The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,_, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1842.

Welsford, contending that she had received the property not
with a guilty knowledge, but with the idea that it had been
honeAly obtained by Rickard.
The Cosimort SERGEANT then briefly summed up.
The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty against Mary
Welsford.

The Commow SERGEANT then sentenced John Rickard,
on his own plea of guilty, to be transported beyond sea for the
term of seven years.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FEB. 4.—There has been
more doing in the Cotton market this week, with rather an
improved tone at the close of it. Prices of American and Su-
rat are the same as on this day week, but we may remark that
ordinary qualities of the former description are slightly worse
to buy. Brazils continue very dull of sale, but without
change of prices. Egyptian the same. Sea Islands are with-
out change. '1 here have been taken on speculation '2,500
American, and for exportation 1,800 American, 800 Laguayra,
130 Maranham, and 100 Surat. Forwarded into the country
unsold during January : —1,600 American, 220 Pernams, 20
Bahia, and 400 Surat. 700 Sea Islands are advertised for auc-
tion on Friday next.
LrvxaPoon SHARE MARKET, FEB. 4.—The business of
the Stock Exchange this day consist of transactions in—
Grand Junction, 1851 ; Half Shares, 924 ; Quarter ditto,
20i. I Is. 3d., Liverpool and Manchester, 191 ; London and
Birmingham, Thirds, 54; North Midland, 74; London and
Birmingham, 170; London and South Western, 59i ; Man-
chester and Leeds, 76i:
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Fee. 4.—The market
is firm to-day, and Stock very sparingly offered, with more
buyers. North Midland, Thirds, 1611 ; London and Birming-
ham, 170 ; Ditto, New (32/. Shares), '2B* to 2t4 ; Manches-
ter and Birmingham, 284 to 28i; Manchester and Leeds,
751/2 to 7Ci ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 4 to 4i ; Lancaster and
Preston, 291/2 to 30.

THE " TIMES" v. SIR R. PEEL.
We noticed yesterday that there were passages in the debate
on the Add, ess in both Houses of Parliament, and especially
in the speech of Sir Robert Peel, which we read with pain.
Strong in the majoriy by which he is supported, and also in
the consciousness of his own uptight intentions, the Conserva-
tive Premier doubtless feels, and ought to feel, that he may
speak in a decided tone, and deal frankly with those whose
views do not meet his concurrence. But no Minister can be
strong enough to discard the sympathy and confidence of the
greater part of the community. Barren expressions of regret
for the presalence of distress, and acknowledgments of the for-
titude with which it has been borne, can do no good, unless
some prospect of measures which may tend in an intelligible
way to ameliorate the condition of the working classes is held
out; and though it is both right and necessary to discourage
chimerical expectations, and to insist upon the existence of
limits beyond which legislative relief cannot be effectual, still
it is over bold to thrust coldly, and almost contemptuously,
aside, every plan of relief on which the poor have built their
hopes of good from the accession to power of a Conservative
Government.
The Speech from the Throne indicates nothing but a change
in the Corn-laws, and a revision of the duties affecting foreign
commerce—at the hest only an endeavour to find new employ-
ment for British industry, by facilitating, to a limited extent,
the increase of our foreign trade. This was in principle the
remedy of the Whigs, however objectionably they may have
adjusted its details. We hail it with satisfaction, as a benefit,
so far as it goes. But no one who has attended to the com-
mercial history of England during the last thirty years can
suppose that such a measure will check the inroads made by the
modern manufacturing system upon the physical well-being
and the moral and domestic happiness of the operative class.
No one can see in it even a tendency to prevent the recurrence
of periodical distresses as severe as the present, or to mitigate
the pressure of that distress, whenever or wherever felt, either
upon the manufacturing or upon' the agricultural poor.
The question then arises, are there not other measures be-
hind, or does Sir Robert Peel give up the case as hopeless ?
Every one knows that there are measures, with:respect to
which great expectations were formed of a Conservative Go-
vernment before its accession to power—measures, in the ad-
vocacy of which a more than common amount of deep feeling
and high-toned principle is now engaged, and the adoption of
which by Government would command the enthusiastic support
of large and powerful classes of the people.
Lord John Russell, in a tone half of sarcasm and half of tri-
umph, adverted to these measures.
After reading his Lordship's speech, we turned to the speech
of Sir Robert Peel, with the expectation of finding something
very different from what we found there. It was an op-
portunity which seemed at least to call for some limita-
tion
of Lord John Russell's assertions—some denial that
an utter contrariety of feeling . existed between Ministers
and the very large bodies among their supporters who
are interested in the measures thrown overboard in
this wholesale manner. But nothing could we_ find in the
speech of the Right Honourable Baronet which con-
tradicted, or even qualified, a single syllable uttered by the
Noble Lord. On the all-important subject of the Poor-law—
" I think," he said, " the apprehensions excited in the mind
of the Noble Lord by the declarations made in the newspapers
might have been dispelled by the memory of the course taken
by the Government during the last Session, and by the recol-
lection of that which had so recently occurred in the House."
his statement indeed is but an indistinct and general an-
nouncement, yet we cannot but feel the strongest anxiety in
consequence of the policy which it seems to indicate, We
wish earnestly we could think ocrs,lves mistaken in the mein.
ing we ascribe to Sir Robert Peel—still more earnestly do we
wish that others may not ascribe to him a coldness of feeling—
of which we indeed acquit him, but which may but too easily
be suggested by his very guarded expressions.— Times,

COURT CIRCULAR.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at
Buckingham Palace at an early hour yesterday morning,
and joined the Illustrious Party at breakfast.
The Baron de Humboldt, Monsieur le Conseiller de
Muller, le Baron Meyerinck, Mons. le Docteur Grimm,
and Mons. Frederic, who had been staying at the King
of Hanover's residence, in St. James's Palace, arrived
and joined the other Noblemen and Gentlemen of the
King of Prussia's Suite.
His Majesty took his departure at half-past nine
o'clock, and was conducted to his carriage by the Lord
Chamberlain, the Lord Steward, the Master of the
Horse, and the Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert.
The Queen and the Duchess of Kent accompanied the
King to the Grand Entrance, and there took their leave
of the August Visitor. His Royal Highness Prince Al-
bert accompanied his Majesty, and his Serene Highness
Prince Frederic of Saxe-Cobourg also went in the same
carriage and four.
_ _

Their Serene Highnesses the Prince Augustus, and
Prince Leopold of Saxe Cobourg were in the next Royal
carriage. The King of Prussia's suite, consisting of his
Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen, Baron de Humboldt,
General'Natzruar, General de Neumann, Count de Stol-
berg, Le Cunseiler de Muller, M. de B. Meyerinck, M.
de Brauchitsch, 1)r. Grimm, and M. Frederic ; the Earl
of Hardwicke, Lord in Waiting on his Majesty, Captain
Meynell, Groom in Waiting, and Colonel Arbuthnot,
Equerry in Waiting on the King, Captain Francis
Seymour, Groom in Waiting on Prinr:e Albert, and Co-
lonel Wyhle, Equerry in Waiting on his Royal High-
ness, also followed, in several of the Queen's carriages
and four to Woolwich.

A party of the Life Guards escorted his Majesty from
Buckingham Palace.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge and
Prince George left town yesterday morning for Wool-
wich, to witness the review of the Royal Artillery, a
to take leave of his Prussian Majesty.
On the embarkation of his Prussian Majesty at two
o'clock on board the Firebrand steam-packet for the
Continent, his Royal Highness Prince Albert left
Woolwich Dock-yard for town, accompanied by their
Serene Highnesses Prince Ferdinand, Prince Augustus,
and Prince Leopold of Saxe. Coburg, and attended by
Captain Francis Seymour and Colonel Wylde. Their
Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge and Prince
George also took lave:9f tbe.King, and immediately left
for town.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert returned to Buck-
ingham Palace twenty minutes before four o'clock.
The King of Prussia honoured Mr. Wyld yesterday,
by accepting a copy of his large " Atlas of the Battles
of the British Army," and expressing his approbation
of the work:,

Lord Granville Somerset, Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster, had an audience of the Queen yesterday.
The Judge Advocate-General had an audience, yes-
terday, of .her Majesty.
Her Majesty gave audiences to Lord Stanley and Sir
James Graham.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Fanny Howard, joined the Royal dinner party
at Buckingham Palace last evening.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert left the Palace a quar-
ter before. ten o'clock last night, to honour Covent-
garden Theatre with their presenee, accompanied by
their Serene Highnesses the Prince Ferdinand of Saxe
Cobourg, and the Princes Augustus and Leopold of
Saxe Cobourg, and attended by the Royal Suite, includ-
ing the Viscountess Jocelyn, the Earl of Morton, Hon.
Captain Duncombe, Captain Francis Seymour, Colonel
the Hon. Charles Grey, and-Colonel Wylde.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess and the Princess
Augusta of Cambridge visited her Majesty the Queen
-Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess and the Princess
Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta So-
merset, honoured the British Institution with a visit
yesterday. • _

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes-
.terday. The Lords present were the Lord President,
Lord Wynford, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, and
the Judge of the Admiralty Court.
Mr. Bush was heard on an appeal from Jersey," Tou-
zel v. Filleul," part-heard at a former sitting.
Their Lordships affirmed the decree of the Court below.
Mr. Burge, Queen's Counsel, and Mr. Turner, Queen's
Counsel, were heard on an appeal, " Cameron v. Repre-
sentatives of Fraser," and " Cameron v. Representatives
of Gelland." Mr. Turner, Queen's Counsel, commenced
his address for the respondent.
The Court rose at four o'clock.