The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-12 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday
mo
-vtting at Buckingham Palace. The Queen Dowager
't Buckingham Pa acc from Bushy Park, at half-
arriveu .
'clock yesterday morning, to pay a visit of
past eleven.: • bee Majesty. The Duke of Cam-
congratulation to
bridge qe also visited the Queen. The
Marquis and Prince *GGee,.-
of Normanby
?.ord John Russell had audi-
ences of her Majesty. The Ear: of Erroll, the Earl of
:
Uxbridge, and the Earl of Albanarle, 16Q arrived at the
Palace.

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In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert to,
airing in an open carriage and four.
The Duchess of Gloucester, the Duchess and the
Princess Augusta of Cambridge, visited her Majesty.
In the course of the day, all the Foreign Ministers, and
upwards of one thousand of the Nobility and Gentry called
at Buckingham Palace to make their inquiries, and entered
their names in Prince Albert's book.

Her Majesty had a dinner party last evening at Buck-
ingham Palace. The company consisted of his Royal
Highness the Duke of Sussex, his Serene Highness the
Prince of Leiningen, the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke
and Duchess of Somerset, the Duchess of Inverness, the
Duke of Cleveland, Marquis of Breadalbane, Marquis and
Marchioness of Normanby, Lady Cottenham, Viscount
and Viscountess Milton, Lord Saye and Sele, Lord
Sudeley, Lady Dinorben, Right Hon. George Stevens
Byng, Hon. Miss Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Baroness
Letnen, Lord Lilford, Hon. Charles A. Murray, Sir Fre.
derick Stevie, Col. Buckley, Sir Edward Bowater, and
Sir. Francis Seymour.
The Duke of Sussex was received on his arrival by
Ccbnel Buckley and Sir Edward Bowater, Equerries in
Waiting to her Majesty and to his Royal Highness Prince
Albert.

The Band of the Ist Life Guards attended at the Palace
during the evening.
The Duke of Sussex and Prince George of Cambridge
visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday at Ingestrie House.
The Queen Dowager, on leaving Buckingham Palace,
went to Clarence House, St. James's, to visit the Princess
Augusta, and afterwards visited the Duchess of Gloucester.
11,:r Majesty left Marlborough House at hall.past three
o'clo,k, in a carriage and four, fur Bushy Park.
The Duchess of Cambridge took an airing yesterday
afternoon to Kew, returning to town in the evening.
Summonses were issued at twelve o'clock yesterday to
the Cabinet Ministers, to attend a Council at the
Home-office, at two o'clock in the afternoon. The following
Members of the Cabinet were present :—Viscount Mel-
bourne, the Lord Chancellor, Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl
of Clarendon, Marquis of Norman* Viscount Palmerston,
Lord John Russell, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Earl of Minto, Sir John Hobbouse, Lord Holland, Vis-
count Duncannon, Mr. Labouchere, Lord Morpeth, and
Mr. Macaulay.
The Attorney-General and Mr. Made, Solicitor to the
before the Council.
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Treasury, were in attendanceamonintanteioirneLstordshilipiss.:
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Palace, acored,
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subsequently returned to the
The Earl of Erroll, the Earl of Uxbridge, the Earl of
Charles
Albemarle, and the Hon. tillo Home
eCioth'cclocc.
The Cabinet Ministers k.
the Home Office yesterday.
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LONDON:
FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1840.

ATIENIPT TO MURDEIt
THE QUEEN

AND

PRINCE 4LBERT.

PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT
The House of Lords was last night crowded
as much as ever we saw it, in expectation of
some communication relative to the attempt made
on her MAJESTY'S life. Their Royal Highnesses
the Dukes of SUSSEX and CAMBRIDGE were
present, as well as a considerable number of illus-
trious strangers.
Their Lordships were not disappointed, for the
hour
of five had scarcely elapsed when Lord MEL-

The motion was instantly agreed to, and
a Conference requested with the Commons,
to make it a joint Address. A Conk-
-fence was held, the Commons immediately agreed,
and the joint Address was ordered to be presented.
Subsequently the LORD STEWARD announced that
her MAJESTY would receive the address at two
o'clock, and it was arranged that the House should
meet at half-past one o'clock, lo go up with the
Address. Their Lordships seemed all deeply im-
pressed with the solemnity of their meeting.
In the Commons, as soon as ever the hour of
public business arrived, Lord STANLEY rose to move
his Registration Bill, but said he understood Lord J.
RUSSELL had something to submit to the House.
Lord JOll N RUSSELL immediately stated that the
Noble Lord had anticipated his intention ; but he
understood that his Noble Friend in the other
House would move an Address to her MAJESTY,
and that it was thsirable to make it a joint
Address. It would be more dignified, tlaeniore,
and more becoming the oc,24sion, fort the Commons
t 9 concur ip the Address of the Lords. Accord-
ingly messengers soon came down from the Lord;
to request a Conference, which having taken place,
and the managers on the part of the Commons having
returned, the Address which had been agreed to
in the Lords, was also adopted by the Commons,
nernine contradicente, and it was settled that the
Commons should be informed by the printed pa-
pers to he delivered to-day, at what hour they were
to go up with the Address. At two o'clock, then,
both Houses will go in solemn .state to present
their Address of Congratulation to her Majesty, and
no doubt all the Members of both Houses will
make it their pride to attend.

We think it only prudent to abstain from all re-
marks on the motives of the young assassin, while
the evidence which has been collected from him
and from others is unknown. This only will we
say, that there is reason to suppose he is capable,
from vast conceit, of forming such a plan himself,
without political motives and without confederates.
Charity bids us hope, though hitherto his friends
have discovered no signs of insanity about him,
that he is insane.

EXAMINATION AND COMMITTAL

OF THE PRISONER.

At two o'clock yesterday afternoon all the Cabinet
Ministers attended at the Home-office, and a close
and searching examination was made. Several
witnesses were examined ; but what occurred in
the Council was not allov►ed to transpire. We
understand that the prisoner betrayed no signs of
intimidation or confusion, and answered all the
questions put to him off hand. THE RE-
SULT WAS THAT HE WAS ORDERED
TO BE COMMITTED TO NEWGATE,
TO TAKE HIS TRIAL FOR HIGH
TREASON.

We saw him on leaving the Council, and he ap-
peared moved, but not downcast. His sister, and
his sister's husband, and his uncle, were waiting
for him in the passage of the Home-office, and he
embraced her very affectionately, and apparently
with tears.

We understand that his character has been

hitherto irreproachable ; but that he is of a curious
temper. His friends describe him as passionate,
and trace that to his father, who was also very
passionate. He is said to have more than a dash of
black blood in his veins ; his father having been a
Mulatto. He is tolerably well connected ; his uncle
is a very respectable man, living in Gracechurch-
street. His mother has kept a shop since his fa-
ther's
death, nine years ago, and lives de-
cently. She has one daughter, as well as
this unhappy son, and the whole family live t,,ge-
ther. It is true that he was born in Birmingham,
but he was removed from there before his father's
death, upwards of ten years ago. The father,
we understand, was a working jeweller, and
the family, as far as we can learn, are distinguished
for nothing but a little ill-temper.
We marked his countenance well, which we
should say is intelligent. His forehead is
high and prominent, denoting, we think,
considerable determination •and obstinacy. He

is short and slight, so as to look even younger
than he actually is. His appearance is that of a
boy of fifteen years of age.

TIIE BULLET FOUND.
At about half-past five two poor boys, one of
whom is named James Jennings, found one
of the bullets fired at her Majesty. It was
buried in the ground directly under the wall,
which was marked by it. On finding it,
the boy put it in his pocket, and was about to
walk away with it, when he was stopped by Mr.
Manning, of 15; great Portland-street, Cavendish-
square, who was standing near at the time,
and brought to the Palace. The bullet is
flattened on one of its sides, and is
marked with red streaks, as though it had struck
against a brick. It is in possession of the Inspector,
at the Palace, who also took charge of the boys.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE,
HALF-PAST

Her Majesty and Prince Albert have just left
the palaoe in the pony phaeton and four for their
evening drive. Her Majesty, we are rejoiced to state,
appeared in excellent health and spirits. She
was received by the immense crowd with the most
enthusiastic cheering,which she repeatedly acknow-
ledged by bowing graciously. His Royal Highness
Prince Albert also acknowledged the greetings
of the multitude. The cheering was continued all
the way up Constitution Hill.
Hundreds of gentlemen on horseback lined the
road or accompanied her Majesty to Hyde Park-
corner, Never perhaps was there exhibited such a
generous burst of public feeling in, favour of a
Sovereign.
The scene altogether was honourable
to Englishmen, and honourable to our beloved
Queen. She was overcome almost to tears by the
boisterous demonstration of affection, and endea-
voured by every possible means to check the
emotion with
which she struggled. An eye-
witness informed us that she bit her ,
and
used every
exertion to conceal any symp-
tom of female weakness. The line of car-
riages of persons calling
make inquiries, at Buckingham Palace, to
down the
—all, and is increasing in length
every minute. , extends a considerable way
vr
It resembles the line at
the Opera House on a crowded night.
Among the latest of those who called were the

BOURNE, whom we noticed riding slowly dolln to
the Hoitse, entered, and immPrliatelv rnen.ioned the
attvcions deed in a speech that was almost sup-
pressed by emotion. The Noble Lord properly
designated it, ,though he carefully avoided giving
tiny other explanation than was necessary, as the
me, his Lordship remarked, was undergoing judi-
cial investigation. The Nsble Viscount conelui)ed
movina the following Address tq lier MA-
3NSTY;"--".

indignat: heels it a duty to express its horror
and
treasonable late atrocious and treasonae at•
terZl.76l; hnagtainthslii:n Hat":
her Majesty's sacred person, and its heart-
ielt congratulations to her Majesty and the country, for her
Providential deliverance from so great a danger ; and to
express to her Majesty the doepest concern to find that
there exists within her Majesty's dominions a person
capable of so flagitious an act, and to make an earnest
prayer to Almighty God to preserve to us the protection of
her just and mild Government, and a life so justly dear to
us."