The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-27 00:00:00

THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.)

HUNGERFORD,
Supplies fair, and a good demand; Fish scarce and dear,
other prices steady. Beef, 71/2d. to 814 d; Mutton, 71. d. to
81,./td. ; Veal, Bd. to 9d. ; Pork, 7d. to 81,-V. per lb. Turbot,
6s. to 21s; Cod, 3s. to 20s. ; Soles, Is. to ss. per pair; Lob-
sters, 2s. to 6s. ; Salmon, 3s. per lb.
BILLINGSGATE.
Supplies short, prices higher, aid trade fair. Turbot, 6s. to
20s. ; Cod, 3s. to 20s. ; Soles, 10d. to 4s. per pair ; Lobsters,
2s. to ss. ; Oysters. 245. to 60s. per bushel; Whitings, Bd. to
Is. 2d. ; and Haddocks, 10d. to 2s.
TALLOW MARKET.
P. Y. C. very quiet, at 51s.
HAY MARKETS.

Supplies moderate, and demand good—prices stationary.
Hay 50,. to 90s. ; Clover 70s. to 118 s. ; Straw 325. to 428.
per load.

TEA MARKET.
Very little business done, but prices were firm.
COLONIAL MARKET.
Very little done in Colonial produce, either publicly or pri-
vately. British Plantation Sugar sold steadily at 575. to 595.
for the browns; 61s. for middling. No fine in the market.
At public sale 760 bags Mauritius fetched 50s. to 635. There
was no other public sale of Colonial produce.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY T IVEL YE O'CLOCK.
Arrivals this morning_ French and Ostend mails ; also
a mail from Lisbon, by the Emerald Isle, of the 19th
February ; from Cadiz, 16th February ; Gibraltar, 15th
February; Oporto, 20th February ; and Vigo, 21st Feb.
No ship letters have been received.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—The Cot-
ton Market has been very depressed to-day. The sales
amount to 3,000 bags.

We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yester-
day's date. Accounts from the Hague of the 24th February
state that the Handelsb:ad confirms the offer made by Bel-
gium of a partial payment, and that Belgium will com-
mence paying the arrears from the Ist July, 1839. The
rest of the arrears will be paid when a general liquidation
takes place.

A note sent by M. Verstolk de Zoelen to Baron Falk,
appears to have made a great impression on King Leopold,
which caused the above arrangement.
Exchange of Amsterdam, Feb. 24. There was great
activity in the transactions of the Integrales, and the ex-
changes were more firm than yesterday. All the other
Funds had also a favourable appearance.
Amsterdam, Feb. 24.—Two-and-a- Half per Cents.,
521 ; Five per Cents., 98i; Ardoin's, Spanish, 24g.

By the Lisbon mail this morning we have the intelli-
gence that the Portuguese Budget had been read in the
House of Deputies by the Finance Minister, and the prin-
cipal point it contains relating to this country is a new plan
to pay the dividends due to the Foreign Portuguese Bond-
holders, by funding all the arrears of dividends up to the
present time in a Six per Cent. Stock at 83; after which
period the illinister of Finance intends in future to pay,
one-half of the dividends in cash, out of the proceeds ci.
some new taxes.—( For further particulars we refer ou',.
readers to another part of the paper.)
The above proceeding on the part of the Minister of
Finance is looked upon i❑ a favourable light by the 1-Jortu-
guese Bondholders, and has likewise had the effect to im-
prove Portuguese Stock about 2 per cent. this morning.
This being settling-clay in the British Market the chief
business doing is arranging their accounts, We hear
that a great deal of Stock is being carried over to the next
account, the contango or continuation being 7-16; and
money is rather more in demand than it was yesterday.
Owing to the settlement of the two accounts to-morrow,
the foreign one takes place.

T* FUNDS.
In the Consol Market no spirit for spezulating bin taken
place as yet, and they may be qu'Jted at the leaving off
prices of yesterday at 901 but;, for Money and Account,
and for April, 91i ; Exe..tiequer Bills 3 5 pram. ; Bank
Stock 178 179 ; Indio Stock 248 249.
In the Foreign Market the chief operations have been in
Portuguese Stock, owing to the favourable proposal of the
Portuguese Finance Minister towards paying the foreign,
2:i4p;amnisehxAjecataiv,c 2apit,;:ne
.;
Bondholders (we apprehend that he must raise :the
first). Portuguese stock improved this morning from
3c4otioura3sl3n6 $ of
,
closingleaving opffri cper,ie2e7 2381 ;
Brazilian, 78i ; Spanish Deferred, 13i ; Passive, 71
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. igi " •
; we. per Cents.
100 i
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS
Bank Stock .....................
3 per Cent. Red 91% VON,
3 per Cents. C0n......., 14
314 per Cent
Ditto Red. aylti
New 3;4 per Cent yg
New 5 per Cent.
Bank Long Annuities tottpire
Jan, 5, MO,. l4 1-16 14
Oct. 10, 1859. ..
5, 1860 13 11-16
Jun. 5, 1850
Aprils, 1880
Jan. 5.1870
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian Bonds
Belgian Bonds
Ditto Account
Brazilis n Bonds
Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres Bonds
Ditto Account
Chilian Bond t
Ditto Accos nt
Co.l.urnt lag Be rids
Ditto Accel.nt
Columbian 3:7 d 5,1824
Ditto Acco.-olt .......
Danish Bonds
Ditto AtttC nt
Greek Bonds...
Ditto Bonds, 1825 —
Ditto Account
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto Account ......
Ditto, 6 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Neapolitan
PRICES OF SHARES THI

DAY AT ONE, O'CLOCK.
India Stock ..-. ............... 348 ii 9
Ditto Bonds
South Se,. Stock ---
Old Araluities --
New bitto -
3 per Cent. Annuities. 1751 --
F.xch. Bills, .£1,000....... 3 b prr •
Ditto 500..... 3 5 plal• •
Ditto Small 3 5 Plef•
Ditto Commercial di a.
Ditto Advertised
Bank Stock for Account ...
India Stock for Account ~. ---•
Consos for Account 911,6
THIS DAY AT ONE O,CLOCN
Peruvian 80nd5.......
Ditto Account --
Portuguese Bonds.
Ditto New Bonds 35% 'xi jy
Ditto Account...3s% 8 5%% /sr
Ditto, 3 per Cent......... 24%
Ditto Account --
Prussian Bonds —
Russian Bonds, 182'2 —
Ditto Account —
Ditto Metallic —
Spanish Bonds 27% 8
Ditto Account
Passive
Deferred 1.3
French, 5 per cent. —f. --c.
----- 4 per cent.
---- 3 per cent.
--- Exchange. —f. _C.
Dutch, 2% per cent. 53%%
Ditto Account —
Ditto, 5 per cent lOO3l
Ditto Account —
___ DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share.
Ditto New
(kart Western Railway Company Paid. Per
lIN
3d 30%
Brighton Railway 'lO BM% '
London and Birmingham Railway Company
Ditto New Shares
London and South Western ...... .. ........ .... 38/. 17s. 9d. 44
Union Bank of Australia ... IN
Ditto of London A

PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, FEBUARY 25
3 per cent. Consols -
3% per Cent. Stock
Ditto Reduced
Ditto New, 1830 - 3;4, par Cent Debentures... National Insurance Company --
%lank Stock lll% City Debentures, 4 per cent. --- „ Grand Canal Stock
Royal Canal Steck
ONZ.
The settling of the Account in the British Market i
going off well, and the business done during the course
the morning has been on a limited scale. Money is ver
tight, at the rate of sto 6 per cent. Continuation froi
Account to Account may be quoted at per cent., giver 4,
and from the appearance of the market the great body
capitalists are apparently given to a large amount in ex 7
pectation of events that may greatly depress the market
At present it has every appearance of being a Bull Accoun
The Consol Market has turned heavy since the earl fi
part of the morning. Consols, to 9li for the Apt 11
Account ; Money, 90i; Exchequer Bills 3 5 premium
India Bonds, 2 dia., 1 par; Bank Stock, 1784 ; Ind Ia
Stock, 2484 249.
In the Foreign Market the chief fluctuation has be( .0
in the Portuguese Stock ; they reached 36, at present ms
be quoted 35f 4.; Three per Cents., 24i- ; Mexican, 291
Spanish Active, 28i ; Passive, 71; Dutch Two-an, 4-
a- Half per Cents. 53i f ; Five per Cents., 1008.
The Dutch Mail brings a confirmation of the settleme
nt
of the Belgian debt, due to the King of the Netherlan.d 1.
We have no further arrivals at present. The overla n
A
express from India is not expected until the 6th or 7th March.

BANK OF ENGLAND.—This
morning a
cial General Meeting of the Governor and Directors Seth Bank of England was held, at which Congratulatory Address, to her Majesty; Prince Albert, and Duchess of Kent, my t' occasion of her Majesty's marriage, were unanimously agreed tt"
A MODERN DR. CANTWELL—Mrs. Trt
lope's novel, " The Vicar of Wrexhill," is perhaps the Try
able satire on sanctified hypocrisy published in our days. T
crowds of admirers of a kite metropolitan popular lecturer ail
find in " The Vicar of Wrexhill" a chronicle of the say.ingi
and rb,ings of a worthy, the very prototype of their oracle.
This piquant novel is, we perceive, about to re-appear as th. !
new Volume of " The Standard Novels."
THE WEATHER.—Yesterday morning tile ther-
mometer stood at 28 degrees, but during the day the wind
shifted more to the northward of east, and last, evening it
sunk to 2.6 degrees. During the day the parks were much -
crowded by fashionable company, and on the ice there was alto
a numerous attendance. The wind to-day remains in the salvo
quarter, and the temperature is unchanged.
Captain and Mrs. Elrington have left Portt'
land-place, on a visit to the Right Hon. Lady Susan Hothaot
Woolmers, Herts.

7 PERTHSHIRE ELECTION.—The Ca/eaon;777/
Mercury of Saturday morning states Vial Mr. Geo. Stewart, of
Grandtully, is to be the Reform candidate. Mr. Stewart i 3
well known to be a staunch advocate of Civil and Religinu,
liberty, and was Chairman of Mr. Fox Maule's Committee
1837. The Tories are certainly at loss when they have res' Js-
citated Mr. Home Drummond as a candidate for Parham, n' tv
whom they themselves had long since shelved. We wil 1 be,
much surprised, however, if such a selection will go down
,r Itil,
Perthshire, or with any modern constituency. Mr. H. Drumm jot goo
as a depute Advocate, was one of the principals in the spy pl., C:
tires carried on at GlasgoWr in 1616, 1817, and in that Japae
he afterwards acted as one of of the public prosecutot
.s for die
Crown, in endeavouring to deprive those victims 1 ,f Castle-
reagh's infamous espionage system, of their li',es. A a
Member of Parliament, he was the father of 0,21 bung 9
piece of legislation the Tippling Act, which has raised and w
continue a ferment in the country till its aboli don. Ann t"''hol
r
singular thing connected with Mr. Drummornl's candidate di.
—lie goes forward to support non-intrusion, witla the assist:st
of the Tory Earl of Kinnoul, the greatest oppr,nent of the ft °D—
intrusionists.— Glasgow Chrogiele.

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HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

" Old Drury" presented, last night, a spectacle,
which, by those who witnessed it, will never be for-
gotten. The visit of a Sovereign to one of our national
theatres is always an occasion joyfully welcomed, and
long recollected ; but this was not an ordinary, a cus-
tomary, a formal visit—the first appearance of a
fair, a young, a beloved QUEEN, amongst her at-
tached and affectionate subjects—after entering into
the relations of marriage, and that upon an oc-
casion of public entertainment and diversion—in an
edifice so surrounded by bright and splended remi-
niscences as this magnificent theatre, amidst all the
cheerful abandonment of mind and feeling to the charms
of dramatic illusion, and the fascination of music's spell.
Again, we say, those who were so happy as to behold,
will retain the recollection through their lives.
So early as two o'clock public excitement was mani-
fested by eager crowding to the doors. It is needless to
say, that the moment they were opened the rush was
tremendous, and the filling of the house all but simul-
taneous—boxes, and all, presented, in a short time, one
densely crowded audience.
When the Queen arrived, what an overpowering
outburst of ardent, enthusiastic loyalty ! The walls
seemed to tremble at the thunder. Her Majesty ac-
knowledged this affectionate greeting most graciously.
Her Illustrious Consort also appeared fully sensible of
the warmth and energy of the welcome. The Royal
party occupied the stage-box, which, however, was
brought out some feet, so as to allow the audience a
full opportunity of beholding their Sovereign.
The front of the box was splendidly embla-
zoned with the British arms in gold on crim-
son, and the drapery, suspended tastefully over
it, bore on two pendents the letters V. and A., above
the chairs on which the Queen and the Prince were
seated, side by side.
The house looked magnificent. The private -boxes
were all crowded with her Majesty's suite, or with fo-
reign Ambassadors, or with noblemen and officers in
full costume. The dress circle and the two circles above
were all glittering and waving with the splendid array of
beauty, in all the lustre of diamonds, and all the
brilliancy of attire. The pit, with its vast sea of human
faces—the boxes, with their dazzling circles of beauty
and splendour—the stage, with its mass of spectators—
all the Corps Dramatique, in full costume—in front an
audience of some four thousand, " uprising, uncovered"
—the thrilling strains of our noble anthem sounding
in the music of a first-rate orchestra—each verse rising
in tones of exquisite melody, and startling power—the
choruses swelling with the overwhelming majesty, and
followed by the thundering cheers, of enthusiastic num-
bers--in vain the attempt to describe—but many will
remember!

That beautiful opera the Mountain Sylph was com-
manded by her Majesty, and certainly few performances
could have been selected more suited for such a
happy occasion than this charming composition, with
its simple, pleasing love story. The fascinating witchery
of its aerial beauties—the picturesque variety of its
scenery—the fine harmony of the music—its exquisite
mingling of all the most thrilling of melodies, with
the most touching of expression, makes it in-
deed a gent. Above all, that divine—that incom-
parable " Farewell," of Phillips ! It would be in vain,
were we to endeavour to convey an idea of the sur-
passing melody and pathos of this air, as sung by
him—it must be heard. What an encore ! There
would have been half-a-dozen—but for the sake of the
vocalist.

It is unnecessary to add, that, on retiring, her Ma-
jesty and the Prince received as hearty a demonstra-
frau of attachment and respect as on entering.