The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-25 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, the Princess
Royal, tile ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the
; domestic household, attended Divine service yester-
day morning in the private chapel of Buckingham
Palace. The Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley
officiated.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on
horseback on Saturday morning, attended by Colonel
Bouverie.
The Duke and Duchess de Nemours visited her
Majesty on Saturday at Buckingham Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided on
Saturday afternoon at a meeting of the Royal Commis-
sion for the promotion of the Exhibition of the Works
of Industry of all Nations to be held in the yearlBsl.
His Royal Highness arrived at the new Palace of
Westminster at three o'clock, attended by Colonel
Bouverie.
The Commiksioners present were the Earl Gran-
ville, Lord Overstone, Sir Robert Peel, Sir Charles
Lyell, iMr. Barry, Mr. 13az1ey, Mr. Cubitt, Mr.
T. F. Gibson, Mr. John Gott, and Mr. Alderman
Thompson. Colonel Reid, R.E , chairman of the
executive committee, was also present. Mr. Stafford
Northcote, secretary to the commission, attended.
The meeting broke up at six o'clock.
A deputation from the council of the Society of
Arts had an interview with the royal commissioners.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the
Royal Italian Opera House with their presence on
Saturday evening. The royal suite consisted of the
Viscountess Jocelyn, Hon. Flora Macdonald, the
Earl if Morley, Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel
Bouveriet.

The Queen's private band attended in I3uckingham
Palace on Friday evening, and performed the fol-
lowing pieces :
Overture, Op. 142
Aria, "Faust" Spohr.
Scene, Romance, and Trio, " La Part du
Diable"
Trio, " Le Pre aux Clercs" Herold.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge returned to their residence at Kew on
Saturday, from honouring the Earl and Countess of
Wilton with a visit at their seat, Melton Mowbray.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon
at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Lord John
Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George
Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Sir
John Hobhouse, the Earl of Carlisle, and the Right
Hon. H. Labouchere. The Council sat two hours.

The Turkish Ambassador was prevented by indis-
position from being present at the banquet given by
the Lord Mayor on Thursday last.
Lord Seymour had an interview with Lord John
Russell on Saturday.
Mr. Bazley had an interview with Sir George
Grey on Saturday. Mr. Selby had also an interview
with the Right V Hon. Baronet on Saturday at the
Home-office.

A deputation from the Londonderry and Coleraine
and the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railways had
an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer
on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing
street. Tile deputation consisted of Captain Jones,
M.P., 111.1jor Blackall, ALP., Mr. J. Clay, M.P.,
Messrs. W. H. Thomas, T. Tyrrell, and F. 11. Hem-
ming.

Lie Commission for inquiring into Smithfield-
market, and markets in the city of London for the
sale of meat, met on Saturday at the Home-office.
Mr. Gdorge Cornewall Lewis, Sir James Duke,
Sir Harry Verney, the Hon. Frederick Bing, and
Mr. John Wood, were present.
The officers and gentlemen of her Majesty's Hon.
Corps of Gentlemen at Arms had the honour of enter-
taining their captain, Lord Foley, at dinner on Satur-
day. at the Clarendon Hotel.
The committee on manufactures of the Commission
for the Exhibition of 1851, met on Saturday at the
new Palace of Westminster. The members present
were Mr. T. F. Gibson, Mr. Bazley, Mr. Gott, Mr.
Herbert Minton, Mr. Apsley Pellatt, Mr. Itedgrare,
Mr. H. J. Townsend, Professor Graham, and Mr.
Marshall. Mr. Cole and Mr. Dilke attended on be-
half of the executive committee. Mr. .Northcote,
secretary to the Commission, was in attendance.

The Earl of Carli.le had a dinner party on Friday,
at his residence, in Grosvenor-place. The company
included Lady Morley, Lady Georgina and Mr.
Grey, Lord harry Vane, Sir Hamilton, and Lady
Seymour, Mr. Granville Vernon, Colonel and Mrs.
Malcolm, Captain Egerton, Mr. and Mrs. W. Caven-

dish, Mr. Macdonald, Mr. Birch, the Countess of
Carlisle, Lady Mary and Captain Howard.
The Duke of *Wellington attended the early ser-
vice, yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
The Archbishop of Canterbury preached the sermon
yesterday, at the daily service.
The Bishop of Oxford will preach on Sunday next
(Easter Day), in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE

BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION.

Sir,—On Wednesday the 20th, the Larceny Sum-
mary Jurisdiction Bill was brought into Committee,
and there moved and carried that it be divided into
two Bills. The effect of this may be considered
hostile to the objectionable portions of the Bill, which
are the powers to flog children by the public execu-
tioner at the order of two magistrates for thefts
under the value of one shilling, and the mock option
to be afforded to the unhappy small criminal, of say-
ing whether he will accept the flogging of the two
magistrates, or will go before a jury. All men of
any general acquaintance with the world, know what
options of this kind mean. The Committee was
finally deferred to the 18th of April.
On Thursday a great contest in a small House, on
the composition of the " Committee upstairs" on the
County Rates and Expenditure Bill. It is to be re-
gretted that some way cannot be discovered of fram-
ing these Committees without their being supposed
to consist of two opposed sets of partisans. Perhaps
something like the old mode of ballot for an Election
Committee, where each side struck off what it con-
sidered its avowed opponents to the number of a
third, might have the effect desired. But possibly
the whole may be rendered needless by the conside-
ration, that no sensible man puts faith in the decisions
of a Committee, except to the exact extent of the
evidence and arguments produced.
On Friday was the debate in Committee on the Aus-
tralian Colonies Government Bill. The Conservative
side of the House advanced precisely the same tactics as
on a former debate on Economy; and with precisely the
same effect of inducing a number of the Liberals to
run after the hook, though they were told it was a
hook, and assured by the inviters that it was a hook,
and shown where the object was to land them.
The Conservatives moved as an amendment, that
there should be two Chambers in the Australian
Colonies ; a point on which, viewed in its nakedness,
few Liberals of anything like an advanced order
could fail to agree. But then it was not naked ; the
Conservatives added, that if they carried their amend-
ment, their object was to have a Second Chamber
nominated by the Crown, with a proviso (how hand-
some) that not more than one-third of the members
should hold offices of emolument under the Crown.
And at this most monstrous bait, a portion of the
Liberals did not fail to bite. That they trusted to
being able to lick the bait off the hook,—to gain a
majority by joining with the Conservatives on the
first question, and then to get rid of the consequences
by voting another way upon the second. Fish do so
every day, and we know what comes of it. Of
course the question is open to all varieties of opinion ;
but it is therefore open to that one, which thinks that
nothing is more dangerous than playing with the
fiend, and joining in fellowship with him for a season
in the expectation of being able to evade his claw
when it shall be convenient. There may have been
one or two instances in the history of mankind of the
success of such a policy on the large scale; be` `,he
number is by no means such as invites to repetition.
The President of the Board of Trade took too
much alarm at the conduct of the Liberals behind
him, who none of them did more than was required
for a fair exposition of their opinions and throwing
them into the pool. A Conservative Member saw a
strong necessity for introducing what he called the
monarchical principle into the colonies. It was
therefore no more than right, that others should have
their say.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, 25th March, 1850.

THE ARMY.

It will be most gratifying to the army to re-
ceive another proof of the kindness and attention
which Lord Gough has always manifested towards
the interests and welfare of those officers who have
served under him, and deserved well of their country.
Shortly before his Lordship resigned the command
of the army in India he addressed to the Governor-
General and the military secretary of the Com-
mander•in-Chief letters strongly recommending to
the favourable consideration of the Government three
distinguished officers who had served under his Lord-
ship in the three last campaigns. The honours and
rewards placed at his Lordship's disposal after " the
crowning victory of Goojerat" were, it appears, de-
voted to other claims, or were inadequate to the ser-
vices rendered by those officers. The brief summary
of those services given in his Lordship's recommen-
dation affords the most ample evidence of the claims
those officers possess, and is to the following effect :
Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Grant, C. 8., Adjutant-
General of the Army, was virtually at the head of the
important department of which he is chief in the last
three great campaigns. His services in the Gwalior
campaign were only inadequately rewarded with a
brevet rnaj Jrity. For the Sutledj campaign, in which
he was severely and dangerously wounded, he re-
ceived a brevet lieutenant- colonelcy. For the last
and crowning campaign, in which his duties were
most onerous and responsible, and were performed

with a zeal, ability, and gallantry repeatedly com-
mended in the various dispatches, Lieutenant-Colonel
Grant had neither advancement nor distinction of any
kind conferred upon him ; and in the opinion of his
Lord,hip, the Adjutant-General of an army of nearly
200,000 men, from his high position and distinguished
service*, was entitled to some special acknowledgment
and reward.

The second case, that of Lieutenant• Colonel Wm.
Garden, C. 8., whose services as Quartermaster-Gene-
ral of the Army had been frequently mentioned with
the warmest commendations during the three last
campaigns, is nearly similar to that of Lieutenant-
Colonel Grant, and was recommended most urgently
to the consideration of the Government.
The third case was that of Lieutenant- Colonel
Tucker, Deputy Adjutant-General of the Bengal
Army. Lieutenant-Colonel Tucker is a most chival-
rous accomplished staff. officer, and his services in the
field in particular have been most valuable, and mark
him out as one destined to rise to the highest distinc-
tion. At the battle of Sobraon, in the affair of Ham-
nuggur, on the hard fought and fiercely contested field
of Chillianwalla, and at the glorious and final victory
of Goojerat, in which he slew three of the enemy's
horsemen in single combat, the intrepid bearing of
Lieutenant-Colonel Tucker called forth tie admira-
tion of all who witnessed it. Lieutenant-Colonel
Tucker received a brevet majority for his services a •
Sobraon, and he has been promoted to a brevet lieu-
tenant-colonelcy for the last campaign, and in hit-
Lordship's opinion the very superior services and con-
spicuous gallantry of Lieutenant-Colonel Tucker de-
serve some special mark of approval, and his Lordship
most emphatically solicited the Governor-General to
convey to the proper authorities his most earnest re-
commendation that the honour of the Bath might be
conferred upon that intrepid officer.
These recommendations have been, we understand,
transmitted to the Court of Directors and to the Horse
Guards, and we have no doubt that they will be at-
tended to.— chronicle.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCU 24.—The Cygnet, 6, Com-
mander D. Robertson, arrived this afternoon from the
coast of Africa.

The Encounter screw-corvette, Captain Gordon,
sailed this afternoon at forty minutes past three for
Lisbon.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 22.—Tier Majesty's ship Su-
perb, 80, Captain Purcell, which entered the Sound
last evening from Queenstown, left again early this
morning to relieve the homeward bound in the Chops
of the Channel.

The Arethusa, at her trial trip (before sailing for
Lisbon), with all reefs out, close hauled, fresh breeze
from the eastward, made 10.2 knots an hour. She
draws 23 feet 4 inches aft, and 21 feet 10 inches for-
ward; mean draught, 22 feet 7 inches. Ships of
her class draw usually two feet less, as is the case,
we believe, with the Indefatigable and with the
Pbaeton, which is five feet longer and 18 inches nar-
rower than the Arethusa.

APTOINTMEN TS.

WOOLWICH, MARCH 23.—Assistant-Surgeon Ar-
chibald Sibbald, M.D. (1841), to the Assistance,
fitting for the Arctic Expedition.
Master's-Assistant Nathaniel J. Loane to the
Dasher steam-vessel at Woolwich.

Third Engineer Augustus Mills to the Dasher.
THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.
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The Pioneer screw steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Com-
mander Sherard Osborn, is now in a very advanced
state, the whole of her doubling from her gunwales
down to her keel being eompleted, and convicts have
been busy to-day in scraping her sides to make her
ready for caulking. A number of caulkers arrived
from Deptford to-day to assist in getting the vessel
caulked with the least possible delay, and the ship-
wrights are employed upon her from 5 30 A.M. to 7
P.m. Workmen commenced placing the apparatus
for heating the vessel to-day, the well for lifting the
screw up through has been completed, and the stern
of the vessel is apparently of much greater strength
than it ever was before. The well is 3 feet 9 inches
long by 2 feet 7 inches wide. The figure-head has
been removed, and a strong piece of timber substi-
tuted over her bows. When caulked and otherwise
ready, she will be taken out of dock into the river to
have her stores put on board, and be made in every
respect ready for sea, and the hands now employed
upon her will then assist in accelerating the progress
of the other vessels of the expedition.
The Intrepid screw steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Com-
mander John Bertie Cator, is progressing so rapidly,
that her boiler was taken out at 5 o'clock on the
afternoon of Thursday, the day she was taken into
dock, and the workmen of the factory have been at
work upon it and upon the engines without
intermission, relays of fresh workmen being put
on to work night and day. The well for un-
shipping the screw in this vessel has been cut out, and
the shipwrights were at work upon her bottom by
torch light until eight o'clock this evening, and will
again commence at an early hour on Monday morn-
ing. The whole of the shipwrights have been taken
from the Onyx steam-vessel .to assist in expediting
the Intrepid, and as the shipwrights recently at work
on the Nankin, 50-gun frigate, are now available for
the Intrepid, she will be made ready for sea in a very
short time.

The Resolute, Captain 11. T. Austin, C. 8., fitting
in Mr. Green's dock at Blackwall, is expected to be
ready to be brought to Woolwich in about ten days
to have her stores put on board.
The Assistance, Captain Erasmus Ommaney, fitting
at Messrs. Wigram's yard, is also in an advanced
state, and will be brought to Woolwich the moment
she is ready to receive her stores. The rigging and
sails and every other requisite for the whole of the
vessels have been prepared, and are ready to be put
up with the least possible delay, and the expedition
will be ready to leave Woolwich at an earlier period
than the expedition under Captain Sir James Clarke
ROSS, which left for the Arctic regions on the 19. th
of May, 1848.