The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-11 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen rode out in an open carriage and four yesterday
afternoon, Col. Arbuthnot, Equerry in Waiting, attending on
horseback.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel
Wylde, rode out on horseback yesterday afternoon.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Ma-
jesty yesterday.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess
Royal were taken an airing yesterday, in a carriage and four.
The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace, last evening,
included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess
of Buccleuch, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, the Earl of Liver-
pool, the Earl Delawarr, and Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Charles
Bruce.

The Band of the 2d Life Guards were in attendance dur
dinner.

The Band of the 2d Life Guards attended daily after dinner
during her Majesty's,stay at Claremont.
His Serene Highness the Duke Bernard of Saxe Weimar,
attended by Captain Koch, arrived at Marlborough House, the
residence of the Queen Dowager, at half-past twelve o'clock
on Monday night, having landed from Rotterdam. His
Serene Highness took a carriage drive yesterday afternoon.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, their Serene Highnesses
the Duke Bernard and the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, anti
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar and suite, honoured the
Italian Opera with their presence yesterday evening.
The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Major Stephens,
honoured Mrs. De Rothschild with his company at dinner on
Monday evening, at her residence in Piccadilly. His Royal
Highness afterwards honoured Lady Shaw Stewart with his
company at the concert given by her Ladyship in Belgrave-
square.

lord Sandon, 31. P., Sir Howard Douglas, M.P., and a
Deputation from Liverpool, on the subject of rice, had an in-
terwiew with the Earl of Ripon yesterday, at the office of the
Board of Trade.

Alr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamp; and Taxes, had an
interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at
his official residence in Downing-street.
Sir Matthew Wood, M.P., Air. Lyall, M.P., the City Re-
membrancer, and a Deputation on the subject. of coals, had
an interview yesterday with the Earl of Ripon, at the Board of
Trade.

Despatches from the Governor of Jamaica, and also from the
Governors of the other West India Colonies, were received
yesterday at the Colonial-office.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.
PARIS, MONDAY.—lntelligence has been received, via
Perpignan, stating that at Barcelona, on the 4th, appre-
henslims were entertained that disturbances would break
out on the following day.
A melat.choly accident had occurred on the Versailles
Railway. Forty-two persons were killed, and a con-
siderable number wounded.

LONDON and CROYDON RAILWAY.
A special general meeting of the Shareholders in this
Railway, was held yesterday at the London Tavern, Bishops-
gate-street, for the purpose of receiving from the Solicitor to
the Company a draft of a Bill about to be introduced to Par-
liament, for the purpose of extending the railway to the West-
end of London.
From the prospectus submitted to the meeting, it appeared
that the object of this measure (promoted by the South Eastern
and Croydon Railway Companies), is to afford better accommo.
dation for the merchandise, cattle, &c., conveyed along the Croy-
, don, Dover, and Brighton Railways, from the counties of Surrey,
Kent, and Sussex, and also to provide for the convenience of
the pubic residing at the western parts of the metropolis, tra-
velling on these Railways, especially those who have with them
their own carriages and horses. Already serious complaints
are made by passengers on the Brighton Railway, coming from
the West-end of London, of the inconvenience and loss of
time to which they are subjected by having to proceed to
and from the present station, through the crowded streets of
the City and Borough ; and it is scarcely necessary to add that
such station neither is, nor can be, adapted to the accommo-
dation of the whole of the extensive traffic in cattle, hops, and
general merchandise, from the counties of Sussex and Kent.
The present application to Parliament is, therefore, made to
provide for these important objects. It is intended to form a
roadway or approach, from the Grange-road (near the Green
Man turnpike, in the Old Kent-road), to the Croydon Railway.
near Corbetts-lane. The length of the proposed road is about
one mile ; it proceeds through an open district, interfering
with but one or two buildings, and those of a very inferior
description. The line has been carefully surveyed under the
direction of Mr. Cubitt, the engineer of the South Eastern
Railway Company,
The Solicitor to the Company having read the Bill to the
meeting, the following resolution was proposed and passed :
" That this meeting approves of the object of this Bill, and
of the same passing into a law, subject to such alterations as to
Parliament may seem meet."
The meeting then separated.

STRAWBERRY HILL.
On Monday commenced the sate of the collection of cabinet
pictures, drawings, and effects, belonging to the room desig-
nated the Tribune, and attracted a considerable number cf per-
sons. The produce of the day's sale was 1,210/.
12. Mary Queen of Scots, copied from the celebrated whole-
length portrait of her in 1578, at Hatfield House, by Vertue,
271. 6s.

22. Madame de Sevigne, and her daughter, Madame de
Grignon, on copper, by Muntz, 12/. 12s.
36. Woman seated in a garden, a male figure reclining be-
hind her, by Watteau, from Sir Robert Walpole's collection ;
wretchedly poor as designs, and in bad condition, 40/. 19s.—
Emery.
.

44. Temptation of St. Anthony, by David Teniers, a beauti-
ful cabinet gem, with an emblematically carved frame, 45/. 3s.
Believed to be purchased for Mr. Becktord.
The bronzes sold for good prices. 59 and 60. Statues of
the Venus de Medicis and Antinous, formerly the property of
the minister Lord \Valdegrave, sold for twenty-three guineas.
61 and 62. Statues of the Apollo Belvedere, and the Farnese
Flora, twency-two inches high ; the first sold for 23/. 2s. the
latter for 291. Bs.

70. Jewel casket of ebony and ormolu, the sides and top
formed of tablets of Florentine mosaic in pietra Jura, represent •
ing bouquets of flowers; presented to Walpole by Sir Horace
Alarm, the British resident at Florence, 73/. 10s.—Lord
Charles Townsend.

82. Jupiter Serapis, hea3 only, in basaltes, a precious frag-
ment, a proof of the consummate taste and skill of the ancient
sculptors. Something of its history may interest the reader.
The celebrated vase, designated the Portland Vase, now in the
British Museum. and the head of Jupiter Serapis, were long
the pride of the Barberini collection, at Rome. and English can-
noissem s had long coveted them in vain ; at length the Prin-
cess of Palestine, mother of the Prince Barberini, during her
son's minority, in order to enable her to pa some gaming
debts, sold them to the well-known liyers, an English cicerone
at Rome, for 50W. ; he, in turn, sold them to Sir William Ha-
milton, for 1,0001. Sir William, who was a gentleman dealer
in articles of vertu, sold them, with a fine cameo of Augustus,
and a fragment of an intaglio of Hercules, to the Duchess of
Portland, for '2,000/. On her death, the greater or more bulky
part of her collections were sold in May and June, 1786, when
the Duke of Portland bought in the Barberini Vase for 1,0291.
and Walpole purchased the head of Jupiter Serapis for 173/. 55.,
and, as he observes, "It was a mere head ; Mrs. Dancer in
1789, added the bust in bronze." Mr. Hume was the pur-
chaser yesterday, it is presumed for Mr. Beckfurd, for seventy-
five guineas.

JUL. A scallop-shaped snuff-box, the sides richly enamelled,
s ith floweis ; on the upper tide of the lid, a fine miniature ot
King James the First ; anion the inside of the lid, another of
Queen h Lzabeth ; both by Hilliard, in the finest style of this
admirable artist. 511. 9s.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
LYME REGIS.

The Committee met at the usual hour. Mr. Hawes in the
Chair.

The scrutiny on the part of the petitioner was proceeded
with, and one vote was struck off the poll of the sitting Aleir,ber

NEWCASTLE.
The Committee met at eleven o'clock. Sir J. Y. Buller in
the Chair.
The case of the petitioner, in respect of the allegation of
bribery. having closed,
Mr. TALBOT summed up at considerable length.