The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-10 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Friday next,
he 11th inst., at Buckingha►n Palace.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the Foreign
Office, Downing-street. The Ministers present were :
the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, the Marquis
of Lansdowne, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of
Argyll, Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Clarendon,
Sir George Grey, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right
Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir William Molesworth, and
Earl Granville. The Council sat three hours.

A deputation from Stoke Newington, on the subject
of the open drain through the district, called the Hackney
Brook, had an interview with Viscount Palmerston yes-
terday. The deputation consisted of Messrs. Charles
Gilpin, Richard Ashby Evans, J. March, W. Smee, W.
Tuke, John B. Tylor, J. C. Grant, R. Smith, J. J.
Fox, and Bond ; and was introduced by Mr. T. bun-
combe, M.P., and Mr. Alderman Challis, M.P.
Despatches were sent yesterday, from the Colonial-
office, to the Governors of Malta and Gibraltar and the
Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands.

The Rev. P. F. J. B. Rains has been collated to
the perpetual curacy of Hoylake, in the county of
Chester, void by cession of Rev. John Gibbons
Longueville.

Sir George Cathcart, the Earl of Lucan, and Sir Richard
England, are to have the local rank of Lieutenant-Gene-
ral in Turkey.
It is stated that two more regiments of cavalry and
six regiments of inrantry are to proceed to Turkey, and
that the whole of the militia are to be embodied.

MANCHESTER AND SALFORD BANKING COMPANY.—
Yesterday, at noon, Mr. Langton, the well known
manager of Sir Benjamin Heywood and Co.'s bank, at
Manchester, was appointed the new manager of the Man-
chester and Salford Bank, vice Mr. Paul Moon James,

deceased.
THE MAIL PAOKETS.—SOUTHAMPTON, August 9.
The steam-ship Severn, belonging to the Royal Mail
Steatn.pa.cket Company, commanded by Captain Hast,
left this day at three o'clock, with the monthly mails for
South America, Brazils, &c. She took out passengers
to the number of 58, specie to the amount of 7,0001.,
and a very full general cargo. The Royal Mail Com-
pany's steamship Thames is the next home with the
mails from the Brazils, and is due on the 16th instant,
but expected on or about the 15th instant. The Plata,
belonging to the same company, will bring the next
homeward West Indian and Pacific mails, and is also
expected on or about the 15th instant. In consequence
of the immense demand made by Government upon all
mail contract companies for the use of their largest and
most powerful ships, the General Screw Company have
not yet been enabled to supply a ship to follow the In-
diana on the new line which has been commenced from

this port to America, and, the immense increase of traffic
which is taking place between these countries calling for
increased facilities for the carrying on of the same, the
Messrs. Croskey, agents for the new line, have chartered
an extra ship, supplied by the City of Limerick Com-
pany, named the Brannon, of 1,400 tons burden, and
commanded by Captain Jenkins, which will leave Havre
on the 16th, and Southampton on the 17th instant, with
ship letter-bags, passengers, and cargo, for New York.
LIVERPOOL, Wednesday.—The United States mail
steam-ship Baltic, Captain Comstock, sailed from the
Mersey for New York, with the usual bi-weekly mails,
191 passengers, and a full cargo of merchandise on
freight. Amongst her passengers were Madame Grisi
and Signor Mario, on a professional tour in the United
States.

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MAILS FOR JAVA.—Her Majesty's Government having
given permission for the contract packets of the Penin-
sular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company to dis-
continue calling at Batavia, on their outward voyage to
Australia, once in two months, the direct communication
by British packet between Singapore and Batavia, here-
tofore existing in connection with the Overland India
Mail, has now ceased. The correspondence for Java
will henceforward be made up in London on every occa-
sion •of the despatch of a mail to India, both via
Southampton and via Marseilles, and such correspon-
dence will be conveyed by British packet as far as Singa-
pore, whence it will be carried on to its destination by
the packets of the Netherlands Government. Letters
and newspapers for Java will continue liable to the same
rates of postage that are at present chargeable on their.
in this country.
THE TURKISH LOAN. —lt is understood that the Turk-
ish Government still contemplate a small loan in this
country, and that the details have been already arranged
with Baron Goldsmid and Messrs. Palmer, Mackillop,
and Co. Rumours, however, which were circulated yes-
terday on the subject, were incorrect as regards the in-
tended terms.
THE GENERAL SCREW STEAM-SHIPPING COMPANY.—
This company have definitively resolved to open a ser-
vice between Southampton, Havre, Bremen, and New
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York, for which purpose five of their vessels of 1,800
tans each, withdrawn from their Indianjoute
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very dangerous state.
THE SUSPICIOUS CRAFT j NEAR THE SHANNON.—
The following version of the appearance of a
" suspicious-looking steamer" on the Irish coast
appears in the Limerick Reporter :—" As the Jessy,
Captain Gorman, from Quebec, Messrs. Spaight
owners, was coming in from sea on Saturday a large
paddle steamer was discerned in the distance coming
down towards Loop-head, under easy steam. When
within six miles of the Jessy, the steamer altered course
to south ; then stopped steam and puChead to the W.N.W.
The description of the steamer is, very long hull, painted
black, with a very long funnel, schooner rigged, and, as
Captain Gordon reports, 'a very suspicious looking craft.'
There was no salute interchanged between the Jessy and
the unknown steamer ; but the supposition on board the
former was, that the steamer was nothing less than a
Russia cruiser on the look out about the Irish coast.
How far the suspicion may be justified a few days
will assuredly reveal ; but the rumour that a Russian
cruiser could be so near the Shannon has created a sus-
picion. Some persons think that the steamer is from
the Admiralty on a surveying cruise. Perhaps this is
the more likely solution of the mystery. But it is
something suspicious after all."
THE KING OF PORTUGAL AND THE JEWS.—The
Cologne Gazette states that the King of Portugal, during
his late visit to Amsterdam, having been informed that
the Portuguese Jews in that city formed a commune
apart, and had a synagogue to themselves, visited it,
and promised the chief of the commune that, on his re-
turn to Portugal, he would endeavour to have the old
Portuguese laws which banished all Jews repealed.
ABINGDON SCHOOL, AUG. B.—The election of two
scholars from this school to Pembroke College, Oxford,
took place at Abingdon yesterday, when Thomas D.Page
and John Taylor were elected, the former on the Tesdale,
the latter on the Wightwick foundation. This is the
last election that will take place at the Abingdon School
for a scholarship. It is understood that under the new
bill the examinations for the exhibitions will take place
at Pembroke College.
SEE OF SYDNEY.—The long vacant see of Sydney has
been at length filled by the appointment of the Rev.
Frederick Barker, incumbent of Baslow, Derbyshire.
Mr. Barker was for many years Perpetual Curate of
Edge-hill, Liverpool.
HONG-KONG.—According to the telegraphic accounts
from Hong-Kong yesterday afternoon, which reach to the
22d of June, the rate of exchange has experienced only a
fractional further decline at Canton, while at Shanghai
it again remains without alteration, the quotation at the
former place being ss. id., instead of ss. ld., as by the
last advices, and at the latter 6s. Bd. Shipments of silver
from this country will therefore continue. The export
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A MODEL LETTER.— The following letter is a perfect
model in its way, We certainly hope it is an unique
specimen .—" Dear Brother,—l've got one of the hand-
somest farms in the State, and have it nearly paid for.
Crops are good, and prices never were better. We have
had a glorious revival of religion in our church, and both
our children (the Lord be praised) are converted. Father
got to be rather an incumbrance, and last week I took
him to the poor-house.—Your -affectionate brother.—
New York Daily Times.
THE HARVEST.- --The corn harvest has now commenced
in many parts of Devonshire. Generally speaking, the
crop promises to be a good one, though there are com-
plaints of rust and mildew. ats, also, have been cut
in some places, and have been housed in excellent con-
ition, The hay harvest its drawing towards a close.