The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-20 00:00:00

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Wisinsort, MONDAY.—The Queen held a Court ti is
afternoon .at-the Castle.
Earl Grey had an audience of her Majesty, and deli-
vered the ens;gns of the Order.of the Garter worn by
his late father. •
Her Majesty held a Chapter of the Most Noble Order
of the Garter. The Knights CoMpanions having been
robed in the armours in their mantles and collars, passed
into St. tieorg,e's Halls where they were called over by
Garter King of Arms. The Knights Companions pre-
sent were his Royal Hitihries4 Prince Albert, his Royal
IfighnesS the Duke of Cambridge, his Royal Highness
Prince George, the Duke of Rutland, Duke of Welling-
ton, Marquis of Exeter, Duke of Richmond, Duke of
Buccleuch; Marquis of Lansdowne, Duke of Beaufort,
Duke of Cleveland,- Marquis of Abercorn, Earl Talbot,
andthe Earl of Powis. .
'The officers of the order attended in • their mantles,
chains, and badges. There were present, the Prelate,
'the Bishop of Winchester, the Char.cellor, the Bishop of
Oxford, the Registrar, the Honourable and Very Rev.
the Man of Windsor ; Garter Principal King of Arms,
Sir Charles Young ; and Gentleman Usher of the Black
Rod, Sir Augustus W. J. Clifford, Bart.
The
Queen and Prince Albert were conducted from
the private- apartments to the Garter Room, b • tho
Lord y
Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the
odehde
ffrorse, the Vice Chamberlain, the Treasurer of the
i
bi being seated
he Officers
oitisehold, and the Comptroller of the Household.ler Majesty
ofa the e h aoi rrdoefr state,prooe e thed ed
Knights, atte
into the presence of the Sovereign. The Cha'n ll rce o re-
maining at the door, not having been sworn.
The Knights Companions being seated, the Registrar
signified to , the Sovereign that the Right Rev. Dr.
Samuel Wilberforce, Lord Bishop- of Oxford, attended
at the door of the Chapter-room, and humblyy, prayed, to
be admitted to take the oath of office as Chancellor of
the Most Noble Order; whereupon, by her Majesty's
command,. the. Chancellor, wearing his mantle of purple
va,-,ot .v,ZT is episcopal habit, was ilato:....iwoad hcit_swok‘i
'Gaiter-a-a aile Rod, the former carrying on a vOvet
cushion the puree, gold chain, and badge, The Chlan--
cellor knelt on the left hand of the Sovereign, and she
oath was administered to him by the Registrar. His
Lordship was then invested -by the Queen with the gold
chain and badge, and having' received from her Majesty
the purse, had the honour to kiss hands, and retired to
his place on the left hand of the Sovereign. i
The Chancellor sighed to the Chapter her Majeyly's
royal pleasure that the 'two vacant stalls in the Rciyal
Chapel of St. George at Windsor, should be filled, and
'as by the statutes none but Knights can be elected,h
Most Honourable
_George Charles, Marquis Cam en
was introduced by G-arter King of Arms and Black od
The sword of state, borne by Sir William'Martins; en-
cl
tleman ;Usher, havingteen handedno the Queen, by the
Lord Chamberlain, her Majesty was pleased to °oiler'
the honour of Knighthood therewith. His Lcirdship,
having kissed- he Sovereign's hand, retired. -
- The Most- _Honourable Richard; Marquis of Hertford
was introduced. and knighted with the same ceremony.
- The Kriikhti CciriVanions proCeeded to the election,
and the suffrages having been collected by the Ohanhel-
lor and presented by him to the Queen, her Maj sty
commanded him to declare that the Most Honour ble
George Charles Marquia-Caintlenliarl been duly ele ted
a Knight Cerkpanion. of thesillost Foible Order of the
Garter.
1
Then, by the SoVereign's commusd, his Lordship
was received a the 'door of the Chapter-room by Earl
Talbot and the Earl of Pow's, the two Junior Knights
Companions present, and was conducted between them
to her Majesty, preceded by Garter (bearing the' en-
signs of the order upon a crimson velvet cushion) and
by Black Rod.. The Marquis Camden knelt near the
Queen, and Garter King of Arms presenting on his
knee the Garter, the Noble Marquis was invested
therewith by the Queen, essisted• by the twe senior
knights present, the Chancellor pronouncing the usual
admonition.
The Queen, having received the -Ribbon and George
from GartetKina of Arms, put the same over' his
Lordship's left shoulder, the Chancellor pronouncing
.the customary admonition. The Marquis again kissed
her Majesty's; hand, and having received the congratu-
lations of each of the Knights Companions retired.
The Chapter proceeded • to a'second election, and the
suffrages having been collected-by the Chancellor, were
presented to the Queen, when the Most Hon. Richard
Marquis of Hertford was declared duly elected a Knight
of the Most Noble Order 'of the' Garter ; the Noble Mar-
quis was introduced, and was invested by her Majesty
with the -Garter, and the Riband and George, with the
like ceremonies.
The Chapter being, ended, _ the Knights Companions
were called over by Garter,. ,and, together with the
officers of the' Order, tetiratleom the presence of her
Majesty.
The Queen* wore the mantle and collar of the Order
at the Investiture. The Prelate stood on the right of
the Queen, the Chancellor on the left, the other officers
of the Order remaining at the bottom of the table. ;The
Duchess of Buccleuch., Mistress of the Robes, and the
Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady in Waiting, were behind her
,Majesty on the left ; and the Lord Chamberlain, with
- the sword of state, on the opposite side. The officers of
the Royal Household in waiting occupied their usual
stations. - . -- • .
Sir Robert Ped and Sir James Graham were present
at the august ceremony.
Ater the Investiture, the Duke of Richmond had an
audience of her 'Majesty, to present addresses.
The Court was attended by the Marquis of Anglesey,
Gold Stick in Waiting, Marquis of Ormonde, Lord in
Waiting, Admiral Sir Robert Otway, Groom in Wait-
• ing, Colonel Cavendish, Silver Stick in Waitirg, Colonel
ANCIENT CHINESE SEALS FOUND Buckley, _Equery in Waiting, Colonel Bouverie,
IN IRELAND. .
, Equeiy in Waiting to Prince Albert, the Groom of the
Robes, Mr. Stnart Wortley, and the Honourable Mr.
At a meeting of the Natural History and Philoeophi-
Forbes Pages of Honour in Waiting, and the Meld
cal Society, held at Belfast, on-the 13th of December ,. ~. .
Officer in w tilting.
.
last, Mr. Getty delivered a lecture on the natural his-•
TY Guard'C ' The oernanin their Coronation costume were
tory of man, which he illustrated by the severalvalu-
on duty in St. George's
able donations made to the Society's museum, by Gordon Sir George Lee, the Lieutenant, Mr.
A. Thomson, Esq., consisting of various articles of art Guard Chamber.
costume, &c., from North and South America, the Ellenthorp, the Adjutant, and Sir Samuel Hancock,
Islands of the Pacific, China, &c. After some obierva- .
Exon in Waiting.
tions on the several races, the lecturer took up the sub- honour of the 'Grenadier Guards, com-
A guard of
~
mended by Colonel Spottiswoode, attended during the
ject of these donations, some of which he Courtde- mended
in the Grand Quadrangle withthe band of the
'
scribed and commented on as illustrating the
social condition of man in various countries. When regiment.,h.•
Te. Queen gave a grand dinner party in the evening,
speaking of the early intercourse of the Chinese
to which all the Knights. of the Order of the Garter pre-
with other parts of the world, Mr. Getty men-
sent at the Chapter were honoured with invitations, and
dolled the vessels found in the ancient Egyptian tombs
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and the still more remarkable proofs afforded by the were present, with the exceptions of his Royal High-
ness tho Duke of Cambridge, who left the Castle in the
small porcelain seals found in Ireland, long suseected
afternoon for Kew, and the Marquis of Anglesey', who
but now proved, to be Chinese. The history of these,
was - prevented by indisposition from being present, and
, like many other matters of Irish antiquity, is enveloped
who also took his departure from the Castle in the
in obscurity. They have a written character on the base ''afternoon.
of each; and are small cubes with a monkey as a handle.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the
At One time it was doubted that the marks on the base
Duchess of Buccleuch, the Marchioness of Camden, the
were characters. An eminent zoologist, to whom Mr.
Marquis of Granby, the Earls of Liverpool, Delawarr
Getty had showed one of those, declared the animal to
be the Chinese monkey, and Sir John Francis Davis had and Jersey ; Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth,
decided the inscriptions to be " perfectly recognisable the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Oxford, the
as the ancient.seal character of. China, often used kit the Honourable and Very "Rev. the Dean of Windsor, the
present day on the seals of public and private persons." Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, the Right Honourable Sir
James Graham, Sir Henry Wheatley,
Mr. Joseph Huband Smith read a paper on it some time the p of Major-Generalhe Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell,
rovost Eton, t
ago, in the Royal Irish Academy. He also had casts
the Rev. Dr. Hawtrey, Major-General and Lady Isa-
made of many of these seals, some of which are in the
hello Wemy Mr. and Mrs. W. Harcourt, Sir George.
,
Belfast Museum, as well as two of the original seals., In
and Lady Cossu? er, Hon. and Rev C. Leslie Courtena '
Belfast, Mr. Joseph William Murphy,. has been dili-
Mr. Ralph Neville,P John M. Burgoyne (G cl•3'
, Sir rena ler
gently pushing the inquiry, and is anxious to asc rtain
Guards), Lieut.-Colonel Williams (2d Life Guards),
the history of every one found in Ireland up to the pre-
and Mr. Glover, were also present at the banquet.
sent period, so that their identity may be determined
D.served in the Waterloo Gallery, the inner was
can-
beyond doubt.
delabrum of "St. George," the Patron Saint of the
Mr. Getty read an interesting memoir, furnished by
Most Noble Order of the Garter, and the most mrignifi-
Mr. Murphy and exhibited a great variety of caste made
cent in the royal treasury, forming the principal orna-
by that gentleman, as well from the Irish seal as mo-. ,
_whichwas covered with
meet in the centre of the table,
dern Chinese, many of which, formed of steatite, have
numerous ice, pails and pine stands, and was brilliantly.
been brought to Europe, but none at all identical in ma-
illuminated with numerous candelabra (filled with waxterial with those found in Ireland. The character, too,
of the Irish is of a more ancient
lights), the whole of silver gilt. The beautiful
this Gallery were also lighted on this occasion.
the valuable donation lately made the Museum by G. The Band of the Grenadier Guards was in attendance _
A. Thomson, Esq., exhibited several of the modern in one of the galleries during dinner, and performed the
seals, as well as various public documents, &c., bearing a
f.llowing pieces : .
stamp on them in the seal character. Tie also exhibited
Fantasia, on favourite subjects, from Meyerbeer and
several very beautiful carved works, in sandal-wood, Donizetti. ---
having small seals on them, from Mr. Murphy's pollee- - Waltz, "Die Rheinlanckr "---Hillmar.
don. Extracts were also read from a letter received
Polkas " Ernestinew "--eKuhner.
about a month ago, from Mr. Comelate, formerly of
Caseatcsna con Coro ,(Separate, 0 figli lda,' )
l
io from
Belfast, now residing at Hong-Kong, giving a transla- ,
Neimoodonosor Verdi. .
tion of the impression on one of the Irish seals, obtained -
Galo - " Glockenspiel "Kuhner. •
by the Rey.. Mr. Gutzla ff, the Secretary. to the Gbvern- p,
"—Kuhner.
meat, from a reamed Chinese-other Chinese afterWarAs Allegro movement from Mendelsohn's Overture (Die
Meerestille). ' . .
read it, and gave the same interpretation. General Potpourri, "La Polka Manic "—Kuhner.
D'Aguilsr had also requested Mr. Comelate to present Quick March, " Mein Herz ist ani Rhein."
_tithe Museum a print of the Goddess of Mercy, given Aftee dinner her Majesty% private band attended in
la to: ro in
to him by the Buddist priests of the Tempe ' the Castle and performed the following••
Arrioy, having on it impressions of two seals hi the same
Overture, " Promethee "—Beetho
character. This communication was Interesting. as the March, " Zattherflote" Mozart. ven.
first actual interpretation,' by a Chinese scholare and Allegro, Sinfonia, No. 10 ayd
fixes beyond doubt the feet of the sofas_ found in different. Minuet and Trio—Kall d - 11.
parts. of Ireland being Chinese, hesseeeee singular it may
Sehergo—Mendelsaoh ew°
a.'
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n.
appear. Adagio and Rondo—Reiisigeis

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CURIOUS DISCOVERY.
- VIENNA, JAN. I.—The excitement occasioned by the
to
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truth
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conversation—onehn
mere
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boys,ri fi ei
relatingnownv en
havingt
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been
uint ipeod
and the various caueans, political and anecdotLal,
n
the sulti, ct, even down to the j..kes of those established
al-
ready declared " stale, fiat, and unprofitable," the at-
tention of the newsmongering world has been attracted
sub-
ject so full of strange mystery and conjecture, as to
form a romance of real life, which, if it lacks entirely
the ingredients in such tales—the love and assassination,
and' developement of human passions—is none the less
full of interest and wonder—a tale almost incredible,
were not the details, as far as established facts are con-
cerned, not...only warranted by the most undoubted au
thority, but matters of notorious publicity.
To tell the tale, however, I must begin ab ovo, and re-
late how a certain young Hungarian of Presburg, not
overburdened, it would seem, either with sense or talent,
or even other advantages, moral or physical, of the name
of Flukey, was some months since requested by a great
aunt, the widow of a well-known advocate of the same
city, to seek some family papers deposited in a garret
in her house. During his search for these matters,
his attention, as it seems, was called by a friend
who accompanied him—for his' - own powers of
perception upon- the subject do not appear to have
been
.great—to certain documents which fell under
their hands concerning persons of the highest rank in
foreign countries. Roused to a sense- of a certain im-
portance to be attached to these papers, young Bracy
takes possession of them ; and one set of papers is sent
to his Majesty the King of the French. Of some im-
portance they certainly must have been ; for the offer of
a recompense in money for their being dispatched to
Paris having been rejected by the young man, the Order
of the Legion d'Honneur is bestowed upon him by Louis
Philippe, and an invitation made to him by his Majesty
to become his' guest, if he 'should ever wish to visit
Paris, and Go have all the expenses of his journey paid.
The contents of another. set of papers, are communi-
cated to the families of the reigning houses of Baden,
Lucca, and Tuscany, and this communication also has
its value, for similar offers of pecuniary recompense
orefnsv:uti
Vienna,
edpn,adE:
from these various powers having been alike 'refused,
orders from each of these countries are also bestowed
upon the discoverer of the documents ; a gold snuff-
box, enriched with diamonds, is added by the Grand
Duchess- of Baden ; and behold the young nameless un-
considered advocate now parading the streets of his na-
-1 tive town with four decorations dangling at his button-
, hole. To what the contents of these important
papers may have related is the subject only of conjec-
ture, or, at most, of vague rumour. Those appertaining
to the family of Orleans are said to have been letters
written by the famous Philippe Egan* the father of the
present King of the French, to an Austrian Minister,
during the times of the French Republic; but what is
their importance as regards the family at the
.present
day, can only be dimly divined. Those concerning the
other ducal houses already mentioned have received from
rumour quite another signification, and are supposed
to refer to estates in Hungary, to which these families
have a claim, until now ignored or forgotten by
them, though what tie of relationship or affinity does
not at all appear, and which, sold in troublous times for
a mere trifle, and now of immeasurably greater worth,
may,- according to the tenor of Hungarian law, be re-
claimed at the price ofAhe original sale, by the descend-
ants of the parties who originally possessed and sold
them. The value however of such a discovery, if this
conjecture be true, is more evident than in the previ-
ous case. How these papers, of so different and strange
a nature; fell into the hands of the Presburg advocate in
whose house they have been found so many years after-
wards, must necessarily be obscure ; but here again ru-
mour supplies the place of more authentic information,
and we are told that originally in the possession of ai
well known Austrian Minister, they were placed by him
in the hands of the depository' at Presburg for secnrity
and secrecy during the time of the invasion of Austria
by the. French under Napoleon, and that, afterwards
reclaimed, they were denied by the advocate ever to
have been in his possession, though for what reason
must again remaia a mystery. The tale, however, is
not et done—the most extraordinary is still to come.
Searching still further, emboldened by his discoveries,
young Bulky stumbles some time afterwards upon
papers nearly concerning the house of Austria. Armed
with these documents, h came about two months since
to Vienna, and there, as a recompense for his discovery,
boldly demands the honour of being nominated chamber-
lain to the emperor—a distinction only bestowed upon
persons able to prove their puro and unalloyed descent
from ancestors of Heaven knows how many degrees,
and make what is called their ahnenprobe, and
ahnenprobe young Balcy can male none, for' his
father' was a bourgeois advocate, his mother
a butcher'S daughter. What these last docu-
ments may contain none, as yet know. Rumour is
silent, and even conjecture holds its tongue in Austria.
But the certain fact exist that the young unknown advo-
cate has been granted his bold demand, and now.dons
the uniform of the emperor's chambarlain, and sports
the significative two golden buttons, supposed to sup-
port the key emblematic of his office, on the back c)f lii;
coat. However strange may be the adventures (.f
Mastei Bilky of Presburg—however incomprehensible
his fortunes, the tale is true and warranted. The moral
of it may be that some people are burn with g-blden
spoons in their mouths—perhaps to stop them ! Times

Sir Robert Peel arrived at the Castle yesterday, on a
visit to the Queen.
The incessant rain during the day has prevented the
Royal Foreily from being taken their usual exercise.

RUSSIA UNDER TILE AUTOcRAT.--:-The WOTk now
exalting so much tato:it:inn, bearing the title of "Russia
under the Autocrat Nicholas 1.," is written by a Rus-
sian subject, of t.',..,0d family, and considerable literary
celebrity, neraea Ivan Golovine, who, having been per- I —r-r."l-•!....T--.7
milted to quit tlr: dominions of the autocrat, and enjoy 1 rtiE 'ETNIOPIAN SERENADERS
the freedom of ;Alder forms .of government, has nee.- i . . CONCERT.,
lected the ar.blf,eary command from St. Petersburg thatl The llP,aoVer-sqUare Rooms v; ere well filled last even
recalled him, Itorne, and to avoid the heavy penalty thus ;in by a, fashionable audience, who assembled for the
incurred, of %-mnishment to Siberia; he has been forced 1 purrAe of hearing the unique performances of some new
to abandon. I,:is country, where his property has already 1 ea'Aliklates for public favour, who entitle themselves
been confiscated. MI Golovine has been employed in i " The Ethiopian Serenaders." The party consists of
the servirJe of the Emperor, and has had faeildies for I live vocal and instrumental performers, whose- b7nti
knowinv; the exact state of his tirodigious em ire which comprises—an accordion, some banjos, a .tamborine,
no fore/pier could have obtained. rie has chosm to I and 'the " bones," the latter forming a, striking pecu-
publish
.his knowledge, and the r 6 lis ' •d' I r •t in negro concert music. The singing of the
su t suoa at • ts- tart y
closure
the risen- 1a...0 .....1 must' ee 1.. ,ft
of the secrets of ' I *--
astonish even thime who have bier, prepared for similar 1 some measure familiar with " darkey".. music, but his
revelations by the recently published works on Russia 1 melodies were of too burlesque ii character to convey
by French and English Waters. - lan} accurate idea of the genuine Ethiopian harmony.
14IVRI
--.R4aOL CoNyitatkuTiroi To TIIR,LEIGUE FUND. 1 It is well known to all who have travelled in the
I —The follwing nAkeikas been received from Mrs:— Ewart ' 'United States of America that the acgro population-cul-
" Leeds„,- Jan. 15.—.7tiy dear Sir—Oa nay return from the tivate the science of sweet sounds to no ordinaryEextc,ast;
Continerot a short 'ame ago, I sent a subscription of 100/.. to many 'elf' their neeledie4 have been married to
aware
egtlhiaht
the-Letvm, Fund, in I.,ninkm,, not keing aware, at the time,,i pootryv.and.hundredswho,sing t !em are not a
of 3'Ou.r proposed :meeting irk Liverpool. I was very glad to I public
see' cilif3 -ninny oontributioma you received on that occasion, I sns of Africa. It is to bring before an
)ilbleton, end
dull. feel Obllged if yott will -add my name fur an additional . . •
Soy these charming airs they ate indcbtecl bi):stvhhe sable
'sum, as a -s4cond subscription, of 1501., making 250/. in t
,his band of musician visit England, after
stems, and Wen
• ke the genuine Ethiopian melodles that Mr. I Lying
whole.-j am; clear- Sir; yours truly, Jos. V. E*AnT.—C, 4,_. . ~ - h tue United
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