The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-20 00:00:00

BER MAJESTY'S STATE BALL.

The Queen gave last evening a State Ball at Buck-
ingham Palace, to a most brilliant Court, the invitations
exceeding 2,100. The arrangements were similar to the
first reception this season, the entire suite of State
Saloons being opened and brilliantly illuminated with
handsome crystal lustres and gilt chandeliers; the Gar-
ter-room and Ante-room at the sou h end of the Picture
Gall,ry were also opened for the accommodation of the
numerous visitors. The choicest exotics and fragrant
flowers were tastefully arranged in the alcoves behind
the elevated seats reterved for her Majesty and her
Royal guests, both in the Ball-room and also in the
Throne-room; groups of flowers also adorned the Pic-
ture Gallery and the Grand Hall.
The company began to arrive soon after 9 o'clock,
those having the entree alighting by the temporary gar-
den entrance, and the general circle entering the Palace
by the Grand Hall. All the visitors were conducted by
the principal staircase through the Green Drawing-
room to the Picture Gallery and the Grand Saloon.
Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness
the Prince Albert entered the Grand Saloon at a quar-
ter before 10 o'clock, accompanied by her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent, their Royal Highnesses the
Prince and Princess of Prussia, his Royal Highness
Prince Frederick William of Prussia, his Royal High-
ness Prince Henry of the Netherlands, his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge, their Royal Highnesses the
Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha, his Roy al
Highness the Duke Ernest of Wurtemburg, His Serene
Highness the Prince of Leiningen, and his Serene
Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar.
Her Majesty and her august circle passed through the
assembled company in the Grand Saloon, and were con-
ducted by the Lord Chamberlain to the Ball-room,
where Mr. Boos. C's quadrille band was in attendance.
The general circle followed the Queen and Prince Albert
and their Royal guests into the Ball-room.
The Queen wore a blonde dress over white silk, with
coloured flowers of various kinds worked on it, orna-
mented with bunches of flowers to correspond, and dia-
monds. Her Majesty's headdress was formed of a wreath
of flowers of various kinds to correspond with the dress,
with his Royal Highness
orffnaemremntaed with
jestyopdcniacmdotohds.
balle
the Prince of Prussia, in a quadrille, at five minutes be-
fore ten o'clock; the vis,i-vis being his Royal Highness
the Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha and the Duchess of
Sutherland. The other members of the Royal party
joined in this quadrille.
After this dance, a number of quadrilles, waltzes, and
other dances were performed in the Ball-room, by Mr.
Boole's quadrille band.
Dancing afterwards commenced in the Throne-roam,
(where Jullien's band was stationed) with
The Great Exhibition Quadrille
In the orchestra were Herr Keeeig (cornet a piston),
M. Collinet (flageolet), Messrs. Baker, Cooper, Doyle,
Lavigne, Cioffi, Jarrett, C. Harper, Anglois, Collins, &c.
The following dances were played by the band during
the evening:—
Quadrilles.
La Tempesta, from Halevy's Opera.
The Napaulese • •• • Jullien.

Enfant Prodigue • Auber.
Valscs.
Dabutanten Strstr•
Dluriette

La Mandoline

Kid

;anon

The Crystal Fountain .!). Karl Buller.
Die Zapfenstreich .., lion. Capt. Mildmay.
elkas..
Doyle.
Jullien.
The Koh-i-noor ...
Polka des Poignards '''
The Amason and Tiger ... Karl Buller.
The Review —• ••• ••• Jullien.
The Derby ••• •••• ••• Jullien.
During the evening the company were served with re.
freshments in the Garter-room and the Green Drawing.
room.
A Sate supper was served with regal
pplernindcoiupral o dinner-room,
:Galops.;•
magnificence,
f the service
soon after
longaf rangester
of
twelve o'clock, in the
tables;
the s
being heightened by the consummate taste of the
decoration. They were most brilliantly
lit by gold
candelabra.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince and Princess of Prussia, Prince Frederick Wil-
liam of Prussia, the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Cobourg
Gotha, and the Duke of Wurtemburg, left Buckingham
Palace at nine o'clock yesterday morning, to continue
the inspection of the Exhibition of the Works of In-
dustry of all Nations. The Royal suites consisted of
Baroness
F.
H.
n the lion. Beatrice tiyng, the Countess A. de Hucke,
genheim, Col. Hon. C. Grey,
Seymour,Lieutenant-
Colonel Major von Boyen, Lieutenant
Heintz, and M. B. de Treskow.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert returned to Buck-
ingham Palace at half-past eleven o'clock.
The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, attended by
Mr. Birch, also visited the Exhibition.
The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Prince
f
Leiningen, and attended by Lady Fanny
ir",
Baroness tie Spetb, and Sir George Cowper, also w"in-
spected the Exhibition yesterday morning.
Prince Frederick William of Frusbis returned to
Buckingham Palace on Saturday night from Liverpool.
The Duke and Duchess de Nr.mours visited the
Queen yesterday, and also paid a visit to the Duchess
of Kent.
Prince Albert, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel F. H.
aPV:incess Alice,
Seymour, rode out on borsebacki3t-ehsttehrde
In the afternoon the Queen, w
accompanied by the Princess of Prussia and the Duchess
of Saxe Cobourg
Gotha, took a drive in an open car-
riage and four; Colonel the Hon. C. Grey and Lieute-
nant-Colonel the Hon. R. Boyle attended on horseback.
Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince and
Prince Frederick William of Prussia., the Duke of Saxe

Cobourg Gotha, gad Duke Ernest of Wurtembnrg,
rode out on horseback at the same time, attended by
Lieutenant-Colonel F. H. Seymour.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. H. H. Wilson, Sir
G. Staunton, the Right Hon. Holt Mackenzie, Sir Her-
Bert Maddock, Sir Charles Malcolm, Colonel Rawlinson
Colonel Sykes, Mr. H. T. rrinsep, Dr. J. Bird, Mr. G.
Forbes, the Hon. H. Stanley. Mr. Atkinson, Mr. For-
gusson, Mr. Bland, Mr. W. Strachey, Mr. Ravenshaw,
and Mr. R. Clarke, had,an, interview with Lord John
Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-
strpet.

Mr. W. O. Stanley had an interview yesterday with
Sir George Grey, at the Home-office.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the,,Colonial-
office from the Governor of the Canadas, and from the
Governors of the other North American Colonies. Dis-
patches were also received from the Lord High Com-
missioner of the lonian Islands, from the Governor of
lon, and from the Governor of Western Australia.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes-
terday. The Lords present were, the Chief Justice of
the Court of Common Pleas, the Chancellor of the
Duchy of Cornwall, the Judge of the Admiralty Court,
and Sir Ed ward Ryan. The appeal " Lomi v. Ash-
well," (from the Prerogative Court), part heard, was
heard.

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
TIMES.—The extraordinary transformations which
the Ministerial measure, no longer properly called the
Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, has undergone, and seems likely
to undergo, lead the contemplative mind to some curious
specu!ations as to the noble science and much-practised
afirrts to fp
questionre ari
nrl4i:tneci s to passingprea mAbcltess.of
TPhaerlpiarmaoetniote..
is
sThine
favour of considering the preamble last. Mr. Keogh is
anxious to take it in this instance first. Other Mem-
hers consider that there need be no preamble at all. The
preamble is said to contain the principle of the Bill; and
if it be a sound maxim in logic to ascertain a principle
clearly before we attempt to apply it, 'Mr. Keogh's view
would seem not to be devoid of plausibility. It cer-
tainly seems more satisfactory to select a sound prin-
ciple and frame an Act upon it, than to pass the Act
first, and theii fish out its principles from its details
afterwards. Much also .may be said -in favour of
having no preamble at all. If the original preamble
can be struck out, and another of totally different ten-
dency can be inserted, the enacting part all the time
remaining precisely the same, it is not easy to see
what useful part in the constitution of a law the
preamble can perform. But besides all these different
questions as to the nature and use of preambles to which
this Bill has given rise, there is yet another, more press-
ing and practical than any of them—the question as to
the propriety of having two preambles quite independent
of each other, and leading to different conclusions. The
Ministerial measure as it originally stood was simple
and intelligible enough. It recited a mischief, the vio-
lation, namely, of the 24th section of the Emancipation
Act, by the assumption of territorial titles not strictly
within its provisions—and extended the section so as to
,remedy the mischief complained of. This manner of
treating the subject had its faults, but it was at any rate
clear and consistent with itself. The misfortune was,
that it neither touched the grievance of which the nation
complained nor applied the remedy which it required.
The grievance complained of was not so mach the
infraction of the 24th section of the Emancipation
Act, about which nobody troubled themselves
very much, as the intolerable insult received by the
Crown, the Church, and the country; and the remedy
required was, not the extension of what Mr. Disraeli calls
petty penal legislation, but the vindication of the national
honour and independence. People whose minds were
full of the Rescript and the Pastoral were surprised and
displeased to find themselves, in the very heat and tur-
moil of agitation, called away from the exciting ques-
tions of the present to discuss them under the arbi-
trarilyoselected and ill-chosen form of an attempt to
patch up the provisions of a penal law of more than
twenty years' standing which no government had ever
attempted to put into execution. The view of Mr.
Disraeli, in Friday night's debate, which is substantially
the same as that announced by Sir Frederick Thesiger
and Mr. Walpole himself on the second reading
of the Bill, was also simple and coherent as ori-
ginally expressed. That view was to substitute for
the Ministerial measure a Bill which, avoiding the
prudery of appearing to forget the very circum-
stances to which it owed its origin while they were yet
loud in every one's mouth and fresh in every one's mind,
should deal with realities instead of shadows, and, as it
was undoubtedly caused by the Papal rescript, should be
framed with exclusive reference to it. Such a Bill would
be, as Mr. Disraeli phrased it, a purely retaliatory mea-
sure. It would meet the overt act of that great con-
spiracy against the liberties of Europe which Lord John
Russell announces, and which the confiding leader of
the Conservatives affects to believe, by a counter move
proportioned to and directed against that act. Hero
again was a clear and logical Bill founded on a notorious
aggression, and applying to that aggression an adequate
remedy. The preamble to such a Bill would be, of
course, a recital of the Papal rescript, and of the acts
done under it. Tho Bill itself would declare the rescripts
and the acts to be illegal and void, and inflict some
punishment on those who put the rescript in use by as-
suming titles confirmed by it, or giving it effect in any
other manner. Here are two perfectly distinct ways
of treating the subject—the first, by patching up an old
law; the second, by making an entirely now one. The
original Ministerial Bill could not have omitted Ireland
from its provi.ions without deviating- from the spirit of
the section which it undertook to amend, and intros
during an entirely new principle under pretence of ex-
tending au cld one. The Bill not pretending to 'be
tormed on recent occurrences, but simply on former
legislation, it may readily be corceded that to have ex-
tended the 24th section cf the Emancipation Act to
England alone wcu!d have been to have introduced an
invidious anomaly against which the Irish Church
would have had every reason to complain. This neces-
sary consequence of the form in which Ministers cast
the measure was not the least among its detects. But if
the Ministeri:O Bill necessarily included Ireland, the pro-
position of Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Walpole of founding
the Bill on the rescript as necessarily excluded it. All
the logical considerations which drew Ireland into the
one enactment rendered it inadmissible in the other
The Papal rescript had nothing to do with Ireland, and
any measure really founded on the rescript could only
embrace that country by forcing on the premises a
conclusion wider than they could support, or by adopt-
ing new and complex principles, and so marring the
simplicity and coherence of the original design. Thus,
Mr. Di,raeli, while he announces that he can only
consent to a measure of strict retaliation, tells us in the
same breath that it must extend to Ireland, and thas
lose the very retaliatory character for which he stipu-
lates. There may be abundance of reasons why the Ro-
man Catholic Prelates of Ireland should be subjected to
penalties and restrictions. It may be necessary to the
security of the Protestant Establishment, it may
cluired to repress synodical action, but it certainly never
can be, required justified on the ground on which
alone Mr. Disraeli puts it—that of retaliatior_i_fror_ag-
gression on England. The absurdity whinvh!aimrioi.,, It;
raeli has announced be re-
in general terms M.
- it and a
worked out in detail. The Bill, as be trhaams
'sea;ndoniondePact'uar'. esre two
Ministers seem disposed to assent to it,
I,it of, each other
the other arti-
ficial;
ooe preambles,tro 0 distinct from,
efrrofro.ul
sake of truly' xposin the
in motion, the otherg
causes which have put Parliament •
to
give au excuse flit extending
nor compatible one introduced for the Sa
xtending the measure to acaseable with its not covered by
the conduct o Primate Cullen, and
rthat there may not be reasons, such
oi
Government measures the interference
might render it necessary to control with
ob-
jects. We do notistsay?
educa-
tion, which
s-tife:eonduct of the Roman Catholic hier-
more strictnee
• Ireland. But we do say that Ireland has every
archy lc
as the Sy ncil ofTwh
trhl e s,
right to complain when the symmetry of the Bill has
been purposely mutilated and destroyed in order to•
thrust her into a quarrel in provoking which she had no
share, though the penalty is to alight equally upon her
head. It might have been too much to ask that she
should have been made an exception to a measure in
whose scope she was naturally included, but it was not
unreasonable to ask that she should not be intertwined
by au odious parenthesis with a measure complete without
her, and whose organization her presence only serves to
destroy. But the more strongly we are impressed with
these convictions the more clearly we see that the most
devoted member of the Irish Establishment would have
no right whatever to complain of the absence of Ireland
from the quarrel between England and the Pope—the
more do we feel the helplessness of the condition in which
her Parliamentary champions have placed her. Instead
of urging on the House the propriety of discriminating
between the cases to which the rescript did and those to
which it did not apply, we find them labouring as f
ear-
nestly as Mr. Disraeli himself to confound the c uso o
their own ancient and firmly-settled hierarchy with the
tottering and new-fangled titles of thlathorne and Wise-
man.

THE VAUXHALL MURDER.
a ol
Yesterday evening Mr. Payne, the City coroner, re-
Burned the inquiry, commenced by him about a fort-
night since, into the circumstances attendant upon the
James
rilied by theCbaP ice-constable of the
lini p
violence offered to him
Ldedaitvhiscifon' Henrywho
w
by several men while in the discharge of his duty.
The names of the jury having been called over and
answered to,
re-examined—The deceased was
a p
stable in his division. He was 33 years of
age.
He always bore the character of a steady and well
conducted man. There were, as he had already stated,
several men in custody and awaiting further examination
ghe murdered the deceased. He deemed that the
evidence had already adduced would be sufficient for
tfhoerb3evrip having
of the prosecution, and therefore he had not
come prepared to bring forward any more.
The CORONER, upon this intimtvion, read over the de-
positions takt-n at the former examination, and then
proceeded to charge the jury, explaining to them the
different circumstances which constituted the crimes of
murder and manslaughter. He cited several instances,
showing the difficulty of determining the precise bound-
ary between the two offences; hut added. that in the
present case no difficulty could exist, all the circum-
stances seemed to indicate tliat. it wouitt be their bounden
duty to convict me prisom,rs upon the more serious
charge. Rae was a constable, proved to be a mild and
steady man, assaulted with such violence that he sur-
vivhd it but a short time, by a set of men to whom he
had given no provocation, but with whom he was remon-
strating in the duo execution of his office. He thought,
that whatever might ultimately be the result of the case,
these men ought to be indicted for the capital offence.
After a few minutes' discussion, the jury returned a
verdict of " Wilful Murder" against Patrick Cane and
John Thickey.
• The CORONER then issued his warrant in the usual
form, and toned over the witnesses to give their avidetre
at the triaL