The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-12 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Princesses
Alice and Helena, and attended by the Hon. Lucy Kerr,
Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Lieutenant Colonel Francis
Hugh Seymour, visited the Exhibition of the Works of
Industry of ull Nations yesterday morning. Their
Royal Hig,bnesses the Prince of Wales and Prince
Allred, attended by Mr. Birch, visited the Exhibition
yesterday forenoon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, the Baroness de
Speth, and Sir George Cuuper, also paid a visit to the
Exhibition yesterday morning.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert remained about. an
hour at the Exhibition, and then returned to Backing-
ham Palace.
Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Royal, Prince
Arthur, and the Princess Louisa, took their usual
exercise yesterday in the garden of Buckingham Palace.
The Queen bad a dinner party yesterday at Bucking-
ham Palace. The company included her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent, his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge, his Serene Highness the Prince Lowen-
stein, his Excellency the Count and Countess Walemska
the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, Lady
Augusta Bruce, the Baroness do Speth, the Earl of
Westmoreland, Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley,
Major Biddulph, and Lord William Paulet.
The band of the Grenadier Guards attended during
dinner, and performed the following selection:—
Grand March from " Gemma Vergi" Donizetti.
Polka, " Ostereier" ..• .• • .•• Kuhner.
Selection," La Muetto" •.• Auber.
Mazurka, " Les Porcherons" Grisar.
Divertissement, "it Barbiere" ... Rossini.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the
Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Ministers present
were Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the
Earl of Minto, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Lord
Broughton, the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, the Mar-
quis of Clanricarde, and the Earl of Carlisle. The
Council sat about an hour.

A deputation from Belfast, consisting of the Mayor,
Mr. Whitler, and Hr. Harrison, accompanied by Ur.
Tennent, M.P., had an interview with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer yesterday, in Downing-street.
Mr. Carrie had an interview yesterday with Earl
Grey at the Colonial-office.
The Cambridge University Commission had a meet-
ing yesterday, at the official residence of the First Lord
of the Treasury, in Downing-street. Present—The
Bishop of Chester, the Dean of Ely, Sir John Herschel,
the Rev. Professor Sedgwick, and the Rev. W. H. Bate-
son (secretary).
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland
Revenue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Dow-
ning-street.
The Westminster-bridge Commission met yesterday
at the offices of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods
and Forests, in Whitehall-place. There were present
Lord Seymour, Lord Sudeley, the Earl of Loosdale,
Lord R. Grosvenor, Sir R. Inglis, the Right Non. C.
Tennyson D'Eyncourt, and Alderman Ilumpberp.
Dispatches were sent off from the Colonial-office yes-
terday to the Governors of the North American Co-
lonies.

LOUD RIITHERFORD.—A report gains currency
and credit that this Learned Judge is about to be removed
to London, in connexion with the proposed changes in the
Court of Chancery, and especially, the appellate jurisdiction
of the House of Lords. When these changes were under
discussion, Lord Brougham suggested that when Scotch ap-
peals were being heard,
the presence of the Judges of the
Court of Session should be obtained. It is now asserted
destined for Lord Rutherford, who shall
with some degree of confidence that one of the Vice-Chan-
in London, and whose duty shall consist
reside ll or'sp
egromwannsenty
in assisting the Lords when sitting on Scotch appeals.—
Scottish Press.
Only twenty-one public Acts shave passed in the
present session.

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door sports. Tee consequeate. Wits ea-large infitti...
company, including several elPinguish&preiznltYs-
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Duke of A: le, the Duke of Montrose; ball slid. rquis
of Douglas—great old names, which go well with a‘ft,cot-
I tish gathering. The Duchess of Gloucester and the
Marchioness of Ailsa were also present; while, as for the
rank and file of spectators, the crowded stands presented
a cheering contrast to the dripping nakedness of the
sloppy benches on the day before.
The sports were of the sante general character as
those which we described in our yesterday's paper.
The weather heving become more akin to what poets
any is the proper style of thing for the first day of
merry May, Mr. Flexceore had his happy peasants
duly rigged out in what is considered pastoral attire
by the idealising costumiers of theatres—and a
merry round they deuced among the garlands
of the maypole, finishing off with the quaint mortis
step—and, possibly, we do net say certainly—setting
ttny followers of Mr. Disraeli who might have been pre-
sent philosophisiag upon the curious phenomenon of
such merry doings having been invented so long before
the contrivance of the sliding scale. As a contrast to
the morris dance and the maypole round, he had plenty
of reels and strethspeys performed with great vigour by
the kilted figurantes, and inspiring the French gentlemen
prcien:-; with notions of the generous impetuosity of a
mountain pus de quatre. The bagpipe of course afforded
the music for the last-mentioned performances, and we
may mention that, either to the credit of the artists, or
the alterntions end improvements which in these inge-
nious days may be making in the instrument, we have
rarely heard bag-pipes play less out of tune, or at a dis-
tance—a considerable distance—saund more tolerably.
As to the pure llighland sports, the caber was tossed
to the great apparent entertainment of the foreigners,
who had nevsr probably associated the idsa of amusement
with jerking about a fir tree—the hammers were flung,
and many excellent casts made; the stone was " putted'
l t sye;
(which looks bad grammar, bat, more Scottie°, is ex-
cellent syntax); and there was more than one exciting
foot-race, in which the Highlanders got over the
ground in. famous
match, in and more than one jumping
which they shoved, to a certain degree, a
wholesome contempt for the laws of gravitation. As
before, the broad-sword exercise—blades represented by
sticks—vas _tla rdisplayed by several of the crack swords-
men
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hand'nd a ancrCumberlandmberof wroenstlthere ()s
huggeo each other in fair and courteous rivalry. There
was a seek Derby and a wheelbarrow St. Leger. The
the
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the onea 2;
winner in the sack contest adopted different locomotive
tactics from those V. his predecessor the day before, and
jumped in such a masterly manner as almost to rival a
kangaroo. The starters with the wheelbarrows were
blindfolded, end occasioned greet fun by the devious
courses which they pursued and the style in which they
ran their chariots into each other. _ _

We were glail to see our French friends entering the
lists. They competed—and the arrangement was pep-
haps the best amongst themselves. Their quarter-staff
play was very clever and nimble, and they hit each other
as famous bangs with the staves as ever honest Garth
dealt the roguish miller. Their single-stick was also
very clever; the players wore no sort of protection, but,
according to the old ticoteh proverb, made their hands
th,,ir heads. Only their hands once or twice
failed, end a sound thwack proclaimed the defection. A
mode of contest now to England was also introduced in
what was called " French boxing, with heel and hand."
In this species of pugilism, which Frenchmen would
describe as to firer la savate, the antagonists hit with
fists and kick with feet. The "ring" would pronounce
the practice foul; but the French have got a notion—
not unsupported by common sense—that if one gentle-
man wishes to belabour another, he may profitably, and
without any detriment to his chivalry, call upon his
feet to aid his hands. The French players were ad-
mired for their finish and neatness of style, and their
great manual dexterity.

- An interesting series of combats between the bayonet
and target and claymore, resulted in the weapon of Ba-
yonne being routed by the sword-and-shield men. The
great mistake, however, of all these contests consists in
treating the bayonet—which is a secondary and subordi-
nate weapon—as a principal one. The sword-and-
buckler hero may demolish the bayonet hero, but what
if the latter add to the weight of the former by the ad-
dition of an ounce of cold lead from the gun attached to
the bayonet before hand? The enthusiastic gentlemen
who argued that tho Highlanders should meet disci-
plined forces only with targets, pistols and claymores,
torgot that there is such au order as—" Form square,
and prepare to receive cavalry" not unfrequent, in real
no-mistake warfare. We should imagine that the clay-
more and target would do but small service against the
rush of a rattling charge of French cairassiers, which
the bayonet would keep at bay as rocks keep out the
surf.

We ought not to omit to mention that Lord Holland
with a large party was present, and that the hospitalities
of Holland-house were liberally and gracefully extended
to all the principal personages concerned in the fête.
To-day, the games, at reduced prices of admission, will
be resumed, and finally closed.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR. OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
COWES, JULY 10.
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.
July 4. Coquette schooner, Lord Godolphin, from
Exmouth; Merlin ditto, Colonel Markham, Plymouth.
5. Petrel cutter, Earl of Ilehester, Weymouth.
9. Luella ditto, Twiston Hodges, Esq., Southampton.
SAILINGS.
July 4. Dement schooner, Lord Londesborough, for
London; Nautilus cutter, G. W. Bateson, Esq., Guern-
sey and other ports.
7. Gipsey Queen schooner, Sir H. B. Hoghton, Bart,,
Torquay.
YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION.
Alarm, Capricorn, Petrel, Drift,,Edzabeth, Lavrock,
Turquoise, Arrow, Aurora, Maritana, Merlin, Plover,
Ripple, Coquette, Magician, Laelie, Resolution.

At the general meeting of the members of the Royal
Yacht Squadron, at the Squadron House, West Cowes,
at 1 P.m. this day, the following members were pre-
cent:—Commodore the Right Hon. the Earl of Wilton,
Sir Bellingham Graham, Bart., Lord Godolphin, the
Duke of Rutland, Spencer de Horsey, Esq., Almon
Hill, Esq., Sir J. Rivett Carnack, Bart., Joseph Gee,
I.q, Thomas Thornhill, Esq., James Manse Esq.,
James Lyon, Esq., Colonel Markham, Captain Ponsonby,
Delme Ratcliff, Esq., Viscount Somerton, Le Merchant
'Thomas, Esq., Sir Hyde Parker.
George Arkwright, Esq., was elected a member.