The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-22 00:00:00

VEGETABLES.

Greens, dz bunch 2 6to 4 61 Shallots, per lb .. 0 10 to 1 1
Cabbages, pr doz 0 9to 1 2 Horseradish, pbn 1 oto 2 0
Savoy do., pr dz 0 10 to 1 4 Parsley, per ditto 0 oto 0 0
Cauliflowers, pdz 1 oto 3 0 Celery, per ditto 0 Bto 1 6
Brocoli, per bun. 1 oto 1 3 Beet, per doz. .. 1. 6to 2 0
Potatoes, per ton 90 to 160 0 Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 0
New ditto, pr ewt. 1 oto 0 0 Small salad, p. pn, 0 oto 0 0
Peas, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 Mushrooms,p ptl. 2 oto 2 6
Turnips, dz bunch 2 oto 3 6 Artichokes, pr dz 0 6to 0 C
Carrots, pr do 3 6to 5 6 Cabbage lett,score 0 oto 0 0
Cucumbers 0 oto 0 01 Endive, per score 0 oto 0 o
Garlic, per lb
Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 I Tomatoes, doz... 0 oto 0 0
Green peas, h.-sv.l2 oto 0 0 ' Walnuts, per 100 0 oto 0 0
Brus. sprouts,h.s. 1 6to 2 0 Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 0
Onions, hf. sv 1 3to 1 9 Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 0
New Do., dz bun 0 oto 0 0 Rhubarb, per bun 0 9to 1 6
French beans, h.s. 3 oto 5 0 Asparagus, pr do. 6 oto 8 0
Leeks, per bunch 0 oto 0 0 Seakale, per pun. 0 0 to 0 0
NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
Turkeys, 5s Od to 10s Od; poults, Os Od to Os Od each;
geese, 5s Od to 8s Od ; goslings, 55 Od to 8s Od ; ducks,
2s Od to 4s Od ; rabbits, is Od to 2s Od each ; wild do., 8d
to is 2d ; pigeons, 94 to is 6d each ; large Surrey fowls,
5s Od to lOs Od; chickens, 5s Od to 8s Od ; barn-door fowls,
4s Od to 6s Od ; capons, Oa Od ; hares, 4s Od to 4s 6d ;
grouse, Os Od to Os Od each; ptarmigan, is 6d to 2s Od ;
partridges, is 6d to 2s 6d ; woodcocks, 4s Od to Os; snipes, I s
to Is 6d ; teal, is Od to is 6d ; wild ducks, is 6d to 2s Od ;
widgeons, is Od to is 3d ; plovers, Os 9d to is 6d each ;
guinea fowls, Os Od to 8s Od ; roasting pigs, 5s Od to 8s Od
each ; Ostend fresh butter, is to is 2d ; English, is 141
to is 4d per lb ; English eggs, lOs Od to 12s ; French do.,
8s Od to les Od per 120 ; leverets, Os Od to Os Od each,

BILLING SLATE.
Salmon, 2s 6d to Os Od ; trout, Os Od to Os ; eels, 5d to 10d ;
prawns, Os to Os ; pike, skate, sturgeon, and halibut, Gd pei
' lb. • turbots, 2s 6d to 15s; cod, 2s Od to 7s Od ; brills, Is Od
to 5s Od ; doreys, is Od to 7s Od ; mullets, Os 6d to 2s Od ;
lobsters, Gd to 2s 6d ; crabs, Gd to 2s 6d ; plaice and gurnets,
4d to Is Od each; soles, 6d to 2s 6d per pair; common
oysters, 12s to 208 ; natives, 42s to 44s per bushel ; whitings,
2s Od to 7s • haddocks, 3s to 12s ; smelts, is 6d to Os Od ;
flounders,
Os Od to Os Od per dozen; mackerel, 408; fresh
herrings, 6s to Os ; bloaters, Os per 100 ; carp and tench,
Os Od to Os per brace.

WHITECHAPEL.
Beef, from 2s 6d to 4s Od ; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 2d; veal,
4s Od to 5s Od; and pork, 3s 6d to 4s 8d per 81bs.

NEWPORT.

Beef, from 2s 6d to 4s Od ; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 2d ; veal,
3s 10d to Os Od ; ,and pork, 3s 6d to 4s Sd per Sibs.

BREAD.

The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from
Bfd to 9d , of household do., 6fd to 8d per 41b loaf.

HIDES AND SKINS.
Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, ltd to 3d ; 641 b to 721 b, 3d to
31d ; 721 b to 801 b, 31d to 31d ; 801 b to 881 b, 31d to 4d ;
881 b to 961 b, 4d to 41d ; 961 b to 1041 b, 4,-Id to 41d. Horse
hides, 8s to lOs Od ; calf skins, light 3s Od to 4s Od ; do. full,
6s Od to Os Od ; polled sheep, 9s Od to lls Od; half••breds,
8s Od to 98 6d; Downs, 6s Od to 7s 6d; lambs, Os Od to
Os Od; shearlings, Os Od to Os Od.
HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 to £4lss ; clover, £3
lOs to £5 10s ; and straw, £1 8s to 16s Od per load.
Trade dull.

CUMBERLAND.-Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 15s; clover
do., £3 lOs to £5 10s; and straw, £1 8s to £1 lOs per load.
A slow demand.

WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 15s; clover,
£3 lOs to Lb 10s ; and 'straw, El 8s to El 168 per load.
Both hay and straw met a heavy sale at our quotations.

COAL

ARKAT.

(Prices of Coal per Ton al
s. d.

the close of the market

Byass's Bebside West
Hartley ....14 6
Tanfield Moor Butes..l2 6
Davison's West Hart-

s. d.
Edon Main l4 6

Walls'End.

ley 14 3
West Wylam 13 0
Carway and Duifryn
Malting .... 24 0
Do. Anthracite 21 61
Ships at market

_
IHetton .. l6 0
Russel's Hetton 14 6
Brsddyll's Hetton 14 9
Kelloe
South Hart1ep001......14 6
Hartlepool.. l5 6
, 101; sold, 38.

FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST.

MAILS DUE.
Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton ..Mar. 21.
via Marseilles Mar. 15.
Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. March 6.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena March 3.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Mar. 4.
via Marseilles Feb. 27.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton Feb. 25.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Mar. 4.
via Marseilles Feb. 27.
India (Bombay), via Southampton Feb. 25.
via Marseilles Feb. 20.
Lisbon Feb. 21.
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Feb. 25.
via Marseilles Feb. 27.
Newfoundland .. Mar. 5,
Oporto and Vigo
,7
U. S. and British N;America, by Brit. packet Feb. o
by U.S. packet... •
by Canadian packet Feb. 19.
W.C.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Mar. Mar. 10.
.
Bahamas, via New York
Mexico..
28.

THE ALBERT MEMO.RIAL FUND.

Yesterday, at a meeting, specially con-
vened by the Lord Mayor, for the purpcse of hear-
ing a communication containing a statement of the
views and wishes of her Majesty in relation to the
proposal for erecting a national memorial of the
late Prince Consort, was held at the Mansion-house
by the committee of noblemen and gentlemen, up-
wards of 100 in number, charged with the superin-
tendence and application of the fund now being
I raised with that view in the City of London. There
was a large attendance of members notwithstand-
ing the shortness of the notice.
The Light Hon. the LORD MAYOR, on taking the
chair, said he had invited their attendance to re-
ceive a communication addressed to him by General
Grey, which had reached him on the previous even-
ing. Considering it to be of great interest and
importance, he had thought that no time should be
lost in laying it before the General Committee, and
he was glad to see so large an attendance.
Mr. Goodman, one of the honorary secretaries, at
the request of the Chief Magistrate, then read the
following letter, which his lordship had sent to
Gen. Grey on Tuesday evening last, in pursuance of
a resolution unanimously passed at a general meet-
ing of the committee on that day :

" Mansion-house, Feb. 18, 1862.
" Sir,—ln order to give expression to the deep feeling of
respect entertained by all classes for the memory of his late
Royal Highness the Prince Consort, I was induced to con-
vene a public meeting at the Mansion-house on the 14th
ult. for the purpose of considering the propriety of erecting
a lasting memorial to that illustrious Prince, and I beg
herewith to transmit to you a copy of the resolutions which
were passed at that meeting.
" I have the honour to inform you that the amount of
contributions reported up to last night is £32,779.
" It is the opinion of the committee, as well as my own,
that a considerable amount will yet be subscribed, and I
feel assured the coming contributions will be greatly influ-
enced by a knowledge of her Majesty's wishes on the subject
of the memorial, and the certainty that her Majesty's de-
sires will be carefully followed out.

" You will see by the second resolution which was passed
at the meeting with unanimous cordiality, that the memorial
should be of a monumental and national character, and that
its design and mode of execution should be approved by
Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
" It appears to the committee that the time has arrived
when her Majesty should be made officially acquainted
with the progress of this movement, and I take the liberty
of requesting that you will do me the honour to submit the
matter to her Majesty, with a view of ascertaining what
may be her Majesty's desire as to the nature of the monu-
ment, its site, and the mode of execution.

" I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient ser•
vant, (( WILLIAM CUBITT, Mayor.
" Lieutenant-General the Hon. C. Grey, Osborne."

The LORD MAYOR said with the approbation of
the meeting he would now read the reply to that
communication, which he received about 5 o'clock on
Thursday evening :

" Osborne, Feb. 19, 1862.
"My Lord,—l have had the honour of receiving
and submitting to the Queen your lordship's letter
of the 18th inst., communicating the proceedings
which have taken place with a view to the erection
of a national monument to the much lamented
Prince Consort.

" The Queen feels grateful from the bottom of
her heart for the universal sympathy that has been
expressed for her in her deep affliction ; but it is
still more soothing to her feeling to know that the
noble character, the truly Princely nature, of him
whose loss has bowed her to the earth, with a sense
of desolation and misery that every day, alas ! serves
only to increase, is appreciated by the country;

:hat the benefits he has been instrumental in con

ferring upon the nation, the good he has wrought
since he first came among us, and to effect which he
may truly be said alone to have lived, are under-
stood and acknowledged.
" The Queen is also much touched by the feeling
which has led the promoters of the movement for
ereiting a national monument to the Prince to leave
the nature of that monument to her decision. It is
a subject on which there must necessarily be much
difference of opinion. Many, influenced, doubtless,
by the belief that there was nothing which the
Prince himself had so deeply and constantly at heart
as the promotion of whatever might tend to the ad-
vantage of the community at large, or of any por-
tion of it, have thought that the most appropriate
monument to his memory would be to connect
his name with some great work that should have
that end in view; and the Queen cannot but be
gratified by this proof of a just appreciation of his
character.

" But it would probably be difficult to procure
anything like agreement as to the nature of the
institution which should thus bear his honoured
name, and it would be inexpressibly painful to the
Queen were any controversy to arise on such a
subject.
"It would also be more in accordance with her
own feelings, and, as she believes, with those of the
country generally, that the proposed monument
should be more directly personal to its object—
should be, in fact, more what is commonly under-
stood by the word. Even so it is probable that
opinions may differ as to the character that would
be most appropriate for such a monument. But the
Queen is confident that the same good feeling which
has led to the reference of the subject to her deci-
sion will lead to a cordial acquiescence in it—to the
cheerful abandonment of in dividual views, and to an
unanimous working together to effect the object all
have at heart.

" After giving the subject her best consideration,
her Majesty has come to the conclusion that nothing
would be more appropriate, provided it is on a scale
of sufficient grandeur, than an obelisk to be erected
in Hyde-park on the site of the Great Exhibition of
1851, or on some spot immediately contiguous to it;
nor would any proposal that can be made be more
gratifying to the Queen personally, fot she can never
forget that the Prince himself had highly approved
of the idea of a memorial of this character being
raised, on the same spot, in remembrance of that d
Exhibition.

" There would also be this advantage in a monu-
ment of this nature—that several of the first artists
of the day might take part in its execution; for
there would be room at the base of the obelisk for
various fine groups of statuary, each of which might
be intrusted to a different artist,

In the selection of the artists to be employed, in
the choice of a design, and in the consideration of
the details of execution, the Queen would wish to
obtain the best advice ; and she would therefore
desire to call to her assistance a small committee,
consisting of persons in whom she could feel satis-
, fled that the country would repose entire confidence.
" I have written by her Majesty's command to
those whose assistance she thus desires to obtain,
and I will lose no time, as soon as I shall have re-
ceived their answers, in communicating their names
to your lordship.

"I have the honour to be, your lordship's very
faithful and obedient servant,

" C. GREY.

" The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor."
The reading of this communication was listened
to with most marked attention, and at its conclusion
the meeting manifested an unanimous and cordial
approval.
The LORD MAYOR said in the same envelope there
was another letter, which he conceived to have been
made separate and supplementary, in order that the-
committee might exercise their judgment and discre-
tion as to whether or not it might be made public.
He would read the letter to the committee, but for
the present he respectfully requested the represen-
tatives of the press to forbear giving it publicity.
The communication, so prefaced, was then read
by his Lordship. It breathed throughout sentiments
the most touching and noble, perhaps, of any to
which utterance has been given on this great national
calamity. Its simple pathos appeared to thrill the
the hearts of all present. The emoetyieerniorie
it produced
was visible in the countenance of
y
its conclusion the whole committee was '
and at
, more or
less unmanned.
Sit NOON, breaking the silence, said he
could not help thinking the second
letter was equally
deserving of publicity with the first, and submitted
that the commitee should consider and decide the
question as to the desirability of giving it also to
the world.

The LORD MAYOR thought the intention was that
the committee should make any use of it they might
think proper ; but, in his opinion, it had better not
at the
be published. (Hear, hear.) He sukgested,