The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-04 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a Court and Privy Council, at one o'clock, yes.
terday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.
At the Court Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister,
had an audience of her Majesty the Queen, to deliver letters from
their Majesties the Queen and the King of Portugal.
M. Fortique, the Venezuelan Minister, and le Commandeur
Marques Lisboa, the Brazilian Minister, had audiences of her
Majesty.
Monsieur Ellauri, Minister from the Oriental Republic of the
Uruguay, had his first audience of her Majesty.
Their ExcellenCes were respectively introduced by the Earl of
Aberdeen, K.T., her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Fo.
reign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Master of
the Ceremonies, and the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Privy Council was attended by his Royal Highness Prince
Albert; Lord Wharncliffe, Lord President; the Duke of Buccleuch,
Lord Privy Seal; Sir Robert Peel, First Lord of the Treasury;
the Duke of Wellington ; the Earl of Aberdeen, Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs; Sir James Graham, Secretary of State for the
Home Department; Right Hon. Gculburn, Chancellor of the
Exchequer ; Earl of Iladdington, First Lord of the Admiralty;
Earl of Ripon, President of the Board of Trade ; Lord Fitzgerald,
President of the Board of Control; Earl of Liverpool, Lord
Steward ; Earl Delawarr, Lord Chamberlain ; and the Earl of
Jersey, Master of the Horse.
At the Council the Archbishop of Canterbury was ordered to
prepare a Form of Thanksgiving for her Majesty's providential
deliverance from a recent treasonable attempt.
A Proclamation was ordered to be issued for regulating the
weight of gold coin.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in
Waiting.

Lord Stuart de Rothsay, her Majesty's Ambassador to the Em.
peror of Russia, was presented to the Queen, at an audience, by the
Earl of Aberdeen, princinal Secretary of State for Foreign Aff.iirs.

The Queen gave audience to Lord Wharncliffe, Sir Robert Peel)
and Sir James Graham.

The Court was attended by Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting,
the Treasurer of the Household, the Vice-Chamberlain, and the
Comptroller of the Household.

The Earl of Morton was the Lord in Waiting, and Captain
Meynell the Groom in Waiting. MajDr.General Sir Edward
Bowater was the Equerry in Waiting on Prince Albert.
His Excellency General Count Mcnsdorf, and the Counts
Hugh, Alphonsn, Alexander, and Arthur Mensdorf, attended by
Captain Francis Seymour (Scots Fusilier Guards), left town yester-
day mornining for,Woolss ich, and returned to Buckingham Palace
at half-past six o'clock.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Sir Edward
Bowater, was I resent at a meeting yesterday afternoon of the Com-
!Mace for Promoting the Fine Arts in the re-building of the Houses
of Parliament.

The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken their
usual carriage drive yesterday, accompanied by the Dowager Lady
Lyttelton.

The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace last evening in.
eluded her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Anna Mai ia
Dawson, Lord George Lennox, and Captain Francis Seymour.
The following is the complete list of the Knights Grand Crosses
present at the ceremony of the Investiture of the Order of the
Bath, on Wednesday, viz.—His Royal Highness the Duke of
Sussex, Acting Great Master; Field-Marshal his Royal High.
ness Prince Albert; Field-Marshal his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge; Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington ;
Viscount Strangford ; General Lord Hill ; General the Hon. Sir
Edward Paget; General the Hon. Sir Galbraith L. Cole;
General the Marquis of Londonderry ; General the Right Hon.
Sir George Murray; General the Marquis of Anglesey; General
Sir William Henry Clinton ; General the Right Honourable
Sir James Kemp! ; Admiral the Right Honourable Sir
George Cockburn, Lord Heytesbury, General the Earl of Effing.
ham, Lieut .Gcneral Lord Bloomfield, Admiral Sir Philip C. H.
Durham, General Lord Strafford, Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert
Stopford, the Right Hon. Sir Robert Adair, Gcneral the Hon. Sir
William Lumley, General Sir James Willoughby Gordon, Bart.,
Viscount Palmerston, Viscount Canterbury, the Earl of Minto, the
Earl of Clarendon, and General Sir Thomas Bradford; with the fol.
lowing Officers of the Order, viz., Walter Aston Blount, Esq.,
(Chester Herald), Genealogist; Algernon Greville, Esq„ Bath
King of Arms; Captain .Michael Seymour, R.N., Registrar and
Secretary ; and Albert William Woods, Esq , (Lancaster Herald),
Gentleman Usher of the Red Rod.

The Knights Grand Crosses were called over by Bath King of
Arms, and, with the Officers of the Order, proceeded into the pre-
sence of the Sovereign, in the Throne Room.

By the Queen's comminaild, his Excellency Lieut. General Count
Mensdorf was then introduced between the Earl of Clarendon
and General air Thomas Bradford, the two Junior Knights pre_
sent, and conducted to her Majesty, preceded by Bath King of
Arms (carrying the Ensigns of the Order on a cushion), and
by the Gentleman Usher of the Order. The Count kneeling near
her Majesty, the Sovereign was pleased to invest his Excellency
with the Riband and Badge of an Honorary Knight
Grand Cross, and to delivor to him the star of the Order, after
which Count l‘fensdorf had the honour to kiss her Majesty's hand
and retired. The Knights Grand Crosses were then again called
over, and, with the Officers of the Order, retired from the present e
of the Sovereign.

The Princess Sophia Matilda arrived in town yesterday from
Illackheath, and visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager and the
Duke and Duchess of Saxe Meiningen, at Marlborough House ;
the Duchess of Ghucester at Gloucester House ; and the Duchess
of Cambridge, at Cambridge House.

The Duchess of Kent left town at half.past nine o'clock yesterday
morning for Frogmore Lodge, where her 110:al Highness was received
by Sir George Couper, Bart., the Comptroller of her Royal High.
ness's flousdiold. The Royal Duchess returned to her residence,
Clarence Howe, in the evening.
The Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, and the Princess
Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Somerset and
Baron Knesebeck, honoured Mrs. Lawrence, at Ktling Park, with
their company, on Thursday morning. In the evening, the DLke
and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, honoured the Duchess of
Beaufort and the Countess of Kinnoul, with their company at their
respective residences.

The Duke and Duchess of Saxe Meiningen, and the Duchesl
Ida, of Saxe Weimar, visited the Duke and Duchess of Cam.
bridge yesterday.

The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort gave a grand dinner last
evening, at their residence in Arlington.street, to their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess
Augusta of Cambridge, and a select party.
A deputation on the subject of plate glass, consisting of Messrs.
Cushbart, Cookson, Illandford, Witae, and Knox. accompanied
by Mr. Hodgson, M.P., aril Mr. Hodgson Hinde, M.P., had an
interview with the Earl of Ripon yesterday at the office of the
Board of Trade.

The Attorney-General attended yesterday at the Foreign office,
Mr. Wilson Patten, 7.1.1`.. and a deputation of the flax spin.
ners of Prcston, had an interview with the Earl of Ripon at the
Board of Trade yesterday.

Despatches for the Governor of Canada were sent of yesterday
from the Colonial.oftice.

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE lIER I)LAJt.STY.—It is
with pain and indignation we announce that a second attempt
has been made upon the life of our 11Iost Gravious Sovereign
the Queen. This event, which has excited one universal senti-
ment of abhorrence, occurred on Monday evening, precisely
en the very spot where Oxford rcade his diabolical attempt,
and the first intimation of which was conve:ed to the country
in the columns of a third edition of The gun.—Derby and
Chesterfield Reporter.
Ss..c:-:::vig"tion C. ,:ripany':,
packet John Bul', Captain J. P. Corbin, arrived at a quarter to
11 yesterday morning off the Tewer with the Hawburgh mail. J

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.

The uneasy feeling which was noticed to exist some fort-
night since, has been revived to-day. Immediateiy before the
elope of business, without any particular cause being assigned,
the markets all gave way. The state of onr relations with
some neighbouring foreign nations are not looked to as being con-
ducive to speculations for a rise in the funds ; and altheuell no
outbreak is expected, still a fear is visible that some serious
misunderstanding has, or is likely, to take place. It cannot be
concealed that a desire appears to exist among a powerful party
on the Continent to encourage a hostile feeling towards this
country,end that the party have not only succeeded in this par-
ticular object, but have also attained a considerable influence.
The preparations about to be made by the nation in question
have caused some apprehension that the amicable relations,
which have been sustained for a long period, may, in conse-
quence, be shortly interrupted, and hence the ineiisposition
shown by the larger capitalists to enter into speculations.
The funds were quiet chiring the day, but with a somewhat
downward tendency, a large purchase by an influential broker
in Three per Cent. Reduced sustained tne Market, and Con.
cols closed at 91* 9l # ex dividend; Reduced 91* 911 ; Bank
Stock 167* 1684 ; India Stock 250 252 ; Exchequer Bills,
Old. 42 44 ; New 37 39 prem.
In the Foreign market Belgian Bonds were 102 103 ;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, 52# 5'21 ; the Five per
Cents., 101 1014 ; Danish, 80* 81* ; brezilian, 67 68.
The quotations of Mexican declined 36 36*.
Shares were extremely dull. London and Birmingham,
178 180 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 50 52 ; Great West-
ern, 87 88 ; the Half Shares, 611,4 624 ; South Western, 62*
634 ; North Midland, 65 67 ; the New Shares, 32 33 ; South
Eastern and Dover, 25 25# ; the Scrip, 5* 6 ; Northern and
Eastern, 43 44 ; Eastern Counties, 9* 9*; Blackwell, 104
11 ; and Brighton, 344 354 ller Share.
The quotations for the Bonds, were—Colombian, 26 264 ;
Peruvian, 184 19* ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 364 37*;
the Three per Cents, 211 22; Spanish Active with the Cou-
pons from and including May, 1837, 22 224 ; the Three per
Cent. Stock created out of the- above Coupons from 1837 to
1840, 23.23*.
'rhe exchanges were all better, and the quotations were—
Amsterdam, 1.2 44 12 5 , Rotterdam, 12 5 12 54; Antwerp,
12 44 12 4,-,":1 ; Hambu,gh, 13 104 13 11 ; Frankfurt, 151*
151# ; Paris, 25f. 75e. 23f. 80e. ; Vienna, 9 53, 054 ; Trieste,
9'544 9 55*; Madrid, 364 ; Lisbon, 534 534.
There have been no foreign turivals to-day.
(From The Sun of Last _Night.)
The English funds are very flat to-day, with scarcely any !
business; Consols are 914 ex-dividend; Three per Cents.
Reduced, 914 014 ; Three-and-half per Cents. Reduced, 100#
1004 ; Ditto, New 1001 ; Bank Stock, 1664 ; India Stock,
250 252 ; India Bonds, 22 24 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 42 44;
Advertised, 36 39 prem.
The prices of Foreign Securities and Belgian, 102 103 ;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, 524 52i; the Five per
Cents., 101 1014 ; Danish, 804 814 ; and Brazilian, 67 68.
Some few bargains have been made in the Mexican at 3614
for Money, and 364 for the Account.
The proclamation issued by the President of Texas announc-
ing the blockade of the Mexican States, attracts much atten-
tion. The possibility of enforcing it is very much doubted,
but the annoyance and obstruction which it will give to com-
merce is viewed with much apprehension. The jealousy wiih
which the navigation of the Atlantic is felt by the Americans
is well known, and every obstacle which could be thrown in its
way by that Government has been carried into effect; the
prohibitory. regulations relative to the West India steamers,
for instance, and it is feared that this opportunity
of cr inviting the seas with privateers, under the
Texian flag will not be lest. The conduct of our own Govern-
ment with regard to this document is pretty freely commented
upon, and the uncertainty in which our commerce is placed
thereb3, severely condemned. Already orders for manufac-
tured goods, which had been given, have been couutermaneed,
and although it is stated that Captain Elliott has left for that
country, still the general feeling is, that our South American
trade is in a very insecure state.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JUNE 2.—The market
continues without any change in prices ; a good demand is
kept up both by the trade and exporters, and prices may be said
to be firmly supported. The tales to-day have been about
4,1,00 bogs, ut which 500 American were for shipment.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JUNE 2.—'hhe market has
been dug, with little business doing; the quotations are—
Eastern Counties, New, 4/. 17s. nu.; Edinburgh and Glas-
gow, 52# 5'2 ; New, 82/. 6s, ; Grand Junction, 1834;
Half Shares, 914; Great Western, Half Shares, 624; Liver-
pool and Manchester, Quarters, 424; Midland Counties,
Quarters, 17* 174; North :Midland, 63.
. . .

itlA NCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 2.—We have had
a better feel,ng in our market to-day, and more business trans-
acted. Our quotations are:—Eastern Gnmties, 9i; Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, with New, 531; Ditto Quarters, 41. Ss. 9d. ;
Manchester and Birmingham, 27 South Eastern Scrip, 6/1 ;
District Bank, 10i._ _ _