The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-17 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.
WIND
ptine SOR, MONDAY.—Their Royal Highnesses
Albert, the Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, The first annual dinner of the members of this club
antiv,:lhe Duke Ernest of Wurtemberg, attended by took place at the King's Arms Hotel, Holborn-bridge,
67!.ar10f Hardwicke, Lord Charles Wellesley, Mr. ' yesterday evening. The chair was taken by John
Anson, and Baron de Wangenheim, left the Buckmaster, Esq., Chairman of the West London
oon horseback this morning, to shoot in the Union.
h urhood of Cumberland Lodge. The ro 11 the Chairman, the following ntle-
Besides
Party returned in 3
early the afternoon. men were present :—Dr. Lynch, James Patteson,
The Queen, attended by the Marchioness of Douro, Esq., M.P., J. Bright, Esq., M.P., R. Taylor, Esq.,
e ?od
tor
.out in a pony phaeton at noon, attended on F.S.A., Michael Saward, Esq., E. Spicer, Esq.,
Keller sieebac kby Major-General Sir Edward Bowater. W. Spicer, Esq., Joshua T. Bedford, Esq., Deputy
heri Majesty
Highness the Duchess of Kent visited of the Ward, Dr. Sheridan, W. Wilson, Esq., Dr.
jesty and the Duchess of Saxe Coburg and
Got this afternoon. Simpson, S. S. Woolatt, Esq., J. M. Barnard, Esq.,
tilelleir Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and W. Harding, Esq., Richard Williams, Esq., James
for a Princess Royal were taken out on their ponies Ramshaw, Esq., James Charles, Esq., Mark Faver-
n airing this morning. sham, Esq., John Sharpe, Esq., William Cumming,
The
.royal dinner party at the Castle this even- Esq., J. P. Bernhard, Esq., Alex. Galloway, Esq..,
o_l. eluded her Royal Highness the Duchess of W. Carpenter, Esq., G. Walter, Esq., and J. Todd,
nr, Lady Fanny Howard, the Countess Wratislaw,
ir Esq., Honorary Secretary.
George Couper, Mr. George Edward and the
Mrs. Anson, and Captain Francis Seymour. After the usual loyal toasts had been given and duly
te..ul,ha hand of the Scots Fusilier Guards was in at- responded to by the company,
.Ala lice during dinner. Her Majesty's private band The CHAIRMAN said he had now the gratification of
77%yards attended, and performed at the Castle the proposing the health of their esteemed and excellent
giainder of the evening. representative on his right, Mr. Patteson.—(Cheers.)
T. That gentleman had displayed an example of political
consistency and public virtue which had never been
excelled, and seldom equalled.—(Hear, hear.) There
were many persons in that room who could do much
greater justice to his deserts than himself, hut he
would yield to none in sincere admiration of his past
services. He felt confident that on every occasion
that might arise, Mr. Patteson would be found pre-
pared to justify the confidence which they had reposed
in him ; and he therefore proposed the toast to the
cordial acceptance of all present.
The toast having been acknowledged with great
enthusiasm,
Mr. PATTESON said he felt deeply sensible of the
honour which had been conferred upon him, and he
trusted that his own deficiency would not prevent
them from giving him full credit for the gratitude
which he entertained. Ten years had now elapsed
since he first offered himself as a candidate for the
City of London. He need hardly remind them of the
circumstances under which he was first elected. The
King had, unconstitutionally, and, as they thought,
despotically, dismissed his Ministers; and in the elec-
tion which ensued they beat their opponents by a
majority of fifteen hundred. That was a glorious
triumph. The result of the struggle which took
place at that period was the ejection of Sir
Robert Peel, and the restoration of the Whigs to
power. The Tories were then defeated upon what
was called the appropriation clause. He could not
help regretting that the Whigs had not kept faith with
Ireland by standing by that clause.—(Hear, hear.)
Nothing injured them more than their desertion of
principle in reference to that subject. In the ensuing
election, the majority fell from 1,500 to 150; and
a petition against this election was only
stopped by the discovery of certain papers,
which proved that their enemies had them-
selves been guilty of bribery. There was a general
lack of enthusiasm after that period. The Whigs
declared themselves in favour of finality, as if
there could be any finality in the progress of im-
provement!—(Hear.) As the result of this state of
things, when he presented himself to the electors in
1841 he was rejected. A reaction, however, subse-
quently took place. The people learnt from a gentle-
man on his right, and from others who acted with
him, that what was wanted was cheap bread,
and the free trade. movement produced a reaction in
the City. In the election in 1842 their opponents
were supported by a vast phalanx of intimidation and
bribery ; but notwithstanding all the efforts which
were brought to bear against the Liberal side, he
(Mr. Patteson) was triumphantly elected by the
middle classes of the City.—(Cheers.) The question
now was, what would Sir Robert Peel do for the
people of this country, or for poor, unfortunate Ire-
land ? A friend of his had, in conversation, ven-
tured a conjecture that Sir Robert Peel would carry
the repeal of the corn-laws. For his own part, he
did not care whether Sir Robert Peel or Lord John
Russell proposed such a measure, if it could only be
secured to the country. They had heard a great deal
lately of baths and washing-places for the people.
Let them begin at the right end, by endeavouring to
give food to the people, and leave them to wash them-
selves.—(Cheers.) He congratulated the company
on the existence of this new institution. He Was
convinced that it would greatly promote the cause of
civil and religious freedom in this land. In all parts
of London the conduct of the citizens was watched
with intense interest ; and what took place in that
great city must always exercise a vast influence over
the whole of England. In conclusion, he begged to
thank them most cordially for the honour which they
had conferred upon him by the manner in which they
had responded to the toast.
Song by Mr. Turner—
gentleman.
Dr. LYNCH (Vice-President) said, at the meeting
held in the new hall, they gladly seized the oppor-
tunity of doing homage to the great principle of free
trade.—(Loud cheers.) In the history of political
movements there was no parallel to the triumphant
progress made by the Anti-Corn-law League
(Hear, hear.) Little more than six years ago a few
gentlemen met in Manchester, in a small room, to
endeavour to rescue their townsmen from the &series
which they endured through these laws, which fet-
tered the freedom of industry, and brought desolation
and destitution to the productive classes in this country.
The movement was at first merely local; it then be-
came provincial, next metropolitan, and it was now
national and universal.—(Cheers.) By its millions of
tracts, by its endless public discussions, by its argu-
ments written and spoken, by the speculations of the
closet converted into practical truisms in public, this
great body had secured the co-operation, and excited
the enthusiasm of the great mass of the people. The
League had taught the inhabitants of this country
that free trade was calculated to confer inestimable
benefits on,mankind. It had released the minds of
thousands and tens of thousands from the trammels of
party. It had taught them to despise the terms
" Whig," " Tory," and " Radical," and had
united them all in the one great effort of
seeking the repeal of the corn-laws. If this
principle were carried out, the people would
no longer be insulted by charity, by pseudo
philosophy, by mendieity institutions, or by shaving,
washing, and other humbugging associations of that
nature.—(Cheers and laughter.) Rich in the pro-
ducts of their own labour, having the world opened
to their competition, they would be able to despise
the paltry palliatives to which he had referred. He
believed, therefore, that the only. remedy for the evils
of the country, was the speedy, immediate, and total
repeal of the corn-laws. He spoke at that moment in
the presence of a great missionary of the cause of free
trade ; and it would not become him, under such cir-
cumstances, to enter more fully into that question.
He felt confident that they would all do justice to the
talent, the energy, the industry, the enthusiasm, the
honesty, and the disinterestedness of his friend Mr.
Bright.--(Loud cheers.) The conduct which that
gentleman had exhibited in his advocacy of that great
cause entitled him to the gratitude and admiration,
not merely of his fellow-countrymen, but of mankind
at large. 'With Mr. Bright were associated many
gentlemen of the highest, the purest, and the most
philanthropic character. Most prominent amongst
the members was the justly celebrated Mr. Cobden,
the indefatigable and eloquent advocate of the
great eternal truth, that that which God had
given to man, man was entitled to enjoy. If Mr.
Cobden only caused that principle to be fully recog-
nised, he would deserve to rank amongst the greatest
benefactors of his species—his name would stand con-
spicuous when those of factious Ministers and princely
monopolists would have passed down the stream of
oblivion. Between these two great and good men
one entire union of sentiment existed; the only
ambition by which they were actuated was to re-
lieve suffering, and to bind all mankind in one
common bond of interest and of brotherly love. Let
the principles of free trade be fully carried out, and
the prophecy of the poet would be fulfilled—
" Low in the dust oppression shall be hurled,
Iler name, her nature, wither from the world."
(Cheers.) In conclusion, he begged to propose the
health of Mr. Bright.
The toast having been responded to in the most
enthusiastic manner,
Mr. BRIGHT said it was a most grateful task to re-
spond to the sentiments which had been expressed by
1)r. Lynch, and especially that part of them which re-
ferred to the success that had attended the policy and
efforts of the Anti-Corn-law League. He hailed that
expression of sentiment as a proof that they felt that
their own interests were in no small degree bound
up with the operations of that body.—(Hear, hear.)
The League was the embodiment of the interests
and rights of the middle classes, and, as such, it
deserved their hearty and cordial support. There
were two especial points of view in which the League
ought to be viewed by all who weighed its merits.
Six years ago, as they had already heard, that asso-
ciation commenced its labours, and from that time to
the present there had been no change in the principle
upon which it was first established.— (Hear, hear.)
They commenced by promulgating the doctrine
that the people had a right to the total
and immediate abolition of the corn-laws ; and,
as a consequence, to the abolition of every commer-
cial monopoly. Up to that moment they had never
swerved, in the slightest degree, from this great prin-
ciple, although they had been visited with as much
obloquy as it was possible to heap on public men;
although attempts had been made by some to coax,
to wheedle, and to ensnare them into a desertion of
the principle with which they had started, he believed
he could say with the utmost sincerity and truth,
that, in the council of the League, the ques-
tion of giving up any portion of that
principle had never once been seriously dis.

THE FARRINGDON CLUB.

Lhe Chancellor of the Exchequer had an interview
41,..ith the Lord President of the Council yesterday, at
the council-office.
bhtlis Excellency the American Minister transacted
',Nsiness yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade.
"ispatches were sent off last evening from the
for
for the Governor of Jamaica, and also
lor the Governors of the other West India Colonies.
t, Dispatches were received yesterday at the C0101a,,,'-offite
la,,,'-offite from the Governor of Gibraltar.
the'he Lords' Committee of the Privy Council for
affairs of Guernsey and Jersey sat yesterday in
th Council Chamber, to consider two petitions from
ofe Royal Court of Guernsey, touching the conduct
Beene Lieutenant-Governor of the island. There
„Or, t present the Lord President, the Lord Chan-
lhe Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
or,,ntl Mr. Baron Parke, the Chancellor of the Duchy
-44 a wall, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court.
tb"r• Roebuck, Q.O , and Mr. Waddington were
'l.l. Their Lordships then adjourned the case.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
pfTbe Derby betting was marked by some movements
wee°iisiderable interest ; as the most worthy of mention,
64tke.y refer to a decided improvement in Idas, the colt
Neil° Calypso's dam, and Old England, the change in
ease being the result of a considerable outlay.ooc, oto 100 was laid against Kedger; 1,500 to 60 and 22
in 1 in fifties against Pam, the backers of each willing to
1; 300 to 10 twice against Young Eclipse, and 25
1 witterwards offered ; 1,000 to 40, two or three times,
tie believe, against Anti-Repealer ; 1,000 to 25 and 35
)
inti in divers quarters against the colt out of Rebecca
several bets against outsiders. 45 to 1 was laid
ttitinst Ironmaster, qualified or not. With regard to
th: nomination of this hors; we are enabled to state
ib a
~t,t4er. A. Hill has taken the necessary steps for b
r
i
n
g
-
1 case before the Stewards of the races, with whom
to' ,lewrds of the Jokey Club are now associated,
th"that it will be taken` into consideration as soon after
Ilstizas as possible. Closing prices :
2000 CUESTF.R CUP.
tO 40 agst Aristides—t. 400 to 10 agst Rowena—t.
400 t
IN, 010 agst Morpeth—t. 506 to 10 apt Foig-a-bal-
-4to 15 agst Orlando—t. lagh—taken.

Dinnr.
11 to 1 .agst Mr. Greyille's Alarm—taken
17 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Idas-18 to 1 t. fr.
18 to 1 agst Col. Peers Cobweb soh
18 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's hedger—t. 20 to 1
22 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Pam
25 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Anti-Repealer—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Coleman's Young Eclipse
25 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Newsmonger—take
30 to 1
33 to 1 agst Mr. St. Paul's c out of Calypso's dam—t.
33 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Old England—taken
35 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnstone's Rebecca colt—taken
35 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Laird o'Cockpen

woo t
25 —take 40 to 1.
0 agst Mr. Mostyn's Pantasa—taken
400 to 15 agst Mr. Lintott's Cabin-boy—taken
,0 to 60 agst Mr. Ferguson's Clear-the-way—taken
40 0 to 20 agst Mr. Ford's Fuzbos—taken
,
11:°,_.° to 50 agst Idas and Anti-Repealer—taken
4. to SO each agst the colt out of Calypso's dam
and Ironmaster in one bet, the bet to
loon be void unless the latter be qualified
even between c out of Calypso's d and Rebecca c
-00 even between Idas and Kedger
50° even between Rebecca colt and Laircl-o'-Cockpen.

OAKS.
111
to 1 agst Mr. Worthington's Lancashire Witch—t.
LE LATE MR. CROCKFORD'S ACCOUNT.
Pursuance of the appointment appended to the
stv,r4:itee of which we published a copy last week,
sera gentlemen interested were in attendance, and
who il-tra gt accounts paid and received in full by the party
enleut
settl takenupon himself the responsibility of the
Mr.
Tatar
'"'S brood mares, young stock, and horses in
.1 were put up for sale yesterday by Messrs,
pr4ieesrsllll's, ad- a few of the inferior lots sold at low
• The others were bought in.

•" The fine Old English

yin, 485 CLARA SEYTON.—It would appear that this
-.lg, lady is as great a favourite in the provinces as
1.• is in the metropolis. She gave her lecture on Eng-
.;,lll Comedy at the Athenmum, at Manchester, last
:eel( and the Manchester papers all speak in the most
411lhu%iastic terms of her. In fact, her debut in Man-
''ester as a lecturer was a perfect triumph. She re-
t;
reed to London on Saturday, to fulfil her engagements
-the different literary institutions.
DEPARTURE
OF FOREIGN MAILS.—The next malls
the West Indies and Mexico will be made up at
Itirtin's-le-Grand. this morning (Tuesday), the
"n stant. The mails for Hamburgh, owing to the
tee in the Elbe, are now sent by a special messenger,
;414. holland. The next mails to India, Egypt, Malta,
th eee, &e., are to be dispatched from Southampton e
moring of the 3d of Januar ; and the next mail to
olna Marseilles, on the evening of the 7th of Ja.
7Z7. The mails for America will be made up on the
12-Iling of the 3d of January, and dispatched on the 4th
°,,ln Liverpool, by the steamer Cambria.
he new President of the United States is of
, or“,ish lineage ; and his curious looking name an
''''gment of a good old Scotch one. Mr. Polk's father
of
grandfather is said to have been a Lanarkshire man,
4the name of Pollock. In the somewhat peculiar dia-
oof the upper ward of this county, that name is pro-
• vte Poke, and hence, probably, the orthography
(gid by the transatlantic branch of the family.—
'49°lv Post.
et„„ 1E PARRICIDE MART GALLOP.—FULL CONTES.•
4,145';7-ThiS female, for the murder of her father at
Coppenhall, is left for execution ; and Baron
It '''eY has fixed the day for Saturday, the 28th instant.
i• ll take place in the front of the city gaol, at eight
Tars;
in the morning. The trial took place in a court
Tarn; densely crowded, and the means of defence were
b:i ~sued by one of the Society of Friends resident in the
it"bourhood, and in whose employ the deceased had
sor,,en for several years. The chain of evidence was so
sq Plato as to leave not a doubt of the guilt of the pri-
Atc`r,' Immediately after her return to the gaol, the Bev.
her Eaton, the Chaplain of the Castle, impressed upon
aywlnind the awful consequences of the change that
her, if she continued obdurate, and died as she
lkl;Vnipenitent. On Sunday last she acknowledged to
s n-,''atun the fairness of her trial, and the justice of her
-en:ee, and made a full revelation and confession of
es,b er'ale, which it is at present sufficient to say, con-
C4-3 every tittle of the evidence given on the trial.—
Iter Chronicle.
rtriAI4.6.OIIDINART DEATEL—On Friday last
Mann, aged 16, died suddenly at Kidderminster in
fro m(larT,t called the Sarah and Jane, which was on its way
liPton to Gloucester by the Worcestershire and
el:/;;`)rdshire Canal, before medical assistance could be
anattli'd. At tke inquest held on the body at the Phea-
-4 -4n, fin Saturday, before Mr. W. S. P. Hughes, core-
4ttri;:t APpeared from the evidence of Mr. Cornelius
th,1,6 lhilbrick, surgeon, that he was called to attend
berg on Friday, about a quarter before 1 P.M. and that
made:i he could arrive, the lad had expired. Mr. Philbrick
the 4 Post mortem examination of the body, and found
Ira abdomen filled with fluid that had escaped
theT a hole in the stomach, about two inches from
"
k gullet, on the left-hand side. He found in the sto-
itelsh %large round worm, about a foot long. The sto-
at "throughout its entire surface presented appearances
hstr' nammation. He gave it as his opinion that death
inn resulted from the perforation, which was the effect of
wrikalrnation, probably produced by the presence of the
l-„T
t. The father of the boy stated that he was taken
ttaa-Ita violent vomiting on the Sunday night previous,
a at on Monday he applied to a druggist at Wol-
li▪ e,riharnPton, who furnished medicine, which gave no re-
ah.id The boat was on its journey from Sunday till
tia d-,Y, 50 that there was no opportunity of obtaining
f t67cal advice till it reached Kidderminster, when the
k.it,n` event took place. The jury returned a verdict of
ilk" by the visitation of God."— Worcester _Herald.
Th Ix ARRIVAL OF THE LONDON MAIL.—On
ursa,
a the London mail did not arrive until fifteen
aid after twelve o'clock, owing to a heavy fall of
4., w between Chudleigh and Ashburton ; and on Fri-
i443' the mail was two hours and a half behind its time,
raaci°llaeluence of an accident having happened to the
of j.:l, Ting of the engine when about ten miles this side
)riu°ll Deoonport Independent.
n •
LA.NCROLY ACCIDIINT.—FIVE LIVES LOST.—
in have this week to record another fearful accident
TherPsing that dangerous reef of rocks called the
witl;.'"a ge, by which five unfortunate beings have met
and n untimely end. Betwe the hou of elevn
twelve o' lo k ye•terdayen (Friday)rs morning,e a
Wkter
fro man a boat, containing five persons, was proceeding
Ilanaoaze to the Dmdalus frigate, lying in the
and when crossing the bridge, under sail, the
nd blowing strongly, by same means she upset, and
theao.lvhole party were precipitated into the water. The
ii.e_Tent was noticed by W. Walker, Esq., Queen's
with
andh immediately proceeded to the spot
the urines,
his boat, succeeded in picking up a sergeant of
utt4larinea, named Skinner, whom he conveyed with the
yi St
Promptitude on board the Firebrand steamer,
}mil in Barnpool, but the poor fellow survived only an
intnd a half. The other bodies have not yet been
iati„". up. They are supposed to be two watermen
h, aging to this town, and two seamen of the Daedalus.la is the third accident which has occurred within the
LeSet few raentha in this dangerous locality, and all have
l a
efitteaded with a frightful loss of life.—Devonpert
'lzntitttt.