The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-19 00:00:00

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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, and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, rode
out on the Cliffs this afternoon, in a pony phaeton, accom-
panied on horseback by Colonel Wylde and Colonel Buckley.
Prince Albeit walked out this morning in the King's-road.
accompanied by Dr. Pra3torins.
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 Peelle% 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, " Il furioso " (Spohr) ; Over-
ture," La Sirene" (Auber) ; Selections from the "Bohemian
Girl" (Balfe); Waltz, Les Bouquets Royales" (Jullien);
Serenade Polka (M'Oarroll).
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 iu
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. Prretorius, 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 Duke 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.—Morning Post.

COURT CIRCULAR.
A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock yesterday after-
noon at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were Sir
Rohert Peel, the Duke of. Wellington, Lord l'Vbaineliffe, the
Dulo of Buccleuch, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir
James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exehenuer, Earl of
Haddington, Lord Granville Somerset, the Earl of Lincoln
and the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert.
The Earl of Ripon was prevented by indisposition from
attending the meeting.
The Connell sat two hours.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a meet-
ing yesterday afternoon, at the office in Whitehall-place.
The Commissioners present were the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Chichester, the
Bishop of Exeter, the Bishop of Hereford, the Bishop of
Lichfield, the Bishop of Llandaff, the Bishop of Woreeeter,
the Earl of Devon, the Earl of Chichester, the Bight Hon.
Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse, the Right
Hon. John Nicholl, and the Dean of Westminster.
Baron de Moncorvo, Pertuguese Minister, transacted busi-
ness yesterday, at the Foreign-office.
The Hon. C. A. Murray had an interview with Sir Robert
Peel yesterday.
Sir John Henry Pelly transacted business yesterday, at
the office of the Board of Trade.
The Adjutant-General to the Forces had an interview with
the Commander-in-Chief yesterday.
Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colenial-office.
from Sir Robert Wilson, Governor of Gibraltar. --.

RAILWAY BUSINESS IN PAR-
LIAMENT.
TUESDAY, FED. 18.
London and York Railway—Petition for Bill reported; Re-
port to lie on the table.
Leeds and Bradford Railway Extension (Shipley to Come)
—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought
in by Mr. John Wortley, Mr. Beckett, and Mr. Busfeild.
Manchester and Birmingham Railway (Ashton Branch)—
Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought
in by Lord Francis Egerton, Mr. Hindley, and Mr. Cobden.
York and Scarborough Railway Deviation—Petition forßill
reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Sir John
Lowther, Mr. Redhead Yorke, and Sir John Johnstone.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne and North Shields Railway (Tyne-
mouth 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.
Ashton, Stalybridge, and Liverpool Junction Railway (Ard-
wick and Guide Bridge Branches)—Petition for /3111 re-
ported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Entwitde,
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.
Antrobus.
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-F:xtension)—Petition for Bill
reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Entwisle,
Mr. Brotherton, and Mr. William Feilden.
Leeds, 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.Beekett
Denison, and Mr. Busfeild.
Richmond (Surrey) Railway—Petition for Bill repoited;
Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Kemble, Mr. Ant -
bus, and Mr. Hawes.
London and York Railway—Report from Select Committee
on Petitions for Private Bills referred to the Select Com-
mittee 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.
Great Southern and Western Railway (Ireland)—Petition
for Bill ; referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for

Private Bills.
NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE,

Ulster Railway Extension—Committee on Petition,'Mon-
day, March 3.
Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway—Committee on
Petition, postponed from Thursday, Feb. 20, till Friday,
Feb. 21.

DEATH OF THE MARQUIS OF WESTMIRSTBR.—It
is our painful duty to record the demise of the aboye
respected and revered nobleman, who expired at Eaton
Hall, on Monday last, at half-past ten P.M. The -
Noble Lord was taken ill on Sunday, the 9th .
stunt, and from that time, although he had occa-
sionally rallied, he gradually sunk into the last fatal exhaus-
tion. 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, bad been in regular attendance upon
the Marquis during his illness), was sent for. On his arrival
he annonnced 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 presence of
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 80,1794, 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 N 0449, 1821, Lady
Mary Margaret Stanley, only daughter o ward, twelfth
Earl of Derby, by his second Countess; an 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 thaa 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 its 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 bo
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 hold 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 ? Wby, what is this but one of the forms of slavery ?—The
Struggk.

IVLIAT WILL BEEP UP RENTS ?—We are quite
disposed to believe that, with free trade and natural prices, it
ene.
still be in the power of the landlords of Great Britain,evory if.
no
rally, to keep rents at about their present rate (othiit?Fgonnew era
possible ..
sort of way concerned to prove this); but the cs,
life will be altogether changed. High rents
rents,
,
ts with a large head'
but high rents with slovenly farming—highdamaged crops—high rents.
of game—high rents, with small and Wcontiaueof lancil°rll
with tenantcy-at
lne, the only way of maintain-
ingimpossible. Under the free . trade :g
w jus
be ,
to make It more productive
of farmers—will be flatly
a high money Price of land not in minimising but in maximisinig
-v,-ill and political slaver;
rds will be,
The interest of landlo
11 ofßngland.—ne Struggle.
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the annual yield of the so
Y t d the list of morning
MonNiNa
present time, was put up at the General
mails, revised up to the
In addition to
-lc-Grand. the number of
Post-olllce, in St.
post-towns, heretofore published, to which there is a dispatch frong
omorning, the revised list gives the 11l
the metropolis every owing g
—Battle, Belford, Blistone, Chatham, D ursley, Felton, Grantham..
Guildford, Hertford, Hoddesden, Hurtsgreen, Lewes, Rochester,
Eyde, Sevenoaks, Staplehurst, Swinton, Tetbury, and Wooton-under.
Edge. Bags to all parts of Scotland and Ireland are dispatched evety
morning, independently of upwards of two hundred pot-towns hi
England, to which a similar dispatch is forwarded.
On Friday last, 14th Feb., St. Valantine's-dar,
baptized correspondent), Charles Freeman, the American' .
at St. Thomas's, _ giant, wFal
the Rev. Valent , evur-square, Commercial-road,l East, 1,
Valentine, the incumbenth
'll
o, at the conclusion of the
ceremony, made the "infant" a present
Book of Prayer.of a splendidly illumlnat.d
We are sorry that our esteemed Member, Jamet
Maitla
nd Balfour, Esq , M.P., is obliged to of some tinA, owing to severe family. affliction.—Beneiat .IFapilaiir&.
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BENJAMIN WooD, 312.—We are happy to
learn, from good authority, that this old and consistent Reformer f
now so far recovered as to afford a reasonable expectation of his re.
COvery, and that he will be able to resume some part of his Parlitte,'
mentary duties during the. present session.
Mr. R. Yorke left the House on Monday evening-,
about two hours before the division, and, from inquiries since madei
we find he is now confuted to his bed with a severe attack of illness.
THE BISHOP or ELY.—Great hopes are begin.
ning to be entertained by his Lordship's medical attendants of bit
ultimate recovery. On Sunday a change for the better was perceived t
at.d the favourable symptoms continued on Monday.
I 'DEPTFORD DOCHYARD.—Preparations are making,
at Deptfonl Dockyard for laying down the keel of the Odin. on tht,
slip lately occupied by the Terrible. The Odin is to bo 208 feet loot:
by 37 broad. The depth of the hold will be 28 feet 6 Inches. Eli
burthen in tons is to be 1,326. and her engines of 500-horseoc,_!_7l. -
She will be built according to a design by Mr. Pineham, master
._alrug,-,
wright of Portsmouth Dockyard. Also, as soon as
1icp..0,710T.,_ a
50-gun frigate is to be built of about 1,800 tons brio. to 0 "e* ''
lay dowsp.
be 180 feet long by 40 wide. It is also in contemplation to
propeller.,
a second-class steam-fligate, to be driven-by tons ; engin,*
Length, 215 feet, by 40 feet beam ; ton" 01 ,
600-horse power. • extensive alterations will lip
Early in the spring
commenced in the interior of the Winchester barracks, by which they
accommodation for one thousane
afford comfortable
wW be adapted to
men and forty OffiCal.