The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-17 00:00:00

GLASGOW FE8.15.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The following are to-day's transactions :
Aberdeen, Preference, 535. 9d.—Dundee and Perth, 24k(—Ditto,
Quarters, 265. 6d.—Edinburgh and Perth, Halves, 58.—Glasgow,
Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 54—Ditto, Halves, No. 1, 71. Is.—Great
Northern, 11 4 —North British, Thirds, 95s.—Scottish Central, 23
Wilsontown, Morningside, and Coltness, New, 37—W than
Celtness, 4554.

COURT CIRCULAR.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday
afternoon, at a meeting of the Commission for promofing
and encouraging the Fine Arts in the rebuilding the
Palace of Westminster. His Royal Highness arrived at
a quarter before three o'clock, -attended by Colonel Sey-
mour, Equerry in Waiting. The Commissioners present
were the Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Com-
mons the Earl of Lincoln, Viscount Mahon, the Right
lion. Robert Peel, the Right Hon. Sir James (Stra-
ham, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, Mr. Hallam, Mr.
Rogers, and Mr. Wyse. The secretary, Mr. Eastlake,
was in attendance.

The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday in the
garden of Buckingham Palace.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, P :,i'oe
Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, an; ti e
Princess Helena, took their usual exercise yesterday.
Her Majesty's private band attended in the evening
on Thursday, at Buckingham Palace, and played the fol-
lowing pieces:—

Overture—" Zanetta" Auber.
Selection—" Marie"
Sinfonia—(No. 4)
Le Due de Melfort had interviews with Sir George
Grey, yesterday, at the Home-office, and with Lord John
Russell, at his official residence in Downing-street.
Mr. Ingham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to
the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt, and Mr. Tidd Pratt, had an intervid6 with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official re-
sidence in Downing 'street.
A deputation from the Irish Waste Land Improvement
Society and county of Galway, had an interview yester-
day with Sir George Grey, at the Home-office. The
deputation consisted of Sir Thomas Burke, Mr. Ormsby
Gore, Mr. St. George, Mr. O'Flogherty, Mr. Heithcote,
Colonel Robinson, and Mr. Staples.
Lord Ashley had an interview with Lord John Bus-
sell yesterday. Mr. French had also an interview yes-
terday with the Noble Lord.
Viscount Hawarden had an interview yesterday with
Sir George Grey. Lord Brooke had also an interview
yesterday with the Right Hon. Baronet.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
yesterday. The Lords present were the Master of the
Rolls, Lord Brougham, the Chancellor of the Ducby of
Cornwall, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. An
appeal from Bermuda, "Kennedy v. Trott," part-heard
at a former meeting was resumed, and concluded.

By an advertisement in another column it will be
seen it is proposed to establish a chartered jeint•stock
bank in London, to be caged the British Bank, the
transactions of which are to be conducted on the Scotch
system.
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At her Majesty's Theatre the engagements still
remain in an uncertain state, but Mr. Lumley returns
from Paris to-night. and something definite will be
known ere long. Jenny Lind, who, as the public well
know, had promised to sing at the Opera concerts, has
offered her aid to the manager, in case of necessity, in
the opera itself. After a lengthened correspondence,
she has agreed to go through all her characters of last
season; but she will make her first appearance as Minds,
in an Italian version of Der Freischutz.—Atlas.

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ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.--,The Queen and his
Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured the performance
with their presence on Wednesday evening. The Royal
suite consisted of the Countess of Charlemont, Hon. Miss
Cavendish, the Earl Listowel, Lord A. Paget, and Colonel
Seymour. The following distinguished personages have also
visited the theatre during the week ;—The Duke and Duchess
of Norfolk, the Ladies Mary and Adeliza Howard, Earl
Grosvenor, Sir Frederick anu Lady Thesiger, Lord Suffield,
Sir J. and Lady Domville, Lady Forbes, Lady Dillon
Massey, the Right Hon. Sir William Lascelles, Sir C.
Shackerly, Lady Cottenham, Colonel Berkeley Drum.. ,nd,
Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Phipps, Earl and Countess of : ar-
rington„ iltirl of Chesterfield, Viscount Canterbury, Mar-
quis of Wiircester, Lord Ward, Hon. Captain J. Macdonald,
Marchioness of Conyngham, Lady and the Misses Trollope,
Lady Marcus Hill, Lord Aylmer, Earl Fitzhardinge, Lord
A.. Churchill, Lord Carrington, Duke of St. Alban's, Ear!
Wilton, Marchioness of Aylesbury, Hon. Mr. L. Grant,
Lord and Lady Newport, Sir William Barlowe, Sir B. Hood,
Lord E. J. Russell, Sir Augustus Clifford, Hon. Olonel B.
Lord and Lady Gordon, Earl of Lanesboroug_
Knox, Mr. Quintin Dick, M.P., Mr. Baring, 11:1'.... *
Mrs. Arabin, Captain Ibbotson, &c., Sce- .
fashionables
PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—The followwing :
ea Her Royal
have visited this theatre during P
Charlemont,
Stafford, Lords
Duke or Brunsrw. ia.cnkd,
Highness the Princess of Parma, tetieasitpak
the
Tenterden, and Murray, the
Bruce, Guernsey, Liverpool,
EVaerrisulainFi,tzahnadrdiAingusnistCera,rdigaen,
Waldegrave, `Seymour'
Countess of Essex, Ladies_ Rivers.n. Greville, Sir George
Compton, and Murray, tn_backeily, Mr. Ricardo
Cheuissterfiofeld,
, Major
Wombwell, Sir Charleser
circle of the elite. The grand
:and de popularity of the cloit, de-
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private boxes,
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and Perrot, with the following
from one of the
himself as Clown, ,magnificent impersonations of
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You've ta'en. by storm all London Town;
FRENCH PLAYS, Sr. JAMES'S THEATRE.—The
following distinguished persons attended these performances
last evening :—Her Serene Highness the Hereditary Princess
of Parma, the Russian Minister and the Baroness Brimnow,
the Marquis and Marchioness 01. Douglas, the Marquis and
Maichioness of A ilesbury, the Marquis of Douro, Earl and.
Countess of Shelburne, the 'Earl Grenville, the Earl of Kit-,
morey, the Countess of Tankerville, the Countess of Essox-,
Lady Charlotte Egerton, Lord Elphinstone, Lord and f'..ie
lioliourable Miss Foley, the Count and Countess de *Tarim;
the Earl of Besborugh, Lord William Paulet, Baron N...,'.c01ai,
Count Rossi, Lord Cranborne, Sir Alexander aril Lady
Woodford, Sir John and the Misses Burgoyne, "r
-Alf .jor and
Mrs. Mountjoy Marlyn, .I‘..r. Milner Gibson, F,ir Henry
Webb, Sir Robert Throckmorton, Lady Ctner.tin, Lady
Wilson, Sir John and Lady Harrington, 'Sir. George and
Miss Talbot, Mrs. Fremantle, Hon. Frederick and Mrs.
Bypg, &c.

.11EATH OF MR. JEREMY, TWA MAGISTIZATL
This amiable and highly esteemed gentleman expired at his
residence, in the village of Chieel)%urst, Kent, on
Thursday.
THE FIE
IRE AT SPITALVLDS.—Yesterday morn-
ing Mr. Baker resumed an'a concluded the inquiry into the
cause a the death of thr J five uniortunate individuals who
perished in the late latal conflagration in Lamb-street,
Spitalfields. After some additional evidence the jury re-
turned a verdict—" That the deceased persons were destroyed
by suffocation and burning, but how the fire originated there
was no satistactoly evidence to 6bow." The inquiry then
terminated.
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NELSON'S MONUMENT AT EDINBURGH.—On Tues-
day the town council decided on closing this monument on.
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the Susday, by a majority of 20 to 8.
The number of passengers to and from England,
France, and Belgium, in the year 1848, was 123,553.