The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-01 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, Jutv 31

Since our last report the arrivals of both Foreign and British Wheats
have been rather extensive, and in the interval between this morning's
market and that of the Tuesday preceding exceedingly large sales of
bonded were made at 7s. 10d. to Ss. per bushel.
The advices received from the inland and other markets caused this
morning's business to be very animated, and Ss. 6d. was obtained for
Wheat under Lock, of which extensive sales were effected. Irish red
realize 10s. 6d. to 10s. 9d., and the best English sorts brought 1 Is. to
1 Is. 3d. Oats improve in value 1 4d. per 451b5., and Flour and Oat-
meal on a good demand were Is. 6d. per sack dearer than on this day
week. Barley likewise advanced in price, and was parted with at
ss. 6d. to 6s.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JULY 31.
The market is steady, and prices very firm, if anything tending up.
wards. The sales amount to 3,000 bags, and include 60 Femur), at
81d. to 90. ; 50 Bahia, at Sid. ; 100 Egyptian, at 101 d. to I Id. ; 150
Surat, at 41d. to sid.; and the remainder American; the whole being
sold to.the trade.

,UNTRY CORN MARKETS,

t'eaz,e.

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty held a Court yesterday afternoon at the New Palace-
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The Rev. Dr. Bowstcad, Bishop of Sodor and Man, had an audience
of the Queen, in the Royal Closet, to do homage on his appointment to
that See. Lord John Russell, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State for the Home Department, and the Dean of Hereford, Deputy
Clerk of the Closet in Waiting, assisted at the ceremony.
The Court was attended by the Countess of Charlemont, Lady in
Waiting; the Marquis of Headfort, Lord in Waiting; Hon. Wil-
liam Cowper, Groom in Waiting; and Colonel Buckley, Equerry in
Waiting.

Lord John Russell and Viscount Melbourne had audiences of licr
Majesty.

Her Majesty and her August Mother rode out on horseback yester.
day, attended by a large party, including Lady Flora Hastir:gs, Hon.
Miss Cocks, Baroness Lehzen, Miss Quentin, Marquis of Headfort,
Earl of Uxbridge, Lord Lilford, Hon. Col. Cavendish, Hon. William
Cowper, Colonel Buckley, and Lord Alfred Paget. The Royal party
were absent two hours and a half.

The Queen honoured the performance of Lucia di Lammermoor, at
her Majesty's Theatre, last evening with her presence.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had a dinner party on Mon.'ay
at Cambridge House. There were present the Austrian Ambassador
Extraordinary and Prince Schwartzenberg, Prince Alfred of Windisch
Graetz, Count Grunne, Count Joseph Z:chy, Count Paul E.terhazy,
Count Kinsky, Marquis of Douglas, Earl and Countess of Clanwilliam,
and the Right Honourable Sir Robert Gordon.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of GlOycester was a little better
yesterday.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex and her Serene Highness
the Princess Hohenlohe visited the Duchess of Cambridge yesterday.
A numerous party of Irish Members of the House of Commons had an
interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at the Home-office. The
deputation was composed of the following Members :—the Attorney-
General for Ireland, Mr. Bryan, Mr. Hutton, Dr. Sutton, Mr. A. Yates.
Mr. O'Brien, Sir William Somerville, Mr. Bridgeman, Mr. Curry, Mr
O'Connell, Mr. M. O'Connell, Mr. John O'Connell, Mr. Archbold, Mr.
J. Power, Mr. Redington, Mr. Evans, Lord B:abazon, Mr. Shell, Mr,
Vigors, and Sir R. Nagle.
The Hon. Mr. Fraser, Mr. Dislubie, Mr. Ikeff Robinson, accompanied
by Mr. Colquhoun, had an interview with Lord Glenelg yesterday, at the
Colonial Office, on the affairs of Dominica.

Mr. 0. Hanlon had an interview with Viscount Me:bourne yesterday
in Downing street.

The Members of the Military and Naval Commission held a meeting,
at twelve o'clock yesterday, at the office of Viscount Melbourne, in
Downing-street. Among those present were the Duke of Wellington,
Lord Hill, Sir Henry Hardinge, Sir James Kempt, Sir Hussey Vivian,
Sir Charles Adam, Sir George Cockburn, Sir Alexander Dickson, and
Sir John Macdonald. The meeting broke up at three O'clock.
Dr. Fleming, Mr. Fen wick, and Captain Hunn, had interviews with
Lord Glenelg yesterday, at the Colonial Office.

The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, accompanied
by the Marquis of Worcester, awl Lady Augusta Somerset, will shortly
leave town for Milan.
The Duke of Beaufort has not left town for

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Goodwood.
The Duchess of Marlborough leaves Park-lane on
Monday next for Hastings, fur the autumn.
The Marquis, Marchioness de la Marche, and
family, have left town for a tour in the provinces, previous to returning
to their chateau in France.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster
arrived at Grosvenor House yesterday from Moor Park; to-morrow
they intend returning for six weeks.
The Dowager Lady Anson has broken up her town
establishment ; her Ladyship is going on a tour.
Lord and Lady Howard de Walden left town yes-
terday on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Portland at Welbeck Priory.
Lord Gardner, Lord Suffield, Colonel George Anson,
and Lord George Bentinck left town for Goodwood on Sunday last.
The Count Groegswig, the Baron Koeldwithout,
and the other foreign Noblemen, attaches to Count Strogonoff, left town
yesterday morning on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Richmond at
Goodwood.
Count Flahault and the Baroness Keith will leave
town on Saturday next for Milan.
The Russian Count Demidoff intends to astonish
the English at Milan by the splendour of his establishment.
Sir Compton and Lady Domvile and family have
left Grosvenor-square for their seat in Ireland.
Sir William and Lady Curtis will leave town at the
end of the week for the Pavilion at Ramsgate.
The Marquis of Granby left town yesterday for
Goodwood.
The Earl and Countess Grosvenor are gone to
Scotland foi• the autumn.
The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield and Colonel
and Mrs. Anson left town on Monday afternoon for Goodwood Park.
The Earl and Countess of Wilton left town yes-
terday for Goodwood Races.
The Military Secretary to the Commander-in-
Chief transacted business yesterday at the Colonial Department.
The American, Greek, and Switzerland Ambas-
sadors transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Department.
There is no foundation for the rumoured prefer-
ment of Sir Edward Blakeney to the chief command in Canada. Sir
Edward does not quit lreland.—Courier.
Lord Trirnlestown, a Roman Catholic Peer, has
caused a great excitement at Maynooth, by suing a great number of the
peasantry for his lay tithes.—Ulster Times.
The Earl of Erroll, Lord Lieutenan of the county,
the Countess of Erroll, and family, arrived here on Tuesday afternoon,
by the Duchess of Sutherland steamer, from London. The Right Hors.
the Earl of Kintore, and many other passengers also arrived by the same
vessel.—Aberdeen Herald.
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The Earl and Countess of WarV ; hod a 1
party to dinner on Monday evening, at their mansion in Carlton gar-
dens. The party included the Duke of Wellington, Marquis and
Marchioness of Londonderry, Earl and Countess of Verulam, Lord and
Lady Lyndhurst, &c. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
was unable to honour the Noble Earl and Countess with her company
owing to slight indisposition. The Earl and Countess had a select
dinner party last evening.
His Excellency Baron de Capellen (Ambassador
Extraordinary from the Netherlands) and the BarOness de Capellen, ac-
companied by Count Bentinck, Baron William Van der Duyn, and Bs-
ron Van der Warmenhuyzen, Attaches to the Embassy, embarked, 3t
half-past five o'clock on Monday morning, for Rotterdam. Baron Wil-
liam Van Tuyll remains in town.
His Excellency Count Gustave de Lowenheihn
(Aml•assador Extraordinary from Sweden) has left the Burlington Hotel,
for Paris. Count Pourke, Count Rosen, and Baron de Wedel Jarlsberft.
have since taken their departure. Count Lowen is still remaining at the
above hotel, but leaves for the Continent on Friday next.
His Excellency Count Strogonoff (Ambassador
Extraordinary from Russia) and the Countess Strogonoff, took their de-
parture yesterday morning, at half-past ten, for Dover, en route t°
Paris, and not to Paris, as stated, Count Pozzo di Borgo, the Countess
of Jersey, and the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderrv, paid fare-
well visits to his Excellency and his Countess, previous to *their dePer''
lure. Count Alexis Strogonoff, eldest son of the Count and Countess►
will stay a month longer in this country, and then proceed to Russia.
Mr. Spencer d'Horsay and Captain Meynell, R.N.,
are about to start, to joist the Marquis of Hertford at Aix.la_Chapelle.
Mr. Brooke Greville, who has been the leader of
the English fashions in Italy, will return to this country after the Cora-,
nation.
The Dowager Lady Listowell and party left town
yesterday morning by the General Steam Navigation Company's steal"' ship Giraff.,,, for Rotterdam.
The General Steam Navigation Company's packet
the John Bull, from Hamburgh, arrived off the Custom House on Mon-
day
night at half.past eight o'clock, having on board the Prince anu Princess Oldenburg and suite.
The Lord Bishop of this diocese (Exeter) has re-
turned to the palace, and preached at the cathedral yesterday.— Western.
Luminary, July 30.
Moreton House, near Bideford, the seat of L. W.'
Buck, Esq., is now nearly completed, and, for style of workmanship
furniture, will be one of the most splendid, mansions in the worth
of
Devon.—Western Luminary.
Despatches, dated July 20, were received yesterday
at the Colonial Department from Major-General Sir Alexander Wend' ford, Governor of Gibraltar.
Despatches, dated July 24, were received yesterday
at the Foreign Department from the British Charge d'Affaires at Lbw'
Despatches, dated June 28, were received vesterdaY,
at the Colonial Department from Major-General Bouverie, Governor of
Malta.

Despatches, dated the 22d inst., were received yes-
terday at the Foreign Department, from the British Charge d'Affaires at
the Court of Madrid.
The Dowager Lady Listowell and party left tow"
this morning by the General Steam Navigation Company's steant-sbo
Girtyfe, for Rotterdam.

M. Bunn, it is now definitely arranged, will be
the lessee ot, Drury lane Theatre for the next season. Mr. H. 11.
Bishop will be musical director.

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Miss Sherrill', Mr. Wilson, and Mr. E. Seguin'
take their departure for the United States on the Ist of September*
having been engaged for a year by Mr. James Wallack, to sing in ,
series of Operas. Signor de Begnis is now on his way to New Yari"
for the purpose of displaying his talents as a prima buffo before Tran.-
atlantie audiences.
Miss Romer, Mr. Balfe, and Mr. Templeton ere making a tour of the provinces prior to a visit to Cork and Dublin. 31r.
Balfe, after this trip, goes to Paris for a year.
The vocal anfi histrionic powers of Signora
betty Paressa, an English woman, and daughter of Mr. Smiin, formal);
of her Majesty's Theatre, are mentioned in flattering terms in the late°
Italian papers. She is now engaged as prima donna at the Teatro
Nuovo at Naples. The tenor Donzelli is at the Scala at Milan.
Yesterday morning, between five and six o'clock, a 9
a girl named Emma Battersbyabetween eleven and twelve years of ail!:
whose parents live in Johnson's..buildings, William. street, Old-stres_.
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road, was engaged in preparing her father's breakfast, when she acoiden.,
tally set fire to her deities, and was so dreadfully burned that she expire'
in about half an hour afterwards.
Yesterday morning, between seven and eight At+
a mechanic, named George Suthermen, In the employ of 310'1
Vaughan and anna,
ofh Little St. Martin's-lane, was cross;mg a Pit,
over a saw Pit, M
when tripped, and fell it on hi'-
verely fractured his skull that his life isinto despaired of,
head, and s°
Yesterday morning, between eight and nine o'clock,
a youth named M'Elan, aged 13 years, was bathing in the Thames ab°ve
Waterloo 13:idge, when he got out of his depth and was drowned.
BANWELL LUNATIC ASYLUIV. The fort!".
seventh report cf the visiting Justices of the As'aturn was yesterdaY
cir-
culated among the Metropolitan .11agistrates, from which it appeat lts
thenew baildings are expected to be ready for the reception of fa“-tlac
in the course :. f the present month, and that there are now in a e
asylum 554 patients, of whom 340 are females. It is stated that `:).
male patient escaped on the 26th of June, and has not yet been reta.l.46.
Of the rna'es ISO are employed in various ways, and of the females,. While the business of Lambeth-street Police-a:du:,
was going one ystardsy, a robbery was committed in the hotrae Pea,
door to the Office. The house in question is kept by a pasor almn
named Whitehorne, whislias fitted up the parlour as a cof':ee-roolla,
lets the remainder wr to lodgers. Yesterday, about ten o'clock. she
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went out on some business, having
first locked the parlour door, an
aa her return helms she ft:tow that her apartments bad been entered
,'i come persmis br:4lr.g a pane of glass, and by that means
getting at an
undoing a boat in the back door. On examining her drawer;
car* s
:bond that cliftbrent article, of wearing apparel, shawls, &c.,wer ried away, and suspicion rests on a young woman whom she
neatly accepted at A Is deer.