The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-20 00:00:00

THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE.

This day is well known in every part of England,
and it will be gratifying to our readers to learn that it
was celebrated at Apsley House' on Saturday by a great
number of the brave men who fought in the Peninsula,
and who finished their glorious career at Waterloo.
The Duke, of course, presided, and was honoured by
the'presence of Prince Albert, who sat on his right
hand. Lord Hill was on the left, and nearly all the sur-
vivors of the leading. Generals on that great day were
present; The room Was _ornamented with the presents
which the Duke hadreceived from the different Sove-
reigns of Europe-,-with perhaps the finest display of
plate and marks of honour in Europe ; and the enter-
tainment altogether was given in the most superb style.
The first toast, of course, was " the Queen," which
was drank with great enthusiasm, all the company
standing.
Prince ALBERT then proposed the health of the
Duke of Wellington, and briefly alluded to the day
which had produced such a change in the whole of the
continent of Europe.
Tee Duke of WELLINGTON returned thanks.
The next toast was " Lord Hill and the British Army,"
for which the Commander of the Forces returned thanks.
" The Heroes that fell at Waterloo" was drank in
solemn silence.
Among other toasts were Sir Henry Hardinge, Lord
Seaton, Sir Brook Pearce, Lord Maitland, and some
of the other officers who commanded on that event-
ful day.
• The band of the Grenadier Guards attended on the
occasion, and played a number .of favourite airs, by
Donizetti, Strauss, Musard, and'. Auber. A great crowd
was assembl d at the entrance of Apsley House, who
welcomed the numerous guests with loud cheers.

SURREY THEATRE;—,It will be SCEII from the ad-
vertisement in another column, that the opera of Sonnambula is
to be brought out at this theatre to-night with a powerful com-
pany. Stansbury is conductor. bliss Romer will perform the part
of Amine, and she will be assisted by Harrison, Leffler, and
Mrs. Searle. The arrangements for performing operas at this
theatre, we uncle: stand, are excellent, and we have no doubt
will meet with public support.
DEATH IN A LUNATIC ASYLUAL—Mr. Baker, the
Coroner, held an inquest on Fi iday at Dr. Warburton's Lunatic
Asylum, Bethnal-green, on the body of bliss Jane Frith, aged
38, an inmate of that establi,hment. Mr. James Phillips, sur-
geon of the asylum, said that the deceased was admitted as a
private patient on Monday week last. Her insanity arose from
the great excitement she experienced a few weeks age, whilst
engaged in the capacity of visitor in distributing relief to the
poor in the neighbourhood of Horne,rton. The day after her
admission she was so violent as to require a strait waistcoat, and
since then she had frequently destroyed her clothes. The
waistcoat was not in use for more than three hours. At eight
o'clock on 'I hursday rnort.int- last witness was called to the
de-
ceased, and he found her in bed in a very weak state. she died
at two o'clock the same day. Witness attributed death to an
effusion of blood on the brain, Verdict, " Natural death."

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, SATURDAY EVENING.
This week, as far as business in the Funds-maybe concerned,
has been one of complete stagnation. If the whole amount of
bargains were added together, the total would not show as
much as was done in one day a few months since. It is diffi-
cult to account for this apathy, but the most ready solution is,
it is generally admitted, to be found in the great depression
which now universally exists in trade, and which has now ex-
tended itself here.

The sale by the Bank broker, mentioned this morning, has
not been followed up by sub Sequent o7erations ; nevertheless,
Consols left off at 911 sellers, for the opening, •ex-dividend ;
Reduced, 91% 91 / ; Bank Stock 167 168 ; Exchequer Bills,
Old, 45 47 ; New, 40 42 premium.
Foreign Securities were fiat, though prices were unaltered.
Belgian Bonds, 102 103; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.,
52% 52* ; the Five per Cents , 101 101* ; Danish, 80i
81%; Brazilian, 66 67.
The quotation of Mexican remained the same, 36 36*.
Railroad Shares were generally lower. London and Bir-
mingham, 174 176; Birmingham and Gloucester, 49 51 ;
Great Western, 87 88; the Half Shares, 61 61%; South
Western, 61 62 ; North Midland, 63 65; the New shares, 31
32; South Eastern and Dover, '25 ; the Scrip, 51 5/;
Eastern Counties, 9 9* ' • Northern and Eastern, 40 41 ;
Black wall, 9% 10*; and Brighton, 35* 35% per share.
'1 he quotations of the Bonds were, Celornbian, 25% 26*;
Peruvian, 17 18 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 37 37* ; the
Three per Cents., 21;4 22*; Spanish Five per Cents., 2222* ;
the Three per Cents, 23* 23i.
The evil which was pointed out last week as having affected
the poorer classes, in exchanging such part of their wages as
might have been received in gold, has rather increased than
diminished. A complete profit is now made out of every
labouring man who may present a sovert ign at half sovereign
for change by the shopkeeper, be it light or not, and in nume-
rous instances so groat has been the deduction as materially to
interfere with the comforts of the family. It cannot be expected
that the employer who has a large sum to pay will provide
himself with silver, and be at the loss of time necessary to count
it, or that file recipient can afford to risk offence by refusing
what is tendered, and which the master is doubtless convinced
is full weight; hence the necessity of some measure to protect
the artisan from the imposition which is daily practised upon
him, and which, from circumstances, he is obliged to submit
to, though ill able to afford it.
(From The Sun of Saturday.)
The Bank brsiker having effected a sale of about 1,5001.
Reduced, although the only transaction of the day. has ren-
dered the market very fist, and Consols have declined to 911
for the opening ex dividend; Three per Cents. Reduced, 911
91/; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced 100/ 100*; India
Stock, 248 ; India Bonds 23, and Exchequer Bills, Old, 45 47,
New 40 42 premium.
Business in Foreign Securities has been confined to Dutch
Two. and-a- Half per Cents. at 52*, and the Five per Cents
10.1 h. Mexican has no quotation to-day.
beyond a purchase in Edinbtrgh and Glasgow at 454, and
South Western at 61*, nothing has been done in shares.
The Three per Cent. Spanish Bonds are the only documents
of this kind mentioned to-day. The quotation is rather lower,
being 23/, although some reliance appears to be placed on
the report that the money for the dividend has been procured.
Money is easy at four per cent. for commercial purposes,
with but little demand. - _ .

The Bank of England are about to afford every facility to the
public in disposing of their light gold. A notice has been I
issued, stating that they will now take sums as low as 20/. in-
stead of 50:., as heretofore, which will prove of benefit, mueli
inconvenience having arisen from the difficulty of converting
small amounts, except through bulion brokers, who
have not given as high a rate as the Bank. Another
alteration must be made, which is now more impera-
tively called for on account of the number of persons
who will probably for the future avail themselves of changing
money ; and it is that of providing increased accommodation
to the public. The scenes of confusion which have been dis.
played must have been witnessed to be credited. About one-
fifth of the counter has been appropriated for the purpose, at
which numbers of persons arc congregated, many of whom have
to v ait an hour to an hour and a half for their turn, while the
remaining four-fifths are quite empty. If the applicants for
the future are to be crowded into some small room, the harvest
to be gathered by pickpockets must necessarily be considerable,
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JUNE 16.
3 per Cent. Consols
Three and Half Stock `Grand Canal 5t0ck.........
Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto Debs. 6 per cent...
Ditto New 1830... 99i Ditto 4 per cent ...
3i per Cent. Delis.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JUNE 17.—1 t is merely
necessary to repeat the remarks of yesterday. '1 he market was
quiet, and about 4 000 bales were sold at previous prices.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JUNE 17, still remainet'
in the same dull state, and few transactions were effected to-
day.. The sales were Chester and Birkenhead, 201/2 ; New,
10i ' • Eastern Counties, 91} ; Midland Counties Quarters, 17i.
MANCHESTER STOCK ExCHA NGE, JUNE 17.—Our market
is much ttepressed. Prices generally have a downward tendency,
' and are mostly nominal. Manchester Assurance, 9a.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH, FUNDS.

Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Bed.
3 per Cent. C0n5.......... Ditto Old Annuities
34 per Cent. Red......... 1004 Ditto New Annuities...
New 3A per Cent......... Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 21 42 pm
New 5 per Cen',
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... 40 pm
Jan. 1860 ...... 12 916 Bank Stock fur Acct.... 248
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860

iliConsols for Opg. ...... 91i
FOREIG FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent. — Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto —
Brazilian Bonds... 67 Prussian, 5 per cent. ~ —
Buenos A yres 6 per cent. ;Russian, 5 per cent ....
Chilian 6 per cent Ditto, Metallic, ..... . ....
Colombian, 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent. —.. 21i
Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred.... . 10
Danish, 3 per cent French, 5 per cent.ll9f. —c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent French, 3 per cent. —f. —c.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1637 Dutch, 2* per cent. 521
Peruvian, 1825, 6 perct. Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 101
SHARES.
Eastern Counties Railway (23 raid) ... .....
Ditto Debentures ' .. .. .
Edinburgh ar,(l Glasgow (50 paid) 4B
Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid L'.i
Great Western Railway (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) 6l
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and South Western (431 15s Od pd) 61*
Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ... .. 25i
Midland Counties Railway ( 101 l paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid)
Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid)

DEATH OF COUNT MATUS-
CHEWiTZ.

One of the noblest ornaments of the diplomacy is now no
more. Count Alatuschewitz expired, at. St. Petersburgh, on
the 2d instant, of drowsy of the heart. This news will impart
so much the more sorrow to his numerous friends hi England
from its sudden and unexpected nature. It was but yesterday
that he was with us in health and buoyant spirits, trying his
energies, as he was wont to do, by those active sports of the
field in which he so much delighted.
Any t mpty idler may, if he possiss sufficient influence,
become a diplomatist, copy a despatch, and wear an em-
broidered coat at Court galas and fetes, and even run out
a full -career, dealing in the mere grimace and nonentities
of their profession. But to represent a great nation,
above all Russia, with which diplomacy is the chief arm of
conquest, requires exalted talents, and these Count Ma-
tuachewitz eminently possessed. He was one of the young
Poles Napoleon had placed in that unrivalled olytecknic
school which has produced so many students of surpassing
merit. At this scho,l, in which it was a triumph even to
enter, to severe were the examinations, Count Matusehewitz
carried away the chief pi izes. Napoleon, in his temporary
amity wi.h the great and good Alexander of Russia, having
been asked fur some distinguished eleves, as models for the new
institutions constantly rising in Russia, sent Matuschewitz,
amongst other eleves, to the Imperial Autocrat. In the di-
plomatic service of this amiable s!overeign, young Matuschei
wi!z ultimately entered, and not many years elapsed before we
saw him in England, on a special mission, seconding the efforts of
Prince Lieven, and counterbalancing the diplomatic reveries of
the Asmodeus of diplomacy. The lamented Count played a
principal part in the great conferences regarding the settlement
of Greece, of the Belgian and other questions, whilst the revo.
lotion of his own country passed over his head, trying deeply
his equanimity of mind. Endowed with great buoyancy of
temper, with an esprit rtaturel, showing itself through the me.
dium of the most amiable manners, his 'ove of British sports en-
deared him to our countrymen, and extended the circle of his
friends far beyond the number which generally falls to the share
aa foreign visitor in the land. Count Matutchewitz's devotion to
hunting was a real passion, requiring great physical energy to
endure the feats he undertook. Vie have seen Count Mains-
chewitz when obliged to attend a meeting of the great Belgian
Conference, start on horsebaek horn Newmarket, and with
relays on the road, reach London at the appointed hour, con •
stantly riding on as if he were following the hounds over the
dlelton sward. Arrived at the meeting of the greatest diplo-
matists of the age, the lamewed Count was as cool, collected,
and as full of a propos as if he had fresh risen from his bed.
When he definitively left London, and filled missions at Naples
and in Sweden, on his return to St. Petersburgh he alway
Lund means to take England and its sports in his way back,
and at 'the other Courts of Europe where he latterly resided,
particularly at Stockholm, he consoled himself for his eloigne-
inent from England by living with those who were or who could
speak English, and had some portion of the Anploniania, his
ruling passion. On the spur of the moment we regret we can-
not do full justice to the memory of this distinguished man,
but the deep regret the news of his decease will create
amongst his numerous friends in England w ill form the best
of all epitaphs.