The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-30 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a Court yesterday afternoon at Buck-
ingham
Palace.
i'heir Imperial Highnesses Prince Peter and the
Princess of Oldenburgh, had an audience of the Queen.
Their Imperial Highnesses were introduced by Viscount
Palmerston, G.C.8., her Majesty's Principal Secretarylof
State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Colonel
the Hon. Sir E. Cast, K,C.H., her Majesty's Master of
the Ceremonies. M. de Koudriaffsky, of the Russian
Legation. attended their Imperial Highnesses.
The Hon. William Temple, her Majesty's Minister
Plenipotentiary to the Court of Naples, was presented
to the Queen, at an audience, by Viscount Palmerston,
on his arrival from Naples, on temporary leave of
absence.
The Queen gave audience to Viscount Palmerston.
Her Majesty was attended by Lord Byron, Lord in
Waiting, and Sir Edward Bowater, Groom in Waiting.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday
afternoon at a meeting of the Commission for promoting
and encouraging the Fine Arts in the rebuilding the
Palace of Westminster.
His Royal Highness arrived at the New Palace at a
quarter before three o'clock, attended by his Equerry in
Waiting Colonel Bouverie. The Commissioners present
were the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Canning, Vis-
count Mahon, Viscount Morpeth, Lord John Russell,
Lord Colborne, Lord Ashburton, the Right Hon. the
Speaker, Mr. Hallam, Mr. Wyse, and Mr. Rogers. The
Secretary, Mr. Eastlake, was in attendance.
The meeting broke up at six o'clock.
Her Majesty and the Queen of the Belgians, accompa-
nied by the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice,
took an airing in an open carriage yesterday. The
Equerry in Waiting, Lord Alfred Paget, attended on
horseback.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Queen of the Belgians, honoured her Majesty's Theatre
with their presence last evening. The royal suite con-
sisted of the Countess of Desart, Countess Vanderstra-
ten, Lady Carolina Cocks, Lord Byron. Major de Moer-
kerke, Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel Bouverie.
The Countess of Desart has succeeded the Mar-
chioness of Douro as the Lady in waiting to the Queen.
Their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke
and Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar left town yester-
day morning, on a tour of visits to different Noblemen.
Their Royal Highnesses left Marlborough House, the
residence of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, shortly
before nine o'clock, attended by the Countess of Assen
burg, Count de Beast, and Baron de Ziegesar, and
proceeded to the terminus of the London and North-
Western Railway, in Euston-square.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by Miss
Seymour and Earl Howe, left town yesterday morning
for her residence Bushy House, Bushy Park. Her
Majesty returned to Marlborough Mouse in the evening.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge honoured
the Right Hon. Sir William Fremantle with his com-
pany at dinner yesterday evening at his residence in
Stanhope-street.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, at-
tended by Baroness Hammerstein, honoured the per-
formance at the Royal Italian Opera House with her
presence yesterday evening.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the Foreign-
office. _ _ _

The Ministers present were Lord John Russell, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George
Grey, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl
of Auckland, Sir John Hobhouse, the Earl of Claren-
don, Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeth, the Marquis of
Clanricarde, the -Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, and the
Right Hon. H. Labouchere.
The Council sat two hours.
.The British Museum Commissioners held their first
meeting yesterday at Gwydyr House, Whitehall. The
Commissioners present were the Earl of Ellesmere, the
Bishop of Norwich, Lord Langdale, Lord Wrottesley,
the Lord Advocate, Mr. Hume, M.P., Mr. R. M. Milnes,
and Mr. Samuel Rogers.
Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer
yesterday. The Master General of the Ordnance had
also an interview with the Right Hon. Baronet at his
official residence in Downing-street.
His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury consecrated
yesterday, in Westminster Abbey, the four new Colo-
nial Bishops, viz., the Bishop of the Cape of Good Hope,
the Bishop of Newcastle (Australia), the Bishop of
Adelaide, and the Bishop of Melbourne.

THE EX-PREMIER.
The ex-Premier is now in his glory. Exempt from
the responsibilities of office and the assaults of Opposi-
tion, from the reluctant hostility of Sir R. Inglis, and
the unsparing wild-fire of Disraeli—from the taunts of the
forsaken and the irony of the outdone—and, better than
all besides, delivered from the necessity of making and
listening to Parliamentary speeches in a sultry June,
Sir Robert has betaken himself to the most inglorious
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tranquillity of Tamworth and the unoppressivefestivi-
ties of the Trent Valley. There, amid scenes which
soothe and listeners who applaud, docile admirers or
silent foes, he consecrates the altar of Peace with an
appropriate sacrifice to Commerce. The undertaking
which he began in 1845 he consummates in 1847. The
rails are laid, the works are completed, and the car-
riages have run on the very soil of which he
turned the first sod in that memorable year.
What a contrast between the inauguration of

that day and the celebration of last Saturday 1 Not
more unlike is June to November, cloud to sunshine,
and fog to fruitage—than are the recollections, the
hopes, the fears, and the anticipations of the one occasion
to those of the other. In the one all is light and cheer-
ful ; in the other all was heavy, full of fears, full of
doubts, and, may be, full of suffering. On the one
loomed the dark cloud of a coming famine and the
dilemma of an inevitable apostacy. A party was to be
abandoned for a principle ; or a principle maintained at
the cost of a convulsion: The question at issue was
formidable ; the mental conflict which arose from it
tremendous. To be twice a recreant is given to few
Ministers with impunity. But to be a recreant after
restored confidence and renewed allegiance, can be ex-

petted by none without temerity. Yet this was the
question—to desert Protection or to brave the people ;
to stand by the Corn-laws, or to be twitted with
abetting famine ; to be patted on the back by Mr.
Newdegate and the " territorial interest," or to
lie saluted by Mr. Cobden and " the great
towns ;"—more than this ; to be statesman-
like and provident at the expense of pledges, or staunch
at the expense of statesmanship—this it was which
brooded heavily on the mind of the Premier Peel. It
spoke in every syllable, it sounded in every tone of his
tongue and every effort of his spade. It added intensity
to his gout, and ponderousness to his commonplaces.
His mind was not in the Trent Valley, but on those
dusky and smoky towns, to whose anxious and tumul-
tuous multitudes the Trent Valley line was but an in-
strument of the multiform traffic, the vital interests of
which were then at stake. All then was uncertain,
lowering, and oppressive. But the change is now com-
plete. The times and seasons are not the same. The
scene is not the same. The man is not the same.
The verdure of teeming spring and the buoyancy of
elastic youth are eloquent in every gesture and every
tone of the enfranchised Premier. The fetters are off
his hands and the gloom off his mind. He grows young
again in the meadows of the Trent and the proxi-
mity of Tamworth. The Parliamentary garb is still
about him, but it is loosely and pleasingly worn.
He has only one dilemma, and that is, the absence of a
dilemma. He has not his three courses to pursue.
There is only one before him, to return thanks on his
health being drunk. This, indeed, he diverts from its
obvious directness; but his obliquity is neither unnatural
nor ungraceful. He makes the acknowledgment of a
compliment the vehicle of antiquarian instruction and
historical associations. He digresses from himself to
Mr. Stephenson, and from Mr. Stephenson to Agricola,
with a rapidity which is startling, rather from the junc-
tion of their names than the contrast of their actions.
But the association is pleasing not only in itself, but
bee...a it eh...a that thirty and odd years of public life
have not made Sir Robert forget his Tacitus, and that
his poetry has not been repressed by the tug and wear
of a long political warfare. There is one point of his
speech which, in our admiration of his classical and
poetical raptures, we were nearly overlooking, andyet it is
too characteristic to escape notice. Speaking of the work
the consummation of which he was then watching, he
says, " I have given it my support, because I felt confi-
dent that it must ultimately be completed." This is
candour and self-knowledge. It explains a twofold
desertion and a twice-braved obloquy. Hereafter, we
are confident it will explain a course wherein success
may be achieved without obloquy and without desertion.
Unless we have much mistaken the character of Sir
Robert, he will henceforth be found on the side which is
destined to be "ultimately successful." The solemnity
at which he assisted was favourable to good nature; and
naturegood ygiSneireris,t
feel complimented
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body compliments.c Aontracccotorrdsi,negnl
and navvies came in for his good word. The Manches•
ter men were lauded for their energy. Mr. Stephenson
was the antitype of Julius Agricola ; a
for want of another prototype—was Mr. Bras-
say. The day which saw a direct road commenced
under Roman auspices from London to Chester, was
contrasted with the day which will see London, Ches-
ter, and Wales, or Scotland, all connected together by a
more close and far more expeditious route. The com-
mercial interests which this communication will serve,
and the social benefits which it will confer, were elo-
quently dilated on; nor, while he descanted on the ra-
pidity with which London could communicate her wants
to Manchester, or Manchester satisfy the demands of
London, and likewise on the certainty and velocity with
which our few and scanty garrisons in the north could
transmit their armed succours to the invaded south, did
he forget Ireland; Ireland would be brought nearer.
Some, perhaps, of his audience may have felt that she
was near enough already. But Sir Robert was
too sanguine to think of aught evil. Plague,
famine, and begging fled before his imagina-
tive view of wealth, commerce, and comfort.
What he would not realise they would not remember.
So, the leader of her Majesty's Opposition (by courtesy)
has dexterously seized another opportunity of wafting
his kindly sympathies to Ireland from the midst of an
assembly which recent events might be supposed to have
rendered rather sulky towards the sister isle. It was a
happy spirit which breathed in his words. may his
experience justify his hope ! In office he failed where
all others have failed equally. Out of office he has time,
and we are glad to see a wish, for study. We will, there-
fore, refer him to his favourite model, and trust that a
Minister " under four sovereigns," may, at the close of
his career, discover that which was early known to the
deputy of one Emperor, Legione Una et modicis auxiliis
obtineri Hibernian' posse.—Tinies.

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT OF THE WEATIIER.---.011
Monday the barometer at the Royal Humane Society's
receiving•house, in Hyde-park, stood from eleven, A.M.,
to five P.M., in the sun at 101 deg. of Fahrenheit, and in
the shade at 83 deg.

REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY
OF LONDON.
A very numerous meeting was held yesterday after-
noon, at the London Tavern, to decide on the choice of
four Liberal candidates for the representation of the
city of London at the next general election. Sir Geo.
Larpent, Bart., and Baron Rothschild, the two new can-
didates, were present.
MATTHEW FORSTER, Esq.. M.P., who presided, in
opening the proceedings, said that the meeting had been
called together by the Business Committee of the Libe-
ral Registration Association, who had drawn up a state-
ment, which he should call upon the Hon. Secretary to
read to the meeting.
The Secretary then read the statement,which proposed
Lord John Russell, Mr. Pattison, Sir George Larpent,
and Baron Lionel Rothschild.
It was then moved and agreed to, that the statement
be received.
THOMSON HARKEY, jun., Esq., then proposed, and
P. A. TAYLOR, Esq., secoded a resolution, approving
of the four candidates named.
Mr. D. W. WIRE suggested that the candidates should
be nominated seriatim, not jointly, for there might be
an objection to some that did not apply to others.
The CHAIRMAN observed, that the electors would not
be bound by the resolution, and he should, therefore, put
it in the form in which it was proposed.
The resolution having passed,
Sir GEORGE LARPENT came forward amidst loud
cheers. After expressing his firm adherence to the
principles of free trade and reform, he went on to say,—
Some gentlemen had asked what he thought of the Go-
vernment education scheme. He had no desire to con-
ceal his sentiments upon that or any other subject.
Now, with respect to the religious part of the
educational scheme, he freely confessed that it
appeared to him to be only just that all who con-'
tributed to the national taxation should share in
all the advantages resulting from a national grant.—
(Cheers.) He did not conceive that he was bound to
give specific pledges, but he was desirous to express his
opinions generally. Then, as to the endowment of the
Roman Catholic priesthood, which was another point
upon which he was expected to state his views, he
should say that if the state of Ireland was such as to
call for an improved system of education for the Catholic
priesthood, means to that end should be provided, but,
in that case, he conceived that the funds should be taken
out of the Irish Church property, and not from the Con-
solidated Fund.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) These were
his opinions. In conclusion, he trusted that the Liberal
party would not fail to support a Government which
had done so much for the advancement of Liberal prin-
ciples.
Baron ROTHSCMLD next presented himself, and was
received with vehement applause. He commenced by
observing that, from his habits of life, his political
opinions were not so well known as those of the Hon.
Gentleman who preceded him. He had, however, passed
the greater part of his life in the city of London, and
was not unmindful of its interests. He was favourable
to Liberal principles in every respect. In 1839 he had
given his signature to the petition for free trade, and he
would freely cooperate with those who sought to develop
and carry out that system, being well assured that in the
end it would be found eminently advantageous to this
country. Of course, no one could have foreseen the ca-
lamity which impeded its progress, but the effects of free
trade were already perceptible in our increased revenue,
an 4 should there be an abundant harvest, we should
see better times. In the position he held it must na-
turally be supposed that he was an advocate for liberty
of conscience. That liberty which he claimed for him-
self he would impart to others. With respect to educa-
tion, he was of opinion that it could not be too widely
diffused, without distinction of creed. If the Liberal
party only pulled together, the issue could not be
doubtful.—(Cheers.)
After a long and somewhat desultory discussion, it
was resolved that the Registration Association resolve
itself into a general election committee, to take such
steps as may secure the joint return of the four Liberal
candidates named in the resolution.
Thanks having been voted to the chairman, the meeting
separated.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
WINCHESTER RACES—TUESDAY.
The Great Produce Stakes, of 50 sovs. each, h ft. New mile.
Mr. Gully's Tantivy, Bst 91b (A. Day) 1
Sir J. Hawley's Miami, Bst 101 b 2
6t04 on Miami. Won by half a length.
The Original Hampshire Stakes of 25 soya. each, 15 ft, and
5 only it declared. Two miles and a dis.
Sir R. Pigot na Miss Elis, 5 yrs, Bst 91b (A. Day) 1
Mr. Etwall's Buscot Buck, 6 yrs, 7st 71b 2
Mr. Isaac Day's Kismet, 4 yrs, 7st 51b
Mr. R. King na Ferney, 4 yrs, 6st 111 b 4
Won easy by two lengths.
The Sweepstakes of 5 sous. each, and. 25 added, gentlemen
riders, one mile, were won, in five heats, by Mr. Osbaldeston's
f by Lanercost, out of Mountain Sylph's dam, 3 yrs, 7st 131 b
(S. Mann), beating Mr. Sadler's Antagonist, 3 yrs, 7st 131 b,
and several others.
The Queeen's Plate of 100 guineas. Heats, two miles.
Mr. John Day's The Hero, 4 yrs, 9st 11b ... (A. Day) 1 1
Mr. Elwes's Bourton, 4 yrs, 9st Ilb
Captain Delme's Silver Eel, 3 yrs, 7st 51b
10 to lon Hero. Won in a canter.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, 1847.
WEDNESDAY.
Duke of Bedford's Villiers, Bst 81b, agst Colonel Peel's
Isis, 7st 71b ; last half of Ab. M. ; 200 ; h ft.
NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING, 1847.

MONDAY.
Lord Orford's Craftsman (Angelina colt) agst Mr. Gre-
vine's Mirmillo, 7st 111 b ; D. M. ; 240, h ft.
WEDNESDAY.
Lord Orford's Craftsman, Bst 51h, agst Lord Chesterfield's
Lady Lurewell, 7st 51b ; D.M. ; 100, h ft.
Mr. Marson's The Cardinal's Niece, Bst 71b, agst the Duke
of Bedford's Fistiana, Bst 21b; first half of Ab. M. ; 100, h ft.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY.
GOODWOOD ►STAIiES.-8 to lagst Stultz— 11 to 1 agst
Vampyre— 20 to 1 agst Burgundy (t)-20 to 1 agst Miss
Elis (t)-25 to 1 aget Martext (t).
GOODWOOD CUP.-2 to 1 agst The Hero (t)-8 to 1 agst
Eryx (t)-11 to 1 agst Fitz-Emilins-12 to 1 agst Wolfdog
—l6 to 1 agst Burgundy.
LIVERPOOL CUP.-100 to 7 agst Conyngham (take 16 to
1 )-20 to 1 agst Mr. Martin (t).
DONCASTER ST. LEGER.-5 to 2 agst Cossack-11 to 2
agst Van Tromp-11 to 1 agst Mr. Martin-11 to 1 aget
Foreclosure-12 to 1 agst Red Hart-28 to 1 agst Eryx.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The Queen and his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by her
Majesty the Queen of the Belgians, honoured the per-
formances at Her Majesty's Theatre yesterday evening
with their presence. The royal suite comprised the
Countess of Desart, the Countess Vilain XIV., Lady
Caroline Cocks, Lord Byron, Lord Alfred Paget, Colonel
Bouverie, and Major the Baron Moerkerke. Her
Majesty the Queen Dowager's box was occupied by
Lord and Lady Curzon and Mr. Stuart. There were
also present his Royal Highness Prince George, his
Imperial Highness the Prince of Oldenburg and suite,
his Roy al Highness Don Miguel and suite, the Duke of
Wellington, the Prince Louis Napoleon, the Princess
Tuka Gagarin, the Prince Troubetskoi, the Prince
Dubesque, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Mar-
chioness of Westmeath, the Marquis of Huntley, the
Countess of Camperdown and Lady Elizabeth Duncombe,
the Chevalier Corra Dasa, the Earl of Falmouth, the
Earl of Munster, Baron Nicolay, Viscount Somerton,
the Count de Barks, the Hanoverian Minister, M. C. De
Koudriaffsky, Lady Colborne, Lady and Miss Canning,
Lady C. Sandford, Lady Woodford, Lord Adolphus
Fitzclarence, Sir George and Lady Palmer, Miss Fitzroy
Somerset, Lady Willoughby d'Eresby, the Hon. Mr.
Arbuthnot, Captain the Hon. James Macdonald, the
Hon. R. Curzon, Mr. Herbert de Burgh, Mr. C. W.
Packe, M.P., Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery, &c.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.--Their
Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the
Princess Mary, attended by the Baroness Hammerstein
and Mr. Mildmay, honoured the Royal Italian Opera
yesterday evening with their presence. There were
also present the Danish Minister and the Countess
geventlow, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the
Duchess Dowager of Bedford and Lady Rachel Russell,
the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, Marquis of
Donegal, Marquis of Kildare, Countess Cornwallis,
Countess of Chesterfield, Earl and Countess of Wilton,
Earl of Cadogan and the Ladies Cadogan, Count Louis
de Noailles, Countess of Lovelace, Earl Grosvenor, Earl
Grenville, Earl Bruce, Viscount and Viscountess Castle-
reagh and Lady Dalmeuy, Viscount Cantalupe, Viscount
Clifden, Viscount Dillon, Viscount and Viscountess
Newport, Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, Lord Forester,
Lord Foley, the Hon. Miss Foley, and the Hon.
Mr. Foley, Lord Otho Fitzgerald, Lord and Lady
Carington, Lord Henry Lennox, Lord Yarborough,
Lord and Lady William Powlett, Mr. and Lady Caroline
Maxse, Lady Wilmot Horton, Hon. Arthur Upton, Hon.
C. Neville, Hon. H. Neville, Hon. John Fortescue, Sir
John and Lady Pollen, Sir H. Webb, Sir William de
Bathe, Sir John Campbell, K.C.T.S., and Lady Camp-
bell, Sir Frederick Trench, Sir Alexander and Lady
Spearman, Sir Samuel and Lady Scott, Sir Bellingham
and Lady Graham, Sir Richard Paul and Lady Jodrell,
Sir William Ball, Hon. C. C. Cavendish and the Hon.
Misses Cavendish, Lieutenant-General Sir John Buchan,
Hon. Mrs. Vaughan, Hon. Mr. and Miss Tollemache,
Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Sir Michael Shaw Stuart,
Sir Ralph Howard and Lady Howard, Hon. Cecil
Forester, M.P., Lady Douglas, Lady Goldsmid, Sir
George and Lady Houlton, Sir Charles Marshall, Lady
Bulkeley, Sir Jasper and Lady Atkinson, Lady Domvile,
Sir Richard and Lady Gill, Lady Maclean, Colonel Mure,
M.P., Mr. Henry Baring, M.P., Mr. Thomas Baring,
' M.P., Mr. Wilshire, M.P., Mr. E. Davis Protheroe,
M.P., Mr. C. P. Leslie, M.P., the Ladies Walpole,
Colonel Thomas Wood, M.P., Mr. Charles Baring Wall,

M.P., Mr. Standish, Mr. Frank Mills, &c.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN HORSEMONGER-LANE.—
Last evening, about five o'clock, a rapidly destructive
fire broke out in the carpenters' workshops belonging to
Messrs. Walker and Soper, situate at No. 1, Union-
square, llorsemonger-lane. The flames when first per-
ceived were raging in the lower floor amongst a large
quantity of cut timber. The foreman, the only person
on the spot, made an attempt to subdue the fire by
pouring buckets of water on it ; but such a powerful
ascendancy had the destructive element already obtained
that it defied his utmost exertions, and in the space of a
few minutes the building became fired from bottom to
top, the flames from which speedily communicated to the
timber-yard at the back, The Brigade and West of
England engines promptly attended, and no time being
lost in setting them to work, the firemen laboured with-
out intermission until half-past six o'clock, when they
got the fire entirely extinguished. By that period
the building was gutted, and the valuable stock of timber
in the yard was partially consumed. The total damage
is considerable, for at the time of the outbreak there
was a 2,0001. contract on the premises, and 11 workmen
have lost the whole of their tools. Messrs. Walker and
Soper were insured in the Pheenix Fire-office.
The wheat looks very well, and the ear is just
beginning to flower. The potato crop is magnificent, and
free from diseace,—Jersey Times.