The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-29 00:00:00

THE COURT.

WALMER CASTLE, Nov. 27.—Divine service was
performed at the Castle this morning before his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, and the members of the Royal
Household, by the Rev. Montagu Pennington, vicar
of Northbourn, and perpetual curate of St. George's
Chapel, Deal. Her Majesty, who is. suffering from
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the effects of cold and a severe face-ache, was too un-
well to be piesent at the service. Her Majesty, there-
fore has not left the fortress during to-day.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
yesterday took their usual walks upon the beach. It
rained during nearly the whole of the day. Her Ma-
jesty and the Prince, however, were enabled to walk
for short periods between the showers, in the morn-
ing and afternoon. To-day it is exceedingly cold
with a brisk wind from the south-east. Their Royal
Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess
Royal, attended by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton,have
been taken out for their usual airings.
The Royal dinner party yesterday was confined to
the members of the Household. There will be no ad-
dition to the Royal circle to-day.
Lord and Lady Willoughby d'Eresby, Major-Ge-
neral Arnold (Royal Engineers), Mrs. Arnold, Sir
Richard Jodrell, Mr. J. Dalloway (Justice of the
Peace for Deal), Commander A. Drew, of her Ma-
jesty's ship Wasp, Lady Montresor, &c., left their
names at the Castle during yesterday and to-day.
It was confidently expected, after I had sent off my
dispatch on Friday evening, that the Court would
leave the Castle for Windsor to-morrow. The de-
tachments of troops to form her Majesty's escort had
received their route to hold themselves in readiness on
Monday, to proceed in attendance upon the Queen ;
and it was not until late that night that the order
was countermanded. The period of her Majesty's de-
parture, therefore, is still uncertain.
I may here mention, as a trait in the character of
the Duke of Wellington deserving of being recorded,
that upon his Grace's accession to the Lord Warden-
ship of the Cinque Ports upon the death of the Earl
of Liverpool, in 1828, the Duke, in the most conside-
rate and handsome manner, retained in his service at
Walmer Castle every one of the domestics who were
on the establishment of his predecessor. It may be
also remarked that a very different plan had been
pursued, in this respect, by four Lord Wardens upon
their taking possession of their official residence at
Walmer.

Mrs. Norman, who was housekeeper at Walmer
Castle so long back as the time when Mr. Pitt held
the appointment, retained the situation for some years
after the Duke came to reside occasionally at the
Castle. As soon as this venerable dame (who was
nearly ninety years of age at her decease, now about
twelve months since) was incapable, from age and in-
firmity, to perform the very easy duties of her situa-
tion, his Grace superannuated her upon a pension,
which she received up to the period of her death,
from the private funds of the Duke.
MONDAY, Nov. 28.—The cold, the effects of which
her Majesty was suffering from yesterday, and which
confined the Queen within the fortress during the
whole of the day, had this morning nearly left her
Majesty.
The Queen, however, has abandoned her favourite
promenade upon the beach for the present, the wind
throughout nearly the whole of the day blowing some-
what keenly from the south-east. Her Majesty, ac-
companied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
walked in the morning in the private gardens attached
to the Castle.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and
the Princess Royal were also taken for an airing at
the same time.
This afternoon Prince Albert rode out on horseback

through the village of Walmer, returning by Upper
Deal to the Castle. His Royal Highness was at-
tended by Colonel Wyld.
Sir James Clark still remains at the Castle.
Mr. G. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson will join the
Royal dinner-party this evening.
This morning Mr. H. T. Ryall had the honour of
submitting to her Majesty and Prince Albert a very
elaborately executed gold and enamelled snuff-box,
which had been presented to him while in Paris, a
few days since, by the King of the French, in testi-
mony of his Majesty's high appreciation of Mr. Ryall's
engraving of the coronation of Queen Victoria, from
the painting by Sir George Ilayter, executed by com-
mand of the Queen. This box, which is of exquisite
workmanship, with the initials, in bold relief, of Louis
Philippe on the lid, was greatly admired by her Ma-
jesty and his Royal llighness.
Mrs. Hulke, the lady of Mr. William Hulke, sur-
geon, of Deal (who is daily in attendance, by com-
mand of her Majesty, upon the Prince of Wales and
the Princess Royal, at the Castle), was confined of a
son, on the 21st inst., the anniversary of the birth of
the Princess Royal. Mr. Hulke has just received the
distinguished honour of ' a communication from the
Queen, through the medium of the Dowager Lady
Lyttelton, couched in the most gracious terms, re-
questing (which may be viewed as a command) that
the infant son of Mr. 'hike should be named after
the Princess Royal, and that her Royal lligliness's
name being Victoria, the fortunate and highly-ho-
noured son of the Princess's medical attendant
should be christened " Victor." Such a command,
and from so illustrious a source, will, of course, be most
literally and gratefully obeyed by its highly honoured
parents.
Yesterday morning,
upon Mr. llulke visiting, pro-
fessionally,. the Princess Royal, as usual, her Royal
Highness, m a most graceful and artless manner pre-
sented Mr. Hulke with an elegant gold pencil-case
set with precious stones, and containing beautiful me-
dallion portraits, in bas-relief, of her Majesty and his
Royal Highness Prince Albert entwined with the
Garter. The Princess rose from her chair (being at
breakfast at the time) and addressing Mr. Hulke,
said, " I have something to present to you, Mr. Hulke
(handing the pencil-case). I beg you will give this
to Victor as a present from me."
I need not observe, that this gratifying mark of the
Royal favour is duly appreciated by the parents of the
highly honoured "Victor."
The lad Crow, one of the crew of the Thunderer,
whose supposed attack of the small-pox created con-
siderable alarm at the Castle on Wednesday last, is
nearly well. The Thunderer, however, is still under
quarantine, as far as regards the Castle, but there is
no embargo laid at Deal against any of the ship's crew
landing from the vessel.
This may Ile considered as a very singular precau-
tionary measure (if there really be any danger to be
apprehended from infection), when it is known that
Deal is not more than two miles from Walmer, and
that between Deal and the Castle there is a constaqt
communication necessarily kept up.

There was a very good attendance of capitalists
and others at the Auction Mart, on Thursday last,
when the property put up for sale, consisting of valu-
able leasehold houses, &c., fetched very good sums
under the hammer of Mr. George Robins, who had
the satisfaction of knowing that every lot submitted to
public competition was bona fide sold, and* met with
ready purchasers. In Nottingham-place, Regent's
Park, a family residence, with coach-house, and three-
stall stable, &c., held on lease for a term of which 49
years were unexpired at Lady-day last, at a rent of
1501. per annum, clear of land-tax and sewers rate,
and subject to a ground-rent of 141. 14s. per annum,
produced 1,330 guineas. Another house, being next
door to the preceding, with the same accommodations,
for a term of 21 years, from Michaelmas-day, 1836,
at a net rent of 130/. per annum, clear of land-tax and
sewers rate, fetched 1,240 guineas. A bachelor's re-
sidence, situated in Norfolk-street, Park-lane, held for
424 years unexpired, at a ground-rent of 201. per an-
num, produced 1,260 guineas. A leasehold residence
in London-street, Fitzroy-square, let on lease for a
term of which 46 years were unexpired at Lady-day
last, at a rent of 75/. per annum, independent of the
present tenant having expended a large sum in altera-
tions and repairs, necessary to carrying on his bu-
siness as a house-decorator, &c., at a ground rent
of 71. 10s.-710 guineas. A leasehold house and
shop, in Upper Cleveland-street, Fitzroy-square, at
a rent of 50/., clear of land and sewers rates,
46 years unexpired at Michaelmas-dav last, at a
around-rent of 71. 75.-410 guineas. A very secure
income of 531. ss. per annum, arising from an old
established public-house, called " The Goat," in
Chenies-street, Tottenham-court-road, held on lease.
40 years unexpired at Lady-day last, at the original
ground-rent of 61. 155., and let on lease for 33 years,
at a rent of 601. a year-860 guineas. A residence in
Welbeck-street, for a term of 21 years from Midsum-
mer, 1834, 13 years unexpired at Midsummer-day last,
at a net rent of 801. a year, the tenant pays the land-
tax and sewers rate-560 guineas. Another resi-
dence in the same street, and at the same rent, hele.
on lease for an unexpired term of 1.5 years from Mil •
summer-day last, wanting 21 days, at a ground-rent
of 81., produced 540 guineas. A most desirable resi-
dence situate in Upper Belgrave-place, Pimlico, at the
low rent of 63/. per annum, the tenant paying the land-
tax and sewers rate; held of the Marquis of West-
minster, under two leases, for an unexpired term of
47 years from Lady-day last, at a ground-rent of 9/.
16s. a year-670 guineas.
ARRIVAL OF CHINESE GUNS AT THE TOWER.—
Yesterday afternoon five brass cannon, captured by
the British during the Chinese war, happily just ter-
minated, arrived in a barge from the Royal Arsenal
at Woolwich, and were landed on the Towers-wharf.
Four of the guns are of large calibre, one of them
being a sixty-eight rounder, and the bore about
twenty inches. All of them are splendid specimens
of workmanship, and do not appear to have seen much
service.
REVIVAL or 1311 NES.—T he smuggling season on
the frontiers of Canada approaches, and active prepa -
rations are making on both sides of the line to carry
on quite an extensive business during the winter sea
son. It is stated, on good authority, that a number
of smuggling houses, with large capitals, have been
established in Quebec, Montreal, and other cities in
Canada, with American partners on this side the lakes.
—New York Journal.

LORD ELLENBORO UGH'S POLICY

We publish in another column a proclamation is-
sued by the Governor-General of India, commanding
the British troops to evacuate Affghanistan, and as-
signing the reasons which hive induced his Lordship
to adopt this course.
In considering thetkonduct of Lord Ellenborough
in India, two questions are suggested, which we de-
sire to keep wholly separate and distinct from each
other. First, there is the wisdom or the imprudence
of the particular line of policy he has thought it right
to adopt. This part of the subject we defer entering
upon for the present. Our own views upon it remain
unchanged ; indeed, they are rather confirmed than
weakened by recent events. The grounds of our opi-
nion we shall take another opportunity of stating, our
object at present being to consider the second ques-
tion—Lord Ellenborough's mode of giving effect to
hig own scheme of policy.
It would appear that before Lord Ellenborough
left Calcutta, he had made up his mind that Affghan-
istan should be evacuated. He did not need to go
to Simla to form his opinion upon the " erroneous"
policy in which the war originated. In the month
of March—that is, about six months before the de-
struction of Ghuznee, the capture of Caubul, and the
recovery of the prisoners Lord Ellenborough
issued an order for the immediate evacuation of
Affghanistan. This fact is beyond controversy. Such,
then, was the Governor-General's original intention
—to retreat, leaving all the prisoners in the hands of
the Affghans, the murder of Sir William M'Naghten
unatoned for, and the treacherous massacre of our
troops unredressed. Upon this decision it is fortu-
nately unnecessary to make a single observation. Its
enormity—the compound of cruelty, cowardice, and
impolicy which it exhibited—is now admitted by all
men of all parties. To abandon the prisoners, women,
children, and officers, without even making an attempt
to rescue them, to retreat before we had taken a single
step to repair the disasters of the preceding winter,
would have been attended with so much disgrace and
danger, that 'even the friends of Lord Ellenborough,
who at first attempted to justify the proceeding, were
obliged to deny it altogether ; and when the tone of
public feeling could be no longer mistaken, even to
affect indignation that such conduct shohld have been
attributed to him. Yet the fact is as we have stated
it. The order to retreat immediately was issued by
the Governor-General.

The recovery of the prisoners, therefore, was no
part of Lord Ellenborough's policy. Indeed, it is
most remarkable, but not the less characteristic, that

in this proclamation, which we publish to-day, he
does not so much as allude to the recovery of the pri
sorters. lie talks, indeed, of our military •disasters"
being "avenged"—of " repeated victories in the field"
—of " the capture of cities and citadels," as "attach-
ing an opinion of invincibility:to British arms," and as
therefore justifying the recal of these arms ; but of
the prisoners, whose recovery so many people in this
country thought would alone justify a second cam-
paign, not one word is said by Lord Ellenborough.
So far it is clear that his Lordship is true to his ori-
ginal opinion that they should have been abandoned
to their fate. But if it is clear that the recovery of
the prisoners was a matter of not the slightest inte-
rest to the Governor-General, it is equally clear that
those " repeated victories" which have " attached the
opinion of invincibility to British arms," was, in
the first instance, equally indifferent to him. As
he ordered our soldiers to retreat before a blow could
be struck, it is evident that, in proportion as he
values the results of the campaign, does he condemn
his own preceding policy, which would have left it so
ingloriously barren. If it was necessary that " dis-
asters" should be "avenged" "upon every scene of
past misfortune ;" that "'repeated victories in'the field,
and the capture of cities and citadels" should "again
attach the character of invincibility to British arms,"
what is Lord Ellenborough's excuse for ordering a
retreat not only without attaining these objects, but
that would have amounted to a confession that not one
of them were we able to accomplish ? The fact of
this order having been issued must come officially
before Parliament in almost the first week after it re-
assembles. We shall then see whether even those
Members who approve of the policy of evacuating
Affghanistan will be equally disposed to pay the cus-
tomary compliment of a vote of thanks to the Go-
vernor-General, whose order to retreat, had it not
been disobeyed, would have covered our name with
irretrievable disgrace, and subjected our empire in
the East to the most imminent peril.
But, consideted without reference to the preceding
order, this proclamation of the Ist of October is in
every point of view the most disgraceful State paper
that ever came under our notice. Had it been a
simple order for the evacuation of Affghanistan, or
a calm and dispassionate statement of the grounds
of such a proceeding, even those who might differ
from the policy could not find fault with the mode
of communicating it to the world. But really this pro-
duction of Lord Ellenborough is more worthy of a
paragraph writer of a factious newspaper, than of the
Governor-General of a great empire. In the columns
of the Morning Post (the Times it would have dis-
graced) it might have passed muster.

That, • however, which in the newspaper - would
only excite our passing contempt, when found in the
Government Gazette, is matter for serious conside-
ration. It is a new thing in the administration
of the dependencies of this empire to find the repre-
sentative of the Sovereign appointed by one Go-
vernment denouncing the conduct of his predecessor.
Indecent and mischievous as such conduct must be
in any part of our dominions, nowhere are its injurious
effects more likely to be felt than in India. If Lord
Ellenborough thinks fit to furnish the enemies of
England all over the world with weapons of vitupera-
tion against his country—so be it. The only effect
of this might be that we should find in foreign news-
papers articles not very unlike speeches formerly de-
livered by Lord Ellenborough himself. But when lie
proclaims throughout our Asiatic empire that we
have been engaged in a war of wanton aggression,
when he thus dares to assail that moral power which
we are so often told is the foundation of our domi-
nion in these countrjes, we naturally look for some
cogent reasons, for some conclusive arguments, to jus-
tify this most dangerous and unusual proceeding.
" The Government of India," says Lord Ellenbo-
rough, " directed its army to pass the Indus, in order
to expel from Affghanistan a chief believed to be hos-
tile to British interests, and to replace upon his throne
a Sovereign represented to be friendly to those inte-
rests, and popular with his former subjects."
Had Lord Ellenborough been sitting on the Oppo-
sition Benches in the house of Lords, conducting one
of those party conflicts with which he was so familiar,
this vile misrepresentation might have been naturally
expected from him. It was not to dethrone one par-
ticular Sovereign in order to set up another in his
stead that " the Government of India directed its
army to pass the Indus." True it is that Dost Ma-
homed was dethroned, and Shah Suojah adopted; but
it is the most despicable quibbling to say that it was
"in order" to effect this personal change in the So-
vereignty of Affghanistan that the war was under-
taken. The general objects for which the Govern-
ment of India directed its army to pass the Indus
more properly belong to the consideration of the

policy of evacuating the country. But it is a
scandalous perversion of facts, which are ren-
dered notorious by the dispatches published
by the late Government and by the Parlia-
mentary discussions on their Indian policy, to state
that their motive was to substitute one Sovereign for
another upon the throne of Afghanistan. If, indeed,
the two Sovereigns be regarded as each representing
a totally different state of relations in that part of
Central Asia,. the one in alliance with Great Britain,
and in virtue of that alliance independent of, and un-
influenced by other Powers, as Persia or Russia ; the
other as ready to lend itself to projects wholly irre-
concileable with the tranquillity of British India;
then it is quite true to say that it was for the purpose
of substituting one of these Sovereigns, or systems,
for the other, that the British Government directed its
army to pass the Indus. But Lord Ellenborough,
addressing himself to " surrounding States," as he
ostentatiously tells us, designedly fixes upon the policy
of his predecessor the character of a personal, squabble.
Nor is he contented with this. He must stigmatise
the cause of the war not only as being petty, but as
also being a petty injustice. The Chief who was to
be expelled " was believed" to be hostile. The Chief
who was to be restored " was represented" to be
friendly. That the "belief" and the " representation"
was in both cases perfectly correct we shall have very
little difficulty in showing; but even if the fact was
as Lord Ellenborough most untruly insinuates, was it
for him to give the high sanction of his official name
to a charge so disgraceful to the character of the
country he represents, so calculated to shake, through-
out the Eastern world, all confidence in our justice,
morality, and discretion?
" Disaster's," continues the proclamation, " unpa-
ralleled in their extent, unlesss by the errors in which
they originated, and by the treachery by which they
were completed,
have, in oneshionritsfocrattunnpeai;g
dbeei
avenged upon' every scene of past
re-
peated victories in the field, and the capture of the
cities and citadels of Ghuznee and Caubul, have again
attached the opinion of invincibility to the British
arms."
We are not the apologists of General Elphinstone,
or of the military errors attributed to him. But we
must say that a more gross injustice than is contained
in this unqualified condemnation, before, as we be-
lieve, any competent military tribunal has even inves-
tigated his conduct, it is difficult to imagine. We
could almost hope that the strained interpretation put
I upon the passage by the Evening Government Journal
was correct, and that the attack was aimed at Lord
Auckland, rather than at the memory of General
Elphinstone. The absurdity of saying that the "dis-
asters" of the campaign originated " in the errors" of
the late Indian Government might be very safely left
to correct itself. The exultation of Lord Ellenbo-
rough at the series of triumphs which crowned a cam-

paign that he did everything in his power to prevent,
is in perfect harmony with the congratulations
Lord Ellenborough's party upon the conclusion of
peace with China. Everywhere they are charac-
terised by the same want of principle and consistency.
—Chronicle.