The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-15 00:00:00

-131RT17 Off A PRINCESS.

( From the Court Circular.)

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, APRIL 14.
At 15 minutes before 2 o'clock p.m. this day the
Queen was safely delivered of a princess.

There were present on th© occasion in her Ma-
jesty's room his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Dr.
Locock, Dr. Snow, and Mrs. Lilly, the monthly
nurse. In the adjoining apartments, bcsides the
other medical attendants (Sir James Clark and Dr.
Ferguson), were the Mistress of the Rotes, the
Lady in Waiting on the Queen, and the following
officers of State and Lords of the Privy Council—
viz., his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Palmerston, Sir G.
Grey, Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary Lal-ou-
chere, Lord Panmure, Sir C. Wood, the Bishop of
London, and the Marquis of Breadalbane.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, ac-
companied by the Princess of Hohenlohe-Langen-
burg, arrived at the Palace shortly before two
o'clock.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert went about 4
o'clock to the Privy Council-office, and was present
at a Committee of Privy Council, the other Lords
present being the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Pal-
merston, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George
Grey, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panmure,
the Bishop of London, Sir Charles Wood, the
Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Marquis of
Breadalbane.

At the Council a Prayer and Thanksgiving was
ordered for the safe delivery of the Queen, to be
used next Sunday during divine service.
Mr. Charles Greville was Clerk of the Council in
Waiting.

The Turkish Ambassador and Madame Muslims,
the French Ambassador and Countess Persigny,
the Bavarian Minister and Baroness de Cetto, the
Prussian Minister, the Saxon Minister, the' Aus-
trian. Minister and Countess Apponyi, the Russian
Minister, and other members of the diplomatic
corps, called at Buckingham Palace, where the
following bulletin was exhibited:—

" Buckingham Palace, Aprill4, 1857, 3 p.m.
" The Queen was safely delivered of a Princess
this afternoon at 45 minutes past 1 o'clock.
"Her Majesty and the infant Princess are well.
" JAMES CLARK, M.D.
" CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D.
" ROBERT FERGUSON, M.D."
Many of the nobility and gentry also called to
pay their respects during the afternoon. Among
them were—The Duchess of Inverness, Lady Oran-
worth, the Right Hon. M. T. and Mrs. Baines ;
the Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, Earl and Coun-
tess of Elgin, the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough,
Earl and Countess of Shelburne, Countess of
Malmesbury, Dowager Lady Cowley, Mrs. Gerald
Wellesley, Lady Cremorne, Lord and Lady Rokeby,
Sir Geo. and Lady Couper, Miss and Mr. Couper,
Mrs. T. M. Biddulph, Captain and Lady E. de
Ros, Captain and Mrs. Denman, Mr. Whateley,
Q. C., and Lady Henry Churchill, Earl and Coun-
tess Desart, Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford,
Viscount and Viscountess Folkestone, Hon. 'Lieut.-
General and Miss Cavendish, Lord and Lady
Marcus Hill, Mr. and Mrs. W. Gladstone,
Hon. Mrs. Grey, Sir B. Hall, Lieutenant-
General Sir George Bowles, Colonel and Mrs.
Gordon, Sir A. and Lady Woodford, Lady A. M.
Dawson, Sir P. and Lady Grey Egerton, Lady M.
Hood, Earl and Countess of Albemarle, Earl and
Countess of Airlie, Dowager Lady and Miss Lyt-
telton, Mr. and Mrs. Farquharson (of luvercauld)
the Earl of Caithness, Sir C. and Lady M. Wood,
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Viscount
and Viscountess Eversley, Sir George Grey, to-
gether with numerous others.

(From the London Gazette Extraordinary, Tuesday,

April 14. )

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, APRIL 14.

This afternoon, at a quarter before 2 o'clock, the
Queen was happily delivered of a Princess, his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, several Lords of
her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council,
and the Ladies of her Majesty's Bedchamber being
present.

This great and important news was made known
to the town by the firing of the Park and Tower
guns, and the Privy Council being assembled as
soon as posiible thereupon at the Council Chamber,
Whitehall, it was ordered that a form of thanks-
giving for the Queen's safe delivery of a Princess
be prepared by his Grace the Archbishop of Can-
terbury, to be used in all churches and chapels
throughout England and Wales, and the town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, on Sunday, the 19th clay of
April, or the Sunday after the respective ministers
shall receive the same.

Her Majesty and the infant Princess are, God be
praised, both doing well.

- At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 14th
day of April, 1857, by the Lords of her Majesty's
Most Honourable Privy Council.

Tt is this day ordered. by their L ordships that his
Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury do prepare a
Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty
God for her Majesty's safe delivery of a Princess ;
and that such Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving
be used in all churches and chapels in England
and Wales, and in the town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, upon Sunday, the 19th day of this instant
April, or the Sunday after the respective ministers
of such churches and chapels shall receive the
same :

And it is hereby further ordered that her Ma-
jesty's printer do forthwith print a competent
number of copies of the said Form of Prayer and
Thanksgiving, that the same may be forthwith sent
round and read in the several churches and
chapels in England and Wales, and in the town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed,

C. C. GREVILLE.

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 14th
day of April, 1857, by the Lords of her Majesty's
Most Honourable Privy Council.

It is this day ordered by their Lordships that
every minister and preacher, as well of the Esta-
blished Church in that part of Great Britain called
Scotland as those of the Episcopal Communion
protected and allowed by an act passed in the
10th year of the reign of her Majesty Queen Anne,
entitled " An Act, to prevent the disturbing those
of the Episcopal Communion in that part of Great
Britain called Scotland in the exercise of their
religious worship, 'and-in the use of the Liturgy
of the Church of England ; and for repealing the
Act passed in the Parliament of Scotland entitled

An Act against irregular Baptisms and Mar-
riages,' do, at some time during the exercise of
Divine Service in their churches, congregations, or
assemblies, on Sunday, the 19th day of this instant
April, or on the Sunday after the Ministers or
Preachers of such churches, congregations, or
assemblies, respectively, shall be enabled so to do,
put up prayers and Thanksgiving to Almighty
God for her Majesty's safe delivery of a Princess.
C. C. GRE VILLE.

The following bulletin of the health of the Queen
was issued this morning :
" Buckingham Palace, April 15, 1857,
Nine a.m.
"The Queen has passed an excellent night.
Her Majesty and the Infant Princess are going
on favourably.
" JAMES CLARK, M.D.
" CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D.
" ROBERT FERGUSON, M.D."

The ship Light of the Age, which arrived yesterday,
after a quick passage of 78 days, from Sydney, has
brought a valuable cargo of wool.
PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is
about 6 per mille premium, and the short exchange on
London is 25.25 per 1/, sterling. On comparing these
rates with the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. lOid.per
ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is nearly
3-10ths per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By
advicee from Hamburg the price of gold is 424 per
mark, and the short exchange on London is 13.4 per
1/. sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint price is
therefore about 2-10ths per cent. dearer in Hamburg
than in London. The course of exchange at Nw York
on London for bills at 60 days'
sight is 106 f per cent.,
which, when cernp4red with the Mist par between the
two couutrit,s, shows that the exchange is against Eng-
land ; but, after making allowance for charges of trans-
port and difference of interest, the present rate leaves no
profit on the transmission of gold either way between
England and America.