The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-30 00:00:00

APRIL 303 1851.

COURT CIRCULAR,

The Queen held a Court yesterday afternoon at Buck-
ingham Palace.
Monsieur Mossurus had an audience of her Majesty,
to deliver his credentials from the Sultan of Turkey.
The Baron Koller, Charge d'Affaires of Austria, had
an audience of the Queen, to deliver an autograph letter
from his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Austria.
Monsieur Mossurus and Baron Koller were respectively
introduced by Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., her Ma-
jesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foriegn Affairs,
end conducted by Colonel the lien. Sir Edward Cast,
K.C.H.. her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies.
The Queen was attended by Lord Waterpark, Lord
in Waiting, and Colonel Berkeley Drummond, Groom
in Waiting.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
visited the Exhibition Building in Hyde-park, yester-
day morning, attended by the Hon. Mary F. Seymour,
Colonel Buckley, and Lieutenant-Colonel Frances Hugh
Seymour.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
Lieutenant• Colonel F. H. Seymour, left Buckingham
Palace shortly before three o'clock yesterday afternoon,
far the London• bridge Terminus, to meet their Royal
Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Prussia, on their
arrival from the continent. The Prince returned to
Buckingham Palace at a quarter before four o'clock, in
company with their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and
Princess of Prussia, with the Princess Louisa, and Prince
Frederic William. _ _ _

The Prince and Princess of Prussia were attended by
the Countess Hacke, the Countess Oriolla, Count Puck-
ler, Major Bogen, A.D.C., Count colts, A.D.C., Colonel
Fischer, and Lieutenant Von Heinz.
The Queen received her royal visitors on their alight-
ing at the grand hall of the Palace. Her Majesty was
attended by the Countess of Charlemont, Hon. Flora
Macdonald, Hon. Mary F. Seymour, Lord Waterpark,
the Master of the Household, Colonel Berkeley Drum-
mond, Colonel Wylde, and Colonel Hon. Charles Grey.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
Lieutenant-Colonel F. H. Seymour, rode out on horse-
back yesterday morning.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, and the younger members of the Royal
Family, took their usual exercise yesterday.
Lord Waterpark has relieved Lord Byron in his duties
as Lord in Waiting to the Queen, and Colonel Berke-
ley Drummond has relieved Captain Hon. Joseph
Denman, R.N., in his duties as Groom-in-Waiting to her
Majesty.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at
Clarence House, St. James's, at one o'clock yesterday
afternoon, from her.residence, Frogmore, near Windsor.
Her Royal Highness was attended by Lady Fanny
Howard, Baroness de Speth, and Sir George Cowper.
Yesterday a deputation from a large number of exhi-
bitors in the Exhibition of 1851, had an interview with
Sir George Grey, at the Home-office, to present a peti-
tion to her Majesty, signed by nearly one thousand
exhibitors, in a few hours. The petition prayed her
Majesty to issue instructions to the Royal Commis-
sions to grant free admissions to all foreign and British
exhibitors during the continuance of the Great Exhi-
bition, and to be present at its opening. The deputa-
tion was composed of the following gentlemen :
Messrs. Hoole, Mintorn, Harvey, Wilson, Johnstoun
Neale, and Webb.

Sir George Grey received the petition, and undertook
to present to her Majesty the same evening if possible.
The Hon. C. B. Haddock, the newly-appointed Mi-
nister of the United States to Portugal, with his lady
and family, arrived in London last week en routo to
Lisbon.

The Oxford University Commission bad a meeting
yesterday at the residence of the First Lord of the
Treasury in Downing-street. Present the Bishop of
Norwich, the Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pembroke,
the Rev. 11. G. Liddell, J. L. Dampier, Esq., the Rev.
Professor Powell, and the Rev. A. P. Stanley (Se-
cretary).
A Deputation from the General Committee of Manage-
ment of the Grand National Exhibition Regatta had an
interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at his offi-
cial residence in Downing. street.
Sir James Duke, M.P., Mr. Masterman, M.P., and
the City Remembrancer, had an interview with Lord
Seymour on Monday at the office of her Majesty's Com-
missioners of Woods and Forests, Whitehall-place.
Lord Monteagle had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday.
Earl and Countess Grey arrived in town on Monday
evening from Howick•hall, Northumberland.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD
REFORM ASSOCIATION.
(EVERY MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY.)
Sir,—On Monday the 28th, the House of Commons
met again alter the Easter vacation, The subject of the
day was the &end Reading of the Income-Tax, which
was carried with comparatively little debate, without a
division; the understanding being, that it was to be de-
bated piecemeal in Committee. This does not
look as if there was any great strength against
the Tax. Men are beginning to find out
that the unpleasantness of a direct tax, is with sen-
sible men a reason for desiring to have taxation shifted
into that form. The man who wants to have as little
taxing as ho can, will surely not desire to see the taxes
iu the form to which the least general resistance will be
made. To direct taxes there will be a direct resistance
and a stoat; to indirect, au indirect resistance, a divided,
and a feeble. Which of the two would a wise man chuse?
The Protectionists, into whose hands the game as far
as concerns discussion in Parliament, has been almost
entirely thrown, made good use of the opportunity.
-Their last talented reinforcement, fresh frcm the field
of victory, with an advocate's skill introduced Free
Trade, and announced it to have " signally failed,"
which was allowed to pass by default, there being
in fact none of the admitted leaders of Free Trade
present to answer. When men in this manner throw
up their briefs, it would be wonderful indeed if the op-
ponent did not triumph. lam told the Free Traders in
the metropolis are beginning to take alarm at this with-
drawal of defence ; and the active measures the Protec-
tionists have in hand, are Rot unlikely to give a fillip to
the feeling. For my own part, I should be over-
whelmed with shame in the recollection of the
many a stout struggle I have helped in my
time to make on this great subject, if I
omitted any opportunity of declaring that the danger
is imminent, palpable, gratuitous, for no reason but be-
cause men would have it so. The years that have inter-
vened since the removal of the Corn Laws, were a pre-
cious season, for friends to tread out the fallacies which
had once been so effectually scotched, and watch for new
ones, and for enemies to put the pieces of the snake to-
gether as far as they were able. The enemies have pro-
ceeded coolly, ably, wisely, to do all that men could do to
rally a weak cause. The friends who were to run against
theta, have gone asleep under their laurels as the hare
might, and now it is odds if the tortoise is not at the
goal. If a powerful party were allowed for half a dozen
years without contradiction to go about maintaining that
the less a man had the more he could eat, the public
would believe them. Human annals cannot show a
great cause so needlessly thrown away. If there is any
saving it, it must be by the immediate revival of the old
Free Trade spirit, and by rallying round, and not tin-
ning down, the Government which is engaged to its
support. It is your day of grace, and you may use it if
you will. I demand of all who may think I hese any
charge on this matter, to note my continual protest, and
acquit me of inattention to their concerns.
On Tuesday a prolonged debate on the supply of
London with water; ending with bringing in a Bill.
After which the House was soon counted out.
I am, Sir, yours very sincerely,
AN OLD REFORIIER.
London, April'3o, 1851.

THE FOOT GUARDS.—WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—This
morning, at a quarter to nine o'clock, an exprees from the
Horse Guards arrived at the Infantry Barracks, Sheet-street.
for the marching of four companies of the lst battalion of
Grenadier Guard to Knightsbridge Barracks, and in less
than three-quart of en hour 372 men in marching order,
under the command of Colonel Goulburne, were seated in the
carriages of the Great Western Railway Company, en route
to Paddington. The skeleton of six companies of
this bat-
talion, consisting of 250 men. under the command of Colonel
Astle, are left to do duty at Windsor Castle.
FRENCH DRAGOONS IN LONDON.--A proposal has
been made to the Government to send the band of the 9th
Dragoons to London, during the Exhibition, as a specimen
of the military music of France. M. Sax, who is the ma-
nufacturer of the greater number of the musical instruments
ased by such bands, was the first to originate the idea, and
has made an application to the Minister of War on the
subject, which has been warmly supported by M. C. Lupin,
the president of the French committee.—Galignani's Hes-
MILITAUY PREPARAIIONS FOR THE GRAND 'Mon. 6
lITION.—For some time past the Duke of Wellington and .eng.'r.
Sir George Grey have been making ing
rand military CALEB FIELD, A TALE. BY TIIE AUTHOR OF
and police arrangements for the ensuing Grand Exhibition. '6II.I.ArtGARET MAITLAND," &c., I. VOL .--Thq author of
At the Cavalry Barracks, Knightsbridge, they have allotted " Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland," and
" Blerkland," has shifted the scene from the Scottish to the
a certain portion of the building for the reception of the 2d
English ground, and changed the time from the present age
battalion of the Grenadier Guards. A portion of the Ist bat-
to that of Charles the Second. " Crdeb Field" is a story de-
talion of the Bile Brigade (now quartered at Dover) will
march to Woolwich, and the ether to the Tower of London, signed to depict the manners and character of the English
where the necessary preparations have been made for them. Presbyterian-Puritans, and the nature of the hardships they
The Ist Royal Dragoons from Nottingham, and the Bth Hus- underwent from the persecuting statutes of Charles. The
ears from Brighton will be stationed in halt billets at Ramp- Plague of London is made the incident round which the
stead and Highgate. The 4th Light Dragoons, from Dublin, groups of persons are gathered. All the placid heroism of
will be quartered in the barracks at Uxbridge. Tae follow- the Puritan ministers, all the terrors and horrors of the
ing will be the stations of the cavalry :—lst Life Guards, plegue, and the self-devotion of Edith, the expelled minis-
Regent's•park, and a portion of the Royal Hone Guards ter's daughter, are painted with a quiet strength and grace,
from Windsor); 2d Life Guards, Knightsbridge and with much knowledge of the times, and a thorough ap-
Hounslow, and a
(Blue, 16th Lancers, preciation of them, on the writer's own interpretation. This
Barracks, Hyde-park ;
portion at Kensington Barracks; the 17th Lancers, consists in sinking the harsher features of the Nonconforming
ien-
from Newbrisig,e to Wcolwich. Infantry-Ist battalion Presbyterians, and bringing out in high relief their consc
Grenadier Guards, Windsor ; 2d ditto, Knightsbridge ; tious sense of religious duty, their mild and uncomplaining
3d ditto, St. George's Barracks, Trafalgar-square. Cold- virtues. The execution of the story is finished and beautiful
stream Guards-Ist battalion, Tower ;Id ditto, Wet- to a high degree.— Spectator.
lington Barracks, St. James's-park. Scots Fusilier Guards— STATE OF TRADE.--MANCHESTER, Amur, 29.-
Ist battalion, Portman-strett Barracks, Oxford-street; and The unsteadiness which we noticed as having possesaion of
2d battalion, St. John's-wood Barracks. A strong rein- the market to-day, is not removed, and in such a position of
forcemfnt of artillery has already arrived at the Tower from things it is dangerous to quote prices. We may, however,
Woolwich. Several other regiments will in all probability be with safety say that there is a decline since Saturday, and we
quartered in the vicinity of the metropolis. The Chelsea shall not be cha-ged with unduly pressing upon holders of
Out-Pensioners will be inspected to-morrow, and those who yarn if we say that it is article, er lb. (for finer deserip-
volunteered their services Ott the last pension day will receive tons rather more) in that or upon the goods mer-
their equipments, muskets, bayonets, swords, &c., and will chants, when we estimate the reduction they have, as a rule,
be quartered at Paddington, Kensington, Hammersmith, and been obliged to submit to, at I iihd. per piece, These esti-
other districts during the Exhibition. The number will ex- mates refer to descriptions in demand ; respecting others it is
coed 8,000 men. With respect to the police regulations,l impossible to speculate, seeing that they are almost literally
they could not have been better carried out than for the oe- out of the market. Printing cloths are already so low that
casion. The metropolitan police has been increased by 900 , no further reduction can well be asked; and as the pressure
men, making an effective force of 5,700 constables, besides I for reduction is upon the fabrics most required for dis-
superintendents, inspectors', and sergeants; and of these, a ' taut export, there is less irregularity with respect to the,
certain number of the most experienced officers have been I price of narrower cloths. There is, however, hope enter-
selected from the differeue divisions and formed into a regular tamed, and apparently reasonably so, that the lowest point
corps of reserve, who will do the special duty during the Ex- is now reached, for it is believed that there are orders in
hibition, as they are well acquainted with all characters. band which will soon come into the market of necessity, and
The city police has also ~been heen increased by 150 men, making at such a period as to enable the spinner to take .advantage
a force of 650 officers, besides inspectors, sergeants, &c. of the fall in cotton, which it is felt must go on.
There will also be a selected number as a reserve and detec- 1 MONUMENT TO EBENEZER ELLIOTT.—At a public
tive force. I meeting at the Council-hall, Sheffield, on Thursday last, it
of free trade, and hisaeknowledged,
Difficulty excites the mind to the dignity wlicb was resolved, " That Ebenezer Elliot's long, zealous, and
greatby geniusthe
sustains and finally conquers misfortune, and the ordeal re- successful advocacy
fines while it ehastens.—Elizu Cook's Journal. . poet, deserve to be publiclyerection
A locomotive
engine is said to be building in New of a monument to his memory." A IT • •
su scription has accord-
York for the Erie R•l in which la. h el h is
ai way, -
ingly been entered into, and Y6O/. has been
to be used for heating the boilers. scribed, chiefly in Sheffield.— Sheffield Times.

April 29.

* The St. Lawrence.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

CHRONICLE.—At this Easter time the invention of
theatrical managers is racked to find new entertainments
ter a " used up" public. New performers in old charac-
ters, or new characters represented by old Performers,
are held forth in taro to ceteh stray half-crowns. The
tastes of all are consulted, according to their reepective
preferences for light comedy or tragical melodrama.
Drury-lane has not been wanting in its functions of ca-
terer to the public amusement; and Azad the Prodigal
and The Robbers have alternately allured the playgoers
of the metropolis. The late hours of fashionable life
have materially interfered with the legitimate drama ;
and it was, therefore, a brilliant idea of Mr. G.
F. Young's " National Association" to give a morn-
ing performance, which should combine in one re_
presentation the spirit of both those pieces. Regardless
of expense, a corps was collected from thesountry, by
whom The Prodigal and The Robbers have been simulta-
neously reproduced with great applause. The landlord
and tenant, of course, sustain appropriate parts in a
composition for which it would have puzzled Aristotle
himself to find a name. Strange enough it seemed to us
to find ourselves in the midst of a modern 0. P. riot in
Drury-lane, where the managers were the assailants,
and the public the victims. Yet so it was—none
were so clamorous for the Old Prices as the tenants
of the green-room. The melodramatic company
of which we speak are courageously regardless of
omens, for the tickets for the performance were
issued from the South Sea House; and, as we plodded
wearily through the mud to Threadneedle-street, we
called to mind the touching reflections of Elia on that
cenotaph of an exploded bubble, and pondered on the
strange fatality which had led a kindred ghost to haunt
those congenial courts. However, to proceed to the
performance. The curtain drew up, and displayed the
Duke of Richmond in a chair. We cannot flatter the
managers on the mice en scene of the piece; for, con-
sidering that the company were meant to per-
sonate a body of distressed and ruined agricul-
turists, we never saw anything so out of character
as the jolly faces which saluted us on every
aide. The vociferous delight with which the
recital of the direst calamities was hailed was
a fault in artistic composition which should be re-
medied before the next performance. We are sure that
Mr. Lumley would never allow Lablache to act Count
Ugolino at the point of death from inanition. his Grace
of Richmond informed the company that he did not care
for ridicule—an insensibility on which we silently offered
him our heartiest congratulations; for we felt that it
was the real strength of his position, and that he
was right to entrench himself behind it—nor could
we fail to admire the beneficence of nature, which,
through the whole range of animated life, gives the
feeblest individuals their appropriate defences. The
only other opening remark which was thought
necessary for putting the whole affair on its proper
footing—apart from a confident assertion that all " re-
spectable operatives" aro impatient to pay more for their
bread—was a reference to the probable necessity there
would be for giving the manufacturers a thrashing. This
invitation to a bout of social singlestick—a game, per-
haps, a little dangerous for dukes to begin upon—took
wonderfully, and " brought down the house" in a style
that would have warmed the heart of Vincent Crum-
mles. We were a little surprised at seeing none of the
Parliamentary leaders of the Country Party on the
stage. Lord Winchilsea was the ostensible repre-
sentative of the Upper, and Colonel Sibthorp of the
Lower House. We should, however, mention that Lord
John Manners acted fualeman to the cheers, with a
white pocket handkerchief, from an upper box. Mr.
Stanley, we fear, is still suffering from indisposition;
and Mr. Disraeli was understood to be preparing for the
debate on the " water supply." But Lord Stanley's ab-
sence was not accounted for. Lord Winchilsea, of
course, acted the " heavy father" in the business; and,
with the consistency which has marked his whole poli-
tical career, he attributed free trade to Catholic emanci-
pation, and energetically appealed to ancestral wisdom
in support of a policy that dates from 1815.

MISS TALBOT.
(From the WeeAhj Dispatch )
We rejoice heartily to see that the Lord Chancellor
has referred proposals of marriage with Miss Talbot,
made on the part of Lord Edward Howard, M.P., sou
of the Duke of Norfolk, and at present Vice-Chamber-
lain to the Queen, to the Master, for examination. Dr.
Do)le, through Mr. Rolt, exp.( vises his concurrence in
the application, and the lady's approbation is stated.
Now, what a thorough, unanswerable proof does this
fact give us of the real state of Miss Talbot's mind, and
of the coercion which has been exercised upon it. A
for, weeks, and the young lady who had sued to be ad-
mitted as a postulant, against Hendren's dissuasions, is
so reconciled to the world as to accept a suitor, nod
hope to become a bride. How clear is it that she had
been environed by factitious influences, all the work of
one conspiracy to secure the prey of her fortune. In
what fine relief do the lies and hypocrisy of Hendren,
and the reservations, if not equivocations, of the Ab-
bess come out. How all the little childish devices with
which Roman Catholic dupes are amused, come to
light ; how mean in intellect as well as poor in
morality, do the tricksters appear! We take the oppor-
tunity of recurring to the Religious Helms Inspection
Bill. The pious influences of the Dublin priesthood have
been getting up a memorial to the Queen on the subject
from the ladies of Dublin. By way of enforcing the
clap-trap about desecrating the religious solitude of
nunneries by the visitation of the magistracy, the clause
in the recent measure for preventing the sale of arsenic
to women is appealed to, as if her Majesty and her
whole sex were especially insulted by being denied the
privilege of purchasing poison. In our opinion, indeed,
the two classes are most unhappily similar. What low
arts are descended to, to excite or justify resistance to
an obvious duty of the Legislature, the protection of in-
experienced girls from fraud, from superstitious terror
put in action against them by the villany of their sham
protectors. And we urge again, and most especially,
by the example of Miss Talbot, the need of making the
civil interference effectual by applying it before the taking
of the vows. We have already argued the point atlength,
and have invoked the example of Catholic Piedmont for
the accuracy of our views. Bat here is the example be-
fore our own eyes. Here is the girl who, had she been
once betrayed into the oath, would evidently never have
found strength to recede from its obligations however
fatally she might have felt their intolerable chain. Here
is the example of the way in which the minds of Catho-
lic young women aro formed by conventical education—
s dead body in the hands of a living man. The educa-
tion itself should not be without watching from the
State where there is no honest and natural guardianship
at hand to secure it from beccming the most noxious

form of tyranny; but if, in the mass of public neglects,
this one must pass, we must claim a final chance for the
victims, a real opportunity for the forming, as well as
for the deducing of free will, before life and property are
handed over to the mercies of beings equally fraudulent
and ignorant, and whose best conscience is only to cheat
the human understanding into passive acquiescence in
their own narrow and debasing routine.