The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-01 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Wri'DSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert walked
for some time this morning, and on the return of her :Majesty
and her Royal Consort, his Royal highness and the Earl of
Hardwicke and Colonel Bouverie, all on horseback, took the
diversion of shooting, returni4, shortly before two o'clock to
the Castle.

In the afternoon her Majesty rode out in a pony phaeton,
his Royal Highness driving. The Countess of Mount Edge-
cumbe, Hon. Misses Stanley and Dawson, followed in a pony
landau and four. The flop. Colonel Grey and Colonel
Bouverie, Equerries in Waiting, attended on horseback.
The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal,
and the Princess Alice, were all taken their accustomed
airings this morning.
Captain Vyner arrived at the Castle this forenoon with
dispatches from Saxe-Coburg, and afterwards proceeded to
the Duchess of Kent, at Frogmore.
The royal dinner party this evening will include her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Anna Maria Dawson,
Baroness de Speth, and Major-General Wemyss.
Her Majesty's private band was in attendance in the
evening.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon. The
meeting was held at the private residence of Sir Robert Peel,
in Whitehall-gardens, the Right Hon. Baronet being slightly
indisposed with an attack of the gout.
The Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, Lord
Wharncliffe, the Duke of Buccleuch, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord
Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, Earl of Haddington, the Earl of Lincoln, and the
Right lion. Sir Sidney Herbert, attended.
The Council sat two hours and a half.
_ _

The Lord Chancellor receives the Judges, Queen's Counsel,
&c., on Monday next, the first day of Michaelmas term, at
hi, residence in George-street.
Mr. Freshfield had an interview with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing
street. _ _

Dispatches were sent off' yesterday evening from the
Colonial-office for the Governors of New South Wales and
Van Diemen's Land.

The Earl of Dalhousie arrived in town on Thursday night,
from Deal Castle.

The Earl of Mount Edgecumbe arrived at Farrance's Hotel,
Belgrave-street, from Windsor Castle.

A THRENODY on the APPROACH-
ING DEMISE of OLD MOTHER CORN-LAW.
BY THOMAS MOORE.
I see, I see--it is coming fast,
Our dear old Corn-law's doom is cast !
That ancient lady, of high degree,
Is as near her end as she well can be ;
And much will all vulgar eaters of bread
Rejoice, when they see her fairly dead:
For never, from ancient Medea* down
To the late Mrs. Brownrigg, of bad renown,
Has any old dame been known, they aver,
Who could starve and carve poor folks, like her.
But, dear old damsel, they wrong her sadly,
'Twas all by law she behaved so badly ;
And God forbid, whate'er the event,
That free-born Britons should e'er repent
Wrongs done by Act of Parliament.
But is it indeed then come to this,
After all our course of high-bread bliss?
Poor, dear old Coni-law !—prop of Peers,
And glory of Squires, through countless years,
Must all thy structure of Pounds and Pence,
Like another Babylon, vanish hence?
Must towering Prices and Rents sublime
Thus topple, like turrets touch'd by time,—
And all, for what? that each shirtless oaf
May bolt, for breakfast, a larger loaf!
For this one vulgar purpose alone
Is all this inelegant mischief done.
For this poor Knatchbull—hard privation—
Must lower a peg his " social station !"
For this, even lords (distresing thought)
Will soon to short commons all be brought ;
Will fall with their wheat so much per quarter,
And get to look blue as Bucky's garter.
And stars will grow pale as prices fail,
Ant: fees in tale will be cut off for sale,
And all 7111 sink by a sliding scale,—
As "slips o'ec its slime the sleek slug-snail,"f
Nor leave one corn-lord high and hale,
Though they flourish 1;,ow to tell the tale !
* This lady, as is well known, N,-.as in the agricultural line.
See, for an account of her farming 6;lertions: Ovid, Meta-
morph. 1, vii. v. 227. Her skill in " carying" is thus briefly
described by the same poet—
" -- strict° Medea recludit
Ense senis jugulum."
A lino borrowed, with but little alteration, from one of
the Lake poets, the original being as follows :
"Slow sliding o'er its slime the slippery sleek slug-snail."