The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-02 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR,

Sir Robert Peel had an audienC., of the Queen yesterday at
Bnekingham Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured the Exhibi-
tion of the Royal Academy in Trafalgar-square with a ci.tit
yesterday, and was received by the President, Sir Marti::
Archer Shee, and other officers of the Academy, who con-
ducted the Prince through the different schools. His Royal
Highness was attended by the Marquis of Abercorn, Lord
George Lennox, Captain Francis Seymour, and the Hon.
Captain Gordon.
Her Majesty, attended by the Lady in Waiting, Lady
Portman, took an airing in an open carriage and four yes-
terday. Prince Albert was on horseback, and the Equerries
in Waiting, Captain Buckley and the Hon. Captain Gordon,
attended on horseback. _

. His Royal Highness Prince Albert visited his Grace the
Duke of Wellington yesterday at Apsley House. -
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Queen yesterday.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the -Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took
their accustomed exercise yesterday iu the pleasure grounds
of the Palace.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the performance
of the French plays with their presence yesterday evening.
The Royal suite included Lady Portman, Hon. Miss Napier,
Lord Byron, Colonel Buckley, and the Hon. Captain Gordon.
Colonel uckley has relieved the Hon. Colonel Grey in the
duties of Equerry in Waiting to the Queen ; and the Hon.
Captain Gordon has relieved Lieut.-Colonel Seymour in the
duties of Equerry in Waiting to his Royal Highness Prince
Albert.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Ma-
jesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House.
His Serene Highness the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Mei-
ningen, attended by Captain Taylor and Baron de Reitzen•
stein, left Marlborough House yesterday afternoon for the
Continent. His Serene Highness travelled to Dover by the
souea astern Railway, and embarked from Dover attended
by the Baron de Icitzenstein.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge, and the Princess Mary ,t;,,noured the exhibition of
the Royal Academy with a visit yesterday. Sir Martin
Archer Shee, the President, conducted the illustrious visitors
through the schools. Their Royal Highnesses were attended
by Lady Augusta Cadogan, and Mr. Edmond Mildmay.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge had a dinner party yesterday at Cambridge House.
The company included the Prince and Princess Nicolas
Esterhazy, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, the Earl and
Countess of Jersey, the Earl and Countess Brownlow, the
Earl and Countess Delawarr, the Earl of Clare, the Earl
and Lady Augusta Cadogan, Viscountess Mahon, Lord
Forester, Sir George Hamilton, Baron Koller, Mr de Berg,
and Count Potocki.

A Committee meeting of the Commission for Promoting
and Encouraging the Fine Arts in the Rebuilding the Palace
of Westminster, was held yesterday at Gwydyr House,
Whitehall. The Commissioners present were Viscount Can-
ning, Lord John Russell, Viscount Mahon, the Right Hon.
T. B. Macaulay, Sir Robert H. Inglis, Mr. Wyse, and Mr.
Hallam ; and the Secretary, Mr. Eastlake, was in attendance.
The Commissioners of the Metropolitan Railway Termini
had a meeting yesterday. There were present Viscount Can-
ning, the Right Hon. J. C. Herries, the Lord Mayor, and
Sir F. Smith.

Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an inter-
view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his
official residence in Downing-street.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
Colonial-office for the Governors of the West India Colonies.
Dispatches were received from the Governor of Sierra Leone
yesterday.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET, THURSDAY NIGHT, TEN O'CLOCK.

ENTRIES FOR FRIDAY.

Handicap, D. M.—Petit Morceau 4 yrs, Bst 81b—Blackie,
3 yrs, 7st 101b—Ennui, 3 yrs, 7st 101b—Killi Krankie, 3 yrs,
7st 11b—Breastgirth, 3 yrs, 6st 111 b. •
Handicap, A.F.—Collingwood, 3 yrs, Bst 81b—Leaconfield,
3 yrs, Bst 81b—Peasant, 3 yrs, Bst—Tit-bit, 3yrs, Bst Mb,
paid.

.latch—King Charles, Bst 81b, agst Prospect, 7st 91b. D.
100 h ft.

Newmarket Stakes—The following were left in at ten
o'clock :—Galata colt, Polecat, lapo, Pyrrhus the First, Mar-
quis of Cunningham, Sister to Flambeau, Hereof, and the
Little Vulgar Boy. . _

LATEST BETTING.
NEWMARKET STAKES.-6 to son lago.
CHESTER CUP.
10 to 1 agst Best Bower 20 to 1 agst Hope
10 to 1 agst Sweetmeat 20 to 1 agst The Magnet
12 to 1 agst Clumsy—taken 20 to 1 agst Corranna
12 to I agst The Baron 22 to 1 agst Inheritress
14 to 1 agst Pedometer—t. 25 to 1 agst Vitula—taken
18 to 1 agst Polish 50 to 1 agst Weatberbit
The death of Mr. A. W. Hill, the owner of Sweetmeat,
has been reported this evening, on apparently good authority.

LONDON HIBERNIAN SOCIEI Y.

' A meeting of this Society, on behalf of the Irish Church and the
cause of Protestant education in Ireland, was held in the large room„
,Exeter-hall, yesterday, at eleven o'clock.
The Marquis of CHOLMONDELEY, who occupied the chair, felled on
one of the reverend gentlemen on the platform to read prayers.
The CHAIRMAN then said that he had been requested to take
-02 e chair as having been connected with the Society for some time ;
and O'ougli he would have wished to see another person there more
corn peten, to discharge its duties, yet he felt interested in the objects of
the society. '4e valued a Protestant education, and it gratified him
to know that the Society, under the patronage of the Church of
England, was constiti:ted to glee such an education to more than
50,0e0 children, and he hoped that It would continue to extends its
efforts, and become, under the blessinz of God, increasingly useful.
He would refrain from detaining the meeting, and proceeded to
call on
The SECRETARY, who read the report for the last year. It stated that
the receipts of the Society for the year arrnenated to 4;4651., being an
increase of more than 1,0001. over the income' feu the previous year ;
that 2,450/. had been remitted to the Church }:ducation Society for
Ireland ; that the number of schools in connexion with the Society
were 1,811, containing 100,755 children, of whom 12,000 were the
children of Protestant Dissenters, and 30,000 of Romth, Catholics.
Lord SANDON, who moved the first resolution. salt
l there were
others more competent, but he felt called on by the cotirse of
poli-
tical events to come forward, as he thought every Cetel:lan ought,
and especially legislators, to show that they were still warmly
concerned in the cause of the Church ; for if legislators, after
oppo-
sition, were compelled to acquiesce in certain events, they wen`, cer-
tainly called on to Come forward personally and individually, fee:lnga
as they must do, that they were led less and less to rely upon Parlia-
ment or corporate bodies, and more and more on their own endeavour,.
The Church of Ireland had suffered mnch, placati often in ctrctunstanami.
of temptation—temptations from persecution and from kindness; but.
she had continued with a singular unanimity to t old up to them the
same grand principles, and he hoped she would long ,aontinue td do so.
But it was the duty of individuals now to countensulve her "In her
struggles. The Noble Lord, after some further ebserva dons, moved
that the report be adopted.
The Right Rev. Lord Bishop of CAsHEL said, he rose talth great
pleasure to second the resolution moved by the Noble Loll. Hs
was gratified at the sympathy expressed by the Noble Lord IL'r the
great, the arduous, but important struggle in which the Church' of,.
Ireland was engaged. It wax a struggle for the grand principles (IL
the Reformation, namely, whether instruction, such as would do'
good to man, shall be through the Holy Word of God, or, whether,
that being pat way, it shall be through the traditions of men.--
(Applause ) He felt himself standing there, the advocate of a prin-
ciple which, in fidelity to his God and to his fellow-man, he dare,
not give up, and whether he stood against persecution, or tried by"
kindness, he trusted neither would ever lead him to desert it:
There were assemblies, he said, at the present day, In
which it would seem strange to advocate the Irish Church, and in
whit:',.'' that Church was looked upon as a monstrous thing. It was
strange 1;12! that should never have been found out—never,
so long as the clergy of the English Church and of the
Roman Catholic Churn, met together on the same field of
sport, and at the same tai,lO. negleeting the duties of their
office. One thing, reported as said by A Noble Lord, astonished WI,
that the Church of Ireland robbed the Roman Catholics of propertr
that belonged to them. Did they consider that the funds of the
Church, and the endowments generally, were a robbery from theft
Roman Catholics, because the Archbishops and Bishops appointed'
by the Pope once possessed these endowments? If so, then
it was as much a robbery in England as in Ireland. He
said, that an objection against the Church of Ireland had
been originated by a young man, a Member for one of the
Irish counties, a fashionable young man, who perhaps did not
read the Bible himself, and supposed the Roman Catholics of Ireland
had no need of it ; at least, he thought he pleased their clergy when
he objected to the Irish Church, because it would not support the
Irish Board. His Lordship went at great length into the demerits of the
National Board of Education; and read several document`e showing the
statistics of the schools conducted under the different syttems, and
urged the meeting to support the system of scriptural education.
The resolution was put from the chair and carried unanimoMr•
Lord LIPPORD, after some remarks confirmatory of the BO'
Prelate's statements, moved the second resolution,
Rev. Dr. o,ozninvsn, in seconding the resolution, said that three'
charges had been made against the Church of Ireland :—that her
revenues as ere too large ; that her title to them was founded Gil in-
justice ; and that the establishment of a Protestant church in Ire-
land was very impolitic. On the first, he said it ought to be recol-
le-ted that, in establishing a church, it was necessary to open
door for clergymen from every rank in society; it had, therefore,
been settled that there should be twelve Episcopal Peers, whose
gross income was to be not less than 60,0001. annually, and he was
sure that a jury of their peers would not decide that that was too
much. The income of all the Protestant clergy in Ireland, wke
amounted to two thousand two hundred, was only sent.-
thing more than 400,000/,, which would not be more than
2.1( /. to each of those woo were to live as gentlemen in society.
Looking to the people, and assuming that out of 1,700,000 Protestants
100,000 belonged to the Church of England, then it would be found
that the fluids at the disposal of the Church were equivalent to no
more than 10s. each person. Considering the importance of a man's
salvation, that amount was surely not too much to be spent towards
attaining it. The Rev. Speaker, in discussing the injustice of the
title held by the Irish Church to these revenues, begged to correct
Mistaken supposition that mothrn xomanism was the same as old Bo-
manlsm, and that the Protestant Church dated no earlier than the time
of the ReiOrMation. The modern Catholic Church pretended to be n
reformed islittreh equally as the English Church. The Rev. Gentle-
man said the Romaoiiite had changed we filith, and retained corrupt
forms, the English Church reformed the ceremonies and retained
the faith; on that ground of distinction he held the English
to be but a development of the ancient church, and,
therefore, that the endowments according to all legiti-
mate and religious jurisprudence properly belonged to thoS•
in whose hands they were at present. The Reverend Gentle-
man then went into the history of Ireland at gre3t length, to
show that that country was never in greater alleglance with
England than during the supremacy o f the Protestant
Church. He sat down with moving the following resolution :
That there is abundant reason for thankfulness to God for the' in,
mewled success that has attended the exertions of the Loudon'
Hibernian Society during the past year, and it is much to be disired
that English churchmen should display yet greater interest in the
welfare of the Church in Ireland, and use more strenuous and
effectual efforts to assist her in the fulfilment of the important
duties with which she is entrusted."
Lord TEIGNMOUTX in .a spech of come length, moved the next re-
solution.

0.J.4 "VMS •
The Rev. H. 111`2•TEn.E, in seconding it, said, although the proximate
view of the subject before them was scriptural education for Ireland,
and therefore the speeela of the Rev. Gentleman might seen .irrele-
vant, 3et as one step behind that proximate view led them to the
continuance or non continuance of the Irish Church, it was closely to the
point, and he believed that one other step would lead to the question
of the existence or non-existence of an Established Church in Britain.
On that topic, he thought they ware all indolent and inactive, and
though incomparably the greater number, and the stronger, if
united, their Church was being gradually invaded and undermined
by the measures of their enemies, and by nothing more certainly than
by the national system of education. This brought the Rev. Gentle-
man to argue against that system, And the exclusion of the Scriptures
from Ds schools, which he did with Areat eloquence and amid great
applause. He concluded with moving--
" That as the Government of this coentry feels itself precluded
from affording any aid to the schools of the Church Educattni!
Society for Ireland, on the ground that in then: the sacred Scripture,
• ate made an essential part of the instruction given to the pupils, it
is a duty incumbent on all Christians to exert themselves to the ut-
most of their power to supply the means necessary
blessings of Scriptural education to the whole of the pc,orer classesthe community." for affording the
A vote of thanks having been passed to the Chairman, the meeting
separated.
[We are always unwilling to speak against any private indiyidttatt
but in doing our duty to the public, we never met with a more dis-
obliging or ungentlemanly person than he who officiated as secretarl
for this Society.]