The Sun. — London, England, 1842-02-03 00:00:00

EVENIN6I- SUN tr9lTb72bitiolT' SUN OFFICE, Four o'Clock. 'ENING of PARLIAMENT. THE ROYAL PROCESSION. This was the first gloomy, damp, and cheer morning that has witnessed a Royal " Pro gress" since her Majesty's accession. On alt 4?ther_ occasions the days have been nearly as `bright and cheering as the prospects of her libe l- r eign ; yet the P ar k, an d t h e approac h es to l he Palace and the Houses of Parlia.alent, were I, T 3 'fudigio us l y crowded. About one o'clock the their .Blues, Guards, Blues, and G ren adiers, took up position, formin g an avenue f rom th e Mar "? Gate to the House of Lords, and the bands " 13 ' the Coldstream and Grenadiers commenced M a Ying on th e l awn, f i rst, several marches, then 4‘ Rule- Brit ann i a, " and, lastly, "God Save the Que en," as the Procession commenced its pro• yeas, whi c h was at half-past one precisely. The Ro yal of Pru ss i a l e f t the Palace i n one of the ".°Yal carriages, attended by fbur footmen, fthe R oyal State liveries, and a Guard ;, Honour f rom the Life Guards, s h ortly ,enefore the departure of her Majesty's nor His Majesty. was recognised only in r_iotrelisa, in Whitehall and at the entrance to the House or:t d consequence of the rapid rate at which he was carried. i• Th e Queen was accompanied in the State car by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, " 37 the Master of the Horse and the Mis and es s oldi e Robes. She looked remarkably well, t i lp w as greeted with continued cheering, along ou - Mute, by - the vast assemblage, which perhaps t"tr i bered any that we • have. seen collected ti p ia 7 l a similar occasion;: It may be supposed t 'e great o bj ec t of, ,curi o sity was to see the cl en - a g O f Prussi a , w hich a, very small number in- Of those whom it had brought together, !e able to gratify. Her Majesty was also very lie n h Cheered u p o n her return to the Palace. it n -11 the arrival of the Royal Procession at the t oe - ,-"Y e of Peers, his Majesty was cheered most likV°asly. The Duke of Wellington was se' cheered, but the cheers for his Grace. not nearly so enthusiastic as those for her p er es The D u k e o f Cambridge was lik ew i se : , ) 1 ell received. When the King of i r Wliss ia and his suite arrived, Baron Von oti u nlbold t , who was recogn i sed b y some [t ild el ` l the crowd, and was cheered by name tn alighting from his carriage to attend upon t h - p Prussian Majesty, was received with loud oi - D eri ng and clapping of hands. The King ossia was likewise received with lotid cheer \vb, but, wi t h t h e except i on o f h er M a j es ty, no one 4s cheered so heartily as Baron Von Humboldt. 'r , Rloß OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS. e t l e have on many occasions witnessed the imposing t r- ,7°ny of the opening of the Imperial Parliament by rtt e 'll°vereign in person on the Throne, but we never .Ve t : uect an occasion upon which greater anxiety of I displayed to obtain admission to the House Long before the hour of admission tilt passages connected with the House were crowded t-- ' ti dies, in full dress who most patiently waited the N 4 7 1 ‘ 11 of the hour of admission, nothing daunted by the and dampness of the day. The doors of the - p kri es, and those leading to the body of the House, 1,1: -e ° Petted precisely at twelve o'clock, and very few des in the galleries appropriated to Members of the ' llse of Commons and Strangers were unoccupied in a 'kr ter of an hour from that time. All the seats were 1 , - "ect from these galleries, and the ladies by whom they filled were obliged to stand from the hour of admission „. h ie time of her Majesty leaving, an exertion which to be thought nothing of in comparison with ob imiling a siLht, of Royalty. The House, since the last et sion has undergone considerable alterations for the ' fitter, the dark red paper, with which the walls were _ . , 4 encumbered has been removed, and in its place a t s tone-colour paint instituted, which gives the House . 'Ater and more pleasant appearance. The pannelling „„e'rit So tk 9- is coloured in dark brown, ni e k e other ceiling colo ur r ts a very happy contrast with the stone has the interior of the pannels. The Throne t r !',:e fo o l - 4 , 4 ( . 4 n guilt, and the velvet redecorated ; and at the throne ' 4O Thr on e a new carpet has been laid down. with it . ri ght of the - Throne,. and on a level the I ,'s pla ce d a most spl e ndid Chair of State to tea - "love of Wales; the back of which n It„ ) , iificently ornamented with the plume of his st hp ,Ilighness. To the left of the Throne, and one c t} "'w it, a c h a i r of state has b een also placed for ( Ar 4't e l h iet ' ,. l .. 3 ' h u r i o i n l e h ighness Prince Albert ; and to the right on the floor of the House, in front of the the ii- i lBll °Ps' Ben c h, t wo c h a i rs were pl ace d, one f or 41' n g of Prussia. and the other for the reigning Duke 1 - 1: e Cobourg Gotha. Seats were reserved in the th os -e for the Foreign Ambassadors, Peeresses, and t o Ladies w h o h a d b een f or t unate enoug h 1 41 1 . ( t i )bta in numbered cards for them from the 114 t G reat Chamb er l a i n . Those fem a l es w h o h a d ue en successf u l i n o b ta i n i ng suc h t i c k ets, were I,o(;ged to stand in places appropriated for them in the ly ell Y of the House. The arrangements for the conve ikilie of the reporters were excellent, their front seats of g reserved for them. Amongst the earliest arrival ,k ol ' r ee . r 3 We noticed Lord WTynford and Lord Glenelg. (1 04, 64 g the P eeresses we noticed the Countess of El k Lady Bloomfield, the Duchess of Ri c h mon d, th e lid hionessof Camden Lady Redesdale,Lady Dinorben, Lady 4 41 en. tt,i4,lllonteagle, Campbell, and Striaedg the Peers present we o b served the Earl of k,' 4 ster, Lord Glenelg, Lord Wynford, the Bishop of ittC i eh, the Earl of Redesdale, the Archbishop of Can tik ' l :3', the Earl of Camden, the Archbishop of York, Iti eh nishop o f Exeter, L or d H at h erton, the Duke of 11 141, 111 " d, the Earl of Roden, Lord Dinorben, the tt t CP of Worcester, the Earl of Sheffield, the 11, 1 : 4 Digby, Lord Forrester, the Marquis of , s li k 7 °l4 , Lord Lowther, Lord Monteagle, Lo r d 1 1, 1h is q o f Chudeley, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Lord 1 :: 11 ' Lord awarden Lord Fitzgeral and keb Lord C am pb e ll, t h e M a rquis of Nor 'llth?' the Dukes of Buccleugh and Buck the Earl of Ab er d een , t h e Duke of i ltiP ll4l, the Marquisses of Landsowne and Anglesea• tand several others. At a qua rter past lite,e.,l°ek th e L o rd Chancellor, ro b e d as a P eer , kt, 4 the H ouse , an d took his seat on t h e W oo l sac k . " Y afterw ar d s all the Judges entered and t oo k t h e i r Itr°lll ld the Lord Chancellor. At half-past one the kttl it 61‘ Cambridge, dressed in a Field Marshal's 4 I N With his Royal robes, entered the House. tOnied b y Prince George. In a few minutes t:41 14 . 8 the reigning Doke of Sax Gotha, t ht to the uniform of the Austrian Hus pr,_.v.ty ~!'ed the House, l and was conducted by the ti.alea'alier of the Blac Rod . to the Chair of State e ii .r s ool ia o j f es.t t y he House ,: At the King of. ' 42 t° , l ' him on . w th iqtt entered hlo:se: dressed in the uniform of : t it ds and wearing the collar of the b,,er rnssian H 'ma:esty was preceded by the s t a k e or Gart, r. „. the Sword of State and 1 4 . 4 s ellington carr.yi.n State appropriated for tt. ll " , "i nt eted to the Chair ' of. , - meb u it t , ll(l ina (rat ly entered into conversation with th (If Cambridge lue le and Prince George.. His Majesty's the pfowed niratel and took their seats amo . ng his Majesty entering itnreigk A m b le ss i adors. , On all m pr a es . present rose, and titnedse uhl '`' e arrival. of the Queen. f N ty after two o'clock the a pproaF oer a -48 announced by the firing of* cannon. .I t:r lt ; a ( Plane t two her Majesty, prceded by ' 11 1) '' e at Offic r s State and accompanied by Prince rEt, entered ers of F t g ila et l , llma. t It!owusee(,.and took her seat on the i graciously to the r ! l in% n of L itek sia, and the D 3r uke o of Saxe Gotha, the it:ordships and afte Usher esui of to be seated, commanded the 4 ft ek , atek Rod to summon the Com mons. Shortl y 'v4r ds the Speaker, attended by tak ers a great number of th e a ppeared at th e Bar, and then her Majesty Lti()th er S peech f rom t h e Th rone , which will be found in (Ir ess :1 lump. was dressed in 4 1 a ; beautifully embroidered with gold, and seemed 1.:(1* :611111111.splendid white satin a bseellent health and spirits. • • cn gene l :th e appearance of the House was mag nificent (alew extreme, And the display 'qt . t t 44(1 to impress tkio illustrious foreigners present of beauty was /l er idea of the charms of our countrywomen. forealajesty left the House at twenty-five minutes palace, 4 40 1 _ thr ee, and returned to Buckingham r te as before, • Jame -king of Prussia left immediately after her Ma 4, and the House adjourned during pleasure. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Prh e (THIS DAY.) dirks of th e Gallery w ere not opened until . half A 4 1311 ° n s eiOck, at which hour not more than thirt) . (4 0 4111 ers were in jlie House ; among whom were Sir t4l„!ge Strickland, Mr,. Wakley, who had taken his seat k4;ileifront Oppositionbeueb ; Mr. F. Shaw, Mr Maclean, *fil,Colonel Sibthorp, Sir B. shortly after h!" entered the House. Members p.ow continued to th: c ‘r,e at intervals until 20 minutes to two o'clock, when Ivh i ° ,l ) eaker entered, and took his seat immediately alto en prayers were read. "everal Members entered the lions: as the reading9l, prayers was concluded, among 1% hem we paiticularly observed Mr. Wallace. The first Cabinet Minister who made his appearance was Sir Henry Hardinge, who ar rived shortly before two o'clock, and took his seat on the Treasury bench; on which Colonel Sibthorp left his usual seat, and joining Sir Henry on the Treasury bench, re mained in conversation with him some time. At five minutes after two o'clock the booming of the cannon ani nounced the approach of her Majesty, and a crowd Of IVleinbers rushed into the House, and took their places, and from this time the Bar of the House 'was thronged. At a quarter after two o'clock the Gentlemen Usher of the Black Rod appeared at the table, and summoned the House to attend at the Bar of the House of Pders. The Speaker immediately obeyed the summons, and was accompanied by the greater num ber of Members present, who crowded around him so in conveniently, that in his way dOwn the floor of the House the Right Hon. Gentleman was compelled to turn round and call " Orde'r, order!" three or four times. At half-after two the Speaker returned, and the House adjourned to a Quarter before Four. ,NvS 3 0 OW NIG fa. !rs of Iffes n , g et pri the 70 ,unds jl on Pre' e• a s the y r t .o ons a the „„ fo!' hereo 0 4 1. • 0 so n' op press tho L tay a t ,lici 'daft Pv c „,l so recta rtp ht th e 0 11 defray tot Yet • es wi l l fi ry %,'' ' ol 11‘0, 5 ' di nt 111 d t 18 ° r d e ear 4 l,,' i at cons`--if Ile le o, sou r 0 , are c ° t ed t/3 0 ‘ r n e x a f ilo give, he r a ve eit it hi* voln• j' . rl sP g t w e tol i ha yng ef t'ec 'of Ol e , d A oat i , i( 01 li Unn y ot r .110 - PROPOSED CORN-LAW PLAN We understand that the principle upon which the present Government will proceed, in modify ing the present Corn-law, is - th at o f o b ta i n i ng, with as little disturbance of the general system as possible, that additional supply of bread corn from abroad which has been required for some years past, and is likely to be required in future . years. - The fact, therefore, is assumed that this coun try does require some assistance from foreign countries, or from our own colonies, to provide the requisite supply of food. It probably will not be denied that the country might be so culti vated as to produce all and more than we want. But it is not easy to change the habits of a people, in respect to the employment and cultivation of land. So far as remunerating price tends to pro duce sufficient cultivation it is deemed that the policy of the country has gone tar enough ; and it is, we believe, also held that the protecting and encouraging law of 1828 goes further now than it was intended to go at that time, because, in point of fact, a given amount of corn can now be raised in England at a less expense than it could be in 1828. Looking then, not to what is possible from the capabilities of the soil, and the efforts of expen . - sive cultivation, but to what is likely, from the general course and concurrence of events, Minis ters deem that we shall continue to import from abroad a not very inconsiderable portion of bread corn. The object is to obtain this portion at as little charge to the British consumer as may be compatible with fair attention to the interests of the British producer. We have ,no doubt that the Minister will be very well prepared with statistical facts for the establishment of his proposition, that we have required for many years past some additional supply of corn beyond our home growth, and that the average demand upon external sources has been, for the last thirty years, gradually in creasing. During this time there have undoubtedly occurredseasons, and now and then several conse cutive seasons, in which the home supply has been ample; but we believe that, if periods of seven or ten years are taken, it turns out that in each such period, for the last thirty years, some ex ternalsupply has been found necessary, and that each successive period that external supply has increased. i It is notorious that in the last ten years, which comprehends several years of abundant, and se veral years of scanty, harvests, the supply from abroad has averaged something near a million quarters a year. It is somewhere between nine hundred thousand and a million. Now, if it should appear that in corresponding periods, going back some twenty or thirty years further, a supply from abroad has been also re quired, but less in proportion as the population was less, it will, perhaps, be admitted as a fair conclusion, that the Government ought to cal culate upon a future supply being necessary from abroad, not only equal to what has been obtained in the last ten years, but rather more. We have heard that inquiries have been insti- ttited as to the increase of the growth of wheat from the soil of the United Kingdom. These in quiries have been quite distinct from any exami nation of the theoretical question whether more might have been or might -be grown. We un derstand they have related to the plain fact of what has happened under the existing system of protection. And from the modifications of the scale which are to be proposed, we conclude the result of those inquiries to be, that there is not any existing practical reason for supposing that a sufficiently increased supply may be looked for from our own cultivation. . We have; indeed, heard that in some parts of the United Kingdom, from which the public ge nerally suppose that a gradually increasing sup ply is actually obtained, the contrary turns out to be the fact. The evidence uprnt this point may be imperfect, but we are sure that, in the examinations set on foot regarding so important a matter, the present Government has taken the utmost pains to arrive at accurate results. Supposing it, then, ascertained that, accord ing to all practical likelihood, this country will continue to require upon an average of years some additional supply of corn from abroad, the next point is, how that supply may be most safely and advantageously brought into this country. Now, upon this point, we believe the opinion of the Government to be, that the most favourable mode of admission is that which is most gradual, and most equally distributed over the whole of the year; and that the least favour able mode is that of bringing a large quantity suddenly upon the market, more especially if it be likely to happen about the same period of the year at which the largest quantity is gene rally sold by the farmers to dealers in the country markets. The question then arises whether, in the prac tical working of the present scale, the desidera tum of a gradual supply is as nearly attained as it may be, or is not ? We understand that expe rience shows that it is not attained by the present scale, but that, on the contrary, the interest of the British producer is frequently injured, not so much by the introduction of an additional sup ply—for that is absolutely necessary to meet the demand—as by the introduction of it in a large lump, contrary to the ordinary course of circum stances which govern the home supply. We are assured that none but those who have given much attention to the subject, can estimate the seriously unfavourable effect upon the inte rests of the corn-producing trade, which is pro duced by the sudden influx of large quantities of corn—not more than necessary for the wants of the country if the whole year be taken into ac- . count—but far more than th e n atural demand of the markets at the time requires. It appears that the state of the scale, applied to the prices between 675. and 735. the quarter for wheat, is found to produce this sudden im port, and to work directly against the gradualness of the supply. And whether the scale of duties from one end to the other were altered or not, still it would be expedient to alter that part of the scale which holds out so large a temptation to withhold foreign corn when it begins to be re quired, and then to pour it in in large quantities when the necessities of the country are very little, if anything, increased. Even though we look at prices with the same views of the cost of production which were justly held in 1828, we must allow that, when the corn- billed operations of supply and demand bring the price to 655., some addition to the supply would be advantageous to the public, and quite-consist ent with fair attention to the interests of the home producer. But, in the present scale, so rapidly dot s the duty diminish when the price goes above 635., that, by waiting and straitening the supply so as to raise wheat 6s. or is. more, a difference of three times the amount is made to the seller of foreign corn. He, therefore, exerts all his pdwer of capital and of credit to hold over, and, when he has achieved his point, being anxious to realise his profit, he pours the foreign commodity all at once upon the market. Then the price soon falls, and the home producer gets far less than he would have got if no artificial augmen tation of the supply beyond the natural demand . .had taken place. It is, therefore, the opinion of the Government .that the interests of the public generally, and of the British producers of corn fully as much as any other portion of the public, would be pro moted by making such a change in the scale as might seem likely to remove the temptation to hold back the foreign supply after it is really wanted, and then to pour it in in larger quantity than is really wanted. Another great matter to be attended to is the mode of taking the averages; but this involves separate considerations and additional details, into which our space does not permit us at present to enter. The object of the Government, how ever, is to obtain such averages as shall be a re cord of the truth—such averages as will show at what price the corn actually bought, andbrought into consumption, has sold for in the British markets.—Morning Post. THE BISHOPS AND PUSSY M. —We have received the following announcement from a quarter which ought to be wetlalkienfpolia-mceedin:—LnAdomn,eeftoirngtheofptuhre. p ß o is s h e o o p f s c w o i n li sid sh eri ort ng ly the present state of the Church, in reference to the doctrines lately put forth in some of the Tracts for the Times. " ' The time seems to have ar rived when some such proceeding on the part orthe head of the Church a s is he r e an no u nce d is imperatively ne da d, THE SUN, LQNPON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1842. embrace the joyful occasion which led your Majesty to these shores. With freedom and fidelity we avail ourselves of the permission of tendering to your Majesty our welcome and our homage. " A great and a free people meet your Majesty ivith sentiments of veneration and confidence, and all hearts expand, filled with the hope and belief that the Al mighty's blessing will rest on this Royal visit: If it be true that public opinion among Foreign Con temporaries foreshadows the judgment of posterity, then history will illustrate the merits of a ruler who compre hended the age he belonged to, and who endeavoured to bring the wants of his people in harmony with the same. Removed to a distant point of view, we would feign behold in your Majesty an instrument of Providence ; potent and willing to mature the capabilities of the various tribes swayed by your sceptre, and lead them on wards in a course of wise ameliorations historically based on inherent rights, in order that every citizen may duly take his place in three estates* enabled to promote the common weal in an enlarged sphere, protected at the same time, and controlled only by laws in which he co ncurred himself as his forefathers of old. For ourselves we will ever pray for the preservation of your Majesty and your Illustrious Consort, the pride of German Matrons. We implore Heaven's choicest blessings on the Royal House ; May the contemplation of his people in the constant increase in piety, civilization, and comfort, be the: weed of reward of the exalted head to whom we this day renew our faith and devotion, in all humility. Trusting, Sire, to the candour of -your Gracious Ma jesty, we hope that the plain expression of our senti ments may meet with the most favourable construction, and venture to claim the 'high honour of forwarding our undersigned names to the feet of the Royal Throne. In the evening their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge gave a state dinner to his Majesty at Cambridge House. The band of the Coldstream Guards attended in the entrance hall, and received the King on his arrival with " God save the Queen." Their Royal Highnesses' foot men, in State liveries, lined the entrance hall, and the pages siore their state uniforms. The King arrived at five minutes past seven o'clock, attended by his Auite; His Majesty wore the ensigns of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. The party pre sent on the occasion consisted of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duchess of Inverness, the Duke and . Duchess..of Sutherland, Count Stolberg, Gen. Natzmar, Gen. ,Neumann, Baron Meyerinck, M. de Brauchitsch, Baron Von Humboldt, M. de Conseiller Muller, Chevalier Bunsen, the Earl of Hardwicke, Earl and Countess of Jersey, Earl and Countess Delawarr, Earl and . Countess Westmorland, E ar l o f Li verpool, Earl of Aberdeen, 'and Captain Meynell. The King remained at Cambridge House until twenty minutes before ten o'clock, when his Majesty, attended by his Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen, Baron de Humboldt, the Earl of Ilardwicke, Capt. Meynell, and the gentlemen of his suite, went to Covent Garden Theatre. A very numerous party had been invited in the even ing to Cambridge House, to have the honour of meet ing Isis Majesty,- and the entire suite of state 'rooms on the first floor, were thrown open, and brilliantly illu minated with a profusion of chandeliers and candelabra. At the top of the grand staircase, the Coldstream band performed a number of choice pieces in the course of the evening, introducing " A March composed by Frederi c k the Great," and the "L a ndes Vater." His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar arrived at half-past ten o'clock. The noblemen and gentlemen, who had attended the official dinners appeared, most of them, in their respec tive costumes. The King of Prussia and suite returned to Cambridge House, from tho theatre. Among the company present, were-- The French Ambassador, the Austrian (special), Greek, Wirtemberg, Sardinian, Belgian, Hanoverian, and Saxon Ministers ; the Bavarian Minister and Ba ronness de Cetto, the Russian Minister and Baronness Brunow ; Madame Bunsen, Lady of the Prussian Mi nister ; the Swedish Charge d'Affaires and Baronness Rehisusen the Prussian Charg e d'Aff a i res, Baron Leb. zeltern, Baroni Bertouch, Count Revel, Baron Charles de Canitz, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs. How ley, the Bishop of London and Mrs. Blomfield, Duke of Wellington, Duke and Duchess of Buceleuch, Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, Marquis of Normanby, Mar qu i s o f A ng l esey and LadA. Paget, Marquis and Marchioness of' Douro, Marquis of Clanricarde, Marquis of Worcester, Earl and Countess Dowager Clare and the Ladies Fitzgibbon, Earl of Uxbridge and the Ladies Eleanora and Con stance Paget, Countes.; of Tankerville, Earl and Coun tess .of Surrey and Lady Mary Howard, Lady Clemen tina Villiers, Earl of Ripon, the Ladies Campbell and Lord Evelyn, Earl and Countess Cadogan and Lady H. Cadogan, Earl of Beverley and Lady Louisa Lou vaine, Earl of Haddington, Earl Brownlow, Earl of Denbigh and Lady Mary Fielding, Countess Euston and Lady Fitzroy, Mr. Fitzroy, Countess of Hadding ton, Earl and Countess Wilton, Earl and Lady It. Jermyn, Earl of Lincoln, Countess de Clifford and Lady Augusta Onslow, Countess of Glengall, Countess of Charleville, Earl and Countess of Claren don, Earl of March and Lady Caroline G. Lennox, Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, Lady Wharncliffe, Lord and Lady Bloomfield, Lord Forester, Lord and Lads ialson, Lord and Lady - Granville Somerset, L a e _ _ fieith, Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci, Lord Redesdale le Hon. Miss Mitford, Lord and Lady Jemima Ellit, ,ady Fitzroy . ; Somerset and Miss Somerset, Dowager ,ady Clinton, Lord and Lady llawarden, Lady and the ron. Miss Willoughby, Lady Lyndhurst and the , n. DlissCopley, EOrd , and radyNlarcus Hill, La Foley, Lady Stuart de Rothsay and Hon. Miss Stuart Lord Villiers, Lord Claude Hamilton, Lord Wiltshire, Lord and Lady de Roos, Lord F. Egerton, Right Hon. Col. Dawson Darner, Right Hon. Sir John Beckett, Right Hon. Sir Robe. Adair, Right Hon. W. and Mrs. Glad stone, Hon. Miss Elphinstone deFlahault, Hon. W. Cow per, Hon. Cecil Forester, Hon. Sidney Herbert, Hon. Stuart Wortley, Lady Gordon, Sir John Macdonald, Mr. Norman Macdonald, Sir Edmund and Lady Antro bus, Sir James and Lady Reynett, Lady Shelley, Sir George and Lady Clerk, Baron and Baroness Lionel de Rothschild, General Sir Henry Bailly, Colonel Shawe, Colonel Grant, Colonel Scott, Colonel and Mrs. Come wall, Colonel Bentinck, Captain Macdonald, Captain Glunder, Captain and Lady Emily Seymour, Captain Frederick Villiers, Mr. Mellish, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, Mr. G. W. and the Hon. Mrs. Hope, Mr. George Banks, Mr. T. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. J. Towline, Mr. Vincent, Mr. E. Drummond, Miss Burdett Coutts, Mr. Mac donald, Mr. Culling Smith, Mr. Talbot, and Mrs. de Rothschild. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, arr i ve d at her residence, Cla rence-house, St. James's, about one o'clock, yesterday afternoon, from a visit to her Majesty, at Winds or Castle. In the afternoon he r Royal Highness visited the Queen Dowager at Marlborough House. The Duke of Cambridge visited the Queen Dowager yesterday. Colonel and Mrs. Arbuthnot have arrived at Far rance's Hotel, from Windsor Castle. A deputation from the merchants of Bristol, the Great Western Railway Company, and the Great Western Steam-ship Company, with memorials from those bodies, on the subject of the establishment of mail communica tion between Bristol and the south of Ireland, consisting of Mr. Charles Russell, M.P., Mr. Savage, Mr, Harding, Mr. Guppy, Mr. R. L. Jones, Mr. C. A. Saunders, Sir I. R. Brunel, Mr. W. 0. Hunt, and Mr. Robert Os borne, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, yesterday, at his Official residence in Downing street, Full dross Parliamentary dinner parties were given last evening by his Grace the ])uke of Wellington as Ministerial leader of the Upper House, to a large party of Peers, and by the Right lion, Sir Robert Peel, at his residence in Whitehall Gardens, to a numerous party of Members of the House of Commons, principally con sisting of official gentlemen. The Queen's Speech, on opening Parliament, was read by the two Ministers to their respective guests. '' In the original, Lehr Wehr and Nakrsland, which means anything but an aristocratic division of castes, but literally teachers (clergy defending military and operatives), or the in dustrious classes ; these denominations transmitted by vener able tradition. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. 'i ~.,2 ,-, ----T--- " 0. " ---- :'' ..,..,. ... ..... . ARRIVAL", --" ' ‘ 4-. "" .. Lord Templetown, in Berkeley-square, &our Castle Ilpton,' Antrim; Lord Claude Hamilton, in Argyll-street, from Baron's Court, Tyrone ; C oun t G o lt z an d C apta i n Annesley. in the suite of th e Ki ng o f P russ ia, at th e Burlington . Hotel, Coik-street, from Wind sor Ca s tle; the Ea r l an d C ountess of Tankerville, at their new residence, in Maddox-street ; Mr. and Mrs. Wm Russell, in chapel-street W est, Belgrave squarea.from Woburn Abbey ; Lord Wm. Powlett, in Curzon street,' from Shropshire; Mr. and Lady Augusta Milbanke, from Thorpeperrow . Hall, Yorkshire ; the Earl . and Countess of Rosebery, and the Ladies Primrose, on the T errace, Pic cadilly, from a visit to the Hon. Colonel and D ouglas Pen nant,nrd and at P Lay E e La d y rh yn e resn Castle; ird a et Mr. A. B. Hop e , f rom a visit to t, B fr edg nm eb a vuriys, ICenhter Majesty, at ; Baron and Hill-street, Baroness Cetto, in it to Windsor Castle ; Mr. Massey Dawson, fr om a Continental tour ; Lord and Lady Mahon, in Grosv enor-place, from Brighton ; G am bi er P a rry, Esq., Mrs. P arry, and family, at Marsi.all Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square ; George Gib son, Esq., turd at ditto; Mrs. Gibson, Mrs. Pickering, at ditto ; the Rev. Mr. Burket and Miss Burket, at ditto ; Hon. Mrs.. Russell Barrington, at the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn street, from Stutton Rectory, Ipswich ; Mrs. and Miss "ichardson, at ditto, from Warrer! yood, Hatfield. THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. Yesterday the very - extensive preparations in and about the House of Lords, for the reception of her Majesty and her Illustrious visitor to open the Parliament, were completed, but not until a late hour; and during the day many upholsterers, men and women, carpenters, &c., were actively occupied with the works. The reason of their labours being thus protracted was the alterations made in the usual preparations, to accommodate the great accession of numbers in the Long Gal lery, in the Peers' and Strangers' Galleries, as well as in the body of the House. Heretofore the arrangements were such, that all persons who procured tickets could be seated. Now that plan is entirely altered. Hence a far larger number of persons will be admitted; it perhaps would not be quite correct tosay accommodated. All are to stand. There are several additional rows of graduated stations in the Long Gallery, railed in front, but no seatF. In some instances there will be fbur, five, and six rows of per sons, the stations going to a vast height; and there are many of these raised platforms where no places were previously allotted for visitors. To all these places the company will be admitted early, but there is not the least opportunity to sit down, except among the feet, should there happen to be room, of those behind them. The side or Peers' galleries are also without seats; the two rows of seats heretofore in them were yesterday removed, and arrangements made for the introduction of three and four rows of ladies, Peeresses, and Peeresses' daughters, having the galleries in addition to a considerable portion of the body of the House. All the seats are re. moved also from the Strangers'. and Com mons Members' gallery, except the front row usually occupied by reporters, but the " fourth" is on the pre s e n t occas i on to g i ve way to the part ners and daughters of the second estate. Even from the body of the House all seats for Peers, &c., are removed, one row on each side excepted. Judging from the arrangements made, and the tickets issued, it is expected that every part of the House and galleries, except around, the Throne, will be crowded to excess, nearly all the company being without seats. The whole ar rangements, however, are such, by, means of gra dually raised flooring, &c... as to secure to every person in the Royal Gallery the view of her Ma jesty and the Royal visiters with their respective retinues as they pass to the House of Lords, and to those in th e H ouse t h e completest view of the Throne. Such has been the anxiety in this re spect,that the flooringbehind Black Rod's box,and at the lower end of the House below the bar, is reconstructed on an unexcepti ona bl y ascending scale. As the admission of such vast numbers as will assemble within the walls of the House will somewhat try the strength of various places where company may be assembled, it is right and prudent to state that the galleries, and platforms in the Royal. Gallery, &c., have been subjected to the severest trials by the accumula tion on them of more weights than can be assem bled on one to-day. For instance, in the Stran gers' Gallery, at the lower end of the House, set apart for Peereses and their daughters, nearly 300 men have been introduced at one time, and experiments of a similar character have been ap plied to the Peers' side-galleries, and the lodge ments in the Royal Long Gallery. The elevation on which the throne is stationed and the floor of the House have been newly carpet ted. The throne is new—new crimson velvet, new gold banding and fringe, with newly-covered tbotstool. But the Prince of Wales's chair and footstool, now placed on the right of the Throne, and on a level with it, may be termed the gems of the House. They are exquisite tasteful pieces of workmanship. The chair is of the same pattern with the throne, but somewhat smaller. Like the throne, it is covered with crimson vel vet, bordered with wide gold banding, and deco rated with rich d ee p go ld fringe. The back is high, and surmounted with appropriate devices from the Royal Arms. About two-thirds high are embroidered the Prince s feathers, the feathers in silver, banded and bounded with gold, and the workmanship evinces first-rate artistical skill. They stand out boldly as if literally waving over the foundation of Ich Dien." The canopy is only renovated. The velvet has been " redipped," and there still remain embroidered on it the letters "G. R.," prepared for George IV., and which answered for the Latinized name of Wil liam IV., but which will not look very well over the head and crown of Queen Victoria. As everything else has been done with such care nd effect, it seems curious that new velvet and correct lettering should not have characterised the appearance of the Royal canopy over the Throne on the present distinguished occasion, The summit ofthe canopy, however, is beautifully redecorated, having around it new gold fringe, and on the drapery appear crowns boldly embroidered. On the right of the Throne, but on the floor of the House, and near the Bench of Bishops, is a plain chair fin- the King of Prussia, and on the left of the Throne, as heretofore , is placed Prince Al bert's chair. Under the Peers' Gallery, on the left of the Throne, and in line with the Opposition benches, are placed four chairs. These will be occupied by Foreign Princes, and in th e ever _ ing are to b e devoted to the King of psi .nsia &c., should he feel di spose d , which it. is expected he will, to see the Lords assembled in their delibe rative capacity, and to hear the debate on the Address. In the House of Commons further improve ments, by the introduction of additional glasses around the flames, have been made by Mr. Gu rney, whose plan, it will be remembered, super seded that of Si r F. Trench, not only in the House, but in the Speaker's room, in the lobby, and the passages leading to the House ,• and the effe c t o f A li those lights as so altered was tested yesterday, on Tuesday, and on several previous evenings. For the preservation of or der in approaching the House of Lords, and to prevent Members rushing forward and gettine in front of the Speaker, and the unseemly bustle thereby occasioned, there have bee n prepared barriers along the passage leading to the bar of the House of Lords, which will effectually guard against the recurrence of such inconvenience. LOH D LYNDHURST. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I am much surprised that none of the Liberal Papers have adverted to the late promo tions to the rank of Queen's Counsel. Among the crowd of new silk gowns, almost equalling in number those who were exalted above their fellows in Lord Lyndhursts's four months' Chan cellorship (with the exception of about three), it may be safely asserted that the others are distin guished by nothing but the Toryism of their principles, and by the assistance they have ren dered to his Lordship in his contests at Cam bridge. The honours of the profession ought not to be lavished from personal or political motives, hut ought to be the reward of professional merit and long standing at the bar. While silk gowns have been so profusely and improperly lavished on the undeserving, they have been refused to several applicants of very long standing and in disputable merits, for no assignable reason ex cept that the unsuccessful barristers entertained Liberal opinions ill political matters. Such was not the conduct of Lord Cottenharn, who in his last batch of seven, I think, included three con spicuous Tories_ namely, Mr. Wortley, a son of 'Lord Wburneliire (a member of the present Ca binet); Mr. Godson , the Tory M.P. f or Kidder minster; and Mr. Yhateley, brother-iu-law to the Duke of Marlborough. Acts of the nature I have above described tend to bring an honourable profession into dis repute and discredit, and ought to be made known to the public.—l am, &c. AN OLD BARRISTER. . Lincoln's Inn, Jan. 30, 1842. MEETINGS OF THE UNEMPLOYED.--In the course of last week large meetings of workmen, out of employment, took place in the public Green, for the purpose of discussing what measures they ought to adopt, to obtain either employment or bread, in their present distress. The first meeting consisted of about 500 individuals ; but, an adjournment having taken place, on the following day from 1,000 t o 1 , 500 assem bl e d , when th e su bj ec t o f their distress was again taken up and discussed. The poor people having told to each other their heart-rending tales, of famishing wives and children, it was ultimately resolved to send a deputation to wait on the Lord Provost and Magistrates, and confer with them on the matter. On Friday, the Lord Pro vost, several of the City Magistrates, the Suburban Magistrates, and members of the Relief Committee, met in the C omm i ss i oners ' H a ll, w h en the deputation from the unemployed was introduced--they representing a variety of trades, such as iron -moulders, brass-founders, calico printers, tailors, &c., &e.; and each of the deputies gave as correct an account as possible of the number of unem ployed in the trade he was understood to represent. They stated that their sole object was to get employment of some kind, whatever it might be, in order to provide food for themselves and families ; and, after some deli- baration, the Magistrates agreed to comply with their wishes, on its being ascertained ho w many persons were actually idle. In the meantime a room has been opened in the old police buildings, where a person has been placed to receive the returns of the unemployed, and, with as much despatch as may be, they will set to work at the breaking of stones.--Glasgow Argus. The day before yesterday, as some masons were lifting 112 stones in their hands, one above another on a ladder, according to the usual absurd custom in Paris, for building a house, one of the men at the top was sP4ed with a fit of coughing, while „lie held o,e stone, and, letting it f a ll, it came upo n tlia ',wad of mason at the bottom of the lat y ier, and killed him upo n the spot. The ac.cide4 ocoire'd In the Rue Villecbto THE UNTHRALLING of the GOD. OR, FREE-TRADE TYPIFIED. " When we attempt so much as the opening of our Ports to all articles employed in reproduction, we may without waiting or a single negotiation, fearlessly hoist the banner of FREE_ TRADE to all nations. LAZARUS BOUND HAND AND FOOT STRUGGLES TO STEP OUT INTO THE OPEN PAY. WHOSE SHALL BE THE 'VOICE TO PROCLAIM, " LOOSE HIM, AND LET HIM 0! " Morning Chronicle, Jan. 28. I. A God—who was a great and beauteous God, While the old. Patriarchs ruled earth's early sod— Etnbow'd by proud Oppression, and o'er-trod, Now lonely lies, all Lazar-like of heap, Pent in an Isle round which blue waters leap Him the Oppressors have enthrall'd in irons— Him watchful warding like unslumb'ring lions. For, truthfully, they know Might but that God abroad his bright arms throw— Might but his strengths awake, And his cramp bonds asunder from him break, Round the great 'World his giant feet would scour, And fold its zones in harvest, vine, and flower ; Press'd by his touch the desert-place should shine Palm -crown'd, and rosy-sown, and flush with wine Like golden shieldS in king's apartments hung The banded corn-sheaves should about be flung ; Plenty be spread like sunlight on Earth's floors, And Joy harp ever at her happy doors. . Wherefore, 0 men, how long Shall day irrevolubly roll on day, Away, and yet away Ere that all-puissant voice Prompt to relieve from sufferance and wrong, Like a great-trumpet , seven-times voie'd and strong Shall pour its solemnness sublime and long, And forth in thunders this commandment throw— " LOOSE HIM, AND LET HIM GO !" How long, 0 men, how long Shall the delivering God in thraldom stay ! How long shall day to day Repeat its aching history of wrong. The fields that since God's flood-time have lain fallow, Sigh to be clothed in corn of gold and yellow; Cry out the hills of vines To wave in purple, dropping with sweet wines, And hang aloof their sunny-reigning clusters, Lit with transparent lustres ; While Earth her balmy virgin -bosom high Heaves with desire to bear and fructify : How long—bow long • - E'er the great voice abroad its mandate throw, " LOOSE HIM, AND LET HIM GO!" Not long—not surely long Time shall her hour prolong, E'er the great God shall wholly be delivered, — Be all his shackles shivered ; Not long—not surely long, E'er Earth delighted rolls With richer music in her silver poles ; E'er her long-barren Star, Shall don a gold and emerald symar ; And her sad empty horn Blush all abundantly with wine and corn. Not long—not long, E'er the all-puissant voice, Pouring its solemnness sublime and long, Shall free that God from bondage and from wrong, And forth in thunders its commandment throw, " LOOSE HIM, AND LET HIM GO I" Hearken ! it comes—the sound Like muffled harmonies heard underground, Shakes the blue atmospheres that float around.— The fair-haired regions of the Western Star— Asia, and Ind, and sunny Sennaar, Put on their pearls; and crimsons, and tiar, For joy that their Deliverer is not far. It comes—the bright day comes— The hour—the men—the chain up-breaking forces!— I see—l know them by their sparkling plumes, And their gold chariots drawn by bounding horses:— Down like a flashing cataract they pour, Proclaiming to the world his thraldom o'er:— While foremost, fairest of their throng is seen, A diamond-braceleted and beauteous Queen, Whose magic influence, and silver keys. Give the imprison'd giant God release.— It were a superhuman task to tell 'The wondrous workings of that subtle spell ; How brake the bars—how sprang apart the chains— Wbile his full strength the giant-One regains : How as the God his speed and splendours rolled, The landscapes burned in purple and in gold How gleamed the plains like emerald-blazon'd banners— How the young Islands sang in rapt Hosannas— While peals triumphal crowned the festive day That., struck the fetters of the God away. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by his Serene Highness Prince Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg, ar rived at Buckingham Palace in a carriage and four, escorted by a party of Hussars, twenty minutes before two o'clock yesterday afternoon from Windsor Castle. Their Serene Highnesses Prince Augustus and Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, and the Royal suite, consist ing of the Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Liddell, Baroness .Lehzen, Earl of Morton, Hon. C. A. Murray, lion. Captain Duncombe, Captain Francis Seymour, Colonel Wylde, and Colonel the H on . Ch ar l es G roy, f o ll owe d i n three of the Royal carriages and four. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were received at the Palace by the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamber lain, the Master of the Horse, and by Lord George Len nox, Lord in Waiting on Prince Albert. The Royal Standard was immediately displayed on the Marble Arch. At half-past two o'clock the Queen held a Privy Coun cil, which was attended •by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Lord President, the First Lord of the Trea sury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the First Lord of the Admi ralty, the President of the Board of Trade, the President of the Board of Control, the Secretary at War, tlw Pay master-General of the Forces, the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the Horse. _ Sir Robert Peel had an audience of the Queen. The Duke of Buckingham had an audience and re signed to her Majesty the Privy Seal. The Earl of Jersey, Sir James Graham, and Lord Wharncliffe, had audiences of the Queen at the Council. At the Council his Grace, Walter, Duke of Buc cleugh, was by command of the Queen sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, her Maj_esty having been pleased t o appo i nt his Grace to be Lord Lieutenant of the County of Roxburgh (in the' room of the Marquis of Lothian, deceased), the Noble Duke took the oaths appointed to be taken. Her Majesty having been pleased to deliver the custody of the Privy Seal to his Grace, the oath of Keeper of the Privy Seal was administered to him, and the Noble Duke took his place at the Board. Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint the Right Honourable James Marquis of Salisbury, to bo Lord- Lieutenant of the County of Middlesex. The Noble Marquis took the customary oaths. Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right Honourable Brownlow Marquis of Exeter to be Lord- Lieutenant of the County of Northampton, the Noble Marquis was sworn in accordingly. Her Majesty pricked the List of Sheriffs for the pre sent year. haonnd o a p gr en ee in d g u t p h o e n. Session of Par . lia T m n e i g w u a e s e n s Sile arranged, eSpeech The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. Lord Ashburton had an audience of the Queen. The Court was attended by the Treasurer of the household, the Vice-Chamberlain, Fad of Morton, Lord. in Waiting, Viscount Combermere, Gold Stick in Wait ___ on. - Captain Duncombe, Groom in Waiting, Hon. Colonel H Grey, Equerry in Waiting, and Colonel Wylde, Equerry to Prince Albert. . _ _ At lialf-past four o'clock, her Majesty and Prince Al bert went to Marlborough House to, visit her Majesty the Queen Dowager. The Hon. Colonel - Grey, and Colonel Nide, the Equerries in Waiting on the Queen and the Prince, were in attendance. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal remain at Windsor Castle ; and the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Lady in Waiting on her Ma jesty, also remains at Windsor Castle. Previously to quitting Buckingham Palace yesterday morning, his Majesty the King of Prussia did Mr. Hayter, Principal Painter in Ordinary to the Queen, the honour to sit a short time, to enable him to represent his Majesty in the sketch which he is making of his great picture of the Christening of his Royal Highness the Prince of :Wales in St. George's Chapel. At half-past eight o'clock the kin.. quitted th e Pa lace, attended by the Earl of Hardwick, Lord in Wait ing, and two Gentlemen of his Suite, and proceeded to the Steam Packet Wharf at Hungerford-market, where his Majesty embarked on board the steam packet, and went down the River to visit the Thames Tunnel. Afterwards the King went to the ToWer, and after in specting that fortress, returned to Buckingham Palace shortly before twelve o'clock. • His Majesty received at Buckingham Palace Deputa tions from a number of public bodies. The Bishop of London, and a Deputation of the Clergy in the Diocese of London, were introduced, when his Lordship presented an Address from the Metropoli tan Clergy. The Bishop of London accompanied the next Deputa tion, which was that from King's College, to pay their re , spects. - - The Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews were introduced to congratulate his Majesty. Prussian subjects residing, in England, headed by the Che valier Hebeler, Prussian Uonsul-General, were conducted to the presence of their Sovereign to present an Address of Congratulation. The Address was read by Mr. Natuscb, and the following is a translation:— may it please your Majesty, We, natives of the Prussian Dominions, now resident in the United, Kingdom pf tarot Pritain and Ireland, . - DEPARTURES, The Rev. J. Drake, from Marshall Thompsoni s Hotel, Ca vendish-square, for Creukerne, Somersetshir e ; Mi ss D ra k e , from ditto, for Tunbridge; the Hon. Captai n Ai nst i e , from ditto, for Scotland ; the Doctor and Mrs. Cornish, frets ditto, for Exeter ; the Bishop of Oxford, from Grosvenor-square, l o n te d l i , es for Vis count Lovaine, on a visit to the Duke of Rutland, at Belvoir for Cuddesden Palace ; Viscount Cantilup__,e for Paris . Castle ; Lady Thomas Hay and the Dour Lady Kinloch, for Leamington Spa; Major-General Grey and the Hon. Cap tainE d w a r G d . e s A , A. r o ty r t o h n o , f ii ; o r r l t i h n e g ; the Hon. Messrs. Ramsgate ; Lady and Miss Le Poer Trench, on a Continental tour ; the Mar quis de Sommery, for Brighton ; Sir Charles and Lady Grey Burlington and family, for the West Indies ; Colonel Whichcote, for Lea mington Spa ; Colonel Sir John Eustace, on a tour. CHANGES, The Earl and Countess of Orford and the Ladies Walpole, at %Berton Hall, Norfolk, from Dersetshire ; Lord and Lady Berehaven, at Dublin, from Bantry Castle ; Admiral Sir Ro bert Stopford, at Greenwich Hospital, from a visit to her Ma jesty, at Windsor Castle ; the Hon, G. H. ikn d l a dy L Ca vendish and family, and Lady France; Hap', at A s hf or d H a ll, near Chatsworth, from Harewood House ; the Martinis of Dou- Egjas, at Paris, from Hamilton Palace; the Duk e o f Devonshire, arl and Countess Granville, Mr. and Lad y G eorg i ana Ful lerton, and the Hon Richa r d Cavendish, from Ni ce f or P au , en route to Paris ; Sir John an d Lady Sbellei, A , on a visit to the Duke of Rutla nd , at Belvei r _Castle,lrom i visiti ng tour ; Mr. Parker'REP.', from a visit to Sir George and Lady Sitwell, at Renslam Hall, Derbyshire, VISIT OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA TO COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. His Majesty the King of Prussia honoured Covent-garden Theatre with his presence last evening, and the performances were by his Ma jesty's comMand. The time of opening the doors was postponed to sev en o ' c l oc k, long before which hour they were besieged by an immense crowd, anxious to gain admittance; and within ten mi nutes after they were opened, the theatre was crammed in every part open to the - public. The performance commenced at eight o'clock with the pantomime; and shortly after its conclu sion, at a little after ten o'clock, the King of Prussia entered her Majesty's private box. The audience rose to greet him; he was received with waving of hats and handkerchiefs, and loud cheers from every part of the house. His Ma jesty seemed highly gratified by his reception, and came forward to the front of the box, and repeatedly bowed his acknowledgments. When the cheering had somewhat subsided, a voice from the pit called for one cheer more, and a hearty cheer was the response, which his Ma jesty again acknowledged by bowing. The cur tain then drew up, and discovered the whole of the Company assembled on the stage. The baud struck up the Prussian national air, Der Landes Vater," and the Company sang the following English words, adapted to the air. The solo parts being sustained by Miss Rainforth, Madame Vestris, and Mr. W. Harrison : Welcome, Royal Guest of' England ! Welcome, from our hearts we sing ! Thine own land its Father names thee— Ours, with pride, its Friend proclaims thee— God guard Prussia and her noble King I Honour to the flag so bravely Raised with ours the world to save ! On through that last struggle glorious. Side by side they flew victorious— God grant together they may ever wave ! Welcome, Royal Guest of England. Welcome, from our hearts we sing ! May the sacred friendship plighted At the Font, be never blighted!— Long live Britain's Queen, and Prussia's King! Among the decorations of the scene, the stan dard of Prussia, with its black eag l e , was very conspicuous. His Majesty was evidently highli, delighted with the tasteful compliment thus paid to himself and his country. At the conclusion ot the Prussian National air, there were loud calls for " God Save the Queen," and our own tional air then was accordingly sung, the solo parts being sustained by Miss Rainforth, Madame Vestris, and Mr. W. Harrison. While the con cluding stanza was being sung, Miss Adelaide Kemble came to the front of the stage, and was most cordially received by Madame Vestris , who handed to her the a ddi t i onal verse " God' save the Prince," which was sung by Miss Adelaidet Kemble, as she alone can sing it. His Majesty applauded the performance of the National An 4 them with the greatest enthusiasm. Among those assembled on the stage, we were glad, to observe Mr. Charles Kemble, looking hale, hearty, and in good spirits. We fancied we observed an expression of honest pride. upon his features as lie contemplated his accomplished and gifted daughter, and lwe althost envied him his feelings. Some little time had elapsed between the conclusion of the pan tomime and the commencement of the other performances, but the audience was kept in ex cellent humour by the showers of papers, which ever and anon fell into the pit, and the scramble for which gave rise to a great deal of- fun. These papers contained the English words of the Prussian National Air, and which we have given above. Immediately on the conclu sion of the National Anthem, the play of of The Merry Wives of Windsor commenced. The King of Prussia was very attentive to the performance and frequently re fe rre d to t h e b ook which he held in his hand. He seemed thoroughly to enter into the spirit of the play, laughed heartily at the witticisms and escapades of "sweet Jack Falstaff," and was by means sparing of his applause. His Majesty seemed completely to appreciate the beautiful duet, " I know a bank," which was exquisitely sung by Madame Vestris and Miss Rainforth, in the encoring of which his Majesty led the way. We never heard Madame Vestris ' s rich contralto notes in higher perfection, and are glad that she exhibited no traces of the severe illness from which she has of late been suffering. At the commencement of the fourth act his Majesty and Suite quietly left the house. It was evidently his desire to quit the house unnoticed and unobserved, and the audience had the tact to perceive,and the good sense to gratify, his Majesty's wishes. VISIT OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA TO THE THAMES TUNNEL. Yesterday morning, at a quarter ,t o n i ne o'clock, the King of Prussia, attend . - e d Von Humboldt, Baron Muller. , Baron Captain Meynell, lord Hardwicke, and of his Majesty's Aides-de-Camp, ar . fbr the , pur Tived at the Thames Tunnel, extran: 1 4 7,,5e of inspecting the works of this iinary undertaking. His Majesty and .uite were received by Mr. Benjamin Hawes, the Chairman, several of the Directors and ori ginal proprietor s • by Sir I. K. Bru ne l, t h e engineer; by M r. Page, the acting engineer; and the secretary, Mr. Charlier. Sir J. Rennie was also present. Although the hour was early at which his Majesty arrived, there were a number of visitors to welcome him to the Tunnel. His Majesty came to the Tunnel-wharf in the Bachelor steam-boat, Lord Hardwicke acting as cockswain. His Majesty was conducted through the Tunnel by Sir I. Brunel. On arriving at the bottom of the staircase, where a full view of the Tunnel is obtained, the first impression excited on the part of the Kin g was surprise. " Que c'est beau . the King exclaimed, and in ad vancing into the work he clasped the hand of the engineer several times, and after a short pause his Majesty exclaimed, addressing the engineer, "It surpasses all I have heard of it before. I thought the accounis.fiad been exaggerated, but, now that I see it, the statements respecting it are short of the reality. How much water is there above us, Sir Isambert ?" The engineer replied to 36 feet at highest tides. His Majesty, on reaching the shield on the Middlesex side, did not appear to understand the mode in which the work had been carried on. Sir Isambert explained the modus operandi, and the King expressed his astonishment at the de tails. The depth of the shaft, 76 feet, was another circumstance that caused great astonish ment. On reaching the top of the shaft, on the Middlesex side, his Majesty, seeing the steamer in which he had arrived, on the other side of the river, expressed a desire to have it summoned over, but Baron Humboldt asked him to return through the Tunnel in order to view the drawings of the works in the engineer's office. It may here not be considered irrelevant to re mark that in 1827 the Baron descended in the diving-bell to inspect the displacement made in the bed of the river after one of the irruptions. On arriving at the Wapping shore the miners, and others employed upon the works, cheered his Majesty most heartily, and their voices were raised much higher when Mr. Charlier an nounced, by command of the King, that he placed 50/. at their disposal. His Majesty and his suite then etamined the drawings of the works, with which he expressed himself highly gratified. His Majesty took his de parture amidst the acclamations of the workmen, the bells of Rotherhithe church ring ing a merry peal. The Prussian flag was hoisted over the shaft at Rotherhithe. The shield, having performed its work, is now being dis mantled. His Majesty signed his name in the visitors' book in the tunnel thus :—" Fredk. William the Fourth, King of Prussia." Baron Humboldt also placed his name as an addition to many thousand distinguished visitors. Lady Brunel was introduced to the (King of Prussia. His Majesty graciously remarked—"Js suis enchante, Madame, d'avoir le plaisir de vous voir et de vous feliciter." EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.-- The Half-yearly Meeting of the Railway Company, at which the question of Sunday travelling will be brought under consideration, takes place on Feb. 22, and, not withstanding the extraordinary efforts making by the opponents of all railway travelling on the first day of the week, there is, we believe, every prospect that they will be defeated by a large majority. Sir Andrew Agnew, and we know not how many others, have purchased shares expressly for the purpose of ,concussing the bona fide proprietors of the undertaking into an adoption of their views. Threats of withholding traffic from the railway have been made to some extent, and, in short, no stone have been left unturned, by the reckless ingenuity of a body of individuals who, not content with support ing, by fair means, their own opinions, seem resolved that they shall, if possible, be thrust forcibly down the throats of their neighbours. All, however, we are assured, will prove unsuccessful, as the railway pro prietors are resolved to abide by their own judgment, j instead of attending to the dictation of individuals who have exhibited so melancholy a lack of Chris*:ian charity throughout the agitation that has beets carried on. —Glasgow Paper Mr. Bucke, the well-known auti:sor of several works, had a serious accident on MOD ay. He has been long labouring under paralysis) gut it had yielded in some degree to judicious medie, - 41 treatment. On Friday, coining out of a gentleman's 'nous° in Berners-street, he fell down upon the steps and injured himself very mate rially. He was taken into his friend's house, whence he was conveyed to his residence, Pulteney-terrace, Pen tonville, where be was visited by a second attack, from Whi c h it i s feared he maT nyi mover. EVENING SUN CONTROVERTED ELECTION PETITIONS. The following table, drawn up from Parliaments?, documents, exhibits the petitions which have been pre. sented against the returns specified, and stand for con sideration on the meeting of Parliament ; showing also the grounds and nature of each petition. B. denotes Bribery ; 1., Intimidation, Undue Influence, or Rioting ; Q., Qualification ; R., Returning Officer ; S., Scrutiny ; T. , _Treating- CONSERVATIVES. Name of Place.l Sitting Members. • r Grounds of Petition. Weymouth and Meleombellegis C Viscount Villiers / G. W. Hope, Esq. SJ. E. Tennant, Esq. t W. G. Johnson, Esq. 5 SJ. Attwood, Esq. Z W. Beresford, Esq. P. Greenall, Esq 1 T. B. Crosse, Esq Hon. H. Dawnay SW. Christmas, Esq. t tW. M. Reade, Esq. C J. S. Harford, Esq. T. Hawke?, Esq 5 J. S. Douglas, Esq. W. H. Bodkin, Esq. G. P. Beresford, Esq. E. Grogan, Esq J. Hornby, Esq S Lord Bruce C. C. Martyn, Esq. Lord Newry S W. J. Hamilton, Esq t C. W. Martyn, Esq. IC. Russell, Esq Lord Chelsea H. Bruen, Esq. t T. Zunbury, Esq. B. D'lsraeli, Esq. t G. Tomline, Esq. D. Ker, Esq. jF. Hodgson, Esq. ...1 M. Gore, Esq. S. T. Carnegie, Esq W. T. Praed, Esq R. Neville, Esq. R.S.B.T. Belfast 1.8. T. Harwich S.B. T. Wigan Rutland S.B.T. S.B.T. Waterford City Cardigan R.(Lost Poll Dudley Books. Q.S. Rochester _Athlone Dublin (City) Blackburne Southampton S. B. T. I. B.S.R.T. 5.8.T.1. 8.1.T.5.R. Newry ... Newport .. 8.1.Q.T. B.T. Reading Carlow(County) B.T.R. Shrewsbury Downpatrick Barnstaple Stafford (Boro') St. Ireg New Windsor B. T. R. I. B. T. S. B. T. S.!. B. T. B. T. S. Great Marlow Nottingham Thetford Clitheroe Lewes WHIGS. Sir W. R. Clayton. . 5 Sir G. G. 1)e Larpent 1 / Sir J. C. H o bh ouse Earl of Euston M. Wilson, EN S S. Harford, Esq / IL Elphinstone, Esq L. White, Esq. J. Holdsworth, Esq... F. Villiers, Esq ./ 1). 0. Sombre, Esq. T. A. Mitchell, Esq. R. Wason, Esq. G. Rennie, Esq. D. O'Connell, Esq E. B. Roche, Esq c W. Browne, Esq. M. O'Connell, Esq f J. Dalrymple Esq, 1 J. Phillpotts, E sq . M. F. Berkeley, Esq. f R. M. Bellew, Esq... Hon. T. V. Dawson . 5 S V. Maher, Esq. / R. 0. Cave, Esq • Lord A. 11. Paget E. M. Mostyn, Esq W. 11. Watson, Esq Sir A. L. Hay Sir T. Winnington J. H. Plumridge, Esq J. S.W. S. Drax, Esq J. Q. Harris, Esq R.S.T. 1.8.5. T. R.S. T.B.S. S.R.I. R.Q. S.B.T. B.T. B.T. Longford . Wakefield Sudbury.. Bridport.. Ipswich . Cork (County) Kerry (County) Wigtown 1.5.8. T. Gloucester City 5.8.1. Louth.. 5.13. T. Tipperary Lichfield Flint Kinsale Elgin Burghs Bewdley Falmouth Wareham Newcastle under Lyme Lyme Regis Merthyr Tydvil Stafford (Bore) New Windsor Carnar von 1.*8.T.5. 5.8.T.1. Q. 8.1.5. 5.8.T.1. B.T.S. 1.8. T. Q.T.8.1 RT. W. Pinney, Esc Sir J. J. Gu.est, Bart E. Buller, Esq... J. RamsbotMm, Esq. Lord G. Puget. B.T. 13:T, • * Under the head of " Intimidation," in this petition, are embraced allegations—that placards were posted in all direc tions denouncing all who should vote for petitioners ; that all such persons were also denounced by the priests in their cha pels ; that their hotel was in a state of siege from an armed mob ; that multitudes of men lay in ambush to attack said voters on their way to the poll ; that their progress to the poll was interrupted by stone walls and carts and waggons placed across the road ; that they were attacked with guns, scythes, and pitchforks, and the drivers of the carriages beat, and also the electors, in the most frightful manner, broke their carriages into piec es , w hi c h t h ey carried off and burned ; that the ele ctors were compelled to call upon the military to protect their lives against the fury of an armed mob, &e. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 2.—The Vindictive ;tai . had all her guns and stores taken out, and is being dismasted, prepatory to her hull being repaired. She is very much injured, and will require at least three weeks, if not longer, before it can be properly amended. Had not her bows been peculiarly a and strongly constructed, there is no quest.lon but that she must have been destroyed by the se -verity of the bumping she experienced when on the shoal. A Court of inquiry was held on Monday to investigate the particulars of the affair, -w ith a view to ulterior pro ceedings by Court-martial, or to the perfect exoneration of the Captain and officers by such facts as might be adduced before the Court, which would render any further investigation unnecessary. This being a pre liminary inquiry, its details are private, and the result is not yet known, though it is generally believed that the explanation has been most satisfactory, and that the inquiry will not be carried further. Indeed, the known skill and ability of her Captain, his long standing, and meritorious conduct in the service, are sufficient to justify this belief, and to afford a guarantee that nothing hut uncontrollable difficulties, which nei ther skill nor experience could surmount, could have placed his ship in its late disastrous position. When once her hull is repaired she will not be long in being refitted, as she is not lik e a s hi p newly commissioned with a paucity of hands, but has her full complement, or men, who will speedily make her all ataunt again. The recent Court-martial on Mr. Elton, late midship• man of the Cambridge, is ,the subject of m uc h comment hero, both in the nava l and military circles. There •is scarcely an officer in either service that does not consi der the sentence as unusually severe, and quite dispro portionate to the offence. Indeed the conduct of Captain Williams, the prosecutor, is looked upon by all the officers at this port, even those of his own rank, as harsh in the extreme, and much more deserving of censure than that of the unfortunate gentleman who has been dis missed the service and imprisoned through his instru mentality. They all admit the truth of Mr. Elton's second letter to Captain Williams, and agree with him that there was a want of courtesy and gentlemanly bearing on the part of the Captain in not replying to his first letter, yet they do not think he was justified, ac cording to the stringent rules of the service, hi sending such a letter to his superior offic er , th oug h h e would have been perfectly justified in sending it had he been merely a private gentleman, and received the same pro vocation. But while they condemn the junior officer for a breach of discipline in writing these unpalatable truisms to his superior officer, they still more severely cen sure the conduct of the superior in wantonly insulting a gentleman in every respect his equal, though of inferior rank to him in the service. Mr. Elton's first letter to Capt. Williams was most respectful ; courteous, and gen tlemanly, and according to the rules of society was en titled to an equally courteous reply. It is to be ho pe d for the honour of the service that no other officer would have refused it. Under painfully excited feelings at the slight put upon him, Mr. Elton wrote the letter which formed the subject of complaint ; and although neither the military nor naval officers here justify his conduct in so doing, they all think the provocation he received a very fair excuse in extenuation of his fault. Captain Wil liams is much condemned for not receiving the ample apology made 137 Mr. Elton, and his bringing him to a ing, is considered not altogether credit a bl e t o hi m. Wi th Court-martial after this had been made to h un i n writ regard to Captain Basil Hall, who volunteered his assist ance' to conduct the prosecution against Mr. Elton, there is but one feeling among the naval and military officers here on that gentleman's conduct, not very flattering to him. It frequently has happened that officers have come forward and assisted another officer in his defence when tried by a Court-martial, but Captain Basil Hall stands alone in the unenviable position he has selected in volun teering his aid to crush a young gentleman and ruin his prospects in the service, not for any moral crime, but for a breach of discipline, his first and only offence. His Excellency Lord Ashburton (appointed to proceed to Washington on a special mission) is expected here on, Friday, to embark on the following day on• hoard th ee Warspite, 50, Captain Lord John Hay, C. 8., for convey ance to New York. The brig Scylla, 16, has been commissioned at Ply mouth, by Commander Robert Sharpe, of this neighbour hood, it is reported, for the South American station. The Rapid, 10, Lieutenant Earle, will leave this port for Sierra Leone, Ascension, and the Cape of G ood Hope, about Feb. 5. The brig Ringdove, 16, has been commissioned at this port, by Commander Sir William Daniel, it is supposed for the Mediterranean. The Queen, 110, Captain Rich, is fully niaw .e d at Spithead, and is only waiti ng t h e arriva l of .4:ice-Ad miral Sir Edward Owen, K.C.8., t o proceed • with him to Malta. Emeric Vidal, Esq., has resign% ) 'ilie Secretary ship, and has been succeeded by Gorge Smith, Esq. This noble ship will have on P:rd more than twelve hundred men, including supereurAeraries. b 0 The Wolverine, 16, CO‘M nwader Johnson, arrived la s t Sunday from the eastwuct, on her way to the .E as t At Spithead—qu e .n 110, Warspite 50, and Wol verine 16. In HarbtAlr-- I St. Vincent, Victory, Hastings, Excel lent, Royal George yacht, Carysfort, Ringdove, Rapid; Nautilus, F:eho, and Tender. •. In P":"ck—Vindictive (repairing damages). On Saturday, the 29th of January, the King, of Prussia honoured his Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen with his gracious company to a dejeuner. In the bourse of the morning the Chevalier Neukomm, and MMc's chelles performed to ge th er on the Organ end Grand Piano-forte. His Majesty subse quen tly requested M. Moscheles to perf or m on th e i nstrument (one of Erard's, manufacturer for the Royal P a l ace a t Berlin), and plac e d himself behind the chair o f t h e ar tist, who thus inspi re d extemporised, and hit mos t h a ppily on subjects whi c h eli cited from th e Aug us t h eare r his loud approbati on, Tito subjects introduc e d wer e " God Save the Queen," being also the National Air of Prussia, " Robi n Adair,* and in conclusion, H a nders "Halleluja. T.B. LS. 51i