The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-29 00:00:00

EVENING-, MARCH 29, 1852

riking of exc,,T 7.. -31! eltG,

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in or;ler to pa,- :30, •._ the ta,gc,,rPgae arntsnni •
tr,men,sPai e; a'•tit., po,,sink point, ai,d
then procpedwg to divide this alleged total by the num-
ber of electors, he drew forth triumphantly the quoii,•nt
which he had promised to show. But the wretched
trick was instantly detected, and the conjuror caught
in the midst of his impudent legerdemain. The asser-
tion of the friends of reform, as everybody knew, ap-
plied to tho population and electors of the United
Kingdom; and the I,Chancellor of the Exchequer at-
temprel to juggl.,, a refuttetion of that a eertion by
utibltitv.ting the figures applicable to Gree.t Bri-
tain exclusively! Mr. flume saw through the cheat
at once, and exposed it by the simple int,rjecn-
lation, You omit Ireland altogether," Where-
upon the unabashed jester coolly obsererd, " True;
but es the population in that part of the country has of
late been declinieg it would not make so much diff—
rence." lio,v stand the facts? By the last census the
population ef Ireland was r,:tarned at 6 500 000, whit'
the total number at el}c-ors for both towns and counties
—notwithstanding the boasted addition made by the 121.
Franchise Act passed two years ago—did not exceed
163 546. Yet this huge element in the pretended esti-
mate of the electoral condition of the kingdom, Mr.
Disraeli sought with a wave of his juggler's wand to
cause to disappear. It is now for the country to say
whether it will submit any longer to the present make
believe system, and whether it will patiently hear its
wants and wishes turned into food for Parliamentary
joking of the sort we have been adverting to.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Princesses
Helena and Louisa, attended by the Equerries in Wait-
ing, visited the Z;ological Gardens in the Regent's Park,

on Saturday morning.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Lieut.-
Colonel Hon. Alexander Gordon, rode out on horseback

on Saturday morning.
Tho Duchess d'Orleans visited her Majesty on Satur-
day at Buckingham Palace.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended by
Mr. Gibbs, took a drive in an open carriage on Saturday.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
did Sir George Hayter the honour to inspect his picture
of the " Arrestation of Cardinal Wolsey, by the Earl of
Northumberland, at Cawood Castle•."
The Queen had a dinner party on Saturday at Buck-
ingham Palace. The company included her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent. his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge, his Excellency Monsieur and
Madame Va❑ do Weyer, Earl de Grey, Lord and Lady
John Mariners, Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor, Lord
Colville, the Right Hon. Sir Henry and Lady Balwer,
the Right Hon. W. E. snA Mrs. Gladstone, Colonel
Wylde, Lady Fanny Howard, and Lord William Paulet.
The band of the 2d Life Guards attended during
dinner, and performed the following selections :

March.
Overture " Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendeissohn,
Waltz "Le Roae de Mtvin" (Ms.) ... Hochett.
Divertissement '° Propbate" Meyrrbeer.
Quadrille " Grenada" D'Albert.
Polka " Kassard Kier" •-• ... Grattan Cooke
Gelop God save the Queen.
Her Majesty's Private Band .as in attendance after
Dinner in the Palace. and played the following pieces:—
Overture "Der Kiff hauser-Berg" Marachner.
Pastorale " Le Propha a" Meyerbeer.
Selection "Le Songe u'une Nuit d'Ete" Thomas.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday in the
garden of Buckingham Palace, and the Royal family
took their usual exercise.
tier Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
with the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal, he r
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Ladies and
Gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic household,
attended divine service yesterday morning in the private
chapel of Buckinghem Palace. The Hon. and Rev.
Gerald Wellesley cffictated.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge wept
yestxrdie.y to Kew.
. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at
the Furrign-office, Downing street. The Ministers pre.
t:eut were the Kiri ef Derby, the Lord Chancellor, The
Earl of Lonsdule, the Marquis of Salisbury, Mr. Secre-
tary Walpole, the Earl of elahnesbury, Sir J. Peking.
ton, the Chancellor of he Exch, quer, the Duke of Nor
thumberland, the Right Hon. J. aV. Henley, the Earl of
Hardwicke, the Right Hon. J. C. Berries, and Lord
John Manners.
The Council sat two hours.
A deputation consisting of the Lord Advocate, the
Solicitor-General for Scotland, the Rev. Dr. Simpson,
Mr. Eddington, and Mr. Tait, had an interview with
Mr. Secretary Walpole on Saturday, at the Rome-
office.
A deputation from the Railway Pa,sengers As-
surance Company, consisting of the Marquis of Granby,
M.P., Mr. Clay, M.P., Mr. Harrison (Deputy Chairman)
Mr. Harvie Farquhar, Mr. W. G. Vian (Secretary), Mr.
Holt (Solicitor), and Mr. Sudlow, jun. (Parliamentary
Agent), had an interview on Saturday with the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer at his official residence in Down-
ing-street.
A deputation respecting the removal of the Crystal
Pelage, consisting of the Rev. Mr. Harness (Minister
of All Souls), Mr. Harford (Rutland-gate, churchwar-
den of All Saints, Knightsbridge), Mr. Baker (Princes-
gate), Mr. Godson (Rutland-gate). Captain Phibbs
(Rutland-gate), Mr. Auldjo (Rutland-gate), and Mr.
Jennings (Princes-gate), had an interview on Saturday
with Lord John Manners at the Office of the Commis-
sioners of Works and Public Buildings.
A deputation, consisting of the Lord Provost of Edin-
burgh, Millie Morrison of Edinburgh, Sir W. Gibson
Craig, M.P., Mr. Tuffnell, M.P., Mr. Cowan, M.P., the
Lord Advocate, and the Solicitor-General for Scotland,
had an interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole, at the
Home-office on Saturday.
A deputation on the subject of the proposed repeal of
attorneys' certificate duty, consisting of Lord Robert
Grosvenor, M.P. for Middlesex, Colonel Sir W. Verner,
Bart., M.P., Armaghahire, Mr. Cowan, M.P., Edinburgh,
Mr. Smollett, M.P., Dumbartonshire, Mr. Mullings,
M.P., Cirencester, Mr. Cobbold, M.P., Ipswich, Mr.
Bremridge, M.P., Barnstaple, Mr. Sadler, M P., Carlow,
Mr. Gregory and Mr. Coverdale, the President and
Vice-President of the Incorporated Law Society, Messrs.
Austen, Barnes, Clarke, Cookson, Leman, Sudlow, and
Tooke, Members of the Council, and Mr. Maugham,
Secretary, had an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer on Saturday, at his official residence in
Downing-street.
The Earl of Devon had an interview with Lord Col-
chester ua Saturday, at the office of the Board of Trade.
A deputation from Liverpool, consisting elf Mr. John-
son and Mr. Williams, overseers, and Mr. Hart, vestry
clerk, accompanied by Sir Thomas Birch and Mr.
Cardwell, had an interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole,
on Saturday, at the Home-office.
Mr. !Amite. M.P. had au interview with the Chan-
cellor uf the Exchequer, on Saturday; Mr. Timm had
also au interview with the Right Hon. Gentleman.
The Oxford University Commission had a meeting.
on Saturday, at the official residence of the First Lord of
the Treasury, in Dosvuieg-street. Present—The Bishop
of Norwich, the Dsan of Carlisle, the Master of Pem •
broke, the Rev. H. G. Liddell, the Rev. Professor
Powell, the Rev. G. H. S. Johnson, and the Rev. A. P.
Stanley (Secretary).
Lora John Russell bad a Parliamentary dinner party
on Saturday, at his residence in Chesham-place. The
company consisted of S-r Thomas Birch, M.P., Mr.
Sergeant Murphy, M.P., Lord C. Paget, M.P., Mr Bass,
M.P., Mr. Jackson, M.P., Mr. Heald, M.P., Mr. Hind-
ley, M.P., Mr. Ogle, M P , Mr. Martin Smt h, M P ,
Matt,:e,v Wilson, M P., Mr. Div.-At, M.P.,Mr. Mansglee,
gles, M.P., Mr. Armstrong. A.P.. Mr. Pigott, M.P., and
Mr. Morgan John O'Connell, M
P.
Mr

THE PruILS of FASHION, A NOVEL —We ques-
tion if ever the perils of fashionable life were more affectingly
and vividly exhibited than in the charming romance before
us. In the wounded feelings and affections, the defeated as.
piratiens and projects of Mary D'Arci, the heroine, we have
an epitome of what existence is in that charmed circle
which arrogates to itself the title of le grand monde. 1'
fashionable life here depicted is not that false ideal one stereo-
a
typed in ordinary novels ; it is the life drawn f
being, by one experienced in its changeful asp,heactr,oamnd ctual
characters
posaeses a hand skilled in the limner's art. T
are numerous, and are sketched with more
The
Italirsan songstress, Mr.
Lord Brandiston and the scherni
Leigh, the clergyman, and Sir
WngAvison, the diplomatist,
ri;iriegiFnearliel,snhof tFdasiffihicounit tiso
abme
ores;
are evident portraits, from"
cognised. On the whole y :popular.
exciting novel, which we think, will become ver
—Globe.
ELECTION or HEAD CONSTABLE FOR LIVERPOOL.
—The Liverpool watch committee Illicit on Saturday to elect a
head constable in
the room of Ir. Dowling. Originally
there were forty candidates for
the office, but these were re-
duced to five. The reduced number were in attendance,
and-were in successio
nbefore the committee. The choice,
however, virtually lay between Mr. Bingham, late vice-chair-
man of the watch committee; Captain Greig, commandant
of the pensioners.of the Liverpool district; and Lieutenant
Bruce. The committee debated with closed doors for nearly
two hours, when a division took place, Mr. Bingham receiv-
ing seven, Captain Greig six, and Lieutenant Bruce five
votes. Lieutenant Bruce's name, as lowest on the list, being
li excluded, the committee again divided, when Captain Greig
was elected head constable by a majority of eleven votes to
seven. It may here be stated that one of the forty candi-
dates sent a plaster cast of his head, instead of the required
testimonials, and
another sent his portrait.
STEREOSCOPIC DAGUERREOTYPES.—The Emperor
of Russia has recently transmitted to Mr. Claudet, theermoir
nent photographer, of Regent-street, a magnificent diamond
ring, in acknowledgment of the pleasure which his Majesty
has experienced in examining, by the aid of Mr. Wheat-
etone's ingenious invention, called Coe stereoscope, a series of
daguerreotype views of the Great Exhibition, taken by Mr.
Claudet, and forwarded by him to St. Petersburgh for the
Emperor's inspection. The present is accompanied by 'a
very complimentary letter, in which it is stated that the
Emperor has been enabled by these views, and by the mar-
vellous phenomenon of plane surfaces producing representa-
tions of objects in perfect relief, " to form a correct idea of
the Great Exhibition." It is also stated that the present is
made in acknowledgment of Mr. Claudet's "constant en-
deavours ever since 1839 to improve the interesting art of
photography."

THE New YORK EXHlBlTlON.—Notwithstanding
some opposition from the American Institute, the Act of
legislation incorporating the association for the Exhibition of
the Industry of all Nations at New York, in its final stage,
received the signature of the Governor of the State on the
11th inst., Mr. Balcock, who presented the remonstrance of
the Institute, but who stated his impression to be favourable
to the Bill, having: after some discussion, withdrawn his
motion. The Bill was passed unanimously by the Senate.
In the Assent' ly the usual forms were dispen,,ed with on
account of the: importance of dispatch in carrying out so
vast an undertaking, and the Bill read a first, second, and
third time, and passed, the numbers being 80 for, and 1
against it. Sir Joseph Paxtou's design is to be carried out
in the building, which is to have a transept in addition to
the original plan.

A meeting of the Finance Committee of the Royal Coin-
mission for the Exhibition of 1551, WM boldoA Thncsday at .
pig 1.4140 9i Wt4o4lViter•