The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-21 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The unfavourable state of the
weather has prevented the Royal party at the Castle from
taking their usual rides and drives to-day.
The Lord Chancellor and Lady Cottenham, the Earl
and Countess of Clarendon, and Sir Henry Wheatley,
have arrived to-day on a visit to her Majesty.
The Marquis of lleadfort has succeeded the Earl of
Fingall as the Lord in Waiting on the Queen, and Sir
Frederick Stovin has succeeded Mr. Rich as the Groom
in Waiting on her Majesty. The Noble Earl and Mr.
Rich have taken their departure.
The Duke de Brabant is still (it is gratifying to state)
improving in health.

Monday was' the birthday of her Royal Highness the
Princess Augusta of Cambridge, when the Princess attained
her 20th year. Some of the Foreign Ministers, and many of
the Nobility called, during the day, at. Cambridge House,
and left their names for the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge.
The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Prin-
cess Augusta and Prince George of Cambridge, ho-
noured the English Opera House with her presence- on
Monday evening.
The Danish Charge d'Affaires transacted business yes-
terday at the Foreign-office.
The marriage of Lord John Russell with the Lady
Fanny Elliot, daughter of the Earl and Countess of
Minto, was expected to be solemnised yesterday, at
Minto House, Roxburghshire. After the ceremony,
the Noble Lord and his Lady would proceed to Bow-
hill, Selkirk, the seat of his Grace the Duke of
Buccleuch.

FRENCH NOTIONS OF ENGLISH

REFORM.

PARIS, JULY 16.—1 have of late made acquaintance-
ship with a certain fluneur, who, like all flancurs, wears
a prodigiously deep neckcloth, and looks sagacious as
Minos himself, though I suspect Gall or Spurzheim
would make little of him in the way of craniology.
Nevertheless he abounds in bonhontinie, and is vastly
available to a stranger in the shape of an index to Pari-
sian affairs. Entering our ordinary cafe this morning,
he directed my attention to some remarks in a French
print upon your Sir Robert Peel's speech at Tamworth,
wherein the Premier-to-be appropriates to himself the
absolute and undivided credit of being the founder of the
Conservative party, asserting it to have grown up com-
pletely under his own auspices, till he had fostered it to
its present strength ; while he preliminarily states that
the Reform party in England was fathered by the French
Revolution ; and that the spirit which swayed the latter
to overturn the Bourbon institutions was identically that
which prompted and inspired the agitation of your great
Reform measures, and that it only marched across the
Channel to make a second edition in England of
what it had primarily produced in France. Though
it might naturally be expected that a Frenchman
would be proud of having it to show, that in their
origination, English political movements were but the
offspring of his own, and that Grande Bretagne was but
a sheer copyist of Gallican ideas, yet Monsieur le Be-
dacteur, in this case, perhaps enamoured of the splen-
dour of his own antiquarian views as projected below,
jeers at the narrow-minded hypothesis put forth by Sir
Robert, and accuses him of vanity and presumptuous
self-ascription. Conservatism, says our French confrere,
is of no new or recent growth in England ; it is coeval
with her soil, and had its birth with her aboriginal
Saxons. Conservatism is that principle which abides
by whatsover has the sanction of age and - antiquity, so
that whatever it may be, whether in theTolitical, civil,
or religious estate, if once planted in the island, Conser-
vatism adheres with Chinese obstinacy to that, and that
alone, resenting every innovation with virulence. Let it
be but a cow-shed,—venerable Saxonism need only have
established it for the priests of this political order
to disallow of its renovation, or repair, though it be
in literal rottenness and decay. Our editor affirms the first
Conservatives of this class to have been Cassibelaun and
Caractacus, whom he considers to have resisted the Ro-
mans, not so much out of love for patriotism, as to pre-
vent Roman improvement and enlightenment being forced
upon them, in the stead of their almost obsolete Druid-
ism and Mam Tor worship. Here the gist of our Edi-
tor's remarks grows even more erratic and abusive, and
my friend the flaneur bestowed on him the epithet
" ganacke," which you know was Napoleon's favourite
word bestowable on arrant stupidity or obtuseness.
Piquing himself on his further acquaintance with his-
tory, he next runs full tilt at Reform, and shows that if
its spirit has been uncontinuous, the old giant has
started up at intervals and done wonders. William the
Norman, says he, was your first great reformer ;
and next him the eighth Harry. Your institutions bear
traces to this day of the innovations made by the first ;
and the grand reform of the second, which overthrew
the plethoric grandeur of abbacy and prelacy, need not,
says the editor, be rehearsed. Reform, he avouches
with honesty, is as indigenous in England as in France ;
and he then warms with admiration at the great mea-
sures she has of late effected in your country, and of
mightier that are to come. He affirms that the eyes of
France gaze with no slight solicitude upon the measures
advocated by your Reform in England ; and observes,
that as those measures are grounded on the basis of un-
shakable truth, they must, however clouded for a time,
emerge triumphant at last. Here he begins to grow
grandiloquent, and likens the temporary obstruction of
Reform measures to a puff of smoke blown upon pure dia-
mond, which, however it may for a time obscure its
brightness, yet at last the intrinsic gem will shine out, in
undimmed and inextinguishable lustre.
" The force of language can no further go,"—and the
Editor feeling himself tread on the land-marks of the
poetical world, pursues his climax no further in the re-
gions of prose, but launches into bold octosyllabics, in
laudation of Reform, commencing with the following
lines :

Tune dors pas, souffle de vie ;
Puisque I'univers vit toujours,
Ta sainte haleine vivifie
Les premiers et les derniers jours, &c. &c.

REFORM.
" Behold, I make all things new. —Revelations.
Thou sleepest hot, Reform !
From the ancientest age thou wast !
And thy spirit anew will inform
Time to come, as it did time past.
For when Chaos leaped up like a man
'Twas thy might through the mass that ran ;
"fwas thy fieryness filled the profound,
Turning clods into glorious ground—
Spreading out all the starry blue sky,
Which before was confusion on high.
For thy voice, 0 Reform, strung and true,
Said, " Behold, I make all things new."

Yet silence vast is thine ;
Thy spirit in deepness dwells
In the depths of abysms divine,
Reside thy all-powerful spells.
As an oak that in darkness grows
For an age on a gloomy mound,
Shakes suddenly all its boughs,
And roars till the grove resound,
So thy voice, 0 Reform, strong and true,
Saith, " Behold, I make all things new."

Then the Heavens grow bright, and the Earth
Dreams a dream that new glories are nigh ;
And thy Mysteries teem toward birth,
For a God in thy womb doth lie.
And the nations, 0 mighty Reform,
Stand comet-struck, faint with affright,
As with thy oclestial storm
Thou dust palsy the realms of night
Till their darkness and gloom surrender
To thy strong and invincible splendour ;
While the laws on their columns shake,
And the Earth and th• 3 Heavens quake.'
For thy voice, 0 Reform, strong and. true,
Saith, " Behold, I make all things new."

Then behold ! 0 what hours divine !
Ope, mine eyes, to their blessedest shine ;
Clouds are cleft, and a man, high and wise,
In thy likeness doth nobly arise,
And his forehead and form glow with flame,
And he comes in thine awfulest name,
Like a Light and a Sign to the world,
And to ruin the old things are hurled.
For thy voice, 0 Reform, strong and true,
Saith, " Behold I make all things new."

Like a sea, have old Errors amassed ;
They accrue like the mud and the slime
Of an Ocean, to gulph and o'ercast
Man, and all that of man is sublime.
And the waves thereof spread to the right—
To the left with funereal boom—
And they compass Humanity's flight,
And yawn round about like a tomb ;
But Reform rises, swift as the light,
And averts that most ominous doom.
For thy voice, 0 Reform, strong and true,
Saith, " Behol.l I make all things new."
Aye, thou cattiest ; I know thy deep glance ;
The Ages shall happy be yet •
The columns of Hope shall advance,
And thy suns that shall shine and not set :
Thy perfumes of incense arise ;
Thine Eagle unfoldeth her wings ;
Thy Oriflamme flames through the skies ;
With thy music the firmament rings
And the Earth at thy coming throws off
Her sackcloth and vestures of gloom,
Lo she laughs in the royal array
Which thy power lath made her assume.
For thy voice, 0 Reform, strong and true,
Said), " Behold I make all things new."
vsnoleon's name has not been interred with his body
-4' Parisians here talk of scouring off to Bou
witness the elevation of his statue on
~r obedient servant will venture

Humfreds 44;
logne in Angus', .
the heights. Perhaiwyv,....
as far himself.

The money raised at Amstefdam for the Rus-
sian Government by the House of Hesse? 143 been remitted in
gold and silver coin.
The Paris Temps states that the new (peek
Ministry, beaded by M. Conduriotti, not beg itkip to agree
with King Otho about their programme, resigliddinmediiirely.
On Sunday morning, Joseph Hume, Asci:, left
his residence in 13ryanstone-square, accompanied by Vis
for the Continent. Mr. Hume is not expected to return for
five or six weeks. _ ;.c