The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-01 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, SATURDAY.
The Queen and Prince Albert 'walked this morning
in the grounds around the Castle.
The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise.
The royal dinner party at the Castle included her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny
Howard, Baroness de Speth, and Lieut.-Colonel Hon.
C. B. Phipps.

SUNDAY.
The Queen and Prince Albert •walked this morning
in the Slopes and Windsor Park.

The ROlyal Family took their accustomed :airings.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert.
her Royal Highness the Princes Royal, the ladies
and gentlemen of the Court, and. the domestic house-
hold, attended Divine service this morning in the
private chapel. The Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley
officiated.

Her. Royal Highness the Du' Bess of Kent also
attended the service.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester on
Saturday at Gloucester House.
Earl Granville left town on Sat2rday, for Trent-
ham, StatiOrdshire.

The Bishop of Oxford, Lo rd High Almoner,
preached the sermon yesterday (iliaster-day) in the
Chapel Royal, St. James's. The prayers were read
by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, the lessons by the Rev.
Messrs. Thomas and Haden, and the Communion
Service by the Bishop of London. The anthem, "If
we believe that Jesus died" (Boyce) was sung by
Messrs. Francis and Bradbury. Mr. Turle presided
at the organ.

The Bishop of London administered the sacrament,

SOCIETY AND ITS SALVAGE.
(From The Leader, a new weekly paper.)
" To save society," that is the great profession of
public men in France. " Society" is a something to
be saved; and they are exemplifying the heroic act.
Society, if we are to understand them, is benefiting
by their exertionq, though you would not suppose it.
They are engaged, most of them, except the extreme
popular party, in devising laws to prevent communi-
cation between the electors and any persons what•
ever in any capacity; to prevent the people from
meeting in clubs, lest the people, meeting itself,
should be tempted into some sort of conduct suicidal,
or conduct at all events inconvenk.nt if not dangerous
to the said politicians. Laws also to prevent the people
from reading the newspapers they like, by imposing
such high caution-money that papers can only be
established by the rich, of course in the interest of
the rich, addressed to the rich, and inculcating the
doctrines of the rich. M. Mole puts this very
clearly ; the daily press, he says, is a tribune or
speaking•place like the National Assembly, set up
in every man's houEe ; and as the writers of the
press, to obtain their own profit, flatter men's
opinions and passions, by such constant action they
destroy the free will of men. That is to say,
" to save society," M. Mol4 must protect it against
the action of free discussion, and will only allow it
to have the mild diluted discussion prescribed by
himself and friends. M. Thiers would save society
by " putting down detestable publications against
society ;" and he thinks the recipe will succeed for-
sooth, because " the Laws of September saved the
Monarchy of July." M. Parieu, Minister of Pub-
lic Instruction, would prevent universal suffrage
from being led astray by anti-Social (that is Socialist)
doctrines.

These are specimens of the way in which the pub-
lic men of France are " saving society." They re-
mind you of those who, to save a drowning man, keep
down his body by hustling over it in their emulous
and exasperated humanity.
But what is this society to be saved? "Good so-
ciety" appears just now in no peculiar want of salva•
tion. Good society is rather flourishing at present
in Paris ; having its parties and its rt•unions : the
distressed community cannot, therefore, be good
society.
It can hardly be society in the widest sense of the
word, because in that; sense the society with which
Frenchmen deal is another term for the whole or-
ganized nation of France in its domestic capacity ;
and that does not appear to be materially altered of
late, nor likely to be materially influenced by the vo-
lunteer efforts of political quacks intent on combina-
tions for getting themselves into office.
Here we have the clue to the enigma. 1 society
that cannot go alone without these vexatious police
interventions at every turn, to keep it from commu-
nicating 'with itself, lest it should seduce itself into
courses destructive to itself, cannot be very well
worth saving. Indeed, it could not last a week.
Society existing by the vigilance of the policeman
would go out in a few days; the policemen would be
sure to nod. The password of the day, then, is a
sort of thieves' cant ; and when the combined traders
of French politics talk of saving society, the thing
they mean is the society of beaureaucratic persons
and their connexions. It is to save society of this
nature that the French people is led to the ballot-box
by the policeman, is deprived of its newspaper, is
driven from its club, and is forced to stay at home
when prefects and generals choose to proclaim martial
law. The society to be saved by these expedients
must be a very bad society indeed. A truly chival-
rous enterprise would be one to save France from
that society.