The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-15 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert and the Prince of
Leiningen took a drive in the grounds of Osborne House
on Tuesday afternoon.
Yesterday morning her Majesty and Prince Albert
took their usual early walk, accompanied by the Prince
of Leiningen.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Royal were taken airings yesterday, in the
grounds around Osborne House.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager took an airing yes-
terday in a carriage.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left Cam-
bridge House at seven o'clock yesterday morning for the
Royal Military College at Sandhurst.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas gave a
dejeune yesterday at their residence in Connaught-place.
The following were among the company present:—Her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, her Royal High-
ness the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden, the Duke
and Duchess of Somerset, the Duke and Duchess of
Hamilton, the Countess of Lincoln, Lady Anna Maria
Dawson, Viscountess Ashbrook, Hon. Miss Flower,
Baroness de Strumfeder, and Baron Roth de Schrecken-
stein.
Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess Stephanie of
Baden dined with the Marquis and Marchioness of
Douglas yesterday evening.
Their Ro) al Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh
Strelitz took a drive to Kew yesterday, returning to
Cambridge House in the afternoon. Their Royal High-
nesses honoured the performance of the French play
with their presence yesterday evening.
The Archbishop of Canterbury had an interview with
Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Count de St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, tran-
sacted business yesterday at the Foreign•offiice.
Dispatches from the Governors of the different Pro-
vinces in British North America were received yester-
day at the Colonial-office. Dispatches were also re-
ceived from the Governor of Van Dieman's Land.

Captain Ferguson, R.N., Rev. G. Freeman, and Mr.
Francis Scott, had interviews yesterday with Lord
Stanley.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun oaf Last Night.)
The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was flat.
—Sales 2,000 bales, of which 400 were for ex
portation, and 600 on speculation. The Share
Market at Liverpool was better again yesterday.—
Barnsley Junction, 5 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 48s. ; Birkenhead,
Manchester, and Cheshire, 11 % ; Birmingham and Glou-
cester, 136 ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 8% ;
Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5 5%; Belfast and Bally-
mena, 812 %; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 11 3/4 ; Cale-
donian, 11 ilj ; Ditto Extension, 3 ; Cambridge and Lincoln,
8 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 5214. ; Ditto, New Shares,
461% ; Ditto, Half Shares, 26 % % ; Chester and Holyhead,
16% ; Churnet Valley, 614 ; Clitheroe Junction, 2% ;
Cork and Bandon, 814 6s. 3d. ; Cork and Waterford, 21/, .
Dublin and Belfast, Junction, 10% ; Dublin, Mullingar, and
Athlone, 414 6s. 3d. • Dundalk and Enniskillen, 4% ; Eastern
Counties, 19% ; Edinburgh and Glasgow. New Quarters,
61/ ; Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, Preference Shares,
121% ; Edinburgh and Perth, 1% ; Glasgow and Dumfries,
245. ; Grand Junction, 2271/ ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 55% ;
Ditto, Eighth Shares, 20Ys ; Great Southern and Western
Extension, 13; Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 7; Lime-
rick and Waterford, 8% 34 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 204;
Ditto, New Shares, 37 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston,
21,4 la.; London and Birmingham, 236 ; London and Wind-
sor, Ils. ; Londonderry and Coleraine, 334 ; London and
York, 91s. 6d. ; Leeds and Dewsbury, 10 ; Leeds and
Thirsk, 83/4 % ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 9% 10;
Manchester and Birmingham, New Quarter Shares, 7% ;
Manchester and Buxton, 51% ; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Midland Junction, 6; Manchester and Leeds, Half Shares,
68%; Midland Railway, 1571,4 159%; Ditto, 40/. Shares, 19 ;
Newcastle and Berwick, 12; Newry and Enniskillen, 51e ;
North Wales Mineral, 16 ; North Western, 4%; Oxford and
Birmingham Junction, 3% ; Sheffield and Manchester, 118;
Ditto, Quarter Shares, 143/ 15 ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 13/ ;
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire,. 965. 3d. ; South-
Eastern and Dover, New Shares, No. 1, 1412 ; Ditto, No. 2,
13%; Ditto, No. 3, 7 63/4 ; Trent Valley,• 3814 ; Ditto Con-
tinuation, /74 3/4 ; Welsh Midland, 1% ; West Yorkshire,
51s. 6d. 2% ; Worcester and Tring, 4%; York and Carlisle,.
ql/2 % ; York and North Midland, New Half Shares, 16%;
Boulogne and Amiens (English), 10; Northern of France,
( Rosainel's), English, Cs. ; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte's), En-
li:h, 2% 58s. 6d.; Ditto, French, 51s. 6d. ; Paris and Lyons,
(Ganneron's), 51s. 6d.; Ditto (Calon's), 395. 6d.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 13.—The sales
are :—Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, ; Barnsley June-
ction, ; Birkenhead, Manchester' and Cheshire Junc-
tion, 10%; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 81/„. .
Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5% ; Bolton, Wigan, and
Liverpool, 1114 ; Caledonian, 11% ; Cambridge and Lin-
coln, 8 ; Clitheroe Junction, 2% 3/4 prem. ; Direct Northern,
31% . Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarters, 614. Erewash
Valley, 18%; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 514 ex
new ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 6%;
Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 9% ; Leeds and West
Riding Junction, 9% 7/s ; Liverpool, Ormskisk, and Pres.
ton, 2%; London and Windsor, 1 ls. 115 3d prem;
London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 4 3-16;
London and York, 4%; Manchester and Birming-
ham, New Quarters, 7 ; Manchester and Buxton, 55,
Manchester and Leeds, 152 ; Ditto, Sixteenth Shares,
8%; Newark and Sheffield, 5 cum new; North Western,
4% 9-16; Preston and Wyre Extension, 214 ; Sheffield and
Lincolnshire Junction, 1 11-16; South-Eastern, No. 3, 63% ;
Southport and Euxton, 3%; Trent Valley Continuation and
Holyhead Junction, 214 ; Warwick and Cheltenham,
% prem. ; West Yorkshire, 2%; Great North of France, 21/.
In the City, as far as we can collest the opinions of those
most intimately connected with the United States, the ad-
vices per Caledonian are considered to b' satisfactory, and
there is very little apprehension of unpleasant consequences
arisingfroin the Oregon affair. On the of her hand, however,
the Mexican relations appear more unsettled, and from the ,
circumstance of an American fleet having left for the Gulf of
Mexico, we may conclude the Government at Washington is
not altogether easy on the subject. The markets for imports
were not active, and, generally, the business doing was more
limited. Money still continued rather tight at New York,
as is shown in the following extract, which also touches on
the causes :—" The condition of the commercial classes is
such that the banks prefer making 1 ,ans on stock security.
The heavy losses of the past year of the importing and jobbing
houses of this city have injured the credit of the class gene-
rally, and the banks discount no more of the paper of those doing
an extensive • western and southern business, than they
can possibly help. The banks of this city are almost ex-
clusively devoted to the interests of the stock specula-
tors of Wall-street. They are indirectly of some benefit
to the mercantile classes, but the brokers of the street are
accommodated with one hundred dollars where a regular
merchant is accommodated with one dollar. The banks
disguise and cover up the loans to stock speculators in
every possible way. They report as distinct and separate
items a certain amount loaned to brokers ; loans to Direc-
tors; and the usual discount line. The last item is intended
to represent the loans to those engaged in legitimate business
operations, but a true and correct classification of the nature
of the loans of every banking institution in Wall-
street, would show an amount loaned to brokers
whose whole business is to speculate is stocks, much
larger than the amount loaned to any other class of
business men. There is no doubt but that loans
upon such security as United States, New York State or
city, or any other good sterling stock, is much safer than

loans on the general run of business paper, but these banks
were not chartered for the exclusive benefit of a few stock-
jobbers, but on the contrary were chartered to facilitate
trade and to extend commerce by a concentration of
capital."
In Canada a moderate business was doing, and the colony
seemed prosperous, one writer says :—" It will be good news
to the friends of Canada in England, to learn, that the Legis-
lature has passed the Bill to sanction a railroad from Mon-
treal to the province line, from thence to be continued to the
shores of the Atlantic, at Portland. A fresh field is by this
means opened for the employment of British capital, and the
interest ofCanada. will become of more importance to all classes
at home. It is impossible to calculate on the results of soim-
portant a work as this, which will alone serve to satisfy the
British public that Canada is shaking off her lethargy,
and is catching the active spirit of the age, which points
onwards.' "

The Funds have improved M per cent. to-day upon the
American news, being 99 to 99% for present transfer, and
991/s to 991 A for Account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents. have been 100% to 101, and the Three per Cents.
97% to 981/8. Bank Stock has been 20912 to 210, and
India Stock 2771/. Exchequer•bills have been 545. to 565.
premium.

The foreign investments have been quiet.
Sharei are steady.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES
Bank Stock . 209% 210 210
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consols
New 31A per Cents 101 100% 101%
Long Annuities to expireJan.lB6o 1114 % 11 5-16
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860
India Stock
India Bonds, 1,000/..
Ditto under 1,000/.
South Sea Stock
Ditto 041 Annuities
Bank Stock for Account... ...... .•• 210 210
Consols for Account .. 9)14% 991 A
India Stock, for Account 278% 278%
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., I%d.
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent 99 99
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela 15% 15%
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 363/4 37% 37%
Ditto, Account — 37
Ditto. Deferred
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted 67% 67
Ditto, Account ...... ......, 671/2 671/2
Russian Bonds .. .. 1181/2 1181/2
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Passive
% 81/
Ditto, Deferred ,
.. 17 1/41X1 17%
Ditto 3 per Cent. ..
Dutch, 21/2 par Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific. 98 97% 98% 97% 97/s
PRICES OF CLOSING
PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES
RAILWAY SHARES
Aberdeen
[lirming. and Gloucesterloo 1351/2
Ditto V, Shares
Biistol and Gloucester... 30
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 11/2
Chester and Holyhead... 5
Chichester and Brighton 10
Churnet Valley
Cornwall
' 1, , i/

Direct Northern
1/üblin and Belfast Junc 21/2 —
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dublin and Galway..... 21/2 4l/8 4%
Dublin and Mullingar... 21/2 4% 4%
Dundalk & Enniskillen 21/2 4%
Eastern Counties 25 ... 19% %
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1.....51. 13s. 4d ll/s l%
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ditto, New Quarters.. 21/2 6% 6%
Ely and Bedford
Great South. and West.
( i reland)
Ditto Extension
Great North of England..loo 197
Ditto New......
Ditto New
Great Western
Ditto 1/2, Shares 5O 104
Ditto Fifths
Harwich
Hull and Gainsborough 1% l%
Hull and Selby
Ditto Quarter Shares 121/2 23% ..
Do. Half Shares
Lancaster and Carlisle... 20
London and Birminghm (Stock)...
Do. New Thirds

Do. New Quarters ... 2
London and Blackwall. 16/. 13s. 4d. 8.% 91/s ......
London and Bright0n... 50
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d.
London and S. Western 411 6s 10d
Do. New
London and York 2l/2 414 4 414
Londonderry &Coleraine 214 3lz 314
Lynn and Ely - 64 6l'
Manchester and Leeds... 73 150
Manche:ter and Birmin. 40
Do. Quarters 4 —
Do. New Quarters ... 2
Midland... 100 .158 1593/ l6l
Do. New
Midland, Birm., Derby 100 120
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction . 25 .. . 471,4 48
Newcastle and Berwick 114 131,4 141,4
Newry and Enniskillen. 214 ..,.. 41/ 74
Newark and SLeffield ... 11/2 5 43/4 .
North British
Do., New ... ..... ..... 1
Northern and Eastern... 45
Do. Quarter Shares... 1212 —
North Kent
Norwich and Brandon... 10
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
Scottish Central
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2l/. . . 4%...., -
South Eastern & Dover 33/ 2s 4d... 39%
Do., No. 1 8
Do., No. 2.
Do., No. 3
South Wales ..... ... 21/2 5 q
Trent Valley and Holy-
head Junction
Waterford and Kilkenny 1
West Yorkshire
Wilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth
York and North Midland 50
Ditto 1/2 Shares 25 503/... ........ ... 50%
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25
Do. Extension
FRENCH RAILWAYS.

4•%
4%
151 h

6614
1s
3
17Y8
4%
63/4

41%
40 t/E,
141/2

6%
54
2%
3%
21A

Boulogne and Amiens... 4
Bordeaux rand Toulouse 2
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and
Cette
Di on and Mulhouse ... 2
Great North. of France.. 4
Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2
Jamaica Junction l%
Louvain and Jemeppe... 2 ... . 414 414
Lyons and Avignon
Namur and Liege
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2 ...... 10
Over Yssel 413 s 4d Ol/2 l/2
Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's ')
Paris ard Lyons, Gan-
neron's, ... ..
Paris &Lyons, (Calon's) 2
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen
Rouen and Havre
Royal North of Spam ... 2
Sambre and Meuse ~... 4
Tours and Nantes, Mac-
kenzie's
JOINT STOCK BANKS

British North American 50 .....
London andWestininster 20 263/4 291/2
National of Ireland l7l/2 21% l7l/2

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS

CITY. TUESDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—The premium on geld at Paris is 19 per mille,
which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10,lid. per ounce
for standard gold, rives an exc'lange of 25 63 ; and the
exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 77 k, it follows
that gold is 0.56 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.

By advices from Hamburgh, the price of gold is 436 per
mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 104 d. per
ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 lq ; and
the exchange at Hathburgh on London at short being 13
it follows that gold is 0.57 per cent. dearer in London than
in Hamburgh.
The course of exchange at New York on London is 1091
per cent.; and the par of exchange between England and
America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the ex-
change is 0.08 per cent. against England. But the quoted
exi-hange at New York being for bills at sixty days' sight,
the interest must be deducted from the above difference.

The Earl of Yarborough has laid out a consider-
able portion of land on his estate in the isle of Wight for
gardens of ai quarter of an acre each, to be let to the labourers
of the district.

FATAL COLLISION ON THE RIVER.—At a quarter
before 'two o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, as the Waterman
steamer, NoL 5, was conveying from three to four hundred
passengers from London to Greenwich, she met with a
serious accident by a billyboy from Goole, Yorkshire, running
her bowsprit across the bow of the steamer, and knocking
all the passengers within her sweep flat on the deck. Un-
fortunately a gentleman of the name of Williams, fringe
manufacturer, residing in Wick-street, Spitalfields, accom-
panied by his son and daughter, were among the greatest
sufferers. Mr. W. had his collar-bone and one arm broken,
and the other arm much injured; his son, aged ten years,
was killed on the spot; his daughter, aged four, was much
injured about the head, and had one finger broken. Wm.
Kent, of Seckford-street, Clerkenwell, clerk to Mr. Wales,
of Carey •street, Lincoln's Inn, solicitor, received severe con-
tusions ; and two gentlemen, who refused to give their
names, were knocked overboard, but were fortunately saved
by the crew of the Waterman. The captain of the steamer
immediately proceeded with the sufferers to the Dread-
nought, Seaman's hospital-ship, and put the unfortunate
sufferers on board that vessel, where every attention was
instantly paid them by the captain and medical gentleman
on board. The steamer was backlog astern at the time of
the collision, in order to avoid the accident. The billyboy
ported her helm, which led to the unfortunate occurrence,
the vessel being under full sail and with the up tide strong
at the time. It is stated that had the sailing vessel kept
her straight course instead of porting, no accident could
have happened. The accident was off Limehouse.
FIRE AT BARKING, NEAR NEEDHAM MARKET.—
On Saturday evening last a fire broke out upon the farming
premises belonging to Mr. Brown, of Barking, in the occu-
pation of Mr. Joseph Elliott. It raged with considerable
fury for some time, consuming a barn, outbuildings, two
stacks, part of a clover stack, and a few implements. The
loss is covered by insurance in the Suffolk Fire-office.
SPA-FIELDS BunIAL-GnouND.---Since the recent
excitement on the subject of these grounds, the number of
interments has decreased every Sunday, the average number
not exceeding three, whilst previously they were 20, and
often approached to 40. The grounds, which were pre-
viously open on Sunday afternoon for the admission of
visitors, are kept carefully closed, except on the entrance of
burials. Much interest is attached to the coming trial a
the Court of Queen's Bench, which will take place during
thepresent sittings after term.