The Press.
London, England, 1854-04-15 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

6ourt aula lastion.
THE Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by
the Prince of Wales and junior members of the Royal
Family, left Buckingham Palace for Windsor on
Wednesday. Her Majesty will remain at the Castle
until the conclusion of the Easter holidays.
ON Monday and Tuesday last the customary
bounties were paid to aged and meritorious poor at
the Almonry, in Whitehall, under the direction of the
Lord Bishop of Oxford, Lord High Almoner, and the
Rev. Dr. Jelf, Sub• Almoner. The annual charities
incidental to Maundy Thursday were distributed to
thirty five aged men and a corresponding number of
aged women, with the usual formalities, in the Royal
Chapel at Whitehall.
THE Queen held a Court on Tuesday at Bucking
ham Palace, for the reception of the address from the
Corporation of the city of London.
CABINET COUNCILS, were held at the Foreign-office
on Saturday and Wednesday last.
THE Queen will hold a Privy Council this day
(Saturday) at Windsor Castle.
THE DUCHESS OF KENT arrived at her residence at
Frogmore on Wednesday from tool,.
THE Loan CHANCELLOR will receive the judges,
Queen's counsel, &c., on Wednesday next, the first
day of Easter tetra. at his residence in Upper Brook-
street, at twelve o'clock.
His Highness Prince Gohlam Mahomed and the
Prince Feroze Shah, his son, and suite,have removed
to Edwards' private hotel, in George-street, Hanover-
square, where asuite of apartments has been engaged
for them.
THE Hon. Mr. BlnareoEri, the American Minister
at Madrid, has arrived in town, at the Brunswick
Hotel, jermyn-street, en route for the United States.
VISCOUNT PAVENSET, an attache to the British
embassy at Constantinople, arrived at Marseilles on
the 7th.
A PUBLIC DINNER is to be given to the Earl of
Beauchamp at the Shire-hall, Worcester, on Saturday
next, the 22nd inst., on which occasion the Right
Hdn. Sir John Pakington, Bart., M.P., has consented
to preside.
THE DUKE OF PORTLAND, who has been suffering
from indisposition at Harcourt-house, Cavendish-
square, is now convalescent.
THE Right lion. B. Disraeli and Mrs Disraelihave
left town for Hughenden Manor, Bucks.
THE Duke and Duchess of Northumberland have
left Rome for Paris, en route to London.
VISCOUNT AND VISCOUNTESS PALMF.RSTON gave their
usual political dinner on Saturday evening, in
Carlton-gardens. After the banquet the noble vis-
countess had an evening party.
THE suggestion of a public monument in Belfast
to the memory of the late gallant Marquis of London-
derry has already met with practical favour and en-
couragement from several distinguished friends of the
veteran soldier and statesman in Ireland.
V, tuna an Omni.
THE WAR AND THE SECRET
CORRESPONDENCE.
AT a meeting on the Eastern question held last week
in Store-street a very numerous audience attended,
and addresses, vehemently inculpating the Govern-
ment, were made by Mr. Urquhart, Mr. Coniugham,
and other speakers. Resolutions of corresponding tenor
were adopted and embodied in an address to the
Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Saturday last being
appointed for that purpose, a deputation waited upon
the Earl of Clarendon, and read the document to his
lordship. It ran as follows :
My Lord,—We have been desired, by a crowded meeting of our
fellow-countrymen, to present to your lordship a copy of the fol-
lowing resolutions, then agreed to:—
" 1. That this meeting, having considered the recently-published
'secret and contidential' correspondence between England and
Russia on the Turkish question, perceives with shame and regret
that the British Government has for at leasttwelve months past,
been cognisant of the Czar's designa upon the Turkish empire—
risked our amity with France by corresponding on so grave a
quest on of European policy to the exclusion of the French
Government—and permitted the Czar to conclude the corresport-
dance with the record of his satisfaction et the good understand-
mg established between himself and the British Government as
to the disposal of the Ottoman aominionp.
"2. That this meeting views with alarm the project of gar-
risoning Turkey with British troops; and is of opinion that
there can be no defence of Turkey save by attacking the terri-
tory of Russia, and that by taking the defensive both the British
troops and the Ottoman empire are exposed to hazard."
In presenting these resolutions, we naturally revert to the
interview we had with your lordship on the 21st of October last.
On that occasion your lordship promised to protect the integrity
and independence of the Ottoman empire, but declined to give
us any assurance that the British fleet should not be used against
the Turks.
My lord, in a matter involving, to a most serious extent, the
honour of our country, the lives of our fellow-subjects, and an
amount of taxation which can be cheerfully !supported only under
a sense of its being efficiently applied, we cannot rest upon such
grounds as these.
We have watched the progress of events with deep anxiety.
We have observed that the forces of Turkey are strong in the
exist ratio of their distance from the gest of British diplomacy
that the Turkish army on the Danube has alone been able to
cope with that of Russia: while the _pregame of the allied fleets
has had the effect of paralysing that of Turkey, instead of being