The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-14 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Queen yesterday.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse-
back yesterday, attended by Lieut.-Col. F. H. Seymour.
The Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer,
the Hanoverian Minister, the Russian Minister and
Baroness Brunnow, the Austrian Minister and Countess
Colloredo, the Bavarian Minister and Baroness de Cetto,
the Danish Minister and Madame de Bille, the Countess
de Lavradio, Prince and Princess de Carini the Turkish
Minister and Madame Musurus, the Brazilian Minister
and Madame Macedo, the Peruvian Minister, and other
members of the diplomatic corps called yesterday at
Buckingham Palace to read the bulletin of her Majesty's
health.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and their
Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge, the Duchess
of Cambridge, and the Princess Mary, honoured the
performance of the French Plays with their presence
last evening. The Duchess of Kent was accompanied
by her Serene Highness the Princess Adelaide of Hohen-
lohe, and was attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson
and Sir George Couper.
A deputation on the subject of the Advocates' Library
had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday,
at his official residence in Downing-street. The depu-
tation consisted of the Lord Advocate, the Dean of
Faculty, the Solicitor-General of Scotland, the Right
Hon. T. B. Macaulay, M.P., Mr. Forbes Mackenzie,
M.P., Mr.. Cosmo Innes, Mr. Adam Urquhart, Mr. A.
S. Swinton, and Mr. Halkett.

Lieut.-COlonel Eyre had an interview with the Duke
of Newcastle yesterday. Mr. Chapman had also an in-
terview with his Grace at the Colonial-office.

A meeting of the Finance Committee of the Exhibition
of 1851 was held yesterday at the Privy Council-office,
Whitehall, Present—Earl Granville (chairman), Sir A.
Spearman, Bart., Sir W. Cubitt, Mr. F. Baring, M.P.,
Mr. Coulson, Q.C., Mr. T. F. Gibson, and Mr. Edgar
A. Bowring (secretary). Captain Owen, R.E., was also
present.

- The Judical Committee of the Queen's Most Honour-
able Privy Council sat yesterday at the Council-office.
The lords present were :—Lord Justice Turner, Lord
Justice Knight Bruce, the Judge of the Admiralty
Court, Sir Edward Ryan, and Sir J. Patteson. The
petition, "Bodmer's Patent Extension" (part heard),
was concluded, and judgment given. An appeal from
Barbadoes, " Turner v. Cox," was part heard, the lords
present being Lord Justices Turner and Knight Bruce,
Sir E. Ryan, and Sir J. Patteson.

CLOSING OF THREE CITY GRAVEYARDS.—Lord Palmer-
ston having represented to the Queen in Council the
necessity of closing the churches and graveyards of All-
hallows the Great and Allhallows the Less, in Upper
Thames-street ; St. Edmund the King with St. Nicholas
Acons, Nicholas-lane' Lombard-street ; and St. Law-
rence Jewry and St. Mary Magdalen, Gresham-street,
notice has been given to the vestry-clerks and parishioners
that the same will be taken into consideration by the
Lords of her Majesty's Privy Council on Saturday, May
14. The church and graveyard of Allhallows is situate
in a very crowded neighbourhood, being adjaceat to
Messrs. Calvert's brewhouse, and surrounded by.lanes
and courts densely crowded by the labouring classes,
who will appreciate the discontinuance of interments
immediately under their windows. It is expected that
many more of the City golgothas will be closed before
the session terminates.
DETERMINED SUICIDE BY A SOLDIER OF THE GRENA-
DIER GUARDS.—This morning, the following determined
suicide was committed at the barracks, Portman-street,
Portman-square, by William Bryan, a private in the
Grenadier Guards, quartered there. Last night de-
ceased returned home to his quarters apparently quite
sober, and in the best health and spirits. At the usual
hour he retired to bed in the barrack-room, in which
also slept forty of his comrades. At six this morning
as he did not get up, the serjeant of his company ordered
him to be called, when, upon one of the men proceeding
to do so, he was horrified to find deceased's bed saturated
with blood that flowed from an extensive gash in his
throat, inflicted by a razor that lay at his side. Although
quite insensible, and unable to speak, he was still alive,
but upon the arrival of the regimental surgeon, who in-
stantly attended, he breathed his last. No cause can be
assigned for the rash act ; for although not a strictly
sober man, deceased was considered a smart, well-con-
ducted soldier, and was rather a favourite with his com-
rades. Deceased was unmarried, and 32 years of age.
Mr. M'Kenzie, the summoning officer, instantly for-
warded to the Coroner's office information of the melan-
choly occurrence, with a request from the deceased's
captain that he would hold the inquest as soon as pos-
sible, as the forty men who slept in the same room as
deceased had to be removed to other quarters, where
they must remain until after the inquiry.
ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.—A crowded meeting
of this society was held on Monday, at the theatre of
the Royal Institution, Albemare-street ; the President,
Sir Roderick I. Murchison, in the chair. The paper
read was—" On Oceanic Currents, and their connexion
with the proposed Central American Canals," by A. G.
Findlay, Esq., F.R.G.S., illustrated by large diagrams
of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and by maps of
Lieutenant Maury, of the United States Navy. Arrow-
smith's large maps of Australia, and Captain Moore's
"Great Circle-Sailing Indicators" were also exhibited.
Mr. Findlay directed attention to the very great import-
ance of a proper knowledge of ocean currents in the pre-
sent days of commercial enterprise; the whole subject
having been nearly stationary since the days of its origi-
nator, Major Rennell, and mentioned our entire ignor-
ance of the causes, proximate and actual, of current
Systems and data required. He gave a brief statement
of each current circulating in the two Atlantic Oceans,
as defined by Rennell ; the Gulf-stream, the Thwart-
channel Current, and the Agulhas Current, having only
been properly investigated, while the peculiarities of the
currents of the Pacific and Indian Oceans were most im-
perfectly and unsatisfactorily known.
MYSTERIOUS DEATH IN SOMERS TOWN.—About two
o'clock on Monday afternoon, Mr. Hornby, of 15,
Northampton-buildings, Somers Town, called at the
police-station and requested the assistance of a police-
constable, stating that a lodger of his had not been seen
to leave his room for three days, and as nothing had
been heard of his moving about, he was afraid some-
thing was wrong. Police-constable 192, Snooks, was
immediately sent with him by the acting inspector, Ser-
geant Bloomfield, when, on entering his room, he was
found to have expired. The body presented a most
ghastly spectacle, being much discoloured, and almost
in a state of decomposition. Mr. Bullock, surgeon, of
Skinner-street, was immediately called, who said de-
ceased had been dead for two or three days, and he be-

heved that death had been caused by a.' rupture of a
blood-vessel. The deceased was about 70 years of age,
and was of very eccentric habits. He has been in the
army, and is-supposed to be a pensioner. His relations
are not known. He was only known in the neighbour-
hood by the name of Thomas Splatt.

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MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL
INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at from 8,000 to 9,000 bales, of which
2,000 American were taken for export and specula-
tion. The market closed firmly, with prices a shade
against the buyer. The sales comprised 6,000
American, 500 Pernam and Maranham at 6id to 6/d,
500 Bahia at 6d, 500 Egyptian at 6kd to 6d, 400
Surat at 4d. to 4id, and 300 Sea Island at ls. 9d.
to 2s. Bd. per lb. Railway Shares were steady.
The steamer Baltic has arrived from the United
States with later dates, and as much as 600,000
dollars in specie. This remittance, with the ex-
change at 101 to -15., can only be explained upon the
assumption that payment of accounts, owing to the
high rate of interest, has been delayed as long as
possible, and that there being now an absence of
good bills, parties are obliged to send gold even
at an apparent loss. There is no choice, cotton
bills not always meeting with ready currency.
there is another reason, probably, why efforts arc
,naking to remit at once, viz., that the imports of
European merchandise into America were very
large last month, and far outbaLinced the exports.
Accounts from France state that the floods on the
26th, 27th, and 28th of last month, did consider-
tble damage, and further retarded sowing opera-
tions.

A new railway from Lyons to Turin is sanc-
tioned, but although the policy of the Emperor of
the French is to have the capital for such under-
takings provided in England, in order that the
Bourse may not feel the incumbra,nce, it is the
growing opinion that further subscriptions to any
foreign project, however good, should be avoided,
at least for a time. It is impossible to believe that
the money market will bear such a continuous
strain, and the payment of calls will operate
even more severely than the preliminary deposits
have done, because many parties make it a point to
sell out at a small premium the moment a company
is formed, and the scrip is negotiable in the market.
In this way they proceed with a limited capital,
subscribing to every new concern of which they
can obtain shares, and the circle widening, smaller
capitalists, as well as large ones, are brought within
its circumference, leaving future holders to pay the
additional instalment. Such being the case, a
warning may usefully be given, even though it be
simply in reiteration of what has been often before
stated under this head. Rome and colonial under-
takings at any rate should receive a decided pre-
ference.

The Spanish official agency have given notice
that the 17th auction takes place at Madrid, on the
29th inst., when 750,000 reals will be assigned by
the Government.

The English Funds, now the Account has been
adjusted, are looking up, and there is good support
given to prices by the purchasers for money. If
the Chancellor of the Exchequer were to modify his
plan to obviate an increase in the capital of the
debt, there would probably be a speedy rise. Con-
sols have been 1001 / for Transfer, and 1001 for
the Account. The New 3k per Cents. have
realised 1031 to I, and the 3 per Cents. 99 to 100.
Exchequer Bills of June are 4s. to Bs. prem. East
India Bonds have been quoted 445. premium.
Bank Stock is worth 225 to 226, and India Stock
260 to 2621. South Sea Old Annuities are 99k.
Foreign Rock are very quiet. Peruvian Defer-
red have been firm at 67k. Mexican are worth.
27/. Grenada Active Bonds are at 231. Portu-
guese 5- per Cents. are worth 43. Spanish New
Deferred are 24k. The Certificate is at 6to and
dull.

Railway Shares are generally firmer, and the
settlement of the Account is being got over to-
lerably well. The rates of " continuation" are
scarcely so high as they were, but speculators for a
rise having preponderated, are closing accounts,
and hence the market has not participated in the
improvement in Consols. Midland, Lancashire,
Caledonian, and South-Eastern have been most
dealt in. The Foreign lines are generally very
firm.

The Gold Mine Shares are heavy as regards the
Australian Companies, the Colonial being lower.
The Agua Fria, however, are very firm.
The Land Companies' Shares are all improving.
The " contango" has been high on South Austra-
lian and Van Diemen's. Land.

In the Australian Banks the bargains have been
limited, and prices are flat.
The last week's railway receipts ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :

Great Western 1853. 1852.
£20,481 £17,498
North Western 45,753 42,320
South Western 11,099 11,634
Brighton 11,492 10,613
Midland 23,513 22,093
South Eastern ].3,737 13,677
Caledonian
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire 18,220 17,405
The following concerning the fall in the price of
Copper is furnished by Messrs. Tredinnich and
Co..—

"We regret to have this day to record a fall in price
of copper of fully 101. per ton. Last Thursday the
standard again fell, and during the last month a decline
of fully twelve per cent. took place. This must
materially affect the standard Dividend Mines of Corn-
wall and Devon. We, some weeks ago, drew attention
to the high price• at which many of these were
selling in the market, and expressed our apprehensions
of a reaction shortly taking place. This, unfortunately,
is now being felt, in the disposition of holders to realise
and the scarcity of buyers in the market. We have
more especially at all times directed attention to mines
of a legitimate character, having capital subscribed,
situated in good localities, with analogy in their favour,
and under good and practical management, as most de-
sirable for investment."

BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK THIS DAY,

( From the Official List.)

' - Business done.
Bank Stock •
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 99 i IC3
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 34 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 -16
Ditto- 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 6 5-16
India Stock
India Bonds, £lOO
Ditto, under £lOOO 45 38
South Sea Stock, Old Annuities.....
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills lid. June. March
£lOOO.
£5OO 4 3
Small 3 2

PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Grenada Bonds, Ex Dec., 1849, Coupon 23i
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Peruvian for the Account
Portuguese for the Account 43
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. 2St llBl
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ........ ...... .
Spanish Bonds, New Deferred, 3 per dent 24i
Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun. 6/
HALF-PAST TWO.
- Consols
Ditto April Account