The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-17 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

`WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert
returned to the Castle from Claremont this afternoon.
In the carriage with her Majesty and his Royal High-
ness were her Royal Highness the Princess Royal and
also the Marchioness of Douro, Lady in Waiting.
In the next Royal carriage and four were the two
Equerries, Colonel Arbuthnot and Major-General Sir
Edward Bowater, and the Hon. C. A. Murray. The
third carriage was occupied by his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales and his attendants.
The Royal party arrived at the Castle at five minutes
before five o'clock, her Majesty and her illustrious Con-
sort being escorted by a party of the Life Guards, under
the command of Lieutenant Clifton.
The Maids of Honour in Waiting, the Hon. Eleanor
Stanley and the Hon. Clementina Hamilton, arrived to-
day at the Castle.
The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay has returned
to the Castle.

The Viscountess Canning succeeds the Marchioness
of Douro as the Lady in Waiting on her Majesty.
The Earl of Warwick has succeeded Lord Elvers as
the Lord in Waiting on the Queen.
Captain Moynell arrived at the Castle to-day, and has
succeeded Captain the Hon. Arthur Duncombe as the
Groom in Waiting on her Majesty.
Sir Henry Wheatley has arrived, and will have the
honour of dining with her Majesty. Sir Henry sleeps
at the Castle.

This morning her Royal Highness the Princess Alice
was taken a carriage airing in the grounds adjoining the
Castle, attended by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton.
Sir Charles G. Young, Garter King of Arms, attended
in St. George's Chapel to-day, to superintend the putting
up of the banner of the King of Saxony.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge ar-
rived at her residence at Kew, yesterday evening, from
the Continent. Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary
accompanied the Royal Duchess. Baron Knesebeck left
town on Saturday night for the Continent, to meet their
Royal Highnesses.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived
in town on Monday afternoon, from Burghley House,
the seat of the Marquis of Exeter. The Royal Duke
paid a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glou-
cester, at Gloucester House.
The Duke of Cambridge honoured the Rev. Dr. Blom-
berg with his company at dinner yesterday evening.
The Ecclesiastical Commission for England had a
meeting yesterday at the Office in Whitehall-place. The
Commissioners present were the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, the Bishop of London, the Right Hon. John Ni-
chol!, and the Dean of Westminster.
Baron de Nieumann, Austrian Minister, transacted
business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
The Committee on Education of the Lords of her
Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, had a meet-
ing yesterday afternoon at the Council-office. The
Lords present were the Lord President, the Duke of
Buccleuch, the Earl of Ripon, Lord Stanley, Sir Robert
Peel, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, and Lord Granville Somerset.

The Committee sat three hours.
Lord Lowther, Postmaster-General, transacted busi-
ness yesterday at the Home-office.
Sir Robert Peel has issued cards for a grand Parlia-
mentary dinner on Wednesday, the 31st inst., at which
the Right Hon. Baronet will read the Royal Speech on
opening Parliament to his numerous guests.
Lady Peel arrived in town on Monday evening.
Dispatches for the Governors of the West India Colo-
nies were sent off yesterday evening, from the Colonial-
office.

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.
JULLIEN'S CONCERTS.

Those who are very learned in music say that M.
Jullien is only a clever man ; and, indeed, we can say
little more for him. But his cleverness is of that sort which
borders very closely upon genius. It cannot be denied
that his variations are frivolous, yet the frivolity is rich,
racy, and original. You smile at the trifler, and your
smile is the trifler's triumph—he has gained what he
sought. In none of his adaptations of the traditional
music of the British Isles to the novel style which he has
invented, or, perhaps rather, created, has he been so
successful as in the "Irish Echos," produced last
night for the first time, to an audience num-
bering somewhat near three thousand. It was rather
startling to hear the " King of the Cannibal Islands"
humming his euphonious name of " Hokey, Pokey," &c.,
in an English Quadrille. But what was that to the Rocks
of Killarney echoing " Nix My Dolly" to the sweet and
tender air of " Poor Mary Ann ?" The echoes are
throughout with exceeding drollery, and inge-
nuity, and effect. M. Jullien has quite out-mastered his
prototype, the illustrious Paddy Blake, of O'Donog-
hue's Waters. Paddy consults only the echo which re-
sponded to his fathers. Jullien has invented a series of
echoes, to which all London will respond for months and
months. Mr. Horncastle, in his lectures upon Irish music,
tells us that the Rocks of Killarney are bothered when
the musician who consults them is out of tune. M. Jul-
lien produced to us Gast evening Herr Koenig's Cornet-a-
Piston, and Baumann's Bassoon, which it would certainly
bother even the redoubted Killarney to imitate.

M. GUIZOT AND DUKE OF FITZ-

JAMES.

The following letter has been addressed by the chi-
valrous Duke to M. Guizot

" Chateau de Fertre (Sarthe), Jan. 11.

" Sir,—You have attacked me in the Chamber, where
I cannot defend myself ; it, therefore, only remains for
me to adopt, the medium of the press, and wishing to
give to this letter all the publicity possible, ought I,
from regard to the Royalist journals, to stop myself be-
fore the laws of September, and not speak here with all
the frankness which belongs to my character? I can,
Sir, overwhelm you under the weight of your past conduct.
But of what avail would it be ? Have you not already
written on your forehead Cynicism and apostacy? In
your reply to M. de Richelieu and M. de Verse you have,
in your usual manner, heaped sophisms on sophisms.
" You have spoken of scandal, in allusion to certain
words used by me—you have dared to say that some
Royalists had forgotten their duties as citizens.
"My reply is easy enough. If I have violated the
laws of my country, why have you not summoned me
before a tribunal of my country ?
" There is still time for doing so. Dare, lam ready.
Cause me to appear before twelve French jurymen, and
there I shall give an explanation of my conduct. There
—though perhaps a condemnation may attend me—my
voice shall not falter ; and I shall repeat before my
country the words which I have pronounced in Bel-
g rave-square.
" Your imprudent threats could not frighten me, and
I did what honour called on me to do. You will not be
able to make me yield—you will not fore me to pay
my respects to what I do not think fit, nor can you
make me respect what I ought not to respect.
" If you knew the history of my family, you should
be aware that it is only the headsman that can force us
to bend the head.—l have the honour, &c.,

" DUKE DE FITZJAMES."

A DESTITUTE FAMILY.

On Saturday two little ragged and famished-looking
boys, named 'William and John Hoscroft, of the re-
spective ages of 10 and 12 years, were brought before
Mr. Broughton, at Worship-street, charged with
having stolen a cow-heel from the shop of a tripe
salesman, in Pitfield-street, lioxton. About six
o'clock on Friday evening police constable Kemp, of
the N division, observed the prisoners looking
wistfully in at the window of the shop, and,
after watching them a few minutes, he saw
the elder one snatch a raw cow-heel from
off the show-board, which they both began to de-
vour with the most ravenous avidity in the presence
of the policeman. On being taken into custody they
cried bitterly, and said they were compelled by
hunger to commit the offence, as they had not eaten
a morsel of food since the previous day. They were
then conveyed to the station-house, but the owner of
the shop refused to appear against them.—Mr.
Broughton asked the officer whether anything was
known respecting the prisoners.—Clements, one of the
summoning officers attached to the Court, said that
he knew the boys, whose father had been a police-
man in the Ii division, but he died about six years
since, leaving a widow with a family of nine children
totally unprovided for. He believed that they were
in a state of deplorable distress ; but to the best of
his knowledge neither of them had ever before been
in custody.—Mr. Broughton observed that the ap-
pearance of the prisoners was that of complete living
skeletons, and directed Clements to make inquiries
as to the state of the unfortunate family, and report
to him the result when he sat on Monday.—Yester-
day Clements reported to the magistrate that, pur-
suant to his orders, he had visited the unfortunate
widow, who, with six of her children, occupied a
wretched room at the house, No. 2, Poole's-place,
Spitalfields, and D, scene of greater wretchedness and
destitution he had never witnessed. There was not
a morsel of food in the place, and the only furni-
ture consisted of an old table and two broken
chairs. She had sold her bed last year to procure
food for her children, and they had all been
since compelled to sleep on the bare boards, with
nothing to cover them but the scanty rags that served
them for personal clothing. All they had to
depend upon was the occasional employment which
the poor woman obtained as a charwoman, and the
laborious earnings of the two eldest daughters, who
worked as machine-winders, but whose conjoint exer-
tions never produced more than 4s. or ss. a week. lie
had expended ss. in the purchase of food and other
necessaries for the unfortunate family.—Mr. Brough-
ton highly approved of the conduct of the officer, and
ordered them to be furnished with a sufficient sum
from the poor-box for he further alleviation of the
distressing case.

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suggest that every pupil destined for mercantile life
should be required to copy► the book from beginning
to encl.".