The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-03 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Countess Bjornstjerna, the lady of the Swedish
Minister, had an audience of the Queen on Saturday at
Buckingham Palace.
The Baroness de Cetto, the lady of the Bavarian
Minister, had an audience of her Majesty on Saturday.
Mrs. Fry was presented to the Queen at the audience
on Saturday by the Marquis of Normanby.
Viscount Melbourne and Lord John Russell had audi-
ences of her Majesty on Saturday.
The Royal Dinner Party at Buckingham Palaee on
Saturday evening included Viscount Melbourne, Viscount
Morpeth, Sir John Hobhouse, Sir George Grey, the
Right Hon. Thomas B. Macaulay, the Right Hon. George
Stevens Bing, and the Hon. Colonel Cavendish.
Lord Alfred Paget has relieved Colonel Buckley in
the duty of Equerry in Waiting on her Majesty.
The Princess Augusta, the Duchess of Cambridge, and
Prince George of Cambridge, visited her Majesty the
Queen Dowager, on Saturday, at Marlborongh House.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Georges
and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended Divine
Service, yesterday morning, in Grosvenor Chapel. Their
Royal Highnesses were attended by Miss Kerr and Col.
Cornwall.

The Princess Augusta visited the Duchess of Glouces-
ter yesterday. The Duke of Cambridge and Prince
George, attended by Baron Knesebeck, arrived in town
on Saturday, from a visit to the Duke of Buckingham, at
his seat, Stowe, Bucks.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at
the Foreign Office. It was attended by Viscount Mel-
bourne, the Lord Chancellor, Marquis of Lansdowne,
Earl of Clarendon, Marquis of Normanby, Viscount Pal-
merston, Lord John Russell, the Chancellor of the Exche-
,quer, 4Sir John li.obbouse,J)lr. Lahnnebere,. Viscount Dun 7.
cannon, Lord Morpeth, and Mr. Macaulay.
The Council sat two hours.
Colonel Westenra and Mr. Fitzsimon, had interviews
with the Marquis of Normanby on Saturday, at the Home
Office.

Baron Werther, the Prussian Charge d'Affaires, trans-
acted business on Saturday, at the Foreign Office.
Despatches from. Majo- General Napier, Governor of the
Cape of Good Hope, and from Sir John Franklin, Lieut.-
Governor of Van Dieman's Land, were received on Satur-
sgy, at the Colonial Office.

LAST FRIDAY'S DIVISION.

PAIR
FOR MINISTERS.
Andover, Viscount
Bryan, George
Colquhoun, Sir James
Crawley, S.
Davies, Colonel
Duncan, Lord
Duncombe, T. S.
Fazakerley, J. N.
Ferguson, Sir Ronald
Ferguson, Robert
Gisborne, T.
Hurst, IL H.
Maher, John
Martin, Thomas T.
Sharpe, General
Walker, C. A:
White, Samuel
White, Luke
White, Colonel H.
ABSEIL

AGAINST.
A'Court, Captain
O'Neil, J. B. R.
Trevor, Hon. G. R.
Copeland, W.
Foley, E. T.
Canning, Sir S.
Holmes, W. A'Court
Egerton, Lord Fran.
Jones, Wilson
Kelburne, Lord
Farrand, Robert
Burrell, Sir C. M.
Brownrigg, J. S.
Hayes, Sir E.
Johnstone, Hope
Campbell, Sir H. P.
Cole, Hon. A.
Bethell, R.
Stewart, John
'T-17.
Burr, Higford
Coote, Sir C. H.
Darner, Hon. G.
Eitcourt, T. G. B.
?lowan]. W.
Kerr, D.
Lowther, Viscount
Master, T. W. C.

Baring, W. B.
Benett, John
Fitzgibbon, Hon R.
Goring, H. D. -
Grote, G.
Howard, Sir R.
Jervis, S.
Johnson, General
Moreton, Hon. A. H.
Voted with Ministers (Tellers
Pairs
Voted against Ministers (Telle
Pairs
Absent without pairs
Vacant, or unable to vote—T(
Speaker

included) , 3lO

. _
19-329
Is included) 289
19-308

anes, Ludlow, Meath

POLITICAL SUM
MORNING

MARY OF THE

OURNALS.

The Times of this day observes, with reference to Sir J
Y. Buller's motion in the Commons :—" The resolution
of the great Conservative party, to turn over a new leaf
with the public enemy has been the seasonable result of
ripened circumstances, and will be satisfied by ano less
fruitful harvest than that which the whole country requires
of its champions—the absolute and final incapacitation of the
present Government to outrage the dignity, or undermine
:he prosperity of the land by a longer continuance in those
offices from which wiser and better men are excluded."—
The Morning Chronicle thus expresses itself on :he subject
of-the " Want-of-Confidence" motion :—" It stands on re-
cord that on a great occasion like this the leading men and
ablest orators of the Tory party have shrunk from
the comparisons which they themselves provoked ;
shrunk from grappling with one great question,
bringing one specific charge, attacking one leading measure,
or pointing out one single benefit which would result to
one single portion of her Majesty's dominions from the
substitution of a Tory for a Whig Administration. The
characteristic feature of the debate on the Tory side has
been the cxtreme anxiety to turn the discussion as much
as possible upon vague, unmeaning generalities and frivol-
ous personal details."—The .111olning Herald, alluding to
the late important debate in the Commons, observes :
" The Parliamentary Radicals treat their Whiz gods, as
some savage tribes do their wooden idols. They beat,
kick, and cuff them one day, and prostrate themselves be-
fore them the next. They talk of them with contempt and
disgust to the people out of doors, but they render them
suit and service on all important occasions within the
walls of Parliament. Thus they throw dust in the
eyes of the masses, and keep all the time a
snug corner in the Ministerial favour for them
selves. Radical patriritisra is not at all inconsistent with
a keen look-out for the golden smiles of Whig pa-
tronage."—The Morning Post, with its accustomed sa-
gacity, discovers that it was the Ministers, not the Tories,
who wore defeated on Sir J. Y. Buller's motion. The
following are the terms in which our contemporary an-
nounces this astounding discovery :—" The question was
a direct, explicit aflirmrtion that the Government of this
country, as at present constituted, did not possess the
confidence of the House of Commons. A majority of
those who voted, excluding those connected with the Go-
vernment, voted in favour of' this affirmation. But taking
into the account some forty persons connected with the
Government, and having a direct personal and pecuniary
interest in its continuance, as at present constituted, there
was a majority of twenty-one against the affirmation. Can
this be considered a triumph ? Is it not rather a virtual
defeat, though not formally so ?"

SIR R. PEEL'S FIRST PARLI4AIENTARY
DINNER.—On Saturday evening the Right Hon. Sir Robert
Peel, Bart., gave his first Parliamentary dinner this session, at
the family residence in Whitehall gardens. The Earl of Lin..
coin, Viscount Sandon, Viscount Stormont, Lord Granville
Somerset, the Right Hon. Sir James Graham, Bart., Right
Hon. Sir Henry Hardinge. Right Hon. J. C. Herries, Sir
George Clerk, Bart., Sir Edward Sugden, Sir Edward Knatch-
bull, Bart., Sir Frederick Pollock, Sir Thomas Freemantle,
Bart., Sir J. Yarde Buller, Bart., Hon. Sydney Herbert, Sir
W. Rae, Right Hon. Frederick Shatv, Mr. Sergeant Jackson,
Mr. W. E. Gladstone, Mr. Alderman Thompson, Mr.
Cress-
well, Mr. H. Baring, Mr. Nicholl, &c., were among the guests.
Lord Dinorben has arrived at Bute House, from
Kinmel Park.