The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-14 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Queen yesterday, at Buckingham Palace.
Prince Albert, attended by Major-General Wylde and
Colonel Seymour, left Buckingham Palace at twenty
minutes past one o'clock yesterday, for the purpose of
viewing the siege operations at Chatham.
His Royal Highness proceeded to the London-bridge
Terminus, travelled by a special,train on the North Kent
branch of the South-Eastern Railway, and returned at
twenty minutes before eight o'clock.
Her Majesty with Prince Arthur and the Princess
Louisa, attended by the Hon. Matilda Paget, took a
drive in an open landau and four in the afternoon. Lord
Alfred Paget and Lord Charles Fitzroy were in attend.
mice on horseback.
The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred. attended "by
Mr. Gibbs, visited the Exhbition in St. Martin's Hall in
the forenoon. _

The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Hon.
Matilda Paget, the Hon. Mary Seymour, Earl Somers,
Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel Seymour, honoured the
Royal Italian Opera with thelr presence last evening.
Her Majesty's private band attended in Buckingham
Palace after dinner on Wednesday evening, and played
the following pieces :
Overture, " Le 1311 d'Andore
Duo, " Etolle du Nord" Aleyerbeer.
Selection, " Faust" Spohr.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by
Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Sir G. Couper, honoured
the Olympic Theatre with their presence last evening.
A deputation from the Birmingham Assay-office, con-
sisting,. of Messrs. Rotton, Sharpe, Elkington. and A.
Ryland, had an interview with the Right Hon. E. Card-
well yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. The
deputation was introduced by Mr. Spooner.
Mr. J. A. Franklin had an interview with the Right
Hon. E. Cardwell yesterday, on the subject of the
Standard of Gold Wares Bill and decimal coinage.
The Chief Secretary for Ireland, Sir John Young, en-
tertained the following distinguished guests to dinner,
at the Trafalgar Hotel, Greenwich, on the 12th inst.:—
The Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount Monk, Lord Elcho,
Lord Alfred Hervey, the Right Hon. G. W. Hayter,
the Solicitor-General for Ireland, the Lord Advocate ;
Messrs. R. Lowe, M.P., W. Monsell, M.P., John
O'Connell, M.P., Daniel O'Connell, M.P., John Sadleir,
M.P., James Sadleir, M.P., Loftus Bland, M.P., Pol-
lard Urquhart, M.P., W. Kirk, M.P., G. Bowyer,
M.P., F. Ocully, M.P., J. D. Fitzgerald, M.P., J. M.
Fox, M.P., J. Esmonde, Esq., M.P., W. Fagan, M,P.,
Major Brownrigg, and Mr, G. Dalton.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
yesterday, and heard an appeal from the Court of Ad-
miralty, " Valentine and others v. Cleugh (the Tele-
graph).

TELE COURT.—We understand that her Majesty and
the youthful Royal family will, according to present ar-
rangements, leave Buckingham Palace on Monday next,
for Osborne, Isle of Wight, where the Court is expected
to remain until after the prorogation, which will take
place about the second week in the ensuing month.
The Queen Marie Am4lie, the Dukes de Nemours
and .D'Aumale, and the Prince de Joinville, have most
generously contributed to the funds of the French Bene-
volent Society (Societe Franeaise de Bienfaisance). This
society has been, since its foundation (a period of nearly
13 years), under their distinguished patronage, and has
been the means of distributing upwards of 8,000/. to
indigent French persons in this country.
The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk and Lady Adeliza.
Fitzalan Howard, have left St. James's-square, for
Arundel Castle, for the season.
The Duke of Sutherland leaves Stafford House to-
morrow, on his annual visit to his vast domains in the
west of Scotland. The duchess and family leave town
early in the ensuing week, for Trentham Hall.
The Duke of Devonshire continues to go on favour-
ably, at Brighton, where the noble duke is expected to
remain until until the close of the month. His grace
has recovered the use of his right arm, which it was
feared would become permanently affected by his late
attack.

DEATH OF LADY ELIZABETH ALEXANDER.—We have
to record the demise of this lady. She was sister to the
late Earl of Caledon, and aunt to the present holder of
the title, and was connected with the noble families of
Caledon, Craven, Clarendon, and Radnor.
HONOUR TO OSIER PAutn.--An Imperial decree pub-
lished in the Moniteur, confers on Marshal Otner Pacha,
General-in-Chief of the Ottoman Army, the dignity of
grand cross of the imperial order of the Legion of
Honour.
THE OFFICERS of the TIGER, who were prisoners of
war at Odessa, have been exchanged and released.
THE SECRETARY OF WAR.—An amended estimate of
the expense of this department has been issued, adding
a charge of 2,9931. as the estimated amount of postage
to be defrayed in consequence of the abolition of official
franking. The vote therefore will be, not 14,3071., but
17.3001,

CRYSTAL PALACE. THURSDAY (SHILLING DAY).—
Number of season tickets sold to this date, 20,370. Ad-
mission at the doors. 15,614 ; admission by season
tickets, I,4lo—total, 17,024.
THR BANK or ENGLAND. —Yesterday morning the
usual quarterly general court of the governors of this
corporation was held, pursuant to the terms of the
charter, at the offices, Threadneedle-street, Mr. J. G.
Hubbard, the governor, presiding, when the minutes of
the previous courts having been read, and the election
of the governor, deputy-governor, and the directors con-

firmed, the meeting broke up.
TRYING FOR GOLD IN ENGLAND AND WALES.—
Yesterday a Parliamentary paper was printed con-
taining copies of reports from the commissioners in
charge of the land revenue of the Crown on the sub-
ject of arrangements to be entered into with persons
desirous of trying for and raising gold in England
and Wales. It is recommended, in order to place
some limit on the excitement of mere speculation
that, if sufficient inducements do not exist to warrant an
annual oetlay of 101. or 201., it would not be worth
while to occupy official persons, or to intrude on private
grounds.
THE ENCHANTER.—This vessel is announced from
Geelong, whence she sailed the 17th of March, with
10,566 ounces of gold, valued at 42,0001. This amount,
however, will immediately be purchased for transmis-
sion to Paris, as the French exchange continues with a
declining tendency. Gold is likely to be sent from the
Bank of England, unless further sums from Australia
shall soon arrive.
GENERAL SCREW STEAM COMPANY.—It is understood
that a negotiation is pending between the Government
and this company, which will result in the purchase, on
satisfactory terms, of the new ship Prince, of 2,700 tons,
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belonging to that company, for tke purpose of a steam
transport.
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by Mr. C. Bedford, the coroner, at the Rose and Crown
Tavern, as to the death of Mr. Enoch Dyer, aged 18.
It appeared that the deceased had gone on Monday
"earn,. to bathe in the Serpentine, and got into one of
the holes, and never rose again. Griffiths, of the Royal
Humane Society, shortly after got him out, when he
was taken to the society's receiving-house, where Dr.
Christian for two hours endeavoured to restore anima-
tion, but without affect. The jury returned a verdict of I
'for the
was ROYALelected COLLEGE
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"Accidental death."
r—e.AeLtleaacwtnlreedeneting of the
Council on the 13th inst., Mr. G. J. Guthrie, F.R.S ,
the present is thethird •
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so John Dixon, midwiferyjanMrgyr.at the meeting of the Board on the 12th inst. :
were admitted licentiates in
nwmoehl Messrs.
onsesswhrs
Hemsworth. Yorkshire, diploma
of membership dated March 31, 1854 • Charles Young,
Worth, Sussex, July 12, 1850 ; Edward Towndrow
France, Sheffield, April 24, 1854 ; Edward Wadman
Ward, Leeds, April 21, 1854 ; William Henry Medd,
Stockport, Cheshire, April 7, 1854 ; Charles Vicary,
Warminster, April 21, 1845; Charles Buck worth Herne
Soame, Elston', near Bedford, March 27, 1854 ; Daniel
Benjamin Hine, Nottingham, April 17, 1854 ; Charles
Muscroft, Pontefract, April 11, 1845 ; William Moxon,
Rugeley, Staffordshire, June 2, 1854 ; John Gregory
Booth, Haslingden, Lancashire, June 2, 1854 ; Edward
Pratt, Appledore, Devon, April 11, 1853 ; William
Deamer, Bentinck-street, Manchester-square, June 2,
1854 ; and Frederick Blackman, Blackfriars-road, April
21. 1854.
EXTENSIVE NEW BUILDING FOR THE TOWER HAMLETS
MlLlTlA._Yesterday at the meeting of Middlesex magis-
trates, the county treasurer made a representation to the
Court that he had been informed by the clerk of the Liberty
of the ToWer that the sum of 14,500/. would be required
for the erection of storehouses and dwellings for the two
regiments of Tower Hamlets Militia. This matter was
referred to the committee of financial and general pur-
poses, with an instruction to them to inquire of the
Lieutenancy of the Tower Hamlets why so large a sum
was required.
ALLEGED DEATH FROM IMPROPER MEDICAL THE
Mr. Bedford, coroner for Westmin-
ster, held an inquiry at the Rising Sun, Charles-street,
Grosvenor-square, into the circumstances attending the
death of Mary Ann Thatcher, agea 22, a single woman
and a domestic servant, late in the service of Mr. Jay,
a medical practitioner and registrar of births and deaths,
residing at Si, Park-street, Grosvenor-square. After
hearing the evidence, the room was ordered to be
cleared, and the jury having deliberated with closed
doors for nearly an hour, the foreman handed in the
following verdict :—" Deceased died from inflammation
of the peritoneum, which the jury, without imputing
any malicious feeling or criminal neglect to her master,
consider to have been greatly promoted by improper
medicines administered by him to the deceased."
MIDDLESEX SESSlONS.—Yesterday the court sat at
the Sessions-house. Mr. Pownall was re-elected chair-
man of the bench for one year ensuing. On the recom-
mendation of the Committee for Financial and General
Purposes, the court made an order on the county
treasurer for the payment of salaries and demands to
the amount of 13,764/. 2s. ; and an ordinary county
rate of I. in the pound on the rental of the county was
ordered. A half-penny rate was ordered for the lunatic
asylums. A somewhat desultory discussion followed
relative to the provisions of the North Metropolitan
Railway Bill, affecting the county property in Coldhath-
fields. It was stated that the opposition to the bill
was withdrawn, and that the company would provide
the county with another prison in lieu of the Coldbath-
fields House of Correction, according to the terms em-
bodied in the bill. A number of reports were received,
and the usual formal business having been gone through,
the court adjourned.
RISE IN THE PRICE OF NEWSPAPERS.—The Dundee
Advertiser has been the first paper in Scotland to ad-
vance in price. It is understood that others will soon
follow the example.

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INT MLLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO o'CLOCK.
The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday
were estimated at from 5,000 to 6,000 bales,
including 500 American taken for export. The
market closed tamely but steadily, with prices
of American 1-16 d. in favour of the buyer, and a
largo supply. The sales comprised 4,500 American,
40 kern= and • Maranham at 51d. to 61d., 300
Egyptian at 6d. to 11d., and 700 Surat at 3d to
3id. per lb. Railway Shares were firmer.
Colonial produce has, upon the whole, been ra-
ther firmer this week, with increased dealing in
some staples. Refined sugars have. been more
wanted. Coffee has been rather duller. In tea
there has not been much done. Of rum fair pur-
chases have been made at the reduced quotations.
Saltpetre has declined' Bd. to ls. per cwt. Rice
has sold to a moderate extent, and cotton has been
quiet. Tallow has been rather firm. The indigo
auctions are going off steadily. In spices there
has been very little doing privately, and nothing
by public sale.
The public sales of colonial and foreign wool
commenced yesterday evening, and opened well,
some of the Austra'ian samples going Is. higher.
Business in American State Stocks has this
week, according to the report of Messrs. D. Bell,
Son and Co., been done at the following rates :
Redeemable. Dividends. Per Cent.
United States 6 per Cent
Bonds lB63—Jan. and Ju1y...107i 108*

United States 6 per Cent.

Inscribed Stock 1867-1868...
Pennsylvania, 5 per Cent. ...
5 per Cent.
.1877...

Bonds

...101 108*
Feb. and Aug.... 79 81

. 82A 83i*

Ohio 6 per Cent. inscribed
Stock 1856... Jan. and July... 91.

Massachusetts 5 per Cent.
(Sterling Bonds) 1868... April and 0ct....101 103
Maryland 5 per Cent.
(Sterling Bonds) ...Jan and July... 92 93
Alabama 5 per Cent. 1863...Mayand Nov—, 83 85
Virginia 5 per Cent
(Sterling Bonds) 1888... Jan. and July... 90 92
VAgi nia 6p. Cent. Bonds 1886... ~ ... 92 94
Ciinada 6 per Cent. (Stet
ling Bonds) 1876...
LOANS OF CITIES.
New Orleans 6 per Cent
Bonds lB93...Jan.and July... 79 81
RAILROAD BONDS.
Great Western of Illinois

.10611071

10 per Cent. Ist Mort-
gage lB6B...April and 0ct.... 91 93
Pennsylvania Central R.
ltd. 6 per Cent. Mort-
gage Bonds lBBo...Jan. and July... 90 91
New York and Erie 7

per Cent. 2(1 Mort-
gage, Convertible 1859...Mar. and Sept... 90 91.
New York and Erie 7 per
Cent. al Mortgage 1883...
New York and Erie 7 per
Cent. Convertible _ 1862.... Tan. and July... 77 79

.81 83

* Ex Dividend.

The estimate for the Post-office Department
Packet Service, for the year 1854-5, gives a grand
total of 812,8261. against 835,2121. the financial year
1853-4. The principal items are, 172,8401. for the
North • American Mails, 240,0001. for the West
Indies, 162,8891. for the Overland Mail, 37,5001.
for the Bombay Line, 22,5001. for the West Coast
of Africa, 20,5001. for the Peninsular Mails, and
25,000. for the West Coast of America.
The English Stock Market has been very well
supported, but the extreme advance of yesterday
has not been realised, Consols having then, atter
the official hours, been done at 92. ' There was a
prevalent rumour that the allies in the Baltic were
to be assjsted by a Swedish army of 50,000 men, and
this, with the fineness of the weather, gave an im-

pulie topurchases, and rendered the Bears, who were
taking courage, very nervous again. It is said the
Bank of England has still a good deal of Stock to
call for, and should it require its delivery the
market may experience.. a further rise before the
settling day. The buyers yesterday afternoon
were of high standing, and usually possess the best
sources of information. A feature that should be
noted, as appearing to show that speculation for a

fall is much more circumscribed than it was, is the
evenuess of the money and account prices. On

previous occasions recently we have seen money
stock considerably above the quotations for time,
but now the prices for transfer are 9ia and
9.11 sellers for August. The, highest rates this
morning have been 91 The New 3k per Cents.
have been at 92 k to g, and the Three per Cents.
at 914 to Exchequer-bills have been at is. dis-
count to 2s. premium, and India Bonds at 4s.
premium. East India Stock has been done At 225.
The foreign market has been heavy, and the
only bargains recorded are in Mexican at 24k,
Sardinian at 86, and Spanish Deferred at 18k.
Portuguese Three per Cents. have been at 361,
Dutch Four per Cents. are 90i
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Cirenada Deferred Bonds 6 to 4, Mexi-
can 24 to 242, Peruvian 66 to 63, ditto 3 per

Cents. 50 to a; Portuguese 4 per Cents. 39 to 41,
Russian 5 per Cents. 97 to 99, ditto 42 per Cents.
80 to 83, Spanish New Deferred 181 to 19, ditto
3 per Cents. 37 to 38, ditto Certificates 4 to 4i,
ditto Passive 31 to 41.
The Railway Share Market, which rose .1 to
per cent. yeAterday, after our report, has been
quieter, now the settlement of the account is got
through, and not quite so buoyant. The transac-
tions have been in Caledonian, North-Western,
South-Eastern, and York and Berwick.
The Mining Shares are dull, the Joint-stock
Banks firm but inactive,-and the Crystal Palace up
again to par. The Australian Laud Shares are
nominally the same as previously.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.-CLOSING PRICES.

(From the Oticial List,

Bank Stock .. .... .
210
, per Cent. Reduced Annuities 914 i i
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
34 per Cent. Annuities 92g t 4 It
India Stock 225
India Bonds, 1:1000 ...... ........ ... .......
Consols for Opening 19th July
Exchequer Bills, 24d.
£IOOO
.tisoo 1 d 2 p
Small 4
Exchequer Bonds, 1858
Ditto Scrip, 1859
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS TIES DAY.
%cesium 3 per Cent. ......... .. . .
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent
Ditto, 1848, 3 per Cent 36
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent B6
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent —
Ditto for the Account 374 x d
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. lB4
Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun. 4
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Guil
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certifieates ......_
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for Opening 19th July 914 i x d

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

THE W.R.
THE DANUBE.

BELGRADE, July 11.—The Turks took possession
of the Island Kamadan Seymonoff, after a combat
lasting nearly twelve hours.
The next day the Russians boat a retreat along
the road to Bucharest.
Prince Gortschakoff seemed as if he wished to
take up a position at Kalugereni.
On evacuating Giurgevo, the Russians set on fire
several vessels of their flotilla.

A telegraphic despatch from. Vienna, dated yes-
terday, says that 3,000 Ottomans are at Giurgevo.
The Russians are advancing against them. They
concentrate at Frateschti.

A. separate detachment from Bucharest is ad-
vancing against Oltenitza.
In a letter from the Lower Danube of July 1, to
the Vienna Presse, we read :
It is said that the Sultan is about to visit the
Turkish cauip, and that Omar Paella has received
official notification of it. The Sultan will first visit

the head-quarters of Omer Paella's army,which have
been transferred to the Danube; thence lie will pro-
ceed to Silistria, where, with his own hand, he will
distribute to the defenders of the place the rewards
to which they are so justly entitled.
The Ferick (General of Division) Hasan Bey ar-
rived on the 20th June at Mahmadkoi with 18,000
men, to support the operations of Mehemet Pacha,
who passed beyond Trajau's Wall on the 25th. The
two generals, covered in flank by detachments of
the auxiliary fleets, are advancing on Babadagh,

in order to drive the Russians into Clio angle of the
in the Dobrudscha, and compel them to
surrender the fortresses of the Danube, which they
still hold. Selim Pacha is advancing from Cherna-
voda with 15,000 men to co-operate in obtaining
this result.

In a few days 30,000 men of the auxiliary troops
will have effected their junction with the 40,000
whom Omer Pacha still commands in person.
Nothing is known of the military operations pro-
jected.

It was stated a few days ago that on the
28th of June the combined fleets were to sail from
Baidjik for the Crimea, and make at last a combined
attack by sea and land en Sebastopol. The evacua-
tion of Ibralia appears to be decided on. Fresh
orders are expected respecting that of Galatz. The
exchanges of the English captured officers and sea-
men against Russian prisoners is to commence on
the 15th of July.
A letter from Varna, 29th ult., says the Patrie,
gives some details relative io the retreat of the
Russian troops, which does not say much for their
humanity. On leaving Silistria, they destroyed
everything on their road, leaving behind them only
desolation and ruin. Traces of their passage were
met with at every step. The molt lowly cottages
were burnt, as well as all the crops, and even the
trees. The accounts from the Dobrudscha are of a
similar character, and the conduct of the Russians
shows that in our age of progress and intelligence
the most odious barbarism struggles against civili-
sation and justice.
The Moniteur publishes the following letter from
Widdin of the Ist :

" It is evident that the Russians only abandoned the
left bank of the Danube so precipitately in order to
avoid giving battle. In fact, in addition to gel-Hassan
Pasha, who had arrived in Silistria, and Ismail who
closely followed him, Mahomet Pasha was on the spot
with a large force of Bashi-bazouks. Moreover, it was
known that six regiments of cavalry and three batteries
of artillery, forming the advanced guard of the forces
sent by Omer Pasha, were marching to the relief of that
place. The presence of large forces assembled at hir-
soya makes the report that the Austrians are about to
enter Wallachia appear almost certain. An officer
arrived three days ago to engage all the schleps (large
barges of the Danube) which were between Orsova and
Widdin, and he announced that they were required for
the conveyance of troops."