The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-11 00:00:00

DRAINAGE OF LANDS BILL.

This Bill was read a third time and passed.
AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS BILL.
The second reading of this Bill was postponed till Monday
next.

HOUSE OF COMMONS COSTS TAXATION BILL.
This Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be com-
nsitted.

' The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
Rouse adjourned at a Quarter-past One.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual walk yes-
terday in the pleasure grounds and plantations of Osborne.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Royal went in a carriage to the sea beach yesterday
forenoon, and took riding and walking exercise.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred, the Princess Alice,
and the Princess Helena, accompanied by the Dowager Lady
Lyttelton, left Buckingham Palace yesterday for a drive in
an open carriage and four.
We are authorised to state (that no tickets to view the
Royal pictures by Winterhalter, in St. James's Palace, will
be issued from the Lord Chamberlain's Office after Thursday
next, the 13th instant; and that on and after Monday next,
the 17th instant, tickets may be obtained (in the same man-
ner as ordered to view the State Apartments in Windsor
Castle) upon application to :
Messrs. Paul and Dominie Colnaghi, printsellers, No. 14,
Pall-mall East.
Mr. Moon, printseller, No. 20, Threadneedle-street.
Mc. Mitchell, librarian, No. 13, Old Bond-street.
Messrs. Ackermann and Co., printsellers, No. 96, Strand.
Among the visitors to view the royal pictures on Saturday
and yesterday were the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the
Marchioness of Exeter, the Bishop of Winchester, the
Countess of Zetland, the Earl of Cawdor, Earl and Countess
Brownlow, Earl of Morley, Lord Alford, Lady Charlotte
Copley, Colonel Hugh Baillie, Lady Elizabeth Dawson, Lady
Caroline Somers Cocks, Lady Charles Fitzroy, Lady Wil-
loughby Gordon, and Lord J. Fitzroy.
Tier Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by the
Viiicountess Barrington, Lady in Waiting, took an airing
yeiterday in an open barouche and four. Her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager
yelterday, at Marlborough House.
ler Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left town yes-
terday morning, for her residence, Frogmore House, near
Windsor. Her Royal Highness returned in the afternoon, at
six o'clock, to Clarence House, St. James's.
'Colonel Mure, MP., had an interview with the Right
Hop. Edward Strutt yesterday, at the office of the Commis-
sioipers of Railways, in Great George-street.
pispatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial-office,
fropa the Governors of the West India Colonies. Dispatches
were also received yesterday from the Governor of Malta.

tr HE THREE COUSINS. -A NOVEL. BY MRS.
Tebti.orE. —ln this novel Mrs. Trollope maintains, with
unabated spirit, her reputation for vigorous character draw-
" The Three Cousins" represent the three states of
womanhood; the first is a wife, the second a widow, the
third a maid. Their ages climb the scale in the same way.
Mrs. Cobhurst, the intriguing widow, is capital—a lady of
thirty-four and upwards, who claps her hands joyously like a
girl of sixteen, and looks into gentlemen's eyes as if her
yonng soul within were melting with its first emotions. But
the!most perfect characters in the book are the gentlemanly
dinner-giving Bishop of Solway and his wife, Mrs. Morrison.
They stand out from all the rest. "The constitutional good
nature of the lady showing itself through the conventions of
her position, the "smoothness" of the Bishop, who loves to
live in good repute, and whose selfish pleasures take an out-
ward shape of social enjoyment that might almost be mis-
taken for geniality, are hit off with a knowledge of human
nature which places them amongst the most successful of
Mrsi. Trollope's satirical creations."—Atlas.
FUNERAL OF LORD COWLEY.—The mortal re-
maihs of this lamented nobleman reached the Custom-house-
stairs on Sunday night, having been conveyed from Boulogne
by steamer. Lord Charles Wellesley and Mr. C. Culling
Smith were on board as early as eight o'clock yesterday
morning, to receive the body of the deceased, which was
forthwith removed to the Marquis of Salisbury's residence in
Arlington-street. The Marquis of Salisbury, accompanied by
the Marchioness, came to town from Walmer Castle shortly
before eleven o'clock; and immediately after his Lordship
had ,arrived, the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of West-
meath, the Earl of Mornington Lord Fitzroy Somerset, the
Ron, and Rev. G. Wellesley, and other me.mbers of the de-
ceased Lord's farniiy, assembled to attend his remains to the
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Audleyo'clock the funeral cor-
tege Ohapel. On the
arrival of the funeral at the chapel,officiating clergyman
Nepaineveral
received the body, as customary, at the entrance,
mourners following in succession, when the Rnecve,blhre
commenced the solemn and deeply impressive servic'e lt
burial of the dead. At the conclusion of the cere-
monyreligiousote
the body was deposited in a new catacomb in the rear
of the chapel, where are the remains of Anne Countess of
Mornington, the late Earl of Mornington, and other relatives
family. The Duke of Wellington, the Mar-
and Lord Charles Wellesley departed for
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immediately after the funeral; and the Mar-
quist of Salisbury departed in the course of the afternoon for
Walmer Castle, Ken • Lady Cowley continues in a very de-
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