The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-11 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty accompanied by the Princess of Leiningen,
and attended by the Countess of Burlington, took an airing
yesterday afternoon in an open carriage and four. The
Honourable Colonel Cavendish (Clerk Marshal)-Equerry
in waiting, attended the Queen on horseback.

Viscount Melbourne bad an audience yesterday of her
Majesty.
The Royal Dinner party at the Palace last evening in-
cluded her Serene Highness the Princess Theresa of
Hohenlohe, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Falkland, Vis-
count Morpeth, and the lion. Charles Howard.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager rode out on horseback
yesterday afternoon, accompanied by the Princess Theresa
of Hohenlohe, and attended by Lady Clinton, Earl of
Denbigh, Earl Howe, Sir Horace Seymour, Rev. J. R.
Wood, and the Hon. Captain Curzon. The Princess
of Hohenlohe Borten. stein, the Hon. Miss Eden, and
the Dowager Lady Bedingfield, followed the equestrian
party in a pony phaeton.
The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Queen Dowager
yesterday at Marlborough House.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honoured Prince
Esterbazy, the Austrian Ambassador, with their company
at dinner last evening at Chandos House.
The Duke of Cambridge honoured Mr: Baxter with a
sitting yesterday at Cambridge House for his picture of
the Coronation. "A,T.

His Excellency Count Bjornstjerni. the Swedish Mi-
nister, arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-street at one
o'clock yesterday from Sweden.
Lord Bandon, Mr. Broadley, Mr. Parker, Chairmait of
the Hull Dick Company, and deputations from Liverpool
and Hull, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer on the subject of inland bonding.
The Earl of Uxbridge had an interview yesterday with
Viscount Melbourne, in Downing-street.
The Commander of the Forces bad an interview with
the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Members of the Naval and Military Commission sat
yesterday two hours, at the official residence of Viscount
Melbourne in Downing. street.
The Marquis of Lansdowne had a dinner party yesterday
evening at Lansdowne House.

Desp—atcbes from Sir John Harvey, Governor of New
Brunswick, and from the Governor of Prince Edward's
Island, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

Lord Thanet, in Gloucester-place, from Hothfield-place,
near Maidstone ; Messrs. E wart and Bold, at the Burling-
ton Hotel, from Liverpool ; Lord Fingal], from the Park,
Hotel, at Norwood ; Lord Hawke, in Albemarle-street,
from Womersley-hall, Yorkshire ; Lord and Lady Ayles-
ford, in Grosvenor-street, from a visit to the Marquis and
Marchioness of Abercorn, at Bentley Priory ' - the Marquis
of Douglas, in Portman-square, from ditto ;LordSegrave,
in Spring Gardens, from a visit to the Countess Berkeley,
at Cranford Lodge, near Hounslow ; Lord Glenlyon, from
the quarters of the Scots Greys, in Dublin ; Lord Bel-
haven and Stenton, at Thomas's Hotel, from the north ;
the Hon. Augustus Moreton, M. P., at Lord Ducie's, Park-
lane, from the Isle of Wight ; Mr. 13iakc, M. P., in Port-
land-place ; Lord and Lady Douglas, in Hanover-square;
Colonel Sir Henry Macleod, from Trinidad ; the lion.
Lady (Charles) Paget and family, from Plymouth ; Mrs.
and Miss Strode, at the Carlton Hotel, Regent street,
from Bath ; Sir H. E. Hamilton and Lady Seymour, at
ditto, from Brussels ; Sir S. and Lady Cromplin, at ditto ;
his Excellency Baron and Baroness Meyendorf, Chamber-
lan and Conseiller d'Etat of the Emperor of Russia, at
Warne's Hotel, Albemarle-strret.
DEPARTURES.
Sir John Sydney. Bart., for Brighton; Baron Robe,A,
for Dublin ; the Nlarehioness of Breadalbane and Miss
Baillic, from Park-lane, for Bentinck House, Brighton ;
M. and Lady Mary Stanley, from Grosvenor-square, for
Sussex ; Lord Cardigan, from Portman-square, for the
cavalry barracks, at Canterbury ; Mr. Palmer, M. P., from
Charles-street, Berkeley-square, for Holme Park, near
Reading ; the Misses Perceval, from Eaton-square, for
Crofton Hall, near Bromley, Kent; Lord and Lady Corn-
wallis, from Hill-street, for Linton. place, near Maidstone,
Kent; Sir Edward Elton, Bart., for his seat in Somer-
setshirc; Sir Edmund and Lady Hayes, on a con-
tinental tour; Colonel Wingfield, 32d regiment, for
Quebec ; Mr. and Lady Caroline Turnout-, for the
Continent ; Evelyn Leardet, Esq., and family, from
Warne's Hotel, Albemarle-street, for Australia ; Mr.
and the Misses Aspinall, from the Lansdowne
Hotel, Dover-street, for Standen Hall, Lancashire ; ,Mr.
Blegborough, from ditto, for ditto ; Mr. and Mrs.
yard, from ditto; R. Eaton, Esq., and Miss Eaton, from
the Carlton Hotel, Regent-street, for Hitchworth Park ;
Mr. and Mrs. Nightingale and family, from ditto ; Mr.
and Mrs. Nicholson and family, from ditto ; the Princes
Belgiojoso and suite, from ditto; the Marquis Visconti,
from ditto; the Prince Galitzin, from ditto; the Lady
Adeliza Manners, from ditto, for Upper Brook-street;
Lord Northwich, from ditto ; Sir Robert and Lady Heron,
from ditto ; Colonel and Mrs. Wingfield, from ditto ; the
Hon. Charles and Lady Emmeline Wortley, from ditto,
for Holland ; Mr. and Alm, Keppel, from ditto, for the
Netherlands; Lady Trimlestown, from ditto; Sir Evan
Lloyd and Mrs. Lloyd, from ditto.

Mr, Gibson's canvass has been very successful,
but no doubt the contest will be very severe. At the %Wl-
lington Club, last night, it was resolved that Mr. Gibson's
address at the nomination should not be heard—thereby
evincing the strongest proof that the Tories are afraid of
the statements he would certainly make of their bigotted
intolerance.
FIRE.—A fire broke out this day shortly before
two o'clock, in the extensive printing-ofr.ces of Messrs.
Hansard, in Parker street, Drury-lane, which at one time
threatened destruction to the entire premises. It was,
however, fortunately got under after raging nearly an hour.
The extent of the damage cannot as yet be ascertained.

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LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S PAROCHIAL—
AS-
SESSMENT BILL —The Parish of St. Pancras, through
their representative Vestry. has held a meeting to consider
the above measure now before Parliament, when after
several severe and condemnatory observations upon the
principles it proposes to carry out, in addition to other
resolutions it was resolved, that the Vestry Clerk should
be directed to write to the Borough Members, Lord
Tcignmouth and Sir B. Hall, Bart., requesting them to
give it in the House of Commons their most determined
and strenuous opposition. Marylebone is about to take
steps for the adoption of a similar course ; and st. Paul's
Covent Garden, an several other Metropolitan and sub-
urban parishes, have determined on meeting during the
week to discuss the same subject.

VEN-ING EDITION.

CI)ILDREN'S FRIEND SOCIETY

We give the following st .tements and remarks relative
to this Society, made by Sir James Alexander some
time ago. The grand panacea for the Cape, he ob-
serves is labour, and after regretting that the tide of

emigration passes by it, he thus proceeds :—" Some
time ago a Society was formed in Englaad, for
the purpose of conducting the emigration of
orphan and other poor, but not depraved, chil-
dren, from Great Britain to the Colonies ; four
hundred and nineteen male juvenile emigrants, and
ninety-five girls, have already been taken from the
streets of London, where they were reared in the
midst of vice and misery, and have been sent to the
Cape of Good Hope. The members of this Society,
who incur the responsibility of sending these children
from their native land, have been at great pains to
ascertain the reception the children are likely to
meet with in the Colonies to which they may be sent,
and accordingly required interrogatories to be satis-
factorily answered by those who could give the best
information, respecting the demand for servants, and
the prospect of their meeting with immediate em-
ployment from persons of good character, before
sending abroad the children under their care, so as not
to render emigration a mere charge of place, without
benefiting the condition of the emigrant youth. The
average rate of wages at the Cape for a boy of four-
teen years of age, engaged in agricultural pursuits,
has been about 3L 10s. per annum, on a seven years'
itpprenticeship, with good food and clothing, Artisans
give about the same ; but the demand for boys by
artisans is less than by farmers. In-door servants
receive about 41. per annum. Boys are usually bound
by indenture, and generally for seven years, or from
five to seven years—also a contract legally entered into
in Great Britain for services to be performed at the
Cape will be enforced in the Colony. There is a con-
stant demand in Cape Town for the labour of boys,
as house servants, grooms, or gardeners. But the
supply of this labour from home, should of course
be regulated by constant advice from the Colony,
which is now given by a Cape Society (for the ma-
nagement of juvenile emigrants), which communicates
with the London Society. The boys who were first
sent out, had their passage paid by the masters to
whom they were indentured at the Cape, and they re-
ceived the first year their food, clothing, and washing,
besides sixpence or ninepence per week as pocket-
money, two-thirds of which was invested in the savings'
hank for their benefit. That a number of the juvenile
emigrants will turn out.weil, there is little doubt, par-
ticularly those who have not been exposed to much
contamination at home, and who fall into good hands at
the Cape—others, again, appear quite incorrigible, the
vices of lying and stealing seem to be so implanted in
them." •

These statements, adds the Athenccum, breathe so can-
did, and indeed impartial a spirit, that they may, we
think, Le at once adopted ; and the fair inference is,
that admitting the truth of some of the complaints lately
made, the great majority of the children sent out are far
better, and very few are worse off, than they would have
been at home. The chance of bad milsters is one to which
apprentices must everywhere be liable. With respect
to the non-intercourse, naturally grievous to parents,
may it not be suspected, that the boys themselves find
other occupations for their leisure time more amusing
than letter writing, and other uses for their .2d. or 3d.
per week, more to their taste than paying postage ?

MR. BURFORD'S PANORAMA OF

MALTA, LEICESTER-SQUARE.

The island of Malta has lately become very popular
from its having been the temporary residence of the Queen
Dowager; visited also by Prince George of Cambridge,
and though last not least, public attention has been directed
to it by what a Noble and Learned Lord would term " the
crass and stupid ignorance" of certain lawyers in authority
in the island, and whose acts were discussed in Parliament
several times during the present session. From all these
causes, Malta has lately been much before the public. The
magical touches of Mr. Burfori's pencil, however, will secure
for Malta a still more extended popularity, we apprehend.
At the private view of this magnificent and most beautiful
picture which was given on Thursday, there were many distin-
guished. persons, not a few of whorii had lived on the island,
and therefore were well able to pronounce an opinion on
the faithfulness of the representation. The Queen
Dowager and suite had previously viewed the picture, and
expressed their approbation of it in the warmest manner.
From a distance the island has the appearance of a well-
fortified barren rock, but on entering the capacious
and noble port, a view bursts upon the sight at once im-
posing, picturesque, and interesting in the extreme; a fine
expanse of water presents itself, transparent as crystal and
placid as a lake, covered with innumerable vessels of all
sizes, from the proud British man-of-war to the tiny plea-
sure boat of the Maltese. It is surrounded by an amphithe-
atre of strong forts and stupendous masses of fortifica-
tions, sufficient to annihilate the most powerful naval
force that could be brought against it. Such is Malta, and
Mr. Burford has finely represented it in the picture under
our notice. The moment chosen for it is apparently about
liwn; the Queen Dowager, in an elegant barge, appears
to be returning from a short excursion. In compliment,
the yards of the stately British ship the Castor, are
manned, flags of all nations flutter in the healthful breeze,
all is gaiety and joy, contrasting excellently well with the
cool stillness of the water, which Mr. Burford has sue-
cecded in represeting wi matchles skl. It r-
fee* illusion; the-nspeetatorth longs tos jumpil .in and enjoy
the crystal bath, so, beautiful is. the colouring, so adroitly
managed is the perspective. It drew ,forth bursts of ap-
plause from every visitor. The view of Malta must become
a greatfavourite with the public.