The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-15 00:00:00

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Lord and L., iv Charles 117,-11,-5;,!.y ti,ok
o'clock yesto- the private chapel in Buckingha

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Palace, tln. presence of the Queen and Prince Albt.-rt
tho Duke of Wellington, Lord and Lady Charles Wel:
les!ey. the Marquis and Nfarchioneis iif Exeti,r,

Marquis and Marchioness of Door., t; e. ; Hon.
119nry Pierrerethe the Lady and the Lord in
the Maids et 11.0, ur, the Master •-.o* the 11 .Hetiold,
the Groom in Waiting., and the Equerrie-!. in Waiting
to her Majesty and Prince Albert. The infant was
named "Victoria Alexandrina." The sponsors were
her Majesty the given, the Ma,.chion.-ss of Douro, aed
the Marquis of Exeter. The cererneny was performed
by the Hen. and Rev. C. Leshe Court- n iy, assisted by
the Rev. Gerald Wellesley.
In the evening the Queen and Prince Albert honoured
the Duke of Welhligtou with their compaey at dinner.
at Apsley House. The R .yal suite coma -red or VI.,
countess Jocelyn, Loud Camovs. Lord tf-•ti t,
and Colonel Bouverie. Their Ro% al [Lein .as s !he
Duke and Duchess of Cainteidee. attende by L,ely
Augusta Cadogan and %Ir. Edmond Nlildmay. also
honoured the Doke of Wellingten with their oempaey
at dinner last evening
Leri John Itusiell had all audience of th, Qilf• n
yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
ller Majesty, accompanied by the Prince of \Vales
and the Princess Royal, and attended by the V,:-countess
Jocelyn, took an airing yesterday in an open earr:a
and four. bird Alfred Paget attende.l on h r>tback-
His Royal Hightiess Prince Albert rode out on lee,e
hack, attended by Colonel Bouverie.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowa, a•tended by the
Countess Brownlow, visited the Queen vestentrv.
Prince Alfred, tile Princess Alice, and the Princess
Helena, took airings yesterday, in the pl,asure grounds
of the Palace.

The Queen's copy of Gray's " Elegy." illust-ated by
the Etching Club, wns presented to his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, yesterday, at Buckingham Palace. A
statuette of Una and the Lion, about to he executed in
Parian, at the Staffordshire Potteries was also submitted
to his Royal Highness.
Their 14oyal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke
and Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar, attended by the
Countess of Assenburg. Count de Beust, Baron de
Zigesar, and Colonel Cornwall, visited and inspected
the Royal Mint yesterday.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary, attended by
Baroness Hammerstein and Major Stephens, honoured
the performance of Mr. Benedict's Concert at her Ma
jesty's theatre with her presence yesterday morning.
A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock yesterday
afternoon at the Foreign-office_ It was attended by
Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto. Sir George Grey, Vis-
count Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir John Hobhouse, the
Earl of Clarendon, Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeth,
the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Right Hon. T. B. Mac-
aulay, and the Right lion. H. Labouchere.
The Council sat an hour and a half.
Mr. Entwisle, M.P., and Mr. D. Derbishire, had an
interview with the Right Hon. Edward Strutt at the
office of the Commissioners of Railways in Great George-
street.

Sir Henry Dukinfield, Bart., and a Deputation had
an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the
Home-office.

Dr. Lynch, accompanied by the parochial officers from
St. Andrew's, St. Bride's, St. Dunstan's, and St. Se-
pulchre's paris.tes—namely, Messrs. Batchelor, Sweet-
ing, Boreton, Brett, and llerepath, had an interview
with Viscount Morpeth yesterday, at the office of the
Woods and Forests.

The Marquis of Normanby had an interview with
Viscount Palmerston yesterday, at the Foreign-office.
The O'Connor Don had an interview with the Earl of
Clarendon yesterday.
The new Bishopricks Commission had a meeting
yesterday in Whitehall-place. The Commissioners pre-
sent were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Earl of Chichester, the Bishops of
London, Durham, Winchester, and Lincoln, and Sir
Charles Wood.

Lord Chichester had an interview with Sir George
Grey yesterday.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Frewen. M.P., Sir W.
Fielden, M.P., Mr. Grenfell, Air. Wilkinson, Mr. Sil-
chester, Mr. Stephenson, Mr. Burchell, Mr. Kigour, Mr.
Sherrard, Mr. Bidder, Mr. McGregor, Mr. Fearon, and
Mr. Clayburn, had an interview with the Right Hon. E.
Strutt yesterday.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—MONDAY.
Our quotations, like the share lists, are somewhat
lengthy, but, if analysed, would show but a moderate
amount of " business done." We may, therefore, con-
fine ourselves to stating that the Conjuror, Conspiracy,
Grimston, and Best of Three, were in demand for the
Northumberland Plate ; The Hero, for the Goodwood
Cup ; Vampyre and The Questionable, for the Good-
wood Stakes; and Assault and Nil Desperandum for
the Derby.
Closing prices:—
THE NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
sto 1 agat Mr. Green's The Conjuror—t. & af. of.
5 to 1 agst Lord Glasgow's Conspiracy—tak 6 to 1
8 to 1 agst Sir J. Gerard's Grimston—taken
12 to 1 agst Mr. S. L. Fox's Executor—taken
12 to 1 agst Mr. 3ileiklam's Inheritress—taken
12 to 1 agat Lord Eglinton's Ervx—taken
12 to 1 agat Mr. Meiklam's Best of Three—taken
14 to 1 agst Mr. Yarburgh's Miss Sarah.
Even on Conjuror, Conspiracy, Grimston, Executor,
and Best of Three agat the field.
A question has been raised whether Conspiracy, as
winner of a pocket handicap at Newmarket, comes
within the meaning of the condition imposing a penalty
of 61bs. on the winner of any handicap of 200/, or up-
wards, subsequent to the declaration of the weights. The
matter is before the Stewards of the Jockey Club.
GOODWOOD CUP.
5 to 2 agst Mr. John Day's The Hero-3 to 1
taken freely
7 to 1 agst Mr. G. 11. Moore's Wolfdog
12 to 1 agst Monsieur Aumont's Fitz Emilius—t.
12 to 1 agst Sir J. Hawley's Mendicant
15 to 1 agst Mr. Isaac Day's Sir Tatton Sykes
16 to 1 agst Mr. Whaley's Burgundy
20 to 1 agst Baron Biel s Sunbeam
GOODW OOD STARES.
17 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Vampyre—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Sainsbury's The Questionable—t.
30 to 1 agst Lord E. Russell's Dulcet—taken
30 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Martext
33 to 1 agst Sir J. Mill's Miss Elis—taken
35 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's Queen Mary—taken
35 to 1 agst Mr. Etwall's JEgis—taken
35 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Stultz—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Sandford's Kimblesworth
40 to 1 agst Mr. Robinson's Morpeth—taken
40 to 1 agat Mr. Wormold's Hydrometer—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Hutchinson's Emigrant.
ST. LEGER.
3 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Cossack—taken
6 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp
20 to 1 agst Mr. Stephenson's Black Dwarf
25 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Limstone—taken
30 to 1 agat Mr. John Day's Farmer's Daughter
40 to 1 agat Lord Stradbroke's Coningsby—taken
DERBY.
2513 totO agstgst Mr.mr. BiohGnrepena'sy,s Assault—takenNilpespraetidum—
taken to 1001.
uriiken
Flatcatcber—takence—ta
100030 ttoo 301 aliggSStt AnioGstryenne'sp
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45 to 1 agat Mr. Sandford's Sheriff.

SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S POLAR

EXPEDITION.

We understand that Dr. King, the medical officer, and
for a considerable period the commanding officer, of the
overland expedition in search of Sir John Ross, in
1833 4-5, has addressed a letter to Earl Grey, as the
principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, volunteer-
ing his services in search of Sir John Franklin, who
sailed, in the spring of 1845, in search of a north-west
passage, and has not since been heard of. The plan
proposed by Sir John Richardson, and accepted by the
Adm ratty, does not meet with his approbation, and he
has therefore sought of Earl Grey an appointment in
search of Sir John Franklin, under the board of which
his Lordship is the head—the board under which 1)r.
King acted in search of Sir John Ross. Dr. King main-
tains that to save Sir Jelin Franklin's party, comprising
126 men, it would be futile to attempt to convey pro-
vision overland to him; and he adduces, in support of
his opinion that the expedition upon which he waa en-
gaged for the relief of Sir John Ross failed in their at-
tempt from the poverty of the country over which they
travelled, although in that case it was only contem-
plated to relieve 23 men. Over that same provisionless
country an overland party in search of Sir John
Franklin must necessarily pass. Dr. King proposes to
the Government to send out one or more vessels laden
with provisions next spring to the western land of North
Somerset, where he maintains, for several reasons, Sir
John Franklin will be found ; and at the same time to
call upon the Hudson's Bay Fur Company to store up
provisions in their trading houses on the Great Slave
Lake and the Mackenzie River. He then proposes, in
company with any °Meer the Government may appoint,
to be the messenger of such news to Sir John Franklin,
and at the same time to take with him Indian guides fur
the conveyance of that veteran officer and his party,
either to the provision stores on the Mackenzie River
or the Great Slave Lake, or to the provision vessels, as
may appear most desirable. He maintains that he is the
only person who has all the requisites for such a journey
_-youth,
health, great physical strength, and an intimate
acquaintance with the country and the Indians. He has
placed a heavy responsibility en Earl Grey, for he does
not hesitate to state that it is the only plan which can
afford that relief to Sir J. Franklin which he has a right
to expect frceo the Government. Sir John Franklin, he
asserts, should not have sailed in the face of the facts he
laid before the late Government , for, to use his own
word
it ' was alo.g.:ther " impracticable, a, the
expe-
dition
orl s,
would have to take the ice Is the
through an ice. bloeked sea is termed—in
meetT rtainitiulytt(v4'irluitsihghtitnno:
ranee of the extent of its labours, a
better prospect before it the-in that which befel Sir J.
Roses party, whose escape from a perilous posi.ion of
o2af 1110) trolhs)Be.t:Gmasr?isir:atc.driu‘nuisrmolettsii; to use 'srtu4stt's'itenaty er to Lord Stinky, F• ):
t„ Sava th
party from the death of starvation, or, what is dreeadf'ull
to contemplate, the necessity feeding upon each
of
other. Dr. King proclaims aloud against the Govern-
ment for using secrecy in their scientific pursuits ; for
is athea
it
hbaetTr walls of
.the Admiralty, not
t
the Frankhn ha .ak.n is, uri..
n-
on :rta.c: t
brutti uu
thatle beard are adopting no
relieve him. Such a course,
worthy the honuurable *c
service in hhicu the explui.rs
Ira enoaged.