The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-20 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, aceornpanied by their
Imperial Majesties the Emperor and Empress
of the
French, and the Prince of Leiningen, arrived at Buck-
ingham Palace at 28 minutes past twelve o'clock yester-
day from Windsor Castle, escorted by a detachment of
Life Guards.
In attendance on the Emperor and Empress were the
Princess d'Essling,the Countess de Montebello, Baronets
de Maiaret, the Marchioness of Ely, the Ilon. Mary
-Seymour, the Marshal Count 'Valliant, the Duke de
BasFano, Colonel Le Comte Ney, Colonel Fleury, Mar-
quis de Teulongeon, Count Tascher de la Pagerie, Earl
Sonier,, and Lord Alfred Paget.
In attendance on the Queen and Prince were the
Duchess of Wellington, the Viscountess Canning, the
Hon. Caroline Caveadish, the Hon. Flora Macdonald,
Lord Rivers. Lord George Lennox, Lord Charles Fitz-
roy, and Colonel Seymour.
The royal party occupied ten of the Queen's carriages.
The Duke of Wellington, Earl Spencer, the Marquis,
of Breadalhane, the Marquis of Abercorn, Sir Edward'
Bowater, Major-General Wylde, and the Master of the
Household, received the Emperor and Empress and the
Queen and Prince in the Grand Hall, and her Majesty
and his Royal Highness accompanied their Imperial
Majesties up the Grand Staircase) to the rooms in the
east front of the Palace, prepared for their reception.
A Guard of Honour, composed of the Scots Fusilier
Gaards, was on duty within the quadrangle, and on the
arrival of the illustrious party the band played " Partant
pour la Syrie."
Tile Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince
Alfred, Prince Arthur, the Princesses A lice, Helena,
and Louisa, and Prince Leopold, attended by Lady C.
Bariingtod, General Sir E. Bowater, and Lietitenant-
Gleneral Sir F. Stevie, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps,
the Master of the Household, and Mr. Gibbs, arrived at
the Palace at a quarter before ten o'clock, having tia-
veiled from Windoor by a special train on the Great
Western Railway.
The Emperor and Empress of the French left Bucking.
ham Palace far Guildhall, at 20 minutes before 2 o'clock,
attended by their suite, escorted by a numerous detach-
ment of the Life guards.

The Emperor was habited in the uniform of a French
general officer, dark blue and gold, and wore the Riband
and George, and also the Star of the Order of the Gar-
ter, and the Star of the Legion of Honour.
The Empress wore a flounced green satin dress, each
flounce covered with white Brussels lace, and a shawl of
white Brussels lace. Her Imperial Majesty wore a
whits crape bonnet with Marabout feathers.
His Excellency the Count Walewski, the Ambas-
sador of France, and the Countess Walewski, and
Marshal Count Valliant, French Minister of War,
accompanied the Emperor and Empress, who were
albo attended by the Princess d'Essling (Grande
Maitresse), the Countess de Montebello,
_Baroness
de Malaret, the Marchioness of Ely, the IlEinittirible
Mary Seymour, the Duke de Bassauo, Colonel Le Comte
Ney, Colonel Fleury, Marquis de Toulongeon, Count
Tascher de la Pagerie, Lieut.-Col. Boucher, Earl So-
meri, Lord A. Paget, and Sir F. Stovin.
All the gentlemen were in uniform, and Count Wa-
lewski and Marshal Vaillant both wore the Grand Cor-
don of the Legion of Honour.
The illustrious party were conveyed in six of the
Queen's state carriages, and the carriamin which the
Emperor and Empress was seated was drawn by a pair
of crcam-colous ed borses,and was attended by four of her
Majesty's footmen in state liveries.
The Emperor and Empress returned to tie Palace at
quarter-past 6 o'clock, and were received by Lord Er-
not Bruce, Vice-Chamberlain.
Viscount Palmerston had an audience of the Queen in
the afternoon.
The Queen, Prince Albert, and the Emperor and Em-
press of the French, left the Palace at 25 minutes Fast 9
o'clock, attended by a numerous court, to honour the
nova] Italian Opera with their presence in state.
The Queen wore a dress of blue and gold brocaded
silk, trimmed with gold blonde. Her Majesty wore a
diamond crown.
The Empress wore a dress of white satin with flounces
brodes de plumes marabouts, and edged with a fringe of
the same feathers. Her Imperial Majesty wore a dia.
dein of diamonds and emeralds, and the insignia of the
orders of Isabel of Portugal and Marie Louise of Spain.
The Emperor wore the uniform of a French general,
with the ensigns of the Order of the Garter.

Prince Albert wore a Field-Marshal's uniform, with
the ensigns of the Legion of Honour and the Garter.
The Queen and Prince Albert and the Emperor and
Enipres occupied the same carriage, the eighth.
The seventh carriage contained the Princess d'Eseliug,
the Duchess of Wellington, Marshal Count Vaillant, and
the Duke of Wellington.
The sixth carriage contained the Countess de Monte-
hello, the Viscountess Canning, the Marquis of Brea*.
bane, aod the Duke de Bassano.
The fifth oarriage contained Earl Spencer, the Mar-
chionees of Ely, the CAmtcas of Desart, and Viscount
Comberinere.
The f .m•th carriage contained the Mary Sep
moor, the Barot.es,; de Malaret, the Count de Monte-
Lel!e, and the Marquis of Abercern.
The third carriage contained Earl Somers, Lard
Rivers, and Viscount Sydney. •
The second carriage c'lntained the Hon. Flora Mac-
donald and the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, and Lo`rd
George Lennox.
The first carriage contained the Hon. Eleanor Stan-
ley, Hon. Miss Bulteel, the bedchamber woman to the
Queen, and Lord Charles Fitzroy.
The X eomen of the Guard were on duty in tlie grand
Hall. A guard of honour from the Guards were posted in
the quadrangle with its band, which played the French
national air ou her Majesty taking her seat in her car-
riage. The royal cortege was escorted to the theatre NT a
detachment of the household cavalry.
Previous to the departure of the Queen and her illus-
trious guests, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Xtoyal,
Prince Alfred, the Princess Alice, and the krince: of
Leiningen, with Lord Cowley, Colonel the Hon. Coll-
Phipps, Sir Edward Bowater, and Mr. Gibbs, proc"cled
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to the theatre.
• lAl.l4rd
Her Majesty was also preceded to the open§ cog",
Alfred Paget, Col. Seymour, Col. Fleury,_ Cie,.
Noy, and the Marquis de Toulongeon. •

Her Royal Highness tho Donbas; of Sent, .eitended
by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Lady Fanny Efowird,
Baroness de Speth, and Sir George Cooper, arrivedt at
her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, yeetwilaY
afternoon, from Frogrnore.
The Cathedral Commission met at Na 1, Neir-street,
Spring-gardens, yesterday. The Commissioners Present
were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop- of
York, the Marquis of Blandford, M.P., *he Hen. *nd
Rev. H. M. Villiers, Sir John Patteson, the Rev- Dr.
Wordsworth, the Rev. Dr.o present Hook, toll. ealietev. Canon
Selwyn, and Mr. Henry Kingsoote (Secretary).
Mr. Cranfurd, M.P., had an interview with the 0,
cellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his off, • -se-
mi reel-
taorial from
tdheneeDieitnilleriD"rofniOnarag-stredpbeleto' u and 'Slay.

rma Rum OF A LOST SHLP.CROMARTT,
luilaThe folio wing letter, written in pencil, was
m
found
afternoon, by a young fisherman named
.AralL 9' • common bottle on the beach of
Golspieonald
; OR
.nne y. The sheet was rolled crosswise D
as if done
Ecrriccuy, and put into the bottle in such a manner
that it could not be taken out without breaking the
bottle. The letter will be read with mournful interest,
as the only account that has been reoeived of the
ill-fated vessel, the Isabella Anderson, of this port:--
endsiii
"December 19, Ship Isabella Anderson, of Inverness.
with fur
Our canvas has given way. The raging waves dash
y around our helpless barque. The rocky
coast of Norway will soon be our fate. This is my last
work, and I accomplish it with the braveness of a Britisho sailor. My love to my affectionate wife. The same to my beloved family. Evermore, farewelllnvertoesp",
SANDERSON"—The writer did not belong to 1
Of one who left the vessel there.
A. TRUMP CARD.—There was a very large family of
were mostly in the
but is supposed to be a man shipped at Lith, in room
Cards wunst to SliCkville. They d
stage-coach and livery-stable llitie,re careless, reckless
Squire
" What shall
ebristenin' at his house. bays Zenas Card had s
sort of people. So one dasyri
I call the child ?" " Pentil
won't.
No soul ever heard
:late," said lie. " I can't,"
said the minister,
for that," said the Squire, " for
fashion." "I am sorryna e.
m I heard it once in church,
aanCdbristian since baptism came in
oitf,ssuacmh
ever-I had a son I'd call him after
and I thought if
't have that—and it's a dreadful pity—
call him pretty name.
him ; but if I can
call him Trump ;" and he was christened "Trump Card."
Stick's Noun cvit4 $u an Naturc.
—Sam AS'

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
under the management of Mr. Bnckstone.
THIS EVENING,
be preaented THE SECRET AGENT. Principal characters
by Mr. Backstone and Miss E. Chaplin.
To be followed by a new Ballet, in which the Spanish Dancers
will appear, entitled THE EVENING FESTIVAL.

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After w ich. a
h new G
MEETINagG, 18S5 Extravanza. called THE NEW HAY-
MARKET SPRIN.
Tb ceatelude with THE GALICIAN FETE.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. Caw= Kcair.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed the original adaptation of Casimir Delavigne's
Historical Play, entitled LOUIS THE ELEVENTH. Principal
character by Mr. C. Kean.
To conclude with (10th time) a Romance, in tyro acts• entitled
THE MULETEER OF TOLEDO ; or, King, Queen, and Knave.

MR/IRE ROYAL ADELPUL
Pr°Prietir, Mr. B. Webster.—Directross. Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING,.
Will be performed the Drama entitled THE MYSTERIOUS
STRANGER.
A NEW EDITION OF THE FAIRY TALES
To conclude with
OF MOTHER GOOSE, with numerous highly-coloured Illustrations.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan.
THIS EVEHING,

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wm be performed a Comedietta, called LAW FOR lADIES
Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, G. Yining, H. Cooper, Eanvere
and Miss. Cast'etoa.
After which. KILL OR CURE. Characters by Messrs. Robson,
riflery, and F. Vining ; Mrs. A. Wigan and Miss Bromley.
To be followed by the Fairy Extravaganza, called THE YELLOW
DWARF AND THE KING OF HE GOL MINES.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manacer, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
THIS EVENING. _
Glorious success ! To commence with an entirely new and original
Brctacle-drama of harrowing interest, by Mr. Nelson Lee, called,
THE FIELD AGAINST THE FAVOURITE ! No Drama for many
years has created so great a sensation. The interest is most intense ;
the burning of the stables is most terrific, while the Derby race is
most exciting.

After which, a Series of Novel SCENES in the CIRCLE, invented
by Mr. William Cooke.
To conclude with RETURNED FROM THE BALTIC ; or, Jack
Ashore.

A new Military Act Drop, painted by Fenton, his been added to
the Embellishments.
Boa-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West. Acting
Mr. W. Cooke, Jun.
w-onager, Mr. W. H. Cooke. Equestrian Director.

ROYAL STRAND TIP.:ATRE.
Under the direction of Miss Rebecca Isaacs.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed TIIF. CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. Cha-
racters by Messrs J, llalfcrd, ROterFOTI, and Kinloch ; and Miss Re-
becca Isaac., Miss Beaumont, and Miss Somers.
After which, KING QUEER AND HIS D kUGHTERS THREE.
To which will be added a Ballet Divertissement.
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HIGH WATER AT LONDON B

T DAT —Morning 5 mln.after 4 j Eivning 24 min. art. 4
To-AfOsnom—Morning 41 min.after 4 Evening Imin. aft. 5

ruin WEATHER.—Strs °Trim, April. 20.
THIBMO24I"rEIt, IN THZ GEADE.
62 %ighest since noon yesteraay.
47—lowest this morning and during the night.
53 —this day, at noon.
Banoint-rxt—Went down to 30'17, now up to 30'28.
WIND, N.—Light breeze, with beautiful sunshiny
weather—right Royally Imperial !

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LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1855.

Our anticipations as to the cordiality of the re
ception about to be accorded to the Emperor and
Empress of the FRENCH have been fully and com-
pletely verified. Every one, from the Peer to
the peasant—nay, more, from the SOVEREIGN of
the United Kingdom to the humblest inhabitant
of the metropolis—have earnestly concurred in
the endeavour to render honour to those by whom
it had been so richly merited. The rapturous
and enthusiastic applause by which the august
couple were greeted at every stage of their pro-
gress
was the more flattering, inasmuch as the
English are not a demonstrative people. They must
indeed be greatly excited before they can shake off the
habitual coolness of their temperament. Our
French or Hibernian brethren could be more
easily excited to the boiling point, but the feel-
ing must come from the very heart of hearts be-
fore such an exhibition could be produced from
the comparatively phlegmatic people of England.
Yes, it was emphatically the people of England
that on Monday welcomed, and on Thursday ren-
dered an ovation, seldom, if ever, paralleled in
the national annals, to their illustrious guests.
It was undoubtedly partially an expression
of genuine kindliness to their French
brethren, to whom we are united by bonds
which, we trust, can never be dissevered ;
but by far the greater portion was rendered to the
Individual—to the Great Man who has proved
himself so worthy of their homage—on the Emperor
of the FRENCH, and still more on Louis NAPO-
LEON, the tribute of unanimous applause was be-
stowed. He held his exalted station by the best
possible title—the will of his people, freely ex-
pressed through the medium of the ballot-box.
The suffrages of eight millions of the adult popu-
lation elevated him to the Imperial Throne, and
not one of his numerous constituency has had cause
to regret the vote by which the Prince President
became the Emperor of the FRENCH.
We cannot at this moment omit noticing with
pride and gratitude the notice which the Imperial
visitor bestowed on The Sun. While passing our
office the EMPEROR " looked steadily, and bowed
in the most marked and gracious manner." This
open recognition of the justice, which we in-
variably rendered to his character, his motives,
and his policy, was indeed as peculiarly gratify-
ing to ourselves as it was honourable to the
EMPEROR. We were not amongst the fair-weather
friends who waited until he conquered fortune,
and achieved his destiny. Before ho was
indued with the Imperial purple—nay, more,
before he was elected to the Presidency, we
yielded a disinterested support to the Candidate
for the votes of the people of France. Single
handed we repelled the atrocious calumnies—and
scarcely less justifiable means by which he was
aerie.--and we feel an honest pride in thinking
how amply the results have justified, and more
than justified, what, at the time, were supposed
to be our too sanguine anticipations. As Candi-
date and as President we expressed the same
opinions and feelings with respect to the Prince
Louis NAPOLEON, as we now do towards the mag-
nanimous EmPEEon, the only difference being
that at first we stood. alone ; that others gradu-
ally gave expression to similar feelings—until at
- length there is not a single opponent to put for
decided negative, or even to resort to
whispered hint, the shrug, the hum or bah!
-""le Petty brands that calumny doth use !
The revtex
us
stowed,
Were ° plaudits, thus unanimously be-
Hia lovei onwcsto restricted to the EMPEROR.
She,
too,
wat,
the received a fitting share.
principle —as th incarnation. of a great
the EMPEROR e glorious protest offered by
against the ridiculous farce of the
heartless contracts usually
termed
Mar-
riages," the alliances of banded
an es.
" R
espoastitzal iorthe
purpose of sustaining their
NA.POLEON, the Imperial Reformer,Louis
afforded tin_
equivocal proof that he was determined not to
sacrifice his affections—the most sacred feelings of
the heart—to red-tapist formalities. And he
met a suitable reward, for he strengthened.
and
rendered permanent the foundations of his throne,
gaining the heart and hand of one for whom the
Empire of the world might joyfully be surren-

dered.
The Speech of the EMPEROR, at the Guildhall,
Was Worthy of the occasion and of the man. The
graceful reference to the time when he was an
exile, enjoying, although in a very different mode,
the hospitality of the nation, wa.; peculiarly appro-
priate, and the felicitous allusion to the mutual
desire to abolish slaTery, and the hopes for the

amelioration of ca/ the countries of Europe,
elicited an enthusiastic response from the whole
assembly. It is, indeed, only by unworthy
considerations and pitiful rivalries that the
union of these great nations are to be dis-
severed, and these we trest will never
occur. It was also happily remarked that "our
two nations are more powerful in the opinions
they represent than by the armies and fleets they
have at their disposal." Our moral influence is
greater than even our physical force. That it
may ever prove so will be the fervent aspiration
of every true-hearted Englishman.
To-morrow our august visitors sail from our
shores. The recollections of the week will, how-
ever, remain enshrined on our memories, and our
children and children's children will long speak of
the first visit of the EMPEROR and EMPRESS, the
prestige whereof cannot be impaired by the many
successive repetitions to which the English SOVE-
REIGN and people confidently look forward.

In the surpassingly beautiful conclusion to his
Life of AGRICOLA, TACITUS, while not objecting
to the use of commemorative statues, reminds
those who cherished the memory of the noble de-
parted that the ".irtues of the mind could be
really imaged only by their repetition in the life
and deeds of the survivors. Ut vultus hominum,
ita simulacra vultus imbecilla ac mortalia suet ;
forma mentis eterna ; quam ten ere et exprimere ;
non per alienam materiam et artem, sed tuffs ipse
moribus, possis. Probably M. KOSSUTH had this
just and soul-stirring idea before him at the Mary-
lebone meeting in aid of a testimonial to Lord
DUDLEY STUART. Nothing could be happier and
better-timed than his appeal to the sur-
viving admirers of the Noble Lord to
imitate his conduct. Mere sentimental hon-
ours to the philanthropy and moral cour-
age of the dead are almost worthless memo-
rials. To desist from feminine regrets, to catch
his falling mantle, to breathe a double portion of
his spirit, to be roused from merely commending
sympathy to efficient action, this is the memorial
his departing spirit would have asked ; the me-
morial which would place his name at the head
of one of the holiest movements of the day—a
mcvement which, if taken and successful, would
perpetuate through all European History the me-
mory of all its leaders. Lord DUDLEY STUART
can never be forgotten if Poland become once
more an independent nation. Long will his name
live, indeed, even should the brutal and murder-
ous policy of NICHOLAS be still permitted to con-
tinue, and to crush the hopes completely of
the civilised victims of Muscovite barbarism.
The oppressed do not forget their unsuc-
cessful friends, and every Polish mother
will teach her infant the name of the loved Eng-
lish nobleman who loved its native country, when
despots, and congresses, and Prime Ministers sur-
rendered it to the ruthless fangs of incarnate demons.
But a nation utterly crushed, of course dies at

last; while in one restored, its life must sustain for
ever the memory of its restorers. Such a memo-
rial might Lord DUDLEY STUART'S friends secure 1
him if they will now but imitate his conduct.
Otherwise noi,hing can prevent the same grave
covering the memory eventually of both Poland
and her most generous friend.-
It is, indeed, painful to witness, as we now
do, the penalties we have incurred by treating
him as a philanthropibt to be half pitied,
instead of a politician to be followed.
Our CASTLEREAGH; RUSSELLS, and PA.LXCER-
STONE, have, by a policy the reverse of Lord
DUDLEY STUART'S, plunged us at last into this
costly and fatal War. They took counsel only
with the interests of despots and courts ; and,
with secret diplomacy as their means, they
achieved the aggrandisement of insatiable tyrants,
to their own confusion now. They blushed as
they brought their treaties to the light of Free-
dom, but they buried in the oblivion of home po-
litics all their shame for treachery to foreign
liberty ; they discouraged Lord DUDLEY and all
his coadjutors as mourners, whose sorrows re-
minded them of connivance at national murder,
or as patriots whose voice was exceedingly annoy-
ing to the delicate ears of their Royal friends—
the Lords of Siberia and Spielberg. His Lord-
ship, on the contrary, consulted only those
moral judgments to which right and jus-
tice are an immutable law, and that tender-
ness of heart which could not rest while
the cries of the oppressed continued to re-
sound in his hearing. Had the moral courage of
philanthropists superseded the timid selfishness of
statesmen in 1815 and 1830, Poland would to
this day have been the free barrier of Europe,
Turkey unassailed, Austria and Hungary recipro-
cally improving each other, Prussia free, and
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, too, independent of Russia
and Austria. The brutal NICHOLAS could have
been more easily put down in 1830 than he or

his can now.
But Poland is the touchstcne of the true states- 1
man even now. Amid the feverish expectations '1
of tidings from Sebastopol, it is indeed difficult to
think steadily of the next great step ; yet it is
necessary to do so, and we affirm that success
there must render Poland the veritable Fifth
Point. The object of Warsaw and Sebastopol
is one and the same. Rule, and that barbarian
Cossack rule,l over Europe. A small number
of highly-polished and educated men, but
men who do not understand the western sense of
the word honour, aspire, by the terror of hosts of
serfs hardly a whit superior to the hordes of
Attila or Gerghis Khan, to lord it over the civili-
sation of the West. In furtherance of this ac-
cursed project, the Czars have seized successively
on Finland, the Baltic Provinces, Lithuania, and
Poland, and nothing can permanently stem the
debasing tide of savagism and slavery but com-
pelling it to ebb back on its own steppes, and con-
stituting the enfranchised States the protective
embankment of Europe. No one, indeed, now
doubts this. The policy of France and England,
therefore, is to terminate the dangerous Confer-
ences at once, to declare that the Fifth Point is
now an essential, that the War cannot close till
Poland and the Baltic Provinces too are free, and,
as we
have more than once said, till Russia be-
come Russia only.

GREAT LOSS OF HO
THEU CRIMEA SES ON THEIR WAY
TO .

GLASGOW, APRIL 19.
The Glasgow (s s.), from Marseilles to the
Crimea, has put into Zante, with 130 horses dead.
No further particulars.

CRYSTAL PALACE-MODEL OF SEBASTOPOL,

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
polka that the so-called Model of Sebastopol at the
shall be much obliged if you will inform the
Crystal Palace is not executed by me.
j.k.„.l,am, sir, your obedient servant,
virYl4D, Geographer to the Queen
Lsicester.s
and 11. U. Prince Albert.
clare, April 19, 1855.

M. \Vintland, formerly,litivato secretary to King
Otbo, but who had been obliged by
re
e-to minister to re-
anlshii'lselarleatinougt,sareyme,r..back, haa fumed his ron-

Despatches Were sent from the Colonial-office yester-
day to the Governors of Hong gong► Ceylon, and the
Mauritius.