The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-10 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Their Royal llighnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, accompanied by the Princess Mary, attended
Divine service yesterday morning, in Grosvenor Chapel.
Captain Edmond St. John Mildmay was in waiting on
their Royal llighnesses.
The Duchess of Gloucester visited their Royal High-
nesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the
Hereditary Grand Duchess of Meckleuburgh Strelitz,
on Saturday, at Cambridge House.
The Duke of Richmond, the Marquis of Salisbury,
Mr. George Bankes M.P., and a deputation of about
forty members of the Agricultural Protection Society,
waited upon Sir Robert Peel, on Saturday afternoon, at
his official residence, in Downing-street, and had a
conference with the Right Hon. Baronet.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a
meeting on Saturday afternoon, at the office in White-
hall-place. There were present the Bishop of London,
the Bishop of Hereford, the Bishop of Salisbury, the Lord
President of the Council, the Earl of Chichester, and
the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse.
A deputation of spirit-merchants, including Messrs.
Barnes, Currie, Clark, and Ruck, had an interview with
Sir Robert Peel and the Chancellor of the Exchequer on
Saturday.
The Marquis of Bute had an interview with the Earl
of Dalhousie on Saturday, at the office of the Board of
Trade.

Viscount Sandon, M.P., and Mr. Cook, bad an inter-
view with Sir Robert Peel on Saturday, at his official
residence, in Downing-street.
Despatches from the Governor of Hong-Kong, and
also from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, were
received en Saturday at the Colonial-office.
The Dukes of Wellington and Rutland, and Sir Fred.
Trench, attended the early service in the Chapel Royal,
St. James's, yesterday. The prayers were read and the
sermon preached by the Rev. Dr. Horsley Dakins. The
Marquisses of Salisbury, Normanby, and Winchester,—
Lords Hawarden, Wharncliffe, Ernest Bruce, Colville
and Cantalupe, attended the daily service in the Chapel
Royal, St. James's, yesterday. The prayers were read
by the Rev. Dr. Knapp, the lessons by the Rev. Dr.
Horsley Dakins, and the Communion Service by the
Bishop of London. The anthem was, " 0 Lord, thou
bast searched me out" (Croft). Sir George Smart pre-
sided at the organ.

The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's most
Honourable Privy Council sat on Saturday. The Lords
present were the Lord President of the Council, the
Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, the Chancellor of the
Duchy of Cornwall, and the Judge of the Admiralty
Court.
Mr. Burge, Queen's Counsel, resumed his address on
an appeal from Madras, " Nanaboery Selapaty v. Kauso
Colanoo Pulliah." Mr. Loftus Wigram, Queen's Counsel,
was heard in reply. Lord Brougham gave judgment.
The Court then rose.

THE INTENDED NEW POOR-LAW.—As another
session of Parliament hes commenced, the public will
do well to be alive to the additional Poor-law Bill, as
respects pauper settlements, which the Government is
intending to introduce—to confine all settlements to the
birth-place! It has just been well observed by the able
editors of a legal weekly publication, called the Justice
of the Peace, that " the Bill seems to have been framed
with one object—parsimony, the narrowest and meanest
motive of action; that as to any consideration or feeling
for the immense pauper population of England and
Wales, these seem not for a moment to have influenced
the mind of the framers of the Bill. They are to be
dealt with as burdens and incumbrances, to be shifted
off and evaded, no matter at what expense of suffering
to the objects themselves ; that the first consequences, it
the Bill were to pass, would be frightful, not only as re-
gards the well-being of the poor, but the enormous
litigation to which it would give birth. Immediately
would be instituted a general and searching inquiry into
the place of birth (with a few exceptions) of every pauper
head of a family of children, and his or her removal with
the family to that place, and so likewise of every single
pauper without children, regardless of all old ties or as-
sociations, or considerations of health, or means of gain-
ing a livelihood. Concurrently with, and oven after this
earthquake among the pauper population has subsided,
if it ever shall subside, commences the contest among
parish functionaries and rate-payers to prevent, as fur as
possible, the birth (which would constitute the settle-
ment) of the poor amongst them. All those paupers
who had gained settlements by any means—by mar.
riage, by apprenticeship, by hiring and service, by pay.
went of rates, by estate, by rental of a tenement, by
relief—all these must be examined anew, and if found to
be born elsewhere than in the parish in which they are
settled, rooted up and sent to their birth place, however
distant, without respect to age, infirmity, kindred, predi.
lections, associations, temporal or spiritual welfare or
comfort. We question whether ignorance or wilful im-
policy, whichever it is, could be carried further." This
Bill is another landlord's trick, and it must be watched
with the utmost caution and care, in order to prevent its
becoming a law.—Frorn a Correspondent.
MORAL EFFECTS OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS.—
The magistrates were occupied on Monday week several
hours in investigating charges of drunkenness, theft, &c., at
the Town-hall, by persons who came, as several of tem
said, to see " the poor man hung." On Friday night 30
persons made application for board and beds at the Union-
house, and avowed they came from the country, some ten,
others fourteen miles off, for the purpose of beholding the
execution. Twenty-four were accommodated with supper
and bed. Six got their suppers only,as there was not
lodging room in the house (which is fuller than ever known,
containing 350 inmates, of whom 60 are able-bodied). The
twenty-four requested their breakfast in the morning, but
the conditions were that if they partook of breakfast they
could not go out till after twelve o'clock ; these conditions
were considered hard, they all, therefore, took their departure.
—l:pswich Express.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT SraATroßD.—About half-
past ten o'clock on Saturday night much alarm was felt
in the village of Stratford, Essex, owing to a disastrous
fire at the extensive premises of Messrs. Curtis and Son,
builders, adjacent to the parish church. It appears that
it was first raging in that part of the works termed the
drying stores. The watchman on duty gave the alarm.
Before, however, the enginescould be brought into opera-
tion, the flames had gained a most alarming ascendancy,
and had extended to the painting warehouses, threaten-
ing the entire destruction of the premises. A copious
supply of water having been gained, and the brigade
engines from Wellelose-square, Jeffreys square, and the
chief station in Watling street, under the charge of Mr.
Braidwood, having arrived, by half past twelve o'clock
they were safely got under. The damage effected will
prove very heavy, the drying-stores being all but con-
surned, and slight injury to the paint-rooms. The over-
heating of the stoves is supposed to be the origin. The
property is insured in thJ Phceaix Fire-office for a very
large amount.
ROYAL BUCKS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.—The
annual meeting of this Society took place on Saturday,
at the George Inn, Aylesbury, which was as vapid and
insipid as such meetings usually are. The Duke of
Buckingham was in the chair. Tho League was, of
course, abused, and the unfortunate members of the So-
ciety cajoled and flattered by the speeches of their
leaders.