The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-10 00:00:00

as the plaints now brought before them. In
these Courts we should feel at ease. We, our-
selves, in simple cases, could tell our own tale,
and our legal advisers, in the more difficult ones,
could take for us a course which we could under-
stand, and of which we could see the beginning
and the end. We could estimate the cost of re-
sisting an unjust demand, and our probable loss
in event of failure in a more doubtful cause.
This, then, is what we want to come to—Secular
Courts for laymen. ,A jury of our peers, if we
desire it ; and moderate fees for justice. All
matrimonial cases also, especially now that mar-
riage is recognised by law as a civil act, must be
placed entirely in the jurisdiction of the Secular
Courts : neither must it longer be allowed
that any Judge in holy orders shall have power
at his own discretion to make a layman do ,
penance in the parish church. Poor BURNS has
not been the last victim of clerical spite of this
kind. In a word, we are willing to leave the
clergymen to judge one another in theological
and ecclesiastical matters, if such be their desire;
but we demand for the laity, that no Ecclesiasti-

cal Judge shall have power to touch a single hair of
their head. Indeed, for the clergy themselves, we
should also ask, that their own Courts should not

be competent to inflict secular punishments of any
kind upon them. They must be like the proposed
talking and debating Convocations, entrusted with
no other weapons than words. Spiritual weapons
alone befit Spiritual Courts ; the property and
liberty of the clergy themselves are not fit sub-
Courts Christian. Their
be made, " a judge and a
jveocitys of
Master
refused adjudication for
very
divider" in such matters.

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, WEDNESDAY.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Brabant, the
Count of Flanders, and the Princess Charlotte of Bel-
gium, attended by the. Count de Briey, Lieutenant-
Colonel de Moerkerke, and Sir Robert Carswell, took
leave of her Majesty yesterday, and embarked in the
royal yacht Fairy, at a quarter before two o'clock p.m.,
for Southampton.
The Prince of Leiningen remains on a visit.

THURSDAY.
Her Majesty and the Royal Family walked in the
grounds yesterday.
His Excellency the French Ambassador, the Countess
Walewski, and the Earl of Mahnesbury, arrived to-day
on a visit to the Queen, having crossed over in the Royal
yacht Fairy, which was waiting at Southampton to con-
vey them.

On the arrival of the Fairy in Cowes Roads, her Ma-
jesty's ship Encounterfired a salute of 17 guns, in honour
of his Excellency, who immediately landed, and pro-
ceeded in one of the Queen's carriages, which was in
readiness to convey the party to Osborne.
Count Walewski had an audience of the Queen, and
was presented by the Earl of Malmesbury to deliver his
credentials as Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary from the Emperor of the French.

A deputation, consisting of Mr. Cornford, Mr. Folkard,
and Dr. King, with Mr. Slight, the clerk to the Brighton
Town Commissioners, had an interview with Lord John
Manners yesterday, at the office of Works and Public
Buildings, Whitehall, on the subject of the proposed ap-
plication of the Public Health Act, 1848, to Brighton.

- The Rev. Dr. O'Toole had an interview with the Earl
of Derby, yesterday, at his official residence, in Down.
ing-street. •

Captain Shepherd, Deputy Master of the Trinity
Souse, had an interview with the Right Hon. J. C.
Henley, yesterday, at the Board of Trade.
The Earl of Westmoreland paid visits yesterday to
several of the Cabinet Ministers, to take leave on his
departure (last evening) to Vienna to resume the duties
of his Legation.

Lord Portman and the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson,
had interviews yesterday with Mr. Secretary Walpole,
at the Home-office.

Mr. Drummond had an interview yesterday with the
Earl of Derby.
A deputation on the subject of the provisional order
for Brighton, had an interview with Lord John Manners
yesterday. The deputation consisted of Mr. Beedham,
High Constable of Brighton ; Mr. Sharood, Solicitor
for the petitioners for a charter ; and Mr. J. M. Clabon,
Agent to the petition.
Mr. Fagan, M.P. ; Mr. Maguire, M.P. ; and Mr.
Jeffcott, had an interview yesterday with the Right
Hon. J. W. Henley.
Dispatches were received at the Colonialo-ffice yester-
day, from the Governors of Sierra Leone and the
Gambia.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.