The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER, 22, 1855

vantage of the nation, while the farmer and his
family kept themselves ; and that, while the mar-
riage of a farmer's daughter was pretty much her
own and her family's concern, the marriage of a
Royal Princess might, after all, be an affair in
which the nation was concerned. The newspapers
might be right in their " abominable" interference.
Marriages of farmers' daughters extended family
interests, which were not always identical with
parish or national interests, as they well knew. Why
should Royal marriages not be expected to extend
Royal interests which before now had not been
identical with the interests of the people ? If far-
mer HonoE's daughter married the parish overseer
wouldn't farmer HODGE be disposed to help the
youth with his accounts and get him out of scrapes,
and if a Prince in a free country had his daughter
married to a Prince in a despotic one wouldn't he
be inclined to help his son-in-law in his scrapes
with his subjects, and to lend him what counte-
nance he could ? And if he did, was it not likely
to be at the people of the free country's expense,
if that was possible ? And was it not ? Could
he not find tools to aid him, and means to put
them into a position to do so ? Men who would
bamboozle the nation while they betrayed it, and
while affecting to be humane and patriotic would
be sedulously turning the tide of good fortune
into "our son-in-law's" way, to the impoverish
ment of the population at home, and the decima-
tion, possibly, of an army abroad. Unquestion-
ably he might. And hadn't the papers been com-
plaining of something of the kind lately. Such,
we may suppose, were the reflections that caused
the disappointment that set Mr. DRUMMOND so
bitterly, and with so many contortions, on another
tack ; and if they were, they did our agricultural
friends credit.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.

( From a Supplement to Friday's Gazette.)

At the Court at Windsor, the 19th day of October,
1855, present, the Queen's Most Excelleit Majesty in
Council.

It is this day ordered by her Majesty in Council that
the Parliament, which stands prorogued to Tuesday the
twenty-third day of October instant, be further pro-
rogued to Tuesday the eleventh day of December next.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, OCT. 20.

The dinner party yesterdayincluded her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent, her Royal Highness the
Princess Royal, Viscount Palmerston Lord Panmure,
Lady Frances Bruce, Baroness de Speth, Major-General
the Hon. C. and Mrs. Grey, and Mr. Gibbs.
The band of the 2d Life Guards played during dinner.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards performed.
The Queen and Prince, with the Princess Royal, rode
on horseback in the Home Park this morning.

The Princess Helena, Princess Louisa, and Prince
Arthur took a carriage drive.
Viscount Hardinge arrived this afternoon.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
drove out in an open carriage in the afternoon, attended
by the Equerries in Waiting, on horseback.
The Duchess of Wellington, the Hon. Caroline Caven-
dish, Lord Palmerston, and Lord Panmure, followed in
a second carriage.
The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred rode out on
horseback this day.
The, dinner party in the evening included her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, Viscount Palmerston,
Viscount Hardinge, Lady Frances Bruce, Baroness de
Spetb, Lord Panmure, and Colonel the Hon. C. B. and
Mrs. Phipps.
The band of the 2d Life Guards played during din-
ner. The Queen's private band afterwards performed
in the Castle.

SUNDAY.

The Queen and Prince, the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, and Prince Alfred, the Ladies and Gen-
tlemen of the Court, and the Domestic Household, at-
tended Divine Service this morning, in the private
chapel of the Castle.
Viscount Palmerston and Lord Panama were p.lso at
the service.

The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor offi•
elated.

Sir William Molesworth is dangerously ill. The
answer given yesterday afternoon at the residence of the
right hon. baronet in Eaton-place to inquiries was,
"Sir William is gradually sinking."
Despatches from the Governors of Victoria and South
Australia were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.