The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-18 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

COLONIAL MARKET.
The transactions were to a fair extent, and prices were
firmer. The public sales were of not much moment; the de-
liveries from the warehouses were to a fair extent. The ar-
rivals were on a small scale.

TEA .
Prices were fully supported fo MARKETr
Free Trade Tea, and a fa'r
business was done. Company's Congou Is. 70. cash.
TALLOW MARKET.
The market was in a dull state, and prices had a downward
tendency on the spot ; there were sellers of P. Y.C., at 455.
9d. per cwt.
WHITECFIAPEL HAY MARKET.
The supply both of Clover and Meadow Hay at market was
fair, the demand brisk, without any alteration in prices.
Clover, 4/. 15s. to 6/. ; Meadow Hay, 31. 14s. to 5/. The
supply of Straw was plentiful, and although the demand was
good prices gave way full 3s. per load, 435. to 455.

LLOYD'S SIIIPP.ING-=(1-cHIS DAY.)

LONDON, MARCH 18.—Wind S. S.W., cloudy.
DEAL, MARCH 17.—Wind S. W.—Arrived the Eccles,
Penning, and Romulus, from Demerara; 11Iedore, Africa;
Postboy, St. Michael's ; General Evans, Dare, ditto; King,
Alfred, Knell, ditto ; Druid, Denia ; Enterprise, Branford,
Westward. Arrived from the River the Duke of Manchester,
for Jamaica; Favourite, Howell, Havannah ; Helen, Barba-
does ' • Marquis of Queensbury, Allen, Savannah ; Gladiator,
New York ; Great Britain, swinburn, Montreal ; Cambri.n,
Garrick, Bordeaux. Arrived the Mary, Appleby, from the
Northward, and sailed to the Westward.
PORTSMOUTH, Mauer' 17.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived her
Majesty's sliip Asia, from the Mediterranean ; Pique, ditto ;
Merlin, Richards, St. Michael's; Oscar, Hayward, Leghorn
Jane, Vivian, Messina, and sailed for London Hendrik Jan,
' Wapp, from Rotterdam, for Batavia • Sarah, llietolls, Cork.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 17.—Wind E. to S.W.—Arrived the
Ludlow, Brunton, from Mauritius; Albinea, Logan, Sierra
Leone; Eclipse, Martinson, South Seas, full; Undaunted,
Warwell, Barcelona; Perseverance, Adams, Lines ; Dart,
Bootyman, Fayal. Sailed the Port, Fleetwood, for London.
SALCOMBE, MARCH 16.—Arrived the Nino, for London;
Mameluke, Sunderland, for Brest.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 17. —Wind S. to W.—Arrived the
Carina, Hayden, from Calcutta ; Pigeon, Hiscock, Maranham,
sided the 4th ult. ; Alice Jane, i3leasdale, Laguna, sailed
19th Jan. ; Salus, Demerara ; Brutus, Douglas, Bonny,
Failed 27th Dec. ; Snowden, Africa; Alexander, Nichols;
Brenda ; Otter, Preston ; Mary ; Eley Sanders, Brely, Su-
rinam ; Mastery, Noel, Taganrog ; Sea, Odessa ; Jenny Jones,
Zante; Diamond, Trieste ; Monarch ; Selina, Barrett, Pa-
lermo ; Phenix ; Norval, Willis, Le horn ; Sarah, Burkett,
Trieste; Mentor; El zabeth, Marss ; Aurio, Mediterra-
nean ; Angelina, James, Charante ; Amiable ; Charon ; Toni
Tough, Perpetue ; Pet,. St. Michael's; Industrie ;
Ostend. Failed the Paragon, for-Jamaica; Persian, Robins;
Alecto, Whiting, New Orleans.
COWES, MARCH 17.—Arrived the Marion, Campbell, from
Colingueba; Helen Symersi.Japp; Mystack, and sailed for
Antwerp.
OFF HASTINGS, MARCH 47.—Forth, Lamp, Batavia.
FALMOUTH, MARCH 16.—Arrived the Princess Josephine,
Muller, from Buenos Ayres fcr Rotterdam ; James Dunlop,
Sutta, Port-au-Prince • Falcon, Thorns, Taganrog ; Brothel s,
Lewes, Leghorn; Medusa, Mesuna. A brig abandoned, with
a soldier figure-head, was passed on the 11th, off Cape Fins-
terre, by tile Brothers, arrived here.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 16.—The Albert, from St. Valery to
this port, is on slime on the Mewstone, and foil of water.
GUERNSEY, MARCH 16.—The Lucy, from Portsmouth to
this island, was wrecked on the 12th instant; crew anti pas-
sengers saved. The Jeane Annette, from Bor.:le:am to Rotten,
was brought in here yesterday waterlogged and abantlinial by
the craw, by the Transit steamer.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

LIVERPOOL. COTTON MARKET, MARCH 17.—The Cotton
Market to-day has been again very inactive, the sales do not
amount to more than 2,000 bales, at Is. Bd. per lb., a decline
on Friday's rates ; speculators seem wholly indisposed to pur-
chase, arid fur export nothing is doing.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH 17. But very
limited business has been done in the Share .Market to-day.
The transactions comprise only Chester and Birkenhead New
Shares, 16i ; GlaTovr and Paisley and Greenock, 231 ; L on-
don and Birmingham, 1631. In Bank Stock nothing to report.
MANcuEsrEn STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 17.—We have
had a depressed market, and the only transactions are—Man-
chester and Leeds, Halves, 31 ; Manchester and Birmingham,
; Stafford and Rugby, 3it ; Rochdale Canal, te6i ; Bank
of Manchester, 71 17s. Od.

We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date
Bou SSE OF AMSTERDAM. —The firmness of the Bourses of
London and Paris has caused a reaction in the prices of our
national funds, which were declining on Saturday. The busi-
ness done has not been extensive. The liquidation, which
takes place every two months, has caused some transactions in
the Actions of the Society of Comme,ce, which were done at
160} If, and closed at 161*. Ardoin's were more firm, and
remained at 21* a 5-16 ; Coupons, 21 1-16 it is stated
that a meeting of the Society of Commerce of the Pays-Bas
will be held to-morrow, the 16th instant, at Amsterdam, to de-
liberate on the new propositions of the Government.