The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-24 00:00:00

THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.
There are good arrivals this week of both Grain and Flour.
The Wheat trade remains unaltered from Monday. Barley is
dull and rather cheaper. Beans and Pease are very heavy in
disposal, and again lower. In the Oat trade there has been
such an accumulation of samples, that this article has again
declined Is. per quarter, with little doing. The business
transacted in Flour this week has been scanty.
ARRIVALS.
Wheat. Barley. Oats. Flour.
English
Irish - -. 8,710 -
Foreign l5O 2,160 560 -

SMITHFIELL
This day's supply was very gooc
alteration from the prices last quol
PRICES PER STONE OF BLS
s. d. tO s. tI.
Interior 8ea5t5....... 2 2 2 4
Second quality ditto 2 8 3 2
Prime large Oxen 3 4 3 8
Prime Scots, &c. 3lO 4 2
Large coarse Calves 4 4 4 8
Prime small ditto 5 0 5 4
Suckling Calves each l7 I, 35 0
SUPPLY, AS PER CL
Beasts. I . Sheep.
97 12,005

D MARKET
d, and the sale was dull at little
rted :

4 TO SINK THE OFFALS.

s. d.
Inferior Sheep 2 10 to s
3 0
Second quality ditto 3 6 310
Coarso-woolled ditto 4 4 4 8
Southdown Wethers
Large Hogs 3 6 4 0
Small Porkers 3 6 410
Quarter old Pig leach) u 20 0
.E liK'S STATEMENT.
I Calves. I Pigs
56 231

NEWGATE AND LEA
At per stone,
s d. to a d.
Beef, inferior 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior
middling ..«..„.., 8 210 - middling
-- prime large
- prime small 3 2 3 4 Perk, large
Veal 3 8 4 6 -small

DENHALL MARKETS.
by the Carcass.

s d. to s d.
2 6 210
30 2 4
46 4 0
26 4 2

...... ... 4 8 5 a

THE FUNDS.7-(THIS DAY.

CITY, 7'IVELVE O'CLOCK.
We have received Halifax papers to the 2d February. We
extract the following :—" At 2 o'clock on the Ist inst., his
Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor proceeded in state to
the Council Chamber, and, being seated, commanded the at-
tendance of the House of Assembly. His Excellency having
approved of their choice of a Speaker, made the following
speech :

" At the opening of the Session of a new Assembly, it
affords me great satisfaction to congratulate you on the peace
and prosperity which pervade this province.
" Although the last harvest was not very productive, I
trust that no serious evil will be experienced from that cir-
cumstance.

To some of the newly-arrived settlers in Cape Breton,
who were represented to me as likely to suffer extreme distress,
owing to the failure of the potato crop, I have already felt it my
duty to send some assistance ; and should these poor people be
found to require further relief, the proofs which you have uni-
formly given of your humanity, assure me that their wants will
be cheerfully supplied.
The past Session, I regret to find, has been rather un-
favourable to your fisheries ; but a steady and progressive im-
provement has taken place in every other branch of our trade
and commerce.

" I have great satisfaction in acquainting you that the re-
venue is improving ; the receipts of the last year were suffi-
cient to meet all the demands upon the Treasury, and every
just claim against the Government has, I believe, been dis-
charged.
"' I feel it my duty, however, to advise a judicious and eco-
nomical application of our means : and the surest way of ac-
complishing this is to keep our expenditure within our income.
"' I continue to receive from the Inspecting Field Officers
very satisfactory reports of the militia. The regularity and
good order of the battalions are deserving of great praise.
"' Among the numerous matters of local interest which de-
mand your notice, the improvement of your present defective
system of appropriating and expending the road money seem
to me to have a peculiar claim on your attention ; and I
should be neglectful of my duty, were I not to recommend that
subject to your best consideration.
I shall direct the public accounts to be laid before you,
and I trust that you will find that your grants to his Majesty
have been faithfully applied. I shall also direct the estimates
for the present year to be submitted to you, and I am fully
pursuaded that the supplies necessary for the support of his
Majesty's Government will be provided with your usual libe-
rality.
" ' No country perhaps has more reason than Nova Scotia to
be thankful to a bountiful Providence for the manifold blessings
which it enjoys. Our laws are duly and impartially administered,
crime is of rare occurrence among us; the pressure of taxa-
tion is light ; and a wide scope is afforded for the industry
of our people ; and it is most gratifying to me to have these,
and many other grounds, for the belief I entertain, that this
province, under a wise and steady Legislation, must rapidly
advance in prosperity. To you, Gentlemen, is entrusted the
task of calling forth its resources, and I confidently hope
that, on discharging the important duties which have devolved
on you, the calmness of our deliberations, and the soundness
of your dicussions, may satisfy the expectations of our intelli-
gent and loyal people ; and that the harmony which has
so long marked the legislative proceedings of this province
may continue to distinguish them. On my part, Gentlemen,
you will find the most anxious desire to co-operate with you
in such measures as may promote the happiness and welfare
of his Majesty's subjects in this part of his North American
dominions."

New Brunswick Papers to the 29th January state, that me-
chanics, labourers, and building materials will be in great de-
mand in St. John's during the ensuing spring and summer,
and the rates of each will no doubt be high. Vessels from
Britain would do well to bring out bricks as ballast, as they
will meet with a ready sale.
Resolutions granting 1,0001. far the relief of the sufferers
of the late fire in St. John's passed the House of Assembly.