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

EVENING, APRIL

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a Court yesterday afternoon at Buck-
ingham Palace.
Monsieur Mossurus bad an audience of her Majesty,
to deliver his credentials from the Sultan of Turkey.
The Baron Koller, Chargé 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 aed Baron Koller were respectively
introduced by Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., her Ma-
jesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foriegn Affairs,
and conducted by Colonel the Hon. Sir Edward Cust,
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 Colonrl F. H. Seymour, left Buckingham
Palace shortly before three o'clock yesterday afternoon,
f.n. the London bridge Terminus, to meet their Royal
Highnescs the Prince raid Princess of Pru:;sia, 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 hince and
Princess of Prussia, with the Princess Louisa, and Prince
Frederic William. _ _ .

The Prince and Princess of Prus,da were attended by
the Countess Haeko, the Countess Oriolla, Count Puck-
ler, Major Boyer), A.D.C., Count Goltz, 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
exhihitors 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•
sister of the United States to Portugal, with his lady
and family, arrived in London last week en route to
Lisbon.

The Oxford University Commission had 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. H. G. Liddell, J. L. Dampier, Esq., the Rev.
Professor Powell, and the Rev. A. P. Stanley (Se-
cretary).

A lieputation 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 after the Easter vacation. The subject of the
day was the Second 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 he can, will surely not desire to see the taxes
in the form to which the least general resistance will be
made. To direct taxes there will be a direct resistance
and a stout; to indirect, an indirect resistance, a divided,
and a feeble. Which of the two would a wise man clause?
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 from the field
of victory, with au 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 wenderiul 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 not 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 triends who were to run against
them, 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 run-
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 have any
charge on this matter, to note my continual protest, and
acquit me of inattention to their concerns.
Un 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 REFORMER.
London, April 30, 1851.

THE FOOT GUARDS.—WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—ThiS
morning, at a quarter to nine o'clock, an express from the
Horse Guards arrived at the Infantry Barracks, Sheet-street,
for the marching of four companies of the Ist battalion of
Grenadier Guards to Knightsbridge Barracks, and in less
than three-quarters of an 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
used 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. Dupin,
the president of the French committee.—Galignani's Mes-
senger.

CALEB FIELD, A TALE. BY THE AUTHOR OF
" MARGARET MAITLAND," &C., 1 VOL.—The author of
" Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland," and
" Merkland," has shifted the scene from the Scottish to the
English ground, and changed the time from the present age
to that of Charles the Second. " Caleb Field" is a story de-
signed to depict the manners and character of the English
Presbyterian-Puritans, and the nature of the hardships they
underwent from the persecuting
.statutes of Charles. The
Plague of London is made the incident round which the
groups of persons are gathered. All the placid heroism of
the Puritan ministers, all the terrors and horrors of the
plague, and the self-devotion of Edith, the expelled minis-
ter's daughter, are painted with a quiet strength and grace,
and. with much knowledge of the times, and a thorough ap-
preciation of them, on the writer's own interpretation. This
consists in sinking the harsher features of the Nonconforming
Presbyterians, and bringing out in high relief their conscien-
tious sense of religious duty, their mild and uncom
and bpeautitullaining
virtues. The execution of the story is finished
to a high degree.—spectator.
STATE OF TRADE.--MANCHESTER, Aram 29.
The unsteadiness which we noticed as having possession of
the market to-day, is not removed, and in such a position of
things it is dangerous to quote prices. We may, however,
with safety say that there is a decline since Saturday, and we
shall not be charged with unduly pressing upon holders of
yarn if we say that it is fully lid. per lb. (for finer descrip-
tions rather more) in that article, or upon the goods mer-
chants, when we estimate the reduction they have, as a rule,
been obliged to submit to, at Ihd. per piece. These esti-
mates refer to descriptions in demand; respecting others it is
impossible to speculate, seeing that they are almost literally
out of the market. Printing cloths are already so low that
no further reduction can well be asked ; and as the pressure
for reduction is upon the fabrics most required' for dis-
tant export, there is less irregularity with respect to the,
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30.

1851.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

CHRONICLE.— 4 tthisEastertim— ethd inven+ion of
theatrical manegers is racked to find new entertainments
for a " used up" public. Now performers in old charac-
ters, or Lew characters represented by old performers,
are held forth in turn to catch stray half-crowns. The
tastes of all are consulted, according to their respective
preferences for light comedy or tragical melodrama.
Drury-lane has not been wanting in its functions cf ca-
terer to the public amusement; nnd Aziid the Prodigal
and The Robbcrs 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 the country, by
whom The Prodigal and The Robbers have been simulta-
neously repraduced with great applause. The landlord
and tenant, of course, suviain appropriate parts in a ,
composition for e. hich it would have puzzled Aristotle
himself to find a me. 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 viclins. Yet s) it was—none
a ere so clamorous for the Old Prices as the tenants
of the green-roozn. The melodramatic company 1
of which we speck are courageously regardless of
omens, fur the tick. is fer the performance were
is-ned from the South Sea llou-,e; and, as we plodded
wearily through the mud to Threadneedle-street, we
celled to mind the touching refl ctions of Elia on that
cenotaph of an exploded bubble, and pondered on the
strange fatality which had led a kindred ghost to haunt
these 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 rase en scene of the piece; for, con•
sidering that the company were meant to per-
sonate a body of distressed arid ruined agricul-
turists, we never saw anything so out of character
as the jolly faces which saluted us on every
side. The vociferous delight with which the
recital of the direst calamities was hailed was
a fault iu 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
fur 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" are 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 siuglestick—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 fugleman 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 Weekly 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., son
of the Duke of Norfolk, and at present Vice-Chamber-
lain to the Queen, to the Master, for examination. Dr.
Doyle, through Mr. Roll, expresses 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
few 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, and
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 Houses 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 fur 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 freud, from superstitious terror
put in fiction against them by the villany of their sham
protectors. And we urge again, and most especially,
by !he a xample of Miss Talbot, the need of making the
civil interference eff, ctual by applying it before the taking
of the vows. We have already argued the point at length,
and have invoked the example of Catholic Piedmont for
the accuracy of our views. But 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 are formed by conventical education—
a 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 becoming 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.