The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-07 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, THURSDAY. The Queen and
Prince Albert walked both in the forenoon and
afternoon in the Home Park and Slopes. Her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also took
walking exercise.
Thellion. sliss Paget arrived at the Castle on
a visit to her Majesty.
The Earl of Jersey and the Right lion. Sir
Robert Peel took their departure from the Castle
to-day.
Mr. Catlin had the honour of exhibiting to her
Majesty and Prince Albert his Model of the Falls
of Niagara, and of explaining personally the
character of them, of which her Majesty and his
Royal Highness expressed their high approbation.
Her Majesty honoured Mr. Partridge by sit-
ting for her portrait to-day.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured
Mr. Lucas with another sitting to-day, for a full-
length portrait.

Sir John Buchan, Sir Henry Watson, and Sir
Henry Pynn transacted business at the Foreign-
office yesterday, on behalf of the claims of
British officers that served in the Portuguese
army during the Peninsular war.
Sir Robert Peel arrived at his residence in
Whitehall-gardens yesterday morning, from a
visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
The Lord Chancellor will receive the Judges,
Queen's Counsel, &c., on Tuesday next, the first
day of Hilary Term, at his Lordship's residence
in George-street. _ _

Mr. Thornton, the Chairman of the Spanish
and Portuguese Committee, transacted business
at the Foreign-office yesterday.

An occurrence of a most distressing description
took place on Wednesday afternoon, which has plunged
a highly respectable family of St. Columb into the deepest
affliction. The eldest son of T. Whitford, Esq., solici-
tor, a most promising youth, was shooting with two
others near Nantwhyden. As he was getting over a
hedge, his gun went off, when the whole charge passed
through his head, and carried his cap to a considerable
distance. He was found by his companions immediately
after, quite dead.—Sherborne Journal.
The sympathy exhibited towards the suffering
poor of the town is most honourable to humanity, and it
Is hoped will go on increasing, to meet the vast accumu-
lation of applications from the destitute pressing for food.
The Gas Company have given fifty tons of coke, and we
observe that nearly nine thousand persons have received,
during the present week, supplies of soup and bread.—
Nottingham Review,

EVENING SUN

LITEtRAT URE.

BLACK R'OOD'S LADIES' MAGAZIAE.

A periodical well adapted to the tastes of fe-
male readers, and containing, inter alb, one .or
two agreeable prose tales.

CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCIIITEC7"S'
JOURNAL,

The superiority of the new- American pile-
driving engine over our machines in ordinary
use, is proposed in a forthcoming Number to be
scientitieally inquired into; meanwhile diagrams
elucidate its make and action. The constant use
.of gold-frames round pictures is shown fre-
quently to be hostile to the harmonies of colour-
ing, and vari-coloured frames suggested. " Has
Atlantic Steam Navigation been successful ?" is
a question proposed, but, after some pages' dis-
sertation, leaves the reader, from the copious
facts adduced, to draw his own inference.

THE SURVEYOR, ENGINEER, AND
ARCHITECT.

The members of the Comnifttee appointed to
promote the Fine Arts are here approved of
both individually and collectively, but complaint
made that no one Professor of Tine .Art enters
into its constitution. A number of localities
where improvements might be effected on the
borders of the Thames, are suggested in an ar-
ticle on that topic. The necessity of a harbour
of refuge on the south-east coast of England is
pointed out, and the draw-backs and capabilities
of the coast for that purpose examined into.