The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-09 00:00:00

THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.)

HAY MARKET.
Supplies of all kinds good, and the demand equal to the sup-
ply. Prices were altered, higher : Clover, 80s. to 100 s., 1155.,
and 118 s. ; Hay, 755. to 955., 100 s., and higher ; Straw, 365.
to 445.

CITY AND HUNGERFORD FISH MARKETS.
Supplies vrere to an a7era.c,e extent, but prices very high :
Turbot, ss. to 10s., 1.55., and 15s; Lobsters, Is. to 3s. each ;
Salmon 3s. 6d. per lb.

CITY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Arrivalathis morning—French mail, ship letters from
Calcutta 14th December, old date Sydney, October 12.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY.—The demand
for cotton to-day bas been to a fair extent, the sales 4,000
bags at full prices, the market very steady.
We have received Cape of Good Hope papers to the 10th
of February; they contain nothing beyond the usual state-
ment of losses of horses and cattle.

Sydney papers received to the 14th of October :—lt is
currently reported that the Right Hon. the Secretary of
State for the Colonies has intimated to his Excellency
Sir George Gipps that he intends, without delay,
to appoint from home a variety of officers for
the settlement of Port Phillip. Among the number
mentioned are, a correspondent, collector of customs and
internal revenue, with several other subordinate officers;
it is also said that his Lordship has it in contemplation to
send out a Government steamer, to be employed in the
service of Government, and in the conveyance of passengers
between Sydney and Port Phillip.
Important intelligence has been received from Vera
Cruz this morning by the Race Horse of the 9th March,
stating that the Commissioners appointed by the Mexican
Government, as well as those on the part of France, had
amicably settled the affair. The British Minister, Mr.
Packenham, was the mediator in the affair. The treaty
has been sent to Mexico for the ratification of the Con-
gress ; when received the French are to evacuate the fort
of San Juan d'Ulloa, and retire with their forces. The
vessels in the port are to unload the moment the Custom-
house is ready.
It appears that some anxiety prevails among the moniej
interest in the City, as well as in the commercial Comm?:
pity, respecting the decrease of the Bullion in the Bank of
England, and it is generally expected that the screw will be
put on a further drain of the gold.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 92f for the Account,
opened this morning at 921 I, for Money and for May Ac-
count 92a sellers. Little business doing as vet. Exchequer
Bills, 38 40 ; India Bonds, 41; Bank Stock,:l97i 194 ;
India Stock, 251 252.

The Foreign Market continues without any alteration
of the:leaving-off prices as yet. Spanish Active, 19/- 20 ;
Portuguese, 324, 331-; Belgian, 1021 ; Brazilian, 718;
Colombian, 288, 29; Mexican, 23 24; Dutch Two-and-
a.. Half per Cents., 548, 55f; Five per Cents., 1001 i.
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
sank Stock 197% i India Stock
3 per Cent. Red. 9134 ~,s 1 Ditto Bonds pm.
&per Cent. Cons. 9'2% ~, j South Sea Stook
3 per Cent — I 0141 Annuities
Ditto Red. 910i,,N i New Ditto
New S 4 per Cent 9944 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751
New i per Cent.
Sank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 599 ... pm.
Jan. 5, 1930............. 14% :;-16 Ditto Small 37 pm.
Oct. 10, 1859. l4 :3-16 Ditto Commercial pm.
Jan. 5, IMO
Jan. 5, 1830 — sank Stock for Account ... 501
April 5, 11180. — India Stock for Account ...
Jan. b. 1870 — Consols for Account - fPlaj%
PRICKS OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Austrian Bends
Belgian Mends :102;4
Ditto Account
Igraxilian Bonds
Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres Bonds
Ditto Account
Chilian Bonds
D tts Account
Columbian Boni* 2U
Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds, 13:14
Ditto Account
Danish Bonds 7l 3%
Ditto Account
Greek Bonds
Ditto 1t25
Ditto Account
Mexican Bonds, G per Cont —
Ditto Account
Ditto, 6 per Cent
Ditto Account
ticrpolitan
frtICES OF SHARES THIS

Peruvian Ronde
Ditto Account
Portuguese Sends
Ditto New Bonds
Ditto Accoun` ;33%!b1
Ditto, 3 per Cent.
Ditto At•couut
Prussian Zellall -•
Russian Bends, 11Int —
Ditto Account
Ditto Metallic
Spanish Bonds
Ditto Account —
Ditto Bonds, 1534
Ditto Account. ...19t,6 21 1544
French, 5 per cent.
--1 per cent. _f —4%
------ 5 per sent.
------- illnich..rige. -1: .....
Dutch, 0.14 per cent
Ditto Aecsunt bs
Ditto, 5 per oent lOO% 1
Ditto A0c0unt........ ...... --.
DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share
Groat Western Railway Company... .......... .... bili 4134,7!
Brighten Iteilwas,
itlknehester anci;l3irmingham Railway l5
Do. Do. Extension
Lon"on and 'Westminster Bank "-Xi '23 t 4
Assam Company I ,4i,
HALF-PAST ONE.
We have no letter or papers as yet from the American
Packet ship Westchester, of the 13th from New York, or
is there any expected until to-morrow.
Console at present, 94 1, for the Account ; Money
924 -,1,-; Exchequer Bills lower, 33 37 ; Bank Stock 197-,
cx div.

In the Foreign Market little doing. Spanish Activi,
19i 20; Portuguese 3n- ; Three per Cents., 201 ;
Belgian Bonds, 1021 ; Brazilian 77-i ; Colombian, 24 ;
Mexican, 24 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., iis ;
Five per Cents., 1001 101.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
rank Stock l9t India Stock
3 per Cent. Red
3 per Cent. Cf.ilS n°,4 Ditto Old Annuities.. ..... .., F-914
34 per Cent. Red 9350 Ditto New Annuities
New 3!,', per Cent 95% Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2d '6m.
New 5 per Cent p
Ditto 500/ 16 pm
14 5-16 BaDnikttSotock Sfo°(l-110pg .4`21.10)1" •I
Longj Jan.
omitics to expire
. ...... ......
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860
FOR 14%
EIG N' F Consols for Act
.... snx,
UNDS.
Asturian, 5 per cent — Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent 1025(, Ditto. New Ditto
Brazilian Bonds 76;i Prussian, 5 per cent
Buenos Ayr. s, 6 per cent — Russian Bonds, 5 per cent ...
Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic.
Colomn.an, 6 per cent 2554 Spanish, 5 per cent
Ditto, 1824 2S% Ditto, Consolidated — Danish, 3 per cent 744 French, 5 per cent.
25, 5 per et — Exchange
—c.
Mexican, per cent French, 3 per cent —f. f.
—r. Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825
Peruvian, 1523,6 per cont.—. ._'Ditto, 5 per cent. lOl
SHARES.
Eastern Countios Railway ......... %.,..... ................ .. 7!.6
Great Western Railway
London and Brighton Railway 7Yi
London and Blackwall Railway
(l Ditto Quarter Shares
London and Southampton Railway 43
Manchester and Birmingham Railway 5
T

There arc two vary heavy ships in the dry docks which re-
quire sheathing, and there is not a sheet of copper in the
arsenal ; whilst the steam-engine for rolling it has been
for a long time disabled for want of ordinary foresight.
The director of the arsenal is a man whose sole study ap-
pears to be throw impedimenta in the way of all operations.
Last Saturday, it is said that at a grand council it was '
decided that under certain circumstances the Porte should
go to war immediately against Mehemet Ali. The num-
bers of troops now collected in Asia Minor, between regular
militia and irregulars, is said to exceed 200,000 men, and to
attempt to keep such a force on foot for any length of time
will be madness. The sooner, therefore, a crisis is brought
on, the better ; but England must be prepared to act in
case of need. Her voice must be the thunder of her guns,
and then it will be heard and respected.
We have the failure of the very old English house of
Sarell, of this place. It was not unexpected by those who
know that it is as difficult as it is dangerous to attempt to
do a large business upon small means. It is supposed that
a good dividend will, be paid out of the concern, perhaps
fifty per cent. Money continues astonishingly scarce. The
exchange down to 103 e.
A Turkish officer of rank, Nadir Bey, who was formerly
in London, on behalf of Mehemet Ali, to see what Namik
Paella was about, has disappeared from this place, and is
supposed to have gone to Egypt to resume his station in
the Egyptian army. He must have taken with him vela-
able information, as he enjoyed the unbounded confidence
of the Ministers here, who suspected no treason. Nadir
Bey was originally a Pole, and is now supposed to have
been acting the spy here for the last few years. Ho left
the Egyptians service, nominally in disgust, in 1833.
CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 19 (via MARSEILLZII).--We
had, last week, " rumours of wars" which set our alarmists
in a high fever. It was said that a body of the troops of
the Ottoman Commander-in-Chief, Hafez Pasha, had
actually crossed the Syrian frontier, and attacked the
Egyptians near Aintab ; but since then, nothing having
transpired to confirm this intelligence, it is generally be-
lieved to be without foundation. It is almost universally
admitted that the Sultan has given orders to bring about
a collision at the earliest favourable moment; and if this
impression be really justifiable by facts, we may, ere
long, expect to hear that the first blow has been struck. It
is said that Hafez Paella wrote to the Sultan lately, that if
it was intended that he should act he must do so quickly, as
he had the greatest difficulty in keeping his soldiers toge-
ther, and they would soon disband unless employed. On
the other hand he would answer with his head for the re-
sult of the attack, if it were left for him to conduct it un-
controlled. It is beyond a doubt that the Syrians are
ready to rise, almost to a man, in favour of the Turks, and

We are sorry to observe, by the annual report of
the society for the discharge and relief of persors impri-
soned for small debts throughout England and Wales, that
their expenditure during the last year exceeded their or-
dinary income to the amount of 2,124/. 18s. sd.
The linen trade in Barnsley remains steady. Tile
principal dull season is nearly over, but the lack of that is
compensated for by an increased demand for plain goods
for home consump_tion, so that there are very few weavers
out of employ.—Doncaster Gazette.
SIVEHITY OF THE SEASON.--140011 Rannoch,
in Athol!, has this week been completely frozen over. for
the third time this winter, a eireum;tance never before
retw-mb-red to have happened is Aj ril. —Cat/lonian
Mercury.
Yesterday morning, about five o'clock, es the
ostler belonging to the Rose and Crown Inn, Croydon,
was going to the stables, he observed the body of a man
suspended by the neck from one of the shed's. He imme-
diately gave an alarm, and the body was cut down, and the
deceased turned out to be a young man, named John
Richardson, the son of a respectable tradesman in the old
town. The deceased was quite stiff and cold, and it is
supposed that he must have been in the position where be
was found the whole of the night. The deceased had a
horse standing at livery with Mr. Grantham, the landlord
of the Rose and Crown. He was only 21 years old, and
no ground appears to exist for the commission of the
The occurrence has created considerable sensation at
Croydon.
Auber's new grand opera, forthcoming;
Lane, to be entitled Le Lac des Fees (the Fairy 1,111.,),
is to include in the caste Madame Albertaszi, as the
heroine, Miss Romer, Messrs. Balfe, Stretton, S. Jones.
Allen, &c. Le Duprcz, the celebrated French tenor
singer, is performing the part at the Academie Royale to
be sustained by Balfe in the English version.
The Nassau Balloon will commenceittmstirvel't.eiar-
l
' voyages this year by an ascent front tl,c m
gardens, Cheltenham, on one day before the 13t4 -of the
present month.—Cheltenham Gazette.
NEW Poort-LAw.—The opposition to the New
Poor-law is now assuming a very determined aspect. The
metropolitan parishes are bestirring themselves.
As-
sociationi has been formed for the purpose o . in
f counteracting .
.t
the gricvarces" that result from the Act, and rc
upon the attention of Parliament with a vier: toit°srepigeall
The Association is to consist of deputies from all the-mee
tropolitan parishes.