The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-20 00:00:00

COURT cißcuLAit.

The 'Queen and Prince Albert, with their Royal
llighoe:.s-s the Prince of Waive, the Princei.s Royal,
Prince Alfred, the Princesses Alice, Helena, end Louisa,
and Prince Arthur, and accompanied by his Sedri,6T;
lltgfine7,s Prince Le,iplod of Saxe Cobur;, felt Wanrday
Castle at twenty minutes before three o'erock yesterday
afternoon, for the station of the Great Western
way, in Windsor, where a guard of honour outt,triatUeilid
stream (lairds, with the baud of the reg
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the Hon. gleaner Stanley, the p,ipps,C4pt,ritt the
Earl Talbot, Colonel the Hon, B.
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Royal party to Bucking
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r'ibc: minutes before four o'clock,
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SIM) Coburg, and
L°incess's Theaantrde
honouredesrn ri °l,rgl ~PrFfeman.tle, Chairman of th© Board of
dustows, bad an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Down..
rit:l.John Wood, Chairman of the Board of
e, had also an interview with the Right
l:tilunogzina!idGelelne4yvateet.ge:ul. t n, had an interview with Sir J. Paking-
* yesterday at the Colonial Office.
4eptitation from Burnhora (Somerset) had an in-
vesterday with the General Board of Health at
Itieir offices, Whitehill: The deputation consisted of
Messrs. G. Reed, Gruner, and Hobbs.
Sir Thinnla Gladstone had an interview with Mr.
Secretary Viinip,Jl,4 esterd,y at the flocon•office.
octics were receiv.4 at the Colonial ffion On
SundAy from the Governors of Hong liong and Ceylon.
a were receivA yesterday from the Governors
of Cana.lit and of the )rtsuritius.
Dispatches Were sent y-,ikiday from the Colonial-
t flits to the Governors of Gibraltar and Malta, the Lord
High Courm6:sioner of th., Llan)is, the Governor
of Cnlon, and the governor of Hong-Kong.

AJCHY or CoaNwAt.L.—A return printed by
order of the House of Commons, showing the receipts and
disbursements of the Duchy of Cornwall, for the year ended
3lst December, 1.551, includes under the head of receipts,
among other items, 8,6091. Iss. balance at the bankers, to
the credit of the account of the council of his Royal High-
ne:l the Prince of Wales, on 3 ist December, 1850 ; rents
and profits of courts, 27,0481. 9s. 74 1. ; produce of lhr
royalties of-coal mines in Somerset, and royalties and reser-
vations of dues and rents of mines and quarries iu Cornwall
and Devon, 7.142/. ss. I Id. ; and annuity received trona the
Gmsolidited Fund under ht 514(1 2d Vie., c. 120, in lieu of
tin colua.4e duties postgroats, and white rents, 16,2161. 155.;
total receipts, 61,272/. 2s. 7d. The disbursements, amount-
ing in the whole to 53,5951. 16s. 2d., include, among other
items, 39,102/..10e. payments made to the trustees and tre -
surer of his Royal Highness; and 13,06 IL 118.2 d. fur salaries,nT
charities, law char es tithes rates taxes, rg,
superanttuati n allowances and annuities, donations a
incotne-tax, and
other incidental char,,,,s; leaving a balance 03
he 311.111", ,
Ccm'aer last of. 7,67ttr. 6s. sd. (vesfprday
return
DUCHY or LANCASTER.—Froth
issued) i•-• appiirs that the inthme,Li!hAvichaeimas Est.
Duchy :of I,,,)!Naitor in __the year °9llll '. Ava ,s paid
.._atin.otp-ited to 35,998/.2s 41•f..9,±16 r
mantas the
, to her Majesty's Privy Purse.' Alte
r lertous
beldam were 5,2674 3.• 011. balancel, of ihe

FREE TRADE.
The prosperity of our manufacturing towns is so pa-
tent and splendid a fact that nobody now hea, the hare
dihoud to deny it, unless it he in the draggling tail of
some maudlin rhapsody witich . the writer well knows is
too worthless for criticism. Take any mno, women, or-
children fro= any considerable town in the northern or
midlend distrit3.s and tea there that the people are now
unemployed, a arcing, houselefee and miserable, and
your hearers wid sea you down as a maniac brokenloose
from some neighbouring asylum. But when we pass
from the condit:on of the towns to that of the rural dis-
trict', we come at once to a sphere where the greatest
vicissitudes make comparatively little show. If you
drive through a prosperous manufacturing town, you see
factories and new streets rising on all aides; crowds of
well-dressed women and children passing to their work
or their homes; new shops, new suburban villas and
gordens—facts ell vivid and significant as a poet
or a - printer would venture to describe.
On the other hand, a rural eellagr, whether in the height
of prosperity, or in the depto of adversity. presents
much the same aspect to the casual spectator. In neither
case is it likely to exhibit new streets, new edifices, well.
dressed °roads, showy shops, or any outward.circum-
stances of happiness and wealth. Hence thero is rather
more latitude for opinion in measuring the progress of
inch a place, simply because the proofs are not oculist
subjecta fidelibvsi you have not the same palpaele test.
To this must be added that notorious disposition to
grumble, which is thninvariable instinct of farmers, and
which communicates itself in a greater or less degree to
all classes connected with them. The landlord hi always
the most complainieg of capitalists, and the labourer
the least satisfied of operatives. But as for the farmer,
no course of the seasons, no combination of the ele-
ments, no proportion of sun and rain, ever did or ever
will satisfy him. So from him, at least, we may wait
long enough before we shall find an explicit admission of
prosperity-.
But even our rural population is now too prosperous
to conceal ice condition. The valued correspondent to
whom we have so often been indebted for painful re-
velations of the state of Dorsetshire, and other sgrtcul-
tural counties, has lived ita see, as he now intent' us, a
delightful change come over that dreary scene. Even
in that dark region of Protectionist squires and un-
protected abourers, he discovers, on a careful induc-
tion of ail orders and classes. that nobody has to com-
plain of free trade. Landlord; get their rents without
the necessity of percesuent reduction; the clergy get
their renocherge in peace; the established chari-
tes and religious societies get in their subscriptions;
benevolence •is not over whe;need with demands;
labourers tare better even with their wages in some in-
stances reduced ; tail wheat and " casualties," as the
butchers call them, are not in such request ; boards of
guardians have not so much to do. Whichever way you
look, the same agreeable symptoms meet the eye. Be
it tree trade or not, be it California, or &migration, or
simply a kind Heaven, so it is in fact ; Dorsetshire is
saved, and its great pattern squire, by a remarkable co-
incidence, finds hiuiselt in power just at a time when he
has nothing more to say ; with his party in the
ascendant, hi. cause is, bankrupt, and the great patron
of landowiters, framework knitters, haudluom weavers,
and other distressed classes, has now nothing to do but
convey to her Majesty the decisions of courts-maraiah
We are very far from asserting that tree trade, and
free trade alone, bad produced all these gratifying
results. In the skein of human affairs there are many
different threads, and, if Providence seems to forward
the development of the new policy, it is not for us to
disown that opportune aid. But this we must say,
that when many circumstances of the national pros.
perity can be directly referred to free trade, and when
the evils that were predicted have not come to pass;
when manufacturers ere prosperous, and agriculturists
are not ruined; when artisans, mechanics, and labourers
are all thriving,—then we must claim a victory. If that
be not allowed, then there can be no appeal to results,
and no end of controversy. Our Dersetst ire correspon-
dela has brought the question to a very simple issue,
so far as regards the sinister auguries of Protectionist
prophets. He asks that his county may be polled,
and say s that the labouring class will return an
almost unanimous verdict in favour cf Free Trade.
But even Mr. G. F. Yourg has at length crowned
his long crusade by admitting the general prospe-
rity. He cannot deny it ; so he accounts for it
a' ter his own fashion. It is not owing to free trade, ho
declares, but in spite of free trade. It comes of the
famine, of emigration, of California, of Australia, and
we know not whet besides. We shall not venture now
to disturb the serenity of the Hon. Gentleman's convic-
tions, or to mar the perfect iquareness of his theory.
Let us hope that he believes what he says. Happily, he
bus come to the same practical coriclasien as the
rest of his political friends. Whether " the
big loaf," which he says will convert him when
he sees it permanently secured to the labourer
by free trade, or some other more potent considers-
ration, has moved him, certain it is, that the Isst of the
Protectionists has now merged peaection in the para-
mount necessity of a Conservative Administration.
Here are the last words of Mr. Gs F. Youeg:—" Let
me, then, solemnly conjure you at this crisis to take, as
electors, the only course that offers a chance of averting
the consummation of your destruction. If you begin
now to reconstruct corn-laws and navigation-laws, and
fixed duties and sliding scales, and diminution of
burdens, and the thowaed and one expedients with
which friends perplex and enemies decoy you, be as-
sured you are lost. Divided and distracted,
you will be defeated. Lord Derby's Government
will be displaced. Lord John Russell, ' taking
to tiitnelf seven other spirits more evil than himself,'
will again be install.d in power, and your last state
will b..-* *
worse than the first.'* * Again, thee,
I say, select as candidates men whose character is a gua-
rantee for their honse y, and ask them now only the one
question, ' Will you support the Government of Lord
Derby ?' It is too late to reuse other points,"
Mr. a F. Young is certainty tiring the only possible
course. Therein we commend his prudence. But tee
.re not so sure that ev. n this only possible course will
give him the satis'action he desires. Lord Derby with
protection, is intelligible enough. Lord Darby, without
)t, is an enigma
which neither his friends nor his foes
have yet attempted to decipher, ant! Mr. G. F. Young
the task.—Times.
evidently recoils tr