The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-16 00:00:00

THE KING AND QUEEN OF HANOVER.

Their Majesties the King and Queen of Hanover are
expected to arrive off WoolwiCh this afternoon at two
o'clock.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, it is
understood, will leave London this morning, to meet his
illustrious relatives, and conduct them to London.
Their Majesties left Hanover on Tuesday morning,
and travelled by railway to Cologne, in which city the
King and Queen passed Tuesday night. Yesterday
morning the illustrious travellers left Cologne for Ostend,
at which port the Royal party arrived last evening.
The Black Eagle, Admiralty steam yacht, arrived at
Ostend yesterday morning, to be in readiness to convey
the King and Queen to England. It was arranged that
the Royal travellers should embark at a very early hour
this morning, in order to reach Woolwich with the flood
tide this afternoon.

The King and Queen are accompanied by their three
children, the Crown Prince Ernest, the Princess
Frederica, and the Princess Maria.
In the suite of his Majesty are Marshal Baron Ma-
lortie, Baron von Hedimann, Baron von Der Wense,
General Vonderdecken, and the Hon. Richard Somerset,
son of Lord Raglan, Private Secretary to the King.
The ladies in attendance upon the Queen are the
Baroness von Decken, Mistress of the Robes ; the
Countess Bernsdorff, Lady in Waiting ; and Made-
moiselle der Gablintz, Maid of Honour.
The King will be attended by the following officers
as aides-de-camp :—Captain Essendorff, Captain Ret-
zensteen, and Captain Budden.
Dr. Lex and Dr. Kaufmann, physicians to the King,
will accompany his Majesty, and M. Pabst will be in
attendance upon the youthful Crown Prince.
It has already been stated that the King and Queen
will occupy the residence of the Hanoverian Legation in
Grosvenor-place during their sojourn in this country.
It is hardly necessary to add that the chief object of
the King's visit to England is to stand sponsor for the
infant Prince, his nephew. His Majesty has not visited
England since he left this country with his father, on
the demise of King William IV., in 1837.

DINNER TO CHAS. GA VAN DUFFY, Mel., M.P.

A dinner, complimentary to Charles Gavan Duffy,
Esq., proprietor of the Nation, and member of Parlia-
ment for the borough of New Ross, took place last
livening, at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street.
Richard Swift, Esq., M.P., presided, and was sup-
ported in the chair by Mr. Duffy, the guest of the even-
mg ; Mr. Meagher, M.P., father of the exiled patriot ;
Mr. Lucas, M.P. ; Mr. M'Cann, M.P. ; Dr. Brady,
M.P. ; Mr. M‘Mahon, M.P. ; the Rev. Dr. M'Auliffe,
the Rev. Messrs. Foley, Santry, Toomey, O'Connor,
Cotter, Ainsworth, Bowman, and Collingridge ; Major
French, Pace, Esq., John Finigan, Esq., E. Hayes,
Esq., W. G. Seed, Esq., C. Bryson, Esq., &c. Letters
of apology for inability to attend were read by Mr. Gal-
lagher, the secretary, from Lord oroderich, M.P., J. T.
Devereux, Esq., Mr. Fagan, M.P., the Mayor of
Cork, Dr. Grey, and other gentlemen. Two hundred
and fifty gentlemen were present to signify their high
appreciation of Mr. Duffy's public conduct, patriotism,
and spirit ; and of the glorious cause with which he and
the "small but fearless band" are associated—the rege-
neration of Ireland. Behind Mr. Duffy's chair was
suspended " the Harp of his country," wreathed with
shamrock ; above it, the soul-stirring and appropriate
lines of " Erin's bard"—" the poet of all circles and
idol of his own"—Toni Moore— ,
" Far dearer the grave or the prison,
lllum'd by one patriot's name,
Than the trophies of all who have risen
On liberty's ruins to fame."
Beneath the Harp were the well-known Irish words,
inscribed in the Irish character—" Cead Mille Faltha "
—(a hundred thousand welcomes) CHARLES GAVAN
DUFFY, the truthful advocate of Ireland's rights—the
spirit of the Nation.
The cloth having been removed,
The CHAIRMAN gave the " Health of her Majesty the
Queen," which was drunk with enthusiasm.
The " Health of his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
and the rest of the Royal Family," followed, and was
done honour to.
Mr. MUIAHON, M.P., gave " the People, the source
of all legitimate authority," and spoke energetically to
the toast, which was followed by the song—" There's a
good time coming, boys."
The toast " Civil and Religious Liberty," proposed
by the Rev. Dr. M'Auliffe, was rapturously received.
The CHAIRMAN then rose, and in warmly eulogistic
language proposed "The health of Mr. Duffy, the guest
of the evening," who, with
" A form of adamant, a soul of fire,
No labours daunt—no labours tire."

The toast was received with loud and long-protracted
cheers.

Mr. DUFFY, in returning thanks, said, although his
life was not an eventful one—a life, the scenes of which
were strongly marked in his memory—he yet should
never forget the demonstration of this evening, asso-
ciated as it was with his country's wrongs and his
country's hopes. The honourable gentleman glanced
at several striking passages in the history of Ireland,
indicative of the sufferings through which she had
passed, of her rallying power, despite of all efforts of
tyranny, persecution, gross misrule, corruption, confisca-
tion, proscription, and banishment, and therefore hopeful
as regards the future. He assured the company, in the
words of his friend Mr. M'Mahon, that he was the first
man in Ireland who raised his voice against the purchasing
of votes with "places." (The expression was loudly
cheered, and marked, to boot, with a storm of hisses, di-
rected at somebody.) He urged the great necessity for
union amongst the people of Ireland, and the great advan-
tages that would arise to society from a right and friendly
understanding between them and the people of England.
He pictured the Governments of former days, and gave
severely cauterising sketches of some of the members of
the present Government, amongst them, of the noble
lord—Lord John Russell—in speaking of whose leader-
ship of the House of Commons, he exclaimed, " I declare
to God, it seems to me, that Tom of Canterbury,' or
the Mormon prophet,' is not so complete a monument
of human absurdity as the noble lord the member for
London leading the House of Commons." (Long con-
tinued laughter followed this sally.) The hon. gentle-
man then directed attention to the five-and-twenty mem-
bers of the Irish party in the House of Commons,
" who ,are neither to be bought nor bullied," and con-
cluded a long and eloquent speech, of which the above
can give but a faint idea, amidst rapturous cheering.
Mr. M'CaNN, M.P., gave the toast of a man who
loved his country—Smith O'Brien, and his (Mr. M'Cann's)
young friend, Francis Meagher, exiles from their " na-
tive land." (Drunk with enthusiasm.)
Mr. LUCAS, .M.P., in a long and energetic speech,
which was listened to with profound attention, inter-
rupted only by occasional loud cheers, and " moving of
the tables, gave, not the borough of Carlow (for which
Mr. Sadleir lost his seat), nor the borough of Athlone
(for which Mr. Keogh got in), but the "Borough of
New Ross," which, despite of Whig, lordly, and " Cas-
tle" influence, returned Mr. Duffy—the once proscribed
--to Parliament. With respect to Mr. Sadleir, he pro-
claimed him as everlastingly lost—lost beyond all human
redemption ; and, as related to Mr. Keogh, he saw him
now sitting on the Ministerial benches, doing his "little
greatness, and could not forget his exclamation to the
people of Athlone, that, " So help him God ! he would
never take office until the principles of the party with
whom he was then associated, and the Tenant Right
Bill, were first carried." (A storm of hisses marked
these allusions.) "Our English Friends," "Tenant
Right," "The Electors of New Ross," " The Press,"
and, in solemn silence, "The Memory of the late Daniel
O'Connell," followed ; and the company, at an advanced
hour of the night, separated, highly delighted with the
proceedings and objects for which they had assembled,

GETTING READY FOR TUE CZAR.—Everybody has
read of the sham bridges, streets, and Spires, which
Potemkin ran up to make a sham of prosperity before
the Empress Catherine, on progress through her
dominions. The same illusions are practised now in the
Russian states as we read in the Journal de Franefort :
" According to the accounts which reach us from War-
saw, it appears probable that the Emperor will shortly
visit that capital, as measures have been adopted within
the last few days which usually precede the arrival of the
monarch. All beggars and poorly dressed persons have
been arrested, and taken by the police to a place in the
neighbourhood of Warsaw, where they are lodged and
fed at the expence of the city until after the departure of
the sovereign. The owners of property situated in the
principal streets hive also received orders from the police
to clean the fronts of their houses, and to make other
necessary repairs on pain of having those repairs made
by the police at their cost,"