The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-28 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Yesterday was the birth-day of her Royal High-
ness the Princess Mary of Cambridge.
A meeting of the Cabinet Ministers was held at
three o'clock on Saturday afternoon at the official
residence of Sir. Robert Peel, in Downing-street. The
Ministers present were Sir Robert Peel, the Lord
Chancellor, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir
James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl
of Hadclington, Lord Fitzgerald; the Earl of _Ripon,
and Sir Henry Hardinge. The meeting broke up
shortly before four o'clock.
General Sancho, the Spanish Minister, had an in-
terview with the Earl of Aberdeen, on Saturday at the
Foreign-office.
Sir Henry .Hardinge arrived in town on Friday
from his seat near Penhurst..

Dispatches from the Governor of the Mauritius
were received on Saturday at the Colonial-office.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.
' ARRIVALS.

• The Earl of Pembroke, in Stratton-street, from a
tour • Lord Vivian and Mr. Vivian, M.P., from the
family seat in Cornwall ; Mr. and Lady Emily Foley,
in George-street, Hanover-square, from Brighton ;
Lady Catherine Wolfe, from Warwickshire ; Count
Karolye, at Mivart'§ ILtel, from a visit to the Earl
and Countess of Jersey, at Middleton Park; Baroness
Dimsdale, at ditto, from Camfield Place, Herts ; Mr.
R. Bethell, at ditto, from Yorkshire ; Mr. C. N. New-
digate, at ditto, from his seat in Warwickshire ; Hon.
Sir Fleetwood Pellew, in Grafton-street, from Brigh-
ton ; llon. Sydney Herbert, at the Admiralty, from
from a visit to the Dowager Countess of Pembroke, at
Witon House, near Salisbury.
DEPARTURES.

Mr. C. W. and Lady Georgiana Codrington, from
Park-place, St. James's, for Badminton; Earl of St.
Germains and Lady Caroline Eliot, from Burlington-
street, for Hastings ; Hon. Archibald Macdonald, from
Connaught-place, for Leamington.

THE LEVANT MAIL.
TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPL-E, Nov. 7.—intelligence, through.
indirect channelsi has ,been received here of very se-
'rious disturbances in.Lehanon. It is stated that the
Druses and Alaronites, having joined ,their forces, en-
countered the Albanian mercenaries of the Porte at
Beshare, not far from Tripoli, slid after a sanguinary
conflict, put them completely to AO. route. Accord-
ing to some accounts, upwards of 600 Arnatits fell a
sacrifice to the just vengeance of the moud'Aineers,
whose patience they had exhausted by every sp.C.ies
of outrage and brutality. The affair is said to have
originated in a premature attempt on the part of the
Turkish authorities to disarm the Maronites. In the
intoxication of victory, the latter, it is added,, were
'guilty_ of some excesses, and plundered the caravan, .on.
'its way to Damascus. Nearly all the property, how-
ever, was subsequently restored.
The ceremonies of the Beiram, chiefly owing to the
unfavourable , state of the weather,„ went off very
heavily this year. There was one novelty, however,
which has excited general attention and remark, and
that was the appearance of a few regiments, horse
and foot, in a very superior state of equipment. Two
regiments of lancers, in particular, had a dashing and
soldierlike demeanour ; their horses were of a fine
Transylvanian breed, and they rode them well. It is a
pity that with such materials.for forming an army the
Turks should yet have made so little progress. With
the exception of these few regiments, got up for dis-
play, and as a pageant to amuse and delude the young
Sultan, the army is certainly in a less efficient state
than it was in the time of the Sultan Mahmoud ; and
that, for the simple reason that less control is, exer-
cised by any chief mho has the advancement of the
service at heart. Promotion depends more than ever
on faVour and caprice, and the medical and commis-
sariat departments are abandoned to the grossest mid-
versation and abuse. Last winter at least ten thousand
out of thirty-five thousand troops in garrison here
perished from cold, starvation, and neglect.
The following is from Bucharest, under date of the
27th of October :

" The intelligence of the deposition of our Prince
has produced a profound sensation here. ll,is High-
ness had returned, after his tour of inspection in the
interior, on' the evening of the 20th. Yesterday, the
26th, being the anniversary of his accession to the
throne, which he has occupied during eight years,
after taking leave of M. Thischkoff, and providing
himself with a passport far Vienna, he set out for the
Austrian State, resigning by a formal act, couched in
the most appropriate terms, the reins of authority
to the hands of a proVisional Government, composed
according to the prescription of the organic statute of
three Caimacams, viz., the Chief Logothite of Justice
(Michael Cornssko), the Chief Vornick of the Interior
(Theodore Vacarssko, dit Fortuna) and the President
of-the Supreme Divan (George Philippesco) ; who are
to direct the affairs of the country till the election of
a new Prince by the Aivemble generale extraordinaire,
which must be concluded in the course of two months.
The Turk (Safvet Effendi), who is the bearer of the
hatti-scheriff, arrived the day before yesterday at
Giourgavo' where he is to perform quarantine.
" The Spa then- Constantine Ghika; younger brother
of the Prince, who returned some months ago from
his journey into Austria,..continnes still to exercise
the functions of Commander-in-Chief. The town has
not ceased to enjoy the most)perftct tranquillity; still
an unusual degree of movement is perceptible among
the great Boyars, who aspire to the Hospodaria, and
who are already canvassing for votes. The number
of candidates is not less than seven, without reckoning
General Kisseleff, whose name has been also put for-
ward; viz., M. Stirbey and his brother, George Bi-
besco (both absent), George Philippesco, Alexander
Philippesco, (lit Find; )e' Alexander Villara, Jean Cam-
piniano and Manuel Baliano."

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MALTA NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
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VALETTA, MALTA, Nov. 15.
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of Vice-Admiral Sir B. W. d. R. Owen,
C nmman-
der in-Chief; Ceylon, bearingh e flag of Rear-Ad-
miral Sir J. Louis, Superintendent t of Malta Dock-
yard; Impregnable, 104; Monarch, 84 • Vanguard,
80 ; Inconstant, 36 ; Snake, 16 , Devastation'
steamer ; Prometheus, Polyphemus, andAleo war-
packets. At Gibraltar—The Roane 92ct
Savage,steam-
-10 ; and:Lizard steam-tender. At Rodney,
ho.
rh
Belvidera, 38; on her way to MarseillesgthernL e
steam tender ; on her way to Malta from Gibraltar
t
the Formidable, 84. At Trieste_L'Aigle, 24.
On her way to Corfu the Cyclops steam frigate. At
Beyrout—The Vernon, 60 ; Scout; 18 ; Hecate and
Vesuvius war steamers: On her way to Alexandria,
the Medea war steamer. At Constantinople, the
Stromboli pig steamar. At,Smyrna, the Magicienne,
24 ;- and OUR her iw2ty thieler the . Indus, 78. .At
Corfu—The Geyser. war steamer. At Salamis—The
Howe, 120, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Y..
Mason, second In command in the Mediterranean,
and the, Beacon and Magpie surveying vessels ..at:
Suds, in'Candia. ' • . .„.
. MEMEN INTS SINCE THE 6TH OF OVEDIMER.--•
The Devastation arrived from Tunis and 'Tripoli on
the Bth, and proceeds this evening for Athens,
Smyrna, and Beyrout. The Howe sailed for Salamis
on the 9th, where it is expected she will winter. The
Alecto arrived from Patras and the lonian Islands on
the 12th, having suffered such damage in her engine-
case as to oblige her to depend upon her canvas for the
last two days, and to render it very likely that she
will have to be sent to England in the spring. The
Polyphemus arrived from .Marseilles on the night of
the 12th, bringing the overland London mail of the
4th inst. The Oriental arrived a few hours after her,
and proceeded on her voyage to Alexandria on the
13th, on which morning the Medea arrived from
Alexandria, bringing the Bombay mail of the 15th
ult., the important news by which I forwarded you,
ria Marseilles, by the Locust, which left on the after-
noon of the same day. The Medea returned to Alex-
andria on the 14th. The Polyphemus carries the in-
termediate mail to Gibraltar this afternoon.

The mail from Worcester to Ludlow, after running
,for half a century, made its last journey on Tuesday,
thus leaving the public without any official convey-
ance for letters between Worcester and Tenbury. .