The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-06 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSDII, TunnaDAY.—Her Majesty walked this
morning on the Eastern Terrace.

His Royal Highness Prince APth,rt, accompanied bj
the Earl Spencer, Lord Byron, Sir Frederick Stovin,
and Captain the lion. A. Gordon, enjoyed the sport o
shooting.

Their: Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took
their usual pony exercise this morning. her Royal
Highness the Princess
_Helena was also taken for an
airing.

The Duke and Duchess of Bedford and the Marquis
and Marchioness of Exeter left the Castle today.
The royal dinner party ut the Castle this evening will
include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the
Lady in Waiting of the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness
de Speth, the Earl and Countess Spencer, Lady Is-Lella
Wemyss, Lady Caroline Nforant, the Rev. Lord Wrio-
tbesley Russell, and Sir George Couper.
The band of the Ist Life Guards attend durinr, din-
ner. Her Majesty's private bsnd afterwards attend in
the Castle.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridce
and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of
Mecklenburg Strelitz visited her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House.
His Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse alio
visited the Royal Duchess yesterday.
M. Stra:enus, the Netherlands Charge d'Affaires,
transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
The Right Hon. Edward Strutt, Earl Granville, Sir.
Edward Ryan, and Captain Brandreth, had an interview
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his
official residence in Downing-street.
The Attorney-General had an interview with Sir
George Grey yesterday at the Home office.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of the West India colonies.
The Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Chief Secretary for
Irelan left town on Tuesday night for Dublin.
Lord and Lady Alan Churchill arrived at Farrance's
Hotel, Upper Be'grave-street, yesterday. from West
Huntinglan, Yorkshire.

DUTCH AN!) GERNIAN PAPERS.

THE HAGUE, NOV. 3.—DRAINING OF THE LAKE OF
ILtanLEm.—When the trial was made of the engine
called the Leeghwater, all the parts moved with great
regularity, and the eleven pumps, at every stroke of the
piston, raised sixty-six cubic metres of water. Though
every time such a mass of water was raised, the engine
was subject to a pressure of more than 200,000 kilo-
grammea, hardly any shock was felt in the vessel, and
the only noise that was heard was that made by the
flowing off of the water that was raised by the pumps.
The number of strokes of the piston was about seven in
a minute, the water was raised to the height of 1.30 to
1.50 metres, and the pressure of the steam in the
bailer was from 301bs. to 351bs. English. If it should be
necessary in draining the Lake of Haarlem to raise the
water from a greater depth, the force of the steam-
engire may be safely increased by 701bs. English,
and by this means the celerity of the play of
the pumps might perhaps be increased. At present,
taking the operation as it was on the Ist of
October, this steam engine is able to raise, deducting
the loss, 450 cubic metres per minute, or 648,000 in 24
hours, which is about 45 millions of ordinary pails; the
power of the engine may be estimated as equal to 300
horse power. Whatever be the quantity of coals em-
ployed to obtain so great a power, the expense may
always be d•min ished by the continuance of the operation.
A former experiment has also proved that no more than
two kilogrammes of coals per horse was necessary to ob-
tain one horse power, whereas seven kilogrammes of
coals were required for the old engine employed at the
Zuidplay. Notwithstanding the important saving of
coals which the Leeghwater affords, the engine still re-
quires 200 buabels of coals to obtain the result expected
from it.

SECOND CHAMBER OF THE STATES-GENERAL,
Nov. 2.—The central section made its report on the pro-
ject of law relative to the disposal of the surplus of the
colonial revenue from 1845. The discussion of the pro-
ject was fixed for to morrow morning at eleven o'clock.
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 3.—We are able to state the
number of passengers and the receipts of the Rhenish
railway during the month of Octob 1846 :—Pas-
sengers, 30,780 ; Passengers' fares, 38,4301 85c. ;
Receipts for merchandise, horses, and carriages,
10,109f1. 29c.

FRANKFORT, OCT. 31.—1 t is reported that several
arrests have lately taken place in the Grand Duchy of
Posen, in consequence of the investigations that have
been made into the disturbances in Poland. The pro-
ceedings against the Poles, it is now said, will probably
not begin at Berlin till the month of May or June next
year.

BERLIN, OCT. 28.—Our city has been the scene of a
deplorable event, namely, the death of the eldest son of
the Minister Van Bodelschwiugvelmede, who was killed
in a duel with M. J*", brother of the well-known pro-
prietor of an hotel. The cause of the duel is variously
stated. The duellists went to Treptow ; but when the
deceased had received a severe wound, and lost much
blood, they departed in another carriage. It was not
till the day before yesterday that the event became
known, in consequence of the increased illness of the
wounded man ; unhappily his wounds proved mortal,
and be died yesterday at the age of 23, to the gr.-at
grief of his afflicted family. According to information
that may be &prided upon, the lam for regulating the
position of the Jews in the Prussian dominions is to con-
tain, in many respects, an extension of the existing
laws.—Dutch Papers, Nov. 4.

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY,
EXETER HALL.

The first meeting for the season of the Sacred Har-
monic Society took place on Wednesday evening. The first
part of the performance consisted of a miscellaneous
selection of sacred music ; the second, of Sphor's
magnificent overture, The Last Judymmt. In the
rat part we had a Te Deem and a Jubilate, the compo-
sition W.' His Royal Highness Prince Albert, which
prove that His Royal Highness is an excellent and
sound musician. The choral writing in these
compositions is very file, and the voices
blend together most effectively. Miss Dolby's
execution 'of " Clouds o'ertake," from Handel's now
almost forgotten oratorio of Susannah, was the vocal gem
of the first part. The Last Judgment of Sphor is now,
thanks to the exertions of the Sacred Harmonic
Society, as familiar to the lover of sacred music
as the Messiah of Handel. It was admirably given last
evening by Misses Birch and Dolby, and Messrs. Hobbs
and Phillipps. The duet " Forsake me not" was ex-
quisitely given by Miss Birch and Mr. Hobbs. The
hall was crowded in every part.

NATIONAL ANTI-POOR-LAW

PROVIDENT AND BENEVOLENT UNION.

this institution, was held yesterday afternoon, in the large
A public meeting, convened to promote theo
objects
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ro sm of the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street ; the
Right Hon. the Lord Mayor in the chair.
pori:,epoosfedthpelachh
to
of
alleviate,nders
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torßetn. eov,l3.l3(tiLet detailed
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and sufferings which
In
pre-
vail amongst the working classes of the colmuutizd
the early part of the last session it wans
herself a
in the ( by
many public men, nay, even by the Q
speech from the throne, that the newl(liceoeor-1 soma asv hadre respects
found to be not only defective, but
cruel and oppressive, and yet the session closed
evil.ed It
without
any decisive steps being taken to remedy
was mainly to this fact that they were indebted foi:the
Formation of a society whose chief object was to devise
neans for bettering the condition of the working classes
of the country, and he was happy to inform the meeting
that since its foundation at St. Alban's, only a month
ago, communications had been made to the heads of the
church and leaders of the clergy, the majority of whom
approved of the objects of the society, and promised to
use their influence in its attainment. It was not then
intended to seek to abolish the Poor-law, but to induce
the rich to come forward and assist the poor, who were
anxious to do the best to relieve themselves to steer clear
of the Poor-law. The Hight Hon. Gentleman in the
chair had, throughout the past year, entertained
princes and nobles, men of learning and science,
at his table, but before quitting the office
ho had so faithfully and honourably filled,
he felt there was a duty which he owed to the poor, and
that duty ho was now discharging.—(Hear, hear.) His
Lordship felt that, as poverty and wretchedness increased
in this country in the same ratio as wealth and riches.
there must be something wrong in the system, and
therefore it was that he called upen his fellow-citizens to
come forward and assist in promoting an institution esta•
blished for removing that anomaly.—(Cheers.) It would
not be so much against the Poor-law that their efforts
would be directed, as to procuring a better administra-
tion of it. He might mention hat 75 young ladies,
who had been brought up in the lap of luxury,
and who had till the evening of their lives filled the
office of governesses in the highest families of the
kingdom, had applied to the society for relief. They
could only afford it to three ; and what, let him
tsk, was to become of the other seventy-two ? They
could not go to one of the existing union workhouses.
Well, then, the present institution was to meet such
cases as these, an i he hoped the City of London would
not be backward in supporting IL—(Heer, hear.)
The proposed union would consist of three classes—
friendly societies, building societies, and insurance so-
cieties. It was proposed now only to approve of the
principle of the plan, and a future meeting would be
called for sanctioning and carrying out the details.
A resolution approving of the principle was, on the
motion of Mr. L. HANSARD, seconded by air. WIRE,
unanimously agreed to, and the meeting was subse-
quently addressed by several gentlemen who have fre-
quently distinguished themselves in advocating the
cause of the poor.
A vote of thanks was afterwards carried by acclama-
tion to the Chairman, and the meeting, which was
numerously attended, broke up.

EXTENSION OF TILE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH TO THE
ROYAL EXCHANGE.—The Eastern Counties have, we
understand, intimated their intention of carrying out an
important extension of their electric telegraph to the
Royal Exchange and Lloyd's, for the accommodation of
the merchants and underwriters, by which an instan-
taneous communication will be obtained with Liverpool.
The company's engineers are now engaged completing
the electric wires along the Easternunties branch
lines, from Ely, Peterborough, Stamford, Syston, to
Derby; hence along the present Derby, Birmingham,
and Manchest(q. lines to Liverpool. The wires will be
conducted to the Royal Exchange from the Shoreditch
station in lead and iron piping, similar to the present
gas pipes, proofing posts tieing erected at cer!%in dis-
tances, in order to keep the wires in proper working
condition.