The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-10 00:00:00

HOLLAND.
The First Chamber held a secret sitting, with closed
doors, on the 3d, and decided that the debates o❑ the
subject of the treaty of commerce with Belgium,
held in general committee, shall not be made public.—
Amsterdam Courant, March 7.

RUSSIA.
The works of the railway from St. Petersburgh to
Warsaw are being carried on with extraordinary
activity. The number of workmen at present exceeds
10,000, and they work during part of the night. All
the rails necessary for the immense line are to be de-
livered by the end of July, and the contracts for the
supply of locomotives have just been signed.

LITERARY .FORGERIES.
(From the Athenteure.)
The" Shelley Letters," published by Mr. Menton, and
reviewed in our paper a fortnight since, are, it turns out,
with but one or two exceptions, forgeries. It is proper
to say at once that Mr. Meson has been deceived, and
that no gentleman from the moment of the discovery
could have acted more straightforwardly and promptly
than he has done in this transaction. As soon as he was
eonvinced that he had been the means (the innocent
means) of giving to the public a false article, he did his
best to repair his mistake. He has suppressed the book,
and has called in the copies delivered to the trade.
The discovery was made in quite an accidental manner.
Mr. Moxon had sent a copy of the book to Mr. Tenny-
son. During a visit which Mr. Palgrave was paying to
Mr. Tennyson he dipped into the Shelley volume, and
lighted on a letter written from Florence to Godwin
—the better half of which he at once recognised as
part of an article on Florence written fur the Quar-
terly Review so far back as 1840 by his father, Sir
Francis Palgrave. It is good to find a son so well
versed in the writing of his father as young Mr. Pal-
graye proved himself to be on this occasion. He lost
no time, as we may suppoaee. in communicating his
curious discoverytto his father, and Sir Francis, after
comparing the printed letter with the printed article,
wrote at once to Mr. Moxon, informing him that the
letter—by whomsoever written—was a "crib" from an li
article which he had written for the Quarterly Review.
Startled at such intelligence, Mr. Moxon replied that
he had bought the letter at a public sale among other
letters also by Shelley, and that the passage of which Sir
Francis claimed the authorship was contained in a let-
ter written by Shelley, carrying upon it the post-mark
of the period and other written signs which apparently
marked it to be genuine. The Deputy-Keeper of the
Public Records was, it may be readily imagined, equally
startled with Mr. Moxon at the announcement ot such
a fact. He wanted to see the letter. The letter was
produced. "It looks genuine; is it not genuine?" "I
am the author of that passage, but not the writer of
that letter," was the reply o: Sir Francis. "But may
not Sir Francis," it was urged to Mr. Moxon, " have
seen this letter in the noble collection of autographs be-
longing to his father-in-law, Mr. Dawson Turner?" a
question which only added a fresh difficulty to the solu-
tion sought.
In this emergency Mr. Moxon had recourse to the
assistance of a gentleman known to be conversant with
autographs. The letters were placed in his hands with
a request that he would spare no pains to ascertain the
truth about them—and with this information to guide
him—that they had been shown to some Post-office
clerks at the General Post-office, who " to toe best of
their belief," pronounced them to be genuine.
The floret step taken after this was to compare the
post-marks with Byron's letters to Mr. Murray, posted
from the same cities in the same mouth and year, and to
the same city—London. Here they failed, and in this
way. Where " Ravenna" on a genuine letter was in a
small sharp type—in the Shelley letter it was in a large
uncertain type; and in the letters from Venice the post-
mark of the City of Palaces was stamped in an Italic,
and not, as in the Shelley specimens, in a Roman letter!
These were strong fact .; but then the dates agreed with
Shelley'e sojourn as the several places—the seals were
cerrect. The handwriting was marvellously Shelley-
iike—no hesitation abeut it—a free accustomed hand.
" Are they not senuine?"
Fron whom cid Mn Maxon buy these letters? They
were bought at Sotheby leo Wilknescn's, at largo prices.
From whom did Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson receive
them for tale? "We had them from Mr. White, the
bookseller in Paii-mell, over against the Reform Club."
Off runs the gentleatau-detective. " From whom did you,
Mr. White, obtein these letters?" I bought them of two
women—l believed them to be genuine, and I paid large
prices for them in that belief." Such are the words
supposed to have been spoken by Mr. White. The two
women would appear to have been like the man in a
clergyman's band, but a lawyer's gown, who brought
Pope's letter to Curl!.
It would be impolitic at this stage of an important in-
quiry to publish the whole of the particulars placed at
our service in elucidating the forgeries of the letters. It
is proper, however, to say thin) early that there has been
of late years, as we are assured, a most systematic and
wholesale forgery ot letters purporting to be written by
Byron, Shelley, and Kests—that these forgeries cam
upon them such marks of genuineness as have deceived
the entire body of London collectors—that they are
executed with a skill to which the forgeries of Chat-
terton and Ireland can lay no claim—that they have sold
at public auctions mei by the hands of booksellers, to
collectors of experience and rank, and that the imposi-
tion has extended to a large collection of books bearing
not only the signature of Lord Byron, but notes by him
in many of their pages, the matter of the letters being
selected with a thorough knowledge of Byron's life and
feelings, and the whoe of the books chosea with the
minutest knowledge of his tastes and peculiarities.
But the " marvel" of the forgery is not yet told. At
the same sale at which Mr. Moxon bought the Shelley
letters were catalogued for sale a series of (unpublished)
letters from Shelley to his wife, revealing the innermost
secrets of his heart, and containing facts, not wholly
dishonourable facts to a father's memory, but such as a
son would wish to conceal.. These letters were bought
in by the son of Shelley, the present Sir Percy Shelley
—and are now proved, we are told, to be forgeries. To
impose on the credulity of a collector-is a minor offence,
compared with the crime of forging evidence against
the dead, and still minor as in one instance against the
fidelity of a womee.
The forgery ot Chattortun injured no one but an ima-
ginary priest—the forgery of Ireland made a great poet
seem to write worse than Settle could have written—
but this forgery blackens the character of a great man,
and worse still, traduces female virtue.
Mr. Moxon is not the only publisher taken in. Mr.
Murray has been a heavy sufferer, though not to the
same except. Mr. Moxon has printed his Shelley pur-
chases; Mr. Murray—wise through Mr. Moxon's ex-
ample—will not publish his Byron acquieitions.

THE BANK OF FRANCE.

,
- Who treaty recently concluded between the French
Government and the 'Bank of France is, like all the
Public acts. of that• great establishment, a subject of
seri.
roeus importance to 'the financial and commercial in-
. le st not only of the French,people but of Europe. We
- nbytve the not_ forgotten the ti 9ry ices rendered to tree, public
Bank of Frazier, in 1848 "when it carried the
eth": .a.so
14.1 f through. at 'crisis of unia;alleled difficulty; but
under all
eezaieed at that time 'its independence,
and its co:u:ijhe vicias4adao . of ' the political world,
who instill inisGvieredirected, not only by
.M. d'Argout,
of thee Finane cgernor, Oils by the opinion and advice
which. ieeltulede the unttee in the National Assembly,
aeblest,.andenost experienced beads
in the nittien,
allude appears to involve il:ecefet Pleasure to which see now
independence and the strictve4 eensiderable sacrifice of the
,2rinciples by which the Bank
of- France has hitherto directed; and the effect
which these changes ine):. her: .
~,,,,, rie
ntorprodace on the opera-
tions of such an institui
examine
them
with
sours rainaters it incumbent on us to.
The Bank off France rain:
pwrievidesgtr independentaea. "of the
been granted in
Government,
at the end of 12
1840 for 24 years, sabjrct te a b_r:e3.‘ak,
years; but they eeuld not be
fi
!veil ,
yours i froul tetuhseion of the
an eaimpotrhteant
wnattrawe with
om present
coiseeet of the Bank itself. The ex . out the
creditor of
privilege . to
lime tar therel re,
th,-9 Benk' is
Moreover, as
the Stete-te a very. lame
it , amount, it had ; ,
a of
rimer to enforce -cc tth teabority its owe conditions.''ltßuy,tor reasons wbieb 'ore to be 'alwe riburee, believe
Buy,
..to 4 Peoeneleat lie
er :u a publics motive, ye. d'Arg.„Z
nes heen induced to accep7. Vrali c''ff''''x'g materiseie
fr'm the Principles cet we icls the Bank has hitherto bees•
:administered. Theleoefiee, if suoe it be, is, however,.
sedentary, and we ace not eewere, of any circumstances
. that compelb.d the•Benk to submit to the arrangements,
The repayment of; the debt of 75 millions now due
from, the State to theeßeek ie by. the Arst article, to be
spree& over a period of 'l5 years•-;g1 measure not other-
wise reprehensible thinethetierenders this large sum of
money lese available tot thee:general purposes of Oa
Berk during a very pretreated peri .. •ea ,
and that, in case of
- the negotiation of fresh edieneee or theeoccurrence cf any
stri'den crisis requiring the 'Whele'rcsources of the Bank,
*it Might prave a cense: table -and.- iedoweertible burden.
. ' At any rate the. Sate, anti riot the Bank, 'is the sole
~ ainer' by this transaaion, ,e"' ,
-Ple 'e e ,muttaneutisly with
this decree, and forming part of one Q. f itsstipulated pro-
visions, the. Bank has eonsented to reduce, the rate of,
Interest to three pet cent-- at a -time,vrheu neither. the
price of the public securities nor the ordinary rate of
commercial discount .in France appears to warrant such
' a reduction. It- has -never been customary, for the
.tank of France to vary and adept its rate or diacOunt
. to the money-market as frequently as is done. by the
Bank of England. Sill lrs, haS it been usual to make
5m6 likrge a reduction as 1 per cent. at one blow. Such a
ntrau
re ix obviousl dictated by the political cove_nee of ;he Government much more than by the cora-
mereial interests
of the Bank or the positive demands'
of the public. It
in thoi eau r--7
pmedeetls of the Bank'of France has reached an Wl-
alone deterneee amount, and that if the abundance of money
might reasaasoithe rate of discounts some reduction
money is equally Iff be made. But . the price of
want of coMmercial *et"'
by
uh"th"
cause,
namely.
the
banks most abund,nafilence. Money is sieposited in
employst eteewheTe7Vihen men' are most afraid to
promote the accumeiatihthe "rrY same cause which
anal themselves of to IL 4, -hlii;pose4 prudent men to
. than the former rate t el 4 tke.want of confidence more
'
, commercial transactions iti v
e eiscount •
which has' suspended
force a
supply of m0,e3,,,,„ii ther4Dee, and the attempt to
- ptice of it will tend rather ee metrket by
.lowering the
. .than well-consideredbusinee promote loose speculation
8' The print
- Bank thirdanc are arstte,accordin . . eadvences of the
,tke " signature" to.
ttc,
bitii voile regulatioub, upon
•111Thanres by way of (!orseta,nt "cePts. These third
. ~,
toti
axe
,litantr
chiefly
rooks. aca.t,hare the securities to
}"'hest its tenses of • Paris to theit teZtra given by the
. a Gointoiati. ' naenir takin
*/ be on te ceche, the risk., ,it Ah 4..„ f ,
d. g
lowered at the Bank, it by no in ate 0 . iscount
ens follows that
more firit•dam bills will be discountedt by that inatitu- •

tion; but more bills will be presented at the discount
houses, and if they are of a doubtful character the pro-
fit on them will be raised, so that the reduction of in-
terest will go into the pocket of the intermediate agent,
who gives the third signature.
The only correct test of the proper rate of 'eterest on
the discounts of a national bank is the price of the public
funds and the common rate of private discount. With
the Five per Cents. in Paris at 106, and the common rate
of discount at 4 or 3i, we can only regard the sudden
lowering of the rate of interest from 4 to 3 by the Bank
of France as an arbitrary attempt on the part of the
Government to lower the value of money to an
artificial standard, and to evade the natural laws of
trade. It would obviously be a more advantageous mea-
sure on the part of the Bank to invest its superabundant
capital in the purchase of Three per Cent. Rentes at 70,
than to discount paper and to extend its advances to the
State at 3 per cent. at par, and we are at a loss to un-
derstand how the Bank can lend money at 3 per cent.
which may now be invested in the public funds at a little
below 5.
This part of the agreement is not, however, its greatest
or its most irremediable innovation. A wider departure
from sound principles and from the existing regulations
of the Bank of France is the proposal to enable that in-
stitution to make advances on railroad securities, as it
has hitherto done on funded securities and first-class
private bills only. We know, by the experience of this
country that railroad property—even of the best
kind—partakes to an alarming extent of all the
variations ,of commercial enterprises and speculations.
The same motives that deter a national banking estab-
lishment, on which, as in France, the public credit and
the private transactions of the nation may be said to
depend, from embarking in industrial speculations, have
hitherto opposed all advances on such securities; and,
even in this country, they have only been admitted
under strict limitations. The object of the Govern-
ment in encouraging the Bank of France to assist these
speculations is to promote the construction of the
principal lines of railway, and to facilitate the transac-
tions of the railway market. But that object is un-
doubtedly one of secondary importance in comparison
with the interests the Bank has constantly to protect,
especially in 'a country like France, where no man can
say that three months will not witness some political and
financial crisis. At such a moment, if the available re-
sources of the Bank are sunk in deferred loans to the
State, or lent out on railway securities, that may become
unsaleable at any price, it is evident that a suspen-
sion of cash payments might again be the result ;
and the effort to give an artificial impulse to trade would
recoil on the establishment at the cost of which it is
made. The only solid foundation on which the commer-
cial interests of France can be restored to healthy acti-
vity is that Confidence which is far more deficient than
capital; and confidence can only spring from reliance
on the good sense and moderation of the Govern-
ment. It is destroyed by a series of fantastic and
capricious decrees anticipating the duties of the
Legislature, some of which have already attacked
the rights of property, while others threaten to overturn
the first principles of taxation. To facilitate the advance
of money at low interest, with no corresponding increase
of confidence and security, is merely to encourage men
to gamble and to speculate; and measures which might
be laudable in a highly flourishing state of society be-
come questionable when they are employed to disguise
the stagnation of trade, or to compensate the losses
caused by a recent revolution.—Times.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price Current, March 9.)
SUGAR.—To-day West India Sugar was operated in
with reluctance for home consumption, and in some cases
the rates taken for refining as well as grocery sorts were
rather under those of Friday. Operations are 350 hhdB,
&c., including a public sale of 70 tres end 8 brls Deme-
rara, which sold at 30s to 31s for common yellow, and
mid to fine brown 27s to 29s per cwt. Ot Barbadoes
none was brought forward.
REFINED.—To-day Refined Sugar was operated in
with caution for home trade purposes, and rates rather
incline downwards. there being a more plentiful supply;
low brown Lumps ate offered at 445. per owt. Ia the
position of the 'market for Crushed Sugar there is no
change.
MAIIRITIIIS.—This afternoon there was a further in-
crease in supply of Mauritius Sugar, and rates declined
61 to la per cwt. Of 14,200 bags at auction barely the
half found buyers, fine yellow went at 34s 61 to 35s 6d,
good
32s to 345, add 30s 6d to 313 6d, low 295 to 30s,
good to fine brown 278 to 295, other kinds 22s to 265,
low to fine grey 27s to 33s 6d, grainy yellow 34s to
38s 6d, and brown 26s to 30s.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon grainy Bengal Sugar
met with a free sale at the full currency, but other sorts
were dealt in with caution, and easier terms were acceded
to. At auction 4,275 bags were mostly disposed of, mid
grainy white at 41s to 41s 6d, fine yellow do. 37s 6d to 395,
other sorts 31s to 375, brown 281 6d to 30s, and good
white Benares 34s to 355. Madras is rather cheaper,
with the exception of grainy ; of 3,900 bags at auction
the chief part sold—grainy white at 40s 6d to 425, good
to fine yellow ditto 35s to 37; ord to mid 32s to 345 6d,
soft brown 22s to 23s 6d, ord to mid yellow ditto 248 to
25s per cwt.
FOREIGN.—To-day there was a farther increase of
demand for foreign Sugar for shipping, and former rates
were easily obtained. Operations privately are 1,500
chests brown Bahia, nearly all at 15s, and a cargo Per-
nambuco at is 6d for a near port. None was offered at
auction to-day.

MOLASSES.-The supply remains scanty, and at late
rates there are several buyers of West India; the value
of Antigua is 13s 6d to 14s, and other sorts 12s 6d to
13s. Cuba and Porto Rico wanted at 13s to 13s 6d,
Bengal and Mauritius I ls 6d to 12s; few parcels are,
however, unsold. Honey still finds a free sale, good to
flee Jamaica at 48s to 565, and low middling 40s to 475;
indeed an advance is looked for. Several transactions
have taken place in Tamarinds. East India at 7s to 12s,
and West India 24s to 34s per cwt.
COFFEE.-To-day Coffee attracted little attention for
shipping or home consumption, yet there was firmness
on the part of merchants, and previous rates are sus-
tained for all sorts. Native Ceylon cannot be obtained
under 39s for good prd quality. There was again no
public sale.
Cocoe..-This afternoon Trinidad Cocoa was less in
demend, yet lower rates were rejected. At auction 300
bags Trinidad were only in part sold, low to mid grey
at 30s to 31s 61, good red 375, and common 33s 6d
per cwt.
TEA.-Operations in the lower kinds of Congou are
rather important daring the last few days, and at pre-
vious rates less desire is evinced to sell. For better sorts
demand has not improved, yet prices have ceased to de-
cline, but supply is not smaller. The value of low
quality is 7id to lid, good ord sound, 8d to 84d,
blackish leaf 9d to 100, flue and Pekoe
kinds 1 Id to is sd. Oolong sells more freely,
still no advance has taken place, rates ruling at 8d to 10d
for low to mid, and good to fine lid to la 3d. A fair
demand now prevails for Souchong, and the downward
movement has ceased, good to fine realizing lld to is 6d,
and interior 8d to 10d. Pouchong is wanted at 4d to
7d; few parcels are on offer.- Green Tea is less pressed
for sale, and in prices no variation has transpired since
this day week. For common and medium a brisker
demand prevails; at present better sorts -are attracting
little attention. Hyson of low and mid quality is held fur
is to is 3d, good to fine is 4d to 2s, superior 2a 2d to
2.3.8 d; Young Hyson, common 10d to Is, mid to good is
to is 6d, superior is 8d to 2s 2d, Imperial Canton 10d to
11d, Hyson sort 2s Od to 2s 2d, Gunpowder, Canton
Sd to Is ; Hyson kind, low to mid is id to is 6d,
good to fine Is 7d to 3s 3d, Caper 8d to
Is 3d, and Hyson skin 7d to Is. Of Scented
Orange Pekoe several parcels have been sold, and there
is now a firm market for better sorts. The value of
common is 8d to I Id, and mid to fine Is to is 7d. In
flowery Pekoe rather more has been done, still there are
free sellers of fine to superior at is 8d to 2s Bd, and low
to good Is to Is 6i.
Rice.-To-day the market for East, India Rice eves
inactive, and former terms are with difficulty sustain( d;
mid white Bengal can be obtained at 10s. There was nu
public sale, and few parcels are declared.
SPIRITS.-Leeward Island met with little notice since
our las: report, and rates are on the decline, ruling at is
5d to is 6d proof. Few transactions have taken piece
in Ess: India; and at la 4d there are sellers, the mar-
ket being more freely supplied. Demerara met with
hale notice, and a desire is evinced.to sell at to 2s
31 for 30 to 40 ,ver preoi. There is a plentiful supply of
Jamaica; shippers as well es home dealers operating with
reluctance, lust week's valuations are barely sustained ;
'"oleo marks 3-i to 38 over proof are offend at from
33 6i to 43,.tine 33 to 3s sd, goad mid to good 32 to 35
fineraneax
'Svoer, 246 d to 2s 10d, mid 2,4 d to 2s 6d, and low 27 to
3 over proof 2,2 d to 2s 3d. Rum is cheaper than last
Year ; some home trade deliveries are smaller, but larger
eales have
exportation. For older sorts of Brandy a brisker es,-
'l,3` 3, and hill rates obtained ; but in other kinds
e7zalimited; yet there is no decline. Prices
for Cogium
4s, 2d to 4a 4d, beat brands of the vintage of 1851 rule at
4e 2d to 4s lid, Itr ditto 4s 5d to 4s 7d, 1849 ditto
rata
2s 6d
bs 3d to 5s 50, older 5s 6d to
tinge
Ern,iti,to 43, and Bordeaux 2s to 2s 20.
ria 6d, low to
Briti,h-made Spirit at 9s 1 1 d
6EO
ei
ale
va is : r'49edasn tho; 1? illciT2:2r:nitimAler 8s 6J, and 17 ditto 9s.
23 to 2s 2d per gallon.
CocusezEate-A large demand
vanes; :ales of Honduras sayers have
son:Taut' arid on speculation; ratese aariels,lboth for eon-
a bseoerionmthaedeaaa;
.is
Id 10 3,7 d, black 3s 7d to 43 103; Mexican 3s 5d
Teneriffe 3s 7d to 4s.
Ee.teTriod':ddasycasietiffer rates being to
2,200 bugs
Stuck is issilrvaetrhse3rsl2esds ttole.3asn3.,t rcytear, and deliveries are
00., checked bus,ir
ususi,yanhodigos
at
demandedd2 i62dtao
9i per cent, and 17
1 l 4 1):'-'2'1-31 6d. There were
fuGbparSolenlituLoatTtuaPmgEhoaTrtbile4a'ulPeli°ll to
26, 60, for refraction
buyers a; last week's valuatiothe washed realised 193 6un
ts
o.
PitovesioNs.-For Irish butter the market has a dull
appearance. Prices for Carlow', Clonmel, and Kilkenny
rule at from 70s to 80s; Waterford C 69 to 745;
Cork 76s to 795; Limerick 65e to 68s; Trale and
Kdrusti 62s to 643; and Sligo 63s to 68s per cwt. There
ie a more plentiful of Dutch. Friezlan(t,
fine at 98s to
,
102,, surplus and seconds 63s to 9'; ii""d '
to 96 fine 80.
to 86s. inferior 62s to 70i; Kempen, fine 92s
Zeoilo 853 to 90., Groningen from 66s to 725, Leer and
•
Emden 60$ to 64,, Kiel end Holstein New
Milk 95s to I°o3, and Stubble 853 to I 903 per
ewe. Prices for English rule from 643 to 104 s;
and fine sells freely, but ordinary is dull of sale. For
Bacon there is a fair markets and with a brisk demand.
Irish small Meat realise 44s to 48s, heavy- ditto 42s to
451. Several purchases hate been made in Middles ;
Irish and America:: at from 403 to 433. Truffle is brisk
fur Lard, and rates are on the advance'
Irish Bladdered
eelling at 503 to 573, Rag and Firkin 45s to
50e, Ham bro' from 46s to 565, and Ame-
rican, Bladdered 523 est° es 545. Hams met with
little attention, Irish and English can be obtained at
48s to 60s. A large demand prevails for barrelled pro-

visions, and the market has a firm tone, sales of Irish
India Beef made at 110 s to 1164 p-r cwt. Prime Mess
90s to 955, India Pork 1153 to 120 x; Prime Mess 67s 6d
to 703 per barrel, and interior 62s 6d to 653 per barrel.
Cheese finds a brisk sale, Edam 35s to 425, Gouda 30s
to 38s; Manta 188 to 18s 6d, and American 323 to 465.
TALLOW.—In consequence of a reduction of 3d to 6d
per cwt having been submitted to for Russian on the spot
a good home trade has been experienced. Fine old yel-
low Candle is now 353 to 35s 3d, and new 353 6d to 35s 9d
pe: cwt. Operations are of little moment for delivery, with
sellers at 35s 6d for next two months, and at 37a to 37s 3d
for the latter part of the year. Home melted cannot be
obtained under 36s net cash, and a good demand pre-
vails. Of South American 300 pkgs at auction mostly
sold at 32s to 35s 9d for low to fine. Of 650 casks
Australian, about one-half found buyers; Mutton 32s to
35s 9d, Beef 33s to 345; 600 casks wrecked Petersburgh
all sold 33s to 355; and 485 casks Soap Tallow 32s 3d
to 33s per cwt.
Oms.—Prices are not better for Seal Oil, although se-
veral purchases have been made; pale is 301 to 301 103,
and other sorts 271103 to 291 10s. Cod is still wanted,
and realize from 321 103 to 331, there being no increase
of supply. Several purchases have been made in
Southern, low to fine quality at from 321 to 34/, and
supply remains small. For Sperm the market remains
in a firm position, and several transactions have taken
place at 831 to 85/; Headmatter is 861 to 941. There is
an increasing demand for Rapeseed Oil, and a less
quantity is pressed for sale; brown realized 29s 6d to
365, pale 30s 6d to 31s, and Foreign Refined 31s 6d
to 325. Prices range firm for Olive, and a good
demand still prevails; Gallipoli is 441 to 451, and
other sorts 421 lOs to 431 lOs per tun. In
Linseed Oil important purchases have been made
for shipping, and for home consumption there are not
sellers for present delivery under 26s 6d. Palm remains
in good request from 25s 6d to 275. For Cocoa Nut
there are several buyers; Cochin at 34s to 365; Ceylon
33s to 355; Sydney 30s to 31s. Lard Oil is wanted at
47s to 50s per cwt.

THE LONDON GAZETTE, March 9.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MARCH 2, 1852.
Notice is herebyltiveen that her Majesty will hold a
levee at St. James's Palace on Wednesday, 24th March
instant, at two o'clock.
REGULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED AT THE QUEEN'S
LEVEES, AT ST. JAMES'S PALACE.
The Noblemen and Gentlemen who purpose to attend
her Majesty's Levee, at St. James's Palace, are requested
to bring with them two large cards, with their names
clearly written thereon, one to be left with the Queen's
Pege in Attendance in the Presence-chamber, and the
other to be delivered to the Lord Chamberlain, who will
announce the name to' her Majesty.
Those Gentlemen who are to be presented are hereby
informed, it is absolutely necessary that their names,
with the name of the Nobleman or Gentleman who is
to present them, should be sent into the Lord Chamber-
lain's-office, on the Monday previous to the Levee
on the 24th of March next, before twelve o'clock, in order
that they may be submitted for the Queen's approbation;
it being her Majesty's command, that no presentation
shall be made at the Levees but in conformity with the
above regulations.
It is particularly requested, that in every case the
names be very distinctly written upon the cards to be
delivered to the Lord Chamberlain, in order that there
may be no difficulty in announcing them to the Queen.
The state apartments will not be open for the reception
of company coming to Court until half-past one o'clock.
Notice is hereby given, that all persons having peti-
tions or addresses to present to her Majesty at the
Lever, are to send a card (having on it their names, a
statement of the object of such petitions or addresses,
and the names of the persons from whom they come) to
the Lord Chamberlain's Office, before twelve &clock,
on the Monday previous to the Levee on the
24th of March next ; and that two other earth!,
having on them precisely what is written upon that sent
to the Lord Chamberlain's effice, ,are to be taken to the
Levee; one of the two cards to be delivered to the Page
ie the Ante-Room, and the other to the Lord Chain-
berlain, who will read its contents to her Majesty; and,
on these occasions, no other statement is to be addressed
to her Majesty.
A deputation to present an address is not to exceed
four persons.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MARCH 2.
Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold a
drawing-room, at St. James's Palace, on Thursday, the
Ist of April next, at two o'clock.
REGULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED AT TEE QUEEN'S