The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-14 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual walks
and drives yesterday in the grounds of Osborne llouse.
The Prince of Wales E nd the Princess Royal were taken
airings.
There was no addition to the royal dinner party at
Osborne House on Monday evening.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was taken an
airing yesterday in an open carriage and four, accom-
panied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited
Prince Alfred and the Princess Alice yesterday, at
Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager took an airing yes-
terday in a carriage. In the evering her Majesty (at-
tended by her suite) honoured the Italian Opera with her
presence. Her Royal highness the Duchess of Kent
(attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Colonel
Sir George Couper) and 11,,,r Royal Highness the Grand
Duchess Stephanie of Baden, attended by the Baroness
de Strunifeder and Baron Roth de Schreckenstein, also
honoured the performance of the Opera with their pre-
sence yesterday evening.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand
Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, attended by Mr. Ed-
mond Mildmay, honoured the Dowager Count( ss of Lis-
towel with their company yesterday, at the dejeune given
by her Ladyship, at her residence at Fulham.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden, yesterday, at the
Duke of Hamilton's residence, in Portman-square.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited
the Duchess of Cambridge yesterday. at Cambridge
House.

Count Dietrichstein, the Austrian Ambassador, paid
his respects to the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden
yesterday.

Lord Wharncliffe, Lord President of the Council, left
t )wn on Monday, for his seat at Wortley Hall,Yorkshire.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

(From The Sun of Last Night.)

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 5,000
bales, including 2,000 on speculation. The market was flat,
and prices were fully 1/sd. per lb. lower than before
the arrival of the Great Western. -In Shares a
good business was done, and prices were rather higher.
Barnsley Junction, 5 4% ; Ditto, Half Shares, 2%; Birken-
head, Manchester, and Cheshire, 10% 11 ; Blackburn, Dar-
wen, and Bolton, 514 ; Belfast and Ballymena, 86, 1/2 ;
Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 11 ; Caledonian, 1111/ % ;
Ditto Extension, 21% % ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 7% 1/, ;
Chester and Birkenhead, 5114 52 ; Ditto, Half Shares,2sl4 ;
Chester and Holyhead, 16%; Churnet Valley, 6%; Clitheroe
Junction, 535. 9d. 2% ; Cork and Bandon, 8% • Cork and
Waterford, 2%; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 11;3/4 ; Dublin
and Galway, 41/g ; Dundee and Perth, 314 ; Dublin, Mul-
lingar, and Athlone, 41% 1 ; Dundalk and Enniskillen, 5 ;
Eastern Counties, 1914 •, Ditto, Perpetual, No. 2, 245. 6d. ;
Edinburgh and Perth, ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 245. ;
Grand Junction, 230 231 • Ditto, New Shares, 4814 ; Ditto,
Eighth Shares, 2014 1/2 ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 5% 3/4;
Great North of England, 301. Shares, 20%; Great Munster,
; Great Southern and Western Extension, 13; Goole and
Doncaster, 1 ; Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 7 6%; Hud-
dersfield and Sheffield, 6% ; Limerick and Waterford, 81/s ;
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 21. 21. Is. 6d. ; London and
Croydon, New Shares, 268 ; London and Windsor, I Is. ;
London and York, 4% ; Drect Northern, 3/. ss. 31. 4s. ;
Leeds and Dewsbury, 101% ; Leeds and Think, 6% ;
Leeds and West Riding Junction, 10 9%; Manchester and
Birmingham, New Shares, 7% ' • Manchester and Buxton,
5%; Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, 6; Man-
chester and Leeds, 151 150 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 681,E 14 ;
Ditto, Quarter Shares, 20; Midland Railway,ls6 157; Ditto,
40/. Shares, 18% % •, Ditto, Fifth Shares, 765. 3d. 3% :
Ditto, Consolidated Birmingham and Derby, 118 ' • Newry
and Enniskillen, 4%; North Western, 4%; Oxford and Bir-
mingham Junction, 3% 81s. 6d. ; Sheffield and Manchester,
Quarter Shares, 14 ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 365. 6d. 1% ;
Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 51/2 ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry,
and Cheshire, 4% 965. 3d. ; South-Eastern and Dover, New
Shares, No. 3,6% ; Scottish Central, 6% 14 ; Trent
Valley, 173/4 181/s ; Waterford and Kilkenny, 33% ; Welsh
Midland, 41s. 6d. 40s. ; West Yorkshire, 32X ; Worcester
and Tring, 414 1/2 ; Whitehaven and Furness, 565. 3d. ;
York and Carlisle, 234 % ; Northern of France (Laffitte's),
5'V ; Ditto, French, 5 ; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte's), En-
glish, 2% ; Paris and Lyons, French, 2%; Paris and Lyons
(Ganneron's), ; Paris and Lyons (Calon's), 2 ; Verona
and Ancona, 425.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 12.-The sales
are :-Barnsley Junction, 4% 3/4 ; Birkenhead, Manchester,
and Cheshire Junction, 10; Blackburn, Burnley, and Ac.
crington, 81% %; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 11; Cale-
donian, 11%; 10itto, Extension, 2% ; Churnet Valley, 6%;
Clitheroe Junction, 2% 3 prem. ; Huddersfield and Manches-
ter Railway and Canal, 7 6 13-16; Leeds and Thirsk, 6%;
Leeds, Piatsbury, and Manchester, 1014 % ; Leeds and
West 1111Kng Junction, 9% 3/4 ; London and Birmingham,
Quarter Shares, 32%; London and Windsor, 10s. prem. ;
London and York, 4%; Manchester and Birmingham, New
Quarters, 7 3-16 ; Manchester and Buxton, 5% %; Man-
chester and Leeds, 151 153; Ditto, Half Shares, 69; Ditto,
1/47- ; Nottingham and Mansfield, 2% ;
;
Quarter Shares, 21 14; Ditto, Sixteenth Shares, 8%; Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, 6 ; Midland Rail-
oNx
w aoyrfit,,hrWestern,
d401.a nSdh Barierms,l3n4 16 1i Newark and Shffield, 5 cum new ;
Birmingham
ham Junction, 33,A ; Oxford, Worcester,
and Wolverhampton, 2 1-16; Preston and Wyra Extension,
2; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 1% ; South-Eastern,
_
No. 3, 63% ; Trent Valley Continuation and Holyhead Junc-
tion, 2%; West Yorkshire, 13/ %; Bordeaux and Tou-
louse, 2%.
There are no arrivals to-day. The steamer is expected
from Halifax about Thursday.
In Stocks there is no particular alteration. Consols are
98% to 99 for Money, and have been 99, rather buyers for
Account. Exchequer-bills have realised 543. to 565. prem.
The Government broker is a daily buyer of stock. Bank
Stuck is firm at 210. The New Three-and-a- Qnarter per
Cents. have been 100% %•
The Foreign Bonds have been rather flatter. Spanish Five
Mexican, E.
Dutchxican,
Two-and-a-
and Chilian, 97.
a
per Cents. have
pßetrissCieanntsa.r,e3ol%lB4
been 63%.
The business doing in Shares is not extensive, but they
support about previous rates.

ONE
PRICES OF BRIT'S?' FIT.N.IDS. O'CLOCK. CLOSING
Bank Stock ....... .. .............. 210 PRICES.
209
3 per Cent. Reduced ..............•• 973/4 ,3
3 per Cent. Consols ................ 98% 99 97%
99
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726.. ..... • 97%
New 34 per Cents. .................. IOOSAN 97%
loos,
Long Annuities to expireJan.lB6o 111,4% 11%
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 ••• 11% lig
South Sea Stock .....................
Ditto Old Annuities •••••• ••••• 963/4 973 97%
Consols for Account.... ........... ••• 99 99
Exchequer Bills, 1,000 i., I%d. ••• 54 56 pm. 56
Ditto 500/. . ................. ... 56 54 pm. 54
Ditto Small ..................... ... 56 54 Pm. 54
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Buenos Ayres Bonds 6 per Cent 42 42
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent... • •••• . 97 97
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 1514
Danish, 3 per Cent ... — 88%
Mexican 5 per Cent. 1837 ...... 36% 36
Ditto, 'Account 371 371 A
Portuguese 4 per Cents. 67% 67%
-4 1,

Russin Bonds ............ ... . ... 118 118%4
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account 3o' 30%
Ditto, Passive
Ditto, Deferred 17%
Ditto 3 per Cent. . . —
Ditto, Account — 41%
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent — 44
Belgian 4% per Cent. 9B/4 983/4
French, 3 per Cent B6l. 50c. 86f. 50c.
Exchange 251. 80c. 25f. 80c.
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 97% 97%
PRICES OF PAID. CLOSING
II kILWAY SHARESPRICES.
ONE
Aberdeen
2y2 A
33AO'CLOCK.
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l% 234
firming. and Gloucesterloo 135%
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Bristol and Exeter 7O
Do. New .... . ......... 2 ...... 7%
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ••••..58
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 1% ...... 734% 8 71i••• "A
Chichester and Brighton 10
Churnet Valley ......... 2
Cork and Waterford ... 1% 2 .. -I,‘
Coventry, Bedworth, and
Nuneaton ........ ...... 14 2%
Coventry and Leicester 114 l%
Cornwall
Direct Northern
Dublin and Belfast June. 21A lO 4 lO 8
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dublin and Galway...
.. 2% .. 3%
Dublin and Mullin gar... 2%
elr3s. 4d 4% 4
Eastern CoeNtuirpoet.tieuisa..l:3sip.
25
____
.............
........... 641:
teon
Cent,
Union
Eastern
DiCt
15 ... ..............
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ditto, New Quarters.. 21
Ely an Bedford ...... ... 11/i
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Great North of England..loo l9B ............... 198
Ditto New.....
Ditto New 2
Great Western
Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Fare'm,Ports. 2% 5 ............... 434.
Harwich - ............................. 184
1 ...... 1%%
Hull and Selby 5O 105
London and Birmirghm (Stock)... ...
Do. New Quarters ... 2
London and Blackwall. 161. 133.4 d. 9 .... ........