The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-17 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—Every preparation has been
made at the Castle, in readiness for the reception of
the Queen and Prince Albert and the Royal suite,
in expectation of the arrival of the Royal party at an
early hour to-morrow (Saturday), from Scotland.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent called at
the Castle to see the Royal infants shortly before six
o'clock this afternoon, and afterwards returned to
Frogmore Lodge.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal rode out
in the morning in the Home Park, on her Shetland
pony, accompanied by her Governess, the Dowager
Lady Lyttelton, and both the Prince of \Vales and
the Princess Royal were taken a carriage airing in
the afternoon, accompanied by the Dowager Lady
Lyttelton. Their Royal Highnesses, before re-
turning to the Castle yesterday afternoon from
their drive, were taken to the Duchess of Kent at
Frogmore Lodge.

Accounts were received in town yesterday from
Dusseldorf, dated up to the 12th instant, at which
period his Majesty the King of Hanover was going
on well.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Charlotte Dundas, arrived at Bushy House,
Bushy Park, yesterday morning, from Frogmore
Lodge, to pay a visit to her Majesty the Queen
Dowager. A dejeune was served soon after her
Royal Highness's arrival. In the afternoon the
Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady C. Dundas, took
her departure, on her return to Frogmore Lodge.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager visited their
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge on Wednesday, at their residence at Kew.
Her Majesty remained to lunch with the Duke and
Duchess, and afterwards returned to Bushy House,
Bushy Park.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge,
attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt and Baron Knese-
heck, honoured Covent Garden Theatre with their
presence on Thursday evening.
The Duke of Cambridge left town at half past two
o'clock yesterday afternoon, to honour the Duke and
Duchess of Bedford with a visit at Woburn Abbey,
Bedfordshire.
The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the
Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, and at-
tended by Baroness Ahlefeldt, left Cambridge House
yesterday evening, for her residence at Kew.
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Master of the
Mint, has,' we regret to state, while on a shooting ex-
cursion. met with an accident, which (it is under-
stood) has caused the loss of the fourth linger on the
left hand.
His ExAlency the Grecian Minister and Madam-;
Tricoup. have suffered a bereavement in the loss of
their eldest daughter, who expired on Thursday last
the
15th inst., at his Excellency's residence in Park-
square East.
The Governor of the Bank of England and the De-
puty Governor had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer ye7sterdqy, at his official residence
in Downing,street.'
Sir John Macdonald,yte
Adjutant-Gen. of the Forces,
visited Sir J. Graham
with The Chancellor of had an interview
the Right
;ir the
on.
Baersonredy at the Home-office.
Baronet.
The Hon. E. Stewart, DePutChairman of the
Customs, had an interview
yesterday
Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer in Downing-street.

• According tO- letters from St. Petersburgh of the
31st nlt., the Emper-cir was confined to his apartments by
indisposition.

IRISH POLICY OF THE PRESENT
GOVERNMENT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIN.
SIR,—At this season of comparative political re-
pose, when the attention of the public is not occupied
with the proceedings of the Legislature, it is worth
while to take a rapid sketch of the system of Govern-
ment which the present Administration has pursued
to Nods Ireland since its accession to power.
When Sir Robert Peel last year became Premier,
and was securely installed in office, with a powerful
majority at his command, it became a question of no
small importance, how Ireland was to be governed ?
In 1839, when the Melbourne Ministry resigned upon
the Jamaica question, Sir Robert Peel made an effort
to form an Administration, but was unable to succeed;
and, when stating to the House of Commons the
causes which led him to abandon the attempt, candidly
confessed that the greatest difficulties he would have
had to contend with would have presented themselves
in the government of the Sister Isle. He did not
attempt to disguise the fact, and it was too
apparent that Ireland was the rock upon which
he feared his party would founder, and that,
however skilfully he directed the-helm, he would have
incurred the risk of being dashed to pieces upon the
turbulent billows of Irish ;politics. Had Sir Robert
Peel dissolved Parliament at that period, he could Rat
have relied upon obtaining so large a majority as he
now commands, and with but a small majority to sup-
port him, he would, to a certain extent, have been
impeded in his course, and could not have assumed
towards the ultra-section of his own party, that inde-
pendent line of conduct which he adopted, without
any modification, throughout the whole of the last
session.

He also may have called to mind that his Govern-
ment in 1835 was unable to bear the defeat it sus-
tained on the Irish Tithe Bill, that the result of the
Emancipation Bill dislodged him in 1830, and that
Lord Grey's Government, (which its most distin-
guished member, Lord Brougham, pronounced to be
" too strong,") was first enfeebled, and ultimate ly met
its death-blow from the pertinacious and most impo-
litic line of conduct adopted by Lord Stan-
ley in forcing upon a reluctant Cabinet
that most harsh and unconstitutional measure,
the Irish Coercion Bill. In the position he
then occupied, Sir Robert Peel was therefore fully
justified in declaring Ireland to be the great stum-
bling-block to power, although, at that very period,
Canada had scarcely returned to her allegiance, Ja-
maica was almost in rebellion, and our relations with
America were anything but satisfactory.
In 1839, the relative strength of the two great parties
in the State was widely different from what it was in
the autumn of 1841. At the latter period the Whig
party had sustained a signal defeat, and their forces
had been completely routed at the general election.
Into the causes which led to this defeat I am not
now called upon to enter. The result we have seen
to he a majority of 90 to the Conservative party,
which for practical purposes renders the present op-
position almost perfectly helpless. This over-
whelming power, collected together by a combina-
tion of very different elements, at once recognised
Sir Robert Peel as their leader, and to his guidance
and discretion entrusted the interests of their party.
But the hopes entertained by the Irish Orange party
proved very fallacious, and were destined never to be
realized. At the very outset they got a glimpse of
the future policy which they were to expect to see
adopted by their " Heaven-born Minister." In the
formation of his Cabinet, Sir Robert Peel excluded all
the Irish bigots ; and in the various appointments of
a secondary character he took good care to select
those only who were distinguished for the moderation
of their opinions. Colonel Perceval, by some mis-
chance, was nominated one of the Lords of the Trea-
sury; but, as it is generally believed, owing to a pro-
test from Lord Stanley, which does honour to the
Noble Lord, he never was permitted to enter Down..
ing-street, and, in a lucky moment for himself, was
presented with the mace of the House of Lords.
He had been too closely allied with the
" Grand Master," and had drank too deep of
the " Boyne Water," to be permitted to fill even
a minor appointment under the new Administration.
Mr. Lucas, who was always denominated a "Con-
servative Whig," was solicited to become Under-Secre-
tary for Ireland, Lord De Grey, a moderate Reformer,
was appointed Lord Lieutenant ; and, to complete
the trio, Lord Eliot was selected to fill the most im-
portant office in the Executive of that country—a
Nobleman who always strongly advocated the Ca-
tholic claims, the friend to Reform, and one of the
ablest and most uncompromising supporters of the
Irish Corporation Bill. It is said, and we have
reason to believe it, that Mr. Shaw, in the pride of his
ambition, aspired to this high and most important
office. In the hope of obtaining the Secretaryship
of Ireland he had betrayed his party, incurred their
fierce displeasure, for having, as they say, "sold the
pass," hazarded his seat for the University, and was
marked with the brand of a " base renegade," in
having given a death-blow to the rotten Corporations.
"Sic itur ad antra."
Not so ; all these sacrifices of friends and principles,
lie was left to mourn over in his exclusion from
office, in the bitter anguish of blighted hopes so fondly
cherished.
Now began murmurs of disaffection in the
Tory ranks. Lefroy was not offered the Chan-
cellorship ' • Pennefather, who was never a partisan in
polities, became Chief Justice ; West (than
whom never lived a more exemplary man
in private life, and for whose loss all must
grieve) was refused the Sergeant's coif. The
secret was out—lreland was not to be governed
by means of a Faction ! The Juste Milieu policy
was to be adopted, and the Executive was to be com-
posed of men who had nothing of the leaven of
Toryism, but who had sympathies with the great
body of the people, and who would have the moral
courage to give full effect to that system of Govern-
ment which " would consult the wishes, and even
the innocent prejudices of the Irish nation." That
Sir Robert Peel would determine in limine to pursue
a conciliatory course, must have been apparent to all
who gave any consideration to the character of
the Premier. His prudence, sagacity, and extreme cau-
tion, all combined to demonstrate to him the impolicy,
if not the futility of any attempt to coerce the Irish people
into submissive obedience—such a course, if adopted,
would have called forth a spirit of resistance too for-
midable to contend with, and would have roused all
the moral strength of the country ! The voice of
agitation could not have been hushed ; the whole
social system would have been disorganized, and wide
spread disaffection must have ensued. These were
evils which no Minister could' wish to grapple with,
much less to call into existence.
Immediately upon the formation of the present Go-
vernment, Mr. Otway Cave put a question to Sir Ro-
bert Peel in the How e of Commons, as to whether it
was his intention to introduce the Registration Bill
of his colleague Lord Stanley. A negative reply
was given by the Premier; and no stronger indica-
tion than the abandonment of this measure, which
tended so much to the break up of the Whig Minis-
try, could have been afforded of the spirit in which
Ireland was to be governed. Coming events cast
their shadows before. Lord Eliot, following out no
doubt the instructions of the Cabinet, has held the
even tenor of his course, nothing daunted by the
rabid denunciations of that party of which the Dublin
Evening Mail is the organ. He seems bent on
steadily pursuing that line of conduct which requires
boldness and energy to carry out, and evinces every
disposition to give effect to those principles which he
so broadly laid down to his constituents when last he
solicited their suffrages. He is of course assailed in
terms of vituperation and insult by that party, which,
galled to the quick in being permitted no longer to ex-
ercise any influence at the Castle, see in Lord Eliot a
most unflinching foe to those deep-laid machinations,
insidious intrigues, and schemes of personal aggran-
disement they had plotted with such care, and which
they so confidently hoped to have carried into execu-
tion through the instrumentality of the Noble Lord.
Where now is there influence ? -Where is that power
they were destined by themselves to wield? Gone,
gone, never to be restored.
At the present time the conflict between the con-
tending parties rages with greater virulence than
ever. The elevation of Sergeant Jackson to the bench
has occasioned a vacancy in the representation of the
University, and each party has its candidate in the
field. All is turmoil, excitement, and irritation. The
peaceful groves of Academe resound with the noisy
clamours of political strife, and the porch is de-
serted for the conflicts and tumults of the forum.
Hamilton stands forth the champion of the Orange.
party—the avowed, undisguised, unmitigated opponent
to that system of education which has bestowed such
signal benefits upon the Irish people ; a system which
has tended, beyond all other measures yet proposed,
to elevate the moral condition of the Irish people, by
inculcating habits of conduct and industry such as
distinguish a civilized community from a horde of
sensual, ferocious, and superstitious savages. There
however, a party which would gladly deprive the
country of the blessings of this measure, -and
would rejoice to see the gleam of its pure
rays clouded by the mists of ignorance
or extinguished by the darkness of gross superstition.
The Anti-Education party, with the opposition to the
paltry grant to Maynooth College, is the watchword
of that party which supports Hamilton—a party
which comprises within itself that section which Lord
IStanley, in his bitter sarcssm, denounced as " the
miserable remnant of an expiring faction "—which
has enrolled under its banner all those who have
deeply quaffed the stream, polluted • by the fmephitic
waters of religious bigotry and intolerant fanaticism.
It is said that the Primate heads the party ; if so,
it is a grievous fault." the head of the Protestant
Church ought to ponder well before he gives
his adhesion to, or countenances "by his support,
• .11e party I have described. . Religion ought
not to be made a weapon of political warfare, nor
should her holy garments be seized and soiled by

every angry and ambitious hand. The Primate is
bound to guard with zealous care over the safety of
the Church, and should be the last to use the influence
of his sacred calling, in marshalling her forces to ob-
struct the salutary effects of measures which are sealed
with the approbation and approval of nine-tenths of
the Irish people. These are not the times when the
Irish Church can afford with impunity to exasperate
or excite into hostility those who dissent from her doc-
trines ' • and most assuredly, she ought to for-
bear from entering upon a course of action
which must inflict upon her best interests " a heavy
blow and great discouragement." Lord Eliot, with
becoming spirit, and with due consistency, has re-
solved to oppose Mr. Hamilton's election, and most
heartily do I wish him success. No better man could
have been selected than the Solicitor-General, the son
of one of the most distinguished of Irishmen, whose
name is conspicuous in that galaxy of genius which
shed a halo over that age in which it shone with such
brilliant lustre. A man of illustrious talent, unsullied
honour, and inflexible integrity, Sir William Cusack
Smith, the friend and companion of Edmund Burke,
was not surpassed by any of his renowned contempo-
raries in splendour of imagination and richness of
sentiment—possessed of a most refined taste, which
was adorned by all the graces of classic literature, he
excelled all the orators of his day in the harmonious
structure of his periods, and in giving those beautiful
turns of thought which are amongst the happiest ef-
forts of oratorical as well as poetic skill. It might
he said of him, as Grattan said of Burke, " That be
spoke with the lips of an angel."—" Quinti Hortensii
admodum adolescentes ingenium, ut Phidim dignum, '
simul adspectum et probatuth est."
The Solicitor-General has in himself claims of
the first order upon the College electors. He
has studiously avoided giving his support at any time
to the ultra Orange party, and although he has never
hesitated to avow his principles, he has always evinced
great moderation in his opinions, and has never given
expression to a sentiment which, by his greatest poli-
tical enemy, could be tortured into the language of a
factious partisan: He cannot he denied to hold the
first rank in the profession of which he is so bright an
ornament ; nor can any member of the Irish
bar be named who is more highly esteemed or
more universally respected in his public and
priVate capacity. Let him take a firm stand,
and he will not fail to rally to his support all that is
tolerant in spirit and generous in sentiment within
and without the walls of the University. Shame,
etemal disgrace, upon the Liberal elector who will
hesitate to judge between the comparative claims of
the two candidates, or will fail to record his vote for
the Solicitor-General, whose return will most as-
suredly give a death blow to that party which for
years ruled Ireland with a rod of iron, and which,
now enfeebled in strength, diminished in numbers,
and on the eve of dissolution, deserves to meet with
no support, and is entitled to no sympathy from the
most enlightened constituency in Ireland.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
CADWALLADER F. WADDY.
Candidate Master of T. C. D.
London, 12, Parliament-street.

HER MAJESTY'S DEPARTURE
• FROM SCOTLAND,
THURSDAY.-At an early hour—indeed before day-
break—the inmates of the Palace were all on a stir
from the active preparations which were being made
for the departure of the Queen for England, and as
the hour fixed for her Majesty's leaving the Palace
for Granton Pier, to embark for Woolwich, was eight
o'clock, it was necessary that all the baggage, &c.,
should anticipate the embarkation with as little delay
as was possible.
The weather was most propitious, and the morning
was the finest there has been since the day before the
landing of her Majesty.
At ten minutes after eight o'clock her Majesty and
her august consort entered their carriage, when the
military presented arms, mid the regimental band
struck up " God save the Queen." The Queen was
assisted into her carriage by the Duke of Buccleuch
and the Earl of Liverpool, and as her Majesty left the
Palace door, the Royal standard was lowered.
The Royal cortege entered the city by Preston-
street, about twenty-five minutes before nine o'clock,
and, although it was so early, hundreds of respectably-
dressed persons had congregated, and loudly hailed
the Royal party with boisterous cheering. From
Preston-street the Royal route was by the South and
North Bridges, where barricades were erected to pre-
vent the unruly pressure from the general populace.
On her Majesty's carriage passing across High-
street to the North Bridge, a salute of twenty-one
guns was fired from the Castle heights, and, as the
crowd had greatly increased, the pace of the horses
was slackened, so that the public might not complain
of unnecessary haste on the part of an illustrious
Lady, of whose comfort, on the occasion of her au-
spicious landing, they then seemed so entirely indif-
ferent as to express disapprobation that their own
views had been otherwise than gratified.
At the end of North Hanover-street Sir John Hope,
Bart., commanded a company of the Royal Archers,
the Queen's Body Guard for Scotland, and on the
cortege reaching that part of the city from Princes-
Queens carriage. ,•
street, the Archers ranged themselves in single file on
each
The side of f the
windows
of every house in Pitt-street, and the
whole length of the Cannonmills Bridge, were occu-
pied by elegantly-dressed ladies, and the multitude
thronging those thoroughfares was so intense as to
render it necessary to have parties of the military sta-
tioned at the entries to prevent any accidents, and had
not these precautions been taken, no doubt some se-
rious casualty would have occurred, from the intem-
perance of the people, who were in no way governed
by the inefficient force known as the city police.
Inverleith-row and Queensferry-road were kept en-
tirely clear of all carriages and public vehicles, and
consequently not the least obstruction presented itself
to interrupt the Royal progress to Grantors-pier,
where, in addition to a division of the Inniskillen
Dragoons, a strong body of the county police, under
the superintendence of Mr. List, kept the ground,
and the area opening on the pier was free from the
intrusion of the multitude.
The slopes on the side of the Queensferry-road were
literally covered by thousands of persons, who sent
up an enthusiastic burst of applause as her Majesty
and the Prince passed to the pier, the ladies waving
their handkerchiefs in token of their exultation.
It was half-past nine when the cheering of the po-
pulace announced the near approach of the Queen and
suite, and almost instantly the Royal carriage passed
on to the pier amidst the tremendous and long-pro-
tracted cheers of the thousands of individuals congre-
gated in all directions and places that could command
Sven a glimpse of the pier and the Frith.
The Trident steamer, on which her Majesty em-
barked, was moored on the east side of the pier,
and on a signal being given, nearly every vessel in
the Frith, with the exception of the Royal George
yacht, Daphne, and other vessels of war and steamers
in her Majesty's service, dressed their rigging with
their signal flags and streamers.
The
firing of the castle guns on the entrance of the
Royal cortege into the city from Dalkeith, was re-
sponded to by the firing of a salute from on board the
Daphne corvette, and Jaseur brig.
The face of the Frith presented a most lively and
animated appearance, from the numberless craft that
crowded its surface, all displaying a national flag.
On her Majesty's arrival on the pier the carriage
drew up near to the end of the platform, and the
Duke of Buccleuch and the Earl of Liverpool were
instantly at the carriage door to assist her Majesty to
alight.
The Queen passed along the platform to the steamer,
leaning on the arms of the Duke of Buccleuch and
the Earl of Liverpool, closely followed by his Royal
Highness Prince Albert.
At twenty minutes to ten _ o'clock her Majesty
stepped on board the steamer, amidst a salute from
the artillery in
the meadows near Queensferry-road,
and the hearty cheers of the sailors who manned the
yards.
Crouch, Lieut. Cautram, and several other naval
Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Brace, K.C.8., the Ad-
miral in command ; Captain Bullock, Commander
officers in commission with the steamer, were on
board to receive her Majesty.
Her Majesty
and their appe and the Prince ascended the poop,
appearance was again the signal for a burst
of enthusi arastic admiration, and ten minutes before ten
the steamer got fairly out to sea, the wind blowing
lightly from S.W.
The Earl of Liverpool,
Lord Steward ; the Duchess
of Norfolk, Lady
in Waiting; Earl of Hardwicke,
Lord in Waiting • Major-General Wemyss, Equerry
in Waiting, and
Honour • ' Hon. Miss M. Paget, Maid of
in Waiting on her Majesty, and Colonel
Bouverie arid Mr. G. E. Anson, in attendance on his
Roy
al Highness Prince Albert, were on board.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, Earl of
Cawdor, Lord and Lady John Scott, Viscount and
Viscountess
roads, left the pier ' their return to Dalkeith
e pier on
Palace. Eml on the steamer getting into the yn
On the Trident passing the Daphne corvette fired
a salute, an
example which was followed by the other
vessels of war in the Frith of Forth.
The Royal Archers next retired, and the military
shortly afterwards proceeded to their barracks.

IVIILLBRoox, SEPT. 15.—Barnes, the butler at Lady
Lisle's, was brought up before the Magistrates yester-
thy, charged with robbing her Ladyship of jewellery,
plate, and cash, of the value of between 2,000/ and
3,000/ From the evidence given it appeared that the
b gardener, and a !Paid-servant were concerned in
the robbery.
I !The Havre journals give an account of the fall of a
part of the cliff at Octeville, above the town, between the
Crouquet and the Mouliere, to the extent of 200 yards hi
Iffigth by 2'5 yards in depth. By a most fortunate chance
no one was on that point at the time, although through-
Out the morning the cliff was-almost crowded with per-
sons taking their exercise.

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