The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-29 00:00:00

COURT CIRCU4.AR.

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WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The unfavourable state of the
weather has prevented the Royal Party from leaving the Castle.
Dowager Lady Lyttleton has succeeded Lady Portman as the
Lady in Waiting on the Queen.
Lord Byron has succeeded Viscount Sydney as the Lord in
Waiting, and Sir Frederick Stovein has succeeded Admiral
Sir Robert Otway, as the Groom in Waiting on her Majesty.
Le Comte St. Aulaire, French Ambassador, M. de Mon-
tezuma, le Commandeur de Lisboa, the Earl of Lincoln, the
Earl of Aberdeen; the Right Hon Sir R. Peel, and Lord and
Lady Ashley, arrived at the Castle to-day, on a visit to her
Majesty. _ _

Lord. and Lady Portman left this morning.
The Hon. Sarah Mary Cavendish will hate the honour of
joining the Royal dinner-party this evening.
The Duke of Canibridge, attended by Colonel Jones, arrived
in town yesterday from his residence at Kew. His Royal
Highness attended at the Horse Guards in the afternoon, and
afterwards returned to Kew.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the
Foreign-office. It was attended by Sir Robert Peel, the
Duke of Wellington, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Wharncliffe, Earl
Of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Haddington, Earl of Ripon,
Lord Ellenborough, ir Henry Hardinge, and Sir Edward
K n a tch bull.

The Council rat an hour and a half.
Mr. de Montezuma, the Brazilian Minister, left town yes-
terday for Windsor Castle, to have an audience of the Queen.
And M. de Lisboa left town for Windsor Castle, to be pre-
sented to her Majesty.
Count St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, left town yes-
terday for Windsor Castle, to be presented to the Queen.
Sir Robert and Lady Peel left town yesterday afternoon, on
a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
The Earl of Aberdeen left town yesterday for Windsor
Castle, on a visit to the Queen.
Chekib Effendi, Turkish Ambassador, accompanied by Foad
Effendi, First Secretary of the Embassy, had the honour of
dining with the Queen on Friday last, at Windsor, after which
her Majesty honoured his Excellency with an audience to take
leave, on his departure from this country, at which audience
the Earl of Aberdeen attended as Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs.

Baron Brunow, the Russian Minister, transacted business
yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister, has left for
Brighton.

karl De Grey had an interview with Sir James Graham yes-
terday at the Home-office.
The Archbishop of Canterbury had an interview with Lord
Stanley yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Earl of Lincoln had an interview with Sir R. Peel
yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street.
The Marquis of Lansdowne left town yesterday afternoon
for his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts.

BENEFIT SOCIETIES AND TIIE CORN-LA IVS.-It is said
that the funds of Benefit and other similar Societies are
fast disappearing in the manufacturing districts. We
cannot conceive a greater calamity for the morality and
tranquillity of the people, than that the classes who,
by such institutions have provided for the casualites of
life, should now be obliged to devour their resources,
and become; in any time of trouble or difficulty,
wholly dependant on the parish. When we f eflect,
too, on the evils which the Corn-laws inflict on the re-
cipients of the funds of Benefit Societies, we know not
if any of their effects sets their inhumanity in a
clearer light. We know a case, for example, and
we dare say there are hundreds and thousands of similar
cases, of a hard working man who has for many years
submibcd to a Benefit Society ; he is now sick, and his
club allows his wife Bs. a week to maintain her sick
husband, herself, and a family of four young children.
The payment does not rise with the price of food, but as
this rises the value of the Bs. is diminished. Now the
Corn-law, without a pretence of affording them any re-
muneration, cuts a large slice off her loaf and her
children's loaf; and they must cry for food, perhaps perish
of hunger, that the mortgaged acres of the landlords
may be preserved. A sick husband, a hard working
man when in health, his industrious wife, and their
children, must all give a portion of their poor
pittance of Ss. a week to swell the rent-roll of the Duke

'of Buckingham and the Archbishop of Canterbury .
Justice and humanity cry aloud against such a flagrant
violation of their laws. But what happens in this case
happens to all the pensioners on these savings•of labour-
funds throughout the empire. All these humble people
subsisting on 55., Gs. or Bs. a week, must give of their
little to add to the great 'heaps of the nobles of the land.

ARMY AND NAVY.---The October Number of
the United Service Journal and Naval and Military Maga-
zine contains. among other important Papers;—Tribute to the
111,.mory of a Trafalgar Hero—Historical Details relative to the
Military Force of Great Britain—Syria during the Campaign
against Mehemet Ali (with two engraved plans of the Storm-
ing of Acre)—The Sea Piece—The British Colonies consi-
dered as Military Posts, by Lieut. -Col. Wilkie—Confess;ons ofa
Spy—Lieut: White's Narrative of his Capture and Imprison-
ment by the Carlists—The Chase—An Incident in the Life of
an old Adriatic Cruiser in the last War—A Alilitary Coinci-
dence—Memoir of Major-General Sir E. J. Murray
M'Gregor, Bart., K. C.B.—The Battery- System at Woolwich
—Notices of Steam Navigation—Remarks on the Justice of a
General Promotion—Lord Vivian's Retirement from the Ord-
nance—Notes from the lonian Islands—The Engineer Esta-
blishment at Chatham—Distribution of the Army and Navy_
- With all the Naval and Military • Intelligence of the Month.