The Sun.
London, England, 1838-07-14 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of her Ma•
jcsty.

- The Queen Dowager left town shortly b3fo7e five o'clock
yesterday afternoon for the Lodge in Bushy Park. Before
leaving town her Ilaje3ty received visits from the following
members of the Royal Family, who called at Marlborough
House to take leave of her Majesty :—The Rincess Augusta,
the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge. Her Majesty was attended by the Marchioness of
Wellesley and the Hon. Miss Mitchell.
The Portuguese Ambassador Extrccreir•ary. Lord Kintcre,
and Mr. Bannerman, had interviews yesterday with Viscount
Melbourne in Downing-street.
A deputation, headed by the Earl of Burlington, had an
intervidw with. Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Home-
office.

Sir Richard Bourke and Mr. Neville had intcrviews yesten
day with. Lord Gleaelg, at the Colonial office.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS,

Colonel an Lady Alice Fonton's Hotel, St.
James's-street, from their scat nem- Newmarket; Sir John
M. Duckworth, Bart., at ditto, from his seat ne Exet,r ;
Lor 1 Carew, at dirt-;. f.'om his seat in Ireland ; La ly Palmer,
at ditto, from Sum y ; Mr. and M:s Heywood, at ditto,
fo n America ; the Rev. J. and Lady Cecil Dele-
fieti, at Mivart's Hotel, Brook-street, from their seat
i H, its ; Baron and Baroness Dimsdale, and Miss
Di:Ls:lair, at ditto, from their s2at CamptHd-place,
Herts ; Count Zichy, at ditto, fri.m Paris; Gener.il
rt -,tiqo, from a tour; IL Baskerville, Esq., at ditto, from his
seat in Wilts ; the Rev. J. and Miss Beothby, at ditto, from
h •ir seat Ashbourne Hall, Derby ; the Earl of Dalhousie,
a- the Burlington thud, Cork and Burlington-streets, from
w;ekshire; Sir Thomas Thompson, at ditto, from Surrey ;
the Countess of Coventry, at ditto, front Paris; Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Addington, in Lower Seymour-street, from
New Park, Wilts ; Mr. and Mrs. 'Dennistoun, from
Southampton ; Lord Willoughby de Broke, in Hill-street,
from Cowes, Isle of Wigbt ; Lord and Lady George Poulet,
at the Marquis of Winchester's, Cavendish-square ; Sir Edw.
Bulwtr, Bart., M. P., in the Albany, from Kenilworth, Hers ;
Lord and Lady Kinnaird, in Grosvenor-street; Mr. Hlll and
the Hon. Mrs. Hall and family, at Lord Bridport's, Wimpole-
street. from Somerset ; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Man.
tiers Sutton, in Charles-street, from Norfolk ; Captain Van-
Jeleur, in St. James's-, from Hampton Court ; Mr. and Mrs.
Estcourt and family, in Hobart-place East, Belgrave-square;
the Earl of March, in Portland-place, from Newmarket ; Lord
and Lady Somers, at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from
the P.iory, Reigate ; the Duke de Polignamo and the Mar-
quis Serra G..rau, at Long's !Ltd, Bend-street, from Naples ;
Colonel and Mrs. F,-;rquhanson, at ditto, from Royal Barracks,
Dublin ; J. Meichlam, Eig., and Mrs. Meichlam, at ditto,
from Leamington; Mrs. Campbell, at ditto, from ditto ; F.
Gordon, Esq , and Mrs. Gordon, at ditto, from ditto; Thos.
Co2ksedge, Esq., and Mrs. Cocksedge, at ditto, from Bury ;
J. Fullerton, Esq., J. Fullerton, Esq., jun., and Mrs. Fuller-
ton, at ditto, from Southampton ; Messrs. Baring, Ogilvy,
Longo, and Harding, at ditto; John Van Buren, -Esq., and
A. Clarke, Esq., at ditto, from the United Stases; H. Fra-
zer, Esq., NeWtown, at ditto.

DEPARTURES.
Mrs. and the Misses Hawkes, from Long's Hotel, for
Dudley; Loftus Tottenham, Esq., and Mrs. Tottenham, from
ditto, for Ireland the Right Hon. H. Stuart, W. Stuart,
, Esq., M. P., and Mrs. Stuart, from ditto, for Dromana ;
Messrs, Corbelly, Harper, Bastard, and Livingston, from
ditto ; the Countess of Lovelace, from St. James's-square,
for Tunbridge Wells ; Lord and Lady Kinnaird, from the
Burlington Hotel, Cotk and Burlington-streets, for their seat
in Scotland ; Count Hamilton, from ditto, for the Continent ;
the Right Hon. Si; Harford Jones Bridges, from ditto, for his
eat in Radnorshire ; Mr. William Wyndham and family, from
ditto, for their scat near Salisbury, Wilts ; Colonel Patrick-
son, from ditto, for Buxton ; Captain Via, from ditto, for
Harrogate; the Right Hon. N. Ball, from ditto, for Ireland;
Sir Nigel Griesley, from ditto, for his seat in Derbyshire;
Baron Camile de Lotzbeck, from ditto, for St. Petersburgh ;
M. de Nardin, from ditto, for Paris ; General Sharpe, M.P.,
and Mrs. Sharpe, from Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street,
for their seat in Scotland; the Marquis Da Lavaletta, from
ditto, for the Continent; Colonel Webb, for Bristol; the
Duke of Norfolk, from St. James's-square, for his seat
Arundel Castle, Sussex ; the Earl of Cadogan, from Picca-
dilly, for Broadstairs ; Lord Lowther, M. P., from Carlton
House-terrace, for Brighton.

Parliamentary Electors in Cities and Boroughs entitled
under the Reform Act, will lose their votes for the next
year, unless they pay, on or before the 20th of July instant,
all the poor's rates (and window tax, if any) payable from
them, in respect of their premises previously to the 6th
of April last. County voters must send in their claims by
the 20th of July instant.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager drove out in the
parks yesterday in her pony phaeton and pair with outriders, and ap.
peared out of mourning for his late Majesty. Her Majesty will not, it
is understood, take her departure for Malta until the second week in
October, when the Hastings, Captain Loch, which conveyed the Earl
and Countess of Durh&m, and suite, to Canada, will take cut her Ma-
jesty to the Mediterranean. The Hastings was splendidly fitted up for
Lord Durham, and will afford ample accommodation to the Queen
Dowager and her household.

Marshal Soult, on his first arrival in London, did
not, it is said, at all comprehend the cordial reception which he met
with from the English populace, and it had not, therefore, the effect of
moving a muscle; blot now that the gallant veteran is better acquainted
with the character of the people, he receives their cheers with much
satisfaction, and returns their salutations with great cordiality.
Barham House, on the road to Cashiohury Park,f
has been splendidly improved during the last few years by Lord North-
land. George Robins intimates that itapiovelie, Vie delightful scene
at the Earl of Essex's. 4t is to be s Itt,tagVThoisilh, and on the self
samo.say Wadhurst Castle, nat. to To ridge Wells, the most delight_
ful of its vicinage, is also to undergo the uncertainte of the hammer.

His Royal Highness the Duke de Nemours dined
with his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex on Thursday evening, at
Kensington Palace. Yesterday his Royal Highness and party had a
wh;te bait breakfast at Greenwich, and returned to town by the railroad.
Highness will leave for Paris on the 18th instant.
H.
s Royal
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch gave a grand
dinner yesterday, at Montagu House.
The marriage between the Hon. Captain Hood and
Lady Mary Hill, the daughter of the Marquis and Marchioness of
Dc-oishire, will be solemnised. the first week in August.
i
A marriage s said to be on the tapis between the
Hon. C. F. Ponsonby, eldest son of the newly created Baron de Morley,
andr the llon. Miss Ponsonby, daughter of Viscount Duncannon, and
sister to the Countess of Kerry.
Despatches were received yesterday from Sir George
Gipps, the Governor of New South Wales.
Despatches, dated Feb. 23, were received yesterday
at the India Board from Lord Auckland, the Governor-General of
India.
Mr. Humphery paired off on Monday last with Mr.
Burr, having been appointed on a deputation from the city to Ireland.
Earl Bruce, having received her Majesty's writ to
summon him to sit in this Parliament, by the title of Ilaroi; Bruce, was,
on Thursday evening, intrAnced into the Hol:s.! of Lords, in the usual
manner, and took the cut hs and his seat.
EAST INDIA HOUSE.—Nothing of any public in-
terest or importance took place yesterday at the East India House
after our Reporter left.
POLITICAL ASSOCIATION.—At the ordinary
weekly meeting of trades' delegates, and several other persons friendly to
Radical principles, held in the Tenters' Committee Rooms, Wallace-
cJurt, it was agreed that an Asoociation be Domed to coop; rate with
other societies throughout the kingdom, for the purpose of urging such
measures- on the attention of the Government as, on folowing out their
principles, they were cal ed on to advance. It was stated that, having
cleared all the expenseaattending the late demonstration, the banquet,
&c. they were free of debt, and they had several pounds in the Treasurer's
hands, and had, bcs!des, property in hustings, &e. amounting to upwards
01'32/. air. Purdie remarked, that this seas more than any Whig or
Tory Committee could boast of at the present time.—Glasgow Argus.
APOTHECARIES HALL—Names of gentlemen to
whom the Court of Examiners granted certificates of qualification on
Thursday :—Frederick George Reed, Mile-end; James Kenyon, Liver.
pool; Edtvard Glover Coleby, North Walsham, Norfolk ; 'Thomas tVil.
Liam Baker Kirkby, Leamington Spa ; William Abel Rackham, Nor. (

LONDON :
SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 14, 1838.

In the House of Commons yesterday a discussion en-
sued on a motion of Mr. LANGDALE in the Committee on
the Prisons' Bill, which is worth notice. The influx of
Roman Catholics, or their increase in the country,
notwithstanding their religion is still much more perse-
cuted than patronise:l by the State, causes several of the
g lois in oar popular diitrict3 to be tenautel by many of
them. In the borough gaol of Liverpool, according to
Mr. THORNELY, of 214 prisoners there were 174 Roman
Catholics. In the Cold Bath Fields prison, Mr.
HAWES stated, there are one hundred and fifty Ro-
man Catholics confined. Mr. LANGDALE'S proposition was
that in all gaols where there are on the average 50 Catholic
prisoners, some provision shall be made for their spiritual
instruction. It was properly and forcibly argued that a
gaol is now a place of reformation as well as of punish-
ment, and that it was the duty of the State, which im-
prisons Catholics as well as Protestants, to employ
spiritual, as well as other means, to reform them. It
was admitted on all hands, that even in prisons, Roman
Catholics could not be .constrained to attend the reli-
gious instruction of the ministers of the Established Church ;
and the friends of the motion, therefore, contended that
the State ought, at the public expense, to provide ti e
Catholics with ministers of their own persuasion. The
motion was, however, opposed, and ultimately withdrawn,
to be brought forward on a future occasion.
Both Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Sir ROBERT PEEL
seem to have been taken by surprise. Though one
is, and the other has been, Secretary of State for the Home
Department, neither of them ever seems to have considered
what was to become of the Catholics whom they, as the
executive officers of the law, consign to gaol. For the
morals and for the improvement of the libertine
or profligate members of the Establishment a pro-
vision is made—the Roman Catholics may reform or
remain corrupt, as they please. Neither of these States-
men, however, who were far from making a brilliant ap-
pearance on this occasion, opposed the motion on the sec-
tarian grounds which some of the Right Hon. Baronet's
followers took up. He seems simply not to have been
prepared for it, and never to have considered the subject.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL was apprehensive the provision, if
made, might interfere with the discipline of the gaol.
Messrs. KNIGHTLEY, SANDON, DARBY, PALMER, and
ESTCOURT, considered that the Established Church
would be endangered by the innovation, which would be cer-
tainly ruined if the morals of one prisoner were improved
without its instrumentality. The Church, then, according
to its friends stands as much in the way of reforming cri-
minals as of extending freedom. It impedes political re-
form, as witness Ireland ; it generates hostility in the land,
as witness almost every parish ; it encourages fanaticism,
as witness Canterbury ; it promotes the worst kind of ig-
norance, as witness the character of the rural population
with the richest Church in the world ; and it is now
proved that it cannot even reform a Catholic criminal.

The Dissenters are not so averse from the doctrines of
the Church of England as the Roman Catholics, and for
this there is a good reason. We can readily comprehend
the repugnance of a Roman Catholic to listen for a
moment to the instructions of a Minister of the Church
of England who has ever read the Bishop of EXETER'S
speeches—the tirades delivered at Exeter Hall—the
denunciations of the O'SULLIVAN and M‘GHEE Clergy,
or even entered the Church of a MORTIMER, or any
other of our polemical divines. By the furious tirades in
which our Clergy indulge against their brethren of
the Roman Catholic Church, whom they so closely
resemble, they impede their own usefulness. If
they were to exhibit more of the charity of Christianity, and
less of the intolerance of Judaism, there is no reason why
the Roman Catholics should not as readily receive their
moral instructions as the Dissenters. They profess a com-
mon Christianity and a common morality. The weight of
the law, the loss of character, the exclusion from friends, the
opprobrium of the world, fall as heavily on Roman Catholic as
on Protestant culprits. The hopes of pardon for penitence, of
lengthened life and happier days from better behaviour,
the fear of death and the hope of life after death, must be
as strong in one as the other, and both must be equally
susceptible of improvement, by an appeal to their moral
feelings, let it come from whom it may.
Why should not the clergy of the Establishment then lay
aside polemics to make themselves useful to the Catholics
who are in gaol ? It does no credit to the character of our.
clergy that they have lost all moral power—even over the
criminals of the Roman Catholic faith.

The conduct of the people during the continued festix al
kept up in this metropolis for the last fifteen days has been
the general theme of praise and admiration. On no great
occasion did they ever exhibit the English character in
such a favourable light. They have committed to
breach of order or decorum—they have assisted at ti.e
different fetes as if they had an allotted duty to
perform, respecting the constituted authorities, and, un-
-I:k3 some called their superiors, respecting the reure-
sentatives of foreign Sovereigns at the Court of their
QUEEN. The passing scenes have reminded many of those
which occurred twenty-four years ago, when the Sove-
reigns themselves visited this singular island ; but there is
a mighty contrast, and one, too, which reflects great credit
both on prince and people. We have no rejoicings now
over a fallen enemy—no hootings at the SOVEREIGN—
no discord between branches of the Royal Family,
entailing discord through every class in the kingdom,
but rejoicings that ancient foes meet together as friends ;
that the Representative of a nation which the CROKER
party calls our national enemy—the Representatives of the
Autocrat of Russin—of the GRAND TURK, and of our na-
tural allies, Holland and Portugal, receive a hearty we'_
come, discriminated only by the personal merits of the
respective Ambassadors. Since that period, too, what
changes have occurred in The politic.d Constitution S,
of this country—changes which the same party fore.