The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-20 00:00:00

THE COURT AT BRIGHTON.

'BRIGHTON, TUESDAY EVENING.—Her Majesty and the
Princess Royal, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttel-
ton, took a carriage airing this morning on the Cliffs.
Her Majesty, add his Royal Highness Prince Albert, rode
out on the Cliffs this afternoon, in a pony phaeton, accom-
prink d on horseback by Colonel Wylde and Colonel _Buckley.
Prince Albert walked out this morning in the King's-road,
accompanied by Dr. Prietorius.
The royal children were taken for a carriage airing this
morning on the Cliffs, and again this afternoon. Their
Royal Highnesses walked on the Chain-pier this morning.
The royal dinner party this evening will be limited to the
royal suite.
The Earl and Countess of Sheffield, Colonel Sir M. Creagh,
Captain Pechell, M. P„ Sir Theodore Pounckman, and Mr.
and Mrs. Ormsby Gore, called at the Palace to-day to pay
their respects to her Majesty.
The following selection of music was performed at the
Palace yesterday evening, by the band of the Inniskillen
Dragoons :—" Grand march, "11 furioso " (Spohr) ; Over-
ture," La Sirene" (Auber); Selections from the " Bohemian
Girl " (Balfe) • Waltz, " Les Bouquets Ropier:" (Jullien);
Seienade Polka (MMarron).
This has been another charming day, and the inhabitants
have had the happiness of seeing her Majesty enjoying
the pure air on our marine drive, the finest of the kind in
the kingdom. Her Majesty was out this morning, be-
tween nine and ten o'clock, in an open barouche with
the Princess Royal, accompanied by the Dowager Lady
Lyttelton. The royal carriage was not distinguished by
'any outriders; Colonel Buckley, Equerry, attended her
Majesty on horseback. The Queen was very plainly dressed,
and wore a white straw bonnet. We never saw her Majesty
look better. She rode up the cliff as far as Kemp Town,
and then westward to Brunswick-terrace, and back as far as
the Chain-pier. Her Majesty did not alight, but returned
to the Palace about half-past ten o'clock, and the Dowager
Lady Lyttelton then took the Princess Royal to the
Chain-pier, where the Prince of Wales and the Princess
Alice were enjoying their morning walk. His Royal High-
ness walked on the cliff with Dr. Prxtorius, and in the
afternoon he drove her Majesty out in a pony-chaise by the
sea-side.

In the course of her Majesty's promenades to the eastward,
it is said that her Majesty's attention has been attracted to
the advantages possessed by Kemp-town as a marine resi-
dence for the royal children, and that the mansion opposite
to that of the Duko of Devonshire, belonging to Mr. George
Robins, from its exalted situation, is 'spoken- of as not un-
likely to be selected for a royal nursery in connexion with the
Pavilion.—Moiwing Post.

RAILWAY BUSINESS IN PAR-
LIAMENT.
TUESDAY, FEB. 18.
London and York Railway—Petition for Bill reported; Re-
pert to lie on the table.
Leeds and Bradford Railway Extension (Shipley to Colne)
—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought
'in by Mr. John Wortley, Mr. Beckett, and Mr. Busfeild.
Manohestesy.and Birmingham Railway (Ashton Branch)—
Petitionlox Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought
lin by Lord Francis Egerton, Mr. Hindley, and Mr. Cobden.
Ybrk and Scarborough Railway Deviation—Petition for Bill
'reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Sir John
Lowther, Mr. Redhead Yorke, and Sir John Johnstene.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne and North Shields Railway (Tyne-
imouth Extension, &c.)—Petition for Bill; referred to the
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills.
North British Railway—Petition for Bill ; referred to the
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills.
A:shton, Stalybridge, and Liverpool Junction Railway (Ard-
wick and Guide Bridge Branches)—Petition fur Bill re-
ported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Entwisle,
Mr. Mark Philips, and Mr. Hindley.
London and South-Western Railway, No. 1 (Metropolitan
:Extension)—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered
!to be brought in by Mr. Masterman, Mr. Hawes, and Mr.
lAntrobus.
Leeds and West Riding Junction Railways—Petition for Bill
.reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Las-
celles, Mr. Beckett Denison, and Mr. Hardy.
Manchester and Leeds Railway—Petition for Bill reported,
and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Entwisle and Mr.
'Milner Gibson.
Manchester and Leeds Railway (Burnley Branch and Old-
ham and Heywood Branches Extension)—Petition for Bill
reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Entwisle,
'Mr. Brotherton, and Mr. William Feilden.
4eds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Junction Railway—Peti-
!tion for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by
Mr. John Wortley, Mr. Beckett Denison, Mr. Beckett, and
,'Mr. Stansfield.
West Yorkshire Railway—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill
!ordered to be brought in by Mr. John Wortley, Mr. Beckett
'Denison, and Mr. Busfeild.
Richmond (Surrey) Railway—Petition for Bill reported, and
'Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Kemble, Mr. Antro-
rbus, and. Mr. Hawes.
London and York Railway—Report from Select Committee
on Petitions for Private Bills referred to the Select Com-
tmittee on Standing Orders.
West Cornwall Railway—Petition for Bill; referred to the
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills.
Richmond (Surrey) Railway—Petitions against the applica-
,tion for a Bill, from inhabitants of Richmond and Isle-
worth ; to lie on the table.
Caledonian Railway—Petition from Edinburgh, in favour of
the application for a Bill; to lie on the table.
Gi•eat Southern and Western Railway (Ireland)—Petition
'for Bill ; referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for
Private Bills.
PILetLitiOonF,FMIConE...
NOTICESUIster
RaGillwNarEyN A
Extension—Committee
Mon-
day, March 3. rTli 15.RIrArEonB
-Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway—Committee on
Petition, postponed from Thursday, Feb. 20, till Friday,
Feb. 21.

DEATH OF THE MARQUIS OF WEsTmImsTER..—It
is our painful duty to record the demise of the above
respected and revered nobleman, who expired at Eaton
Hall, on Monday last, at I:if-past ten P.M. The
Noble Lord was taken ill on Sunday, the 9th in-
stant, and from that time, although he had occa-
sionally rallied, he gradually sunk into the last fatal exhaus-
tibn. On Friday last there was some slight amelioration in
the symptoms, but not of so favourable a nature as to excite
the hope of ultimate recovery. Debility gradually increased,
and about five o'clock on Monday morning a shivering fit
came on, when Mr. G. Harrison, jun., surgeon, of Chester
(who, with his father, had been in regular attendance upon
the Marquis during his illness), was sent for. On his arrival
he announced to the family at the Hall that the dissolution of
his Lordship was fast approaching, and about half-past ten the
expiring nobleman quietly breathed his last in the presencenf
Earl Grosvenor. The Marchioness of Westminster, the Coun-
tess Grosvenor, and Lady Elizabeth Grosvenor were also in
attendance. The late Marquis was born March 22, 1767,
married April 30, 1794, Eleanor, only daughter of Thomas,
late Earl of Wilton, by whom the deceased Marquis has issue,
Richard, Earl Grosvenor, born Jan. 27, 1795, and married
Sept. 16, 1819 ; Elizabeth Mary, youngest daughter of George,
Duke of Sutherland, K.G. ; Thomas, the present Earl of
Wilton, born Dec. 30, 1799, married Nov. 29, 1821, Lady
Mary Margaret Stanley, only daughter of Edward, twelfth
Earl of Derby, by his second Countess; and Lord Robert
Grosvenor, M.P. for the City of Chester, born April 24, 1801,
married May 17, 1831, Hon. Charlotte Wellesley, daughter
of Lord Cowley.
TAXATION.—We frequently hear it said, that
agriculturists should have protection because of the excessive amount
of taxation they have to pay. Wheat is as cheap now as It was in
1792, when our taxes did not exceed twenty millions ; how then, they
ask, can we pay the present taxation ? The simple fact is this—that
the nation has to pay thirty millions more of taxes in 1845 than it
had to pay in 1792, while prices are the same in both periods. The
real enemy then of the fanner is this excess of fiscality ; but it is an
enemy that has fixed RI gripe on every other class of producers, as
well as on the tillers of the soil. To say, then, that the farmers, by
a monopoly, should recover from the consumers of corn this excess
of taxation is as unjust as it is impolitic. Why should farmers be
exempt ? or, if exempt, must not the pressure from which they would
be relieved ruin those other classes who purchase agricultural produce?
Is it possible that the miserable fallacy can any longer bold its ground
—that the inhabitants of towns are to be the bondsmen of the in-
habitants of the country—that the former are to pay tribute to the
latter ? Why, what is this but one of the forms of slavery ?—Ths
Struggle.
WHAT WILL KEEP UP RENTS ?—We are quite
disposed to believe that, with free trade and natural prices, it will
still be in the power of the landlords of Great Britain, very gene•
rally, to keep rents at about their present rate .(though we are in no
sort of way concerned to prove this) ; but the conditions of landlord
life will be altogether changed. High rents may continuo possible.
but high rents with slovenly farming—high rents, with a large head
of game—high rents, with small and damaged crops—high rents,
with tenatitcy-at-will and political slavery of farmers—will be flatly
impossible.- Under the free trade regime, the only way of maintain.
ing ti high money price of land will be, to make it more productive.
The interest of landlords will he, not in minimising but in mar-hulling
the annual yield of the soil of England.—The Struggle.
On Friday last, 14th Feb., St. Valentine's-day,
(says a correspondent), Charles Freeman, the American giant, was
baptized at St. Thomas's, Arbour-square, Commercial-road, East, by
the Rev. Valentine, the incumbent who, at the conclusion of the
ceremony, made the "infant" a present of a splendidly illuminated
Book of Prayer.

We are Forry that our esteemed Member, James
Maitland Balfour, Esq., M.P., is obliged to pair off for some time,
owing to.severe family afflietion.—Berwia Warder.
Ma. BENJAMIN WOOD, M.P.—We are happy to
learn, from good authority, that this old and consistent Reformer is
now so far recovered as to afford a reasonable expectation of his re •
eovery, and that ho will be able to resume softie part of his Parlia-
mentary duties during the present session.

DEPTFORD DOCKYARD.—Preparations are making
at Deptford Dockyard for laying down the keel of the Odin, on the
slip lately occupied by the Terrible. The Odin is to be 208 feet long
by 37 broad. The depth of the hold will be 28 feet 6 inches. Mel
burthen in tons Is to be 1,326, and her engines of 600-horse power.
She will be built according to a design by Mr. Finchum, master ship-
wright of Portsmouth Dockyard. Also, as soon as possible, a new
50-gun'frigate is to be built of about 1,800 tons burthen. She is to
be 180 feet long I,y 40 wide. It is also In contemplation to lay down
a second-ehm steam-frigate, to be driven by a submarine propeller.
Length, 215 feet, by 40 feet beam ; tonnage, 1,500 tons ; engines,
600-horse power.
Early in the spring extensive alterations will be
commenced in the interior of the Winchester barracks, by which they
will be adapted to afford comfortable accommodation for one thousand
rasa and forty omeere•