The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-15 00:00:00

tempt to stop the ,1(1,70,,f0r, 9f,veral ennntry pwhr,
had come to sell, left the market with their goods, but at last
the sale went on with 1055 disturbance, and wheat was sold in
small quantities at 51. 27e, the quarter, and rye at 43. A
great fermentation was, however, remarked among the people,
and serious apprehensions for the future were entertained.
Menaces were thrown out against certain individuals who are
suspected of purchasing grain on the account of monopolists,
and it is asserted that even in this town there are several
magazines amply stocked with grain, while there is a great
want in the market.

THE GOVERNMENT PLAN OF

EDUCATION.
The following letter, containing explanations important
to Dissenting congregations, has been addressed by Mr. Kay
Shuttleworth to the Rev. Robert Eckett, the Secretary of the
Wesleyan Association :

" 38, Gloucester-square, Hyde Park,
March 12, 1847.
" Rev. read in the Patriot newspaper this evening a
letter, to which your name is attached, addressed on behalf
of the Committee of Privileges to ministers of the Wesleyan
Association, requesting them 'to use their best efforts to get
a petition from every congregation in their circuit,' in order
to induce 'the House of Commons not to vote any further
sum of money to be placed at the disposal of the Committee
of Council on Education,' and to entreat the House to
petition the Queen to dissolve the Committee by whom this
pernicious scheme' (the minutes for August and December,
1846) has been recommended, and to declare that the in-
terests of the nation will be best promoted by the non-inter-
ference of the Government as to the education of the people.
A form of petition is appended to this letter, and intended to
be sent to every congregation connected with your asso-
ciation.

•' For this purpose the letter commences with the following
representations :—' Her Majesty's Ministers having recently
brought before Parliament certain minutes of the Committee
of Privy Council on Education, proposing that provision
should be made by Government for training, supporting, and
pensioning schoolmasters and mistresses, and for creating
and supporting a widely extended system of education, by
which it is intended that the instructors of masses of the
rising generation should become Government stipendiaries,
and expectants of Government pensions, to obtain which
purposes they will have to secure the approbation of
an inspector appointed by Government, but who must also
be sanctioned by one of the Archbishops, and who is to re-
main in office only so long as such sanction is continued.'
" If such was your interpretation of the intentions of the
Government, I cannot wonder that you should have used
your utmost efforts, in conjunction with the Committee of
Privileges, to arouse the congregations of the Wesleyan As-
sociation to defeat so gross an injustice. But if you
have misunderstood, and unintentionally very gravely
misrepresented the plan developed in the recent
minutes of the Committee of Council, observe the
consequences.

"Every superintendent minister placing confidence in your
Committee of Privileges; every local preacher, acting in
obedience to the suggestions of his superintendent, and
every congregation which may rely on the representations
of its minister, will receive from your letter the impression
that no school connected with the Wesleyan Association can
partake of the grants offered by the Committee of Council
in their recent minutes, unless this school be subject to
the visits of an inspector appointed with the concurrence of
one of the archbishops, and liable to be dismissed
by the withdrawal of the archiepiscopal sanction. They will
believe that no Wesleyan pupil teacher can be apprenticed;
no master can receive a gratuity; no teacher can be pen-
sioned; no apprentice can be elected to a Qteen's scholar-
ship; and no candidate in a Normal school, connected with
the Wesleyan Association, can obtain a certificate, and the
consequent augmentation of salary, unless he be examined
by an inspector appointed, with concurrence of an archbishop,
and for whose continuance in office his Grace's sanction is

requisite.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Alpert, accompanied by the
Princess Royal, took a drive to Newport on Friday afternoon,
in a carriage and four.
On Saturday her Majesty and her Royal Consort drove oat
in an open sairriage, the Prince driving.
The Royal Children took their usual airings on SatardsP
and yesterday morning went to the sea beach.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, and the Ladies and cier."
tlemen of the Royal suite, attended divine service yesterd4
morning in Whippingham church.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended divine
service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. Jarnee•
The prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Helmore, the lasso
by the Rev. G. Repton, and the communion service by the
Rev. Dr. Sleath. The sermon was preached by the Bisho
of Bangor. The anthem was " Wherewithal shall
Young Man" ( Boyce). Mr. Turle presided at the Orgenoi
Lady Fanny Howard was in waiting on the Duclosl
of
Kent. Among the nobility present were the Marqu. A
Anglesea, Lords St. Germans, Devon, Listowell, Colville, Cl'
Castlereagh.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge vial
Christ's Hospital School yesterday afternoon.
attended bf
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, es
Lady Fanny Howard, Sir George Couper, and Lord 1-
Murray, honoured the Italian Opera with her presence
Saturday evening.
A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock on Sattirdirld
afternoon, at the Foreio.n.oflice It was attended bYI4OII.
John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Mavis of 11)4-
downe, the Earl of 'Tinto, Sir George Grey, viscount sir
merston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Excher„aer' t
John Hobhouse, the Earl Auckland, Lord Campbell, Viscose,
the Earl of Clarendon, the Marquis of Clen...,"An.g,
the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, and the Right "'"--
isabouchere.

The Council sat an hour and a half. m I'4
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Benjamin ittlee4taria—.4l(
Mr Coward, Mr. Akerman, and Mr. Grey, had an iO4O. of
with the Right Hon. E. Strutt on Saturday, at the ut.
the Comn issioners of Railways, in Great George-streef
Mr. Plumptre, M.P., and Mr. Rodwell, had an intern 4
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Satardato'
official residence in Downing-street.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Masterman, Eridolies,r‘
Pattison, M.P., Mr. Lyall, M.P., Mr. Atcheson, Air
Mr. Phillips, Mr. Williams, Mr. Saunders,Do
membrancer, had an interview with Lord John Bees
Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-Street.•
Lord Lansdowne had an interview with the Earl of
don on on Saturday, at the Office of the Board of Trade. pith
Mr. Masterman, M.P., had an interview on Saturday
the Chancellor of the Exchequer. tow'
Mr. William Evans, M.P., had an interview on Pa
with the Right Hon. E. Strutt. oleo
and the City
On Saturday, Lord Campbell gave a dinner at Strti of
House, to Lord John Russell, the Earl of Lincoln, the Lord
Hardwicke, the Earl of Clarendon, Earl Granville,jos
Stanley, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Brougham, Sir Of'
Graham, General Fox, Mr. Lockhart, Mr. Two'',
Danvers.
Dispatches from the Governor of New South W.. 1.8
received at the Colonial Office. ter
The Duke of Wellington attended the early servieecseslel
day, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Rev. Or'
officiated and preached the sermon.
halmrived Lord Chief Justice Wilde, and Lady Wilde,
rived at Farrance's Hotel, Upper Belgrave•street,
Chelmsford.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATitire
Lucia di Lammermoor was repeated for the thirj," -,lPite
this season on Saturday, and never has this chef liolet
of Donizetti been so perfectly represented, as 1.140101
in this ccuntry-. To equal the performance of Sufr., i$
evening would be exceedincdy difficult—to surP'- el'
would be impossible. Madame Castellan was in ericis
lent voice, and acted exquisitely. She is the very -toy
of the author—pathetic, gentle, guileless. Her rr-°,of,
tion of this character is so true tir nature that sh,e,-00
passes all her predecessors, simply because she wakes of
apparent effort to do so. She trusts to the imitated
her own heart, and she is perfect. Frwchini has
to himself his position as the first of modern tenors' the
the scene of the malediction he is unappreachsibievio
scene was, of course, encored), and the ••Tu cite 9 left
was given with a tenderness and pathos $ll9/60e.
nothing to be desired. Coletti, as Enrico, was "0 that
His voce psnsses, in a marvellous degre,e,:„-toue
power which is vanchsaftli to but few nil tbis,
voices—the power or expression. Never, Wit". 01
season, did we fully appreciate the choruse:oo%,
this opera. ewe
are now acted as well as ee- se.
and this adds greatly to the vraisemblance of the "iselle
The new ballet of Corolla tollowed, with Made°3(l- asti
Carolina Rosati as the heroine. Mademoisellegsler
is a great acquisition. She is now what Fanny bee
was fifteen years ago, and never in the zenith "idies
powers did the delightful Fanny surpass the perforforic
of Caroline Rosati in this ballet. The youthful,: her
Taglioni, too, is worthy of the name she bears. 'iegs.
pas in Coralia she is the impersonation of graceul-,
The house was filled in every part.