife. Moons.-:--There is every prospect of the
ensuing season being one of the finest ever seen in the
northern counties. The young birds are already very
strong, and with powers of wing equal to what they often
are in the beginning of' August. 'They are so far advanced
as to be beyond harm from the weather. Sportsmen may
confidently anticipate that there will be no halting on the
moors, from.their dogs leisurely looking at broods unable to
take flight: Among, the places recently taken are the fol-
lowing :—Arisaig, by the Duke of Marlborough ; Achna-
carry, Lord Malmesbury ; Arndilly, W. Peel, Lsq.; Knoc-
kie, Hugh Munro, Esq. ; Mamore, Mr. Peacock ; Castle
Leod, R. Reid, Esq. ; Carr Bridge, Colonel Forbes. An aged
but enthusiastic sportsman; Mr. Lockhart, from Essex, was
in Skye last year for several months, shooting and fishing,
and arrived here last week to join a party in Sutherland.
This gentleman is in his 82d year, but hale and vigorous,
and delighted with the Highlands.—lnverness Courier.
THE NATIONAL GALLERY.—Yesterday the two
' pictures purchased on Saturday by Mr. Eastlake, at the sale
at Messrs. Christie and. Manson's, for the National Gallery,
were placed in that institution, and were greatly admired by
the nunlerous visitors. They are numbered 193 and 194, and
are placed in different rooms, the "Judgment of Paris" being
in the second large room, and immediately facing Rubens's
" Rape of the Sabines." This pieture, it was stated at the
sale on Saturday, by, Mr. Manson, was painted by Rubens
for Cardinal Richelieu; it was • subsequently in the Orleans
Gallery, from which it was brought and sold to Lord Kin-
naird, who gave 3,000 g-uineas for it. It afterwards clime
into the possession of Mr. John Penrice, at :whose see- of pic-
tures, on Saturday, it was bought for 4,oooguineas, as stated
in this journal yesterday. The, other picture, by Guido, of
" Lot and his Daughters," is placed in the large room at the
extreme end, in the north-east corner. This picture- was
formerly in the Lancilotto Palace, at Rome.' It was brought
from Rame by the second' Marquis of Lansdowne. In addi-
tion to the above, the National Gallery has recently been
enriched by three new pictures, purchased at the sale of =the
late Mr. Harman's collection. They ire numbered 190,
191, and 192, and consist' of the Portrait of a Jew, by Rem-
brandt ; the " Infant Christ and St. John embracing," by
G;ido • l and aii!fpiAtgittleportrait of Gerard Dor, painted
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