The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-16 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

We are authorised to state that her Majesty will give a
concert at Buckingham Palace, on Friday, the 14th June,
and a ball on Monday, the 17th June.

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Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of the
Queen.

The Royal dinner party at the Palace last evening, in-
cluded the Earl of Albemarle, Earl of Surrey, Earl of
March, Lord Fitzroy Lennox, Mr. and Lady Theresa Lis-
ter, and Sir George Anson. •
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had a dinner party
yesterday at Cambridge House. There were present her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, Archbishop of
York and Miss Vernon Harcourt, Bishop of London and
Mrs. Blomfield, Duke of Wellington, Earl and Countess
Wilton, Earl Cawdor, Viscount and Viscountess Mahon,
Lord Burghersh, Lady Shelley, Sir Gore and Lady Ouse-
ley, Sir Arthur Paget, Mr. Berkeley Paget, and Mr. W.
Knyvett. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the
Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Miss Kerr,
Major Stephens, and Baron Knesebeck, her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Gloucester, and the whole of the corn.
parry, afterwards went to the Concert of Ancient Music, at
the Hanover-square rooms.
The Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, visited
the Princess Augusta yesterday, at Clarence House, St.
James's.

Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence left town on Tuesday for
Portsmouth. Some of the Household of the Queen-Dow-
ager have also arrived at Portsmouth, to be in readiness
to receive her Majesty.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the Foreign
Office. It was attended by Viscount;Melbourne, Marquis
of Lansdowne, Viscount Duncannon, Lord John Russell,
Viscount Palmerston, Marquis of Normanby, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Minto, Sir John Hob-
house, Mr. Poulett Thomson, Viscount Howick, and
Lord Morpeth.

The COuncil sat two hours and a half. Lord Holland
was prevented from being present by indisposition. His
Lordship has been indisposed during the last few days,
but is better.

Sir Jacob Astley, and Mr. Mildmay had interviews with
Viscount Melbourne yesterday, in Downing street.
The Earl of Clarendon and the Earl of Harewood had
interviews with the Marquis of Nurmanby yesterday, at the
C"lontal Office.

Viscount Melbourne will give a full dress dinner party
in honour of her Majesty's birthday, on the 23d inst., at his
official residence in Downing-street.
Mr. Strutt and Mr. Ponsonby had an interview with
Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Home Office. Lord
Segrave and Mr. Alston had interviews with his Lordship
yesterday.
Despatches from Sir John Harvey, Governor of New
Brunswick, were received yesterday at the Colonial Office
Viscount Melbourne had a dinner party last evening at
his residence in South street.
TATT''-OF i,trgrit—tifiNlON IN
THE PROVINCES.

The Society of Friends, and, we may say, almost all
other Dissenters, and many of the most orthodox Church.
men, will rejoice at the discomfiture of Sir Robert, con-
sidering the sacred cause—the protection of the negroes,
on which the late Cabinet resigned. Indeed, if an-
other election should speedily take place, this circum-
stance, when viewed along with the ill-treatment offered
to our youthful and amiable Sovereign must speak trum-
pet-tongued against the Tories, and in favour of the re-
stored Government of Lord Melbourne and his col-
leagues. We now begin to find the clue to the strange
rumours about Miss Davys and Lady Flora Hastings.
The Tories, .after trying in vain to destroy the reputa
tion of the household of the Queen and her illustrious
mother in detail, at length resolved to effect their pur-
pose at one fell swoop, by turning them all out of the
palace together. But providentially both the first
scheme and the last have utterly failed.—Tyne Mercury.
We grieve to be obliged to think, that the Monarchy
cannot come out of this transaction without a shock.
Should the Queen prevail, a point will have been gained,
a precedent established, which may be improved upon by
artful villainy and unscrupulous ambition, till it has
worked infinite mischief to the Constitution, the recoil
of which may overwhelm the Throne itself. Should the
Queen, on the other hand, give way, she cannot do so
without humiliation, and without compromising in some
degree the dignity of her high station. How the deci-
sion is likely to go we think is very clear. The country
will no longer be governed except upon Conservative
principles, and Sir R. Peel will never accept office on
any other terms than those of perfect independence and
a pure Court.—Liverpool Courier.
But dismissing altogether the question as to the
causes which induced Sir Robert Peel to abandon his
attempt to form a Cabinet, the important practical en-
quiry as to the probable permanency of the reinstated
Melbourne Ministry remains to be settled. Had the
" hitch" which induced them to break up proceeded
from the Court, we might see in a recal a likelihood
that the difficulties which induced them to resign, either
had been, or were about to be, obviated. But it ought
to be borne in mind that the avowed ground of their
retirement was, not the want of the Queen's counte-
nance, but because they did not possess to a sufficient
extent the confidence of the House of Commons. This
was distinctly declared both by Lord Melbourne and
Lord John Russvll, and we do not see how matters
have been at all changed in this respect. Perhaps some
of the Radical deserters may have returned to their
allegiance, but it is plain from Sir William Molesworth's
letter to the people of Leeds that all have not done so.
Indeed that personage distinctly states that he voted
against Ministers in order to induce them to resign ;
and it would be strange indeed if he has already agreed
to come round and support them without any change of
policy on their part. There are some vague hints in
the Chronicle and Globe that a more " decidedly liberal
policy" will be determined upon. We know what
the former journal means by language of this kind; but
after perusing Lord John Russell's recent letter to his
constituents, we will not do him the injustice to be-
lieve that he has abandoned his maturely considered
and deliberately expressed hostility to further organic
changes, merely to hold for a short time longer a feeble
and uncertain tenure of office. But even should this
disgraceful compromise be effected, and the ten Radical
deserters thereby brought back to their standard, is
there not a likelihood that at least as many of their pre-
sent supporters might fly off from them, and leave them
still weaker than before ? A Government well sup•
ported by the constituency and the House of Com-
mons might exist with a cold or even a hostile Court ;
but—thanks to the Reform Bill—Court favour can no
longer supply the want of the aid of public opinion in
any Government, whether Whig, Tory, or Radical.
It is here we see the difficulty, and not in squabbles
about Ladies of the Bedchamber.—Grecnock Advertiser.

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. The Animals'
Friend Society last week brought twelve cases of cruelty
to animals before the Magistrates, some of which were
very aggravated, but it is to be lamented that some of the
worst were either dismissed or fined very low. The
names of the offenders were James Bradshaw, Mr.
Birket's carter ; Charles Sweetlock ; Richard Nicklos;
Samuel Barker ; Geo. Miscrow, cabman 32 ; John High-
land, sen. and jun. ; John Smith, cabman 1,848; James
White, and William Gardner. Sweetlock was fined 10a.,
by Mr. Jeremy, for having cruelly beaten a knacker's
horse, which bad come 50 miles, and was covered with
blood. But we are sorry the same worthy Magistrate dis-
missed the case of Miscrow, which was for twisting the
upper lip of a horse in a noose stick (with a string) till it
bled, and assaulting the officer—(the twisting or pinching
the lip of a horse being a very common and most cruel prac-
tice, and therefore ought to be checked)—and also the
one of Nicklos, for cruelly beating a truck dog, drawing
two persons and an additional load.
A SNOW STORM IN MAY.-After several days
of variable weather, one part of them being intensely hot
and another intolerably cold, we experienced last night an
extraordinary visitation in the shape of a heavy fall of snow.
It vanished, however, almost as quickly as it came to the
ground. —Liverpool Mail.