The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-08 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

It is understood that the Levee to be held onWednes-
day, the 3d of May next, will be the last this season.
The Queen held a Court and Privy Council at 3 o'clock
yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.
At the Court the Marquis of Londonderry had an au-
dience of the Queen, and delivered to her Majesty the
ensigns of the most noble Order of the Garter worn by
his father, the late Marquis of Londonderry.
The Privy Council was attended by H.R.H. Prince
Albert, the Earl of Aberdeen, First Lord of the Treasury;
Viscount Pahnerston, Secretary of State for the Home
Department; Sir Jas. Graham, First Lord of the Admi-
ralty ; Sir C. Wood, President of the Board of Control ;
the Right Hon. S. Herbert, Secretary at War; the Mar-
quis of Breadalbane,lord Chamberlain; and the Marquis
of Abercorn, Groom of the Stole to the Price.
At the Council, an order in council was passed respect-
ing the colonies.
Viscount Palmerston officiated as Lord President, in
the absence of Earl Granville.

Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in waiting.
Her Majesty gave audiences to the Earl of Aberdeen,
Viscount Palmerston, and Sir J. Graham.

The Court was attended by the Earl of Mulgrave,
Treasurer of the Household ; Lord Ernest Bruce, Vice-
Chamberlain; Lord Byron, Lord in waiting; Mr. R. 0.
Gore, Groom i❑ waiting; and Colonel M'Douall, Silver
Stick in waiting. _ _

The Queen and Prince Albert took a drive in an open
landau and four yesterday afternoon.
Prince Albert rode on horseback in the forenoon, at-
tended by Lord Charles Fitzroy, and visited Mr. Bell's
studio at Kensington.
Prince Arthur and Prince Leopold took a drive in an
open carriage and four.

Her Majesty had a dinner party in the evening, at
Buckingham Palace. The company included their Royal
Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess and
Princess Mary of Cambridge, and the Duke of Cam-
bridge, Lady C. Barrington, Lady Anna Maria Dawson,
Baroness de Spetb, Lord de Roe, Lord Raglan, Sir John
Burgoyne, Baron Knesebeck, and Major the Hon. J.
Macdonald.
The band of the 2d Life Guards was in attendance
during dinner, and played the following selection :
March G. Kiallmark.

Overture, " Ruys Bias" Mendelssohn.
Duett, " Tyrolienne" Rossini.
Waltz, " Rigolette" Barrett.
Motivo, Oboe, composed and performed by Grattan Cooke.
Grand Selection, " I Lombardi"...... Verdi.
Quadrille, "The Spinster" Tinney.
March, ' Gold Hunter"
His Serene Highness Prince Victor of Hohenlohe
- _ _ .... .

Langenburg left-Buckingham Palace yesterday for
Dover, ea route to Germany. The Prince visited and
took leave of the Duchess of Kent yesterday, at Clarence
House, St. James's.

Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office, yester-
day, to the Governor of Canda.

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Mining Journal of this day.)

Shares in one or two mines have been in greater re-
quest this week, and at advanced prices ; but, taken
generally, the market has been flat. There is a great
indisposition among shareholders to pay up calls ; and a
strong feeling is gaining ground that it would be better,
looking at the present aspect of the money market, to
suspend operations at such mines as do not offer a suffi-
cient inducement for further outlay, or show a prospect
of making remunerative returns.
In the Bullion Market,—Mexican and South Ame-
rican dollars, ss. O'd. per oz. Bar Silver containing
gold (all gold above 5 grs. in the pound to be paid for),
ss. 2d. per oz. standard. Bar Silver without Gold,
ss. lid. per oz. standard. Bar Gold, 775. 9d, per oz.
standard. Spanish Doubloons, 78s. 6d. per oz. Colum-
bian Doubloons, 775. 6d. per oz. Fine Cake Silver,
ss. 68d.
There is still an almost entire absence of business in
gold mining shares, buyers and sellers being equally
averse to operating ; under these circumstances we have
little variation in prices to report ; generally, prices have
been steady, and in some instances an improving ten-
dency has been observable. Agua Frias, however, are
the only description that maintain any considerable pre-
mium.

In Miscellaneous Shares, considerable improvement
took place in the land companies.
In iron and coal companies, during the week, busi-
ess has been done at the following prices :—Blaenarvon
Iron and Coal, 101 ; British Iron has advanced to 9 ;
Port Tenant Steam Fuel are unchanged in price ; Au-
stralasian Coal, dia. to par ; Mount Carbon Coal, to
_ _

dis ; Cumberland Hematite Iron Ore.
A considerable amount of business in English mining
.hares is now regularly done on the Stock Exchange ;
and very many of the quotations in our list are fur-
nished as the result of actual transactions by stock-
brokers.

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)

•
MANCHESTER, APRIL 7.—The state of feeling produced
by the actual declaration of war against Russia was such
as to put a stop to business in our market throughout
the whole of last week. In the present week that feeling
of alarm has been very much mitigated ; and buyers have
ventured to make offers for India qualities of yarns and
goods, and for some descriptions of yarn for the continent,
as well as for home consumption. The prices offered
have, however, been extremely low ; but producers
have generally made up their minds to meet the neces-
sities of the case, and the consequence is that business
to a fair extent has been resumed. We have now a
clear and decided decline in prices—considerable in the
aggregate, but hardly quotable because of the irregu-
larity which exists. The buying consists mainly of a
good many small parcels for the supply of immediate
wants ; in some instances, however, parties have had
the courage to enter into larger transactions.
BRADFORD, April 6.—The same depression still con-
tinues in our market for our staples as for several weeks
past, and, to effect sales, a further reduction in price has
to be made.
LEICESTER, April 6.—Prices remain nominal. Long
wools are more in favour of the buyer. Short kinds are
in good demand, at late prices.

THE WOOLLEN TRADE.

( From the Leeds Mercury of this day. )

LEEDS, April 7.--We have no material change to re-
port in the state of the woollen market. There was a
much better attendance of merchants in the cloth-halls
on Saturday than there had been for several preceding
market days. Considerable animation prevailed, and a
good business was done. On Tuesday the market was
much flatter, and the transactions were limited both in
number and extent.

HUDDERSFIELD, April 4.—There has been a very quiet
market to-day, trade generally being rather flat. The
woollen trade has kept up uncommonly well, and the
manufacturers, upon the whole, are well employed.
ROCHDALE, April 3.—There has been another ex-
tremely slack market to-day in pieces of every description.
The wool market has been much the same as the piece
market, and prices rather in favour of the buyer.
HALIFAX.—Of late each succeeding week has served
to show additional gloom and depression in the worsted
trade ; and this day's market is no exception. For
middle wethers 13d. per lb. is reported ; short wools
gave way.

SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the
23,092 17 1
Cwoe r
re week
sending
gMarch k 21
a6s,tlyBes4 .t
a r
2,412 1 81
WATERFORD AND KILKENNY RAlLWAY.—Traffie return
5 1 101
for the week ending March 25 (29 miles) 21M
Corresponding week last year (13 miles:.., ...
CORK AND BANDON RAlLWAY.—Traffie return for th
week ending April 1, 1854 £l92 3 10
Corresponding week last pikr lBB,ll 9

SHARE MARKETS

(THIS DAY.)

BRITISH RAILWAYS.

RAILWAYS.

Closing Prices
yesterday.

21 - 23

Aberdeen
Ambg. Nottng. Bost
and Eastn.
Belfast & Ballymena.
Birming. Wolverh &
Stour Valley
Birkenhd. Lancsh &
Cheshire Junct
Do. Chesh. & Birk.,
£5O and £25 Cons.
Do., £20...
Blyth & Tyne original
£25 (issd. at £45)
Bristol and Exeter
Ca1ed0nian..........
Chester & Holyhead.
Cork and Bandon
Cork, Black, & Pass
Cornwall
Crieff Junction
Dublin&BelfastJunc
Dundee Perth &Aber-
deen Junetion
Do. New

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British Austria. Gold ;i_ad
British Iron
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at £5 pm
Do. Cocaes & Cuiada
Do. St. John Del Rey,
Carson's Creek ,
Clarendon Con. Min.
Co. of Jamaica
Cobre Copper
Colonial Gold
Copiapo
Copper Min. of Eng.
Do. Pref. 71, p. cent.
English and Austria.
Copper Smeltg. Co
General
Great Nugget Vein
Do. Registered
Great Polgooth
Liberty
Linares
Lond.&Californ.Gold
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Ilariquita
Nlexican&S.America
New Granada
New Linares Mining
and Smelting Co
Nouveau Monde
Pontgibaud Silve.
Lead Min. & Smelt
Port Philip
Quartz Rock
Ithymney Iron
Do. New
Santiago de Cuba
south Australian
Tin Croft
United Mexican
Waller
West Granada
West Mariposa
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MARKET NEWS' (THIS DAY.)

COVENT GARDEN.

Rather extensive supplies of vegetables were on sale in
to-day's market, yet the demand ruled active, at our quo-
tations. In fruit very little was doing.

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FEIIIT.—Pine apples, English, 6s Od to lOs Od each ;
ditto colonial, is Oct to is 3d each ; hot-house grapes,
15s to 20s; foreign ditto, is 6d to 3s Od per lb; apples,
6s to 8s per bush ; pears, 3s Od to 6s per dozen ; lemons,
9d to is 6d ; oranges. 4s Od to 12s per 100 ; almonds, 2s
to 3s per lb. ; Barcelona nuts, 24s per bush.; cob-nuts, 110 s
to 120 s per 1001bs ; chesnuts, 2s to 4s per peck ; filberts,
85s to 100 s per 100 lbs ; walnuts, 8d to is 6d per 100 ;
strawberries, 2s per doz.

VEGETABLES.—Cabbages, 9d to is 6d. ; Brussels sprouts,
3s Od to 5s Od per half sieve ; brocoli, 9d to is 6d per bund.;
greens. 3s Gd to 5s Od per doz. bunches; French beans, 3s
to 4s Od per 100 ; potatoes, 110 s to 150 s per ton ;
new ditto, 6d to 8d per lb. ; asparagus, 5s to lOs per 100 ;
sea-kail, 9d to 2s' per punnet; garlic, 8d to is per lb.
turnips, 2d to 3d per bunch ; carrots, 4cl to Bcl per
bunch ; cucumbers, is Od to 3s Od each ; celery, 6d to
is 6cl per bundle ; spinach, 4s Od to 7s Od per sieve;
onions, 2s 6d. to 3s 6cl per bushel ; Spanish ditto, is to 3s
per doz. ; leeks, lid to 3d per bunch ; shallots, 5d to 8d ;
horse-raddish, 2s Od to 4s Od per bundle ; parsley. 4s Od to
6s Od per half seive ; rhubarb, Os 4d to is Od per
bundle ; endive, 2s to 4s Od per score ; beet, is to 2s Gd
per dozen bunches ; parsnips, 9d to is 2d per dozen ; small
salad, 2d to 3d per punnet; mushrooms, is to is 3d per
pottle ; artichokes, 3s to 5s rer dozen.

THE SUN, LONDON, SATritDAT EVENING, APRIL 8, 1854.

SPORTING NOTES.

A PARTHIAN GLANCE AT EPSOM.

The doings on the downs on Thursday will long live
in the memory of turfites. They were marked by many
important and unexpected incidents, and their effect on
the turf market is likely to be lasting. The double vic-
tory of Virago has already regulated speculation on
coming events, and materially limited its range. Indeed,
so extraordinary was the racing power which she dis-
played, that her successful fulfilment of all her present
heavy engagements is calculated upon with certainty.
So decided and unequivocal was the ease with which her
first victory was achieved, that she immediately became
the leading favourite for the Metropolitan. The confi-
dence of her party was not misplaced, and by " doing
the double event" it is stated that she won for her owner
alone 15,0001! Muscovite, whom I selected soon
after the publication of the weights as being likely
to prove a most formidable competitor, and for whom I
bore up through good and through evil report, ran
, second. His party was in earnest, and their belief in
his ability to pull through was well founded ; for even
on the morning of the race the starting of Virago for the
Metropolitan was so problematical that 25, 20, and 15
to 1 were repeatedly betted against her. Royalist de-
ceived his backers, and the reports which had been cir-
culated about his formidable pretensions were delusions
and shams. He was proved to be a more unmitigated
impostor than Contentment, and his inglorious exhibi-
tion justified the suspicions which I frequently expressed
in my notes on the probable result of the race. Jona-
than Martin ran quite as forward as I expected, and
Haco's performance showed the correctness of the favour.
able estimate which I made of his chance.
Marc Antony is now first favourite for the Chester
Cup, a position to which his running for the City and
Suburban truly entitles him. He was among the ani-
mals which I indicated as being " well in" on the first
publication of the Handicap, and as in the case of Mus-
covite for the Metropolitan, time has again proved the
accuracy of my judgment and information. By the way
I inadvertently fell into an error in my "notes" pub-
lished on Wednesday last, when I spoke of Marc An-
tony's being the stable companion of Virago. Marc An-
tony is trained by John Day, jun., and Virago by John
Day, sen.
I was not among the "jumpers" on Friday, but I
hear the "creatures were at their dirty work again."
The proceedings were entirely regulated by the principle
of win, tye, or wrangle.
I have purposely confined my remarks on the Epsom
Meeting to a few general observations. I shall, how-
ever, inquire into what is termed, in the vernacular of
the " Ring," the "Royalist Rig," and shall not hesitate
to express freely my opinions on the matter.
April 8. A FRESH MAN.

THE SECRET MEMORANDUM OF 1844.

( From the Press.)

We have received an authoritative communication
from an individual, who "desires to be described" as
"one competent to make a statement with'respect to
the secret Memorandum of 1844."
This communication refers to a speech delivered in
the House of Lords by the Earl of Aberdeen, on Friday,
the 31st ult., in reply to a leading article which ap-
peared in this journal on the 25th of the same month.
Our correspondent states that the description of the
secret Memorandum, as " the key of the relations ne-
tween England and Russia," was not contained, as
stated by us, in a private letter from the Emperor of
Russia to the present Prime Minister of England, but in
a private letter addressed by Count Nesseirode to his
Excellency Baron Brunow, then Russian Minister at
the Court of St. James's. This letter our correspon-
dent assures us he has the best reasons for believing was
communicated to Lord Aberdeen, and he cannot doubt
that a copy of it must exist in England.
Our correspondent adds, that there is no other por-
tion of the article in the Press which he is prepared to
question, and which article, in his belief, "conveys an
accurate picture of a diplomatic transaction, that was
not only intended to be secret, but the secrecy of which,
until this year 1854, had been successfully preserved."
So much for the " malignant misrepresentations" of the
Press newspaper, which the Prime Minister of England
deemed it his duty to denounce in the House of Lords,
and attempt to refute in detail, on the most solemn oc-
casion on which a Senate could assemble.
We beg to inform Lord Aberdeen that no statesman
in this country was ever injured by " malignant misre-
presentations." No public man in England was ever
written down by calumnies, though it has been often
tried. But, on the other hand, authentic state-
ments cannot be refuted by denouncing them as
" malignant misrepresentations." Truth will have its
way, even if its victim be a Minister of State.
Some ten months ago, when the possibility of
war first crossed the public mind, and the cue was first
given to the Government runners and organs to inveigh
against the duplicify and violence of Russia, we ven-
tured to express, in these columns, our surprise at these
expressions on the part of the Government, inasmuch
as we had the best reasons for believing that Lord
Aberdeen had been privy, from the first, to the designs
of the Emperor of Russia, and had approved them ;
and that, at the commencement of the year (1853),
there had been an unreserved communication of the in-
tentions of Russia to her Majesty's Government. Last
May that, too, was a "malignant misrepresentation ;"
it was more—it was "absurd," and came from a
quarter not seriously to be noticed." But the " malig-
nant misrepresentation" so much attracted the attention
of the public that it became necessary to notice it. So
a circumlocutory contradiction was, at length, ventured
on in the principal Government organ, which, while it
assailed our statement, did not condescend to mention
our name. What is thought of that "malignant mis-
representation" now ?
During the whole of last summer and autumn the
Press newspaper continued to make " malignant mis-
representations." When the Government organ con-
gratulated the country that the Menschikoff ultimatum
was accepted, we maliciously denied the statement ;
when we were assured that the affair was a "mere
diplomatic imbroglio," and that "all would soon be
settled," we maliciously asserted that, on the contrary,
" the present prospect was that war would break out."
When we were amused with the rumours of conciliatory
measures, and that Austria had been engaged effectually
to interfere, we maliciously maintained that the Rus-
sians would pass the Pruth.
In the same spirit of deliberate mischief we warned
the country of the diplomatic conspiracy, which had
resolved, either in the shape of Vienna notes, or Turkish
propositions, that the Russian ultimatum should in spirit
be adopted ; and in December last, when we were again
officially informed that the long-protracted settlement
was at hand, we announced that we had authority
to state that " the part of Russia was definitively
taken, and that part was war." In short, there
has been no limit to the spitefulness with which,
during our brief existence, we have laboured
to obtain authentic information on the Eastern
question for the British public. We actually published
the final instructions of the Emperor of Russia to MM.
Kisseleff and Brunow before they reached the courts
which those ministers were commanded to quit, as
well as the orders sent out to the allied Admirals as to
entering the Black Sea. We were even so malevolent
as to throw some light on the mission of Count Orloff at
a moment when our contemporaries had agreed that
nothing was known on the subject.
The consequence of all this evil disposition has been
that our journal, in ten months, has obtained a circula-
tion larger than many of its contemporaries which have
flourished twice as many years ; and that the newspaper
which a short time back was not even to be named by
the Government organ, when it was absolutely neces-
sary to impugn its authentic statement, has now its
articles replied to in detail by the Prime Minister in his
place in Parliament. Might not all this induce Lord
Aberdeen to suspect that "malignant misrepresenta-
tions " was only a splenetic misnomer for "inconvenient
truths ?"

On Friday, the 31st, also, Lord Aberdeen, not for
the first time, insinuated that he knew the writer of the
article in the Press, or, as he calls it, " the source"
from which it emanated. Now, this is very fool-
ish. With his dreadful exposure about young Mr.
Astley still fresh in everybody's recollection, one would
have supposed his lips would have trembled at ventur-
ing on similar conjectures. As we have had occasion to
say before, it matters nothing who are the writers of the
Press. Newspaper articles are the most self-relying of
all conceivable things. They depend only on their own
qualities, and their influence rests on the information
they offer, the views they promulgate, and the manner
in which these are expressed. The articles in the Press
which have excited the ire of Lord Aberdeen have been
written by various persons, and there is not one among
them who would obj ect to sign his name to his observations,
if the custom of this country permitted it. The custom
of this country does not permit it, as is well known to
Lord Aberdeen and the large majority of his colleagues,
who have been, and are, themselves habitually anonymous
writers, both in political and general literature. At a mo-
ment when so much is at stake, the writers of the Press
believe that, in attempting to throw some authentic light
on transactions of great importance, and on the charac-
ters and conduct of the principal actors on the scene,
they are fulfilling an office not unbecoming gentlemen,
and the subjects of a free monarchy. Of those subjects,
no matter by what means, the Earl of Aberdeen is now
the most eminent ; and, in our opinion, it is an elevation
highly pernicious to the country. Since Danby there
has not been a more dangerous Minister. With an
affectation of honesty, and an owl-like prudence, he is,
in fact, an unprincipled and reckless man, while, at the
same time, he is altogether destitute of those bold views
and those large emotions which sometimes accompany
and mitigate an unscrupulous selfishness. The unhappy
war in which Europe is now involved is entirely owing
to his becoming Prime Minister. It is Lord Aberdeen's
war. At the moment he was appointed First Minister
he was prime councillor of the principal intriguers against
the Emperor of the French, with a secret understanding
with the Emperor of Russia. These are the antecedents
which have produced the present hostilities. Russia
advanced not only because Lord Aberdeen was Minister,
but because it was well known to Nicholas that Lord
Aberdeen was personally hostile to Napoleon. Nor was
any attempt made to remove this impression, even when
Prince Menschikoff was menacing at Constantinople.
On the contrary, England took that opportunity of pub-
licly refusing to co-operate with France ! And, not-
withstandingimorandum ofex a exactly
loy
the of
the Emperor of Russia, at the beginning i
January,
same
spoke of Franceasth
at touf Sirti;
esecret
Il . Seymour
1844, not a step was taken to disabuse his mind. Lord
Aberdeen continued to accept his
mlpmulpsee
"I"iahle had given
" isolee"—although he had
" beau rd/e" he was
pte 00l
ant; hpi
glim Britishien n tkse about
counsels, n ts
France
received overtures from the Emperor of Russia months

before to revive the partition plan of 1844, and although
he knew the condition of that project was the exclusion
of France from the transaction. It is the exposure of
these delinquincies that makes Lord Aberdeen wince
under the articles of the Press, and occasions him those
sleepless nights of which he complains to the Houses of
Parliament.

We are enabled to state, without fear of contradiction,
that the expressions disparaging to this journal attri-
buted to the Earl of Malmesbury, in a speech delivered by
him in the House of Lords, in reply to the speech of Lord
Aberdeen above referred to, were used simply as quota-
tions from the preceding speech of Lord Aberdeen, with
the intention of showing that Lord Aberdeen was not
justified in employing the time of the House of Lords,
on an occasion of great national importance, in replying
at length to an attack in a newspaper, which attack he
affected, at the same time, to treat with contempt.
We state this because certain organs of the Ministry
have condescended to avail themselves of a report of
the debate which was evidently and accountably imper-
fect, in consequence of the simultaneous pressure upon
the reporting staff of both Houses of Parliament.