The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-03 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

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Her, Majesty and Prince Albert attended Divine Service
--- L afternoon in the Chapel Royal, St. James's,
enta,
he Rel.
~..Dakins officiated. The Chaunt was
the Rev. P. aertit4, t 3 the ajFil,;.•!scat and Nunc Dimittis,
Aldrich in G. Ire Anthetti, g Gm; thou art my
God" (I):.frcellY, Waft sung by MesstS. Hawkins, Hobbs,
and Bradbury. Sir George Smart presided at the organ.
The Dean of Hereford was the Deputy Clerk of the
el'oset in Waiting. The Royal Suite consisted of the
Countess of Mount.dgcumbe, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon.
Miss Anson, Lord Byron, Earl of Surrey, Lord George
Lennox, Hon. W. Cowper, and Col. Wemyss.
The Marquis of Normanby and Viscount Melbourne bad
audiences of the Queen on Saturday.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert took an airing on Satur-
day afternoon in an open carriage and four.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the
Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, Hon. Miss Anson, Lord
Byron, Earl of Surrey, Hon. W. Cowper, and Colonel
Wemyss, honoured the Italian Opera with their presence
on Saturday evening.
The Duchess of Kent attended Divine Service yester-
day morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The
Sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Reid. Lady Char-
lotte Dundas was in waiting on her Royal Highness.
The following was issued yesterday :
" The Princess Augusta has bad a bad night, but there
is no material change In her Royal Highness's symptoms.
" Clarence Houat, August 2."
The Duchess of Gloucester' and the Duke of Cambridge,
visited the Princess; Augusta oath yesterday and on
Saturday.

The Duke of Cambridge attended by Colonel Jones,
went yesterday morning to Kew, and attended Divine
Service in Kew Church. His Royal Highness returned
to town in the afternoon.

The Duke of Cambridge honoured Sir William J.
Newton on Saturday with a sitting for his Coronation
Picture.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at
the Foreign Office. It was attended by all the Ministers.
The Council sat two hours.

THE QUEEN DOWAGER.

Keswick was on Monday last honoured by a visit from
Royalty. The Queen Dowager, who has been sojourning
for a few days at Bewness, sent word by mail on ..s.lthdaY
evening, that she would be at the Royal Oak Inn to lune!'
at ten o'clock on Monday. Short as the notice was, tri-
umphal arches, decked with evergreens, were soon erected
across the streets at the Inn. Flags were floating from the
windows, &c. ; a party of gentlemen were to go out to
escort her into the town ; a procession of Odd Fellows was
to be formed ; and the children bebnging to the Sunday
Schools were to be arranged on each side of the road,
every one with a bunch of flowers, tied with white satin
ribbon, which were to be thrown into the carriage as it
parsed. But all these arrangements were frustrated by her
Majesty writing an hour sooner than was expected, and
being set clown at the ttoyal Cisk, almost unseen; but no
sooner was her arrival ascertained than the streets were
crofgded by all classes, every one dressed in their best,
shops wife Closed, and a general holiday commenced.
Soon after arriving tt went up the lake to Lowdore, saw
the waterfall, and returned by the road, and left Keswick
again about three o'clock for Patterdale, escorted out of
the town by a party of gentlemen on ileirgreback.—all the
arrangements which were made for her reeeptiotl were put
into requisition on her departure. She was accompanied
by Ida, Duchess of Saxe Weimar, Earl and Countess
Sheffie
ld, Lady Georgina Curzon, Lady Mary Fielding,
Earl Howe, and Earl of Denbigh.
From Patterdale, we believe, her Majesty retraced her
steps southward,:without visiting Lowther Castle. She
was expected at Alton Towers, the seat of the Earl of
Shrewsbury, on Wednesday evening, and great prepara-
tions were made for her reception.— Carlisle Journal.

THE EASTERN QUESTION.

SPIRIT OF THEPARIS PRESO.

The Paris Journals of Priday and Saturday are oil the
whole rather less warlike in their leading articles than they
have been for the last two days, although they still declare
that, unless the treaty of the four Powers be modified, there
must be an appeal to arms. Those which profess their de-
sire for the continuation of peace still cling to the hope that
the feelings of the English nation will be manifested
strongly against what they call the alliance with Russia,
although the English Ministerial Journals have declared
that one of the motives of the Cabinet is to prevent the ag-
grandizement of that Power. The Constitutionnel says—
" The effect produced in Paris by the news of the treaty
between the four Powers is beginning to be known in Lon-
don. Our neighbours are astonished at our susceptibility,
and do not comprehend how we can show such emotion at
the resolutions of Lord Palmerston and his allies. We must
indeed do the Whig press the justice to say that it had net
till now an idea of the effect which the news would produce
here. When Lord Palmerston signed the treaty, he, like
the journals which support his policy, had, perhaps, full
confidence in the enduring moderation of France. He is
now undeceived."
The Quotidienne has the following observations on the
prohgble consequences of a war
" if M. Thiers be resolutely decided for war, there is a
great chance of his having his own way, for the Ministe-
rial papers serve him thoroughly. But the question has
become one of polemics, eve, in the dynastic press. If
the struggle were to commence, ti;, Question of the East
would be lost in that of the revolution. is not a de-
fensive war, but a war of interest, which France c,"nuld be
called upon to make ; it Is a war of principles and of pro.
paganda. The contest would be not to know whether
Syria shall belong to the Sultan or to Mehemet Ali, but
whether revolution or monarchy shall govern the world.
The whole of Europe would be shaken by a revolutionary
war, and it does not belong to M. Thiers or anybody else
to prevent such a result. Let a single gun be fired on
the banks of the Rhine, and either conquered Europe must
submit to the revolution, or France must be invaded. The
war once commenced can end in no other way."

The Dtbats has no leading article on this important
subject ; it merely quotes the leaders of the English press.
The Courrier Francais devotes the whole of its first page
to an articit6 under the head of " Lord Palmerston accused
of high treason." Ata:stcal by the pompous display of this
head in large characters, we e.s4sected on reading it to find
that Lord Palmerston had been brought before the Hotaft
of Commons on a formal charge of this description ; our
surprise, therefore, was not slight, when we found this
charge to be an old accusation made by Mr. Thomas Att-
wood, the ex-member for Birmingham, President of the
Birmingham Political Union, and of the Society for the
Regeneration of Poland, in his last annual speech in favour
of Poland against Russia, vvilich is the eternal cauchemar
of this really amiable man but over7calous politician.
The Presse, which has never fallen into the idea of the
French Ministerial Journals, that the policy of Lord Pal-
merston will be disavowed by the English Parliament, and
even by his own colleagues, quotes an article from the
Globe, confirming its own view, but studiously concealing
the fact that the article which it quotes appeared in the
Globe as from its Parisian Correspondent, who, however
correct his opinion may be, cannot know officially what
the views of the English Cabinet are.
The Capitok urges to war. Nothing short of the war
of propaganda, to which the Quotidienne alludes, will do
for this journal; but it has no confidence (it would be a
great misfortune if it had) in the present Government for
such a war.
" We shall make a great blustering, and spend a great
leal of money," says this journal; a cve give hopes
to nations which have been waiting so long for us to ,`use
ourselves ; but that will be all. Our soldiers will be
paraded on the frontier, but good care will be taken not
to cross it. Yet the outrage offered to France by the
Kings of Europe must not go unpunished. Let the men
who govern us reflect on this. If they should be incapa-
ble of avenging us, or tardy in doing so, the nation would
promptly say to them, Arriere and find avengers of their
own."

The National seems to anticipate that the Austrian and
Prussian Governments, alarmed at the demonstrations of
the French nation, will do everything to prevent the com-
mencement of a war of principle, which would shake the
thrones of those countries to their foundations. It fears,
however, that they will not withdraw from the alliance
with Russia and England without exacting new conces-
sions from France. The Univers, a journal which rarely
affords us an opportunity for extract, contains the follow-
ing, which has, perhaps, more good sense than anything
hich the other papers contain;—
The position of the question is this :—lf the insur-
rection is Syria be very serious, if the Pacha should give
way to the summons of the four Powers, or if he should be
easily and promptly subdued, Lord Palmerston will have
been in the right, and we shall have no dangers to incur,
and merely the disagreeableness of having been deceived.
If the insurrection be put down, and the Pacha be able to
resist with energy and for a long time, Lord Palmerston
will have been wrong, and we shall have been right ; his
position would then become a bad one, and ours would be
strong."
The Univers adds :—" We are assured that our Am-
bassador in London has received from his Cabinet instruc-
tions which arc at once dignified, firm, and reasonable.
They are of a nature to produce same impression upon
the English nation. We are fully convinced that England
is not desirous of a rupture with France, and will feel that
the question as to whether Syria shall belong to the Sul-
tan or the Pacha is not worth the risk of a war."
The Commerce, in alluding to the state of the Bourse,
says—" Considerable alarm has for some days prevailed
relative to the extensive fluctuations in the funds. Large
fortunes are tottering, and a serious financial crisis must be
the result. With all this before its eyes, the Government
has remained a silent spectator, although it had the power
of setting Europe right as to the true position of affairs.
The enormous fall which the funds have experienced within
the last few days has taken place as if by chance. The
Cabinet has allowed it to proceed, and withheld any kind
of communication.
4. With all respect for the secrecy of negotiations, it ap
pears a matter of surprise that the
preparations
pfreersdsesfheonucled:
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spread an alarm by publishing the
at the same time leaving the public in doubt as to the
actual state of affairs. So fatal a silence should no longer
be maintained, as every one seems inclined to interpret it
in the worst sense. It has another disadvantage, namely,
that alternately
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