The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-17 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert rode out yesterday fore- •
nobn in a pony carriage, his Royal Highness driving.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Royal were taken an airing yesterday morning
in a carriage and four.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty yesterday.
The Queen, attended by the Hon. Miss Paget, and the
Hon. Miss Liddell. took an airing yesterday afternoon in
an open carriage and four, in the Parks, Colonel Arbuth-
not, the Equerry in Waiting, attending on horseback.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by. Colonel
Wylde, rode out on horseback at the.same time, and
visited the Duchess of Kent at her residence, Clarence
House.
The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace last
evening included her Majesty the Queen Dowager, her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Serene High-
aesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Weimar, and
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar,. the Duchess of Buc-
clench, the Duke of Devonshire, Viscountess Barrin,-,-
ton, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, the Earl of Liverpool,
and the Earl Howe.
The band of the 2d Regiment of Life Guards, attended
during dinner.
Her Majesty 'had afterwards an evening party. Among
the company were the Duke of Buccleuch, the Marquis
and Marchioness of Exeter, Count and Countess Dela-
warr and the Ladies West, Earl and Countess of Den-
bigh and Lady Mary Fielding, Earl and Countess of
Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers, Viscount Emlyn,
LOrd Portman, Sir Henry and Miss Wheatley, Sir
George Cooper, Bart., Hon. Miss Cavendish, Mr. George
Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson.
Mrs. Anderson, Mr. Molique, Signor Cavallini, and
Herr Brandt, had the honour of performing before her
Majesty. Mr. Parish Alvers played upon one of Erard's
gothic harps.
Her Majesty's private band attended in the saloon.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left town
at half-past six o'clock yesterday morning, for the Royal
Military College at Sandhurst.
The Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty the
Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough House.
The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the
Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, visited the
Duchess of Kent on Sunday, at her residence, Clarence
House.
The Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knese-
beck, rode out on horseback yesterday morning.
Lord Stanley left town yesterday afternoon for
Brighton. - _ .

Despatches from-the Governor of the North American
Colonies were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.

HOP DUTY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

• Sia,---Lord IlriuchilSea is much alarmed at the pro-
posed reduction of duty on foreign hops, thinking it will
reduce the value of has hop-pole woodlands. I have
also woodlands in Kent, but have no fear cf any great
reduction in their value from the new tariff, because the
English_ hop must always maintain its superiority over
the foreign. The following extract from Dr. Paris's
" Pharmacolocria" on this subject, upon the ma-
nufacture of. beer, may be deserving the atten-
tion of those who arc interested in this question.
He says, " Quassia must,. therefore, necessarily prove
but a sorry substitute ; it will impart bitterness- enough,
but it will be modified by agreeable aroma, and as .it
contains no astringent principle, it will fail in precipi-
tating the vegetable mucilage, or gluten, in consequence
of which the beer so manufactured will be in a perpe-
tual state of fermentation, until it is entirely , spoilt.
The same reasoning will explain why English hops,
that contain more Gallic acid and Tannin than those
im-
ported from the Continent, are found to be superior as
preservatives of beer."—Your most obedient servant,
A KENTISH LANDLORD.

THE HUMBLE PETITION OF
GREAT BRITAIN.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Since the manufacturing population of the na-
tion has been virtually declared, by Sir Robert Peel's
proposed GREAT National. Charity measure for the re-
lief of their distress, to be in a state of helpless pau-
perism, (if not, too, in a galloping consumption ;) and
since, by this and other great measures, it has also been
virtually declared, to the commiseration, not " the
envy, of surrounding nations," that the British Govern-
ment itself is in a state of virtual pauperism and general
incapacity, of the most desponding and helpless nature,
I would beg to recommend that the measure of our
GREATNESS be forthwith consummated, by the circula-
tion of a begging petition, of the Charity-sermon and
Soup-kitchen order, among our better fed, and not yet
bankrupt neighbours—the French, Germans, Russians,
Prussians, et hoc genus omne.
The appeal ought, of course, to be made by the
British Peel- Government, in propria persona, as the
begging mouth-piece and head of the distressed body
corporate, which all its own wise cogitations cannot teach
it'how to succour and recruit. And this, I doubt not, it
will willingly do, with little pride and less shame, since
it has already made the begging petition scheme a Go-
vernment measure, and has therefore, to all intents and
purposes, already taken its first grand step as a Begging
Government.
The petition might run in something like the follow-
ing simple but pathetic lingo, the petitioners, of course,
" humbly showing,". and "ever praying," and so on :
" That, whereas your humble petitioners, the Eng-
lishers, are in great distress from want of food, God help
them, for they cannot help themselves ; and they, there-
fore, humbly hope that your Honours will take their
destitute case into your kind and charitable considera-
tion, and get up a National Charity-sermon for behoof
of your helpless petitioners—for which may God reward
you ; and your petitioners shall ever pray," &c., &e.
Perhaps Brother Jonathan, being a kinsman, would
be readiest to take pity on us, and contribute his. mite.
He has already shown his good will, and his sense of
ourpitifu/condition, as you very well know, by charitably
sending across the big pond, gratis free for nothing, I
don't know how many barrels of beef-bones for our
behoof, all of which the Government, you may also re-
member, generously permitted, contrary to custom, to
pass inward to the mouths of the starving millions (as
well they might, to keep them quiet) without partaking
of a single mouthful of the God-send themselves, pro-
vided always the bones did not stink, in which case,
though as unfit for the starving multitude as any diseased
carcase of a resurrected cow they have ever eaten of late,
these aforesaid stinking bones were to be thankfully
devoured, at least in part, by the equally hungry,
if not equally starving Government itself.
In the lively hope, Mr. Editor, that the GREAT mea-
sure which I have now proposed for the RELIEF of the
starving community, will hand ME down to immortality
as one who has even OUTPEELED PEEL.—I am, Sir, yours,
in the bond of human affection,
ONE OF THE STARVING MULTITUDE.
Glasgow, May 12, 1842.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

(From the Votes and Proceedtngsqf the House of Commons.)
FRIDAY, MAY 13.
ELECTION PROCEEDINGS.

DIVISION ON MR. T. DUNCOMBE'S MOTION.
MINORITY—AYES, 17.
Grosvenor. Lord R.
Hatton, Capt. Villiers
Hinde, J. H.
Mitchell, T. A.
Napier, Sir Charles
O'Brien, W. S.
O'Connell, J.

Bernal, Captain
i mew, Hon. K. S.

Plumridge, Captain
Smith, R. Vernon
Turner, Edmund

Christinas, W.
Collett, W. R.
Crawford, W S.
Forbes, William
French, F.

TELLERS
Duncombe, T. S.
Wakley. Thomas

Acland, Sir T. D.
kcland, 'l'. D.
Acton, Colonel
Adderley, C. B.
A.,nsworth, Peer
Aldam, William
Allix, John Peter
Antrobus, Edward
ArKwright George
Attwood. 31.
Bagge, W.
Bailey, Joseph
Baillie, Colonel H.
Baring, F. T.
Barnard, E. G.
Bernard, Viscount
Blackstone, W. S.
Botfield, Beriah
Bowring, 1)r.
Brotherton, J.
Browne, Hon. W.
Brownrigg, J. S.
Bruce, C. C. L.
Buck, L. W.
Buller, C.
Butler, Colonel
Campbell, A. ti
Chapman, A.
Charteris, Hon F.
Christie, W. D.
Clayton, R. R.
Cobden, Ili6ard
Codrington, C. W.
Collins, William
Courtenay, Viscount
Cripps, W.
Darner, Hon. G.
Dawnay, W. H.
Denison, E. B.
Douglas, Sir It
Douglas, Sir C.
Duff, James
Dundas, David
Egerton' Lord F.
Eliot, Lord
Elphinsipne, Howard
Escott, ltickham
P..vans, W.
Ferguson, Colonel
Fitrroy, Captain
Fleming, J.
Flower, Jir James
kollett, Sir William
Forster, Matthew
Fuller, A. E.

JORITY—NOES,
Gaskell, James Milmes
Gladstone, W. E.
Gore, Montague
Gotriburn, Henry
Graham, Sir James
Granger:T. C.
Greenall:Peter
Grimrton, Lord

Grogan, tiward
Haltord, H.
Hamilton, W. J.
Harcourt, G. G.
Hampden, Renn
Hardy, John
Henley, J. Warner
Hepburn, Sir 'l'. B.
Hill, Lord A. M. C.
Hodgson, Richard
Hope, Hon. C.
Howard, P, H.
Howick, Viscount
Hume; Joseph
Jackson, Serjeant
Johnson, W. G.
Johnstone, R.
Johnstone, Sir John
Kelburne, Lord
Kemble, Henry
Knatchbull, Sir L.
Knight, H. G.
Lambton, Hedworth
Lawson, Andrew
Leader, J. T.
Lefroy, Anthony
Lemon, Sir C.
Leveson, Lord
Liddell, IL T.
Lincoln, Earl of
Lyrall, George
Maclean, D
M'Geachy, P. A.
M'Taggart, J.
Maher, John
Mangles, it. D.
Martin, C. W.
M,sterman, John
Morgan, Octavius
Morison, General
Muntz, G. F.
Norreys, Sir D. J.
Murray, A.
Packe, C. W.
Pakington, J. S.
Palmer, Robert

160.
Palmer, George
Peel, Hon. Sir R.
Peel, Colonel J.
Pendarves, E. W.
Philips, M.
Plumptre. J. P.
Polhill, Frederick
Pollington, Viscount
Pusey, P.
Rawdon, J. D.
Reade, W. M.
Richards, R.
Roebuck, J. A.
Rose, Sir George
Round, C. G.
Round, John
Rundle, J.
Russell, Lotd John
Sanden Lord
Shaw, Frederick
Shell, R. L.
Sheppard, T.
Somerset. Lord G.
Stanley. Lord
Stansfield, W. R. C.
Staunton, Sir G. T.
Stuart, Lord James
Stuart, Villiers
Sutton, Hon. h. M
Tancred, H. W.
Thornely, Thomas
Thornhill, Georzo
Trench, Sir r.
Trollope, Sir John
Trotter, J.
Tufnell, H.
Tyrell, Sir J T.
Vere; Sir C B.
Vernon, G. H
Vivian, Major C.
Vivian, J. E.
Walsh, Sir John
Ward, H. G.
Williams, W.
Wood, B.
Wood, C.
Wood, Colonel
Wortley,' Hon. J. S.
Wynn, C. W.
Yorke, Hon. E. T.
Young, John

TELLERS.
Fremantle, Sir T.
Baring, H. B.

__—
The Court of Directors of the East India Com-
pany lately applied, we hear. to the Board of Control,
for copies of all the papers and documents relating to the
Afghan war, both as to it origin and conduct. The ap-
plication was, it is added, refused. It may be necessary
to explain that, though the despatches to the Goveanor-
General of India on this subject bear the signatures of
the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors, they
were prepared by the Board of Control, and as the
members of that Committee are sworn to secrecy the
contents of those documents are unknown to the Court
of Directors' collectively, save at the pleasure of the
Board of Control, which now. and for some years, in
reality, consists of a President only.
RIGHT OF PROPERTY IN WlND.—Water-mill
were at one time, particularlyon the Continent, included
among the regalia or rights of the Crown ; and, on the
introduction of windrdlls, this assumed right was ex-
tended over air as well as water. A whimsical instance
of the attempted exercise of this privilege is on record.
It seems that the Augustine monks belonging to the
monastery at Weindsheim, in the province of Overyssel,
were desirous of erecting a windmill in the neighbour-
hood ; but the lord of the soil opposed their project, on
the extraordinary assumption that the wind in that dis-
trict belonged to him. Upon this the monks applied to
the Bishop of Utrecht, who decided, in a towering passion,
that no one had power over the wind in his diocese but
himself: And thereupon he'immediately granted letters-
patent to the geed monks.—Guide to Trade.