The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-03 00:00:00

COUNTRY MARKETS.

EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET MAnon 1.
There were in the market to-day, 5 sacks oatmeal, 03,c4
weighing 2801bs imperial, which sold thus-1. at 11
and 4 at 1110 s.

DALKEITH 'MEAL MARKET—FEB. 28.
There were in the market to-day 40 bags oatmeal Oa
2 bags of pot-barley ; sales ready. The top oatmeal 11
per bag up, second quality 9d per bag up ; no barleywe'
in market.

Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs First. Second. Third'
PO
imperial -
Barleymeal, per ditto
°a
Peasemeal, per ditto
Flour, per ditto .... .
00 Od --s Od
Pot-barley, per ditto -0

COAL MARKET—MARcu 2.

Prices of Coal per ton at the close of the market :

e. d.
Carr's Harts .......... 19 0
Chester Main .. ..• 17 9
Howard's Wesi Hartley
Netherton 18 9
Longridge43 W. Hartley 19 0
New Tanfield 18 9
Stewart's Hartley 18 0
Stobart's Tees Hartley 17 6
Tanfield Moor Butes 17 9
Wall's End, &c.
Bell and Brown 19 3
Harton l9 3
IFlebburn lB 6
Lawson lB 6
Ships at market,.

s. 0:,
, Bell 2O 0
Belmont 20
Braddyll 20 0
Hetton 2l a
Pensher 19 a
.
Stewart's 21 0
n
Cassop
20
Hartlepool 20 "
fl
Heugh Hall
20 'a
South Kenos 20 "
Trimdon Hartlepool ..... 2O A;
Richardson's Tees 18
South Durham 19 v
21 0
Tees
90 1 Sold 52.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURN.

THE GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Traffie return fl
the week ending Feb. 20, 1853 (285 i miles) £12,441 9
Corresponding week last year (244 miles) 10,572
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.—Trafne.,
-1.
turn for the week ending Feb. 27, 1853 £17,328 8
Corresponding week last year 16,525

- - ,
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—TraffiCretUrn for
railway and steam-boats for the week ending
Feb. 27, 1853
£3,036 a
Corresponding week last year
___....1 m
------ 6
Increase in 1853 £4B6 13
for tb•
CORK AND BANDON RAlLWAY.—Traffic return 6
week ending Feb. 26, 1853 ~ £147 8 s
Corresponding week last year l2l 10

THE EBRO CANALISATION COMPANY.
The Shareholders in England are respectfully reminded that
the Second Instalment of 4/. per share is now in course of payment,
subject to a deduction of Six Months' Interest, at the rate of 4 per
Cent. per Annnum, upon the original deposit of 4/. per share. Inte-
rest will be charged on any payments in arrear after 31st March
next. By order of the Directors.
C. STEWART, Secretary.
4, Adam's Court, Old Broad-street, 28th Feb., 1853.

CONSOLIDATED LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
Life assurance, endowments, and annuities, on the most equitable
terms.
Persons in doubtfhl health, or whose proposals for assurance has
been declined at other offices, assured at premiums carefully adjusted
to the increased risk.
Loans granted upon every real security, and also upon approved
Personal security, from 501. to 5001.
All claims payable within one month after satisfactory proof of
death.
45, Cheapside.

NOAH COLLIER, Secretary.

LOANS sqt NTEss.
LONDON EXCHANGE ADVANCE FUND,
2, Adelphi-terrace, Strand, facing the river ; City Branch, :s,
Old Broad-street, City.

The Right Hon. Lord ERSKINE, Chairman.
Loans advanced, in sums of 101. and upwards, granted on a joint
Promissory note, repayable by easy Instalments, or on the deposit
of deeds or other available securities.
►+ills of exchange cashed at moderate rates of interest.
Poring of application may be obtained at the Offices, or on forward-
ing 12 postage stamps. WM. BROOKS, Secret 'l7.

LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS.-
Ltssee, CHARLES E. LAURENT, Onslow-house, Fulham-
mad. Open Every Evening. The Orchestra will perform, durim:
the week, " The ,Thistle," " Shamrock," " Carillonneur." and " Wind-
sor-castle" Waltzes, the "Champagne Galop," and "Marco Spada,"
Cirque," and " Faridondaine" Quadrilles. Admission, Is.
hors open at Haltpast Eight ; dancing to commence at Nine
"clock,. and to terminate at Half-past Eleven.

WORKHOUSE CONTRACTS.-
„ To Flour Dealers, Mealmen, Potato Dealers, Butchers,
'neesemongers, Bacon and Pork sellers, Corn Chandlers. Milkmen,
Grocers, Linen and Woollen Drapers, Hosiers, Haberdashers, Hat-
ters, Leather Sellers, Tallow Chandlers, Coal Merchants, Printers,
Stationers, Painters, Plumbers, Glaziers, Smiths, Gas Fitters, Tin-
men, Flock Dealers, Truss Makers, Wine Merchants, Dealers, Ale
and Porter Sellers, Undertakers, and others.-1 he Trustees of the
roor of the Parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch, Middlesex, will
Meet in the Vestry Reom, Shoreditch Church, on Wednesday, the
9th day of March, 1853, at 6 o'clock in the evening precisely, to re-
ceive Proposals and Contract for the supply of the Workhouse and
Poor with Provisions, Articles, and Works in the above-mentioned
trades, from the 26th day of March, 1853, to the 29th day of Sept.,
1853, both days inclusive.
The form of tender and any further information may be obtained
by applying to the Clerk to the Trustees, at his offices at the Work-
/Wise, from 9 o'clock till I, and from 3 till 5, and no alteration In the
form of tender will be allowed. The proposals roust be sealed, and
Pertions offering to contract must attend at the Church at the time
Of meeting.
The Trustees do not pledge themselves to accept the lowest tender.
HENRY EDWARDS, Clerk.

February, 1853.

FREEHOLDS FOR ALL CLASSES IN ALL COUNTIES.
THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY,
33, NORFOLK-STREET, STRAND.
„,,The Fifth Purchase within five months has just been made at
...."Wd-green, Tottenham. All persons desirous of obtaining Allot-
"tents on this eligible Estate may insure the result, by paying up
Sh ar es in full at once ; and all who join, by payment of the first
month's Subscription and Fees, 12s. 6d. for one Share, on or before
Wednesday, the 16th of March, will participate in the advantages of
the Public Drawing for Rights of Choice on this and the other Estates
°f the Society, at the Free Mason's Tavern, Great Queen-street, on
Thursday, March the 17th, at Three o'Clock, Viscount Ranelagh in
the Chair, being the Second Quarterly Meeting of the Conservative
And Society. The Wood-green property is situated mid-way and
near three stations en the Great Northern and Eastern Counties
.failroads, and is at an easy distance from Hornsey, Southgate,
41111eld, Edmonton, &c.

CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Sec.

BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY having been
4
4._ now' before the Public since 1825, the proof or its excellence in
and use by discriminative consumers being continuous and increasing.
its purity and excellence being vouched for by the HIGHEST
I-rDICA Is AUTHORITIES, warrant Messrs. J. T. BETTS and CO.
inviting universal attention to it as an article of incomparable
Their PATENT METALLIC CAPSULES are, at the same time.
I''"ective security to the public against the fraudulent substitution of
1'1'37 inferior article, whether as regards their PATENT BRANDY,
oeir celebrated Whiskey, " THE DEW EN NEVIS," or
ne STANDARD ot, COGNAC BRANDY; eitherr of which maybe
r,talned of respectable Wine and Spirit Merchants throughout the
SETTSor in quantities of not less than Two Gallons, from J. T.
~sTTS and CO Distillery, 7, Smithfield-bars, Lo'hdon.

DINNERS, BALL SUPPERS, and WED-
DING BREAKFASTS provided in Town or Country, by
PUBSSELL'S, Cornhill; including wines, and the hire of
las-
I Wien, china, seats, tables, servants, carriages tents, awnings,
,nan„ eing hollands, 84c. Ball-rooms lighted and adorned. Instru-
vp'ntal music provided, Bills of faro sent per post for any number,
o;.°Tle of the firm will wait upon parties if requiied. A magnifl-
et display of Bride Cakes for selection, decorated in a new and
Zegant style. All the Parisian novelties in Wedding Stationery.—
+lessrs. PURSSELL, 78, Coruhill (only).

NEW FEATURE IN LIFE ASSURANCE.
THE DEPOSIT and GENERAL LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY, .
18, New Bridge-street, Blackftiars, London.
CAPITAL—ON! HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS.

DIRECTORS.
--"an—The Right Hon. the Viscount Drumianrig, M.P., P.C.,
t .iraPtroller of her Majesty's Household.
silowley Barnes, Esq., 11, City-road, Finsbury.
Noel Clarke, Esq., late 17th Lancers, Junior United Service Club.
moo Coode, Esq., Portland-terrace, Wandsworth, and Belvoir, St.
litt,Zer's, Jersey.
Cracknall, Esq.. I, St. John' s- Notting-hill, and 11,
W. j "es square
•, Lincoln's-inn.
T.— D Davies-street, Berkeley-square, and Lutterworth,
'•
otop_cestershire.
144% Esq., 15, Connaught-square, Hyde-park, and Tor
Staftordshire.
-Uirvid tier Maclean, Esq„ Harrow-on-the-Hill.
Poole, Esq., 32, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square.
-‘u
b:,.+Ce Prinsep, Esq., 147, Leadenhall-street, and 8, Hyde-park-
West.'
Andrew Riddell, Esq., Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Liw.
`-^, • Scanlan, 21, Upper Seymour...street West, Connaught-square.
--•.kler Sperling, 14, St. James's-square.
'. J. nivg, Es AUDITORS.
(1,. 126, St,and, Actuary and Secretary to the Medical,
Legal, and General Life office
William Jones, Esq., Accountant., 3, Guildhall-chambers.
A. Peck, Esq., 8.A., Actuary to the Engineers and Masonle Life
Office, 345, Strand.

BANKERS.
Sir Charles Price, Marryat, and Co., 3, King William-street, London.
Messrs. Hopkinson and Co., 3, Regont-street.