The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-22 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty and her august Mother attended divine ser-
vice yesterday afternoon in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
The prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the
lessons were read by the Rev. R, H. B. than,. The mu-
sical service was Arnold's in F., and an anthem, " Call to
Remembrance," (Nares). Mr. J. B. Sale presided at the
organ. _

The Dean of Here Ford was the Deputy Clerk of the
Closet in waiting. Her Majesty's suite consisted of the
Countess of Burlington, Hon. Miss Murray, Hon. Miss
Paget, Lord Gardner, Earl of Surrey, Sir Fred. Stovin,
and the Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Lady Charlotte Dundas
was in waiting on the Duchess of Kent. The Royal party
after the service, returned in three of the Royal carriages
to Buckingham Palace.
During the early part of the week the Queen was
slightly indisposed with a cold, but is, we are happy to
state, entirely recovered.
Sir J. Clark has been in attendance upon her Majesty.
Her Majesty, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent,
honoured the Italian Opera with her presence on Saturday
evening. The Royal suite included the Countess of Bur-
lington, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Murray, Lord
Gardner, Sir Frederick Stovin, and the Hon. Colonel
Cavendish.

Viscount Melbourne and Lord Hill had audiences of her
Majesty, on Saturday.
The Queen, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent, and
attended by the Hon. Miss Paget, took an airing on Sa-
turday afternoon in an open carriage and four.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by the
Princesses of Hohenlohe, left Marlborough House, at two
o'clock on Saturday afternoon, in an open carriage and
four, for her residence at Bushy Park. The Duke of
Cambridge visited and took leave of her Majesty, previous
to her departure. The Hon. Miss Eden, Lady Beding-
feld, Rev. J. R. Wood, and the Hon. Captain Curzon,
left town on Saturday, for the Queen's Lodge at Bushy
Park.

The Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, at-
tended by Miss Kerr, left town yesterday morning for
Kew, where their Royal Highnesses attended Divine Ser-
vice in Kew Church. A sermon was preached by the Rev.
E. Neocati, in aid of the Funds of the Queen's Free
school.

Despatches from Sir John Colborne, Governor of the
Canadas, and from Sir George Arthur, Lieutenant-Go-
vernor of Upper Canada (brought by the steam ship
Liverpool) were received yesterday at the Colonial Office.
Despatches were also received yesterday at the Colonial
Office from Sir G. Gipps, Governor of New South \Vales.
The Earl of Lichfield and Earl de Grey had an inter-
view with Viscount Melbourne on Saturday in Downing-
street.

'1 ue Military Secretary to the Commander of the Forces
had an intervi,w with Lord John Russell on Saturday at
the Home Office.

The Commander of the Forces had an interview with
Marquis of Normanby on Saturday at the Colonial Office.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town on Saturday
for Tonbridge Wells.
The Marquis of Lansdowne had a dinner party on Sa-
turday at Lansdowne [louse.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL JULY MEETING-FRIDAY.

The Knowsley iiinr-;r Stakes of 100 sovs. each, h. f. ; for
three-yrs-old colts, Bst. 61b. ; and fillies, fist:. 21b. Once
round. (10 subs. )
Lord Stanley's b. c. Charlatan, by Physician (Lye) I
Lord Westminster's c. by The Saddler
Hon. E. M. L. Mostyn's b. c. Hugh Lupus, by Priam
Betting-7 to 4on Lord Westminster's c., and sto 2 agst
Hugh Lupus. Won in a canter.
The Stand Cup of 100 sovs. value (in specie), added to a
Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 soya, each, 10 ft. Once round
and a distance. (26 Subs.)
Mr. Denham'. b. c. Compensat ion, 4 yrs., Bst. 51b 1
Lord Mil o ti's el-. m. Cruiskeen, 5 yrs., 6st. 131 b.
Mr. Holker's ch. m. The Maid of Mouton, 5 yrs., Bst.4lb 3
The following also started but were not placed :—Mr. Ogden's
br. c. Harpurhey, 4 yrs, Ist. 51b. ; Mr. F. R. Price's br. g.
Captain Pops, 4 yrs, Ist. 51b. ; and Lord Stanley's br. f. Velo-
city, 3 yrs, 6st. Mb. Betting-7 to 2 agst Harpurhey, 3to 1
agst Compensation, 3 to I agst Maid of Monton, and 7 to 1 agst
Velocity. Won in a canter by two lengths.
The Grosvenor Stakes of 15 soy. each, 5 ft., with 50 added ;
for three-years-old, Ist. 41b., and four years, Bst. 101 b. ; the
winner of the St. Leger Stakes 31b. extra ; mares and geldings
and four-year-olds, being maiden at the time of nomination,
allowed 31b. (16 Subs. )
Mr. W. R. Ramsay's b. c. Lanercost, 4 yrs (Cartwright) 1
Mr. Allen's b. f. Antigua, by Mulatto, 3 yrs 2
stol on Lanercost. Won cleverly by a length.
The Stanley Stakes of 20 soy. each, with 30 added ; for two-
year-olds, 6st. 121 b and three Nears, 9st. 21b. ; mares and
geldings Bowed 21b. T. Y. C. (3 Subs.)
Lord Stanley's bk. f. Hoyden, 2 yrs.
The Selling Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 70 added; for

three-yea"r-olds, .7st. ; four years, Bst. 41b. ; five years, Bst,
101 b. ; six years, 9st..;..winners once, 31b. extra ; twice, tilb

extra ; mares and geldings allowed 31b. The second to re-
ceive 10 soy. out ot the stake, and the winner to be sold for
150 sov. Heats once round. (4 Subs.)
Mr. Etty's br. c. The Quack, 3 yrs .. (Lye) 1 1
Mr. F. R. Price's b. f. Lady Abbess, 3 yrs
Lord Miltown's ch. c. Leprechaun, 3 yrs

Mr. Dixon's b. h. Anvil,s yrs ..
Won easy

LATEST BETTING AT LIVERPOOL.

THE GOODNN HOD CUP.
7 to 1 agst Harkaway
5 to 1 agst Galewood
6 to 1 agst Deception
10 to 1 agst The Doctor—taken
15 to 1 agst St. Andrew—taken
10 to 1 agst Industry—taken
111 E ST. LEGER.
3 to 1 agst Bloomsbury
4 to 1 agst Charles the Twelfth
15 to 1 agst Hetman Platoff

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Morning Chronicle of this day observes, with re-
ference to the Irish Committee of Inquiry appointed some
months since by the House of Lords with a view to throw
obloquy on the Marquis of Normanby's system of policy,
Has Earl Roden, with the aid of fourteen hundred folio
pages, proved that ' crime was never suffered to go on, as
it had been by Lord Norrnanby's Government?' No, the
total failure of the case against Government is now ap-
parent." In another leading article, suggested by the
Penny Postage Bill, which is to be read a second t►me to.
night in the Commons, our Contemporary says—" The
Bill has been drawn with apparent honesty of purpose of
carrying the proposed plan into full execution. We there-
fore urge all the friends of the measure to early attend-
ance, and to do their best to get the Bill into Committee
as soon as possible, for we have reason to believe that delay
in sending it to the House of Lords will alone place the
measure in jeopardy."
The Morning Post, referring again to the subject of the
Birmingham riots, and the Duke of Wellington's passionate
comments on them the other night in the House of Lords,
observes :—" The people of Great Britain will not be re-
conciled to the burning of houses and the destruction of
property in the face of a civil and military force more than
adequate to the repression of such outrage, even although
they should be satisfied, which is rather improbable, tha•
the Duke of Wellington has spoken of these transaction,
in terms of stronger indignation and horror than they de-
,ervcd ; or even although they should be satisfied that the

perpetrators of these outrages are the same men with whom
Secretaries of State did not disdain, a few years ago, to
hold indirect correspondence, with a view to accomplish,
by the threat of physical force, an important change in the
Constitution."

The Times comments in the most furious style on
the general incapacity of Ministers, and insinuates
in the following frantic paragraph, which seems in.
spired by the genius of Bedlam, that they would
not hesitate to break up the whole framework of
the monarchy, if by so doing they could crush their
Conservative opponents I— " Once more, it is not the
Chartist multitude, it is not the Chartist Magistrates, who
arc morally guilty of the attempted ruin at Birmingham,
or of that tremendous conspiracy which pervades and
scares the whole north of England with hourly threats
of plunging into utter desolation the most affluent and
prosperous of our manufacturing cities of Notting-
liamshire, Staffordshire, Lancashire, and Yorkshire. It
is not, we repeat, the mere tumultuary agents or local
abettors of these calamities who ought to bear the blame
and punishment of their consummation. It is the central
authority by which they were encouraged and hslloocd on,
Ity which they were contemplated front the very outset as
tit means and tools of the victory for which Whigs were
struggling over Conservatives—a faction so blinded by
rage and hatred, that it was content to break up the whole
Itamewoilt of the monarchy if it might hurl the fragments
A. the head of its old political opponents."
The Morning Herald contains a leading article on the
subject of its pet-grievance, the new Poor-law Bill. The
spirit of this article may be judged of by the following pa
ragraph The new Poor-law is, in truth, a declaration
of war against the rights of industry. It is a law that may
suit jobbers and schemers, and men who seek to thrive by
• grinding the faces of the poor.' It is a law that may
prove productive of temporary profit to that order of capi-
talists, which boasts of owing no allegiance to the soil
of England.' But the new Poor-law, in striking at the
rights of industry, strikes also at the security of property—
more especially at the security of property in land. No
conservatism may deserve the name, which does not rest on
conservation of the comforts and privileges of the la•
bouring poor. To pass sentence of degradation from his
place in society upon every man, whose misfortune it may
be to be deprived of employment, is to render it the in-
terest of a powerful class to keep always out of employ
ment a considerable portion of the order of labourers."
The Morning Advertiser, recurring to Lord Brougham's
'
education speech in Parliament, remarks as follows:_
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Considerable quantities of excellent hay are
now imported to Glasgow from Ireland; and we have
heard it stated that in some cases it has been sold at 30z.
a ton cheaper than by our Scotch farmers. For some
years past the import of high vegetables has tended very
materially to keep clown the vegetable market in this
city,—Glasgow 4r9gs.
GIGANTIC STRAWBZ,RRY.-A strawberry of
the seedling sort, grown in the gardens at Chipporsbr-m-
-ra•k, in this county, was gathered a few days since, weigh-
ing 13 drachma avoirdupois, and measurei six inches in
circumference.—:Carnbridys Chronicle.

A BILL FOR THE FURTHER RE_
GULATION OF THE DUTIES OF POSTAGE.

[Note.—The words printed in Italics are proposed to be
inserted in the Committee.]
Whereas it is expedient that the present rates of postage
on letters should be reduced to one uniform rate of a penny,
charged on every letter of a given weight, to be hereafter
fixed and determined, with a proportionate increase for
greater weights ; Parliamentary privileges of franking being
abolished, and official franking !being strictly regulated,
and Parliament pledging itself to make good any deficiency
of revenue which may be occasioned by such alterations of
the rates of existing duties :
And whereas it is expedient and necessary to give by law
a temporary authority to the Lords of her Majesty's Trea-
sury to take the necessary steps to give effect to such re-
duction, and to make orders and regulations for the same ;
which reductions, orders and regulations shall have force
and effect to the fifth day of October, one thousand eight
hundred and forty, and no longer.
Be it therefore enacted, by the Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Loids
Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Par-
liament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that it
shall be lawful for the Lords of the Treasury from time to
time, and at any time after the:passing of this Act, by war-
rant under their hands, to alter, fix, reduce, or remit, all or
any of the rates of British or Inland, or other post age payable
by law on the transmission of post letters, and to subject
such letters to rates of postage, according to the weight
thereof, and a scale of weight to be contained in such war-
rant (without reference to the distance or number of miles
the same shall be conveyed), and to fix and limit the
weight of letters to be sent by the post, and from time to
time to alter or repeal any such altered or reduced rates,
and make and establish any new or other rates in lieu
thereof ; but so that all such warrants shall be inserted in
the London Gazette ten days at least before coming into
operation, and shall within fourteen days after making the
same be laid before both Houses of Parliament (if then
sitting), or otherwise within fourteen days after Parlia-
ment shall meet. _ .

And be it enacted, that the rates of postage from time to
time to be altered or reducLd and fixed by any such warrant,
shall he charged by and be paid to her Majesty's Postmaster-
Gt ne al for the use of her Majesty on all post letters to

%. hi h such warrant shallcxtenJ.
And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Lords
of the Treasury, by warrant under their hands, to sus-
pend wholly or in part any Parliamentary or official
privilege of sending and receiving letters by the post free
o!. postage, or any other franking privilege of any descrip-
tion whatsoever, as well under an Act passed in the
first year of the reign, of her present Majesty, intituled
" An Act for regu!ating the sendit:g and receiving of
Letters and Packets by the Post, free from the duty of
Postage," as under any other Act or Acts of Parliament

win force, and to make such regulations for the future
exercise of official franking as they shall think fit : Pro-
vided also, that every warrant to be issued by the Lords of
the Treasury for the suspension of the Parliamentary pri-
vileges of franking shall be inserted in the London Ga-
zelle ten days at least before coming into operation, and
shall, withinfourteen days after making the same, be laid
before both Houses of Parliament (if then sitting), or
otherwise within
,fourtern days after Parliament shall mice%

And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Lords
of the T,rasur, by warrant under their hands, and inserted
in the London Gazette ten days at least before coming into
operation, to suspend wholly or in part the regulations and
privil!ges estamishod and given by law in respect of let-
te. s sent by the twopenny post in London and Dublin, and
also by any penny post, and in respect of any other letters
which nay be now sent by the post at a low or' reduced
rate of postage or free of postage, and to declare and direct
that all and every or any of such post letters shall be
charged and chargeable with the like rates of postage as
any other letter transmitted by the post, or to make such
otly2r regulations in respect thereof as in any such warrant
shall from time to time be expressed.
Provided always, and be it enacted, that it shall be lawful
1;r ti e Lords cf the Treasury. by warrant under their
hands to be inserted in the London Gazette (which war.

rant may b r rescinded, varied or altared as they shall from
time to time think fit), to direct that letters written on
stamped paper, or inclosed in stamped covers, or having
a stamp affixed thereto (the stamp in every such case being
of the value or amount in such last-mentioned warrant to
be expressed and specially provided for the purpose, under
the authority of the Act), shall, if within the limitation of
weight to be fixed under the provisions of this Act, pass
by the post free of postage ; and also to require that
every letter sent by the post shall, in the cases to be
specified in any such last-mentioned warrant, be written on
such stamped paper, or enclosed in such stamped
cover, or have such stamp as aforesaid affixed, or that in
default thereof, or in case the stamp on which any letter
shall be written, or the stamp on the cover in which it
shall be enclosed, or to which it shall be affixed, shall be
of less value or amount than in such warrant shall be ex..
pressed, such letter shall be charged and chargeable with
such rate of postage as such warrant shall direct. Pro-
vided always, that in all cases the stamp on or affixed to
any letter, or cover of a letter, put into the post, shall,
after such letter shall have been delivered by the post, be
no longer available for the purpose of protecting the same
or any other letter from the duty of postage.
And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Lords
of the Treasury to order and direct the Commissioners of
Stamps and Taxes from time to time to provide proper and
sufficient dics or other implements for expressing and de- .
noting the rates or duties which shall be directed by any
such warrant, as aforesaid, and to give any other orders,
arid make any other regulations relative thereto they may
consider expedient.
And be it enacted that the Commissioners of Stamps
and Taxes shall cause a separate account to be kept
of the stamp duties arising under this Act, and it shall
be lawful for the Lords of the Treasury, and they are
hereby empowered, by warrant under their hands, from
time to time to authorise and require the said Commis-
sioners of Stamps and Taxes to direct their Receiver-
General to pay over such sum and sums of money arising
from the said Stamp Duties as the Lords of the Treasury
shall think proper to the account of the Receiver-General
of her Majesty's Post-office at the Bank of England ; and
a!l such sums of money which shall be so paid over shall
be 11,1 d by the said last-mentioned Receiver-General, sub-
ject to all annuities and yearly sums now charged by law
on, or payable out of the Post-office revenue, and all other
charges, outgoings, and disbursements to which the Post-
office revenue is at present liable.
And be it enacted, that the rates or duties which shall
be expressed or denoted by any such dies as aforesaid.
shall be denominated and deemed to be atemp duties,
and shall be under the care and management of toe COM-
missioners of Stamps and Taxes for the time being ; and all
the powers, provisions, clauses, regulations, directions,
flues, forfeitures, pains an I penalties contained in or
inosed by the several A,:s now in force reiating to
clamp duties (so far as the same may be appli-
cable), shall be of full force and effect with respect
to the stamps to be provided under or by virtue of
this present Act, and to the paper on which the same
shall be impressed, or to which the same shall be
affixed, and shall be observed, applied, enforced, and
put in execution for the raising, levying, collecting, and
securing of the rates or duties denoted thereby, and for
preventing, detecting, and punishing all frauds, forgeries, j
and other offences relating thereto, as fully and effectually 1
to all intents and purposes as if such powers, provisions, 1
clauses, regulations, and directions, fines, forfeitures, pains,
and penalties, had been herein repeated and specially en-
ected with reference to the said last mentioned stamps and
rates or duties respectively.
And be it enacted, that all post letters shall ba posted,
forwarded, conveyed, and delivered, under and subject to
all such orders and directions, regulations, limitations, and
restrictions as the Postmaster-General, with the consent of
the Lords of the Treasury, shall from time to time direct.
And be it enacted that the penalty which by an Act
passed in the first year of the reign of her present Majesty,
intituled " An act for consolidating the laws relative to
offences against the Post-office of the United Kingdom,
,And fur regulat'nethe judicial administration of the Post-
effice laws, and for explaining certain terms and expressions
employed in those laws," is imposed on every master of a
vessel, outward-bound to Ceylon, the Mauritius, the
East Indies, or the Cape of Good Hope, who shall re-
fuse to take a post letter bag delivered or tendered to
him by an officer of the Post-office, shall henceforth
extend and apply to the master of ever
tyl vessel
bag outward
bound who shall refuse to take a posetter
vered or tendered to him by an officer of the Post-office
.
to the same gratuities as the master of any other vessel,
or conveyance; but every such master shall be entitled
onooLbiefionfg
the
oPpoosts-to_offiffie
ceop.acket, conveying letters for on or
And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lords
of the Treasury to make any reduction or alteration they
.nay consider expedient in the gratuities allowed by law to
t t)o'
.
masters of vessels for letters conveyed by them, for or on
behalf of the Post-office between places within the United
Kingdom, and between the United Kingdom and the
alinidantdosalelfowM aann,y3ge; setuYtimasters of vessels, passing to or from or between any of
aie Gsufeorrntsheey' conveyance Sarklud
ofAlietis
eer letters t
tier Majesty's colonies or possessions beyond the seas, if
snip letters fom
beyondnce of snip
seas
they shall think fit, not exceediag the gratuities payable to
r the word " letter" or
shall be held to
include newspapera, and any other
,tm: rael i It
Unitedoetedrrssb e,o,ft
it enacted, Kingdomvouen seseedtiesindf:t for the
that
pjteAl
waccchoteen,snyteevyeaBar „
packet, pai er, article,
or thing transmitted by the post, but not so as to deprive
newspapers of any privilege they now legaily possess of
passing free of postage ; and that the previsions of this Act
shall be constructed itecoiding to the respective interpre-
tations of the Lerma.' and expre-aions contained in the said
,econdly i•ereinbefere-mentioned Act of the first year of
the reign of her presentt. Majesty, so far as those interpre-
tations are not repugnant to the subject or inconsistent
with the coet ect of such provisions.
And be it enacted, that whenever the order, consent, or
direction, or any other act of the Lords of the Treasury is
prescribed or required by this Act, such order, com;,ent,
direction, or other Act, may be signified under the hands of
the Lords of the Treasury, or any three of them.
And be it enacted, that this Act shall absolutely cease
and determine on the .sth day of October, one thousand
c i
piyht hundred and forty ; anti all warrants issued under 4
the contrary (except in respect ( f any postageidrtuater hi
of this
authority of the same, unless Perliement shall declare to
may then have become payable under or
fbayncv
h duties, and
Act); and any proceeding for recoverydoar,
penalty in-
sions of this or any other Act, and ya-nfid
any proceeding
except also as to any offence committed iattne
curred by reason of any such offence,
or for the punish-
for recovery of any Such fine or pcna tn _Laoinrst the proeis
ment of any offender.
peeled by any Act to
be p
a _
sed uuring the present session
of Parliament. _____..-rse-------=_-_____
___—_,_-.
be it enacted, That this Act inay be amended or re-
And

The sharehold`eT of the Brighton railway, fol-
lowing the excellent example afforded by seve.ral other
say Companies,
Companies, hir.ve voted lON. pt,r annum. towards the
support of three elerpruQn, who are to go among the la-
bourers employed Ott their line, and impart to theta Teligio"
instruction.