The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. SATURDAY, APRIL IA, XB4O,

NELL for preierving peace in Ireland, what can
they be but delighted with Lord STANLEY for
rekindling agitation and giving them the bulk of
the Irish for allies ?

The last news from the Continent of Europe
speaks of a war with Naples. Yesterday's arrivals
from New York bring word that the Boundary Ques-
tion is as unsettled as ever, and many of the
Americans as eager as ever to begin a broil. Re-
prisals agaii,st both the Neapolitans and the Chinese
have been ordered, and how soon Lord STANLEY'S
statesmanship in provoking dissension at home
may induce the Russians or the French to insult
us, and compel us to take arms against them, it is
impossible to foresee. We have enough on our
/lands, in these beginning contests, with.a deficient
revenue, to require the utmost freedom and
exertion, but Lord STANLEY thinks it
a prudent part to fetter them by a
domestic quarrel. If he deserve praise
from the Chartists, from the Americans, Nea-
politans, Russians, French, and Chinese—from
all who desire to humble England—he deserves an
immortal statue. Loid STANLEY, backed by the
Tories, is the best friend the enemies of England
have had, since those traitors CHARLES 11. and
JAMES 11., brought the country to such a degraded
condition, that it could only be saved from ruin by
a revolution.

At a meeting held for the propagation of the
Gospel in Foreign Parts, on Wednesday week, the
Bishop of LONDON thus described the first duty of
a State—

" Before he addressed himself to the question of our
individual duty, it seemed to him that he should offer a
few remarks as to our national responsibility, and ask
whether the obligation incumbent on a nation in its collec-
tive capacity did not, in some degree, supersede that which
was laid on individuals. He held, and he believed there
were few present who did not hold with him, that the first,
the most sacred duty of Me Government of a C'heistian
Country was, and indeed must be, to make provision for the
diffusion of Christianity among all its st‘Nects—(Cucers)
—to maintain and extend tha: Chrbti4nt:y thr6ugh every
part of i:s dominions, as the only sure foundation of indi-
vidual happiness, of social order, of national prosperity,
and peace."

As the Bishop said, few persons who follow the
Church differ from him. They ali believe that it
is the first and most sacred duty of a Christian
State to make provision for the diffusion o Chris-
tianity amongst its people. On this subject, Sir
R. PEEL and Sir R. INGIs, however they may
differ on other subjects, agree, and strenuously in-
sist that the State should provide plenty of parsons
and plenty, of churches. The statement is, in fact,
one of those high-sounding assertions which rather
induce acquiescence than examination. To us it
appears wholly incompatib!e with the duties of the
State, and we shall briefly endeavour to show that
the State cannot act on the Bishop's principle with-
out violating tl►e rights of its subjects, and forfeiting
its just claim to their allegiance. Any observations
which, like these, tend to throw light on the con-
nection between the State and the Church, cannot
now be considered ill-timed.

In almost all the States of -Europe the people
profess some different forms of Christianity, but
that is notably the case in our State, where there
are lour great and distinct forms of Christianity,
Church of Englandism, Presbyterianism, Roman
Catholicism, and Dissent, each of which probably
contains several subdivisions, and one at least con
tains a great number. All these sects combined
make up the State, which would be incomplete
wanting either of them. To be deprived of the
Roman Catholics would be tantamount to a separa-
tion from Ireland. To lose the Presbyterians we
must acknowledge Scotland as an independent
Government. To cut off the Dissenters would be
to annihilate some of the most industrious and en-
lightened of our citizens, and to destroy the sinews
of power and wealth. The.State,therefore,•whieh:
is only a short name for the Whole 'nation in"its
corporate capacity, consists of several sects of
Christians.

It is an admitted principle that the State has no
right to dictate the religion of the people. In fact,
as the State is only an aggregation of individuals,
the claim of such a power implies the right of indi-
viduals to dictate the faith of other individuals,
which all reasonable and free mer. repudiate. What
is called toleration, or one man, or a multitude not
constraining the religious belief and practices of
others, is not merely acknowledged as a theoretical
rule, it is carried into effect dictated by necessity.
Though there are several and most unwarrantable

exceptions to the rule, in general it is so well ob

served, that the power to depart from it is never openly
claimed and never openly questioned. In fact, the
many sects of Christians which exist in the State
is strictly in accordance with the theory of Govern-
ment recognized by all parties.
We enter not into the question of how far each
sect is bound to make proselytes and diffuse its own
doctrines. The Bishop of LONDON and the rest
of the Bishops may think that such is their duty,
but their thinking so does not make it the duty of
the State ; and if they carry such a principle into
the House of Peers, they act there as Sectarians,
not as statesmen. We confine ourselves strictly
to the duty of the Government, and leave to each
sect the duty of securing the prevalence of those
doctriLes which each considers to be true and good.
When the Bishop of LONDON spoke of the dif-
fusion of Christianity, he did not mean Roman

Catliolicis.n, nor Dissent, nor Presbyterianism,
which, according to the Bishop of EXETER, is no
Church at all ; he meant Church of Englandism ;
and thus the principle propounded by the Bishop
is reduced to this, " that it is the most sacred duty
of the Government of England to make provision
for the diffusion of Church of Englandism amongst
all its subjects." SD stated—and we defy any man
to deny that this is actually what the Bishop
meant—his high-sounding principle becomes at
once the mockery and scorn of all the Catholics,
Presbyterians, and Dissenters.

The assertion made by the Bishop, might pos-
sibly be made by each of the other religious bodies,
if it were placed in the same relation to the State
as the Church of England, and the claims of each
would in its turn be equally treated with mockery
and scorn by all the others. Now, that principle
cannot be true, cannot be correct, which al, these
religious bodies would agree to repudiate when
asserted by any one of them. A general principle
is a principle found in every particular case, but
the g, neral principle asserted by the Bishop is not
found in any particular case, and is denied in all
whenever asserted by individual ambition.

But how can the State or Government provide
for the diffusion of Christianity ? It is nothing
but the whole people, and it acts by their powers.
It has no property, no strength, separate from their
property and their strength. To set it in motion it
must tax them, and with the taxes pay the agents it
employs. To begin the diffusion of Christianity it
must put its hands into its subjects' pockets. It
cannot even favour Christianity, as might
be supposed, by a law, without taxing its
subjects, for every law requires agents to
execute it. Parchment decrees do not execute
themselves. The Government cannot, therefore,
make any provision for the diffusion of any one
form of Christianity without injuring_ all its sub-
jects who profess any °diet form of Christianity, or
who may perchance not be Christians. It must
tax them to perform that which the Bishop cf
LONDON calls its most sacred duty, and must coin-
pelthem
wtoiic
promote by
abhor.btlir means a form of
Christianity The Roman Catholics agree with the Dissenters, .

the Church of England men, and the Presbyterians,
in regarding it as a duty to discountenance every
other form of Christianity but their own—Church-
men, Dissenters, and Presbyterians petition against
Catholicism, and complain of the least encourage-
ment being given to it by the State. The ground of
the hostility of Catholic Ireland to England, is the
undue favour shown to Church of Englandism. For
many years the two Churches of England and
Rome laboured by all the means in their power, by
deprivations and penalties, each to suppress every
religion but its own form of Christianity. We can
excuse their zeal, but not their injustice. For each
sect its own faith is the one thing needful. It is
superior to all earthly things, or it is valueless. No
Christian as a conscientious man, can, therefore,
lend his power or his purse to promote a form of re-
ligion which he conceives to be pernicious. Now, the
State allows each man to form his own religious opi-
nions, leaves him at liberty to embrace that form of
faith he pleases, and yet, according to the Bishop of
LONDON, is bound to tax him, and, as its most
sacred duty, to constrain him to promote a religion
which he regards as erroneous. Such contradic-
tions show the complete fallacy of the high-sound-
ing principle put forth by the Bishop of LONDON,
and zealously adopted by the Tory party.
We must further observe, that the State, with
all its political duties, is a human contrivance,
founded on the principle of protecting the lives and
properly of all its subjects. That, in theory, is
the only ground on which allegiance is, or can be,
asked. If a State cease to protect the lives anti
property of its subjects, they are at liberty to seek
protection elsewhere. If, instead of protecting, it
violates their property, or deprives them of life or
liberty, the obligation to obey it ceases, and
s converted into the duty of resistance. Pru-
dential considerations, of course, always in
practice, modify the abstract right, but it exists
as we have described it. For the State to
tax its subjects, except it be for a common purpose
—to tax them for such a purpose as to provide for
a religion which is not theirs, violates its duty
towards them and forfeits its right to their allegiance.
L►stead, therefore, of its being the most sacred duty
of the Government to provide for the diffusion of
Church of Englandism, as stated by the Bishop of
LONDON, it cannot set about such a design without
violating its duty to a great number of its subjects,
and justifying them, if they be able and choose, to re-
sist or overthrow it. To such anarchical results do the
doctrines of the priesthood and the practices of the
Tories, as they are to be guided by Sir ROBERT
INGLis on the 7th May, lead.

The Earl of ABERDEEN, in a sort of pet,
gave notice a little while ago, that, as her MA-
JESTY'S Ministers had determined not to inter-
meddle in the dispute between the hieh•flyers and
the moderates in the Church of Scotland, he would
take upon himself the duty of introducing a legis-
lative measure on the subject. It would not sur-
prise us if the Noble Lord has already seen cause
to regret his chivalrous ()Er to interpose between
the belligerent parties. His Lordship knows, we
doubt not, the meaning of the " reddin strake,"
and probably begins to entertain a suspicio❑ that it
is likely :o be his portion, if be persists in his re-
solution. The more he considers the question he
has undertaken. to settle, the more he must be
convinced of the impossibility of satisfying either
party. The chances a7e that he offends both.
The moderates are perfectly content with the
present constitution of their Church. They are
persuaded that there is ample power in it, if that
power be properly exercised, to prevent the intru-
sion of unqualified persons into the miOstry,".and
they, deprecate all change as dangerous., The bigh.,.
flyers who, by passing the Veto Act, are seelting`to
establish an entirely new principle in the constitu-
tion of the Kirk, have declared through the mouth
of their leader, Dr. CHALMERS, that they will
adhere, be the consequences whet they may, to this
principle—that they will not (to use the emphatic
words of the Reverend Gentleman), retreat an
inch, no, not a hair's-breadth, from the position
they have taken up.

Now, what does Lord ABERDEEN propose to
do in order to put an end to the strife ? This we
do not exactly know, but we know what he means
not to do. He has expressed his most decided
disapprobation of the. Veto Act, and his determina-
tion not to sanction its principle. His measure,
therefore, will not do for the Vetoists. Nothing
short of their own particular nostrum will be ac-
ceptable to them, while the advocates of things as
they are will look with distrust, not unmingled with
indignation, on an attempt to interfere with, and
eventually undermine an institution which they
venerate, and of which it may truly be said that it
has done much less mischief than any other eccle-
siastical establialitnent that ever was founded.

Another great and most respectable body, the
Dissenters of Scotland, are almost to a man op-
posed to the . interference of the Legislature
in the affairs of the Kirk. They argue thus—
and who can gainsay the argument • " The
Church has thought proper to become the
slave of the State, for certain worldly
benefits which she receives from it. She has made
a bargain by which she has compromised her inde-
pendence. She has sold her birthright for a mess of
pottage, and greatly impelled her usefulness, if not
forfeited her character as a Church of Christ.
There is only one way by which she can be re-
stored to the rank and station of a Gospel Church,
and that is, by severing the link which unites her

to the State. She will then he free to
la i n
ißiuf t thele t civil
hat ut to
h oc roi mt
yp. make any
law she pleases for the regulation of her members,
and
iws•tirl
al
tlehare e
sat juuusst
hreirg
her
not endeavour to escape from the consequences
of her own conduct, either by breaking bargain
with the State, or insisting that a new
compact
shall be entered into. If the yoke galls her
neck, to lighten it would be only to perpetuate her
bondage—she must shake it off altogether, and at
once. We, who hold establishments of ieligion to
be the chief hindrance to the spread of genuime
Christianity, cannot but raise out voices against 4Lit
such attempts to patch up the rents, and avert the
ruin of that of which the destruction would be
a consurnmation devoutly to be wished. Minch
mote do we feel bound to resist an unprimci.

pled attempt to impose upon the people, under the
false pretence of eiilarging their Christian liberty,
a modification of patronage, the sole object of
which is, and the sure effect of which would lye, to
enlarge the power of the clergy."

With all these elements of discord surrounding
the Non-intrusion question, it is not to he expected
that a change in the constitution of the Kirk, pro-
duced by an Act of the Legislature, will set it at
rest. Our firm belief is that it would make mat ters
ten times worse than they are, and therefore we ap-
plaud the wisdom of the Government in refusing to
originate any application. to Parliament for a legis-
lative m'asure. There is, as we have repeatedly
said, one way, and one only, in which a remedy can
be applied. The General Assembly must repeal
the Veto Act, and thus tut up the evil by the root.

The unfortunate Jews of Syria are represented,
in letters from Damascus of the 2(1 ult., as in a
state of dreadful alarm,
in consequence of the vio-
lent proceedings inaituted against them by t'ne
Egyptian Government. IBRAHIM PACHA per-
sists in affecting to credit the confession of the

seven tortured Israelites shout the murder at the
Spanish priest, Father THOMASO, and his servant, !
and was only prevented from summiirily executing
thirty of the most considerable Jews in Damascus,
by the protest of the French Consul, who nobly
insisted upon the right of these innocent persons to
have their alleged guilt proved by competent wit-
nesses. The Paella of Damascus has confined
a number of wealthy Jews in different houses,
to whom he has severally eommitted the
translation of the Talmud into Turkish, in
order to ascertain whether it ordains hu-
man sacrifices ! We suppose it is intended by
the PACHA to visit any discrepancies in the several
translations with the death of the whole of the
translators I We have already implored the Go-
vernment to interpose its good offices for the pro-
tection of an innocent persecuted people. The ex-
ploded fable about the Hebrews employing blood in
the celebration of an annual religious rite, is revived
in Syria by the Egyptian Government, as an excuse
for plundering theta of their property. The only
gult of the Jews is their wealth ; and to obtain this
wealth IBRAHIM PACs-IA dooms them by thirties
to an ignominious death. Surely the British
Government will not suffer such atrocities to be
perpetrated without taking some step to prevent
them. What are the Hebrew Communities in
England and France about, that they do not pub-
licly bestir themselves in favour of their persecuted
brethren in the East ? Why do they not call public
meetings, and if they can do no more, protest, at
least,.ngainst the infamous conduct of the Egyptian
Government ? They are sufficiently numerous and
influential to rrake them-elves heard ; and a fair
hearing is all that is wanted to enlist the sympathies
of every enlightened and honest person in the two
countries in favour of their oppressed co-religionists
in Syria.

M. TRIERS has triumphed in the Chamber of
Peers. After a debate which lasted three days, a
division took place on Thursday afternoon, on the
Secret Service Bill, when a majority of ninety
appeared for the Cabinet. The numbers were—
For the Bill
Against it
Msj 'Thy in favour of Ministers —9O
Considering of what materials the Chamber of
Peers is. composed, this majority is greater than
could have been expected. But, with all their Con-
servatism, the Peers dare not accelerate a new
election by forcing the KING to dissolve the Cham-
bers. This would, indeed, be the way to destroy
their own influence altogether, and, fortunately fo
themselves, they know it.
The Madrid papers received are of the 7th inst.
The news contained in them is given in another
column, to which we refer our readers.
The following news from Malta is from a French
Journal of Thursday
MALTA, APRIL 6.—Nows has lately been received a
Wilt of the arrivel cf 1,000 and 1,200 Neapolitan soldier
at S.) New, ; a more considerab'e number, it is said, has been
distributed in diff rent pars of Sicily.
relations b:-tween the kingdoms of Naples and
England having for some time past been far from cordial,
on account of the re-establishment of the Ord.!. of Mel.a,
in the dominions of Ferdinand, the Government of this
island has resolved to a.:lt an explanation of this assembling
of Neapolitan troops in Sicily, and Admiral Stopford has
sent one of his steamers, the Hydra, to Naples.
This is not all ; a ship of the line, the Bellerophon, was
cn the point of sailing for the Gulf' of Smyrna : it has
been kept back, and the captain has received orders to be
ready to sail for the same destination (Naples).
Similar orders have, it is said, been given to the Princess
Charlotte.

This news is the great subject of conversation.
The Sad adds that the Scamander steam-boat, which
took on board at Civita Vecchia a coutier from Mr.
Temple to Admiral Stopford, bad not yet arrived at Malta.
An English steam. boat was gone, as we have said, to be
at the disposal of the 13i itish Ambassador.
Some additional particulars relative to the dis-
turbed state of our relations with Naples will be
found elsewhere, under the head " Neapolitan
Question."

Besides the French Papers of Thunday we have
received advises froii, Constantinople of the 28th
ult., and,front Smyrna-of the -29th, extracts from
which, we hilVeltkeviise';given' elsewhere. They
contain' itOthiiyg ciitts for any comment on
our part at present, but they are not, therefore,
destitute of interest.

The ..I,lpi:er, Captain Darrycan, and the Trident, Cap.
tain de Rteardy, both of the line, arrived at Toulon Gn
the 13th, (rem tho Levar t.

Th., Giraffe transport, Captain Boriita, arrived at Tou-
lon the same day from Senegal. —Moniteur, Ai nil 16.
The Miiiister of Finance his just published the amount
of the produce of the indirect taxes in the first quarter of
1840 comparativ. ly with the receipt in the same quaver
of 1838. There is an increase of 16,414 000 francs; and
in comparison with the first quarter of the year 1839, an
increase of 11,608,000 francs. But the Minister forgets
to compare the receipts with the estimates for the expen-
diture fur the same sear, by which we should be enabled
to firm a much better no:ion of our financial situation ;
for if the revenue does not equal the estimated expense, as
we hsve reason to believe, there is a deficiency._l
La Gazette de France.

130 (IRS E.--PARIS, THURSDAY, APRIL 16.
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HIMNEY-SWEEPERS.—The following is one of the
clauses in " A Bill for the Regulation of Chimney
sweepers and Chimneys," prepared and brought in by
Mr. Bernal, Mr. Foe Maule, and Sir George Grey.
When Mr. Fox Maule introduced the Bill he was
cheered by both sides of the House. That cheer will
be re-echoed throughout the country. Every humane
mind will feel grateful to the Government for this great
act of mercy to hapless orphans.
" And be it enacted, that from and after the first day of
January in the year one thouttand eight hundred and forty-
one next ensuing, any person who shall compel or know-
ingly allow any child or young person under the age of
twenty-one years to ascend a chimney for the purpose of
sweeping the same, or for extinguishing fire therein, shall
be liable to a penalty not more than ten pounds or less
than five pounds."
THE POLICE AND GOOD FRIDAY.--00 Thursday
evening the police, in the neighbourhood of Covent-
garden, went round generally to the public-houses to
warn the publicans that if their houses were not shut
at twelve informations would be laid against them. At
twelve many of the houses were under surveillance, and
not a few of them entered by authority, of course, of
the. Police Commissioners, and probably some of the
u efortunate publicans will be summoned to a Police-
office to answer for keeping their houses open on a day
which these administrators of the law regard with such
veneration. On Good Friday one half of the shops in
tunny streets were open during Church hours, anti busi-
ness was carried on as usual. In others numerous
workmen were employed in painting or cleaning
the windows—all was hustle and confusion, and
ptobably more renovations were, oracle in the course
of the day than are made all the year round ;
yet this desecration of a holiday is permitted by the
police, while a publican is fined for not turning out a
customer at twelve, or for affording refreshment to the
hard-worked artizin who goes to Highgate or Hamp-
stead to breathe the fresh air. Tide is the perfection.
of Church and police combined, and will no doubt.
raise both in public estimation. The day of retribu-
tion, however, will come. The English are, more than
:my other nation, obedient to laws sanctioned by coin-
ieon-sense and equity ; but no people are more rebel-
lio,ts when they find they are unuecessariiy coerced.
C innot the ruling autlurities see that they are trying
the palienee of the people beyond enduranci., and that
the great body of the community would rather have
any government, Tory, Radical, or Despotic, than one
whcli supports a system that interferes with their
rat.olial eiijoy meets, bumbles them in their own esti..
matioie tries to direct their religious views without
arty I' Bard to oure religion, and, at the same time,
makes thetn and their eOuntry the scoff of surrounding
nations? The enemies of the Government, and not a few
of their friends also, say that the Tories never, at any
pariod, acted with such despotism under the cloak of
religion. And what is their object? Not good order,.
but to conciliate and pamper an arrogant Church that
Cares nothing for real g, .dlinees, and that hates the
Whig Government with the most cordial hatred.

WOOD PA V EM ENT.—lmmediately after the
departure of her Majesty end the Prince Consort for Wind-
sor, on Wednesday evening, the Metropolitan Patent Wood
Paving Company sent a number et workmen into the grounds
in front of Buckingham Palace. to lay down their pavement
similar to that laid down at Whitehall under the portico ..zl
marble arch, to be completed previous to her Aldesty's return.

Charles Kean, we regret to state, has, in .conse-
quence of di health, been obliged to abandon his numerous pro-
tessional engagements in the United States,
and is new, by
direction of medical advice, at the H avannah.
Lady Skelmersdale is daily recovering from her
severe indisposition. Lord and Lady Stanley and family are
at Latham House.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT TO A CHILD"
----
On Thursday an inquest was held at Guy's Hospital, 00 the
body of Mary Ann Bellinger, aged two years and a half, ;fr.
ran against a cart wheel, was knocked down, and run over.
H. Vesey, house surgeon, said the child expired in two hours
atter its admission from injuries (lone to the abdominal viscera.
—Verdict, " Accidental Death."
WOMEN ‘l, ING.--nie tiptoe mode of pro-
gression, although decidedly tending to a fine development
the calf, naturally produces, in the same ratio, an unduel:
crease 01 breadth in the forepart of the foot ; which, indeed' ,
conspicuously dis;:layed in the Parisian females, as cyMila.re"
with the more plantigrade women of the British MetrOpliS:
RAILWAY AND NAVAL COMMISSION .--The
Reports of the Naval Commission
Welsh lines of railway, were laid before the House On %retina-
day afiernom . We understand th,t both Reports are in favour
of Holyhead, tiv .Naval Commission-, as aluirhour,- and the
to
and of the Military, on the
Military recommending the line by Chester 'and. Bang
Holyhead. 7 tie present Military Commission consists of Lieu-,
tenant-C{• sir F. Smith. R. F., Professor 13 i low. 'and:
Lieut: nant Amsinck, R. N,, as the Secretary ; the Navo"
ilZra
Rein. Admiral Sir J. A. Gordon,s'
and Captain Beechey,
Mr. Arasinck, accompanied by Lieutenant Fanshavve has been
r some days employed in surveying the Tunnel-11114 d the.
inland line between Lancaster and Carlisle.—Roi/way-Mag•

EVEN LNG EDITION.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Goon FRIDAY.—Her Maksal and Prince
Albert, aceowpanied by the Hereditary Prince of Saxe
Coburg-Gotha, and also by tho visitors and Royal Suite,
attended avine Service this morn:ng in St George's
Chapel, The Rev. Mr. C. Knyvett read the service—
the qev• Dr. Keate, and the R,v. Mr. Rigby officiated
at the altar ; the latter Rev. G,ntlemait being the Canon
' residence, preached the S mon.; his text was St.
John's Gospel, chaps 3, verse 19-
r Majesty , Prince Albert, the Hereditary Prince of
Saxe Coburg-Gotha, and the Countess of Errol came in
the first Royal carriage to the Chapel. Inc Gentlemen
01. the Royal party wore the Windsor uniform.
The concourse of spectators was very great, bob at ,he
Chapland in the town.
At half-past two o'clock the whole of the Royal party
rode
'll,O, some in phaeti,ns andsome on horseback into tne
Green Parks. Her Majesty was driven by his Royal
Highness . Prince Albert, and the Duchess of Sutherland
***driven by the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Coburg-
Gotha,
1. Sir James Clark is expected to arrive this evening, at
t..e Castle, and will stay to dinner.
The Hon. Miss Pitt and the Hon. Miss Swing Rice ar-
rived yesterday at the Castle, and have succeeded the Hon.
NVBB°4 Paget and Anson, as the Maids of Honour in
aiting on her Majesty.
I
• 'be Royal Dinner Party this evening at the Castle wig
nclude,, the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Coburg-Gotha,
Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Earl and Countess of
'4l°ll, and Lady Ida Hay, Earl of Uxbridge, Lord Robert
Grosvenor,
Hon. Miss Anson, Hon. Miss Paget, Baron
de Gruben, Mr. George E. Anson, Countess of Cherie-
-1,1°44 Hon. Miss Pia, Hon. Misa Spring Rice, Baroness
oebzen, Lord Byron, Hon. Charles A. Murray, Sir R.
ptwaY, Hon. Colonel Grey, Colonel Bouverie, and Mr.
• raricis Seymour.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and her Royal High-
,,e" tl'e Princess Augusta attended Divine Service yester-
-44Y morning, in the Chapel Royal. St. James's. The
rinlion was preached by the Dean of Chichester, who tookp
s text from St. John. chap 12, verse 32. The service
Was read by the Rev. Mr Haden, and the Rev. Dr. Wes-
ley officiated at the altar. The solo, "He was despised
rejected of men" ( Handel), was sung by Mr. Haw-
in,ns• Sir George Smart presided ut the organ.
The Duke of Beaufort, the Duke of St. Albans, and the
',',arquis of Normanby. were among the nobiiity present.
CHer Nlaj,sty was attended by the Hon. Miss Hudsan and
arl Howe. The Princes! Augusta was attended by Lidy
,Y Pelham.. The Bishop of Norwich, Clerk of the
WRS in wa'ting.
IN Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar
ce(mapanied her Majesty the Queen Dowager to the Cha-
Poi
Royal.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess
Augusts of Cambiid,..!e, attended Divine Service yesterday
Zorning in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley-street.
h/tdYhess. Augusta Sorncrset was in waiting on the Royal
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