The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-22 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

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BRUSSELS, APRIL 15.—The average price of wheat in the
week ending en the 12th of this month was 17f. 16c. per
hectolitre, and that of rye 111. 27c. The duties on impor•
tation remain at 37f. 50c., oil wheat and rye 21f. 50c. per
1,000 kilogrammes. The export duty on both twenty-live
centimes.
The Chamber of Representatives continued to• day the
debate on the organisation of the army.
On Sunday evening
a great number of German emigrants
arrived at Antwerp by the last train. They will shortly em-
bark for the United States.
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COURT CIKCULAR.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by the Hon.
Miss Mitchell, Maid )jHonour in Waiting, visited the
Queen
yesterday at Buckingham Palace, and remained to lunch
with Her Majesty and Prince Albert.
The Queen and Prince Albert took an airing yesterday
afternoon in an open carriage and four. Colonel Arbuthnot
and Colonel Bouverie, the Equerries in Waiting, attended on
horseback.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horseback
yesterday, attended by Colonel Bouverie.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales. the Princess
Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken an airing yesterday
morning in an open carriage and four, accompanied by the
Dowager Lady Lyttelton.
The Queen had a dinner party yesterday at Buckingham
Palace. The company included her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, Monsieur Dedcl, the Netherlands Minister;
the Duke de Sotomayer, Spanish Minister, and the Duchess
de Sotomayer, the Duke de Broglie, the Prince de Broglie,
the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, fhe Duchess of Northum-
berland, the Earl of Aberdeen, Earl Talbot, Lady Anna
Maria Dawson, the Countess Wratislaw, Lord George
Lennox, Lord and Lady Claude Hamilton, and the Hon. and
Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay. The band of the Grenadier
Guards attended during dinner, and performed the following
pieces:—
Pot pourri, "Lucia di Lammermoor "—Donizetti.
Waltz, " Die Wietern,"—Kuhner.
Theme, with variations—Streck.
Walzer, " Nachtfal ter "—Baij ere.
Polka, " Redouten"—Baijere.
The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Daw-
son, left town at twenty minutes before eleven o'clock, yes-
terday morning, in a carriage and four, for her residence,
Frogmore House, near Windsor. Her Royal Highness re-
turned to Clarence House, St. James's, at half-past six o'clock.
Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess Stephanie of
Baden, attended by the Baroness de Strumfeder, Miss Gre-
\ilk, and Baron Roth de Sehreckenstein, dined with her
Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday evening, at Marlbo-
rough house. A select party were present to meet the Royal
Duchess.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and
the Hereditary Grand Duchess Of Mecklenburgh Strelitz took
a drive yesterday morning to Kew, returning to Cambridge
House in the afternoon.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Canabridge and the
Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, attended
by Baron Knesebeck, dined yesterday evening with the
oihicers of tha Life Guards, in the Regent's Park Barrtraacknsacted
s.
Count Dietrichstein, the Austrian Ambassador,
business yesterday at the Foreign Office.
The President of the Board of Trade and the Vice-Presi-
dent had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday.
Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial Office,
from the Governor of Van Diemen's Land.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were 5,000
bales, including 1,500 on speculation. The market was very
quiet, and on the whole dull, but without any material change
in prices.—ln Shares the business done was limited compared
to the transactions recently, but prices had no tendency to de-
cline. Aberdeen Railway, 5 ; Barnsley Junction, Half Shares,
41. 4/. 6s. 3d. ; Birkenhead and Cheshire Junction, 9% %;
Birmingham and Gloucester, New Shares, 44 ;
Blackburn,
Burnley, and Accrington, 9rsl4 ; Blackburn, Darwen, and
Bolton, 55 ; Belfast and Ballymena, 57 51. 16s. 6€l.
Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 1334 %; aledonian, 12% ;
Cambridge and Lincoln, 915 ; Chester and Birkenhead,
521,4 52 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 2575' ; Chester and Holyhead,
133/1 • Churnet Valley, 9% 91. ls.-3d. ; Clydesdale Junction,
10% ; Cork and Waterford, 318 ; arn
Dereh and Norwich,
; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 11% 11 - Dublin and
Galway, 5%
Dundalk and nniskillen, 4% ; Eastern Counties, 21 ;
Ditto, New Quarter Shares,
1 ; Dublin, Mullingar, and Athlone, 31h ;
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Edinburgh and Glasgow, 631,4 ;
61%; Glasgow and Dumfries, 1/. 4s. ; Grand Junction,
227%; Ditto, Half Shares, 1131,4 114 ; Ditto, Quarter
Shares, 56%; Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 44% 3/4 ;
Ditto, Eighth Shares, 19 ; Great Grimsby an d
itto Sheffield,
sion, 153(1 ; Great Western, Half Shares, 105%; Huddersfield
634 ; Great Southern and Western, 19% 20 ; D Exten
Canal and Railway, 4/. les. 9d. 4% • Huddersfield and
Sheffield, 83,4 ; Inverness and Elgin, ; Lancaster and