The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-27 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

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The Queen and Prince Albert drove in a pony car-
riage to the beach, on Thursday afternoon, returning to
osborne house soon after seven o'clock.
The. Royal Family rode on ponies in the plantation.
There was no addition to the royal dinner circle in

the evening.
' Yesterday morning her Majesty and her Royal Con-
sort walked in the pleasure- grounds of Osborne House.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice,
took their accustomed walks and rider on the sea beach,
yesterday forenoon.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke o."Zid Duchess o f
Cambridge honoured the Duke and Duchgss of Cleve-
land with their company at dinner yesterday evening, at
their residence, in St. James's-square.
A Cabinet Counsel was summoned yesterday muyning
to meet at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. At one
o'clock the following Ministers assembled :—Sir Rob°ll
Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, the'
Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Haddington, the Earl
of Aberdeen, Sir James Graham, Mr. Secretary Glad-
stone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of
Ellenborough, the Earl of Ripon, Lord Granville
Somerset, the Earl Lincoln, the Earl of Dalhousie, the
flight Hon. Sidney Herbert, and the Earl St. Germans.
The Council sat half an hour.
A deputation of the Directors of the Southampton
and Dorchester Railway Company, consisting of the
Deputy Chairman, Mr. John Mills, Mr. W. Chaplin,
Colonel Henderson, Captain Breton, Mr. T. Smith, Mr.
M. Uzielli, and Sir John Guest, etended by Captain
Moorsom, engineer ; Mr. C. Castleman, solicitor ; and
Captain Griffiths, secretary, had an interview with the
Commissioners of Woods and Forests yesterday, at their
Office in Whitehall-place.
Captain Denison, RN., had an interview v7ith Mr.
Secretary Gladstone yesterday, at the Colonial 00ce•
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners fur England ht:d a
Committee Meeting yesterday. There were presei2t,
the Bishops of Gloucester and Bristol, Oxford and
Worcester.
The Metropolitan Railway Termini Commission met
yesterday. The Commissioners present were Viscount
Canning, the Earl of Dalhousie, the Lord Mayor, d
Sir Frederick Smith.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an in-
terview with the Chancellor of the ExcheVer yesterday,
at his official residence in Downing-stree
at the Colonial-
Dispatches were received yeterday
office, from the Governor of Gibraltar.

CITY OF LONDON LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY.
Upwards of one hundred of the members and friends
of this Society. sat down to an excellent dinner at the
Brunswick Hotel, Blackwall.
In consequence of the absence of the Right Hon. the
Lord Mayor, the chair was filled by the Rev. C. Lane,
M.A. The usual toasts having been disposed of,
The CHAIRMAN proposed " Success to the City
.of
London Life Assurance Society, and long life to the in
and, in a very neat and appropriate
called attention to the benefits to be derived from' the
establishment of such institutions. The present instit.h-
tion contained all the advantages presented by othei
life- assurance offices, with certain plans (which it wag
speech,
unnecessary for him to detail at that moment) of a pe-
cul ar nature, and of mutual interest to the assurer and
the assured ; and it also afforded facilities in every de-
partment, on principles of sure economy, limited only by
a strict regard to security. The accumulative, or deposit
assurance, was also a new branch of this institution, to
which he was axious to call particular attention
Mr. BREWSTER proposed the health of theev.
Rev.
Chairman, which was responded to with the greatest
enthusiasm.
The CHAIRMAN returned thanks, and regretted that
the chair was not filled by a more able individual than
himself. He had been called to the chair quite
Lord
unex-
pectedly, in consequence of the Right Hon. the
Mayor timing to attend a special summons of tile Com-
missioners of Woods and Forests.
Mr. SPARLING proposed the health of the Directors
of the City of London Life Assurance Society. To
them was mainly attributable the present success of
their Society, and the position which it then held among
other societies of a similar nature.
Mr. SIMPSON, one of the directors, returned thanks.
Several other minor toasts were proposed, after which
the meeting broke up.
It is but fair to state that the dinner was set
ved up in
most excellent style, and several songs, which well) sung,
in the course of the evening by Messrs. Hobbs
and
Hawkins, were most enthusiastically cheered by
:he
company present.•
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LORD STANLE PROTEST
AGAINST THE CORN BILL.

Dissentient-
1. Because the Repeal of the Corn Laws will greatly
increase the dependence of this country upon foreign
pove
se
countries for its supply of food; and will thereby ex
it to dangers against which former statesmen ha
thought it essential to take legislative precautions.
2. Because there is no security, nor probability, that
other nations will take similar steps•, and this country
will, therefore, not only be exposed to the Tisks of
failure of supply consequent on a state of war, bu! will
also be exclusively subject to an unlimited influx of
corn in times of abundance, and to sudden checks when-
ever short crops shall reduce the ordinary supply from
the exporting countries, or their Governments shall
deem it „necessary to take precatitionity.measures for
their own protection; thus causing rapid -hnd disaStrous
fluctuations of price in the markets of this country.
3. Because under a system of protection the agricul-
ture of this country has more than kept pace with the
increasing demand of its increasing population ; and
because it is to be apprehended that the removal of pro-
tection may throw some lands out of cultivation, arol
check on others the progress of improvement, which has
led to this satisfactory result.
4. Because it is unjust to withdraw protection from
the landed interest of this country, while that interest
remains subject to exclusive burdens, imposed fo pu
p ses of general, and not special, advantage.
5. Because the loss to be sustained by the repeallhof
the corn-laws will fall most heavily on the least Wea Y
portion of the landed proprietors ; will press I°l*,
mediately and severely on the tenant-farmers ;
through them, with ruinous consequences on the agri-
cultural labourers.
6. Because, indirectly, but not less certainly, injurioug
consequences w result to the manufacturing interest,
and especially to the artisans and mechanics, from COm-
of
petition with the agricultural labourers thrown out
employment ; but print pally from the loss of the home n
market, caused by the inability of the producers of grai
and those dependent on them to consume manufactured
goods to the same extent as heretofore.
7. Because the same cause will produce similar evil
results to the tradesmen, retail dealers, and others in
country towns, not themselves engaged in agricultural
pursuits, but mainly dependent for their subsistence on
their dealings with those who are so engaged.
8. Because the effect of a repeal of the corn-laws will
be especially injurious to Ireland, by lowering the value
of her principal exports, and by still further reducing
the demand for labour, the want of which is among the
iTinc'pal evils of her social condition.
9. Because a free trade in corn will cause a large and
unnecessary diminution of annual income, thus impair-.
ing the revenue of the country, at the same time that it
cripples the resources of those classes on whom the
weight of local taxation now mainly falls.
10. Because a general reduction of prices conaequent
on a reduction of the price of corn will tend unduly W
raise the moneyed interest at the expense of all others,
and to aggravate the pressure of the national burdens.
11. Because the removal of differential duties ill
favour of Canadian corn is at variance with
the legislative encouragement held out to that
colony by Parliament, on the faith of which the
colonists have laid out large sums upon the improve-
ment of their internal navigation ; and because the
removal of protection will divert the traffic of the inte-
rior from the St. Lawrence and the British ports of
Montreal and Quebec, to the foreign port of New York;
thus throwing out of employment a larcre amount of
British shipping, severing the commercial interests of
Canada from those of the parent country, and connect-
ing those interests most intimately with the United
States of America.
12. Because the adoption of a similar system, with
regard to other articles of commerce, will tend to sever
the strongest bond of union between this country and
her colonies ; will deprive the British merchant of that
which is now his most certain market, and sap the fowl.
dation of that colonial system, to which, commercially
and politically, this country owes much of its present
greatness.

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butter, eggs,
poultry, numerous Pack descriptionages of fruit.
boxes of this esteemed his
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nip of that portion of our
American colonies and will
the governors
early in August, on his return to this' country.
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land, the Go::
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having
been hastened Scotia,h
astend by the delicate health of the
Cary are daily expected to
Viscountess Fa
arrive at Liverpool nom Halifax, her Ladyship's departure front
Nova Scotia
honourable gentleman.
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The service, which had been stopped, was then resumed, The earm
among the female portion of the congregation was very great, some
of them fainting. The young woman was conveyed home to her
friends, who stated that she was subject to fits.—Kentisli Observer.
SUICIDE OF A GENTLEMAN.—Last evening Mr. G. L
Mill, held an inquest at the Black Lion, Church Street, Chelsea, on
the body of Mr. Edward Mott, aged fifty-seven years, a gentleman
of property, who destroyed himself by nearly severing his head from
his body. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased, who wag
a widower, was during the latter part of the Peninsular war, a
commissary In the army, and afterwards a linen-draper in South-
ampton, from which business he retired about ten years since, having
amassed considerable property. During the last ten weeks
the deceased had been staying at No. 1 Church-street,
Chelsea, with Mr. Charles Wellington, and appeared in the
enjoyi.nent of his usual health and spirits. On Monday last
deceased, with Mr. Wellington, proceeded to Brighton, tO
remain there during the week. On Tuesday evening about
nine o'clock, Mr. Wellington was surprised at seeing the deceased
suddenly walk into the house, and on asking him why he had left
Mrs. Wellington, he said, "Oh, I am very tired, and want to go to
bed," and went up to his bedroom. About Seven o'clock Mr. Wel-
lington went up to deceased's room to call him to breakfast, but
found the door fastened on the inside. No answer having been re-
turned, the door was forced open, when the deceased was found near
the foot of the bed, with his head nearly severed from his body,
having in his right hand an open razor, and under his left arm a
second open razor, both bloody. It was evident from the marks ocf,
blood that the deceased had got out of bed on the other side, an
there first cut his throat, and then gone round the bed to a table,
and taken the second razor, and repeated the act, and fell where he
was found. The jury returned a verdict ";That the deceased com-
mitted the act himself, but there is not sufficient evidence before
them as to the state of WA mind at the tiXae.",