The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-28 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULA R.

The Queen held a Court and Privy Council yester-
day afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.
The Council was attended by his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, the Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal,
the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State
for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the
First Lord of the Admiralty, the President of the Board
of Trade, the President of the Board of Control, the
Secretary at War, the Paymaster of the Forces, the Duke
of Welliagton, the Lord Steward, and the Lord Cham-
berlain.

At the Council the Queen having been pleased to ap-
point the most Honourable Charles Marquis of London-
derry to be Lord Lieutenant of the county of Durham,
his Lordship took the customary oaths.
Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint George
Duke of Marlborough to be Lord-Lieutenant of the
county of Oxford, his Grace took the oaths appointed
to be taken.

The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting.
At the Court, the following Foreign Ministers had
audiences of the Queen :

Baron de Cetto, the Bavarian Minister ; Count de
Pollon, the Sardinian Minister; Mr. Everett, the United
States Minister. Their Excellencies were respectively
introduced by the Earl of Aberdeen, K.T., her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State ,for Foreign Affairs, and
conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Master of the Ceremo-
nies.

The Right lion. J. Nichols, Julge Advocate-General,
had an audience of the Queen, and submitted to.her
Majesty the proceedings of some Courts-martial.
The Queen gave audiences to Sir Robert Peel, the
Lord President, Sir James Graham, Earl of-Haddington,
Earl of Aberdeen, Sir William Lumley, and the Lord
Chamberlain.

The Court was attended by Lord bill, Gold Stick in
Waiting, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Treasurer of the
Household, the Comptroller of the Household, the Hon.
Mr. Bligh, and Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting on
Prince Albert.

Lord Byron and the Hon. Captain Hood were the
Lord and Groom in Waiting.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by Frances
Lady Clinton, visited the Queen yesterday afternoon at
Buckingham Palace.

Her Majesty, attended by the Countess of Dalhousie,
took an airing yesterday afternoon in an open carriage
and four. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended
by Colonel Bouveric, rode out on.horseback at the same
time.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
Princes Royal were taken an airing in the Royal gardens
yesterday.
The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Au-
gusta of Cambridge took a drive yesterday to Kew.
A Deputation of the Leather Trade, c-insisting of Mr.
Boucher, Chairman of the Committee ; Messrs. 11.
Hackblock, Meek, Sanders,. linderhay, E. Sanders,
and Mr. Hepburn, the Secretary, accompanied by the
following Members of Parliament Lord Courtenay,
Lord Sandon, Sir Howard Douglas, Sir I'. Dyke Acland,
Sir W. James, Mr. Miles, Mr. Miles, jun., Mr. H.
Berkeley, Mr. H. Kemble, and Mr. E. Wodehouse, had
an interview with the Right lion. W. E. Gladstone yes-
terday at the Office of the Board of Trade.

A beputation of the Wine Committee, consisting of
Mr. George Barnes, Chairman, Mr. Quarles Harris,
Deputy Chairman, Mr. W. P. Richards, Mr. John
White, and Mr. John Wild, had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official
residence in Downing-street.
.Mr. Wallace had an interview with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer yesterday in Downing-street.
Major Mercer had an interview with Lord Stanley
yesterday at the Colonial• office.
Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes,
had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer.

SOUTHWARK IMPROVEMENT

BILL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Perhaps either you, or some one of your
many correspondents, can give me and the public
some information respecting the fate of a Bill en-
titled " The Southwark Improvement Bill, No. 1."
Three sessions back 30,0001. was granted by Par •
liament towards forming a new line of street from
somewhere about the Town Hall in the Borough to
run in as direct a line as possible into Stamford-
street, Blackfriars-road, so making a quick and easy
route to the West End, from the terminus of the
several railways, likewise greatly releasing Cheap-
side and the City from its superfluous carriage traffic.
Now it is whispered about that, after all the parade,
and expense of those endeavours, one in the last and
one in the present Parliament, the public are to be
disappointed of this great improvement. It is said
that this line of street, so much approved of by the
Committee of selection, is abandoned in the Com-
mittee, after the second reading of the Bill ; but I ask
why—if the best line—why give it up, and choose a
worse ? Really I cannot understand this seeming
child's play, and trifling it cannot be, because a certain
high Church dignitary refuses permission to improve
Church property, without having an extravagant price
for permission so to do. I cannot think that the
fault rests with the liberal Messrs. P., who so patrioti-
cally said, they would give the ground, for the line
of street through their estate. Then I again ask,
how is it that the Bill is in the shade for the second
time ? Surely it now remains for Government to see
to it, that metropolitan improvements are not made a
mere matter of trade, or speculation ; so that certain
parties, finding that there is nothing to be gained,
after leading the public to expect great things, give
them up as a child does a toy, and laugh in their
sleeves in the bargain. R.
Stamford-street, 26th April, 1842.

[Our Correspondent will see from the Parlia-
mentary Report, that the sub:ect came before the
House of Commons on Tuesday evening, and was
postponed for a week.]

SUDBURY.—Mr. Redington, the Chairman of the
Sudbury Election Committee, has given notice of a motion on
the 10th of May, for leave to bring in a Bill to exclude the
borough of Sudbury from sending Burgesses to serve in Parlia-
ment. That motion will test the Premier's metal.

The will of M. Aguado was opened on Friday, in
the presence of M. Debelleyme, President of the Civil Tri-
bunal. A courier has been sent off is Florence, with intelli-
gence of the event to the deceased's eldest son, who is residing
there. The following particulars relative to M. Aguado are
collected from the Madrid journals, and the Mode, Paris
journal :—"M. Aguado did not die of fatigue, as has been re-
ported. Far from that, after the long walk which he was
obliged to make, his secretary, who accompanied him, wrote
to Madame Aguado : Your husband is of iron. lie has put
us all to shame by his exertions.' On his arrival at Gijon, he
was in good health, and although no devotee, asked for the
church. He entered it, and remained kneeling for two or three
minutes. He then examined the altar and chapels, and, seeing
them but meanly decorated, said to the person who was with
him, ' Remind me of the poverty of this church.' On his
return to the hotel, he read several letters, which were wait-
ing for him, and, after haying done so, sat down to dinner. It
was then that the sudden change in his appearance was per-
ceived. Ilis physician was struck with it, and inquired what
was the matter. have something strange passing here,'
said he, pointing to his head. He was immediately bled, but
all aid was ineffectual. His stay at Oviedo was marked by va-
rious acts of benevolence. He gave to the hospital of that
town 1,500 reals, and promised to give each year the charcoal
required for the establishment, amounting to 6,000 reels. He
gave 50 piastres to the convent of nuns at Oviedo, and had an
intention of converting another convent, now abandoned, into
a manufactory, which would have employed a great number of
hands. M. Aguado's only companions on his journey were, his
physician, 31. Mignaud, and 31. Segovia."
ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.—A very nume-
rous meeting was held on Monday evening,' Admiral Sir
Charles Malcolm, V.P., in the chair. The first communica-
tion was a paper front Sir Gardener Wilkinson, containing the
particulars of a short trip in Upper Egypt, and especially in the
Natron Lakes ; after which Mr. Cresson gave an account of
some parts of the western coasts of Africa, and more immedi-
ately of the United States' colony of Liberia. This extends on
a line of sea-coast of about 300 miles, from Cape Palmas to
Cape Mesadura, and contains several fine and navigable rivers.
From one of these, the river St. John, the distance up the
valley across the country to a delta of the Quorra is but 150
anti this would seem to present a much more eligible
route for future expeditions, with a view to the civilization of
Africa, than by the late disastrous route undertaken by the Niger
expedition. The colony of Liberia possesses the ruCvantage of
having natives of intelligence and education who could explore
the country which has proved so fatal to Europeans. As an
instance of this great mortality, it was stated that of an ex-
pedition from America, consisting of four white and 164
coloured persons, whilst all the former perished within six
weeks, but four of the latter died in twelve months. This
part of the coast is also extremely rich in the products of
aboriginal vegetation, particularly as regards palm oil, coffee,
hemp, and various other plants furnishing fibres for making cor-
dage and other purposes. 01 palm oil alone upwards of 35,000
tuns are annually exported, and this quantity might be gres'.ty
increased if European modes of expression were adopted irstead
of the simple plan practised by the natives of boiling the palm
nuts in their kettles. Mr. Cresson stated his deliberate opinion
that it was only from this colony that future expeditions could
be successfully carried on in the interior, and suggested as the
most desirable point of approach, the agricultural town of
Bexley, containing thirty families, called after the venerable
Peer of that name.

N sr.tr. ER PRESS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION.—
The annual meeting of this Association took place on Monday
last ; Dr. Sheridan in the Chair. Mr. Knox, the lion.
Secretary, read the Report, from which it appeared that since
the last annual meeting 2001. had been funded in faveur of the
Society, and that there had been a considerable accession of
members to the Association. The election of officers for the
ensuing year then touk place, and the meeting adjourned. The
members present were highly gratified at the successful pro-
'Tess of the Association,