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

ORDNANCE.

Mr. HAWES moved the following Select Committee
on the South-Eastern Railway petition :—Mr. Hawes,
Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Roebuck, Lord Worsley, Mr. Hay ter,
Mr. Tancred, Mr. T. Duncombe, Lord Ashley. Mr.
Pakington, Mr. Wilson Patten, Mr. Vernon, Mr. Tatton
Egerton, Sir R. H. Inglis, Mr. Liddell, and Sir Charles
Douglas.
Sir G. CLERK requested (as we understood) that the
request of the Right Hon. Baronet, the Member for
Oxford, that his name might be erased, and that of Col.
Wood substituted.—Agreed to.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at Twenty minutes past One.

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 Gfand Crosses present,
preceded by Bath King of Arms (bearing the ensigns
of the Order on a crimson velvet cushion) and the Gen-
tleman Usher.
The 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 the 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 hail an investiture of the most distinguished
Order of St. Michael and St. George. The Knights
Grand Crosses of the Order assembled in their mantles
and collars. There were present—
Field-Marshal his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge, Grand Master of the Order.
Field-Marshal Prince Albert, Admiral Sir Edward
Codrington, Lieutenant-General Sir Howard Douglas,
and Major-General Sir Patrick Ross.
The officers of the Order present were Sir Nicholas
Harris Nicolas, the Chancellor, and Sir Charles Eur-
wicke Douglas, King of Arms.
The Knights Grand Crosses and officers of the Order
having entered the Throne Room, his Royal Highness
Prince George was introduced betweer. 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.
he'l 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-
dent, 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 Dishrowe, 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 Earl 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
father.

The Lord Chamberlain had an audience of the Queen.
The 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,
C.S. ; Viscount Combermere, Gold Stick in Waiting ;
the Captain 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 A.lbert ; Sir George Philip Lee,
Lieutenant of the Yeomen Guard ; Mr. R. Ormsby
Gore, Groom in Waiting ; Mr. James Bunce Curling,
Adjutant of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms ; Mr.
Ellerthorp, Adjutant of the Yeomen Guard ; Coonel
Berkeley Drummond, Field Officer in Waiting ; Messrs
Wortley and Gordon, Pages of Hono'ir in Waiting.
The Yeomen of the Guard were on duty in the grand
hall 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 Knesebeck, was also
present.

The juvenile Royal Family were taken their accus-
tomed walks and rides yesterday in the royal gardens.
The Judge Advocate General had an audience of the
Queen 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 Clerk
yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade.
Dispatches for the Governors of Van Dieman'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 Thursday and Friday at her residence in
Seamore-place.
Sir Montague and Lady Cholmeley have arrived at
Farrance's Hotel from their seat, Euston Hall, Lincoln-
shire.

MAGAZINE DAY.

BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.

The writer on the " Marlborough Dispatches" returns
to these important documents with the laudable purpose,
among others, apparently, of correcting some misstate-
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 fur 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 " blarlbrook." Napoleon hummed the well-
known air " Marlbrook 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 vivid picture of one great
quality to which he, as well as the Great Duke of our own
time, owe their immortality. "He had above allthe 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 rerun 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 life,
which of us 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 cower'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—upon her head.'