The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-01 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a Court and Privy Council yesterday
afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.

An investiture of the most Honourable Military Order
of the Bath having been appointed, the Knights Grand
Crosses assembled at two o'clock, and were robed by
Mr. Hunter in their mantles and collars, and afterwards
passed into the Green Drawing-room, where they were
called over by Bath King of Arms.
Her Majesty, who wore the mantle and collar of the
Order, having entered the Throne-room, the Knights
Grand Crosses were conducted to the presence of the
Sovereign. There were present—
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, Acting Great
Master.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, his
Grace the Duke of Wellington, Viscount Strangford,
Viscount Combermere, Admiral Sir George Cockburn,
and Admiral Sir Edward Codrington.
The officers of the order wore their mantles and
chains. There were present, Algernon Greville, Esq.,
Bath King of Arms, and Albert William Woods, Esq.,
(Lancaster Herald), Gentleman Usher of the order. Ad
miral Sir Robert Waller Otway, Bart., was introduced
between Sir George Cockburn and Sir Edward Cod-
rington, the two Junior Knights Grand Crosses present,
preceded by Bath King of Arms (bearing the ensigns
of the Order on a crimson velvet cushion) and the Gen-
tleman Usher.

Tne Sword of State, borne by• Sir William Martins,
Gentleman Usher, having been handed to the Queen
by the Lord Chamberlain, her Majesty was graciously
pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood on Sir
Robert Otway therewith. Her Majesty, assisted by
Prince Albert and the Duke of Cambridge, afterwards
invested Sir Robert with the Ribband and Badge of a
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of tke Bath, and also
presented him with the Star of a Military Grand Cross of
the order. Sir Robert having kissed hands, then re-
tired from the presence of his Sovereign.
Her Majesty was pleased to command an investiture
to take place of the Knights Commanders of the Bath.
Colonel Sir James Dennis was introduced by Bath
King of Arms, and the Gentleman Usher of the Order,
and kneeling near the Queen, had the honour of Knight-
hood conferred upon him by the sword of the Gold
Stick in Waiting. Sir James was afterwards invested
by her Majesty with the Ensign of a Knight Commander
of the Order of the Bath, and having kissed hands re-
tired with the usual reverences.
Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Chetham Strode was re-
ceived at the door of the Chapter Room, by Bath King
of Arms, and the Gentleman-Usher of the Order, and
was conducted to the Sovereign. Sir Edward kneeling
was invested by her Majesty with the - ribband and
badge of a Knight Commander of the Bath.
The ceremony being concluded, the Knights Grand
Crosses and the officers of the Order withdrew from the
throne room.
Immediately after the investiture of the Bath, the
Queen had an investiture of the most distinguished
Order of St. Michael and St. George. The Knights
Grand Crosses of the Order assemb!ed in their mantles
and collars. There were present—
Field-Marshal his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge, Grand Master of the (Men
Field-Marshal Prince Albert, Admiral Sir Edward
Codrington, Lieutenant-General Sir Howard Douglas,
and Mejor-General Sir Patrick Ross.
The officers of the Order present were Sir Nicholas
Harris Nicolas, the Chancellor, and Sir Charles Eur-
wicke Douglas, Icing of Arms.
The Knights Grand Crosses and officers of the Order
having entered the Throne Room, his Royal Highness
Prince George was introduced between Sir Howard
Douglas, and Sir Patrick Ross, the two junior Knights
Grand Crosses present, when her Majesty was graciously
pleased to invest his Royal Highness with the Ensign
of a Knight Grand Cross of the most distinguished
Order of St. Michael and St. George.
The following Knights Commanders of the Order
were present at the investiture of the Prince : —Sir
Richard Plasket, Major General Sir Frederick Stovin,
K.C.8., Sir Joseph Rudsdell, and Lieut.-General Sir
Francis Count Rivarola, K.C.H.
The ceremony being ended, the Knights and Officers
retired from the presence of the Sovereign, with the
usual reverence.

Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentleman-at-
Arms lined the throne-room during the investiture.
Lord Wharncliffe, Lord President of the Council had
an audience of the Queen.
Her Majesty held a Privy Council. It was attended
by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Lord Presi-
jent, the Commander in Chief, the First Lord of the
Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Fo-
reign, and Colonial departments, the First Lord of
the Admiralty, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancas-
ter, the Chief Commissioners of the Woods and Forests,
the Secretary at War, the Lord Steward, the Lord Cham-
berlain, and the Master of the Horse._

Mr. Henry Lytton Bulwer, her Majesty's Minister
Plenipotentiary to the Queen of Spain, and the Hon.
William Bingham Baring, Paymaster of her Majesty's
Forces, were, by command of the Queen, sworn of her
Majesty's most Hon. Privy Council, and took their re-
spective places at the Board.
Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the most
Hon. Richard, Marquis of Westminster, to be Lord
Lieutenant of the County of Chester, his Lordship took
the usual oaths.

The Queen having been pleased to appoint Sir Stephen
Richard Glynne to be Lord Lieutenant of the County of
Flint, Sir Stephen was sworn into office.
Some reports of the Judicial Committee were confirmed.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting.

Sir Edward Drsbrowe, G.C.H., her Majesty's Envoy
Extraodinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King
of the Netherlands, was presented to the Queen at an
audience by the Ear! of Aberdeen, Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs to take leave on his return to the Hague.
The Right Hon. Henry Lytton Bulwer, her Majesty's
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to
the Queen of Spain, was presented to the Queen, at an
audience, by the Earl of Aberdeen, on his return from
Madrid.

The Marquis of Downshire had an audience of the
Queen, and delivered to her Majesty the insignia of the
Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick, worn by his late
fath,,r.
The Lord Chamberlain had an audience of the Queen.
Tht Court was attended by Lady Portman, Lady in
Waiting ; the Vice-Chamberlain, the Captain of the
Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, Sir Benjamin Smith,
• Viscount Combermere, Gold Stick in Waiting ;
the C.S.daptain of the Yeomen Guard, the Treasurer of the
Household, the Comptroller of the household, Lord
Rivers, Lord in Waiting • Lord George Lennox, Lord
in Waiting to Prince Albert ; Sir George Philip Lee,
Lieutenant of the Yeomen Guard; Mr. R. Ormsby
Gore, Groom in Waiting ; Mr. James Bunco Curling,
Adjutant of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms ; Mr.
Ellerthorp, Adjutant of the Yeomen Guard ; Colonel
Berkeley Drummond, Field Officer in Waiting ; Messrs
Wortley and Gordon, Pages of Honour -in Waiting.
The Yeomen of the Guard were on duty in the grand
ball and staircase, commanded by Captain Sadler, the
Exon in Waiting.
Prince Albert went yesterday morning to the review
in Hyde Park. His Royal Highness was attended by
General Sir George Anson, Major-General Sir Edward
Bowater, and Colonels Bouverie and Wylde. The Duke
of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knesebeek, was also
present.

The juvenile Royal Family were taken their accus-
tomed ralks and rides yesterday in the royal gardens.
The Judge Advocate General had an audience of the
Que(n yesterday, and submitted to her Majesty the pro-
ceedings of some courts-martial.

The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace, yes-
terday, included their Majesties the King and Queen of
the Belgians, her Royal highness the Duchess of Glou-
cester, his Excellency M. Van de Weyer, the Lord
Chancellor and Lady Lyndhurst, Baroness d'Hooghvorst,
Lady Caroline Murray, the Earl and Countess of Had
dington, the Earl of Liverpool, Lady Rivers, Lord Port-
man, Lord George Lennox, Colonel Sir Edward Cust,
and Major de Moerkerke.
Sir J. Hope had an interview with Sir George Cleik
yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade.
Dispatches for the Governors of Van Diernan's Land,
New South Wales, and the Mauritius were sent off last
evening from the Colonial-office.
The Duchess Dowager of Cleveland had select dinner
parties on 1 hursday and Friday at her residence in
Seamore-place.
Sir Montague and Lady Cholmeley have arrived at
Farrance's Hotel from their seat, Easton Hall, Lincoln-
shire.

MAGAZINE DAY.

BLACKIVOOD' S MAGAZINE.

The writer on the Marlborough Dispatches" returns
to these important documents with the laudable purpose,
among others, apparently, of correcting some miss:ate-
ments, and doing justice both to the Great Duke, and the
editor of his "Dispatches"— Sir G. Murray. In the former
article it was stated, in very plain language, that the dis-
patches and letters published in French could not have
been written by Marlborough, as he had not sufficient
knowledge of the language, and was too little familiar
with the epistolary style of the country to venture on
communicating his sentiments in French. The error is
corrected in these words :—" Like many other men
destined for future distinction, Churchill made no great
figure as a scholar, a circumstance easily explained, if we
recollect that it is on the knowledge of words that the
reputation of a school-boy—of things, that of a man—
is founded. But the dispatches now published demon•
state that before he attained middle age he was
a proficient at least in Latin, French, and Eng-
lish composition ; for letters in each, written in a
very pure style, are to be found in all parts of his cor-
respondence." It could hardly be otherwise when it is
known that Marlborough served at least five years under
the most celebrated French generals of the day, and
learned the art of war in the same camp with men whom
he afterwards defeated in many pitched battles. But
the writer does a great deal more than correct a
few errors—he gives us a concise and interesting memoir
of the illustrious General up to the battle of Blenheim,
with occasional anecdotes not familiar to English readers.
Indeed Marlborough, as is justly remarked, is better
known on the Continent than in his native country.
The French nurses used to frighten their children with
stories of " 11.1arlbrook." Napoleon hummed the well-
known air " Illarlbrook s'en va a la guerre," when he
crossed the Niemen, and but for the popular pages of
-Voltaire, Marlborough " would be virtually unknown at
this moment to nineteen -twentieths of the British people."
Voltaire in a few words draws a virid picture of one great
quality to which he, as well as the Great Duke of our own
time, owe theirimmortality. "He had above all the generals
of the age that tranquil courage in the midst of tumult,
and that serenity of soul in danger, which the English
call cold head (tete froide). It is perhaps this quality,
the highest gift of nature to a general, that gave in
former times the English such advantage over the
French on the plains of Poitiers, Cressy, and Agincourt."
The other articles in this number fully maintain the
character of Maga. North, with a lingering look to-
wards the old English poets, again returns to his criti-
cisms by way of supplement, for he had announced
their termination in his last notice, but we do not regret
the circumstance. One sentence, indeed, atones for
pages of tedious comparisons and poetical disquisitions.
Never were words more true uttered than those here
subjoined. Let them sink deep into the minds of youth,
and urge them on to the study of languages, which not
only tends to humanise the mind but to give the only
true knowledge of the divine works of antiquity. It
is impossible to translate fine writing—poetry
should never be attempted. Homer, and Horace, and
Lucian, and Chaucer, and Burns, can be understood only
in their own language. "We fall back upon the old
conviction," says North, " that verse is a sacred, and song
an inspired thing ; that the feeling, the thought, the
word, and the musical breath spring together out of the
soul in one creation ; that a translation is a thing not
given in rerurn natura ; consequently that there is
nothing else to be done with a great poet, saving to
leave him in his glory." The " Opium-Eater" is more
gloomy than ever. The sorrows of life (for he seems to
count for nothing its many joys) make him sick of ex-
istence, and prefer death to birth. " Death we can face,
but knowing, as some of us do, what is human lite,
which of as is it, that without shuddering could (if' con
sciously we were summoned) face the hour of death ?"
The following verses on " The Fall of Napoleon," are
by the Russian poet, Pushkin, translated by T. B.
Shaw, 8.A., of Cambridge. We can find room for
only three, but they are a fair specimen of the rest :
" 0 thou, of whose immortal story
Earth aye the memory shall keep,
Now, 'neath the shadow of thy glory
Rest, rest, amid the lonely deep!
A grave sublime nor nobler ever
Couldst thou have found for o'er thine urn
The Nations' hate is quench'd for ever,
And Glory's beacon-ray shall burn.

" There was a time thine eagles tower'd
Resistless o'er the humbled world ;
There was a time the empires cowcr'd
Before the bolt thy hand had hurl'd
The standards, thy proud will obeying,
Flapp'd wrath and woe on every wind—
A few short years, and thou wert laying
Thine iron yoke on human kind.

" And France, on glories vain and hollow,
Had fixed her frenzy-glance of flame—
Forgot sublimer hopes, to follow
Thee, Conqueror, thee—her dazzling shame!
Thy legions' swords with blood were drunken--
All sank before thine echoing tread ;
And Europe fell—for sleep was sunken,
The sleep of death—up•n her head.'

COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY.
Mr. Harrison Ainsworth is now the editor of this
magazine, and he opens the number with an admirable
tale, " Cecco dcl Orso." The hero is an Italian Con-
dottiere, and the scene is laid in Forli in 1448, and in
the space of nine pages and a half we have a romance
which, in the hands of ordinary scribes, would have been
dilated into a three volume tale of " intense interest."
Short as it is it is Mr. Ainsworth's masterpiece. The
author of " Hillingdon Hall" gives us his " Thoughts
upon Inns," and most quaint and amusing thoughts they
are; and Mr. Francis Ainsworth gives us a most in-
teresting account of the " Principality of the Captive
Jews in the Valley of the Euphrates." Then follows
one of the best occasional poems we have ever read:—
WRITTEN AFTER WITNESSING THE PER-
FORMANCE OF A YOUNG AMERICAN ACTRESS,
IN 'CHRISTINE OF SWEDEN.'
BY CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN.
I.
In sooth a queen ; a gentle, loving queen
So true to nature, as to cheat the will
From all observance of the mimic scene,
To bow in reverence of thy matchless skill.
Thy brow, which well the diadem became.
Beam'd with the light and purity of truth ;
While the clear eye flash'd well and wild the flame,
From the soul's altars, fed by hope and youth.
11.
And then, the high-wrought tales of woman's love.
Shackled by chains of custom and of state,
Which the fond heart strives vainly to remove,
Preferring to be loved than to be great.
From thee, the tale came like a pleasing dream,
Cheating the heart, and robbing it of care—
Alas ! that this all bright and glorious theme
Should wild Delusion's fleeting raiment wear.
111.
We may observe thy course; and watch thy star,
Brighten with years along the Drama's heaven,
No envious clouds thy onward fame to mar,
All threatening tempests from thy pathway driven.
With such rare powers to cultivate the Mute,
Genius to model, judgment to refine ;
Who may behold thy flight, and yet refuse
To crown thee champion of the Sacred Nine ?'

This delightful tribute to the excellencies of a rival
proves that whatever may be said of the envious nature
of actresses there is at least one, and she the greatest, in
whose bosom that passion has no place. " The Ass
Eating Thistles" is a tale illustrative of one of .sop's
fables. It is from the pen of the author of " Peter
Priggins," upon whom the mantle of Theodore
Hook appears to have fallen. " The Robertses
on their Travels" are as amusing as ever, and
the author of the " Stories of Waterloo" continues
his "Lights and Shades of a Gentleman on Half-pay."
" Recreations in Natural History " consist of some most
amusing anecdotes illustrative of the sagacity of
elephants. Thew are followed by an exquisite lyric,
entitled " Beauteous little Mary," from the pen of Ed-
ward Kenealy. The " Chest of Cigars," by Lancelot
Wagstaff, is a quaint and humorous story, told in excel-
lent style—the sort of story that we are wont to expect
in the New Monthly. Dudley Costello contributes a tale
entitled " The Fiddler of Frankfort," and Thomas
Miller contributes a poem entitled " The Grey Old Ash
Tree." Mr Oxenford is doing good service in the cause
of literature by giving us selections from Jean Paul Frie-
derich Richter. Jean Paul is one of the most original,
and certainly the most witty, of German writers. With
the exception of M. Heine, he is, perhaps, the only really
witty writer that Germany has produced ; but he is not
merely witty—there is an under-current of deep and
thoughtful phiknophy running through all his writings
—take, for instance, " The Molucca and Spice Islands in
Scheeran," which Mr. Oxenford has given us in the
present number. It is one of the most biting satires
ever written upon monopolies, and as such we recom-
mend it to the attention of the League. It is too long
to extract, but as a specimen of Jean Paul's style, we
cannot resist giving the following, on Body and Soul:—
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