The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-28 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Al-
Dert took their usual morning walking exercise this
morning, and their Royal Highnesses the Prince of
\Vales and the Princess Royal were taken an airing
in the Park.

Lord Rivers has succeeded the Earl of Hardwiche
as the Lord in Waiting on the Queen, and Captain
Duncan has succeeded Mr. R. Ormsby Gore as the
Groom in Waiting on her Majesty. Tha latter have
taken their departure.
His Excellency the Prince Castelcicala arrivel at
the Castle to-day on a visit to her Majesty. The Earl
of Lincoln, Admiral Sir Robert Stopford, Major Ge-
neral Sir Henry Wheatley, and General the Hon. Sir
William Lumley, arrived-on a visit at the Castle.

In addition to the above, and the Illustrious visitors
staying at, the Castle, the Royal dinner party this
evening will include ier Royal Highness the Du2h9ss
of Kent, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Mr. George
Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, and Colonel
Arbuthnot.

Baron Koller took his departure to-day.
The unfavourable state of the weather this after-
noon, prevented her Majesty and her Illustrious
visitors, including their Royal Highnesses the
Duchess and the Princesses Augusta and Mary of
Cambridge, taking a drive.

The Earl of Aberdeen arrived in town yesterday
from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. His
Exce:leacy the French Ambassador visited the Noble
Earl after his arrival at the Foreign-office. His Lord •
ship left town in the afternoon on his return to Wind-
sor Castle.

Lord Wharnclifle, Lord President of the Council,
arrived in town on Monday nightfrom his seat, Wort-
ley Hall, Yorkshire. His Lordship visited Sir Robert
Peel yesterday afternoon at his residence in Whiteh -
,Yardens.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer lefc town yester-
day, for Ryde, Isle of Wight.
The Right Hon. Henry Ellis transacted business at
the Foreign-office.

CIRCULATING MEDIUM AT
HONG KONG.

The following has been received at Lloyd's :
" Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade,
Whitehall, September 26, 1842.
" am directed by the Lords of the Commit-
.
tee of Privy Council for Trade to transmit to you, for
the information of the Committee at Lloyd's, Copy of
Proclamation issued by her Majesty's Plenipotentiary
in China, on the subject of the circulating medium at
llong Kong. " I am, &c.,

J. MACGREGOR.

" The Secretary at Lloyd's."
cc PROCLAMATION.

" With reference to the desirable object of prevent-
ing disputes and laying down some defined system
regarding the'circulating medium in this settlement,
his Excellency Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., her Ma-
jesty'S Plenipptentiary and Chief Superintendent of
the Trade of British subjects in China, is pleased to
promulgate the following brief rules, which are to be
considered applicable to all common bazaar purchases,
and barter, hire, &c. &c.; but not to interfere with or
affect what may be termed, mercantile transactions :
and are to be in force in the Island of Hong Kong
during the gracious pleasure of her Majesty the Queen
of Great Britain. _ _ _

" Ist. The following coins are to b 3 deemel leg. 1
tenders :
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vv
" Spanish, Mexican, anl their dolars, and their
component parts.
" Company's rupees and other component parts.
Cash,' or the copper coin current in China.
"2d. Dollars of whatever denomination or device,
and whether whole or chopped, are to circulate at par
with reference to each other, always provided that
they be of the proper weight and standard.
" 3d: Two and one quarter's Company's rupees
shall be considered equal to one dollar. Ode rupee
and two annas (or half a quarter) equ tl to half a dol-
lar, and three quarters of a rupee (or twelve annas)
equal to one quarter of a dollar.
" 4th. Twelve hundred (1,200) cash (copper coin)
shall be equal to one dollar; six hundred (600) to half
a dollar ; three hundred (300) to a quarter of a dollar;
five hundred and thirty-three (533) to one Company's
rupee ; two hundred and sixty-six (236) to half a
rupee,; one hundred and third-three (133) to one
quarter of a rupee. _
"4th. Any other coins, whether British or Foreign,
not enumerated in the preceding rales, are not to be
deemed a legal tender, but they can, of course, be
sold or otherwise bartered in the blzaar, according to
their intrinsic value.

" 6th. Cash (copper coin), at the rate laid down in
the 4th rule, will be sold to any individual requiring
it in sums .of not less than fifty dollars, on application
to the Treasurer and Secretary to her Britannic Ma-
jesty's Superintendents of trade.---God save the Queen.
"Dated at Hong Kong, Government House, this
29th day of March, 1842.
(Signed) " HENRY POTTINGER.
"Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c. &C."

QUICK TRAVELLING.—The General Steam Naviga-
tion Company's favourite steam-ship Rainbow, Cap-
tain John Fife, that left Antwerp on Sunday after-
noon, landed her passengers at the Brunswick Pier,
Blackwall, the following morning, having made the
run across in 16 hours, a perforMance that cannot be
equalled by any other vessel.
The General Steam Navigation Company's m
packet Giraffe, Captain R. Stranack, arrived on Sun-
day, from Rotterdam, with a number of fashionables,
and the Dutch mail of Saturday. The passage oc
cupied only 21-/s. hours. •
The General Steam Navigation Company's mail
paCket.Caledonia, Captain H. Cheesman, arrived off
the Tower ;at; six o'clock on Monday morning, from
Hamburgh, with the mail of Friday. She_ also
brought over eighty sheep and a number 6( oxen for
the London market.
THAMES • NNEL. —The Rotherhithe staircase is
now being carried on rapidly towards completion,
and the whole undertaking begins to assume a finished
appearance. This evening the members of the Me-
chanics' Institution purpose visiting it, and it is to
be kept open till late for their accommodation.
A CARGO or WILD BEASTS.—EarIy on Monday
morning,the powerful steamer Monarch arrived at her
moorings off the Custom-house, her decks being
almost covered with cages containing an extensive
collection of wild animals, a trans-shipment from Hull.
Among them were a remarkably fine young lion from
Zanzebar, a pair of striped hyaenas from India' a very
beautiful pair of the Sasin antelopes from the borders
of Persia, the horns of the male nearly two feet long,
forming a perfect spiral, a most interesting specimen
of the gnu antelope, from the Cape of Good Hope,
called by the Dutch boers of South Africa the Baas
or Master, from his great strength ; and one of the
most formidable of the monkey tribe ever brought to
this country.
.The last animal stands nearly four
feet high, and appeared to be a distant relative of
" Happy Jerry," of departed memory. He inhabits
the mountains of Arabia, and is the Derrias or Wood
Baboon, known by the Arabs by the name of " Re-
bah," or Child of the Sun. The whole of the' cargo
was landed at daylight, and forwarded in vans to their
destined resting-place, after all their wanderings, at
the Surrey Zoological Gardens.
SUNDERLAND—THE NEW TARIFF.—The amount
of duties received on the exportation of coals between
the sth July, 1841, and the sth September, 1841, did
not amount to 1201.; whilst, under the new tariff, up-
wards of 2.0001. has been received, for the exporta-
tion of coals, in one month !—Sunderland Times.
BAY Or BISCAY.—Some English capitalists, ac-
cording. to the Railway lifoniteur, have in contempla-
tion to form a line from Bordeaux to Vigo, Bilhoa,
and Santander, and so form a communication with
Falmouth, Southampton, and London.
PILCHARD FISHERY.—MOUNT'S BAY.---The
pil-
chard fishery here is, so far, a complete failure with
respect to the scans, and very little is doing with the
drift-boats. A few winter mackarel have, however,
been taker..—Cornwall Advertiser,

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PORMEGN.
A partial change of Ministry has taken place in
Portugal. The Cortes, after a very unprofitable and
wrangling session, was prorogued on the 19th until
the Ist of December. • • .

Our Madrid correspondence is to the 18th, but con-
tains
no news. Nothing doing on the Madrid. Bourse.
The King of the French was expected on Sunday
at St. Cloud, previous to going to Fontainbleau,
unless the wetness of the season should prevent the
Royal Family spending the vintage at the latter place.
The King and Queen of Prussia, travelling under
the names of Count and Countess De Goellern, arrived
at Rastadt on the evening of the 21st, and left on the
following morning for Friburg.
The Leipsic Gazette of the 21st inst., mentions the
existence at Breslau, in Silesia, of a society of Com-
munists, professing the same doctrines as the asso-
ciations' of England and France, but who, to save ap-
pearances, pretended to meet for Christian purposes.
The grand inauguration of the Walhalla, in Ger-
many, takes place on the 18th of October next, when
the King of 13avaria solemnly opens it in person.
Abd-el-Kader has now stationed his camp in the
valleys of Chelif, where he has at least a thousand men
at his command, with other parties.