The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-21 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

On Saturday her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, attended by Lady Charlotte Dundas and Sir
George Couper, went to Canford House on a visit to
the Queen Dowager.
Her Royal Highness proceeded by the railway from
Farnborough to Southampton.
Mr. Moore, Advocate-Greneral of the Swan River
settlement, had an interview with Lord Stanley on
Saturday, at the Colonial-office.
Count Reventlow, the Danish Minister, transacted
business at the office of the Board of Trade on Sa-

turday.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an
interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on
Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-street.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.

Thomas Bold, Esq., Mrs. Bold, and family, at
Christie's hotel, St. James's-street, from Liverpool ;
Thomas Stokes, Mrs. Stokes, and family, at ditto
from Bath ; James Crawford, Esq., and family, a,
ditto, from Edinburgh; David Buchanan, Esq., -at
ditto, from Shule's Lodge, Southampton ; Henry
Wikoff, Esq., at Long's Hotel, Bond-street, from the
'Continent ; Maynard Colchester, Esq., at ditto, from
the 'Wilderness, Gloucestershire; Captain Deltne,
R.N., at ditto, from, Hants ; Douglas Stuart; Esq:, at
ditto, froM Somersetshire; Hern. Henry S. John, at
ditto, from Sussex.
DEPARTURES.

W. N. Barry, Esq., fro'm Long's Hotel, Bond-
street, for Northamptonshire; Captain Waters and Mr.
Burnett, from: ditto, for Narborough Hall, Norfolk ;
George Wilkinson, Esq., and J. Malneck, Esq.,
from ditto, for Brussels ; S. Cowell, Esq., from
ditto, for Trinity College, Cambridge ; Reverend
Thomas Farr, from ditto, for Beccles, Suffolk ;
Lord Plunket and family and suite, from the Bruns-
wick Hotel*Jermyn• street, for Old Connaught Bray ;
Sir John and Lady Hall and family, from ditto, for
Brussels ; Sir Patrick and Lady Bellew, from ditto,
for ditto ; Count and Countess Dura, and Count Paul
Dura, from ditto, for ,'aril ; the Marquis of Lorn and
Dr. Cumming, from ditto, on a tour ' • Major and
Mrs. Brooksbank, from ditto, for Yorkshire ; Lady
Dalrymple, of North Berwick, and family, from
Christie 's Hotel, for Brighton ; Lord Chief Justice
Doherty and family, from ditto, for Dublin ; John
Egginton, Esq., from ditto, for Hull; Cottingham
Moses, Esq., from ditto, for Liverpool ; Hugh Per-
kin's, Esq., from ditto, for ditto ; Edward Littledale,
Esq., from ditto, for ditto ; George Fraser, Esq., from
ditto, for ditto; Miss Todd and Miss Buchanan,
from Henley-on-Thames ; John Warrender, Esq.,
from ditto, for Frankfort.

BANQUET AT ASHBURNHAM

HOUSE.

On Saturday evening his Excellency, the Russian
Minister, and Baroness Brunow, had the honour of
receiving his Imperial Highness the Archduke Frede-
rick of Austria at a sumptuous banquet at the Russian
Embassy. The entertainment was of the most
recherche character, and the other arrangements were
on a s of splendour every way becoming the visit
of hi perial Highness. The fine band of the
Coldstream Guards was stationed at the bottom of the
grand staircase, and on the arrival of the Archduke
he was received by the band playing the Austrian
national anthem. Captain Fitzroy, R.N., and his
Excellency Baron Nieutnann, the Austrian Minister,
accompanied his Imperial Highness. Covers were
laid for twenty-six, and in addition to the Arch-
duke, his Excellency Baron Nieumann, and Captain
Fitzroy, there were their Excellencies Prince Castel-
cicala, Baron • de Cetto, Baron Moncorvo, Marquis de
Lisboa and M. Dedel, Count Revel, Lord Fitzgerald,
Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford, Baron Koller,
Baron Lebzeltern, Baron Brenner, M. de Lomonossoff
and Colonel Baron Lebzeltern, Major Captain Dumont,
Count Karoyli, and Chevalier Krechel, aides-de-camp
to his Imperial Highness ; M. de Bery, M. KondriafF-
shy, and M. de Benkhausen. In the course of the
banquet the health of the Emperor and the Imperial
family of Austria was proposed by the noble host, and
the Emperor and Empress of Russia were proposed
by the Archduke Frederick, the military band salut-
ing the former toast with the national anthem of
Austria, and the latter with the Russian air. Baroness
Brunnow, in the latter part of the evening, opened
her salons for the reception of a select party, when
among the visitors were his Excellency the French
Ambassador and Countess de Sainte Aulaire, his Ex-
cellency the Turkish Ambassador, the Duke de
Guiche, the Comte Auguste de Grammont, his Ex-
cellency the Danish Minister and Countess ReventloW,
his Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame
Van de Weyer, his Excellency the American Minis-
ter and Mrs. and Miss Everett, his Excellency Count
Kielmansegge, the Swedish Charge d'Affaires and
Baroness Rehausen, Countess of Jersey, Marquis
Palucci, Lord Lowther, Admiral Sir George Cock-
burn, Mr. W. E. Gladstone, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer and Mrs. and Miss Goulburn, Baron de
Broclidorff, Lord and Lady Colchester, Count Rosen,
Viscount Ossulton, Mr. Parnther, Count Louis de
Noailles, Marchioness de Lisboa, Lady Wheatley and
the Misses Wheatley, &c. His Imperial Highness
retired about half-past eleven..

On Thursday morning while Eliott, the game-
keeper at Blenheim Park, the seat of the Duke of
Marlborough, was shooting at a doe, he missed the
doe, but shot a poor girl named Oldacres, aged 13,
who was picking up wood at the time. The unfor-
tunate girl was a distance of 554 yards from the
keeper at the time the catastrophe occurred. Of these
554 yards, 330 are very thickly interspersed with
trees, which prevented his seeing the deceased. An
inquest was held on the body on the following morn-
ing, before James Westall, Esq., the Coroner for the
county. The Jury, after a long and patient inves-
tigation, returned a verdict of " Homicide by Misad-
venture," accompanied by an expression of their opinion
that the gamekeeper had not used due caution.
In consequence of the important alterations which
railroads have made in the duties of Post-office
keepers, the Postmaster-General has resolved upon
reducing the Post-office establishments of a large
number of post-towns, to subordinate offices to neigh-
bouring large cities and towns, which will have the
effect of lessening the duties of the persons employed
in those subordinate offices, without diminishing the
convenience they afford to the public. This ar-
rangement will ultimately effect a considerable saving
in the expense of the Post- office department.