The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-17 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR,

The Queen and Prance Albert walked yesterday in the
gardens of Buckingham Palace.
Their Itiyal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Al-
fred, the Princess Royal, the Princesses Alice, Helena, and
Louisa, took their usual calking exercise yesterday, and his
Royal Highness Prince Arthur was taken an airing.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, their
Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess
Royal, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the do-
mestic household, attended Divine service yesterday, in the
private chapel of Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev.
Gerald NV ellesley officiated.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also attended the
service.
The Countess de Neuilly and the Duke and Duchess de
Nemours visited her Majesty and Prince Albert at Bucking-
ham Palace on Saturday. His Royal Highness Prince
Albert, accompanied by the Countess de Neuilly and their
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, went
to the Exhibition for the Industry of all Nations in Hyde
Park. attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. Alexander
Gordon.

The illustrious party were conducted through the building,
and afterwards returned to Buckingham Palace.
The Countess de Neuilly and the Duke and Duchess de
Nemours paid a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, at Clarence House, St. James's, and in the afternoon
returned to Claremont. _

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by their
Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal
and the l'rincess Alice visited and inspected the Zoological
Gardens in the Regent's-park, on Saturday afternoon. The
Equerries in Waiting, Lord '.,harles Fitzroy and Lieutenant-
Colonel llon. Alexander Gordon, were in attendance on her
Majesty and his Royal Highness.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the Princess's
Theatre with their presenc!.. on Saturday evening. The
royal suite consisted of the Countess of Mount Edgcumbe,
Hon. Caroline Dawson, Lord Dufferin, Lord Charles Fitzroy,
and Lieut.-Colonel Hon. Alexander Gordon.

The Queen's private band attended in Buckingham Palace
on Friday evening, and performed the following pieces :
Overture " Centril Ion"
Finale 2d Act ......... " Zauterflote"
Her Royal Highness the Dechess of Kent visited her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Gloecester on Saturday, at Glou-
cester House.
A Cabinet Council was hell on Saturday afternoon, at the
Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Ministers present were
Lord John Russell, the Lori Chancellor, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount
Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir
Francis Baring, Sir John Holhouse, the Earl of Carlisle, the
Marquis of Clanricarde, the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere,
and the Right Hon. Fox Maule. the Council sat three
hours.
A deputation from the Ro"al: Agricultural Society, con-
sisting of Mr. Shelley, Colonel Challoner, and Mr. W. Brand-
reth Gibbs, had an interview with Lord Seymour, on Satur-
day, at the Office of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods
and Forests, in Whitehall-place.
Dr. Hayford had an interview with Sir George Grey on
Saturday, at the Home-office.
The Transatlantic Packet Station Commissioners had a
meeting on Saturday at the Board of Trade. Present—Earl
Granville (chairman), Hon. William Cowper, M.P.; Sir
James Gordon, K.C.B. ; Sir John J. Burgoyne, K.C.8.;
and Captain Stephenson Ellerby, Lord Hobart, Secretary to
the Commission, was in attendance.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman cf the Board of Inland Re-
venue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, at his official residence in Downing-street, on
Saturday.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on Sa-
turiay. Present-1 he Master of the Rolls, the Chancellor
of the Duchy of Cornwall, tte Judge of the Admiralty
Court, and Sir Edward Ryan. " Siordet's Extension of
Crawford's Patent (galvanised' iron)," and "Austin's Ex-
tension of patent (raising sunken vessels)," were heard.
The Duke of Wellington attended early service at the
Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday. The prayers were
read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the sermon preached by
the Hon. and Rev. A. Phipps. The Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Normanby, and the Marquis of Salisbury attended
the daily service.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD
REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Sir,—On Wednesday the 12th, the debate was re-
sumed on the question of bringing in the Ecclesiastical
Titles Bill, and adjourned at Six ut the clock.
On Thursday the debate was renewed on the " Dis-
tress of the Owners and Occupiers of Land." Sir
James Graham made what, without borrowing from the
hackneyed epithets used in the press till they become in-
significant, may be called a crushing speeeh. He did
the work which the Leaguers ought to do and don't.
He earnestly pointed out the fact of a coming storm, not
the less dangerous because preceded by a deceitful calm.
He urged the palpable certainty, that the veritable
meaning of the proposed motion was, to defer the effort
to restore Protection till the dissolution of Parliament,
and in the mean time to be laying the foundations for
the success of that effort. He recited the strong reasors
for hoping that such an effort might rot succeed ; and
did the work the League or Leaguers ought to have
been doing every day and every hour, of clearing and
enforcing- the interest the powerful and the
numerous chases had in opposing its success. No
instance has been seen, of such an exemplification of the
ancient fable of the Tortoise and the Rare, as has been
given by tho commercial and manufacturing interests in
Parliament. No system of answering the stream of fal-
lacies perpetually poured out from the Protectionist
benches. No advantage taken of the opportunity held
out in the House of Commons, of discrediting the ope-
rations of the adversary, by exploding every one on its
first appearance. It might almost be supposed that the
object was to get up another contest, for the sake of the
results of another victory. Those that might, will nut;
and those that would, may not.
The division, which was only carried against the Pro-
tectionists by 281 against 267, shows on how narrow a
base the safety of the community is allowed to rest. I
adhere to an expression in a letter to you a few days
ago, that the word of the Minister is all that stands be-
tween the commercial interest and defeat. Should any
circumstance, a nervous headache or a sleepless night,
induce the Minister to waver, or drop an unadvised and
perhaps misinterpreted phre,e, the enemy would be upon
us and at our heels. On the night of the division, it was
not at all certain that the Government was not oe-
feated, and there were even sinister whispers to that
effect passed round the lobby. If it had been
so, there would have been a dissolution
of Parliament. and Hurrah for the restoration of the
Corn-laws. There are those will shake their heads, and
say " What then?" But this is not the way men reason
and act in the orclieary concerns of life. No man says,
" Let in the housebreaker or the plunderer, for then
there will be a rally of everybody in the house, and he
will be driven out again." Men keep him out when he
is out. They take measures for breaking up his haunts,
and his sources of strength and encouragement. They
try the chances of amendment in himself, and they throw
before him the tem !aliens of an honest industry, in the
ill
hope of tempting him into the easier way. 'The last
thing they w ill think of is to invite him, in order that
they may drive him back again.
The majority
of the Government is not virtually smal-
ler than on the last occasion, but the contrary. That is
stated to have been 21; and calling the difference 8,
more thsn half that number of Irish Members may be
considered as savingavowedly voted against the Govern-
ment through pique at the interference with the Pope's
movements, sad number more, English, Irish, and
through confidence in the verbal arrange-
Scotch, voted
ment of the motion, which may be allowed to have been
sufficient to deceive even the elect. There are always a
number of A/embers, who as if in emulation of that happy
disposition in a horse which is described as looking tor
something to " shy" at, appear to be on the look-out
for anything which will present to them the opportu-
nity for being deceived.
On Friday the debate on the Eeclesialtical Titles As-
sumption was brought to a division, which will tell at
Rome both on the powers military and clerical there
established. A mejority of 395 against 63 is some-
thing like a " greitt fact," and may be set off against
many assurences that the mass of the English people
wanted Dither the Pontiff or his Gallic body-guard to
help theta to mansge their affairs. The thing, though
troublesome, will not be without its good. It will have
shown the dispositions, and the capacity, of actors of
various denomination, and will be a sort of guide for
confidence in periods to come.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant.
AN OLD REFORMER.
Landon, 17 Feb., 1851.