The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-31 00:00:00

SEED MARKET.

The arrivals are but molerate. A good business done in
Red Clover, Canary, and Linseed, and prices looking up.
But little doing in other kinds„and prices as before.

PROVISION MARKET.

There is a steady business doing in this department, in most
ccmmodities, and prices are firm.
TALLOW MARKET.
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P. Y. C. is 595. on the spot, and the same lo arrive: but not
much doing. The Stock to-day is about 20,090 casks.

COLONIAL MARKET.

Today we bare nothing whatever doing; Ira for the first
week aster the holidays there is a tolerably fair business adver-
tised, and a good and brisk business is expected to be done after
the commencement of the New Year. For to-morrow we
have public sites of Bengal Sugar, amounting to 4,100 bags.
The imports are now but to a moderate exte,:t. The quar-
terly tea sale, amounting to 13,404,3181b5., commeacea this
day week.

NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, DEc. 29.
We bad a good supply of Wheat et market to-day from the
farmers, as sell as a considerable show cf foreign samples re-
cently arrived, and the sales made were at an advance of Is.
to 2s, per quarter on last Saturday's prices. Barley met a
good demand, and brought Is. per quarter more money. Malt
of the best quality was taken off at an advance of ls. per quar-
ter, but inferior samples remained without change. For Eye
the sale was dull at late prices. Oats sold at similar rates to
last week, Beans and Pease were in limited request at our
quotations, Flour of the best quality commanded an advance
of Is. per sack.

• New. Old.
Whcst, Northnmterland. Rls. els
Norf. >lk arid Sullolk - .. 7s S s 7B, iiiit,
~---.... Berwick and So)tch..... ....... ... :I-. 7ts —s —s.
--.... Foreign
aye, N.,rt"!fr and Sndoik
Forelen
Barley, Malting, Nortiiik and SulNk 40.. 43s ...... —s. —s.
- Grinding and Feeding .. 3.1., a!55..... —s. —€. L•
Malt, Norfolk and .!.;u:fidk GI, Cls •—; ---=. r
Beans, Small —s --5....... 47e 50?.
---, Tick —s —8 45s 41)s
Pease, Wh:tc 4's 5'5.....
---- Gray
Oats, Northumberland, Petatee
- Feed
.knreign
—s. -..3. —B. —B_.,
Flour tler sack) s9s. (ids -s. --s.

LLOYD'S SIIIPPING.-(THIS DAY.

DEAL, DEC. 29..-Sailed this morning the homeward bound
for tl.e Ri,er, also her Majesty's ship Russell, to Sheerness ;
put back, the Achilles, No de, for Sydney, and remains. Dec.
30th.—Wind S.W., squally, with rain and thick vvcatt.er.—
Arri,ed and proceeded for the riser, Virginia, Boyd!, Palermo;
Jane, Watson, St. Andrew's, New Brunswick; Glenelg, China,
and remains. Came down from the river the Eden, Hurst,
for Tobago; Binney, Hopkins, Boston; Rattlesnake, Malta;
Tagus, St. Vincent's, and remain in the Downs.
PORTSMOUTH, Dan. 29.....,Wi0d S. W. D..c. 30.—Wind
W. S. W.—Arrived the Toronto, Gris,wold, from New York,
and sailed for London; Aide-de.Camp, lanes, London, with
loss of main-yard; London, Turner, and Eleanor, Turner,
ditto; New Friendship, Lath, Cork; Sarah Ann, O'Neile,
Waterford ' • Hunter, Henry, Y..rrriouth.
DOVER, DEC. 29.—Arrivel the Leopold, Herben, Lisbon.
011 port, the Dirk, Sowing, St. Andrew's, New Brunswick.
GLOUCESTER, DEC. 30.—Arrived the Briti6ll Lady, -Yew,
Ptince Edward's Island. Sailed the George, Walker, St.
John's, New Brunswick.

CHATtiAm, DEc. 29.—Arrived the Concord, Cobb, Dantz.c.
SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 29. —As rived the Emily, Weill,
Youghal.

COWES, DEC. 29.—Arrived the Diamond, Bissett, Batavia,
with loss of bulwarks, &c.

SWANSEA, DEE. 26.--:Arrived the Tom Pringle, Rustoz,
St. Jage de Cuba ; Flora, Shebeck, Chili.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 29. —Wind variable, with light airs.
30. —Fresh breezes from S. W. to S.S. W.—Arrived the
Volunteer, M•Ninn, from Canton ; Marquis of Ely, Doyle,
Wroxford ; Perseverance, Bailey, Westport ; Hulbah, King,
Wrexford ; Leander, Tuck, Dublin ; Johanna, Dundalk
Charlotte, ditto ; Britannia, M'Cabe. Wicklow ; Deva
Roberts, Youghall ; Emily, Waterser, Durmea ; James an
Mary, Mturay, Clonakilty ; Black Swan, Hunt, Wexford ;
George, Ross, Glasgow; Benjamin Alexander, Anderson,
ditto ; and Freedom, Murdock, Island of We. Sailed the
Huddersfield, Owens, for Africa ; Stanley, James, ditto ;
and, Mary Bibby, Metcalf, Trieste.

MARGATE, DEC. 30.—The Neptune, Block, for Ostend, put
in bee leaky, having been on the Goodwin Sand=.
RAMSGATE, DEC. 30. —The Dryden, Hall, from Newcastle
for Messina, leaky, and with loss of rudder, anchor, and chain,
having been on shore near Beachy Head, and got off with
assistance, and proceeded.
PLYMOUTH, DEC. 29.-- Wind S. W.—Arrived the Brct. ers,
Dais, from Odessa; tier Majesty's ship Malabar, Bermuda ;
Mary Ann, Walters, Messina; New, Ford, Salcombe. Sailed
the Leeds (steamer) for Havre.
FALMOUTH, DEC. 29. Arrived the Africa. Baxter, from
Malta ; Maria, Edmonds, London ; Walburton, Gilbert, Dub-
lin; Cordelia, Pascoe, Waterford. Sailed the William and
[hairy, Somerville, Waterford ; Jessie, Henry, London.
The buu on the Manaile Rocks has broke trfaid.
DARTMOUTH, DEC 29.—Arrived the Centurion, Wood
and John, Kendrick, from London ; Alletta, Amsterdam.
TUIGNMOUTH, DEC. 29.—Arrived the Nancy, Poland, from
Newfoundland, with part of cargo thrown overboard.
DOVER, DEC. 28.—The Verier, from Cologne, for New
York, vary leaky, with loss of anchor and chain, having been
on shore, and must discharge, arrived here,
SHEERNESS, DEC. 29.—Two brigs are on shore, one on
the Mapline, the other on the Nore Spit, but are expected to
he got off with the tide.
PENZANCE, DEG. 29. Arrived here the Amy, Crowell,
from London, for St. John's, New Brunswick, very leaky, and
disabled, having encountered very severe weather ; Zephyr,
Love, Swansea, leaky, cut 11 days.
GUERNSEY, DEC. 27.—Arrived 6e.e the Marquis of Hast-
ings, Simpson, from Singapore, with chain, cables, and guns
thrown overboard.

The Groswick, of Waste, with los►. of foremast, off Lisbon,
was spoken by the Quebec packet, arrived at Falmouth.
The Levant packet, from St. Andrew's, after being on
Foreness Rock, has got off without assistance.
The Peri, lase Vivian, from Tarragossa for Liverpool, has
ptit in, with the maser and one man washed overboard, viitb
loss of sails, bulwarks, &c.
TLe Ivanhoe, Gibson, from Liverpool for Rio Janeiro, which
put into Plymouth, 27th inst., is discharging her cargo, part of
which is in a damaged condition.

NAVAL PROMOTION.--Mr, Bathurst ( to the
gallant Captain Bathurst who fell at Navarin) son ,
h-
ceived his appointment as Lieutenant R.N. This is the
officer mentioned by us some months since as having been
so strongly n.ccmmended for promotion by Sir Edward
Codrington on account of his father's services.
It is said, and we believe with truth, that marry
more accidents occur on railways than bee-me known to
the public ; and that the greatest pains to observe secrecy
are taken at head-quarters. It would be well if d
directors, es well as state-eoach owners, were compelled to
publish their disasters,—Morning Herald.

BRIG TON.-SUNDAY.

The Palace 'chapel was opened for Divine worship thi
morning. In the Royal pew with her Majesty were tir.
Duchess of Kent and the Princess Augusta. The Countess-.
of Citarlemont was the lady in waiting, and the Marquis of•'
Headfort, lord in waiting. There were also present the-
Marchiont‘ss of Normanby, Miss Wynyard (in attendance upon
the Princess Augusta), Hon. Miss Spring Rice, Hon. Mrs.
G. Campbell, Hon. Miss Paget. Colonel Buckley, Sir Wm.
Lumley, floe. C. A. Murray, Viscount Torrington, and Hon.
Major ICeppel. Prayers were read by the Rev. J. S. M.
Anderson, who preached on a text from the Acts, c. xxvii.,.
v. 29. The choir performed Boyce's service in C, end sang-
an anthem from the 1130th Palm, Mtle. Ostergaard taking
the treble solos in a very superior manner.
The continuance of rain confined her Majesty and the Royal.
Family within doors.

The Royal dinner party this evening, exclusive of her Ma
jesty, the Duchess of Kent, and the Roy al suite, will et.mprise
the Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby, Viscount Mel-
bourne, Hon. G. Byng. and the Hon. Miss Pitt.
None of the Royal Family left the Palace yesterday, awing
to the wit r,eather, but after luncheon her Majesty, attended
by the Countess of Charlemont and Miss Paget, drove to the
riding-school, where the Queen took exercise on horseback.:
Viscount Torrington, the Marquis of Headfort, Hon. C. A..
Murray, Colonel Buckley, and Hon. Major Keppell also ac-
companied her Majesty.
The Princess Augusta was yesterday indisposed with a
slight cold, but it did not prevent her Royal Highness from
joining the Royal dinner party..
The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby arrived last
tight at the Palace on a visit to her Majesty.
Her. Majesty's dinner pay yesterday evening, in addition
to the Duchess of Kent and the Royal suite, comprised the
incess Augusta, Miss Wynyard, -Earl and Countess of
Chichester, Baron Bulow, Marquis and Marchioness of Nor-
manby, Colonel Berkeley Drummond, Viscount Melbourne,
Viscount Torrington, Hon. P. S. Byng, and the Hon. Major
Koppel.
The Gloucester Hotel, to long in high repute here, is in
consequence of the death of the proprietor, about to change
bands, through the instrumentality of Mr. George Rtibitis.