The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-24 00:00:00

RUIVIOITILS or THE Dalt.

A matrimonial alliance is said to be on the lapis
between the Prince of Bavaria and the Princess Mary,
daughter of Prince or Prussic.

COURT CIRCULAR.

Wmpsoa, MoNnAr.—The Queen Dowager and his
Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthall
arrived at half-past two o'clock at the Castle on a visit
to her Majesty and his Royal Highness, who with the
suite received her Majesty on alighting at the Palace.
Francis" Lady Clinton and the Earl of Denbigh attended
her Mrj?siy, who.remained to lurch, and took her depar-
ture,•a, c,nipanied by Prince Ernest at four o'clock fir
Bushy Park:
.• •

Prince Albert, attended by Mr. G. E. Anson and Co-
lonel Wylde, returned from town at ten minutes past two
o'clock this afternoon.
The Queen and Prince Albert rode out this afternoon
in a pony'phmton, the Price driving, attended by Lord
Alfred Paget and Colonel Wylde on horseback, and fol-
lowed in a carriage and four by the Duchess of Bedford,
Lady Caroline 'Somers Cocks, Ron. Sarah Mary Caven-
dish, and the Earl of Final.
The Princess Royal has been taken her usual airings
to:day._

The Earl and Countess of Albemarle, Marquis and
Marchioness of Lansdowne, Earl Fitzwilliam, Viscount
Morpeth, Lord and Lady John Russell, Viscount Mel.
bourne, and Admiral Sir R. Stopford, left the Castle
to-day.

His: Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Mr.
George Edward Anson, Treasurer of his Household. and
Colonol Wylde, Equerry in in Waiting, arrived at the
Paddington station of the Great Western Railway, by
a special train, yesterday morning, from Windsor Castle.
His Royul Highness proceeded to the office of the Duchy
of Cornwall in Somerset House, and from thence went
at half-past twelve o'clock, to attend a meeting of the
School of Design in Somerset House. After the meet-
ing his Royal Highness returned to Paddington, attended
by his suite, and left, by a special train, for Windsor
Castle.

At. the Privy Council, held at Windsor Castle on Sa-
turday afternoon, Robert Vernon Smith, Esq., was, by
command of the Queen, sworn of her Majesty's Honour-
able Privy Council, and took his place at the Board.
Viscount Melbourne, the Marquis of Lansdowne,
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, and Lord and
Lady John Russell, returned to town yesterday, from a
visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.

The• Committee on Education of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council held a meeting yesterday
afternoon at the Council-office, The Lords present were
the Lord President,:the Lord Privy Seal, the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer, the Chief Commissioner of the
Woods and Forests, the Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster, and the President of the Board of Trade.

Their Lordships assembled at one o'clock, and sat
until four o'clock.

Grand Parliamentary dinner parties were given .last..
evening by Viscount Melbourne And Lord Lord John
Russell, at which her Majesty's 'Speech on opening the
sessions of Parliament (by Comtnission) this day was
read by the two Ministers to their respective guests.
The .company, all appeared in Court Costume. •
Viscount Melbourne's dinner party was given at his
official residence in Downing-streel, and the following
were the Peers present : The Earl Spencer and the
Marquis of Clanricarde, the Mover and Seconder of the
Address, his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, the
Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, the
Dukes of Norfolk, Somerset, Sutherland, and Bedford ;
Marquises of Anglesea, Westminster, Lansdowne, Head
fort, and Normally ; Earls of Radnor, Fitzbardinge, Cla-
rendon, Errol, Surrey, Charlemont, Lichfield, Bruce,
and Albetharle ; Viscount Duncannon ; Lords Foley,
Byron, Vivian, Lilford, Kinnaird,and Potimore.
Lord John Russell's dinner party was given at the
Foreign-office, Downing-street, to a: large party of
c",
Members of the House of Commons, including the Earl
of Listowel; Viscounts Ebrington and Palmerston; Lords
Seymour, M. Hill, Dalmenv, and A. Paget ; the Attor-
ney-General; Sirs T. Trowbridge, J. Hobhouse, and G.
'Grey ; Right HonourableS G. S. Byr.g, R. L. Shiel, Fox
Maule, H. Labouchere, 'l'. B. Macaulay, T. Baring
and R. Vernon Smith; Hon. W. Cowper ; Colonels Fox
and Anson ; Captains Plumside and Deans Dundas ;
Messieurs Tufnell, Rutherford, J. Parker, Pigot, More
Horsman, J. Howard, -W. Clay, C. 'Buller,
and Bannerman.

Messrs. Bowes, Hutt, Wilshere, T. Duncombe, and
D. Salomons, had interviews with the Marquis of Nor-
manby yesterday at the Home-office.
A very numerous meeting of Members of the House
of Commons was held yesterday afternoon, at the
Foreign-office, at four o'clock. Soon after that hour
Lord John Russell arrived at the Foreign-office, and was
Shortly .followed by the Chancellor of the Exchquer, Sir
George Grey, and Mr. Labouchere. The meeting broke
up at half-past four o'clock.

The Tories duly record any solitary cheer, how-
ever faint, with which any of their party may be greeted,
We have the satisfaction of stating on the authority of
an eye and ear witness that Lord Melbourne, on leav-
ing the House of Lords on Thursday, was greeted by loud
and general cheering, as he passed to his carriage ; and
that a considerable number of respectable persons fol-
lowed tho ON'riilp to Downing-street, to greet his
Lordship with similar demonstrations as he entered hi
official residence.

310NEY ai.d CO AIIVIE ItC;I L WS

CITY, MONDAY EVENING.
• There was a very dull market for the public Securities
to-day. The continuation on Consols was rather higher,
viz. pt. cent., and. in one or two instances quotations
for October were -made as high as 89k to 90. For
immediate transfer Consols were 89k to 4., .and for
.account or the settling day on Thursday, the linne. Ex-
chequer Bilis improVed a little, .having touched 13s. and
I6s. premium, and India Bonds were at 3s. to 6s. prern.
Bank Stock was worth.l69, and the New Three-and-a-
Half per Cents, brought 981 to 9q. The Reduced
Three per Cents. were 894 toe.
There was rather more business doing in Spanish
Stock, but. in the other Securities only. a bargain here
and there. The Active Spanish Bonds were steady at
19i to 20 for money, and got nplo 20k and 20f for ac-
count. Portuguese New Five per. Cents, were dull at
30, and the. Three per Cents, at 18. Colombian Bonds
were at 20+ to 201 ; and Mexican at 20 to 20k. The
..:Outch.TWo-and-a-Half per Cents. were at 51 to 51:4,
and the Five per Cents, at 1011.
With the exception of a decline in Great Western
there was no particular alteration in the Share Market_

(From The Sun of Last Night.)

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUG. 21.—We have
had rather an inoifferent business in the Cotton market
to-day, the sales not amounting to more than 3,000
bales, all to the trade. In export or speculation. nothing
has been done ; prices remain steady. ••
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, AUG. 21.—A rather
limited business has been transacted at the Stock Ex-
change this day, but the rates have undergone no altera-
tion, Eastern Counties, ; ditto Debentures, 8 3-16 ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 42; Liverpool and Manchester,
Quarter Shares, 44
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 21.—There
is rather an improved prospect for business, and prices
are steady, particularly for the finished lines which, in
some cases, are improved. London and Birmingham,
160 ; Ditto, Old, 321., 537 f ; Manchester, .Bolton, and
Bury, 55 ; Manchester and Leeds, Halves, 23 ; Lon-
don and South Western, Tenths, 1/. is. 6d..; Bank of
Stockport, 3.

The Guiana Times, of the 9th, states that the discredit
thrown on the transaction of the Troughtons, by their
own statement, is only agravated by what took place at
the meeting of yesterday. The attempts of Messrs.
Ferguson and Rose to whitewash their friends do not
restore him his purity in the eyes of a discerning public.

Private advices received from Montreal to the sth in-
stant, state that money, during the last fortnight, has
been unusually scarce, and hardly obtainable on the best
town paper.
Exchange on London—Bank, 10 per cent. ; private 9.
The appearance of agricultural matters being so
much more favourable, the Corn Markets, both in
this country and in the northern ports, as we learn
by the accounts just come .to hand, via Hamburgh,
are becoming flatter. Here the decline in English wheat
to-day is about Is. per, uarter on Friday's rates, and is 4s.
lower than on this day week. The arrivals of foreign
wheat and flour are still liberal. In France prices still
keep up, and the prospects of the yield do not seem over
satisfactory. Belgium already admits wheat duty free.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bulk Stock 169 India Stock • ••• ---.
3 per Cent Red. 8971 Ditto Bonds 6pm
3 per Cent Cons B9i Ditto Old Annuities ...
3} per Cent Red..
New 3i per Cent 96i (Ea, Bills, 1,000/....21c1 14 pm
New 5 per Cent — j Ditto 500/ l5 pm
Long Annuities toexpire I I)itt Small l6 pm
Jan. 1860 .. 12 15.16 Bank Stock for Acct...
Oct 18.59 — India Stock for 0pg....
Jan. 1860.
i ',The Foreign Funds show no alteration.

BELGIAN I, UN DS—Bousaims, Auc. 21.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan' 5 per C:r•
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 93
Sper Cent.
71%
.(1,:40) lOll
Loan of City, P;32, 4 per Cent. ........ 91
Society of Comms.rce, 4 per Cent 93%
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.. ......... 74
NationalSsciety.
Exchange on London (short) ». ..11 95
—Brussels Papers, Aug. 21.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, AM. 12
Fiveper Cents. Metalliques
Foal per
Three wir Cents. .....
..... .. 7r%
Bank Shares :584
Zeliung, Aug. 18
HA SIBU 1113 BORSENHALLE, Auo. 20.
Bills. Money
A ustnan per Cents.
Bank Shares ill: 95
Anolo.ltussian Loan 10,14 Ars%
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Se.:l,s lO2 101%
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series 93 97,i;
Ditto in Certificates
New 4 per Cent. (1840) 86%
3i 0; fin Dutch ,sctual Debt, 2;.6 pe, Cent LO.4
Ditto 5 per Ce.,t
Polish Bonds
New Picket
Anglu.Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 75% 75%
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
H smatnio. At *.• 0 —l3 514.—Tw0 months, 13 :33g
RIGA. AUG. 12. —Three Months, 393¢.
l'oToissourtcri, AUG. 13.—Two months, 39 pence
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Boman, AUG. 1".
Bids Mrney
St. Schuld. Sch., 41,,, per cent. 114% 103,r
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 101 Ts, NI%
Exchange on London, three months 6 17%
—Prussian State Gazette. Aug. 18.

Thirty.seven,

WEEKLY STATEMENT OF LON-
DON LETTERS, AUG. 23, 1841.
THROUGH THE GENERAL POST.
Four weeks ending Aug. 21, 1841
Corresponding period of 1840
Ditto as nearly as can be given of 1839
Increase since 1840 on the four weeks' letters 1,499,738
Ditto 1839, ditto 3,869,029
THVOUGH THE DISTRICT POST._
Four weeks ending Aug. 21, 1841
Corresponding period of 1840
Ditto as nearly as can be given of 1839
Increase since 1840 on the four weeks' letters 138,924
Ditto 1839 ditto 574,278

THE SOCIALISTS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sra—The Central Board of the Universal Community
Society of Rational Religionists have had their attention
called to a leading article in your paper of Saturday,
wlurein you state that several Socialist preachers pr::-
sented themselves at the Manchester Conference as
Christian ministers, and, being known, were refused
admittance ; and you then proceed to assert that this re-
fusal was proper, as the Socialists, if admitted, would
on all occasions, have propounded their own nostrums as
a remedy for the admitted distress. As these remarks
are calculated so seriously to mislead the public, with
regard to the facts of the case, the Board rely on your
impartiality, as a public journalist, for the insertion of
the following explanation of the subject :—The ministers
sent to the Manchester Conference by our Society were
persons who had been compelled, contrary to their
wishes, to take the oaths necessary to constitute them
Dissenting ministers, and went for the purpose of ascer-
taining whether the true spirit of Christian charity
would be manifested by the preachers of all denomina-
tions, to the extent laid down in the address which
called the meeting. Had the persons sent by this So-
ciety been admitted to the Conference the Board have
every reason to believe their conduct would have been
such as would have shown to the public that the Society
is actuated solely by the desire to relieve the distress
which now exists to such a lamentable extent, and that,
although they would not have attributed every existing
evil to the Corn-laws,they would have been prepared to
support measures, not only for the total abolition of those
laws, but also of every other existing monopoly. With re-
gard to the state of the working classes, and the confi-
dence they have of relief from any proposed measures
hitherto submitted to their consideration, the Board be-
lieve their delegates would have been enabled to bring
strong evidence which would have been highly valuable
to the Conference.

In conclusion, the Board are desirous of stating they
would regret that any part of their proceedings should
show, even momentarily, to the public a desire to im-
pede the general progress of commercial freedom.
By order of the Board,

WM. GALPIN, V.P.
Central Board Office, 57, Pall-mall, Aug. 23, 1841.

SHOCKING ACClDENT.,—Saturday morning, be—
tween three and four o'clock, Benjamin Farley, a-market
gardener, who was coming up to Farringdon-market with
a waggon loaded with fruit, fell off the shafts, on which
he had .been riding, in the New Kent-road, and one of
the wheels passed over his cheek. He was taken to St.
Thomas's Hospital, but is not expected to survive.
• SUlClDE.—Yesterday Mr. Higgs, the Co-
roner :fur-Westminster, received information of the
suicide of Mr. J. B. Toussaint, wax candle manufacturer
to the Queen, at present residing at 3, King-street, St.
James's It appears that Mr. Toussaint was rebuilding
his premises on a very extensive scale, and had taken the
house in King-street as a temporary occupation. On
Friday evening he went out walking for about two
hours ; and, on his return home went up stairs to
bed, without taking his supper, which was a most unu-
sual circumstance. At four the next morring, the boy
who sleeps in the shop, and who had heard his master•
walking about during the night, saw him come in, and
pace up and down for some minutes, but said nothing.
He returned to his bed-room, and not coming down at
the usual hour one of the servants went to call him at
eight o'clock, but receiving no answer the door was
opened, and he was found suspended to the bedstead by
two silk handkerchiefs. He was cut down, and medical
assistance procured, but he was quite dead.

We regret to state that the Hon. Lieutenant-
Colonel Molyneux expired yesterday at his house in
Arlington-street. On Saturday his disorder assumed
such a serious aspect that expresses were forwarded to
the Dowager Countess of Sefton, at Stoke Farm, and
in the afternoon the Countess and the Ladies Molyneux
arrived in Dover-street. The Hon. and Gallant Gen-
tleman has been gradually losing his strength since Sir
Benjamin Brodie perfarmed the operation, and although
that eminent surgeon and Dr. Chambers have been in
constant altendance on him, his complaint has defied
their skill.

HAMBURG, AUGUST 20.—The corn is all
got in in Southern Germany. The Bavarian farmers
boast how rich they have become. Only in the Pala-
tinal the harvest is not remarkable for abundauce or
good quality.
EXCURSION TO SHEERNESS.—The Lords of
the Admiralty, at the request of Mr. Northhouse, have
given permission to the Star Steamer to lay alongside of
the Camperdown, and inspect the Trafalgar and the
other ships at the Nore, on Thursday next, or colditcit
of a provision being made out of tip ppqppeds, for the
benefit of the poor inf4nt borit:Ou houtt. the Star on the
19th ult.