The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-16 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent,
the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the do-
mestic household, attended Divine service yesterday
morning in the Private Chapel, Buckingham Palace. The
sermon was preached by the Bishop of London, and the
prayers were read by the Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Cour-
tenay.

Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their accus-
tomed early walk yesterday.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred,- the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice,
were taken their usual airings yesterday in the royal
gardens.
Sir Robert Peel had an audience of the 'Queen on
Saturday.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the royal
gardens on Saturday forenoon. The Prince afterwards
rode out on horseback, attended by Sir Edward Bowater.
Her R )3,231 Highness the Princess Royal was taken an
airing on Saturlay.
Th royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace, on Sa-
turday, included her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, the Duchess of Sutherland, Lady Caroline Leveson
Gower, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, the
Earl of Lincoln, the Earl and Countess of Deltwarr,
the Right Hon Sir George Cockburn, Sir George Couper,
Bart., and Captain F:ancis Seymour.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert did Messrs. Hunt and
Roskell the honour of inspecting, on Saturday, the
jewels they have just completed for her Royal Highness
Princess Sophia, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Saxony;
also the piece of plate presented to his Excellency M. de
Lisboa, and the magnificent silver candelabrum, part of
a service of plate now finishing for his Imperial Majesty
the Emperor of Russia. Her Majesty and his Royal
Highness were pleased to express their approbation.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Duchess of. Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House.
Their Royal. Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge honoured the Italian Opera with their pre-
sence, on Saturday evening.
Dispatches from the Governor-General of Canada,
and also from the Governors of the other North Ameri-
can provinces, were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office. _

The Duke of Wellington, Lord G. Paulet, and Sir
Frederick Trench attended the early service yesterday
in the Chapel Royal St. James's. The Rev. Dr. Wesley
officiated, and preached the sermon at the daily service ;
the Bishop of Salisbury preached the sermon, and the
Rev. Dr. Sleath officiated it the communion service.
The anthem, " 0 God, thou art my God" (Greene), was
sung by Messrs. Bennet and Bradbery. Mr. Turle pre-
sided at the organ. The Marquises of Anglesey and
Northampton, Earl and Countess Delawarr, Earl and
Countess St. Germans, Lords Palmerston, Cantalupe,
Ingestre, Hatherton, and Foley were among the nobility
present.
The following are the Lent Preachers at the Chapel
Royal, St. James's Palace, for this present week :
Sunday, March 15—Lord Bishop of Salisbury.
Wednesday, March 18—Dr. Wesley.
Friday, March 20—Dean of Lincoln, Mr. Ward.
The Ecclesiastical Commissimers for England had a
Committee•meeting on Saturday afternoon, at the office
in Whitehall-place. There were present the Bishop of
London, the Bishop of Oxford, the Earl of Bessborough,
and the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse.

INTERMENT IN PROTESTANT
CHURCHYARDS.
(From the Dublin Evening Post.)
An occurrence took place this morning, in St. Cathe-
rine's Churchyard, which appears to us deserving of
severe r.'prension and public exposure. Arrangements
had been made for the interment of a highly respectable
citizen, the late Surgeon Roney, of Kildare-street, in
the burial-ground of that church, where many mem-
bers of his family have found their last resting place.
As the deceased !gentleman was a Catholic, his rela-
tions were anxious that a clergyman of that communion
should attend the funeral, and read the burial service
at purpose, as the law requires
it, theap grave.plicati application
Fur this
amade
yesterday to the
rector, the Rev. H. Hurst, for the necessary permis-
sion. This form having been complied with, and no
refusal having been given, a Catholic clergyman accor-
dingly attended this morning ; but just as he was about
to commence the solemn office, the sexton, or some other
underling of the rector, made-his way amongst the rela-
tives and friends of the deceased, crowded around the
grave, and served the following notice :
" To the Minister or Priest about to officiate at the fa-

neral of -- Roney, Esq.
" I hereby warn you that if any religious services,
otherwise than those of the Church of England and Ire•
land be performed in my church-yard by any one than
an ordained minister of the church, and according to the
rites of the Established Church, I will take legal pro-
ceedings against you."
" H. HunsT, Rector of St. Catherine's, Dublin.
" March 11, 1846."
This insulting and unnecessarily offensive proceeding
caused the deepest indignation amongst the relatives
and friends of the deceased. If permission had been
refused yesterday, the interment would have taken place
without the Catholic service, or the remains of Surgeon
Roney would, probably, have been consigned to one of
the Catholic burial-grounds. But, the feeling was na-
tural that his ashes should mingle with those of his
family in the same burial•ground ; and it never could
have been contemplated, when a day had elapsed after
the application to the rector, that such an outrage upon
the feelings of his relatives, and the sanctity of the grave,
would have been attempted.
It is thus, however, that the Established Church in
Ireland confronts the Catholics of this country at every
turn, and renders it impossible for them to forget, for an
instant, the power still conferred on that Church by the
law to insult the people with its arrogant ascendancy,
even at the brink of the grave. Such mementos, at such
a place, have a most salutary tendency—they remind the
people of one of their most intolerable social and politi-
cal grievances.
The Protestant incumbents of Dublin have already
lost a large revenue since the establishment of the Ca-
tholic cemeteries. The exhibition in Catherine's church-
yard, this day, must strengthen the repugnance of Ca-
tholics to incur similar insults to themselves and their
clergy for the future.