The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-02 00:00:00

HAMBUHGH MALL.

BERLIN, MAY 26.—The Crown Prince was to set out
this evening on his tour to inspect the troops ; we learn,
however, that it is put off. Princes William and Albert
have likewise deferred their departure.
A courier from St. Petersburgh brought the day before
yesterday official intelligence of the departure of the Ern-
peror mid Empress for Warsaw ; and this morning at nine
o'clock bis Majesty's Aides-de- Camp Von Ranch and Col.
Von Thumen set out for the Polish capital. According
to their account the Empress and the Grand Duchess is ill
certainly arrive at Posen about noon on the 31st, and they
may therefore be expected at Berlin on the 2d or 3J of
June.
On Thursday last there was a grand dinner for 120 per-
sons in the Knights' Hall in the Royal Palace. The Crown
Prince and all the Royal Princes now here, all the Pint,-
sian and foreign Generals and Staff Officers, were present.
On Friday the grand parade took place under the direc-
tion of the Crown Prince, under the windows of the King's
Palace. It was unfortunately a rainy day.
HANOVER, MAY 26. —Ns Royal Highness the Crown
Prince has declined receiving a deputation of the two
Chambers, which was to present to him the congratu-
lations of the Assembly of the Estates to. morrow, which
is his birth-day.
MAY 27.—His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was
pleased to receive this forenoon, in a crowded and brit-
iiant drawing room, the congratulations on his birth-day.
The Mlgistrates of the capital gave an extraordinary
allowance to the poor in commemoration of this day.
Hamburgh Papers, May 29.
r UNDS--BRUS9RLS, MaY 30.
Actual Debt, per Cent.
flcthachiiri'sLf:a,. 5 per Cant.. .. • ln2r;
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 951
---------- :)per Cont. 74.
Loan of City, 153.2, 4 per Cent 93Ni
Seciety of Commerce, 4 ••,, per Cent I I()
Bank c f Belgium, 5 per Cent S3X •
National Society
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, May 30.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS..—VIENNA, MaY 2•2
five per Cents. Metalliques
Font' per Cents.
Three par Cents,
Bank Shard 1872
—Altgemeine Zeitung, May T.

SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS

The summer entertainments at this place of public
amusement commenced last evening in all their splendour.
The renowned, the far-famed, and the venerable Vauxhall,
with all the interesting recollections of Mr. Simpson,
who at this season, for many years, enlivened the public
with his incomparable addresses from the Royal Gardens,
is no more ; and the Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens
now form the only representative of a place so famed in
history. In many respects these gardens arc superior.
The orchestra, whh the promenades musicales et chant-
pctres, the Lime light, the menagerie, Mount Hecla, *and
the brilliant fire-works at the conclusion of the entertain-
ment, altogether produce an effect which leaves the
old Vsuxhall in the shade. • Last evening the
scene was superb. Probably not. fewer than three thousand
persons were present, all in holiday dresses—ill happy,
the evening magnificent, and the verdure of the shrubs
and trees surpassingly rich. When the Bode, or Konia-
phostic, or Drummond, or Gurney light (for there arc
many claimants fur the honour) shed its splendours on the
congregated multitude, on the lake, and the trees in full
verdure, the scene was extremely beautiful. The fire-
works at the conclusion were as good as any we have seen
at Vauxhall ; they terminated by ten o'clock (a great im-
provement), and the company at that hour retired in the
greatest order. Mr. Cross deserves great credit for the
arrangements which he has made to render this a place of
ratior.al and innocent amusement.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert evinces a de-
cided partiality for promoting talent in British artists, and has
ordered, from Messrs. Davis, brothers,:the Opticians, of New
Bowl-street, one of their newly-invented patent telescope
walking-sticks. His Royal Highness highly approved of it, and
observed it reflected much credit on the ingenuity of the in-

Yentors. •
DEPARTURE OF THE EARL OF DURHAM
TOR GE amaxy.—On Sunday the Noble Earl, accompanied by
the Countess of Durham, left the family residence in Cleve-
land-row for the Continent. His Lordship proceeded by
short stages to Dover, and slept on Sunday night at Canter-
burr, last night at Dover, and this day embarks fiir
Antwerp, en route to Carlsbad. The Ladies Mary •and Emily
Lamhton and Viscount Lambton and the family physician,
'
yesterday for Dover. The Noble Earl is attended by
an extensive retinue.
SUDDEN DEATH FROM ANEURISM OF TIIE
HE A KT. —On Wednesday an inquest was held, touching the
death of Archibald Stewart, a Custom-house officer, who re-
sided in Rushton-court, Houghton-place. The deceased had
been on duty night and day on board of a vessel lying in the
Waterloo dock, and on Monday evening, at eight o'clock, left
home quite well, to go on board of her. He returned about
six o'clock on Tuesday morning. He asked his wife to make
him a cup of coffee • but before she could do so, he suddenly
fell on the floor. His wife attempted to bring him round, and
a young woman went for a surgeon, who came in about fire
minutes, but tho deceased was dead. Mr. Gaines, surgeon,
examined the body of the dedeased after death, and found the
right ventricle of the heart ruptured, which was the natural
cause of death. The Jury returned a verdict that the 40-
coasod dial by tha visitation of Gal—Lire-loci Chronfore.

MONFY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
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(MONDAY EVENING.)
TlMES.—Nothing is more amusing in city affairs than
the sort of petty warfare carrying on between the private
bankers and the joint-stock banks. That the private
bankers should still pertinaciously refuse to their corporate
rivals the benefits of an admission to the clearing-house, is
perhaps too fixed a principle with them to afford much
prospect of its being changed, until some new turn in bank-
ing affairs shall force the measure upon them, and as they
suffer some inconvenience themselves from the exclusion,
there is the less to he said by third parties in the matter;
but they seem lately, at least some of them, to have
extended their sphere of action, and to have thrown
difficulties in the way of the payment of checks even
when presented at the counter. An instance of this
kind, which is too curious not to merit preservation,
occurred on Saturday. One of the joint-stock banks re-
ceived in payment for deposit a draught of 25,0001. on
one of the most eminent of the private bankers, which
was crossed, according to the common business practice,
with the words " and company," which imply that it can
only be presented through the medium of some other
banker. But a joint-stock bank is not a " company," in
the commercial sense of the word, and advantage was
taken of this quibble to evade payment. Firsr, the check
was marked " for the clearance," and when reminded that
the bank in question " could not clear," payment was
still refused, and the check turned away with the answer
" that it would not be paid till Monday." Of course this
brought the drawer of the check, whose credit was in-
volved in this indulgence of a private pique upon the head of
the recusant banker, who at first sent the mere gentle mes-
sage that the check would be " paid at 4 o'clock ;" then an-
other
, that it would be paid immediately; and so the nit-
ter terminated. All this is so little in accordance with
the liberal spirit which is generally supposed to be the
characteristic of the merchants and traders of London,
that the parties would richly deserve to have the ridicule
of the public added to that of the private circle in which
.the facts are known. If forbearance is exercised now, it
is because they stand so very high in character that the
incident appears more likely to be an oversight, or an ill-
considered act, than the result of any general rule of
practice.
Th's has not been an active day in the English stock-
market, nor has money been greatly in demand. Consols,
after remaining 94 to for mone.v, and 93 to for the
account, nearly all day, improved in the afternoon, and
left off at 92i- (buyers) for money ; 93,1, (buyers) for the
account. Exchequer-bills remain at 25 to 27 premium.
The Queen of Portugal in her speech on the opening of
the Cortes, having merely alluded to the foreign creditor
in the most general terms, end while expressing her wish
to satisfy foreign claims, having pointed out no method in
which this is to be done, the intelligence from Lisbon has
had no material effect cn Portuguese stock, which left off
at 354 to / for the 5 per cents. Spanish Actives are 27k;
Dutch 4 per Cents., to f.
There has been much excitement in the Share-market,
the Great Western, probably on account of the line being
opened to Steventon, having risen full 21. They are
quoted 32. to 4 premium. Brighton are a shade better,
being .q to discount. Birmingham maintain their high
price of S 7 to 9 premium.
The accounts from Rio de,Janeiro of the sth of April
bring the exchange upon London, 31 to 31i, and the price
of the Local Stock, 761- to 77.

SUN.—Many of the speculators were absent to-day,
this being " holiday week" with some, on account of the
doings at Epsom, which leaves a good field open for the
game of chance. Consuls closed rather better this after-
noon, viz., 921 for money, and 9.1 for account, there
being buyers at these prices. Exchequer Bills were
2.55. to 275. prinainty, and the New Three-and-a-Half
per Cents. 100 i.
The Speech of Donna Maria on the opening of the
Cortes of Portugal has had but one effect on the Bonds
of this country, viz., to render them heavy at a trivial
reduction. Scarcely any business was done in them,
and the New Five per Cents. alternated only from 351
to 1, while the Three per Cents. remained at 054.
Spanish Active Bonds have been done at 271 -I, and
for Account at 27k, being a shade better. The Market
does not benefit much by the advance at Paris. Co-
lombian Bonds have been dull at 261 to -1 ; Brazil
Stock was worth 76} to 4 ; Dutch Two-and-a Half per
Cents. fluctuated from 54-i- to 543 i.
The Railway Shares have been rather higher to-day.
Great Western Shares have been done at 321 ; New
at 16 ; South Western at 1.1 ; New Manchester and
Leeds at 111 ; New North Midland at 9} ; and Black-
wall at premium. Brighton Shares realized 5 dis.,
Birmingham and Derby 14, North Midland 4, Croydon
Trunk 1, South Eastern and Dover 13 discount.
New National Provincial Bank of England were 1
premium, and National Bank of Ireland -1 discount.
Accounts of the Gth April from the Cape of Good
Hope state that a grand encounter had taken place be-
tween Dingaan's troops and the emigrant farmers, in
which the former were entirely destroyed, their King
having saved himself by flight. In consequence of this
Panda had been elected to the throne in his stead. This
news seems to require confirmation.
The French vessel La Lise had been wrecked off
Cape das Aguillas, while on her voyage with sugar and
coffee from the Mauritius to Bordeaux ; only thirteen
of the crew were saved. A light-house, it is said,
would be very desirable at this point.
The 72d Regiment having completed its period of
service at the Cape was about to return to England,
but several men had purchased their discharge and in-
tended to remain. More were inclined to do the same,
and, to retain their valuable services, it was proposed to
raise a subscription to enable them to accomplish their
wishes.