The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1840

of the Noble Duke were commands, and the Chairman
accordingly repm tecl progress, to sit again on Monday.
Soon after Seven their Lordships adjourned.
In the Commons the petition 3 were numerous and
various.

Mr. AGLIONBY'S motion to refer the Bill for the
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway to the Standing Order
Committee, was lost, on a division, by 136 to 87, which
prevents the Bill from being proceeded with.
Notices of motions were given, relative to Canada,
by Mr. PAKINGTON ; relative to Royal Palaces and
Parks, by Mr. HUME ; and relative to Crown Lands
in the Colonies,by Mr W. S. O'BRIEN.
In answer to questions put by Mr. CoLetatouN,
Lord PALMERSTON stated that there had been negocia-
tians with the Dutch Government as to the duties to
be levied in Java, but difficulties had arisen as to the
construction put on the tariff. The Noble Lord also
stated that the Dutch had made a new settlement in the
island of Sumatra, with the approbation of the Dutch
Government, and we had, in consequence, no busi.
ness to interfere. The Noble Lord wisely added, that
411 such new settlements added to our trade.
To Lord SANDON Lord PALMERSTON replied, that
the Portuguese Government had nominated a Commis-
sion, which was expacted to arrive in this country, for
the settlement of the ciaims on it.
In ropy to Lord INGESTRIE: the Noble Lord stated
.

that he had received no official information of the Sand•
wich Islands having been threatened with a blockade by
the French frigate Artemise last July, and no informa-
tion of a Catholic priest having been subjected to torture
there at the instance of Wesleyan missionaries.
On the motion of Mr. H. HINDE, a Committee was
appointed to inquire how far the rights and property of
freemen bad been affected by the Corporation Bill.
Mr. Humes motion for leave to bring in a Bill to
suspend the payment of the annuity to the Duke of
CUMBERLAND was supported by 63 votes, though op-
posed by Lord JOHN RUSSELL and the Tories. The
motion was, indeed, lost by a majority of 76 ; but the
number of independent men who voted for it will be
to the King of HANovErt an index of public feeling,
which he will not disregard. Several of the Members
who voted against the motion expressed a wish that the
KING would resign the annuity. That the House rejected
the motion is another proof how utterly regardless it is
of the interest of the people. The Parliament has never,
however, considered the public in any other light than
as a milch cow, from which it might extract ail the
nourishment it pleased, for any and every idle and
worthless person.

Mr. HtimE moved an address to her Majesty for
correspondence relative to Turkey and Egypt. The
Hon. Member entered at some length into the Eastern
question, and contended that the interference of
England to keep peace had only promoted the power
and purposes of Russia.

Lord PALMERSTON objected to the motion, as
the negociations were still going on, and though
he denied that England was under the influence
of Russia, and said that his Hon. Friend had not un-
derstood the subject, his Lordsl.ip declined to enter
into an explanation or defence of his measures till the
whole negociations were completed.
Mr. FECTOR, Lord C. HAMILTON, Sir R. PEEL,
Mr. BUI.LER, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, &c., took part in
the conversation which followed, but ultimately the
motion was withdrawn.'

Lord SANDON withdrew his motion concerning the
Opium Trade in China.
Mr. WALLACE'S motion for the names of the Pro-
fessors of Glasgow, whose duties are at present per-
formed by deputies, was agreed to after a few words
from Sir J. GRAHAM.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL obtained leave to bring
in a Bill to assimilate the law concerning oyster fishing
in Scotland to the law of England.
Mr. MORE O'FERRALL obtained leave to bring in a
Bill to improve the practice and extend the jurisdic-
tion of the Admiralty Court. The Hon. Gentleman
then moved the House into Committee, with a view
of providing for the salary of the Judge of that Court,
and he proposed that 4,0001. per year be granted for
this purpose.
Mr. HEEMES and Mr. HUME objected to proceed-
ing without notice, and the latter said he meant to pre-
pose that 3,0001. be substituted for 4,000/. The
House then resumed, and the Committee was ap-
pointed for Monday.
S:r M. Woo]) obtained a Committee to inquire into

the petition presented by the Corporation of the City of
London for embanking the Thames. According to the
worthy Alderman, a great improvement may be effected
without any charge to the public.
After disposing of some other uninteresting business,
the House adjourned at Half-past Twelve o'Clock.

Last night the Archbishop of CANTERBURY
gave notice that he will move an address to the
Throne, on the 10th of April, not to give the Royal
assent to the Canada Clergy Reserves Bill. As
our statesmen will not help the people to get rid of
the priesthood, the next best thing is to see the
priesthood arrogantly domineering over our states-
men. Pfaiscd be the Archbishop, therefore. Whe-
ther he is to be successful, or not, we cannot tell ;

his very attempt, however, endangers the peace of.
Canada, and its connection with England. But if
the priesthood be enriched, if power be placed in
their hands, what is it to them that the empire be
dismembered ? For twenty years, nearly, the ques-
tion of the Clergy Reserves has been a cause of
contention in Canada. There is now an opportu-
nity of putting an end to it, and the Archbishop of
CANTERBURY says contention shall continue, lest
the clergy should be deprived of some of their
power. The priesthood may not by their present
arrogant conduct undeceive the people, but they are
going the right way to effect it.

The triumph obtained by Lord STANLEY on
Thursday evening was the fruit of carelessness or
yielding in the Ministers. They had not suffi-
ciently separated themselves from their former eol-
league. They had at one tine given into his
views, adopted his sentiments, and so he had power
to defeat them. The strongest part of his case, as
against them, was their former acquiescence in his
present thrtrines, and the consequent introduction
of several Bills by their partizans, similar in prin-
ciple to his own. " The second reading of his
Bill is simply," says the Globe, " the affirmation
of a proposition which the House of Commons has
before adopted, and from which it is not disposed to
depart." The Bills of Sir M. O'LOGHLEN, Mr.
O'BRIEN, and Mr. Sergeant WOULFE, were the
weapons with which Lord STANLEY conquered.
The fault was in adopting long ago the views of
the known enem►es of Ireland. The Liberal party
fell, as all parties fall, by its own fault.
It ought always to have been remembered that at
the complaints of the fictitious votes and of the
Irish Registration scheme, began where Lord
STANLEY'S speech on Thursday evening ended,
in fierce hatred and fierce denunciations of the
Doman Catholic priesthood. It was altogether a
sectarian and factious strife. The Orangemen and
their friends, however, had the art to cloak their tie-
signs with the name of morality ; they spoke against
perjury, and they took in the Whigs. Their hy-
pocrisy was more than usually sanctified ; they had
scme facts to countenance their exaggerations, and
their opponents were deceived. Too late it was
found out that the principal object of all the com-
plaints of the Tories about fraud and perjury, of all
the thundering articles of the Times, and the so •
phistries of the Standard, was to create a
schism between the voters and the priests, and place
the former under the power of the landlords.
Though the knowledge came too late to enable the
Liberals to resist successfully the second reading
of the Bill, it may yet enable them to defeat it in
Committee, or before it arrives at its last stage.
We should look for a resuscitation of all those
envenomed feelings in Ireland which are now lulled,
and in a fair way to extinction, from its passing.
The Bill is undeniably aimed at the political power
of the Catholic priests ; and is intended, if possible,
to give political power to the Orange landlords.
Disguise it how the Tory hypocrites may, that is
its object, and that object the Catholic priests are
bound to resist. It may cure the little sore which
Lord STANLEY has exaggerated into a wide-
spread and deep-seated ulcer, but it will throw
Lord STANLEY'S patient into convulsions. Such
has generally been the result of the treatment of
this renown.d political empiric.

The landlords have found out that cheating play
does not thrive. They are made to feel that it is
in the power of the people, in spite of votes of Par-
liament, to make their tax insecure, and their ex-
actions unsafe The Duke of RICHMOND whined
forth his lamentations in the House of Peers last
night in the following manner:--
" lie complained of this, and the landed interest had a
right to complain, that year after year this question was
agitated, and thereby no landed proprietor could sell his
land, nor any tenant think it safe to take a lease, while cer-
tain paid parties went about the country teaching the la-
bourer not to look with confidence to his employer, and
preaching that the interest of the landlord and the tenant
was not one and the same. Neither was this a question on
which all the manufacturers agreed, for many looked for-
ward to these discussions, year after year, with great
alarm? He hoped the Bill would not pass the House of
Commons. He believed it would not, but if it should, he
hoped their Lordships would reject it by a large and tri-
umphant majority."
And if the Lords kick out a Bill they cannot
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prooftl iey sattotepinpatgitiat,tiotnh.ey coannlynotadgdag

' that injustice must always seek refuge in tyranny.
To put an end to agitation is beyond the power of
the bread taxers, and as long as rent is vitiated by
an unholy alliance with a bread tax, landed pro-
perty will be insecure, and no landowner will be
able advantageously to sell or even to let his land.
The landlords cannot control the public mind, and
the sooner they give up their most iniquitous at-
tempt to enrich themselves by taxing the bread of the
poor the mere beneficial it will lie to themselves.
There is a singularity in the owners of rent
which deserves to be noted. The landowners com-
prise the highest class of society, who have their
rank to maintain and a large expenditure to keep
up, while they engage in no money-making occupa-
tions. If rent increases it is not by the exertions
of the landowners, but by the progress of so-
ciety, which extends the demand for food. The
capitalist seldom contents himself with merely lend-
ing his money out permanently at interest ; he
watches the markets, he discounts bills, he embarks
in banking, he becomes a shareholder of some large
companies, he adds labour to his capital, and thus
continually endeavours to gain more. The land-
owner may turn farmer, and add the gains of the
capitalist to those of the landlord, but in general
he contents himself with being the mere recipient
of rent which can only be increased by the compe-
tition of other men to get hold of his land. The
landowner, therefore, while he has a dignity to
maintain, has no means of making money, and he
sees individuals of all the other classes getting,
wealth by their own skill or industry, and sur-
pas"ing him in splendour and riches. This pecu-
liarity in his condition, abundantly as he is sup-
plied with all the necessaries of life, fills him
with envy, and he passes and maintains a
Corn-law, not so much to increase his absolute

possessions as to preserve his relative supe-
riority. He calls in fact, on society—and
society, in spite of all the maxims of morality
it continually hears, has hitherto been foolish
enough to obey the call—to give that superiority to
idleness and negligence, which nature has decreed

to industry and skill. A more palpable opposition
to the moral laws of man's being, a more direful
striving against nature than the accursed Corn-laws,
is not to be found in the whole history of human
errors. They are a perpetual attempt to subvert
the precept " that the hand of the diligent maketh
rich."

Some of our Corn-law-'owing Contempora-
ries suppose that some restraints are neces-
sary to guard against the avarice and ex-
tortion of factory owners. They rail con-
tinually at the Cotton Lords, They demand
taxes on machinery, laws to prohibit mills
from working more than ten hours, and a variety of
other restrictions. They are jealous to excess of
avarice in one class, and they sanction the avarice
of another by legislation. They will not allow the
factory owners, to extort a penny, and they ordain
extortion by the landowners. Such a contradiction
is a severe condemnation of the landowners, for it
brands in others a vice which they boast of prac-
tising. The evil influence, on the morals of society,
of the law sanctioning plunder is beyond our appre-
ciation. We see it, however, in the multitude of
thefts, extortions, forgeries, swindling, and burgla-
ries, to which society is a prey.

TRIUMPH OF THE TRIERS
CABINET.

The TRIERS Cabinet has obtained a signal
triumph. After a debate of three days the Cham-
ber of Deputies came to a division on Thursday
evening, when the Secret Service Bill, or, more
properly, the Vote of Confidence Bill, was carried
by a majority of eighty-six votes. There were two
divisions. The first on an amendment, proposed
by M. D'ANGERVILLE, for reducing the grant
from a million of francs to nine hundred thousand,
when there appeared—
For the reduction
Against it
Majority in favour of Ministers -103
The grand question of passing the Bill was then
put, when there appeared—

For the Bill .
Against it
Alinisterial majority

In The Sun of Thursday and Friday we gave
an outline of the debates in the Chamber on Tues-
day and Wednesday. The only important speech
delivered on Thursday was the closing one of M.
TRIERS, in reply to the attacks made upon him by
M.BERRYER the royalist, and M. DucHATEL his
quondam doctrinaire associate. M. TRIERS boldly
avowed that he had taken the cabinet by storm,
and that he was wholly indebted for the power of
doing so to the revolution of July. On the
question of the English alliance, the premier was
less explicit than we expected he would have been,
probably in consequence of the acclamations with
which M. BERRYER'S denunciation of that alliance
was received out of doors. But upon the whole he
acquitted himself with marvellous boldness and dex-
terity. The majority which he obtained was greater
than even he himself in his most sanguine mo-
ments anticipated, and places him at once in a
P'

,osition effectually to control the Court.
Now that M. TRIERS is indeed the Premier,
we may expect soon to witness decided manifesta-
tions of his policy. He is not a Minister to do
things by halves ; and his triumph over the Court
will not tend to make him more moderate. In the
present state of relations between Great Britain and
France, the accession of M. THIERS to office is
exceedingly gratifying to us. No man in France
understands better, and very few so well as TRIERS,
the sterling importance of maintaining the most
amicable relations with England. He is sensible
that the Revolution of July, of which he boasts
of being the only legitimate offspring, owed
its triumph almost as much to British sym-
pathy as to French patriotism, and it is for the
avowal of this generous conviction that he is con-
stantly assailed by the Royalists and Republicans,
whose hatred of England seems inextinguishable.
M. TRIERS likewise knows that in the friendly
union of England and France is to be found the
surest guarantee for the peace of Europe, and for
the progress of liberal and humanizing ideas. The
MOLE and So ULT Cabinets, following the instruc-

tions of the Court, threw France into the arms of
Russia; and what was the treatment she received
from her northern ally ? She was spurned and
spat upon. The EMPEROR manifested his con-
tempt for the ORLEANS dynasty, by allying his
family with that of NAPOLEON, and openly re-
buked the French Government for presuming to
sanction an address of the National Representatives,
breathing a prayer for the resuscitation of unhappy
Poland. Our Tory Contemporaries make a daily
fuss about the complacency with which Lord
PALMERSTON puts up with indignities, while
France is ever tremblingly alive to resent the sem-
blance of dishonour. We gre, however, in a con-
dition to prove that the " illustrious sword,"
Marshal SOULT, put up with more gross insults
from Russia during the brief period of his adminis-
tration, than Lord PALMERSTON has been spe-
cifically and distinctly charged, even by the Tories,
with doing during the last five years. Now, what-
ever be M. THIERS'S home policy, we feel confident
that he will not suffer the dignity of France to be
insulted with impunity abroad, and, least of all the
Great Powers, by Russia, to whose intrigues he is
no stranger.
Advices were received in Paris on Wednesday,
confirming the news of a declaration of war by the
Emperor of Moßocco against France. It was
supposed that the Bey of TUNIS would unite with
the EMPEROR and the Emir ABD-EL-KADER,
to endeavour to drive the " infidels" out of Africa.
It was likewise rumoured that Admiral ROSAMEL
would be sent with a squadron to bombard Tan-
giers. Thus the war in Mica is about to com-
mence in earnest. The Arab tribes friendly to
France are to be supplied with food, clothes, and
arms at the expense of the French Goverment.

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Madrid Papers of the 19th instant have arrived.
The Deputies had appointed a Committee to draw
up the Address to the QUEEN, in answer to the

Speech from the Throne. Thus the Spanish
Cortes, after sitting two months, have only got as
far in the great work of legislation as a British
House of Commons would have reached in half
an hour
No news from the theatre of war.

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LORD STANLEY AND MR. O'CONNELL.—On Thurs-
day evening Mr. O'Connell made an allusion to the ill-
ness of the Earl of Derby, which raised a wild howl of
execration from all the Tories in the House. That
howl has been re-t,choed by the Tory Press, and by the
bigots that hate Mr. O'Connell and the Irish Catho-
lics, because they adhere to the faith of their ancestors.
The Times gave one version of the allusion in the Par-
liamentary report, and another in the summary,
and thereupon made remarks not at all cam-
plimei t iry to the Honourable and Learned Member.
The Editor, however conscious of the unjust i.npu-
tation, has.this day corrected the error in these words :
" The oLservation which drew down upon O'Connell
the honest indignation of all parties in the House is
referred to in the summary in these terms :—"rhe
Noble Lord,' said he, is here to-night, when to be
elsewhere would be pleasanter to' him than it ought to
( be,' read would be pleasanter to him, and it ought to be.'
What the agitator meant to say was, that Lord Stanley
ought not then to have been in the House of
Commons, but by his relation's bedside."—
This is nearly the sense in which we
understood the expression, and so far from being an im-
putation of blame on Lord Stanley, we regarded it as a
compliment to his filial affection. So would the House
have understood it, had the Tories allowed Mr. O'Con-
nell to explain ; but the scene altogether only confirms
the truth of the saying, " Every large assembly is a
mob." In our humble opinion, also, it would have been
more becoming. in Lord Stanley to have been absent
on such an occasion. The second reading of the Bil
might have been deferred a week or a month, as the
result proved, for it is not to be committed till the 6th
of May, and therefore there was no occasion to leave
the bedside of a
dying parent in such breathless haste.

COURT CIRCULAR.

-
The Duchess of Northumberland had an audience yesterday
of her Majesty.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of the Queen.
'The Royal Dinner Party at the Palace last evening included
his Excellency the American Minister and Mrs. 'Stevenson,
the Duke of Argyll, the Marquis and Marchioness of Lans-
downe, Viscount Melbourne, Lord George Lennox, the Right
Hon. George S. and Lady Agnes Byng, and the Hon. Hugh
Fortescue.
The Band of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards at-
tended at the Palace during the evening.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured Mr. G. Patten,
R. A., with a sitting yesterday, for a full-length Portrait in the
robes of the Order of the Garter.
Prince George of Cambridge visited his Royal Highness
Prince Albert yesterday.
Her 'Majesty the Queen Dowager visited the Duchess of
Kent yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and his Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge, honoured the performance of the
Sacred Harmonic Society, Handel's Oraiorio, " Saul." a:
Exeter Hall last evenilig, with their presence. Her Majesty
was attended by this Viscountess Barrington, Hoe. Miss Mit-
chell, Earl Howe, and Captain Curzon, R.N.
Lady Fenny Howard left Buckingham Palace yesterday.
The Duchess of Cambridge and Prince George honoured
Lady Az.tiobus with their company at the ball given last
evening by her Ladyship, at her residence in Piccadilly.
Mr.Stelteforth, President, and Mr. Bolton, deputed by the
American Chamber of Commerce of Liverpool, on the Corn-
laws, with Mr. Thornley, had an interview with Mr. La-
bouchere yesterday, at the Board of Trade.
A Deputation on the subject of the repeal of the Corn-laws,
had an interview with Viscount Melbourne yesterday, in Down-
ing-street. Toe Deputies were from the follo.sing places :
Arbroath, James Rennie ; Brighouse, John Crossley ; Burn-
ley, James Roberts, John Holgate ; Bradford, Robe: t Milli-
gan, George Oxley, Alexander A. Robertson ; Birmingham,
the Rev. Thomas INPDonald, William Boultbee, Joseph
Sturge, and William Scholefield; Bolton, Thomas Cullen,
J. P., John Dean, Thomas Barnes, J.P., Edmund Ashworth,
J. Heywood ; Bel per, James Carter Sharp, Edward Brettle,
James Puree; Burton (Dorsei), Muntz ; Blackburn,
W. Pilkington ; Clickheaton, William Atkinson, Rev. James
Scott ' • Chorley, Abraham Turner, James Walwork ; Carlisle,
John Dixon, Mayor, Alderman James Ross, John Carrick,
William Marshall, 111.1). ; Cheltenham, A. P. Gaskell, J. C.
Symons; Colne, Robert Watson ; Darwen, Eccles Shorrock ;
Doncaster, William Chadwick ; Dunfermline, David D.
Droylsden, William Christy, William Howarth ; Dewsbury,
Joseph Ellison ; Darlaston, G. W. Green ; Edinburgh,
D. M'Laren, Hunter, James Anderson, Johnstone Darling ;
Glasgow, William Weir, Walter Buchanan, Charles Todd,
Alexander Johnstone, John Kerr, James Brand, William Mills,
William Dickson, James Dunlop, George Crawford, John Ten-
nant Duncan ; Greenock, R. Wallace,Esq., M.P.; Huddersfield,
R. C. W. Stansfield, AI. P., William Brooke, William Wel-
lans, John Robinson' Thomas Mallenson, Frederick Schwann ;
Halifax, William Morris, John Akroyd, James Hoatson, John
Holdsworth, Edward Akroyd ; Hetden Bridge, John Riley,
James Hodgson ; Kirkcaldy, John Peter ; Kendall, Isaac Wil-
son, Thomas Wilson ; Kensington, Ewin Keet ; Liverpool, A.
Stoilerfo:et, A.C.M, T. Bolton, A.C.M., William Brown,
A.C.M., T. Sands, A.C.M., William Mauray, James Aiken,
P.M., James Miller, P.M., Lawrence Heyworth, P.M.,
Christopher Rawson, Charles Holland, Joseph Ewart, P.M ;
Leeds, J. G. Marshall, Esq., M.P, H. Stanslield, P. Fair-
bairn, E. Baines, jun., George Greig ; London, Lord Nugent
(Marylebone), W. P. Gaskell, Dr. Bowring, J. C. Symonds,
P. A.;'Taylor, J. Gibson, Ralph Ricardo' G. A. Young (Ma-
rylebone) ; Long Bridge (Dorset), Muntz ; Lambeth, John
Richardson ; Manchester, J. B. Smith, R. Cobden, William
Rawson, C. J. S. Walker, A. W. Paulton, Sidney Smith;
Alansfield, Richard Greenhalgh ; Maidstone, George Beacon ;
Nottingham, Robert Sands, John Broadley, James Thompson ;
Oldham, Daniel Mellor ; Paisley, Archibald Hastie, Esq.,
M.P., John Crawford, James Greeve, George Coats. James
Brown, A. INPFarlans, D. Forrest, Rev. Dr. Brewster, Provost
Bissett; Prest ,n, W. Ainsworth, J. Livesey; Rastrick, J. Clay;
Rochdale, George Ashworth, Joseph Fenton, John Fenton,
Esq., M.P. Southwark, Robert Redman, Luke Embleton,
Quency Harris, R. Taylor, 'William Wilson, William Bowler,
Nicholas Brewer, James Gibb ; Settle, James Thomp-
son ; Salford, Joseph Brotherton, Esq., M. P. ; Sheffield, S.
Smith, 111. C., R. J. Gainsford, Samuel Jackson ; Sewerby-
Bridge, Samuel Wood ; Staley-bridge, R. Platt, J. Davis ;
Sowerby-bridge, James Fielding ; Saddleworth, J. Lees ;
Stirling, William M'Alley, Robert Smith; Tiverton, Thomas
Cappern ; Wolverhampton, William Walters ; Wilsden, George
Harison ; Mr. Ainsworth, M.P., accompanied the deputation.
Sir George Grey, the Attorney-General, and the Solicitor-
General had an interview with Lord John Russell at the Co-
lonial Office, yesterday.
Lord Robert Grosvenor bad an interview with Viscount
Melbourne yesterday.
The Rev. H. Buchanan and Mr. Dunlop had an interview
with Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Colonial Office.

Sir Robert and Lady Fitz Wygram had select
dinner parties on Wednesday and Thursday evening, at Con-
naught-place.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Lothian have
arrived in:town from New Battle Abbey, their scat in Scotland.
The Earl and Countess of' Wilton are expected
in Grosvenor-square, this afternoon, from Badminton, where
the Earl and Countess have been visiting the Duke and Duchess
of Beaufort, during the stay of the Hereditary Prince of Saxe
Coburg Gotha.

'file Marquis of Douro, M.P., left town yester-
day, on his return to Strathfieldsaye. His Lordship came up to
town expressly to be at the division on Lord Stanley's motion.
Lord Stanley left town yesterday morning, by
the Birmingham Railway train, to visit his father, the Earl of
Derby, at Knowsley Park. No letters were received in Gros-
venor-square yesterday, but the accounts received in town on
the preceding day, stated that the Earl was considerably better,
and had been out for a drive.

The grand fete at Lansdowne House to the
Queen and Prince Albert, on Thursday evening next, will close
the Marchioness of Lansdowne's assemblies until after the
Easter recess. The Whole of the state apartments, including
the great statue gallery and the banqueting hall, which
have been lately restored to their original brilliancy, will to
thrown open at ten o'clock. The invitations embrace all the
rank, beauty, and fashion at present in the metropolis, and no
other fashionable entertainment will be given on that evening.
Viscountess Pahnetston has a soiree on Wed-
nesday, the Bth of the ensuing month, on Carlton House-
terrace.

Viscount and Viscountess Beresford have a
grand dinner, on Saturday next, in Cavendish-square. Her
ladyship intends shortly giving a series of soirees.
Mrs. Henry Vivian will give her first ball on
Tuesday evening, in St. James's-place.
Earl and Countess Cadogan have issued cards
of invitation for a grand dinner on Friday next.
Sir Robert and Lady Peel have issued cards for
a grand dinner, on Saturday next, the 4th of April, in White-
hall- gardens.
The Countess of Jersey, it is circulated, intends
giving another ball before Easter. This news is certainly
agreeable to the members of the beau monde, for the pleasures
of the dAightful fete given by her Ladyship on the 18th inst.
must have made an impression which is not likely to be effaced
for many months.
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Lady Antrobus gave her second soiree dansante
last evening, at the spacious mansion of Sir Edward, at Hyde
Park-corner. The rooms were brilliantly lighted, and orna-
mented with a profusion of choice exotics. Dancing com-
menced at eleven to Weippert's band. The supper rooms
were opened at one. The dance resumed with a gallopade, and
was kept up pith spirit until three o'clock. The company in-
cluded her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge and the
Princess Augusta, and two hundred distinguished fashionables.
The Right Hon. Thomas Grenville gave an
elegant dinner last evening in Hamilton-place, to the Countess
of Cawdor, Lady Grenvdle (relict of the celebrated states-
man), the Dowager Lady Cawdor, Lady Farny Proby, the
Right Hon. Sir Charles 13agot, the Hon. George Fortescue,
the Hon. Robert Lawley, the 2d Life Guards ; Mr. Gaily
Knight, M.P., the Hon. Captain Gordon, the Hon. Hugh
Cholmondeley, Mr. and Mrs. Gaskell, and his Excellency the
Dutch Minister.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter will
not take possession of their new mansion in Grosvenor-square,
formerly the abode of the late Lord Hunting:field, until after
Easter. The!Noble Marquis:has left Grillon's Hotel for Burghley
House, where he is entertaining a party with sports of the field.
His Excellency Baron Brunow removes from
Mivart's Hotel to Ashburnham [louse, the Russian embassy,
to-day.

The present Lord Chancellor has a youthful
family of eleven children by his accomplished lady, daughter of
Mr. Wingfield, the Master in Chancery; the youngest, not
quite a twelvemonth old. The Hon. Miss Fanny Pepys,
second daughter of the Noble and Learned Baron, will make
her debut in the beau monde this season.
Earl Spencer did not stay at Leamington Spa
beyond a few hours, when the Noble Earl made the necessary
arrangements for the removal of the mortal remains of his
mother-in-law, the late deeply regretted Mrs. Acklom, to Al-
thorp Hall, Northamptonshire, for which mansion his Lord-
ship took his departure. On Wednesday last the body of the
deceased lady was deposited in the vault of the Spencer family
at Alike?

Mr. Ho!loud, M.P. for Hastings and St. Leo-
nard's, has left town to pass the honeymoon at Paris. Great
rejoicings took place at Allegria, the scat of the Hon. Member,
near St. Leonard's-on-Sea, to celebrate the nuptialss of the
Hon. Member.
The Countess of Belfast is greatly improved in
health since her arrival at Leamington Spa; where the Noble
Viceehamberlain has taken a villa for three months.
The Countess of Roden continues in a weak
state of health, although much recovered during the past week.
The Noble Earl remains in Ireland solely on account of her
Ladyship's illness, which happily has long ceased to alarm the
numerous connections of the family.
LADY SKELMERSDALE.--We regret to state
that the accounts of her Ladyship's health, received in town
yesterday morning, from Lathona House, are unfavourable. We
understand her Ladyship rallied early in the week, but not the
slightest hope remains of her Ladyship's eventual recovery.
Lord Rossmore's health continues in a most
precarious state. Col. Bawdon' step-lather of Lord Cremorne,
will start for the county Monaghan, in the event of the Hon.
Henry Westenra being called up to the House of Peers.
BARON'S COURT.—The Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Abercorn have postponed their departure for tiwn
for a few days, on account of the slight indisposition of her
Ladyship's infant, two months' old. A large packet ship was
launched at Derry, on Friday last, to trade between that port
and Philadelphia; it was called the Marchioness of Abercorn,
out of compliment to her Ladyship. The Dowager Duchess of
Bedford will accompany the family to town.
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the new and noble organ. In the suite of her Majesty we
noticed the Viscountess Barrington, the Hon. Miss Mitchell,
Earl Howe, and Captain Curzon, R. N.