The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-16 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR:

WINDSOR, JAN. 15.
The following had the honour of dining with her Ma-
jesty last evening;—llis Serene Highsesa Prince Leo-
pold of Saxe Cobuurg, Chevalier and Madame Bunsen,
the Earl and Countess of Derby, the Earl and Giantess
Granville, the Earl of Mulgrave, and Sir Charles and
Lady Mary Wood.

The band of the Grenadier Guards was in attendance
in the Castle during dinner, and played the following
selection:—
Overture, " Midsummer Night's Dream," Mendelssohn.
Cbeear, "La Charii6"
... Rossini.
Duetto Buffo "Don Pasquale" Donizetti.
Reminiscences from Le Csid ▪
Thomas.
Court Beauty Polka •
W. Guernsey.
Her Majesty's private band attended afterwards is the
evening, and played the following.—
Overture, " Cantemiro" •
Foca.
Solo, Violin, M. Sainton, "Adagio and
Rondo Mazurka," Sainton.
Selection, " Fra Diavolo" ••• ... A über.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the Home
Park this forenoon.

The Royal children did not take their usual exercise
this morning, owing to the unfavourable elate of the
weather.

Invitations have been sent to the following person-
ages, who are expected to arrive at the Castle to-day:—
His Serene Highness Prince Nicholas of Nassau, Baron
asideln, Baro❑ Roggenbach, the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Normanby, the Marquis of Granby, the
Earl and Countess of Jersey, and Lady Clementina
Villiers.

Mr. Darling, Lieutenant-Governor of St. Lucia, had
an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colcnial-
office.

Sir James Duke had an interview with Lord John
Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-
street.

The Marquis cf Lansdowne, after attending the Ca-
binet Council yesterday afternoon, left town for his seat,
Bowood Park, Wiltshire. The Noble Marquis, as
Lord
President of the Privy Council, has issued invitations to
a grand dinner to the Cabinet Ministers and the great
officers of the Queen's Household, on Saturday, the 31st
of January, at Lansdowne House, for the purpose of
settling the roll of sheriffs for the present year.
Earl Granville and the Chancellor of the Exchequer
arrived in town yesterday morning from Windsor Castle
for the purpose of attending the Cabinet Council. jji,
Lordship and the Right lion. Baronet returned to
Windsor Castle in the afternoon.

Dispatches were received at the Colonial office yester-
day from the Governors of Labuan, the Gold Coast, and
Gibraltar.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE,
OXFORD, JAN. 14.—1 n a Congregation holden on this
day, the first day of Lent Term, the following degrees
were conferred:—
Masters of Arts—Rev, James Murray Richard R
line, Brawn"' ; Rev. J 813156 Lawrence, Bra aw-
William Frederick Smith, St. John ' 3 R 6,"°'"
; ev. Edward
Fox, Fellow of New College,
The Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology intends to
begin his course of lectures of the present term on
Tuesday, the 17th of February.
PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
BALLIOL COLLEGE.—Tho Rev. U. W.
has beau presented to the rectory of W
YoSxuallilv,aSn'taMffo.Ard-9
shire.
EXETER COLLEGE._. The Rev. IL W. Cleave, 8.A.,
has been appointed to the curacy of Batcombe, Dorset.
QUEEN'S COLLEGE.—The vW. • B A
has been appointed e • nrie ees, . el
to the curacy of Upton Saudamore,
Wilts.
The Rev. J. O'Brien, M.A., has been presented to
the vicarage of lienfield.
BRASENOSE COLLEGE.—The Rev. J. F. Brindle, RA.,
has been appointed to the curacy of Romington, Wilts.
The Rev. W. H. Lucas, M.A., Fellow of this College,
has been appointed to the endowed lectureship in the
church of itodborough, Gloucestershire.
ST. JOIIN'S COLLEGE.—The Rev. H. A. Bowles, M.A.,
has been preented to the rectory of Merrow, Surrey.
WORCESTER COLLEGE.—The Rev. L. R. C. Griffiths,
ail., has been presented to the rectory of Swindon,
Gloucestershire.
MAGDALEN HALL.—The Rev. H. W. Brooks, 8.A.,
has been appointed to the curacy of Lyme-Regis.
ST. EDMUND lIALL.—The Rev. F. Cruse, B.A. has
been appointed to Inc curacy of Earl Stoke, Wilts.

A memorial to the Lords of the Treasury has been
agreed to by the Highland Society deploring the want of a
museum of economic geology and chemistry in Scotland, and
praying for Government aid for the establishment of a
museum in Edinburgh, similar in constitution, character,
and industrial objects to the Irish Industrial Institution,
Dublin ; and also that the geological survey should be ex-
tended to Scotland,
THE SPEAKER.—There is not the slightest founda-
tion for the rumours, alluded to by a weekly contemporary,
Of the WIACI4PIAtca ritimmt

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL :ENGINEERS.
On Tuesday, the 13th Jan. (James Bendel, Esq.,
President, in the chair), the proceedings of the even-
ing were commenced by an address from the Presi-
dent on taking the chair, for the first time, after his
election.
After thanking the members for the honour con-
ferred on him, and requesting not only their indul-
oapnedratthioend,iginnimaintaining
tgbeen
interest
tohfe itrh
the
name of the profession, the President proceeded to
eieetincgos,
notice the principal works terminated, or in progress,
and even the new projects in which engineering skill
had been employed, or was required.
The Great Exhibition was prominently noticed, at-
tention being drawn to the fact of so much of the
raw material, and of the manufactured article being
shown, with so little of the means of manufacturing,
and thus the greatest portion of the lesson had been
unproductive.
Turning to the more immediate occupation of the
Civil Engineers, which had been styled "The Appli-
cation of Mind to Matter ;" it was sought to be en-
forced, that all undertakings should be examined, not
only with respect to their engineering possibility, but
to their social and political influence on society.
The vast increase of private communication was
noticed, four hundred millions of lettcrs being now
delivered annually, instead of seventy-six millions, as
before the establishment of the penny post system.
Steam alone could have conveyed such a mass of
correspondence.
The increase of population in England and the
decrease in Ireland afforded an opportunity for point-
ing out the fine field offered by the latter country for
the ameliorating effects of engineering works.
Claussen's flax process, emigration, cheap branch
lines of railway, drainage, and other topics were then
discussed and reasoned on. The general railway
system was examined and traced, giving the
principal
statistical facts connected with the railways
9f
Britain, the Continent, India, and the United States,
in connexion with which latter the name of General
Gibbs M'Neill, the pupil of Telford and George
Stephenson, was mentioned as having constructed a
great extent of lines. The length, direction, and
purposes of the railways were given, with the princi-
pal statistical facts connected with them.
The principal ports, harbours of refuge, and general
civil engineering works in Great Britain were men-
tioned, with some points of interest connected with
each.

The electric and submarine telegraphs, with the
wonderful effects they were calculated to produce on
commerce and the political relations of nations, were
descanted on.

The strength of the royal steam navy and the won-
derful progress of the commercial steam-power of
England were given, with details of the statistics of
several of the principal companies, and the value of
auxiliary steam and screw vessels was pointed opt,
with the great change now operating in the collier
trade of the north.
The drainage of land and its influence on rivers,
the reclaiming of lands from the sea—new modes of
raising water in the fens—the sanitary regulations as
applied to all large towns—agricultural engineering,
its union with chemistry—increased power for water
supplies to the metropolis and the principal cities of
Great Britain, and the new mineralogical discoveries
of iron ore near Iliddleshro'-on-Tees and North-
ampton, furnished topics for a brilliant display of
statistical research and sound reasoning ; and the
President, before closing his able address, thus ex-
pressed himself with respect to the strike of the ope-
rative engineers :
"At a period of such regular employment for
almost all classes of artisans, and a general absence of
complaint, it is unfortunate that any symptoms of
dissatisfaction should have been exhibited by a body
of men, whose experience, intelligence, and attain-
ments on most subjects, induced the belief that they
would be the last to listen to the evil counsels of de-
signing agitators. Disunion between employers and
the employed must ever be productive of evil to both ;
but it invariably ends in permanent injury to the
men, whose occupation is the construction of machines
by which manual labour is only apparently super-
seded, whilst civilization is invariably advanced, by
affording mankind increased powers over the mate-
rials of the world.

"The result of the present contest between em-
ployers, wbo have invested several millions sterling,
in tools, machinery, and buildings; and artisans, who
cannot now execute work without the aid of those
machines, whose sphere of utility they seek to limit,
cannot for an instant be doubtful; and it must be
very pernicious influence that could render a body of
such intelligent men so unobservant of the true laws
regulating supply and demand as to imagine they
could control the prices of the labour necessary
to produce those very labour-saving machines of their
own manufacture, and which it is evidently their
true interest to see multiplied. If their avowed ob-
jects were attained, the only result would be such
an increased cost of machinery, and such uncertainty
in its production, that either the trade would be
driven to other countries or the factories here must be
manned by skilled foreign workmen, whose produc-
tions are, even now, scare-ly second to our own.
"It to be fervently hoped that the men will dis-
card the erroneous notion that capital is the foe of
labour;' and that, as the employers have expressed
their willingness to consider any individual represen-
tations, made in a fitting manner, this unhappy dis-
pute may be arranged without prejudice to either
party."
The meeting was addressed by Mr. Scott Russell
Mr. Locke, ALP , and General Gibb APNvill, on
the topics touched on by the President in his address,
which was ordered to be printed.
At the monthly ballot the following candidates
were duly elected :—Messrs. T. Brassey, E. A. Cow-
per, P.M. Parsons, and Captain T. Webb, R.E as
associates.
The following paper was announced to be read
meetingthe o
Tuesday, January
Chan " On the
es of 20th .
Alluvial Formations and the Local g the
t
South• Eastern Coast of England. Second section—
from Beachy Head to Portland ;" by 111 r. J. B
Redman, M. Inst. C.E.

THE SPRING CIRC UITS.
The Judges yesterday assembled to select their
respective circuits. The final arrangement was as
follows:
NORFOLK.—Lord Ouppbell and Mr. Justice Patteson
MIDLAND,—Lord Chief Justice Jervis and Mr. Justly;
_Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Justic
Maul°.
IlostE.—Mr, Baron Parke and Mr. Justice Coleridge.
r. Justice Wightmun and Mr. Baron Platt.
Mr. Justice Talfourd.
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DEAN IN IIIS PROSPERITY. I called upon Kean when his benefit was announced. Ido not exaggerate
when I say that money was lying about the room in all
directions ; the present Li r. C. Klean, then a fine little boy,
gwuiitnheasric(lithcaunralinrgarehacairi,a-)woans
heaps on the mantelpiece, table floor;
with some score of
learling bank notes were in
K. was quite bewildered with plans onf thaenha
tions. I remember three ladies being n
introduced,;uaenadi whoap ricras:
ap-
proached Mrs. K. as if she were a divinity. Little Charles-
hwooden horse with stirrups. " What a sweet child," they
wispered, and eyed him as if he had been a young Prince.
I think the receipts of that benefit amounted to 1,4501.
Mrs. K. was a warm-hearted, affectionate, good woman, and
devotedly attached to her husband.—Life of Lees.
MATRIMONIAL PROJECTS OP LOUIS NAPOLIION.-
For some time before the late coup d'aitut, says a well• in-
formed contemporary, communications had been going on
between the President and Queen Christina of Spain, with a
view to a marriage between himself and one of the daughters
of her Majesty by her secondhus
advancesband,Mu hnoza;d actually
preceded wIl
are not misinformed some pecuniary
preceded this matrimonial contract. However this may be,
the negotiation has now been broken off, the money repaid,
and the elect of the 20th of December now looks for a commit
among the legitimate issue of the crowned heads of Europe.
The court to which the attention of Louis Napoleon has
been naturally directed is that of Sweden, for the Queen of
Sweden is a daughter of Eugene Beauharnais, married to
King Oscar, the son of Bernadotte; and their daughter, the
Princess Charlotte Eugenie of Sweden, is said to be the ob-
ject ofthis proposal. We have grounds for believing that in
this instance the negotiation is actuall on foot. The
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fatherm ay
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SAMBRE AND MEUSE RAILWAY.—The report of
the directors of this company was yesterday submitted to
the English shareholders, at their oLces in London, End
was unanimously adopted. This line of railway (which is,
as regards mineral traffic, one of the most important in
Belgium) has been only partially completed, for want of the
capital necessary for so doing; a portion has, however, been
in work since 1849, and the traffic has, under many disad-
vantages, more than carried out the anticipations of the pro-
jectors. With the objcct of completing the entire line and its
branches, the directors now propose to raise 400,000/. in the
following manner :—The 200,0001. necessary to complete the
main line to be raised in 20,000 shares of 101. each, en-
titled to a preference dividend of 5 per cent. per annum,
to be called Class B. The 200,000/. for the branches to be
raised in a similar manner, to be called Class B, and to be en-
titled to a dividend of 4 per cent., under the guarantee of
the Belgian Government, payable on the completion of each
branch. The Belgian Government, in consideration of the
large amount of English capital invested in this line, and
aware of its importance to the great mining interests of that
country, have undertaken not only to guarantee the 4 per
cent. on 200,000/., but in every way to assist the directors in
carrying out the undertaking, the value of which must en-
tirely depend upon its completion in those districts from
whence the largest amount of traffic will be derived, namely,
the great mineral country lying Letween the Sambre and
Meuse rivers in Belgium.

THE AMERICAN PRESS.—The low estimate placed
by foreigners on the New York press is scarcely undeserved.
Take their own estimate for truth, and there is not a viler
lot of scamps outside the state prison. According to the
Express, the editor of the Herald is "a viper."
According
to the Herald, George 'Wilkes, of the Police Gazette,
felon." Colonel Webb, of the Courier, says that
Willis is
"a seducer, and, morally speaking,' a murderer;" while
the Day Book charges Colonel Webb with being " a rogue
Mild A rAAcal."