The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-06 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday morning
in the royal gardens of Buckingham Palace.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Nemours
visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager, yesterday, at Marl-
borough House. Their Royal Highnesses also paid visits to
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at Clarence House,
St. James's, to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glou-
cester at Gloucester House, and to their Royal Highnesses
the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, at Cambridge House.
His Excellency Count de St. Aulaire, the French Ambas-
sador, paid his respects to their Royal Highnesses the Duke
and Duchess de Nemours, at Buckingham Palace on Wed-
nesday afternoon, soon after their arrival from the continent.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess
Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken an airing yesterday,
in an open carriage and four, accompanied by the Dowager
Lady Lyttelton.
The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace, yesterday,
included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, his Excellency
Count de St. Aulaire, the Duchess of Buccleuch, the Earl of
Liverpool, the Earl Delawarr, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lady
Anna Alaria Dawson, Lord George Lennox, La Baronne M.
de Finguerlin, and M. Morel de Bretizal.
The band of the 2d Life Guards was in attendance during
dinner. . .

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Her Majesty the Queen Dowager took a drive yesterday in
the Parks, and visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent at Clarence House.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited the Lock
Hospital yesterday.
Her Roy al Highness the Duchess of Cambridge took an
airing to Kew yesterday, returning to Cambridge House in the
afternoon. _ _ _

A deputation of Liverpool merchants, including Messrs.
Thomas Bold, James Ingram, and Ralph Dawson, had an in-
terview with Lord Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office, on
the subject of the remission of the tax on guano.
Yesterday was the birthday of his Majesty the King of
Hanover. His Excellency Count Kielmannsegge, his Majesty's
representative at the British Court, gave a grand dinner in
celebration of the auspicious event to a large party, at his Ex-
cellency's residence in Grosvenor-place.
His Excellency the Spanish Minister transacted business
yesterday at the Foreign-office.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England held a meet-
ing yesterday afternoon, at their office in Whitehall-place.
There were present the bishops of Bangor, Ely, Lichfield, and
Salisbury ; the Secretary of State for the Home Department,
the Earl of Devon, the Earl of Besborough, the Right Hon.
H. Hobhouse, the Right Hon. Jahn Nicholl, and the Dean of
Westminster.

The Chairman of the Excise had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence
in Downing-street.
Sir Henry Halford had an interview with the Earl of
Dalhousie yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade.
The Dowager Duchess of Cleveland had a dinner party on
Wednesday at her residence in Seamore-place. The company
included Viscount Templetown, Hon. Captain and Mrs. Rous,
Mr. and Lady Mary Phipps, Mr. and Lady Farquhar, Colonel
and Mrs. Alaberley, Mr. and Mrs. Ellice, Mr. and Mrs.
Buckley, Mrs. Lane Fox, and Mrs. Cotterell.

POST-OFFICE ESPIONAGE.
PROTESTS.

The following protests have been entered on the journals
of the House of Lords by Lords Clanricarde and Radnor,
after the vote of Friday night on the Post-office Amend-
ment Bill :
"I. Because we think that the law, which in a matter
directly affecting the rights, interests, and comfort of every class
of the community, ought to be perfectly clear and distinct, is in the
matter to which this Bill applies obscure and doubtful, affording
neither a guarantee to the subject against inquisitorial tyranny and
the arbitrary caprice of a Minister, or certain protection to a ser.
vant of the Crown who may be led by unsound precedents to ex-
ceed his lawful authority.

"2. Because it does not appear from either of the reports of the
Secret Committees of this and the other House of Parliament, or
from any other authentic source of information, neither has it been
alleged in debate, that any danger to the State from foreign foes or
from domestic treason has ever been averted or discovered by the
stoppage or opening of letters in the Post-office ; and we therefore
gather from the experience of nearly two centuries, that no benefit
arises from a practice which is so unconstitutional, odious, and de-
moralising, that nothing but the highest interests of the State, in.
volving the peace of the country or the security of the Sovereign,
could justify or palliate its continuance without some such limit
and restraint as this Bill is calculated to impose.

" 3. Because even if we could believe that the opening of letters
in thePost.office may have been at any past time useful to the
Government and beneficial to the community at large, we should
nevertheless be convinced that it cannot in future be attended by
advantages at all eommensurate with the evil of maintaining a sys-
tem disgraceful to our Government, repugnant to the feelings of
the British people, and contrary to every principle of popular or
individual liberty, 'SOMERHILL."

Protest against the negativing the second reading of the
Post-office Bill on Friday last :
" 1. Because it is doubtful whether by law any power exists of
detaining and opening letters passing through the Post-office.
" 2. Because this power, as now exercised by the Secretary of
State in Euglind, and in Ireland by the Lord-Lieutenant, is ab •
horrent from the feelings of the people, and is immoral in itself,
being in violation of confidence, and requiring for its useful
exercise secresy, which in practice has been obtained by the
forging of seals and the falsification of stamps.
" 3. Because being exercised secretly, it cannot be questioned,
and the person wbo exercises it, not being known, cannot be pro.
ceeded against or made responsible.
" 4. Because, if necessary, as is alleged, for the safety of the
realm, or for the purposes of police, it ought to be clearly re.
cognised by law, regulated, and well-defined ; and the provisions
of this Bill were intended for that purpose.
"5. Because the clauses and provisions against which in the
debate strong objections were urged, might have been altered in
the Committee if the Bill had been allowed to proceed, and were
not legitimate grounds for objecting to the principle or refusing the
second reading.

" RADNOR.
" DENMAN."

The following protest bas also been made against the
negativing the second reading of the Post-office Amendment
Act on Friday last ;
" 1. Because I think the law with respect to the detaining and
opening letters at the Post-office extremely doubtful ; and that in a
matter of so much delicacy and importance, it ought to be pecu.
liarly clear and well-defined ; and because if the law really is what
it was contended in the debate to be, I think it ought to undergo
immediate amendment.

"2. Because, despairing at present of the entire abolition of the
practice, I highly approve of the principle of the Bill which was
meant to restrain it to cases in which it might possibly do some
good, and to limit its operation within reasonable bounds. objec.
" 3. Because, if the clauses of the Bill were liable to the
Lions urged in the debate, these clauses might have been correc"'—'
and the objections obviated in the Committee.
" 4. Because two most desirable objects would have been obtained
by this Bill—
" Ist—The suppression of the immoral and fraudulent practices
naturally arising out of the power itself; and
" 2dly—The limiting the exercise of the power claimed to mat.
tern of internal government, and the preventing of that inter-
ference with the concerns of foreigners, relying on English hospi.
tality, which I deem derogatory to the character of the country,
and which, as late events have proved, is likely to be prompted by
false information, and may, I apprehend, endanger the general
" DENMAN.
peace.
" RADNOR.
"CAMPBELL
" KINNAIRD and ROSSIE."

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The sales of Cotton in the Liverpool market yesterday
were 5,000 bales, all to the trade. There was more steadi-
ness in prices. 800 bales Pernambuco went at 41d. ; 200
Egyptian at sid. to Bd. ; and 4,000 bales American at 3id.
to 6d. In Shares less business was done, and prices were lower.
Armagh and Portrush, 21/2 ; Birkenhead and Cheshire
Junction, 10 ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 71/. ;
Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 51/t ; Belfast and County
Down, 13/4 5/8 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 14 ; Cale-
donian, 12 11% ; Ditto Extension, 31/2 3 ; Cambridge and
Lincoln, 83/4 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 55% 55 ; Ditto,
New Shares, 494 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 27% ; Churnet
; Clitheroe Junction, 2% ; Clydesdale Junction,
94 %; Cork and Killarney, 21/s ; Coventry and Nuneaton,
41/. ; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 11 10% ; Dundee and
Perth, 3% ; Dundalk and Enniskillen, ; Eastern Coun-
ties, 2034 % ; Ditto, New Shares, 11 10y8 ; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, Quarter Shares, 184 ; Edinburgh, London, and
Granton, 16 % ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 14 ; Grand
Junction, New Quarter Shares, 501/2 3/4 ; Ditto, Eighth
Shares, 213/4 22 ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, ; Great
Western, 204 ; Ditto, Fifth Shares, 45% 46; Goole and
Doncaster, 13/4 345. Ed. ; Huddersfield Canal and Railway,
7% %; Lancaster and Carlisle, 45% 46 ; Leicester and Bir-
mingham, 1; Limerick and Waterford, 91,4 IA, ; Liver-
pool and Manchester, 215 214 ; Ditto. New Shares, 404 ;
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 2% ; London and Bir-
mingham, 321. Shares, 473/4 ; London and Brighton, 70;
Londonderry and Coleraine, 54 5; Londonderry and Ennis-
killen, 4% ; London and South-Western, 84 ; London
and York, 33/4 12; Direct Northern, 3% Bs. 6d. ; Leeds and
Thirsk, 714 11 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 83/4 ; Man-
chester and Birmingham, 61 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 10% ;
Ditto, New Quarters, 8 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Mid-
land, 7 1/. ; Manchester and Leeds, 164 165 ; Ditto, Half
Shares, 741/2 ; Ditto, Sixteenth Shares, 83/4 ; Matlock and
Midland, 53/4 ; Midland Railway, 40/. Shares, 28 27% ;
Newark and Sheffield, 4%; Newcastle and Berwick, 18
17% ; North British, 25 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 6% 3/4 ; North
Union (A), 152 153; North Wales Mineral, 16 ; North-
Western, 4% ; Oxford and Birmingham Junction, 3% ;
Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, 16% 16; Shrews-
buryanl
anHderhefiorrndlisnhgirhea,ml2, 514 ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry,
s. 14s. ; Shrewsbury, Wolver-
hampton,and Cheshire, 5 43/4 ; Shrewsbury and Trent Union, 14 A' •
South-Eastern and Dover, 46 45% ; Ditto, New Shares,
No. 1, 19 16% ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 2, 1714 15%
Ditto, New Shares. No. 3, 84 % ; Scottish Central, 7 1A ;
Trent Valley, 193/4 20 ; Ulster, 48%; Welsh Midland,
24 ; West Yorkshire, 21/e ; Worcester and Tring,
514 ; York
; Great Paris and Lyons, 2 ; Jamaica and
and Carlisle, 13i
South Midland, /; Northern of France, English (Laffitte's),
5%; Ditto (Rosamel's), English, 2%; Paris and Lyons
(Laffitte's), 3/. 61s. 6d. ; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 2%.
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MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 4.—The sales are
—Barnsley Junction, 6% ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Ac.
c rui
Junction, , 8%2 1
9-161; Blackburn, ;
B ICalcikthbeurrone,,DanardwNeno:t h
and Westernßolt
jßolton,
51% ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 141/8 1/4 ; Caledonian,'
12 ; Ditto, Extension, 3 % ; Cambridge and Lincoln' 8% 1/ •
Churnet Valley, 5% 1/2 ; Clitheroe Junction, 3% 3 ;Ea--te2rn
Counties, New, 11 ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 214 1/s ; Goole ,