The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-11 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

COVENT GARDEN.
The supplies were large and the trade good at the following
prices : Foreign Grapes, Is. to 3s. pr lb ; Hothouse, 15s. to
20s.per lb. ; Pines, Bs. to 20s. per lb. ; Asparagus, 4s. to
Bs. per bundle ; Rhubarb, ss. to 12s. per dozen ; Sea Kale,
Is. 6.1. to 33., per punnet ; Old Potatoes, Whites, 60s. to
655. ; Devons, 6.55. ; Yorks, 70s. ; Scotch, 60s. to 655.
per ton ; New Potatoes, 23. 6d. to 3s. ad. per lb.
French Beans 2s. 6d. to 3s. per 100 ; Peas 10s. to
145. per half score ; Spinage Is. 6d. to 35., per sieve : Savoy
Cabbages Bs. to 2s. per dozen ; Cucumbers ss. to 10s. per
brace ; Apples 4s. to 20s. per half sieve ; Lemons 4s. to 10s.
per hundred ; Oranges 6s. to I Is. per hundred ; Turnips 2d.
per bunch ; 13rocoli Is. 6d. to 4s. per bundle ' • Carrots 4d. to
sd. per dozen ; Onions ss. to 7s. per sieve ; Celery 3s. to 4s.
per bundle ; Plants 4s, to ss. 6d. per dozen.
HUNGERFORD MARKET.
Fair supplies, and a good trade-prices much as last stated.
BILLINGSGATE MARKET.
Supplies good and a fair trade-prices generally as last quoted.
NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS.
There was a good demand for Game and Poultry, and prices
looked upwards.

HAY MARKETS.
Goad supplies and moderate demand. Prices continue stead;•.

TEA MARKET.
Although the pressure of the prompt may now be regarded
as over, still t here has been no spring in tne market. All that
can he said of the market is, that prices were rather firmer.
Company's Congous, 2s. 31d. to 2s. 4d. for cash.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

Din. Ar.sit. 10.—Wind. N.E.—Arrived the Carribean,
from Mauritius; awl Harriet, Cape of Good Hope. Sailed
the Calebaugos, for South Australia; Albion, Crosby, Hali-
fax ; British Tar, Keyser, Quebec; Vestal, Mosey, ditto;
Iberia (steamer), Cooper, Lisbon.
Livearoot, Aran 10.—Wind variable.—Arrived the
Thetis, Brown, from Savannah. Sailed the Harriet Rockwell,
Prescott; Russia, Elliot; Lucy, Murphy; Caledonia,:Masscoot,
and !liars Winsor, for Mobile ; Napier, Sandford, Phi-
ladelphia ; Belinda, M'Nicol, Montreal ; Independent. Morris,
Quebec ; Benjamin Morgan, Johnson, Charleston ; Nile, Fer-
guson ; William the Fourth, Cleal, Melma, Buller, Nancy,
Wilson, and Hope, Sheridan, Newfoundland.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 10.—Wind variable.—Sailed the Cato,
Smith, for Quebec.
FALmouyir, APRIL 9.—Wind N.E. to N.N.E. fresh
breezes.—Off port the Admiral Tromp, Kirkhaven, Batavia.
DOVER, APRIL 10.—Off port. the Numa, Le Man, from
Bermuda; Margaret, Smith, Halifax; Camilla, Wattington,
( harlcstun.
flAsTincs, APRIL 10.—Off port the Wilhelm Ludoig, from
China ; and Vanguard, Sabeston, Sierra Leone.
TUSK A R, APRIL 7.—Off port the Old England, from New
Orleans.

SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 10.—Sailed the Thomas Green,
Stewart, and Portia, Clark, for Quebec.
SCILLY, APRIL 3.—Off port Mars, Le Galle, Monte Video
BRISTOL, APRIL 10.—Sailed the Mary and Joseph, Fayal.
CLYDE, APRIL B.—Sailed the Rowley, Alexander, from
Trinidad; Miramiehi, Greave, St. John's, New Brunswick;
Sarah Ann, Taylor; Ardgowan, Martin, and Cruckston Castle,
inley, Quebec.

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 10.---Wind W. to N.N.W.—Sailed
the Janet, Mildridge, for Quebec. Off port the Antelope,
l'rom iJerbice.

SALCOMBE, Aran 9.—Off port the Victoria, St. Michael's.
CORK, APRIL B.—Sailed the Sarah and Nancy, Hughes,
for St. Andrews, Ncw Brunswick; Majestic, Tate, Quebec;
Tryagain, Sleacock, ditto; and Percival, Robson, St. John's,
New Brunswick.
DuNnEK, APRIL 7.—Sailed the Monarch, Marshall, for
Quebec; and Atlantic, Morton, ditto.
Hum., APRIL 10.—Wind W.N.W.—Sailed the Vixen,
Clarke, for Malaga.

COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.—Her Majesty,
with Princes Albert and Ernest, honoured this theatre on Fri-
day night with their presence. It was of course crowded, for
independently of the attraction of Royalty, a desire to see the
last of the Kembles for the last time was extremely general.
Hamlet was the character (perhaps the most eiflieult of all
others) in which Kemble on Friday night took his leave of the
stage. He achieved his trying task with consummate ability.
And so thought the admiring audience, whose enthusiastic
plaudits were as loud as they were well merited by the object of
he demonstration.

The works of the Dundee and Arbroath Rail-
nay were so far completed on Thursday morning last, as to
admit of its being opened to the public. The opening train
consisted of twenty carriages well filled with passengers, with
the Queen engine in front, and the Dart in the rear. There
was an immense concourse of spectators present to witness the
starting of the train.
Yesterday morning a person named Gearing,
said to be an artist, attempted to drown himself in St. James's
Park. He is sixty-eight years of age, has a family of ten chil-
dren, and at an early hour yesterday morning a man was put in
possession of his few trifling goods for an arrear of three
quarters rent.
About four o'clock on Tuesday morning a
woman was observed by two men to throw herself into the
river by the New Mills. She sank once, but on her coming
up she was caught by one of the men (Thomas Brown) and
taken in a state of insensibility to the Unicorn, in St. Mary's,
and by proper attention speedily recovered. It appears that
,he was addicted to drinking, and bad dose this rash act in a
fit of despair, lest her husband should find it out, several per-
sons having threatened to take their bills in to her husband
that (lay. After the matter was fully made known to him she
seemed more reconciled.—Norfolk Chronicle.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—On Friday a little
girl, named Latham, fell through the railing into the area,
of No. 15, Lower Seymour-mews, aud, pitching upon her
head, fractured her skull to such a degree as to render it
doubtful if she will recover.

PLATE ROBBERY.—On Friday morning, be-
tween nine and ten o'clock, the residence of Lady Beauchamp
Proctor, No. 1, Hertford-street, Mayfair, was entered, and a
quantity of plate stolen from the butler's pantry. The thief got
in by the area gate.
WEAVING.—We regret to state that the manu-
facturers of this city have found themselves under the unplea-
sent necessity of reducing the previously low rate of wages to
the extent of another farthing per yard on light cotton goods.
A good many hands are, besides, out of employment. —Perth
Advertiser.

On Friday last the toll dues on the Irvine road
were let at Ayr, by public roup, for the ensuing year, and
brought 939/. Last year the amount obtained was 1,1781.—
showing a deficiency of 2391. on this year's dues, compared
with the previous year. This decrease can only be attributed
to the opening of the Irvine branch of the Glasgow and Ayrshire
Railway.
HANOVER, MARCII 31.—We have for some
(lays been under great anxiety. The King was very seriously
ill; and the more pains were taken to conceal the danger, the
more uncertain people were respecting the real state of the
King, who is still so active at his advacced age, and the greater
was our alxiety and uneasiness. Every day we were assured
the King is mueh better to-day, but he was very dangerously
ill yesterday." But as we had. heard the same thing the day
before, and were certain of having a similar statement the next
day, it was natural that people were not satisfied, and especially
as the door of that part of the palace in which the King's
apartments are, and which was always open, is now closed, and
the carriages of the physicians were almost the whole day at the
palace.
The one hundred an second anniversary festival
of the Royal Society of Musicians was held on Friday in
Freemasons'-hall. The Royal Society of Musicians holds a
very high place among the benevolent institutions of this
country. It was established in the year 1738; and, for more
than a century, every great name of which English music can
boast has been enrolled in the list of its members. In its in-
farcy it was zealously supported by Handel, who not only exer-
cised his genius in composition and performance expressly for
its benefit, but, at his death, bequeathed to it the munificent
legacy of 1,000/. It has always been liberally supported by
the public, on account of its excellent character and extensive
u a ulnes

DISTURBANCES IN FRANCE.—A corn, Or
rather a potato riot, has taken place at Lens le Saulnier, in the
department of the Jura, caused by a great miller, M. de Vanois,
buying in the market-place several cartloads of potatoes, and
considerably raising the price. The populace seized on the
carts, notwithstanding the military were called out, and then
attempted to set fire to the mansion of M. de Vanois. The
public peace was at length restored. A corn riot, on a small
scale, has also taken place at Daubigny, in the department of
the Clue.

RURAL POLICE.—At the Surrey Quarter Ses-
sions at Reigate on Wednesday the Committee appointed to in-
quire into the expediency of applying the provisions of the Rural
Police Act unto those portions of the county of Surrey that are
not comprised within the metropolitan police district, made a
report to the Court, which, after an ineffectual opposition on the
part of the Rev. Air. Courtenay, and some discussion, was con-
firmed, and the subject dropped.

FATAL ACCIDENTS THROUGH DRUNKEN-
NESS.—Friday evening an inquest was held at St. Lartholo-
mew's Hospital, on the body of Catherine Devine, aged 48.
Mr. M. Knight, house surgeon, said the deceased was brought
in with a severe scalp wound on the back of the head on the
night of Sunday week, but she refused to stay, although she
was told her life depended upon her stopping. On the follow-
ing day she was again brought, the wound having opened anew.
She went on very well for a day co• two, when delenum tremens,
accompanied by erysipelas, ensued, from the combined effects
of which she expired on Wednesday last. Verdict—" Acci-
dental death."—On the same evening an inquest was held at
the Grapes, Great Marlborough-street, on the body of W. H.
Jones, Esq., aged 44. It was given in evidence that on Thurs-
day %leek the deceased was seen at about half-past twelve lying
on the footway in 13edford-street. The police took him to the
station, where he was locked up. He was quite insensible, and
unable to give his name or address. There was a wound on
his head, and the son of the landlord of the Grapes, in Bedford-
street, said he saw the deceased stagger and then fall down. A
surgeon attended him*at the station-house, and in the morning
the Magistrate discharged him, and he went home. He was
very ill, and died on Sunday, in the surgeon's opinion, from the
rupture of a vessel of the brain, probably caused by the fall.
The Jury returned a verdict to that effect.
SEVENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT.—By accounts
from Tobago, up to the 19th of January, we hear with much
regret that the yellow fever was raging in the detachment of
this regiment stationed on that island. The fever began on the
17th and 18th of December. The first five persons attacked
were Lieut. Hawker, his best sergeant, two privates, and a
soldier's wife; and on Christmas.day Lieut. Hawker was the
only one of them left alive ; and his father, Colonel P. Hawker,
from accounts up to the 19th of January, has great hopes of his
convalescence, and return home on sick leave. The fever
abated a little after Christmas, and then returned most severely,
insomuch that half the detachment were in
hospital when the
Hon. Capt.
packet left the island. The officer in command, thea
slight
attack,
O'Grady, we are hal,py to say, escaped with
from which he had recovered,

LI TERATURE.

THE NEW ANNUAL ARMY LIST, WITH

AN INDEX,
Corrected to the 7th of February, 1540.
By H. G. ILinr, Lieutenant 49th Regiment.
London, John Murray.
This is a publication of great merit, and will be
studied with interest, not only by military men, but by
all who have taken delight in reading the accounts of
the gallant deeds of the British army for the last forty
years. It is, in fact, a summary of the actions in which
the different regiments have been engaged, with his-
torical details of the services of all the officers who dis-
tinguished themselves during a career of victory un-
equalled in the annals of the c-.,untry ; and what adds
great credit to the work, the author does not confine
his biographical notices to the Field-Marshals, Gene-
rals, and Staff Officers, but gives at equal length the
distinguished services of those of inferior rank, even
down to thQ rank of Lieutenant. At the head of every
regiment is placed the names of the battles in which
it had been engaged, then the Colonel, with all the
dates of his appointments, and in the same way all the
other officers of every description in the regiment. To
the names of those who have distinguished themselves
figures or letters arc affixed, pointing to marginal no-
tices of their merits. Many of them, even in the brief
space allotted to them, are full of interest ; and, in
order to show that the work is such as we represent it,
we give two at random as a specimen. Among the
Colonels we find Sir Archibald Maclaine, whose ser-
vices arc thus described :

" Sir Archibald Maclaine's services :—Mysore cam-
paign of 1799 against Tippoo Sultan, including the battle
of Mallavelly, siege and storming of Seringapatam, where
he received three wounds, from the effects of which he wag
confined in hospital for upwards of .1 year. Capture of the
Danish settlement of Tranquebar ; and the Patiger war to
1801, including the battle of Ardingy, and affair of Se-
rungapore, where he was wounded. Mahratta war of
1802,3, and 4, against Scindia, Holcar, and the Bera Rajah,
including the storm of Jalnaghur, siege and storming °f
Gawilghur, siege of Asseerghur (wounded), and battle of
Argaum. Ordered home in 1804. in consequence of severe
wounds received in the different actions from 1799 to 1804.
Peninsular campaigns 1810, 11. 12, including the siege Of
Cadiz ; the defence of Matagorda (an outwork of Cadiz,
and a ruined redoubt when taken possession of from the
enemy) from 22d Feb. to 22d April, 1810, during which
long period Sir Archibald (then a captain in the old 94th
regiment) with a very small force under his command, most
gallantly kept at bay B,ooo' 'of the enemy under Marshal
Soult, who conducted the siege, and did not evacuate until
ordered to do so by Lieutenant• General Sir Thomas
Graham, his men being nearly all either killed or wounded.
Served also at the battle of Barrosa (dangerously wounded,
and his horse killed), and capture of Seville."
We may add an anecdote respecting this gallant
officer, highly creditable to his late Majesty, William
IV. Colonel Maclaine, while at Brighton, was invited
by the King to dine at the pavilion. After dinner be •
called for wine round,", and addressing Earl Bathurst,
said, " Bathurst, I think you were Secretary-at-War
when our gallant friend, with a handful of men so noblY
defended Matagorda against the French. Let us drink
to the health of Sir Archibald Maclaine ;" and that
evening he conferred on him the honour of Knighthood•
Matagorda, however, was not the only place on that
part of the coast where Sir Archibald resisted the
French. He was also engaged in the memorable defence

of Tariff'a.
The following is the note attached to the name of the
author of the " Peninsular War" :—" Colonel W. F.
P. Napier was an actor in many of the soul-stirring
scenes which he has described with so much ability
his admirable history of the Peninsular war,
and was se-
verely wounded in the action of Casal Nova, 14th of
March, 1811. He commanded the 43d Light Infantry
at the battles of Salamanca, Nivelle, and Nive, for
which he has received a medal and two clasps." On
looking over the notes to the Lieutenants it is painful
to find several still in that inferior rank that thirty years
ago served in most of the desperate sieges and battles in
the Peninsula. Lieut. Blood, for instance, served from
June, 1811, to the close of the war—was engaged in
the sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz, the battles
of Salamanca, Vittoria, and the storming of St. Sebas-
tian, the battles of Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, and was
twice severely wounded. The work also contains
similar references and notes to the Royal Artillery and
Royal Marines, together with lists of the officers of the
" foreign half pay," and a complete list of officers to whom
honorary distinctions have been granted, in commeon"
ration of their services in battle, concluding with an
ample Index to the whole. Lieutenant Hart deserves
great praise for the arrangement of a work which is full
of interest, and which may be regarded as the most
useful book of military reference yet published.

MONTHLY MAGAZINE. terms
Sore six or eight months since we spoko
in ich
of praise of a dramatic poem, entitled " Festus, d
had then just made its appearance ; and w
sequel to it in the present number of this gaga ker,
In this sequel. Festus, as before, is the chief sea
mo l,*,
and propounds his opinions on poetry, religion,
&c., to two eager listeners, Helen, and a young student.
Much of the dialogue is vague and mystical, as it the
author had no very clear or definite notion of what be
was saying ; but there is much also thu
Nt shows great
fertility of thought, and imaginative powors of a high
order. More attention, however, should hav c been paid
to the structure of the blank verse, which, i.l far too
many instances, is harsh, rugged—in short, utterly
wanting in euphony. " Iona" is the continuation of 8
tale " founded on facts," so we arc assured, the first); art"
of which appeared last month. It is pleasingly writteo±
but the infusion of a little more vigor would no' have
been amiss. " Syncretism, or the Science of Coalition,
may be briefly described as being " Much ado about
Nothing."

DEARDEN'S MISCELLANY. .1
A light, amusing Miscellany, in which we seldom fa"
of meeting with such poetical criticisms as evince 1a
hearty love of the f 0 vision and the faculty divine." In
the Number before us there is a brief notice of Worde
worth's Sonnets, some of which are justly pronounced
to be among the finest in the language.

GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.—PARr2.
A careful, pains-taking compilation, which may be
relied on for its accuracy. The editor is Mr. Macon'.
loch, and we incline to think this the most setsible---
certainly the most useful—work he has yet undertaken.
He is quite at home in the manufacture of Dictiozoics•

LITERARY WORLD.—VoL. 2.
A little weekly Miscellany, price twopence, contain-
ing amusing extracts from most of the modern periodi-
cals, together with anecdotes, odd stories, and scraps
of criticism. The present volume, which is the second,
s embellished with several wood-engravings.

ROGER WILLIAMS IN BANISHMEYZ
Simpkin and Marshall, London, 18t0.
This is a poem by an American bard, founded on the
circumstances of the banishment of Roger Williams,
from the State of Massachusetts, for his liberal opinion§
on religion, and his subsequent founding of the State of
Rhode Island. The poem is introduced by a " recom-
mendatory preface," from the pen of the Rev. Mr'
Giles, of Leeds, and deserves praise, if only for the
graphic energy of some of its descriptions of transatlantic.
Jorest, and mountain scenery.