The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-22 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen rode out on horseback yesterday, attended
by the Viscountess Forbes, Baroness Lehz-n, Miss Quen-
tin, Lord Byron, Lord Alfred Paget, Hon. C. A. Murray,
and Sir Robert Otway.
Viscount Melbourne, and Lord Hill had audiences yes-
terday of her Majesty.
Her Majesty attended by Lady Portman Hon. Miss
Spring Rice, Hon. Mrs. George Campbell, Earl of
Uxbridge, Lord Byron, Sir Robert Otway, and Lord
Alfred Paget, honoured the Italian Opera with her pre-
sence last evening.
The Prince and Princess of Leinengcn arrived at Wool-
wich in the Firebrand steam packet last evening, from the
Continent. Their Serene Highnesses left Woolwich in
one of the Queen's carriages for town, and arrived at Buck-
ingham Palace at half-past eight o'clock.
Her Majesty will hold a Privy Council this afternoon at
St. James's Palace, after the Levee.

The Princess Augusta took an airing yesterday in a
carriage and four. The Earl of Harewood had an inter-
view with Lord John Russell yesterday at th© Houle
Office.

Despatches from the Right Hon. Stewart Mackenzie,
Governor of Ceylon, were received yesterday at the Colo-
nial Office.

Lord Holland had a small dinner party yesterday at
Holland House, Kensington.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUiV.

Sia—The following paragraph, so interesting to the
cause of humanity, appeared some time since in the Sun :
We are happy to see by a published letter from Mr.
Paternoster, that measures are in progress for the organi-
zation of a society for the protection of persens afflicted,
or presumed to be afflicted, with insanity. Snch an insti-
tution has been long wanted, and its necessity has lately
been brought home with irresistable conviction to the pub-
lic mind, by the exposure of the horrible treatment to which
the inmates of private mad-houses are subject. Mr. Pater-
noster's own cruel case was the first that drew attention to
this subject. His dear-bought experience must have fur-
nished him with much valuable information respecting the
secret doings in these dens of iniquity."
At this distance, I have no means of ascertaining if the
meritorious undertaking be yet realised ; but the gentle-
man who has so desirable an end in view, might receive
very useful information on the subject in question from the
able pen of the late John Bell, who in his posthumous
work, " Observations on Italy," gives so interesting and
valuable an account of the institution for the insane at
Averse (a few miles from this city), suth as it then was.
I remain, Sir,
Your most obedient humble servant,
Naples, April 26, 1839. C. J. R.

Theodore Hook, or some such wag, once said
that he dared not begin a sonnet with the usual salutation,
" Hail, May I" lest the capricious month should take
him at his word, and send a shower of hail. During last
week, we had Neil, snow, frost, and cold, almost as
severe as if it were January.
CORN-LAWS.----We understand the Cheshire
farmers never were in a worse position than now, and that
there is very little prospect of their rents being duly paid.
The eyes of the farmer are just now opening, and he finds
that all the hubbu,b about protection to the farmer means
protection to the landlord. If we mistake not, at the next
election the Corn-law cry will make such men as Mr.
Thomas Marsland, Mr. Grimsditch, and Mr. W. T.
Egerton, tremble for their seats. If the Reformers are
united, not one of these can be again returned._ North
Cheshire Roomier.
Cow CRAWL !—On Monday last, John Robin-
son, of Newbold, was taken before G. Crompton, Esq.,
justice, charged with stealing the milk from Mr. Charles
Grimes's cows, at Stoncgravels. The prisoner, we under-
stand, was caught in the act of milking one of the cows.
He was committed to take his trial at the Sessions.--
Aortit Derbyshire Chronicle.

MACKAREL FISHERY, AND WANTON CON-
DUCT OF TIIE MASTERS OF VESSELS.—The mackarel sea-
son has been en exceedingly unpropitious one to the fisher-
men of Mevagissey, Goran Haven, &c., for not only have
they taken very little fish, but to add to their other losses,
they have been greatly injured by having their nets torn
away by vessels passing through them, notwithstanding
every precaution being taken by the fishermen to prevent
such an occurrence. Although they show a light, blow
horns, or make any noise, onward g• the vessels and away
go the nets.-0n Monday night last, a boat belonging to
Goran Haven, was driving about three miles off Fowey
harbour, when a limestone-barge passed through the nets,
and cut away about ten fathoms of a mackarel net, marked
on the corks G. \V., and two pilchard nets marked P. P.
This is a serious loss to Peter Pomery, to whom the nets
belong, and we hope that should the nets be met with, the
finder will restore them to the rightful owner. We trust
also that the limestone vessels will keep a better look-out
in future, as they have been the principal cause of the
loss to the fishermen, other vessels being more careful.
West Briton.

CAMBRIDGE, MAY 19, HALE-PAST NINE.
A scene of the most disgraceful character has occurred here
to-day. A requisition was signed by a number of the most
respectable: inhabitants to call a public meeting to vote an
address to the Queen on the late political event.—
The meeting took place, at which the Mayor presided,
when an address was moved by Mr. Alderman Forester,
and seconded by Alderman Gretton, which was the
signal of an uproar and conflict not exceeded by an as-
semblage of the lowest characters on any public occa-
sion. To the honour of the town, there was a considerable
majority in favour of the address, but it appears the
whole of the Tory part of the University was marshalled
for the occasion. No sooner had the business com-
menced than a simultaneous rush at the doors and win-
dows was made, the parties using instruments for that
purpose ; they got possession of the Town-hall, and in de-
fiance of the Proctors and police, the latter 24 men, they
converted the meeting into a bear garden ; some of the
Uudergraduates broke through the pannels of the doors,
actually smashed the windows, and came in through the
glass wounded and bloody ; thence ensued a regular conflict
to get possession of the hustings, which lasted nearly two
hours ; several of the leading men were injured. The
Mayor at length, after great difficulty, read the Riot Act,
and the Undergraduates with their mob did not disperse till
night came on. At the time of writing this, there are
perhaps &000 persons in the Market-place..
We learn that a Counsel, frequently censured for
his truculent propensities, was recently reproved in such
decided terms by a young pleader of talent, that the
matter is expected to terminate a few miles; beyond the
Committee-room in which, it is said, the provocation
was given and the retort made. Ailiorring the prin-
ciple of duelling, we rather hope that a person habitually
wanting in conventional courtesy, may have It corres-
ponding
unconsciousness of the conventional ameessity
for demanding satisfaction of a personal kind when he
has attracted an insult to him. In the times of Den-
ning, Thurlow, Erskine, and others whom. he coe'd
cite, gentlemanly decorum never merged e ten in the
ardour of pleading. In the present tin' ,es, there is
a frequent depression of the moral lone of the bar ;
and a man who can only be jusasi likened to Thyr_
sites, the bully of antiquity, Tr:ll'oA be the favoured
object of judicial puffery, s.nd trumpeted. forth as i
the worthy successes to the ;great legists of she past scat. 1
tury. Society will so leaLer endure the insult with (1
which foul-mouth:el lawyers assail some of its most dc ti
-
serving Inenlt'srs; and we are bound to hope that the pro.
fession itseV,—a body of which England is entitled to bo
Proud---,sill lo,e no more time in framing la ales of discipline I
again' ,; all conduct unbecoming the robe. They owe it to
the 'selves to isolate (if they cannot at once expel) any al
member whose conduct casts disrepute ota the general fame
of. the Bar—Evening Paper.
FALSE ALARM.—Lord Clinton bespoke the
performance at the Newark Theatre ort. Friday evening.
a
last, at which the greater part of the Yeomanry Officers
attended ; bet in the midst of th
.seised the the-
alarming; sound of " horse and array"
,exice. Their situation may be easier 1
toleaving
conceived than
described; the officers turned. out of t theatre, l3
the remainder of the audience itt the
I
search of the disturber, who tose..; soon sound to be an
youth, who bad been some time pr gr eatest suspense,
argilssouth,
in
practising on the bugle.
Ike seas taken before the Mayor and. reprimanded.--D°n-
caster Gazette.