The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-23 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.—DC COrdoVa'S
candle Intelligencer, of March 26, states that I?rfi
ness was very flat during last week, as in addit3S
to other causes of depression the market was affecl;
to some extent by the uncertainty existing 35.0
what measures the Legislature means to adopt
regard to the import duty and tonnage bills.. Ay
yet nothing has been decided upon, and opinion
appear to be divided on the subject.

THE FRENCH EMPIRE,

The Emperor has received at a private audie,
from M. Rives, the Minister of the United Std'
the reply of the President of the Republic, e.
answer to the notification of his Majesty's
The Prince Poniatowski, the Envoy Extra°lw
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary of TnscaniAe o •
Paris, has signed with M. Drouyn de Lhuys,
sanitary convention already agreed to by the inl
national conference held at Paris, and since men
adopted by Sardinia, Portugal, and Turkey.
The market for Rentes has been generally 3u-ii,7o
and very little change in prices has taken yief
from the quotations of Thursday. In the Wi
a
share market there has been an improvesle'"ntw
the unfavourable report of Thursday, and Pr
were generally higher at the close of business.
MARKET NEWS'--(THIS DAY.)

COVENT GARDEN.
To'day's market was fairly supplied with vegetables,,,g,
which a fair steady business was doing, at full P'
Fruit met a dull inquiry, at our quotations.
ye,
FRUIT.—Pine apples, 8s Od to 12s Od ; hot-house grr, lOs to 15s ; Hambro ditto, Os to Os Od per lb ; apples, denseo, lOs Od to 13s Od ; cooking ditto, Gs to 12s per bushel ; reg-,
0B Od to Os per dozen ; lemons, is to 2s Od ; orang,lB,
4s to Os per 100 ; pomegranates, Od to Od each ; alma t 5,
5s per peck ; Barcelona nuts, 20s per bushel ;
8 per 1001bs. ' • chesnuts, 8s to 20s per bushel ; SW'
berries, Od to lsO ounce.
CabbageVEGETABLES.—, is to 28 Od ; Brussels sproo:
2s Od to 3s Od per half sieve ; broccoli, 2s to 4s ; greenc
4s Od to 68 per dozen bunches ; French beans, is to 2s Pt,
100 ; asparagus, 5s to 9s per bundle ; sea-kail, 2s oata ,
i
28 6d per basket ; rhubarb, 9d to is 6d per bundle ;
flowers, Od to Os per dozen ; potatoes, 100 s to 165 s per W 0;
et,
turnips, 3s Od to 4s Od • carrots Os Od to 8s Od per (I°°
bunches ; cucumbers, Os 6d to is 6d each ; celery, 9u ;
is 6d per buhdle ; spinach, 2s Od to 3s 6d per half sieve
M
onions, 4s Od to 5s Od per bushel ; beet, is Od to 111,/
per dozen ; leeks, 3d to 4d per bunch ;• shallots, Od to °" • garlic, 6d to 8d per lb ; endive, 2s 6d to 3s Od per sera small salad, Od per punnet ; horse-raddish, is Od to 31
per bundle ; mushrooms, is 6d to 2s o(lper bottle ; Pars e 3,1
2s Od to 3s Od per dozen bunches •; turnip greens, l' to is 6d per bushel.

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
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Geese, 4s Od to 8s Od ; Turkeys, 4s to 8s each ;
JAIco
8,1
2s Od to 3s Gd; tame Rabbits, is Od to is 9d; wild ditto, to is; Pigeons, 7d to 10d each; roasting Pigs, 4s Gd to 8.3 v
OLI
each Surrey Fowls, 6s Od to lOs Od; ditto Chickens, 501
Pl©~
to 7s Od; barn-door Fowls, 3s Od to Gs Od per co.ruP:,
Pheasants, Os Od to Os Od; Partridges, Os Od to Os Od; Il3r-e:1
2s Od to 2s 6d; Leverets, 2s Od to 28 6d; Woodcocks, 2s 1,
to 3s Gd; Grouse, Os tO Os Od; Snipes, 9d to ls 6d; c5O
6d to 9d; wild Ducks, is 3d to 2s Od ; Widgeons, 9' to
is ld; and Plovers, 6cl to ls each. English Eggs, 80 Od ..
00s Od; French ditto, 6s Od to 7s Od per 120; fresh Butte"
is Od to is 2d per lb.

BREAD.
The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are frolll
7d to 8d; of household ditto, 5d to 63(1 per 41b loaf.

NEWPORT.
Beef, from 3s 4d to 3s 10d; Mutton, 3s Gd to 48 6d; Latub,
6,1
5s 2d to 63 4d ; Veal, 38 8d to 4s 6d; Pork, as 6d to 44 per fills.

WHITECHAPEL.
Beef from 3s Od to 3s 8d ; Mutton Oa ;* , 3s 6d to 48 la
Lamb, 5s Od to as 2d ; Veal, 3s 6(1 to 4s 4d ; Pork, 3s '—
to 4s Gd per 81bs. by the carcase.

BILLINGSGATE.
Turbots, 7sod to 12s Od ; Brills, Os Oct to Os Od; Cod Fi.4„,111'
4s Oct to 8s Od each; Salmon, is 6d to 2s per lb. ; Soles, In
to 2s 3d per pair ; Eels, 6d to is per lb ; Lobsters, 84.1
2s Od ; Crabs, 6d to is 10d ; Whitings, 3s Od to 6s per
Doreys, 2s 6d. to 10s Od; Mullets, is to 5s each; Comm°fl
Oysters, 9s Oct to 12s Od; Natives, 36s Oct to s2s Od Pe,
bushel; Mackerel, 60s per 100; Smelts, 6.1. to is 6d per doz.:
Scats, 6d to Od per lb; Shrimps, is 6,1 to 2s 3d per gall
Bloaters, is 1d to 2s 3d per dozen; Fresh Herrings, og,
to as Od per dozen ; Haddocks, te is Od each ; „
4s to 6s per 100 ; Carp, is Od to 2s Od each ; Tench, 1
to 2s Od per brace ; Gurncts, 6d to is Oct each ; Halibut'
6d per lb.

HIDES AND SKINS.
Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 2id to 3d; 641 b to 721 b, 3d
,
to 34d; 721 b to 801 b, 31d to 33d; 801 b to 881 b, 3ad to gy;
881 b to 961 b, 34d to 4d; 961 b to 1041 b, 4d to 44d ; 11.
to 1121 b 011 to Od. Horse hides, 5s Gd to 6s Od; calf 81%1
light, is 6d to 2s 6d; ditto, full, 58 Od to Os Od; ou
sheep, 1080 d to 1226 d; Keats, 108 Od to Ils 6d; Half-bps'
10s Od to lls 6d ; Downs, 78 Od to 9s Od; Lambs, 20 3d
2s 9d ; and Shearlings, is 6d to is Bd.
HAY MARKETS.
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 3/ 5s to 4/ 12s; clooei
ditto, 3/ lOs to Si 5s ; and straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 16s per 10°'"
A full average supply, and a steady demand.
CIIMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 3/ 5s to 4/ 16s ; cloaet
ditto, 3/ lOs to 5/ Os ; and straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 165 per low
Supply good, and trade rather dull.

WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 3/ 3s to 4/ 14s ; cloud
ditto, 31 lOs to 515 s • and straw, 1/ 7s to 1/ 16a per Do
Supply tolerably good, and trade dull.

BIRTHS.
OF A SON.
On the 20th inst., at the Rectory-house, St. Michael's'
Cornhill, the wife of the Rev. T. W. Wrench.

•
OF A DAUGHTER. Ic"
On the 21st inst., at 6, Gloucester-place, Hyde-pare
gardens, the wife of William Major Cooke, Esq.

/ MARRIED.
by the
On the 21st inst., at Trinity Church, Botleys,
~,i2
Right Rev. the Bishop of Worcester, Leyeester,
eldest '"
' Irere'
of Edward Penrhyn, Esq., of East Sheen, Surrey, to k
second daughter of Robert Gosling, Esq., of Botley's-P° '
Surrey.

DIED. •
On the 21st inst., at the vicarage, Wickham-market'
Suffolk, Frances, the wife of the Rev. Wooden Butler.
On tho 20th inst., at Saudga.te, Kent, John StLYcaus.
Esq., M.A., late of Worcester College, Oxford, and CIO
road, St. John's-wood, London.

LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO
• of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, 4;f
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county
Middlesex, Saturday, April 23, 3.853.

I the Times something like a motiopiily of the newspaper
market. Let the Chancellor of the Exchequer Of,
be alloWed to carry out his plans respecting the stal;l.
on newspaper supplements, and in a very few years tliehe
will be no morning journal in existence, except ,t
Times and the Morning Advertiser. We ()muff I,nio.
pregnable ground. Our progress during the lest t
years, both in circulation and advertisements, 1101
surpassed anything on record in the history of the (131ly
i,
press ; and that progress has been goirg on much re°
rapidly during the last two months, than at any Pr;
vious part of these two years of brilliant success. is not on our own . account, therefore, that we cony'
;,,h
plain of the glaring and indecent favouritism W'l7,,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer is showing to ti'"
Timm We speak more on behalf of our morning
temporaries than our own. We have no wish, as, ‘cd-
can have no interest, in seeing them exting,uiszler
Why should we grude the Conservatives those
vices which the Morning Herald renders to tl',el;
c tuse ? They have as good a right to an organ in...l"icer
press, as they have to have a club of their own-1%11,74
it he the Carlton or any other institution of the
Nor have we any right, and assuredly we have no "'
position, to seek to get rid of the Morning Post, as tbe
o-
medium through which the fashionable world exehVe
sentiments and compliments with each other.
t
should, indeed, regret, rather than rejoice, to see t'"
" glass of fashion," and that "mould of form," 1001°'„
in pieces.

but such, most surely, will be the result, not as re,
Bards it only, but as re.3Dects other morning journ°i:
also, should Government thus persist in playing into to;
hands of the Times. We call then on those manhole
the fashionable world, who are members also of t'o
House of Commons, to oppose in the most strentl°
manner the proposal of the Chancellor of the Excheektise,,
to abolish the stamp on newspaper supplements.
s,
appeal with no less earnestness to the Conservat!:
members, to interpose on behalf of another mor1111:4i
contemporary which has so long, and with so 10%
fidelity and zeal, laboured in their cause. And, last;
we address ourselves to the independent Liberals in the
House of Commons. We entreat them to oppose tu,
monstrous piece of favouritism to the Times, on tb'l
broad ground that the thing is as flagrantly unjust
is glaringly indecent.

WEST INDIA MAIL.

The Great Western steam-ship, with the west
India and Pacific mails, arrived at Southampton
yesterday. She left Jamaica on the 27th of Mall,l
Barbadoes on the 28th, and St. Thomas's on
2d of April.
The Great Western brings 80 passengers an
$808,855.
The yellow fever had almost disappeared in the
West Indies.
There is little doubt but that the crops will be
short throughout the whole of the islands.
A copper mine, with a vein of beautiful 'U'
chite, had been discovered in Jamaica.
From Jamaica we learn by this arrival that tij;°,
most important event of the past fortnight,
ous to the sailing of the packet, was the reje,c,tifk
by the council of the Retrenchment Bill. The 06;(1
of Jamaica has, from its establishment, Pas%
through a successful career, reflecting honour of
the attention of its managers. A report has Jag
been made and presented to the shareholder'
giving evidence of a great degree of prudence If
the part of the present board of directors truo
praiseworthy, and for which they are entitled to i.s
thanks of all concerned. It is gratifying to py.;,
ceive that a sum of 16 • 000/ was in 1840--e r,'
three years after the establishment of the back b
carried from the reserved surplus fund to std
account, thus nominally increasing the pait.
capital from 84,0001. to 100,000/.—Co/onial $(".
Bard.