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London, England, 1847-07-10 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accorapanied by the
Prince of Wales and the Pripci.ss Royal, took an airing
yesterday in an open carriage and four. The Equernea
in Waiting, Colonel Buckley and Cokucl Seymour, at-
tended on horseback.

Thetr Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Gland Duke
and Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar visited her Ma-

jesty and Prince Albert yesterday at Buckingham Palace. I
His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday
afternoon at a meeting of the commission for promoting
and encouraging the fine arta in the rebuilding the palace
of Westminster. His- Royal Highness arrived at the
new palace a• three o'clock, attended by Lieutenant-
Colonel Seymour. The commissioners present were the
Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Lincoln, Lord
John Russell, Viscount Morpeth, Lord Colborne, the
Right Hon Sir James Graham, the Right Hon. T. B.
Macaulay, the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Sir Robert
Inglis, Mr. Vivian, and Mr. Benjamin Hawes. The se-
cretary, Mr. Eastlake, was in attendance.
The meeting broke up at half-past five o'clock, when
Prince Albert, accompanied by Sir Robert Peel, the
Earl of Lincoln, Viscount Morpeth, Lord Colborne, Sir
James Graham, Sir Robert Inglis, and Mr. Vivian, pro-
ceeded to Westminster Hull, and inspected the collec-
tions of oil paintings. Mr. Eastlake attended his Royal.
Highness.
Ice Prince and the Commissioners left the hall
shortly after six o'clock.
Prince Alfred. the Princess Alice, and the Princess
Helena took their usual airings yesterday.
The royal dinner party, yesterday, at Buckingham
Palace included his Excellency le Duc de Broglie, the
Duchess of Sutherland, the Earl and Countess Dela-
warr, the Earl of Auckland, Viscount Clifden, Lord and
Lady John Russell, and Count de Beam.
Sir William C. Ross, R.A., had the honour of taking
the last siting yesterday for the likeness of her Royal
Highness the Princess Royal, by command of the Queen.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager accompanied by
their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke
and Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar, and attended by
her suite, arrived at Marlborough House at half-past
one o'clock yesterday afternoon, from her residence
Busby House, Bushy Park. The Countess of Assen-
burg and Count de Beust were in attendance on the
Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager received visits from
their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge and his Royal Highness Prince Waldemar
of Prussia. _

The Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Saxe
Weimar paid visits to her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Gloucester, at Gloucester House, and their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, at
Cambridge House.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester had a
dinner party yesterday evening, at Gloucester House.
The company consisted of their Royal Highnesses the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke ot Welling-
ton, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the Duke and
Duchess of Buccleugh, the Marquis of Winchester, the
Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Count and
Countess of Wilton, Earl Bathurst, Earl Mansfield,
Lord Forester, Lady Augusta Cadogan, Lady Caroline
Murray. Baron Knesebeck, and the Hon. Col. Liddell.
His Royal Highness Prince Waldemar of Prussia,
accompanied by the Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian
Minister, and attended by Baron de Laner, Count Chita,
and Count Groeben, visited the Exhibition of the Works
of Art, in Westminster Hall, yesterday afternoon. His
Royal Highness went to the House of Lords, and after
wards inspected the New Palace at Westminster. Mr.
Barry, the architect, attended the Prince in the House
of Lords and through the New Palace.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the Foreign.
office. Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne,
Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston,
Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl Auck-
land, Sir John C. Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, Viscount
Morpeth, the Marquis ot Clanricarde, and the Right
Hon. H. Labouchere attended.
The Council sat one hour and a half.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. William Brown, M.P.,
Mr. Forster, M.P., and Mr. William Phillips, had an
interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-
office.
Fhe Law of Marriage Commission had their first
meeting at Gwydyr House yesterday. The Commis-
sioners present were, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Lord
Advocate, the Right Hon. James Stuart Wortley, and
the Right Hon. Anthony R. Blake. The secretary, Mr.
Merivale, was in attendance.
Mr. Ewart and Dr. Bowring had an interview yester-
day with Earl Grey. The Rev. Dr. Lang had also an
interview with his Lordship yesterday at the Colonial-
office.
Dispatches from the Governors of the West India
colonies were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
LANCASTER RACES.—WEDNESDAY
The Vale of Lune Free Handicap of 5 soya. each, and 25
added. One mile and a half. (10 Subs.)
Mr. S. L. Fox's Psalmsinger, 5 yrs, Est 61b (Oates) 1
Mr. Mertin's The Dandy, aged, sst 101 b
Won easy by a length.
The Revival Handicap of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft, if declared, with
50 added. Two miles. (18 Subs.)
Mr. Robertson's Tom Tough, aged, 7st 81b... ..... (Prince) 1
Mr. Heep's Brown Fly, 4 yrs, sst 61b...
Mr. Tempest's Deceiver, 6 yrs
Lord Milton's Flahowlagh, 5 yrs, 6st 81b
Mr. Standish's Little Hampton, 6 yrs, 7st alb 5
Betting-3 to 1 agst Tom Tough, 4to 1 agst Little Hamp-
ton, 4 to 1 agst Brown Fly, 6 to 1 agst Deceiver, 6 to 1 agst
Flahowlagh. Won by three parts of a length.
The Borough Cup (Handicap) by Subscribers of 5 sovs each,
3 ft, and 30 added. One mile and a half.
Mr. Scholefield's Tommy Moore, 5 yrs, 55t... (Charlton) 1
Mr. Robertson's Tom Tough, aged, 7st 131 b 2
Mr. S. L. Fox's Psalmsinger, 3 yrs, 7st 10Ib 3
Mr. Osborne's Brandy Face, 3 yrs, 6st 71b 4
3 to 1 agst Tom Tough, 3 to 1 agst Psalmsinger, and 5 to 1
agst Brandy Face. Won by half a length.
The Selling Stakes of 5 soya each, and 20 added. Heats.
One mile and a half.

Mr. Banks's Grand Signor, 4 yrs (Pattison) 5 1 1
Mr. Vaughan's Hopeless, 4 yrs
Mr. 'F. Parker nd Vesture, aged 4 3 dr
Mr. Barton's Squib, aged 3 4 dr
Mr. Scott's Alderman s Daughter, 3 yrs 2 dr

Won easi'.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, JULY 9.—Wind S.S.W., light breeze, and cloudy.
DEAL, JULY B.—Wind A.M. southerly, light; P.M. S.W. to
S.S.W. moderate.—Arrd. Garrowee, Christoffers, Trinidad de
Cuba, for Bremen ; Rose, Spencer, New York, for Rotterdam.
Sld. Urgent, Calcutta; General M,Donald, Sierra Leone;
British Isles, Cuba; Sterling, Quebec; Amity Hall, River
St. Lawrence; and the whole of the outward bound except
the West Indian. Arrd from the river, and sld., Marquis of
Bute, China; Britannia, Quebec.
PonTsmouTia, JULY B.—Wind S.S.E. to W.S.W.—Arrd.
H.M.S. Helena, Cape of Good Hope. Off port, Tamerlane,
Numsoorcottah, left Feb. 17.
SKIBBEREEN,JULY s.—The Industry, Mindus, from Lime-
rick to Liverpool, struck on a sunken rock in Baltimore Har-
bour, where she had put in from contrary winds, and knocked
a bole in her bottom, and made much water, was beached
with assistance, has been repaired, and is ready to proceed.
OFF FALMOUTH, JULY B.—Sussex, Jamaica.
LIVERPOOL, JULY B.—Wind S., light.—Arrd. John o'
Gaunt, M'Donald, Shanghee ; Jane Prowse, Nichol, Shang-
hae ; Aden, King, Whampoa ; Georgiana, Williams. Calcutta;
Fifteen, Shappers, Realizo ; Tinamara. Webb, Marenham ;
Actaeon, Daly, New Orleans; Almida, Rowland, Key West,
with the cargo of the Planter, condemned there; Carlton,
Meredith, St. John's, N.B. ; Troubadour, Graham, Bombay;
John Edward, Bombay ; Lord Hardinge, Bombay ; Sarah
Horne, Brown, Junk River, Africa; Swiftsure, Witt, Bonny.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATER.—The Queen and his
Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured the per-
formance at her Majesty's Theatre on Thursday
evening with their presence. The royal suite comprised
the Countess of Desert, the Hon. Miss Macdonald, the
Hon. Miss Murray, Earl Dude, Lieutenant- Colonel
Seymour, and Colonel Buckley. His Royal Highness
the Prince Waldemar of Prussia and suite also honoured
the theatre with their presence. Amongst the company
were—the Duke of Wellington, the Duke and Duchess
of St. Alban's, the Duke and Duchess de Palmella, his
Excellency the Turkish .sinister and the Princess Cali-
maki, the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, the
Marquis of Clanricarde, the Marchioness (Dowager) of
Sligo and the Ladies Browne, the Marchioness of
Douro, the Earl of Jersey, the Earl of Shelburne, the
Countess of Westmoreland, the Countess of Dundonald,
the Earl of Munster, the Chevalier Correa de Sa, M. C.
de Koudriaffsky, the Viscountess Duncan, Viscount and
Viscountess Benham, Lady Frances Hope, Lord Adol-
phus Fitzclarence, Lord Seedy's, Lord Saltouu, Lord and
Lady Mountgarret, Lady Stanley, Lord and Lady
Egmont, the Lord Chief Baron and Lady Pollock, Sir
William and Lady Clay, Sir William Russell, Sir Geo.
Wombwell, B in., Sir Frederick Trench, Bart., M.P.,
Sir John Lowther, Bart., M.P., Lady Mackenzie, Sir J.
Guy, Lady Goldsmid, Hon. Mr. Lascelles, Hon. George
Byng, Mr. Broadwood, M.P., the Hon. Mrs. Tollemache,
Hon. Mrs. Norton, General the Hon. A. P. Upton, Col.
Wildman, Mr. E. I)ivett, M.P., Eto.
MUSIC AT NORTHAMPTON.—At the approaching
meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society music will
form an important portion of the amusement provided for
the visitors. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Henry Phillips have
both announced their entertainments, and a morning
concert will be given, for which the great contralto
Alboni is engaged, as also Madlle. Corbari, Signor
Tagliafico, John Parry, and M. Benedict.
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.-:—The last musical fete of
the season will be held at the Zoological Gardens in the
Regent's-park this day. The arrangement of se-
lecting the orchestra from the three military bands
of the Foot Guards, which has proved remarkably
successful, will, we understand, be again adopted. The
band if the Royal Caledonian Asylum will also attend,
and the presence of several distinguished personages is,
expected.

ROYAL SEA BATHING. INFIRMARY, MARGATE.--
Thursday a general meeting of the supporters of this
charity was held at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-
hill. It +a as stated by the secretary that the institution
was at present quite full of patients. A great alteration
had taken place in the general diet, and meat, porter,
and ale were daily administered to all patients medically
sanctioned to receive them, and the diet tables were uni-
formly of a more generous and varied character. The
balance carried to the next account amounted to
2881. 17s. 9d., and the total receipts for the past year
3,933 L ls. id. The report having been received, and the
accounts duly audited and signed, the meeting separated.
Liz PosT-orncE.—The gross total revenue of the
General Post-office, for the year 1846, amounted to
2,004,0072, and the net receipt, after deducting the
charges of management, to 835,419 L The charges
amounted to 1.128,437/., and 40,1501. was deducted from
the gross receipt for returned, refused, miss-sent, and re-
directed letters, over-charges and returns. The total
payment out of the Exchequer, for exoonse connected
with the packet-service, sunou4te.4 W 767,9604

IMPEttIAL PA lAEA AIIiENT.
Ht: USE OF LORDS. July 9.
ROYAL COM -,,iISsION.
The royal assent was given to-day at five o'clock, by
Cornmitsnn, to the following 87 Bills:
The Corn Importation Bill—the Threatening Letters
Bill—the Custody of Offenders Bill—the Cemeteries

Clauses Bill—tho Leeds and Thirt.k Railway (Devia-
tion of Main Line in Crimple Vt lley, &c.) Bill—
the London and North- We4ern (St. Albans Branch)
_ _

—York and Newcastle and Newcastle and Berwiel,
Railways Amalgamation Bill—York and Newcastle
Railway Bill (Pelaw Tyne Docks and Branches)—Mid-
lard Railway (Extension from near Leicester via
Bedford) Bill—North British Railway (No. 1)
Bill—lpswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway
Bill (Branch from Ipswich to Woodhridge)—
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Bill
(Louth and Horncastle)—London and North-Western

Railway (Birmingham and Lichfield) Bill—York and
North Midland Railway (Harrogate Branch Extension
and Terminus)—York and North Midland Railway Bill
(Knottingley Branch)—Aberdeen Railway (Branch De.
viation; Bill—Great Northern Railway (Deviations be-
tween Gainsborough and Doncaster)—Shrewsbury and
Chester Railway (Branches, &c.) Be —GuildfordExten-
sion and Portsmouth and Farehaw Railway Bill—Porta-
down and Dungannon Railway Bill—Dublin, Dundrum,
and Rathfarnham Railway Bill (Extension to Stephen's-
ereen)—Boston Stamford, and Birmingham Railway Bill
(Branch to Wisbech Harbour, and Wisbtch Harbour

Improvements)—Eastern Counties Railway Bill (Pur-
chase of the North Woolwich Railway, &e.)—Eastern
Counties Railway Bill (Enlargement of London and
Stratford stations, and Amendment of Acts)
Eastern Counties Railway Extension Bill (Cambridge to
Bedford, &c.)—London and North-Western Railway
Bill (Lease and Purchase of the Huddersfield and Man-
chester Railway and Canal, and the Leeds, Dewsbury,
and Manchester Railway)—Cheltenham and Oxford
Railway Bill—Huddersfield and Manchester Railway
Bill (Deviations and Alterations, Oldham Branch)—
Mold Railway Bill—Manchester and Leeds Railway
Bill (Alterations of Levels of Brighouse Branch, &c.)—
Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton Railway Acts Amend-
ment (Diversion of Line in the Parishes of Blackburn
and Bolton in the Moors)—the Great Northern Rail-
way Bill (Deviations between Grantham and York)—
Chester and Holyhead Railway Bill (No. 2)—Great
Northern Railway Bill (Purchase of Ambergate,
&o.)—Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley
Railway Bill (Stourbridge and West Bromwich)—
Midland Railway Bill (vlasbrougls. - and Norman-
ton Stations Enlargement) Edinburgh, Leith,
and Granton Railway Bill (Leith Extension)—
Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton Railway Bill
(Leith and Granton Junction)— Manchester, Shef-
field, and Lincolnshire Railway Bill (Branches
to Chapeltown and Thurgoland Coal Branch)
—Manchester and Leeds Railway Bill (Branches,
Extensions, Deviations, and Alterations of Levels)—
Direct London and Portsmouth Railway Bill—Glasgow,
Paisley, and Greenock Railway Bill (Branch to the
Caledonian Railway, and Diversion of Canal)—Cale-
donian and Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Rail-
ways Amalgation Bill Lynn and Ely Rail-
way Bill (Deviation and King's Lynn Docks)—
Lynn and Ely Railway Bill (Lynn and Wormegay Na-
vigation)—Caledonian Railway (Branches to Canonbie)
Bill (No. 4)—East Lothian Central Railway Bill—
Eastern Union, and Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's
Railway Amalgamation Bill Chard Canal and
Railway Bill (Extension and Amalgamation)
Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland Bill (Ex-
tension from Athlone to Galway)—Newport, Aberga
venny, and Hereford Railway (Extension to Taff Vale
Railway) Bill Northampton and Banbury Railway
Bill—Swansea and Amman Junction Railway Bill—
Dublin and Drogheda Railway Bill (Purchase of Navan
Branch)—Glaswow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway
and Glasgow, Parley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr
Railway (No. 2) Bill—Glasgow, Paisley, Kil-
marnock, and Ayr, Railway Bill (No. 1)—
Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway, and Glasgow,
Paisley. Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway (No. 4) Bill—
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway
Bill (No. 2)— Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and
Ayr Railway (No. 4) Bill—Parkgate and Ches-
ter and Birkenhead Junction Railway Bill
London. and North Western Railway Bill (Portobello
and Wolverhampton Branch) South Staffordshire
Railway (Cannock, Wyrley, and Noarton Branches)—
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolet4*e Railways, and
Manchester and Lincoln Union Railway, and Chester-
field and Gainsborough Canal Amalgamation Bill—
Midland Railway (Erewash Valley, &c.) Bill—Edin-
burgh and Northern Railway Bill (Burntisland Pier,
&c.)—Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Rail-
way Bill (Wisbech to Sutton Bridge) Cork
and Bandon Railway Bill—Aberdeen and Great North
of Scotland Railway Bill (Amalgamation or Leasing)—
Limerick Dock and Harbour Improvement Bill—Man-
chester Corporation Waterworks Bill Sandwich
Haven Bill—Staffordshire Potteries Waterworks Bill
Wisbech Port and Harbour Bill Wakefield
Gas Bill Legal Quays (London) Bill Ashton
Gas Bill Edinburgh Waterworks Bill—York Im-
provement Bill (Lendal Bridge two Approaches)—
Norwich Small Tenements Bill—Killaarnock Police and
Improvements Bill—lnverness Municipal Police Bill—
Inverness Harbour and Improvement Bill—Westminster
Improvement Bill—Ayreshire Roads Bill—Lincoln's Inn
Rating Bill, and the Lancashire, Cheshire, and North
Wales Drainage Bill.
The Lords Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor,
the Earl of Minto, and the Marquis of Clanricarde.
WASTE OF TIME.
Lord BROUGHAM considered that a great waste of
time resulted from the method of giving the Royal As-
sent by commission during the business hours of the
House. Formerly it was given at a much earlier period
of the day, and a saving of public time was effected. II(
moved that the Committee appointed to inquire into the
f'orms of the House should also take thy. subject of Royal
Commissions into their consideration. He moved that
Lord Ellenborough, Lord Redesdale,. and Lord Shaftes-
bury be added to the Committee.—Agreed to.
JUVENILE OFFENDERS BILL—CONFERENCE
WITH THE COMMONS.

Messengers from the House of Commons appeared at
the bar, and requested a conference with their Lordships
upon the Juvenile Offenders Bill.
The following noblemen were selected to act for their
Lordships :—The Bishop of St. Asaph, the Earl of
Devon, the Earl of Eglintoun, Lord Monteagle, Lord
Kinnaird, and Lord Portman.
On their return, they reported the reasons of the
Commons' disapproval of their Lordships' amendments.
They were ordered to lie upon the table of the House.
Lord RODEN called the attention of the House to
the third report of the Commissioners appointed under
the Act 10th Vict., cap. 7, for the relief of distress in
Ireland, it having been stated therein, " that in some
cases the very chairmen of the relief committees, being
magistrates, have sanctioned the issue of rations to
tenants of their own of considerable holdings, possessed
of live stock, and who it was found had paid up their
last half-year's rent, and that intimidation—a very com-
mon cause of abuse—has in some cases been openly
encouraged by the committees." He moved that copies of
all informations connected with these transactions which
had been made to the commissioners, together with the
names of such chairmen of committees and justices of
the peace referred to in the report be laid upon the table,
of the House. He would occupy the attention of the
House but a very short time, while .he directed their
Lordship's attention to the very serious matter charged
against high persons in authority in Ireland, in the re-
port to which he alluded. He hoped their Lordship,
would grant the motion which he now made, so long as
such charges were preferred by anonymous writers in
the public papers. He did not consider it his duty to
interfere or endeavour to protect the landed interest from
the base calumnies to which they were daily subjected.
He did not mean to say that there were not
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the English people that they were known and felt, and
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deeply sympathised in.—(Hear, hear.) The Protestant
gentry had also done themselves immortal credit ; they
had shared their last morsel with their Roman Catholic
brethren, and the Protestant clergy gave up their own
necessary comforts to alleviate the distresses of their
neighbours ; and, in fact, the more he considered
the conduct of the gentry in Ireland, the more
he was persuaded that the present report was
raise, calumnious, libellous, and a one-sided report,
which was wholly unworthy of the confidence of their
Lordships.—(Hear, hear.) The report was regarded
with one universal feeling of sorrow and annoyance by
all classes in Ireland, and many gentlemen who had
given their whole time to the relief of the poor in acting
upon committees, were now quite unprepared to take
further responsibility upon them, left they might be
considered to be included in the charges made by the
commissioners. It would have the effect of banishing
many of those gentlemen who had so acted. The N, ble
Lord then read several letters from influential gentlemen
in various parts of Ireland, who had anxiously laboured
in the cause of humanity for eight months, and who all
denounced, in the strongest language, the report, which
they termed as false and libellous, and unworthy or
credence. The Noble Lord then went on to read
the report, which stated that the objects of the Act
could easily have been carried into effect, if the persons
who had entered upon the undertaking had done so with
honesty and earnestness of purpose, and that a trust-
worthy local management was generally unattainable for
smaller limits than those of a union. The report fur
ther noticed a gradation from the spirit of perfection
which in general animated relief committees, to a coun-
teracting spirit in the body, "a wrong feeling of one entire
class, a degree of apathy or neglect on the part of some,
or the whole a y 1 lding to intimidation, or seeking for
popularity, leading to the abandonment of any atiemp,
to check fraud, down to the last degree—namely, that of
actual connivance at the grossest frauds, and m6applica
tion of the means at their disposal." The Noble Lord
having read several extracts from the report, con-
cluded by moving his resolution.
The Marquie of LANSI)OWNE said he would tress.
pass upon the House for a few moments while he would
explain to the House the reason why he would consider
it necessary to refuse the motion, and why, in doing so,
he would not be committing any injust.ce towat ds any
class of persons in Ireland. It Has not a wonder that
the Noble Lord should fe 1 anxious to clear s me of his
fellow countrymen from the charges imputed to them
But, while he admitted this natural anxiety, he would
not agree that such a motion ought to be agreed in.
All the commissioners had done was the taking of a
substantial view of the means taken for carrying on a [nest-
sure which had been enacted under circumstance of pe-
culiar difficulty ; and they had abstained from Ili
recting attention to any particular locality which would
lead to a discovery of the geraous implicated. The