The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-08 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, anal the Queen
Dowager, attended Divine Service yesterday morning
in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
The Bishop of Chichester preached the sermon from
the First pt Corilithians_ chanter xi i., verses 12, 13,14.
The Service was read by the R... mr. ractiman, the
Lessons by the Rev. R. Barham, and the Communion
Service by the Bishop of London, the Rev. Dr.
Slcat:l, and the Rev. Mr. Barham. The Musical Ser-
vice vt..is Nares io C, the Sanctus and Commandments
in D (Knyveit), the anthLm, " The Lord is my light"
(Boyce), was sung by Messrs. Wylde and Bradbury.
Mr. W. Knyvett presided at the organ.
The Rev. Dr. Short was the Deputy Clerk of the
Closet in Waiting. The Royal suite included the
Countess of Charlemont, Hon. Miss Yoga, Hon. Miss
Anson, Lord Byron, Earl of Morley, Hon. Sir Wil-
-1 am Lumley, Lord Alfred Paget, Sir Edward Bowater,
and Captain Francis Seymour.
The Queen Dowager's Suite included the Counters
of Mayo, Hon. Miss Eden, lion. Miss Courtney Boyle,
and Earl Howe.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, the
Duchess nt Gloucester, and the Duke of Sussex, visited
her Majesty and Prince Albert yesterday at Bucking-
ham Pvlace.

The Queen and Prince Albert honoured Cogent
Garden Tl.eatre with their presence on Saturday even-
ing. The ltoya Su;te consisted of the Countess of
Charlamont, Lord Byron, Lord Alfred Paget, and Sr
Edward Bowater.

Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty
on Saturday.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert took an airing in the
Parks in a pony phaeton on Saturday morning. In the
afternoon her Majesty and his Royal Highness took
equestrian exercise in the Riding School.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager attended Divine
Service yesterday afternoon in the Chapel Royal, St.
James's.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended
Divine Service yesterday morning in the Chapel at
Kensington Palace. Lady Fanny Howard was in wait-
ing on her Royal Highness.
The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine Service
yesterday mcruing in Grosvenor Chapel, South Autilly-
stra,tt. Baron Kuesebeck and Major Stephens were in
waiting on his Royal Highness.
Tile Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty the
Queen Dowager on Saturday at Marlborough House.
Tile Duchess of Kent took a❑ airing in a carriage on
Saturday.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager took an airing in
a carriage to Kensington on Saturday.
The Dukelof Cambridge, attended by Baron Knese-
beck, honoured the Duke of Wellington with his com-
pany at dinner, on Saturday evening, at Apsley House.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured Mr.
Stidolph on Saturday, by inspecting his writing machine
for the blind, of w h.ch his Royal Highness was pleased
to express his approbation.

A Cabinet Council was held on S..turday afternoon
at the Foreign Office. It was rittcridtd by Viscount
Melbourne, Alai quis of Lansdowne, Earl of Clarendon,
Marquis uf Normanby, Viscount P.,linerston, Lord
Joint Russell, the Chancellor of the Exehrqu,r, Earl
of Minto, Str John Hobhouse, Viscount Duncannon,
Mr. Labouchere, Lord Alorpeth, and Mr. Macaulay.
The Council sat two hours and a half.

Mr. Easthope, M.P., Lnd Mr. Mils, M.P., had an
interview with the Marquis of Normanby on Saturday,
at the Ilome-office.

Mr. J. Shaw Lefevre, and Mr. G. C. Lewis, had an
intervie,,, with Lord John Russell on Saturday, at the
CdoniA-cffice.

Captain Bolton had an interview on Saturday with
the Marquis of Norrnanby, at the Home-office.
Mr. Robert F. .Maitland had an interview on Satur-
day with Lord John Ruscil, at the Colonial-office.
Despatches from the Governor of British Guinna
were received on Saturday at the Colonial-office.

PRESENTATION OF PLATE TO THOMAS
SLINGSBY DUNcobiBE, ESQ., FROM A PORTION OF THE
COMPANY OF TIIE TLIEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.—On
Thursday murnirg a deputation, consisting cf Messrs. S.
Knowles, P. Web-t:r, Strickland, J. Wuduck, F. Web-
ster, J. Webster, and F. Vining, waited on I'. S. Dun.
combe, Esq , M. P., to express their grateful sense of that
gentlemen's exertions is removing certain restrictions on
tneatrical performances during Lent. Mr. Knowles
h ving addressed Mr. Duncomhe in an eloquent and ap-
propriate speech, presented to him, in the names of a por-
tion of the Haymarket company and himself, a beautiful
chased silver cup, cover, and salver, with the Duncumbe
arms on one side, on the other the following inscription :
"To Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, Esq., M P., in gra-
titude for his Parliamentary services in favour of those
theatres which are under the jurisdiction of the Lord
Chamberlain, and which his labours have relieved from
certain painful restrictions limiting their performances
during Lent, this cup is presented by the undersigned
members of the Theatre Royal Haymarket, and Mr. James
S. Kno,vles, on the 4th March, 1841." Then Idiocy the
subscribers' names. Mr. Duneombe was evidently much
pleased ..ith the te,timonial of gratitude, and assured the
deputation he should always be ready to forward the inte-
rest of the drama, and to use every effwt in his power to
redress their grievances.

IRISH REGISTRATION Mau.

Reform Club, Feb. 26, 18420. is
Sis,—Nei,rly a meek has been spent in the Coisrur;
in the endeavour to prove that two and two make
and happily the affirmative has been at last establisbed bf
~
the splendid majority of five, in a House containing Du'
Members 1
.nedi
In reference to the respective Bills of Lords bdo's„
and Stanley, the merits of the two measures may be
racterized in very few words.
Lord Stanley was from 1830 to 1834, one of the klietbil;
ters of a Cabinet which introduced the Reform Bit,
first draught of which, as we were assured by Lord Alt!!'i d
comprised the Ballot, the disfranchisement of that foul_
most corrupt portion of the old electors, the ancient fret'
teen, and said net a word of the other servile class, the hv"
tenants at will.
Pee.
In its progress through the House, or before, the
by
otbe.
tection by Ballot to the free use of the franchise
people on whom it was conferred, was struck out to ea
ciliate the Tories, and to leave the electors in hehdsS'e
the right of the ancient freemen was confirmed for &be
same purpose ; and to clench the whole, by extending 'a/
class of helots, the franchise was conferred on thebu.
ten
Thean at will in counties.
ts
result has been that Tory domination is supremsei3
the county elections ; while in the boroughs, the, P,°°,.rdalef,
ancient freemen, mostly paupers receiving Owed el'aer,
and all ready to sell their vacs to the bighest bid 0
have rendered the Bill even worse than the old systenno,
ably and truly denounced by that fine old English gee,' d
man and ex-pastion Sir Francis Burdett. The wall`the
precision in defining the franchise, and providing fere 0,
correction. of the registration, through some scoresoo:beir
vising barristers, no two of whom hardly agree i teas
view of what the franchise really is, leaves the pi holeeinew'sd
prey to endless litigation, expense, and all the bests, „In.
animosities of faction, , contest, ignorance, and bad icr
latlnion.
Ireland the cese is even worse. The aneisa fss
chise of the forty-shilling freeholders was abolisbeu b
1829 to please the Tories and confirm their power, thlot
I believe Mr. O'Connell was a party to that disgrire,
transaction, for it is self-evident that even a 40'' ho/.
holder must be a more independent elector than aters
tenant-at-will. In the Reform Bill the Irish werelsi
with a 10/. franchise, as in England, though the o'o,
and relative circumstances of the two countries are so la
sent!ally different that a 10/. franchise in Ireland lie
be about equal to a 20/. franchise in England ; in °sties.
words, a 10/. franchise in England would, in stiles le°, a,
or equity, be in exact proportion to a 51. franchise in leseaf
The fact is proved by the gradual constant dimioutieuati
the elective body in Ireland—for though the great V3_4
of Cork, with 750,000 inhabitants, had not half so, ,71.4
electors as several small borouhs in England witubise.
than a tenth of its population, the work of di franee.off
meat is proceeding rapidly to reduce even that s'10(
allowance to one-half or one-third by the joint ettra,
an over-high franchise, of deaths, of litigation, asp
404
and the conflicting judgments of revising barrister°
partisan judger. forbit
Such was the moment chosen by Lord Stanley i clod.
grand attack on the few remaining electors of '!"erest
With all the new-born zeal of a convert from tue.°ool
and glorious cause of Reform, and with all the aeoni
the
of a renegade, he last Session produced his fill for 104
ostensible correction of the registration, with a sPeet The
an intent which might be thus freely translated re- not
electoral body in all Ireland, Mr. Speaker, is hardly elp4
to that of three English counties, York, Lancasiee'cag
• ise:
Middlesex ; and even that portion is rapidly ditelee fro:-
under the united effects of an elevated and ill-defined
dim, of litigation, of expense in defending or exeri'lls of
the right to vote, of the benign influence of the riffeoleg
property, as evinced in the summary process of el— keep
estates in Ireland of all recalcitrant voters who dare to °A
a conscience. Aid me, I pray you, to perfect this gle
and glorious work, so as to leave Ireland without ° .0 or
elector but such as will be perfectly docile to the 01001
the charmer, and follow without a murmur their ead sties
leaders, the Rodens, Beresfords, Charlevilles, `bet the
three Colonels. This Bill is so happily devised taile
rest will find it their interest never to claim the Ono
at all; and tnus the Orangemen, Shaw and I, will
the game in our own hands !" beeln
When reproached that while he multiplied the °lose
and difficulties and expenses of any registration at, liof its
left the franchise itself which was to form the Will Rolf
utterly undefined cr explained, though that was f, irest
the indispensable preliminary, he coolly replied-'l.O or
was not his ditty. Let Ministers define the franet'ol the
right." His only object (forsooth 1) was to preserieb sick'
obstructions, the snare:, pitfalls, and other modes 0' that,
ening the electors from ever claiming or exereisitoge
right at all,—unless under the protection of the
party.
Lord Morpeth's Bill brought his sinceri'y as was Js bigo
consistency to the test. That Bill defined a fren: the
clear, intelligible, practical, and indisputable even 1e re,
cunning Isaacs of the Tory party. Considering t.!Jr'
lative wealth of the two countries, a 5/ franchise tub is
land, as I have already shown, is hardly low eileegatalt
proportion to a 101. franchise in England ; or ri,tl site-
at once profess the wish to disfranchise Ireland the
gether. But the test of having been rated 0001(
poor was clearing the whole difficulty, and
,ed fir
at least nine-tenths of the work contem see
Lord Stanley's revising officers, with their triplesel
quadruple devices or obstructions. His Lordship °P;roon
the second reading in a speech so full of hypocrisy. 1_ Re
sietence, and perverted views, that Mr. Sheila pJiord
did reply may safely be lift unaided, though aisr
John Russell has heaped more coa's on his bead lo,evrtl,
ner nesee to be forgotten by the captious and fretful,ool.
His advent ti power— Heaven forfeud it I—would 11,01 V
be the signal for disast, r, if n:t revolution in ire
and the Tories know it. 18
Although there is little hope of Lord Morpethae'l
passtuer, tne reere, owing- to the state of parties the'r ;w.'
the timid, trimming policy of the Cabinet, yet thef
gives us a hope that Lord Stan!ey's cannot nags' 1;g
on all sour readers the imminent danger of• alloWdbon,
even in any modified shape, to pass without a clear peer,
tion of the franchise, as in Lord Morpeth'e, for the ce the,
who would readily pass the one, would as surely retesiefe
other. It needs not the gift of prophecy to say that Tooaell,
Bill alone would confirm the moral power of tY in
b tit,
and the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland, safe'ee the'
fact, solve the apparent enigma now presentee
French Government—. 1,
" Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike; ow
in other words, entirely prepared for war, and 001/14Siet'
rently waiting till Lord Stanley and Co. chose to P
them with a vital part for the infliction of the blow'
t; bee
I am, Mr. Editor, an Englishman and a Proteleglisit'
I cannot help feeling that the whole course of ti7oed.
(Tory) policy towards Ireland has been one co
of
scene of fraud, violence, and an utter pe;versio° sore"
equal justice which kingdoms owning the salin is
reign have a right to expect. Lord Stanley's t. „set
gross fraud, in furtherance of the old Tory scheme 'Lore
domination ; and were it passed as it stands!, without think
Morpe.h'e, I should, were I an Irishman, begin te„, diet'
that more justice might be hoped for from Fran Pk
f-om England. I have some experience cf. the to the
people, and apprehend they will generally colneroffesea
same conclusion, and in reply to Lord Stanley's Piny the.
boon of an improved system if registration, rep
Latin poet :
" Timeo Danaos, et done ferentes." w Mit
But will they be content with this protest, and bLt ,bel
necks to the yoke ? Ido not think they
ought.
advert' verl
Before I dismiss this important topic I will advigh ge-•
briefly to one closely connected with it, the Eng,' to it'',
form Bill. I observe, by Lord Fitzwilliam's les the
reply to Mr. Marshall's, of Leed-, that be cosi a a re-
English (and Irish) Reform Bills, as having effect° if he
volution, and he triumphantly asks Mr. Marehslig;r, all
wishes to effect a revolution every year ? , bat `'
wholly unacquainted with either Lord F. or Mr. .I%'
aebe
must say. I think such language not only highly •oencl,
ing the Noble Peer's character for Liberal coal° 'rug
but wholly at variance with the facts of the eilee'ile.de-
change effected by the Reform Bill, owing to the
of the
flied anchisc, the defective and contradictory at:1,1300RO
Registration, and its rcvision by a mob of ud‘ra to
will, or that
barristers, wi,heut any tribunal or common stelliseaole
appeal to, has been from bad to worse 1 The countrY,.° cot.
completely enthralled, and at the feet of the Toriefatr.ci 80.
it was, even under Sir Francis Burdett's
roughmonger System." The people dare not aj:toeracji
Accurovr vote
contrary to the mandates of the clergy and ariverpoot,
Look at the scenes pre ented by Leicester, le 0 with
Stafford, &c., among the boroughs and East Re'fd' Johrl
its 600 parson-power, as exercised agr.inst lA' of the
Russell, fur a specimen of the utter degradatioon
be sore,
people urn'er the Reform Bill. Lord John t, looks
with a meekness worthy of a primitive Christian
ia oplf
all this with great composure, and seYeet, eerroP
to all who would urge V:e correction' of Stic"-Lor 14°
influences on either side, " They will mend, Sir, 'euvr"re.iir•
mend," to which I would humbly reply wich ndr
ce,
serv:Ge, in Rob Roy, " Like sour beer in sumsis oe
Lord." The thing is impossible, as the law '
far as to fact. the
In regard to theory, I may ask in what re'Speet,:apsetro''
Reform Bill a Revolution? The eminent men 000
duced and supported it by their eloquence in eitkeirs tont.
said directly the reverse, and declared in expre;ioese if!
that they merely wished to place the Commonsriee bad
that position which it once occupied before the sums
„Oslo°
crept in which disfigured and corrupted it. They sand
to the Constitution itself, and to the ancient practi.Fe_d Fitt'
in support of that small measure of justice, Lord
william Ilse inconsistently terms a revolutiol.
rep
ship is an able man, but before he ventures to r.ePsoil tot
strange dictum, may I venture to suggest that %end pries'
Mr. Ma- 3'3811 for him) compare the ancient law snit
tice of Parliament and the franchises cf the Pe7.:03 Act'
which .hoiio
those now prescribed and practised under the Re
.00,1)
That he w 11 compare the speeches of Lords GNP lose%
Brougham, Althorp, John Russell, and of Stanley ,_„ tire
dour%
and Graham, while supporting the Bill, all repu
ing ,he
absurd idea cf Reform being Revolution, so-a urg
Constit°'
adoption of tl.e Bill, as a return merely to th,Fes,io,o AS
tion, to the Saxon law, with only such mai°
.1 Boo",
time, " the greatest innovator of all," accordingf 'Lute coo..
rendered imper. tively accessary, in the spirit t'
6rwle4 chi
stitution itself. The 811 has obviously only ern
nee,Per'
c ent abuses, or aggravated them, in which Al
Mr. a".
baps, Lord F. may be right but I trust
will improve this subject. A
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lalit, as a trannamed Garth was employed in removirg c ,e,
in house in Penn _street, be had occasion to break a large
frog,
in the middle of which be discovered a fine full-grrrle'l
snugly domiciled in a very neat circular bed. o,
frog, on ga fling its liberty, began to jump about. Int ',
then taken to !hi; Lancashire Guardian bY 9rt
pt
and on the following day was removed to the premises;
tine N,itural History Society, for examination by the j"ei;
met on Thursday
bers, who
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Lord Brougham has arrived in Paris.
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