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

THE SUN, LQNPON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1842.

embrace the joyful occasion which led your Majesty to
these shores.
With freedom and fidelity we avail ourselves of the
permission of tendering to your Majesty our welcome
and our homage. "
A great and a free people meet your Majesty ivith
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
co ncurred himself 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 in piety, civilization,
and comfort, be the: weed of reward of the exalted head
to whom we this day renew our faith and devotion, in all
humility.
Trusting, 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 evening their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge gave a state dinner to his Majesty
at Cambridge House.
The band of the Coldstream Guards attended in the
entrance hall, and received the King on his arrival with
" God save the Queen." Their Royal Highnesses' foot-
men, in State liveries, lined the entrance hall, and the
pages siore their state uniforms.
The King arrived at five minutes past seven o'clock,
attended by his Auite; His Majesty wore the ensigns of
the Most Noble Order of the Garter. The party pre-
sent on the occasion consisted of her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duchess of Inverness,
the Duke and .Duchess..of Sutherland, Count Stolberg,
Gen. Natzmar, Gen. ,Neumann, Baron Meyerinck, M.
de Brauchitsch, Baron Von Humboldt, M. de Conseiller
Muller, Chevalier Bunsen, the Earl of Hardwicke, Earl
and Countess of Jersey, Earl and Countess Delawarr,
Earl and . Countess Westmorland, Earl of Liverpool,
Earl of Aberdeen, 'and Captain Meynell.
The King remained at Cambridge House until twenty
minutes before ten o'clock, when his Majesty, attended
by his Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen, Baron de
Humboldt, the Earl of Ilardwicke, Capt. Meynell, and
the gentlemen of his suite, went to Covent Garden
Theatre.
A very numerous party had been invited in the even-
ing to Cambridge House, to have the honour of meet-
ing Isis Majesty,- and the entire suite of state 'rooms on
the first floor, were thrown open, and brilliantly illu-
minated with a profusion of chandeliers and candelabra.
At the top of the grand staircase, the Coldstream band
performed a number of choice pieces in the course of the
evening, introducing " A March composed by Frederick
the Great," and the "Landes Vater."
His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar
arrived at half-past ten o'clock.
The noblemen and gentlemen, who had attended the
official dinners appeared, most of them, in their respec-
tive costumes.
The King of Prussia and suite returned to Cambridge
House, from tho theatre.
Among the company present, were--
The French Ambassador, the Austrian (special),
Greek, Wirtemberg, Sardinian, Belgian, Hanoverian,
and Saxon Ministers ; the Bavarian Minister and Ba-
ronness de Cetto, the Russian Minister and Baronness
Brunow ; Madame Bunsen, Lady of the Prussian Mi-
nister ; the Swedish Charge d'Affaires and Baronness
Rehisusen the Prussian Charge d'Affaires, Baron Leb.
zeltern, Baroni Bertouch, Count Revel, Baron Charles de
Canitz, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs. How-
ley, the Bishop of London and Mrs. Blomfield, Duke
of Wellington, Duke and Duchess of Buceleuch, Duke
and Duchess of Beaufort, Marquis and Marchioness
of Exeter, Marquis of Normanby, Marquis of Anglesey
and LadA. Paget, Marquis and Marchioness of' Douro,
Marquis of Clanricarde, Marquis of Worcester, Earl and
Countess Dowager Clare and the Ladies Fitzgibbon,
Earl of Uxbridge and the Ladies Eleanora and Con-
stance Paget, Countes.; of Tankerville, Earl and Coun-
tess .of Surrey and Lady Mary Howard, Lady Clemen-
tina Villiers, Earl of Ripon, the Ladies Campbell and
Lord Evelyn, Earl and Countess Cadogan and Lady
H. Cadogan, Earl of Beverley and Lady Louisa Lou-
vaine, Earl of Haddington, Earl Brownlow, Earl of
Denbigh and Lady Mary Fielding, Countess Euston
and Lady Fitzroy, Mr. Fitzroy, Countess of Hadding-
ton, Earl and Countess Wilton, Earl and Lady It.
Jermyn, Earl of Lincoln, Countess de Clifford and
Lady Augusta Onslow, Countess of Glengall, Countess
of Charleville, Earl and Countess of Claren-
don, Earl of March and Lady Caroline G. Lennox,
Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, Lady Wharncliffe, Lord
and Lady Bloomfield, Lord Forester, Lord and Lads
ialson, Lord and Lady -Granville Somerset, Lae _ _

fieith, Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci, Lord Redesdale
le Hon. Miss Mitford, Lord and Lady Jemima Ellit,

,ady Fitzroy.; Somerset and Miss Somerset, Dowager
,ady Clinton, Lord and Lady llawarden, Lady and the
ron. Miss Willoughby, Lady Lyndhurst and the

,n. DlissCopley, EOrd,and radyNlarcus Hill, La

Foley, Lady Stuart de Rothsay and Hon. Miss Stuart
Lord Villiers, Lord Claude Hamilton, Lord Wiltshire,
Lord and Lady de Roos, Lord F. Egerton, Right Hon.
Col. Dawson Darner, Right Hon. Sir John Beckett, Right
Hon. Sir Robe. Adair, Right Hon. W. and Mrs. Glad-
stone, Hon. Miss Elphinstone deFlahault, Hon. W. Cow-
per, Hon. Cecil Forester, Hon. Sidney Herbert, Hon.
Stuart Wortley, Lady Gordon, Sir John Macdonald,
Mr. Norman Macdonald, Sir Edmund and Lady Antro-
bus, Sir James and Lady Reynett, Lady Shelley, Sir
George and Lady Clerk, Baron and Baroness Lionel de
Rothschild, General Sir Henry Bailly, Colonel Shawe,
Colonel Grant, Colonel Scott, Colonel and Mrs. Come-
wall, Colonel Bentinck, Captain Macdonald, Captain
Glunder, Captain and Lady Emily Seymour, Captain
Frederick Villiers, Mr. Mellish, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor,
Mr. G. W. and the Hon. Mrs. Hope, Mr. George Banks,
Mr. T. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. J. Towline, Mr. Vincent,
Mr. E. Drummond, Miss Burdett Coutts, Mr. Mac-
donald, Mr. Culling Smith, Mr. Talbot, and Mrs. de
Rothschild.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Fanny Howard, arrived at her residence, Cla-
rence-house, St. James's, about one o'clock, yesterday
afternoon, from a visit to her Majesty, at Windsor
Castle. In the afternoon her Royal Highness visited the
Queen Dowager at Marlborough House.
The Duke of Cambridge visited the Queen Dowager
yesterday.
Colonel and Mrs. Arbuthnot have arrived at Far-
rance's Hotel, from Windsor Castle.
A deputation from the merchants of Bristol, the Great
Western Railway Company, and the Great Western
Steam-ship Company, with memorials from those bodies,
on the subject of the establishment of mail communica-
tion between Bristol and the south of Ireland, consisting
of Mr. Charles Russell, M.P., Mr. Savage, Mr, Harding,
Mr. Guppy, Mr. R. L. Jones, Mr. C. A. Saunders, Sir
I. R. Brunel, Mr. W. 0. Hunt, and Mr. Robert Os-
borne, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, yesterday, at his Official residence in Downing-
street,

Full dross Parliamentary dinner parties were given
last evening by his Grace the ])uke of Wellington as
Ministerial leader of the Upper House, to a large party
of Peers, and by the Right lion, Sir Robert Peel, at his
residence in Whitehall Gardens, to a numerous party of
Members of the House of Commons, principally con-
sisting of official gentlemen. The Queen's Speech, on
opening Parliament, was read by the two Ministers to
their respective guests.
'' In the original, Lehr Wehr and Nakrsland, 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.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

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Antrim; Lord Claude Hamilton, in Argyll-street, from
Baron's Court, Tyrone ; Count Goltz and Captain Annesley.
in the suite of the King of Prussia, at the Burlington. Hotel,
Coik-street, from Windsor Castle; the Earl and Countess of
Tankerville, at their new residence, in Maddox-street ; Mr.
and Mrs. Wm Russell, in chapel-street West, Belgrave-
squarea.from Woburn Abbey ; Lord Wm. Powlett, in Curzon-
street,' from Shropshire; Mr. and Lady Augusta Milbanke,
from Thorpeperrow. Hall, Yorkshire ; the Earl. and Countess
of Rosebery, and the Ladies Primrose, on the Terrace, Pic-
cadilly, from a visit to the Hon. Colonel and Douglas Pen-
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tour ; Lord and Lady Mahon, in Grosvenor-place, from
Brighton ; Gambier Parry, Esq., Mrs. Parry, and family, at
Marsi.all Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square ; George Gib-
son,
Esq., turd at ditto; Mrs. Gibson, Mrs. Pickering, at
ditto ; the Rev. Mr. Burket and Miss Burket, at ditto ; Hon.
Mrs.. Russell Barrington, at the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-
street, from Stutton Rectory, Ipswich ; Mrs. and Miss
"ichardson, at ditto, from Warrer! yood, Hatfield.

THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.
Yesterday the very- extensive preparations in
and about the House of Lords, for the reception
of her Majesty and her Illustrious visitor to open
the Parliament, were completed, but not until a
late hour; and during the day many upholsterers,
men and women, carpenters, &c., were actively
occupied with the works. The reason of their
labours being thus protracted was the alterations
made in the usual preparations, to accommodate
the great accession of numbers in the Long Gal-
lery, in the Peers' and Strangers' Galleries, as
well as in the body of the House. Heretofore
the arrangements were such, that all persons
who procured tickets could be seated. Now
that plan is entirely altered. Hence a far larger
number of persons will be admitted; it perhaps
would not be quite correct tosay accommodated.
All are to stand. There are several additional rows
of graduated stations in the Long Gallery,
railed in front, but no seatF. In some instances
there will be fbur, five, and six rows of per-
sons, the stations going to a vast height; and
there are many of these raised platforms where
no places were previously allotted for visitors.
To all these places the company will be admitted
early, but there is not the least opportunity to
sit down, except among the feet, should there
happen to be room, of those behind them. The
side or Peers' galleries are also without seats;
the two rows of seats heretofore in them were
yesterday removed, and arrangements made for
the introduction of three and four rows of ladies,
Peeresses, and Peeresses' daughters, having the
galleries in addition to a considerable portion of
the body of the House. All the seats are re.
moved also from the Strangers'. and Com-
mons Members' gallery, except the front row
usually occupied by reporters, but the " fourth"
is on the present occasion to give way to the part-
ners and daughters of the second estate. Even
from the body of the House all seats for Peers, &c.,
are removed, one row on each side excepted.
Judging from the arrangements made, and the
tickets issued, it is expected that every part of
the House and galleries, except around, the
Throne, will be crowded to excess, nearly all
the company being without seats. The whole ar-
rangements, however, are such, by, means of gra-
dually raised flooring, &c... as to secure to every
person in the Royal Gallery the view of her Ma-
jesty and the Royal visiters with their respective
retinues as they pass to the House of Lords, and
to those in the House the completest view of the
Throne. Such has been the anxiety in this re-
spect,that the flooringbehind Black Rod's box,and
at the lower end of the House below the bar, is
reconstructed on an unexceptionably ascending
scale. As the admission of such vast numbers
as will assemble within the walls of the House
will somewhat try the strength of various
places where company may be assembled, it is
right and prudent to state that the galleries, and
platforms in the Royal. Gallery, &c., have been
subjected to the severest trials by the accumula-
tion on them of more weights than can be assem-
bled on one to-day. For instance, in the Stran-
gers' Gallery, at the lower end of the House, set
apart for Peereses and their daughters, nearly
300 men have been introduced at one time, and
experiments of a similar character have been ap-
plied to the Peers' side-galleries, and the lodge-
ments in the Royal Long Gallery.
The elevation on which the throne is stationed
and the floor of the House have been newly carpet-
ted. The throne is new—new crimson velvet, new
gold banding and fringe, with newly-covered
tbotstool. But the Prince of Wales's chair and
footstool, now placed on the right of the Throne,
and on a level with it, may be termed the gems
of the House. They are exquisite tasteful pieces
of workmanship. The chair is of the same
pattern with the throne, but somewhat smaller.
Like the throne, it is covered with crimson vel-
vet, bordered with wide gold banding, and deco-
rated with rich deep gold fringe. The back is
high, and surmounted with appropriate devices
from the Royal Arms. About two-thirds high are
embroidered the Prince s feathers, the feathers
in silver, banded and bounded with gold, and the
workmanship evinces first-rate artistical skill.
They stand out boldly as if literally waving over
the foundation of Ich Dien." The canopy is
only renovated. The velvet has been " redipped,"
and there still remain embroidered on it the
letters "G. R.," prepared for George IV., and
which answered for the Latinized name of Wil-
liam IV., but which will not look very well over
the head and crown of Queen Victoria. As
everything else has been done with such care
nd effect, it seems curious that new velvet and
correct lettering should not have characterised the
appearance of the Royal canopy over the Throne
on the present distinguished occasion, The summit
ofthe canopy, however, is beautifully redecorated,
having around it new gold fringe, and on the
drapery appear crowns boldly embroidered. On
the right of the Throne, but on the floor of the
House, and near the Bench of Bishops, is a plain
chair fin- the King of Prussia, and on the left of
the Throne, as heretofore, is placed Prince Al-
bert's chair. Under the Peers' Gallery, on the
left of the Throne, and in line with the Opposition
benches, are placed four chairs. These will be
occupied by Foreign Princes, and in the ever_
ing are to be devoted to the King of psi.nsia &c.,
should he feel disposed, which it. is expected he
will, to see the Lords assembled in their delibe-
rative capacity, and to hear the debate on the
Address.
In the House of Commons further improve-
ments, by the introduction of additional glasses
around the flames, have been made by Mr. Gu-
rney, whose plan, it will be remembered, super-
seded that of Sir F. Trench,
not only in the
House, but in the Speaker's room, in the
lobby, and the passages leading to the House ,•
and the effect of Ali those lights as so altered
was tested yesterday, on Tuesday, and on several
previous evenings. For the preservation of or-
der in approaching the House of Lords, and to
prevent Members rushing forward and gettine-
in front of the Speaker, and the unseemly bustle
thereby occasioned, there have bee n prepared
barriers along the passage leading to the bar of
the House of Lords, which will effectually guard
against the recurrence of such inconvenience.

LOH D LYNDHURST.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—I am much surprised that none of the
Liberal Papers have adverted to the late promo-
tions to the rank of Queen's Counsel. Among
the crowd of new silk gowns, almost equalling
in number those who were exalted above their
fellows in Lord Lyndhursts's four months' Chan-
cellorship (with the exception of about three), it
may be safely asserted that the others are distin-
guished by nothing but the Toryism of their
principles, and by the assistance they have ren-
dered to his Lordship in his contests at Cam-
bridge. The honours of the profession ought not
to be lavished from personal or political motives,
hut ought to be the reward of professional merit
and long standing at the bar. While silk gowns
have been so profusely and improperly lavished
on the undeserving, they have been refused to
several applicants of very long standing and in-
disputable merits, for no assignable reason ex-
cept that the unsuccessful barristers entertained
Liberal opinions ill political matters. Such was
not the conduct of Lord Cottenharn, who in his
last batch of seven, I think, included three con-
spicuous Tories_ namely, Mr. Wortley, a son of
'Lord Wburneliire (a member of the present Ca-
binet); Mr. Godson, the Tory M.P. for Kidder-
minster; and Mr. Yhateley, brother-iu-law to
the Duke of Marlborough.
Acts of the nature I have above described
tend to bring an honourable profession into dis-
repute and discredit, and ought to be made
known to the public.—l am, &c.
AN OLD BARRISTER.
. Lincoln's Inn, Jan. 30, 1842.

MEETINGS OF THE UNEMPLOYED.--In the
course of last week large meetings of workmen, out of
employment, took place in the public Green, for the
purpose of discussing what measures they ought to
adopt, to obtain either employment or bread, in their
present distress. The first meeting consisted of about
500 individuals ; but, an adjournment having taken
place, on the following day from 1,000 to 1,500 assembled,
when the subject of their distress was again taken up
and discussed. The poor people having told to each
other their heart-rending tales, of famishing wives and
children, it was ultimately resolved to send a deputation
to wait on the Lord Provost and Magistrates, and confer
with them on the matter. On Friday, the Lord Pro-
vost, several of the City Magistrates, the Suburban
Magistrates, and members of the Relief Committee, met
in the Commissioners' Hall, when the deputation from the
unemployed was introduced--they representing a variety
of trades, such as iron-moulders, brass-founders, calico-
printers, tailors, &c., &e.; and each of the deputies gave
as correct an account as possible of the number of unem-
ployed in the trade he was understood to represent.
They stated that their sole object was to get employment
of some kind, whatever it might be, in order to provide
food for themselves and families ; and, after some deli-
baration, the Magistrates agreed to comply with their
wishes, on its being ascertained how many persons were
actually idle. In the meantime a room has been opened
in the old police buildings, where a person has been
placed to receive the returns of the unemployed, and,
with as much despatch as may be, they will set to work
at the breaking of stones.--Glasgow Argus.
The day before yesterday, as some masons were lifting
112 stones in their hands, one above another on a ladder,
according to the usual absurd custom in Paris, for
building a house, one of the men at the top was sP4ed
with a fit of coughing, while
„lie held o,e stone, and,
letting it fall, it came upon tlia ',wad of mason at the
bottom of the latyier, and killed him upon the spot. The
ac.cide4 ocoire'd In the Rue Villecbto