The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-14 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

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WINDSOR, MONDAL—The Queen and Prince Albert
took walking exercise on the Terrace of the Castle to-
clay. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Fanny Howard, also walked for some time.
The Earl of Liverpool, the Earl Dam% arr, and the
Hon. and Rev. E. S. Keppell left the'Castle this morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt St. Leonard, will have the
honour of joining the Royal Dinner Circle this evening
at the Castle.

A Deputation from the Committee of the Baronetage
for Privileges, attended by A. Brown, Esq., K.T.T., the
lion. Secretary, had an interview yesterday with Sir Ro-
bert Peel at his official residence in Downing-street, and
placed in his hands' for the information of her Majesty, a
Representation, embodying the conclusions which have
been arrived at in tespect to the revival of the rights
which have engaged the attention of the Order since 1835.
The Ministers of the Five Powers had a meeting, and
transacted business yesterday afternoon at the office of
her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs. Count St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador ;
Baron Brunow, the Russian Minister ; Baron de Nieu-
man, the Austrian Minister, on a Special Mission ; Baron
Schleiniti, the Prussian Charge d'Affaires, and Ferad
Effendi, Turkish Charge d'Affaires, were present.
Mr. Bodkin, M.P. for Rochester, an interview with
Sir James Graham at the Foreign-office, on Saturday.
The Chevalier Bun Sen, his Prussian Majesty's Mi-
nister Plenipotentiary on a special mission, had an inter-
view with Sir Robert Peel yesterday in Downing-street.
The Bishop of London had an interview yesterday
with Sir Robert Peel. _ _ _

The Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council sat yesterday. There were present :—The Lord
President, Lord Brougham, Mr. Baron Parke, and the
Judge of the Admiralty Court. The Hon. W. Bathurst
was the Clerk of the Council in waiting.
An appeal from Upper Canada, " Tyler v. Rowand,"
was disposed of. Mr. Jackson was heard on motions
to revive appeals from Madras. The Solicitor-General
and Mr. Sergeant Spnnkie were heard on a petition for
leave to appeal from Bombay, " The Collector of Kairah
v. Modee Pestonjee Khorsedjee." Mr. Kindersley,
Q.C., and Mr. Burge, QC., were heard for the re-
spective parties, on an appeal from Lower Canada,
"Fraser and Lagueux v. Murray and Fraser."

STAVELEY.—For some time past a courtship
has been carried on by a certain couple in this peaceful
parish, and matters became so far matured that the
banns were published, and Sunday week was appointed
for the wedding-day. Of course every preparation was
made, and sundry additions were procured to the ward-
robe of the hap bridegroom ; but, alas ! the fair bride
had to bear witness
to the truth of the old adage, that
" there's many a slip between the cup and the lip," for
at•the hour appointed for the meeting which was im-
mediately to precede the ceremony of making
them "one flesh," the aspirant for Hymeneal honours was
non est inventue. On inquiry, it was found that on Fri-
day week he had packed up his clothes and some eat-
ables, and had left the scene of his adventures by a rail-
way train from Eckington station, taking with him a new
great coat and other articles, for which he has left the
tailors of the neighbourhood minus the damage. The
deserted fair one is left either to lament her disappoint-
ment, or to be thankful for herinauspicious union, as her inclination
norfrgoomoda e
dictate.—Derb,yshire Chronicle. sense
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THE 11111),LAND COUNTIES
COX.TERENCt.
(From the Times.)
The mill-owners, or, as they hare been not inaptly
designated, the millocrats, of the midland counties, as-
sembled on Thursday last, at Derby, in What is called by
them it "Great CoArence," for the purpose of clubbing
their information respecting the influence of the Corn-
laws upon their manufactures ; and after a morning
consumed in detailing the sufferings of unemployed arti-
sans these gentlemen proceeded to celebrate the public
distress which had brought them together, in "an excel•
lent dinner, provided by the landlord of the Royal Hotel."
To expose the various fallacies, (some of them put forth
from ignorance, but some, we fear, knowingly), which
abused the public ear on that morning and afternoon
would occupy as many columns as we can spare lines.
The majority of the statements were very much of the
same nature with those which have already been given
in the House of Commons, and which were there either
disproved altogether, or explained to carry inferences
wholly at variance with the views of their utterers.
There is one lesson, a most important one in modern
politics, which the speeches at this meeting remarkably
illustrate and strongly enforce—namely, the imprudence
of ever legislating with a view to pacify the Radical
party. Their course goes regularly through the same
series of stages. First, they make a large demand.
That being resisted, they offer to accept a part in full of
the whole as a final settlement. This being conceded and
secured they instantly re-open their original demand, and
insist upon the whole, without qualification or reserve.
The expulsion of the Whip has happily saved us, in
the present ease, from such a fraud, but we have
had a very narrow escape. " There is a general cry,"
said the Melbourne Government, " for a repeal of
all protection upon agriculture. We dare not go quite
that length, because the very few respectable friends still
left to us are chiefly connected with the agricultural
classes. But we can commute the existing protection ;
and when once We get a duty fixed the question about
Cern-laws will be finally settled between the Govern-
ment and the Radicals. Just as finally, no doubt,
as the Roman Catholic questions were settled by
the Relief Act, or the constitution of Parliament
by the acts of reform. And now tha Corn-law plot
is out, and the mill-owners, finding that their confe-
derates are displaced, and that it is no longer of any
service to conceal their own purposes, remove the
mask froth their faces and the bridle from their tongues,
and call out openly and lustily for the repeal of all agri-
cultural prestectiott whatsoever. " Gentlemen," says
Cobden, " is the duty of those in Parliament to
take up some defined fuel well •understood principle ;
and that I conceive to be the principle of no protcc-
tiVe duties: I see very little difference between Lord
John Russell and Sir Robert Peel—between now pro-
hibitive duties and the sliding scale." And then,
after ridiculing Lord John Russell as a friend to
half-measures, and deprecating the qualified sort of
opposition which the Whigs would bo likely to make
upon any question of corn duties, lie proceeds to say, ,
"There is no probability of any opposition, taking such
a turn as this, maintaining its ground with the public.
On the other hand, if we take up the principle of na pro
tective duties, if we take our stand upon the principle of ,
free trade, that will form such a cement and bond of union

that (heterogeneous as are the elements composing the
Opposition benches) I venture to say it would be the
most powerful and complete that ever sate in the

House of Commons."—(Great cheering.) Yes, we
have no doubt there was great cheering to that. Yet,
were the whole force of the Parliamentary Opposition
to join, not in a measure for the improvement of the
existing Corn-laws, but in the absolute destruction of all
Corn-laws whatsoever—to combine, not for the mere
relief of the consumers, but for the utter overthrow of
the whole landed proprietary of England by the unre-
stricted admission of foreign corn, and you will have a
very strong party, as far as there is strength in numbers,
throughout the whole of the manufacturing districts.
Indeed, you will never want a strong party when you
offer an unlimited license of spoliation. But what is

your strong party, when thus collected, to do ? Why,
says Mr. Cobden, we must re-value all the land of
the kingdom, and impose a new land-tax according'
to that re-valuation. " There must be a total abo-

lition of all taxes upon food, and we should raise at least
twenty millions a year upon the land; and then the owners
would be richer than any other landed proprietary in the
world." Yes ; and, probably, if we were to confiscate
half the property of the cotton lords they would still be
richer than any other spinning proprietary in the world ;
but would it, therefore, be fitting that a mob should
be hallooed upon the premises of Mr. Strutt and
Mr. Evans, and half a hundred other millocrat mil-

lionaries ? " I see no reason," pursues Mr. Cobden,
" why we should not have compensation in the shape
of land• tax, which would relieve us from the whole
of our burdens." No reason ! It is really idle to talk
about reason with a man who deals in such monstro-
sities as these; else we might say that we can see no
reason ►why " the whole of our burdens," which are now
borne by the different classes of society, should hence-
forth be thrown, as he ►would throw them, altogether
upon one; nor why that one should be the landed class.
That is the question which it would be natural to ask,
not only in point of reason but in point of justice too: but,
as justice is a matter as little cared for as reason by many
of these gentry, we will put the question in another way.
When you shall have impoverished the landed interests as
you propose to do by the total repeal of protection for
agriculture,—when one half of the land shall have been
driven out of cultivation, and the rents of the other half
reduced as you ►would fain reduce them—what will re-
main to yield you the twenty millions you mean to levy
in the way of laud-tax ?
Lest our renders should imagine, from the exceeding
absurdity of the passages we have quoted, that they are
taken from some unfriendly reporter, who has had a
mind to pervert the statements of this eminent Anti-
Corn-law leaguer, we beg to assure them that all our
extracts are verbatim from the report contained in the
Morning Chronicle. What a specimen do they convey of
the intellect and of the spirit ►which have guided " the
Great Conference I"

No doubt the difficulties of legislation very speedily
vanish before a financier who proposes to relieve the
pressure of taxation upon one-half of a country by shift-
ing that taxation upon the other half, in addition to the
taxation which this other half had to bear already. This
is easy work; and at such a rate Mr. Cobden would make
as good a first Mini,ter as Sir R. Peel. Perhaps this was
the inference which Mr. Cobden sought to establish.
But presumptuous rashness is not the worst of his
offending. lie is answerable, also, for the crime, and
there can hardly be a more heinous one, of uttering
those presumptuous and rash effusions to a population
who, if his own account be true, are in a state of unex-
ampled distress, and therefore naturally in a temper of
irritation and excitability. If the evils he alleges have
any existence (and we are far from denying that amid
all the exaggeration of this subject there is still, unhap-
pily, but too large a proportion of truth), is it to a
starving multitude that a Member of the Legislature
ought to appeal upon the philosophy of taxation, and
the adjustment of the doctrines of political economy, ?
Is it in such a cause that he ought to set the poor in
judgment on the rich, with a proviso that if the judg-
ment be an unfavourable one, the property of the defen-
dant shall be sequestered to the judges' use ?
The statements of the Derby sympathizers go to show
that in the manufactures of the midland districts there
has been a downward progression, or rather re-
trogression, for these five and twenty years. Does
that prove the existing distress of those districts to
be the result of the present Corn-law ? We
should rather think not, inasmuch as the present
Corn-law is only of about half that standing. A
more rational inference, we suspect, would be, that
the cause of our diminished manufactures is to be
found in the pacification of Europe, which, five and
twenty years ago, set the nations of the Continent
at liberty to pursue the arts of peace, the develop
ment of their own resources, and the employment of
their native industry. If, then, overlooking or ne-
glecting these circumstances, our manufacturers
continued to increase their own productions, and by
invitations of fresh operatives from the country to
multiply the numbers dependent on a precarious
trade, then, however we may feel for the poor arti-
zans, however IVC may regret even the disappointments
and losses of the masters themselves, yet certainly we
cannot submit our understandings to the delusion
now attempted by those masters, nor lend our-
selves to the iniquitous project for making up their
unlucky speculations at the expense of their neigh-
bours. And we say this the more stringently,
because we cannot help observing, that although the dis-
tress which they harp upon has been in progress, accord-
ing to their account, for a quarter of a century, it never
occurred to them to make the heartrending statements
which they have laid before Parliament, and to call
" great conferences together," until the deficiency of the
Whig-Radical budget and the peril of the Whig-Radical
Administration suggested this movement of political
sympathy.

THE BOY JONES.—This extraordinary lad,
whose repeated visits to Buckingham Palace caused so
much alarm some time ago, and who after being released
from prison was sent out to sea in a merchant ship, has
lately returned to England, and is now at Liverpool.
His case is likely to come under the notice of the autho-
rities, for it appears he was sent away without the con-
currence of his father, who has received a letter from him
stating that the ship in which he had been induced to leave
England had returned to. Liverpool, and that he had
i
been subjected to much lhusage on board. There ap-
pears to have been sonic irregularity in the mode of
gesting rid of this troublesome lad, and a good deal of
money unnecessarily expended by a tradesman named
James, residing in Westminster, and a Thames Police
inspector, named Evans, who, after travelling about with
him in England and
i Ireland for a month, eventually pro-
cured him a berth ? a Liverpool ship,
as was stated some time ago. and not at Cork,

Died on the 25th ult:, at Palgrave, Mary Minter,
aged 30. She had been subject to fits from her infancy,
which impaired her faculties. She notwithstanding at-
tained to full stature, but afterwards became a lunatic,
and was confined to her bed for sixteen years. So great
were her sufferings that her lower extremities were
drawn up, with her legs almost imbedded in her body,
2ft. 6in. in length, and 15in. over her body.
saunrdedheorntn,ees up to her chin. W hen a corpse she mea-
Added to the melancholy scene of death, her father had
lain twelve years in the same bed, in a decrepid state,
unable to get up}—Norwich Mercury. •

The heart Of the great man surrounded by po-
verty, and trammelled by dependence, is like an egg in
a nest built among briars ; it must either curdle into
bitterness, or, if it take life and mount, struggle through
the thorns for ascent.

PARTIAL SHOWERS.--A gentleman travelling
in the West of England, scarcely had a, fine day during
his journey ; one day, when at Davenport, he said to the
master of the hotel—" Raining again, I see."—" 0 (re-
plied mine host) it is only a partial shower."—"Egad
(said the traveller), showers seem partictilarly partial to
this part of the country."

THE DISTRESSED PEOPLE OF
SPITALFIELDS, AND OTHER OBJECTS OF
PUBLIC CODIMISSERATION.
The Lord Mayor stated yesterday at the Mansion-
house that he received 40 guineas for the Spitalfields
subscription, and five guineas for the Mansion-house poor
box, from the Lord Bishop of Durham, and a 5/. note
for the benefit of the Spitalfields weavers, from Eliza
G---." It gave his Lordship peculiar ratification to
receive the following communications on subjects gde-
manding the warmest sympathies of the public:—
"My Lord—l regret much to have observed in the
papers of a few days since an advertisement inserted in
behalf of the " Royal Free Mospital, Greville-street,"
calling the attention of the public to the melancholy fact,
that from the numerous claims upon its funds, they had
become inadequate to the maintenance of its truly Chris-
tian principle of relief, and that one-half of its beds were
solelyfrom this cause kept vacant.
" I cannot but think that the noble principle upon
which this Institution is founded, viz., that of affording
immediate relief and advice to all the destitute sick, with-
out requiring any other recommendations than those of
sickness and destitution, should ensure the most liberal
Support, and that if its nature and objects were more ge-
nerally known, it would soon be restored to its full power
of usefulness.
" I have for a few years past been an annual sub-
scriber to its funds, but its present limited means have
induced me to come forward with an extra mite 31.,
which I trust you will excuse ray forwarding through
you, in the hope that some notice taken of it by your
Lordship, while sitting as Chief Magistrate, may reach
the public through the press, and induce others to con-
tribute to our Hospital so worthy of support.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord,
" Your Lordship's very obedient servant,
December 11, 1841. A FRIEND IN NEED.
A gentleman who happened to be present when the
Lord Mayor read. the above communication, stated that
he was a subscriber to the admirable institution to which
it referred, and that he was induced to become a contri-
butor, even beyond his means, in consequence of
having personally witnessed the extraordinary exertions
of the medical philanthropists who administered to the
deplorable cases, suddenly and unceremoniously intro-
duced to the hospital ; and to the labours of the Com-
mittee, for the wider diffusion of its benefits. lle recol-
lected that these exertions commenced at the time when
the cholera and typhus fever so fatally abounded ; and
he believed that the good rendered to the destitute and
powerless sielc, during the dreadful visitation, by the In-
stitution, never could be forgotten.
The LORD MAYOR said he should most gladly hand
over the contribution to the Greville-street Hospital.
He was well acquainted with the benevolent peculiarity
to which the " Friend in Need " alluded ; and he
knew, too, several members of the Committee, who were
indefatigable in the cause. One observation he would
take the liberty of making on the subject. It had been
the intention of the Committee to get up a ball and con-
cert in the Guildhall for the benefit of ::the charity ; but
the ready offer of the Corporation to lend the Hall for
that purpose was ultimately declined, from the
apprehension that the patronage was not sufli-
ciently great to insure a profit to correspond with
the inevitable expense. Now, he was aware that num-
'Deo of benevolent individuals objected to balls and con-
certs for''
hedrd of this appeal they would not be the
easons of their own, and he was convinced that
when they
last to open the hand of charity, especially when they
e was scarcely an object waiting
considered that tht::.
upon their compassion Yr -hose condition would not move
a heart of flint. T
.ord Mayor thought it
The other letter to which the s
his duty to advert was as follows :
"My Lord—l beg leave to forward to
sum of ten shillings for the Spitalfields weavers .
fund, and humbly solicit that your Lordship will be gra-
ciously pleased to use your kind interest and influence
for having a general fund raised towards the present
relief of the most destitute poor in the United King-
dom. I once contributed a day's pay for the Russians,
and one for the relief of my distressed Irish brethren,
and if I know anything (after many years' service) of
the feelings and dispositions of British soldiers and
sailors, I do not hesitate to say, should the appeal
be made, that they will be found as ready
to contribute their mites towards the relief
of their poor fellow-countrymen as they ever
hare been to knock down an enemy where necessity
called them to do so in defence of their country. There-
fore permit me most earnestly and humbly to solicit
your Lordship in behalf of the many thousand suffering
poor (who are at the present time suffering for want
of the very common necessaries of life) to take such
steps at head quarters, that an effort may be instantly
made, as I feel confident, if the proper steps were
taken, that my fellow soldiers and sailors will set such a
glorious example to our country, as may convince the
world that Great Britain is not a mere nominal lard of
Christianity, but so in practice and reality.
"I am, with humble respect, your Lordship's most
humble servant, "A BRITISH SOLDIER."

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' relief