Star.
London, England, 1831-06-18 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen, accompanied by the Duchess of
Saxe Weimar, took an airing yesterday afternoon in an open
carriage and four with outriders. Her Majesty paid a visit
to the Duchess of Cumberland.
The Duchess of Gloucester, the Princess Augusta,
and the Princess Sophia Matilda, visited her Majesty yes-
terday.
Their Majesties had an evening party yesterday
at St. James's Palace. A concert was paforoxd in the course
of the night.
The Duke and Duchess of Cumberland, attended
by Lady Sophia Lennox and Baron Linsingen, honoured
the entertainment given by the Marquis and Marchioness of
Lansdowne, on Thursday evening, with their presence.
The Landgravine of Hesse Homburg visited the
Duchess of Cumberland yesterday at her residence in the
King's Palace, St. James's.
Prince Leopold paid a visit to the Duchess of
Cambridge on Thursday afternoon at Cambridge House.
The Duchess of Cumbaland, accompanied by Prince
George, visited the Royal Duchess yesterday.
The Duke of Brunswick paid visits on Thursday
to the Duchess of Cumberland and the other Members of the
Royal Family.
A Conference of the Ministers of the Great
Powers was held on the affairs of Belgium yesterday after.
noon, at the Foreign Office, which was attended by the Rus-
sian, Austrian, and French Ambassadors, the Prussian Mi-
nister, the Austrian and Russian Ministers on special mis.
dons, and Vbeount Palmerston.
The Ministers remained in deliberation about
two hours.

Viscount Althorp returned to town yesterday
afternoon, from attending the funeral of his mother, the
Countess Spencer. The Governor and Deputy-Governor of
the Bank bad interviews with the Noble Viscount in the af-
ternoon, after his arrival at the Treasury.
The Spanish Minister visited Viscount Palmer-
ston yesterday, at the Foreign-Office.
Viscount Palmerston gave a grand dinner yes-
terday, at the Secretary of State's Office for Foreign Affairs,
to Pilate Leopold and the Commissioners from Belgium.
There were also present the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of
Richmond, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Durham, Sir
James Graham, &c.

Sir Anthony Carlisle's letter on the cholera moc-
has, will be read with the respect due to his high
reputation. The College of Physicians are a mere
close corporation.
There are fresh complaints of want of profits in
cotton spinning. They have been made for several
years ; and, in truth, the manufactory is overdone.
Besides, all nations now are spinners. America at
once grows and spins; and even Bengal and Egypt,
France and the Netherlands, Switzerland and
Prussia, are also spinners. Hitherto the trade
has been maintained by little inventions, which
soon find a limit ; or by low prices, which entail
ruin, when working against taxed corn and taxed
every thing. Then as machinery requires no ap-
prenticeship, so with a machine the most barbarous
people may soon manufacture as well as the best
instructed.

A subscription has been•opened among our
countrymen in France for the relief of the distrand Irish.

The Gazette of last night contains the names
and titles of four persons who are created British Peers—
Lord Fingal, Lord Sefton, Lord Klnnaird (with the new
title of Baron Rossiand Mr. Apr Bilis (with the title
of Baron Dorm) The Peerage intended for Lord Leitrim
is not yet recorded.
We understand from gentlemen recently re-
turned from India, that the reply to the memorials of the
Bengal officers, on the Batts question, has excited a vwy
indignant feeling among them, and that a great majwity of
them have resolved to appeal, by petition to the King and
the two Houses of Parliament, against the dechion of the
Court of Directors.

It was the Marquis of Cleveland, and not the
Marquis of Bath, as stated in some of the public papers,
who sent to Lord Sllgo the munificent contribution for the
starving Irish of 3001. Lord Bath sent his donation of 50L
earlier in the season.
There is daily a great run for proxies in the
Rouse of Lords. Lord Rosalyn is said to be daily carrying
away pockets full of them. It is to be hoped that the M 1
nista' will not forget the long experiesce, the disdplins, and
the activity of their opponents. There may be such a thing
as an amendment to the address, and ,then proxies will be
useful. An amendment is talked of, and it is not ha.
probable.
The " new steps" adopted by the House of
Commons have, as was anticipated, been mach censured, by
the ex. Ministerial party in particular • for, curiously
enough (not ossinowsty), Sir Robert Pek was the first
Member who stumbled in his endeavours to get over them.
'One of the 15 Judges (the magical number 12
is at an end) was lately drawn for the Militia; and, strange
to say, though practising Barristers are exempt, Judges are
not, and his Lordship, therefore, was obliged to provide a
substitute.
The words " to return homo," are affixed to
the names' of the following staff; ate. oaken on foreign
stations: Major-General Sir Jm Nichols, from Bengal;
Lieut.-General Sir G. T. Wasiak, and Ilsior-Osiwral Sir
T. Piitsler, from Madras; and Lleut..General R. Darling,
from New South Wales.

Colonel Colebrooke and Mr. Cameron, his Ma-
jesty's Commissioners of Inquiry, and Mr. Gregory. Secre-
tary to the Commission, landed at Brighton on Thursday
afternoon, from Ceylon. This Commission was sent out in
the year 1823, under an address from the House of Com-
mons, for the purpose of inquiring into the state of the
three colonies—the Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, and
Ceylon.

The Lords of the Admiralty paid the Tunnel a
visit the day before yesterday. They were conducted over
the works by Mr. Brunel, who explained the peculiar mode
in which the Tunnel has been formed, as far as it has pro-
ceeded. Their Lordships expressed great satisfaction at the
manner in which the Tunnel has been constructed, and re-
gret that, means were not found to complete work. The
whole of the brickwork remains as solid as a rock. The
number of 'visitors to view the Tunnel has bean very con-
siderable. Within a few months about 12,000 persons have
inspected the works.
11 The Grand Duchess Helena of Russia and suite
have left town for Sidmouth, where she intends sojourning
for sense months. Her Highness previously to leaving town
gave directions for four splendid carriages to be built, two
by Adams, and two by Houlditch. The harness and cape-
risons are of a chute description, and manufactured by Ship.
ley. of Regent-street.
The Rev. Dr. Randolph, Rector of St. Paul's,
Covent-garden, died at his residence in the College-green,
Bristol, on Tuesday, in the 77th year of his age. The rec-
tory is in the gift of the Duke of Bedford. The Rev. Dr.
also held the vicarage of Banwell, Somerset, which is in the
presentation of the Dean and Chapter of Bristol ; and a
Prebendal Stall in the Bristol Cathedral, in the gift of the
Lord Chancellor.

Every ship, says a recent writer on the subject
of the peasantry of Ireland, bringing produce to the Northern
poets, returns crowded with passengers from the adjacent
counties, yet there is no apparent decrease of the population
at Urge.
ANOTHER AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—Ica COMO..
quence of some offensive language attributed, in the report
of his speech at the Essex anti-reform dinner, to Mr.
Dawson, the Member for Harwich, and applying to Mr.
Tower, the unsuccessful candidate there, the latter
gw-
tkman demanded an explanation of the words, which
were these-44 To my grief and surprise, on my second
return for that borough, I found a gentleman—at least,
a man calling himself a gentleman--of Essex, condescend-
' log to go down from the Treasury, and so servile as
to be under its dominion." Mr. Dawson replied that he
thought the words not correctly reported ; what he
thought he said was that " a man calling himself an In-
dependent gmtlemal of Essex, condescending to go down
there with a Treasury mandate in his band." If the re-
porters had given Mt words, Mr. Dawson added, they bad
not placed them in such a manner as to convey his wan-
ing ; and, he continued, " I never doubted the Indere..
dunce of your political character." This Mr. Tower tow.
sidered rfull and fair apology, and be immediately made a
communication to that effect to Mr. Dawson.

THE FOREIGN FUNDS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.
Stiff—l beg leave, through the columns of your well-oon-
ductsd and intelligent Paper, to call your attention to the
condition of the Brazilian Stock Holders since the abdica-
tion of Don Pedro, as allbrding another fatal instance of the
infatuation of the public, after the previous loss it had sus-
tained, by the Spanish and other Foreign Loans. Nor will
the evil stop, I fear, where it is. lithe ensuing elections
in France return Republican Members (which it is likely to
do), what would be the value of the French Funds y If
Prussia crusade her military assistance oa either side of her,
who would or could answer for the instalments outstanding
on the several Loans she has negotiated with the English
public ? If Russia fail in Poland (an event which would
shake her power to the very foundation of her authority),
what would be the value of Russian Stock afterwards ?

These are questions of national, as well as privaVins pot.
lance ; because, though the individual has " a right to do
cs, he will with his own," It is criminal in a Govetoment to
look on with indifference to the plans and schemes devised by
the money-changer, to abstract the public wealth. If the
principle of " non-intervention" be enforced in one respect,
it on ain another ; and I csnnot see die difference between
furnishing money, the sinews of war, and external co-opera-
don, to counteract its influence *hen so supplied. You in.
terdict by a law any foreign enlistments, while the Govern.
ment shuts its eyes to the exportations of the munitions of
war, and passively allows money to be levied in England for
the use of those it supplies with arms, though leagued against
the most sacred interests of mankind.

In a future letter I will show the amount of these Foriegn
Loans, and the dreadful consequences, if any more Royal
Bankruptcies should take place, on the commerce and credit
of Great Britain.

I am, Sir, &G.
Gray's Inn, June 18, 1891. VERAX.

MB TURF.

BATH RACKS, Jane 16.
The Original Stakes of 5 mom etch. 17 Subs. and 50 added;
3 yn, 7st ; 4 yrs. tat 71b; 6 yrs, 9st bib; 6 yrs, 9st
12113 ; and aged, ltht. Two miles and a distance. The
winner of 1001. before starting to carry Mb extra. Mares
and Geldings allowed 31b.
Mr. Watt's ch c Confederacy, 4 yrs .. 1
Mr. Sediet's Keepsake, 3nu .. ••• • • 2
Mr. Bigg's Little Red Rover, 4 yrs .. 3
The following were not placed t Mr. Day's Little Boy
Blue, 6 yrs • Mr. Crouch's Lady Blanche, 4 yrs; and Mr.
Calleynx Exchange. 5 to 2 on Little Red Rover.
The Tower Stakes. No race.
A Handicap Stakes of 2 sovh each, added to the Members
Plate of 501. 2 miles and a distance.

Mr. Oodiart's Sketch Book, 4 yrs, 7st lib ...
Mr. Day's Little Boy Blue, 8 yrs, Bst ..
The following were not placcd s Dandelion, aged, 7st 91b
Queen of Hearts, 5 yrs, 7st 91b; and Scrub, 4 yrs, 7st 41b.

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.'
lAA night, Mr. Abbott took his benefit at this house,
which was remarkably well attended on the occasion. In
the well-written piece of The Hunter of the Alps, Mr. Ab-
bott sustained the part of the generous and light-hearted
Pats admirably. A young gentleman made his first ap-
peanuice in the melodramatic part of Bosnia, which be sup.
ported in a very creditable manner. His penon is not very
good ; but, what is a great point in his profession, be seems
to have a true perception of Natures workings. Pasta and
Taglioni added their usual attractive contributions to Mr.
Abbott's bill of fare; Miss Inverarity also sang with much
power and expression " the Minstrel Boy," one of the most
spirited and difficult of Irish melodies.