The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-04 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accorepanied by the
Princeises Helena and Louisa, took a drive on Saturday
afternoon in an open landau and four. The Equerries
in Waiting, Major-General Buckley and Captain. the
Ron. Dudley de Ros, attended on horseback.
Prince Albert rode out on horseback on Saturday
morning, attended by. his Equerry in Waiting. His
Royal Highness, attended by Captain the Hon. Dudley
de Ros, visited the British Museum in the afternoon.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the Prin-
cess's Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening.
The royal suite consisted of the Duchess of Wellington,
the Hon. Mary. Seymour, Lord Waterpark, Major-
General Buckley, and Captain the Hon. Dudley de Ros.
The Queen's Private Band attended in Buckingham
Palace after dinner on Friday evening and performed
the following compositions :
Overture, "Le Brasseur de Preston" Adam.
Selection, " Gustave" Au .am
Terzetto, " Azor and Zemira" _ Spohr.
March, ‘" Occasional Oratorio" Handel.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Prince o f
Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, also
the ladies and gentlemen in waiting and the domestic
household, attended divine service yesterday in the Pri-
vate Chapel at Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and
Rev. Gerald Wellesley officiated.
The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess
Adelaide of Hohenlohe, visited the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Princess Mary on Saturday at Kew.

Viscount Palmerston arrived in town on Saturday
morning, to attend the Cabinet Council, from Broad-

lands.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Gladstone,
and the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert and Mrs. Herbert
arrived in town on Saturday from Wilton House, Wilts-
M. Musurus, the Turkish Minister, paid a visit to the
Earl of Clarendon on Saturday, at the Foreign-office.
The Committee on Education of the Queen's Most
Hon. Privy Council met on Saturday at the Privy Coun-
cil-office, Whitehall. Present—The Lord President, the
Duke of Argyll, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of
Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert.
A deputation on the subject of the repeal of the Man-
ning clause of the Navigation Act had an interview with
the Right Hon. E. Cardwell on Saturday, at the Board
of Trade. The deputation consisted of Mr. Hudson,
M.P., Mr. Taylor, M.P., Mr. William Lester (Hartle-
pool), Mr. William Steuart (South Shields, Newcastle),
Mr. Charles Cowen (ditto), Mr. Simon Campbell (North
Shields), Mr. James Burgess (Sunderland), Mr. Thos_
Smith (Middesborough), Mr. James Paton (North
Shields), and Mr. Robert Young.
Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial-
office to the Governors of Australia.
Despatches were received on Saturday from the Go-
vernors of the West India. Islands.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office, from the Governors of Victoria, Malta, and Gib-
raltar.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at tbb
Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Ministers present
were the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord J. Russell, the Lord
Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Palmerston, the Earl
of Clarendon, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, the Right Hon. Sid-
ney Herbert, and Sir William Molesworth. The council
sat three hours.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer had a dinner party
on Saturday evening at his official residence in Down-
ing-street. The guests were Lord Wodehouse, Lord
Lyttelton, the Bishop of Quebec, the Provost of Eton,
Sir Charles Trevelyan, Mr. Walter, M.P., Mr. Fitz-
gerald, M.P., Mr. R. Phillimore, M.P., Mr. E. Ball,
M.P., Sir Stafford Northcote, Mr. Trevor, Mr. Ander-
son, &c.

The proceedings respecting the late Derby elec•
tion have not as yet terminated. Something still
remains to be done, in order to vindicate the
majesty of the law, so far as the chief offenders
are concerned. But, in the present instance, it
is not the mean and paltry " acceptors " of 40s.
bribes, or even the subordinate agents of corrup-
tion that will be compelled to submit to legal in- THE LATE DUKE OP WELLINGTON.—On the decease
vestigation. More distinguished ci quarries ~ of the laotne DofukheisoffaWnaielllintteoen,Rt
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will be aimed at, and if the statements made at possession
Garter. The latest by the lamented hero has
the banquet given last week at the Derby Athe- recently been presented to, and graciously accepted by,
naeum, to celebrate the triumph of the Liberal her Majesty.. Ad s.ecotnhe d, of very oalnddanthdehtihstirodrihcaalsi Tut: t-
party in that borough, are in any degree to be rbeesetn, isse
nrte retained
thee
npresent Dukei; of Wellington to the
y
credited, the chief movers in this ver extraordi- Marquis of Londonderry, upon whom, it will be remem-
nary transaction will have to answer for their bered, the Garter of the great duke was conferred by the
conduct before a jury of their countrymen. The Queen.
" Gentlemen of the Lead Works" appear to be by no rEyoTli ANDfOstate THE
for GRAVEYARDS. —The
the Home Department,
means in an enviable position. The " Shrewsbury r eLs Oe
nit tE S el: Ar
eLt3al
RS
PLord Palmerston, is pursuing his determination to close
tonsor," the modern " OLIVER LE DAIN," is by no the metropolitan graveyards with vigour. On Thuroday
means easy in his mind ; nor does the renowned an order wh.assreceid,ansigonuendoinby
that
iNtVwadasditnhgte o
"W. B." himself altogether repose on a bed of btieolinaloffinnten,
lordship,Secretaryn to regport to her Majesty in
roses. A body of determined men are resolved the Home
council the necessity for closing the graveyard of St.
that the truth—nay, more, the whole truth, shall be Botolph, Aldersgate, founded on a report which has
elicited—that the matter shall be probed to the been madelt
by Darris Sutherland, hnee rrlsa n dtitaitn
the consequencemost
oftheoffensive
o
very quick, and that no position, however ele- complaints
manarted from the enormous number of bodies
vated, shall save those implicated from the penal in the ground, which, in consequence, stands five or six
consequences of their conduct. This is as it feet above the level of the street, having been used. for
should be. There may be a prosecution for a intGermentE urphweairmds oofrtssooofygeolards.
to day by H. M. steamer
conspiracy, although the state of the law Vulcan, . -which sailed from Sydney the 23d of Novcm.
with respect 130 bribery and corruption (perhaps ber, and the New Orleans, which left Melbourne the
one of the most flagrant instances of class legisla- 17t
ntit bs hof Denember, amount in grosslto 1240,650 00/0. The
tion) presents the well-merited punishment of cAuhytrooufghstebeiye theb ltahteterpveensisnesulas 5 6
r and Orinencteasl.
those who endeavour to induce the less wealthy steamer Bengal Pamountyto 85,3001., of which 70,000/. is
voter to " sell his birthright for a mess silver for Bombay, Calcutta, and Penang,
whil e
e th
of pottage," to barter the sacred privilege only important quantity of gold appears to be 13,000/.
confided to his charge—that which gives him' for Alexandria.
THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL COMPANY.—Ac-
through his representative, a voice in the national cording to a statement of Mr. Stebbing, they resident of
councils - for a pecuniary consideration, or, still the Southampton Chamber of Commerce, a puhlic
more degrading—for there is even in the lowest meeting held in that towdn last week the Peninsularoutharn andtola
depths of infamy a deeper humiliation—for the
aboveorient
2%1
0 Companyo o
I/ hsiPchen waesvtehryus yeardetailed—viz., inP the
means of the most beastly intoxication. If we can purchase of ships' stores about 24,0001.; in provisions,
conceive the degradation of mind which induces a 14,0001.; in the payments of their engineering establish-
man to bestow his suffrage in opposition to his meet, 31,0001.; to shipbuilders,
11,000/.•to their officers,
;
25,0001.; 45,0001.; in salaries to clerks and
conscience for a sum of money, how much more in- agents,
o osoela m
engineers, artificers, and others,
famous is that man who accepts of the sensual gra- 4",0001. The., to seamen,
conscience
Royal Mail Company, according to Mr.
tifications of gluttony and drunkenness as adequate Stebbing, spend in Southampton about 130,0001. in a
temptations ! The legal offence may be the same, year.
AN
AUSTRALIAN SHIP ON FIRE. Intelligence was
whether the corrupt voter be persuaded to
communicated unicated to Lloyd's on Saturday of a most serious
uplift " his most sweet -voice" in favour of the donor fire having taken place on board the ship Adelaide,
of a Bank of England note for 201. or 501., or of bound to London from Adelaide
a, which narrowly
more
-
the treater to a coarse substantial meal, accom-
than
olved her
n and
whitahlfaovfaluedadble crrhregoaloaf wonoglr, an
discovery
a
panied with an undue proportion of alcohol, was
made on Feb. 4, wheng the ship was making her
British or foreign. But the latter is a more des- course to the Cape. The fire was raging amongst the
picable vice. The free and independent elector bales of wool, and all exertions at the time shemheciketot
who wallows in the gutter, and with aching head burning
in suppresstihnegltlitehdekseteruicitigivetheelemoreenwt,
inw the mostP
and sickly stomach votes for the party who en- painful
lg until
suspense. At length they succeeded in
in getti a safe
meaner ruffian than a man who accepts a money position, her
fiold was removedH the
cargo
wscaustttlheedn,
bribe. Notwithstanding the well-known adage, whtenouttheandite was extinguished
ascertained
an d
to. have suffered severely.
" 111 got, ill gone," the family of the one may got out,
making good the damage she has sustained, she
possibly, though the chance be very remote, bene- will resume her voyage to England.
fit in some degree by the transaction. The - THE CONTINENT. —tT hoe accountsmuch from
importance, the continent
un
but there
fortunate wife and children of the other must
on
iems Saturday
t 0 be increase were
f
od
confidence with regard to an early
suffer by the demoralisation of the husband and adjustment of the Turkish question. At Paris the rate
father, who, on account of his excess, may suffer of exchange continues From show a more favourable tend-
ili health, but must also suffer in purse from being ency for this countdry.
dhS.bt:tPeters.burgfh the ota-
unfitted for his daily avocations, and perhaps from
movement.ti°n remains
steady, ha
Odessa letterss nod the e 2gn olstaonf adverse
March
being led into similar scenes on other occasions, state that business was generally quiet, but that there
when lie must be his own paymaster. was rather ore inquiry for wheat. Confidence was
But without entering farther into this subject, entertained in
of
quarter also as to the final settlement
the triumph of the Liberal party at Derby was one ,
toi
if
etlhe
se s diispus te u tled
db,edt wt
heeerne Thua rdk e
thusa nfda r Rbue se sni an,
0b
ruetl, a nx
ae vt
ieoro-
of which those concerned may well be proud. in the 'military preparations. By accounts from Madrid
It was, as it has been justly remarked, " a mostlit appears that the arrangements for the new Spanish
striking and unequivocal exposure of a stupendous loan were to be brought before the Cortes on Tuesday
last.
evil." Never was the infamous system more .