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her ; little change was to be seen in her. manner _or o,p- 4
pearance, save that her brow wore a graver shadow than '
it had done in the morning ; for she had heard of her
sisters' disasters, and dropping a tear to the blighted
day-dreams of the Future, and the delusive pleasures of
the Present, she hinted to Experience that, in time to
come, Memory should be given to check the wishes of
the Future, Hope to regulate the actions of the Present,
and Enjoyment to sweeten the recollections of the past.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Al-
bert took their usual morning's walk.
His Royal Highness shot again at the Flemish Farm,
attended by the Earl Delawarr, Sir Robert Peel, Colonel
Bouverie, Lord Charles Wellesley, and Mr. G. E. Anson,
The Lady Clementina Villiers and the Earl of Leices-
ter arrived to-day on a visit to her Majesty.
Major-General and the Lady Isabella Wemyss, and
Mr. George Edward Anson will have the honour of
joining the Royal dinner circle, at the Castle this evening

His Excellency the American Minister has left town
on a abort visit to Lord Ashburton, at the Grange.
Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer
yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street.
Baron de Nieumann, the Austrian Minister Pleni-
potentiary on a Special Mission, had an interview with
the Earl of Ripon yesterday, at the office of the Board of
Trade.

The Sardinian Minister transacted business yesterday
at the Foreign-office.
Thb Postmaster-General had an interview yesterday
with the Chancelhir of the Exchequer in Downing-street.

Lord Fitzgerald has left town on a visit to the Duke
of Buckingham at Stowe.
Despatches from the Governor of the Bahamas, and
also from the Governor of St. Helena, were received
yesterday at the Colonial-office.

WOOLWICH. TUESDAY.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Firebrand steamer is ordered to form part of the
squadron to attend upon the convey of the King of
Prussia from Ostend to this country, and it is expected
his Majesty and Quito will land at Woolwich about the
21st of this month.

Commander John Neale Nott, from the Excellent
gunnery ship, at Portsmouth, and Lieutenant James
Alexander Gordon (v), from the Warspite, have been
appointed to the Wliam and Mary yacht, at Wool-
wich, for service in the Firebrand, on the occasion
of the King of Prussia's visit to bis Royal relatives,
and to be present at the christening of the Prince of
Wales. His Majesty will, it is expected, embark in
the Warspite, Captain the Right Hon. Lord John
Hay, C. 8., and Grand Cross of Charles 111., and in
the event of the weather being calm or the wind con-
trary, this fine 50 gun frigate will be towed by the
Firebrand to ensure the arrival of the King of Prussia
in this country as nearly as possible to the time con-
templated. It is anticipated that his Royal Highness
Prince Albert will come to Woolwich to welcome the
King of Prussia on bis arrival.

The Alban steam vessel, Master John King (acting),
arrived at Woolwich on Saturday from Plymouth, and
afterwards went to Deptford. She is under orders to
prcceed immediately to Pembroke.
The Megmra steam vessel, commanded by Wm. N.
Hastie, mate, her late commander, Lieut. Hugh C.
Goldsmith, having died in the West Indies, arrived at
Plymouth on Wednesday last from Birbadoes, and is
ordered round to Woolwich to be paid off. She has
brought home a number of invalids from that unhealthy
climate.

The Goodwill arrived at Woolwich on Saturday.
The Falmouth is on her way round from Portsmouth
,o Woolwich.

Mr. Patrick O'Connor is appointed purser of the
Growler steam vessel, vice Milner, whose warrant has
been cancelled.

Mr. Edward F. Cavell is appointed acting-master of
.he Shearwater steam velsel, vice Brabant, appointed to
the Carysfort.

Yesterday the master shipwrights, Mr. Oliver Lang,
of Woolwich Dockyard ; Mr. John Fincham, of
Chatham Dockyard ; Mr. James Atkins, of Sheerness
Dockyard ; Mr. Richard Blake, of Portsmouth Dock-
yard ; and Mr. Roberts, late of Devonport Dockyard,
assembled at the Woolwich Dockyard to decide upon
the plans which it would be most desirable to adhere to
in future as a fixed principle for building vessels for her
Majesty's navy. This resolution on the part of the
Admiralty will prevent all chances of difference of opi-
nion on such matters, and prevent the possibility of the
work of one master-shipwright being altered or con-
demned when the ♦essel is sent to any other dockyard
than the ono where she was constructed, for repair,
which has sometimes been the case on former occasions.
One fixed principle of shipbuilding at all her Majesty's
dockyards, will be attended with very beneficial results
to the service, and it would be advantageous were the
master shipwrights to meet annually, or oftener, to take
icto consideration such discoveries as might be made, ow-
ing to the present advanced state of scientific knowledge.

ROTA OW THE JUDGES APPOINTED TO
PRESIDE IN TIIE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT FOR THE
YEAR 1842.—January Session, Mr. Baron Gurney, Mr.
Justice Maule, Mr. Justice Wightman ; February Ses-
sion, Lord Chief Baron Abinger, Mr. Justice Bosan-
quet, Mr. Justice Williams ; March Session, the Judges
who go the. Norfolk and North Wales Circuits ; April
Session, Mr. Justice• Coleridge, Mr. Justice Erskine,
Mr. Baron Rolfe ; May Session, Lord Chief Justice
Denman, Mr. Baron Alderson, Mr. Justice Coltman ;
June Session, Lord Chief Justice Tindal, Mr. Justice
Pattison, Mr. Baron Gurney ; July Session, the Judges
who go to the Norfolk and North Wales Circuit; August
Session, Lord Chief Baron Abinger, Mr. Justice Wil-
liams, Mr. Justice Erskine ; September Session, Mr.
Baron Parke, Mr. Justice Bosanquet, Mr. Justice Wight-
man ; October Session, Mr. Justice Coleridge, Mr. Jus-
tice Maule, Mt%-Baron Rolfe. The appointments only
extend to the termination of the Mayoralty in each year.

Tuesday a deplorable accident befel a respect-
able married woman, named Deborah Raymond, who
resides in Grey-street, Waterloo-road. She had pur-
chased an old turpentine barrel, for the purpose of using
it as a water-butt, but being desirous of cleansing it,
she got a handful of straw and set light to it, and
placed it in the barrel to endeavour to cleanse it.
No sooner was the light put into the barrel than it blazed
forth almost as high as the first-floor windows. The
poor woman, being anxious to save the glass in the win-
dows, endeavoured to turn the tub over, and, in so doing,
it set fire to her dress, and before any assistance could be
obtained she was almost burnt to death.

SUDDEN DEATH —Yesterday morning, about
half-past eleven, as Mrs. Osborne, the wife of a butterman,
in Feather's-Court, Drury-lane, was proceeding along
White Hart-street, she dropped down dead. Mr. Wal-
ker, a surgeon, was called instantly, which, of course was
of no avail.

The produce of the French Press, during the
last year has been—works of all languages, 6,300 ; plans
and maps, 145 ; engravings, lithographic plates, &c.,
1,163 ; musical pieces, 428.

. -
Mr. Frederick Chatterton, the well-known
harpist, has arrived in Paris at the Hotel Windsor, Rue
Rivoli.

M. de Lammennais has been liberated, the
,welven:onths of his sentence having transpired.

THE WEATHER IN RUSSIA.-ST. PETERS'

num!, DEC. 19.—Our winter this year is the most ex-
traordinary that we ever experienced. At this period
last year the cold vas excessive, and the frost continued
without intermission all the winter through. This year,
on the contrary, we find in the journal called the Poss-
rednik (Mediator), the following description of the
present -December spring :—" In our city gardens
no trace of winter is to be seen. The grass-
plots are all green, and the flowers are budding out. To-
day, December 1 (13th), I gathered in a garden at Was-
sili-Ostrew a nosegay consisting of daisies, half-blown
primroses, auriculas, artemisia abrotanim, and various
other flowers, which I carried to an invalid lady residing
on the English Quay. I rowed across the Neva in a
little boat, the river being as free of ice as in the month
of May."