The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-22 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by the Hon.
Miss Mitchell, Maid of Honour in Waiting, visited the Queen
yesterday at Buckingham Palace, and remained to lunch
with Her Majesty and Prince Albert.
The Queen and Prince Albert took an airing yesterday
afternoon in an open carriage and four. Colonel Arbuthnot
and Colonel Bouverle, the Equerries in Waiting, attended on

horseback. -
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horseback
yesterday, attended by Colonel Bouverie.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales. the Princess
Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken an airing yesterday
morning in an open carriage and four, accompanied- by the
Dowager Lady Lytteltan.
The Queen had a dinner party yesterday at Buckingham
Palace. The company included her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, Monsieur Dedel, the Netherlands Minister;
the Duke de Sotomayer, Spanish Minister, and the Duchess
de Sotomayer, the Duke de Broglie, the Prince de Broglie,
the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, the Duchess of Northum-
berland, the Earl of Aberdeen, Earl Talbot, Lady Anna
Maria Dawson, the Countess Wratislaw, Lord George
Lennox, Lord and Lady Claude Hamilton, and the Hon. and
Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay. The band of the Grenadier
Guards attended during dinner, and performed the following
pieces :
Pot pourri, "Lucia di Lammermoor "—Donizetti.
Waltz, " Die Wietern,"— Kuhner.
Theme, with variations—Streck.
Walzer, " Nachtfalter "—Baijere.
Polka, " Redouten"—Baijere.
The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Daw-
son, left town at twenty minutes before eleven o'clock, yes-
terday morning, in a carriage and four, for her residence,
FroginOre House, near Windsor. •Her Royal Highness re-
turned to Clarence House, St. James's, at half-past six o'clock.
Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess Stephanie of
Baden, attended by the Baroness de Strumfeder, Miss Gre-
ville, and Baron Roth de Schreckenstein, dined with her
Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday evening, at Marlbo-
rough. House. A select party were present to meet the Royal
Duchess.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and
the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz took
a drive yesterday morning to Kew, returning to Cambridge
House in the afternoon.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge and the
Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, attended
by Baron Knesebeck, dined yesterday evening with the
officers of the Life Guards, in the Regent's Park Barracks.
CouSit Dietrichstein, the Austrian Ambassador, transacted
business yesterday at the Foreign Office.— • . -
The President of- the Board of Trade and the Vice-Presi-
dent had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday.
Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial Office,
from the Governor of Van Diemen's Land.

SIGHT AND HEARING TESTIMONIALS,
39, ALBEMARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY. Gener
Browne Clayton feels desirous to express the comfort
and advantatee he has derived at his advanced age of 7('
years, and after two years' trial, from the use of Messrs
S. and B. Solomons newly invented Spectacles. Their
valuable inventions fully merit the patronage they have
received. Address. Adlington-hall, Lancashire.
Major-General Sir Howard Elphinstone begs to say that
the Spectacles he has now had some time in use, have
fully redeemed the assurance of the Messrs. S. and B.
Sol. mms as to their excellence, and having found so
much comfort and advantage from their use, far prefer-
able to every other kind of glasses. 13, Norf ilk-street.
Park- lane.--The Hon. George Ca.vendish, to Messrs. S.
and B. Solorgons, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, op-
posite the York Hotel. Gentlemen, I approve very much
of the Spectacles I purchased from you ; I have made
use cf. glasses for many years, and never met with any
to ( iiahle me to see equal to yours, and with less incon
veniense to my eyes. Yours obediently. G. Cavendish
Leixiip Casale, Ireland.—lmpriived Achromatic Teles-
copes, Opera Glas'es, Microscopes, &c., of the same hied
of lenses, to surpass any, ever yet invented.—The
Messrs. S. and B. Solomons In viucible Operatt'r Voice
Conductor, Sound Alagnifiers frir deaf persons, give im-
med.; relief to old standing extreme cases of deaf.
rtes .• • -Caution. Messrs. S. and B. Solomons. Opticians
/suri,ts, are not in any way connected with a person
et t t same name in their immediate neighbourhood.
in. any part Of the ceuntry. s o prevent mistakes,
al'eaatious and observe—only to be had at 39, Albe-
marle-street, Piccadilly oppes;te the York Hotel.
THE CARPET 11.1ANDFACTCRE.—Notwithstanding
the great improvement that has taken place within the
last few years in the designs and colouring of our carpet
manufacture, and the successful in:roduction of two new
patent fabrics, both of which possess considerable me it,
and are highly creditable to the taste and ingenuity of
the inventors, Mr. Whyteck of Edinburgh and Mr.
Templeton of Glasgow, the periodical exhibition which
took place last year at Paris shaved that we were sill
far behind the celebrated manufactures of Aubusson and
the Gobelins. It must be understood that our remarks
apply only to the more costly description of carpets
which are purchased by sovereigns, nobility, and those
who have wealth and taste to appreciate those exqui-
sitely beautiful productions. In the manufacture of
Brussels and velvet carpeting in breadths, we believe
that our manufactures as far surpass the French as theirs
do ours in the description of carpet before referred to,
and cannot but feel some degree of surprise that in this
the richest country
.in the world, and that in which ma-
nufacturing enterprise has been most fully developed, no
stronger efforts should have been made to rival their x-
cellence. The fact that the principal manufactory in
France is partly supported by contributions from Go-
vernment (the Gobelins, as is generally known, being
entirely a Government establishment) coupled with the
great cost of designs—the difficulty of finding artists of
taste and ability to give their attention to the manufac-
ture, and the slow return for the capital invested—are
causes which have doubtless deterred our manufacturers,
who love the profitable more than the beautiful, from
entering into competition with the foreign fabric. It is
with pleasure that we have learned that this interesting
manufacture is about to be established in London by
Messrs. Jackson and Graham upon an improved method
of their own invention ; and we may add, that the well-
known taste and enterprise of the firm are a guarantee
that it will be carried to a successful issue.
GIG ACClDENT.—Thursday afternoon, about four
o'clock, a serious accident occurred to Mr. Joseph Partridge;
a medical gentleman, residing in Duke-street, Bloomsbury-
square. It appears that Mr. Partridge was on his return
' from visiting a patient, when, near Ebury-street, Pimlico,
the bearing rein broke, and the horse, a very spirited animal,
became totally unmanageable, and went off at a terrific pace
in the direction of the Vauxhall- road. It is supposed that
' Mr. Partridge became alarmed, and in endeavouring to
alight at the back of the gig, fell with extreme violence on
his head. The horse was stopped nearly opposite the Royal
Standard public-house, having stunned himself against the
wall of the main sewer. Mr. Partridge was conveyed into
Mr. Cotton's, a surgeon, labouring under a concussion of the
'r brain, and, after some time, was conveyed to his home with
slight hopes of recovery.
THURsDAY. ALARMING FIRE AT A LUCIFERFACTORY,...Thunday
.The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas, for four yrs old, 9st Blb night, shortly before eleven o'clock, a fire broke out upon the
five years, 10st 7lb ; six yrs and aged, lOst 121 b. R.C. premises in the occupation of Mr. Graham, lucifer match
Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, for three years old colts, Bst manufacturer, in Rook's-yard, Queen-street, Mile-end New
71b ; and fillies, Bst 41b. First half of -A-b- Winner Town. The parish engine, with that from Wellclose-square
to be sold for 801., &c. brigade station, were quickly on the spot, followed by an-
Sweepstakes of 10 eoes, each, for two years old colts, Bst other belonging to the London Hospital, with the brigade
61b; fillies, Bat 31b. T.Y.C. engine from Jeffery-square, with Mr. Crookland, the chief
Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 amis. each, and 5, if declared. officer of the district. The firemen at once set to work most
T.Y.C. vigorously, and with the aid of the neighbours, they ale-
Sweepstakes of 10 soy& each, for three years old colts, Bst ceeded, after much trouble, in extinguishing the flames, not,
71b; and fillies, eat 41b. T.Y.C. The winner to be &Al however, until a great quantity of the stock, together with
for 150 L, &c, the racks and work benches were destroyed, a portion of the
The One Thousand Guineas Stakes, by Subs- of 100 sovs. roof, and the centre windows burned, and other damage done
each h ft, for three years old fillies, Bst 71b. D.M. by fire and water. The origin of the fire is not precisely
Alexandrine, Tisiphone, Gossamer, Longitude, Pug, As known, but it is supposed to have been caused from a piece
You Like It, Heather Bell, Prudence, Topaz, Pilgrimage, of the roof being blown down by the high wind, and falling
Jet, Timbria, Mademoiselle, Playmate, Sister to Ma Mie, upon a pile of matches, caused them to ignite. Unfortu-
Rigolette, Hersey, fby Slane out of Seakale, fby Glaucus, r ately the proprietor was not insured. A few years since,
out of Estelle, fby Kremlin, out of Bridegroom's darn, Wed- 'sue of Mr. Graham's workmen was killsd whilst preparing
ding Day. the composition for some lucifer matches, in Primrose-street,
Lord Exeter's Wee Pet, 5 yrs, et ; b, against Sir J. Ilishopegate.
Hawley's Comrade, 3 yrs, 7st 41b ; Lk, M. NCO; THE GAME-LAWS. The calendar containing a
FRIDAY. description of the offenders confined in Nottinghamshire
Ilaridieep Sweepstakes cf. 10131,-4 each, for: el iu d four: House of Correction, as laid before the Quarter Sessions last
9iCith week, got &ally ese,teurth are under the gaine-laws