The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-31 00:00:00

THE SUN. LONDON. TUESDAN MORNING, MAY 31. 1t442.

OURT CIRCULAR

The Queen and Prince Albert took an airing yesterday after-
noon in an open carriage and four, attended by Colonel Ar-
buthnot, the Equerry in Waiting on her Majesty, and Colonel
Wylde, the Equerry to his Royal Highness. On the return of
the Royal party to Buckingham Palace, and after the treason-
able attempt on her Majesty's Life her Royal highness the
Duchess of Kent, accompanied by his Excellency Count Mens-
dorf, arrived at the Palace, and was followed by their_ Royal
Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge and Prince George of
Cambridge, and by his Serene Highness the Duke of Saxe
Meiningen.
iier Majesty the Queen Dowager and her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Gloucester sent during the evening to make their
inquiries after her Majesty.
The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yesterday
included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Royal
Highness Prince George of Cambridge, his Excellency Count.
Mensdorf, Counts Hu,;;o, Alphonso, Alexander, and Arihur
Mensdorf ; the Duchess of Buecleuch, Lady Portman, Lady
Anna Maria Dawson, lion. Miss Liddell, Hon. ;Liss Paget, Ba-
roness Lehzen, Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, Earl of Er-
roil, Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor, Lady Peel, Baron Stock-
mar, Lord Rivers, Captain Meynell, Hon. C. A. Murray, and
Colonel Arbuthnot. _

'1 he band of the Royal Artillery attended during dinner.
,At ten o'clock the Duke of Buccleuch (Lord Privy Seal)
and the Earl of Aberdeen (Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs) who had been invited to dinner, arrived at the Palace.
His Grace and the Noble Earl had attended the investigation
at the Horne-office.

Later in the evening, the Lord Mayor, accompanied by Mr.
Alderman Gibbs, arrived at Buckingham Palace to make his
dutiful inquiries after her Majesty's health.
The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken an
airing yesterday in a carriage and four. The Dowager Lady
Lyttelton accompanied their Royal Highnesses.
Prince Albert, attended by Mr. George Edward Anson and
Colonel Wylde, arrived at the office of the Duchy of Corn-
wall in Somerset House yesterday afternoon.
His Excellency Count Mensciorf and his sons, attended by
Colonel Wylde, visited the Tower yesterday morning, and also
inspected st. Katherine's Docks.
The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty and Prince Albert
yesterday.
The Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Gloucester, the
Duchess and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, visited the
Queen Dowager yesterday.
The Duke and Duchess of Saxe Meningen and the Duchess
of Saxe Weimar, inspected the National Gallery yesterday.
The Duchess of Saxe Weimar rode out on horseback in the
Parks yesterday afternoon.
Count Mensdorf visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday.
In consequence of some necessary arrangements, the state
apartments at Windsor Castle must be closed next Wednesday,
fur a short time.

The Queen visited the Duchess of Kent at her residence,
Clarence House, on Saturday, and inspected a bust of her,
Royal Highness, executed by Mr. Davies, and was pleased to
express her approval of the work.
Thi it Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge, attended by Lady Augusta Somerset, honoured the,
Earl and Countess of Wilton with their company at dinner yes-
terday, at their residence in Grosvenor-square.
Their Serene Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe
Meiningen, and the Hereditary Prince, visited the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge yesterday.
We regret to state that letters from the Hague, have brought
intelligence of the death of Aiadame Dedel, wife of Mon .ieur
Dedel, the Netherlands Minister at this Court. His Excel-
lency is not. expected to return to this country before the be-
ginning ofJuly.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at three
o'clisek, at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Sir R. Peel,
the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Wharn-
cliffe' the Duke of Buecleugh, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley,
Sir J. Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of
Ripon, Earl of Haddington, Sir Edward Knatchbull, and Lord
Fitzgerald.
The Council sat two hours.

Alefsrs. Mulholland, of Belfast, bad an interview with the
Earl of upon yesterday, at the Office of the Board of Trade,
on the subject of the rais,ng of the duties on linen yarn imported
into France.

The Archbishop of Canterbury and Mr. O'Reilly had inter-
views with Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Boron de MOncorvo, the Portuguese Minister, and Baron
Brunow, the Russian Minister, transacted business yesterday at
the Foreign office.
Despatches from the Governors of Canada, New Brunswick,
and Nova Scotia, and from the Governor of Gibraltar, welt,
received yesterday at the Colonial•offce.

The framer of preventi;•e laws, no less than private
tutu: a and schoolmasters, should remember, that the readiest
way to make either mind or body grow awry, is by lacing too
tight— Southey.

AMERICA l\' Poltx.---We understand that private
letters show the people of the United States to be greatly
pleased with that part of Sir Robert Peel's tariff which allows
of the introduction of, salted provisions at moderate rates of
duty. Preparations are making to send large supplies of pork,
hams, &c., to this country, not only from the back states, but
from Delaware, Maryland, Virgioia, &c., where the p;gs in
numerous herds run wild in the woods, and feed on acorns
and maize. From the habits of the animals and the food they
live upon their flesh is of superior flavour; and we may anti.
ciliate a large importation at a moderate price. This will be
an advantage to both countries. Leeds Mercury.
THE PLANET MERLURY.—A favourable opportu-
nity is now afforded for observing this rare and interesting
object. Being very near Venus (a little below it), it may rea-
dily be discovered on the western horizon by the naked eye
about 9 o'clock in the evening ; and by the help of an ordinary
telescope, steadily supported, a clear view may be obtained.
It was rumoured on Saturday night, at the Opera,
that " the differences" between Signor Mario and the directors
of her Majesty's Theatre were in progress of amicable adjust-
ment. It is not generally known that Mario is the scion of a
noble family in Piedmont, where his father was formerly Go-
vernor of Nice, and on terms of personal intimacy with many
of the English nobility who have sojourned in that city. Mario
was an dficer in the Sardinian service, but he subsequently
determined to renounce the profession of arms, and make his
debut as a singer at the Theatre Italian at Paris, under his
present nom de theatre, and it was after he had undergone the
ordeal of a Parisian debut that he was engaged by the late M.
Laporte for her Majesty's Theatre.
Should it please Providence to give us a favourable
harvest, which after so many seasons of scarcity may be looked
for as probab!e, the despondent tradesmen would gain cus-
tomers, and the pining workmen would find employment. The
Money Market has been effectually relieved ; the Bank of Eng-
land stands strong, and the exchanges are in our favour. The
Bank, it seems, has increased its issues, between the 2d of
April and the 30th of April, from 16,894,000/. to 18,404,000/.
—partly, it is said, in advances to railway companies—but an
increase which seems to us undue and unsafe, though it will give
immediate relief. It is stated that " the recent arrivals of ves-
sels from distant countries have brought more orders for goods
from almost all quarters except Australia andthe United States
than were expected." We trust, therefore, that the light is
breaking on the verge of the thick darkness. —Leeds Mercury.
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The following Royal
and distinguished personages honoured this theatre with their
presence on Saturday evening :—Her Majesty, Prince Albert,
Duchess of Kent, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Princess
Mary and Princa George of Cambridge. Count Mensdoiff
and four sons, Lady Portman, Earl of Warwick, Lady A. M.
Dawson, Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Duke and Duchess
of Roxburgh, Duke of Brunswick, Marquis of Ailesbury,
Marquis of Salisbury, Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne,
Marquis of Normanby, Marquis of Tavistock, Marquis of
Worcester, Marquis of Huntley, Count and Countess Flahault,
Earl of Westmorland, Lady Fitzroy Somerset, Lady A. Foz-
ence, Earl and Countess of Cardigan, Countess of Charle-
ville, Lady Fitzwygram, Miss Coutts Burdett, Lord and Lady
Maynard, Earl of Sefton, Lady Beckett, Lady Glengall,
Honourable Mrs. Fitzgibbon, Sir. W. Massey Stanley, Lord
Cantilupe, Lady W. Paulet, Lady Pymm, Lady Shuckburgh,
Lord Macdonald, Lord Templemore, Lord Sandys, Lord
Temoletoun, Lord Norbury, Lord Charles Wellesley, Lady
E. f hynne, Baroneas Calabrella, Lady Domville, Lady
Gerard, &c. &c.
A man, named Gueroult, was condemned a few
days ago, by the Court of Assizes at Rouen, to 15 years' hard
labour at the hulks, for having committed 71 church robberies.
This morning returned here the Antwerp Com-
pany's steam-ship Princess Victoria, Captain Winter. Both
her outward and inward passages, between Antwerp and the
St. Katharine's Steam-wharf, Tower, were effected in 19 hours.
EXTRAORDINARY TuAVELLING.—A gentleman left
London this morning by the Liverpool Train who was at Ant-
werp yesterday afternoon ; his passage from Antwerp to London,
by the General Steam Navigation Company's British steam-
ship, the Rainbow, only occupying 15.1 hours. The following
have been the passages made by this extraordinary steam-ship
since she has been on the Antwerp station this season :
May 12, London to Antwerp, 16 hours, 35 minutes ; May 14,
Antwerp to London, .164 hours; May 19, London to Antwerp,
16 hours, 20 minutes (detained 2 hours) ; May '22, Antwerp
to London, 16 hours, 20 minutes ; May 26, London to Ant-
werp, 16 hours ; May 29, Antwerp to London, 154 hours.

- - - - At the meeting of the Numisniatie Society last
week, a wax impression of thegold medal about to be presented
to the Pacha of Egypt was exhibited. The medal is of large
size; obverse, a fuil.faceil portrait and bust of the Pacha, from
original paintings, with name and title. Reverse, " The
Friend of Science, Commerce, and Order, who protected the
subjects and property of adverse Powers, and kept open the
overland route to India, 1840. From the Committee."

• In the night of the 16th inst. the house and premises
of M. Rohart, at Rheims, took fire, and in less than half an
hour the main body of the buildings with its contents was
ruduced to ashes, causing a loss estimates at 80,000 f. One
of the tenants of the house had in his apartments 15,000 f. in
bank-notes, which he was so fortunate as to save, though every
other part of his proyerty was consumed.
A gentleman residing at Passy was, a few nights
ago, about ten o'clock, walking in his garden, when he heard a
rustling noise, which made him suspect there was some in-
truder. He made a minute search, but he could not discover
either any man or animal. Returning to the house, he went
up to his bed-chamber, the window of wLich looked into the
garden, and was open. After a time he heard sounds of dis-
tress from the grounds, and descending again, was led by
them to a large cask sunk in the earth, for the purpose of
hoisting water. It. was covered by a lid, which was down,
and fastened by a catch, which could only be withdrawn on
the outside. On undoing this, and raising the lid, out came
a youth 15 or 16 years of age, who at once acknowledged
that he had scaled the wall, in the hope of finding some-
thing worth stealing in a pavilion at the bottom of the garden ;
but hearing some one moving, he concealed himself in the cask,
and the lid falling down upon him he was caught as in a trap.
The hopeful youth was un to his shoulders in water, and nearly
stifled for want of air. Ile was secured, and the next morning
committed to the Prefecture of Police.

SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.—A few days ago a fe-
male of the name of Isabella Birkett, a resident in Troutbeck,
tied very suddenly. About two years ago she was seized with
a fit of apoplexy, which deprived her of her sight. A short
tme previous to her death she went to visit some relations in
the same dale, and on her entering the domicile of those re-
lations she observed, " Now I am coming to die among you."
Her right was immediately restored so as to enable her to read
the Bible, but, alas ! the verification of her own words took
place, for she departed this life before the sun of that day sunk
below the western cloud. Isabella Birkett was for many years
previous to her apoplectic attack the shroud maker of the
township of Troutbeck, and for many miles round, and kept a
punctual register of all the last sad offices in which she had
been engaged. She was often also consulted as to dates when
deaths had taken place, which she vas able to give with great
accuracy.— Westmorland Gazette.
TROOPS POR INDIA. Tile utmost activity prevails
in the military department of the Hon. Company in Leadenhall-
street, in freighting ships for the conveyance of troops. The
large ship General Kyd has been taken up, and is now fitting
out as a troop ship in the doe:, s, and wilt sail about the middle
of the next month, with 450 of the 84th and 29th regiments.
Tour.oN, MAY 23.--Such serious differences have
arisen with the Bey of Tripoli and of Barbary, that Hear-
Admiral Owen, commanding the British squadron in the
Mediterranean, sent from Malta to Tripoli, on the 12th of this
month, the Howe, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Mason,
and the Thimderer, of the line, with the Savage brig. Eng-
land seems to demand the nice; of Bey Askra Ali. For some
time past steamboats have been constantly going backwards
and fsrwards between Malta, Tunis, and Tripoli.

lONIAN BANK.

A meeting of the Shareholders in this Company was held
yesterday at the Guildhall Coffee-house. Two of our reporters
attended the meeting, bat they were informed that reporters
could not be admitted, consequently we are unable to give any
account of the proceedings.

DISGUSTING A.DVERIfSEMEN TS

TO THE EDITOI? OF THE SUN.
St a,—Although no " new tale," allow me, as an Englishman,
to thank you for the admirable example you have shown to the
public press, in refusing the insertion in your paper of sever-
tisements of a certain description. This conduct has not been
lost on your subscribers, and it is to be hoped n:ay also not be
lost In the proprietors of other journals claiming respectability.
Their still tainting their columns with advertisements of such
di-gusting tendency, merely for the sake of a little filthy (in
the present instance how truly filthy !) lucre, is matter of equal
regret and surprise to, Sir, yours obediently,
Bath, May 28. ALIQUIS.

FRANKFORT.

Mar 23.—Another conflagration has taken place ; in . the
Austrian province of Croatia, the town of Pozey has become
a prey to the flames, and some hundred families have lost
their all by this unhappy blow of misfortune. The simul-
taneous arrival of these grave and mournful accidents oc-
casions really strange and curious suppositions, though it
cannot be any thing else but the effect of whimsical chance.
An equally curious chance, though of less deplorable de-
scription, happened a few years ago, when within a short num-
ber of weeks, the winter Palace of the Czar of St. Peters-
' burgh, the residence of that most powerful despot; the Italian
Opera of Paris, the most distinguished temple of musical
art; and ;he Exchange of London, the great centre of com-
merce, became a prey of the furious element. Hamburgh,
however, will rise promptly, and with redoubled beauty and
magnificence from its ashes ; the means for this great work
i are already and completely warranted. I say this, however, by
no means for the purpose of checking charity • for though it is
certain that the sums already collected, together with the capi-
tal and credit of those who are interested in the re-building,
will suffice to complete the new City of Hamburgh in a great
and magnificent style, the poor individuals and families, who
lost their all, will not be put in possession of a new home with-
out the assistance of a charitable emulation amongst all those
who have a heart to feel the pain of others.
Since the return of Mr. Kind from Paris to Brussels, and
since the utter failure of all negotiations with respect to a satis-
factory settlement of commercial affairs between France and
Belgium, the latter thought it proper to open similar negotia-
tions, purposing an intimate league between Belgium and the
German Zollverein. lam certain that; while negotiations
are taking place at present, and that they have been
accepted upon the part of Prussia with an uncommon
promptitude, I do not doubt that they will meet
with a very important success. I often mentioned
before that the Zollverein reposes upon the system
of low duties; no deviation of note has as yet
taken place from this system, and it is now decided none
will take place with respect to those two articles, which
but lately were proposed, namely, that of raising the duty
on English iron wares, and the duty on English yarn. The
proprietors of iron-works in Silesia presented a petition to
the Prussian Government, demanding a protective duty
against English competition; they received a decisive reply
that their petition being contradictory with the laws and
principles of the Zollverein, was rejected. A similar peti-
tion was presented by the cotton-spinners of Saxony to the
, Saxon Government, who pointing out" the low prices of
cotton cloth at the last fair of Leipeig, and describing them as
ruinous for the manufacturer, demanded a prohibitive duty
against English yarn ; they also received a most decisive and
negative reply. Still 1 think it proper to mention in the inte-
rest of British manufacture, that, though a duty on cotton yarn
is not to be thought of. there are some influential authorities
who wish and demand the duty on printed cottons to be raised.
This duty, which at present amounts to about 31/2 per cent. of
the value, is likely to be raised to double this amount (to 60
t haters instead of 30 thalers). The late resolutions of the Fi each
Chambers with respect to the railroads have awakened a
zealous emulation in Germany. Orders have been issued every-
where to work with redoubled energy, and the Austrian
Government has resolved to put into circulation five mil-
lions (gulden) of paper money ( Staats-papiere), the re-
turns of which are to be employed in the construction of rail-
ways. This financial operation is of importance for every
person interested in the stock exchange. It consists in the
erection of new Austrian notes, payable at the Central Ex-
chequer (Central,Cassen Scheine), with a rate of three per cent.
interest from the day on which they are issued, and of which
they bear the date. The notes are to amount to from fifty
gulden (about 5/. ), to 500 gulden (about 50/. ), payable to the
bearer. You see that they differ from regular paper-money
like the English Bank notes, by the circumstance of paying in-
terest to the bearer. I leave it to the stocksellers to judge
whether this circumstance is a loss or an advantage.
The Prussian State Gazette publishes the official return of
the registers of the Zollverein for 1841, from which it results
that, in comparison with those of 1840, the inaportation:of cotton
and silk remained very nearly the same, while that of wool
cloths, of iron wares, of coals, and of colonial goods (coffee,
sugar, and tobacco) was increasing.