The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-02 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

At the grand ball given by her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House, on Friday
,evtning, the following Waltzes, Polkas, and Quadrilles
were danced; Herr Strauss and his band attending:—
Waltz:s—Marien, Wanderers Lebewohl, Sophien,
Kunstler Ball.

Polkas—Alice, Fredericke, Kathinka.
Quadrilles—Martha, Carnaval, Jubal.
The baud also playeA the Defilier" March, and the
'' Spanish Nobles" March.
The Queen and Prince Albert rode out on horseback
on Friday, attended by the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, Litait.-
Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Colonel Buuverie.
Her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians and the
Duch( ss of Orleans, accompanied by the Count de Paris
and the Duke de Chartres, visited her Majesty on Satin.,
day afternoon at Buckingham Palace.
The Queen, attended by the Hen. Elizabeth Lennox
and Lieut.-Colonel the Bon. C. B. Phipps, visited her
Royal Highn( ss the Duchess of Kent, at Clarence
House; on Saturday.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Coun-
tess of Mount Edgcumbe, Hun. Eleanor Stanley, Hon.
Elizabeth Lennox, Lord Waterpark, Lieut.-Colonel the
lion. C. B. Phipps, and Colonel Bouverie, honoured the
Royal Italian Opei a-house with their presence on
Saturday evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess
of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of
Mecklenburg Sirelitz also honoured the performance
with their presence.
Yesterday morning the Queen and the Prince walked
in the garden of the Palace, and the Royal Family took
their usual exercise.

Yesterday mot ning her Majesty and Prince Albert, the
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic
household, attc.na...2 234. h.. service in the private chapel
of Buckingham Palace. The service was read by the
Rev. Mr. Vane, and the sermon was preached by the
Bishop of Norwich.
Her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians, and the
Duchess of Orleans, accompanied by the Count de
Paris and the Duke de Chartres, paid a visit to her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent at Clarence House, St.
James's, on Saturday afternoon.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge,
the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz,
end the Princel,slMary attended Divine service yesterday
morning in Grosvenor Chapel.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited
her Royal Highness the Duchess;of Gloucester yesterday,
at Gloucester House. _

Mr. Rutherford, M.P., and a deputation bad an inter-
view with Lord John Russell on Saturday.
Colonel W. L. Freestua, M.P., had au interview with
Sir George Grey on Friday, at the Rome-office.
Lord John Russell received a select circle at dinner
on Saturday, at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park.
The Duke of Wellington and the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Salisbury attended the early service yester-
day in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Rev. Dr.
Wesley preached the sermon, and afterwards adminis-
tered the holy Sacrament to the Noble Duke and the
Marquis and Marchioness.

SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. PHILL

POTTS.

On Saturday night, at eight—o'clock, a jury was em-
panelled before Mr. Bedford, the coroner, in the board-
room of St. James's, Workhouse, Poland-street,
West-
minster,
to inquire into the circumstances attending the
death of John Phillpotts, Esq., the late Member for
Gloucester, and brother to the Bishop of Exeter, who
died very suddenly in an omnibus.
Mr. Alexander Ure, of No. 24, Bloomsbury-square,
surgeon, deposed that tho deceased gentleman was
seventy-four yells of age, and resided at No. 14, Pall-
mall. The deceased was a barrister•at-law, and was
Member for Gloucester for upwards of seventeen years.
Witness never attended him professionally, but always
considered him to be a healthy man.
James Roberts, of No. 26, Park-street, Camden-town,
said he was conductor to one of the Waterloo omnibuses.
On Friday night, about a quarter past ten o'clock, the
deceased hailed him at the corner of Devonshire street,
in Portland-phice. The omnibus stopped and the de-
ceased got in without assistance and appeared perfectly
well. On reaching the Regent's•circus, Oxford-street,
the omnibus stoppt,tenitgebcsilat
notes to take up pas utliaa"iapotrnt.7-Tc%7Jmerrulumteis-
had not elapsed, when witness looked in to see how
many passengers there were. The deceased was sitting,
next the door, and there were two lidies and a gentle-
man in the'ornnibus. Witness had only just looked in,
wnenthedeceasedsuddenly tell on one side, and lay along
the seat. W itnessimmediately opened the door, and
assisted in lifting him up. He appeared quite helpless,
and in a state of insensibility. Witness, with the as-
sistance of several persons, carried him to the shop of
Mr. Bridge, a chemist, in Regent's-circus, and a sur-
geon was instantly sent fur, who, upon his arrival, pro-
nounced the deceased to be quite dead.
By the CoßoNEß—Only a little saliva came from his
mouth, and he never spoke after he fell.
By a juror---The omnibus was stationary when he fell.
Alr. J. G. French, of No. 41, Great Marlborough-
street, parish surgeon, said he had made a post mof tent
examination of the body of the deceased gentleman that
afternoon (Saturday), in the presence of Mr. Ure. There
were no outward marks of violence, with the exception
of some marks over the region of the heart, which indi-
cated that the deceased had been cupped. The heart
was considerably enlarged, and double the usual size.
It weighed about 23 ounces, the usual weight being
about 11 ounces. The valve of the left ventricle was
ossified. The rest of the organs were quite healthy.
Witness opened the head, and found an effusion in the
ventricles of the brain. Witness was of opinion the
deceased had died of a diseased heart, which was quite
t,ufrieitnt to necount for the suddenness of the death.
There was no appearance of any deleterious matter in
the stomach. Death must have been instantaneous.

The CORONER said, after hearing such evidence there
was no occasion to proceed further in the inquiry. The
death was most awfully sudden, and a most melan-
choly one.
The jury immediately returned a verdict of " Natural
death from a diseased heart."
The Coroner isAxed his warrant for the burial, and
the body of the deceased was placed in a coffin and re-
moved to Pall-mall.

ARMY EXPENDITURE.—By a paper, which bears
date, " War-(.ffice, June 55, 1849," it appcara that a sum
of 119,9501. Os. ld. is required to he voted in .order to de•
fray the excess of the army expenditure beyond the
grants for the year ended on the 31st Marcia, 1848, as
shown on the annual account of army receipt and expen-
diture for that year.
SERVAN T3' PROVIDENT AND BENEVOLENT SO•
CIRTY.—His Royal Highness Prince Albert has sent a
donation of 1001. to this estimable institution. _

Richard 131anshardihsq., is named sus the firsi
Governor of Vancouver's Island.—Observer..

TO TILE SECRETARY OF THE

METROPOLITAN REFORII ASSOCIATION.
Sir,—On Wednesday the 27th, the MembFr fir
Lambeth (C. Pearson) renewed the debate on Prison
Discipline; a subject on which there will be an infinite
riding of hobbies ore against another. Questions of
this kind must wear themselves out. The end will pro-
bably be that it will be discovered, that neither im-
prisonment in a mask nor imprisonment without,
solitary ncr in company, with instilment of A B C
nor without it, will be competent to cope with the
gigantic danger which the progress of population and
society is causing to appear above the horizon, the
danger of the honest men being run away with by
the rogues. Moral lectures will never touch it ; the
best of exhortations will be like whitewashing the
negro to-night, with the certainty that he will be as
much a negro to-morrow. here and there may be a
solitary instance where a wondrous cure has been
wrought, and the circumstances may be trumpeted
about in pamphlets and cheap periodicals, with the zeal
applied to the authentication of Hohenlohe's miracles.
But the great black fact will be there scowling still,
that those who came in thieves, will go out thieves,
and will proceed with all alacrity to multiply their
kind. The case is one beyond the hands of benevolent
old ladies, or insinuating young ones. If the whole
female world that are honest, should turn into Mrs.
Frys, it would he but a drop in the bucket towards
the extinction of the calamity that threatens.
But it does not therefore follow, that the remedy is
not somewhere else. We must lock abroad into Na-
ture's book, and see whether in the leaf she is in the
act of turning over, there is not something which may
suit our case. Fifty years ago, if a ship arrived with
half its company dead of typhus lever, the first thing
thought of was to mew up the survivors in the small-
est possible space, and there medicate and experiment
on them till such as were doomed to survive recovered
in spite of all. Modern observation has made an ad-
vance on this. It says, disperse your sick, with such
moderate precautions as may not unnecessarily court
contagion, and the disease will die out. We do the
same with cur dirt, perfectly or imperfectly. Lon-
don alone would require a vessel of a thousand tons
to sail daily for the Nore with her accumulated ma-
nure, if in innumerable ways it were not silently
exposed to mingling with the elements through other
modes of dispersion. We take advantage of the world
being wide. We divide our nuisances into places
where for want of concentration they can do no harm.
Just so, we shall end by finding out, we must do with
our thieves. We must send our pickpockets where
there are no pockets to pick, or where at all events the
number is so small, that the trade of a pickpocket shall
have as little chance of flourishing as the trade of
snaking coronation robes. Instead of potting out
our early thieves in rows, in cells where they shall be
or not be seen by the eye of imaginative charity,
and leaving them Lo expectation of the
happy day which is to restore them to their old
companions dear, we must in simple self-defence
picket them out in bleak situations, where there shall
be the least possible chance of a seed beinr,
brought back by the winds to keep up the breed of
weeds at home. This may be very cruel ; and if
so, we must wait till it is more cruel to let it alone.
But it is not true that it is cruel. It is the best and
kindest thing that could be done for the juniors of the
thief family. One of the most striking phenomena
of the present day, is the extent to which the march
of intellect has progressed among thieves, and the
conviction it has produced in them, that anything
which should present the chance of making a new
start in life, would be an enormous boon to the born
plunderer. It may be all very well to look prudish ;
hut if the first lady in the land, had instead of that,
been born of a mother who calhd her "clever

little girl" for bringing the linen off a hedge,
where would she have been by this time ?
The truth is, the thief is an animal to be
put down, but not to be maltreated. We should any
of us have been hereditary thieves, as we should
have been hereditary sovereigns, if the power that
rules all had seen fit to fasten a different ticket to
our birth.

The inference from this is, that after sufficient sums
have been expended on all manner of incarceratory
experiments without success, it will be found we
must go to the expense of planting out our thieves in
the scantily peopled portions of the earth, and there
giving them the best chance we can, of living by
working either for themselves or others. Give the
thief air ; it possible let there be twenty miles be-
tween him and the breath of rival thiefdom. No
mewing men up in hulks, or exposing them in ballast-
lighters as done upon the Thames, to insult modest
society as it passes in steam-boats, and show how
nearly human creatures may be trained into
the likeness of rib-nosed baboons. An iron
discipline may be necessary, so long as it
is impossible to get your thieves dispersed.
Bat the very sufferings of this iron discipline should
be made the foundation on which to build the expec-
tation of submission to reform. Only, they must not
be reformed here. A man might as well talk of re-
forming his manure-heap by keeping it in his parlour.
It is a process which must go on at the other end of
the earth, or at a distance that is equivalent. It is
there that the peccant matter, though necessarily con-
veyed in masses, must be doled out and dispersed, for
the chance of being wrought into the soil without
any being the worse for the process.
At this moment the cry is against transportation.
It is very likely it must come back to it; though with
amendments to remove the old objections. Captain
"'amoebic must be Cadmus ; with leave to sow his
dragon's teeth in such places as shall be most likely to
produce neither armed men nor dragons. This will
not be done till the nuisance of preserving the said
teeth in close conservatories has become intolerable.
But when that time arrives, everything will give way
to necessity.
On Thursday was a slow progress, through an ex-
traordinary multitude of divisions, with the Poor
Relief (Ireland) Bill in Committee.
On Friday the same continued. One or two points
had a little more of general interest than the rest.
An attempt was Made to lay a portion of the Irish
poor-rate on mortgagees. To which the answer
seems to be, that a mortgage is a bargain between
two free agents ; and that it would be as jast to buy
a horse, and then ask to be allowed to subtract a por-
tion of the price because there was talk of a new
horse-tax, as to do the like in the case of a mortgage. A
plea was also advanced for exempting the Irish
Church from paying any share of poor-rates on its
compositions fur tithes. At first sight this looks as
if it came under the head of a bargain, like the
other. But on examination it will be seen that there
was no bargain, but a direction of the Legislature.
And this leads down upon the fact, that the income
of the Irish Church altogether is the creature of the
Legislature; and consequently the Legislature, if it
sees fit, may direct a poor-rate to be paid in part out
of the income of the Irish Church, with no more in-
fringement of compacts than when it directs it to be
paid out of the income of a private landlord.
On Saturday the House met at noon to continue
the Committee; and some further progress was made
with the Bill.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN OLD REFORMER.

London, July 2, 1849.

THE COAL TRADE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Mny I beg the f _avow. of you to cor.reeth:smuons-t
misleading and groundless statement. of
fortunately found a place in the Leeds hdelligencer
to-day.
Under the head " Barnsley " vie have as follows :
" The Coal Trade.—On Tuesday a numerous meeting o'
the coal owners was held at Mrs. Hawkesworth's, the
Royal Hotel, when it was agreed to reduce the water
gale of cosl 6,1. per ton, on the lst day of July next."
Now, Sir, no coal-owners' meeting was held at the
Royal Royal on " Tuesday " last, and no such resolu-
tion has been passed at any meeting of which I have any
knowledge. The allfged reduction is, therefore, as
baseless as it is mischievous; it is calculated to produce
consternation and alarm in other colliery districts, and
beguile coal-dealers into premature and embarrassing
contracts which may prove only a mockery and a de-
lusion. _ _

As you wield a six-day power, while the Lecds In-
telligencer is merely a one-day, power, and as your circu-
lation is so much in excess over that of a weekly paper,
your obliging insertion of the above will cause the truth
to prove more than a sufficient counterpoise to the error,
and obviate no little confusion and loss.
I remain, Si yours, &c.
JOHN TWIBELL,
Chairman of the Yorkshire Coal-trade
Meetings.
Barnsley, June 30, 1549.

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY, JUNE 30.-r-The Pe-
ninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's
ship Euzine, Captain It. W. Evans, sailed to-day for
Gibraltar, Malta, and Constantinople. She had on
freight 380 tons measurement of cotton and woollen
goods, seven packages of specie, value 6,0001., and 28
passengers. The Iberia, Captain Burney, sailed on the
27th with the Spanish and Portuguese mails and 2,0001
specie on freight; and the homeward mails from Gibral-
tar, Cadiz, Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto, will be brought
by the Jupiter, Captain Meehan, expected on the 4th of
July. The Sultan, Captain George Brooks, may be ex-
pected from Constantinople, Smyrna, and Malta, about
the sth or 6th of July. The Royal mail steamer Trent
will leave on Monday with the West India and Pacific
mails.
THE IRON TRADE.—BLEMINoIIAM, SATURDAY.—
At the usual meeting preliminary to the present meetings
of the ironmasters of South Staffordshire,just held at
the New Inn, llandswortb, it was resolved to reduce
the price of iron 10s. per ton, making the range of prices
for merchant brands 61. per ton; rods, 61; hoops, GI lOs.;
and sheets, 71. 10s. It is doubttul whether even this
reduced scale will be maintained. The depression is
attributed to Welsh competition and the state of the
Continent. This evening some of the ironmasters gave
notice of a further reduction in the wages of their
workmen.

JULY 2, 1849.