The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-25 00:00:00

CO URT CIRCULAR.

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OSBORNE, MAY 24.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, and Sir
George Couper, arrived at Osborne yesterday afternoon
about three o'clock, having crossed from Gosport in the
Fairy yacht. •
There was no other addition to the royal dinner party.
The Queen and Prince, accompanied by his Royal
Highness the the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal,
and the younger members of the:Royal Family, walked at
an early hour this morning in the grounds at Osborne.

A deputation on the subject of quit rents in South
Australia, consisting of Sir William Verner, M.P., Hon.
F. Scott, M.P., Mr. Mark Boyd, Mr. Charles D. Logan,
and Mr. D. Q Henriquez, had an interview with Earl
Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Earl of Roden had an interview with Sir George
Grey yesterday at the Home•office.
A deputation on the Scientific Societies Exemption
Bill had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday,
at his official residence in Downing street. The depu-
tation consisted of the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson,
Lard Dudley Stuart, Lord Brackley, Mr.Hodgetts Foley,
Mr. Cobden. Mr. Ewart, Mr. Monckton Milnes, Mr. E.
Banbury, Mr. Heywood. Mr. J. B. Smith, Mr. G. C.
Legb, Mr. Thicknesse, Lord Wrottesloy, Mr. Schole-
field, Mr. C. Harding, Mr. Birkbeck, Mr. Toulmin
Smith, Mr. Fisher, Captain Browne, and Mr. Stacey.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a
general meeting yesterday, at their office, in Whitehall-
place.
Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to
the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-
street.
Mr. J. Reynolds, M.P., had an interview with Earl
Grey yesterday. Mr. Yates had also an interview with
the Noble Earl yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
Mr. llorman had an interview yesterday with Lord
John Russell.
A deputation from University College, consisting of
Mr. Warburton, Mr. John Wood, Right Hon. Edward
Strutt, Hon. Mr. Denman, Sir Edward Ryan, Dr. Boot,
and Mr. Field. had an interview yesterday with Sir
George Grey, at the Home-office.
Dispatches from the Governors of South Australia and
Malts, and from the Lord High Commissioner of the
lonian Islands, were received yesterday, at the Colonial-
office. _ _ _

Dispatches were sent off last evening from the
Colonial-office for the Governors of Ceylon, Hong-Kong,
and Malta.

SOCIETY OF A►(TS.

An ordinary meeting of this society was held on
Wednesday evening, at eight o'clock, at their house,
Adelphi.
Mr. SCOTT RUSSELL announced that Mr.Milner Gibson
the member for Manchester, would preside. The Hon.
Member then took the chair, and was received with ap-
plause by a respectably attended assemblage, amongst
whom were many ladies.
The CHAIRMAN called upon the Secretary to read
the minutes of the last meeting, which having been
done, Mr. R. W. Urling, of Brussels, was proposed and
admitted as an honorary corresponding member.
The following gentlemen were then balloted for and
admitted as subscribing members, viz :—Messrs. C.
Eborall, the London-road railway station, Manchester;
E. Davy, Fordham, Crediton, Devon ; J. C. Wakefield,
Friday-street, London.
The following gentlemen were proposed for admission
at the last meeting of the society:—Henry T. Hope,
Esq., M.P., Duchess-street; Charles Wentworth Wass,
8, Adam-street, Adelphi; William Cooper, 53, Union-
aLyo-sntdroenet,.
The CHAIRMAN called upon Mr. G. Walks to read a Lon-
don;pl Union-
place, e ,
Robert
eeHarrison,n; David
101,1Foyridclay;19- Friday-street,
of calico printing in this country.
paper upon the rise, progress, and present artistic con-
dition Mr. WALLIS then came forward and said, he was
conscious that in bringing that subject before the Society
of Arts he had undertaken a task of no ordinary diffi-
culty, in consequence of the enormous number of facts,
and materials, and examples necessary to give a clear
view of such a comprehensive question ; and he
therefore trusted to the indulgence of the meeting,
while he endeavoured to give, in a compressed essay,
that which would require half a dozen lectures
properly to explain it. He then went into a detailed
summary of the history of calico printing, in its various
stages and improvements, from its first introduction into
this country in the year 1700 up to the present time,
alluding to the various processes of improvement from
the block printing system to the cylindrical machines
now generally adopted, alluding as he went along to the
various modern inventions in chemistry with respect to
dying, machinery, and the application of artistic designs
to the patterns, and referring to a great number of illus-
trative specimens produced on the occasion.
After having concluded a lengthened paper, the meet-
ing was addressed by Messrs. Winkworth, Newton,
Varley, and the chairman.
A vote of thanks was then proposed to Mr. Wallis,
which having been carried unanimously, the meeting
broke up at half-past ten o'clock.

Mn. T. DUNCOMBE.—We are happy to announce
that Mr. Duncombe took his seat in the House of Com-
mons last night, shortly after Mr. Berkeley had com-
menced his speech on the ballot. The Hon. Representative
for Finsbury, who has not been in the House since the
swearing in of the now Parliament, appeared in excel-
lent spirits, though;he bore about him the traces of ill-
health, and coughed ft little. He was shaken most cor-
dially by the hand by several members of her Majesty's
tou
at Clark's Rooms, Edgeware•
Government, and by all the well-known Reformers and
Radicals
meaelstl in
THE
meeting h
LONDON ANTI-ENCLOSURE SOCIETY.—At
h
road, Mr. William Clark, jun., in the chair; the question
the one H
Mondayse.
respecting the recent stoppage of the footway leading to
West-end-lane, from the railway bridge in the Albany-
road, Kilburn, was taken into consideration. The secre-
tary declared such stoppage to be illegal, and added
that from communications which he had had with the
police, ho was enabled to state that they would allow
the public to remove any obstruction there until Colonel
Eyre, by whose orders such obstructions had been raised,
could stop it in a legal way. The thoroughfare had been
open above '2OO years.
CAPTAIN MARRYAT.—The numerous admirers of
the Author of " Peter bimple," " Frank Mildway," and
a host of other fictions, which placed him in the highest
rank amongst the literary favourites of the day, will be
glad to learn that a new work from his pen called
" Valerie, an Autobiography," is to appear forthwith.
Although not deficient in many sparkling touchesy of that
vivacious humour which made Captain Marryat former
worlcQ, perhaps, more amusing than those of any other
contempirari novelist, the present story is said to rely,
for its chief attraction, on the deep domestic interest ex-
cited by the remarkable vicissitudes in the career of the
heroine, and the striking portraitures of the various
characters she meets with in her journey through life.
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