The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-12 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, SUNDAY.--Her Majes4 and Prince
Albert, and the Royal household, attene:d divine
service this morning in the private ch:pel of the
CF %tie, the Venerable Archdeacon Yirilbarforce (Clerk
of the Closet to his Royal Highness) officiating. The
Rev. Gentleman preached an excellent discourse from
the 20th verse of the 19th chapter of the Gospel ac-
cord;ng to St. Li-lie.
In the afternoon her Majesty and the Prince, at-
tended by part of the Royal suite, walked out in the
Home Park.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended
divine service at the parish church. The Rev. Isaac
Gossett officiated. Lady Fanny Howard was in
waiting on her Royal Highness.
Yesterday morning the Queen and her Illustrious
Consoi;; enjoyed their usual early walk. Afterwards
the Prince went out shooting in the Great Park, and
hai very excellent sport. The party accompanying
his Royal Highness consisted of Sir Robert Peel,
Marquis of Exeter, Earl of Liverpool, Sir E. 80,
, water, and Viscount Sydney. The Noble party re-
, turned to the Castle to lunch.

The Viscountess Canning was the Lady in Waiting
on the Queen at the Privy Council, held at three
o'clock yesterday afternoon, for the further proroga-
tion of Parliament. Major-General Sir Edward
Bowater attended Prince Albert as his Royal High-
ness's Equerry in Waiting.
The whole of the members of the Council left soon
after it broke up, excepting the Earl of Liverpool
and Sir Robert Peel.

Viscount Canning and Archdeacoi Wilberforce
a-rived at the Castle yesterday, on a visit to her
Majesty.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and
Lady Fanny Howard, joined the Royal dinner circle
at the Castle in the evening.
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The Prince of Wales and Princess Royal did not
leave the Castle during the day.

The Queen held a Piivy Council at two o'clock
on Saturday afternoon, at Windsor Castle. It was
attended by bis Royal Highness Prince Albert, Sir
Robert Peel (First Lord of the Treasury), the Duke
of Wellington, the Earl of Aberdeen (Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs), Lord Stanley (Secretary
of State for War and the Colonies), the Right lion.
H. Goulburn (Chancellor of the Exchequer), the Earl
of Haddington (First Lord of the Admiralty), Lord
Fitzgerald and Vesci (President of the Board of
Control for the Affairs of India), Earl of Liverpool
(Load Steward), Earl Delawarr (Lord Chamberlain),
Earl of Jersey (Master of the Horse), and the
Marquis of Exeter (Groom of the Stole to the Prince).

Al the Council Parliament was ordered to be cui•-
ti er prorogued from Tuesday, the 13th inst., unto
Thursday, the 2d of February, and a Proclamation
was ordered to be issued summoning the meeting' of
Parliament on that day for the dispatch of business.
Several reports of the Judicial Committee were sub-
mitted to her Majesty in Council, and were confirmed.
Some Colonial orders were approved.
Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in
Waiting.
Viscount Sydney was the Lord in Waiting on the
Queen; the Eon. Captain Duncombe, U.N., the
Groom in Waiting ; and the Hon. Colonel Grey, the
Equerry in Waiting.
The Duke of Wellington arrived from his seat at
Strathfieldsaye, Hants, to attend the Council. The
Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Earl of Haddington, and Lord
Fitzgerald, arrived from town by a special train on
the great Western Itsilway.
After the Privy Council his Grace the Duke of
IVellington took his departure from Windsor Castle
for Strathfieldsaye. The Earls of Aberdeen, Jersey,
and Haddington, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Lords Stanley and Fitzgerald, and Mr. C. Greville,
also left the uastle at the same time for town, and re-
turned to the metropolis by a special train from the
Slough station.
Major Malcolm arrived in town on Saturday morn-
ing with dispatches from China for the Earl of Aber-
deen, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs. Commander Richards, Royal Navy,
arrived in town at the same time with dispatches from
China for the Lords of the Admiralty. Major Mal-
colm attended at the Foreign-office, and also paid a
visit t ) the Earl of Aberdeen at his private residence
in Argyll-street.

It is with lively satisfaction we state that our most
Gracious Queen has enjoyed excellent health since her
return from Walmer—a circumstance which must
prove the more gratifying to her attached subjects
from the certainty their now exists that our Gracious
Sovereign is in that interesting condition which pro-
mises another scion to her Royal house. As to the
'period at which this event is likely to take place, it
must be obvious that none can speak with anrdegree
of certainty but her Majesty's confidential medical at-
tendants, and it is not at all likely they would make
such a subject a 'matter of general •eonversation.--
okerver.
SALE Or THE DUKE OP DEVONSHIRE's FAT STOCK.
—On Wednesday the annual sale of the Duke of De-
vonshire's fat stock took place in his Grace's farm-.
yard, at the pretty village of Edensor, a short dis-
tance from the princely Chatsworth. The attendance
upon the occasion was most numerous, it being esti-
mated that about 2,000 persons were present. This
unwonted confluence is attributable not only to the
excellence of the stock brought to the hammer, but
to the prestige attaching to the name of the Duke
of Devonshire, whose high character and truly
noble. conduct in his exalted station have rendered
him deservedly popular. The auctioneer was Mr.
Nicholson, of Chesterfield, and the following are the
prices at which some of the lots were sold. It may
be stated that the condition and appearance of the
stock generally was such as to reflect great credit on
Mr. Swapfield, his Grace's bailiff:— A fat bullock, a
very fine animal, was, after a spirited competition,
knocked down to Mr. Turner, of Sheffield, for 701.
Mr. Turner was also the purchaser of a fat pig for
201.55. A cow was bought by Mr. Tomlins, of Bas-
low, for 361. Mr. Wyatt, of Chesterfield, was the pur-
chaser of two, at the respective prices of 361. and
28/. ss. Messrs. Middleton and Shimwell bought
two others for 281. 10s. and '271. Mr. Cocker, 'of
Edensor, purchased a highland bullock for 281. 155.,
and Messrs. Nale and Creswick, of Chesterfield,
another for 271. 15s. Mr. Arkwright, of Sutton Hall,
bought a bull-calf, not seven months old, for 221.
Another, not five months old, was purchased by Mr.
Taylor, of Pilsley, for 101. 15s. The total produce of
the sale was 1,6331. 4s. 6d. The result of this sale,
and the high prices given for the stock, has put the
farmers and graziers in good spirits ; they looking
upon them as an indication that "things are about to
mend"'

EXTENSIVE FAILURE IN THE CORN TRADE AT
WALEFIELD.—We sincerely regret to announce that
the eminent firm of Messrs. J. L. Fernandez and
Sons, corn merchants, soke millers, and wine
merchants, were made bankrupts, on Thursday last.
Thus are other Tory names added to the victims of
Sir Robert Peel's sliding-scale ! At the corn market,
at 'Wakefield, yesterday, the stoppage was the subject
of general conversation, and great alarm prevailed in
consequence. It is said that the liabilities of the firm
are not less than 90,0001.—Leeds Mercury of this day.
THE GAS MONOPOLY.--On Thursday evening a
public meeting of the gas consumers and a large num-
ber of the householders of the borough of Marylebone,
took place at the Colosseum Tavern, Portland-road,
for the purp®se of taking steps to destroy the existing
gas monopoly in the borough by the formation of a
company, to comprise the consumers of the gas them-
, selves, upon the same principle as the Commercial
Company, recently established by the tradesmen
and consumers of the eastern portion of the me-
tropolis. Mr. A. M. Hyde was called to the
chair. Mr. Waples said it was high time the
gas consumers of that borough followed the example
which had been set them by the Licensed Victuallers
and other tradesmen at the eastern end of the metro:-
tropolis. He proposed that they should form them-
selves into an Association or Company, to protect
themselves from the barefaced robberies which were
at present perpetrated upon them. No one could
doubt the benefit which would accrue to the con-
sumers themselves, and therefore he hailed with de-
light the present proceedings. Mr. Seridge said he
would call the attention of the meeting to the present
state of thraldom and subserviency in which they
(the gas consumers of Marylebone) were held by
the present gas companies, who, having coalesced
together for the purposes of monopoly, could do
just as they liked with them. The only way to
relieve themselves from this difficulty was, not
only for the inhabitants of Marylebone to be con-
sumers of gas, but to become manufacturers of it also.
They had endured this monopoly for the last 16 years,
and it was now time to shake it off. Experience had
taught them that they could obtain a reduction of 30
per cent. in this necessary to trade, and at the same
time give a fair profit to the capitalist. Mr. Freeman
inquired what would be about the charge for each
1,000 feet of gas. Mr. Haig said it could be had, and
was supplied by the Conlinercial Company, at 7s.
per 1,000 feet, and the quality would be the same,
whilst the existing companies charged 9s. Several
other gentlemen addressed the meeting, and resolu-
tions were unanimously adopted, expressive of an
opinion that a Consumers' Gas Company was highly
necessary to destroy the existing monopolies in that
necessary article of trade. A provisional committee
was then formed to carry out the object.
The Commerce publishes the following extract
from M. :Jacqueminot's address to the electors of
Paris :—" Gentlemen, I have shed all my blood for
my country, and I am ready to shed it again."
ST. MART, NEWINGTON BUTTS.—The poll upon
the vestry question, namely, whether application
should be made to Parliament for a Bill to light, pave,
and improve ceri-sin parts of the above parish, closed
on Wednesday, when there appeared a great majority
against the proposed Bill. It is, consAuently, aban-
doned for the present.