The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-05 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

'f Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty
the Queen Dowager ou Saturday-, at Marlborough
House.

Prince George of Cambridge visited the Duchess of
Kent on Saturday, at hostile House.
The Duke of CartiOridio attended Divine Service
yesterday afternoon in St. James's Church.
A Cabinet Connell wa, held on Saturday afternoon
at the Foreign office. It was attended by all the
Ministers except the Chancellor of tbe Exchequer. The
Conned sat three hours.

Despatches for Lord S}denham, Governor of Ca•
natia, wore sent off on Saturday evening trom the Co•
lonial-office. Despatches were also sent to the Go•
vernor of New Brunswick.

Mrs. Fry and Leut.-Colonel Miller had interviews
with the Marquis of Norma*, on Saturi ay, at the
H e-0f8c,..

The Earl of Shelburne lett Lansdowne House on Sa-
turday for the Continent.
Viscount Melbourne had a Yarbamentary dinner
party on Saturday, at his private residence in South-
street.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.

(From the Obserper.)
On Saturday a Court of Aldermen, was held, at which
a good deal of merriment was created by a respectable
petitioner.
Alderman KELLY presented a petition from Mr.
Ellis, the landlord of the Chapter Coffee-house, in
Paternoster-row, praying that oninibusses and other
public carriages might be prevented from passing down
the row during the hours of Divine service on the
Lord's day.
The LORD MAYOR asked the petitioner if he had
anything to add ?
Mr. al.'s, who pleaded his own cause, with great
earheAness said that his family would be ruined if his
petition were not complied with, for, in consequence
of the prohibition issued against the passing of public
vehicles round Sr. Paul's Church-yard during the hours
of Divine service, they rattled by his house in such
quick succession, that his family were not oily dis-
turbed, but his customers, who were principally clergy-
men, could not get their reireshmenn in peace, and they
would be obliged absolutely to run out of the house if
the nuisance were not abated. Tine injury, too, which
his valuable stock of wine in the celleirs under the pave-
ment would be subjected to would be very serious, for
the rumbling of the carriages ma de the wine shake
again, and his fine old port would never recover the
convulsion.
Alderman FAREBROTHER thought the petitioner's
request a very unreasouable one. The Court of Al-
dermen would not be justified iin closing a public
thoroughfare because an indiv id ual sustained incon-
venience from its use. If Mr. Eilis's family would go
to church they might enjoy the q uietude they longed
for, as it appeared from the petie.on that it was only
during the hours of Divine Service, when St. Paul's
Churchyard was closed against p tale traffic, that the
coaches disturbed Mr. Ellis's family..—(Laughter.)
Alderman WHITE was surprised,, for the same rea-
son, to hear that Mr. Ellis's wostomers were dis
turbed ; for as tfo:y were described by the petitioner to
be quiet clergymen, he should have thought they would
be engaged in th it sacred calling during the Sabbath,
rather thin be seated in a coffee-h o use to have their
meditations disturbed by the retch; ,g of omnibuses and
the tioise of coa-hes and cabs.—{ I 1, ar.)
Sir C. S. HUNTER assured Alt. Ellis that the
Court would take his bi,ttl,,s into their serious con-
.iteration.—(A laugh.) It might b e perhaps arranged
that the onnebuses should pass toe .etitioner's house at
a toot pace, instead of creating a 'commotion in the
cellar by the rapidity of their move merits. The wine
must, of all things, be protected.—t;.A laugh.)
Alderman COPELAND moved that 'the petition should
be laid on the table. St. Paul's Ch turchyard was very
properly closed during the hours of di v ine service, at the
instance of the Bishop of London, tlia t the soiemo ser-
vice of the cathedral might not be disturbed ; and if
Mr. Ellis's had been a church irate; td c .f a coffee-house,
there would have been some rea,bon, as well as some
right, for the Court's interference; but .as it was there
was neither reason nor right, for upon ireferring to the
Act of Parliament under which the auttiori.y was given
to close the streets in the way propos,A, it was clear that
it only applied to cases in which tht: clergymen or
churchwardens applied. In respect to 1 'eternoster-row
no application could be made, becau,e there was no
church in the whole line.—(Hear, near.)
Alterman LUCAS shook his head very much at the
idea of the injury which the wine might sustain from the
sort of earthquakes which the vehicles °cc asioned iu tie
cavernous locality of Paternoster-row. I-I,e was really
afraid that the thunder of the omnibuses would be as
fatal to port,
,as the thunder of the eleine.nts was to
porter.—(Laughter.) Of the suggestion the at the car-
riages ot all kinds should go at a slow pace he should
approve, if the proprietors were not liable to a penalty
for creeping.
The petition was then, according to Ole terms
,of the.
amendment, ordered to be laid on the to ale.
r [Tie preceding account is a fair specimen, from a
seligious Journal, of Aldermen and Cb urchmen. We
shall probably refer to the subject on a future occa
ion.—ED. Sun.]

UNCLAIMED BANK DIVIDEZCDS.
Alderman COPELAND presented a petition from Jo-
seph Ady, of unclaimed dividend noto ric ty, complaining
that the attorneys of the Mayor's Cou rt bad refused to
bring an action for him against the per son who detained
his oks and other documentary matt ?,r connected with
his bminess, and praying that the C ourt of Aldermen
would brine the said attorneys to a sense of their duty
to the public.

Aicernian COPELAND said that the matter de-
manded inquiry, at the same time that he bad no idea
of ia.pugniiig the conduct of the Mayor's Court attor-
neys. He had, since he presented a petition from Mr.
Ady on a former day, received severe I letters from the

country, assuring him, that if it hat': nut been for Mr.
Ady many unclaimed dividends w ould ntsver have
reached the parties entitled to them.-
The petition was referred to the? Committee of Ge-
neral purposes.—Adjourned.
WM, ••••••
ItEBE.---1-S 1N THE Cl-i:URCH.

Thursday the Arehi,h3hop's Visit dion
wets continued in the Minster, pursua at to adjournment.
Tim Dean was absent, but Thoi uas Terrell, E. q.,
B rrister-at-law, of London, appeary I as his advocate.
After the names were called over,
Mr. TERRELL stated that be auper wed or behalf of
the Dean.

Di. PHILLIMORE said the Dean was:in contempt, and
no one could be beard for him until he• hail purged his
contempt by promising obedience to t he. Ordinary.
Mr. TERRELL was anxious to show ti at. he (the Com-
missary) had no power under his corer nisi ion to euter into
the question of simony, or to put the De an in contempt.
Dr. PHILLIMORE said he bad done sc t, and he could
not reverie his decision. He then staf ect that he had
net had a sufficient opportunity of co nter ring with the
Visitor on the several Sttbjects which had heel: brought
before him, and, consequently, he ni ijourned the Court
until the knowing day, at eleven, , when he said he
should be prepared with his decisi on.

FRIDAY, APRIL 2 .
This forenoon this visitation wir is continued in the
Ecclesiastical Court at the C4thell
During the morning the follo•we ig notice was posed
on the south door of the Minstt tr •:-
4. Joseph Phillimore, Doctor of Laws, Regius Pro-
fessor of Civil Law in the U arversity of Oxford, and
Advocate of the Court of Arc) tes Commissary for the
purpose of holdir,g a Visitatio, 3 of the Most Reverend
Father in' God, Edward, by 1 Divio ,e Providence, Lord
Archbishop of York, Primate. of England and Metro.
politan. Whereas you, the 1 ery B ,evermnd Wm. Cock-
burn, Doctor in Divinity, Dean • of the Cathedral and
Metropolitan Church of 'St. Pettr of York, on the 23d
day of Match last, pen'ling the p rocecdings of the said
Visitation, have been, pronounce d contumacious and
in contempt, and have continu ed e ver since wilfully to
absent your self from tEe same. We, , therefore, in virtue
of the authority cor,feried • upon us by the sad Lord
Archbishop, the Visitor, as ( jommissa, •y, do by these pre-
sents porecoptotily monish %fon, the saL d Very Reverend

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, and her Majesty
the Queen Dowager, attended Divine Service yester-
day morning in the Chapel Royal, Si. James's.
The Archbishop of Canterbury preached the ser-
mon from Matthew, chap. iii., v. 2. The Service was
read by the Rev. Dr. Knapp, the Lessons by the R.3v.
Dr. Wesley, and the Communion Service was read by
the Bishop of London, the Rev. Dr. Sleath, and the
Rev. Dr. Knapp. Tiie Chant was Dupuis, the Te
Deum and Jubilate (Boyce) in A; the Sanctus and
Responses (Rogers) in D. Ttie Anthem, " The Lord
is King"(Arnoh), was sung by Messrs Hawkins, Hobbs,
and J. B. Sale. Sir George Smart presided at the
organ.

The Rev. Dr. Short was the Deputy Clerk of the
Closet in 1► siting. The Royal Suite included the
Countess of Charlemont, Hon. Miss Pitt, Hon. Miss
Devereux, Marquis of Headford, Lord Geo. Lennox,
Sir Robert Otway, Colonel Wemyss, and Colonel
Bon ver'.e.

Tnc Queen Dowager was attended by the Countess
of Mayo, Hon. Miss Hudson, and Earl Howe.
The Marquises of Normanby and Northampton,
Earls Bandon, Cawdor, and Dunmore, and Viscount
Can! erbury, were among the nobility prenent.
Tiieir Roym Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester
and Prince George of Cambridge visiteu the Queen on
Saturday.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Ma-
jesty on Saturday.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended
Divine Service yesterday morning in the Chapel in
Kensington Paiace. Lady Anne Maria Dawson was
in waiting on her Royal Highness.
The Duke of Cambridge and Prince George attended
D.ving Service yesterday morning in St. George's
Church.