The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-16 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY, &c.

OSBORNE, July 15.
The Queen and the Royal family walked and
drove olzt this morning.

MAP,LBOROUGII-HOUSE, July 15.

The Prince of Wales was present at the State
visit of the Sultan to the Royal Italian Opera,
Covent-garden, this evening. his royal highness
was attended by Viscount Hamilton, General Sir
W. Kuollys, the Hon. Colonel Wood, and Captain
Ellis.

Mr. S. Laing, M.P. (chairman), and Mr. Philip

Rose (solicitor of the Brighton Railway Company),
had an interview with the Duke of Richmond at
the office of the Board of Trade yesterday.
Arr. King had also an interview with the Duke of
Richmond on the subject of his patent for commu-
nication between guards and drivers of railway
trains.

Mr. Macfle, accompanied by Mr. Graves, M.P.,
had an interview with the Vice-President of the
Board of Trade at the office of the Board of
Trade, yesterday, on the subject of patent rights.

DEPARTURE OF THE SULTAN FOR THE
CRYSTAL PALACE.

His Imperial Majesty the Sultan, hikßoyal High-
ness the Prince of Wales, and the brilliant suite in
attendance, left Buckingham Palace this morning
for the Crystal Palace.
The programme prepared by the directors is one
of great attraction. The concert will be supported
by Mdme. Titiens, Mdlle. C. Nilsson, and all the
leading stars of Her Majesty's and the Italian
Opera.

The Royal party, it is arranged, will partake of
dinner in the Queen's Pavilion at the Palace. The
second part of the concert will not commence before
half-past eight o'clock, at the conclusion of which
the pyrotechnic display and the illumination of the
fountains will take place.
An opportunity is thus afforded for late visitors
to " assist" at the most interesting portion of the
festival.

DEPARTURE OF THE BELGIANS FOR
WINDSOR THIS DA

The grand fete on the programme prepared for
the Belgians by the Reception Committee was the
invitation of Her Gracious Majesty to Windsor
Castle to-day, and fortunately the weather seemed
inclined to be more propitious than yesterday. The
Belgians quartered in the west centre division of the
metropolis assembled in great force, as usual, at
Somerset House, and previous to the time fixed for
their departure the band performed a variety of
music. The attendance of the public in the Strand
to witness the march out was very numerous, but
nothing equal to that which has assembled on former
occasions. The order to fall in was given by
the officer in command at 10 o'clock, and very
shortly after the Volunteers left the quadrangle and
proceeded across Waterloo-bridge to the South-
Western Railway, where a special train was ready
to receive them. On their arrival at Windsor they
proceeded at once to the Castle to partake of her
Majesty's sumptuous deyeaner, to which, doubtless,
ample justice will be done. The other portion of
the ]Belgians quartered in and about the south-
west division of London left by the Great Western
Railway, and on their march to the station they
were received with the warmest cordiality.
The fete at the Crystal Palace, fixed for Thurs-
day, has been altered, and it is now arranged that
it will take place to-morrow (Wednesday).

His Imperial Majesty the Sultan has been pleased
:o confer upon his Excellen.y Musurus Bey, Turkish

Ambassador, the rank of Muchir, with the title of Pasha.
THE FACTORY ACTS EXTENSION BILL.—Tile select
committee to whom the Factory Acts Extension Bill
was referred to have agreed to the following special report :
—"Your committee report that they have not complied
with the request of the petitioners who ask that the print
works, bleaching, and dyeing works, should be included in
the Factory Acts Extension Bill, inasmuch as no iuvesti-

gation into the operation of the acts regulating those trades
has taken place; but they recommend that a royal coin-

mission should issue for the purpose of inquiring into and

reporting upon the operation of those acts.
REPRESENTATION OF WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE.—
GLOUCESTER, Monday.—A contested election for

Wrest Gloucestershire is imminent, there being every pro-
bability of the seat to be vacated by the elevation of Sir

J. Rolt to the bench being disputed. Mr. C. P. F. Ber-
keley has to-day issued an address dated " Berkeley

Castle, July 13," offering himself in anticipation of the
vacancy to be thus created. Mr. Berkeley has already
commenced his canvass. It is said that Sir George Jen-
kinson will bo the Conservative candidate, and there is
a talk of the young Marquis of Worcester being put
forward.

MONEY MAB,KET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCB,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

In the general discount market there is little
change to report. The demand for accommodations
is not very active, and the resources at hand are
ample for all legitimate requirements. The rates
charged for the negociation of first-class short-
dated paper range from 2 to 2i per cent. in the ex-
ceptional transactions of 11 per cent.
At the Stock Exchange loans on Government
Securities are readily obtainable at per cent.
The report of the Alliance Bank, to be presented
at the meeting on the 19th inst., states that the
net amount of profits, after making all necessary
deductions, is £19,812 for the half-year now to be
disposed of. The directors recommend the pay-
Iliad of a dividend at the rate of 3 per cent. per
annum, and that £l,OOO be written off building and
furniture account.
In the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets
there has been very little animation during the last
few days. Sugars have barely sustained previous
rates, while the operations in coffee have been too
limited to make any great change in values. Rice
has been dull, and the transactions in tea have been
delayed until to-day, when a large quantity of China
produce will be offered at public sale. Tallow has
40 been in limited request, at about late rates.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
have declined 1, to 28 30, but the Consolidated
Mortgage Bonds remain steady at 23 24.
At a meeting of the City Bank this day a divi-
dend was declared of 6 per cent. per annum, and a
411118 of 4s. per share, together equal to 10 per
cent• per annum free of income-tax.

There were no gold operations at the Bank of
England yesterday.
The New Zealand Trust and Loan Company
have declared a dividend at the rate of ss. per share,
or 10 per cent. per annum.
The mail from Guayaquil has brought a remit-
tance of £638 on account of the dividends on the
debt of Equador.
IN RE CASTELLO V. SLEIGH.—The defendant
Was introduced to plaintiff in 1865, and an agree-
kent was entered into that he should act as broker
to the Tasso Brazil Gold Mine, and agreed
to pay him £l,OOO in the event of the directors
allotting the shares, he (the defendant) hay-
It'g arranged with the company fot the
consideration of £5,000. These facts were
being proved when the defendant agreed at
about one o'clock (and before the plaintiff had
completed bis case), to submit to a verdict of £l.OO,
Which the plaintiff assented to, it being more as a
Matter of principle that he had brought the action
than for the sake of damages.

Do 44 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 pm Cent., 1859 54
Do 5 per Cent., 1862 B7l 4
Do. 5 per Cent., 1864 904
Do. Anglo-Dutch 1866 874 4
Do. do £7O paid —pm
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Spanish 3 per Cent
Do Ace bunt ~,. -
Do New Detelled —
Do. Account
Do Passive —
Do Acc*nut . 221
Spanish Corn. Cert. of Coup. l5l 16
Do Account
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Do. Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858 4, —
Do. Account
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cont. 1802 —
Do Account 57 / 7
Do £lOO Bonds
Do. 1863
Do. spe Cent, 1865 3ll
Do. Account, July 3ll 1
Do. 6 per Cont., 1865
Do 4 per Cent. Guaranteed —
Venezuela, 3 per Cent. —
Do. Account
Do. 6 per Cont., 1862
Do. 6 per Cent. 1864 —
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian a par Cent. Ex, 10 Florins
Belgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 24 per Cent. Ex. 12 Gni!, 54
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates
French lientes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. —
Italian 3 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 25f.
Do. Account 491 4 1

THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 94i
Do. Account, July 10

The gal 3.

EXMOUTH, Monday Night.

This morning, writes Mr. W. Hawkins, chief
officer of coastguard, at 10.30 p.m., a massage was
sent to this station from Budleigh Salterton, stating
that a brig was in a dangerous position off that
place, and urging that some assistance might be
rendered. At 10.45 the Exmouth, a new lifeboat
of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, was
launched, and proceeded at once to Salterton. The
lifeboat had to go through a most trying ordeal
in getting over the bar, where a heavy sea
was breaking, through which she had to
make her way for more than half a mile.
On rounding the outer end of the Highland
shoal, which was the most dangerous part, the life-
boat shipped six heavy seas, filling her up to the
thwarts each time, and knocking the men therefrom.
Four oars out of five were broken on the starboard
side by the violence of the seas, and the steering
oar was carried away, by which all command of the
boat was lost, and fears were entertained lest she
should drive upon the rocks. The- anchor was ac-
cordingly let go, while the men got out some spare
oars, which are always provided for such emer-
gencies ; after which the cable was cut, and by
very great exertions on the part of her crew
got out of danger. The brig, which was the
Ranger, of Shields, coal laden, had in the mean-
time gone on shore, and her crew of eight men had
been rescued by means of the rocket apparatus.
The lifeboat was therefore signalled to return to the
shore. The boat and her crow behaved admirably
on the occasion. The cost of the Exmouth Life-
boat Station was presented to the institution by
Lady Rolle, at whose request the boat was named
the Victoria.

TEIGNMotrm, Monday.