The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-12 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen, accompanied by the Princess of Leinin-
gen,.and attended by Lady Caroline Cocks, took an air-
ing yesterday afernoon in an open barouche and four.
Lord Alfred Paget attended her Majesty on horseback.
Prince Albert and the Prince of Leiningen rode out on
horseback at the samo time, attended by Colonel Wylde
and Captain Francis Seymour.
The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen and Prince
Albert yesterday, and remained to lunch. Viscount
Melbourne and Lord Hill had audiences, yesterday, of
her Majesty. The Princess Royal was taken an airing,
yesterday, in a barouche and four.

- The Royal Dinner Party at Buckingham Palace, last
evening, included the Earl of Erroll, Earl of Morley,
Lord _Portman, and the Right Hon. George Stevens
Byng.
Lord Poltimore and the Hon. William Cowper have
succeeded the Earl of Listowel and Frederick Stovin, as
the Lord and Groom in Waiting on her Majesty.
Her Majesty honoured Mr. Baxter by inspecting his
specimens of oil-coloured printing, representing th::
closing scenes of the lamented Missionary, the Rev. John
Williams, which were presented by the Countess of
Mount Edgecombe. _ _

The Princess Sophia Matilda came to town yesterday,
from her residence on Blackheath. Her Royal High-
ness, attended by Lady Alicia Gordon, did Mr. Hay ter
the honor to sit to him to be painted in the picture of
her Majesty's Marriage.
The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Prince and
Princess of Leiningen, and attended by Lady Anne
Maria Dawson and Sir George Couper, honored the
Italian Opera with her presence last evening. Baroness
Spaeth was in waiting on the Princess of Leiningen.
The Queen Dowager, attended by the Hon. Charlotte
Hudson and the Hon. Sophia Wheatley, took an airing
yesterday in an open pony-phaeton and four.
The Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Gloucester, and
the Duke of Sussex, visited the Queen Dowager yesterday
at Marlborough House.

The Duke Of Cambridge, attended by Major Stephens,
left Cambridge House at seven o'clock yesterday morning
for Dover.

A deputation of the Flint Glass Mantifacturers of the
United Kingdom, consisting of Mr. Scholefield, M.P.,
Mr. Muntz, M.P., Mr. Oswald, N.P., Mr. Benjamin
Wood, Mr. Benjamin Hawes, ALP., John Christy,
and Apsley Pellatt had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday in Downing-street, relative
to the Excise Duty upon Glass Manufacture.
Lieut.-Colonel Lloyd (late Colombian Engineers)
transacted business yesterday at the Colonial-office pre-
vious to resuming the duties of her Majesty's Surveyor.'
General of Crown Lands, and Engineer-in-Chief for
Mauritius.

The Spanish Minister and Mr. John Abel Smith had
interviews with Viscount Melbourne yesterday in Down-_
in g-street. . .
The Earl of Belfast, Mr. Noel, and Mr. Kennedy, had
interviews with the Marquis of Normanby- yesterday at
the Home-office.

Lord Lyttleton and Lieut.-Colonel Doherty had inter.
views yesterday with Lord John Russell at the Colonial.
office.

Mr. Scholefield and Mr. Thomas Attwood had an in:
terview yesterday with Viscount Melbourne in Down
ing-street.

-Despatches from the Governor of Ceylon were rc
ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office.

The humanity of Mr. Gladstone, which as-
sumed a sort of conventicle tone, was quite con-
spicuous in the House of Commons on Monday
evening. How much of it was prompted by in-
terest, and how much by a fellow-feeling with
the blacks we will not pretend to say, but it re-
minded us of the story of the lady who died of
love and the small-pox. The passion had a very
small share in producing the fatal result, and so
much a share, we fancy, had Mr. Gladstone's
affection fbr the blacks in producing the torrent
of sweet humanity which he poured out. That
gentleman is the untOrtunate possessor of a name
notorious in the annals of slavery and hill coolies,
and being confounded, perhaps, with another
person, will be very likely to incur the suspicion
of promoting private interests by an affectation of
love for the negroes.
A GENERAL ELECTION.—The prevailing re-
ports on this subject induce us to say to all Radi-
cal and Liberal constituencies, Look out for pro-
per candidates, and reject all quacks, and return
none but .honest and determined Anti-Corn-
law men.

THE PRICE OF SUGAR.—MINUTE
must be very satisfactory to the people
of England to see their interests discussed in the
House of Commons in so minute a manner. A
great law is made to depend on a few cwts.
more or less of sugar to be grown in the Antilles.
A reduction of taxation is to be determined by a
Gazette price, which a little speculation may
lower or raise. Nay, according to Mr. Glad-
stone, the price has already fallen to the price
contemplated by the proposed scheme of finance,
and therefore there is no occasion to reduce the
duty on sugar. How singular that a connection
of a great sugar house should come prepared
with that argument ! Could any nominal sales
effect it ? How still more singular ,is it that a
permanent law affecting the welfare of England
should be influenced by the momentary price of
speculation! That, however, is a 'specimen of
the minute manner in which our legislators exa-
mine the great questions brought before them.
'Whether they are likely by such close investi-
gation of particulars to form a clear comprehen-
sion of the whole, we must leave the public to
decide. For our parts we are somewhat afraid
that, in so dealing with the national welfare,
they are more like the critic fly scanning St.
Paul's, than an architect like Wren capable of
grasping the whole.

COURSE OF EXCHAZ
AmsterdaM CF. 12 6
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ........2 U l2 6i
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.B. 13 12i
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 55
Ditto, 3 months 25 75
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 80
Frankfort on Maine... 1501

NGE—(YESTERDAY).
Gibraltar. .
Leghorn ....
Genoa .. 25 85
Milan
Venice
Naples ..............39
Palermo, per oz 1184
Lisbon
Oporto 53
Rio Janeiro 27
Bahia
Buenos Ayres
New York, 21days sight 461
Philadelphia
PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Portugal Gold Coin £3 17 5
Foreign Gold, bars... 3 17 9
New Doubloons ...... 0 0 0
New Dollars... ....0 4 10i
Silver in Bars 0 5 Oi
:NHALLh, AlAr 7.
Bills. hlnney
107

Petersburgh, 3 Us ...
Berlin.
Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M lO 0
Trieste, ditto lO 3
Madrid
Cadiz

Bilboa 35
Barcelona
Seville ... 35