The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-12 00:00:00

and Holyhead, 12 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarter Shares,
15%; Lancaster and Carlisle, 41 ; London and Birmingham.
321. Shares, 46 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 59 58% ;
Ditto, New Quarters, 5% % prem. ; Manchester, Bury, and
Rossendale, 18; Midland Railway, 401. Shares, 19 18; North
British, New Shares, 5% ; North Union (B), 92 ; Preston
and Wyre, 353 A I,A ; South-Eastern, N 0.3, 8 13-16 ; Barnsley
Junction, 7% • Ditto, Half Shares, 3%; Birkenhead, Man-
chester, and Cheshire Junction, 12% ; Blackburn, Burnley,
and Accrington, 8% ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5N
Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 13% ; Cambridge and Lin-
coln, 94% ; Clithero Junction, 5 prem. ; ChurnetValley, 10% ;
Direct Northern, 3% 4; Dublin and Galway, 5 1-16; Dublin,
Mullingar, and Athlone, 3% ; Ely and Bedford, 34 7-16;
Glasgow and -Dumfries, 1%; Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, and
Manchester Junction, 2% 2 ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield
Junction, 65' %• ' Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and
Canal, 43/4 ; Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 8% ;
Liverpool, rmskirk, and Preston, 314 3-16 ; London and
Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 5% ; London and York,
35% 34 ; Manchester and Buxton, 44 ; Manchester, Sheffield,
and Midland Junction, 9 ; Newark and Sheffield, VA ; North
Wales, 3% % ; North Western, 51 ; Preston and Wyre
Extension, 2% % prem. ; Rotherham. Bawtrv' and Gains-
borough, 1% ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 27e.
265. 3d. ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction, 414;
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dudley, &c., 5 415-16 ; Trent
Valley, 19% ; Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 13% ;
West Yorkshire, 4; • Whitehaven and Furness, 41% ;
Bordeaux and Toulouse, 3 ; Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette, 3 ;
li Great Northern of France (English), 6 ; Paris and Lyons
(English), 3 3-16 % ; Ditto (Ganneron's), ; Paris and
Strasburgh, 3%
COURSE OF EXCHA]
Amsterdam CF. 12 8i
Ditto, at sight l2 6i
Rotterdam 2U. 12 9
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.B. 14 0
&Rona
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 90
Ditto, 3 months 26 10
Marseilles 26 10
Bourdeaux 26 15
Frankfort on Maine 123
Petersburgh, 3Us —
Berlin
Vienna, effee. fl. 3 M lO 2
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 36*
Cadiz
Bilbao
Barcelona
Seville

GE.-( YESTERDAY.)
Gibra1tar.............
Leghorn ....... 31
Genoa . ...... 26 20
Milan

Venice ••.• . ...••••••••
Naples ... 39,
Palermo, per oz llB,
Lisbon ........... 52:
Oporto...
RIO thillairO •»••••..•• 23,

Bahia ......
Buenos Ay, as 111••••
NewToik.::2dyssight
RULLION, MR OZ.
Foreign ,;,.1.1,bar5..£3 17 9
Portuga• (391 d Coin 3 17 5
New Poubloons..... 0 0 0
New Dc •ars 0 4 9:
Silver • ,t, 4 10,

PROMISSORY NOTES.

(From last Night's Gazette.)
An account of the Average Aggregate Amount of Promis-
sory Notes payable to bearer on demand, which have been
in circulation by the Banks in Scotland, by the Bank of Ire-
land, and by all other Banks in Ireland, during the four
weeks ending the 29th day of March, 1845, pursuant to
the Act of 4th and sth Victoria, cap. 50

SCOTLAND.
Chartered, Private, and Joint-Stock Banks £2,950,870
IRELAND.

Bank of Ireland 3,946,425
Private and Joint-Stock Banks

Total
Z 10,033,047
H. L. WICKILUI

Stamps and Taxes, April 11, 184-5.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen had a dinner party on Thursday, at Buck-
ingham Palace. The company included her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent, the l'ortuguese Minister and
the Baroness de Moncorvo, Baron Arnim, the Bishop of
London and Mrs. Blomfield, the Duchess of Sutherland,
the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Exeter, Lady Anna
Maria Dawson. the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl of Clarendon,
the Countess Wratialaw, Lord and Lady Juhn Russell, Vis-
count and Lady Francis Sandon, Sir George Couper, and the
Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay.
The band of the Grenadier Guards, directed by Mr. Schott,
attended during dinner, and performed the following piec es,
Overture—" Oberon" C. M. Von Weber.
Duetto, from " I Brigante," Mei cadante.
Walzer—" Die Rheinlander," Kuhner.
Cavatina, from "II Fausta,"... Donizetti.
" " Polka— Cerito,
I anner.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel
Bouverie, visited Mr. Cubitt's manufactory, near the Vaux-
hall-road, yesterday morning.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday after.
noon at a meeting of the Commission for promoting and en-
couraging the Fine Arts in the rebuilding the Palace of
Westminster.

The meeting was held in. one of the Committee-rooms of
the House of Commons. His Royal Highness arrived at
a quarter before three o'clock, attended by Colonel Bouverie.
The Commissioners present were the Marquis of Lansdowne,
Viscount Palmerston, Lord Colborne, Lord Ashburton, Lord
Mahon, the Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Corn
mons, Sir R. Peel, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, Sir R. H.
Inglis, and Mr. Henry Halla►n.
After the meeting, the Prince, attended by Mr. Eastlake,
the Secretary to the Commission ; and Mr. Barry, the archi-
tect, inspected different parts of the new Palace.
His Royal Highness, attended by Colonel Bouverie, took
his departure shortly before three o'clock.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Mar-
chioness of Douro, the Hon. Miss Stanley, the Hon. Miss
Hamilton, Viscount llawarden, Colonel Arbuthnot, and Col.
Bouverie, honoured the performance at her Majesty's Th!atre
with their presence yesterday evening.
THE DUCHESS or GLOUCESTER.--Her Royal Highness
passed a bad night on Thursday night.
The Queen, attended by the Marchioness of Douro and Co-
lonel Arbuthnot, visited her Royal Highness yesterday at
Gloucester House.

The Queen Dowager and members of the Royal Family
sent yesterday to inquire .after the health of the Royal
Duchess.

Her Royal Highness was better in the afternoon.
Dr. F. Hawkins is in attendance on the Royal Duchess.
Her Majesty, the Queen Dowager, and her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent, visited the Duchess of Cambridge
yesterday at Cambridge House.
The Queen Dowager, accompanied by Prince Ernest of
Hesse Pliiiippstahl, and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar,
and attended by the Marchioness of Wellesley, Hon. Miss
Eden, Hon—Miss Mitchell, and Lord Curzon, honoured the
French play with her presence last evening.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by
Lady Anna Maria Dawson, the Countess Wratislaw, and
Colonel Sir George Couper, honoured the French Plays with
her presence yesterday evening.
The Duke of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Kent
yesterday.
The Governer of the Bank of England, and the Deputy-
Governor, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer yesterday.
A Deputation from the Aborigines Society, consisting of
Messrs. J. Bell, Josiah Foster, R. Young, I'. Hodgkin,
A. 13. Wright, J. Hodgkin, Mr. Foster, W. Davison, G. L.
Neighbour, J. Mayfield, had .an interview with Lord Stan-
ley yesterday at-the Colonial-office.
The American Minister transacted business yesterday at
the Foreign-office.
The Postmaster-General had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer yesterday-.
The Lord Chancellor will receive the Judges, Queen's
Counsel, &c. on Tuesday next, the first day of Easter Term,
at his Lordship's residence in George-street.
Mr. C. Ogden had an interview with Lord Stanley yes-
terday.

The mess of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentle-
men-at-Arms dined together on Thursday, at the Thatched
House.

Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the
Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, had
an interview yestetday with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer.
Dispatches for the Governor of the Mauritius were sent off
on Thursday evening from the Colonial-office.
Sir Philip and Miss Broke have left Farrance's Hotel,
Belgrave-street, for Brighton.