The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-20 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDson, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince
Albert walked in the morning in the Slopes and in
the Home Park, and the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Royal were taken their usual airings.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shoot-
ing in the vicinity, attended by Sir George Couper,
Hon. E. A. Murray, and Captain Francis Seymour.
In the afternoon her Majesty and her Illustrious
Consort took an airing in a pony phaeton; his. Reiyal
Highness driving, followed by another pony phaeton,
containing the Countess of Dunmore and the Maids
of Honour; and attended on horseback by Col. Ar-
buthnot, General Sir William Lumley, and Captain
Francis Seymour.

The sari of Wilton (on his return from Saxciny)
arrived to-day la the Castle on a visit to her Majesty.
The Earl of Aberdeen took his departure in the
forenoon for the metropolis.
Lord Charles Wellesley and the Hon. Mrs. Anson
will have the honour of joining the Royal Dinner party
at the Castle thin evening.
Mr. George Edward Anson, we are happy to state,
is much better.

The Earl of Aberdeen returned to town yesterday
morning, from a visit to her Majesty, at Windsor
Castle. His Excellency Count de St. Aulaire, the
French Ambassador, visited the Noble Earl in the
afternoon, at the Foreign-office.
Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister, M.
Tricoupi, the Grecian Minister, and Baron de Nieu-
mann, transacted business yesterday, at the office of
the Secretary of State for Foreign Allitirs.
HAYMARKET THEATRE.

Let the lovers of fun, whim, and drollery, be glad
—let all those who rejoice in a hearty laugh get their
risible muscles into working order—Buckstone the
quaint— Buckstone the inimitable, has returned
from " the States," safe, sound, and as whim-
sical as ever, and last night made his rentree
at this theatre, in the character of Mr. Henry
Dove, in his own laughable comedy of Married Life.
His reception was most enthusiastic, cheer followed
cheer for several minutes, and when something like
silence had been restored, a call for one cheer more
was heartily responded to—it was indeed a good one.
At the conclusion of the comedy Buckstone was again
called for, and the enthusiastic cheering was again re-
newed. He seemed quite overcome with the hearti-
ness of his welcome home, and at length advanced to
the front of the stage and addressed the audience as
follows :—" Ladies and Gentlemen, I beg to return
you my most heartfelt thanks for the kind and grati-
fying manner in which you have received me this
evening. It shows that although I have been some
time absent, all recollection of me has not quite
vanished from your memories.—(Cheers.) In the
United States I was every where received most
warmly, and invariably treated in the kindest man-
ner—(Cheers)—and if anything can lessen the regret
which we must all of us feel at parting from those
who have used us kindly—(Cheers)—it is such a
welcome as that with which you have honoured me this
evening.—(Applause.) I have heard it said that there
are many things which it is worth while to cross the
Atlantic to see—l feel that there is one thing which it
is worth while to have crossed it to hear, and that is
what I have heard this evening—a hearty English
laugh.—(Loud applause.) Ladies and Gentlemen, I
have again to express my gratitude to you for the
kindness with which you have received me, and I hope
there are many pleasant evenings in store for us at the
little theatre in the Haymarket. At the conclusion
odpomffeuorrhGsfitions address Mr. Buckstone withdrcw amidst the
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EATH OF THE OWNER OF
BEES WING,
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN:
am sorry to inform you of the death
of Mr. Orde, the owner of Beeswing ; he died at Mor-
peth on Sunday afternoon, at half-past three, being
suddenly taken ill on his road home.—ln haste,your's
truly. J. W.
Sheffield, Tuesday Night.

BoY KILLED BY HIS FATHER.—The neighbour-
hood of Feeney, near Dungyvan, was much
alarmed last week by a report that Michael Devine
had, by unmerciful treatment, caused the death
of his son, a fine boy, about twelve years of age.
Shortly after the death of the boy a report reached
the County Coroner, D. Bailey, Esq., and James
Stevenson, Esq., J. P., Ashpark, who held an inquest
on the body. It app; tired that the father of the .de-
ceased had, for a length of time, been in the habit of
beating him and the other members of the family in
the most inhuman manner, and that to escape his
violence they had frequently to seek refuge in some
of the neighbouring houses. He had lately so
brutally abused the deceased, that he was forced
to go to the house of a man named Mlllheney,
where he lingered for a few days, and afterwards died.
The Coroner committed the unhappy man (who, it is
said, is labouring under insanity) to gaol, to await
his trial at the ensuing assizes.—Belfast Whig.
The Leipzig Gazette says :—" It has been observed
that there were no French officers at Saarbruck and
Saartorois when the King of Prussia visited those
two cities, but what is more extraordinary, there was
not any superior civil officer to compliment the King.
The French Government had shown this mark of re-
spect to the King of Holland, when he was at Lux-
emburgh. There seems, therefore, to be some founda-
tion for the report, that Louis Philippe is extremely
irritated at the refusal of the King 01 Prussia to pay
visit to the Tuilleries." I .

NEW MUSIC.
THE BANKS OF THE WYE. A Ballad.
Novell°, London.
This song has a
good melody, and is written for a
tenor voice in the key of A flat. The words and
music are well adapted to each other, but the song
would have been more effective with a more simple
accompaniment; we should also have preferred the
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niedchords instead of so many
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simplenn i beginning

THINK OF THEE NO .MORE ?
Novell), London.
We were pleased with this song during the first
eight bars because the melody is pretty, but the
rest is beyond our
.comprehension, being quite diffe-
rent measure, and without design. At the commence-
ment of the third page there is a rambling bit
of symphony, which does not return to its
tonic until it has been jerked through several
extraordinary changes ; this want of keeping spoils
what would have been an agreeable song. There are
points in these songs which show that Mr. Caunter
can do better things.
WEIPPERT'S SET OF QUADRILLES.

John Weippert, London.
Mr. Weippert is a practised hand at quadrille mak-
ing, and if we consider the collection only as dance
tunes, they will answer the purpose extremely well.
but are defective as musical compositions. We notice
particularly the abrupt modulations in the two last of
the Rouen Quadrilles, and there is an omission of
several accidental sharps and flats. The three first
of this set are much better written, and the tunes
sprightly.
The Royal Scotch Quadrilles being within reach
of ordinary players, are likely to enjoy great popu-
larity. Mr. \Veipperb has also given with these, conic
capital spirit-stirring tunes for the dancers of reels and
strathspeys, which dances we hear are likely to be-
come fashionable.

The Royal Philippa Waltzes are very pretty, and
having a definable melody throughout, they are well
adapted for this sort of dance ; they have also the
merit of facility, which in these days of Lanner and
Strauss is rarely to be met with.
The pretty opera of Le Postilion de Longjameau
makes very good dance music, and for the romping,
rushing., galoppade better could not have been chosen
These galoppes we recommend, they are spirited
and will give but little trouble to the performer.

FRAUDS ON THE REVENUE.—The attention of the
public has been recently directed to the discovery of
a series of frauds, which, it is alleged, have been com-
mitted upon the revenue by the aid and connivance
f some of the officers of the Customs. An investiga-
on into the circumstances has been for some time in
progress, conducted, we believe, by the landing sur-
veyors, the senior officers of that department through
which the revenue has been defrauded. We have ab-
stained from any comment upon these proceedings
from our inability to get at the truth in any tangible
form, and from a conviction that an inquiry before
a competent tribunal could alone be satisfactory
to the public and the partieS said to be impli-
cated. The question does not rest solely be—
tween the Commissioners and their officers: the
commercial world has a right to know the whole
truth, especially
where rules and regulations that are
generally sufficiently obnoxious and troublesome have
been found to be inoperative for the collection of the
revenue. The evidence on which such charges are to
be sustained should be taken by some one acquainted
with the rules of evidence, and in an open Court the
witnesses
truth.slibj e
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to an examination cal-
culated to is scarcely possible to
imagine that an inquiry into charges which derogate
from the utility of the whole department, and which
affect the honour and character of the parties con-
cerned, could, with any prospect of a satisfactory con-
clusion, have been delegated by the Commissioners of
Customs to the discrimination and judgment of their
inferior officers. 'We are, therefore, happy to state
that the Lords of the Treasury have taken the inves-
tigation into their own hands, and we have no doubt
that the result will be most beneficial to the public '
service.—Times.

LAW APPOINTMENTS.—The Tory lawyers have a
story very current amongst them to-day, that Lord
Lyndhurst retires, to be succeeded by Sir Edward
Sugden—that Chief Justice Pennefather is to get the
Irish Seals, to be succeeded in
the Queen's Bench by
Mr. Blackburne 'and that Mr. Warren is to be Master
of the Rolls. This is the Orange arrangement. We
should not be surprised at anything, however, mon-
strous, after the appointment of Bishop Stopford.—
D: blin Evening Pod,

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS, ONE OF
THE POINTS OF REFORM SOUGHT FOR.
FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
No person who looks at the inequality of the popu-
lation in cities, boroughs, and counties.in this United
Kingdom, that send Members to the House of Com-
mons, can do otherwise than exclaim, " Such a state
of the representation ought not to continue." That
Harwich, with less than 200 electors, and the Tower
Hamlets, with 16,000 electors, should both send the
same number-viz., two, representatives to the House
of Commons.
The formation of electoral districts, into which the
whole kingdom should be divided, with the popula-
tion in each as nearly alike as the several parishes in-
cluded will allow, and each district sending one re-
presentative, is one of the points in the Complete
Suffrage Movement, and also in the People's Charter.
As we know that many good Reformers, who are
willing to agree to the Extension of the Suffrage and
the Vote by Ballot, as part of the scheme of reform,
yet object to the dividing the kingdom into electoral
districts, as a work almost impossible to be done, we
annex a copy of the electoral districts into which the
State of New York has been distributed in August
last. By the constitution of the Federal Government
at Washington, each State is to return a number of
representatives to the General Congress, according to
its population ; and as the population increases at a
very different ratio in different States, it is directed
that after each census, taken' every ten years, there 'shall
be an alteration of the number of representatives, and
new electoral districts formed in each, i. e.`a re-distri-
bution of the districts that are to elect them, accord-
ing to their population. The Central Government at
Washington ordered by Bill that the re-distribution
into new districts should be made by each State, ani
as the number of representatives from New York
State has been reduced to 34 for the General Con-
gress' the Senate of that State proceeded immediately
to make the new distribution ; and it will be seen that
on the Committee of the Senate, appointed for that
purpose, making their Report to the whole Senat-, it
was agreed to, and a Bill introduced and passed the
Senate without one division-thus making it the law
of the State for future elections until a new census
shall require a new distribution. We see no reason
why a distribution of the population of Great Britain
into districts should not in the same manner be as
easily made as it was done in New York There is,
indeed, a greater difference in the number of the po-
pulationin the districts than we should have expected,
the highest population returning one representative
being 86,183 for Genesee, Orleans, and Niagara; and
only 58,578 for Richmond and Kings-showing a
difference of 25,605 souls. But, as no objection was
raised in the Senate, there must have been a good and
sufficient reason for the same. We annex the Report
of the Senate :-
NEw YORK LEG ISL AT URE.-On Tuesday the
Senate passed a Bill, districting the Senate by single
districts unanimously.
The following is the apportionment reported by
the Senate Committee. The rule adopted by the
Committee was to divide no counties but New York :-
Dist. Territory. Population
1. Suffolk and Queen's .. 62,793
2. Richmond and Kings
3. Ist, 2d, 3d, 4th, sth, and 6th wards
New York
4. 7th, 10th, and 13th wards N. York 70,594
5. 11th, 14th, 15th, and 17th wards,
New York
6. Bth, 9th, 16th, and 12th wards, New
York
7. Westchester and Rockland
8. Putnam and Dutchess
9. Orange and Sullivan
10. Ulster and Delaware
11. Columbia and Greene
12. Rensselaer
13. Albany
14. Washington and Essex 64,714
15. Schenectady, Saratoga, and Warren 71,342
16. Fulton, Ifamilton, Franklin, and
Clinton
17. St. Lawrence and Lewis .
18. Jefferson
19. Oneida
20. Herkimer and Montgomery 73,295
21. Otsego and Schoharie
22. Broome and Chenango . 63,123
23. Madison and Oswego
24. Onondaga
25. Cayuga and Cortland.
26. Tompkins, Tioga and Chemung
27. Seneca and Wayne
28. Monroe
29. Ontario and Livingston .• 77,641
30. Yates and Steuben
31. Allegany and Wyoming
32. Genesee, Orleans and Niagara 86,183
33. Erie
34. Chautanque and Cattaraugus
The bill having been read twice,
Mr. RUGER moved that the Senate do now go into
Committee of the whole on the same.-Carried.
The Committee of the whole, Mr. Root in the chair;
then took up the above Bill.
The Bill was gone through and agreed to with ut
debate, and ordered to a third reading.
On motion of Mr. WORKS, the Bill was ordered
to be printed.

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