The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-03 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF HER MAJESTY.

Her Majesty, accompanied by Prince Albert, and at-
tenited'by a numerous suite, arrived at Buckingham
" Palace at a quarter to two o'clock yesterday afternoon,
from Windsor Castle, to be present at the Cabinet
Council. The Royal party was escorted by a troop
of Prince Albert's Own. On her Majesty entering the
Palace the Royal standard was displayed on the top of
the marble arch. Crowds of well dressed persons, and
a number of fashionables in their carriages, lined the
drive in Hyde Park and both sides of Constitution Hill,
by whom her Majesty was most enthusiastically cheered
as the Royal cortege passed along.
A Privy Council was held soon after two o'clock to
arrange the Royal Speech, on opening Parliament
this day in person, and to prick the list for Sheriffs for
the different English counties for the present year.
His 'Majesty, the King of Prussia, paid a visit to
i the Thames Tunnel early n the morning, passing down
the river in a steam-boat, to view the City from
the river. At the time his Majesty was on his passage,
the weather proved unfavourable, as the morning con-
tinued foggy. Afterwards his Majesty proceeded to visit
several national and public buildings in the City.

" THE SUN."—On referring to another part of our
paper, it will he seen that very praiseworthy exertions
are making by Mr. Young, the proprietor of The Sun
newspaper, to supply the country on important occasions
with express editions earlier than ever, through the me-
dium of our spirited townsman, Mr. Wiley. This is
astonishing when former feats of expedition are remem-
bered. It will be very gratifying to many of our readers
to learn, that on passing through this town last week,
Mr. Young called on Mr. M'Quhae, President of the
Licensed Victuallers' Society, and munificently pre-
sented him with 10/. for the benefit of that Institution.—
Sheffield Iris.
THE LITTLE WESTERN.—The proprietors of
this steamer, accompanied by several captains of the navy, and
gentlemen connected with the commercial and with the scien-
tific and engineering interests of the country, had yesterday an
experimental trip down the river, in order to test the speed
and powers of the vessel. The Little Western left her moor-
ings off the Brunswick Hotel at a quarter to 11; the tide then
running down, and the wind blowing from the south-west.
There was, however, but little wind, and the weather was clear
and pleasant. She was accompanied down the river by one
of the fastest boats, viz., the Railway, for which she waited off
Galleons, and with which she contested head and head to
Gravesend. The speed of the Little Western is extraordi-
nary; she reached the Nore Light within 2 hours and 55
minutes. The distance is 44 miles. This vessel is built on
an improved principle. Her tonnage measurement is a frac-
tion beyond 720 tons. She measures between,perpendiculara
200 feet, measurement over all 216 feet. Her keerineasure-
meat is 195 feet. Her breadth, clear of her paddle-boxes, is
rather above 27 feet ; and her breadth over all exceeds 47 feet.
Her deck is flush from stem to stern, and she has two masts
Her internal accommodations a; e very good, as may be sur-
mised from the measurement of her saloon and cabins, &c.
The length of her saloon is nearly 44 feet, aed the room is
elegantly and commodiously fitted up, without being gaudy or
fantastic ; it is also a good height, and is 24 feet wide. The
ladies' cabin is nearly 20 feet long. The engines, which are
(horizontal and low pressure, are of 80-horse power each. Al-
together she is a most elegant craft and an admirable sea-boat;
she has weathered a gale off the Land's-end, and proved her
capability to contend against a rough sea and a heavy wind.
This vessel was kilt at Bristol, by Messrs. Acramans, Morgan ,
and Co. She is a vessel excellently adapted for the London
and Ramsgate station. Her prodigious speed, superior accom-
modation, and tractability, render her peculiarly desirable for
trips in which convenience and rapidity are imperative. The
company were treated during the trip with the most elegant
and liberal hospitality by the Proprietors.
THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.--The
application for tickets, both to the interior of the house and
the long gallery, were incessant, on Tuesday, at Lord Willoughby
d'Eresby's office, and Colonel Macarthur, his Lordship's Secre-
tary, was occupied up to a late hour in issuing tickets. It
has been notified that, except in the body of the house, there
will be only standing room, even for ladies. On the right of
the Queen is the new state chair for the Prince of Wales,
which, of course, will remain unoccupied for many years : on
the left is stationed a chair for the Prince-Consort. The
corps diploinatique will occupy a box to the right of the house.
On the Queen being seated on the throne, the Lord Chancel-
lor will pass along the platform, and present the speech, kneel-
ing, to her Majesty., and afterwards retire behind the Prince
of Wales's chair, across which the seals of office will be placed.
The King of Prussia and suite will come in state.
Mr. MARK BLAKE, IVI.P —We are happy to
be able to contradict a report, which was copied into this jour-
nalelrect that Mr. Mark Blake, AL for Mayo, was in a very
from the Mayo Telegraph during the past week, to the
dangerous state of health. We have much pleasure in an-
nouncing that this is the reverse Of truth. Sir. Blake is in
the enjoyment 'of robust health, which youth and a good con-
stitution promise to make permanent. Any political specula-
tion, therefore, to which the announcement of his indisposition
Journal.may have given rise, must be perfectly futile.—Freeman's

THE WEST MIDDLESEX ASSURANCE Or_
Ft CE.—Sir Peter Laurie mentioned to Mr. Alderman Lainson,
the sitting Magistrate, on Tuesday, at Guildhall, that Holt, one
of the founders of the Independent West Middlesex Assurance
Company, in Baker-street, which suddenly broke up a few
months ago, to the disappointment and ruin of a great number
of individuals, is now a prisoner in the Fleet.
BODY FOUND IN THE RIVER.—On Tuesday
afternoon the body of a man was taken out of the river, off
Church-hole, Rotherhithe, and removed to the dead-house. It
appears to have been in the water a few days only, and from
the apparel of the deceased, he appears to have been an en-
gineer, or stoker of a steam-vessel. He is about thirty years of
age, dark hair and whiskers, five feet ten or eleven inches high,
and had on a baragon fustian suit of clothes, blue striped shirt,
blue stockings, coloured neckerchief, and stook. The body
awaits a Coroner's inquest.

THE UNTHRALLING of the GOD.
OR, FREE-TRADE TYPIFIED.

" When we attempt so much as the opening of our Ports to
all articles employed in reproduction, we may without waiting
for a single negotiation, fearlessly hoist the banner of FREE-
TRADE to all nations. LAZARUS BOUND HAND AND FOOT
STRUGGLES TO STEP OUT INTO THE OPEN DAY. WHOSE SHALL
BE THE VOICE TO PROCLAIM, " LOOSE HIM, AND LET HIM
GOP—Morning Chronicle, Jan. 28.

A God—who was a great and beauteous God,
While the old Patriarchs ruled earth's early sod—
Embow!d by proud OppressiOn, and o'er-trod,
Now lonely lies, all Lazas-like of heap,
Pent in an Isle round which blue water leap :
Him the Oppressors have enthrall'd in irons— •
Him watchful warding like unslumb'ring lions.
For, truthfully, they know
Might but that God abroad his bright arms throw—
Might but his strengths awake,
And his cramp bonds asunder from him break,
Round the great World his giant feet would scour,
And fold its zones in harvest, vine, and flower ;
Press'd by his touch the desert-place should shine
Palm-crown'd, and rosy-sown, and flush with wine :
Like golden shields in king's apartments hung
The banded corn-sheaves should about be flung ;
Plenty be spread like sunlight on Earth's floors,
And Joy harp ever at her happy doors.

11.
Wherefore, 0 men, how long
Shall day irrevolubly roll on day,
Away, and yet away ;
Ere that all-puissant voice
Prompt to relieve from sufferance and wrong,
Like a great-trumpet seven-times voie'd and strong,
Shall pour its solemnness sublime and long,
And forth in thunders this commandment throw—
" LOOSE HIM, AND LET HIM GO 1"

lIL
How long, 0 men, how long
Shall the delivering God in thraldom stay !
How long shall day to day
Repeat its aching history of wrong.
The fields that since God's flood-time have lain fallow,
Sigh to be clothed in corn of gold and yellow;
Cry out the hills of vines
To wave.in purple, dropping with sweet wines,
And hang aloof their sunny-reigning clusters,
Lit with transparent lustres ;
While Earth her balmy virgin-bosom high
Heaves with desire to bear and fructify :
How long—how long
E'er the great voice abroad its mandate throw,
" LOOSE RIM, AND LET HIM GO!"
IV.

Not long—not surely long
Time shall her hour prolong,
E'er the great God shall wholly be delivered,—
Be all his shackles shivered :
Not long—not surely long,
E'er Earth delighted rolls
With richer music in her silver poles ;
E'er her long-barren Star,
Shall don a gold and emerald symar ;
And her sad empty horn
Blush all abundantly with wine and corn.
Not long—not long,
E'er the all-puissant voice,
Pouring its solemnness sublime and long,
Shall free that God from bondage and from wrong,
And forth in thunders its commandment throw,
" LOOSE RIM, AND LET RIM 00 1"

Hearken ! it comes—the sound
Like muffled harmonies heard underground,
Shakes the blue atmospheres that float around.—
The
fair-haired regions of the Western Star—
Asia, and Ind, and sunny Sennaar,
Put on their pearls, and crimsons, and tiar,
For joy that their Deliverer is not far.
It comes—the bright day comes—
The-hour—the men—the chain up-breaking forces!—
I see—l know them by their sparkling plumes,
And their gold chariots drawn by bounding horses:—
Down like a flashing cataract they pour,
Proclaiming to the world his thraldom o'er:—
While foremost, fairest of their throng is seen,
A diamond-braceleted and beauteous Queen,
Whose magic influence, and silver keys.
Give the imprison'd giant God release.—
It were a superhuman task to tell
The wondrous workings of that subtle spell ; -
How brake the bars—how sprang apart the chains,—
While his full strength the giant-One regains :
How as the God his speed and splendours rolled,
The landscapes burned in purple and in gold—
How gleamed the,plains like emerald-blazon'd banneis—
How the young Islands sang in rapt Hosannas—
While peals triumphal crowned the festive day
That struck the fetters of the God away.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by his
Serene Highness Prince Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg, ar-
rived at Buckingham Palace in a carriage and four,
escorted by a party of Hussars, twenty minutes before
two o'clock yesterday afternoon from Windsor Castle.
Their Serene Highnesses Prince Augustus and Prince
Leopold of Saxe Coburg, and the Royal suite, consist-
ing of the Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Liddell, Baroness
Lehzen, Earl of Morton, Hon. C. A. Murray, Hon.
Captain Duncombe, Captain Francis Seymour, Colonel
Wylde, and Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, followed in
three of the Royal carriages and four.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were received
at the Palace by the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamber-
lain, the Master of the Horse, and by Lord George Len-
nox, Lord in Waiting on Prince Albert. The -Royal
Standard was immediately displayed on the Marble Arch.
At half-past two o'clock the Queen held a Privy Coun-
cil, which was attended by his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, the Lord President, the First Lord of the Trea-
sury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign,
and Colonial Departments, the First Lord of the Admi-
ralty, the President of the Board of Trade, the President
of the Board of Control, the Secretary at War, the Pay-
master-General of the Forces, the Duke of Wellington,
the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Master
of the Horse.
Sir 'Robert Peel had an audience of the Queen.
The Duke of Buckingham had an audience and re-
signed to her Majesty the Privy Seal.
The Earl of Jersey, Sir James Graham, and Lord
Wharncliffe, had audiences of the Queen at the Council.
At the Council his Grace, Walter, Duke of Buc-
cleugh, was by command of the Queen sworn of her
Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, her Majesty
having been pleased to appoint his Grace to be Lord
Lieutenant of the County of Roxburgh (in the room
of the Marquis of Lothian, deceased), the Noble Duke
took the oaths appointed to be taken. Her Majesty
having been pleased to deliver the custody of the Privy
Seal to his Grace, the oath of Keeper of the Privy Seal
was administered to him, and the Noble Duke took his
place at the Board.
Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint the Right
Honourable James Marquis of Salisbury, to be Lord-
Lieutenant of the County of Middlesex. The Noble
Marquis took the customary oaths.
Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right
Honourable Brownlow Marquis of Exeter to be Lord-
Lieutenant of the County of Northampton, the Noble
Marquis was sworn in accordingly.
Her Majesty pricked the List of Sheriffs for the pre-
sent year.
The Queen's Speech on opening the Session of Par-
liament was arranged, and agreed upon.
The lion. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting.
Lord Ashburton had an audience of the Queen.
The Court was attended by the Treasurer of the
Household, the Vice-Chamberlain, Earl of Morton, Lord
in Waiting, Viscount Combernere, Gold Stick in Wait-
ing, Hon. Captain Duncombe, Groom in Waiting, Hon;
Colonel Grey, Equerry in Waiting, and Colonel Wylde,
Equerry to Prince Albert.
At half-past four o'clock, her Majesty and Prince Al-
bert went to Marlborough House to visit her Majesty the
Queen Dowager. The Hon. Colonel Grey, and Colonel
Wylde, the Equerries in Waiting on the Queen and the
Prince, were in attendance.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Royal remain at Windsor Castle ; and the
Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Lady in Waiting on her Ma-
jesty, also remains at Windsor Castle.

Previously to quitting Buckingham Palace yesterday
morning, his Majesty the King of Prussia did Mr.
Hayter. Principal Painter in Ordinary t 9 the Queen, the
honour to sit a short time, to enable him to represent
his Majesty in the sketch which he is making of his great
picture of the Christening of his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales in St. George's Chapel.
At half-past eight o'clock the King quitted the Pa-
lace, attended by the Earl of Hardwick, Lord in Wait-
ing, and two Gentlemen of his Suite, and proceeded to
the Steam Packet Wharf at Hungerford-market, where
his Majesty embarked on board the steam-packet, .and
went down the River to visit the Thames Tunnel.
Afterwards the King went to the Tower, and after in-
specting that fortress, returned to Buckingham Palace
shortly before twelve o'clock.
His Majesty received at Buckingham Palace Deputa-
tions from a number of public bodies.
The Bishop of London, and a Deputation of the
Clergy in the Diocese of London, were introduced, when-
his Lordship presented an Address from the Metropoli-
tan Clergy.
The Bishop of London accompanied the next Deputa-
tion, which was that from King's College, to pay their
respects.

The Society for Promoting Christianity among the
Jews were introduced to congratulate his Majesty.
Prussian subjects residing in England, headed by the Che-
valier Hebeler, Prussian Consul-General, were conducted
to the presence of their Sovereign to present an Address
of Congratulation. The Address was read by Mr.
Natusch, and the following is a translation:—
May it please your Majesty,
We, natives of the Prussian Dominions, now resident
in the United Kingdom of Great Britaia Rad I},e]azd

embrace the joyful occasion which led your Majesty to
these shores.

With freedoth and fidelity we avail ourselves of the
permission of tendering to your Majesty our welcome
and our homage.

A great anda free people meet your Majesty with
sentiments of veneration and confidence, and all hearts
expand, filled with the hope and belief that the Al-
mighty's blessing will rest on this Royal visit.
If it be true that public opinion among Foreign Con-
temporaries foreshadows the judgment of posterity, then
history will illustrate the merits of a ruler who compre-
hended the age he belonged to, and who endeavoured to
bring the wants of his people in harmony with the same.
Removed to a distant point of view, we would feign
behold in your Majesty an instrument of Providence ;
potent and willing to mature the capabilities of the
various tribes swayed by your sceptre, and lead them on-
wards in a course of wise ameliorations historically
based on inherent rights, in order that every citizen may
duly take his place in three estates* enabled to promote
the common weal in an enlarged sphere, protected at
the same time, and controlled only by laws in which he
concurred himselt as his forefathers of old.
For ourselves we will ever pray for the preservation
of your Majesty and your Illustrious Consort, the pride
of German Matrons. We implore Heaven's choicest
blessings on the Royal House ; may the contemplation of
his people in the constant increase hr piety, civilization,
and comfort, be the meed of reward of the exalted head
to whom we this day renew our faith and devotion, in all
humility.

'frusiing, Sire, to the candour of your Gracious Ma-
jesty, we hope that the plain expression of our senti-
ments may meet with the most favourable construction,
and venture to claim the high honour of forwarding
our undersigned names to the feet of the Royal Throne.
* In the original, Lehr Wehr and Naltrsland, which means
anything but an aristocratic division of castes, but literally
teachers (clergy defending military. and operatives), or the in-
dustrious classes ; these denominations transmitted by vener-
able tradition.