The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1E42.

COURT CIRCULAR.

His Royal gighness the Duke of Cambridge left
Bagshot Park, the residence of her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Gloucester, yesterday, for his resi-
dence at Kew.

The President of the Board of Control had an in.
terview with Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colonial.
office.

Dispatches from the Governor of British Guiana
were received yesterday at the Colonial-offiee.
Lord and Lady Hamilton Chichester have left
Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-street, for Belfast, Ireland.

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motive of discord, nor any symptoms whatever
that could give cause for the belief of this harmony
being interrupted. The Spanish forces which ap-
proached the frontier had no other object in view than
the active persecution of the bandits in that quarter,
and which gave much alarm to the inhabitants; and
at present these forces have no other object in view
than the prevention of smuggling carried on there to
a large extent. We repeat, therefore, with confidence,
that between the two Governments there reigna the
most complete harmony."
" The well known, and for some years the principal
newspaper in Spain, the Eco del Comercio, has passed
into new hands. The proprietor, M. Paz Garcia, and
the chief editors, MM. Miguel Ayllon and Fuente
Andres, took leave:of their readers and subscribers in
an article published in that paper of the 27th ult."

We cannot put our Gallic Contemporaries in good
humour with us. The war organs appear now as
much displeased to hear that an English and French
fleet are amicably cruising off the coast of Syria as
they were two years ago at the friendly junction of
the British and Russian squadrons. Nothing will do
for them but to obtain satisfaction for the past, and se-
curity for the future. Satisfaction is not the most
amicable word in the vocabulary of JOHN
BULL ; and the offer of security for the fu-
ture would imply an admission of weakness on
the part of France anything but flattering to the
vanity of our neighbours across the Channel. The
Courrier Francais contends that a state of isolation
is not irksome to France, and that she ought to be in
no hurry to make up matters with her quondam be-
trothed JonN Burz, who deserted her for the caresses
of the Northern Bear. The French Ambassador at
Constantinople has told the world quite a different
story. Without the concurrence of England he found it
impossible to promise any protection to the Catholic
inhabitants of Syria. As very few of the Christian
population of the Lebanon are Greeks, Russia refused
Ito unite with France in any plan for obtaining pro-
tection for them from the Porte. The EMPEROR
saw, doubtless, that it would appear as ridiculous as
inconsistent and unjust, to persecute the Roman Ca-
tholics in Poland, and to protect them in Syria.
United, the moral power of England and France in
Syria, is felt to be greater than the physical power of
France if maintaining a policy of isolation.
For the first time we find it announced in one of
the French Journals, that the Duchess of ORLEANS
had been very ill, but that she is now better. Pri-
vate letters before stated that she was so ill that the
departure of the Royal Family for Eu was postponed
for some days in consequence, but the Press pre-
served a rigid silence upon the subject. Not a
word is said as to her feelings with respect
to the settlement of the Regency question. That
she might have been led to think of her own ap-
pointment as Regent is hardly possible, seeing the
suddenness with which the KING adopted his resolu-
tion ; and the probability had crossed the mind of
the late Duke of ORLEANS, who endeavoured to pro-
vide against it; probably from reflecting that a
Princess openly professing the Protestant religion
could not safely be left to sway the destinies of the
French nation ; for, since her marriage with the late
Duke, the Duchess of ORLEANS has manifested no
disposition to conform to the forms of the Church of
Rome.

The Berlin correspondents of the Paris journals
allude to the numerous reports still afloat of the dis-
covery of a conspiracy in Russia, for the purpose of
murdering the EMPEROR. For the purpose, no doubt,
of showing that their Majesties of RUSSIA and PRUSSIA
are on the best terms, measures have been adopted
for increasing the commercial intercourse between
them, as will be seen by a reference to our Foreign
Summary.
" It appears (says a Journal) that since the death of
her husband the Princess Helen is kept in a sort of
seclusion. Too much contact between the Princess
and political characters, is not desired, either at
Neuilly or Eu. Princess Helen i 3 not seriously ill,
but has been much indisposed for some months. Her
constitution was already very weak before her mar-
riage, and the Princess has long suffered from a com-
plaint, which obliges her to observe a very strict
regimen. It was for this disorder that Princess
Helen went to Plombieres for the benefit of the waters,
from which she expected much relief. Since the
sudden death of her husband, the most melancholy
sensations have constantly agitated her, and must have
had an influence on her preceding disorder.
We are assured that Princess Helen feels her-
self excessively isolated at the Court of Louis
Philip, and that the presence of the Dowager Grand
Duchess of Mecklenburg, and the education of her
children are her only consolation for so many dis-
pelled illusions and concentrated affections."
We find the following in the Ministerial journals :
" Her. Royal Highness the Duchess of Orleans,
who has been indisposed for some days, is much
better.

" The health of the Count de 'Paris, the Prince
Royal, continues to be excellent.
" The apartments in the Pavillon de Flere, in the
Tuileries, are preparing for the winter, for the
Duchess of Orleans, and the Princes, her sons. It
is known that her Royal Highness will not again re-
side in the Pavillon Alarsan, where sad recollections
would continually revive her grief."—Commerce.

DEATH OF MRS. SOTER.—We deeply regret to an'
nounce the sudden and unexpected death of Mrs. Soyer,
the wife of Mr. Soyer, of the Reform Club, and one of
the most distinguished female artists of the day. Mr.
Soyer had accompanied the Duke of Saxe Coburg-
Gotha to Belgium for a few days, and was unfortunately
absent when his wife, who was near her confinement,
was prematurely seized with the pains of child-birth,
and expired in a few hours, Her style of paint-
ing was greatly admired by the bestjudges
of art ; and her country, has lost her at the
moment it was beginning to appreciate the origina-
lity of her genius. Some of her pictures were highly
prized by the King and Queen of the Belgians, and
the other members of the Saxe Coburg, family when
in this country. Though only in the thirty-second
year of her age, Mrs. Soyer has left behind her
upwards of five hundred paintings—enough surely to
sanctify her memory. Her funeral will take place to-
morrow at Kensall-green Cemetery.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The advance which took place yesterday in the
prices of funds, has been fully maintained to-day, al-
though jobbers have considerably curtailed their ope-
rations—Consols are 924 934 for Money, and 934 934
for the Account. New Three-and-a-Half per Cents.
1014; India Stock, 249 250; Exchequer Bills Old,
51 53; New, 49 51 prem.
Business in Foreign Securities has been limited,
but prices are firm. The transactions have been
chiefly in Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 524;
the New Five per Cent. Loan at 1004 ; and the
Danish at 834.
A further rise has to be noted in the quotation for
Mexican Bonds, which has been as high as 354, with
the prospect of going still higher.
The purchases in Shares have been but small, and
consist of London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares,
454; South Western, 591 ; Brighton, 334; Great
North of England, 844 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 49.
Time bargains have been made in Portuguese Five
per Cents. at 35 ; Spanish Five per Cent. Bonds, 164,
and the Three per Cent. Stock, 214.
The deficiency in the income of Portugal according
to the budget just presented to the Cortes, is far
greater than had been anticipated, and has caused
much disinclination to deal in the bonds. As is
usual with all these countries, the interest upon
the foreign debt is the last thing to be cared for, and
it would appear that the creditors have but a small
chance of obtaining any portion of their claims. The
Finance Minister of Spain is also, it is said, en-
deavouring to raise money on the mortgage of
the reversion of the Almaden mines, which some
years since were appropriated to pay off the bond-
holders ; yet in the face of these facts it is being
endeavoured to persuade the public into the purchase
of these documents, in the expectation that they will
be paid.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 49 to
Great Western
Ditto New
Ditto Fifths
London ant' Brighton
Ditto Loan Notes
London and Blackwall
London and Birmingham 90 — to
Ditto Shares
London and South Western .. 41% 594 to
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto New Shares
JOINT TOCK BANKS.
London and Westminster . .. 20
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. s.—We
cannot report any improvement in our Market. Man-
chester and Birmingham, 23 to 24 ; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 484 to 484; Ditto Quarters, 54 to 51 ;
Manchester and Leeds, 73 to 75 ; Ditto Quarters, 4
to 44; Bristol and Exeter, 444 to 444 ; Manchester
and
_Salford Banks, 104 to 104; Manchester Assur-
ance, 94 to 94.

GROUSE SHOOTING.—The Duke of Cleveland, Lord
William Powlet, Lord Bateman, and Sir Benjamin Hall,
are enjoying the sport of grouse shooting on his Grace's
famous umir in Aberdeenshire. In the first ten days
they bagged 997 k brace, besides hares, of which his
Grace killed 333 brace, and Sir 13, nal 398 brace,