The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-05 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert paid her Majesty's
visitors inspected yesterday morning; in Buckingham
Palace, the two Aztecs, from Central America.
The Prince of Wales, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel
Francis Hugh Seymour and Mr. Gibbs, left Buckingham
Palace at a quarter before 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon,
and travelled via London and South-Western Railway
to Windsor Castle.

The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duchess of
Saxe Coburg Gotha yesterday. The Duchess of Kent,
accompanied by the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe
Langenburg, visited the Duke and Duchess of Saxe
Coburg Gotha in the evening at Buckingham Palace,
and took leave of their Royal Highnesses.
The Princess of Prussia and the Duke and Duchess
of Saxe Coburg Gotha visited the Duchess of Kent yes-
terday afternoon at Clarence-house, St. James's. The
Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha also visited
the Duchess of Cambridge at her residence, in St.
James's Palace,
The Queen and Prince Albert, the Prince and Princess
of Prussia, the Duke and. Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha,
and the Prince of Hohenlohe Langenburg, took a drive
yesterday afternoon in two open carriages and four.
Lord Alfred Paget and Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A.
Gordon attended on horseback.

The Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha, at-
tended by the Baroness Wangenheim, Baron Seebach,
and Baron Treskow, took leave of the Queen and Prince
Albert yesterday evening on their return to the conti-
nent. Their Royal Highnesses quitted Buckingham
Palace at five minutes to 8 o'clock, in one of the Queen's
carriages, for the London-bridge terminus, and travelled
by the South-Eastern Railway to Dover.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
honoured the Philharmonic Concert, at the Hanover-
square Rooms, with their presence last evening. The
Prince and Princess of Prussia, ihe Princess Royal, and
the Princess Louise of Prussia accompanied the Queen
in her carriage. Prince Albert, the Prince of Hohenlohe
Langenburg, the Duke of Weilington, Master of the
Horse ; and the Duke of Norfolk, Lord Steward, occu-
pied the carriage immediately preceding that of the Queen.
The ladies and gentlemen in waiting occupied five other
Royal carriages, and consisted of the Countess of Mount
Edgcumbe, Lady in Waiting ; the Hon. Eleanor Stanley
and the Hon. Beatrice Byng, Maids of Honour in Wait-
ing ; the Countess von Hacke, the Countess Oriolla, and
Mademoiselle von Stereberg, Ladies in Waiting
to the Princess of Prussia and the Princess Louise,
the Marquis of Breadalbane, Lord Chamberlain ;
the Marquis of Abercorn, Groom of the Stole to
Prixice Albert ; the Marquis of Ormonde, Lord in Wait-
ing ; Viscount Torrington, Lord in Waiting to Prince
Albert ; Major-General Berkeley Drummond, Groom in
Waiting ; Lord Alfred Paget (Clerk Marshal), Equerry
in Waiting ; Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon,
Equerry in Waiting to Prince Albert ; Count Puckler,
Count Goltz, and Count Boos, in Waiting to the Prince
of Prussia.

Her Majesty and the royal party left the palace for
the concert at eight o'clock.
A deputation from the county of Warwick, consisting
of Mr. Samuel Umbers, Mr. George Startin, Mr. Thos.
Carter, and Mr. Henry Brown, and a deputation from
the directors of the poor for the city of Coventry, con-
sisting of Mr. Stephen Hammerton (chairman), Mr.
Francis Serjeant, Mr. Edward Simms, and Mr. Thomas
Rue, had an interview with Viscount Palmerston yes-
terday at the Home-office. The deputations were intro-
duced by the Right Hon. E. Ellice, M.P., Mr. C. N.
Newdegate, M.P., Mr. R. Spooner, M.P., and Mr. C.
Geach, M.P.
Mr. Joha Wood, chairman of the Board of Inland
Revenue, bad an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing-
street.

THE AZTECS BEFORE HER MAJESTY.—By command
of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
and through the agency of Dr. Clarke, the Aztec Lilli-
putians, from the city of Iximaya, in Central America,
were brought to the Palace yesterday. There were
present at the interview the Prince of Wales, the Prin-
cess Royal, and the Princess Alice, the Prince and Prin-
cess of Prussia, the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg,
Prince Hohenlohe, the Countess of Mount-Edgecumbe,
and many ladies of the court. So interested was her
Majesty that she remained with the Lilliputians for
nearly an hour, and previous to their departure ex-
pressed herself? much gratified with their visit. A
similar compliment was paid by the members of the
royal party.
The departures from the port of London for the Aus-
tralian colonies during the past week show a slight
decrease. They have comprised altogether 10 vessels—
four to Sydney, with an aggregate burden of 2,511 tons ;
four to Port Philip, with an aggregate burden of 1,910
tons ; one to Hobart Town, of 608 tons; and one to
Adelaide, of 554 tons. Their total capacity was, conse-
quently, 5,583 tons. The shipments of manufactures
and ordinary merchandise have rather diminished, and
rates of freight show a further tendency to decline.
AMSTERDAM AND ROTTERDAM PRODUCE MARKETS.—
, The weekly reviews state that business continued inac-
tive. The transactions in coffee had been limited, but
prices were fairly supported. No change had occurred
in raw or refined sugar, scarcely any contract; having
been concluded. Rice continued in demand, and most
descriptions of fruits showed a further tendency to im-
provement. The accounts from Hamburg and Antwerp
represent a similar position of trade.
ROUEN.—The letters from Rouen mention that:the
market for manufactures was heavy, the absence of pur-
chasers having again unfavourably influenced quotations.
NEW YORK.—The commercial accounts from New
York this week are wholly without interest. The rate
of exchange continued in favour of this country, the
specie brought on the present occasion being 110,0001.,
while a further sum may be expected by the Arctic on
Wednesday.
THE OUTWARD INDIAN MAIL.—The Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamer Bengal left Southampton
yesterday with the India, China, and Australian mail.
The mail was exceedingly heavy ; it was conveyed to
Southampton by special train, filled four railway wag-
gons, and weighed about 15 tons. It consisted of 325
boxes and 18 bags,-97 of the boxes were for India, 10
for China, and 210 for Australia. Of the Australian IN RE ASHTON AND SPRIGGS.
The only case before the court this morning was a
boxes, 5 were for King George's Sound, 25 for Adelaide,
108 for Melbourne, 8 for Geelong, and 64 for Sydney dividend meeting under the private estate of the bank-
Amongst the passengers by the Bengal were Colon-el. rupt Spriggs, who, it will be remembered, absconded
Outram, whose return to India in the service of the with a very large sum of money, &c., and was appre-
East India Company is significant of his having bonded at Melbourne, Australia, and the property se-
triumphed over the Bombay Government ; Lieutenant cured. The bankrupt was brought over to England and
Percival, R.N., who is gone out to take charge of the now lies in Newgate for trial for absconding.
mails between Suez and Calcutta, and a portion of the The business before the court was pro forma, and the
suite of the Rajah of Coorg. On board the Bengal, also, amount of the dividend will be declared in a few days.
there were mastiff dogs, gold and silver pheasants, pea, A larger dividend will, in consequence of the appre-
cocks, and a quantity of poultry from, the Pacha of hension of Spriggs and the recovery of the property, be
Fig nt, • payable to the creditors of the joint estate.

Mr. W. C. Scott; manager of the Parcels Delivery
Company, gave the prisoner an excellent character, and
intimated that it was through one of the directors of
that company, who expressed a high opinion of his
honesty, that he obtained a situation in the bank.
The Recorder said be would defer passing sentence.
The prisoner was then removed.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
Ann Howard, a shabby genteel-looking young woman,
was indicted for passing base coin.
Mr Bodkin and Mr. Poland prosecuted.
It was proved that, on the night of the 11th of June,
the prisoner went into the shop of a milliner in the
Northern-road, at Shepherd's Bush, and. in payment for
some trifing things she had bought tendered a bad crown-
piece. The prosecutrix, a Mrs. Ayshford, not baying
change, sent her cousin over to a neighbour for it, and
she brought back the crown-piece, and. said it was a bad
one. She then, it appeared, tried to pass the same bad
coin at another tradesman's in the neighbourhood ; and
later in the evening, she tendered a bad half-sovereign,
which being detected, sbe was given in custody, when
she gave an address at a place that did not exist.
The prisoner, whose manners and language bespoke
her being far above the usual class of persons who ap-
pear here charged with this class of offence, said that
she had received the money in payment for some needle-
work which she had done for a lady who had gone
abroad.

The jury found her guilty.
Not being known as a previous offender, she was sen-
tenced to six months' imprisonment and hard labour.
There are 18 prisoners for trial for this class of offence,
and the cases will occupy the whole day.
George Hetherington, whose case appeared in our im-
pression of yesterday, was, after a long investigation,
found guilty, and sentenced to 12 months' imprison-
ment and hard labour.

BANKRUPTCY COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

CUSTOMS, &c. A CTS.

The following are the resolutions to be reported to the
House of Commons this day
1. Resolved, That in lieu of the consideration mentioned
in the act passed in the forty-second year of the reign of
King George the Third, chapter 116, sections 22 and 23,
and the table of the schedule marked (L) to the said act
annexed, to be given or paid for the redemption of the
land tax in Great Britain, under the provisions of the
several acts in force in that behalf, the consideration for
such redemption shall be a sum of the capital stocks, or
one of them, mentioned in section 22 of the said act,
by and at the rate of 171. 10s. per 1001. than the amount of
the stock consideration calculated and ascertained accord-
ing to the said last-mentioned enactment, or a sum of
money less by and at the like rate than the amount of the
money consideration calculated and ascertained according
to the said section 23, and the said table in schedule (L) of
the said act ; and the consideration for the purchase of
land tax under the several provisions contained in the said
act in that behalf, shall be such sum of capital stock or
money at the least as is hereinbefore directed to be given
or paid for the redemption of land tax.
2. Resolved, That the stamp duties, and composition for
duties, granted and made payable in Ireland for a limited
term, by the Act 5 and 6 Vic. c. 82, and continued by sub-
sequent acts for four other several and successive terms,
the last of which will expire on the 10th day of October,
1853 ; and all duties now payable in lieu of any of the
said duties which may have been repealed, shall be con-
tinued and made perpetual.