The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-25 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent,
the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the Do-
mestic household, attended Divine service yesterday
morning in the private Chapel at Buckingham Palace.
The Bishop of Oxford preached the sermon. The lion.
and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated at the service.
Lady Augusta Bruce was in waiting on the Duchess
of Kent.

Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their usual
early walk yesterday.
The Royal Family took their accustomed airings
yesterday in the Gardens of Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge, attended Divine service
yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
The prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Helmore, the
lessons by the Rev. Mr. lepton, and the Communion
Service by the Bishop of London and the Sub-Dean.
The sermon was preached by the Bishop of London.
The Queen Dowager was attended by the Marchioness
of Ormonde, Lady in Waiting ; the Hon. Miss Mitchell,
Maid of Honour in Waiting, and the Vice• Chamberlain.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary, attended Divine service yester-
day morning i❑ St. Michael's Church, Chester square.
Baroness Hammerstein and Mr. Edmond Mildmay were
in waiting on the Royal Duchess. The Duchess of Cam-
bridge also attended the evening service.

ROYAL HIBERNIAN BALL IN AID
OF THE FUNDS FOR THE DESTITUTE

IRISII.

We are rejoiced to find that a ball in aid of the funds
for the destitute Irish is to take place at Willis's Rooms,
on Wednesday, the 7th of April. The ball is under the
patronage of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge and the Mite of the aristocracy.
The Rooms will, no doubt, be crowded, and the funds
proportionably benefited. On such an occasion every
Irish gentleman and lady in London must feel it their
bounden duty to be present, for it appeals irresistibly to
the warmest and best feelings of the heart—nationality
and charity; and what Irishman will not respond to
such an appeal?

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Cornmons.)
TUESDAY, MARCH 23.

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE.

RAILWAYS.

The following is the List from which Members will be
selected to serve on the Select Committees on Railway
Groups appointed severally to commence their sittings in the
week commencing Monday, 12th April next, and in the
week commencing Monday, 19th April next.
The Select Committees on the Groups Nos. 5,6, 16, IS, 21,
• 47, will meet in the week commencing Monday, 12th April,
and the Members for those Committees will be selected from
Panel No. 1. Thursday, 15th April, will be the earliest day
in the week for which the first meeting of any of the above-
mentioned Committees will be fixed.

The Select Committees on the Groups Nos. 11, 28, 34, 50,
51, will meet in the week commencing Monday, 19th April,
and the Members for those Committees will be selected from
Panel No. 2.

PANEL No. I.

Viscount Acheson

Mr. Langston

Viscount Adare
Earl of Arundel
Viscount Castlereagh
Mr. Deedes
Mr. F. Dundas
Viscount Eastnor
Colonel Ferguson
Sir Edmund Filnier

Mr. J. 6:Legh
Earl of Lincoln
Gen. lion. 11. B. Lygon
Mr. M•Carthy
Mr. John Neeld
Viscount Newry
➢ir. M. J. O'Connell
M r. Packe

Mr. Gill
Sir Stephen Glynne
Hon. R. Gore
Sir James Graham
Mr. Gregory
Lord Claud Hamilton
Mr. G. NV. Heneage
Lord Alfred Hervey,
➢Tr. Hutt
'Viscount Jocelyn
Captain Jones
Mr. Kuala

Colonel Peel
Mr. Plumptre
Mr. Pulsford
Mr. Rica
Mr. C. G. Round
Hon. G. S. Smythe
Hon. 11. M. Sutton
Mr. Trail!
Mr. Trelawny
Lord Harry Vane
Mr. Baring Wall
Hon. Eliut Yorke
PANEL No. 11.

Mr. Aglionby
Mr. Bankes
Eight lion. F. Baring
Sir John Yarde Buller
Mr. Pole Carew
lion. G. H. Cavendish
Mr. Compton
Sir De Lacy Evans
Hon. W. Fitzmaurice
Mr. Fitzstephen French
Sir John Guest
Mr. Hale
Sir B. Hall
Capt. Hon. A. E. Harris
Captain Hatton
Mr. Henley
Lord Edwin Hill
Mr. Hindley

Viscount Ingestre
Hon. IL Liddell
Mr. Eliott Lockhart
Sir R. Lopes
Lord John Manners
Earl of March
Mr. Wykeham Martin
Mr. Matheson
Mr. Newdegate
Lord Norrevsy
Mr. Robert Palmer
Mr. G. R. Philips
Captain Plumridge
Lord W. Powlett
Mr. Rashleigh
Mr. Stanton
Mr. John Tollemache

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.

TUESDAY, 51t1“:711 23.
POOR RELIEF (IRELAND) BILL.
(IN THE COMMITTEE.)

Clause 10 (And be it enacted, That whenever the expenses
chargeable to an electoral division of an Union in Ireland, in
any one half-year, shall exceed a sum amounting to one
shilling and threepence in the pound on the net value of such
division, a portion of the said expenses, amounting to one
shilling and threepence in the pound, shall be charged to the
said electoral division, and the remainder thereof shall be
charged to the Union at large):—Amendment proposed, p.
4, 1. 25, to leave out from the word " That" to the words
" shall be charged," in line 31, in order to add the words,
" all expenses to be henceforth incurred for the relief of des-
titute poor persons in Ireland, whether under the provisions
of this Act or of the said hereinbefore recited Act, of the Ist
and 2d Vic. c. 56 :"—Question put, " That the words pro-
posed to be left out stand part of the Clause." The Com-
mittee divided:—

MAJORITY-AXES, 120.
Acheson, Viscount Ellis, Wynn Milnes, R. Monckton
Acton, Colonel Escott, Bickham Monahan, J. H.
Adderley, C. B. ETans, William Mostyn, E. M.
Aldain, William Flelden, John Newdegatc, C. N.
Anson, Colonel Ferguson, Sir R. Northland, Viscount
Antrobus, Edmund Finch, G. O'Brien, A. Stafford
Archbold, Robert Fitzgerald, R. A. O'Brien, C.
Baring, F. T. Forster, Mathew O'Conor, Don
Barnard, E. G. Fox, C. R.: Owen, Sir John
Bateson, T. Fuller, A. E. Parker, John
Bellew, It. M. Gisborne, Thomas Patten, J. W.
Bentinek, Lord 0. Glynne, Sir S. Perfect, Robert
Bentinek, Lord 11. Gore, W. R. 0. Philipps, Sir R.
Beikeley, Captain Gore, Robert Pluntridge, Captain
Blakemore, R. Goulburn, Henry Protheroe, E.
Bodkin, J. J. Graham, Sir James Repton, G. W.
Banal, Berlah Grey, Sir G. Itich, Henry
Bowring, Dr. Grimsditch, Thomas Romiily, John
Brooke, Sir A. D. Grogan, E. Rose, D. It.
Buller, Charles Guest, Sir J. Russell, Lord J.
?Sunbury, T. Hamilton, G. A. Sandon, Viscount
Busfeild, William Hamner, Sir John Shaw, F.
tlyng, G. S. Ilawes, Benj. Shell, It. L.
Carew, W. 11. Pole Ileneage, Edward Smith, Vernon
Cavendish, C. C. Henley, J. W. Stuart, V.
Chapman, B. Ilobhouse, Sir J. Strati, Edward
Chichester, Lord J. Hoskins, K. Thompson, Alderman
Cholineley, Sir J. Inglis, Sir R. Thomely, T.
Clay, Sir W. James, William Trollops, Sir J.
Clerk Sir G. ' Jervis, Sir John 'Tyrrell, Sir J. T.
Cole, Hon. H. A. Jones, Captain Vane, Lord 11,
Colebrooke, Sir T. Kirk, Peter Verner, Sir W.
Coote, Sir C. LI. Labouchere, lienry Walsh, Sir J.
Copeland, Ald. Lascelles, W. S. Ward, H. G.
Courtenay, Lord Lofroy, Anthony Wilsitere, T. W.
Craig, W. G. Lindsay, Colonel Wood, fir Charles
Crawford, W. S. Mackinnon, Vs. Wyse, Thomas
Dawson, T. V. Macnamara, Major Young, John
Denison, J. E. Manners, Lord J. TELLERS.
Disraeli, B. Maitle, Fox Hill, Lord H.
Dtuidas, Sir David Maxwell, lion. J. P. 'lanell, 11.

MINORITY—NOES, 25.
Fltzwilliam, G. W. O'Brien, %y. S.
Hall, Sir Benjamin O'Ceiniell,:Jolut
Hatton, Captain T. Wawn, J. T.
Jolliffe, Sir V. G. H. Williams, W.
Fier. D. S. Yorke, Henry R.
Lawless, Ceell
Layard, Major TELLERS.
M'Carthy, Alex. O'Connell, 31. J.
M`Donnell, J. 31. Rawdon, Colonel
Napier, Sir Ckarles

Blake, M. J.
Bright, John
Drotherton, Joseph
Browne, W.
Callaghan, D.
Collett, John
Darner, Colonel
Dennistoun, J.
Duncan, George
Ewart, Wini.in

The once celebrated and well-known singer, Mari-
/01e Seal, died recently at Vienna, in }per 76th year.

EDUCATION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—l perceive in your article of Monday evening last,
on the proposed Government measure of public education,
that you, unintentionally no doubt, confound the Wesleyan
Methodist body with the Wesleyan Association. These
bodies are perfectly distinct, the latter originating, some
years since, in a secession from the former; and for the
representations or actions of the Association the Wes-
leyans are not at all responsible. The only resolutions
adopted by the Wesleyan Committees accompany this
note; from which it will be seen that the principles
which have contributed to the " high character" which
you admit they have " obtained," are those by which
their present and future conduct on this question will be
determined.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
CHARLES PREST,
Secretary to the Wesleyan Committee of Privileges.
Wesleyan Centenary Hall, Bishopsgate-street Within,
March 25th, 1847.
The following are the resolutions above alluded to:—
At a meeting of the United Wesleyan Committees of Pri-
vileges and Education, convened to consider the "Minutes of
the Committee of Council on Education in August and
December, 1846," and held at the Centenary Hall, Bishops-
gate-street Within, March 18, 1847 ; the Rev. W. Atherton,
President of the Conference, in the chair:
It was moved by the Rev. Samuel Jackson, seconded by
the Rev. John Scutt, and resolved unanimously,-
1. That, in reference to the deeply- important question of
national education, this committee cannot depart from the
great scriptural and Protestant principles already avowed in
the resolutions passed on two former occasions,—namelv, in
1839 and 1843; but feels it a duty to re-assert and maintain
them : and that, on these and other grounds, this committee
decidedly objects to the present measure. But as the present
aspect of the question is, as to its circumstances, somewhat
varied from that under which it was formerly considered, the
final and definitive declaration of the reasons to be assigned
for this decision shall be subject to exact and mature delibera-
tion at an adjourned meeting of this united committee, to bo
held in this place on Thursday, April Bth, at ten o'clock a.m.
And that, in the meantime, an extract from our former
resolutions, embodying a statement of the great principles
above mentioned, shall be reprinted, in order to explain to
our friends at large the only grounds on which we are pre-
pared to approve of any scheme of education which is to be
supported by national taxation.
2. That the Parliamentary sub-committee of each of
these united committees be instructed to prepare the extracts
above referred to, and also a draft statement of the objections
against the present measure, to be submitted to the commit-
tee at its adjourned meeting.
3. That the same sub-committee be instructed to print
and circulate these resolutions.

(Signed) W. ATHERTON', Chairman.
The Chairman having left the chair, it was taken by the
Rev. S. Jackson; when it was moved by James Heald,
Esq., of Stockport; seconded by P. Rothwell, Esq., of
Bolton ; and resolved unanimously—That the best thanks of
the meeting be presented to the Rev. the President of the
Conference, ter his kind attention to the business of the
committee.

(Signed) JOHN S. STAMP,
CHARLES PREST,
Secretaries to the Wesleyan Committee of Privileges.
JOHN C. PENGELLY,
TilimAs VASEY,
Secretaries to the Wesleyan Education Committee.

POTATO SEED.
TO THE EDITOR OF 7HE SUN.

SlR,—Should you consider the following statement to
be of any service to the public at the present time, and
as it may be the means of saving a quantity of valuable
seed, I beg ) ou will insert it in your valuable journal.
About three weeks since I planted two gallons of
walnut kidneys, one of which was of a large size, and
apparently healthy seed (I made two seeds of
each potato) ; the other being of & smaller size,
was put in whole. !A few days since I was led to
examine them, when I found those that had been cut
were all considerably affected with the disease, as well
as having been attacked by the ravages of the wiro
worm and slug. Those that were put in whole were not
touched ; therefore sho‘sing the necessity of not cutting
the seed.—l am, Sir, &c., W. M.
Bentley, Hants, March 24, 1817.

JAS. SHERIDAN KNOWLES, ESQ.
7'O THE _EDITOR OF THE SUN.
_ _

Sin,—l read with great pleasure in your paper of the
9th March, the remarks which you made in reference
to the manner in which Sheridan Knowles has hitherto
been overlooked, in the distribution of that fund allotted
to the reward of literary genius. That Sheridan Knowles
ranks in many of his dramatic works next to our im-
mortal bard, " who lived not for an age, but for all
time," cannot be denied.

Whilst some authors in their dramatic works have
pandered to low tastes and vulgar sentiments, Sheridan
Knowles has invariably in his writings maintained the
dignity of virtue and the sanctity of truth. As one who
has in his entire writings aimed at purifying the stage,
and enlightening mankind through its influence, She-
ridan Knowles is entitled to be regarded as a public
benefactor; yet, whilst his "Julia" can draw thousands
of spectators to see and hear the incomparable perform•
nate° of Mrs. Butler—and remunerate her talent with an
overflowing exchequer— the author who brought the
character into being has never yet had a single dawn of
favour shown to him by the State. The eloquent and
patriotic energy of William Tell, the impassioned beauty
of Virginias, the pathetic grace and favour of the
Hunchback, the sprightly elegance of the Lore Chase,
and the deep devoted expression of The Wife, will carry
down the name of Sheridan Knowles to posterity as one
'of the greatest of our dramatists and poets. We are
then irresistibly led to the question—" flow the genius
of Sheridan Knowles has been acknowledged by his coup•
&pan, and how the literary labours of that genius have
been answered and rewarded ?"

It would be invidious to single out the names of those
who receive literary pensions; but beyond the shores of
our own native land, with the exception of America, by
how many foreigners are the works of Tennyson or
Hood known? Yet they received pensions from the
State. For what? The one for aritiug a couple of
volumes of poetry, the other for having ridiculed society
in au annual publication of wood-cuts, puns, and non-
sensical stories. That Hood could write well there can-
not be a doubt—take, for instance, his "Song of the
Shirt;" but Hood roso into a name by pandering to the
light reading of the day. That Sheridan Knowles is
entitled to a pension from the State there cannot be two
opinions amongst literary men. It is left for Lord John
Russell to do him justice, and I have no doubt he will
do it.

I have much pleasure in stating, through the medium
of your paper, that a memorial has been got up in Le( ds
to the Premier, requesting him to allow Sheridan,
Knowles to have a portion of that fund which is dedi-
cated to the reward of genius. That memorial Ina been
signed by the mayor, magistrates, aldermen, councillors,
merchants, &c., &e., of Leeds, and will be sent in a few
days through the medium of Lord Morpeth. Such an
appeal, and made from such an influential portion of the
community, will, I hope, (and who will not join fervently
in that hope ?) be successful.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
Leeds, March 23, 1847. MARTIN CAWOOD.