The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-24 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—The Queen and Prince
Albert arrived at the Castle at half-past one o'clock
this afternoon, from their visit to the Duke of Wel-
lington at Strathfieldsaye, escorted by a party of the
Royal Horse Guards, under the command of Lieut.
Vincent Rowland Corbet. Her Majesty and the Prince
were attended by the Marchioness of Douro, the Hon.
Amelia Murray, the Earl of Jersey, Lord Charles
Wellesley, Mr. G. E. Anson, and Colonel Bouverie.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were received
on their return at the grand entrance by Viscount
Sydney, Lord in Waiting; the Hon. Nelson Hood,
Groom in Waiting; Captain Meynell, Master of the
Household, and the Hon. Lucy Kerr, Maid of Honour
in Waiting.
The Earl of Jersey and Lord Charles Wellesley
took their departure in the afternoon.
The unfavourable state of the weather prevented
the Royal Family leaving the Castle to-day

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
attended by Captain Sir Edmond Mildmay, left town
yesterday morning, travelling by the London and
Birmingham Railway, for Burleigh House, Lincoln-
shire, to honour the Marquis of Exeter with a visit.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge,
accompanied by the Princess Mary, took an airing
yesterday in a carriage.
His Excellency M. Dedel had an interview with
Lord Aberdeen yesterday, at the Foreign-office.
Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-
street.

Sir Robert and Lady Peel returned to their resi-
dence in Whitehall-gardens yesterday morning, from
the seat of the Duke of Wellington, at Strathfieldsaye,
Hants.

Lord and Lady Stanley returned to town yester-
day evening from a visit to the Duke of Rutland,
Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire.
The Earl of Lincoln had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford arrived in town
yesterday from Strathfieldsaye.

SPANISH BONDS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—As an old subscriber to your widely-disse-
minated and popular journal, I would feel much
obliged if you could inform me, (and numbers in the
country similarly situated with myself), what is now
doing with regard to the overdue Coupons on the
Spanish Active Five per Cent. Bonds. lam a con-
siderable holder of this stock, and there was four
years' interest due on the Ist of November last, being
20 per cent. There was four years and a half capi-
talised in 1840 into the Three per Cent. Stock ;
since then we, the holders of the Active Bonds, have
not received one farthing in the shape of interest, and
as M. Mon, the Spanish Minister of Finance, has
converted nearly everything owing in Spain into this
stock, I, with the rest of the old bondholders, hope
that something either has been done, or will shortly,
to convert this 20 per cent. owing into this stock, the
more especially as M. Mon made some slight allu-
sion to this measure shortly after the meeting of the
present Cortes. With the opinions which I and the
lovers of freedom entertain of the present Govern-
ment of Spain, it is not for me to enter upon. I only
wish to treat upon the interest which has so long
been overdue upon the debts owing to their British
creditors. Can you inform me and others, through
the medium of your journal, whether there be a Com-
mittee of Spanish Bondholders or not, to watch over
the interests of themselves and the other bondholders ?
I think there cannot be a Committee, or ere this some-
thing would have been done, and the more especially
so on the present instance, as there is rather an
appearance of some better intentions to do justice by
M. Mon than has been done by his predecessors in
office. If you can do us any good, by drawing the
public attention to the subject, I should feel much
obliged.—l remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
A SPANISH BONDHOLDER.
Cleveland, Jan. 23, 1845.
[There is a Committee, but their labours have not
yet obtained their just reward.—En. Sun.]

TROON.—MAN DROWNED.—On the morning of
Friday, the 10th instant, a lantern and hat being found
tossing about the breakwater, it was suspected that some
unfortunate person had met a sadden death in the gale of
the preceding evening. On inquiry being made among
the vessels in the harbour, it was discovered that Captain
James Baillie, of the Phoenix, of Port-a-Ferr, was miss-
ing, and immediate search for the body was commenced,
but it was not found until Sabbath morning. The cause
of this unfortunate accident has not been ascertained, but
the supposition is that on leaving the village on Thurs-
day evening, to go on board, he had, in the dark, gone
too near the edge of the breakwater, and had been blown
into the sea by the violence of the gale. Captain Baillie
was unmarried, and was much respected in his line of
life. The corpse was interred in Crosby churchyard on
Monday.
THE 78m HIGHLANDERS.—We yesterday saw a
letter from a soldier in this regiment to his brother here.
It is dated Sukkur, Upper Sinde, and gives a most de-
plorable account of the ravages of fever in that gallant
corps. Seven hundred men, besides women and children,
are constantly under medical treatment, and unfit for
duty. Deaths are also so frequent, that in one day seven
men were carried to the dead-house waiting for inter-
ment. Up to the date of the letter, one captain (Browne)
and 50 men had fallen under the disease, and there was
no prospect of returning health, though he reports
the mornings and :evenings cool. It is intermitting
fever ; and the letter seems to intimate that not one
of the regiments has escaped its fury, though it is less
violent in some cases than others. A man belonging to
Stirling, of the name of Lesson, is among the dead.—
Stirling Observer.
THE FIRE IN HUNGERFORD-MARKET.--FURTHER
PARTICULARS.—When the flames were first discovered
they were burning fiercely in a pile of straw, containing
between 30 and 40 loads. An attempt was made by the
persons connected with the market to extinguish the
fire. Owing, however, to the firm hold it had previously
obtained, it defied their exertions. Messengers were
therefore dispatched for the aid of the engines. The
numerous brigade and County and West of England en-
gines attended with all possible expedition, and were set
to work from the river Thames. The firemen, although
they exerted themselves to the utmost, were unable to
extinguish the conflagration until about 25 loads of
straw and a couple of waggons had been destroyed, and
considerable damage done to the booking-office of the
market. The property destroyed belonged to Mr. Milli-
gan, corn-merchant, and was insured in the Sun Fire-
office, and the building was insured in the West of Eng-
land-office. The precise cause of the fire is unknown,
but it is generally supposed to have been the work of
some incendiary.
THE SEAMAN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY AND THE
SPANISH GOVERNMENT.—The Minister of Foreign
Affairs has transmitted to the Consul of Spain, in Lon-
don, the decision of the Queen, in virtue of which the
Spanish Government is to subscribe 20Z a year towards
the Dreadnought hospital establishment in the Thames.
—Shipping Gazelle.
TIIE RANGERSHIP OF GREENWICH PARK..--The
Earl of Aberdeen, the newly-appointed Ranger of Green-
wich Park, has taken possession of Chesterfield House,
the Ranger's official residence, late in the occupation of
her late Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda.
It is stated that the general sale of her Royal Highness's
effects, which has been extensively advertised, will not
take place, and that a small portion only of the furniture,
&c., will be publicly sold, Lord Aberdeen having taken
the rest at a valuation.

THE COSTS OF SUMMARY CONVICTION.—At the
Aylesbury Petty Sessions, Emanuel Priest was convicted
of having set a snare in a hare's run on the preserve of
Sir J. D. King, Bart., at Halton. He was committed to
prison for seven days, in default of the payment of one
shilling fine and nineteen shillings costs. At the same
sessions, William Jeffkins was committed to prison for
ten days, in default of the payment of two and sixpence
fine and twenty shillings costs, for having trespassed in
pursuit of game on the preserve of the above gentleman.
At the Ashendon Potty Sessions, Stacey Scott was con-
victed of having been in search of game on land at
Waddesdon, which is preserved by the Duke of Buck-
ingham, and sentenced to pay a fine of ten shillings, and
twenty-eight and sixpence costs. Out of these last costs
it appeared the magistrate's clerk claimed IL 2A. 6d.
COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT CWM AVON.—On Friday
last an explosion took place at Cwm Avon, by v hicli
seven men were ghtly burnt, but are expected to re-
sume their wore in a few days. The explosion was
caused by the carelessness of a fresh hand, in not pro-
perly trying the "stall" with the safety lamp before in.
troducing a candle. A very exaggerated report of this
accident has been spread through the country, but we
can vouch to the accuracy of our statement, which was
obtained by personal inquiries from the manager :and
workmen on the spot.—Swansea Journal.
ASTIIMAS, SHORTNESS OP BREATH, COUGHS AND
COLDS.—A TRULY SURPRISING CASE I—The Hey.
David Williams, the resident Wesleyan minister at
Beaumaris, in the Island of Anglesea, states in a letter
dated the 14th of January, 1845, that "Ho recom-
mended HOLLOWAY'S PILLS to a poor man of the name
of Hugh Davis, who at the time was almost unable to
walk for want of breath; that he had only taken therna
few days when he appeared quite another man, his
breath was easy and natural, and he was increasing daily
in strength." These wonderfulpills will cure any cough,
cold, or asthma. Sold at Professor Holloway's Esta-
blishment, 244, Strand (where advice may be had gratis),
and by almost all respectable vendors of medicine
throughout the civilised world.

GAME LORDS AND RABBITS.
ORAISKIRK.-011 Saturday last, Thomas Edge, of
Hoskar Moss, and three ether young men, farm-
labourers, appeared before the Rev. Joshua Thomas
Horton, clerk, to answer a charge of trespass pre-
ferred against them by Lord Skelmersdale, father-
in-law to Lord Stanley, one of her Majesty's princi-
pal Secretaries of State. It appears that the young
men had obtained permission from Thomas Morris,
Esq., to have a day's ferreting for rabbits, as a sort
of Christmas gift, on his lands, near Hoshar Moss,
in Lathom, and that, in the course of the day, they
inadvertently walked into a field adjoining to one of
Mr. Morris's, belonging to his Lordship, erroneously
supposing it at the time to belong to the former gen-
tleman. They were seen by his Lordship's game-
keeper, who informed them that they were trespass-
ing, when they immediately retired, expressing their
. regret to the keeper, and telling him that the trespass
was not committed knowingly. The damage done
to the herbage of the field does not amount to more
than half a farthing, rated at the very highest. The
gamekeeper appeared to support the information, and
the reverend magistrate convicted the parties, in
damages of forty shillings each and costs, and in-
flicted an additional fine of eight pounds and costs
on one of the young men, who unthinkingly, and un-
fortunately for himself, carried a gun to assist them
in the sport.—Here are fines inflicted by a clergyman
of the Church of England, on four poor labouring
men, amounting, with the expenses, to near 201., for
momentarily entering a nobleman's field in a mistake.
The poor fellows, too, are all parishioners of the con-
victing magistrate, and do not live very far distant
from the park walls of the noble complainant. The
aggregate amount of the fines and costs, astounding
and unprecedented as it may appear, is more than
twenty thousand times the actual value of the damage
sustained by his Lordship.—Liverpool Chronicle.

DESTRUCTION OF OLIVES.
The inhabitants of the south of France and Italy,
who cultivate on a large scale the olive tree, complain
bitterly of the severe losses caused by insects, and
which they seem unable to guard against. The
olives are attacked by a small caterpillar, which pene-
trates into its kernel, on which it lives, and escapes
about the end of August, by an opening near the
pedicle, and, by means of a thread which it spins,
reaches the ground, where it undergoes its metamor-
phoses, and then becomes a butterfly. The caterpillar,
in making the hole through which it escapes, causes
the pedicle to die, and the olive always falls before it
is ripe. Once on the ground, the caterpillar seeks
for a dry leaf, or some crevice in the earth, constructs
a light silken web, is changed into a chrysalis, and, in
the space of from three to six days, the butterfly
appears. At the instant the caterpillar leaves the
olive, it meets with numerous enemies : thus, birds,
while it hangs by the thread ; ants, as soon as it
reaches the earth; and, finally, a small hymenopterus
deposits its egg on its body, and these produce small
larvx, which live on, and are developed at the expense
of, its flesh and fat, without attacking the vital parts.
As soon, however, as they are completely developed,
they kill the caterpillar, or the chrysalis, and make
under its skin from fifteen to twenty oval webs. In
order to destroy a great number of these lepidopterce,
the following plan may be followed :—At the end of
August, when the caterpillar leaves the olives, a
trench, of about an inch or two in depth, must be dug
around the tree, and filled with dry leaves, so as to
furnish a convenient hiding place for the caterpillar
to form its web. In the beginning of September the
leaves must be collected and burnt, and the trench
filled up, so as to bury any that may remain under
the clods. Medical Times.