The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-23 00:00:00

SCOTCII.

FOR - 30. AGAINST-11.
Anderson Arbuthnott
Bouverie Baillie
Cowan Bruce
Craig Chartet is
Dwie Drumlanrig
Drummond Forbes
Duff (Elgin) Gordon
Duncan Lockhart
Dundee Alackeuzie
Ellice Mure
Elliott Scott
Fergus
Fordyce
Ilallyburton
IJastie
Ilastie
Hume
Loch
M'Gregor
M'Taggart
Matheson
Matheson
Maule
Melgund
Morison
Rutherford
Smith
Smollett
Stuart
Wortley

FOR. AGAINST.

English ...
Scotch ...

208
30
35

Irish

21*
* The majority consisting of S2otch Members.

AGAINST.
Brocklehurst, J.
Cavendish, W.
Howard, Hon. J.
Howard, P.
Horsmau, E.
Loveden,
Molesworth, Sir W.
Peto, S. M.
Philips, Sir G.
Roebuck, J. A.
Traill, G.

PAIRS.

FOR.
Thompson, Alderman
Emlyn, Lord
buncombe, Hon. 0.
Hodgson, N.
Darner, Colonel
avies, S.
Adderley, C. B.
Stephenson, R.
Powell, Colonel
Ossulton, Lord
Hope Sir J.

COURT CIRCULAR.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Coburg
Gotha, attended by Baron d'Apel, arrived at Bucking-
ham Palace at twenty-five minutes before twelve
o'clock last night from the Continent, on a visit to
the Queen and Prince Albert.
Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Alexander Gordon,
Equerry to Prince Albert, was in attendance on thQ
Royal Duke from Dover. his Royal Highness tra-
velled to town by the South-Eastern Railway.
The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prince of
Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice,
took an airing yesterday in an open carriage and four.
Colonel Buckley, Equerry in Waiting to her Alvjesty,
was in attendance on horseback.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, rode out on horse-
back yesterday forenoon.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince Alfred, the
Princess Helena, and the Princess Louisa, toook their
accustomed exercise yesterday in the garden of Buck-
ingham Palace.

A deputation, consisting of Mr. Masterman, M.P.,
Sir James Duke, M.P., Mr. Cardwell, M.P., Mr.
Brown, M.P., Mr. Brothertor, M.P., Mr. Baxendale,
Mr. Kay, Mr. Macgregor (Chairman of the South-
Eastern Railway Company), Captain D. Warren,
Mr. S. Waley, Mr. Alderman Walker, Mr. Ivyleafe,
Mr. Alderman Carden, Mr. Renshaw, and the Mayor
of Salford, had an interview with Lord John Russell
yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street.
Mr. Whitbread and Mr. Bircham transacted busi-
ness with the Commissioners of Railways yesterday,
at their office in the Board of Trade.

Mr. Bright, M.P., hall an interview with Sir
George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening, from
the Colonial- office, for the Governors of the North
American Colonies.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
yesterday. The Lords present were the Master of
the Rolls, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, the Chan-
cellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the Judge of the
High Court of Admiralty. Sir Edward Ryan sat as
a Privy Councillor.
Lord Campbell and the Master of the Rolls, gave
judgment on two East India appeals. The Solicitor-
General was heard in " Belson v. Belson," from the
Island of Jersey, for leave to appeal. The Court
then rose.

REPEAL OF THE WINDOW DUTIES.-A numerous
meeting of the ratepayers of Marylebone took place last
evening at the Marylebone Literary Institution, for the
object of petitioning Parliament for a repeal of the duty
on windows. The chair ..vas taken by Sir J. Hamilton.
There were also present Lord D. Stuart, M.P., Sir B.
Hall, M.P., Mr. Mackinnon, Zd.P., &c. The chairman
having explained the objects of the meeting, Mr. Mao-
kinnon, Dr. Joseph, Lord Dudley Stuart, Sir B. Hall,
Mr. Belton, Mr.Bridgmar, Captain Holland, and others,
spoke in support of the resolutions for carrying them
into effect. The resolutions were unanimously adapted,
and the petition was directed to be placed in the hands
of the borough Members for presentation. Thanks were
then passed for the chairman, and the business was con-
cluded.

A Post. office notice has been issued to postmas-
ters, directing that the order of any Commissioner of a
Court of Bankruptcy for the delivery of a bankrupt's
letters to the official assignee, provided such order bear
the seal cf the Bankruptcy Court, must hereafter be acted
upon at once; the order itself teing afterwards forwarded
to the secretary of the Post-office, with a report of what
has been done. Special care is to be taken to deliver
up or to re-direct such leitsrs only as are clearly de-
scribed in the Commissioner's order (a copy of which
should be taken befare it be forwarded to the secretary)
and the period fixed by such order must be particularly
attended to.

HUMBOLDT'S OPINION RELATIVE TO SIR JOHN
FRANKLIN.—A correspondent of an American paper,
writing from Berlin, relates an interview with Humboldt
the savant, when the following opinion as to the fate of
Sir John Franklin was incidentally elicited from him:—
" Ile thought it quite probable that Franklin had not
perished, but was still shut in by the ice, and gave se-
veral facia of voyagers whom he had seen, and who had
been for long seasons so detained in the northern seas.
The Esquirnaux of the coast, be said, were not at all
dangerous; Franklin was well supplied with provisionp,
and would probably yet return to give an account of his
voyage. Indeed, the report that the Esquirsaux Indians
had said that some vessels bad long been fast in the ice,
away off to the north, seemed to be fully confirmed."