The Sun.
London, England, 1833-06-22 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The KING, attended by the Master of the Horse, and
his private Secretary, honoured Lord and Lady HOLLAND
with his company at dinner, on Thursday evening, at
Holland House. The party to meet his MAJESTY con•
•isted of the LORD CHANCELLOR, Earl GREY, the Duke
of RICHMOND, the Duke of GRAFTON, Marquis and
Marchioness of CLANRICARDE, Marquis and Marchioness
•f TAVISTOCK, COLHarga Of ALBEMARLE, Earl of ROSE•
BERRY, Viscount ST. VINCENT, Lord and Lady LILI'ORD,
Colonel and Lady MARY Fox. Dinner was served in the
principal dining-room (over the entrance-hall). After
dinner the company retired to the library.
The Du'hess of GLOUCESTER, the Princess SOPHIA,
and the Princess SOPHIA MATILDA visited their MAJESTIES
yesterday.

His MAJESTY gave audiences yesterday to the Hanoverian
Minister, Lord HILL, and Sir JAMES GRAHAM.
At the Queen's Drawing Room, on Thursday, the fol-
lowing Gentlemen were presented to her MAJESTY :
The Earl Of PEMBROIE, by Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR ;
Mr. BOURSE LAMBERT, by his Royal Highness the Duke
of Sussix ; and Mr. STANDISH, by Lord ROBERT
GROSVENOR.

The Countess CADOGAN and Lady LUCY FRENCH were
also present ; the latter was presented to her MAJESTY by
Countess BRovvNLow

The Duchess of KENT and the Princess VICTORA
accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Plittle,s'
ALEXANDER and ERNEST of Wirtemberg, attended by a
numerous suite, went to Woolwich yesterday morning to
see the military exercise of the Artillery. The Princts
ALEXANDER and CHARLES of Solms, attended by Sir J.
SLADE, also went to Woolwich yesterday to witness tl e
review. Their Royal and Serene Highnesses were receivrd
by the Master-General of the Ordnance, and they pat to,tli
of a dejeuni a la fourchette in the Officers' mess-room.

The Princes MATILDA returned to her residence on
Blackheath yesterday afternoon.
Earl GRAY, Sir JAMES GRAHAM; and Mr. LITTLETnN
Vitited Mr. Secretary STANLICY yesterday.

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 22, 1833.

The fact of the communication of the truly
Royal letter of his MAJESTY, as Head of the
Church, to the Episcopal bench of spiritual
Peers—corroborated by our contemporaries, the
Times and Morning Chronicle—has naturally
strongly excited the public mind. We did not
pretend to be informed of more of the sub-
stance of this seasonable Catholic epistle
than its general monitory substance ; but the
British people ought to know the merits
of such a Sovereign, and the Ministry
supported by such a KING, will be, indeed,
deeply responsible if they do not by their acts
prove themselves a Reforming Government.
The unhappy abeyance of Lord GREY'S Cabi-
net in May, last year, had induced a suspicion
of the patriotic fidelity of his MAJESTY. But
the difficulty of the KING'S situation was extreme;
and it must never be forgotten, that although
he was said to be averse to the exercise of
the Royal Prerogative, yet that he contrived to
carry the Reform Question by a demonstration
of its possession. The greatest curiosity pre-
vails to know the contents of the Royal let-
ter, which the Bishops (who could not keep
it to themselves), may perhaps yet reveal.
We believe his MAJESTY
to be an en-
lightened man in matters of religion, and he

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has nobly and wisely shown his real and con-
servative anxiety for its best interests. The

only evil we see in the Royal
,co
is, that by putting the Right Revei
on their best behaviour, it may ktep
in the House of lords--=a 'part a their public
services, froin 'the burden of which the country
would joyfully relieve them ! t.

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We refer our readers to the important and
stonily debate last night on the subject of the
appropriation of the surplus of the Irish dis-
mantled Church. We understand that to a late
hour the alteration of the original words of the
Bill was intended, as we communicated in /lc
Sun of yesterday, but that the appropriatiOn
was subsequently agreed to in the way in which
it passed last night. This accounts for the
surprise of the Reformers in the House
of Commons when the proposition was
first announced, and great allowance must be
made by the Government for the first adverse
impression of popular Members of Parliament
who stickle for principle. For ourselves, we
confess we see little, reality in the opposition the
alteration encountered. - We should of course
prefer the original prinCiple of appropriation ; but
first, the surplus is probably ideal; secondly, its
present defined appropriation is a legitimate
one ; and thirdly, Parliament is omnipotent ;
and may alter (as it probably will) the appro-
priation, if necessary. Indeed, rather than lose 1
the Bill, • 'Auld have allowed the surplus to
have bee devoted to the holy objects of the
CAR : ~ CLUB. Ministers, however, would
do,weit for the future to meet and consult more
with their friends in the House of Corn-
mops, and some of those Members in ad:
amp of the Ministerial opinions.a're .their
triest sincere and active friends. The best
Government must be ridden with spurs ; the
rowels of Opposition speeches and the public
press give speed and success to public measures.

The Bank of England Charter being about to
expire, all the world expected that the dreadful
convulsions which had originated in its mono-
poly and mismanagement would at once be put an
end to by extinguishing that monopoly. Instead
of that, Lord ALTHORP brings forward a plan
not for the renewal of the Bank Charter upon
liberal principles, not even for its renewal
upot► its present plan of a restricted mono-
poly, but for its renewal upon a plan of in-
creased monopoly. Looking to its effect, we
ought not to call the measure one for the

renewal of the Bank of England Charter, but
one for suppressing Ibur hundred banking
establishments, and giving the Bank a power

Lever from the beginning of the world be-
fore possessed by any private body of men
whatever. Mr. POULETT SCROPE, we recol-
lect, in his pamphlet, asked what would be
thought of the man who should propose
at this time of day to vest in a particu-
lar body of men the supply of London
with provisions, in order to insure regularity,
when experience has proved that, by leaving the
supply open to competition, the object is effected
in a manner as beautifully perfect as it is appa-
rently complicated and irregular. He then put,
in the most striking point of view, the absur-
dity of the ignorant arguments on which
the monopoly of the Bank, as applied
to London alone, was defended ; but what would
he have said, had he been told that a man could
be found not only to argue that the London
market, but the markets of every town in the
kingdom, should, for the sake of insuring re-
gularity of supply, be put into the uncontrolled
power of a single body of individuals ? Would
he not have said that such a man must have been
asleep since the time of ELIZABETH, when
it was thought wise to restrict the building of
houses in London " lest the head should grow
too large for the body ?" Would he not have
said that it must be some man who, having got
the crotchet of a single bank of issue into his
head has not taken the trouble to examine
whether other plans may not have all its
fancied advantages without any of its proved
disadvanteges ? Would he have believed us if
we had told him that it was a man who, being a
landowner, was yet so enlightened as to see that
a home monopoly of corn was not for the ad-
vantage either of himself or of the country ? Yet
so it is, and not only is it in despite of public
expectation, in despite of sound principle, but in
despite of actual pledges from the Government, that
the present Bank Charter plan is brought forward.
At a Meeting of Country Bankers, which
took place yesterday at Radley's Hotel, and
which has indeed given rise to these observa-
tions, the assertion of a breach of faith having
been committed was made by almost every gen-
tleman that spoke, and we believe with perfect
truth. What the intentions of the Government
were in 1826, we showed yesterday in the letter
written by Lord LIVERPOOL to the Governor
of the Bank, and that these intentions were
stated to the Country Bankers to reconcile
them to the suppression of the small notes,
we cannot doubt. The report of the pro-
ceedings at Radley's Hotel does not in-
form us what took place between the deputa-
tion and Lord ALTHORP on this particular
point of.the pledge of Government, and the
only result of the interview was that his Lord-
ship, with his usual courtesy, told the members
of the deputation that he would communicate
their objections to his colleagues. Should not
this produce any change in the determination of
his Majesty's Government, we trust the country
bankers will not slacken the efforts they have so
well begun. The one thing needful for them now
to do is to endeavour to make the country gentle-
men understand how their interests are affected by
the measure. Unfortunately, the stolid iEno-
rance of a great part of the House upon sub-
jects of this nature, almost exceeds belief;
and what is worse, it is precisely of this
part that the main section of thick and thin
Ministerial supporters consists. Neverthe-
less, we would not have the country Bankers
be discouraged, for, as the individuals we
have in our eye are incapable of entertaining
more than one idea at a time, if they can but
succeed in convincing them that the plan will
" injure the land," as well as depress com-
merce, shackle industry, and create a mono-
poly which no power will ever after be able to
break down, nothing that Lord ALTHORP can
afterwards say will drive that idea out, for this
session at least. There are two classes of
Members in the House upon whom we think it
particularly incumbent to Oppose this measure.
We mean the Scotch and Irish Members. If
they suffer Lord ALTHORP to carry his sole
bank of issue plan into effect in England,
what security have they that he will not elms •4-
it to Scotland and Ireland ? Indeed, on
pretence can Parliament refuse to place,•the
traders and bankers of Ireland and Scotland on
the same footing as those of England? Let the .