The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-15 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prince Al,
bert took an airing this morning in the Home Park,
in the small pony phaeton, her _Majesty driving.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and
the Princess Royal were taken out in the forenoon
accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. The
Prince and Princess were taken an airing in the Park
in the afternoon, attended by her Ladyship.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on
horseback in the afternoon, attended by Colonel
Arbuthnot.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge,
attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt, honoured Covent-
garden Theatre with their presence on Thursday
evening.

His —Excellency Edward Everett, the American
Minister, has returned to town, and transacted busi-
ness at the Foreign-office on Thursday.
Lord Cowley, her Majesty's Ambassador to the
King of the French, left the Clarendon Hotel yester-
day, on his return to his Embassy at Paris.
The Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, and Ge-
neral Sancho, Spanish Minister, transacted business
yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Dispatches from the Earl of Elgin, Governor of Ja-
maica, and the Governors of the other West India
Colonies, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton, have left Far-
rance's Hotel, for their seat in Shropshire.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—It is often asked, what is in a name ? But,
it would appear, to use an Americanism, "a good deal."
Wool happens to be soft, and the name of the un-
fortunate dupe, in the recent diabolical Bristol con-
spiracy, happens to be WooLLEY. I apprehend
rather Strong presumptive evidence of the fallacy of
the notion !=Pam, Sir, your admirer,
Oct. 13, 1842. ANTI-HUMBUG.

Wurnlnn Rim—This celebrated fair commenced
on Tuesday, and was very largely supplied with hops,
cheese, and sheep. Business was extremely dull, and
a considerable reduction in prices, as compared with
last year, was submitted to. The best Farnham hops
brought from 71. 10s. to 8/. Bs., and country hops
from 51. 12s. to 71. 7s. The supply of both sorts was
very large butthe business done very limited. The
reduction in this article alone, since last fair, was said
to be from 2/: to-3/...per cwt. The cheese trade was
very heavy, and sheep were in slow demand; in both
articles there was a considerable fall in prices, sheep
being fully 7s.ver head lower than last year. Good
horses sold weil, but inferior animals were quite a
drug.— Wiltshire Independent.
PERCIVAL KEENE, BY CAPTAIN MARRYAT.—A con-
siderable time has now elapsed since we have had a
regular nautical novel from the pen of Captain Mar-
ryat. Right- glad we are that we have one at last,
for it is impossible to take up a production of this at-
tractive and exaititig writer without the certainty of
deriving both, amusement and instruction from the
perusal.i. 'Like all Captain Marryat's novels, Percival
Keene abounds in varied, strongly-conceived, and
well sustained character ;—for instance. Captain Del-
mar, the aristocratic, proud, reserved, yet in the
main, jnst. and kind-hearted father of the hero; Bob
Cross, the, boatswain, the humble intelligentkstaunch
friend of..PeVcival; Culpepper, the old purser, with
his- porpoise wife, anct daughter ; Tommy Dott, the un-
lucky, mischifiwous , middy ; -Vincent, the ferocious,
vindictive..captain .of. the pirate; Thaddeus 01Q4110-
gher, the brutal Irish schoolmaster, &C., &c. Besides
these bold and broad 'sketches of character, stirring
incidents. 'and4fairbreadth escapes meet us in every
page. J'ereival4's-:-..adventures on board the Negro
Pirate in the 'West Indies are very striking ; the
duel, in which he -gallantly personates Captain Delmar
and kills man)• :extremely well managed; and
the wreck cif the.„Ciree frigate, in the North Sea, is an
eminently po‘Verful and graphic narrative—a narra-
tive that none but a sailer could write.— Court Journal.
Alas. ALFRED SHAW.—This lady's friends having
in the ..Timel zontradicted—though in somewhat
ambiguolis terms—the paragraph which appeared in
our Review last. Nvecl.i; respecting her origin and pro-
gress, we-'have 'referred to the correspondent who
furnished. us With the information, and from him we
learn, that 'the-statement in question appeared in the
Musical Worla,of, tha.22d August, 1839, as extracted
from a letter of the European correspondent of the
Eveninc, Star ; and, although upwards of three years
have elapsed since publicity was given to this para-
graph in the English and American journals, we have
never heard, until now, that any denial of its accuracy
has been attempted: We did precisely what the
daily papers have -done with us—copied a paragraph
from another journal; cheerfully seizing that oppor-
tunity of passing,- a just eulogium upon the talents
gz
and accomplishments of the subject of it. We have
not been furnished by Mrs. Shaw with the means of
refuting the Pura aph which has attained so much
publicity.by its simple transfer to our columns
; ilBr
uce m rngartai
onhas any letter yet appeared in the daily journals from
any of her friends her or from (except anonymous
ones) denying the. statement. We can, however,
uh reprintingnn e ay thetpdv
assurem,hch i hasAl created so
thsoat.,m in c
Pli
amongst hex' friends, we had no desire to wound her
feelings, as the complimentary remarks with which
we prefaced the statement will sufficientlytestify.
Mazzinghi, the celebrated composer, used to bdot
his having, when a boy, swept out and d
.611 e the
orchestra of the Italian Opera .
oure • and the names
cohostofEldn and of Sugden, eft.l
wrence and of Blizzard,
with
no cited as honourable in-
stances of lowl- • •. "
origin attaining to high eminence in
this ce-With
~,Aary. - regard to Mrs. Shaw's con-
- nexions, we know them personally to be of the highest
respectability, and that part of our statement of last
week concerning thena cannot be impeached. The
father of Mrs.. Shaw. was for many years mess-master
at the palace, and by him she was, in 1838 placed in
the Royal,Acadetny, which she
qu.tted three years
afterwards to visit Italy.—Dramatic and Musical
Review.

EVIL EFFECTS OF THE SUGAR MONOPOLY.—
Among the many evil effects flowing from the con-
tinuance of the Tory-maintained sugar monopoly,
there is one affecting the poorer classes at this mo-
ment, which is peculiarly injurious to the inte-
rests of these classes. For years we have not
had a season in which—thanks to the beneficence
of Providence !—fruit has been so cheap, so
abundant, and of' such superior quality. Much
of this gift of heaven the working classes, particularly
cottagers in country districts, behold actually perish-
ing before their eyes, from their inability to purchase
sugar for its preservation. Had the Whig measure
with respect to the duty on sugar not been obstructed
by the Tories, the present gift of fruit, by being
chiefly preserved, might be saved from perishing, and
a luxury provided for the poor during the winter and
spring months.

DIVIDEND-DAY AT THE BANK.—Thursday being
' the first day for the paying of the October dividends,
the Rotunda was crowded to, excess from the opening
of the Bank until the close, by old maids, dowagers,
young widows, stock-brokers, and coup try fundholders,
all anxious to receive their independent sti-
pends. The, greatest dissatisfaction prevailed among
the fair sex at, being obliged to pay, the Income-tax of
7d. in the pound on their little comings in. The fol-
lowing notice was stuck up at every desk in the Ro-
tunda and the entrances to the Bank :—" To receivers
of dividends whose total income is under 150/.—ll
your total income is less than 1501. per annum, your
claim for a return of the tax must be made to the
assessor of the parish
Commissioner of the district in which you reside. The
neces-
sary forms," s
Yesterday morning: a young man named Robert
will supply you with the
Deacon, in the employ of Mr. Goodswell, of Camden
Town, printer, was brought into Middlesex Hospital,
with one of his ban& so dreadfully crushed by its
having been drawn in between two of the rollers of a
printing machine,
that' amputation at the wrist was
found to be immediately necessary.
CORONER'S citrEsT.
—Last night an inquest was
held at St. Bartholomew's Hospital before Mr. Payne,
the City Coroners on -the body of William Pearce,
aged 02. It appeared-from the evidence that the de-
ceased was proprietor .of a cabriolet. On Monday
morning last, bet Ween eleven
and twelve o'clock,
he was driving 'along the Old-street-road towards
Shoreditch church, when the near wheel came in
violent contact with a coal waggon. The concussion
threw the deceased into the road. He was taken up
in an insensible state, and' conveyed to the hospital.
There did not appear to be any blame attached to the
driver of the waggon, who was sober at the time,
and on his proper -side. The. house-surgeon of the
hospital said that the deceased had received a fracture
of the jaw, and other injuries. He died on Thursday
morning. Vierdict---" Accidental death."
Between six and seven o'clock on Thursday even-
ing, Susan Parker, aged ten years, the daughter of
respectable parents, living at No. 4, North-street,
Dean's-yard, Westminster, was
brought into West-
minster Hospital,- with a compound fracture of the
right thigh, both her jaw-bones broken, the whole of
the lower front teeth forced into hermouth, and her
face frightfully lacerated. She had met with these ..
injuries by. falling from a second floor window, out
of which she Was leaning, and had overbalanced her-.
self. The height she fell is about thirty feet, and she
came down with the, whole impetus of her weight on
the stone paveMent of a yard. She remains in
nearly a hgpeless"-state.

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