The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-17 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Wisnsort, FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert took
their accustomed walking exercise in the Park this morning.
In the afternoon his Royal Highness Prince Albert drove
her Majesty in a pony phaeton to Virginia Water. The
Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Lady in Waiting; Hon. Miss Pitt
and Hon. Miss Cavendish, Maids of Honour in 'Waiting, fol-
lowed in an open barouche, as did also Mr. Rich, Groom in
Waiting, and Colonel Buckley, Equerry in Waiting, in a
second carriage. Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting on
his Royal Highness, rode on horseback with the party.
Her Majesty the :Queen of the Belgians walked for some
time on the Terrace of the Castle to-day.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal has taken her usual
airing to-day. The visit of the Earl and Countess of Erroll
to her Majesty was unavoidably put off yesterday, in conse-
quence of his Lordship being confined to his room from the
effects of a cold. To-day there has been no addition to the
list of visitors at the Castle.
The following will be the only addition to the Royal Dinner
Circle this evening—The Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, and
the Ladies Eleanor and Constance Paget.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge, the
Princess Augusta, and Prince George of Cambridge, partook
of a dejune with her Majesty the Queen Dowager, on Thurs-
day, at the Lodge in Bushy Park. Her Majesty and the Royal
Duchess afterwards took an airing in the vicinity, in a pony
phaeton and tour. The Duchess, Prince George, and the
Princess Augusta, attended by Lady Augusta Somerset, re-
turned to Cambridge House in the evening.
His Serene Highness the Duke of Coburg gave a grand
ttall to the Duchess of Kent on tilts 7th instant, which her
tild Highness was prevented from attending by the at rival
of the account of the death of the Queen of Hanover.
His lic,f al Highness the Duke of Cambridge went on Thurs-
day to his res.
eine at Kew, returning to town in the after-
noon.
Mr. Thomas Thornton, Honorary Secretary to the Portu-
' gum cominittee, attended the Foreign-office yest-rday,
‘tims of the Bondholders.
with despatches connected with the ek..

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—A. .most ap-
palling occurrence took place in the nye Mats.:!'t on
Monday, whereby three children lost their livt:.s.
About one o'clock the Red Rover coach, from Lud- •
low, stopped at the Falcon Inn, Rye Market ; com-
ing in the opposite direction was a waggon, loaded
with lime, and drawn by four horses, belonging,. to Mr.
Parr, of Iverly. A few yards before reaching the coach
the horses started into a gallop, and the street being
very narrow (under 20 feet, including causeways), they
drew the waggon on to the causeway on the near side.
There were a number of children, some of whom were
dragged into the houses, but three of them, namely,
Young, three years of age, son of Mr. Young, Hole-
in-the-Wall Inn ; Edwards, four years of age,
daughter of Mr. Edwards, glass-dealer, High-street ;
and Jones, 10 years of age, daughter of Mr. Jones, of
Iverley, were knocked down and crushed in a most awful
manner. The shrieks of those who witnessed the appalling
occurrence were dreadful to hear. The boy Young was
taken up quite dead, his head being literally smashed (the
brains were gathered from the hags and placed in a
plate), and the head was nearly severed from the body,
The younger girl was crushed in the lower part of the
body, the intestines protruding, and the lower limbs
broken ; she died in about an hour after the accident.
The elder girl survived about two hours, when death
mercifully put an end to her sufferings. The lower part
of her body was torn in a most awful manner, the pelvis,
thigh and leg bones broken, and the skin and flesh
lacerated in a manlier almost incredible.. The mother of
the child Edwards has only henu confined a week ; it
was a most, heart-rending sight to see the parents of the
others in their grief. Jones was perfectly sensible, and
requested her parents to take her home, where she
should be better ; she clung around their necks with
child-like fondness till death put an end to her suffer-
ings: The inquest on the bodies of these unfortunate in-
' accents will be given in our next.— Worcester Chronicle.

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FROM THE MORNING PAPERS HE THIS DAY.
CHRONICLE.—The first and greatest object of the Tories,
when once possessed of official power, will be that of entrench-
' :ng themselves therein so as to defy public opinion in its efforts
for their expu!sion. For this purpose, the scheme of creating
huge mass of recles'astieal patronage in the colonies, and
senderirg the exercise of that patronage independent of the
Crown and its Constitutional advisers, is not badly constructed.
Che appointment of well-salaried bishops and clergy, with
shich the Ministry for the time being should have nothing to
10, would be an awkward difficulty for any future Whig Go-
vernment to contend with. The plan is not less impudent for
affecting to regard the endowments of thirteen new bishopricv as
h possible creations of voluntary contribution. Nor, were they
actually to be so, would it materially signify. Suppose any
clique were to subscribe for the salaries of Governors
if Canada., of Jamaica. of India; or of any new colonies to be
settled or acquired. The argument from such contributions to
.he alienation of the appointments from the Crown, would not
be more incompatible with the rights of the Sovereign and the
interests of the nation than a similar alienation as to the thir-
teen new bishopric;. Let the spiritual functions of a Bishop
be what they may, as the Bishop of a province or district he is
a eeisature of the State. To render him independent of its
euthorities, is to subject the State to any faction which may
bid highest for episcopal favour. Toryism speculates upon
purchasing the spoils 9f office by transferring a portion of the
ererogative of the :Sovereign. held for the people, to an Eccle-
siastical Corporation ; and thus forming a power too strong
for both Sovereign and people. The plan is also an intima-
tion to Sir Robert Peel how little he is trusted. Just on the
supposed eve of his becoming Premier, it is disco-
vered that the religious enfranchisement of Dissenters
and Catholics has " tended to disqualify the Ministers
of State for the office of ecclesiastical advisers of the Crown."
And the prelates, we are also informed isy the Times, " adopt
throughout a tone which would be inconsistent with the idea
of their consenting to surrender (the new ecclesiastical
patronage) into the hands of men who may, possibly, be dis-
senters from the Church, or may be actuated by merely poli-
tical and secular motives in their use of Church patronage "
But is Sir Robert Peel a Dissenter? Are any of the Mem-
bers of his Cabinet likely to be Dissenters? 1\o; but the high
Church and Tory party will not trust him. They declare so
beforehand. He must give them security for his good be-
haviour ; the security of being tied hand and foot, and of trans-
mitting his bonds to whatever successors the nation may
hereafter raise to office. It is not power for Sir Robert Pejl
that will satisfy the faction. but permanent power for Toryism ;
pewee independent of the Crown and the people ; the power of
eigoSey and exclusion, of monopoly ecclesiastical and political,
of plunder and oppression, in secula secusorum.
TIMES.—The Scotch returns, if not answering our expec-
tations in every iota, .
.have certainly occasioned us no material
disappointment. North of the Tweed, there are various cir-
cumstances, as we have often mentioned before, which render
the steady progress of Conservative principles less rapid and
:ess active than in other parts of the kingdom. Overlooking
the historical fact that the very restricted franchise prevalent
in Scotland previous to the lieform Bill was entirely attri-
butable to the Whig party, who, when passing the act of union,
adjusted the Scotce representative system to their own nar-
row views, a large proportion of the new constituencies in
that quarter, otherwise favourable to the established insti-
tutions of the country, were no sooner invested with
electoral privileges, than they attached themselves zeal-
msly and indiscriminately to the movement faction as
slisS which in their opinion had given them a po-
litical eaestence. Perhaps the infirmity which generates
vindictiveness es+.der a sense of supposed injury may also have
stimulated them to a course of determined resentment against
the Tories, whose rcluctioce to try the experiment of a revolu-
tion (such was the phrase which Lord John Russell himself
applied to the Reform Bill) was uncandidly interpreted as a
proof of their hostility to popular rights. On the other hand,
viewing the Whigs rather as the parents and guardians of their
new-born privileges than as the mere instruments of bringing
forth a great national gestation, which, being matured
by a Constitutional neecssity, could neither be accelerated
nor retarded by any poliCee.al party whatever, the feeling of
filial attachment thus created (similar in intelligence to that of
ducklings hatched by a lien) was Considerably strengtened by
the vulgar pride and conceit which hay: latterly stink the in-
ferior portion of the middle classesin Scotlanc:.P.lmost to apar with
the swaggering braggadocio of the United Staves. Piquing
themselves upon that superior education and intellige:.' ce which
used formerly to boast that no English dramatic actoi could
establish his fame until he had passed the ordeal of an Edit, -
burgh audience (we involuntarily smile at this ludicrous and
contemptible vanity ), a vast numbeieof the Scotch ten-pounders
who can possibly conjugate Awmo. have taken it into their tre-
mendously long heads that they must needs be a century in ad-
vance of all England and Ireland in point of leeterature and
lecberality. Liberalism therefore—not an independent and ra-
tional preference for enlightened statesmanship, but amereprag-
matical ambition to be in the Tao of the grand army of politi-
cal sappers and miners—is considerably more to their mind
than the moderate and discriminating politics of sober-minded
citizens. Time and insupportable ridicule have doubtless done
much to lower their combs and thin their ranks.
ADVERTISER.—Reformers of Great Britain, until Tues-
day next let the registries be the sole object of yonr attention.
See that the name of no friend to popular principles of Govern-
ment, entitled to the franchise, be omitted from the registration,
and that no enemy, unduly Claiming the suffrage, usurp that
distinctive right which marks the freeman from the slave.
The contest just concluded was a contest of parties, not of
principles, and the verdict returned by the country may be re-
' gat dud as a verdict upon the men rather than upon the mea-
sures, with which in their extremity they sought to establish a
dubious association. If it were a question between the Minis-
gretted that the defeat of the one could be achieved only by the
triumph of the other. This election was a struggle for power,
sot for principles, and many voted for the transfer of the helm
of the state from the hands at present directing it, without
reflecting upon the capacity or qualification of those standing
eagerly watchful to clutch it for their own selfish interests.
The neat election must, necessarily, be one of a different cha-
racter. The people must then have some palpable and cer-
tain good to struggle for, and the men soliciting their suffrages
must represent measures on which the popular sentiment has
already fixed the seal of its approbation. Prepare. therefore,
for the c ntest. Reformers, your next battle will be for your
own rights, and not merely for the possession of office by men
ambitious of authority. Prepare, therefore, to strike for your
freedom. The time of action may arrive sooner even than is
anticipated, and he who has a qualification for the franchise,
and be not then in a position to exercise it, will deserve to be
stigmatised as a voluntary slave, deserving the contempt of
every true citizen.
the absence of anything in the present state of
aff irs to comfort them, the Whig-Radical party try to keep
up the spirits of their friends by detailing all the difficulties
which the Conservative leaders will have to encounter by and
by. These sagacious politicians have already framed a chart
f the political wily for the next twelve months, and have laid
down a very great abundance of rocks and shoals, upon which
the poor Conservatives are sure to make shipwreck of their
cause. We should be very unwilling, in the present very
sorry plight of our Whig-Radical opponents, to debar them
from any comfort of which they may deem it possible to avail
themselves, but we really think that for some time, at least, they
would do as well to steer clear of prophecy. When we con-
sider how very plainly they foresaw, about a month ago,
that the elections were to be greatly in their favour,
and to rebuild, and more than rebuild, all the
majority which had been crumbling away from 1835 ;
and when we compare this speculation with the fact as it
stands now accomplished, it is quite impossible to think that
the gift of prophecy is actually among those eminent endow-
ments to which Whig-Radical-modesty lays claim. They may
be great engineers of Reform, though that which they con-
structed ten years ago has greatly disappointed tlefir own cal-
culations. They may be very wonderful hands retrench-
ment, though an increase in our expenditure of two millions
three hundred thousand a year, while the revenue has dimi-
nished by the same amount, is rather an odd way of showing
it. They may be very faithful friends of peace, though to
carry on even "little wars" in every quarter of the globe is
not the most satisfactory evidence of peaceful dispositions. But
prophets they certainly are not, as the result of the general
election very satisfactorily proves; and, therefore, we think
the less they say of what must happen when Sir R. Peel takes
the helm, the better for their:own reputation as politicians.
HERALD.—If the reformed system of election be worth
anything, it must. in some sort represent the opinions of
those to whom the electoral power is committed ; and as
that system was created and established by themselves, we
do not well see how they can fairly complain of its being
assumed, that in their sense of political speculation it has
been doing so for the last 11 years. Now popular opinion
in this year 1841, is expressed by the forcible ejectment
of the Whigs in almost every place where the influence of
Government, or jobbery, or priestcraft, has not turned the scale
the other way. It is no doubt affection for the Whigs that lost
Liverpool to their Foreign Secretary—Yorkshire to their Irish
Secretary—London almost to their Colonial Secretary—Dublin
to their indispensable patron—Leeds to the eternal Joseph,
who is, we perceive, now inflicting himself on the East India
Company—which scattered in flight nearly as bad as that f
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Iron, Sir De Lacy Evans, and Mr. Wyse, Mr. Whipper-in
Stanley, Sir Hussey Vivian, Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, the
great novelist; Mr. George Grote, the equally great political
economist; Sergeant Talfourd, renowned in drama; Mr. Gil-
lon, renowned for his patronage of the Duke of Sussex ; and so
many other illustrious personages, that to make out the list
would fill our columns to overflowing. If these be proofs of
popular affection for the Whigs, we can only say that they
marvellously resemble that of the poet who appeals to his ten-
, der mistress—
. Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
But why did you kick me down stairs?"
Kicked down stairs they are at present, and "no mistake."