The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-20 00:00:00

COURT-WASHIONIIBLE.

It is rumoured that the Court at the close of the month
will proceed to Claremont, and remain there for a fortnight or
three weeks.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, who are staying
with the youthful Princess Mary at Kew, will give a series of
grand dinners at Cambridge-house soon after Easter to the
Ministers of the Cabinet and Foreign Ministers. Saturday
next is the birth-day of the Royal Duke, when it will be
celebrated with the customary festivities at Kew.
The Duke and Duchess of .N orfolk and Lady Mary Howard
have left for Arundel Castle, Sussex, and the family remain
there until after Easter.'

The Marchioness of Douglas, at the date of the last letters
from Holyrood house, where the Duke and Duchess of
Hamilton and the Countess of Lincoln are still staying, was
going on favourably.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailsa are expected at
their mansion in Whitehall-gardens at the close of the week,
from St. Margaret's, near Richmond, where they have been
passing the winter.
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Lord and Lady Brougham entertained a
_select party at
dinner, on Saturday, in Grafton-street.
Earl and Countess Craven have invited a party to partake
of the festivities of Coombe Abbey during the Coventry race
week.

The Earl and Countess of Eglintoun leave town the second
week in the ensuing month for Eglintoun Castle, for the
spring races, when a very large circle will meet at the hospi-
table seat of the Noble Earl.

The Earl of Winchilsea has restored the parish church of
East Weld, Kent. The church is a very ancient one, and
possesses some interesting historical associations. Amongst
others it may be mentioned that the son of Richard, the Plan-
tagenet, who was killed at the battle of Bosworth-field, was
buried there.

On Saturday evening an elegant entertainment was given
by Lord and Lady Stanley, at their residence in St. James's-
square, to a distinguished circle, including the Earl and
Countess of Dunmore, Earl of Lincoln, Lord Wharnelitre,
Lord and Lady Jemima Eliot, Viscount Mahon, Lord Redes-
dale, Right lion. W. E. and Mrs. Gladstone, Viscount Sandon,
Hon. Henry Corry, Mr. Cardwell, Mr. Hope, &c. In the
latter part of the evening her Ladyship had a soiree, at which
the French Ambassador and the Countess de St. Aulaire,
Baroness Langsdortl; Earl of Aberdeen, the Speaker, the Ba-
varian Minister, Viscount Grimston, and a large number of
personS of rank and fashion were present.
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A public meeting of the supporters of the corn-laws was
held at the Subscription Rooms, Exeter, on Friday. Anti-
League resolutions were passed, and a subscription raised
amounting to 3001. Lord Clinton, Mr. Buck, and Sir Thomas
A.cland gave 501 each. Similar meetings have been held at
Bridport, Sturminster, Rugby, Bridgwater, and Edinburgh.
A new Dublin journal announces, in its prospectus, that
" Foreign Parliamentary reports will be given until the Irish
Parliament is restored."

A new arrangement has just been carried into effect at
Windsor Castle. The unused pieces of bread collected
throughout the various departments of the Royal residence,
are in future to be given to the inmates of the several alms-
houses within the borough, amounting to about 30. The
distribution, which commenced on Thursday last, will take
place on three days in each week.
The receipts for the week ending Feb. 10, at the Thames
Tunnel, amounted to 84/. 7s. sd.

The unexampled attractions of the arrangements for the
ballet during the forthcoming season at the Italian Opera,
have not been thrown away, for the subscription list to this
noble theatre is filling with unprecedented rapidity, and pro-
mises to be larger than any which has been known during
the recorded seasons of operatic management.
On Saturday night last Astley's theatre cloned for the
season, after having been open for ten months:

The dockyard at: Deptford is to re-established forthwith
for the building and repairing steamers. The number of
workmen to be employed is 350.

[ONE Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, MONDAY EVENING.
The funds closed very firmly this afternoon, and parties
continue to invest owing to the abundance of money.
Consols were 974 to ; Exchequer Bills 70s. premium; and
and Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 1034 ; Bank
Stock was 195 to 194, and India Stock, 278.
A great deal of business was done in foreign stocks, and
for the most part of a speculative character. The accounts
from Lisbon as to the ill success of the insurgents made the
Converted Stock rise to 454 ; Spanish Actives were 234 to
24 ; and the Three per Cents. 324 to 331; the Deferred were
134 ; Peruvian declined to 291 3 ; Venezuelan Deferred were
101 to 4 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. brought 55.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been
these :—Bristol and Exeter were 24 ' • Great North of Eng-
land, 6 ; Brighton, 7 ; and North Midland, 34 dis. Edin-
burgh and Glasgow have been 9 ; Gravesend and Chatham,
; Great Western, 311 ; Ditto Fifths, 6 ; Birmingham, 31;
South Western, 361 ; Midland Counties Quarter, 6 ; Nor-
wich and Brandon, 24 s ; Newcastle and Darlington, 194 to
181; Northern and Eastern Scrip, Bto 84; North Midland
Thirds, 54 ; and West London Thames Extension, I prem.
London Joint-stock Bank shares were 3 premium.
The commercial advises by the Britannia notice a rally in
stocks, and a continuance of cotton speculations. Congress
had not made any movement in the tariff question.
The accounts by the 'fax steamer arrived this afternoon,
but the letters were not delivered till some time after 'Change
hour. We are sorry to find that the drought in Jamaica
continued. There is nothing otherwise of importance.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)

In the Liverpool Cotton Market on ,catuiday the sales
were 2,500 bales, at former rates, and all to the trade. Tho
Market was good for Dover and Eastern Counties.
Share

Others were steady. —Eastern Counties, 10iTdran---4 Junction,
227 ' • Birmingham Quarter, 27k • ' Brighton, 42i ; Manchester
and Birmingham, 40; Paris and Rouen, 32i ; South Eastern,
344 ; and Ditto New, 354.

iduch interest is felt in the City to ascertain the reply of
Sir Robert Peel to the deputation from the Joint-stock Banks,
the members of which waited upon him on Saturday after-
noon last. It is a subject of such vital importance to the lin,
mense number of the shareholders in the establishments re-
ferred to, that a suggestion has been made that the delegates
should issue a " Circular " periodically, stating such facts as
may tend to afford necessary information. Our inquiries as
to the result of the interview have produced but little intel-
ligence that can be relied upon. Promises of attention to,
and consideration of, the claims of the Joiut-stock Banks,
on the part of the Premier there were many, but we do not
think that many concessions will be made, unless indeed there
be a bold stand in Parliament against the renewal of the
Charter of the Bank of England upon its present terms.
There will be many occasions to refer again to this subject.
The advices just received from the United States are in-
teresting in one point of view. The doctrines of repudiation,
recently so generally cherished by many of the States,
are on the decline. It is true that a very long
period must elapse before the capital advanced to
Brother Jonathan can be paid off, but strong etlbrts, we
learn, are really being made to devise the means of meeting
the interest as it becomes due. The New York Herald, upon
this topic, remarks, and for the sake of the many persons on
this side of the Atlantic who are so deeply interested in the
matter, we trust the anticipations will prove to be entirely
correct prompt payment of the annual dividends is as
much as the most prosperous commonwealth will ever be able
to pay :—This is all that is wanted. Thousands have made
these stocks an investment, and all they want is the interest.
This they look for, and eventually will receive in full. The
stock will, of course, be continually changing hands, the cre-
ditors will change from year to year, but the indebtedness
will never be removed from the States. Those that have for
years been unable to pay the most trifling portion of the in-
terest due, mast receive some other aid than what they have
within themselves, to take so great a step as the payment of
the principal.
" A resolution has been introduced in the Legislature of
Pennsylvania providing for the State debt. After stating
that the public debt amounted to nearly 40,000,000 dollars, a
fact that many are too well acquainted with, the resolution
proceeds to state that the means of payment should be drawn
from sources the least burdensome, and recommends the sale
of the public improvements of the State, and the . appropria-
tion by Congress of so much of the public lands of the United
States, or the proceeds thereof, to Pennsylvania, as would
extinguish the State debt, and free the people from taxation.
The last two resolutions are so rich and important, that we
will not abridge them :
" Resolved,—That we recommend to our senators, &c., in
Congress, to use their exertions to procure the passage of a
law authorising the issue of 200,000,000 dollars of stock to be
distributed amongst the several States, in proportion to their
federal population, and to be payable by the United States
out of the proceeds of the sale of the public lands, which lands
shall be pledged for the, redemption of stock so issued.'
"'The public debts of the States of this Union have reached
an amount, and stand in a position that calls for rerious re-
flection from those who created them, and those who have
the power in hand to prevent an increase, and to provide for
the ultimate liquidation of them. The whole and total in-
debtedness of this country in the aggregate, when compared
with the immense wealth and unlimited resources of the
United States, _is but a trifle ; but when the people proclaim
their unwillingness to pay, when the disposition to not pay.
becomes visible, then, and not until then, should then lu-