The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-27 00:00:00

COURT SCANDAL.

(From the Morning Post.)
The manner in which affairs at Court are now managed
affords, we think, much ground of mixiety, and some
ground of serious complaint, to the female nobility of
England. It is their duty, as it must be their wish, to
grace with their presence any public scene in which her
Majesty appears. In the natural order of things, the
beauty and grace of the Royal and the Noble fair would,
upon all such occasions, mutually shed lustre upon each
other, captivating Ly their mingled power the hearts
and warming the devotion of all mankind. This picture
is an engaging one. But, unfortunately, it has no other
original than what exists in the imagination. The reality
approaches daily more nearly to the reverse of this. The
incident we are about to narrate would seem to make it a
matter of doubt whether, while the Court remains what it
is, the female Nobility not immediately connected with it
can venture, without imprudence and danger, on the same
race-course with their Sovereign.
At the last Ascot Races we have reason to believe that the
Duchess of Montrose and Lady Sarah Ingestre received an
intimation that her Majesty was impressed with the idea that
they were among the persons who had hissed at a moment
when no sounds but those of applause, gratulation, and
loyalty ought to have been heard. It was, we believe,
further intimated to the Noble Ladies we have mentioned
that the Royal ear had been abused to the effect already
stated by Lady Lichfield. The Ladies, who had reason to
think that they had been thus unjustly and ridiculously ac-
cused, applied immediately to thei asupposed accuser, who
denied that she had made any such communication. On
being urged to give this denial in writing, she declined to
do so without first consulting her Lord. But, on the
application being renewed at a subsequent period, her La-
dyship, as we understand, explicitly and in 'writing denied
that she had given utterance to the calumny in question.
Here the matter stood, until, from some incidents con-
nected with the late ball at Buckingham House, the two
Ladies thus impeached saw reason to believe that the erro-
neous impression communicated to her Majesty at Ascot
had not been entirely removed. It was an impression, how-
ever, which they could not permit to remain without em-
ploying every means of removing it ; and accordingly the
Duchess of Montrose went to Buckingham Palace and re-
quested an audience of her Majesty. After waiting for a
considerable period (two hours, as we have been informed)
her Grace was informed by the Earl of Uxbridge that she
could not be admitted to an audience, as none but Peers or
Peeresses in their own right could demand that privilege.
Eler Grace then insisted upon Lord Uxbridge taking down
in writing what she had to say, and promising her that the
communication should be immediately laid before her Ma-

jesty.
In this state, webelieve, the matter remains substantially
at the present moment, although it has taken a new form,
the Duke of Montrose having, we understand, thought it
necessary to open a corresponience with Lord Melbourne
upon the subject.
If Lord Melbourne is to be appealed to on every differ-
ence amongst Court Ladies he will no doubt soon resign
the Premiership. The Tories, by setting their women at
him are going the right way to attain their objects. At
the same time the country is in a peculiarly proper condi-
tion to make the sway of the Ladies easy. They can lead
the Chartists with silken bands.l

LIBERTY OF THE PRESS.—The proprietor of
the Pilot perseveres in protesting against the justice of the
sentence under which he is now suffering► in Kilmainham
prison. He asserts that in him the Press is persecuted,
whilst he himself is the victim of grievous and unheard-of
persecution. Mr. Barrett maintains, and we arc disposed
to concur with him in opinion, that if a case like his own
had been tried before a British Jury, there would have
been a verdict of acquittal, or, if not, the fine of a mark
and instant discharge would have been the sentence of a
British Court, and that would have been justice.