The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-09 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Saturday
next, the 13th instaßt, at Osborne House, Isl.. of Wight.
The Council is appointed at one o'clock in the after-
noon.

Sir James Graham left town yesterday morning to
pay a visit to Lord Stanley, at Walton. The Right Hon.
Baronet returned to town in the afternoon.

Dispatches from the Governor of Malta, and also from
;he Governor of Gibraltar, were received yesterday at
:he Colonial office.

" Mesmerism" h:;s of late attracted somuch of the
public attontion, that we do not feel surprised at its having
been selected as a fit subject for the novel reader, and in the
hands of so experienced a writer of fiction as the author of
" Bramblet3e House," as may readily be imagined, it is treated
with all the effect that could be given to it. " Love and
Mesmerism," for such is the interesting title of this new work,
is pronounced in literary circles not only the best of Horace
Smith's numerous productions, but one of the most striking
and original romances that have been put forth for some time.
DEPLORABLE AND FATAL ACCIDENT FROM A
POLICE VAN.—An interesting male child, under two years
o'd, named Crate, belonging to a confectioner, &c., in Great
Peter-street, Westminster, was, at about eleven o'clock this
morning, crossing this thoroughfare, not far from its parent's
house, at a moment when the police van from Tothill-fields
Bridewell, was passing, which knocked the child down, and ran
over its neck and face. It was immediately conveyed, in a
most excruciating state of suffering—its eyes gushing out, and
hanging from their sockets, and its brains frightfully protruding,
to the Westminster Ilospital, where every attempt to save its
life proved unavailing.
BRIGHTON, SEPT. B.—Lady Elizabeth Lowther
left here on Saturday by the General Steam Navigation Company's
packet Menai, for Dieppe. Great preparations are snaking at Eu
for the reception of her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria,
expected on Tuesday. The whole of the performers from the
Opera Comique are to arrive on Monday, to give a series of per-
formances at the Chateau ; they muster one hundred, including the
orchestra.

WOOLWICH, SErT. 8 —lhe Lightning steam-ves-
sel, Mr. Petley, Master-Commander, arrived at three o'clock, P.M,
from Antwerp, with two of the royal carriages used by her Ma-
jesty's suite on the Continent, and they were immediately landed
at the West Wharf, adjoining the bail in, to be forwarded to Buck.
Ingham Palace.

IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN CATTLE.--A rather
novel feature in our local trade is presented in Use importation of
foreign cattle to this port, a cargo of oxen having arrived at Cove
yesterday per the Isabaa from Corunna. They will be landed and
for sale to-day on Messrs. Seymour's Wharf. We understand they
are in good condition, but certainly after the payment of all ex-
penses, and 11. per head import duty under the new tariff; they are
Lot likely to be a very remunerative speculation for the ikiporter,
particularly when offered for salv immediately after a long sea
voyage,--Cork Southern BeportetY

Even supposing the Queen, after the.botching she has un-
dergone (the last to the tune of 4,0000, does better than
before, is it not clear proof that the surveyor is obliged to
throw overboard some of his crude notions in order to arrive
at this modicum of success, thereby acknowledging the
former deficiency and failure of a ship which was pronounced
to be " a perfect man of war ?" And how can the Albion,
and much less the Vanguard and Superb, help the " intui-
tive" cause, by their performances, taking the accounts given
to be correct?—the former having been so often beaten by
the Rodney and Canopus, and the latter ships invariably
last.

With retard to the Rodney and the Albion, there can be
no question which is the superior man-of-war. The Rodney
lost one trial by an accident, and in point of qualities,
weatherly or otherwise, she cannot be considered inferior to
the Albion; consequently, her superior height of ports, with
as much stowage, gives her the superiority in a vital
parti-
cular. But let these two ships get into a heavy swell, and
see which will be able to fight her guns best?
The Trafalgar, by comparison with the Queen, does not
turn out to be the crack ship she was reported to be, her in-
clination being only one half degree more. Give the con-
structor of this ship the same latitude as allowed to the sur-
veyor; let 1 im expend half the sum of 4,0001. on her, and stow
her without the interference of the surveyor or his partisans,
and we doubt not the Queen will have little to boast of in any
wind.

That old ship, the Canopus, that 'held so good a position,
is 230 tons less than the " crack ship," the Vanguard, and
her sister ship the Superb. She stowed the same number of
days' provisi ,ns as the other ships, whilst the Vanguard and
Superb each took 28 days less. Even according to the name-
less return she has only 42 tuns of water less than the Van-
guard, and we happen to know for a fact that the Canopus
had 64 tuns of water more than the Vanguard, and a heavier
weight of single-shotted broadside.— Herald.

WESTMINSTER REGISTRATION.--Mr. Moylan, the
barrister, has been appointed to revise the list of voters for the
city of Westminster, but the precise days of holding
his Courts
have not at present been determined upon. The following is a
general statement of the claims and objections :—Objections—By
Conservatives, 101, householders, 037 ; scot and lot, 8. By Re-
formers, 10/. householders, 139 ; scot and lot, 36. Claims—By
Conservatives, 101. householders, 35 ; scot and lot, 2. By Re.
formers, 101. householders, 165; scot and lot, e.
EAST SURREY REGISTRATION.—Mr. S. C. C• Fish,
the barrister appointed to revise the list of voters for the eastern
division of the county of Surrey, has appointed Monday next for
the commencement of the revision, at Reigate.
FIRE AT ANDOVER.—On Sunday night last a fire
broke out at Andover, in the new street leading to Newbury,
which in spite of all the exertions of the inhabitants continued to
burn all night, and totally destroyed six houses. So rapid was the
progress of the fire, that some of the families escaped in their
night clothes, and were glad to save their lives, having no oppor-
tunity to save an)thing else. The poor sufferers appeared in a
miserable plight, as many as twenty of them having neither cloth-
ing, homes, nor furniture, and no money wherewith to purchase
any. Not one of them was insured.
Bust Ir.—HORRINGER FAIR, SEPT. 4.—There has
not been so small a supply here for seseral past years, but from the
attendance of buyers being also rather scarce, coupled with the in-
ferior condition of the stock generally, business ptoceeded but
slowly, and at prices somewhat lower than those obtained at the
late Ipswich lamb fair; prices of lambs varying from ISs. to
225. 6d. ; a few choice things, in extra condition, realising 25,. to
265. ; whilst shearling ewes obtained from 28. to 345. lid., and
dock crones, of which there was rather an unusual quantity,
averaged about 19s. 6d. each.—lpstaich Express.
l'llE FIRST JENUITIC ESTABLISHNIENT IN THE
PRESENT CENTURY.—Very soon after the last war of liberation,
and the establshing of the Holy Alliance, Jesuitism was intro-
duced into Austria ; but so great was the caution resorted to fur
not offending their public apprehensions, that this name was changed
into that of Redemptionists, meaning the order of the Redeemer.
They obtained from Government the oldest church in Vienna (that
of the Holy Steps) and have continued their sly, yet unrelaxed
labours tip to the present time. It is from that spot that they have
crept, like venomous parasites, over Germany, France, and Swi!zer.
land, creating everywhere unspeakable confusion, and lately de-
luging the countries thus contaminated with the blood of innocent
citizens.—German paper.
CARRIAGES FOR LADIES.—The Grand Junction
have very judiciously determined that after the 15th of this month
a compartment of a first-class carriage will be reserved for ladies
travelling alone. We feel confident other Companies will not be
tardy in following so good an example.—Railway Chronicle.
THE NAVIFs.—On Monday afternoon about 200
of the workmen on the railway marched in procession into the
town preceded by a practitioner on the bagpipe and a banner
equally unattractive. The demonstration," seemed a failure, for,
after passing the townhall, the procession broke up and its mem.
bars burrowed into thepublic-houses. We were told that the exhibi-
tion proceeded from a strike for an increase of wages, and that it had
been originated by the peaceable community presently located near
Cockburnspath, who having taken into their heads to have the
wages raised from 14s. and 'Ss. to 20s. per week, separated into
two parties, one marching south, the other north, and forcing all
upon the
Tuesday, on
worksoLiwtoedjiowinstitahy em.i'he ceased from work
during morning, a large party
of them appeared at the port for the hiring of shearers
and behaved in a very rude and disorderly manner ; insisting that
the wages should he as. per day. They so interfered between
master and servant as entirely to stop all business, some of the
former they used very rudely, while they compelled those engaged
to return into the town. The consequence was that a day was lost
for reaping. The farmers waited upon the magistrates in the
course of the day and preferred a complaint, and were promised
that means should be taken to check the annoyance if an attempt
was made to repeat it. The next morning they did not make their
appearance at the port, and the hiring of shearers proceeded uniu-
terruptedly. A number of navies returned to their work on Wed-
nesday, and a greater number on Thursday, the remainder during
these days were to be seen in a besotted state, loitering about the
haunts of their inebriety. —Berwick Advertiser.

PUBLIC HOUSES.—It is most material that magis-
trates should be particular in not granting or renewing alehouse
licences to drunken publicans.