The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-12 00:00:00

vile abuses are the things still dear to his heart.
We utterly disbelieve his pretended concern about
" bribery and corruption at elections being de-
structive of public virtue." What cares he about
the mental sufferings of the intimidated, and the
degradation of the purchased elector, provided he
can keep for the corn field its unrighteous supe-
riority over the coal field. When he has found,
and when he so well knows, that no oaths or
enactments can suppress bribery, and that no
device of law whatever can ever take cognisance
of landlord intimidation, we must loathe such
pharasaical parade of concern for electoral virtue
from the lips of one who refuses the only known
safeguard against the solicitations to which that
virtue is exposed. We wish we could believe in
the political honesty of Lord JOHN. In his ob-
stinacy we have the most full and unhesitating
confidence. But for the man who, at an age
when years had not quite dried up all the
generosity of youth, proposed the Ballot as a part
of the Reform Bill ; who has since sneered at it
with all the malice of an apostate ; who could
descend to such twaddle about it as that with
which he insulted Guildhall and discredited his
own abilities,—for such a man to talk of concern
for electoral virtue, really reminds us of lectures
on sobriety which we have heard from some
gentlemen whom the police were kindly assisting
home. Lord JOllleS grand
policy of agricultural
supremacy is chiefly upheld by open voting, and
by the vices connected with it ; he will not part
with the cause of so much vice, because he dreads
it would affect what he is pleased to consider the
prescriptive right of the broad acres to oligarchical
power, yet he affects.
system I Verily, to shudder at the " destruc-
tion of public virtue" by which he upholds his
like old JUVENAL, we are ready
to post off to Russia, or even to Siberia, whenever
aliquid de moribus audent,
Qui curios simulant et Bacchanalia vivunt ;"
of which our translation for 1853 is, " States-
men denounce election immoralities, and sustain
their statecraft by them." Well, Mr. CHRISTO-
PHER may take comfort ; it is Lord JoHN who is
the pupil, and not Lord ABERDEEN. Lord DERBY
also may retire, as he appeared to wish to do, from
senatorial toils—there will be no reform worth
his opposition, as the Anti-Democratical champion.
SIT JOHN. PARINGTON and the Duke of NEWCASTLE
may just cross swords pro forma over Canada, and
then
all will go on much as it would have done if
members had not lost their Christmas holidays. It
remains to be seen how Reformers in the Cabinet who
have a
character to lose, and earnest Reformers out of
it, will sit down by all this recantation and Pha-
risaisra• To procrastinate Reform is bad and pro-
voking enough ; but for Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE,
Mr. VILLIERS, and Sir WM. MOLESWORTH to be
paraded before the House and the country as part
of a Ministry who are horrified at the thought of
anything setter than the universally laughed at
Reform Bill of last year, must try their self-
respect not a little. For the Manchester School,
too—honest men on these subjects as they are—
it will be rather too much patiently to endure the
old Whiggism again. As to Mr. DISRAELI'S
party—probably the largest one in the House—
they will be able at pleasure to leave them to
fresh defeats—on the Ballot, on LOCKE KING'S
motion, and similar ones ; and should they play
as false on the Income Tax, why, DISRAELI and
BRIGHT could beat the strong Government, two to
one.

COURT CIRCULAR.

i • WINDSOR, FEB. 11.

A grand selection of vocal and instrumental music
took place in St. George's-hall, on the anniversary of the
marriage of her Majesty the Queen and his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert, yesterday evening, under the direc-
tion of Mr. Anderson, director of her Majesty's private
band. The performance consisted of A. Romberg's
" Song of the Bell" for the first part, and the overture
of " Struensee," and a MS. Feslied, by M. Meyerbeer,
for the second part.
The principal vocal performers were Miss Louisa
Pyne, Mr. Lockey, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Genge, and
Mr. Lawler.

The band and chorus were selected from the Royal
Italian Opera and the Sacred Harmonic Society, and
amounted, together with her Majesty's private band, led
by Mr. Sainton, to 130 performers.

Mr. Cusins presided at the new organ.
The Queen and Prince, attended by the ladies and gen-
tlemen in waiting, entered the hall about half-past nine
o'clock, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent, her Royal Highness the Princess Augustus of
of Saxe Coburg, her Serene Highness the Princess
Adelaide of Hohenlohe, the Lady in Waiting to the
Duchess of Kent, the Lady in Waiting to the Princess
Augustus of Saxe Coburg, the Baroness de Speth, Lord
George Lennox, the Hon; Charles Gore, and Colonel the
Hon. Charles Grey, who had previously had the honour
of dining with her Majesty.
The performance immediately commenced.
The following had the honour of being invited to be
present :—The Countess of Mansfield and two Ladies
Murray, Lady Caroline and Miss Barrington, the Hon.
Mrs. Sackville West, the Hon. Mrs. Grey and Miss
Farquhar, Colonel the Hon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps,
Lieut.-Colonel F. H. and Lady Emily Seymour,
Sir George and Lady Coupe; Miss and Mr. R. Couper,
the Rev. F. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, the Hon. Ade-
laide Vernon, and the Rev. W. and Mrs. Canning.
The " Festlied" performed in the second part is a can-
tata 'composed by Meyerbeer for the birth-day of his
Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha in
1840, with new words written and adapted by W. Bar-
tholomew,

—The band of 2d Life Guards was in attendance in
the Castle during dinner, and performed the following
selection :

Wedding March Mendelssohn.
Overture, " Jubilee"
Waltz, "Aurora".
Selection, "Haydee" Auber.
Galop, "Ehestands Freuden" Gungl.
Quadrille, "Martha" Strauss.
Polka, "la Favorita" Miss Barlow.
God save the Queen.
This afternoon the Queen and Prince, with the Prin.
cess Augusta of Saxe Coburg, drove out in an open car.
riage. Lord Alfred Paget and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon,
A. Gordon were in attendance on horseback.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Fanny Howard, arrived in town yesterday
morning from her residence at Frogmore. The Royal
Duchess paid a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Gloucester, at Gloucester-house, and in the afternoon
returned to Frogmore.
Mr. A. M. Corkendale had an interview with the
Duke of Newcastle yesterday. Sir James Cochrane had
also an interview with his grace at the Colonial-office.
The Chairman of the East India Comptiny and the
Deputy-Chairman had an interview yesterday with Sir
Charles Wood.

We regret to learn that Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton is
confined to his house by a severe, though, we trust,
temporary indisposition, arising out of a painful injury to
the arm.—Standard.

SPANISH DEBT.—The Spanish Financial Commission
have intimated that the fifteenth auction of the foreign
redeemable debt will take place at Madrid on the 28th
inst., for which purpose 375,000 reals have been as-
signed by the Government. Tenders will be admitted
in London until the 19th inst. The same authorities
have also announced that, on the same date, the Board
of Public Credit will proceed to open the proposals for
the conversion of the Three per Cent. Deferred Rente
against Consolidated with the same interest, 68,709,061
being note the amount remaining out of the 400,000,000
reals assigned for the six months ending the 31st of
March next.

COAL IN AIISTRALIA.—The prospectus has been issued
of a company with a respectable board of directors, to
be called the Australasian Coal Mining Company. Its
proposed capital is 200,0001., in 51. shares, and the mines
to be leased are those of the Four-mile Creek Colliery,
near Maitland, and another near Hexham, on the
Hunter's River. With regard to the supply of labour,
arrangements have been made for an importation of
Chinese, under the usual articles of indenture, and
through the agency of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and
Co.

EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA.—The Emigration Com-
missioners have advertised that they will be prepared,
on the 17th inst., to receive tenders for two vessels to
carry emigrants to New South Wales and to Victoria.
They are to be ready for Sydney on the 30th of March,
and for Melbourne on the 4th of April. According to
a statistical statement recently prepared, it appears that
the number of vessels which have sailed during the
months of January and February from London, Liver-
pool, and the European ports generally, for the Austra-
lian colonies, including New Zealand and Swan River,
amounts to 118, with a capacity of 57,951 tons, the de-
partures in January being 49 vessels with 26,828 tons,
and in February 69 vessels with 31,123 tons.
A CARGO FOR THE DIGGINGS.—The Screw Company's
steamer Harbinger left Southampton yesterday for Aus-
tralia. She took out 60 passengers, specie (principally
gold) to the value of 240,0001., jewellery, valued at
20,000/.; and a miscellaneous cargo besides, amongst
which was a wooden house, and a large quantity of
spades and pickaxes for the gold diggings. Her cargo Is
valued at nearly half a million sterling. The Harbinger
took out ship letter mails for the Cape of Good Hope,
Adelaide, Melbourne, Van Diemen's Land, and New
South Wales. These mails contained nearly 10,000
letters and newspapers. The Harbinger only purposes
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