The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-15 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with
their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess
Royal, Prince Alfred, the Princesses Alice, Helena, and
Louisa, and Prince Arthw, left Windsor Castle at five
minutes before one o'clock yesterday afternoon for the sta-
tion of the Great Western Railway in Windsor. The Ladies
and Gentlemen in Waiting were the Countess of Charlemont,
Lady Caroline Barrington' the Hon. Caroline Cavendish,
the Hon. Flora Macdonald, Earl Somers, Col. the Hon. C.
B. Phipps, Col. the Hon. Charles Grey, Captain the Hon;
Mortimer Sackville West, the Master of the Household.
Lord Alfred Paget, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A. Gor-
don, and Mr. Gibbs. Her Majesty and the royal party tra-
velled to London by a special train, and on arriving at the
Paddington terminus, entered several of the Queen's car-
riages, and proceeded to Buckingham Palace, where they
arrived at eight minutes to two o'clock. A party of Light
Dragoons formed the escort from the station to the Palace.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert were received at Buck-
ingham Palace by the Duke of Norfolk, Lord Steward ; the
Marquis of Breadalbane, Lord Chamberlain ; the Due of
Wellington, Master of the Horse ; Lord Ernest Bruce,
Vice-Chamberlain ; and Lord George Lennox, Lord in
Waiting to his Royal Highness.
A deputation, on the subject of the Building Act, the
sewers, and the police, and the necessity of local govern-
ment on these points, had an interview with Sir William
Molesworth yesterday, at the Office of Works and Public
Buildings, in Whitehall Place. The deputation consisted
of Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P. • Sir Benjamin Hall, M.P. ;
Sir De Lacy Evans, M.P. ; Mr. Nicholay, Mr. Toulmin
Smith, Mr. Plum, Mr. Pardwell, Mr. T. Duncombe, M.P.
Mr. G. Bird, Mr. Nelson ' • Messrs. Trelawney, Saunders,
and James Labram (St. Martin's), William Geesin (St.
James) Horne (St. Luke's), Gudella (Islington), Williams,
M.P. (Lambeth), C. Carr, Russell, Rowe W. R. Green-
well, Buzzard, and Cook ; Messrs. J. F. Williams, W. W.
King, H. Horn, and Wm. Horn (overseers St. Luke's),
and about twenty-three other gentlemen. The deputation
had also an interview with Viscount Palmerston, Home
secretary, yesterday.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Leslie Foster, Mr. Bux-
ton, Mr. Donaldson, Mr. Leslie, and Mr. Brooks had an
interview with the Duke of Newcastle yesterday, at the
Colonial-office.
The Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank of
England had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-
street.

A deputation from Cherley, Lancashire, had an interview
yesterday with the General Board of Health, at their
office, Whitehall. The deputation consisted of Messrs.
Anger, Walworth, and J. C. Crook (solicitor). They were
attended and introduced by Mr. Robert Townley Parker,
M.P., and Mr. John Wilson Patten, M.P.
The Count Baptiste Metaxa had an interview with the
Duke of Newcastle yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
Dispatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office
to the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and to the
Governor of the Mauritius. Dispatches were received
yesterday from the Governors of the North American Pro-
vinces, and from the Lord High Commissioner of the
lonian Islands.

THE SPEAKERSHIE.—The probable succession of the
member for Leeds, the Right Hon. Mr. T. Baines, to
this office, as recently intimated, is occasioned, we are
glad to learn, by no failure of health, and certainly by
no dissatisfaction, or want of confidence in the right
hon. gentleman, who up to this time has so ably filled
the office, but arises simply from the ordinary routine
by which it is understood that, after the arduous duties
have been satisfactorily discharged for a given term, the
occupant of the chair of the House of Commons is
usually relieved by a successor, some mark of distinction
being conferred on the retiring Speaker. Halifax
Courier.

FATAL ACCIDENT TO CAPTAIN MTDDLETON.—Yester-
day Mr. Baker held an inquest on the body of Capt.
Myddleton, one of Lloyd's surveyors, who lost his life
under the following circumstances :—lt appeared from
the evidence that, on the 7th inst., Captain Myddleton
was surveying the Breadalbane in Lavender Dock, at
Bermondsey ; a sort of stage was formed round the
vessel to facilitate the examination, and upon this the
deceased was standing, when it suddenly gave way, and
he was precipitated into the dock, and so seriously in-
jured that he expired on the following morning. Ver-
dict—" Accidental death."

EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY AT THE GENERAL POST-
OFFICR.—Yesterday morning considerable surprise was
occasioned amongst the employes at the inland depart-
ment of the General Post-office by the accidental disco-
very of bank notes and jewellery to a very large amount,
supposed to be the proceeds of a series of letter robberies
which occurred two years since. The objects of the
discovery were found in an extra office only used under
a pressure of business. Some of the notes were entire,
and others in halves, and all of them were creased, as if
they had been enclosed in letters. Information of this
discovery was at once forwarded to the Secretary's
office, and the property was carefully examined and
deposited in a place of security until steps can be taken
to trace the various owners. A list will be issued
shortly with the view of enabling the persons by whom
the various articles were transmitted to identify and
recover them.

THE HUNTERIAN ORATION. —Yesterday afternoon, the
annual oration, in celebration of John Hunter, was de-
livered by Mr. Bransby Cooper, before the members of
the Royal College of Surgeons, in their theatre, which,
during the last few months has been enlarged to nearly
double its former size. The spacious building was densely
crowded by gentlemen connected with the medical pro-
fession. The orator chose to pursue the development
from the studies which have made Hunter's name illus-
trious, rather than repeat eulogies upon his name, and
his address was, therefore, of a thoroughly professional
character. As usual, notice was taken of the losses sus-
tained by the profession through death during the year,
and the names of Mr. Vincent, Mr. Dalrymple, Sir
Charles Forbes, Sir John Webb, Dr. Pereira, and Mr.
Lawrence were mentioned amid demonstrations of re-
spect.

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best guarantee, and an efficient management, combined
with the most perfect integrity, is thus secured, added to
which, the chairman of this company has been emi-
nently successful in a like capacity in connection with
the Agua Fria.—Morning paper.
BRITISH AMERICAN LAND COMPANY. The annual
general meeting of the proprietors of the British Ame-
rican Land Company was held yesterday, when a very
favourable report from the directors was read and
adopted, and a dividend for the past year of 30s. per
share, payable in two instalments, namely, on the 11th
of April and the 10th of October next, was declared,
out of a surplus balance of-20,201/.' of which 9,8431.
formed the net profit for the year 1852. It appears,
from the report, tha3 the various branches of enterprise
embraced in the company's operations show a continued
improvement. Land had been sold to the extent of
17,060 acres, for 18,1871., and the income of the com-
pany shows a large and satisfactory increase.
NORTH AND SOUTH-WESTERN JUNCTION RAILWAY.—
The North and South-Western Junction Railway is at
length open for traffic. This short line runs between
Willesden and Brentford, connecting the lines of the
London and North-Western and London and South-
Western Railway Companies, and will probably open up
a large passenger traffic from the north side of London.
The opening of the line is also calculated to prove a
great boon to the public, inasmuch as not only will much
delay and expense be saved to the shippers of goods from
the manufacturing districts at the port of Southampton,
but there will also be a considerable diminution of the
cart and waggon traffic through the streets of London
between the termini of the lines in question. The line
will also bring the East and West India Docks in con-
nection with Southampton.

EXTRAORDINARY CHANGE OF FORTUNE.—The Devon-
port Telegraph gives the following :—" Romance in Real
Life.—A striking instance of the mutability of human
affairs has recently occurred in the person of a stoker
on board her Majesty's ship Valouros lying at this
port. By some contretemps the individual who has
now fallen so unexpectedly into the lap of Fortune has
been condemned by the fickle goddess to pass his life up
to the present moment in the humble and obscure position
of a stoker or fireman, the immense property of which
he has now, it is said, become the inheritor having been
lying in the Chancery courts for many years. A few
days ago this begrimed and sooty son of Neptune was
visited on board the said vessel (we are told) by a gen-
tlem4n, who, after making the necessary inquiries,
communicated to the object of his visit the astound-
ing intelligence that he was entitled to the earldom of
Stockport, and the immense property attached to the
title, of the value of some 34,000/. per annum. The
feelings of the poor fellow on learning the almost incre-
dible transformation that had taken place in his affairs
may be readily conceived. We hear that the hero of
this romance of real life' immediately departed for Lon-
don, in company with tho gentleman alluded to, in order
to complete the necessary arrangements previous to
taking possession of his enormous wealth and 'newborn'
honours."

MONRY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at from 3,000 to 4,000 bales, all to the
trade. The market closed heavily, with but little
alteration in prices, except American, at 5d.,
which were 1-16 d. lower. The sales comprised
200 Pernam and Maranham, 200 Bahia, 500
Egyptian, 300 Surat, and 70 Sea Islands. Railway
Shares were dull at rather lower prices.
The following report upon the indigo sales is by
Massrs. H. W. Jewesbury and Co.:—
" Catalogue B, consisting of goods in second hands,
was commenced to-day ; prices ruled more even than is
usually the case in this catalogue, The previous rate
of advance was fully maintained. 1,311 chests have
passed to-day, of which 122 were withdrawn, 530
bought in, and 660 sold. Catalogue A will be resumed
to-morrow, and the remainder of catalogue B, on Mon-
day next, should the sale not be concluded before."

The notice given from the office of her Majesty's
Paymaster-General, for a reduction from 11d. to
Id. per centum per diem in the interest on Exche-
quer Bills, rather took the Stock Exchange by sur-
prise. There can be no doubt that the measure is
a judicious one, and that if the floating debt bears
a high premium, the country ought to have the
benefit in a reduction gf the interest. The mea-
sure, no doubt, has been taken after consultation
with the Bank of England directors, and on that
account also will have a good effect.
The English Stock Market is rallying, and the
quotations are higher. The reduction in the rate
of interest on Exchequer Bills has had an effect
upon values generally. Consols have been 994 to
for Transfer, and 99i for Account. Nothing
has been done in Exchequer Bills bearing the pre-
sent rate of lid., but at the opening of the market
there was considerable bustle, and, apparently to
produce an effect, offers were made to sell
the new Bills as low as 2s. premium, but
since there are many buyers at 10s. to 20s.
premium. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. are 1034 to ft, and the Three per Cents. 1004
to ft. Bank Stock has been worth 221* to 228,
and India Stock after being 269 to 266.
The Foreign Securities have been very dull.
Portuguese Four per Cents. have been marked 38
to Mexican stock is at 234, and Peruvian Six
per Cents. are at 234. Grenada Deferred have
been 114 to ft, and the Equador Bonds are at si.
Austrian stock has been in demand at 97i to 98k.
Sardinian is 944.
There appears, notwithstanding yesterday's ru-
mour, to be really a confirmation of Colonel Fre-
mont's mineral as well as soil rights to the ten
leagues in the Mariposa district, and it is strange
under such circumstances that the Californian
papers should in one or two instances assert directly
the contrary.
The Gold Mine Shares have been firm, but with-
out much doing in them.
The South Australian Land Shares have further
advanced. _

The Australian Bank Shares are also looking up.

In. Railway Shares there is less firmness. The
York and North Midland have fallen V. to 1/. 10s.;
the Midland f to I ; tho Lancashire and Yorkshire
to ; and the South Eastern, and one or two
others are likewise flatter. The French Shares are
very firm, and there is a rise in Strasbourg of
Northern fto ; and Havre
The railway meetings announced are the fol
lowing :
Company
Blackburn
Bristol and Exeter Feb. 24, Bristol.

Date. . Place.
Feb. 28, Blackburn.

Buckinghamshire
City of Toronto & L. Huron Feb. 24, 13, St. Helen's-p
Colchester, Stour Valley, &c. Feb. 16, Colchester.
. .

Cork and Waterford -
Cornwall

Direct London & Portsmouth Feb. 25, London Tavern.
Dublin and Belfast Junction Feb. 16, Dublin.

Dublin and Drogheda Feb. 25, Dublin.
Dublin and Wicklow Feb. 16, Dublin.

Dundalk and Enniskillen..

. Feb. 22, Dundalk.

East and West India Docks

and Birmingham Junction Feb. 19, Euston Station.
East Anglian Feb. 26, London Tavern.
East Lincolnshire Feb. 25, King's-cross.

Eastern Counties
East Indian Feb. 18, 50, Old Broad-st

Eastern Union
Feb. 25, Radley's Hotel.
Edinburgh and Glasgow Mar. 1, Glasgow.
Gloucester and Dean Forest Feb. 19, Gloucester.
Great Northern Feb. 26, Albion Tavern.
Great Sn. & Wn. (Ireland) Mar. 4, Dublin.
Great Western Feb. 17, Paddington.
Bilk. & Great S. & W. Irel Feb. 22, Dublin.
Lancaster and Carlisle Mar. 4, Liverpool.
Liverp., Crosby, & Southp. Feb. 15, Liverpool.
Llynvi Valley Feb. 24, Bristol.
London and Blackwall Feb. 15, London Tavern.
London and North-Western Feb. 18, Euston Station.
London and South-Western Feb. 16, London Tavern.
Madras Feb. 15, Office.
Manchester, Shell., & Lin. Feb. 23, Manchester.
Midland
Mid. Gt. Western Ireland Mar. 4, Dublin. _
.._ _ _

Newmarket Feb. 26, London Tavern.
Newp., Aber., & Hereford Feb. 23, London Tavern.
Northern and Eastern! Feb. 17, Office.
North Devon Feb. 21, London Tavern.
North & South-West. June. Feb. 21, 15 Parliament-st.
Oxf. Worc. & Wolverhampt. Feb. 23, London Tavern.
Royston and Hitchin Feb. 28, 15A,St.Helen's-p]
Sambre and Meuse Feb. 17, Office.
Ditto ditto
Sheff., Rotherham, 8., W.,
H., and Goole • Feb. 18, Wakefield.
South Wales Feb. 25, Paddington.
South Yorkshire Feb. 25, Sheffield.
St. Andrew's and Quebec
(Class A.) ., Feb. 24, 26, Parliament-e 1
Taff Vale l6, Bristol.
Feb..
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Thames Haven Feb. 26, London Tavern.
Vale of Neath Feb. 19, Cardiff.
Waterford and Limerick Feb. 25, Waterford.

West Cornwall Feb. 28, Penzance.
Western of France Feb. 25, Paris.

Wharfdale
Whitehaven &Furness June Feb. 26, Guildhall-chamb,
York, Newcastle & Berwick Feb. 18, York.
York & North Midland Feb. 23, York.

BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK THIS DAY.
(Front the Official List.)

Business done.
Bank Stock
8
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3i per Cent. Annuities.
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 613
India Stock
South Sea Old Annuities 99i
Consols for Account 10th March - 99A i
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds 5 per Cent.
Eqnador Bonds ss
Grenada Bonds, Deferred,
Mexican 3 per Cent 234
Peruvian 6 per Cent.
Portuguese 4 per Cent.
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ..... .......

Consols
Ditto March Account

HALM-PAST TWO.
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DEATHS BY COLD ON DARTMOOR. -- Corporal John
Panton and privates George Driver and John Carlin,
belonging to No. 7 (Captain Brown's) Company, 7th
Regiment Royal Fusiliers, stationed at the Dartmoor-
prison, Princetown, unfortunately lost their lives in the
snow on Dartmoor, on Saturday night. The two pri-
vates, who only left the Royal Military Hospital last
week, marched from the head-quarters, St. George's-
square, early on Saturday morning, under charge of
Corporal Ramsden, who conducted them seven miles, to
the village of Jump, where they were received by Panton,
who took them four miles further, to the Doursland-
barn Inn. Snow having fallen all day, the landlord
advised them not to proceed, but the corporal said they
must obey orders, and the three marched on. It is sur-
mised, from the positions in which their hats and knap-
sacks were scattered, that they passed through the first
snowdrift on the margin of the moor, a mile and half
from the inn, and reached the Devil's-bridge, a mile and
a half further. There they could not proceed, and re-
traced their steps to the first drift, which by that time
had become impassable, and here they unhappily
perished. John Smith, of No. 3 Company, who re-
turned to Devonport on Saturday, states that he and
Panton were four hours in the morning coming from
Doursland-barn (five miles), being at times up to their
arms in snow, which was in some parts eight feet deep.
He endeavoured to dissuade Panton from returning the
same evening. The bodies of Driver and Carlin were
found.

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for the outfit and passage of Jennings, so that he
was able to proceed at once out of the country when he
absconded from the bank. The only evidence, however,
to support this were some words dropped by him to a
policeman, who got into his company in disguise, and
the prisoner was discharged. There is now little expec-
tation of apprehending Jennings. Some of the local
police and London detectives have been watching the
haunts in which he was supposed to be concealed in the
metropolis, and an officer has been kept on board a
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vessel at Liverpool in which it was thought he might
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attempt to escape, but without success.
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in spirits of wine, and add a small quantity of water.
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taken off.—Scientific American.