The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-31 00:00:00

TURKEY.

There are several articles in the Paris journals of
yesterday on the Eastern question. The Constiht-
tionne/ article is almost an echo of the notice in the
Moniteur. The Constitutiolotel says :

"The first point which strikes us in this note of the
Monitcur is that an attempt at conciliation made in com-
mon by the representatives of the Governments of France,
England, Austria, and Prussia, is spoken of. Although
the Mon.iteur gives no details on this collective step of
the four powers, the simple indication of the fact has
great importance. It proves a happy understanding
between them on the affairs of the East, and that
understanding is assuredly the best guarantee which
can be had that no complication will arise from these
difficulties calculated seriously to disturb the repose of
Europe. In what is passing at this moment at
Constantinople between the Porte and Russia, there
can only be a cause of coolness. In any case we
must remark that, according to diplomatic custom, the
departure of an ambassador extraordinary, charged with
a special mission, is considered as having a character
less serious, and especially less grave in its consequences
than the departure of a resident ambassador. It was
thought, however, at Constantinople, from letters re-
ceived from St. Petersburgh and Odessa, that, in accord-
ance with what has already taken place in similar cir-
cumstances, Prince Menschikoff will be replaced by an
ordinary ambassador, who will undertake, in the name
of the Czar, new negotiations with the Sultan in a regu-
lar form. The Moniteur indicates further, as being a
guarantee for the maintenance of peace, the assurances
which the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh recently gave to
all the courts of Europe. We do not believe that these
assurances will be disproved by the facts which have
taken place at Constantinople. We should not even be
surprised to find that Prince Menschikoff has exceeded,
at least in form, the intentions of the Czar, and the in-
structions of his Cabinet. However that may be, we
persist in maintaining our confidence in the pacific solu-
tion of the Eastern question."
The Pays writes in the same spirit, but at
greater length.
In the Union we find an article which is not
very clear, for it seems to approve and disapprove
of the conduct of Russia almost in the same pas-
sage. All that we can understand is that the
Union nourishes a wild idea of turning Russian
aggression to the profit of the Roman. Catholic re-
ligion of which it is a very zealous advocate, and of
turning not only the Greeks of Turkey into Roman
Catholics according to the dogmas of that Church,
but of making even the Protestants, Jews, and
Mussuimans of the east good Roman Catholics.
The mode in which the Union proposes to effect
the Catholicising of Turkey is the revival of
the institution of the Knights of Malta, and in
support of its views it enters into a long his-
tory of a scheme of this kind proposed many
years ago by Colonel Jourdain for Greece, and the
realisation of which, it says, was only prevented
by unforeseen circumstances. Making up itsmind
that the Emperor of Russia would, after laying his
hands on Turkey, promote this visionary scheme,
the Union seems to desire rather than dread that
he will persist in his designs of becoming 'the mas-
ter of that country. It has no objection to Turkey
becoming his victim ; for the knights of Malta are
under his protection, to become the real sovereigns
of Turkey, and to bring the whole of its popu-
lation within the pale of the Roman Catholic
Church.

It is gratifying to be able to turn from the Union
to an article of the Debuts, which indicates reflec-
tion and observation, and admits of calm discussion.
The Debuts says :

We consider what takes place at Constantinople as I
one of the inevitable phases of the question of the East.'
And first of all we will say that, in spite of the departure
of the Prince Menschikoff, we are persuaded that the
denouement of this question is not yet near at hand. Yes,
the fall of the Ottoman Empire is inevitable ; but it is
still very distant, and the financial world has still the
time to do a good deal of business before the arrival of
the fatal moment."
A letter from Constantinople, dated the 16th,
says :
"An Extraordinary Council took place last night,
and after a stormy discussion the answer of the Porte to
Prince Menschikoff's second ultimatum was agreed
upon, and immediately communicated. It is conciliatory
but unfavourable, and does not depart an iota from the

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INC'ONIE 'TAX.
9autt -31. (tenants of lads -who are 'called upon to pay
,:arrears due from former occupier 4 .may .dedtiet the' -
`amount from their rent) :—/imendment proposodi at the
end of the clause to add . the followiugroviso i' —" Pro-
,vided nevertheless, that nothing in this act shall be con-
., strued to compel any occupier, being a tenant for the
';, me,heinr, 'to pay the arrears of income tax due by any . .e/
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44_tK-- 'tenant or occupier of the same lauds, tenements,
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lard out of any subsequent payment of rent such arrears,
unless the landlord shall have received .his rent for the
period for. which the arrear is due." Question put,
[ . " That the proviso be there added."' The conl7ttee
divided - ayes . 9 noes 14t.
' MINORITY-AYbS, €31):: '4 ~,.._ .: 'l4 --"-',•-? - . .
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Fitzgerald, 'W. 11. S. Morgan. Octavius
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itemitick, Geo. I'. Frewen, C. 11.
Muir, Colonel
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Smith, TV. SI
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Johni't eou n t ratiner, It.
Grogan, E. stafforri, A.
Branistim, T. tr. Hamilton, Geo. A. Stanhope, James B.
Bruce, Cumming Harcourt, Cot. Taylor, Col.
Luck, Lewis W. Ileroert, 11. A. Thompson, Aid.
Butt, G. :.:. Herbert, Sir Ihomai Tollcinache, J.
Clni I. smith Joltitfe, sir,W. G. H. Trollope, Sir J.
Cliolinoileley, Ld. H. Jones, Capt. Tyler, Sir George
Christopher, li. Adam Kelly, Sir F. Vansittart, G. It,
('hrist:', Samuel Kendall, N. Vyse, Capt.
Cole's, 11. Beaumont Knox, W. S. Walcott, Adm.
Coote, Sir C. 11 Langton, W. G. Wynne, W.
Davies, (), Laslett, W.
Ihincombe, Tin. A. Lockhart, W.
1/Uncouth& W. E. Lovalne, Lord
IninclaQ, it. , Macartuey, G.
Dunne, Col. Matins, K.
Egerton, W. Meux, Sir Henry

TELLERS.

Spooner, Richard
Freshlleld, J. W.

MAJORITY-NOES, 145.

A'Cour I, C. Fre'stun, Colonel Id urrough, J. I'.
Anson, General French, Fitzstephen O'Connell, Maurice
Ball, John. Gladstone, William O'Flaherty, A nthony
Baring, 11. B. Glyn, George Carr Otway, A ..J.
Bar ng, Sir F Goderich, Viscount Palmerston, Viscount
Beckett, William Goodmi.n, Sir George Pat ten. J.
Bell, James Grace, 0. B. to. S.
B.nbow,John Graham, Sir J. Phillimore, J.
Berkeley. C. G. Greene, J. " I hillimore, R. J.
Bethell, Richard Gregson, Samuel Pd.( ington, J.
Blacken, J. F. Is. Grenfell, C. Pollard• Urquhart, W.
Bland, L. Grey, Sir G. Ponsonby, lion. A.
Lanham-Carter, John Grosvenor, Lord R. Picareio, 0.
Boyle, Colonel Grosvenor. Earl Rice, E.
Bright, John ri adfleld, George Robaries, T. J. A.
Brotherton. Joseph Ball. Sir Benjamin Russell, Lord J.
Brown, William Hanmer, Sir J. Russell,". C.
Bruce, fI. A. Bast[-, Archibald Russell,"F. W.
Vutler. Charles S. Beard, J. I. Sad eir, J.
Cardwell, Hon. E. Herbert, Sidney Sawle, C. B. G.
Chaplin, W. J. Hervey, Lord Alfred Shelburne, Earl of
Cbarteris, F. Heywood, James Shelley, Mr J. V.
Cheetham, John Hlndley, Charles Sheridan. R. B.
Cobden, Richard Howard, W. G. Smith. J.
Cocks, Thomas S. ilughes, W. B. Smith, hit Hn. R.
Collier, Robert P. Hutchins, E. Smollett, A.
Cowan, Charles Hutt, William Stafford, Marquis
Cowper, W. Keogh, William Strutt, E.
Craufurd, E. 11. J. Kershaw, James Stuart, H.
Crook, J, Kinnaird, A. F. Thickness°, R. A.
Crossley, F. Kirk, William Thompson, Game
Crowder, R. Lacon, Sir E. Thornely, T.
Dalrymple, Vise. Langton, H. G. Towneley, C.
Davie, Sir U. Lemon, Sir C. Traill, G.
Denison, J. E. Lewis, Sir T. Vane, Lord 11.
Dent, J. Lowe, Robert Vernon, G.
Divert, E. Mackinnon, W. A. Vivian, J. 11.
Duncan, George Macgregor, James Walmsley, Sir J.
Dunlop, A. WM :gart, Sir J. Whalley, G.
Elliot, J. E. Marjoribauks, D. Whitbread, Samuel
Esmonde, J. Martin, John Wickham. B. W.
Euston, Earl Massey, W. Wilkinson, W. A.
Ev‘iis, W. Milligan, R. Wilson. Janice
Ewart, William Milner, W. M. E. Wyndham, W.
Fergus, John Moffatt, G. Young, Sir John
Ferguson, Col. Molesworth, Sir W.
Ferguson, Joseph Monereiff, James
Fitzroy, Henry Monsell, William
Fortescue, Chichester Morris, D.
Fox, W. J. Mostyn, E. 3f.

Hayter, lion. W.
MuWave, Earl

Clause 33 (deduction to be allowed under Schedule (A) for
the expenses of making and repairing sea walls and em-
bankments):—Amendment proposed, at the end of the
clause to add the following words :—" And in like manner
an allowance and deduction shall be made for the amount
of all parochial rates, taxes, or assessments charged on
any lands, tenements, hereditaments, and heritages in
Scotland, which by statute or custom are payable by the
landlord or owner thereof." Question put, "That those
words be there added." The committee divided ; ayes
42, noes 101.

MINORITY—AYES, O.
Arbsthnott, General George, John Morgan, C. Rodney
Barrow. W. H. Gordon, Admiral Multings, J. R.
Blair, Colonel Greaves, Edward Naas, Lord
Burke, Sir T. Greene, J. Pollard-Urquhart, NY .
Butt, I. Grogan, E. Smollett, A.
Campbell, Sir A. Hamilton, G. A. Spooner, R.
Carnac, Sir J. R. Jones, Captain &Ming, W.
Cowan, Charles Kendall, Nicholas Taylor, Colonel
Craufurd, E. NI acartney, G. Trail], G.
Dalrymple, Yis. 31' Mahon, P. Vansittart, George H.
' Dundas G. M'Taggart, Sir J.
Dunne, Col. Maguire, J.
Ferguson.slson. Sir Robert
310anliitigso,mReicryha, Sir rs G. Lockhart, W ,
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Forbes, W. Meagher, Thomas
Forster, Sir G. Montgomery, H. Bailey, H. J.
Frewen, C. 11.

TELLERS.

MAJORITY—NOES, 101.
Adam],
Sir T. GladsGoodmantone, William l'hillimore, R.
Bovines, M. T. 'Court, C. , Sir G. Phinti, T. •
tan, il John Graham, Sir James Pigott, F.
Grosvenor. Earl Ponsonhy, tin. A.G. J.
Berkeley, Craven L. Hadfield, George Price, Sir R. ' '
Bethell, Richard Banner, Sir John Ramsdell, Sir J.
Illackett, J. F. Hastie, Archibald Rice, E. (
Bland, L. Heard, J, Russell, LordJ.
Bonham-Carter, J. Herbert, Sidney Russell, F. WW.
Boyle, Col.
Hervey. Lord Alfred Sadleir, J.
Brockman, E. D. Heys orth, L. Sawle, C. B. G.
Bretherton, J. Johnstone, Sir J. Scobeil, Capt.
Brown, W. Keogh, William Smith, John Benj.
Butler, Charles Klnnaird, A. F. Strickland, Sir G.
Cardwell, E. Kirk, William Strutt, Ht. lion. E.
Cavendish, C. Langston. J. H. Thickutsse, IL A. Cavendish, George Lemon, Sir C. Thompson, G.
Charteris, F.
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Collier, Robert P. Macgregor, James Sir J
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Davie, sir H.
Duncan, G.
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TELLES B.

Hayter, W. G.
Mulgrave, Earl

LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1853.

Discretion last .evening—in reference to the
Turkish difficultyclosed the lips of the Leaders
of her MAJESTY'S Government. We arc satisfied
that reflection must already have assured the Noble
Earl the exTostinaster-General, and the Right
Hon. Gentleman the ex-Chancellor_ of the Exche-
quer, of the reasonableness of this exemplary
One ) on the part of our Administrators. Although
Mr. DISEAELI subsequently, in the course of the
discussion which took place in regard to the Tea
Duties, taunted Lord JOHN RUSSELL with finding
some difficulty in stating what has taken place in
Constantinople, we are convinced that no one in
the limits of Commons is more alive to the neces-
sity of refraining from anything like premature
disclosures in reference to a still pending
diplomatic negotiation than the gifted and expe-
rienced representative of Buckinghamshire. It
would, we fear, have been little less than an
European calamity, had the Noble Lord the raem-
her for the City of London in the Lower House,
or the Noble Earl her MAJESTY'S Chief Foreign
Secretary in the Upper House, consented yester-
day to announc3 to the world the nature of the
orders transmitted to Admiral DUNDA 5, in conse-
quence of Prince MENSCHIKOFF'S departure from
Constantinople. An explanation of that kind might
no doubt have been exceedingly satisfactory to the
more curious lookers-on ; but, in sober reality, we
do believe, as already remarked, that it would
have amounted to little less in result than an
European calamity. With the four honours on our
side, and every rational probability of the odd
tick, it would have been like displaying our hand,
in the very crisis of the game, to our antagonist.
We rejoice, therefore, that neither in the Lords
nor in the Commons the nature of the orders re-
ferred to, was even hinted at by:the Leaders of the
Administration. Possibly the reasonable inquisi-
tiveness of many may thereby have been doomed
to a somewhat irksome disappointment—but, at
any rate, the success of our policy has been effec-
tually secured from becoming compromised.
Neve rdieless, while we admit that it was only
rational in Ministers to refuse entering at this
moment into fUrther explanations as to the course
now being pursued -by them in regard to the po-
litical differences between the SULTAN and the
AUT4CII AT, we are none the less sensible that
upon the Coalition rests, at this critical period, a
heavya,nd even awful responsibility. Caution is all
very well, no doubt—but, carried beyond a certain
point, it degenerates into pusillanimity. Caution the
present Cabinet has already shown in its conduct of
late towards the two great Eastern disputants.
Them cannot, we believe, be said to exist nowa-
days any need for further such prudential con-
siderations. The CZAR has flagrantly broken faith
with us and with our Allies in the character of his
proceedings towards the Divan at Constantinople.
While assuring England and the rest of the prin-
cipal Powers of Western Europe that his negotia-
tions with the Sublime Porte had regard only to
questions of subordinate interest to the majority
of the nations of Christendom, NICHOLAS,
as
we have seen, has been surreptitiously
employing every means of intimidation with
a view to
the
ultimate dismemberment
and to sap the
foundations of the dTi°elllilrlikliishliGs'overnment. That is
notorious. It is thpeivan meaningf of the ultimatum
thrust upon the
its r acceptance or refusal
within a week after
Prince
MENSCHIKOFF. Itemernberlißnrug:istuihaeat,°lcionbsyequently
—remembering how the
ourn
AnElnperor has
acted towards ourselves, and
matter, treating Western Europe. • ea in this
with duplicity,
and the Sublime Porte with the moat unjustifiable
turpitude—we repeat that further necessity forwhat
is called caution in diplomacy—that further, need
for what are termed merely prudential Considera-
tials, has by this time altogether disappeared. The
advisability of so actin g vanished at the moment when
the notorious ultimatum' was laid before the Divan by
the Russian Plenipotentiary at Constantinople. It
became requisite, therefore, for some more ener-
;etie proceeding on our part immediately Prince
MENSCIMIOFF was known to have taken his de-
parture for St. Fetoreburgli. Afa it appoarti to IA

but one course lay open to our rulers instantly on
their becoming acquainted with this emergency.
That course, we conceive, is sufficiently obvious
even to the least intelligent capacity—namely,
the concentration forthwith of our maritime forces
in the Mediterranean, at the entrance of the
Dardanelles. Unless orders to this effect have
been dispatched to Admiral DUNDAS, directing
him to conduct his fleet immediately to the
vicinity of the Golden Horn, to be ready, in case
of need, to afford every assistance in his power to
ABD-UL-MEDJID, we cannot conceive that due
efforts will be allowed to have been made—" to
maintain inviolate the faith of Treaties and the
independence and integrity of the Turkish
Empire "—by the chiefs of her Britannic
MAJESTY'S Government. A little while longer,
however, and it will be seen whether the Cabinet
has acquitted itself of its responsibilities in this
matte; by acting with becoming vigour, decision,
and promptitude. A little while longer and the
country will learn whether the Coalition Ministry
has fulfilled its promises in reference to what we
have designated before now the only rational
policy in regard to this Turkish difficulty. A
little while longer and we shall see whether Eng-
land has been spared the shame of that exagge-
rated caution which we have declared may so
soon, beyond a certain limit, degenerate into the
most abject pusillanimity. Two guarantees that
such may prove the case, we conceive to be
just now, happily visible—one, the fact that
Viscount PALMEBSTON still continues to be a mem-
ber of her MAJESTY'S Government—the other,
that our policy in regard to Turkey has been
already declared to be identical with that resolved
upon by the Imperial Councils of the third NA-
POLEON. The present Home Secretary is not the
man to deal over-leniently with the despotic
Cabinet of St. Petersburgh : neither is the reigning
EMPEROR of the French a potentate likely to con-
cede over much to the arrogant ambition of the
Au TOCRAT.

The Income Tax Bill has at length gone through
committee. some few trivial changes may pos-
sibly be introduced when the Bill is once more re
committed, but the measure is now before the
country in the form in which, most probably, it
will eventually be carried into practical operation;
and we would once more, while there is yet time for
amendments, claim at the hands of Hon. Gentle-
men the close and attentive consideration to its
provisions which its vast importance and the pro-
longed term for which it is about to be granted
so imperatively demands. The Bill itself, accord-
ing to the admission of its author, is made up of
a multitude of inconsistencies and inequalities,
all pulling in different directions, so as eventually,
in a great degree, to nearly balance each other.
This is a convenient mode of reasoning, in which
Sir CHARLES WOOD, when he • mis-managed the
national finances, used to greatly delight. It
finished a stereotyped answer to every com-
plaint that could be brought forward. When
the grievance was clearly and unequivocally
exposed—.when the gross and palpable injustice to
which a particular class was subjected was exhi-
bited in all its enormity, there was no attempt at
justification, no denial of that which could admit
of no doubt or difficulty—all that was considered
necessary being that the Financial Minister should
acknowledge with a bland smile the magnitude of
the evil, declaring, however, at the same time,
that the sufferer could not justly complain, as
others were nearly as badly off. The landed pro-
prietor, who objected to being compelled to pay
the duty on the amount which he was compelled
to allow for repairs, rates, taxes, insurance, ab-
sconding tenants, Sic., STc., was assured that the
con tributar under schedule D was still more severely
treated, and that there could be no doubt that
the impost pressed more hardly on industry than
on property. While to the murmurs of the phy-
sical or intellectual labourer, at having the pre-
carious profits of his exertions charged as highly
as' the dividends on the Three pet Cents., or the
ground rents of well-circumstanced real estate—
the answer was, that some landowners were
charged on what they did not receive, or, at all
events, on what was not applicable
to their own
use. During all this time, the favoured classes,
the fuudh2lders and capitalists, stood aloof,
chuckling in their sleeves at the dexterity with
which their advocate shifted the pea, from thimble
to thimble, playing off one grievance against au-
. other, and all the time covering his protegees under
the folds of his ample cloak. What would be said
of the City Police if they suffered the swell-mobs-
men to ply their vocation on Ludgate-hill with-
out let or hinderance, so long as they abstained
from touching the sacred persons or appropriat-
ing the property of the Freemen of the City,
comforting the country gentleman who had lost
his gloves and handkerchief with the assurance
that a gentleman from Manchester had been plun-
dered of his watch and spectacles, and both the
narrative of the mode in which a passing Barris-
ter had been eased of his purse, or a country Sur-
geon relieved of his pocket-book. The uninitiated
would probably think that it was the duty of the
so-called guardians of the public peace to stop
these nefarious operations altogether, rather than
to justify themselves on account of the number of
the victims. So those unversed in State-craft
might imagine that it would be more becoming
in a Financial Minister to endeavour to remove
every well-grounded source of complaint, and to
obtain as near an approximation to justice as
possible, rather than to play off the agricul-.
tural against the trading classes, and both against
pi o Fessional men.

What, for instance, can be more unfair than
making the landlord liable for the tax, or rent to
which he was entitled, but had never received,
and rendering the tax a charge on the land, to
be received from a future occupier ? Surely the
loss of therent should be considered quite sufficient
without requiring the unfortunate proprietor to
satisfy the claims of the collector at the very
moment when he would require peculiar indul-
gence. Mr. GLADSTONE seemed to think it
would be a very great hardship " if the Govern-
ment should lose the tax when a tenant disap-
peared, having succeeded in spiriting away his
stock from his farm without the landlord knowing
anything of the matter," and this because " the
landlord might succeed in recovering the amount
of the rent from the tenant at a subsequent
period without the Government being enabled to
recover the amount of the tax from him." Now
this argument will perhaps exhibit more clearly
than any other the distorted and one-sided view
of the subject taken by the Right Honourable
Gentleman. How often, we ask, is the landlord
so fortunate as to recover his arrears from ab-
sconding tenants, particularly after " the stock
has been spirited away from the farm ? " Let
Lord CAMPBELL return an answer on behalf of the
Irish proprietors. He is surely an unimpeachable
witness, in whom the Government may repose im-
plicit confidence. It appears as if the Noble and
Learned Lord has reckoned without his host in
assuming that the tax will only fall on the sums
actually received. It may, after all, turn out to be
rather an expensive luxury to become an Irish
landowner, where the party will be charged on
his nominal rent-roll rather than on his actual
receipts. It will, of course, operate as a heavy
blew and a great discouragement to the invest-
ment of English capital in Ireland, for which so
many inducements have been held forth, and
which is at length beginning to find its way to
that much-neglected country. We must confess
that we cannot help doubting the prudence of
such a course, which appears to be as impolitic as
it is manifestly inequitable. Nor is it either,
more just or expedient to charge the amount of
the tax on the sums actually paid into the public
exchequer, either as interest on the amounts ori-
ginally advanced, or as instalments of the principal.
Every allowance, too,
einvaensmueh aa Strongerthshould be made for public
burdens,
-which appear to our judgment to possess
claims to exemption than " repairs,"
rates,
&c., are imperative, while
repairs are, to soireeof teh El-CHEQUER) however,
at least, optional.
The CHANCELLOR
however
thinks otherwise ; and e
"
majority" are his
quite ready to register his
decrees, whatever they may be, or to vote
command, it is almost
black white at his
inedlea to Pay that ha its summit
every

point—indeed, discussion in such a case ap-
pears to be perfectly useless. It is well, how-
ever, that the community should be made ac-
quainted with the atrocities of the infamous tax
—which is renewed without modification or amend-
ment, nominally for seven years, but more pro-
bably for seventeen or seventy years—and which
indeed, cannot be relinquished so long as it is
necessary to provide for the interest of a heavy
national debt.

COURT CIRCULAR.

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MAY 30.

Notice is hereby given, that the State Apartments at
Windsor Castle will be closed from Tuesday, the 7th of
June next, until the 15th of June, both days inclusive.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Princess Royal, and attended by the Hon. Flora Mac-
donald, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, and Lieut.-Col.
Hon. A. Gordon, went yesterday morning to Gore-
house, Kensington, and inspected the collection of
cabinet furniture.

Her Majesty, attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn,
and Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, visited her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, at her residence,
in St. James's Palace, and her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, at Clarence-house, St. James's, yes-
terday afternoon.
The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the perfor-
mance of the French Plays with their presence last
evening. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were
attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn, Hon. Caroline
Cavendish, Earl Somers, Colonel the Hon. G. Grey, and
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon. Her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, accompanied by her
Serene Highness the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe,
and attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Sir
George Couper, also honoured the performance with her
presence.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accompa-
nied by her Serene Highness the Princess Adelaide of
Hohenlohe, and attended by Sir George Couper, visited
the Adult Orphan Institution, in the Regent's Park,
yesterday afternoon.

A deputation of the Burial Board of St. Pancras, con-
sisting of the Rev. Thomas Dale, vicar (chairman), Mr.
Churchwarden Billett, Mr. Francis Healey, Mr. James
P. Pearce, and Mr. H. Stock (county magistrates),
Messrs. Brettingham, Durrant Cooper, Farrer, Timpson,
and Mr. G. W. F. Cook (vestry clerk) had an interview
with Viscount Palmerston ,yesterday, at the Home-
office.

The Rev. Dr. Cook and Mr. Cochrane had an inter-
view with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday, at his official
residence in Downing-street.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Cockerell, Mr. Fresh-
field, and Mr. J. Gurney Hoare, had an interview with
Earl Granville yesterday, at the Privy Council Office.
The Archdeacon of Middlesex, the Rector of Maryle-
bone, the Rector of St. George's the Rector of Padding-
ton, the Incumbent of St. Mark's, Kennington, the
Vicar of St. Bride's, and the Rector of St. Margaret's,
had an interview with Viscount Palmerston at the Home
Office yesterday.
Mr. Ross, and Mr. Jackson, M.P., had an interview
with the Duke of Newcastle yesterday, at the Colonial-
office. Colonel Godfrey had also an interview with the
Noble Duke.
The Marquis of Winchester and Mr. Jacob Bell had
interviews with Viscount Palmerston yesterday, at the
Home-office. Mr. Alderman Farebrother had also an
interview with the Noble Viscount.
Dispatches were received at the Colonial-office yester-
day, from the Governors of Hong Kong, Australia, Van
Diemen's Land, New Zealand, and Malta.