The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-06 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Lord John Russell had an audience of the Queen
yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Prince of
Prussia, took an airing in an open barouche and four
yesterday afternoon. The Equerries in Waiting,
Colonel Buckley and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon.
Alexander Gordon, attended on horseback.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on
horseback yesterday morning, attended by Lieut.-
Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended
by Mr. Birch, took a drive in an open carriage yes-
terday.
Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Royal,
Prince Alfred, the Princess Alice, and the younger
members of the Royal Family, took their accus-
tomed airings yesterday in the garden of the Palace.
The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace
yesterday evening included his Royal Highness the
Prince of Prussia, his Excellency the Chevalier
Bunsen, the Countess of Westmoreland, Lord and
Lady John Russell, Count Herrman Puckler, Lieut.-
General de Lindheim, and Count Charles de Golts.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
visited their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge yesterday, at Cambridge House.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at
the Foreign-office. It was attended by Lord
John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne' the
Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount ralmers•
ton, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Sir Francis Baring, Sir John Hobhouse, the Earl of
Carlisle, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, and the
Right Hon. Fox Maule.
The Council sat one hour.

A deputation upon the subject of bonding in Man-
chester had an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing-street. The deputation consisted of Mr.
Alderman Watkins, Mr. William Gibb, and the town-
clerk of Manchester ; also the Mayor of Salford, ac-
companied by the Right Hon. T. M. Gibson, M.P.,
Mr. Bright, M.P., Messrs. Brown, M.P., Brotherton,
M.P., and Kershaw, M.P.
Mr. Pete, M.P., bad an interview with the Com-
missioners of Railways yesterday, at their office in the
Board of Trade.

A deputation, consisting of the Lord Provost of
Edinburgh, the Lord Provost of Perth, the ex-
Provost of Greenock, the Provost of Montrose, two of
the magistrates of Glasgow, Baillie Puller, of Perth ;
Baillie Watson, of Aberdeen ; Mr. M'Cullum, town-
councillor, of Aberdeen; Mr. Ness, president of the
Tradesmen's Society of Aberdeen ; Mr. John Hen-
derson, of Glasgow ; Mr. F. Brown Douglas, of Edin-
burgh ; Mr. James Balfour, Edinburgh ; Rev. Mr.
Graham, of Ayr; Mr. Blair, of Greenock ; Mr. James
Watson, of Kelso; Captain Giberne, of Bath; Dr.
Greville, of Edinburgh; Mr. Joseph Wilson, hono-
rary secretary of the Lord's Day Society ; Rev. G.
Baylee, colonial secretary of the Lord's Day Society
of London, had an interview with Sir George Grey
yesterday, at the Home-office, to request that Go-
vernment oppose any alteration in the late postal
arrangements.

TO H. It. H. PRINCE ALBERT.
THE PETITION OF THE TREES IN HYDE-PARR, ON
LEARNING THAT THEY WERE TO BE SACRIFICED TO
THE EXHIBITION OF 1851.
A thousand years are pass'd away
Since we hay., lived in hist'r3's page;
The world grows grave, and grim, and grey,
But ours is still a green old age.
Dane, Saxon, Norman, Knight, and Thane
Here roused at early more the chase,
And tender maid and sylvan swain
Made this at ere their treating place.
Then, Prince, forbear; if ha wk;nor hound,
Nor love, thy pity can provoke,
Yet sympathy may still be found,
In Mash hearts, for "hearts of oak."
Our trunks lie rooted in the soil
Which bygone generations trod,
Our shade refresh'd their fathers' toil,
Our heads point upwards to their God.
Retraced in yonder Minster grave,
By regal hands* cur beauty lives;t
Their " home upon the mountain wave,"
Their " wooden walls" our bounty gives.
When bluff King Harry's iron hand
Made bondsmen of our Abbots free,t
He seized the ground on which we stand,
But wisely spared the old oak tree.
He drove the virgin from her cell,
The monk from Edward's Minster tower,
While we survived to hear his knell,
And graced his daughter's regal dower.
Then rang again the sylvan glade
With echoes of the royal chase,
And courtly gallants wooed the shade
Which great Eliza deign'd to grace.
And when the summer tide came round,
The May-pole deck'd our crowded green;
For English sports aye most abound
Beneath the sceptre of a Queen.
Till Cromwell rose, and sports all fled,§
And we were left to mourn alone;—
He tore the crown from Charles's bead,
But axe ne'er touched our sylvan throne.
And soon the Merry Monarch came,
Our ancient honours to restore;
And hound and hawk pursued the game,
As in the good old days of yore.
Then, Prince, forbear; vouchsafe to sparo
The trees which sterner Cromwell sold;R
The crown, of course, he scorn'd to wear,
Yet deemed us worth our weight in gold.
And when the mart of this world's art
Shall leave no vestige of its fame,
The greenwood tree will bloom for thee,
And bless, for ever, Albert's name I
Morniug Po: t.

G. F.M.

* Westminster Abt ev, built by Edward the Confessor
in 1050. and rebuilt by -Henry 111., 1250.

-t " No attentive observer ever viewed a regular
avenu , of well-grown trees but it presently put him in
mind of the long vista through a Gothic cathedral.'
Wm burion's Notes on Pope.
In the time of Henry VIII., Hyde-park formed
part of a manor belonging to the abbot and monks of
Westminster. In the reign of Queen Elizabath we read
of its " herbage, pannage, and browzewood for deer."—
Jesse's London. . .

V§
Under the rule of the Puritans, the May meetings
—the merry sports and festive rejoicings—were declared
to be abominable.—Jesse's London.
11 In the days of the Commonwealth, Hyde-park must
have been extremely well N% coded, for we find the
timber alone valued at 5,0991. 19.3. 6d., the deer at 7654
—Jesse's London.

LORD PALMERSTON ABOUT 1820.—" Lord Pal-
merston came to town, sent for by Perceval. He was so good
as to confide to me that three things were offered to him
—the Chancellorship of the Exchequer, Secretaryship at
War, or a seat at the Treasury, by way of introduction
to the Seals, if he was afraid of entering upon them at once.
These offers were, however, in the alternative of there being
one of them declined by Milnes ( Member for Pontefract), to
whom they were made in the first instance. Lord Palmers-
ton consurted me very frankly upon them, and asked if I
thought he would be equal to the seals either in Cabinet or
Parliament, particularly the latter, where he had barely made
his debut. I told him, and was most sincere, that in common
with all his friends whom I had ever heard speak on the
subject, I thought him quite equal to them in point of capa-
city, but as to nerves in Parliament (of which he seemed
most to doubt) nobody could judge but himself. He said,
Petty (whom I had mentioned) had come forward after
having felt his way and got possession of himself in the
House, and that if he bad done the same, he perhaps would
not hesitate. As it was he inclined to the second place,
but had written to Lord Malmesbury. We walked up to
Hyde-park discussing the subject. Among other topics
which I urged, one seemed to impress him much; which
was, the great difference there would be in his situation and
pretensions upon a ,return to office, in the event of our
going out, if he retired as a Cabinet Minister, instead of
a subordinate capacity. He allowed it much flattered his
ambition, but feared the prejudice that it would occasion to
his own reputation and the interest of his friends if he failed.
I left him inclining to the Secretary at War, and admired
his prudence, as I have long done the talents and excellent
understanding, as well as the many other good qualities as
well as accomplishments, of this very fine young man."—'
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