The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-09 00:00:00

EVENING, NOVEMBER O, 1848.

NATIONAL GUARD OF FRANCE,
There is no doubt but the late visit of the National
Guard to this country was induced by the purest, most
honourable, and tru'y fraternal feelings, as such was
acknowledged by the entire press of this country, and
which it is cur duty most warmly to cultivate. Every
one who assists in his individual capacity to stimulate
and maintain a loyal friendship between people of n2igh-
bouring states does service to the cause of peace and
human happiness.
The late visits of the National Guard of France form
a brighter harbinger of an entente cordiale between the
two mightiest, but most sensitive and jealous, nations of
the earth, than all the protocols ever ,dictated by prac-
tised diplomacy. A few days prior to the visit
of the Guards, a circumstance occurred that pro-
bably had its effect in augmenting their numbers, and
of giving an irresistible impulse to the friendly feelings
which every one of them displayed. At Caen the chief
city of Normandy, a Fete de la Fraternite took place on a
grander scale than any save in the metropolis. The
National Guard of Paris, wishing to show their grateful
recollection of the prompt aid given by the National
Guard of Normandy on the occasion of the insurrection
in June last, determined to visit Caen, and present a
banner splendidly embroidered by the ladies of the offi-
cers. An invitation was sent from Caen, and accepted
.by seven hundred gentlemen of the Paris National Guard,
who arrived at Havre by the railroad, and these were
joined by five hundred more from the latter place, who
in two large steam boats, with their military bands, pro-
ceeded by sea to the former city. From the moment of
leaving the walls of Havre, the forts, quays, and houses
crowded with the whole population, the garrison drawn
out, and the cannon firing, a more joyous, truly trium-
phant procession was never seen, on a sea glittering be-
neath the sun of a glorious autumnal day.
The port of Caen, a work of twenty-five years' labour,
was that day to be opened, and the steamers, bearing the
soldier-brothers in gay variety of uniform, glided be-
tween the banks of the beautiful river Orne, which re-
sembles the Thames from Kew to Richmond, hailed
throughout the whole distance, about ten miles, by crowds
of villagers and gentry, whose enthusiastic cheering of
their visitors, on this occasion of universally felt delight,
was indeed most heart-stirring.
The new port was proudly entered. The authorities
of the department, those of the city, the whole bench of
magistrates, judges in crimson and ermine, and barristers
in robes, the Bishop of Bayeux in his golden mitre, his
train borne, and all the emblems of his sacred office be-
fore him; all the clergy of the city and neighbourhood,
together; with the troops of the line in garrison, and the
National Guard of Caen. Bayeux. Lissieux, Honfleur,
Falaise, Vire, and other Norman towns, amounting to
five thousand men in full uniform, with their artillery,
were drawn up on either side of the quay to receive
their Parisian and Havre guests. The Bishop blessed
the new port in a speech, which was much cheered,
the guns fired, the people shouted, the Norman citizen-
warriors embraced their brother soldiers of the metro•
polis. A ball at the town-hall, to whose attractions
Norman beauty contributed (upwards of two thousand
attending), crowned the first day so auspiciously begun.
The next day a review of the National Guards on the
Review Cours, which is flanked by banks, on which every
one could enjoy the spectacle, and by two of the most
beautiful avenues in France, more than eight thousand
troops passed in review. Again the Bishop and his
train of clergy joined the rejoicings of his affeetionate
flock, who warmly greeted him. The homage paid
to the Church was striking. Here were as-
sembled about a hundred thousand Republicans ;
yet, every one, military and civilian, vied with
each other in dutiful respect to an authority, amidst the
overthrow and disdain of all others, not of their own ap-
pointing. But the banquet was the grand feature. Under
four immense covered open booths sat down five thou-
sand men in the most prfect order, each guest having a
bottle of wine beside him. The spectators were kept
aloof by rails—there was no intrusion, no crowding. The
repast was of course cold, and the writer of this can test
to the excellence of the viands, the beef and mutton of
Normandy having merited renown. In the centre an or-
chestre monstre, similar to Jullien's, contained the bands of
the various regiments. The Prefect, the Mayor, the
General and Colonels gave and responded to the toasts,
and the ladies went round after dinner and collected
about a hundred and fifty pounds sterling for distribu-
tion to the poor, who had also the remains of the feast.
Even at this hour of festivity and triumph, amidst elation
of amour propre, the natural consequence of such a dis-
play of armed power, feelings were expressed towards
this country that deserve to be recorded. An English
gentleman, Mr. Lloyd, had accompanied the Havre
officers, a magistrate and late officer of Warwickshire
Yeoman Cavalry, which may not improperly be termed
a sort of English National Guard. He was invited to
the fete, pledged in terms of cordial good will, accom-
panied with wishes for sincerest amity between
England and France. The Colonel and officers
of the National Guard of Havre expressed the
noblest sentiments in regard to the maintenance
and improvement of the friendship between the two
nations, and took the opportunity of stating how much
his regiment was disappointed at the postponement of
their contemplated visit to Southampton, but that he
looked forward to visiting us in the spring, which Mr.
Lloyd suggested as the most favourable period for seeing
London. Under a conviction that no opportunity
should be neglected for seizing every overture from
Frenchmen for improving a mutual, good understand-
ing, Mr. Lloyd wrote the following letter in French
to his entertainers, which appeared in the Caen news-
papers, and has been copied into others—a sign of the
growing desire to inculcate amicable relations, when
courteously and judiciously made. The manly and
truly-gratifying reply of the colonel of the National
Guards will be read with interest. We trust he will
redeem his promise, and with his comrades visit us next
year. We assure him a hearty welcome. The gentle-
manly deportment and intelligence exhibited by the
detachment who visited us last week have produced a
most favourable impression.
AUX OFFICIERS ET GARDES NATIONAUX DES VILLES
DU BAYNE ET DE CAEN.
Messieurs,—Le spectacle si noble et si imposant qui
vient d'avoir lieu m'a fait eprouver une profonde emotion.
C'est par la reunion des diverses classes dana un in-
teret commun que la sociit6 est ells-meme maintenue.
Je considire comme ua grand honneur d'avoir assists
au Banquet Fraternel et de m'etre assis I la table de
quatre mine brave Gerdes Nationaux Francais. Les sen-
timents g6u6reux dont j'ai entendu l'expression ont
touch 6 mon mar.

J'ai l'honneur de vivre sous le sceptre aimable d'une
souveraine descendue, en ligne directe, de votre grand
duc Guillaume.
Du fond du cercueil ou il repose, dans la superbe ba-
silique qu'il a fait Liar, digne monument de sa gloire,
l'ombre de ce grande homme a du tressaillir au bruit du
canon et au magnifique spectacle quo Caen, cite si chore
A son cceur, vient de presenter.
Samedi, 14 Octobre, e'tait un jour a jamais memorable
dans vos annales! C'etait l'anniversaire de la bataille
d'ilastings, qui donna le trone d'Angleterre a Guil-
laume. Jamais, peut-ire, depuis le 14 Oct3bro 1066,
n
les habitants de Caen '?'n,st vu luire un plus beau jour,
jour de Pacifique fratern
J'ai assiste a beaucoupit 'de revues, it de grandes fetes
populaires ; rnais jen'aririen vu de comparable au mug-
nifique speetable qu,o ffaln
Samedi, les rives de I'Orne,
borde2s de Gardes N ationcaiutX de troupes et d'une popu-
lation innombrable. jve n'oublierai l'enthousiasine
les
acclamations,
do notre th 'option,
mations, melees aux salves
de l'artillerie; cette revue dens votre immense prairie, cii
plus de six mille horn/nos 6 ,aent ranges en bataille;
je
ces
mo f6lieiterai vivats fraternetolsu ; en
oufirs n CO ibanquet si cordial auquel
j
6. Cortes,Angleterre uno telle fate vaait bien'ont vv?ii.rt expr assit
es d'
pour en it el t6moin. quo l
Je ne suis pas etonn6 quo la plus haute noblesse d'An-
gleterre r&ilame l'honns oue
eusrdiern9dnetscendre d'aieux nor-
mends. Et co n'est pe
ce peuple est I jamais celebre pari les armes quo
n'excelle pas moins dans les beaux tins l'histoire ; il
6sartds; Nuns. autres,r
Anglais, nous sommes Bien fore
Pour l'architecture, par exempla, en fair_e_,
~cay.et.i.
nous
de nos ancil:res normands ; nuns sommes dc4(-"H"
no pouvons atteindre a
la perfection de leurs m( diles.
La stile de Westminster fut erig6o par un roi normand ;
il y a 800 ans; et, depuis, nous n'avons rien fait de com-
parable. C'est une oeuvre digno du Sls du roi qui a fait
triger Saint Etienne.et l'abbaye de Sainte Trinitt En ,
k
entrant dans ces monuments, en 6prouve cette muette
admiration, ce saisissement secret et solennel qui s'emparo
de toutes le facult4, de rame, en presence d'une ceuvre
inspii6i. La flicho do St. Pierre est, avec l'interieur de
de Saint Ouen de Rouen, la merveille de l'art catholique
et la realisation la plus parfaite de l i'dea chretienne par
l'architecture.
Nous devons sere amis, c'est le desir de tout Anglais;
et l'empressc moot des habitants de Southampton i Tons
offrir une reception digne de vous en est une preuvo
suffisante.
Parini les dames qui s'4t4ient emprestills pour vous
recevoir' la belle Vicomtesse Palmerston, et beaucoup
d'autres dames de distinction, s'etaient rendues A South-
ampton dans cette intention. Le contre-temps qui vous
a emr42143 d'aller en Angleterre no nous privera pas,
dans une saison plus favorable, du bonheur de vous rece-
voir ; par example, au mois de mai prochain, al Londres
est le plus tuna&
Nous sommes heureux sous notre forme [do gouverne-
ment. Vous avez dernierement choisi la forme ii
epub-
licaine. Jo desire sincerement quo l'ordre nouveau
puisse s'affermir, et quo vous goatiez la pros'ite dont
vous ayes tent besoin et dont vous &es Si dignes.
Comme ancien officier do la garde nationale Anglaise ; je
veux parler do notre Yeomanry Cavalry, mon interet ea
plus vif pour tout cc qui concerne la garde national() de
votre pays. Comme vous, nous jurons de defendre les
principes de liberti et d'ordre public; et c'est avec bon-
hemr que j'apercois que ces mots forment votre devise.
Soyez-en bien convaincus, sans ordre il n'y a pea do
liberte ; et, pour assurer l'ordre et la liberte I !'Europe
il taut que cea deux grandes nations, la France et l'Anf
gleterre, soient amies.
C'est le sentiment de tout Anglais, c'est le voeu to plus
cher de notre gracieuse souveraine.
Venez done nous visitor l'ani 63 prochaine, et "us en
.
tendrez des millions de voix bretonnes crier: Vive la
France!

F• LLOYD.

Caen, 16 Octobre, Intel Lagottelle,

Place de la Libert6:

Garde Nationale du Havre.—Etat Major.
Havre, 26th October, 1848.
Monsieur,—Jai lu aVec un cif interot la lettro adreF.6.3
aux Gardes Nationales du Havre et de Caen, quo vous
avez fait inserer thins le journal L' Ordre a la Liberte,
dont vous Inc faisiez I'cnvoi par votro lettro au 21 de ce

J7Spplaudis, taut en mon nom qu'au
.nom du corps
que j'ai l'honneur do commander aux sentrmens de noble
fraternite qui respirent dans vos paroles. Comm() vous,
Monsieur, jo peuse quo l'Angleterre. ht France, qui
occupent le premier rang par= les n. atrons civilisees,
doivent pour le bunheur du genre humain, rester toujours
saintement unies en donnaut au monde l'exemple do

• l'ordro dans la liberte, seul regime convenable aux
Eoeiotes comprennaLt veritablement leur dignit6.
Marcher d'un commun accord dans cette voie philan-
thropique est une mission bien plus Eacree pour nos deux
pays quo d'entretenir do groFsieres antipathies fausse-
ment decoiLs du nom de patriotisme et qui ne sont que
de viellvs erreurs releguer an nombre de ces prejuges
inveteres dont le flambeau d'une saine philosophic fait
justice de jour on jour.
Les Gardes Nationales du Havre seront heureux de
pouvoir, En une meillEure raison, realiser le projet qu'ils
n'ent pu exemter dernierement d'aller visiter les ha-
bitans de Southampton et de Londres, puis qu'ils ont
la certitude d'y recevoir un accueil en harmonie avec
les sentimens qui motivent cette excursion. Et dans ce
cas, veuillcz croire que le compliment de notre satisfac-
tion serait d'avoir do nouveau le plaisir de vous voir au
milieu de nous.

Agrecz Monsieur, l'expression de ma haute consi-
deration.

J. BREDART,
Le Colonel, Chef de Legion,
Offieier de la Legion d'llonneur.
A Monsieur Lloyd, &e., &e.
Beaufort Lodge, Chelsea, Angleterre.

HOME SUPPLY OF FOOD.
THE FARMERS' QUESTION.

"It is calcalated that the supply of farm-yard poul-
try to the markets of this country is not equal to one-
:hird of a fowl for each person in the population annually."

L The long existence of what was called " protection"
• enabled English agriculturists, for a time, to obtain a
• large income with little industry; but such a system
gradually brought on its own punishment, and the ill-
, cultivated lands of this country must now experience the
pressure of competition. The lazy system was in-
dulged in, by the devotion of the soil to the production
of grain; and so neglected was the growth of green
crops, cattle, poultry, and garden stuffs, that animal food
has been for years at almost a prohibitory price to the
working classes, while few of the middle orders of so-
ciety can even think of enjoying the luxury of poultry.
We are acquainted with a gentleman who has kept house
for thirty years, having a fluctuating income of from
2001. to 8001. per annum, and he assures us he has
never felt himself justified, during all that period, in put.-
chasing thirty couples of fowls; so exorbitant has the
price generally been. It will be well, now, that all per-
sons deriving their living from the land, should prepare
for foreign competition in the right way. The price of
grain will assuredly be very low, in a majority of years,
from this time forth; and, therefore, the best soils only
should be appropriated to corn crops, and the needful
rotations for them; but, as far as is practicable, all
manner of animal food (especially of the lighter kind,
poultry, eggs, milk), and, also, garden produce, of every
description, should be diligently attended to, and increas-
ingly produced. Milk is almost unknown to millions
of poor children in this country—this being one of
the results of the idle, large-farm, corn-growing, system;
but corn will now come in, in unprecedented abund-
ance, from abroad; it is hardy; it can endure the transit
from the cheapest and most distant lands, even as distant
as the antipodes. Not so the milk, poultry, and other
articles which have hitherto been, and still are, so exces-
sively dear. Larger quantities of these, then, ought to
be produced in this country; and with industrious and
skilful labour applied to this department of farming, and
also to gardening, the comforts of the people will be
augmented, and the condition of the agricultural classes
will be really protected against that distress which will
otherwise ensue from competition. The motto at the
head of this article is a scandal to the country, and
ought soon to be rendered a record only of bygone nn-
policy. There is uo doubt that the farm produce of this
country might be doubled, and, then, less money being
sent abroad fur food, the farmer could be a better cus-
tomer than ever to the manufacturer.—Liverpool Mer-
cury.

AMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.
The recent changes in the educatioual institutions at
Cambridge entail contingencies of such great and ge-
neral importance to the nation at large, and are at the
same time so little likely to be clearly apprehended by
persons unacquainted with academical forms, that we
shall be probably doing our readers an opportune pieee
of service by stating some of the main points involved in
the discussions, and some of the chief results anticipated
from the late decision. Our limits will preclude us from
more than a simple proposition of the questions at issue,
but we may, perhaps, while qualifying certain precipi-
tate assumptions, remove a few of the apprehensions
which sincere friends of the University have been com-
pelled to express. Most disputes about the academical
system will be found to have turned upon a fundamental
difference respecting the functions it was required to
discharge. It was argued on one side, that the true
duties of the University were, not to instruct a student
in all sciences, but to qualify him for any; that the
art it should teach was the art of acquiring arts, and
that the true end of the whole system was attained if
the graduate was found competent, on quitting the
University, to betake himself with well-trained abili-
ties to the peculiar study of his choice. The aim was
to make, not a full mind, but a strong one; to commu-
nicate, not information, but the power of properly col-
lecting it; and to turn out, not lawyers, or statesmen, or
engineers, or chemists, but men who could enter upon
any one of these professions with advantages beyond
their fellows. To the testimonies in favour of this
system, which were alleged to be offered by the actual
results of its operation, was added the reasonable argu-
ment that the length of the academical course (which
opinions were tending rather to curtail than to extend)
was obviously inadequate to permit even a cursory ac-
quainance with one-half of the useful sciences, and that
it was therefore expedient to select for the staple of
study that branch of learning which, in its various bear-
ings, might seem to promise best. To these:representa-
tions it was replied, that such a system circumscribed the
University to the functions of a school, that Cambridge
and Oxford were thus fulfilling no conditions of education
beyond Eton and Rugby, and that if such was to be the
practice, some new institution should be founded to as-
sume with respect to our present Universities that posi-
tion which those Universities formerly cc:copied with
respect to schools. It was urged that the whole period
of life which could be devoted to learning was thus
monopolized by preparations for it, which were only
just then completed when the opportunity was gone for
employing them, and that the great object of what was
confessedly a finishing school was confined to qualifying
the student to preceed to another which did not exist.
As regarded the appeal to experience, issue was
promptly joined on the point It was alleged, that even
in the profession peculiarly alluded to the results were
at least equivocal, and that so many distinguished uni-
versity men did not become distinguished lawyers, while
so many distinguished lawyers had never been distin-
guished university men, that it was impossible to connect
success in one line with success in the other. As to the
other conspicuous callings of life, it was boldly affirmed
that the shortcomings of Oxford and Cambridge were
manifest, that the want of proficients in the neglected
sciences was actually every day experienced, to the no
small discredit and detriment of the nation, and that, for
such adepts as did contribute their service to the com-
mon stock, the country was in no proportionate
degree indebted to the two great seminaries of educa-
tion. After this came another point. Presuming the
first stated conclusion to be correct, that a good educa-
tion should be concerned with only one branch of learn-
ing, the question arose what this was to be; and it was
complained of as a signal hardship that one of the studies
selected for such exclusive preferment—that of the dead
languages— should be precisely that which was
unserviceable for any purpose except the tem-
porary purpose of training. Why not select a
science which would serve both as a mean and as an
end? Why not, at any rate, if languages were the best
vehicle of instruction, select such as were spoken at the
present day, in place of those which must be disused as
soon as they were acquired? On this favourable field
the battle has been fought out more than once, and to
the advantage, it must be confessed, of what perhaps ap-
pears the weaker side—that of the dead languages. But 1
this fact supplies no argument to the opponents of the
recent changes, as we shall presently see. At this mo-
ment the general course of study in the Uni-
versity of Cambridge is practically confined to
classics and mathematics, for the admixture of
the theological element is too recent to be
yet effective. At the option of the student he may take
an " ordinary degree" after a moderate examination,
involving necessarily both these subject!, or a degree
in "honours," which implies a severe and protracted ex-
amination only in one of them, unless he be strong
enough !...to grapple gratuitously with both. To the
gainers of these "honours" the emoluments of the
University arc rigidly and most impartially confined.
The reforms recently adopted provide for the establish-
ment of two new " triposes' " or classes for honours, one
for the moral, the other for the natural sciences, in
which denominations are included those studies of law,
history, political economy, moral philosophy, chymistry,
botany, geology, and so forth, which have been hitherto
ignored. The advocates of the change consider that the
time and toil of the students may be given to these
studies with great benefit to the nation atla
be studied
stTudhieeidr
adversaries apprehend either that they will
superficially, and so be worse than useless, or orthat,
if
they actually take the position hitherto
monopo-
lised by the exact sciences
maneddeoafdtralainnignugagtehse,
ans
they will fail to supply any such
mind as we have described above. Here, however, it
should be observed that, according to the true Cambridge
theory, these model means are furnishedbymathhemad nticos
alone. The dead languages, even at this hour, hold
place beyond what it is hoped may be eventually taken
by the sciences newly recognized. Their admission into
the course of study was only secured within these last
five-and-twenty years, after a most strenuous opposition,
and by a compromise still perpetuated in conspicuous
shame. The men of the classical tripes, the men of the
moral sciences tripos, and the men of the natural sciences
tripos, will be all alike dissenters from the old ,mathe-
matical establishment, and can use no hard words to each
other. But there is a clear argument to be drawn
from the results of the first innovation. No person
conversant with the matter will venture to assert
that the majority of the classical men have de-
rived any perceptible bias or character whatever
from the obnoxious mathematical ordeal to which
they were subjected. We will not ask what they may
hare lost, but will content ourselves with asserting that
in the vast majority of those cases where the teat was
unwillingly taken, there is no appreciable difference be-
tween the present formation of these men's minds and
that which would have ensued had no such toll been
levied on their time for the protection of others.
Either, therefore, the classical men of the University
are incompetent representatives of its educational powers,
or the original theory is proved unsound. Mathematics
do not supply the only means of mental training. One
substitute has already been found, and why not another?
It may very probably turn out that a kind of compromise
is practicable between tb e opposing systems. The

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University course may be divided into two portions,
in the first of which the condition; hitherto exacted
may be retained, while the latter may be surrendered
to an extension of the experiment hitherto
tried only in classics ; that is to say, that
certain compulsory requisites may be exhibited at a pre•
vious examination, and that in the subsequent work of
supererogation the student may be left mot e freely to his
own bent. This, in substance, is, perhaps, the most
likely result, and it would combine, as will be seen, the
general training of the student with the proper encou-
ragement of those " specialities" which are called for
by the requirements of the age. The basis of the system,
as already qualified by the heretical elements, first, of
classics, and, secondly, of theology, is left untouched by
the late changes, nor do any of the advocates of the new
measures pretend to asset t that no modification of them
will be found necessary in practice. How they will
work remains to be seen ; but, whether successfully or
unsuccessfully, they have at least not been atternp'ed
without an encouraging precedent, nor can any risk at
all proportionate to the national benefits anticipated be
shown to await the experiment.— Times.

THE SERPENTINE.
The Lancet suggests a very practicable plan for
converting the Serpentine water in Hyde-park from
a nuisance into a really ornamental and useful basin :
--" How is this Augean ditch to be cleansed of its
accumulated abominations ? Either by carting
them away, or by covering them over. if the fifty
acres of putrescent mud were at once exposed to the
contact of the air and the influence of the sun, and if
all these latent seeds of infection were stirred up
by the carting of it away, no doubt the neigh-
bourhood would be decimated by fever, if not by
cholera. We, therefore, reject this plan, and propose
that forthwith the water should gradually be drained
off, to allow the mass of mud to subside in the deepest
portions of the bed of the Serpentine. This mass of
mud should then be covered over with gravel or con-
crete, or both; so that, instead of being 40 feet deep,
as it is now in certain portions, the Serpentine should be
but 12 feet deep in its centre, and so levelled as to be-
come less and less deep towards the shores. This should
be done during the following months; and in the
early spring it would be necessary to cover two-thirds
of this levelled surface with a coat of concrete six
inches thick. We say two-thirds, because many parts
have a good gravel bottom, and need not be meddled
with. The time thus employed would neutralise
all noxious gases, and this coat of concrete
would also prevent the growth of those masses
of weeds which corrupt the water by their decay,
and have often proved fatal to the bather. At
any future period the cleaning of the Serpentine
would be merely sweeping its bed of concrete.
These improvements might be made at no great cost,
for gravel is to be found on either side of the Ser-
pentine, and the excavation thus made could be soon
filled up with rubbish. On the whole southern bank
the depth of water should not exceed four feet, even
at fifty feet from the shore, so that in future parents
may there at least allow their children to bathe or
scate without anxiety ; and numerous watermarks
announcing the depth of water should be con-
spicuously planted on the banks. If something
similar were done to a portion of the Bayswater
extremity of the Serpentine, it would afford to the
inhabitants a convenient bathing spot, and to
the Commissioners of the Woods and Forests an
opportunity of atoning for baying so long unmerci-
fully inflicted disgusting odours upon the vicinity. Is
it necessary to state that the Bayswater sewer should
no longer, on any pretence, be allowed to discharge
its filthy and corrupt current into our great metro-
politan bath ? Either the Serpentine must be sup-
plied with more water, or less must be taken from it,
and, as the parks must be watered, and St. James's
Canal and the barracks supplied, there is no reason
why they should not receive their supply from the
Serpentine, provided a sufficiency of wholesome water
be conveyed into this reservoir."

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked this morn-
ing on the Eastern Terrace and Slopes.
The Royal Family took their usual airings.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager arrived to-day at
half-past one o'clock on a visit to the Queen and Prince
Albert, from the Priory, Stanmore.
The Queen Dowager was accompanied by her Se-
rene Highness the Princess Eliza of Hohenlohe
Schillingsfurst. and was attended by her Majesty's
Lady in Waiting and Vice-Chamberlain.
Captain W. B. and Lady Harriet Hamilton are
expected to arrive at the Castle this evening on a
visit to her Majesty.
The Queen's private band performed yesterday
evening the following pieces in the Castle :-
0 ver ture—" Philtre"
Selection—" Huguenots"— Meyerbeer.
Pas Redoubles ... Klose.
The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will
include her Majesty the Queen Dowager, her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, her Serene High-
ness the Princess of Hohenlohe Langenburg, her
Serene Highness the Princess Eliza of Hohenlohe
Langenburg, her Serene Highness the Princess Amelie
of Hohenlohe Schillingsfurst, her Serene High-
ness the Princess Eliza of Hohenlohe Schill-
ingsfurst, his Serene Highness Prince Edward
of Saxe Weimar, the Lady in Waiting of
the Queen Dowager, the Lady in Waiting of the
Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Speth, the
Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, the Hon.
William Ashley (Vice-Chamberlain to the Queen
Dowager), Captain W. B. and Lady Harriet Hamil-
ton, Major-General Wemyss, and Sir George Couper.
The band of the 2d Life Guards attend during
dinner. Her Majesty's private band will afterwards
attend in the Castle, and will perform the following
pieces :

Overture—"Preciosa" ....... .... Weber.
Quartetto, Op. 12, in E flat, Adagio
non tardante, canzonetta allegretto,
andante espressivo ; finale, molto e
vivace—(two violins, viola, and vio-
lincello : Messrs. Sainton, Betts, Hill,
and H. Chipp)
Finale, 2d Act—" Oberon" Weber.

The Earl of Clarendon arrived in town yesterday,
from his seat, the Grove, Watford. His Lordship
had an interview with Sir George Grey, at the Home-
office.

Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General
to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na-
tional Debt, had an interview with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing-street.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office, from the Governors of the West India Colonies.
Mr. William Grey, M.P., arrived in town yes-
terday.

SWEARING-IN OF THE LORD MATOR.-.--YeSter.
day the interior of the Guildhall presented an ani-
mated scene, from a vast assemblage of well-dressed
ladies and the members of the Corporation attending to
witness the swearing in of the Lord Mayor, Sir James
Duke. Previous to the civic ceremony, the members of
the company to which the Lord Mayor belongs, the
late Lord Mayor (he being virtually out of office),
several of the Aldermen, the Sheriffs, and several
of the civic authorities, partook of a sumptuous break-
fast at the Mansion-house. Shortly after two o'clock
the civic procession reached Guildhall, and proceeded in
the first instance to the New Council Chamber, and then
into the Hall, when Sir James Duke took the various
oaths of allegiance and supremacy. The Lord Mayor
received the congratulations of his brother Aldermen,
and was inducted by his predecessor into the civic chair,
when the Chamberlain delivered to his Lordship the
purse and to the Mace-bearer and Sword-bearer their
respective insignia of office, which his Lordship retureed
to the present holders, expressing a hope that they Lay
long continue to enjoy their office. After the usual
forms and ceremonies had been gone through, the Lord
Mayor and the members of the Corporation returned to
the Mansion-house.
From St. Vincent's, St. Christopher's, and Gre-
nada, the accounts speak of plenteous showers occurring
at an opportune period for strengthening the canes. The
weather previously had been extremely dry and sultry,
and appearances at one time indicated a hurricane. At-
tempts at incendiarism in Antigua had been discovered,
and it was feared, unless vigorous measures were re-
sorted to, the example would be followed in the more
secluded country districts. The weather in this island
was, with little exception, satisfactory, and the parishes
that wanted rain had not as yet suffered severely.
The Surinam journals contain an account of a
meeting held among a number of the Dutch planters
favouring free colonization. The addresses delivered
on the occasion were in support of the adoption of mea-
sures calculated to produce this result, and a committee
was organized and empowered to pursue such steps as
shall bring the question under prominent consideration.
GRAND BANQUET AT DERBY.—On Tuesday last
the electors of Derby entertained their late representa-
tive, the Right Hon. E. Strutt, at a dinner at the
Athenaeum. About 250 persons were present; the
Mayor, Mr. H. Mozley, presiding. The Hon. L. Gower
the lion. H. Cavendish, M.P., Mr. W. Evans, M.P., Mr
M. Bass, M.P., Mr. L. Heyworth, M.P., Mr. Moffat,
M.P., Major Cooke, Dr. Peach, Dr. Bent, &c., were
amongst the guests. After the cloth was removd, and
the usual loyal toasts drunk with the honours, two
splendid volumes, containing the address of the electors
to Mr. Strutt and their autograph signatures, were
placed on the table before the chairman, to be presented
by that gentleman to the late Member. The chairman
then proposed Mr. Strutt's health, and read the address,
at the conclusion of which the company responded to
the toast in the most enthusiastic manner. Mr. Strutt,
in returning thanks for the honour done to him, entered
at some length into his connexion with his late con-
stituents, and explained his political views, as well as his
reasons for retiring into private life. The principles
which had first obtained for him their approbation and
support had since been strengthened and confirmed by
maturer years and increased experience, and it would be
a matter of enduring satisfaction to him that to them he
owed the opportunity of advancing, however feebly and
imperfectly, those great principles which he had always
advocated, and that from them he had received that day
the honourable and magnificent testimonial which they
had been pleased to confer. Mr. Strutt sat down amidst