The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-04 00:00:00

COURT C IRCULAR.

WINDSOR, SEPT. 3.—The Queen rode out on horse-
back this afternoon soon after four o'clock, accompa-
nied by Prince Leopold and Viscount Melbourne, and
attended by the Hon. Miss Anson, Baroness Lehzen,
the Earl of Uxbridge, Lord Gardner, Colonel Wemyss,
and *ir Robert Otway.

The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Charlotte
Dundwas, followed the Royal party in a pony plimton,
and Lady Lyttelton, Baroness Fenyevessy, and Lady
Harriet Clive followed in another carriage and four.
The Royal Dinner party at the Castle this evening,
is expected to include Lord John Russell, the Right
Hon. C. Poule4 Thomson, Ron. Miss Lister, Hon,
Colonel Cavendish, and Majors Armstrong and Webb,
of the Forty-fifth Regiment.
The Earl of Albemarle took his departure from the
Castle this morning. Lord Gardner has been succeeded
by the Earl of Fingri, as L A-3 in Waiting on the
Queen ; and Colonel Armstrong has been succeeded as
Groom in Waiting on her M ijesty by Vice-Admiral
Sir Robert o.Lway.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge returned to
their residence at Kew. on Monday night from Busily
House, Bushy Park, the residence of her Majesty the
Queen Dowager. The Duke of Cambridge, attended
by Baron Knesebeek, came to town yesterday. His
Royal Highness returned in the afternoon to Kew.
The Princess Augusta dined with the Queen on
Saturday, at Windsor Castle.
The Belgian Minister and the Prussian Charge
d'Affaires transacted business yesterday at the Foreign
Office. _ _ .

The Military Secretary to the Commander of the
Forces had an interview with the Marquis of Nor-
manby, at the Home o:fice, ye<Aerday.

FA SHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

Mr. Colles and family, at Marshall Thompson's Hotel,
Cavendish-square, from the Continent; Mr. and Mrs.
Weld, at ditto ; Mr. Woodyeare and family, at ditto ; Mr.
and Mrs. Hornyold, of 131acktnoor Park, and Lon,j's Hotel,
Bond-street, from Paris; Mr. Macfarlane and Mr. Burn-
ley, at ditto, from Scotland; Captain Custance, at ditto,
from Dublin,; Captain Mildmay, at ditto,lrona Lancashire ;
Mr. Alder, at ditto, from the Continent..

DEPARTURES.

Sir Alexander Crichton, Lady and Miss Crichton, from
Long's Hotel, Bond strut, for the Grove, Seal, Kent;
Mr. and Mrs. Fullerton, from ditto, for Brighten; the
Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Steele, Esq., from ditto, for Harrow;
Francis and Wm. Corbins, Esqrs., from ditto, for Paris ;
ArtLur Blake, Esq., from ditto, by the British Queen, for
New Fork; George Biddle, Esq., from ditto, for ditto;
Mears. S. J. and I'. Schnappt.rs, Esqrs., from ditto, for
Frankfurt; Mr. Matthews, from ditto, for Oxford; Capt. F.
Cotton, from ditto, for India; Col. Ferguson, from Fenton's
Hotel, St. James's street, on a tour; Lurd Fitzgerald and
Vesey, !rom Whitehall-place, fur Italy; Sir W. James, Bart ,
M. P., from ditto; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Forbes, on a Con-
tinental tour; Marquis ot Hertford, and Count and Countess
Tehy, from Dorchester House, Park-lane, for Paris, en
route io Italy ; Count Portabs, from the Brunswick HL-
fel, on a tour in the North; Lot d Maidstone, for the
Moors ; Moberly. from Bet keky-street, for Chef-
tcuilam ; Earl Digby, fur Suer bur:, Castle, Dorsetshire;
Colonel Jones, for the Duke of Cambridge's, Kew Pa-
lace; Right Hon. Sir George Nturray, from Belgrave-
square, for Manchester ; Mrs. Ogilby and family, and Miss
Kirwan, from Marshall Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-
square; Mr. and Mrs. Shawe, from di:to, for the Continent.

CHANGES.
Lord Canterbury, from a visit to the Duke of Welling-
ton, at Wal.iwr Castle, for Boulogne-sur- :ger, en route for
Paris ; the Hon. Mr. Fox Stracgways, at the Dowager
Lady I.cheste.r's, Ahhotshury Castle, from Blandford;
Viscount Palmerston, at Broadlands, near Romsey, from
Tiverton Races; Lord and Lady Arundell, from Wendover
Castle, fur Mr. Weld's seat, Lulvvorth Castle, near Wey-
mouth ; the Earl of llchester and Lord Stavordale, at
Melbury House, Dursetshire, from a cruise in the Petrel
yacht; the Hon. Grantley Berkeley, M.P., from -Bland-
ford, Dursetshire, on a tour; Captain and Mrs. Portman,
on a visit to Lord and Lady Portman, at Bryanston House,
Dorset, from a tour; Lord and Lady Fingall, at Killeen
Castle, county Meath, from a tour ; the American Minis-
ter and Mrs. Stevenson, from Birmingham, on a tour in
the North.

SITUATION OF THE BANK IN
1793 AND IN 1839.

For ten years prior to the war, which commenced
in 1793, the foreign exchanges were mostly favour-
) able to Britain, and there was a constant importa-
tion of specie, the surplus of which that was not
required for the use of commerce was as regularly
exported. This country appears to have been an
entrepot for specie until after the commencement of
the war, when the stream that flowed into it was di-
verted from its course to aid apparently in support-
ing the great war expenditure abroad. The follow-
ing is the amount of gold end silver that was ex-
ported from this country in the following year :
Gold. Silver.
1790
1791
1792
1793
1794
and during these years gold coin was issued from
I the mint to the value of 11,595,274/., being above
• two millions sterling in each year. All this while
the bullion in the Bank, with the exception of the
year 1793, when a great commercial convulsion
took place, and when it fell to 4,010,6801.,
amounted to five, six, and eight millions ; and
the exchange was, with the exception also of
the year 1793, in favour of this country. It
was in 1795 that it became unfavourable, and
remained so till about the end of 1796 ; and
the importation of the precious metals fell off, as
well as the exnortation. Yet it is singular, that
it was now only that the exportation of specie was
complained of. But the reason was, that. though a
smaller quantity was exported, namely, in 1795,
of gold 32,609 oz., and of silver 1,764,914, and in
i 1796, of gold 10,116, and of silver 930,234, yet
this smaller quantity was abstracted from the ex•
isting stock, which was not replenished by impor-
tation, and there was besides an illicit exporta-
tion of guineas, which were obtained in ex-
change for paper, and it was then that the drain
commenced on the Bank, precisely as at present,
for specie to be sent abroad, and continued
throughout the year 1795 and 179 G, when its stock
was diminished from six to five millions, in Feb •
ruary 176 to 2.,539,630/. and finally in 1797 to
1,086,1701. So far there is an exact resemblance
between the state of matters at present and in 1795
and 1796. As the Bank was then, so it has now been
subjected to a continued drain of specie for more
than a year past, and its stock of cash is greatly
reduced. At that time the demand for specie was
• accounted fur by the necessity of making remit-
tances on account of the great war expenditure, not
only on the continent of Europe, but in the West
Indies, and in other parts, and which amounted
for the first four years of the war to 33,510,7791.,
end on account also of the large importations of
emin which were found necessary to supply the de-
e,
ticieat harvest of 1794, the value of which was esti-
mated at 8,946,012. At present we cannot
clearly account for the unfavourable exchange,
and for tire drain of specie to which the Bank
has been and is still exposed. There is no great
expenditure abroad ; and though grain has been
imported to the value of ten or twelve millions ster-
ling, yet this seems scarcely sufficient to account
foi such a continued demand for specie. This is
not surely the only medium of Payment that could
be found by a great commercial country abounding
in all that is necessary for the use and comfort of
man.—Edinburgh Courant.

BARTHOLOMEW FA IR.— Yesterday, according
t'
.annual custom the Lord Mayor, attended by the officers
ol tht: et:iporatio'n, prcceeded in state from the Mansion-
-I°,,ten
wonpekroclaim Bartholomew Fair. Shortly after
Clo:h Fair, whis Lordship arrived at the gate leading into
by
hi,,h;Lrncrdthe proclamation tor
was
.read holding the fair
ph national ip's attorney ; the bands then struck
annual ,iaturnalian anthem, and the fair commenced. This
„,„"„,ce of festival,the regulations
which has for years past, in
ICouncil, bleu contra.
again sadly
In consequevce of of Court of Common
~ ourtailedd to narrow arrow limits, is this year
theaomimyrovernents lately effected
its fair proportions."
in Smithfield market, a
angsepoitns thelongstateion!
will
of the booths hatl taken placPeleatendcht
}lad by Biehardsores travelling theatre
7goklroin,,,,,ewrhreen.
mind the spectators: of the scene of ittsirneformer
. hearing its merits
the veteran' owner used to delight
p oclairned aloud to the world in a voice of Stentor by
Tthhis year,
the " bow Iciest speaker" in all his company,
i.i imitation of another ,:s!abiisment—butat
time :narking the ingloriotts state of the drama at thee suaTne
sent day—it will appear in juxtaposition with Womb. ~,' rel-el.
collection of wid beasts ; consequently, the roaring.'B
e
the lions and tigers theleiii cat. be made available " for all
the purposes of the dr:ma," wit:-hout the expense unially
attendant thereon. With regard to the other exhibitiutis
they are of Llie most meagre description; and there is lit-
tle doubt tnat in a very few years the once•celebrated fair
ef Bartholomew will la';., mentioned only as amongst the

things that have• been.
Silk handkerchiefs, a la Van Amburgh, are
now selling at Paris, repres.nting that celebrated tamer uf
animals and his wild bedsts.

THE WEATHER.—After some showery Wea-
ther We have in London this morning a fine day with a
br'ght sun.

-NECHARTISTS AND THE MILITARY.:—
OnMo,day the :51Ayor of Hull
,g.lve directions to the .Su-
F.wiinterailent of Police that two Of his
men should, fcr i!r
tuture: attend in uniform at th.. Chartist meetings held :n
order that What Passed there might be comonini-
:rated to the ituthoritim