The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-22 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager visited the Queen
yesterday. Her Majesty arrived at Buckingham Palace
at two o'clock, attended by the Countess of Sheffield,
Lady in Waiting. Her Majesty remained to lunch with
the Queen and Prince Albert, and afterwards returned
to Marlborough House.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Royal, were taken their usual airings yesterday
in the royal gardens of Buckingham Palace.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the royal
gardens yesterday.
The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yes-
terday evening included the Bishop of London and Mrs.
Blotnfield, the Duke of Rutland, the Marquis of
Northampton, the Marquis of Granby, Viscount Mel-
bourne, and Lord and Lady Beauvale.
The band of the Royal Horse Guards attended at the
Palace during dinner.
The Viscountess Canning has succeeded the Countess
of Mount Edgecumbe as the Lady in Waiting on the
Queen • and Lord Byron and Colonel Drummond have
succeeded Viscount Hawarden and Sir Frederick Stovin
as the Lord and Groom in Waiting to her Majesty.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
visited the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge yesterday,
at Cambridge-house.
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Stuart, M.P., Mr. Alexander Oswald, M.P., Mr. Gibson
Craig, M.P., Mr. Buckley, M.P., and Mr. Hastie, M.P.,
accompanying Mr. John Wilsoe, Mr. John Bannatyne,
Mr. Andrew Bannatyne, and Mr. William Dunlop, as a
deputation from the Glasgow Bank, had an interview
with Sirßobert Peel, at his official residence in Downing-
street, yesterday.
The Ecclesiastical Commission for England had a
meeting yesterday afternoon at the office in Whitehall-
place. The Commissioners present were the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, the
Bishop of London, the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop
of Bangor, the Bishop of St. David's, the Bishop of
Exeter, the Bishop of Hereford, the Bishop of Lichfield,
the Bishop of Lincoln, the Bishop of Norwich, the Bishop
of Ripon, the Bishop of Rochester, the Bishop of Salis-
bury, the Bishop of Worcester, the Lord President of
the Council, the Earl of Devon, the Earl of Besborough,
the Earl of Ilarrowby, the Right Hon. 11. Hobhouse,
and the Dean of Westminster.
His Excellency the Ottoman Ambassador transacted
business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Lord Saltoun had an interview with Lord Stanley yes-

terday at the Colonial-office.
Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes,
and Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had in.
terviews with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday

THE DANISH CLAIMS.—Mr. Christie is to move,
on Tuesday the 4th of June, that on the day following the
House will resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House,
to consider of an address to her Majesty on the subject of the
Danish Claims.
PEEL'S NEW MONETARY SCHEME.—The leading
London journals have hailed the new monetary project with
acclamation—eminent private bankers have given it their
concurrence—and the economists regard it as a bold step
towards the realization of their principles. At this we are
not much surprised. The English, having never enjoyed the
advantages of a safe paper currency, are not unwilling that
it should be held severely in check ; and the dread they have
of panics from over-speculation, and loss from the failure of
unsound banks, has blinded them to the greater danger of a
constant and steady decline in commercial greatness, from a
despotic carrying out of the principles of reel's Bill of 1819.
That any of our Scottish journalists should take the same
one-sided view, is to us, however,
i a matter of some astonish-
ment. They know that paper issues can be rendered per-
fectly safe, and a very little reflection should satisfy them
that, if there be any truth at all in the alleged influence on
prices of contractions and expansions of the currency, a sys-
tem which provides a fixed amount of money to measure the
value of a constantly-increasing quantity of goods, must
produce a constant sinking of prices—a reduction of profits—
and, consequently, manufacturing and commercial distreds.
It is strange, too, that they should not perceive the real effect
of Sir Robert Peel's proposal, which is neither more nor less
than to give Government the virtual control of the whole
issues of the country—a power which few Ministries ought to
be invested with.—Aberdeen Herald.
THE CHARGE OF MURDER AND ROBBERY AT
SHADWELL.—Yesterday morning, at ten o'clock, a jury was
empannelled before Mr. Baker, the coroner, at the Town of
Whitby, Wapping-wall, to investigate the circumstances
attending the death of Mr. Luke Williams, landlord of the
Chequers public-house, in the same street, who is alleged to
have died from injuries inflicted on him by a man named
Bragger, under circumstances already described in this
journal. The jury having been sworn, proceeded to the
late residence of the deceased for the purpose of viewing the
body. On their return to the inquest-room a statement of
the circumstances, as already described before the police
magistrate, was laid before them, and, at the suggestion of
the coroner, the inquiry was at once adjourned until Thurs-
day next, in order to allow time for a post mortem examina-
tion to be made,