The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-25 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, MONDAY.—Their Royal Highnesses the
Prince and Princess Augustus of Saxe Cobourg left
the Castle at twenty minutes past nine o'clock this
morning, en route per Great Western Railway to the
Bricklayers' Arms station, via South Eastern Railway,
to Folkestone for Boulogne. Their Royal Highnesses
were attended by Madame Angelet and Baron de Wan-
genheim.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert accompanied by the
Duchess of Kent, took leave of their illustrious visitors
at the door of the principal entrance. There were also
present, Lady Portman, Lady in Waiting, Lady Caroline
Cocks and the Hon. Miss Devereux, Maids of Honour,
Viscount Hawarden, Lord in Waiting, Captain the Hon.
A. Duncombe, Groom in Waiting, Lord Char___ "Yel-
leley, Clerk Marshal, Colonel Bowles, Master of the
Household, and Colonel Sir George Couper, Equerry in
Waiting to the Duchess of Kent.

Lieutenant-Colonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting, at-
tended the Prince and Princess to the Bricklayers' Arms
station of the South-Eastern Railway.
The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual early
morning walk.
The Royal Family were all taken their accustomed
airings in the forenoon; and the Prince of 'Wales, the
Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice were taken for
riding and walking exercise in the afternoon.
Sir Henry Wheatley arrived at the Castle to•day on
a-

visit.
Lord Portman took his departure this morning.
There was no addition to the royal dinner party at
the Castle this evening.
The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Gloucester on Sunday. Yesterday
morning the Royal Duke, attended by Baron Knese-
beck, left town for Paultons, to honour Mr. Sloane
Stanley with a visit.
A deputation, consisting of the Mayor of Manchester,
Mr. Mark Philips, M.P., Mr. Joseph Brotherton, M.P.
Mr. Alderman Kay, Mr. Robert Hyde Grey, and the
Town Clerk of Manchester, had an interview with Sir
Robert Peel yesterday, at his official residence in Down-
ing-street.
Lord Granville Somerset (Chancellor of the Duchy
of Lancaster) arrived in town yesterday from the Con-
tinent.

The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England bad a
Committee-meeting yesterday. There were present
the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Ely, and the Earl
of Devon.

Lord Stanley arrived in town yesterday evening, from
Knowesley Hall, Lancashire.
Lord Wharncliffe has returned to town from St
Leonard's.

Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
Colonial•otfiice for the Governor of Hong Kong.
Despatches were received at the Colonial-office from
the Governors of New South Wales, and South Aus-
tralia.

A HEAVY BLOW AND SORE

DISCOURAGEMENT.

When Dr. Chalmers and his now so-called " Free"
adherents ruled the roast in Glasgow some ten or fifteen
years ago, nothing would satisfy them but to build no
fewer than twenty additional churches in this city and
neighbourhood, ostensibly "to excavate the heathen," so
they said, but in reality to smother the Voluntaries, then
denominated " the vermin." Their love for the Church of
Scotland in those days knew no bounds. It never en-
tered into their noddles that they would play any reel of
Bogie against her in any Canonmills-hall, far less that
they would dash any of her " wee bit endoomenties"
away from them for ever. No such " Disruption" was
ever contemplated by them at the period we speak of.
And so they testified, affirmed, and declared in the most
solemn manner, both verbally and in writing, both in
pulpit and in hall; both in civil and ecclesiastical courts
and records, that those twenty churches were to be built
and to remain in connexion with the Established Church
of Scotland, absolutely and unconditionally, in all time
coming.
" Retract ! no—not a hair's-breadth !" Very
well. The " Disruption" came. The " reel of Bogie;"
sure enough, was played out, in a state of feverish ex-
citement to many, and to the grief and regret and dis-
may of others. led into the free vortex without rhyme or
reason, and occasioning sobs and tears yet unknown
amongst other innocent parties, ruined or victimised
thereby, all through the instrumentality of a few stab..
born, vain-glorious ecclesiastics, who wished to become
little Popes in this kingdom, above the sovereignty of
the law, which rules all other denominations of man-
kind. And when these parties, after all their cantrips,
saw that they could not sweep the establishment (in
which they themselves had so long nestled) from the
face of the earth, they then tried, by process of law—yes,
by process of law—which they formerly contemned, as
witness their own conduct in the ever memorable Auch-
terardy case, they tried—and we cannot ton often repeat,
because it signally exposes their own folly and most
glaring inconsistency ; they tried, by process of law, in
other words, by a good, thumping Court of Session law
plea, to sever the connection between these twenty
churches and the Establishment, to roup them, yes, to
sell them, and to divide the free residue or proceeds
thereof amongst themselves. This was certainly a new
process for " excavating the heathen," on their own
professed original principles. But the law of the land
keeps people Lo their own engagements, voluntarily and
solemnly undertaken by them ; and it is well that it is
so, otherwise this would be a miserable world for schis-
matics of various kinds. The law of the land preserves
social rule, esi,,blished order, and constituted rights ;
and, acting on these principles, it has just turned the
" free," and we presume we must call them the very
pious, pursuers out of court. It has told them that they
cannot sell these churches and divide the proceeds
amongst themselves. It has told them that they can-
not subvert their own declarations, or deface, or alter,
or destroy the title deeds to which they became willing
parties when in their sound and sober senses ; but thP7
must abide by these through good and evil times, at at
hands and against all mortals as law will. The. Court
of Session, therefore, per Lord Robertson (ordinary),
has just dismissed the process of these " free and-easy"
pursuers, and found them liable to their Emu= oppo-
that they
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have just been served right.
But what a noise we shall hear about it in the " free
organs ! They will try to bamboozle their free ad-
herents, or to mystify the matter with the usual cant
about the headship, and the Erastian thraldom, or other
things of that sort, so rife of late in this " free," be.
nighted land. But common sense and calm reflection
should tell them that they have fought and discomfited
with their own weapons ; and so, here we quietly leave
them for the present.—Scotch Reformer's Gazette.

STATE OF TRADE.—Trade continues in a flourish-
ing condition, nearly every manufactory being in full work.
Although this briskness is pretty general, yet a slight de-
pression has taken place in some branches, particularly in
the button and fancy glass line, where some of the people
are put on short time. The building trade has not been so
good. for several years ; journeymen can scarcely be obtained.
—Birmingham Pilot.
BARBAROUS TREATMENT OF A LADY BY HER
lUSBAND AND SON.—At the Petty Sessions at Carrick-
fergus on Wednesday, Mr. Richard Battersby and the Rev.
John C. Battersby were called upon to answer the charge of
Mrs. Ba,:tersby, for having committed a series of assaults
upon her (bring six years past. The complainant was wife
of the former, and mother of the latter of the defendants.
Mr. Davison appeared on behalf of Mrs. Battersby, and,
from his statenWnt of the case, it appeared that his client
had been subjecte4 to numerous indignities, and though she
had brought her husband a fortune of 4,0004 she was all
lowed little more than the necessaries, and„*. of the com-
forts of life. The roue of her ordinarfl-Firies was, for a
long period, more those of a domestic serf-ant than of his
wife; besides which, she had sustained, several times, severe
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substantiate these allegations. Mr. Jackson appeared for
the defendants, and after he had called witnesses, the
.and case
Witnessest Rev. nfollows :—Mr. Richard Battersby,
was left for the decision of the bench, which was
Joh given
Bats
tersby, to be fined 51. each, or, in default, imprisoned for
two months, and to give security, themselves in 500/. each,
and two sureties in 2501., to be of the peace towards Mrs.
Batterby.—Banner of Ulster.
THE POTATO DISEASE.—A comrnunication from
the Poor-law Commissioners was laid before the Hertford
Board of Guardians at their last sitting, authorising them to
employ the poor in the workhouse in extracting the flour or
starch from diseased potatoes, free of expense to any poor
person who should send them to the house for that po i)(8 •
—Chelmsford Chronicle.