The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-03 00:00:00

EVENiNG SUN

COURT CIRCULAR.
W1:4030R, SUNDAY.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert,.
the Duchess of Kent, the whole of the Royal Suite. and
Noble Visitors, and the Household, attended Divine
Service, this morning in the private Chapel of the. Castle.
The Venerable Archdeacon Wilberforce officiated, end
preached a most eloquent Sermon from the 19th verse 0,,
the 2d chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luker"
" But Mary kept all these things and pondered them to
her heart."

This afternoon the Yen. Archdeacon Lord Charles
Wellesley, Hon. C. A. Murray, and some of the Ladies of
the Suite attended Divine Service at the Chapel Royal,
St. George's. One of Dr. Green's fine old anthems was
performed by Messrs. Turner, Smith, Mitchell, Oa
French, in an excellent manner.
Yesterday morning her Majesty and Prince Albert
walked on the Terrace and in the New Grounds of the
Home Park, afterwards his Royal Highness went to
Norfolk Farm, pheasant shooting, attended by Viscount
Sydney and Colonel Bouverie.
Lord Charles Wellesley (Clerk Marshal) has sue'
ceeded Colonel Arbuthnot as the Equerry in Waiting °rl
the Queen, and Colonel Bouverie has succeeded Major'
General Sir Edward Bowater as the Equerry in Waiung
on Prince Albert.

The Queen honoured Mr. Partridge with a sitting yes"
terday for a portrait he is painting, by her Majesty
command.

The venerable Archdeacon Wilberforce and Viscount
Melbourne arrived on a visit yesterday.
Major-General and the Lady Isabella Wemyss,
George E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, and Mrs. Colonel
Bouverie, had the honour of joining the Royal Dinner
Circle last evening.
Their Serene Highnesses Prince Ernest of Hesse Phi'
lippsthal and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar visited her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday 0
Gloucester-house.

Count St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, visited
the Earl of Aberdeen on Saturday, at the Foreign-offiCe'
Mr. Studholme Brownrigg had an interview with Loll
Stanley on Saturday at the Colonial-office.
Despatches for Sir Charles Metcalfe, Governor of
Jamaica, and for the Governors of the other "West Indic
Colonies, were sent off on Saturday evening from the
Colonial-office.

DISTRESS AT CARLISLE.
It appears that the Committee appointed at the publlo
meeting on Tuesday week, at once set themselves to works
in a business-like manner, and on Tuesday last presented
to the adjourned meeting a Report which, in its detail*
presents a picture of misery such as the most callous cannot
look upoh but with feelings of horror and dismay. 0
shows that the fourth of our population is living in a state,
bordering on absolute starvation ! .4 The number 01
families," say the Committee in their Report, with'
out any means of subsistence beyond a dependence oil
casual charity, was found to be 309, and the indivi•
duals belonging to these families to amount to 1,146,,
The cases most deserving of special attention are, 0'
course, those where, notwithstanding the endeavour 0,
obtain an independent subsistence, the amount 9'
earnings is far below what is requisite to procure the
barest necessaries. Exclusive of those who have no
sib's, resources, the number of persons whose weeldi
means of maintenance do not exceed one shilling_ per
head, is 1,465; of those who have more than one shilling,
but not above eighteen-pence per head, the number-1S
1,623 ; above eighteen-pence, but not more than two
shillings, 692 ; more than two shillings, but below three
shillings, 635."
Thus we have 5,561 individuals, in a population of
22,000, reduced to such a state of suffering, that O.
mediate relief has become necessary to save them
from actual famine This is not a statement got 141
to serve any party purpose. The details have 0,
bean furnishod by any " Anti-Corn-law League"- f°,'
the purpose of bearing out their assertions of genery
distress. They have been obtained by a Committee,
composed of men of all parties, and including in their
number most of the resident clergy of the Church 0(
England, from a minute personal inspection ; and their
correctness have been vouched for by Mr. Head an,
Major Wilde, both gentlemen who think the
.psesen,',
Corn-law " the best that human wisdom can devise.
And all this misery, too, is being suffered in a tow
situate within an hour's ride of those broad acres be'
longing to Sir James Graham, for which he is at this
moment seeking an increased rental of some twenty
thirty per cent., and which, according to hiegl_A
flourish of last year, should now be diffusing unalloyed
blessings to all around !—Carlisle Journal.

DEATH OF MR. HOWARD.—We are soli;
to announce the sudden death, by apoplexy, of the pope°
lar and distinguished writer, Mr. Edward Howard, 0,1
author of "Rattlin the Reefer," " The Old Commodore!,
"Outward Bound," "Jack Ashore," the "Life of S'
Sydney Smith," and many other works of distinguish
merit. Mr. Howard was one of our most prolific en.,
successful contributors to our higher branches of per'.
odical literature. In his temper he was cheerful ; in 11
habits, temperate ; and in his domestic life, mild '
11°A,
affectionate. As a husband and a father he was tneT
beloved ; he was esteemed as a friend • and much
mired in society, of which, however, he had latterly been
deprived by his total deafness. In convivial associati°
he had always displayed fancy, wit, humour, and urban
but latterly his absolute deafnesi prevented any
communication.
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FATAL ACCIDENT .ON THE RIVER.—...T
morning, about half-past six o'clock, the following 47;
lancholy catastrophe occurred On the River, with
short distance this side of Limehouse reach. It apPe•
that four persons of the names of Walter Mitchell, .101:0.
Johnson, Edward Turner, and Joseph Crouch, all
carpenters in the employ of Mr. Robert Dovastey,'t)
Cannon-street, St. George's, :were returning to their
employment from Deptford, where they had beel.2
to celebrate the marriage of one:of their fellow-worktee°,
while proceeding up the river by some accident the'
boat came in collision Nith a sailing vessel which ivg°
coming down. The concussion caused by the collision
was so great as to captise their boat, and all four wet./
precipitated into the water. After some time Mitchell
and Turner 'were rescued, and taken on board the sailie%
vessel, but unfortunately both Johnson and Crow
were drowned.
.ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT WITH Flos
ABMs.--On Monday last, as Mr. Thomai Whitford, the
son of Mr. Whitford, attorney, of St. Columb,
amusing himself with some other lads on a shooting °P;
cursion, about a mile from the town, on getting ever d.
IV'"-
hedge the gun accidentally went off, and literally 1)19,,-1
his head to atoms. The unfortunate young man
about seventeen years of age.— West Briton.
CHEAP RIDE BY RAILWAY.—In the fares
of the Manchester and Sheffield Railway there is t";
curious feature of a penny fare from Newton to Godle.q
about a mile and a half. About 201. was received at
this charge on the first day the railway was opened. „
ALWAYS " POORLY."—" I feel quite unwel
and will take a little brandy and water," said a member
of a Temperance Society, who had promised to use
ardent spirits, except as medicine. "I am very unwe
my dear ; a little more brandy." Here is the brand
says the wife ; " and I wish the society further off,
you have not had a well day since you joined it."
A
DETERMINED SUICIDE AT BRIDPoRT.—•I
most determined act of suicide was committed at 1114`"
port on Christmas-day. A man, named Welch, dis;s
vered his wife suspended by the neck to the bed-post,lo
the morning, from which situation he released her. v 0
shortly after left her, leaving orders with his children
not to quit their mother ; but she no sooner found heic,
self freed from his presence, than she sent out the ch,_
dren, and, upon her husband's return, he discovered Pef
in her bedroom quite dead, her throat being cut from eft
to ear. The instrument used was a common table-WI:
The poor woman had been in a desponding state for sow
time.— Western 7'imes.
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AN INGENIOUS DEVICE.—Thomas -ange
was on Wednesday last charged at the LiverP°o
police-office by a recruiting sergeant with having
tised a singular imposition. It appeared that the PT'
soner was extremely anxious to enter the servl
of the East India Company ; but being one.eigh,ta
of an inch under the standard height lie fixed to
crown of his head a ball of wax covered with Having by this means elongated himself to the requ''„
dimensions, he was passed on Friday week h
being ordered to attend again on Sunday, the li";
genious device was detected. Mr. Rushton sal
is
knew of no law which condemned a man top 'I the
meat For such an act as that committed Y.,.
prisoner ; and he said that he thought the East India
Company were not so very precise as to height as in VI
Majesty's service. The sergeant, however, said Os'
they were equally strict, and that the standard heights
were the same in both services—five feet six inches. A:
the request of the sergeant the prisoner was cautioned
to repeat the offence, and was discharged.
INTEMPERANCE.— of
Ghattony is the source -
all our infirmities, and the fountain of all our diseases'
Asa lamp is choked by superabundance of oil, a 61
extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural heat °
the body destroyed by intemperate diet.
GENERAL PosT-orFrcx.---The following nee
Lice was issued by the Post-office authorities on tl!!
New-year's morning :—" Post-office, January 1, 184$'
—Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, Gibraltar, Mediterrr
nean, and East Indies.—The next mail for India via
Marseilles, will be made up here the 4th inst. (to-1101:
row). The next mails for Malta, Greece, and the lonia:
Islands, via Falmouth, will be despatched hence °';
the 15th instant, and for Egypt and India on the 31,9„
instant. Madeira, Brazil, and Buenos Ayres:---TP-
Pigeon, for the mails of the 4th inst. (to-morrow)'
America.—The Britannia, for the mails of the 3cl ins('
(this day.) Ship letters from Rio de Janeiro and
pore, by the Black Nymph, Hall arrived at Margate.
On Thursday the Dundee Warder, a Now''.
trusion Paper (understood to be conducted by clergy".
men), was expelled from the Arbroath Reading-room 11
a majority of 30 to 5, in consequence of the abusive an
scurrilous part which it took in the case of George ref'
whom the Minister of Barry excommunicated for having -!
buried his child on a Sunday.—Fifeshire JoernaL • 1
A WOMAN, NINETY-.THREE YEARS 07 AGffl's
BURNT TO DEATH.—Mr. Baker held an inquest 0°
Saturday last, at the Middlesex Hospital, on the boat
of Ann White, aged 93, of No. 74, Belton-street, Long'
acre. Samuel Guthridge, one of the ledgers, said that
on Monday night last lie heard the deceased, who Jived
in the room below his, give an alarm of " fire," and en'
the
deceased for help. He instantly ran down stairs, and saw 1,1
deceased in flames. A man helped him to extinguish
the fire by wrapping a cloak around her, and subsequently
in taking her to the hospital. Witness had since cs.cer-
tained that deceased was searching in a box for soon
sugar, when the candle which she held fell against, 10°
set tire to her cap. She:died of the injuries the fcil°w-
ng day. Verdict, " Accidental Death."
The General. Steam Navigation- Compaq
vessel the Columbine, W. Norwood 'from Rotterdam,
ar-
rived offthe Custom-house yesterday with the Dutch Mau•