The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-11-29 00:00:00

MORNING.

Ere yet the course of labour has begun,
The lark's full swelling note is heard on high,
Far o'er the eastern hills the gorgeous sun,
In grandeur rises on the calm blue sky,
And stillness seems to reign in brightness round,
Save where is heard the herald of the morn.
Whose high shrill note is blending with the sound
Of distant huntsman's mellow sounding horn.
The mists have vanished from the lovely scene,
And all is bright where darkness late had been.
The inmates of the old farm-house are met
At breakfast, seated round the kitchen tire,
Their merry laugh proclaims a jovial set,
Unknown to guile, untramell'd by desire;
The ruddy ploughman now puts on his smock,
To yoke his horses ready for the land ;
The shepherd, whistling, hies unto his flock,
With dog attendant, waiting his command.
And labours' sons, who till the yielding plain,
Are all preparing for their toil again.
Now speeds the woodman from his humble cot,
From whence is seen the slowly rising smoke,
To toil unnoted—still his lowly lot—
And wake the echoes with his measured stroke ;
He cannot boast of riches, land, or wealth,
Of swelling acres, cumbersome with debt,
Yet he has still the brightest jewel—health,
The richest prize that mortal man can get.
To him no sorrow comes to heave his breast,
Or feverish dreams to mar his peaceful rest.

Full many a year he's toiled, unfriended and alone,
Yet never wished to change his lowly life ;
Ile has but little, yet it is his own,
His humble cottage and his humble wife.
He meets each morn the sun's bright cheering beams,
With smiling health depicted on his brow,
No care awaits him, even in his dreams
Its cankering influence he does not know.
'Tis virtue's path alone that he has trod,
He trusts to Heaven, and he hopes in God.
And now the murmuring sounds begin to rise,
Of rustic labours on the gentle breeze,
And joyous songs re-echo to the skies,
From feathered songsters warbling in the trees.
And every living thing seems blythe and gay,
And every heart seems pregnant with delight,
For all seem welcoming the God of day,
Whose rays are sparkling on the dews of night.
It is a scene no painter can pourtray,
'Tie only nature can such sights display.
Oh ! how I love to a view a scene like this,
When nature seems to wake from her repose,
It glads the soul, it fills the heart with bliss,
And for a time the wounds of sorrow close.
'Tis here the glorious King of Heaven is seen,
'Tis here will flow the sympathetic tear,
'Tis here, that as we view the beauteous scene,
That childhood's recollections are most dear.
And as we feel the sun's bright genial rays,
Oh ! doubly sweet seem childhood's happy days.
Liverpool, November 23d, 1839. C.

SOME PARTICULARS OF THE FAMILY OF SAXE

COBURG AND GOTHA.

(From the Morning Herald.)
The fqrtunate bridegroom elect of her Majesty the Queen
of England, is Albert Francis Augustus Charles Emanuel,
second son of Ernest, reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg and
Gotha, who succeeded his father Francis, in the small prin-
cipality of Saxe Saalfeld Coburg, on the 9th of December,
1806 ; and, by the death of Frederic IV., with whom the
male line of Saxe Gotha Altenburg became extinct, came into
possession, in right of descent from the female branch, of a
considerable portion of that inheritance, and took the title of
Saxe Coburg and Gotha on the 12th of November, 1826. The
duke has been twice married—first, to Dorothy Louisa Pau-
lina Charlotte Frederica Augusta, daughter of Augustus, the
last duke but one of Saxe Gotha Altenburg, from whom he
separated on the 31st of March, 1826. On the 23d of De=
cember, 1832, the duke married Antoinette Frederica Au-
gusta Maria Anne, Princess of Wirtemberg. By the first
marriage the issue was Ernest Augustus Charles John Leo-
pold Alexander Edward, Hereditary Prince of Saxe Coburg
and Gotha, born on the 21st of June, 1818, and Albert, the
young bridegroom elect of Queen Victoria, born the 26th of
August, 1819, and therefore not of the legal age of 21 until
August, 1840. The Queen was born the 24th of May, 1819,
and is, therefore, three months older than her intended hus-
band.

The other members of the family of Coburg are :-
1. Sophia Frederica, &c, sister of the duke, married to
Count Emanuel, of Mensdorf.

2. Juliana Hennetta Ulrica, also sister, re-christened, and
now Anna Frodorowna, on her marriage with the late Grand
Duke Constantine of Russia, from whom she was separated
in 1820, through gross cruelty on his part, and other circum-
stances on her own, not necessary to advert to. The death
of that prince in 1831 left her a widow. She resides, and
since her separation and widowhood has resided, in Switzer-
land. She and two of her sisters were sent, previous to the
marriage, to St. Petersburg, for choice of that barbarian
Constantine.

3. Ferdinand George Augustus, brother of the duke, mar-
ried in 1816 to Maria Antoinette Gabriella, daughter and
sole heiress of Prince Francis Joseph de Koharl, a Hunga-
rian nobleman of ancient family and immense territorial
property in Hungary. As a condition of this marriage Fer-
dinand was obliged to embrace the Roman Catholic religion,
and to agree that all the children born of the marriage should
be brought up hi the same faith. The issue of this alliance
is three sons and one daughter, of which the eldest son, Fer-
dinand Augustus Francis Antony, born in 1816, married
Donna Maria da Gloria, Queen of Portugal, and, according
to the law of Portugul, of the birth of a son and heir became
King Consort.

4.V Maria Louisa Victoria (now her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent), married first to the Prince of Leiningen,
on whose death she was afterwards married to the Duke of
Kent, who died in 1820.

5. Leopold George Christian Frederick, the youngest
brother of the duke and uncle to Albert, married first to the
late Princess Charlotte, heiress presumptive to the crown of
Great Britain, who died in 1817 ; elected King of Belgium
in June, 1831 ; and remarried in Compeigne, in August,
1832, to the Princess Louisa Maria, of (Means, daughtr of
Louis Philip, King of the French.
The singular fortunes of the family of Saxe Coburg are
among the extraordinary and wonderful incidents of this
age. The domain of Coburg, the patrimonial estate of the
present duke, the eldest of the family, and brother of Leopold,
was a very small principality ; the net revenue did not exceed
£7OO per annum. Of course, upon such an income, the
family pride was difficult to support, and the means of edu-
cation for the younger branches extremely restricted. On
account of the smallness of means, none of the family could
venture an appearance at court, at Vienna, save the duke,
and he rarely. The portion of the inheritance of Gotha-
Altenburg, which came to him, greatly improved his stand-
ing, and extended his possessions, an inheritance which per-
haps would not so readily have been erneeded to him but
from the powerful alliance and countenah,e of this country
through Leopold. The territory of Coburg and Gotha may
be estimated to contain together 1G3,000 souls. The revenue
is stated at £lOO,OOO per annum, from which has to be de-
ducted the interest of the debt or mortgage upon the pro-
perty, amounting to £464,000. which, taking the rate at six
per cent., not a high rate for Germany, will be an annual
charge of- £27,840. The duchy is rated to furnish a contin-
gent of 800 men to the Germanic confederation.

At the time of his selection by the Princess Charlotte,
Leopold was a simple major in the Austrian service, and his
whole means and prospective expectations centred in his pro-
tlssion. His rise led to and was the prelude of that of the
whole family. His sister became Duchess of Kent, adopted,
like himself, in the Royal Family of England, and in course,
if not Queen mother, mother of the Queen. Leopold him-
self is King of Belgium ; one nephew, Ferdinand, King
Consort of Portugal ; and a third about to become Prince
Consort of the Sovereign Queen of Great Britain. Never
before, perhaps, in so short a space of time, did a family
attain fortunes so magnificent, without deeds of arms or
special services of any public nature.

HER MAJESTY'S MARRIAGE.

(From the Standard of Monday Evening.)

The formal announcement of her Majesty the Queen's in-
tended marriage was made to the Privy Council on Saturday.
This communication is open to criticism, as the compo-
sition, not of the Sovereign, but of her ministers ; but we
frankly own that we can see nothing in it with which to find
fault. Our excellent contemporary the Times pointedly re-
fers to the omission of a reference to the Protestant character
of the
.prince selected as the Queen's consort. We regret
this omission as much as any one can, but it is only fair to
own that the people are as much to blame for it as the mi-
nisters, that the Queen is wholly without fault in the matter,
and that the Protestant character of the house of Saxe-
Coburg might have been confidently asserted had circum-
stances permitted the assertion.
It was the practice of the princes of the House of Hanover
always to put forward a devotion to the Protestant interest,
in the front of their claims to the confidence of the nation in
the first address offered to parliament by each upon his ac-
cession to the Throne. This declaratory pledge has been
omitted in our time, and we do not see how in the analogous
case before us it could well have been recurred to. Sitting
in a Privy Council partially composed of Papists, how could
the Queen allude to a preference of the Protestant religion
as her paramount title to the throne, and to the confidence
of her subjects? Let it never be forgotten that it was the
act of the people, as represented by the parliament of 1829,
that threw upon the crown the responsibility of refusing the
admission of Papists to the Royal council ; and that the act
not only permitted, but, by the permission, in some measure
compelled the crown to admit Popish councillors. It is true
that the men now in power have abused the opportunity, by
admitting Papists most hostile to the Protestant religion, and
to the integrity of the empire—tithe resisters and repealers.
But the law of 1829 destroyed the Protestant character of
the constitution through all its branches. Let us not then
blame the crown, or the ministers of the crown, for an
omission rendered inevitable by our own act.
The worst effect of this omission will be the impression
created, that nothing is said, because nothing can be fairly
said, of the Protestant character of the house of Saxe Co-
burg. Such an inference would be very unjust.
The elder line of the house has continued faithfully attach-
ed to the Protestant religion from the reformation, when its
head, the Elector of Saxony, protected Luther. There have
been in the family some apostasies, but they have never
tainted the elder line—the line from which Prince Albert is

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descended. This will be seen by the following genealogical
sketch, commencing with the last reigning Prince, Francis,
before whose time the family had remained uniformly Pro.
testant.

SAXE COBURG GOTHA.
Religion—Protestant,
REIGNING DUKE,
Ernest, b. 2d January, 1784, sue. his father Francis, Duke
of Saxe-Saalfield Coburg, on the 9th of December, 1806,
in that duchy, created by the second convention of Paris,
Prince Lichtenburg, and, by the convention of the 12th
November, 1826, Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha. His high-
ness m., 31st July, 1817, Louisa, daughter of Augustus,
Duke of Saxe-Goth Altenburg (from whom he is separat-
ed), and has issue,
Ernest, Hereditary Prince, b. 21st June, 1818.
Albert, b. 26th Aug., 1819.
BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF THE DUKE.

Ferdinand George (Papist), b. 28th March, 1785, lieutenant
field marshal in the Austrian service, and proprietaire of
the Bth regiment of hussars, m., 2d Jan., 1816, Maria,
daughter of Prince Francis Joseph, of Kohary, b. 2d July,
1797, and has issue,
Ferdinand, b. 29th October, 1816.--Married to the
Queen of Portugal.
Augustus, b. 13th June, 1818.
Leopold, b. 31st Jan., 1824.
Victoria, b. 14th Feb., 1822.
Leopold George, b. 16th Dec., 1790, espoused, 2d May,
1816, her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte, of Wales,

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only daughter of his Majesty King George the Fourth, of
Great Britain and Ireland. The lamented Princess died
6th Nov., 1817.—King of the Belgians.
Sophia Frederica, b. 19th Aug., 1778, m. 22d Feb., 1804, to
Count Emanuel de Mensdorf, chamberlain to the Empe-
ror, major-general in the Austrian service, and governor
of the fortress of Mayence.
Juliana Henrietta, b. 23d Sept., 1781, m., 26th Feb., 1796,
to the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, from whom her
highness was separated 2d April, 1820.
Victoria Maria Louisa, b. 17th Aug., 1786, m., 21st Dec.,
1803, to Enrich Charles, Prince of Leinengen, by whom
(who died 4th July, 1814) she has issue,
Charles Frederick, b. 15th Sept., 1804, present Prince
Leinengen, m., 13th Feb., Maria, daughter of the
late Count Maximilian, of Klebelsberg.
Anne Feodorowna, b. 7th De %, 1807, m., Bth Feb. 1828,
to Ernest Christian Charles, present Prince of Ho-
helohe-Langenburg.
Her Highness espoused, secondly, 11th July, 1818, H. R. H.
Edward, Duke of Kent, fourth son of King George 111.
of Great Britain, by whom (who died 23d Jan., 1820) she
has an only child,
Queen Alexandrina Victoria, b. 24th May, 1819.
MOTHER OF THE DUKE.

Duchess Dowager Augusta Caroline, daughter of Henry
XXIV., Prince of Ruess Ebersdorf, b. 19th Jan., 1757,
m. 13th June, 1777.
It will he seen by this sketch that Ferdinand, the uncle of
Prince Albert, and, let us add, alsn, the uncle of Queen
Victoria, was the first apostate of the family. His children
were all educated Papists ; the eldest of them is the husband
of the Queen of Portugal. The motives of this unfortunate
man's lapse may be collected from the fact that he was a
second brother of no very affluent house, and so slenderly
provided with an income, that he was glad to accept of
service in the Austrian army, in which he now holds the rank
of field marshal, after long service ; in 1816 he married the
heiress of the Polish Prince, Francis Joseph Kohary, and
upon his marriage was compelled to become a Papist, by the
terms of, his marriage contract.
It is right that the British public should be informed upon
this matter, because an opinion is gone abroad, that Prince
Albert is the brother of the Queen of Portugal's husband,
and therefore likely to be a Papist, or indifferent to religion ;
whereas he stands in exactly the same degree of relationship
to that Popish Prince as with our own Queen, and is no more
to be suspected of Popery in consequence of the apostacy of
his cousin, or rather uncle (for the younger Ferdinand was
always a Papist), than is her Majesty.
It is right also to remark, that the apostacy of the Field
Marshal is not of very recent date ; so that it cannot be
justly referred to modern liberalism.

Reviewing as carefully as we can, all the circumstances of
the case, we adhere to our opinion, often before expressed,
that the Queen's choice is a good one, and auspicious of
happiness to herself and to her people.
Virtues are sociable, and we are persuaded that a good
wife will be good in whatever condition of life she may be
placed—good in the relations of queen, mistress, or friend ;
and nothing is more likely to make a good wife than an amia-
ble and well-disposed husband of her own choice. A report
prevails in the circles generally best informed, that the mar-
riage is not to be delayed until April, as the ministerial jour-
nals have been instructed to say, but that pailiament will be
called together immediately after the holidays, to make the
proper provisions ; and that the nuptials will be solemnised
at the end of January or beginning of February. This we
think highly probable, if ministers are to have any influence
in the arrangement. They cannot expect to hold office until
April, and they will not willingly forego whatever advantages
may result to a ministry from the royal marriage, or lose the
opportunity, if they can help it, of giving to the Queen's con-
sort the first bias. This last advantage will be doubtless of
short profit to them. They cannot hope to immure the Prince
as they have immured the Queen, by a corps of bedchamber
women. The conservative aristocracy and gentry will feel
it to be a duty no less of loyalty than of hospitality to welcome
the stranger, by all kind and respectful attentions. He will
soon have an opportunity of knowing them, and of judging
between conservatives and whig-radicals, and we are perfectly
at ease as to the result.

Meantime, even a month's possession of the ear of the
Prince will be a great matter to the Melbourne cabinet ; it
probably cannot retard their fall, but it may soften that fall
by interposing the royal influence with a goodnatured people
to arrest the punishment by which it ought to be attended.

THE QUEEN'S ADDRESS TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL,

(From the Morning Herald of Tuesday)

- -
That the Protestant religion should be treated with slight
and contempt, and great discouragement, by a set of minis-
ters, whose chief reliance for support in office, next to the
ladies of the bedchamber, is the popish agitator of Ireland,
cannot surprise anybody. It was, therefore, no matter of
public astonishment whatever, that in the speech delivered
by the Queen to her Privy Council, announcing her intended
marriage with Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg Gotha, no allu-
sion was made to that religion which is the best and holiest
bond of union between the crown and the people, and on the
maintenance of which depends the civil and religious liberties
-,-the moral greatness, and, we may add, the high civilization
of England.
That omission in the Queen's address, we say, excited no
public astonishment. The British public have for a consi-
derable time been accustomed to the " heavy blows" which
the Romanised whigs inflict upon the principles which placed
the House of Hanover on the throne of these realms. Why,
then, should that act of omission excite any surprise, although,
as a morning contemporary has truly remarked, ministers
adopted substantially the precedent of George 111. upon a
similar occasion, omitting only the royal assurance in regard
to the Protestant religion ? Indeed ministers copied the very
words of the last sentence of the address of that monarch to
his council, although they shut their eyes, and also closed
the Queen's laps as to the pledge of fervent and unalterable
attachment to the Protestant religion, contained in the sen-
tence that preceded it. We say " the ministers," because it
would neither be true in fact, nor constitutional in principle,
to treat the address of her Majesty as other than the compo-
sition of her responsible advisers.
But it does, we confess, excite our surprise that any organ
of conservative and Protestant opinions—and that, too, an
intelligent and able one—should volunteer a defence for those
delinquent ministers, by endeavcuring to justify that omission.
Of course, as long as the Queen is in the hands of such ad-
visers she must speak what is set down for her, and when
one expresses dissatisfaction with the Royal Speech it can
have no personal allusion to her Majesty, who only recites
what her cabinet composed.
In alluding to the Queen's address, and the omission in
question, the Standard says, " we frankly confess we see
nothing in it with which we can find fault." But is there
nothing not in it which ought to have been found there ? In
reference to that point it says, " We regret this as much as
any one can, but it is only fair to own that the people are as
much to blame for it as ministers ; that the Queen is wholly
without fault in the matter, and that the Protestant charac-
ter of the house of Saxe Coburg might have been confidently
asserted had circumstances permitted the assertion.'
Now we ask what are the circumstances that did not per-
mit the assertion of the Protestant character of the house of
Saxe Coburg ? We are told that " the law of 1829 destroyed
the Protestant character of the constitution through all its
branches." We are also told that we should not blame the
Crown, or the ministers of the Crown, for an omission ren-
dered inevitable by our own act ; that is, by the act of the
people, as represented in the parliament that passed the ill-
advised and most mischievous " emancipation act" of the
Wellington and Peel administration.

We have stated wh3;;;;;;-this question without any
reference to the Queen herself. Let us confine ourselves to
the parties really responsible, who are her Majesty's minis-
ters. If circumstances, as our evening contemporary asserts,
made the omission of any allusion to the Protestant religion
inevitable, most assuredly even the ministers are free from
blame. Nobody in that case would be in fault except the
authors of the bill of 1829, and the parliament that made the
bill the law of the land.

If, indeed, the law has destroyed the Protestant character
of the constitution through all its branches, then is the Pro-
testant character of the CROWN destroyed. if so, the title
to the throne in the house of Hanover is shaken. That title
is built upon the EXCLUSIVE PROTESTANTISM of at least
ONE branch of the constitution—THE CROWN. The mo-
ment that character of exclusive Protestantism is removed
from the Crown, certain alleged claims to the inheritance of
the British throne, which were put aside or suspended by the
ACT OF SETTLEMENT vesting the title in the heirs of the body
of the Electress Sophia, of Hanover, BEING PROTESTANTS,
may be revived. But as the act of settlement has not yet
been repealed, one branch of the constitution still remains,
in theory at least, exclusively Protestant, and must so con-
tinue unless Englishmen are prepared to surrender to Popish
ambition all the glorious rights and liberties for which their
patriotic ancestors successfully struggled at the revolution
of 1688.
If the bill of 1829 has rendered all allusion to the Pro-
testant religion, in reference to the proposed marriage of a
British Sovereign, improper or nugatory, the same reason
would bold good for omitting all allusion to the Protestant
religion, as the religion of the state, at the solemn ceremony
of the coronation. On that occasion the Queen was asked
by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in administering the oath
to the Sovereign,—" Will you, to the utmost of your power,
maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel,
and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ?
And will you preserve to the bishops andclergy of this realm,
and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights
and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them or
any of them ?" The Queen answered " All this I promise
to do," and confirmed this promise by laying her hands on
the holy Gospels, and by kissing the same. But if the bill
of 1829 had indeed destroyed the Protestant character of all '
the branches of the constitution, this part of the coronation
oath was unmeaning, absurd, and nugatory. If, on the other
hand, that solemn promise of the Queen " to maintain the
Protestant reformed religion established by law," at the co-
ronation, had not a vain and ridiculous allusion to a state of
things which had ceased to exist, why should any pledge re-
specting the Protestant religion in the Queen's speech to the
Privy Council be a thing which the state of circumstances at
the present day does not permit ? Nothing has occurred
since the Queen's accession to destroy in point of law the ex-
' elusive Protestant character of the crown, though in point of
fact the Ministers have done a great deal to endanger the
Protestant reformed religion. That is a circumstance, how-
ever, which made it the more necessary that the Queen should
have made such a declaration, or that the people should have
required it.
The instances of apostacy or submission to the See of Rome
which have taken place in the Cbourg family of late years,
and to which we adverted yesterday, made it the more de-
sirable that all reference to the Protestant religion should not
have been omitted. Do Ministers wish the Sovereign to ap-
pear ashamed or afraid to express any particular attachment
to that pure and holy religion to which she is indebted for
the sceptre of the British empire ? As to the fact of Prince
Albert being a Protestant, that, of course, could not be
doubted, inasmuch as the law has not yet been erased from
the statute-book which makes the marriage of the Sovereign
with a Papist a forfeiture of the crown. But the country
would have been glad to have heard from the Queen's own
lips that her intended husband was as devotedly attached to
the Protestant religion as we must take it her Majesty herself
is, although supposed to be personally attached to a Ministry
labouring—not in exact accordance with the coronation oath

—to "inflict heavy blows and great discouragement on Pro
testantism."

'We trust the leaders of the conservatives in Parliament do
not mean to act for the future as if the Protestant constitution
had already been destroyed in all its branches, and, therefore,
their political efforts should have no reference to religious
considerations. If so, it is time for the Protestant people of
England to look about them, and let their constitutional re-
monstrances reach the throne and the parliament also.

QUEEN ADELAIDE.

(From a Correspondent of the Morning Herald.)

GOPSAL HALL, MONDAY MORNING.—The Earl Howe
returned to Gopsal Hall, yesterday, from attending the Privy
Council.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, as was expected, left
this morning shortly after ten o'clock, attended by the Earl
Howe, Earl and Countess of Denbigh, Lady Clinton, Hon.
Miss Mitchell and Miss Hudson, and accompanied by Sir
Horace Seymour, the Ladies. Mary Fielding and Georgiana
Curzon, and the Rev. J. R. Wood and suite, in five carriages,
for Belvoir Castle, the seat of the Duke of Rutland.
The royal suite, on leaving GQpsal Hall, went by the cross
roads to Desford, where a relay of horses was in readiness.
The Queen Dowager and suite then proceeded to Leicester
by the Hinkley road. On the arrival of the royal cortege at
the Red Cow Inn, a detachment of the Leicestershire yeo-
manry cavalry, under the command of Captain Packe, M.P.,
received her Majesty and suite, and formed an escort to the
royal carriage. A numerous assemblage of persons had con-
gregated at the above inn from Earl Shilton, Hinckley,
Peckleton, Thurlston, and other neighbouring villages, and
on the Queen and suite passing loudly cheered. But the
passage of the royal visiter through Leicester was, without
any exception, the most 'enthusiastic display yet witnessed
throughout " the royal progress." In speaking of the
ancient and honourable borough of Leicester, it would be as
well to offer a few remarks on the conduct of the mayor and
town council, at the latter of which, two idiotic donkeys, en-
joying the euphonical names of Biggs and Winks, proposed
and seconded the resolve " that the corporation of Leicester
do not notice the Queen Dowager on her visit to Leicester."
The resolution was carried, and, consequently, there were
not, any apoplectic-looking gentlemen in long robes to re-

. . .
ceive the exemplary and pious widow of our late esteemed
King. But what have the body corporate and the Govern-
ment hacks done by opening their sluices of malignant bile
against the person of Queen Adelaide ? They turned the stream
into a course the very opposite to their desires. By their
" agitation"—by their endeavours to make that illustrious
lady's visits to a few of the leading nobility political, and by
their at least contemptible insinuations, they have disgusted
their hitherto friends. There needs no further confirmation
of what I have stated than the reception of her Majesty in
Leicester. It was just ten minutes past twelve when the
royal cortege arrived at Dane Hill-gate, attended by a troop
of the Leicestershire yeomanry cavalry, and followed by a
long cavalcade of the leading gentry and inhabitants of Lei-
cester and its vicinity. St. Nicholas and the other streets
through which the royal route lay were densely crowded by
decently-attired persons. It is well known to those who
have passed through the High-street of Leicester that it is
one of the narrowest of the many High-streets in this country ;
in consequence, the royal suite was some time in passing
through it. The arrival of the royal visitors was an-
nounced by the firing of cannon, and the church bells
of St. Margaret's rang a merry peal. High-street
never presented such a gay appearance. In addition
to three arches formed of evergreens and decorated in
a tasteful manner with flowers and various coloured
flags, each bearing an inscription, nearly every house dis-
played some tribute of respect to the amiable Queen Dowager.
At Dr. Harris's was a magnificent mantle or canopy of light
blue satin, lined with white satin, and tastefully looped with
silk cord, having in the centre a regal crown of gold, puffed
with crimson velvet. This neat and costly decoration was
placed in front of the doctor's residence, and was the happiest
and most chaste of the decorations I witnessed. During the
passage of the royal cortege along the High-street, the cheer-
ing and applause of the multitude was deafening, and thou-
sands of handkerchiefs were waved from the windows. The
whole of the shops were closed, the assemblage was so great.
After having arrived at the top of High-street the royal car
riages entered the Market-place, from Cheapside, and then
went through Market-street to the Three Crowns Inn, where
fresh horses were supplied to the carriages. The Rev. Mr.
Irvine, and the neighbouring clergy and gentry, and a guard
of honour of the Leicestershire yeomanry cavalry, received
her Majesty on her arrival amidst the enthusiastic acclama-
tions of the most numerous concourse of persons ever remem-
bered by the inhabitants of the town. It would occupy me
some hours to do justice to each of the laudable manifesta-
tions so profusely displayed by the inhabitants on this occa-
sion, so I will merely give the most prominent of the inscrip-
tions from the triumphal arches, &c. I give these inscriptions
merely for your readers to judge for themselves, for from
them may be gathered the feelings of the inhabitants. The
first was very appropriate, namely, " Honour to whom ho-
nour is due ;" " Adelaide, may thy life be long and thy days
happy ;" " Adelaide, England's glory ;" " Welcome Ade-
laide ;" " Adelaide, we bid you God speed ;" " Queen Ade-
laide, a splendid example of the British fair ;" &c. At about
twenty minutes to one the Queen Dowager and suite took
their departure by the Belgrave-gate, for Melton Mowbray
en route to Belvoir Castle, followed by a long train of car-
riages and horsemen. The quiet villages of Thomaston and
Syfton had their arches, and the Queen Dowager and suite
were heartily cheered in passing through by the unsophisti-
cated inhabitants. At Rearsby, the next village, the escort
of the Leicestershire yeomanry cavalry were relieved by ano-
ther troop of that fine corps, under the command of Captain
Clarke. Brooksby, Frisby, and the other intermediate vil-
lages, had their roadside inns and arches decorated with flags,
and ornamented with flowers, evergreens, &c...
The royal cortege arrived at Melton Mowbray shortly after
half-past two. The bridge opposite to the Earl of Wilton's
hunting box, Egerton lodge, was covered with various ever-
greens, and immediately before the George Inn was erected
a substantial triple arch of evergreens, liberally ornamented
with flowers and flag. The children of the Blue Coat or Na-
tional Schools, for the education of the children of the poor
of all denominations, were stationed just beyond with their
master and ushers. They were remarkably neat and clean in
their appearance, and their orderly and unassuming behaviour
seemed greatly to please the royal visiter. Fresh horses were
in readiness, and after a short delay the royal suite proceeded
on its route, the same marks of pleasure and esteem welcom-
ing her Majesty as at Leicester. •
At Croxton Park upwards of 250 of the principal tenantry
of the Duke of Rutland, on horseback, with a troop of the
Leicestershire yeomanry cavalry, under the command of Sir
George Palmer and Captain Hartopp, and the park keepers
and huntsmen of the noble duke, assembled to receive the
Queen Dowager and suite.

After an hour had elapsed the royal carriages came in sight,
and the arrival of her Majesty was loudly welcomed by the
hearty greetings of the farmers, who rode such " bits of blood"
that would not disgrace " Rotton-row" in the month of May.
The detachment of yeomanry cavalry which escorted her
Majesty from Melton were relieved by the troop under Sir
George Palmer and Mr. Hartopp, which formed on each side
of her Majesty's carriage, the tenantry, and the duke's re-
tainers falling in the rear of the royal suite. The cavalcade
proceeded through Croxton-park, and across the Grantham-
road, and by the private road to the castle.
Her Majesty and suite arrived at the castle at 10 minutes
past four.

On the arrival of her Majesty a salute of 21 guns was fired
from the castle heights, and the British colours proudly
floatel from the flag tower Qf the castle.
The Duke of Rutland, with Lord Charles Manners and
Lady Adeliza Manners, received the Queen Dowager on her
Majesty alighting from her carriage at the grand entrance,
and conducted his royal guest, followed by the noblemen and
ladies in her Majesty's suite, to the grand saloon. The fine
band of the Leicestershire militia, maintained at the sole ex-
pense of his grace, was stationed in the guard-room, and
played, on the arrival of the illustrious visiter, the national
anthem.

The Marquis of Exeter arrived this evening, on a visit to
the noble duke, from Burleigh-house, Stamford. •
Viscount Burghersh, who has been staying at Gospal-hall
a few days, has arrived.

Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, accompanied by the Hon.
Chas. Stuart Wortley, arrived shortly after six.
Dinner is laid for upwards of 30 this evening, and will con-
sist of the Queen Dowager, Marquis of Exeter, Earl Howe,
Earl and CounteSs of Denbigh, Sir Horace Seymour and.
Lady Clinton, Sir George Palmer, Lord Adolphus Fitz-
clarence, the Hon. Charles and Lady Emmeline Wortley,
Lord Burghersh, Mr. Staunton, Mr. and Lady Elizabeth
Norman, Lady Mary Fielding, Lady Georgiana Curzon, the
Rev. J. R. Wood, Mr. Hortopp, Miss Mitchell, Miss Hud-
son, &c.

Her Majesty has repeatedly expressed her deep sense of
:he kindness and regard evinced by the population of Leices-
ter, Melton Mowbray, and the villages the royal suite has
Nissed. Indeed her Majesty was several times much affected,
ry the emulous exertions exhibited by persons of all classes.

DUBLIN. POLICE, COLLEGE-STREET.

ATTRACTION, ELECTRICITY, AND GRAVITATION !—THE
ADVENTURES OF A HOP MERCHANT, alias A DANCING
MASTER.—A smart, dapper, well-dressed little fellow, about
thirty years of age, whose air bespoke an acquaintance with
aristocracy, charged a very respectable-looking young man,
about twenty years of age, with an assault.
Magistrate (to complainant.)—What's your name ?
Complainant.—Jonathan Skipper.
Magistrate.—What's your complaint against Mr. Henry
Smyth ?
Mr. Skipper.—My complaint is manifold—first of all,
battery of the personal pronoun—that's I myself.
Magistrate.—You appear to be very precise; go on, sir
and state your complaint.
Mr. Skipper.—Well, sir, I was yesterday evening pursuing
the " noiseless tenor of my way" down a street called after
,one of the fair daughters of Eve—vulgo, Dame-street, ad-
miring the beauties of nature, when by some chance or other
—I can't say bad, but certainly, as the finale proved, not very
propitious—my winkers, alias my eyes, rested on the most
beautiful natural curiosity that ever graced this sublunary
planet, in the shape of a ruby-lipped, rosy-checked, diamond-
eyed girl—(tremendous laughter)—and as the loadstone
draws metal to its embrace, so was I lured by the eyes of this
syren ; that's attraction ! I was not suffered long to remain
in this trance of blessed oblivion, when I experienced a strange
sort of shock, in consequence of a concussion between the
organ of veneration on my forehead and a hard substance
called an oaken towel—that's electricity ! Shortly after,
when I became conscious of the still existing unity of the
spirit with the more mortal part of this machine—(laying
his hand on his breast)—l found myself a prostrate inhabitant
of " the vile earth, from whence I sprung ;" in other and
plainer terms, I found myself rolling in the gutter, and that's
what I call gravitation ! (Renewed roars of laughter.)
Magistrate.—What are you, sir?

Mr. Skipper.—l'm a hop merchant.
Magistrate.—Oh, you deal in hops—do you ?
Mr. Skipper.—No, sir, I deal out hops to others ; I'm a
dancing master. (Roars of, laughter, which lasted several
minutes.)
_

Magistrate.—Then, I suppose your hopping advances to
the lady in company with Mr. Smyth became offensive, and
he thought proper to exercise the musles of his right arm by
knocking you down ; is that the fact ?

Mr. Skipper.—Thou hast most unkindly hit it, sage sir.
Magistrate.—And Mr. Smyth has most unkindly hit you ?
Mr. Skipper.—By gingo he did, and no mistake !
Mr. Smyth.—The fact is, that myself and my sister were
proceeding to a friend's house in the neighbourhood of Mer-
rion-square, where we were to dine, when this person came
up, and poked his face under my sister's bonnet, making use
of some insulting expressions.
Mr. Skipper.—No, I only said—
From the rose in the garden, my Kathleen dear,
Thou hast stolen that blush of thine ;
From the light of the sunbeams, my Kathleen dear,
Have thine eyes, thy bright eyes, learned to shine !
Magistrate.—By your own account, you acted very impro-
perly, and provoked Mr. Smyth by insulting his sister. We
dismiss the charge.
Mr. Skipper, the hop-merchant, then hopped out of the
board room.

SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—The works of the remain-
ing portion of this line, eighteen miles and a half between
Basingstoke and Winchester, are in such a state as to leave
no doubt in the minds of the directors of its being open to
the public by the Ist of May next.—Railway Times.
STRANGE IF TRUE.—Yates cannot have the American
giant at the Adelphi, as he declines to come over to this
country, because " the twenty-first of June is not long enough
for him to stand upright in." The said giant has a rival
dwarf in Philadelphia, who is so short that he hasn't paid his
debts these five years.