The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-08 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR

BRIGHTON, MONDAY.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert
took a carriage airing this morning at ten o'clock. Major-
Gvaral Sir E.' Bowater attended her Majesty on horseback.
Their Serene Highnesses Duke Ferdinand and the Princes
Augustus and Paul Leopold took their departure from the Pa-
vilion this morning, at nine o'clock, for Dover, on their re-
two home.

This morning her Majesty's rtchng,norses were seta,
railway to London, and the horses for the Royal carriages were
placed on the road to convey her Majesty to town to-morrow.
A great number of the Ho,.sehold left this day.
Mr. Ramsay, one of the Inspectors of the General Post-
office, has been engaged for several days at the Post-office here
investigating the circumstances connected with the loss of a
number of letters. It appears that within the last two months
no less than forty-eight letters, containing money, and ad-
dressed to various individuals in ririgliton, have never reached
their destination. A number of officers searched the whole
of the clerks, sorters, and letter-carriers, and afterwards pro-
ceeded to their various residences, to endeavour to find out
the guilty, but nothing has been discovered. The various par-
ties employed in the Post-office consider it a great hard-
ship to be subject to the searching of their private houtes, as it
causes a stigma on them in the neighbourhood in which they
reside.

The Duchess of Kent arrived at Clarence House yesterday
afrernoon, from a visit to the Queen at Brighton. Her
Royal Highness was attended by Lady Fanny Howard and Sir
George Couper, Bart.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess and the Princess Au-
gusta of Cambridge, returned to Cambridge House last even-
ing, from honouring the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, with
a visit at their seat Badminton, Gloucestershire.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited her
Majesty, the Queen-Dowager yesterday at Marlborough-house.
The Prince of Capua and Count St. Aulaire, the French
Ambassador,transacted business yesterday, at the Foreign-office.
Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official resi-
dence in Downing-street.
Sir John Milley Doyle, K.C.8., and Mr. Eicke had an in-
terview with the Earl of Aberdeen, on Saturday, in relation-to
the Naval and Military claims on the Government of Portugal.
His Royal Highness the Duke, of Cambridge honoured the
rehearsal of the Concert of Ancient Music, at the Hanover-
square Rooms, yesterday morning, with his presence.
Despatches from the Governor of the .Mauritius were re-
ceived yesterday afternoon aj.,ttaTrltonial-office. Despatches
were received in the format:lk' he Lord High Corwin's-
sioner of the lonian Islands, and from the Governor of Malta.

The Debats states that it is the Emperor Nicholas
himself who, after a struggle of a whole year against his coun-
cillors and most influential Ministers, has decided on the con-
struction of the railway from St. Petersburgh to Moscow. The
Minister most opposed to it, says the Debate, was Count Can-
crine, who pretended that railways were one of the useless in-
ventions of the age, which would pass away like so many others,
after having been extolled to the skies. The Emperor, however,
after having appointed a commission of the Council of the Empire
to inquire ►nto the aftbir, presided over it himself, and cut short
the discussion as to the usefulness of railways, by declaring that
the railroad from St. Petersburg to Moscow was important for
the welfare of the Empire, and should be made at the cost of
the State. For the realization of this undertaking, the Empe-
ror has appointed two committees, one superior and general,
and the other of execution. At the head of the first is the He-
reditary Grand Duke i and a Prince of his family is a member
of the oilier committee.

--trAgrbIZNANT-COLONEL NAPIER'S " EXCURSIONS
ALOE Ik'S.WIRES OE THE MEDITERRA SEAN. —Colonel
Napier's lucutratlons here presented to us (says a Contem-
porary) are fullest* matter, bright with the sunshine of intel-
lectual health, and high animal spirits, free as a soldier's hand,
buoyant as a soldier's thoughts, and frank and ()Viand as a
soldier's talk at the mess 'table after the first bottle. The
" Excursions" are more various than their title might indi-
cate, for not only are the shores of the Mediterranean de-
serted for the interior of every one of the countries which line
them, but we have the entire " Cruise the Levant," a visit
to the " City of the Sultan," an exploring party to the
" Plains of Tro' ," &c. Nothing can be more easy and agree-
able than the way in which this pleasant rattler scatters about
at random the flowers and weeds that 'he has picked up and
preserved in the hortus siccus of his memory, or memorandum
book, in the course of his ramblings. This book will find
readers among all classes.
SIR WILLIIM WRAX .—Tbis Baronet having
been mistaken for his ancestor, the following account of the
latter, taken from the second volume of „Madame D'Arblay's
" Diary," just published, may not be unacceptable :
" Wraxall, Nathaniel 'gentleman (who was
created a Baronet in 1813) was a voluminous writer of travels,
historical works, memoirs, &c. He was the son of a Bristol
merchant, and passed the early part of his lift. in India, in
the civil service of the Company. He was af:et wards ap-
pointed Judge-Advocate of the Forces of the Presidency of
Bombay. His latest work, and that which attrac:od the most
attention, was entitled Historical Memoirs of my own Times,
&c.' It was published in 1815. Sir Nathaniel Wraxall died
at Dover, 1831, on his way to Naples."

DEAFNESS.—Sound Magnifiers, and Invisible
Operative Voice Conductors, to enable persons at an advanced
age, and of old standing extreme deafness, to join in genera:
conversation, and to catch the sound of a distant low speaker
at a publie assembly ; they are the- size of a very small got',
seven shilling piece, and when in the cavity of the ears, they
are not in the least perceptible nor more uncomfortable than
having a small piece of fine wool in its place ; they are composed
of a metal to collect sound, peculiar to the Messrs. S. and It.
Solomons themselves ; and although they are so extremely smal
yet they enable those afflicted with extreme deafness, and
those who are only slightly dull of hearing to hear in every
respect equal to those of most acute hearing. Messrs. S. aid
Solomons, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the
York Hotel, and 76, King William-street, City. Newly-Invented
immediately they are placed before imperfect vision,
or candlelight, that mist and dullness whjct
appearseSiPtchcetracibbi' day
before the eyes is at once removed, every object beet mine
clear and distinct, so that the most aged defective eyesight be.
comes bright and brilliant, and is brought to its youthful, nature:
and original state. Those valuable inventions have gained tht
principal Members of the medical prof..ssion, and
m
patronage of the Royal Family, and the unqua ified approbation of
above
Qidtibveiduals of high distinction, who have been greatly
bneurieefirteouos individuals
their use. To be had only at 39, Albem..rle-street,
cPiitcyc._No on w
adilly,cocipnpnoesxitietheitYhoppntekrsHosteolf, and 76, King William-stree'
the
same
name.
The General Steam is avigkion Company's vessel
the Columbine, Norwood, from Rotterdam, arrived off the
Custom-house on Sunday with the Dutch Mail.