The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-28 00:00:00

EVENING SUN.

TH.E QUEEN'S PROGRESSES.
The iireparations at Woburn Abbey for the recept:on
of the Queen and Prince Albert are admitted on all
hands to be magnificent and worthy of the occasion.
Those at Pansanger and Brocket Hall are on the same
grand scale, and it may therefore be interesting to oar
readers to ye a short historical account of these splen-
did mansions. The Royal guests will arrive at Pansan-
ger to-morrow, and on the following day will honour
Lord Melbourne with a visit at Brocket Hall. The ac-
counts which we subjoin are from actual inspection as
well as from documentary records.

PANSANGER.—This elekant mansion belongs to Earl
Cowper, and is situated about three miles from Hertford.
It has only of late years become the family residence of
the Cowpers, their more ancient seat being Coln-green,
at a little distance to the south-west. Lord Cowper,
however, in 1801, pulled down the old house at Coln-
green, which had been erected by Lord Chancellor Cow-
per in the beginning of the eighteenth century, and
built the present handsome house in the Gothic style of
architecture upon the site of the manor of Pansanger,
on the north-east bank of the river Mimeram. It has,
moreover, been recently considerably enlarged and im-
proved, and now forms, With its beautiful park, one of
the most delightful objects in this part of the country.
This manor, variously called Pansanger, Blachmene,
and Blahemere, lies in the parish of St. Andrew, Hert-
ford, and was bestowed by William the Conqueror, at
the time of the Conquest, upon Geoffrey de Bech, one of
his followers. It is thus recorded in Domesday Sur-
vey

I.` GeOffrey Runeville holds of Geoffrey (de Bech) one
hide in Blachmere. There is land to two ploughs.
There is one to the demesne, and another may be made.
There is one villane with two borders, meadow for to
ploughs, pasture for the cattle, and pannage for the forty
hogs. This land is, and was, worth fifteen shillings ;in
King Edward's time, forty shillings,. Tivo of King
Edward's Thanee held this land, and might sell it."
Any further acount of the descent of this manor is not
to be met with among old records, till the reign of King
Henry the Eighth, when it formed part of the possessions
of Gertrude Courtney, Marchioness of Exeter, upon
whose attaimkr it came to the Crown. Afterwards,
King Henry the Eighth, by his letters patent, dated the
18th of June, in the 38th year of his reign, granted it by
the more modern name of Pansanger, to Nicholas Throg-
morton, Esq., in fee. Pansanger, afterwards, by means
which are not ascertainable, became the property of
Sir Stephen Slaney, who was knighted in the reign of
Queen Elizabeth, and chosen Lord Mayor of the city, in
the thirty-seventh year of her reign. From him it con-
tinued in the family till it became by descent and pur-
chase entirely vested, by intermarriage, in the hands of
Elwes, a merchant of London, by whom it was sold
to William, son of William, first Earl Cowper.
This nobleman was sprung from. an ancient family,
seated at Strode, in Sussex, in the reign of Edward the
Fourth. The place of his birth is not known, but i 9 is
supposed that. he vas born in the Castle at Hertford,
which his family occupied for several years previous to
their erection of the family seat at Coln-green. He was
brought up to the profession of the law, and on the 4th of
May, 1707, was created Lord High Chancellor.
Upon the removal of the Earl of Godolphin', on the
Bth of August, 1710, from the post of Lord Treasurer,
and the resignation of the other Whig Ministers, Lord
Cowper waited upon the Queen to resign the seals, which
her Majesty returned to him three times after he had
laid them down. At last, when she could not prevail by
entreaty, she commanded him to take them, adding, " I
beg it as a favour of you, if I may use that expression."
The Chancellor was twice married; by his second
wife he had two sons, by the eldest of whom, William,
the purchaser of this manor of Pansanger, he was suc-
ceeded in his titles and estates. After two descents,
Pansanger fell into the hands of the late Earl, fifth
of this title, and who in 1805 married the first Viscount
Melbourne's daughter, by whom he had a son, the pre-
sent Earl. He succeeded his father in 1837, and married
in 1833 the eldest daughter of Earl de Grey.
In the pleasure-grounds at Pansanger is a most superb
oak, as remarkable for the largeness of its dimensions as
for the vigour of its growth. It measures upwards of
seventeen feet in circumference, at five feet from the
ground. It was called the " great oak "in 1709 1 it is
very healthy, yet grows in a gravel surface, apparently
as sterile as any soil whatever ; but it undoubtedly ex-
tends 'its top roof into a soil of a very different quality.
By a measurement taken in the year 1719, this magnifi-
cent tree was found to contain 315 cubic feet of timber,
and by a subsequent one made by Mr. Edward Ellis, of
Hertford, on the 29th of May, 105, by the direction of
Earl Cowper, it contained 796 cubic feet, including those
branches which were sufficiently large to be -considered
timber.

BROCKET HALL—This seat stands in a beautiful park
on the north-east bank of the River Lea. It derives its
name from its ancient proprietors, the family of Brocket;
of whom, Sir John Brocket served the Vice of Sheriff
for the county in which it is situated,'in the years 1566
and 1581. Thisgallant soldier in the year 1577, received
the honour of knighthood, and in the year 1585, was en-
trusted with the training and inspection of the men who
were levied and trained in these parts at the time of the
Spanish armament, in Queen Elizabeth's reign, and
whence, they were forwarded to the camp at Tilbury.
From the family of Brocket, this estate passed into that
of Read, upon the marriage of Thomas Read, of Barton,
in Berkshire, with Mary, fifth daughter and co-heir of Sir
John Brocket, Knight.

Passing by several minor descents, we fi'..Ad it come at
last into the hands of the Lamb family ; who at present
hold it, and who became passenors of it by purchase
about the year 1755. Sir Matthew Lamb was succeeded
in the possession of the estate by Sir Peniston Lamb,
who, after having served in Parliament for 'three several
places, viz. Laggershall, Malmesbury, and Newport,
was, in the year 1780, created Viscount Melbourne, of
the Kingdom of Ireland ; and, by patent, dated the
11th of August, 1815, Baron Melbourne, of Melt,ourne,
in the county of Derby. The conjunction of the Mel-
bourne and Cowper families took place in the year 1805,
by the marriage of Emily Mary Mfg-bourne to Peter
Leopold Lewis Francis, Earl Covr'per.
The present seat of Brocket Hall was begun by Sir
Matthew Lamb, from the designs of Mr. James Payne,
architect, upon the site of the ancient manor-house, and
completed, in its present form, by his son and successor,
the present Viscount Melbourne, who has enlarged the
river in front of the house, into a spacious sheet of
water, by throwing an embankment across the valley,
over which the principal approach to the house is car-
ried, by means of a handsome stone bridge of three
arches.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Dow-
ager Lady Lyttelton, Hon. Aiiss Sarah Cavendish, Mar-
quis of Headfort, Mr. George Edward Anson, Colonel
Buckley, and Colonel Bouverie, arrived at Woburn Ab-
bey, Bedfordshire, on Monday evening, having experi-
enced a most gratifying and enthusiastic reception
throughout the whole of the route from Windsor Castle.

The Royal party occupied three carriages and four.
The Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Devonshire,
the Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke and Duchess of
Leinster, Earl de Grey, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount
and Viscountess Palmerston, and other visitors who had
been honoured with invitations to meet her Majesty, ar-
rived at the Abbey in the course of the day, on a visit
to the Duke and Duchess of Bedford.
After dinner the following Loyal. Ode, in honour of
her Majesty's arrival, was sung in the west front of We-
burn Abbey, to the tune of " God save the Queen;"—
God bless the Royal pair,
This is our midnight prayer,
God save the Queen ;
Now stars their vigils keep,
Now night winds around us sweq.
And now the world's asleep,
God bless the Queen.

Day's rapant now's away,
Yet loyal hearts still stay,
Prolong the strain ;
Guard, Lord, the Royal pair,
Thy mercies let them share,
From every harm and care,
God save the twain.
The Royal parents bless,
Their child--our young Princess,
Do thou defend ;
And when life's day is done—
Its course in glory run-
-0 may their mortal sun
In brightness end.

Now let the welkin ring,
While Woburn minstrels sing
Their loyal theme.
May Briton's sons prolong
Our Woburn Park night song,
And shout the anthem strong,
God save the Queen.

The unfavourable state of the weather in the early part
Of the morning yesterday, prevented the
'caring Woburn Abbey in the forenoon. Royal party

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The Duchess of Cambridge, the Princesses Augusta
and Mary of Cambridge, returned to town from Kew on
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return o her
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Monday evening.
Her Royal Highness the-Duchess
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Their Royal—Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge,
Prince George and the Princess Augusta of Cambride,
attended by Lady Augusta Somerset, visited the Royal
Academy in Trafalgar-square yesterday afternoon. Sir
Martin Archer Shee, the President of the Academy, re-
ceived their Royal Highnesses, and conducted them:
through the different schools.

The late county contests have presented a singu-
lar phenomenon. The hungry farmers (who devour
each other by their competition for the of farms over
each other's heads, and who oppress the poor by making
their wealth out of them in the summer and autumn,
and throwing them on the parish in the winter), these
hungry farmers and their parish priests—the study of
whose lives is, how to plunder and get the most out of
each other—are to be found banded together in the
struggle to maintain the iniquitous Corn-laws. It is a
peculiar feature in the Popish-Protestant Church of
England, that its tithe-fed priests and their country flocks
are in harmony only when mischief and injustice to the
community are to bc.. perpetrated. If we wanted proof
that a law was bad, we should -require nothing better-
than the fact that a grasping and over-paid'prieathood.
zealously supported it.—Dover Chronicle.
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f ENING -SUN.

SECOND EDITION

THE FUNDS—(CLOSING PRICES.)
BRITISH FUNDS.
Isla Stock l7O India Stock
per Cent Red 9oi Ditto Bonds —pm
3 per Cent Cons 9Ol Ditto Old Annuities ... 88i
3i per Cent Red 994 Ditto New Annuities...
New 3i per Cent 9esi Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 19 p n
New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001 l9 pm
I Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small l9 pm
Jan. 1860 l3 !Bank Stock for Acct...
Oct 1859 — India Stock for 0pg....
Jan. 1860.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent—. 1081 Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgi.n, 5 per cent — .Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian 80nd5.... 671 Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres. 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent —
Chilian, 6 per cent...... Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent l9l
Ditto, 1824 . Ditto, Deferred ..
Danish, 3 per cent. — French, 5 per cent. —f.._ c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 251 French, 3 per cent —f. —e
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. I Dutch, 2i per cent. ... 52i
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. 'Ditto, 5 per cent 102
SHARES

Bristol end Exeter (60 paid) ... ..... . ... .. 314
Cheltenham and Great Western (62i paid) 21
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid)
Great Western Railway (65 paid) B4
Ditto New Shares (50 paid sB}
Ditto Fifth (4 paid) 9l
Hull and Selby (50 paid) 364
London and Brighton (50 paid) 421
London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 151
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) 49i
Northern and Eastern (30 paid)
North Midland Railway ( 100 paid)
Ditto_ New Shares (40 paid)..

York and North Midland Railway (50 pd 1 75

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROH THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

GLOBE.—The Times has written two articles, and
threatens more, the purport of which is to prove that
which was already pretty generally known—that Sir R.
Peel does not mean to be tied down to any particular course
on assuming the functions of Minister. His primary
object having been to get in, his secondany purpose
will be to keep in ; and professions which were very useful
to attain the first of these views, would, if reduced into
practice be very fatal to the second. To wreck the
Ministerial vessel when in the hands of the Liberals, it
was all very well that the Tory party should assume the
fixedness of the rock ; but the rock of opposition is now
to be dissolved into the quicksand of expediency, which
will be assuredly fatal to the Conservative crew, when
the tide of electioneering triumph shall have receded,
and left nothing but Tory principles for the Tory
craft to rest upon- That the expectant Premier has
commenced his soundings with the view of following in
the course of ,the Whigs, is obvious from the altered tone
of the journals in his interest. Vacillation, which was
the alleged crime of the present holders of office, is to
be the great virtue of their successors, who are to have
the unfettered option of going in any direction that the
circumstances of the moment, or, in other words, the
preservation of their places, may seem to require. The
Times has not even the moderation to claim for its
protege the right of making one deviation, however
flagrant, from the course lie has declared to be the only
proper one, but reserves for him the right of going any
way at any time, according as the political mind may
act on the political weathercock. A statesman who is
to be " all things 'by turns," will assuredly be " nothing,
long," and his career must inevitably be brief as a Nil-
' 'lister. By trying to make himself " everything to every-
body," he will soon find himself, in the vulgar and some-
what self-contradictory phrase, "nothing to nobody."
STANDARD.—The last number of the Edinburgh
Review reminds us of a person at the Court of the un-
fortunate Louis XVI., who obtained from the populace
the surname of Deficit. Now, as her Majesty's Minis-
ters are as well entitled to a distinctive title as their
predecessors of the Cabnl, or the Coalition, or the
Taleuts administrations—none of them weaker or
more wicked than the present—we respectfully
propose that henceforward they bear the name of
the deficit Ministry. They have the most indis-
putable right to the name. Their deficiency in all
the qualifications of statesmen has been abundantly
proved ; but this is not what we mean ; we allude to the
deficit which they have created in the public resources,
which they make the apology for their most outrageous
propositions, which, strange as it may seem, consti-
tutes their plea of merit, and their claim to public con-
fidence, and the anchor of their hope of a restoration to
office. They surely who have, during six years laboured
so industriously to create a deficit and now exult in the suc-
C,.78 of their labours, must be rather proud than ashamed
of the title we give them, the " Deficit Ministry."
We are told, indeed, that the existing deficit is owing to
the unforeseen ,casualty of the wars in China, Syria, and
Afghanistan; is not doing justice to the " deficit
administration ;" their exertions to earn the title we claim
for them preceded those wars. We have before us a return
on income and expenditure for three years, ordered by the
House of Commons on the 22d of June, upon the motion of
the late Member for Falkirk—who must not drop a tear
ever the political tomb of Mr. Gillon? He will be missed
almost as much as his brother in modesty, gracefulness,
and geniu;; Mr. Joseph Hume—but this by the way. We
have before us, as we said, a return of income and ex-
penditure for three years-1838, 1839, 1840. Now,
upon the first of these years we find a deficit of 441,8191.,
but there was no China war ; no Syrian war ; no Affghan
war in 1838. Upon the second of these years we find a
deficit of 1,381,9381., and still in 1839 there was no
China war—no .Affghan war—no Syrian war. In the
turd year Ministers found that they were going a little
too fast in the deficit department, and they added five per
cent. !:o the taxes, but still the desired deficit
flourished in abundant " fructification,'? to borrow
Lord Sydenham; figure, for at the end of 1840 we have
a deficit of 430,5434, making in the three years a total
of 3,574,3001.—A pretty deficit realised upon which to
retire from business, were this the whole ; but this is
only the " fructification" of three years, and the pursuit
of a deficit began much earlier, as most of our readers
will recollect from our reference to Lord Sydenham's
notable doctrine of " fructification ;" aid the seven
months of 1841 already consumed cannot fait (consider-
ing especially the election expenses) to enlarge the minus
quantity—the deficit is actually no doubt from seven to
ten millions sterling.
COURIER.—The Revue des deux Monde:, or rather
the writer of the eloquent article from which we so
freely extracted yesterday, may be assured that without
'" transactions" of any kind with any party, or the frac-
tion of any party, Sir Robert Peel, with the " same ad-
mirable sagacity, ability, dignified, calm, and foreseeing
patience," for the extraordinary and conjunctive posses-
sion of which he is so justly credited by the reviewer,
will conciliate for his administration the support, in the
main, and sooner or later, of all wise, patriotic, and
dieirterested men who, however hitherto classed, and
sometimes viciously, under certain party ensigns, such as
IVhigs, Liberals, or Reformers, have yet certain great
landmarks of constitutional principles in common with
each other, and with the Conservatives, and which, as
.r.uch, must ever constitute a broad and impassable line of
demarcation bet Ween them and the Radicals, Revolu-
tionists, and Repealers. The amalgamation of parties
conscientiously according in the same fundamental points
of political faith will be consummated by no compromise of
principles on either`side, nor ratified in the shape of any
compact or coalition formally expressed or implied.
There are, doubtless, precedents for such combinations
and fusions of parties, but they are not generally such as
have commanded pUblic respect, even when governed by
vieimpea.chable motives, and arranged between the most
honourable men. The 'Government of Sir Robert will
be, in the proper acceptation of the term, essentially a
icefinmeitg Government. Reforming, in the sense in which
the illuitrious Bacon defined it, when he bade us take
heed that it be the necessity of " the reformation
which precedeth the change, and not the desire of change
that pretendeth' the reformation."

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
The gloom which hung over the Manchester market,
in consequence of the continental bankruptcies alluded to
last week, has been deepened by accounts of very exten-
sive failures at Paisley, where thirteen houses are said to
.have stopped payment, at the latter end of last week, for
nn amount, collectively, about 300,0001. Though the im-
mediate effect of 6hese failures upon parties resident inMan-
ches ter will probably not be very seri o u s,they are calculated
to inspire greaf distrust, and, coupled with two or three
failures which have., recently occurred in this town,
had, no doubt, a material effect upon the market yes-
terday, which was one of the worst that has been ex-
perienced during the present year. Yarns and goods
were both depressed in price ; and very few sales could
be made, even at the very lowest rates hitherto cur-
rent. The depression was probably in some degree
increased by the unfavourable appearance of the wea-
ther, which, after three or four comparatively favour-
able days, has again put on a threatening appearance
and serious fears are now entertained that a late and
defective harvest may be added to the other causes
which press with such tremendous severity upon the
manufacturing interests. Two large spinning and ma-
nufacturing concerns, one at Macclesfield and the
other at Stockport, which have been for some time past
worked under the inspection of creditors, are about to be
closed, in consequence of the unprofitable nature of the
business. It is stated that the stoppage at Stockport will
only be temporary; but that, we presume, must depend
in some degree upon the future state of the trade. In
the mean time, at all events, the effect upon the work-
people will be very serious.

IiOCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JULY 26.—
We have had another brisk market to-day, and the
buyers have purchased freely at last week's prices.
Wool still continues to advance a little ; yet the manu-
facturers buy very sparingly, under the impression that
the present prices cannot long be maintained.
IIiTDDERSTIELD MARKET, J PLY 27.—There is nothing
new in the state of this market—the same heaviness
which has so long been noticed, is still too apparent,
especially in woollens. In light fancies there is more
doing, and fair prices are realized. In the warehouses
perhaps it may be, said there is a slight improvement.
On the whole, bad as are, it is some satisfaction
that business is no worse.
STATE OF TRADE AT STOCKPORT.—The utmost dis-
tress prevails among the manufacturing population of
this town, in consequence of the number of hands out
of employ, and the short time which has been worked
at a number of mulls during several months. This
state of things, we are sorry to say, is likely to be aug-
-I~les~srs. Lane's mills, mented, as the whole of the
workpeople employed at
_situate in Higher Hillgate ; and
ey
auvl.nepthrolvn out of employment this
week week
Irree
;nen,
anne 1.11, received notice that the concerns
41;. ;17euxteniilvteh
esir
.ttervices no longer required.
blishraents have for several
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years been working under inspection. 'Upwards of 1,000
hands will be thrown out of employment by the stoppage
of these mills.

LATEST BETTING AT MAN-
CHESTER.
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY EVENING.
As may be supposed, the celebrated and splendid
meeting at Goodwood must have attracted a large
majority of the Lancashire turf gentlemen. The room
this morning was moderately attended, but the ab-
sence of so many capitalists caused the bets to be
neither heavy nor numerous. The prices will vary as
letters reach from Sussex ; consequently, to-morrow the
following figures may be very different from the specu-
lations then asked for. As near as we could glean, the
closing prices against the horses names were as follows :