The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-01 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, JULY 30.
in the Queen and Prince, with the Royal children, were
grounds at Osborne yesterday.
Sir James Clark arrived from London yesterday and
returned this afternoon.

JULY 31.

Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prineess Royal
tncl Princess Alice, and attended by the Marchioness of
43' and the Hon. Mary Seymour, drove out yesterday
ft
rnhorseback.°° n in
an open carriage. Colonel Bouverie attended
on

wills Royal Highneis Prince Albert and the Prince of
ales, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel F. H. Seymour,
rode on horseback.
The Rev. H. G. Liddell, bead master of Westminster
School, arrived yesterday evening, and had the honour
of dining with her Majesty.

CABINET COUNCIL.—A Cabinet Council was held at
the Foreign-office, Downing-street, on Saturday after-
-110°". The Ministers present were the Earl of Aber-
ceee) Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
el
p'anville the Duke of Argyll, the Marquis of Lang-
,Twne, Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Clarendon,
ie Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exche-
ier, Sir James Graham, Sir C. Wood, the Right Hon.
iciney Herbert, and Sir Wm. Molesworth. The Conn-
ed sat four hours.
Dispatches were received on Saturday at the Colo-
,,rlial-office from the Governors of the Cape of Good
ir-°l)e, the Mauritius, Labuan, St. Helena, Malta, and
Dispatches
Lord High Commissioners of the lonian Islands.
."„ispatclies were sent on Saturday to the Governors of
the Gold Coast, the Gambia, and Sierra Leone.
A. deputation, consisting of Mr. Armstrong, Mr.
.I,obins, and Mr. Clowes (Equity and Law Insurance
C°lllpany), and Mr. Bigg, r. Smedley, r. Lon,
°d Mr. Beale (Law Fire InsuMrance CompanyM), had an
11;terview on Saturday with Sir William Molesworth, at
tale office of Works and Public Buildings, in Whitehall-
Place 4

The accounts received from New York, report
still a dull and declining market for stocks. Cot-
ton ruled quiet. Freights were Ateady. The value
of merchandise exported during the week to July
16, was 1,227,802 dollars. The importations had
been very large, and the exportations moderate.
The amount of specie being shipped was large,
but demand arising for breadstuffs was expected
slightly to check this.
The steamer with the West India and Mexican
mails brings later news from the colonies as to the
crops, and so far the inter-colonial intelligence is
of a highly interesting character. In Grenada the
public health was restored, and the weather favour-
able. St. Andrew had been -visited by a very bad
season for getting in the crops and it was supposed
the aggregate yield would be smaller than that of
1852. For the next crop, however, the prospects
were more cheering. The scarcity of labour was
felt. Barbadoes accounts state that the last month
had been unfavourable for reaping. However,
25,000 hhds. had been shipped, about 5,000 more
ready for shipment, and about 6,000 still remained
to be reaped. Although the weather had impeded
the cutting of the old canes, yet in this district it
was favourable to the young crop. Potatoes and
Indian corn had been planted freely. In Demerara
business was dull. Imports scarcely kept pace with
the consumption, and plantains were scarce and
dear. The weather was favourable.
The following is an extract from the letter of a
correspondent in St. Mary's.
" Mr. H—, and I have been remarking that it is a
striking fact in the movements of Providence, that the
veins of copper ore with which the mountains in this
vicinity are filled, and which appear in multitudes of
places on the surface, should have remained undiscovered
till the present day. The whole region, for 20 miles
round, appears to be full of copper ore, worth from 801.
to 1201. per ton—enough to supply the British empire
with copper for hundreds of years. The most cheering
thing is, that the miners who have come from England are
good pious men. Four of them are preachers, and have al-
ready exercised a favourable influence on some of the
reduced white Creole lads who, in their poverty, have
manfully turned in to work the mines."
The advices from the Continent report more
favourably of the harvest in Belgium, where reap-
ing has commenced pretty generally ; and in the
north of Germany also the appearance of the crops
is more satisfactory.
There are two or three arrivals from Port Philip,
but the dates are old, and the amount of gold on
board is not yet ascertained.
There is an exceedingly dull market for public
securities, and, pending the uncertainty of the
Eastern question, neither the speculators nor the
public will buy. Consols have been done at 98*,
and since at 97'4 for transfer. The account prices
Piave been 98 alternately sellers and buyers. The
New 3i per Cents. have been marked • 101 k to 1,
and the 3 per Cents. 981 to Bank Stock is
steady at 228, and South Sea Stock at 116. Ex-
chequer Bills have been 2s. discount to is. prem.,
and India Bonds 225. premium.
Rather more activity has prevailed in • foreign
stocks, and prices are relatively better maintained
than our own securities. Mexican Bonds have
been 26/ being rather heavy, owing to the
smallness of the remittance, 15,685 dollars for the
dividends. Peruvian Stock has been done at 83i
and 838. Grenada Deferred Stock has been at 9k.
Spanish Deferred Bonds have begin 23g, and the
Committee's Certificates has realised 61 and 64'.
Portuguese Four per Cents. have been 421 to 43
ex. div. Danish Five per Cents. have been firm
at 106, Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at
101-.. to 102, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
at 64k.
The Railway Share Market has been rather
inanimate, and prices have not varied to any ex-
tent. The French lines are at about former rates,
and also with little doing.
The Gold Mine Shares rule very heavy still, the
Australian Banks are much quieter, and the Land
Companies without alteration.