The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-13 00:00:00

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
HIGH Pities or MEAT.—The extravagant .iriee obtained
for butchers' meat induced the farmers in this island (and in-
deed in all parts of England) to fatten and sell all their old
cows ; the consequence is, that they are now trying to make
up their stock, and are saving all their cow calves for that pur-
pose. This has occasioned the price ef• veal to be increased
from the price it used to bring 4d. -to 3d. per lb. to Bd. !
THE WHALE.—At publio auction this monster brought only
2,11. It was bought, as we expected, by a party from Cowes,
and was towed up on Saturday, and grounded in Gurnet Bay,
a slight distance to the westward of Cowes harbour. Hun-
dreds fleck to see it; the shore and sands are lined with a
wondering multitude, and many a fair hand is engaged in
cutting up the carcass ; they cannot take a lock of the old gen-
tleman's hair, so they take a piece of his skin or bone, to keep,
in remembrance of this visit, as at the sale all seem to be
anxious for a slice, but none seem to know what to do with the
fietelti es elk its side, and appears about 8 feet while others measure it 100. The tail
whole. Its lergth appears very different to different persons, some
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out of water, and is supposed to be three feet under; as it is ex-
-I,ected to snake dry this morning or to-morrow ( Monday), its
dimensions will then be correctly taken. One report says it
was seer, alive from the Needles lighthouse on Good Friday.
Another, that it wasseeen drifting in the Channel, and thought
to be a ship bottom upwards. It is likely to turn out a very
profitable speculation, although the charge for viewing it is but
one penny.
East Cowes is all bustle and anxious expectation. A number
of men are employed marking out the roads of the new town,
they are to be sixty-six feet in width, and are to be made by
contract, about twe miles has already been marked off on the
north side, while on the south side men are employed digging
brick earth for the manufacture of thirty, millions of bricks.
The contract for the iron fencing for the Botanic Garden, an
extent of forty acres, has been taken by a London house. The
Society is under the patronage of the President of the Royal
Botanic Society of London; G. p. Sigmend, M.D., F.L. S.,
F. 11. S., F. R. B. S. ; Sir B. C. Brodie, Bart., F. R. S. ;
Samuel Askwell, M.D. ; J. A. Paris, M.D., F.R.F. ; J.
Elliotson, M. D., F. R. S. ; Professor Lindley, P. H. D., F. R. S. ;
G. J. uthrie, Esq., M.R.C.S., F. R.S. ; R. A. Stafford,
E.q., M. R. C. S., F. It S. ; Thomas Addison, M. D., F. R. B. S. W. B. Costello, M.D. ; W. Hell, M.D., F.R.8.5.; J. C. Turner, M.D. ; John Fleming, Esq., M. P. ; Hyde Clarke,
Esq., F. R. 13. S. ; David Jardine, Esq., F. R.B. S.; Major-
General Sir Burges Camac, F.ll. B.S. ; Sir R. P. Joddrell,
Bart., and the principal scientific gentlemen in the kingdom.
The Park is 160 acres in extent, on which it is proposed that
150 detached villas should ha built. From the great rise in the
land, each will command sea and land views of unequalled
beastly.

NEWS FROM PORTUGAL.
We have letters from Lisbon, via Southampton, to the 4th
instant. The Duke of Palmella's appointment as Plenipo-
tentiary to negotiate the commercial anti slave trade treaties
with England received its formal ratification in the
Council of State on the Thursday preceding. The
draught of the commercial treaty had been received by Lord
Howard De Walden, and a conference hid already taken place
between the British Minister and Portuguese Plenipotentiary,
which was understood to have 10.. en of a most satisfactory descrip-
tion. Baron Fayal, the I inister of Finance, had been associated by
consent with the two Plenipotentiaries,to aid them in consider-
ing the practical questions of the maximum and minimum
points in the reduction of duties. The calculations
with reference to the fiscal alterations upon articles
of import and export proposed by England were all
completed, and the understanding wa; that these
wete to be submitted to competent referees, approved
by both parties, with a view to test their justice.
This being
ascertained, lit le would remain but to sign the treaty, a result
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m expectedorimemorials had en forwarded lace ver speedily, the
from Ma-
deira and Oporto, praying for the speedy conclusion
of this commercial treaty, and representing a general
bankruptcy as the inevitable consequence of further delay.
The memorial from the Madeira merchants even went the
length of arguing a temporary suspension of the tariff, with
a view to the revival of commerce. The expected Papal
brief had been received, invtesting Mounjna with full
powers to represent his Wiliness as sponsor at the
approaching baptism of the infant,Prinee, which was expected
to be celebrated with much solemnity. The new Natisnal
Guard was being enrolled, and preparations were also made for
a vehement struggle at the ensuing elections ; but the Govern-
ment was daily acquiring fresh strength and stability.

THE COURT OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE.---It is more
unfortunate than surprising that those Courts, of which we
have hitherto been able to obtain anything like a copious pri-
vate history, have been exactly those of which the details had
better have never seen the light.- The oppos'te, we imagine,
will be the case in regard to the forthcoming Court Diary of
Madame D'Arblay ; for if ever there was a Court that would
bear the scrutiny of an observer,"like the author of " Evelina"
and " Cecilia,' it was that of Queen Charlotte. We have
reason to believe, however, that no previous impressions that
have prevailed relative to the personal and domestic habits of
George the Third and his family, at all approach in interest
and curiosity to the picture ilsat is about to be presented to us
of their daily habits, manners, amusements, Bce. We are to
see each and all of them (as we saw the literary and fashion
able celebrities of the same period in the first two volumes of
this charming Diary) " in their habits as they lived ;" and
this, not by means of vague descriptions, bet by their own
words, taken down warm, as' it were, from their own lips : for
such, it appears, was almost the sole amusement and relaxation
from her Court duties which Miss Burney allowed' herself
during her six yews of almost, hourly attendance cfillie person
of Q;een Charlotte.