The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-21 00:00:00

THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.)

BILLINGSGATE MARKET.
Supplies fair, and the demand tolerably good; prices much
as before. Turbot, ss. to 20s. ; Cod, 2s. 6d. to Bs. ; Soles,
6d. to 4s. per pair ; Lobsters, Is. to 4s. 6d. ; Salmon, is.
to 2s. 6d. per lb. ; Whitings, 3d. to 6d. ; and Haddocks, Cid. to
Is. Very few Mackerel at market.

HUNGERFORD MARKET.
Supplies were good, and so was the demand, prices steady.
Turbot ss. to 205., Cod 2s. 6d. to 10s., Soles ls. to 4s. per
pair, Lobsters Is. to 45.',6d. Beef 74d. to sp., Mutton ild.
to Bid„ Veal Bd. to 9d., Pork 71-d. to Bid. per lb.
HAY MARKETS.
Supplies good, end demand brisk, prices much as they were.
Hay, 50s. to 9Os. ; Clover, 90s. to 113 s. ; Straw, 325. to
425. per load.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY,—The sales o
this day are 6,000 bales, prices looking up.

Arrivals this morning.—French and Halifax mails; the
latter by the Seagull; ship letters from Honduras, Ja-
maica, and Philadelphia.

We give an extract of an address of the inhabitants of
Port Philip to his Honour Charles Joseph Latrobe, Esq.,
Superintendent of the district of Port Philip:—
" Sir,—Wo the inhabitants of Melbourne and the coun-
try adjacent, beg leave respectfully to offer to Mrs. La-
trobe and yourself our hearty congratulations on your ar-
rival in Australia Felix. Your coming, Sir, has been ear-
nestly looked for by the whole community here ; for we
regard you as the harbinger of our increased prosperity.
" The present position of Australia Felix is a very pecu-
liar one, her career of prosperity having been hitherto
quite unparalleled in the annals of British colonization, and
this not only without any efficient aid from the mother
country, but we might even add, without her knowledge.
It now scarcely exceeds four years since a few:enterprising
individuals from Van Diemen's Land first landed in this
district; they at once discovered the advantages of
the country, and, as soon as these became known,
settlers from all the neighbouring colonies crowded
to it. Already Melbourne, which eighteen months
ago possessed only three brick houses, is a flourish-
ing town, with a population of between two and three
thousand souls, and containing most of the appendages of
an advanced civilization. It has four places of worship of
different denominations 'of Christians, a Court of Justice,
two schools, two banks, one club, with sixty members, a
fire and marine assurance company, and two newspapers,
one supported by the learned professions ; there are six
clergymen, twelve medical men, and five lawyers. Such
is the present state of Melbourne. Of wool, our staple
commodity, there were exported in 1837, 60,512 pounds;
in 1836, 213,233 pounds; and in 1839, 860,877 pounds,
independently of large quantities shipped coastways to
Sydney. Meanwhile we beg to state that we view your
arrival here at this crisis as a most important event; for
being convinced that the Government has legislated for us
without sufficient information of our state, we confidently
entertain the hope that as you will have to communicate
with a Governor so enlightened as Sir George Gipps,
the regulations which have been recently put into
operation here will be soon altered, and Australia Felix
put on a footing of equality with the other Crown colonies
of Australia."

Our arrivals this morning are very few. It is stated
that the affair of the sulphur dispute has been left to be
settled by the King of the French, and agreed upon by
both parties.
Consols continue to have a firm appearance this morn-
ing, and may be quoted 9] for the Account ; Money 90i i.
Exchequer Bills, 22 24 prem. ; India Bonds, 2 4 preen. ;
Bank Stock, 175 k; India Stock, 249 k 2501.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Activa rather improved,
29/ ; Deferred, 141 i ; Passive, 71 f ; Portuguese, 35.1 i ;
Three per Cents., 241 4 ; Colombian, 251 ; Mexican, 281
a'. Brazilian, 76f ; Dutch Two-and- a- Half per Cents.,
4.,
53a a; Five per Cents., 991 i.
ritlOES OE SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bissoe Bridge
Paid. Per Share,
5 .!354
Brazilian Imperial Mining Co. (Issued at 51. pm.) 20 11 United Mexican (Issued at 21, pm.)
Ditto New Scrip
5 6}6 Birmingham and Derby Railway Company 100 82%
Edinburgh and Glasgow 3O G 25
Groat Western Railway Company 65
62%
Brighton Railway
'35 —7::: 2eN !O
North Midland Railway Company lOO 103 2
Ditto New
10
South Eastern and Dover Railway Company lB 2.lhN
HALF- PAST ONE.
We have a complete blank day for intelligence and no
arrivals of consequence. The Halifax papers have not
been received, owing to the mail having started just as
the packet was coming into Falmouth ; in consequence of
which the merchants are deprived of their letters, and
complain that an express was not sent to overtake the mail.
We hear that the money advanced by the Bank of
France to the Bank of England has all been paid by the
latter establishment.

Money at present is in abundance ; so much so, that
the capitalists and bankers cannot find employment for it.
The American packet ship President, has arrived off the
Lizard. She left New York on the 31st of March. As-
signments not of so late a date as previously received.
Consols continue firm, but they arc a shade lower than
in the early part of the morning, and may be quoted 91 ;
they were 91 to 91k for the account, and for money 90 ;
Exchequer Bills rather lower, 21 23 prem.; India Bonds,
4 prem. ; Bank Stock 175.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 29k; Deferred,
141 ; Portuguese, 35 ; Three per Cents., 24i ; Co-
lumbian 254-; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53i;
Five per Cents., nothing done:

CLOSING PRICES.
Brill'lSll FUNDS
Bank Stock 175% India Stock 250
3 per Cent. Red
3 per Cent Ccns. 903 Ditto Old Annuities
3% per Cent. Red 98% Ditto New Annuities ......... 8834
New 3% per Cent 99% Ex. Bills, 1,0001 "d .3 pm
New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001 "3 p
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 21 inn
Jan. 1890
Oct. 1859
Jan 1860 ..
FOREIGN FUNDS
- , Portuguese Bonds,sper cent 69%
Ditto, Ncw Ditto
Prussian, 5 per cent
Russian Bonds, 5 per cent...3l3N
Ditto, Metallic
Spanish, 5 per rent ............... 23%
Ditto, Deferred .................. 14%
French, 5 per cent. .....,..1121. 1121. —c
Exchange
—l. —c
French, 3 per cent —r. —c.
Dutch, 12% per cent..........., 53%
Ditto, 5 per cent. .......... ... 9,9 a
A ItES.
ilway
Tway 25
!way 5l

Austrian, 5 per cent
Belgian, 5 per cent....
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent —
Chilian, 6 per cent
Colomb,an, 6 or cent —
Ditto, 1824
Danish, 3 per cent —
0 rook Bonds, 1825, 5 per ct —
Mexican, 5 per cent 24%
Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825
Pernv ian ,1525,6 per cent..."
SD ,
Birmingham and Derby Rai.
Ettaburgh and Glasgow Rail
Great No.i.h of England ltail
Great Western Railway .
Ditto New Shares
Hull and Selby
London and Brighton Railway 251.„
London and Blackwall Railway
London and Birmingham Railway 161
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 104;
Ditto Scrip . . lO%
Manchester and Leeds l':iilwaY
Ditto New Shares Qt.%
North Midland Railway
Ditto New Shares
South Eastern and Dover 2Y,

FOOD PROSPECTS.—The present quantity of
land about Barnsley sown with wheat exceeds, by nearly one-
bird, that of any season for the last six years.

PAROCHIAL ELECTIONS:
(THIS DAY.)

ST. MARY'S, LAMBETH.
This day, at eleven o'clock, a Vestry Meeting was held
at the Boy's Parochial School-room, Lambeth-green, for
the purpose of choosing Churchwardens, Overseers, and
other officers for the ensuing year. There was at an early
hour a remarkably numerous attendance of ratepayers, and
soon after the Chair was taken this large room, which
holds about 2,000 person, was nearly filled. In consequence
of the litigation commenced by the Church party against
the Liberal Churchwardens, the animosity between the
Reformers and Anti-Reformers rages at present with
greater virulence than ever, and the walls of the parish
have been for the last few days covered with the placards
of both parties; in which as much, if not more, reference
is made to personalities than to the public affairs of the
parish. In the School-room, the Church party, (of
whom a strong muster was indicated by the number of car-
riages before the door) gathered themselves in a knot to
the right hand of the chair, and seemed to be in the propor-
tion of about one-fifth to the mass of the rate-payers
assembled ; but their unity and strength of lungs in a
great measure compensated for the disproportion of their
numbers, in the contests of noise and vituperation► which
occupied a great part of the day.
The Rector (the Rev. Dr. D'Oyley) took the chair at
eleven o'clock precisely.
Mr. John B. Clerk was re-elected to the office of vestry
clerk without opposition.
The Rector then nominated Mr. Laurence Redhead, of
Kennington-green, as his warden.
Mr. GRADY moved that Mr. George Fall, Mr. John
Ham, and Mr. John Barton, be the churchwardens for
the ensuing year.
Mr. ROGERS proposed Mr. Charles Evans, Mr. Thomas
Grissel, and Mr. John Bright, to serve the office.
Mr. GRADY wished to address the vestry before the ques-
tion was put, and in the first place he exhorted the rate-
payers to preserve order, and to give every one a hearing.
The society, which called itself the Parochial Protective
Society, had circulated the most gross falsehoods against
the gentlemen whom he had the honour to propose for re-
election as churchwardens. One of those calumnies was
that when they were in office they had made a church-
rate. The persons who told that lie knew it was a lie.--
(The meeting had not concluded when we went to Press.)