The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-06 00:00:00

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The Queen IViii hold a Privy Council on Friday after-
noon, at halt- past two o'clock, at Buckingham Palace.
lier Majtsty and Prince Albeit, attended by the
Countess of Charlemont and the Gentlemen of the royal
suite returned to Osborne House, after an excursion int
the royal yacht, at half-past five o'clock on Monday
afternoon.
There was no addition to the royal dinner party in the
evening.
Yesterday morning their Royal Ilighnesses the Prince
of Wales, the Princess Royt.l, and the Princess Alice,
were taken an airing in an open carriage.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert left Osborne House
halt-past eleven o'clock yesterday morning, and
el3l-
barked in the Fairy steam-packet to meet
the King of the Netherlands. his MejestY
The King of the Netherlands, after his return to tow*
on Monday evening, from dining with the Queen Doll'
ager, at Bushy Park, went, attended by M. Bt
oas
Vb.-count Reward, n, Colonel Baron Coehoorn, Coul
Bylandt, and the lion. Captain Hood, to honour
and Lady Laura Me) rick wWI his company at-the Grand
Ball given at their new residence in Curzon-street, for:'
mealy the town residence of her Royal Highness the
late Princess Sophia Matilda. '1 his being the first retd
given by the Colonel and Ludy Laura since the alters'
Lion and refitting of the mansion, Colonel
,The King arrived soon alter twelve o'clock, and vise
, met on the grand staircase by Colonel Meyrick,,wil!
conducted his Majesty into the principal drawing-1.600h
or ball-room, where Lady Louisa. Meyrick received
the
august visitor.
Cullinet's band, which was stationed in this apartment,
I commenced playing a i)utch national air on his Majesty's

entraneo. -
His Royal Highness Prince George, and his Serene
Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, who also
arrived from Bushy Park, followed immediately after
the King. -r.
At half-past twelve o'clock his Majesty and -/-e
Laura Meyriek, followed by Prince George,
Edward of Saxe Weimar, and Colonel Meyrick, and.theel
el
distinguished visitors, descended from the ball-roofs
the dining-room, where a most sumptuous supper "'-
served.
At ten minutes past one o'clock the King of ill
Netherlands, attended by his suite, and also by \roamed
Hawarden, and the Hon. Captain Hood, the Lord
Groom in Waiting, took his departure, being condeet,
to the entrance-hall by Colonel Meyrick. .rOO
Among the company to meet his Majesty were
de Cetto, Bavarian Minister • Prince Castelcicalat
Han Minister ; the Danish 'Minister and Countess xi
ventlow, the Duchess of Cleveland, the Duchess,
Grafton, the Marchioness of Londonderry and LadY
Vane, the Marquis of Wirchester, the Marchiouess°_,
Westmeath, the Countess of Essex, the Countess
,°o'
Jersey and the Ladies Clementina and .Adela tlit,
Countess Delawarr and
.Lady Mary Sackville We 4
Lord Cant il upe, the Countess Brow nlow, the Countess ,
Germans and Lady Louisa Eliot, the Earl and Cotiectrei;
Beauchamp, the Earl of Kiunoull, Viscount and :,h0
countess Palmerston, and about, three hundred ot to
nobility and gentry. „ure,
Dancing was resumed after his Majesty's depei`.
and was kept up until near live o'clock.
I k the"
Yesterday morning, at a quarter past nine o'c.oc
King left town, in one of the Queen's carriages, for
tho
terminus of the South-Western Railway, and took bt,
departure by a special train, en • orate to the Isle of Wig
to pay a visit to the Queen and Prince Albert. the
The gentlemen of his Majesty's suite left town IP og
torenoeil for Windsor Castle, returning in the after°
to Mivart's Hotel.
Thu King returned to town at a quarter before serell
o'clock, from pa)ing a visit to her Majesty.
The King of the Netherlands honoured the Earl Pei:li
warr, Lord Chamberlain to the Queen, with his congt,a
at dinner yesterday, at his Lordship's residence in urr
Grosvenor-street.
The company consisted of his Majesty the Kigoe,
the Netherlands, his Royal Highness Prince Geicit3,,
his Excellency Baron lh del. his Excellency M. 1 at
Colonel Baron Coehoorn, Count Bylandt, the E est
Wilton, Viscount Hawarden, Lord and Lady
Bruce,
Lord and Lady de Ros, Mr. and Lady -Slis'r„get
Hastings Russell, Lady Mary Sackville West, Visreefie
Cantilupe Captain the Hon. Mortimer Sackville "
and the Ea and Countess Delawarr. ;„,a
Her Mejesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied
their Serene Highnesses the Duchess Ida of SW goe
mar and the Princesses Anna and Amelia Of
Weimar, arrived at Marlborough House, in a carriorif
and four, soon after six o'clock yesterday aftrnLed/
from her residence, Bushy House, Bushy Park-
Gore and the Hon. Miss Gore followed in another
riage and four.
The Queen Dowager, the Duchess Ida e• a sin
Weimar, Prince Edward, and the Princesses Ao°Z, of
Amelia of baxe Weimar, honoured the perforai7esieg•
the Italian Jpera with their presence yesterdil et'ersieer
The Rev. Dr. Smith, of Trinidad, had ae,11,3",
with Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colonial 01`1"-:nistel''
The Bavarian Minister, the United States tralv
and Count de Jaruac, French Charge d'Aillx.r-$'
sected business yesterday at the Foreign-office/ •0g th 6
The Commission for promoting and encenrag,niosteP
Fine Arts in the rebuilding the Palace of WestThfter
field a meeting at half-past two o'clock yesterdaY worn,
noon at Gw3 dyr Reuse, Whitehall, Lord
I<ir• lie
Viscount Manor, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, OP
jawin Han es, &c., attended. The meeting brun'y
,Quit alter tour o'clock. icrir
The lion. Captain Hotham, Chairman of the —r,00,1
tun and Chichester Railway Company, Me. Ro‘v",f
11111, Chairman 01 the London and Brighton Railotie
tir'PanY, and a deputation, had an interview with ,he
rl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the office of the
of Trade.
The
Governor of the Bank of England and the ..I)'i
pay Governor had an interview with the Chancell°'
the Excht uer yester. - nter'
Sir Robeqrt Schombdurgayh and Mr. Black had i
view yesterday with Lox d Stanley. most,
Lady Peel left town yesterday for Drayton
Staffordshire Its
Dispatches from the Governors of the Wetoose.
Colonies were received yesterday at the oOD el
C 1 4'l' I al
Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-6e°
„zoo
the Commission( rs for the Reduction of the '',tetele',l
Debt, and Mr. Tidd Pratt, had an interview
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The
of the Customs had also an interview with the
Hon. Gentleman.

SOUTH OF IRELAND•
(FROM OUR OWN CORREEFONDENTO /69,0'1
There was no occasion to is. ear a petit jury at the „d te;
Assizes. There were only three prisoners for trial► I—, It 01;..,
all pleaded guilty. The Crown business did not last Thol'‘„f
The charge of Baron Pennefather at Nenagh will give,,,',,tD",
idea of the tranquillity that at present exists in the inn
Ireland. The wheat crop, which has not suffered *lv "A
from the weather, will be a splendid one. There is ftlice
filth more ground in wheat this year in Ireland than
tb
last.

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SECONDARIES.—(THIS -rl A
pot
The jury assembled as usual, when they were inforaieloi;
there was no business. Frequent complaints have be the
„
and the jury strongly expressed their discontent. oub 0
of tradesmen in the City is of course valuable, some St% be,,
to be adopted to prevent the inconvenience. There es; nee
blame to the officers of the court, who are thensselve%ltroooo
less attendance ; and the only apparent means of savinb fees
is by compelling; the plaintiffs' solicitor to pay the o°l.
fixing the day for trial. The summoning officer illbe j'T;
be paid for his trouble of summoning the jury, end be tr'e,es
would get the legal recompense should the case not voro,
no hardship would fall on the plaintiffs, they being ti'f abbe
putting the law in motion, and could recover it baclL:
An action appears to have lately become a mere pleYibtfueec ei
pre-payment of the fees would prevent the jury being
sarily called upon.

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THE MANCHESTER AND SOUTHAMFT-- -41740
WAY may be said to be now fairly launched before tpe 00 bit wito
We have known of this project for some time Past-t;of
were not at liberty to disclose prematurely the nbilds Pre.
promoters, nor to uwell upon the vast advantages it Os tbe the
A
Even now the details are not sufficiently developeut e ads
guments sufficiently completed to come u",,i-r grOit-0
public in a perfect shape; still the scheme is ." 0 to
so practical, so obvious, and so coroprenensive!...,
strike every one with a conviction amount:l7oWe
instinct. Our readers are aware that we are not iss,,hat 1)0
of addressing them in the language of exaggeration
iivieoulio
language could be exaggerated in speaking of thi6
011 P •
undertaking. Never was a project so univer &d la
promptly received by all to whom it has beeetingr.oo,
municated. There is not one instance of wav,;otel3 at
hesitation, of doubt. Every one is full of ea..
obrioot
and every one stares with astonishment that s°,,io
'nee long before It certainly must be
a discovery —like that of Columbus of old orojeci;
a grea'oooolo
which makes the borough Council of SouthalTil seeo
mots, ior, we believe, the first time, which al ,vilen ,e,
by reference to a report of their proceedings 1;1„, alas,
tud length in our fourth page. The adolvailti,asof
went, clear, calm, and convincing, made by Mr. r rote
—uric of the leading directors of this, and °'taitkof uof
the most successful lines in England—renders oUr.be rooteeri
scrit.tion easy. Mr. Walkinshaw's description of etoel of
the intended line carried conviction home 0 parts,„g
mind. The splendid line of ciuntry taken by the itafitetarrh7,
the line to bring it into connexion with the great aamtot,h---'"0,
districts, the railway, the cities, and ports of tlr_ebesterf,bo
saving of more than eighty miles distance to 1% to all,t;rl
Birmingham, to Liverpool, to Ireland—and taurhonea
great names in railway success, and in Igo of c'b'sn
influence, which afforded a security, and a certain orit if
plite success, filled all and each who had beardtm_`_tiase!),si
agreeable surprise. Throughout the town the siverio4ollo
uoanimous and universal. We have not heard a stag • g t
. wean
"hint a doubt or hesitate dislike." A public sentwe
held directly to embody and impress the ptevalslA occes!sts
Everywhere it is felt that upon the adoption
this enterprise rests the future fate of Soutbantro"
Ingependent. 101
t West 0°
INIAREJED.—On the sth instant, a second •in
Church, by the Rev. Henry Bunsen, Ernest, ther, prase e 9,
the Chevalier Bunsen, Minister from the Coli.,'_:ool Gala '
this country, to Elizabeth, third daughter of bow
SO'
E.g., of Upton, in the county of Essex. . pilEtA
TION AT WOOLWICH.— A number of workninecr wails seoni,„ .I.'REPARATIoNS FOR HER MAJESTY S.. are at ythe
tent employed in renovating the buildings tcti, the. 49,0
principal entrance to the Woolwich Doeltrorating thee.; etie,
neers'-office near the lauding-place, by . net/We d tb°
stone-coloured tomposition. The dredri‘g___piee,
easeaotoa
Oiled in clearing the mud from the la dag
very clean appearance. It is not yet k
steps and wharf wall have been %whit!
vvere ;
which day her Majesty will embark.
seould not "-;nd as a
vit.,: :shoe daft andwooj Plrl!cobv to
leave at an early hour on Saturday, - evening, t eye,
reach Antwerp before eight o'clock to the.neo_voten
now dark about that hour, it might prove i!_sembln
1. 1,0 s•
come the Queen of England. 5 o
ire
...ruioNo oche eir
dangerous, when so many persons would be a"
A ccot: CIIEMENT OF THE the safe (Woo and boo
—We have gnat pieasure in announcingbtirth to a s .fter
at Stafford Howe this morning, at a le"
are Pr°gre”l
of the Marchioness of Lorne, who gave,__ utioteSoga—foow
o'clock. Her Ladyship and infant son°f
soli coy
ably. The noble infant takes the title