The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-01 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow
(Thursday) afternoon, at three o'clock, at Bucking-
ham Palace.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited
the Queen and Prince Albert, yesterday, at Buck-
ingham Palace.
Lord John Russell had an audience of her Majesty,
yesterday.
The Earl of Powis had an audience of the Queen,
yesterday, and delivered to her Majesty the riband
and badge of the Most Noble Order of the Garter,
worn by his father, the late Earl of Powis.
The Hon. John Stuart had an audience of the
Queen yesterday, and delivered to her Majesty the
ensigns of the Most Ancient Order of the Thistle,
worn by his father, the late Earl of Moray.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out en
horseback yesterday, attended by his Equerry in
Waiting, Colonel Seymour.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales,
Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess
Alice, took walking and pony exercise yesterday, in
the royal gardens of Buckingham Palace.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Helena was taken
an airing yesterday.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent dined
with her Majesty and Prince Albert yesterday even-
ing, at Buckingham Palace.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
visited their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge, yesterday, at Cambridge House.
A deputation from a meeting of Irish Members, to
request a revision of the area of Poor-law Unions and
Electoral Division in Ireland, bad an interview with
Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home- office. The
deputation was composed of Sir Lucius O'Brien, Mr.
Monsen, Hon. Mr. Clements, Mr. Herbert, Mr.
Fagan, and Lieutenant-Colonel Dunne.
Sir William Clay transacted business yesterday at
the Office of the Board of Trade.

Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from
the Colonial Office for the Governor of West ♦us-
tralia. _ _ _

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
yesterday, and resumed the hearing of an appeal from
Bengal " Muttyloll v. Robert O'Dowla." The Lords
present were—the Master of the Rolls, Lord Camp-
bell, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and
the Judge of the Admiralty Court. Sir Edward
Ryan sat as a Privy Councillor.

EX-ROYAL FAMILY OF FRANCE

The Duke de Nemours is no longer an inmate of Hert-
ford•house. His Royal Highness, together with his
illustrious sister-in-law, the Duchess do liontpensier,
left the Embassy last evening, and they are now occu-
pying apartments at the Belgian Legation in Portland
place. The reaso❑ of this is soon told. At four o'clock
yesterday the Count de Jarnac, French Minister under
the former regime, received dispatches by a special
courier from 11. de Lamartine, who has charge of the
Foreign Affairs in the Provisional Government, inform-
ing his Excellency officially of the ,retirement of the
Orleans dynasty, and the assumption of power by the
Provisional Government. On receipt of this intelligence
the Duke at once determined to leave the embassy.
At eleven o'clock yesterday morning their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess Augustus of Saxe
Coburg arrived at Hertford- house, from Buckingham
palace, in one of the Queen's carriages, to pay a visit to
their illustrious relatives.

At half-past twelve his Royal Highness Prince Albert
arrived at the Embassy on horseback, attended by his
Equerry in Waiting, Colonel Seymour. His Royal
Highness was received by the Count de Jarnac, by whom
he was presented to the Duchess do Montpensier and
the Duke de Nemours. His Royal Highness had a
lengthened interview with the Illustrious Princess and
her brother-in-law.

The Duke do Montebello called at the Embassy
durine, the morning, and had also an interview with the
Duke de Nemours.

The Chevalier de Tacon, Spanish Charge d'Affaires,
had the honour of an interview with her Royal Highness
the Duchess de Montpensier at au early hour in the
afternoon.
At half-past three o'clock their Royal Highnesses the
Duke and Duchess Augustus of Saxe Coburg left the
Embas-y and returned to Buckingham Palace. His
Royal Highness the Duke de Nemours accompanied her,
and bad an audience of the Queen on reaching the
Palace. His Royal Highness remained at the Palace
until nearly seven o'clock, at which hour he returned to
Hertiord House on foot.

The intelligence of the arrival of a courier with dis-
patches from the Republican Government only reached
the Duke de Nemours on his return from the Palace.
His Royal Highness immediately made arrangements to
leave the Embassy, and his Excellency the Belgian
Minister at once placed his suburban villa at East Sheen
(formerly the residence of the late Earl Grey) at the
disposal of the Prince. A telegraphic communication
from Dover at seven o'clock informed M. Van de Weyer
that a courier had just previously arrived at that port
from Brussels, charged. with dispatches for his Excel-
lency. This fact was at once communicated to the
Duke de Nemours, and as it was ascertained that the
courier would arrive in London by the half-past ten P.M.
up-train, his Royal Highness determined to remain with
his sister in.law at the Belgian Legation, in Portland-
place, for the night, in order to gain the earliest intelli-
gence, which it was hoped might reach town by this
source, of the safety of his royal relatives.
Shortly before eight o'clock the Duke and Duchess
Augustus ~f Saxe Coburg again arrived at the Embassy
from Buckingham Petlace in one of the Queen's car-
riages, and remained closeted with their royal relatives
for nearly an hour.
Prince Leopold of Naples, Count de Syracuse, brother
of the King of Naples and nephew of the King of the
French, v‘ hose arrival in town on Monday from Paris
we omitted to mention yesterday, called at Hertford-
house at a late hour yesterday evening, and had an in-
terview with the Duke do Nemours.

A report WAS current during the evening that a letter
had !leen received in London yesterday morning, by a
lady of title, announcing the safe arrival at Brussels of
Louis Philippe and other members of his family, but on
inquiring the statement appeared to be purely apocry-
phal; and on the arrival of the courier above alluded to,
at eleven o'clock last night, M. Van de Weyer had the
painful task of communicating to the illustrious exiles
under his roof that the dispatches he had received con-
tained no intelligence whatever to the ex-Royal family.
The Duchess de Montpensier was accompanied to this
country by General Thierry, Aide-de-Camp to the Duke
de Montpensier, and M. de Esulpice, an Attach' to the
French Legation in Bavaria.
At eight o'clock last evening a courier was dispatched
from Hertford house with despatches from the Count de
Jan= to Paris.

.MINSTER REFORM'
SOCIETY.
:nual meeting of the above society pie.
Jnday evening, at the York lintel, r Welling-
ton-street, at seven o'clock precisely, for the purpose (as
stated in the society's notice) of receiving the report of
the committee for the past year, to elect officers for the
present year, and other business. The proposed in-
crease of the income-tax was also brought under consi-
deration, but such not having been intimated in the no-
tice to members, the meeting was not so numerously at-
tended as otherwise we should have expected. The
chair was taken by Mr. Pouncey.
The SECRETARY opened the proceedings by reading
the report for the last year, which showed that the re•
suit of the registration for 1846, gave a majority of 367
to Reformers, and that the registration of 1847 gave the
Reformers a net gain of 373; and also, that the society,
had not been called upon to pay costs in any case of re-
vision during those two years.
Twenty new members were elected into the society,
and the report of the ccmmittee was then received and
adopted. It congratulated the members on the great
increase of their number, and the importance which the
society had obtained in the estimation of their fellow
citizens. It was gratifying to find, that out of four gen-
tlemen recommended to the society as fitting candidates,
three had been elected Members of the present Parlia-
ment, namely, Mr. Lushington, Mr. George Thompson,
and Mr. W . P. Wood. Mr. Lushington had been
accepted by the society after fully stating his political
principles at a meeting, held at the Crown and Anchor
Tavern, on the Ist of March, 1846, when nearly 1,000
electors attended. The society deprecated the immense
expenditure, which their opponents had encouraged in
election contests, knowing that a profligate expen-
diture was inseparable from bribery—that riot and
drunkenness and general demoralization were its
certain results ; this being one of the results
which had contributed to the production of the
Reform Act. In Westminster, in 1807, the election of
Sir Francis Burdett, through a fourteen days' poll, cost
less than 1,0001.; at all subsequent periods reformers
had been scrupulous upon this head and anxious to
preserve purity of election, but the committee deplored
that scenes of drunkenness, disgraceful to civilization,
were rife on the day of last election in Westminster, so
much so that parties officially connected with this city,
declared that during fourteen elections in Westminster
none had been equal to the last in the exhibition of
intoxication. This they attributed to the fact, that no
less than fifty-four public-houses were opened as com-
mittee-rooms for the supporters of one of the opposing
candidates. A re-action, however, was now rapidly
going on, and such practices would, it was hoped, defeat
the object sought to be obtained. The committee had
much pleasure in reporting that the state of the register
of voters was highly satisfactory.
The subject of the proposed increase of the income-
tax was then introduced.

Mr. HUOQETT (the Secretary) read letters from the
two Members for the City, declining an invitation to at-
tend; Sir De Lacy Evans in consequence of Parliamen-
tary duties, and Mr. Lushington, in consequence of an
engagement at a public meeting. He also begged to
announce that he had just received information that the
Chancellor of the Exchequer had relinquished the addi-
tional two per cent.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. LABRAN was glad to hear the statement made by
the honourable secretary, as it would supersede the ne-
cessity of discussing the subject of the income-tax that
evening. He thought, however, some notice should be
taken of the Government proposition, notwithstanding
the information received, and therefore he beggFd to
move the following resolution:—" That this association
deferred with much pleasure the subject of the income-
tax, in consequence of information having arrived that
the Chancellor of the Exchequer had relinquished his
intention of increasing the income-tax."
Mr. SOAME seconded the motion.
Mr. GEEIIN rose to oppose the motion. He did not
think there was anything to congratulate themselves
upon. It might appear very well to withdraw the pro-
position for an income-tax, yet there were other things
to be entered upon. There ought to be a thorough re-
vision of the taxation of the country.—(Hear, hear.)
They had too long been enduring an amount of taxation
which never ought to have burdened the working classes.
What right had the Government to go on increasing the
army, the navy, and the ordnance estimates from year to
year.—(Shame.) If they were quietly to bear these
things, no wonder the Chancellor of the Exchequer told
them that whatever the Ministers had done the repre-
sentatives of the people had forced it upon them. It
therefore became them to instruct their representatives
that they did not mean to put up with such doings any
longer.—(Hear.) Their representatives should be in-
structed to go and not only to represent themselves but
their constituents also.—(Hear, hear.) He did not think
that the discussion of the income- tax should now alto-
gether cease. He begged to move the following amend-
ment:—" That this Association be specially summoned
for Monday next, to take into consideration the
,nature
of the budget now before the House of Commons. '
Mr. BROWNE seconded the amendment.
Mr. LABRAM explained that it was his desire to enter
further into a discussion of the subject; his resolution
merely arose out of the incidental circumstance of cer-
tain information having arrived.
The amendment was thee carried.

- Mr. AUSTIN had prepared a resolution which, how-
ever, he should defer until Monday evening, upon the
subject of the window-tax. He begged to observe that
the Government ought not to be allowed to go on in
the expensive course they had pursued for years past,
till they came to exceed seven millions in the course of
ten years, and this too at a time of profound peace; and
at the present time, notwithstanding what they had al-
ready done, the Government were about to add an in-
crease to their expenditure. When he saw the suffering
arourld, he could hardly feel persuaded that such things
were possible. If the people wanted the window-tax
repealed, and if they wish'd the income-tax to be ever
repealed, it must be done by making the Ministry ex-
pend less money.—(Hear, hear.) Ministers laughed in
their sleeves when they came down with their estimates
for the army, the navy, and the ordnance, for their real
intention was only to provide appointments for their
sons and relations.—(Hear, hear.)
A vote of thanks was awarded to the Chairman, and
the meeting separated.

ANOTHER BOILER EXPLOSION.— MANCHESTER,
FEB. 29.—At a few minutes before eight o'clock this
morning a boiler exploded at the cotton-mill of Mr.
Richard Walker, Blue Pits, near Rochdale. The end of
the boiler was blown out, and three persons were killed
almost instantaneously. Two others were serioubly in-
jured, and one of them was dying when our informant
left. The roof of the engine house was blown and
the building considerably damaged. The engineer and
tenter, we understand, were among the killed. This is
another proof of the necessity for competent engine-in-
spectors. Mr. Walker's mill has not long been erected,
and the probability is that the boiler was nearly new.
From a private letter received in Lewes this
morning, we learn that the late King of France had
reached the Chateau d'Eu in safety. The writer of the
letter resides in the immediate vicinity of the chateau.

This statement favours the idea that the vessels just sent
- •• • • •

across from Newhaven may be made available for th•

€;cape of the aged monarch from that country which
has been at once the author and the witness of his recent

calamities.—Sussex Advertiser.

MONEY- MARILET.—By advices from Hamburgh
the price of gold is 436} per mark, which, at,
the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 100. per ounce for
standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.104 ; and the
exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being
13.1•?;, it follows that gold is 0.68 per eent. dearer in
London than in Hamburgh. According to the usual
calculation that 60 59 100 gold imperials are equivalent
in value to 100 sovereigns, the transmission of gold from
St. Petersburgh to London would establish an exchange
of 86 45-100 pence per silver rouble ; and the last
quotation at St. Petersburgh of the exchange on London
being 37} pence, it follows that the gross profit on send-
ing imperials would be about 2i per cent. To this
must be added the gain of interest on three months'
date bills, to which the above quotation refers, and
a deduction must be made of the charges of transport.
The course of exchange at New York on London
is 110} per cent., and the par of exchange between
England and America being 109 23-40 per cent.,
it follows that the exchange is 0.67 per cent.
in favour of England. But, the quoted exchange
at New York being for bills at 60 days' sight, the in-
terest must be added to the above difference.
GINERAL ITEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY —The
half-yearly general meeting of this corporation was held
yesterday, at their office, 71, Lombard-street. The
chair was taken by Mr. Wilkin. A report from the
directors and a statement of the accounts for the half-
year ending the Slat of December last were read to the
meeting. These documents represented the operations
of the company to have been attended with the most
successful results. The report: having been read, was,
after some discussion, adopted by the proprietors, when
the usual dividend and bonus were declared, and the
meeting broke up.

[A DVERTISEMENT.]-A Gentleman, Sixty years of
age, cured of a dreadful bad leg by Holloway's Ointment
and Pills.--Mr. Nicholas Page, residing at Newsham,
had been suffering for three years with wounds on his
leg of a most awful nature, to cure which he tried a great
variety of specifics, and consulted nearly every surgeon
within twenty miles of his house, yet all failed to give
relief ; as a last resource he used Holloway's famous
Ointment and Pills, which healed his leg in a few weeks.
In gratitude for the wonderful cure effected at his ad-
vanced age, ho thus gives every publicity to the circum-
stance, that others may derive similar benefit.—Sold by
all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment,

244, Strand, London.
KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL.—Yesterday afternoon
the annual general meeting of the governors and direc-
tors of the above charity was held at the Board-room,
Portugal-street, Lincoln's-inn, Mr. J. F. Twemlow in
the chair. The report congratulated the friends of the
institution that during the past severe season no falling
oil in the income had occurred, as might have been ex-
pected, and the expenditure only exceeded the ordinary
income by 471. The number of patients admitted during
the year was 1,253, exclusive of 106 remaining in the
house on the 31st of December. The out-patients, in
the course of the same period, numbered 17,901, being a
very considerable increase over that of any previous
year The permanent fund of the hospital had been
augmented by the munificent legacy of 1,000/. from the
late Miss Colver, of Farningham, Kent, and 501. from
the late Mr. W. T. Praed. It was mentioned that the
charity was still in debt about 2001., and as the.meamittee
hoped before lung to announce a plan for the enlarge-
ment of the hospital, to meet the greatly increasing de-
mands upon the charity—abundant room ex isted for the
beneficial exercise of benevolent considers ttion. The
customary compliment having been voted t o the chair-
man the meeting separated.
The fleet so long wind-bound at Str, Dulness have
,at last got out to sea. Some of the visa sls have been
' detained since October last.—John 0' Gres i's Journals,