The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-23 00:00:00

Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. have been at
1041 to g.
...... . . . .

Railway Shares have been quieter, and have riot
supported the highest prices of Saturday, either for
the English or French.
Gold Mine Shares have been quite neglected,
although the Californian and Australian advices
are very encouraging as to the gold production.
Crystal Palace Shares are firmer.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
( From the Official Lot.)

Business done.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities lOO 99i
3 per Cant. Consols Annuities
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726
New 31 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire bth Jan., 1860
India Stock
India Bonds, £lOOO
Ditto, under £lOOO
South Sea Old Annuities 99

South Sea New Annuities
Consols for Account Ist June

Exchequer Bills lid.
£lOOO..
£5OO .
Small

June. March.
par 2 Tar 3p 1 d
par 3 p 1 d
par 3 p 1 d 3 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Newßonds, 1829 & 39, 51)er Cent.
Ditto 5 per Cent. (Rothchild's) lOl
Ditto New, 1852, 4i per Cent lOl
Chili= Bonds, 3 per Cent. 79
Equador Bonds
Peruvian Bonds, 41 per Cent. B7
Peruvian Scrip 2l A
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent.
Russian , Bonds, 4i per Cent
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent 9B
Spanish Bonds 3 per Cent
Ditto for the A.ccount ,
Swedish Loan
Venezuela Bonds, 3i per Cent.

49
li dis
37

Consols
Ditto June Account

THREE O'CLOCK.
100 a
1001

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, SATURDAY.
The Queen and Prince walked in the grounds yester•
day.

The Duchess of Kent drove out in the aftermion.

The Royal Dinner Party yesterday included the
Duchess of Kent, Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, the
Hon. Colonel Phipps, and Mr. Gibbs.

!SUNDAY.

Prince Albert, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel the
Hon. A. Gordon, embarked in the royal yacht Fairy
yesterday morning, and proceeded to Portsmouth to
witness the gunnery practice on board the Excellent,
Captain Chads. The Prince returned to Osborne in the
afternoon.

The Judge Advocate-General arrived from London,
and had an audience of her Majesty.
The Queen and Prince, the Duchess of Kent, and
Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, attended by the
Marchioness of Ely and Lady Anna Maria Dawson,
drove out yesterday.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
Foreign-office, Downing-street. The ministers present
were the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord J. Russell, the Lord
Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Palmerstone, the Earl
Clarendon, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James
Graham, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney
Herbert, and Sir William Molesworth. The Council
sat three hours and a half.

A deputation respecting the City Terminus Railway
had an interview with the Right Hon. E. Cardwell on
Saturday, at the Board of Trade. The deputation con-
sisted of Mr. T. H. Hall (chairman), Mr. Deputy Cor-
ney, Mr. H. L. Taylor, Mr. James M. Bernard, Mr.
Henry Blake, and the City Remembrancer.
The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in town on Satur-
day morning from Brighton.

HER ITIAJESTY'S INTENDED VISIT TO THE
DUBLIN EXHIBITION.

We are informed that it is the present gracious inten-
tion of the Queen to honour the Exhibition in Dublin
with a short visit of three or four days, en route to Scot-
land, at the end of the session of Parliament. Her Ma-
jesty will be accompanied by Prince Albert and the
royal children, and by some of her royal and distin-
guished foreign guests. It is now considered that if no
unexpected delays shall occur, Parliament may be ad-
journed at the end of July, or, at farthest, in the first
week of August. This mark of her Majesty's conside-
ration for, and of favour to, this successful attempt of
her Irish subjects, cannot fail to excite the most lively
feelings of satisfaction amongst her people on the other
side of the channel, now scarcely divided by space or af-
fection from the rest of her most loyal and devoted sub-
jects. It is also fully expected that a very large
sprinkling of lords and commoners will avail themselves
of the cessation of their labours for the session, to enjoy
the natural beauties of the Emerald Isle, and to judge
for themselves of the feelings and the condition of the
people of Ireland.—Observer.

STATE BANQUETS IN HONOUR OF THE
QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY.

The Earl of Clarendon, Principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, will give a grand dinner in Down-
ing-street to-morrow, May 24, in celebration of her
Majesty's birthday. The following have accepted his
Lordship's invitation : The French Ambassador, Count
Walewski ; the Austrian Minister, Count Colloredo ;
the Russian Minister, Baron Brunnow ; the Prussian
Minister, Chevalier Bunsen ; the Hanoverian Minister,
Count Kilmansegge ; the Spanish Minister, Count
Isturitz ; the . Turkish Envoy, M. Musurus ; the
Sardinian Minister, the Marquis D'Azeglio ; the
Greek Envoy, M. Tricoupi ; the Swedish Minister,
Baron Rehausen ; the Bavarian Minister, Baron
Cetto ; the Dutch Minister, Baron Bentinck ; the
Danish Envoy, Count Bille ; the PerSian Envoy, Shaffir
Klan ; the American Minister, Mr. Ingersoll ; the
Neapolitan Minister, Count Carini ; the Portuguese
Minister, Count Lavradio ; the Brazilian Minister,
Signor Marcedo ; the Mexican Minister, Signor Facio ;
the • Peruvian Minister, M. Mendiburra ; Mr. Van
Buren, formerly President of the United States ; the
Marquis Messimo d'Azeglio, ex-Prime Minister of Sar-
dinia ; Mr. Buchanan, Mr. 0. Leary, Sir Robert Peel,
Colonel Rose, Lord Wodehouse, and Mr. Addington
(Under Secretaries of State) ; the Hon. Spencer Pon-
sonby and the Hon. W. F. Cavendish, Private Secre-
taries ; and Sir Edward Cust, Master of the Ceremonies.
The dinner to be given by the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer in celebration of her Majesty's birthday, at his
official residence in Downing-street, will be attended by
the Hon. E. P. Bouverie, M.P., the Right Hon. W. G.
Hayter, M.P., and Mr. James Wilson, M.P., joint
Secretaries of the Treasury; Lord A. Hervey, M.P.,
Hon. F. Charteris, M.P., and Mr. John Sadleir, junior
Lords, and Sir Charles Trevelyan, assistant secretary of
the Treasury ; Sir W. Molesworth, M.P., the Right
Hon. E. Strutt, M.P. ; Mr. E. Cardwell, M.P. ; Lord
Stanley of Alderley ; Sir J. Herschel!, Lord Canning,
Colonel Maberly, the Governor and Deputy-Governor of
the Bank of England, the Chairman and Deputy-Chair-
man of the Board of Customs, the Chairman and Deputy-
Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, the Chairman
of the Audit-office, Sir A. Spearman, Captain Gladstone,
M.P., and the Private Secretaries, Hon. F. Lawley, and
Mr. R. W. Wilbraham.

Lord Palmerston, as Home Secretary of State, will
give a grand banquet to-morrow in celebration f the
birthday of the Sovereign, at his residence in Carlton-
gardens, to the Lord Chancellor, Lord Campbell, the
Speaker of the House of Commons, the Master of the
Rolls, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common
Pleas, the Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer,
Mr. Vice-Chancellor Kindersley, Mr. Vice-Chancellor
Stuart, Mr. Vice-Chancellor Page Wood, Mr. Baron
Parke, Mr. Baron Alderson, Mr. Justice Coleridge, Mr.
Justice Wightman Mr. Justice Cresswell, Mr. Justice
Erle, Mr. Baron Platt, Mr. Justice Williams, Mr. Justice
Talfourd, Mr. Baron Martin, Mr. Justice Crompton,
the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, the Dean of the Arches
(Sir John Dodson), the Judge of the Admiralty Court
(Dr. Lushington), the Secretary for Ireland (Sir John
Young, Bart.), the Lord Advocate for Scotland, the
Solicitor-General for Ireland, Mr. Sheriff Carter, Mr.
Sheriff Croll, the President of the Poor Law Board (Mr.
Baines, M.P.), Mr. Masterman, M.P., Sir James Duke,
Bart., M.P., Mr. Waddington, the Hon. H. Fitzroy,
M.P., Mr. R. W. Grey (Private Secretary).
The Earl of Aberdeen will entertain the Marquis of
Lansdowne, Lord John Russell, and a distinguished
circle of peers and members of Parliament, at Argyll-
house.

The usual dinner will alsobe given by the Lord Cham-
berlain, the Lord Steward, and the Master of the Horse
to the several officers of her Majesty's household.
The Attorney-General will entertain the Queen's coun-
sel, the serjeants, and the leading members of the bar,
at the Albion.

The Duke of Newcastle, Secretary for Colonial
Affairs, will entertain at his residence in Portman-
square, the Under Secretaries, the heads of the emigra-
tion Board, the Commander-in-Chief, the Secretary-at-
War, the Master-General, the Surveyor-General, and
Clerk of the Ordnance, &c.
The clubs and leading houses at the west-end will be
brilliantly illuminated in the evening.