The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-02 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULA
The Queen afal Pri nee Albert rode on horseback yes
terday morning, in Claremont Park, attended by the
Equerries in Waiting.
ii r Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Princess Royal, left Claremont in a carriage and four, at
a quarter before eleven o'clnck yesterday morning,
escorted by a party of the 4th Light Drago;ms, for town.
The Viscouivess Jocelyn, Lady in Waiting, Viscount
Sydney, Lord in Waiting ; Col. Arbuthnot, Equerry in •
Waiting ; and Col. Buuverie, Equerry to Prince Albert, '
followed in a carriage and four.
The royal party arrived at Buckingham Palace at ten
• minutes pad twelve o'clock, and were received by Lady
Caroline Cocks, the lion. Miss Devereux, the Lord
Chamberlain, the Vice Chamberlain, the Marquis of
Granby, Sir Frederick Stovin, Capt. Francis Seymour,
Lord Charles W, llesley, and Col. Wylde.
Prince Albert, attended by Mr. George Edward
Anson and Colonel Wylde, went to Merchant Taylor's
Hall.

At three o'clock in the afternoon her Majesty and
Prince Albert left Buckingham Palace for the Royal
Academy in Trafalgar-square, to inspect the exhibition.
The royal suite included the Duchess of Buceleuch, the
Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady Caroline Somers Cocks, Hon.
Miss Devereux, Viscount Sydney, Sir Frederick Stoviu,
Lord Charles Wellesley and Colonel Wylde.
The Lord Chamberlain received the Queen and
Prince Albert. Sir Martin Archer Shee, the President
of the Royal Academy, accompanied by the officers of
the Institution, also received her Majesty and his
Royal Highness, and had the honour of conducting the
illustrious visitors through the different schools of the
exhibition.
Iler Majesty and Prince Albert and the royal suite
afterwards returned to Buckingham Palace.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty yestetthy.
Lord Charles ‘V ellesley has relieved Colonel Ar-
buthnot in the duties of Equerry in Waiting to her Ma•
jesty ; and Colonel Wylde has relieved Colonel Bouverie
in the duties of Equerry in Waiting to Prince Albert.
The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yester-
day included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
His Royal Highness Prince George. the Marquis and
Marchioness of Lorne, the Earl and Countess of Morley,
Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Lady Francis Egerton,
Viscountess Sydney, Viscountess Jecelyn, the ißight
Hon. George Dawson Darner, and General the Hon. Sir
W. Lumley.
Tne band of the Ist Life Guards was in attendance
during dinner, and performed the following ph ces:—
Overture—" La Strene"
The Beaufort Valse .. Koenig.
Pot pourri—from the " Daughter of St. I
Mark"
Polka—" Alinack's" Labitsky.
Quadrilles
Welzer—" Dalkeith Palace"
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by her
Ladies in Waiting, took an airing in the parks, in an
open barouche and four, yesterday. Her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty yesterday,
at Marlborough House.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited
the Duchess of Kent yesterday, at Clarence House, St.
James's.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand
Duchess of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz, attended by Mr. Ed-
mond Mildway, honoured the Earl and Countess of
Jersey with their company at dinner yesterday, at their
residence in Berkeley-square.
The Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden visited her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge yesterday at
Cambridge House, and the Duchess of Sutherland at
Sutherland House. The Duchess of Kent visited the
Grand Duchess at the Duke of Hamilton's residence in
Portman-square. His Excellency the French Anabas
swim- paid his respects to her Royal Highness.
Yesterday evening the Grand Duchess of Baden ho-
noured Lord and Lady Leveson with her company at
dinner at their residence in Bruton-street. Her Royal
Highness was attended by Baroness de Strumfeder and
Baron Roth de Schreckenstein.
A deputation consisting of Mr. Harrison, Mr. R. L.
Jones, Mr. Deputy Pewtress, Mr. Farrar, and the City
Retnembrancer, had an interview with Sir George
Clerk yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade.
A deputation from the Scotch banks had an interview
with Sir Robert Peel yesterday.
Mr. John Wuod, Chairman of the Excise, had an in-
terview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday.
The Lord President of the Council arrived in town
yesterday from Brighton.
Dispatches for the Governor of the West India Colo-
nies were sent off yesterday from the Colonial-office.

A theetio-4 Vro,e-tant ,utation trott, the Ellntr.vitintit eV. Mititl.4ooTri•
country, and others opposed to thq endown:cut of Al."
nooth College. was held yesterday evening in the hrge
room of Exeter Hall. The meeting., which was entireV
composed of ,s.,,Qletrie,n (ladips being excluded on tilis
occasion), was very numerously attended. The pl...,:tfalittlrn.
e
was principally occupied by clergymen. int-
which produced occasional manife6tations of After a

patience from the meeting.
;•ir C. E. SMITH took the Chair.
The Rev. Mr. BULL, of Birmingham, opened the
meeting with prayer, after which
The CHAIRMAN rose and said, that he was struck with
altered circumstances under which they were sq'
sembled that evening. His usual habit almost imPelle4
him to say, " Ladies and gentlemen"—(A voice, Wb);
..ae..
are ladies excluded?") and he must say that it res'-
the animation and satisfaction which he ,v°9
gentlamen.
otherwise have felt to see only
also, thAv
present.—(Hear, hear.) He had no doubt,
many ladies would feel regret in consequence ;
themselves would be the first to say that if their prei
soe interfered with any efforts to attain a nations
m t
object, that they should stay away with pleasure.Mi
inasmuch as it was stated that a large proportion of their,e
audience at similar meetings was composed of the fonst,
sex, it w:is considered expedient that the present mieehe
ing should be entirely composed of gentlemen--anuxe,
now appealed to the present meeting whether the isx°
were the only persons who took an interest in this great
question ?—(Cheers.) but they
The CIIAIOMAN then took a survey of their proce4i
ings up to that tirne, and pointed to the postpo°n°93l,9l:t
of the Bill to the 19th of this month, as a pf
their exertions were not without effect. After eon'? t-;
meriting the deputation who had assembled in London
protest against the endowment, ar;d to concert mcastir.r
for its defeat, on the harmony which characterised; ir.f.
deliberations, composed as they were of persons o
• ferent denominations, and different political sentirnen"

he concluded by calling on the
Rev. Mr. ROBINSON, rect n. of St. Andrew's seelbersi
who rose and said, that before he addressed'hiseself t°
the resolution, he would take the opportunity of congo'
tulating them on the splendid demonstration which ihe
hall presented on that evening. It was, he conaeredi
very remarkable, that note ithstandiag the numbers of
•
meetings which they had already had on the endowtsen" .
eblie
the College of Maynooth, that the interest of the P
had not in the least flagged, but on the contrary l'lsa:
stillsa as great and prominent as ever. This, be
- Id, could only come to pass from tirible
havingßei considered these as Bible meetiugs. , 0.
. e was their bond of union, and though efts,"re-ii,lbe
willing to admit the principle on most subj yet be
believed on the present occasion that the voice '
eoleas the voice of God. He had the most Peron
confidence that they had the blessing of the AlrnighiY ti
their labours, and so lone- as they placed their trust ly.
Him they could not fail' to be triumphant. The 'lees
Gentler an then complained of the want of courtesY efor
hibited to him in another place by the Hon. ildembetri K"
Sheffield (Nlr. Ward), in pronouncing as " disgusting
certain extracts of a speech, which he (gr. 11°""- °So
made on a recent occasion on the same questitlii. rural
far, however, was he (Mr. Robinson) from feelingotto
,it the expressions so denounced that he would reit`
damnable
them before this meeting " that Popery was Cen'
and idolatrous."—(Tremendous cheers.) Ile wcie roe
elude by saying, that they had two duties to diseharrity.
one to their ancestors and the other to their 13°steibel
They were bound, in respect to those from wh°lll ores
had received the inheritance of their faith, t° a)-- ,
serve it in its integrity—(Cries of " Hear, huearii--nd it
and they were bound, in the second place, t° iIP
down unsullied to their posterity. (Cheers /
begged to move the following resolution :--
: fco $ll
"'That this meeting, comprised of dept i. reli•
parts of the United Kingdom, and holding varieuressFing -
gious and ecclesiastical opinions, unite in es.P'„ the
their conscientious and determined o
Bill now before Parliament, for endowing the 3,°;tion,
ppositie" °on
Catholic College of Maynooth ; and that apie(;),- th,.e.
founded on the foregoing resolution, be slgnss tsauP's
:oSfhpliarrmli'aanmeonftt.h,is meeting, and presented to the se-
olutit
JAMES E. GORDON, Esq., seconded the res w-
and said, that were he to consult his own feelin,gres'erti
injunctions of his physician, or the dictates of cc:o,w; ;
prudence, he would not intrude himself on that re„ien. he
but having been selected as a deputy
would, to the extent of his crippled faculties, aecluiection
00 this eeeit him.
self of the duty. After alluding to the recent e,ss de'
for the county of Kent, which, he contended, was that
aided by the great question which they had °log the
day to protest against, he concluded by enflitteitieg
necessity of merging all minor differences, a°
against the common enemy.—(Cheers.) the rssole
J. P. PLUMPTRE, Esq., M.P., supported be esSt
tion, and said that whatever reflections rnist ought it 0
to • die
upon him elsewhere—(A laugh)—he
high honour and a great happiness to take a parterth°l
all important business on which they bad mot fOrli
evening. He separated himself for a short time -we,
in seethe hf.l'o to
the duties which devolved upon him
eborbtifinsge the
and which he was afraid he would very
go back to resume, but he could not denifn, lof telling
pleasure of comlng among them that eveti- ph theta.--
them that his heart and soul with
a himself
''' to find an
an
(Cheers.) It was a happy thing for him
breathing another atmosphere, and misting aili ere°
inotleY ge
assemblywe who were so diff,rent from the
had
h he had just left.—(Cheers and laughteur"),,eeer
exerted himself, in times past, h n stlY ";°, A
inefficiently, in the good cause . d °he 'i''',i" rel.;
assured he would do so still, till' successent ecyrolj3wl7e-,,baesa
efforts.—(Cheers.) He was happy to say that theJt es
already obtained upwards of 900,000 Stn they
to the petition ; and he had no doubt but ere lonkt be
would obtain a million.--(Cheers.) ContoroPt rnile"beti
cast upon their mode of getting up petitions, but thAt
he looked around him, in a certain place he ssviseoa•
they had their weight. He thanked them forth the - en
at wh
;,enance they had given him, and he trusted OW
they recollected the place where he had ton ° t°l bite,
cate their cause, they would not be unniinni bite,
but would remember him before Hine who gives,ern still
Let tairessrt the
to the timid, and strength to the weak.
go on, doing all that lay in their power to tt. great
evil which threatened them, and to promote the
truths of the gospel.—(Loud cheers.)peel, ~ fol;
A Voice—" Three cheers for Sir Robert ot:
lowed by great confusion, and cries of
The CHAIRMAN—If there be any Protestale it for
man Catholic in disguise present, he maYutsind eher:.
granted that it was not at a meeting of that D'S-eded r",i
be respond and
three cheers for Sir Robert Peel would
The resolution was then put to the Mee°
Church
passed unanimously.
The Rev. T. GUTHRIE, minister of the Essfelnhorgh:
of Scotland, and one of the deputation frosts -y/a be 0°:
next addressed the meeting, and said that, ttaeld se;
been intruded upon them by his friends, he age' Isite;
R° Tura hirnor so,
have come there that evening. Ile should to ins"'"
few observations, and these he felt called on of the
partly because it was stated that no I tin.
Free 0 this,
Free Church of Scotland had taken anY rt" lc . teat
great movement. This, however, was a aire's; Robert L,`,-01
stead of feeling dissatisfied, he thanked Sir,',,,- melt °l'm
for the measure, for the heat of it would '''',„ieht "t
altogether.—(Cheers and laughter.) The/ '-weerellee
in a minority in the House of Commons, but ther.) Tae
in a minority among the commons.—(Laughietraith It;
Rev. Gentleman continued, in a
urge them on to increased exertions; and after they
menting the Irish priests on the fidelity wit'hewei hfule,,-;
adhered to their religion, and on the That Wn;
with which they watched over their flocks, s— en tryst
-4t
ing to them in all their necessity—in ganged 00°,1"
death, and presenting he feared a very mark
urging the
to many among themselves, he concluded bY i'o,--eltly Les
meeting to call upon the Government to ret to ea" 0
just grievances of the Irish people, and 11° ntlee3e
their religion.—(Loud cheers.) The Rev' - e -ores
proposed the following resolution:— the ores',l,
"That whilst earnestly deprecating t'-',l eleler
proposed by her Majesty's Government, and the'',l of
cures founded on similar principles, or ha,:tiFeeliaig; d
humorous, sr
coop
.;
bearing, this meeting strongly dis Claims s" - l as' 11
s
hostility to the Roman Catholic people of Ithe-et elates
expresses its deep and lively interest in all tlopell-e
to the religious and temporal welfare of that the Pees's'
portion of our countrv, and that an address ,".eitir I' -• r.
of Ireland, founded o'n this resolution, be fort"-tocl el
pared by the Committee now sitting• Lohtd)°' inres'
eulated at their discretion." deg the hire.
The Hon. and Rev. BAPTIST NOEL seconreod 6..
lution, and in a speech of great eloquence ad"' and cleieePase
self to the religious grounds of the questio3, theP:.eii-
cated the tone adopted by certain Meniber°,°,,toohe '•e, ce
of Commons in speaking favourably of the 'soshr-the
pion and its ministers. He was not prePain; whicPeell
truth for expediency, not even if all the esve", rejn'ot,
Minister pointed out as the consequence or tae drs'
of this measure, were as near as he-believed t..he •
) PIS
or as real as they were chimerical.—( :piste
ft
The Rev. G. OSBORNE, Wesleyan I:ll.—St.e Wre
chester, supported the resolution.
The Rev. D. R. STEPHENS Baptist minister'
mouthshire, proposed the next, resolution. pec-450
_ea,
" That in this crisis of their affairs it wit's, be ferwee t
that a great Peotest ant Confederation shorn" d to sj-
to witch over their interests and be prepare
the foe." col is
C. HEALD, Esq., Stockport, seconded the rewavidihio
The Rev. T. GREGG, Chaplain of St. Nieh;L:eorri t:st
Dublin, next addressed the meeting. and ":.,i—sloinLg ,6.- ors
the lateness of the hour prevented him rr°— owe" eii;
any length. He hoped he would be allowed snore"
per (unity to give vent to his feelings on this Pi the
a'
question. adress.ecil° 00,
Some other reverend gentlemen having coa the
meeting, a vote of thanks was proposed to
and the meeting separated.

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now
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The Bill for ff • of the cow
mints, short history of this unfortunate concerti, ebr''''-.o,is Pio
article in the Bankers' Magazine may be interesting. protillr4.o
snefemt s to have owed its origin to a desire to enullste .theft3g). :0
b3efoetreirtghe ,r_ig,°ALlecise 0/00 _,li:
he " Provincial Bank," which was established Illipeettts ';he
issued, announcing that the shares should be
give a national character to the " Agricultural," $ Pr?-0-ed t° ;01
proportionstiont .
tit
th finances of those who formed the great body 01 the ,On 1131gua
the nominal value was fixed so low that the pooro_. ..,0 tos. .
raised in shares of 51., on which only 11. was le be esiled suPtiPat "iia
To extend the number of proprietors, it was intiflOterobires, 5_...
athccisommodation would be afforded to those who t°° ego' the.:,:i
caused persons of the very humblest Means ,t:i thy, I:s' '
selves on the list of shareholders. Even fire csPit-..,ondil° °',
the slhartrteess,
1 the
es not
,n bona fide, as bills were often discounted on t."- e -riact,e;
taken presenting
at ut them
share,
taking further
was d ed a
cs,beila r.e',,.,..,‘ h eludadloiPtioci
otrucsti
andfor tthhetsmanagerspossession,
tto,f
in
the
manybra branches
cases, wasitit thee em ,r,osyrseasssit°ollo,denerred 3 1.1 0:
result of the w • re%Peri Tice,
com?ensation for comineicial ignorance and of ,he co ~,
• tion ' •eJ '
proved too unst ,ble to supp ,rt the pressure it viag
_,etioies ~
hole system was, that the founds re a
and that, after a series of unlimited issues (001-d holler
bratches without any real capital), profuse d►sc°unls,
advances, the Bank stopped payment.