The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-18 00:00:00

THE COURT AT BRIGHTON.

BRIGHTON, SUNDAY EVENING.—Her Majesty and Prince
Albert, accompanied by the Countess- of Mount gcl4eeumbe,
the Marquis of OrmOnde, Col. BeicitleY, Col. WykTe, and the
Hon. G. E. Anson, visited the Earl of Liverpool yesterday, at
Buxted Park, returning to the Palace to dinner.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess
Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken out for carriage
airings in the morning and afternoon of yesterday, and also
walked on the Chain-pier.
The Venerable Archdeacon Wilbt rforce arrived this evening.
The royal dinner party this evening was increased by the
presence of Sir Robert Peel, the Venerable Archdeacon Wil-
berforce, Capt. Francis Seymour, and Sir James Clarke.
Sir James Clarke took his departure from the Palace
immediately after dinner.
Her Majesty and the Princess Royal took a carriage airing
this morning. His Royal Highness Prince Albert walked
out, accompanied by the Hon. G. E. Anson.
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and Princess
Alice, were taken for a carriage airing on the cliffs this
morning.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and
the royal suite and household, attended Divine worship this
morning in the Pavilion. The Venerable Archdeacon Wil-
berforce was the officiating minister.
Lord and Lady Petre and the Misses Petre, the Hon. John
and Mrs. Boyle, Major Paine, and Mr. Spencer Lyttelton,
were among those who called and paid their respects-to her
Majesty yesterday. The Marquis of Donegal called at the
Palace this afternoon.

Sir Robert Peel and the Venerable Archdeacon Wilberforce
will be the only additions to the royal dinner party this
evening . . _

The royal carriages attracted universal attention. Her
Majesty's phaeton was preceded by two outriders in scarlet
liveries, and accompanied by Colonel Buckley and Colonel
Wylde on horseback. Her Majesty took one or two turns of
the Marine-parade, and along the King's-road, and returned
to the Palace about four o'clock. _ _

Sir Robert Peel arrived at the Palace last night by the
half•past four o'clock train, and was immediately admitted
to an audience of her Majesty. The Right Honourable Ba-
ronet dined and slept at the Palace, and this morning at-
tended Divine worship at St. George's Chapel, where the Rev.
J. S. M. Anderson, Preacher of Lincoln's Inn, is the officiating
minister. The Right Honourable Baronet was accompanied
by one of his sons, and the weather being fine, he took a
walk on the cliffs, which were crowded with persons. About
three o'clock Prince Albert drove her Majesty out in a pony
phaeton, the royal children being out at the same time, but
going in an opposite direction.

ADMIRALTY.—Capt. the Hon. Richard Saunders
Dundas, C.B. (1824), who commanded the Melville, 72, in
the operations on the coast of China, including the capture
of the forts of the Bocca Tigris, and the operations against
Canton, in 1841, has been appointed Private Secretary to the
First Lord of the Admiralty, in the room of Capt. W. A. B.
Hamilton, Second Secretary to the Admiralty, vice Sir John
Barrow, Bart., retired. Captain Dundas is the second son of
the present Lord Melville.
Tin, LORD MAYOR. —On Sunday morning, the
Lord Mayor, accompanied by the Lady Mayoress and the
Sheriffs, visited St. Barnabas Church, King-square. The
sermon was preached in a very impressive manner by the
incumbent (Mr. Hill), for the benefit of the Finsbury Dis-
pensary. During the service some considerable degree of
alarm and apprehension was occasioned by a person from
the outside throwing a stone through a window near to the
pew in which the Lord Mayor sat, which fell within a few
feet of its intended mark. Several other interruptions oc-
curred by persons hallooing in at the doors some very un-
mistakeable allusions to the late proceeding ; and upon his
making his appearance to depart, he was received with loud
bursts of yellings and hootings, amidst which he drove off in
a precipitate manner. _

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FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday Mr. G. J. Mills
held an inquest at the University College Hospital on the
body of Edward Woolfery, aged 22, an excavator. It ap-
peared that deceased was in the employ o 1 Mr. Darke, dust
contractor, and that on Tuesday afternoon he was engaged
with others removing an immense heap of rubbish on the
Agar estate, at the back of St. Pancras workhouse. The
summit of the heap was covered with frozen snow, and the
front part of it gave way, and about six hundred weight of
it fell, burying deceased, who was at work beneath. Five of
his companions narrowly escaped, and were with the assist-
ance of others, eight or ten minutes engaged in digging de-
ceased out. When they had done so, they then removed
him to the above hospital, but life was extinct. Verdict—
" Accidental death."

The Earl of Erroll, we regret tb state, continues
much indisposed, in Clarges-street.

MR. AND MRS. CHARLES KEA/Q.—These highly-
gifted artistes have been peforming, during the last week, at
Plymouth, in Sir E. L. Bulwer's play of Money, with the
most triumphant success. The house was crowded during
every night of their performance, and the bursts of enthu-
siasm with which they were greeted, says the Plymouth
paper, is sufficient evidence that a genuine feeling for the
civilizing influence of the stage is not wholly extinct among
us. The same journal pays the following well-merited
tribute to the merits of Charles Kean, as an actor—merits
which we agree with the writer in, thinking have been too
generally under-rated :—" We have no disposition to speak
with any undue degree of praise of Mr. Charles Kean's
extraordinary powers as a tragedian, or.of his pretensions to
our esteem as a scholar and a gentleman ; but of this we feel
quite assured, that, whenever lie retires from public life, the
theatrical world will not often look upon his like again.'
With a choice selection of character, to which the most
fastidious cannot object, aided by a degree of judgment and
intellectual power, of which the most eminent of those who
have preceded him might be proud, he cannot but rank with
individuals on wham great powers have been bestowed for
he general advancement of civilised life."

Indisposition has prevented the Earl of Ripon from
attending to his official duties, as President of the Board of
Control, since the 7th inst. His Lordship is now betto;

LEWES, SATURDAY EVENING.—Mr. George Baring
Kemp, the Liberal candidate, who' for the last three days
has been canvassing this borough, has this afternoon sent in
his resignation. Lord Dillon was the bearer of the commu-
nication to Mr. Fitzroy's committee. From the moment of
Mr. Kemp's first appearance here there was not a shadow of
chance for him. There is a split amongst the Whig party, in
consequence of some of the leading men wishing to let 'qr.
Fitzroy walk over the ground now, in order to conciliate the
Conservatives, and get an easy seat for one Whig at the next
election. There prevails a sonsiderable feeling of dissatisfac-
tion in the borough in consequence of this proceeding. Those
electors who vote from principle feel that their franchise has
been nullified by this onesided attempt at compromise, for
such is the effect, call the proceedings by what name you
will. ' The nomination will take place on Monday, and, of
course, the Hon. Henry Fitzroy will be elected without op-
position. A band is parading the town this evening.
THE ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY.—We understand
that Mr. Cubitt, the English engineer, has visited the esta.
blishment of M. Hallette, of Arras near Calais, and inspected
his new plan of atmospheric railway; and that Mr. Cubitt
has expressed himself perfectly satisfied with the plan, and
has declared that he shall warmly advocate its adoption in
England.—Leeds Mercury.
RETIRED NAVY LIST.—We have heard from
source generally well-informed, that it is the intention of
Government to make a retired list for the navy in all its
grades—after each officer has reached his 60th year.—Hamp-
shire Independent.
FOREIGN VINEGAR.—The Commissioners of the
Customs having had under consideration the practice which
at present prevails in ascertaining the strength of vinegar
for duty by the acetometer, upon its importation into this
country, and being of opinion with reference to the low rate
of duty chargeable upon that article, that the scale referred
to in their minute of the 22d of September, 1843, relative to
the partial examination' at this port of goods entered to be
warehoused for foreign exportation only, might with ad-
vantage be made applicable to the number of casks of vinegar
to be tried, for ascertaining the strength thereof, viz. :—ln
every 5 packages, or under, of each mark, 1 package • from
6to 11 inclusive, 2 packages; 12-to' 18, 3 packages; 19 to 26,
4 packages ; 27 to 35, 5 packages; 36 to 45, 6 packages ; 46
to 56, 7 packages ; 57 to 68, 8 packages ; 69 to 81, 9 pack-
ages ; 82 to 95, 10 packages ; 96 to 110, 11 packages ; and at
the rate of one in ten of all above that number. It has been
resolved that the same be adopted accordingly in all cases
where no material variation of strength shall be found to
exist ; but where such variation shall be considerable, the
whole of the casks bearing the same mark be tested, and the
particulars thereof recorded. And directions have been
given to the officers at this port, and the collectors and con-
trollers of the several outports of the kingdom, to govern
themselves in future accordingly.
4"—PRIMITIVE DWELLINGS.--111 a court, or " wynd,"
as it is locally termed, in Leonard-gate, within a hundred
yards of the spacious mansion of an ex-mayor, may be seen
a couple of curious tenements, one inhabited by a small coal-
dealer, and the other by a retail sandman. Both are con-
structed of "raddle and daub" (Anglice—sticks and mud),
and differ in no material respect from an Indian wigwam,
save that the coal-dealer's has a more aristocratic entrance,
the body of an old post-chaise doing duty as porch. The
upper part of the court is rented by these two men, and the
grotesque erections alluded to are the' work of their own
hands. Each has a wife and family, and in this latter term
may be included the sandman's horse, who, Arab-fashion,
sleeps in the same apartment with the wife and children of
his master.—Lancaster Guardian.

THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.—In consequence of the
late accident on this railway, we understand that several alterations
and additions have been made in the staff of servants employed by
the Company. Two additional porters have been engaged at the
Nottingham station; and at Deeston the boy has beenxemoved, and
his place supplied by a man. At Attenborough, since the gates were
smashed by the London down train, the woman who. had.the care of,
them has been discharged, add a man also tippc,inted there. 11,e
number of servants is therefore now prod the sums as It was be.
ibre analganatiou.—NoWagitamlow