The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-16 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.
The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual
early morning walk.
The Royal Family walked and rode this morning
in the grounds adjacent to the Castle.

The Right lion. Sir George and Lady Grey took
theirldeparture from the Castle this forenoon.
The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
left the Castle this afternoon, at half-past two o'clock,
on a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, at the
Priory, Stanmore. The royal suite consisted of the
Marchioness of Douro, Lady in Waiting to the
Queen ; Hon. Miss Kerr, Maid of Honour in Wait-
ing ; Lord Waterpark, Lord in Waiting ; and Colo-
nels Buckley and Seymour, Equerries in Waiting.
The royal escort consisted of a troop of the 2d
Regiment of Life Guards.

Major Robinson and Captiin Henderson had an in-
terview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-
office.

Sir Thomas Fremantle, Chairman of the Customs,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer yesterday. Colonel Maberly had also an in-
terview with the Right Hon. Baronet, at his official
residence in Downing-street.
The Earl of Clarendon visited Lord John Russell,
yesterday, at Pembroke Lodge, Regent's Park.
Sir George Grey arrived in town yesterday, from
Windsor Castle.

Mr. Jopp, of Aberdeen, and Captain Forth, had
interviews yesterday with Earl Grey, at the Colonial-
office.

THE ROYAL VISIT TO BENTLEY

PRIORY.

Yesterday, her Majesty and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert left Windsor Castle, to pass a few
days with the Queen Dowager, at Bentley Priory,
near Stanmore.

The Earl Howe and the Earl of Denbigh arrived
at the Priory on Tuesday, and a select circle had
the honour to receive invitations to meet the Queen
and the Prince Consort.

It having been publicly announced that her Mn-

j‘sty would arrive at Stanmore yesterday, a great
concourse of persons, inhabitants of the neighbour-
ilg villages and hamlets, collected at the principal
entrance to the park, and many of the scholars from
Harrow School, and numerous gentry, were to be
seen among those assembled to give her Majesty a
hearty welcome. A strong body of the police were
in attendance, but, from the well-conducted bearing
of the crowd, not the slightest disorderly proceeding
demanded their interference.

The two royal carriages, with her Majesty and
Prince Albert, attended by the Marchioness of Douro,
the Hon. Miss Kerr, Lord Waterpark, Col. Buckley,
and Col. Seymour, were escorted from Windsor
Castle to Uxbridge by a troop of the Life Guards.
On reaching Uxbridge the military escort was
relieved by the 11th Hussars, under the command
of Lieutenant Sykes, who conducted the royal cor-
tege to Pinner, where another troop of that regiment,
commanded by Lieutenant Cresswell, relieved them
and attended on her Majesty to the Priory.
At precisely twenty-five minutes to five o'clock,
her Majesty and the Prince Consort reached Bentley
Priory, the illustrious visitors being enthusiastically
cheered as the royal carriages entered the park.
The Queen and the Royal Prince were received at
the porch by the Earl Howe and the Earl of Den-
bigh, as chief officers of the Queen Dowager's House-
hold ; Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and Vis-
countess Barrington, by whom her Majesty and the
Prince Consort were conducted to the saloon, from
whence the Dowager Queen and the Princess Louisa
Hohenlohe Schillingsfurst advanced to meet her
Majesty and Royal party.
Lord and Lady Ashley and Captain Hamilton.
R.N., arrived shortly afterwards.
At eight o'clock dinner was announced, covers being
laid for twenty-four guests, the circle consisting of
the Queen Dowager, the Queen and his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert, his Serene Highness Prince Ed-
ward of Saxe Wiemar, her Serene Highness the
Princess Louisa of Hohenlohe Schillingsfurst, the
Marchioness of Douro, the Earl Howe, the Earl of
Denbigh, Viscount and Viscountess Barrington, Lord
Waterpark, Lord and Lady Ashley, the Hon. Wil-
liam and Mrs. Ashley, the Hon. Miss Kerr, the
Hon. Miss Boyle, Colonel Buckley, Colonel Seymour,
Captain Bedford, Captain Hamilton, the Rev. G. T.
Hudson, &c.
The otherwise retired village of Stanmore was all
bustle and excitement in the evening, the shopkeepers

POLISH BALL A T GUILDHALL.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
By the kind forbearance of the Times, this evening
" they who are perpetually wafting a sigh to the Poles
are determined on easing their sorrows by a dance in the
City, and the City authorities follow the precedent of
former years, by granting the use of Guildhall." This
privilege is granted on the condition that the City au-
iherifie s, and those who go to the ball, "must prepare
to receive and accept applications for their favour on
other occasions, when British patronage and British
polkas will be danced for the- benefit of those who are
suffering at home, without the attendant blessiug of
'ski' or an 'off' to their vulgar names." Without pausing
to indicate the taste with which our contemporary ex-
prieses his sensibility, so much offended by the vulgarity
of Polish names, we must congratulate the Poles that
(hey come off so well, after the effort which has been
made to damage their cause in the article from which
these eiegantice are selected. The thunders of Blackfrisrs
have been let loose most unmercifully ; they have
sounded and resounded from Pole to Pole, and yet as
we mentioned yesterday, the demand for tickets Las been
incessant, not one lady having been -intimidated by
the authoritative announcement, that she ought not to
go. The cause of failure is worth a little inquiry. It
may b., perhaps, that the voice of that paper is not
deemed worthy of very high regard on any subject in
which ,the interests of humanity and charity are con-
cerned. We have had occasion to comment sometimes
on the coarse mirth and levity with which our contem-
porary is accustomed to indulge in reference to serious,
important, and laudable objects. A man who gets into
the way of laughing at and ridiculing the objects in
which the generality of people take an interest, ' and
which they treat with earnestness, cannot be surprised if
he should receive fur himself or his opinions very little
respect or attention. Sir Walter Scott used to tell of a
gentleman he met in company, who was remarkably
unfortunate in timing the expression of his feelings to
the subjects which might happen to be on the carpet.
He was generally half an hour before he perceived
the point, of anything which might be the subject of
conversation, and the result was extremely ludi-
crous and amusing. A gentleman might tell a
vc ry tragic- tale, which he would conclude amidst
appro., riate expressions of sorrow from all the company,
except this man of slow apprehension. Half an heur
after, when the conversation had assumed a cheerful and
lively character, our gentleman would appear in great
distress, and give utterance to a deep sigh or heavy
groan, for by that time he bad understood the suffering,
when everybody else had forgotten it. In the same
manner the laugh at a mirthful tale would come out,
perhaps, in the midst of some most distressing and lugu•
brious narration. This man puts us in mind of the
Times, whose habit seems to be, to groan when it should
laugh, and to laugh when it should sigh. We think this
is generally perceived, and may partly account for the
indifference with which everybody seems to regard la-
mentations made over the excessive and misapplied cha-
rity of the English people in giving their patronage to the
Polish ball. Another reason for the literary impotence
in this matter may be found in the small fact, that
his allegations on the subject are not in perfect
keeping with what is considered to be the real state of the
case, the merits of which he has attempted to settle. It
is alleged that the Polish exiles need not stay in this
land—that they are idly loitering in the West when
they should serve their nation in the East. It is said,
" Prussian Poland is opened to the exiled patriot, even
if its Russian neighbour be closed against them.. The
t'an-Sclavonic party in Austria would rejoice at the
fresh infusion of Sclavonic blood in the members of the
disturbed empire." Now, this sounds very well; but,
unfortuneeely, it is written without a perfect acquain-
tance with the subject in discussion. A very good
authority tells the'Limes, what it has not been able to
contradict, that " the Poles cannot return to Prussian
Poland without a passport from the Prussian Minister,
and that passport is granted to natives of Prussian Po•
land only, and not in all cases even to them. It was re-
fused in ono instance to a native of Prussian
Poland, unless he could give satisfactory testimony
as to his conduct for the last seventeen years.
Austrian Poland is in like manner closed
against all Pules who are not natives of that
pait of Poland held by Austria." It is an ugly thing to
get a false assertion into an argument, inasmuch as the
result is sure to damage the logical structure into which
it has been introduced. It is argued that the Poles ought
to h ave us, fortheir native country is now open to them;
and were this true, we should say they ought to go, or
at least not receive English charity. But the Times is
innocent on the subject—it writes in the dark; the day
is not arrived in which thereis a "Poland for the Poles."
By the way, the Times knows, for it quotes what Lord
Dudley Stuart has said on the willingness of the Poles
to return to their own country whenever they cL;n.
Lord Dudley's own words:—' Some few years ago
there were about 700 Poles receiving a weekly allow-
ance iron the Treasury, and about 60 or 70, whose
eases did not come within the rules of the Treasury,
end who received weekly relief from the As-
sociation of the Friends of Poland. The nuns-
her of the former is new reduced to about 350
end that of the late, rto about 30.' " Is th. re not in this
fact sufficient proof that the re is on the part o; the Poles
no eish to loiter in the west when they can go to the east,
and visit again the land from which they are exiles?
Th 7 imes, therefore, cannot damage the Poles by its
articles, for this reason, that they ere al ogether ince rest
in their representations. Another thing which may ac-
count for the failure to damage the Polish ball, is the
disgust which is inspired by witnessing an attempt to
prev, nt the exercise of hospitality to the stranger. If
people have a neind in this way to their the heart of the
exilewe do not see why any one should come forward to
prohibit the fl,,w of charity. A fine character England
ev.iul I receive for its virtues among other nations, it she
would submit to the dictation which now proposes to con-
try! the exercise of her benevolence. It has long been the
glory of England to be the home of the exile, the refuge and
harbour of the distressed; but if people would do as they
are told to do, we should soon acquire a name as odious
as that which attaches to the mentor wlio proposes to
regulate the exercises of the national will. If we un-
rerstaud the policy recommended in reference to the
Poles, it is that they should be so distressed, by the
neglect they meet in England, that they should resolve to
go and throw their lives away in any foreign revolution
in which they may succeed in acting a part, or in any
army that may give them a good chance(); being shot at.
This is the interpretation we feel disposed to put on the
language, when it is said—" Let it not be supposed that
we wish to drive these interesting visitors from our
shores. We have no wish to neutralise a prolonged hos-
pitality by a sudden persecution." Perhaps nut—but
then, why write xpressly tor this purpose? We have
no sympathy with this mode of disposing of the dis-
tressed. It would be a cheap way of getting rid of the
Poles, but it is hardly Christian or English.

TILE NEW CITY CLUB —This club held its in-
auguration dinner yesterday, at the club house, in
Basinghail-stis et; Mr. Friend in the chair. It has been
instituted with the view of providing a medium associa-
tion betw en the late Whittington Club and the Gres-
ham, the first of which has abandoned its ground is
the City, and the latter of which is rather too expen-
sive to meet the purposes of the class for whom accom-
modation is particularly required. The new City Club
has taken possession of one of those old mansions for
which the neighbourhood of Basingball-stre, t and Alder-
manbury is celebrated. It is conducted upon an econo-
mical scale, and combines with the victualling depart-
ment the means of gratils ing the more refined tastes of
the day, in the shape of a library, a reading-room, and
other adjuncts to literary and social unions.
THE THERMOGENIC COAT.—.The wools of Aus-
tralia are celebrated for their softness and yielding quali-
ties, and thus present advantages for the fabrication of
the warmest cloths. With this material a cloth of
luxuriance and finish has recently been perfected fur Mr.
Sayce, of Cornhill, who makes therewith an over-coat
of great superiority, being singularly free from the coarse
and vulgar character imparted by garments intended for
such uses. As a protection frem the night air, it is the
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the glove or ladies' robe.
CIIATEALTBRIAND'S MEMOIRS.--The public will
learn with satisfaction that the English translation of
the Memoirs of the celebrated Chateaubriand has been
.brought out by Mr. Colburn, after the fashion of the day,
in the cheapest possible form. The first part, price only
2s. 6d., contains the whole of the first volume of the
Paris edition. It forms a portion of Mr. Colburn's New
Standard Library. Few English readers are unacquainted
with the fact that M. de Chateaubriand was for above
half a century one of the most eloquent, energetic, bold,
and independent writers of France. Surviving the last
revolution by a few months only, he died in July last,
at the age of fourscore, leaving these memoirs written
by himself, descriptive of the scenes of his long and
checquered career. When it is considered that Chateau-
briand was not merely an author, but that be figured
successively as a soldier, traveller, ambassador, and
Prime Minister, we have a right to expect In the auto-
biography of a man of his transcendent genius a work
of rare value and unrivalled interest.—Evening paver.
BRISTOL, Nov. 14.—Yesterday was the anniver-
sary of the birth and death (for he died on his natal day)
of Bristol's great benefactor, Edward Colston. In ac-
cordance with annual custom, the different societies
formed to commemorate the philanthropist held their
annual dinner, and upwards of 1,000/. was collected to
be exie tailed in the ensuing witat r iu the relief of no-
ccesitou6 und deserving persons. Two of the charities,
the Anchor Society and the Dolphin Society, partake to
some eNtJt:t of a political character. The former dined
at ilia Royal Gloucester hotel—W. G. Langton, Esq.,
soil of the late Member fur East Somerset, in the
chair; and its collection amounted to about 4201. The
Doip! in dinner, which was presided over by J. D.
Pounieey, Esq., took place at the t% bite Lion Hotel;
its cull, caw' amounted to about 3201. A tbird society,
the Gratcful, is neutral in its character, being sup-
ported by persons of all shades in politics; its dinn,r
took place at the Montague lintel, and its collection
amounted to 3751.

AMERICAN ENTIIUSIASM.—An American editor
prints the following appendage to a marriage advertise-
ment: —" We caught a refreshing glimpse of this inter-
esting and lovely pair as they whirled through Itt:chester
on their matrimonial tour to our great American Niagara
Falk, in the fulness of a love called into being by his
devotion to the cause of our -despised people. We wish
oar friend Cadwell long life and unending field* of hap.
piness."

NOTICE.-M. CAUSSIIDIERE'S
HISTORY okthe FRENCH REVOLUTIONS of 1848, and
MEMOIRS of lIIMSELF,
Whilst acting as Minister of Police, will be ready eirly next week.
Orders should therefore be in the hands of the Booksellers on
or before Saturday, the.lBth instant.
Richard ;Bentley, New Burlington-street,
(Pul?4lisheVsg/dtip ary424.her ajesty).

THEATRE.—ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
Manager, Mr. BUNN.
GENERAL RE D LTC TION, or.„, PRICE S.
The repeated representations that havq been made to the manage-
ment respecting a reduction of prices, in order to meet the exigencies
of Vie times,h4ve led to,its present adoption.', 111 complying with so
general an expression of public feeling, it is only necessary to state
that precisely the same character of performance will be given, sup-
ported by the same artistes, and aided by all thg gorgeous parapher-
nalia of the establishment; a series of attractions on a
scale cf admission Suitable to all classes, without any precedent in so
splendid a Theatre.

SCALE OF ADMISSION.
Dress Circle in the Grand Tier Six Shillings.
First Circle. Five Shillings.
Upper Boxes. ••• • • • Four Shillings.
Pit •• Half-a-Crown.
Lower Gallery .............. One Shilling and Sixpence.
Upper Gallery One Shilling.
Private Boxes, One and Two Guineas ;. Stalls, Seven Shillings.

Half-price at Nine o'clock.
Dres3 Circle, 3s. ; First Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Upper Boxes, 2e. ; Pit
Is. 6(1.; Lower Gallery, ls. ; tipper Gallery, 6(1.

TFFIS EVENING,
The Entertainments will commence with a Grand Opera, entitled

HATDEE or, the Secret.
Loredano, Mr. Sims Reeves ; Mr. Whitworth ; Andrea
DJnato, 51r. Herberte; Ilaydee, bliss Lucombe.
To conclude with a Grand Ballet, entitled
L'INVUATIUN A LA FETE.
Doors open at Half-past Six, performance to commence at Seven.
The Box-office is open from Ten till Five, under the direction of
31r. John Parsons.

TIIKATRE ROYAL, 11AYMARFCBT.
Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessed and Manager, Old Brompton.
The publie A respectfully informed that this Theatre has, during
he recess, undergone very extensive repairs and alterations sad the
whole re-decorated.

THIS EVENING,
Will be performed the Comedy of TWELPTEI NIGHT. Viola,
Mrs. Charles Kean.
After which, THE RANSOM. Pauline, Mrs. Charles Kean.
To conclude with THE IRISH ATTORNEY. Pierce O'Hara, Mr.
Hudson.

111EATRICRoYA.L, ADELPHI.
tinder the direction M. :Madame Celeste
During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorated, the
niginal designs by Digby Wyatt, Eau , executed by Mr. Sang. A
iew Stage, Curtain, Act Drop, and Chandelier. An approved eye-
e.m of Ventilation, &c., &c. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs
.tided to the-Seats, and Stalls rendered more comfortable.
THIS EVENDIO
When will be performed the original Drama, called HARVEST
HOME. Principal character% by Messrs. H. Hughes, Lambert,
Wright, P. Bedford, 0. Smith, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mrs.
Frank Matthews, Miss Turner; &c.
After which a mew Farce called SLASHER AND CRASHER.
Mr. Slasher, Mr. Wright; Mr. Crasher, Mr. Paul Bedford.
,ar To conclude with THE DANCE OF THE SHIRT.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame Veatris.
Sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Mathews.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed FREE AND EASY.
To be followed by MY FATHER DID SO BEFORE HE, it which
]d44*.John Reeve will appear.
To cemelude with Till CRITIC ; er, a Tragedy Rehearsed. Sir
Fretful Plagiary and Puff, Mr. C. Mathews ; Tilburina, Mrs. Yates.
t wow. lioxes, ss. • Upper Boxes, 4s:; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. :No
half-Prioe to on 7 part of the house.
ziew sox-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, Is *pen I. the
public .very lay, from Ten

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager.
Daring the Recess this Theatre has been re-decorated and ensbel-
.lshed In a superb and costly manner by Mr. Hurwitz. A new Chan-
delier has been fitted, and the best arrangements have been- made for
the due Ventilation of the Theatre, and the comfort and cenvealence
of the audience.