The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-22 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a Court yesterday afternoon at Buck-
ingham Palace.
The Bishop of Peterborough was presented to her
Majesty in the Royal Closet, and did homage on his ap-
pointment. Lord John Russell, Secretary of State for
the Home Department, and the Dean of Hereford, De-
puty Clerk of the Closet in Waiting, assisted at the
ceremony-
Count Pozzo di Borgo, Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary from the Emperor of all the Russias, had
on audience of her Majesty to take leave. His Excellency
was introduced by Viscount Palmerston, G. C. 8., her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
and conduct :d by Sir R9bcrt Chester, Master of the Ce
rcmonies.

The Court was attended by the Marchioness of Nor-
manby, Lady in Waiting, the Lord Chamberlain, Lord
Byron, Lard in Waiting, Mr. Rich, Groom in Waiting,
Col. Wemyss, Equerry in Waiting.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by the
Prrncess of Hohenlohe, and attended by Lady Clinton,
visited her Majesty yesterday.
The Queen Dowager was received by the Honourable
Nl:ss Cavendish, Lord Byron, Mr. Rich, and Colonel
Wemyss. Her Majesty and the Princesses afterwards
visited the Duchess of Kent in the Palace.

The Queen rode out on horsebaek yesterday afternoon,
attended by the Honourable Miss Cocks, the Honourable
Miss Cavendish, the Baroness Lehzen, Miss Quentin,
Earl of Uxbridge, Colonel \Vern) ss, Lord Byron, Hon.
C. A. Murray, Mr. Rich, and Sir Frederick Stovin.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty
yesterday.
The Royal dinner party at the Palace last evening, in
eluded the Earl and Countess Cowper, the Earl of
Surrey, Viscount Melbourne, Lord and Lady Ashley,
Lord Leveson, Honourable Colonel Cavendish, and
the Honourable William Cowper. _ _ .

At the Queen's Drawing Room on Thursday, Lady
Scale rcas presented to her Majesty, on coming to the
tide by Lady Theresa Lister. And L.idy Jcphson Nor-
rqs was presented to the Queen by the Marchioness of
Normanby.
Her Majesty and the Princess of Lciningen,the Duchess
of Gloucester, and the Duchess and the Princess Augueta
of Cambridge, remained at the grand bill given by the
Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster until past three
o'clock 3 esterday morning.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by the

Princesses of llohenlohe, and attended by Ludy Clinton,
Hon. Miss Hope Juhmtone, and Hon. Miss Boyle, went
on Thursday to Bushy Park. Her Majesty and the

Princesses returned to Marlborough Home in the evening.
The Princess Augusta, attended by i\liss Wynyard, went
to Kew on Thursday, where her Royal Highness spent the
day, returning to town in the evening.
'Her M.j-sty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by the
Princesses of Hohenlohe, visited, yesterday afternoon, the
Princess Augusta, at Clarence House, the Duchess of
Gloucester, at Gloucester House, and, the Duchess of
Cambridge, at Cambridge House.
The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knesebeck,
left town on Thursday afternoon for Maidstone.
The Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar visited
the Duchess of Cambridge at Cambridge House yes.
terday.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at

the residence of Viscount Melbourne, in Downing-street.
It was attended by Viscount Melbourne, the Lord
Chancellor, Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Duncan-
non, Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Marquis
of Normanby, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of
Tinto, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Holland, Mr. Poulett
Thomson, Viscount Howick, and Lord Morpeth.
The Council sat two hours.

A Deputation, consisting of Sir William S3merville,
Bart.. M. P., Mr. Hutton, M P., Mr. Chester, M. P.,
Mr. Redington, M. P., Mr. W. O'Brien, M. P. (Lime-
_

rack County), Mr. Wyse, M. P., Mr. Moffatt, Mr. El-
more, Mr. F. B. Smith, Mr. Bellew, M.P., and Mr.
Grattan, M. P., had an interview wit`► the Chancellor of

the Exchequer, on Thursday. in Downing-street.
Mr. Anstruther, Colonial Secretary at Ceylon, had an
interview with the Marquis of Normanby, on Thursday, at

the Colonial-office.
The Duke of Riamond and tLe Duke of Norfoik had
an interview with Lord John Rus:el on Tuursday, at tEe
Home Qffice.

The Chairman and Solicitor of Excise, Lord -Dungan-
non, M P., Alderman Thompson, M.P., Andrew White,
Esq., M. P., James Hartley, Esq., of Sunderland, and
Joseph John Wrighs, Esq., of Sunderland had an
interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yester-
day on the subject of the duty upon glass.
The [tight Hon. T. Grenville entertained at dinner,
yesterday, the Duke and Duchess of Buckingham, Lady
Anne Grenville, Earl Clare, Earl of Devon, Lord and
Lady Mahon, Lord and Lady Delamere, and a select
party.

The General Steam Navigation Company's
packet, the Caledonia, from Hamburg, arrived cff the
Custom-house at ten o'clock yesterday forenoon.

Mr. Hume voted against I\linisters on Wednes-
day night on the Jamaica question ; he is the only one of
the ten gentlemen who voted against the measure on the
f,rtner occa&on that repeated his vote on that night.
The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has recently ap-
pointed Lieutenant Sir James Carmichael Smyth, Bart.,
son of the late Sir James Carmichael Smyth, Bart., the
virtuous and talented Governor of British Guiana, to be
one of his Lordship's extra Aides-de-Camp, vice Captain
Burke, of the Royal Dragoons, resigned.

LADY I LORA HA STI N G S.—The pulllic
not have failed to notice the absence of the name of Lady
Flora Hastings in the announcements of Court movement
f the last ten days or a fortnight. We deeply regret the
explanation of this circumstance which it is our task to
give ; fritis a tt uly melancholy explanation. Her Lady-
ship is labouring under serious and alarming illness.—
Morning Post.

1-Listings was visited on Monday evening by one
of the most terrific thunder storms ever known there. It
bTan about eight o'clock, and lasted till near twelve. The
incessmt claps of thunder re- echoed by the majestic hills
by which we arc surrounded, greatly increased the rwful
sublimity of the scene. We have not heard of any da-
mage.—Brighton Guardian
WIT EA T.—The oldest inhabitant throughout
the rich Vale of Pewsey, never remembers wheat having
such a luxurious appearance at this season of the year as at
the present time,— Wilts Independent.
COMMISSION OF LUNACY.—Yesterday a Com-
mission de Lunatico Inquirendo (on the petition of Sir
R. H. Inglis, M. P. for the University of Oxford) was
opened at Vinall's Hotel, Sloane-street, Chelsea. The
object of this Commission was to inquire into the state of
mind of Mrs. Susannah Harriett Gordon, the mother of
Lady Inglis. The Commission was opened before
Chief Commissioner Phillimore and Commissioners Wins-
low and Blunt. The Solicitor-General appeared for the
petitioner, and Mr. Brie for Mrs. Barclay, a relative of
the late husband of the lady who was the object of the in-
quiry. No one appeared for Mrs. Gordon. After hearing
the evidence of the witnesses the Jury proceeded to Mrs.
Gordon's house for the purpose of examining that lady,
and on their return Sir John Scott Lillie (the foreman)
said they were decidedly of opinion that Mrs. Gordon was
of unsound mind and incapable of managing her own affairs,
and he.d been so since the 19th of September, 1835.

The Grand Duke of Sase Weimar, accompanied
by some other Gentleman or Nobleman, in the House of
Lords on Thursday, were accommodated with chairs be-
tween the Throne .and Bench of Bishops.
The gambling speculations in Russian tallow
have scarcely ever been carried on to a greater extent than
than they have this year. The sales for time—that is, a
prompt of 14 days, are carried on to such an extent, that
100 casks of tallow, during that short period, represents a
fictitious trade in that article, to the amount of 1,000 casks,
whilst most frequently the pretended merchant in St. Peters-
burg, and his agent here, have not a single cask to deliver,
consequently a settlement of the differences upon the value
of that article is made every fortnight, and the custom has
obtained not only of drawing bills against these fictitious
bargains, but even of paying the differences in an equally
spurious kind of paper. So that, on the one hand, we have
a fictitious trade in tallow carried on, somewhat after the
manner in which business is effected at Crockford's, and
other dens of equally reputable resort, whilst on the other
hand, the country is deluged with paper in liquidation of
these reprehensible and unmerchantlike transactions, of a
character scarcely so valuable as some of the I 0 U's which
pass current at the West-end Pandcmoniums. It must,
therefore, be a matter of congratulation to the commerei2l
interests of the country that the bank direction has had the
foresight not to defile their hands by discounting piper like
this, not based upon an actual interchange of valuable com-
modities ; therefore, in that quarter, we may anticipate a
few bubbles to burst.

On Thursday afternoon last, as a boy named
John Blurton, twelve years of age, and son of a soldier in
the 15th Hussars, was bathing in the Medway, near the
barracks, he suddenly disappeared, and was observed to
rise only once. An alarm was immediately given at the
barracks, when Colonel Brotherton and a number of the
soldiers instantly rushed to the spot, and the Gallant
Colonel, throwing off his coat and stock, plunged into the
river, hoping to recover the poor lad before life was extinct.
Unhappily, the humane end intrepid effort was unsuccess-
ful, as it was nut until a considerable time had elapsed that
deceased was found, by means of drags, twelve feet under
water, and of course quite dead.—Maidstone Journal.
THE LATE CASE OF ABDUCTION FROM
Ban SSELS. —At the Marylebone Board of Guardians yes-
terday, Mr. Potter called the attention of the Board to the
case of two females, Catharine Trinet and Anne Josephe
Drewer, who had been abducted by a rascal named Eustache
from Brussels, under the pretence of giving them good
e nployment. Since they had been in the workhouse the
Belgian Consul had called, and finding they were females
of an excellent character, he had left 21. for their present
support, and had intimated his intention of sending them
back free of expense. After sonic discussion Mr. Potter
moved, and Mr. Ilodden seconded, a resolution to the
eff. et that the Belgian Consul be conferred with on the
subject, knd that the two Belgic women be allowed to re-
main in the workhouse till arrangements can be made with
the Consul for their return to Brussels. The women are
not, as stated, " young and interesting in appearance." Th
eldest is upwards of thirty-five years of age, and the other e
above twenty-five. They are employed at needle-work in
Vie workhouse.
ALARMING FIRE IN DRURY-LANE.—This
mottling, at one o'clock, a fire broke out at the shop of Mr.
time
Douglas,
threatenedhatter, Vinegar-yard,
destructioni n egar - y a
to
, their rus ruyr-rl:un:d, whichu
ladti
nognse.
The flames were first perceived by the policeman on duty.
In a short time the engine belonging to Drury-lane Theatre
was brought to work, and that was quickly followed by the
West of England, County, and others. There was a
plentiful supply of water. After a considerable time the
flames were entirely subdued, without the sacrifice of any
human life, the inmates escaping wi'h difficulty lyy the rcof.
The property is insured.

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Courier of last evening comments, as follows, on
last night's division in the Commons on the Education
qncstion —" The Tories were last night defeated, on
grounds as disgraceful to them as any they ever took up,
by a majority of five only. The announcement was re-
ceived by them with protracted cheering. Wild would have
been their joy had the five been the other way; but this
crowning triumph, for which they struggle so hard, is
still unattainable : and, wanting that, they cannot in every
instance prevent the accomplishment of some good. They
will not, we fervently trust, in the present instance. Even
with majorities of five, Lord John Russell will be justi-
fied in persevering ; and it is gratifying to witness indica-
tions of a resolute and animated spirit in the Noble Lord,
under circumstances so vexatious and discouraging as those
against which he last night struggled."
The Globe urges Ministers to persevere in their educa-
tion scheme in the following terms :—" Ministers have now
only to carry out their plan with discrimination and firm-
ness, looking to the benefits it will confer on the people, as
an ample compensation for the misrepresentation and male-
volence with which they have been so unsparingly assailed ;
for a justification of their motives; and as the best exem-
plification of the merits of the plan they have succeeded in
carrying, in the face of an opposition which invoked the
sacred name of religion to sanction and aid the cause of
bigotry, and which endeavoured to perpetuate national
ignorance under pretence of protecting Christianity r'
The Standard, speaking of the Ministerial majority of
five last night on the Educatiofi question, says :
" Nevertheless, Lord John Russell had the amazing bold-
ness to attempt moving the grant, and would have done
so, but that he was prevented by the firmness of Sir
Robert Peel--thus placing his majority of five above
the voice of the country, as pronounced in 3,500 peti-
tions. And how was this majority of five composed ? 46
nominees of the Irish priests, 40 professed Papists, voted
in that majority by which it is proposed to fix the charac-
ter of the education to be given to the Protestant people of
England; for mark, this is exclusively an English question
—the grant is to be demanded on Monday. Will Ministers
dare to persist in it? We believe they will, and we call
upon every one, in Parliament and out of Parliament, to
do his duty in resisting the monstrous wrong and insult."
The Times of this morning, in the course of a virulent
leading article, the text of which is furnished by the Mi-
nisterial majority on the education question, says :—" What
but a Government on sufferance' are they now, with a
majority for their Anti-Church Education Bill of five in a
house of almost six hundred Members—the same majority,
to a fraction, which caused ostensibly the former advice to
her Majesty to summon to her assistance the Conservatives
:vith Sir Robert Peel ? The resignation majority was on
a third-rate question, which did not imply a general dis-
trust of Ministers. The education majority is on a ques-
tion vital and tremendous, involving the whole empire,
embracing its moral and religious, that: is to say, its
highest and most enduring interests, grasping our most
sacred institutions, aiming a death-blow at the monarchy
through the bleeding sides of the Church. If the Jamaica
majority caused and justified a resignation, can the Minis-
ters be justified for treating this majority as one of less
importance." The:" bleeding sides of the Church " is a
pathetic metaphor enough, and would be still more so, if it
happened to be an appropriate one. But, unfortunately,

Nlotlier Church—opprcs,ea though she is with a plethora—
has a most invincible dislike to being bled, and no one has
yet been found capable of overcoming her opposition to
this remedial process.
The Morning Post, alluding to the late debate in. the

House of Commons, on the eeucation project, remarks as
follows :—" When the House of Commons shall make a
grant of public money for the promotion of national educa-
tion, and shall subject the money so granted to the control
and distribution of a Committee of the Privy Council, it
will legislate, or attempt to legislate, upon one of the most
important of all subjects in conjunction with the Executive
Government, but without the concurrence of the House of
Lords. We do not ask whether it is a wise or a decent
proceeding on the part of Ministers to urge the House of
Commons into such a course. What we ask is, whether it
is wise or decent to urge the House of Commons to pursue
this course in favour of a system of education which the
House of Commons itself, within five votes, has already
pronounced to be a bad and vicious system. This is what
Ministers are about to do."
The Morning Herald thus launches out into fulsome
praise of Lord Ashley's proposed system of national edu-
cation :—" Let it be borne in mind that Lord Ashley ad-
vocates such a system of national education, and such a
system alone, as shall be based upon the pure and unadul-
terated word of God ; a system of ecucation scriptural and
Christian in essence and character; a system, therefore,
which has truth, inspired truth, for its guide, and the dis-
semination of sound religion and morality for its object. If
such a system be too narrow for the comprehensive libera-
lity of her M,jesty's Ministers, it is wide enough for every
sincere friend to Christianity, whether he be Churchman
or Protestant Dissenter."
The Morning Chronicle exhorts Ministers to persevere
in their education scheme in the following terms We
trust that Ministers will persevere in th scheme. The
fruits of their resolution will affurd the best refutation of
the objections of the Opposition. A more factious and
disgraceful attempt than that of the opponents of the
scheme never was made in any country. We rely with
confidence on the good sense of the country, which must
loathe the vile iwolerance in which the opposition to the
scheme originates. The scheme, indeed, is far below
what the wants of the nation demand : but the endeavour
is praiseworthy ; and those who see the difficulties with
which 'Ministers have to contend in carrying this measure
against a dishonest confederacy of Churchmen, and the
Wesleyan Ministers who have shamefully abused the con•
fidence re posed in them by their flocks, will make due
allowance for the deficiencies of the scheme. The people
will not fail to perceive, too, that as the opposition grows
in numbers it grows is intolerance."
The Morning Advertiser remarks to the following effect
on Lord John Russell's speech on the Education question :
We trust that Lord John Russell's speech on educa-
tion will be read by all who desire to understand the bear-
ings of the Government plan, and also the principles upon
which such a measure should be framed. A more calm,
temperate, and statemanlike speech was never uttered
within the walls of Parliament ; and we confidently ask

... _
whether there exists in the present day any public man
who might be expected to exhibit the same enlightened
views, the same moral courage, and the same considerate
appreciation of, and the same forbearance to, the position
and feelings of all the parties concerned ? Throughout
the whole of the speech there was not a single clap-trap•
It went plainly and directly to the subject."

FATAL ACCIDENTS ON THE RIVER—SEVEN
Lives LOST.—During the major part of Thursday even-
ing and night the Thames was in a state of commotion but
rarely witnessed, owing to the prevalence of high winds,
which blew a perfect hurricane. The storm did not pass
over without loss of life, and that to a very considerable ex-
tent, as in the course of that night no less than seven
persons were drowned in Chelsea Reach, a part of the
river at all times rough, but when the wind is high,
tremely dangerous for small craft. About a quarter Ph'
eleven cries for assistance were heard procceeding from t
middle of the river by several lightermen Islet middle
men living on the banks of the river, Chelsea side.
lighterman named Wright, with another man, immediately
put fY in a boat, and when they had arrived as the
reach opposite the Yorkshire Grey, they found a wherry
capsized, and two persons clinging to it ; these they imme-
diately lifted into their boat and conveyed to shore, and
afterwards to the Magpie public-house, where ti,ey gave
their names as Heath and Bath, and stated that, with ano-
ther boat, they had in the earlier part of the evening Pee
up the river accompanied by four other gentlemen whose
names were Croker, Wilkins, Roberts, and George. The
boats kept company on their return until their arrival in
Chelsea Reach, ahem the heavy swell first capsized the
boat containing the last mentioned gentlemen. Scarcely
had the news of this sad occurrence spread abroad
when cries were again heard in that part of __ the
river near the Red House, and in a few minutes
a gentleman was seen buffeting the waves, and ultimately
made a safe landing. He was immediately taken to the
Red House in a very exhausted state, and every attention
was paid him. In a short time he recovered himself so
far as to be able to give an account of the accident. It
appeared that he was coming down the river in a wherry
with three gentlemen, named Henry Rush, son of the Rev.
John Rush, vicar of Chelsea Old Church ; Fry, a gentle-
man holding a situation in the Registry-office; and --
Graham, a clerk in the Ordnance-office. Upon passing
through Battersea bridge the wind was very high, and the
tide at the time running down, the boat was taken down the
river at ar, extraordinaiy speed, all the time rocking in a
fearful manner, and having arrived opposite the Red
House, a gust of wind came which capsized it. Fry and
Graham sunk immediately; Rush kept up for a little time,
and succeeded in catching at an oar which Mr. Latham,
the gentleman saved, threw to him, but he soon became
exhausted, and sunk. In the course of half an hour, the
bodies of Rush and Graham were washed ashore, and taken
to the Red flou,e, where an inquest will be held On Mon-
day next. A correspondent, who does not give
us
particulars, mentions that five other persons were drowned
in the River during the storm m
The most numerous and powerful clan New
South Wales are the Camerons ; no fewer than 106 of the
name arrived out in one vessel from Cromarty, last January.
thed
REASONS OF SECESSION.—The attention of
the Synod having been called to the present state of reli-
gious deliberation,
to prepare
iberation, it
iwas
unanimously parties in th
agreedthis countryt
o a app,
p,
onkfitte r m
a csoonaneit
and issue a testimony, designed to show that the reasons of
Church
.rhea aret
hi. not
hsotant
secession from the Established
valid, but have greatly increased ,
bed
fwbhoincdhage to the secular powers ;
levesntisl
hcahvuercrehciesntinly
aocsctautrereod PCr of hvnue ng
t}e Ea yblis still
the fin de-
pendenceyis
and that the Secession Church have reason gratefully' to
acknowledge, and wisely
which it enjo:mp androve, that the dom and Rev. Doc tors
Brown, Young, and Wm. Johnston, be appointed a Com
mittee for the purpose above specified. The Committee
be requested to proceed with as little delay as possible.--
Scotti.sh Pilot.
FRAUDULENT TRADESMEN.—Yesterday Hat-
ton-garden office was crowded by tradespeople who were
prosecuted by Mr. Childe, the Inspector of weights and
measures, for having false and unjust weights and scales in
their possession. The cases being proved, the 'were con-
victed in the penalties of from al. to 3/. and 21., and costs.
THE ANTI-CORN-LAW MISSION. Mr.
Paulton had a full attendance on Monday at Paisley. and
a bumper audience on Tuesday. A smart skirmish oc-
curred between Mr. P. and some of the Chartists, but the
result was such as to be gratifying to the friends of free
trade. We arc happy to be able to announce that the
state of preparation for Mr. Paulton's reception in and
around Dundee, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Dumfries, is
such as to entitle us to anticipate a lecturing tour in each
of these districts equally successful with what is now in
progress here.—Glasgow Argos.
WHITE ROOK.—the day last week a white
rook was caught in one of the plantations of Colonel Yale,
of Plas Yale, near Llangollen, which only lived two da
after its capture.