The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-30 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, TUESDAT.—The Queen and Prince Albert
walked this morning on the Eastern Terrace of tbr
Castle and slopes.
The Royal family took their accustomed walking
pony exercise.

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His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by
his Serene Highness Prince Lowenstein and Sir George
Grey, and attended by the Earl of Listowel and Colonel
Bouverie, enjoyed the sport of shooting this morning.
Lord Edward Howard is expected to arrive at the
Castle to-day. on a visit to her Majesty.
The royal dinner pnrty at the Castle this evening will
include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his
Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen, his Serene Highness
Prince Lowenstein, the Lady in Waiting of the Duchess
of Kent, the Baroness de Speth, Lord Edward Howard,
Sir George Grey, Mr. G. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson,
and Capt. Francis Seymour.
The band of the Ist Life Guards attended during
dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attend
in the Castle.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited
her Royal Ifighness the Duchess of Gloucester, yester-
day, at Gloucester House.
Mr. Samuel Palmer, of Great Yarmouth, had an in-
terview, yesterday, with the Right Hon. Thom" M. Gib-
son, at the Board of Trsde.
Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial.
office, from the Governors of Hong-Kong and Gibraltar.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening, from the
Colonial office, for the Governor of the Mauritius.
The Earl of Elgin, Governor-General of Canada, and
the Countess of Elgin, arrived at Farrance's Hotel,
Upper Belgrave-street, yesterday, from Lauabton Castle.

IRELAND.
DESTITUTION IN DONEGAL.
DUBLIN, DEC. 27.—1 n this extensive northern county
there are no manufactures worth naming, and pauperism
is as general as in some of the worst circumstanced
districts
of the south and west. On many of the largo
estate.- farms are minutely subdivided, so that •
large portion of the occupiers are mere cottiers•
holding
from one to five acres. It is upo ern,hl
lass that the destruction of the potato crop has opera
most severely. They have lost their usual means of sub-
sistence—their little oat crops have either been sold to
pay the rent, or eaten by their families to stave off star"
there are few resident gentlemen to form
-ration, and they are in consequence utterly destitute, al
mittees, or otherwise to promote measures for relief an
employment.
re 656
Belfast Vindicator contains the follovving.
district 111 that
sentations respecting the
condition
of one
county:—
olio
~ The memorial which we subjoin, from the Cath
a relief comii
and Protestant clergy of the ari of Inisnaaesaint,
in the barony
could scarcely credit, were it not so respectably shoat
ticated. Distress was so urgent, that a presentt_n,enr.
of Tjrhugh, discloses a fact which one
sessions was held in Donegal, for the barony of .3g.
laugh, on the 26th of last September, and t T"' the
were then voted, to give immediate emploYnleDieilibe.e_ni
parish of Inistnacsaint, yet not one shilling has
meteorta&
expended in that parish. We will let the
speak for itself:—
L.
otiGno
" ' TO MIS EXCELLENCY JOHN EARL OF li'-'°ll
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL AND GENERAL GO`..-NUR
Olt IRELAND.
" ' The respectful Memorial of the Catholic and Pr°,:g
testant Clergy, parish of Inismacsaint, barony w•
Tyrhugh, and county of Donegal,
" ' Humbly showeth
extent, prevails in this parish; that one-third, at least,
, That distress, to
the
of the inhabitants have patiently subsisted, during
1 to
last six weeks, on one meal a day, expecting dal y
zponeY.r.
be employed on public works ; and although
Crates and associated cesspayers, an alarming
to the amount of 2,8001., had been voted by the Mogi:,
sessions, held in Donegal on the 26th of SePtealber
the
for the purpose of giving immediate employment tiso,erhka
distressed of this parish ; yet, for want of the
been
having been put into operation, not one shilling has
has been
received by
afforded in all the neighbouring parishes• at the presentngs.t
" ' Your memorialists further state, that
Milward, one of the officers employed in this co of
the Board of Works, called here an the course of thti:
week; but his stay being short (owing, we stiPP"e'lvas
pressure of business in other parts of the county),
t to
only calculated to add discontent and disappoint.menase.
Lieutenant
the alarming distress that already prevailed, in co.
quence of his not giving employment to more that sati
of our poor parishioners.
" ' Your memorialists, deeplycoa-
poor distressed flocks, and alarmed at the awfulherde-
sequences that must necessarily ensue from furtaur
Ex.
lay, beg le
ave most respectfully to request y
se public
cellency to issue such instructions as willcau
sympathising with our
Parish, that will
works to be put into operation
be calculated to give employ d will
distress ; and your memorialists, as in duty bound will
ever pray. employment all whoh are in

B. KELLY, P.P., Inismaesaint,
' F. KELAGHAN, C.C., ditto,
JOHN DUNBA.R, Minister of the Perish.
ti
Dce. 12, 1846.'

" ANSWER.
" Dublin Castle, Dec. 17, 1846.
" Sir,—l am directed by the Lord-Lieutenant tote-
quaint you, for the information of the parties signl
the memorial forwarded by you on the 12th instant, 011
the particular attention of the Board of Works has bee
called to the state of the destitute in the parish of Ines'
macsaint.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient
servant, " T. N. REDINGTON.
" Rev. B. Kelly, P,P., Ballyshannon.'
" A reverend gentleman, writing to us from this
parish, states—' The people here are in great distress.
From almost ev( ry barony and parish of the count'',
complaints against the neglects and delays of officials
reach us. In the town and neighbourhood of Barael;
ton there are over seven hundred families in a state e;
misery and destitution, and only one hundred and
eighteen individuals have as yet received employment 00
the public works !' Nine weeks ago presentment se.s-
sions were held in l3uncrana, yet not one individual in
that locality has obtained employment. The cense'
quence is that in one week twelve deaths occurred, Vie'
cipally from want of food ! To render this most una:e-
countable delay in the public work, not only in Ennis-
howen but Tyrhugh, more intolerable, to those who ay
suffering by them, the works in the -adjoining counties
are prosecuted with vigour." ploy-
In the Barony of Tyrhugh, above referred to, e mO,
ment will soon become general, so far as the estate
the Earl of Arran extends, that nobleman having rethe
the necessary arrangements for large advances from
Board of Works under the Summary
St-
the improvement of his property. Drainage Ac Lt.r
mans, also in the same barony, is ab°et nonce
Mr. klemilwn'
to
iraPrietors
operations under that Act. It the inn"— •tx, to avail
themselves of its provisions, the got generally had had the prudence and forethoug— have
peasantry
been employed everywhere u d
on pro uctive agricui
Yiag
works, and there would have been an iteltense Sa
of expenditure for useless road making.
THE GUN TRADE reds*
There has b • b'evons
been a good deal of most arse 1 fire-
representation on the subject hase
°f
of the pure the re°s arms by the peasantry. It now appears from been
c authentiinformation, that the purchases have rota
made almost altogether by the gently and farineres,ti( tute
an apprehension of attempts at plunder by the 9
„ther
peasantry. This "gun trade" is, in fact, 01111 a--
evidence of the terrible condition of the ro°r*
The Drogheda Argus thus disposes of a re--n
t 5
about the " sale of arms" in that town:-- n the
We e perceive that the Times has published, emment
authority of the Drogheda Conservative, a sta.•"— t
n, 5
that two cart-loads of fire-arms were sold by tile; A°s the
the fair in this town, on the 17th inst , and such nThyitli
avidity with which they were sought that
...ree-510.
1 sea-cely a coat to their back became purcbasen„.,33s ez"
are gross falsehoods. The whole quantitY hi be
posed for sale was contained in a box which -thu cart
lifted by one man. It was certainly placed andthe
the
upon which the auctioner stood as a platform, four
entire number sold did not, we believe, exceed
ro;
pieces, of which the purchasers were small Wirth('
certainly not one was bought by any Fer3oll 0
pauper class, as the Conservative would vilely
. insintlate•
" The ales made by the respectable hardware mer-
chants of Drogheda (three of whom out of four
Conservatives), have been to those who have property':
defend, and to respectable persons for sporting purpose
" We notice this matter because the natural case:
five,
of the foul calumny, published by the Concert's"
five, would be to prevent all persons at a distance fr.o h
contributing towards the removal of the destitution wilier.
unfortunately prevails in Droghedaand the icebb°ll-
-
hood around."
EMPLOYMENT OF THE NAVY IN TIV PRO
VISION TRADE. ffial,
The Northern Whig, a moderate and sensiblejetl— a
thus earnestly urges the employment of ships of 01;1110
the conveyance of grain from America, to suPPlleeks
great deficiency in the mercantile marine. S°Kne er-
since the Dublin Evening Post and the Mercantile 4—:the
tiser suggested a similar step, and more recently
coinulen.
committee of landlords have followed up the re
dation :
" If the suspension of the navigation laws, in so far as_,
the present emergency requires, should not be sufficieeutt
all the available resources of our navy ought to hej"
in requisition. Already Government ships have
en
used for conveying provisions to several parts of Ireltnl
and why should they not be used for carrying provisteur;
from America, for instance, where the senziel;:en
greatest? It need not be required that they be
gratis. Indeed that would not be thought of unless 11188
Government were to become importers, which they bell
properly declined. Let a number of Government vessels
be made available to merchants, to be chartered at the
ordinary rates; and in this way the treasury will staidiC
!
nothing, but rather gain something, whilst the pub
0'
will be benefited by the more abundant importation.
provisions. If the chief purpose of our great navy D.e'
to form a defence of our country, it will be legitimately
most ter
he -
employed in aiding to protect us against t TWO
rible enemy by which we have ever been assailed.
other remedies are obvious, and have been repeatedly
pressed upon the attention of the Government. TWO
are—first, the opening of the ports, and, second, the
ad-
mission of foreign articles for the use of distilleries and
breweries. Other remedies will be suggested. The
Government must, and will do all they can; and, all
having been done which men can do (if we will 01.2,q
stand up, worthily, and not crouch and grovel, and whin'
like spiritless creatures) we must make up our minds to
stand or fall, as may be, but as becomes men;--we niae
not have it in our power to escape the scourge of fareiV
but we may at least struggle manfully, and bear vit
courage."

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The Archdeacons y of Derby has been conferred on
the Rev. T. K. Hill, 8.D., Vicar of Chesterfield. The
reverend gentleman has also been appointed chaplain
the Right Rev. Walter Shirley, D.D., Bishop of Sod°
!lad Nan, formerly Archdeacon Of Derv.