The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-30 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert,
accompanied by the Duchess of Saxe Coburg and
Gotha, and the Duke Ernest of Wurtemberg, took
their usual early walk this morning in the pleasure-
grounds round the Castle.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken
out for an airing.
Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Saxe Co-
burg and Gotha, and the Duke Ernest of Wurtem-
berg, left the Castle for town this morning via Great
Western Railway, attended by Baron de Wangen-
heim and Captain Vyner.
The Earl and Countess Couper, Lord and Lady
Willoughby d'Eresby, and the Right Hon. Sir Robert
and Lady Peel, took their departure from the Castle
to-day.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert went in a pony
carriage in the afternoon to the riding school, to
take equestrian exercise, attended by Colonels Arbuth-
not and Wylde.
The Dukes of Saxe Coburg and Wurtemberg and
suite returned to the Castle to dinner.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady
Fanny Howard, and the Countess Wratislaw, joined
the royal circle at dinner.
The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards was in at-
tendance during dinner at the Castle.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended.

Sir Robert Peel arrived in town yesterday morn-.
ing, from a visit to her Majesty, at ‘Vindsor Castle.
A Cabinet Couneil was held at two o'clock yester-
day afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing-street,
which was attended by Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of
Wellington, Lord Wharncliffe, the Earl of Aber-
deen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chan-
cellor of:the Exchequer, the Earl of Haddington, the
Earl of Ripon, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone,
Lord Granville Somerset, and Sir Edward Knatch-
bull. The Council sat two hours and a half.

Wickham,
A deputation from the Leeds and West Riding
Railways, consisting of Mr. H. W. f
Low Moor ; Mr. Waterhouse, Halifax ; Mr. Walker,
Bradford ; Mr. Pawson, Fernley, near Leeds ; Mr.
Bateson, Leeds; Mr. Firth, Leeds; Mr. Bar ,
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Dalhousie yesterday, at the Board of Trade.
A deputation from the Cornwall Railway from
Plymouth to Falmouth, consisting of the Earl of
Falmouth; Mr. Russell, M.P., Chairman of the
Great Western Railway • Mr. Cotesworth, Mr.
Alexander Gray, Mr. Nelson, Mr. Hunt, solicitor;
Mr. Saunders, Secretary of the Great Western
Railway; and Mr. Smith, Secretary of the Cornwall
Railway, had an interview with Lord Dalhousie
yesterday.
Mr. Lewis Crombie, one of the Directors of the
Aberdeen Railway Company, accompanied by Mr.
Adam, the secretary, Mr. Cubitt, the engineer, Mr.
Farquhar, and Mr. Webster, the Parliamentary
agent, had an interview with Lord Dalhousie yes-
terday on the subject of that undertaking.
A deputation from the Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton Railway, consisting of Mr. Francis
Rufford, Mr. George B. Thorneycroft, and Mr. Wil-
liam Matthews, accompanied by Mr. W. 0. Hunt,
solicitor, had an interview with Lord Dalhousie
yesterday.
Mr. W. A. Wilkinson, Chairman of the Croydon
Railway Company ; Mr. F. Robert, Deputy Chair-
man; Mr. B. Baines and Mr. C. J. Crowley, Direc-
tors, anti Mr. Cubitt, engineer, had an interview with
Lord Dalhousie yesterday.
Mr. Houldsworth, Chairman of the Manchester and
Leeds Railway; Mr. Tottie, Chairman of the Hull
and Selby Railway; Mr. Phillips, solicitor, and Mr.
Locking, secretary, had an interview with Lord Dal-
housie on the proposed union of the Manchester and
Leeds and Hull and Selby Railway Companies.
Count de St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, had
an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday, at the
Colonial-office.
Mr. W. G. Hayter, M.P., and a deputation from
Wells, had an interview with Lord Dalhousie yes-
terday.
Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes,
and Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had inter-
views with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yester-
day, at his official residence in Downing-street.
Dispatches were received yesterday afternoon from
Sir Charles Metcalfe, Governor-General of Canada,
and also from the Governors of the other North Ame-
rican provinces, at the Colonial-office.
Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General
to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na-
tional Debt, and Mr. Franks of the South-Sea House,
had interviews yesterday with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer.
The Duke of Beaufort had an interview with Lord
Dalhousie yesterday.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
yesterday. Mr. Burge, Q.C., was heard on an appeal
from Bombay, " Juveer Bhaee v. Vuruj Bhaee.'
The Master of the Rolls gave judgment on the part
of their Lordships, sending the case back to India.
Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, Q.C., was heard on an appeal
from Madras, " Keerahoore v. Keerahoore," ' and
" Keerahoore v. Serie."

Their Lordships rose at four o'clock, when the case
was adjourned.

SIMPLE REMEDY FOR CROUP.—The American
Journal of Health gives the following simple remedy for
this dreadful and dangerous disease :—" If a child is
taken with croup, instantly apply cold water—ice water
if possible—suddenly and freely to the neck and chest,
with a :Tonga. The breathing will almost instantly be
relieved. So soon ns possible et the sufferer drink as
much as it can ; then tiiipe it dry, cover it up warm, end
soon a quiet slumber will relieve the parent's anxiety, and
lead the heart in thankfulness to the Power which has
given to the pure gushing fountain such medical qualities."

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS'
PROTECTION SOCIETY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Gilstrap's Hotel, Newark, Nov. 29, 1844.
perceive by a letter in The Sun of Wednesday
last, that some member of the commercial body antici-
pates and condemns an agitation for change in the cus-
toms of the commercial room. Happily for the credit
of the body, there are few of the old school (to which
your correspondent evidently belongs) left on the road,
and it is an indisputable fact that more than three-fourths
of the commercial men of the present day are desirous
of seeing a change in regulations which are not only
characterised by absurdity, but pernicious in their con-
sequences. I will not seek to trespass on your space by
entering into particulars, bat simply put a question to
you, Mr. Editor, by asking if you can conceive anything
more preposterous than for a man engaged in business,
requiring all his physical and mental energies, to be ex-
pected (aye thoti h it be in the dog days) to drink a
pint of wine at lea. 4 every day to dinner—mark, Mr.
Editor, he cannot escape by paying alone, no, he must
drink it, as your correspondent of the old school would
quickly demonstrate to any tyro over whom he might
chance to preside. During the last half century change
and improvement have taken place in most things, but
the old boys of the road, with their arbitrary regulations,
remain unchanged—rules (or I might entitle them a code
of laws) established by the deep drinkers of old, which
remain to the great annoyance of the majority of the
moderns, who are desirous of seeing them abolished. I
have taken my pint of wine to-day, to-morrow should I
not be " i' the vein," and your correspondent, " An Old
Commercial," be my president, I should be compelled by
the rules to have the usual quantity, viz., a pint. If that
is not an absurdity I know not the true interpretation of
the word. As to hotel-keepers suffering, that is puerile,
and a poor argument in support of drinking ; as though
they could not alter the scale of charges for meals, so as
to remunerate them.

I trust to your usual impartiality to insert this or part
of this letter, and remain yours,
A YOUNG COMMERCIAL, BUT NOT
A TEETOTALLER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sia,—ln reply to a letter in your paper of the 27th
instant, signed " An Old Commercial Traveller," I beg
leave to question the correctness of his assertion, that
any society either has " sprung up," or is about to spring
up, termed the "Commercial Travellers' Protection So-
ciety" fer teetotal purposes, and, as he asserts, for the
purpose of upsetting the present state of things, and the
conviviality and socialism of the commercial room. No
doubt the OLD Traveller believes what he states ; but,
Sir, as one of the more modern school, I must make bold
to say, that I fear some humourous wag has been playing
on the old gentleman's prejudices ; and perhaps on his
pathetically bemoaning the defunct hot suppers, hard
drinking, and roaring jollity of yore, so well known as
the old habits of the commercial body, that the said wag
may have invented the absurd story of the "Protection
Society," and so called forth the indignant epistle of the
" OLD Commercial Traveller."

But, Sir, as ono of that body now, I am happy to say,
increasing on the road, who feel a pride in being consi-
dered temperate men, sober men, and business men, I
totally deny that either the harmony or conviviality of
our room is falling, or fallen, from our improved tem-
perate habits • and if the " OLD Traveller" regrets the
wild orgies ("inebriation, and cannot enjoy the improved
intellectual tone of the conversations of modern commer-
cial rooms, I can only say that I fear he must continue in
his regret, as the day is gone by when either example or
scoffing can renew intemperate habits on the road.
In conclusion, and to refute his assertion relative to
the " depressed landlord"—those gentlemen with weak
spirit, I need only refer to the well-known fact, that
many hotels, which, since their first establishment, have
had their doors, I may say, hermetically sealed, against
" Travellers," aro now, since posting and coaching are
almost a blank letter, anxiously courting the commercial
body, and daily advertising their appropriation of a room
exclusively for their accommodation, and expressing
their anxiety to cultivate their patronage.
Thus, Sir, is the regret of your old Correspondent un-
founded, and the goad feeling which has ever influenced
you towards our body, will, I trust, induce you, in jus-
tice, to insert this letter in reply to his unjust attack.—
I have the honour to remain, Sir, your most obedient
servant. G. C.,
_ _ _

A Modern Commercial Traveller.
Newcastle, Staffordshire, Nov. 28, 1844.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—I see in your columns of yesterday, a letter
signed " An Old Commercial Traveller," regarding the
existence of a society for suppressing the present con-
vivial practices of the road. Unlike the " old 'un," I
feel that the originators of that Society are the best
friends of the body, and deserve as well of commercial
travellers, as Father Mathew does of the Patlanders. I
am on my first journey, and consequently the drinking
practices of the commercial room appear to me without
that halo which custom throws round our accustomed
enjoyments, and have not yet arrived at that point,
when I can relish a pint of wine at dinner, and a glass
of ardent spirits in the evening, which is the minimum
allowance of even those who (like myself) are in their
noviciate, and I am sure that both landlord and traveller
would be benefited by a change that would enable young
travellers, like myelf, to have our meals at extra charge,
and be thereby absolved from the necessity of " putting
an enemy in our mouths to steal away our brains."
If you think my remarks likely to do good, please in-
sert it in your invaluable journal.—l am, &c.,
Swan Hotel, Bristol, Nov. 28. A BAGMAN.