The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-18 00:00:00

TURKEY.

Letters from Smyrna of the 30th ult., in the
Vienna Lloyd, state that the English and French
fleets are still in their former moorings, but that Sir
W. PARKER is expected to leave the Bay of Musko-
nissi for a more favourable position.
Letters from Belgrade or the Ist inst., in the
Wanderer, state that 500 Poles are at Shumla under
the command of Colonel ZIKOWSKI ; that they are
comfortably equipped, and constantly kept in military
training. Tne Russians in Moldavia and -Wallachia,
continues the writer, do the same, just as if they in-
tended to strike the decisive blow early in spring.

IRELAND.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

THE GREAT PROTECTIONIST MEETING.
DUBLIN, THURSDAY EVENING.—The Great Na-
tional Meeting of Protectionists was held this day at
the Rotunda.
The chair was to have been taken at eleven
o'clock, but, owing to the thinness of the attendance
it was fully an hour later. The Marquis of Down-
shire then took his seat, and even at that time the
round room was not one quarter full. There were,
however, a fair sprinkling of the nobility and gentry
present.
The Eirl of Rcden was greeted ` with immense
cheers, accompanied by "Kentish fires." The movers
and seconders of the resolutions were the Earl of
Glengall, Mr. Mac Carthy, Mr. Butt, Q C., the
Marquis of •Vestmeath, the Earl of Shannon, the
Hon. Mr. Preston, Mr. •Tames Martin, Lord Cle-
ments, Colonel Dunn, M.P., BAH of Mayo, Mr.
J. Ennis, the Marquis of Drogheda, Colonel Chatter-
ton, M.P., the Earl of Bandon, Mr. T. M. Redmond,
the llon. Colonel Verner, &c.
The first resolution recommended a petition to the
Queen, setting forth the misery and distress to which
the country has been reduced of late years.
The second cal ed for remedial measures to stay the
downward progress of events.

The third urged that a committee take instant steps
to lay the petition before her Majesty.
The fourth declared all Irish interests to have been
sacrificed by the imperial policy, the only remedy for
which was a return to protection.
The fifth was condemnatory of the Irish poor-law.
The sixth demanded the development of the great
resources of Ireland.

Tne seventh was favourable to an adjustment of the
relations between landlord and tenant.

The eighth called en the Irish Members to sup-
port no political parties who would not listen to
their just demands for redress.

The ninth urged the propriety, in the event of the
prayer of the petitioners being disregarded, of peti-
tioning the Queen to dissolve Parliament.
The meeting had not terminated in post time.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, THURSDAY.
The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
drove to Frogmore this morning.
The Countess of Charlemont, the Hon. Miss Kerr,
Colonel Hon. R. Boyle, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and
Colonel F. 11. Seymour, were in attendance upon- her
Majesty and his Royal Highness.
His Royal Highness the Prince of \Vales (attended
by Mr. Birch), the Prince Alfred, Princess Royal,
Princess Alice, and Princess Helena, also went to
Frogmore.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, with the gen-
tlemen in attendance, enjoyed the diversion of skating
upon the ornamental water in Frogmore grounds.
The Hon. and Rev. Henry and Lady A. M. Cust
will have the honour of joining the royal dinner
party this evening.
The band of the Ist Life Guards will attend during
dinner, her Majesty's private band attending after-
wards.
The Countess of Charlemont has relieved the Mar-
chioness of Douro in her duties as Lady in Waiting
to the Queen.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon,
at the Foreign office. The Ministers present were
Lord Juhn Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir G. Grey, Viscount
Palmerston Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer. Sir Francis Baring, Lord Campbell, the
Right Hon. H. Labouchere, the Earl of Carlisle, and
the Marquis of Clanricarde.
The Council sat two hours and a half.
A deputation from the Light Dues Association,
consisting of Mr. Matthew Forster, M.P., Mr. W. j.
Hall, Mr. Phillipps, Mr. Ogilvie, and Mr. Morgan
(secretary), had an interview with the Right Hon.
Henry Labouchere and E irl Granville yesterday, at
the office of the Board of Trade.
Mr. Gillespie had an interview with Lord John
Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Down-
ing-street.
Mr. John Abel Smith, M.P., had an interview
with Sir George Grey yesterday. Mr. Henry May-
hew had also an interview yesterday with the Right
Hon. Baronet, at the Home-office.
Capiain Henderson had an interview with Earl
Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had
a general meeting yesterday.
The Earl of Carlisle arrived in town on Wednes-
day from his seat, Castle Howard, Yorkshire, and in
the evening joined the Cabinet Minister's assembled at
Lord John Russell's residence in Chesil; km-place.
Lord John Russell gave a dinner last evening to a
number of the Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers,
at his residence in Chesham-place.

TnE COMTE DE NEUILLY.--A very genera 1 rumour
prevailed last evening, to the effect that the ex-King
of the Frc,nch had expired suddenly yesterda y morn-
ing, at Claremont. In contradiction of the report,
we are enabled to state thAt Dr. G. -le Nussy,, who is
the chief medical attendant on the ex-King, arrived
at his residence, in 13erkeley-square, at noon yester-
day, from Claremont (where he had passed the pre-
vious night), „having left Louis Philippe in perfect
health, and that up to nine o'clock .last night a o intel
ligence of the ex-King's indisposiiion bad • reached
Dr.Nussy. There can, therefore, be fittle dot tbt that
the rumour is altogether unfounded.
A VERY RAW MATERIAL—Mr.Disr€Ieli tys that
the land is the landlord's raw material; and Bo it. is. But
landlords have a much rawer material in tide'nds of
those farmers whom they delude into continu;a3g to pay'
excessive rents under the fallacious hope of w• re-vp 14t-
went of OW coril-htwo,---Punch.