The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-14 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a Privy Council at two o'clock yes-
terday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. It was attended
by 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 Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer, the President of the India Board,
the President of the Board of Trade, the Chief Secretary
for Ireland, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain,
and the Master of the Horse.
At the Council an Order in Council was issued, revok-
ing an Order in Council of February last, respecting the
holding the Summer Assizes at Newtown, in Montgo-
meryshire.

Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in
Waiting.
Her Majesty gave audiences to the Marquis of Lans-
downe, Lord John Russell, the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, Earl of Albemarle, and Viscount Melbourne.
The Court was attended by the Marchioness of Nor-
manhy, Lady in Waiting, Lord Byron, Lord in Waiting,
the Comptroller of the Household, Mr. Rich, Groom in
Waiting, and Colonel Wemyss, Equerry in Waiting.
The Royal Dinner party at the Palace yesterday, in-
cluded the Duke of Argyle, Marquis of Anglesea and Lady
Adelaide Paget, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of Liverpool
and Lady Louisa Jenkinson, Earl and Countess of Ches-
terfield, Eat 1 and Countess of Clanwilliam, Earl of Ux-
bridge, Li rd and Lady Seymour, Lord Alfred Paget, and
Lord George Paget.
The Band of the Ist Life Guards attended at the Palace
during the evening.
The Hon. Miss Cocks, and the lion. Miss Cavendish,
have succeeded the Hon. Miss Spring Rice, and the lion.
Miss Paget, as the Maids of Honour in Waiting on the
Queen.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by Lady
Clinton, lion. Miss Boyle and Earl Howe, left Marlbo-
rough House at ten o'clock yesterday morning in a car-
riage and four, for Bushy Park. His Serene Highness
the Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar, attended by
M. de Wagner, and Captain Count de Beust, accompa-
nied her Majesty to Bushy Park.' The Duchess and the
Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Miss Kerr,
went from town to Bushy, yesterday, and partook of a de-
jeune with her Majesty. The Queen Dowager, the He-
reditary Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar, the Duchess and
the, Princess Augusta of Cambridge, returned to town
from Bushy last evening.
The Duchess of Gloucester, attended by Miss Harvey,
went yesterday to Bagshot Park.
The Duke of Cambridge attended the funeral of the
late Sir Herbert Taylor, at St. Katherine's yesterday
morning. His Royal Highness visited the Princess Au-
gusta in the afternoon.

Prince Augustus. and Prince Leopold of Saxe Cobourm,
accompanied by Count Alexander Mensdorf, and attended
by Lord Alfred Paget, visited the Tower yesterday, and
afterwards the Royal Mint.
A Deputation from the New Zealand Land Company,
consiming of the Earl of Durham, Governor ; Mr. Somes,
Deputy-Governor, and the following Directors, viz.:--
Lord Petro, Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Mr. Hutt, M. P.,
Mr. Russell Ellice, Mr. Alderman Pirie, Mr. G. F.
Young, Mr. Thomas Hankey, Mr. Boulcott, Mr. Willis,
and Mr. J. B. Gordon, and Mr. John Ward, the Secre-
tary, had :an interview with the Marquis of Normanby
yesterday, at the Colonial Office.
Mr. Colquhoun had an interview with the Marquis of
Normanby yesterday.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes•
terday in the. Council Chamber. An application was
made for an extension of the term of Basey Downton's Pa-
tent. The case was adjourned. The Lords present were
Lords Lyndhurst and Brougham, the Judge of the Prero-
gative Court, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS

lIE R L D.—The pressure for money in the Commer-
cial Markets is becoming much more severe than even the
best informed anticipated a few days ago, and, without
exaggeration at present, we may add, it cannot well be
conjectured how it will end. We have learnt, and we
assert with some degree of confidence, that the late state-
ments on this subject, which have appeared under this
bead, have been but too sadly confirmed.
The commercial letters from the manufacturing dis-
tricts are very gloomy upon the subject of the restriction
which has been put upon bills sent up here for discount
with the endorsements of certain joint-stock banks.
There appears to be but very little doubt amongst the
commercial and monetary interests that the present deter-
mination of the Bank of England to clear the " Augean
stables" of the discount market of those pests to sound
principles of commerce, accommodation and cross bills,
will and must be attended with many painful results ; at
the same time it is quaintly inquired who were the parties
that in the first instance encouraged by their countenance
the " rags" which for more than two years have kept the
commercial markets in this country in a perpetual whirl
of derangement.

The rollovving official return of the exports of bullion
from the 6th to the 12th of June inclusive, shows that the
exportation of the precious metals is still carried on to a
very serious extent :—The amount of gold coin exported
has bean 4,838 ounces, and of bars 2,550 ounces : of silver
coin 5,050 ounces, and of bars 4,010 ounces.

Money has been more in request to day in the English
Stock Market, and, coupled m a minor degree with the
intelligence from Constantinople, of the warlike demon-
strations between the Porte and the Pacim of Egypt, it
has had the effect of creating much heaviness, and a slight
decline in the British Funds. Money is still worth from
15 to 20 per cent. per annum in the Foreign'Market ac-
cording to circumstances, but as the bears are anxious to
redeem their position, the market generally has not abated
of its firmness.

POST.—There was again a great want of money at
the Stcck Exchange. On the English Market as much
as iq per cent. interest was said to have been paid
upon the deposit of stock, while on the Foreign the rate
has ranged between 15 and 20 per cent. for loans till
the close of the next Account, much depending upon
the quality of the stock deposited, and the lenders
taking care, where the commodity offered was nothing
better than Spanish or Portuguese, that the quantity
was sufficiently large to cover them. From this circum-
stance it may be easily guessed what would be the con-
sequence of any amount being brought forward to be rea-
lised. The scene of the memorable May Account of 1835
would probably in that case Le re-enacted, as, in the opi-
nion of• many, it certainly must sooner or later. The
threatening aspect of affairs in the East, combined with this
continued stringency in the Money Market, has caused
much depression in the public securities.

THE TRADE OF THE COUNTRY.—The offi-
cial returns which have just been made public relative to
the trade of the United Kingdom, proves that though the
past year was not marked by any speculations, still the trade
of the country is in a healthy and sound condition. It is shown
by these returns that the value of imports into the United
Kingdom (as per offiical valuation), was 61,268,3201.,
being an increase of 6,500,0001. over the imports of 1837.
The increase of exports of the produce and manufactures of
the United Kingdom has been from 72,548,0471. to
92,450,231/., or very nearly 20,000,000/. Accord-
ing to the returns, the real or declared value of
the produce and manufactures of the United King.
dom shipped off in the year ending on the sth of Ja-
nuary last, was 50,060,9701., or about 8,000,000/. more
than the exports of 1837. The new vessels built last year
in the United Kingdom amounted to 1,490, of the tonnage
of 270,280 tons. In the registration of vessels in the ports
of Great Britain, there was not any material increase last
year—the amount on the 31st December last, was 26,609
ships of the aggregate tonnage of 2,890,601 tons, and
having on board 178,583 men ; in the number of British and
foreign vessels emplo3ed in the foreign trade, there has
been a considerable increase within the last three years,
namely, from 21,478 in 1837, to 24,798 in the corn
mencement of the present year. The aggregate
amount of the tonnage of these vessels has been
increased from 3,404,370 tons, and 191,510 men, to
3,997,053 tons and 223,300 men. The quantity
of British shipping which cleared outward from the
United Kingdom for foreign ports, in the year ending on
the sth of January last, was 15,907 vessels of 2,876,236
tons, and 162,763 men, showing an increase over the re-
turns of the previous year of about 33,000 tons, and nearly
15,000 men. There was also an increase in the number
of foreign ships, their tonnage and crews, which cleared
out from the British ports last year. The totals of both,
on the sth January last, were 24,427 vessels of 4,099,039
tons, and employing 231,149 men. It appears from these
statements, made from official data, that not only is tho
trade and commerce of the country in a favourable posi-
tion, but that the British as well as the foreign ship-owners
are in a more flourishing condition than they have been for
many years past.
FIRES.—About ten o'clock yesterday morning,
the house, No. 319, Oxford-street, narrowly escaped de.
struction by fire. It appears that some carpenters em-
ployed in repairing the interior had imprudently made a
fire on one of the stove hearths in an upper room, which
became red hot,and set fire to the beam underneath. No time
was lost in sending fcr engines, which quickly arrived, and
the flames were speedily got under. Another fire hap.
pencd yesterday morning in the shop of Mr. Edwards,
slopseller, in Houndsditch, which was occasioned by the
escape of gas. It was, however, got under before any
great mischief was done.
AN OLD TRICK.—On Saturday night last Mr.
James Ashworth, of No. 8, Edmund's-place, Aldersgate-
street, was robbed of 50/. in Bank notes, by two men, who
having persuaded him to accompany them to the Hunger-
ford Hotel, there left him nothing but waste paper in ex-
change for his Bank notes, which the rogues pretended to
deposit in safety in his fob.

POCKET-PICKING. --At Marlborough•atrcct
police-cffice yesterday James Davis was charged with
having picked the pocket of P. Scrope, Esq., M. P., of
Belgrave-square, of a purse containing four sovereigns
and some silver. The purse was not found on the pri-
soner, but as he was ascertained to be a bad character he
was sent to the treadmill for three months.

THE INTARSIIALSEA PRISON.—There are at
present only thirty four prisoners in this prison, thirty-ono
of whom are in on writs of execution issued out of the
Palace Court, and three committed by the Court of Ad-
miralty. The prison is properly out of the Palace Court,
and forms one of the very heavy charges for keeping up the
Court. Formerly prisoners having committed offences on
the high seas were imprisoned there • but a few years since
an Act of Parliament was passed authorising the Secretary
of State to direct their committal to any other gaol in the
kingdom. Two of the three, Admiralty prisoners are
under commitment, but will shortly be removed, and the
other has been under confinement for upwards of two years
for contempt of the Admiralty Court. When the Palace
Court is abolished, which the officers of the Court are pre.
paring for, it is expected the above prison will bo placed
at the disposal of the county of• Surrey, and thus relieve
Horsemonger-lane gaol of debtors incarcerated by the
Court of Requests for petty debts.
There hare been 60,300 hogsheads of flax
sowed this year in the north of Ireland.

EVENING EDITION.

THE MARQUIS of LONDONDERRY
and MR. H. GRATTAN, M.P. I

Na. 1.

Reform Club, Tuesday Evening, June 11.
Mr. Henry Grattan presents his compliments to Lord
Londonderry. He has seen in the newspapers a speech at-
tributed to his Lordship, an extract from which (the 2forn-
ing Advertiser and Globe) he takes the liberty of enclosing•
He will be much obliged to Lord Londonderry if he will
have the goodness to say whether he meant to apply to bina
the strong terms of opprobrium therein expressed.
To the Marquis of Londonderry, Holdernesse
House, Park-lane.
No. 2.

Holdernesse House, One, P.M., June 12.
Lord Londonderry presents his compliments to Mr."'
Grattan. His note, dated Tuesday evening, has only Jot
reached him. Lord Londonderry read in his place in the
House of Lords an extract from the reports of the newsPa'
pers of a speech of Mr. O'Connell's, stated to have been
made at a public meeting in Dublin, to address the Que!ef
in which accusations were made against that party to wine°
Lord Londonderry is proud to belong. The paragraph
Lord Londonderry cited is as follows :
" Mr. Grattan had said that her Majesty's life would not
be safe if the Tories came into power ; and he, Mr. O'Con-
nell, declared solemnly he was convinced she would not
live six months if that event took place."
Also,
" He knew the Tory party were capatle of every human
baseness and ferocity."
Lord Londonderry at once admits if these sentiments
are accurately reported, accusing the Tory party of an
intention of murdering the Queen, be considers them as
base and infamous. It was to such accusations Lord Lon-
donderry's epithets applied.
To H. Grattan, Esq., M. P., 21, Manchester-buildings'