The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-12 00:00:00

[teal del Monte. Unregistered .• •• • • 3% ••• • •• •' • 3%
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-(YESTERDAY.)

kmsterdarn ......C.F. 12 9%
Ditto, at sight .• .... 12 6%
Rotterdam ...... 2U. 12 10
Antwerp • .. 26 20
Hamburgh 14

Gibraltar....
Leghorn •• 30 75
t lenoa ..•• •• .......... 26 20
Milan .. • ..... ........

Altona. ..... ..........
Vn as, 3 days' sight .. • 25 85
Ditto, 3 months.... 26 15
Marseilles ••.• • • • ..... 26 20
80urdeaux......... .. 26 20
Frankfort on Maine.... 122 IA
l'etersburgh, 3 U 5.... ••
. • ..
Vienna, effec. fio ••• • • . 10 15
Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 10 15
Nfadtid • •
Cadiz • • ... : ........ 36!6
Bilbao.. • • • • . • • • • • • • • •
Barcelona • • • • .. • • • ..•
SeYille• • . ..... • • • • .•

Venice
Naples ...... •••• • • • • 39%
Palermo, per 0z...
Lisbon .• •
Oporto . . • •

Rio Janeiro

Bahia ..... .......... .

Buenos Ayres ...... • •
New York, 21 days' sight
Philadelphia .. .. • • • • • •

PRICIS OF BULLION, PIE OZ.
Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin •• 3 17 5
New Doubloons ...... 0 0 0
New Dollars ........ 0 4 9M
Sllver in bars ........ 0 4 11

POST-OFFICE NOTICE.—Yesterday a notice was posted
exected to sail
at the General Post-office that her Majesty's ship Inflexible
for the Cape of Good Hope and New Leacl.a,nadn,dsanielewdsopnaptelrie:
9th instant from Devonport with the morning mails of that
date. Her Majesty's ship. Contest is daily
for the Island of Ascension. Letters will betaken at the
usual packet rates—is. the half-ounce, u
free.
GRAND ENTERTAINMENTS AT THE MANSION HOUSE.
—On the 19th inst., the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress
will entertain her Majesty's Ministers, and their ladies, and
a large party of the nobility, at dinner. About 180 will sit
down to a most splendid entertainment. On Thursday and
Saturday next his Lordship and the Lady
Mayoress will also
give splendid entertainments.
ROYAL VISIT TO THE CITY I3AROE.—On Monday,
a' the floating monster of the Thames, the City barge, so
much famed for fun and festivity, was lying under the broad
shadows of the trees at Kew, about three o'clock, having just
received on board the Committee of the London Bridge Ap-
proaches and their wives and daughter 4, and several other
members of the Corporation and their ladies, the party was
honoured in a manner they little expected. Sir Peter Laurie,
casting his searching eye around to tied some new matter of
the Knight, with true corporatic
entertainment, espied his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
beergjeoyceadlnaitlythseudrvisecNol‘n,egrilthe civic preparations for dinner.
hospitality, proposed to r. Jones, the Chairman, to invite
his Royal Highness to partake of the good things provided in
the barge. The Duke accepted the invitation in the spirit of
a gentleman, and accompanied Mr. Jones and Sir Peter
Laurie in the shallop to the barge, where his Royal Highness
was received with the most
The com respectful greetings of the com-
pany assembled on the deck, to do him honour. His Royal
Highness remained for some time on board, and expressed
much gratification at the entertainment, which he declared
his Royal Highness
was a " rich treat" to him. In consequence of an engage-
ment,wasolige to take leave of the
civic brethren long before he wished to make his departure.
an accession to their enjoyments. "The citizens and their
!Any, it is needless to say, were delighted with such
ladies''—to use the poetical language of one of the party—
" were highly charmed with the scene," and after the depar-
ture of his Royal ]highness, were beautifully brought together
by the music, which played to the elegant display of "their
light fantastic toes."