The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-07 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—The Queen and Prince Al,
Bert, and the Royal suite and household, attended Di-
vine service this morning in the the private chapel of
the Castle. The Rev. Dr. Richards, of Exeter Col-
lege, Oxon, officiated. The Rev. Gentleman's text
was from the 22d chapter of the Gospel according to
St. Luke, and part of the 42d verse, " Not my will,
but thine be done."
Her Alajesty and her Illustrious Consort and suite
walked for some time this afternoon in the Home
Park and Terrace. _ _ _

Aesterday afternoon her Majesty and the Prince
returned to the Castle from town to luncheon, es-
corted by a detachment of the Life Guards.
Lord Stanley. the Earl of Dunmore, and the Rev.
Dr. Richards, Domestic Chaplain to Prince Albert,
arrived yesterday on a visit.
The Royal dinner party yesterday evening included
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, Earl and Coun-
tess of Dunmore, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Lady Ca-
roline Legge, Earl and Countess Bruce, Lord Stanley,
Rev. Dr. Richards, Major-General Wemyss, Sir a.
Couper, Bart., Lady C. Cocks, Hon. Miss Devereux,
Viscount Hawarden, Hon. C. A. Murray, Sir R.
Otway, Lord C. Wellesley, Colonel Wylde, and Dr.
Prwtorius.
It is expected that her Majesty and Prince Albert,
accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess
Royal, will leave on Thursday morning for Walmer
Castle.

Lord Stanley left town on Saturday afternoon on a
visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer
on Saturday at his official residence in Downing-street.
Dispatches for the Governor of South Australia
were sent off on Saturday evening from the Colonial-
office. Dispatches were reveived on Saturday at the
Colonial-office from the Governors of the West
India colonies.

LONG ANNUITIES.
(From the Observer.)
A question of great financial importance, and one,
too, deemed well worthy of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, has been mooted among some of the leading
monied men in the City. It is, whether there exists
any practical or real objection to extending the annui-
ties which will terminate in 1860 over a more length-
ened period of time ? thus permitting those who exist
subsequent to participate in the expenses of the wars in
which Great Britain established the peace of Europe
on the plains of
Waterloo
as the future generation will
enjoy all the advantages of the great object then obtained,
while the payments, as far as they are concerned, will be
reduced. It is not an unimportant object for the states-
man to keep in view, as far as respects the finances of
the country, how large a diminution will be made
a quarter of a century hence in the interest now
payable upon the National Debt, especially if the
rumour be correct that Government have it seriously
in contemplation to reduce the Three-and-a-llalf per
Cent. into a Three per Cent. Stock. That this is an
important question the following fact will demonstrate:
The Long Annuities, which expire on the sth Ja-
nuary, 1860, are an annual charge upon the resources
of the country, speaking in round numbers, of
1,290,0001.
The Annuities for terms of years, granted by the
Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt, in exchange for stock or for money transferred,
amount probably now to 1,800,0001.
With other annuities, terminable at specific periods,
not including life annuities, it is estimated that a total
charge upon the revenue at the close of twenty-five
years, will be annihilated, amounting to nearly, if not
above, 5,000,000/. To this may fairly be added, the
" Dead Weight Annuity," payable to the Bank of
England, of 585,7401., until the year 1867. So that
within a period barely exceeding a quarter of a
century, and that time is a scintilla in the
history of a country, the Treasury will be re-
lieved from the payment of annuities to the
enormous extent of between 5,000,000/. and
6,000,0001. a-year. Add to this the certain reduction
of the dividends upon the National Debt, with the
conversion of the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. to
Three per Cent. Annuities, completed, and there will
be a diminution of the responsibilities of the Treasury,
in the period stated, of full 7,000,000/. per annum.
The great question then is, can any plan be devised
to throw a portion at least of the present liabilities of
the country over an extended period, by enlarging the
time at which the annuities will expire, and for which
a quid pro quo would no doubt be gladly given by the
public, having money to spare. The subject is thought
to be one deserving the attention of the Executive.

DEATH or Sin JonN Caoss.—We regret to an-
nounce that Sir John Cross, Judge of the Court of
Review, expired on Saturday afternoon, at his house,
in Whitehall-place. The death of the Learned Judge
was quite sudden, as he had been out during the fore-
noon taking his usual exercise. His Lordship was
fur a great number of years well-known on the North-
ern Circuit, when Sergeant Cross, and was the leading
advocate in thewell-known cause of Turner v. Wake-
field.

THE LATE DR. HERSCIIELL.-011 Saturday the
whole of the congregations connected with the va-
rious Synagogues throughout the metropolis and Eng-
gland, were specially summoned to their respective
places of devotion, for the purpose of offering up
prayers and thanksgivings to the Almighty for the
repose of the
Chief Dignitary and Rabbi of the Synagogue, on
departed soul of the late Dr. Herschell,
which occasion, also, contributions were received
from all who have the means to give toward the
support of the poor. The new Synagogue in St. Helen's
was hung with black velvet and crape, and the mar-
bla pedestals, in connexion with the altar, were orna-
mented with festoons of black crape and velvet. Over
the reading-desk was a covering of rich damask, mag-
nificently embroidered, and which is only devoted to
occasions similar to that it was used for on Saturday. A
funeral prayer,
which is exclusively chaunted on the
death of a Chid Rabbi, was performed by the Reader,
assisted by the congregation. The entire funeral ser-
vice was also different from the ordinary practice.
The whole of the ceremonial, in the course of which
no singing
solemn manner. At the Great Synagogue, in Duke's-
was permitted, was conducted in the most
place, Aldgate, the same solemnities were proceeded
with. Sir Moses Montefiore, Messrs. D. Salomons,
Aaron Cohen, Henry Moses, &c., attended at their
respective synagogues, and about 2001. was subscribed.
The mourning will continue for thirty days, and on
all holidays throughout the year prayer will be offered
up. The successor of Dr. Herschell has not \et
been named.

On the 24th ult. a man, named Chapuizot, an inha-
bitant of the hamlet of Azzouville, in the Eure-et-
Loire,
aged 65, attempted to emu into execution a
threat he had repeatedly made of making away with
project was, bheisd wife, by bbyiebsestbtiengwasfireastleeo sHtrisw mattreis of the
how-
ever, defeated by the timely assistance rendered by
the neighbours. The Magistrates were sent for, but
when they arrived Chapuizot was found dead in a
kft, where he laad hung himself.