The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-25 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WIND3OI3, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen, att.. nded by
the etuktes,4 of Dysart, walketi in the private gr, unds
th,! prl•inc!x; tor some tore this mornim4.
Price Ailx‘rt ent cut to hunt with hi= hfirrii-:Ts this
m,n-nii2. The moil was at Cannon', Farm, !lour Bray.
jor-Gen,ral Sir Edward .flowitt,r, Major-Geurr,l
Wemps, awl Mr. H. Ormsby Gore, were in attendance
on his R,yttl Highmss.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales. Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Al:ce,
were taken their early morning airing and exercise.
The Ri.Jtt Hon. Sir Robert Peel lett the Castle this
morning.

Sir Henry Wheatley was prevented leaving the Castle
yesterday afttlncion, and took his departure this
mowing,

In the afternoon her Msj.,sty rode out in a pony
phaeton, Prirce Albert driving. In another carriage
followed the Countess of Desarc and the lion. Misses
Dr.vereux and Napier; and Aliijor-General Wemyss and
Msjor• General Sir Edward Bowater attended on horse•
back

The royal dinner party included her R!,yal HighriPss
the Drchess of Kenr, Lady Fanny Howard, the Barones3
de Speth, Mr. George Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson,
the Rev. Frederic and the lion. M,s. Anson, Col. Sir
George Cooper, and the Ht,n. rand Rev. Charles Leslie
Courtenoy.

Her iNfajesty's private ban,i, with some additional per-
formers from London, attended at the Castle after
dinner this evening, and, under the direction of Mr. An-
derson. performed the following pieces :
Historical S) mphony (MS )—Spohr.
First Movement (Bach and Handf.l)—Perind 1720.
Larghett' (Haydn and 31,,zart)—Period 1780.
Scherzo (Beethoven)—Period 1810.
Finale—Period 1840.

Military Movement (Sinfimia, No. 12)—Haydn.
Hochseit's Marsch—Mendelssohn.

Overture, "Euryanthu"—C. Al. Von Weber.

Her Majesty's royal charities to upwards o'" one thou-
sand poor and aged people were distributed in White•
hall on Monday and Tuesday last, by Joseph Hanby,
Esq.. Secretary and Yeoman, under the immediate orders
of his Grace the Venerable Lord Archbishop of York,
Lord High Almmer. The royal charities consisted of
small donaticns of five shillings and of thirteen shillings
to each person, who had been previously selected from
recommendations of the clergy, nobility, and gentry.
The number of applications from blind and disabled per-
sons exceeded all farmer precedent.
Sir Robert Peel returned to his residence in White-
hall-gardens yesterday- morning, from a visit to the
Queen at Windsor Castle.

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The Earl of Ellenborough arrived in town yesterday
afternoon from Gloucestershire, and immediately on his
arrival proceeded from the terminus of the Great Wes-
tern Railway, at Paddington, to the residence of Sir
Robert PeeLi ;The Noble Earl remained upwards of
an hour with the Right Hon. Baronet.
The Earl of St. Germans has arrived in town from
his seat, Port Eliot, Cornwall.
The Earl of Dalhousie visited Sir Robert Peel
yesterday.
Sir Robert Peel left his residence in Whitehall-gar-
dens yesterday afternoon, for his seat, Drayton Manor,
Staffordshire. Before his departure, the Earl of Aber-
deen had an interview with the Right lion. Baronet.
Mr. Thornton, Deputy-Chairman of the Stamps and
Taxes, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-
street.

14,,rd Stanley left town yesterday for Knowsley Hal
Lincolnshire.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yesterday
for Cambridge,
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone left town yesterday
for Hawarden Castle, Flintshire, the seat of Sir St phen
Gly nue.

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ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF COM
MON COUNCIL

CRIPPLEGATE WITHIN.
The election of Common Councilmen for the ward of
Cripphgate Within was closed at two o'clock yesterday,
when the result of the 13,,i1 wt.s announced as under:—
Hoole
I Brown
Smith ll3 I Barnard 9B
Lart

Mr. Wilson, the Cr mervative candidate, polling only 79.
was of course ousted, his place being supplied by Mr.
Bennoch, who is in favour of a total abolition of the
corn-laws.
Mr. Alderman CHALLIS rose, and announced that the
election had fallen upon the eight free-traders—(Cheers)
—that Mr. Wilson, an old representative, and much re
spected, had given place to another gentleman, equally
respected, but whose opinions seemed to be more in
unison with those of the Ward of Cripplegate Within.
The necessary formula having been gone through,
Messrs. Smith, Brown, boole, Cash, Brass, and Barn'rd,
tendered their thanks.
Mr. LART rose, and while returning his obligations
to those electors who had supported him, at the same
time begged to disabuse the minds of the electors upon
certain facts that Mr. Bennoch had taken as foregranted
in his first address, that nothing but abuse existed in the
Common Council. While he agreed entirely with Mr.
Bennoch in the necessity of curtailing the expenditure of
the City of London, still he could not refrain from
placing the following facts before them. Ile then went
on to show that the City School had been establ,shed—
that another was in contemplation of equal extent—and
that Mr. Bennech would find, upon experience, that the
Corporation funds were not expended so extravagantly
as he seemed to imagine. He considered it his duty to
call Mr. Bennoch's attention to these facts, while at the
same time he cordially assented to the principles pro-
mulgated by Mr. Bennoch.
Mr. BENNOCH, on rising, felt it his duty to thank, in
the first instance, his friend Mr. Hutchinson (the father
of the ward), for having adopted so hopeful a son; in the
second place, he thanked Mr. Liggins for seconding his
nomination; while, in the third place, he thanked the
electors generally for their cordial support in placing
him in a position upon the poll not only honourable in
itself, but doubly honourable, from the fact that it placed
the contest not between one free-trader and another,
but between two old representatives who claimed their
suffrages upon different principles—" Free trade " and
" Monopoly." Mr. Lart had endeavoured to disabuse their
minds, and show that, instead of much abuse existing in
the Corporation, much credit was due to it for what it
had done. He (Mr. Bennoch) dissented from such a
doctrine. The City, as had been clearly stated by Mr.
Lart, had done much, but it had not done all. He was
fully aware of the excellence of the City school, but
what was it, with its 500 pupils, superintended by its un-
surpassed masters, even with its other promised school
of equal extent, when compared with the necessities of
London, with its 2,000,000 inhabitants ? He therefore
clung to his first impression, and he believed that, spent
properly, there were funds already in the City of London
amply sufficient to ensure a sound education to every
one within its walls and liberties. Now, for the ward.
He had been told, that if he hoped for success in his elec-
tion, he must attend the public-houses in the ward, and
give- brandy and water and cigars to all elect: rs. He
could with all sincerity disabuse the public mind (.4 dis-
abusing seemed the fashion), by proving that he had
come forward upon entirely public grounds, and
although he stood (for a new candidate) most honour-
ably on the poll, he had not visited a tavern during the
election. Having settled, as he hoped, the question of
education, he now came to the question of " Free trade."
Since Monday they had had the message of the Presi
dent of America; most warlike—most independent. He
believed in his conscience, that had free trade existed in
this country, instead of the corn crops being consumed
upon the ground for lack of customers, and the reaping.
hooks of Ohio beaten into spears and implements
of war, we should have had them shining in defence of
peace. Talking of free trade, he (Mr. Bennoch) was
much struck, on passing the Exchange to-day, over the
portico of that magnificent building was seen in bold,
relief the combined: representation of commerce and
agricu,ture, with the motto, " The earth is the Lord's
with the fulness thereof." This was the broad principle
of agriculture and commerce acting in harmony. What
did it mean, but that the earth was the Lord's, and its
fulness, given equally to the children of men ! But
how contrasted this with what seemed to be the prin
ciple of monopoly ? He felt that if a temple, gorgeous
in design, and exquisite in elaboration, had been pro-
posed for the genius of agriculture, at which the wishes
of a " Buckingham," " Richmond," or " Norfolk"
should . preside, then he might expect a golden
calf, fat enough for the Baker-street Bazaar,
set up for the object of worship, with this
motto. " The Earth is the landlords', and the fulness
thereof;" which he, with submission, would change to
this: "The corn laws are the landlords', and the foolish-
ness thereof."—(Deafening cheers.) He (Mr. B.) had
meant to make a thorough tree trade and anti-corn-law
speech, but the worthy Alderman had stept 'twixt time
and his intentions, and declared that instead of raising
the question of the anti-corn law resolution now, he
would give the electors an opportunity for discuss.
ing it in lull on a future day. Mr. Bennoch having
thus declared his principles, sat down amidst the plaudits
of' the assembly.
The resolution to be discussed at a future meeting is—
" That being deeply impressed with the idea that most
of our present difficulties abroad, and all our threatened
distress at home, is attributable to the pernicious opera-
tion of the present corn-law, which in principle is most
unsound, in operation most injurious; alike unjust to
the manufacturer, deceptive to the agriculturist, and
oppressive to the poor ; this meeting pledges itself to
use every legitimate means to have it immediately abro-
gated."

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The second week in January was suggested as the best
time for discussing this subject. and after thanks to the
Aldermal the meeting separated.

Their Highnesses Prince and Princess Nicholas
Esterhazy have joined the Countess of Jersey and Lady Cle-
inentina Villiers at Middleton-park, Oxon, from Wakefield-
lodge, where they had been staying on a visit to the Duke
and Duchess of ?rafton.

The Duke 417)(ivonshire has left Devonshire
house, for Won;ley-hall, on a visit to Lord and Lady Francis
Egerton, who are surrounded by a distinguished circle at that
splendid c-motry-seat.
The Marquis anti Marchioness of Worse-,ter hAve
arrived at Gopsall-hall, Leice-tershire, to pass the Christmas
with the Earl and Countess Howe and timilv, from visiting
the E•irl and Countess of Cardigan, at lieene-park, near
Kettering.
PEDESTRIANISM.—On Tuesday the race between
Patterson, of Lond ,n' and Hartshorn, came off near the
Roade station of the Birmingham Railway. The distance
was over 130 yards, and the stakes were 2 / as;de. At the
start Patterson took the lead, which he maintained but a
short distance, when his opponent challenged him for the
goal. Both men struggled for the victory, which Hartshorn
btained, winning by a yard.