The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-21 00:00:00

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CUURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, FRIDAY. —The Queen and Prince
Albert took their accustomed early walk in the Piet'•
sure-grounds of the Home -Park.
His Royal Highness Prince All:ert rode out nn,
horseback, attended by Major-General Sir Edvisru
Bowater.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and
Prince Alfred were taken airings this morning.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited
her Majesty at the Castle this morning.
The Earl of Liverpool, Lord Steward of the ONO'
hold, left the Castle to-day for town.
The Countess of Gainsborough was prevented
coming to the Castle yesterday.
The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent'
Lady Fanny Howard, the Countess of Wratislaotir,
Sir George Cowper, Major-General Wemyss, an
Lieut.-Colonel Colvile, Scots Fusilier Guards. ,
Her Majesty's private band attended after dinner
in the Castle, and performed in the evening. h
The Queen has honoured Mr. Thorburn

sittings during the week for her portrait.
Lord de Manley had an interview with the 911
of Dalhousie yesterday, at the office of the Bard
Trade.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colooll'
office from the Governors of Van Diemen's Land, the
Mauritius, and the Gold Coast.
The Earl and Countess of Kenmare left Farrance'e
Hotel, Belgrave-street, on Thursday, for Dover.
The Lords Committee of the PrivCouncil for
the affairs of Guernsey and Jersey sat yesterday
the Council-chamber. There were present the V,
Chancellor, the Secretary of State for the 11°112:
Department, Mr. Baron Parke, the Chancellor of t'w
Duchy of Cornwall, and the Judge of the Admiralty
Court.
Mr. Burge, Queen's Counsel, resumed and OP:
eluded his reply on the subject of the two petition'
from the Royal Court of Guernsey, touching the C°ll.
duct of the Lieutenant-Governor of the island.
The case being concluded, their Lordships rose.

HAMBURGH AND DUTCH IVIAILS'
ROTTERDAM, DEC. 13.—This scorning two boats {Co,,
Ysselimonde, laden with flax, crossed the Meuse to tit'
city, without the ice at all giving way. It has been ;
served that the river, from this city to Fyenoord
i
the opposite banks, has been passed by horses, so tbs.to
the frost continue some days longer, we may expect,e,
see a fair on the river. The ice is from 14i to 16 to
thick. (Similar accounts of the severity of the frost"
received from Dordrecht, Gorinchem, Deventer, kr. a,
The thermometer at Amsterdam on the 16th, At %tit
was at 34 degrees Fahrenheit, and a thaw had set jo, 14
without having yet affected the ice, which was fro°'
to 16 inches in thickness. , ilf
ST. PETERSBURGIT, Nov. 30.—The Imperial ...-Iveisy
have resolved to return to the winter palace on Tuoirhe
ice
new which is some days sooner than was intended. The
new palace of the Duke of Leuchtenburg is ritiro
ready. It is thought that the Grand Duchess 3'‘b.
will remove to it next week, and the Duke of VII'
tenburg is expected from Munich before the holidoled,
'I he campaign in the Caucasus for this year ie 61e,
and the troops are gone into winter quarters, If"-toi
however, they will not enjoy much repose, as they
be constantly on their guard against the mountnioeo4
who choose the winter for their boldest enterprise, "0,
make the most difficult marches with extraordinary
io
pidity, surprise the forts in the garrison, and ploodelfliii
the most daring manner the peaceable tribes. .00
campaign has by no means answered the expectotitbe
entertained from the great force assembled
spring. General Nedhardt, the commander-i°"T,ich
and governor, has repeatedly solicited his recalenw„"de
will be probably granted] him. Hateburgh far
Dec. 13. •.,
BELOIAN FUNDS.--Eatissue, Ds& it
Actua Debt, g% per Cent., .....
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent.... ........».» „„.
Loan of Thirty Milions, Feur per Cent.""*"..."
Three per
Thirty-seven Milli, us, ditto
(1840)....... ........ •
INA .. ;A/
Loan of City, 1543. 'Four per Cent. •-
111-2 lO
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Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent ";
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent
Issue of 1841........•„...”................••........• r
—Brussels Papers. Dct. 18.

MECHANICS' INSTITUTE. ea
On Wednesday evening, Mr. Clarkson discustbe
the project of connecting the Mediterranean with she
Red Sea, by means of a canal or railroad across the
Isthmus of Suez. The time chosen for the leetu
was most opportune, as the above subject occuPl°ll•
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prominent place not only in the English, but the e(tie
tinental papers, and has called forth many .14,
pamphlets. Not that there is any novelty in the lu`p
but it seems at the present moment to be taken 0,13,
wit.h more earnestness than on any previoni, es
canon. The canal that was used in bygone tneto
(and of which considerable traces remain) d,
connect the Red Sea with the River Nile, °Sae
gested to Bonaparte nearly half a century ago the
practicability of a navigable canal being construct
from north to south, a distance of about 70 Tni'e",'
and he accordingly. ordered the engineers Who 131,-;
companied his expedition to Egypt, to survey t-e
ground, and to furnish plans, &c. Copies of
to
plans and a vertical section were exhibited bY wof
lecturer, together with a large and distinct IniPthe
the localities under discussion, which rendiere gr.
different bearings of the subject intelligible'r these
Clarkson gave a history of the navigation °:
parts, from classical authors, and pointed 011" illicsl
distinctly, the principal geographical and toporP tbst
details connected with them. The advantages land
would accrue to Europe in general, and to Eng';en
in particular, by effecting a communication betW
the two seas, are obvious enough ; and, therefore,
was the lecturer's object to put his auditory in Plo
session of the information absolutely neceeslthe
enable them properly to appreciate the merits ng
contending plans now under discussion. For lisle
done this in a most lucid and efficient manner, be
serves th 9 thanks of every friend of the Institute'
Cambridge Independent Press.

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POSTAL RECULATIONS. Receiving-houses dr
been opened at Lenton and Beeston, and the free ore
livery has been extended to Chilwell : these housestos
supplied by messenger. A receiving-house hss sea
opened at Ratcliffe, which receives letters by the se.or
o'clock Stamford mail. On Friday last, reeeivhios
houses were opened at Carrington and Arnold ; to.a•
houses will also be supplied by messenger. PrePse of
tions are being made for opening a receiving-hneo'
Epperstone, and to extend the free delivery to Cilioist
ton, Another receiving-house will be opened sraa:
Bridgford, to be sent from the post-office at Bing",t s,
the free delivery will extend to Newton. These rel."
tions will be a great advantage to our country &jell'''.
Nottingham Revie'e. spa
CommoN COUNCIL.—At a meeting of the CO itea
Council, on Thursday, the report of the Finance Cod re'
concerning baths and washhouses for the poor w°//10
sented. It recommended that .500/. be granted ountc's tbs,
City funds to aid the establishment of baths. `-'„"tee,
motion " That the Court agree with the Corarr"ghlis
Mr. Lawrence moved that the report lie on the `",01
On a division, after discussion, the original motion
osd
carried by 49 to 41. A motion to reduce the Pr ,10 hi
grant to 200 L was, however, subsequently agree it
a large majority. On the motion of Mr. R. Tay' 0
was referred to the City Lands Committee to Tod
communication with the Commissioners of Wn° sciees,
Forests, in order to ascertain on what terms the
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Prison could be purchased. The Court then adieu',
STATE OF THE HOSIERY AND LACE TSAP-turef
The condition of the cotton stocking mantlfsc'iss'
whether wrought or wide cut-ups, is by no niespithers
proved; consequently, the workmen in the strsf,
part of the county, and in the eastern part of is
shire are suffer ing severely from the united esns-iscre
low wages. and scarcity of employment. The dr $l,OO
pantaloon, and shirt branch continues in a is 0
lamentable condition. The cotton glove branch inOre
more tolerable condition ; most of the plain gloves
made with India rubber welts, which have beeiole
pretty generally used. Some of the warp gloves that
India rubber threads thrown in the exact msn,rien" sae
inlay threads were thrown into warp lace, when to
bullet-hole stripe patterns were in fashion, from dr
1318. The silk hose trade is in a lingering, thoug to
clining state; this equally applies to the knotted °meat
the plain hose branch. There is no visible impr°,"haVO
in the silk glove branch, and many good Wu: trade
been weeks out of employmt nt. The bobbin net
sore'
is most gloomy, especially in the fancy line. Ins reek
meats, nevertheless, progress, and, amongst the spO'
some attention is paid to the ground of the ne"for
cimens have been partially traversed—that is', ye(
short distance and back again. The speculation is',
machines has been so extensive, that, we are 49510.
not less than 150 wide frames are now upon the s'cle...•
There is no visible alteration in the warp lace trs
Nottingham Review.
TIAA 1011.
NUMEROUS DEATHS IN THE L
—On Thursday Mr. Baker held no fewer than fOO 00e
quests at the London Hospital, on the bodies of Psfere
who had died in that establishment. The first tss° 700
those of Jane Harvey, aged six years, and Mall eptli
Smith, aged six years end a half, who, as too &Woo'
in cases of this nature, had been left during the te :gas
rary absence of their parent, in a room where theretheit
a fire, and commenced playing with it, and igniting that
clothes, were so severely burnt all over their bodiesi oise
on the following day they both expired. '1 he third
00,
was on the body of Emma Hanson, aged three Ytslll
who was so dreadfully scalded by her father accide,l,oo
overturning
a saucepan of boiling broth which had
after'
prepared for his supper, that she also died shortly. S.Vof
her admission to the hospital. The last case WES that
a man named Henry Smith, aged thirty years, a
_'tioa
whipper, who, whilst exercising his laborious occur: ins
of " whipping" coals from the ship's hold, receives'
ternal injuries which terminated fatally. The jur,7'
each case, returned a verdict of " Accidental death, A
DEATH FROM THE INCAUTIOUS HANDLIEO eit
h o" '
GUN.—On Tuesday a young man named Josep
a gardener in the service of Mr. Borgin, market-gar
Tottenham, lost his life by the accidental dischargoe
gun. It appears that the deceased was about t
his
charge the piece at some birds on a h, dge, but upoo
companion calling out that his mistress was app the
ing, endeavouring to conceal it, drew the 1)870 01
ct
in coats
gun towards him, and the lock having come
d his left .slissf
with the hedge, the discharge lodge
dsy
treat the effects of which he died on Virednes
-gardenfi: