The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-12 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR' MONDAY.—Thq Queen and Prince Al-
bert walked to Frogmore house this morning to
visit the Duchess of Kent. Her Majesty and his
Royal Highness returned to the Castle in a puny
carriage.
The unfavourable state of the weather prevented
the Soyal Family from being taken out this morning
for an airing on their ponies.
Ifer Majesty and Prince Albert left the Castle, at-
tended by the royal suite, at twelve o'clock, for the
Slough station of the Great Western Railway en route
to Buckingham Palace, escorted by a troop of the
Royal Horse Guards, commanded by Lieut. Baillie.
The royal party left Slough by a special train for
Paddington.
The Earl of Morton, Captain Meynell, and the
Hon. and Rev. C. L. Courtenay, remain at the Castle.
ller Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by
Lady Portman, Lady in Waiting, the Hon. Georgiana
Liddell, Maid of Honour in Waiting, arrived at
Buckingham Palace at one o'clock yesterday after-
noon, in a carriage and four, escorted by a party of
Lancers, from the Paddington terminus of the Great
Western Railway. Colonel Arbuthnot, Equerry in
Waiting to the Queen, and Colonel Wylde, Equerry
to the Prince, followed in another carriage and tour.
Her Majesty. and his Royal Highness were received
at the Palace by the Lord Chamberlain and the Mar-
quis of Granby, Lord in Waiting to Prince Albert.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
Mr. George Edward Anson, went yesterday after-
noon to the office of the Duchy of Cornwall, in
Somerset House.

Her Majesty, attended by the Hon. Miss Liddell
and Colonel Arbuthnot, visited her Royal Highness
the Princess Sophia yesterday afternoon, at Ken-
sington. Her Majesty afterwards visited her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester
House.

Prince Albert inspected the lighting of the Chapel
Royal, at Buckingham Palace, in the evening. The
chapel has been fitted up with gas-lights, inclosed in
large glass globes, ornamented with appropriate in-
scriptions, and fixed upon handsome ormolu columns.
They are ventilated upon Professor Faraday's prin-
ciple of conveying away from the lights all the
noxious products of combustion by means of a de-
scending draught, which is obtained, in this instance,
by the assistance of Dr. Reid's ventilating shaft and
apparatus. The Prince expressed himself much
pleased with the perfect success of this application of
that invention, as well as with the chaste and brilliant
effect produced by the lights.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by Lady
Portman, the Hon. Georgiana Liddell, the Earl Dela-
warr, Col. Arbuthnot, and Col. Wylde, honoured
Drury-lane Theatre with their presence yesterday
evening.
The band of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot
Guards left town yesterday morning, at seven o'clock,
to attend at Burleigh House during her Majesty's
visit to the Marquis of Exeter.
The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester
House.
Sir Robert Peel arrived at his residence in White-
hall-gardens yesterday from Brighton. Sir James
Graham had an interview with the Right Hon.
Baronet.

HOW COUNTIES ARE TO BE WON
(From the League.)
We need not inform our readers that the Govern-
ment of this country is in the hands of the great
landed proprietors : the corn-law is the badge which
proclaims us to the world as the thralls of a landlord
class. It was a needless insult on the part of the
Duke of Richmond to proclaim from the hustings at
Steyning, last autumn, that he and his order could
make and unmake Ministers at their will and pleasure,
for we feel their power in our stinted loaves, and,
diminished supplies of sugar. Granted, then, that
we live under a landocracy composed of some thirty
thousand persons, are there no means by which
twenty-seven millions may hope to throw off their
yoke ? It can, we believe, be demonstrated, that, if
less than one in a hundred of our population could be
roused to the exercise of the power they possess, the
domination of the Duke of Richmond and his class
might be peacefully, and legally, but totally abated.
The ascendancy of the landowners rests entirely
upon the majority they possess in the House of Com-
mons, and this they owe to the county representatives.
Take away the 252 County Members, and Mr. Vil-
liers would in two years possess a majority in Parlia-
ment. Remove one-half of them, and the present
Government would in the next division be in a mi-
nority. If we seek for the source of the power of
the landlords in the county representation, it will be
traced to the 50/. tenant-at-will voters. Wherever a
contest has resulted, as in Lancashire, the West
Riding of Yorkshire, or North Cheshire, in the de-
feat of the free traders, it has been proved, upon an
analysis of the poll, to be caused by the votes of occu-
pying tenants ; and nobody will deny that the pre-
ponderance of the same class of votes in Buckingham-
shire, Huntingdonshire, &c., renders a popular con-
test in those purely rural counties hopeless. 'What
must be done ? To attempt to disfranchise this de-
pendent body of electors were a vain and fruitless
task. The only plan remaining, then, is to bring an
equal number of independent voters into the electora:
field to neutralise them at the poll ; and this is the
practicable scheme to which we earnestly invite the
attention of our friends.
By the late census it appears that there are in
England and Wales 230,155 farmers and graziers
who are adult males. This number includes, of
course, all the dairy-farmers in the vicinity of towns,
besides many others paying less than 501. a year of
rent; and, if we deduct rather over one-tenth for
these, it will leave in round numbers 200,000 tenants-
at-will, whose votes turn the scale at the election of
the 158 Members who represent the 52 English and
Welsh counties. It would be wrong to assume that
the whole of those are compelled to vote against free
trade, for we know that some of the largest landed
proprietors are opposed to the corn monopoly, and it
can be fairly estimated that one-tenth might be de-
ducted as being under such favourable influences,
leaving about 180,000 as the net strength at the poll
which the monopolist landowners can command in all
the counties of England and Wales. From these 52
counties we will strike off one-fourth, being those
which contain the least town population, and it leaves
119 seats where there is a sufficiently numerous
middle class in the towns to carry our plan into
successful operation. According to our calculation
it would require 155,000 persons to qualify them-
selves as county voters to neutralise the power of
the monopolist landlords in three-fourths of the
English and Welsh counties. We confine our-
selves to those parts of the kingdom, because the
40s. franchise for the counties does not apply to
Ireland and Scotland. What a glorious field is
here open to the prudent and patriotic citizen for
extending his sphere of usefulness by enlarging his
political powers! And how cheaply may this en-
franchisement be purchased—so cheaply that it is
within the reach of all but the very poorest of the
population, as explained by Mr. Cobden in his speech
at Manchester :
"five Torhseix4Ocse.nftruarniecshiasgeo.forAat
tchoautnttyimewaas
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constitutional phraseology of the times, was deemed
to be a yeoman, and entitled to political rights, provided
he had 40s. a year clear to spend. That was at that
time a subsistence for a man. Probably it was equal to
the rental of one hundibd acres of land. What is it
now ? With the vast extension of wealth amongst the
middle class, which then did not exist, and amongst a
large proportion, I am happy to say, in this district, of
the superior class of operatives, that 40s. freehold fran-
chise becomes a nominal franchise, and is within the
reach of every man who has the spirit to acquire it. I
say, then, in every county where there is a large town
population, as in Lancashire, the West Riding
of Yorkshire, South Staffordshire, North Cheshire,
Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, and many other counties I
could name—in fact, every county bordering on the sea-
coast, or having manufactures within it, every county
can be won, and easily won, if the people can be roused
to a systematic effort to qualify themselves tbr a vote, in
the way the Lancashire people rushed to the qualification
when they found that the county could be won by that
means and no other. It is a custom sometimes for men
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to put their savings in the savings' bank. There are
fourteen or fifteen millions so deposited, or more. I
would not say a word to lessen the confidence in that
security; but there is no investment so secure as a free-
hold of the earth, and it is the only investment that gives
a vote along with the property. We come then to this.
It costs a man nothing to have a vote for the county.
He buys his property, 601. in a cottage: aye, 401. or 30/.
in many of the neighbouring towns will do it. He has
the interest for his money, the property to sell when he
wants it, and his vote into the bargain. Sometimes a
parent, wishing to teach a son to be economical and
saving, gives him a sort of nest-egg in the savings'
bank. I say to such a parent, make your son, at twenty-
one years of age, a freeholder—do it as an act of duty •
make him thereby an independent freeman ; put it in
his power to defend himself and his children from poli-
tical oppression, and you make that man, with 601., an
equal in the polling-booth to Mr. Scarisb:. • with his
eleven miles in extent of territory, or tc Mr _I t;erton."
A plan is here developed, which, .a ever .tartling
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before the 31st of January.
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The band of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot
Guards left town yesterday morning at seven o'clock to
attend at Burleigh House during her Majesty visit to the
Marquis of Exeter.