The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-10 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The and Prince Albert walked yesterday MM.-
ing fir t':e royal gardens of Buckingham Palace.
his 1.1-yal flightless Prince Albert presided yesterday'
afternoon at a meeting of the Commission for prmoting
and encouraging the Fine Arts in the rebuilding; the
Palace of Westminster.
The Commissioners present were the Duke of Suther-
land, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Lincoln,.
Lord Colborne, the Speaker of the House of Commons,
Sir Robert Peel, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Mr. lignry
Gaily Knight, Mr. George Vivian, Mr. Thomas Wymo,
Lord Mahon, and the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay.
The Prince arrived at Gwydyr House a quarter
before three o'clock, attended by Colonel Bouverie,
Equerry in Waiting.
The meeting broke up at half-past five o'clock, when
Prince Albert returned to Buckingham Palace.
Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Royal and the
Princess Mice were taken airings yesterday in the
royal gardens.
In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert took
an airing in an open carriage and four, the Equerries in
Waiting, Colonels Buckley and Bouverie, attending on
horseback.
The Duchess of Buceleuch had the honour of joining
the royal circle at Buckingham Palace at dinner, yes-
terday evening.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured Mr.
Thorburn with a sitting yesterday, for a.full length
portrait.
His Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of
Mecklenburgh Strelitz honoured Count Kielmarrosegge,
the Hanoverian 111inister, with his company at c'Uner
yesterday evening, at his residence in Grosvenor-place;
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess 0r
Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Meck
lenburgh Strelitz, attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt and
Major Stephens, honoured the Italian Opera with their
presence last evening.
A deputation on the affairs of Prince Edward's Island,
consisting of Sir George. Seymour, the Hon. Colonel
Dundas, Mr. Lawrence Sullivan, Mr. Roberto Stewart,
Mr. 11. J. Todd, and Mr. E. Irving, had an interview
with Lord Stanleyyesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Health of Towns Commission had a meeting yes-
terday at Gwydyr House, Whitehall. The Commis-
sioners present were the Duke of Buccleuch, Mr. Robert
Aglionby Slaney, Sir Henry de la Beebe, Dr. David
Boswell Reid, Mr. Richard Owen, Hunterian ProfessOr
of the College of Surgeons ; Captain William Thomas
Denison, Mr. James H. Martin, Mr. James Smith,. of
Deanston, and Mr. William Cubitt,
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had It
meeting yesterday afternoon at the office in Whitehall-
place. The Commissioners present were-,--the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Bishop
of Bangor, the Bishop of Ely, the Bishop of Exeter, the
Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop of Llandaff; the Bishop
of Norwich, the Bishop of Salisbury, the Lord President
of the Council, the Earl of Besborough, the Earl of Chi-
, chester, the Earl of Harrowby, and the Dean of West-
minster.
The Governor of the Bank of England and the
Deputy-Governor had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing-street.
Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to
the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—The premium on gold atParis is 124 uer mille,
which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. lOiti. per
ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of
464 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short
being 25 472, it follows that gold is 0.04 per cent.
dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 435
per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10411.
per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 10 ;
and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short
being 13 84, it follows that gold is 0.58 per cent.
dearer in Hamburgh than in London.
SUN.—At the termination of business Consols were
firm at 988 to 99, but rather inactive. None of the other
English investments were subjected to any fluctuation as
compared with the rates of the morning.
The Foreign Bonds closed rather heavily. Mexican at
35k, and 154 for the Five and Three per Cents., Buenos
Ayres at 35, and Brazilian at 82. Spanish Five per
Cents. continued at 23, and the Three per Cents. at 34
to f. Venezuela were 404. Dutch Five per Cents. were
rather easier, being 1004. •
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these:—Eastern Counties, New, 4i; Edinburgh
and Glasgow, 114; Great Western Fifths, 108; Bir-
mingham Thirds, 36 to 364; South-Western, 41*; Ditto
Scrip, 34 t; Croydon, 3 to 34; Manchester ad Bir-
mingham, 16; South-Eastern, 211; Ditto New, 7; Trent
Valley, 8; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 1 to i 4; Paris
and Orleans, 19; and Paris and Rouen, 194 premium.
Blackwell, 94; and North British, 4 discount.
The rate of Exchange on Amsterdam and Frankfort
was about the same as last Friday, on Antwerp a shade
lower, and on Hamburgh and Trieste rather firmer.
The following is the official n turn of the exports of
bullion from the port of London for the week ending
Thursday last:—Silver bars to Hamburgh, 4,000 ounces.
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam CF. 12 51, Gibraltar
Ditto, at sight l2 4i Leghorn 3O 45
Rotterdam 2U. 12 6 Genoa 25 90
Antwerp 25 90 Milan
Hamburgh M.B. 13 13 Venice ........ .......... 47
Altona l3 13t Naples 39
Paris; 3 days' sight... 25 60 Palermo, per oz llB
Ditto, 3 months 25 80 Lisbon 54
Marseilles
Bourdcaux 25 85 Rio Janeiro 23
Frankfort on Maine .. 1214 Bahia 23
Petersburgh, 3 Us... 37 Buenos Ayres
Berlin 7 NewYork-,2ldyssight
Vienna, effee. fl. 3 M 952 Philadelphia
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 37 Foreign Gold, bars..£3 17 9

Cadiz ,
14ilbao .

37
36

Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons.— 0 0 0

Barcelona 36
Seville -

New Dollars 0 4 10
Silver in Bars 0 4 lla

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Mary Dillon, a young and beautiful girl, wearing a
profusion of jewellery, was placed at the bar on the
following charge:—
Police-constable John Cox, No. 63 of the C division,
stated that between two and three o'clock this morning,
as he was proceeding on duty along Piccadilly, he found
the defendant sitting at the step of a door near to St.
James's Church. her head was leaning on her knees, and
at first he concluded that she was sleeping, but on a closer
inspection he found she was in a state of complete stupor.
lle therefore conveyed her to the station-house, where,
by the direction of Inspector Frowd of the C division, she
was attended by Dr. Tothill, of Charles-street, St.
James's-square, the divisional surgeon of the force ; but
two hours elapsed before she was restored to a state of
consciousness. She afterwards intimated by signs to the
Inspector that she was deaf and dumb, and ultimately
wrote her name and her address, at Fulham, on a slate—
but she declined giving any further information respect-
ing herself.
Dr. Tothill was of opinion that she was suffering from
the effects of some intoxicating fluid, which, of course,
might hava been designedly administered to her.
Inspector Frowd said, he had no doubt of the defea-
dnt actually being dumb.
Mr. MALTBY—Dear one ; is that the fact—does any
one know her ?
Sergeant Burnett, No. 20 of the C division, said, that
' a twelvemonth ago she was living in a style of great
splendour in Piccadilly, under the protection of a
nobleman.
Inspector Frowd said a very valuable gold watch was
found in her posession, but no money.
It also appeared that about twelve months ago she
was finind insensible in the street, and was locked up in
a station-house for the night, on the supposition that Alt
was drunk, and from that time she became deaf and dumb.
Mr. MALTBY humanely directed Sergeant Burnett to
see her home to her friends.

HISTORIC FANCIES.—BY THE HON. GRORGR
SYDNEY SMYTIIE, M.P.—This volume is calculated to at-
tract a considerable share of public attention, not merely
because it exhibits great talent, and indicates a greater
promise, but because it represents, in its various pages, a
picture of that youthful and stirring mind which has re-
cently so much engaged the observation, and, in a great
degree, the sympathy of the public. The charm of the .
book is full of freshness and vigorous fancy. The writer
has surveyed the past and present, disembarrassed of
those conventionalities that are crumbling around us,
and has arrived at results, which may be, in some in-
stances, crude, but which are always genuine. He de-
livers himself of his strong convictions in a style pas-
sionate,
yet chaste and precise ; and whether he blazons
the achievements of the great aristocracy of France, or
celebrates the superhuman energies of the .Jacobins of
Paris—whether he charge the Roundhead with the Ca-
tholic Cavalier, or canonize Armand Carrel in a lyric of
almost unrivalled grace, we find everywhere the real
feeling and language always sustaining the sentiment,
as prompt, as passionate,
and picturesque. The finest
thing in this volume is—

" The merchants of Old England, the seigneurs of the
• seas.",

It is really a great national strain.—Times.
THE WEATHER AND CROl"S.—Easterly winds still
prevail, and being accompanied, as usually happens, with
a low temperature, vegetation has not for several days
made much progress. The atmosphere, however,
is dry, which is favourable for the wheat ; and
the laud still containing a good supply of mois-
ture, everything wears the aspect of health.
Potatoes look rather poorly, being both thin in
the drills and weakly in the stem. The thinning of tur-
nips is, in this neighbourhood, well advanced. A good
deal of hay is now in the rick, and having been put ap
under favourable circumstances, will hoof excellent qua-
lity. The cut, however, is far from heavy ; but the
second crop presents an appearance of great luxuriance,
and will no doubt go far to compensate the deficiency of
the main crop.—Scotsman of Saturday.
EXTRA-ORDINARY FREAK OF NATURR.—ID the
month of May last Mr. Rolls, under-keeper to Lord Digby,
discovered, in Whitfield Wood, a p'easant's nest containing
twelve eggs; about three weeks since, on examining the
nest again, he found that the bird had left three of the eggs
behind, and feeling a curiosity to know the reason why the
eggs had not been hatched, he broke the shells, and in each
egg found a young pheasant, perfect and billed, but, singular
to relate, each bird had four legs and four feet. Mr. Rolls
cut oil the legs, and has since preserved them. He called at
our office on Saturday, when we had an opportunity of per-
sonally inspecting this singular natural curiosity.—Sherburne
I Journal, .