The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-04 00:00:00

THE KING OF PRUSSIA.

His Majesty the King of Prussia took leave this
morning of the Queen, at Buckingham Palace, and left,
accompanied by Prince Albert, with an escort of the
Life Guards, at half-past nine o'clock for Woolwich, to
review the Royal Artillery. After the review his Ma-
jesty will embark in the Firebrand steam-packet for the
Continent, accompanied by the Baron de Humboldt and
all his suite. The dejeuner which it was expected the
King would have partaken of with the officers of the gar-
rison, is, it is understood, countermanded, and the King
will lunch on board.

The Queen and Prince Albert are expected to leave
town to-morrow for Windsor Castle.

Mr. Beckett, the Member for Leeds, who yes-
terday seconded the Address to the Throne, in
the House of Commons, appeared in the regi-
mentals of a hussar regiment. When the bur-
gess who represents the great clothing and com-
mercial town of Leeds wears such frippery in the
House of Commons, there seems to us some rea-
son to despair of the country. If the men of
Leeds have a cornet, or even a captain of hussars,
for their representative, what can be expected
from towns less distinguished by the religious and
sober feelings of the inhabitants

MAURITIUS SLAVE-TRADE.—Amongst the no•
tires given last night in the name of the Vice-
President of the Board of Trade for regulating
the trade of the colonies, ohe was understood to
embrace the revival of the Slave-trade (as the
exportation of Hill Coolies from India has been
called) between India and the Mauritius. Re-
membering the odium which connected itself
with the name of Gladstone, the father, from
engaging in that trade some three or four years
ago, we must say that it is indecent now to have
the son meddling with it, or in any way min-
gling with it as a legislator. There has been a
great deal of legislation for classes ; are we now
to have laws made to enrich individuals ? Is
Gladstone, the son, as a law-maker and a mem-
ber of the Government, to make laws which, at
some cost to humanity and the reputation of
the country, may enrich Gladstone, the father?
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IN AND OUT.—Lord Mel-
bourne congratulated Ministers last night, on the " more
comfortable views which they took of affairs now, than
they dia on the twenty-fourth of August last." This
" comfortable" change of opinion is very easily ac-
counted for. Office—to borrow a phrase from a fickle
Contemporary —" has done it all!" When Ministers were
" withering in the cold shade of Opposition, "their views
of things were naturally enough tinged with the gloomy
and inclement character of the climate they dwelt in ;
public affairs were desperate, because their own condi-
tion appeared so ; but now that they are inhaling the
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ig THE SUN.—Our evening Contemporary
The Sun, has recommenced its spirited system of ex-
presses, by which it frequently far outstrips the other
Evening Journals. We are indebted to k for the very
early receipt of the Queen's Speech, which reached our
office before six o'clock.—Chelmsford Chronicle.
THE QUEEN'S SPEECH.—Yesterday evening
a large and most respectable public meeting was held at the
King's Arms Tavern, Phillip-lane, Wood-street, A. Fairborn,
Esq ,in the Chair, for the purpose of a public discussion on
the Queen's Speech, delivered on the opening of the present
Session of Parliament ; when, after a long and able rebate, the
meeting came to a vote, by the immense majority of at least
eight to one, that her Majesty's Speech merited the marked
disapprobation of the meeting.
An extraordinary instance of the uncertain effects
of lightning occurred a few days since, at Meuvaines, in Nor-
mandy, when the electric fluid struck. a small cottage, and
shivered to pieces most of the furniture ; but though all the
living things in it received a most violent shock, no man or
animal experienced the slightest injury. The cottage was
roofed with thatch, and this was not set on fire.
OPENING or PARLIAMENT.—Yesterday was
the filth occasion upon which her Majesty has opened Parlia-
ment in person since her accession to the Throne of G rut
Britain. The first Session of the present Parliament, which
only lasted about six weeks, was opened by commission, in con-
sequence of the state of her Majesty's health at that period.
Among the personages of distinction who have
of Prussia, at London, is the son of
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