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

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING-1 MAY 5, 1853.

from himself personally, the Ambassador is answered
in a congenial strain by the Spanish Sovereign.
" I receive," says her Majesty, " with a great
deal of pleasure, Monsieur le Marquis, the letter
of the EMPEROR of the FRENCH, which accredits
you as ambassador to me : the wish which you
manifest on the part of his Majesty for the
felicity of the Spanish nation, and the splendour
of my reign, are the more agreeable to me as I
already possess numerous proofs of his sincerity."
Thereupon, the QUEEN continues, " On my part,
I form the same wishes for the prosperity of the
EMPEROR and of France, and I will not let any
opportunity escape for causing the friendly rela-
tions established between this monarchy and the
French Empire to serve in promoting the common
welfare of the two States." Although the senti-
ments here expressed were given utterance to
merely at what may be termed, without much
inaccuracy, the private interview between the
Marquis de TURGOT and the Queen ISABELLA
they are, nevertheless, sentiments so re-
markable, as significant of the epoch at which
we have now arrived, that they have appeared to
us to be especially entitled to our consideration.
Everywhere, in fact, not only in Spain, but in
France also, and in England, and in Russia, and
in Turkey, and in Austria, and in Prussia, and
not only in Europe, but throughout both hemi-
spheres, there is a manifest reluctance to interrupt
with unjustifiable hostilities the beneficent and
prosperous tranquillity of Christendom.

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, WEDNESDAY.

The Queen and Prince, accompanied by Princess
Helena and Princess Louisa, drove out in a pony car-
riage yesterday afternoon, and returned to Osborne about
six o'clock. The Hon. Colonel Grey was in attendance
on horseback.

The Duchess of Bent visited the Duchess of Glouces-
ter yesterday at Gloucester-house, Piccadilly. .
The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess
Adelaide of Hohenlohe, and attended by Lady Anna
Maria Dawson and Sir George Couper, honoured the
Lyceum Theatre with their presence last evening.
The Bishop of Nova Scotia had an interview with the
Duke pf Newcastle yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Earl of Clarendon received the Cabinet Ministers
at dinner yesterday evening at his residence in Gros-
venor-crescent.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of the West India Colonies,
and also from the Governor of Gibraltar.

THE BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.

The Board of Trade returns for the month ending the
sth of April were issued this morning, and furnish still
stronger evidence than was afforded even by the previ-
ous returns of the prosperous state of every branch of
industry. As compared with the corresponding month
of last year, they show an increase in the declared value
of our exportations of 1,486,8181. In this increase al-
most every article has shared, but the most prominent
items are metals, cotton manufactures, haberdashery
(which has reached a total exactly double that of April,
1852), and woollen, leather, silk, and linen manufactures.
In hardwares, also, there has been a considerable aug-
mentation, and beer and ale likewise exhibit the extra-
ordinary extent of shipments to Australia. In looking
at these results allowance must be made, as on former
occasions, for the manner in which the respective amounts
are swollen by the general advance in prices ; but this
has operated only in a limited degree, the increase in the
quantities as well as in the value of each article exported
being in most instances extremely large.
DECLARED VALUE OF EXPORTATIONS.
Month ending April 5, 1852, 6,400,415/. ; ditto,
1853, 7,887,2331.
The comparative imports and exports of raw material
show a very large increase in the imports of every arti-
cle, except tallow.
The aggregate value of our exports during the first
quarter of the present year has been 20,391,7231.,
against 16,575,7481. in the like period of 1852, showing
an increase of 3,815,9751., or 23 per cent., which has
occurred in the following order :
Month ending— Increase.
February 5 ... ... "'£1,410,060
March 5 ••• ••• ••• 919,097
1,486,818
April 5 ... ... ...
The quantities of imported articles taken into con-
sumption present an almost general increase. Grain,
flour, salted provisions, cocoa, coffee, sugar, wine, spirits,
tobacco, fruits, and spices, have all been used to an ex-
tent that demonstrates the constantly improving condi-
tion of the people. Tea is the only item on the unfa-
vourable side, and the diminution in this article is,
doubtless, to lse attributed in some measure to the cessa-
tion of purchases on the part of the trade pending the
production of the budget.

DEPARTURE OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADIAN
MAILS. Yesterday morning, about half-past nine
o'clock, the United States mail steam-ship Atlantic,
Captain West, sailed from the Mersey with the usual
mails for the, United States and British possessions in
North America, upwards of 100 passengers, and a large
and valuable cargo of general merchandise on freight.
INDIAN AND AUSTRALIAN OUTWARD MAIL.—The mail
put on board the Ripon yesterday, at Southampton,
.for the Mediterranean, India, China, Batavia, and Aus-
tralia, consisted of 261 letter bags and boxes. There
were 22 bags for the Mediterranean, and 239 boxes for
places beyond Egypt ; 27 of these boxes contained letters,
and 212 contained newspapers. There were 53 boxes
for India, 8 for China, and 100 for Australia, 13 out of
the 100 contained letters, and the rest newspapers. For
Melbourne there were 78 boxes, 6 containing letters,
and 72 newspapers. For Sydney there were 55 boxes,
4 containing letters, and 51 newspapers. This has been
the second mail for Australia viol India, that has been
dispatched, and the largest and heaviest that ever left
England. It weighed about 10 tons. Among the 40
passengers who went out in the Ripon, about a dozen '
were for Australia. Captain Fitzgerald, RN., was
also a passenger, and has gone to India to join H.M.S.
Winchester ; and Mr. Down, a brother to Captain
Down, of the Chusan, who is gone out to. Melbourne in
an official capacity.
'SCREW v. PADDLE.—The Bengal screw steamer, which
brought home the last Indian mail, performed the dis-
tance between Malta and Alexandria, 820 miles, in two
days 20 hours, which is the shortest time the voyage
was ever performed in, and she must have averaged 12
mires an hour to have done it in the time. There is no
doubt that this steamer, the largest at present in the
world, can run, under very favourable circumstances,
19 miles an hour. She has fully answered the most
sanguine expectations concerning her, and has preyed
the Yankee notion that length of itself gives speed, be-
cause steamers of such enormous length as the Bengal,
11 which is nearly 320 feet long, have not to breast every
wave. All persons interested in the screw, and who
have watched the perforMance of the Bengal, have pro-
nounced that the days of paddle-box steamers are num-
bered, and that they will be supplanted by screw steamers
as effectually as the mail coach has been supplanted by
the railroad.
AUSTRALIA.- The Statesman arrived yesterday from
Port Philip, having sailed on the 30th of January.
The total amount of gold she brings is not at present
known, the advices only giving the shipments from
Geelong, which were 10,339 ounces; valued at about
42,0001. The intelligence by this opportunity is two
days later, but comprises few points of interest. An
arrival by private escort of 20,204 ounces of gold had
been announced, and the latest accounts from the mines
were satisfactory. New discoveries had been made at
Ballarat, the value of which appeared to be undoubted.
The quotation of gold in Melbourne was 31. 12s. 6d. per
ounce. Sales of real property continued to be made at
advanced prices. •
ONE HUNDRED TONS OP SPECIE.—The specie brought
home by the Magdalena from the West Indies, Pacific,
and Mexico amounted to nearly three millions and a
quarter dollars in value. About half a million dollars'
value of it was in gold ; the rest was in silver. A very
large portion of this specie was from Mexico. It took
28 hours to transfer the specie from the Mexican packet
to the Southampton one at St. Thomas. The whole of
the specie was dispatched to London from,the South-
ampion Docks yesterday ; it weighed nearly 100 tons,
and occupied nearly 20 specie waggons. The Magda-
lena brought the largest and most valuable cargo ever
known. The West India Company "will net by her
cargo and by her passengers' fares about 10,000/. The
Magdalena had a splendid run from St. Thomas, having
performed the distance of nearly 4,000 miles in little
over 14 days.
DEATH IN THE SNUFF-BOL—Yesterday Daniel Can-
non, snuff and tobacco manufacturer, was fined by the
Commissioners of Excise in the mitigated penalty of 251.
(his liability being 3001.), for mixing chromate of lead
with snuff. The analytical officer of Excise having re-
ported the adulteration, Mr. Cannon stated that he had
no idea of defrauding the revenue or the public by in-
creasing the weight of the snuff, and that his only ob-
ject was to add brilliancy to the article by the mixture.
Mr. Commissioner Stevenson observed that the act was
not only illegal, but deleterious to health, and therefore
cautioned the defendant against a repetition of the
offence.
DRS. ULLATHORNE AND MOORS.—We understand that
the legal advisers of Drs. Ullathorne and Moore have
decided upon making application to the Master of the
Rolls for their liberation from custody, on the ground
that their committal has been abuse of the power of the
Court. Affidavits will be put in to show that the de-
fendants bad previously tendered all the property they
were possessed of ; that their personal inability to pay
was never questioned by the bank managers or their re-
presentatives ; and that their imprisonment is not un-
reasonably believed to be the result of an expectation,
on the part of the official managers, that the money
would be paid by the Roman Catholic body. Should
this application fail, the rev. gentlemen will go before
the Insolvency Court, for which ;their papers and
schedules are now prepared.—Birmingham, Gazette.
A letter from Mayence of the 28th ult. says :--"At
the theatre here last night, just as the' performance had
finished, and the audience were withdrawing, a sharp
cry was heard behind the scenes. It was soon circulated
about that one of the actors having in vain besought an
actress, who was about to leave the company, to change
her determination and stay, had, in pretending to give
her a farewell kiss, bit off part of her nose. The wound,
though not dangerous, will require, it is supposed, five
or six weeks to heal up.