The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-04 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—The Queen and Prince
Albert enjoyed their accustomed early walk this fore-
noon in the Home-park. Afterwards his Royal High-
ness, attended by General Wemyss and Colonel
Wylde, hunted with the Prince's Harriers in the
Great-park. The party had an excellent run and
killed at Frogmore.
Earl Spencer took his departure to-day from the
Castle.

To-morrow her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Gloucester is expected to arrive on a visit, attended by
Lady Caroline Legge.
Lord and Lady Stanley are expected on Saturday
on a visit.
The Rev. Lord W. Russell will have the honour
this evening of joining the Royal dinner circle, which
will also include the Earl and Countess Bruce, Coun-
tess of Dunmore, Lady C. Cocks, Hon. Miss Deve-
reux, Viscount Hawarden, Hon. C. A. Murray, Sir
R. Otway, Lord C. Wellesley, Colonel Wylde, and
Dr. Prcetorius.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at-
tended by Lady Charlotte Dundas, arrived in town
at twelve o'clock yesterday from her residence at
Frogmore Lodge, near Windsor. The Royal
Duchess paid a visit to her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester. A dejeune was served at
Gloucester House. Their Royal Highnesses the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Au-
gusta of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duke
of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, visited the Duchess of GI DU ••
cester.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and
Lady Charlotte Dundas, Lady in Waiting, left town
at half-past three o'clock on her return to Frogmore
Lodge ; and their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
Duchess, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge,
accompanied by the Hereditary Grand Duke of
Mecklenburgh Strelitz, and Lady Augusta Somerset,
Lady in Waiting, left town in the afternoon for Kew.
The Countess Brownlow has succeeded the Dowager
Lady Clinton as the Lady in Waiting on her Majesty
the Queen Dowager. Earl Brownlow has also arrived
at Canford House, the residence of her Majesty.
The Turkish Ambassador and the Spanish Minister
transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an
interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yes-
terday at his official residence in Downing-street.
The Earl of Wilton transacted business yesterday
at the Foreign-office.
Dispatches were sent off last evening from the
Colonial-office for Sir Charles Bagot, Governor of
Canada. Dispatches were also sent off for the
Governor of West Australia.

ARRIVAL of the BRITISH QUEEN.
(FURTHER PARTICULARS)
COWES, THURSDAY.—The British Queen, Belgian
steamer, from New York to Antwerp, arrived here
early this morning, after a very lengthened passage
of twenty-six days, having borne up for the Western
Isles, to get a fresh supply of coals. She has brought
the intelligence of the loss of another of the Royal
West India mail steamers (said to be the Solway),
but the news is given in so vague and loose a manner,
that many persons think it must refer to the Medina,
which was lost at Turk's Island some months ago.
The Captain of the British Queen, Captain' Eyckholt,
in writing to the Southampton agents on the subject,
states, "We arrived in the night at Cowes, after a
voyage of twenty-six days, and we were obliged to
call at the Azores, to get a fresh supply of coals, for
which we paid at the rate of 100 francs per ton. In
starting from Fayal we left the Medway, West
India steamer, which put in their to take in coals,
and which announced to us the. total loss of one of the
West India steamers." Now, Captain Eyckholt
was perfectly aware of the loss of the Medina
before he left England, and therefore would not
have communicated to his agents the loss of that
vessel, and though he does not name the ship
reported to be lost, yet a number of the passengers
who have landed from the British Queen have sup-
plied that omission, and state it to be the Solway,
and that no lives have been lost, but that the officers,
Eng-
land. the Medway,
gen enNivanhichhas
crew, and passengers of the Solway are all safe on
Ngviilvlenbrainignortheip. tlojt naghe:
count, inasmuch as he has named the spot teluphere,,t
ine
vessel is said to be wrecked, which is the
the Gulf of Mexico. On the other hand, of the
report
refers most positively asserts that the
refers to the Medina, and that it was some of the crew
who formerly belonged to her who were on board the
Medway, and that in the communication between the
boat's crew of the British Queen and some of the
M edway's men the statement relative to the wreck of
the West India steamer, and her men being on board
the Medway, referred to the portion of the Medina's
crew who were on board of her, and that the mistake
has arisen from the Belgian seamen not understand-
ing the English language. With such conflicting
accounts there is no possibility of arriving at
any accurate conclusion until the arrival of
the Medway herself, which is expected every
hour, and which no doubt has reached Fal-
mouth ere this, as it NN as understood she would
leave Fayal the day following that on which the
British Queen left, more especially as the latter has
had a lengthened passage, and as the West India
steamers usually perform the distance in six days.
There has been no intelligence forwarded.to, the West
India Mail Company's office at Southampton:. from
the Medway' direct, and the only account the persorn.
c
in the office have received of the disaster is thrOngh
Messrs. Mollet and Co., to whom Captain Eyckholt's
letter is addressed. Of couzse the news has created
considerable uneasiness among those who*have friends
on board the west India steamers, and numbers are
anxiously looking out for the Medway's arrival. The
British Queen was lying at anchor six .days at Fayal,
and left immediately after the arrival of the'Medway.
her letters and papers were landed this morning, and
inuusdiately forwarded on to London; but the,in
ligenca they may communicate has already been an-
ticipated by the news brought by the Caledonia.
Mr. Cocks, the providono of the British Queen, left
that vessel at Fayal, and went on board the Medway,
in hopes: of reaching England before the British
Queen, and in safety. We understand that she is not
considered sea-worthy, having broken her main beam
on her passage out. An experienced Captain here
told me just now that she could not go out again in
, her present state.

A new Police Court has been erected in Arbonr-
square,• Stepney, and has been for some time com-
pleted, the furniture alone been required to render *it
fit for . occupation and business. There is a large
police-station, with a kind of barracks, for the single
men belonging to the K division of the police force,
a range of cells; and a covered shed for the
annexed to the Court. The erection of
the new Court and station, and buildings attached, has
cost upwards of 15,0001.
stables,
police-van