The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-28 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.
There have been small supplies of Grain and Flour this week,
owing to the vessels being mostly wind-bound. The Wheat
trade firm, at Monday's prices. Barley met a heavy sale.
Beans, Peas, and Oats find buyers slowly, on full as good terms
as Monday. Flour very dull in sale.
COLONIAL MARKET.
Very little doing in Colonial produce, and prices were firm.
SMITHFIELD.
Butchers purchased freely, Prices were generally good and
the clearance speedy. The supply not large. Mutton and
Beef realized Monday's prices. Veal declined from 4d. to
13d. per stone; Puri underwent no variation.—Beasts, 419;
Sheep, 2660 ; ig PLLINs, .109; Calves, 1111.
BIGSGATE MARKET.
Supplies moderate. Trade good, and prices unaltered.

The Mandarin convict-ship sailed on Tuesday,
from Spithead, with Frost, Williams, and Jones on board. They
started with a strong easterly breeze. The gold dust convicts,
(Moses and his party) are not sent out in the Mandarin, but
remain on board th. 2 prison hulk. The Frenchman who war,
convicted at the Old Bailer for stealing a watch is with them.
0. n being removed to the hulk he attempted to drown himself. It
is generally believed that he will be pardoned.
THE SPEAKER'S LEVEE.—The Speaker will
hold a levee at his house, in Eaton-square, to-morrow evening,
at ten o'clock.
The Earl of Stradbroke has purchased the ex-
tensive estates of Viscount Middleton, in the county of Water-
ford, for 95,000/.
The Earl of Rosebery is, we understand, to sup-
ply the vacancy in the order of the Thistle, occasioned by the
deeca,c of the Earl of Mansfield.

LONDON:
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1841.

The Peers received a considerable number of peti-
tions, some for mercy to Frost, others for an extension
of the Church. It was expected that Lord STRANG-
FORD would bring on his motion concerning the trade to
Africa, but it was postponed, and their Lordships Ad-
journed at an early hour.
In the Commong, after the usual presentation of peti-
tions, a Report was made from the Ludlow Election
Committee, stating that some irregularities wore com-
mitted in complying with the new Act. On Mr. ORD'S
motion, the order for the re-appointment of the Com-
mittee was discharged, and the Report ordered to be
taken into consideration to-morrow.
Col. SIBTHORP wished to learn from the CHANCEL-
LOR of the EXCHEQUER what new taxes he meant to
propose, but the Chancellor was not to be taken in by
the Colonel, and declined to satisfy his curiosity.
Sir GEO. Cu= called attention to an irregularity in
issuing the writ for Perth, which had run that Lord
STORMONT was, by the death of the Earl of MANSFIELD,
called to the House of Peers, whereas he had succeeded
to a peerage in Scotland. Mr. Fox MAULE acquiesced
in the statement, and the Clerk of the Crown was or-
dered to attend at the Bar of the House this day on the
subject.

In reply to questions the CHANCELLOR of the
Ex-
CHEQUER stated that when a letter was pre-paid and re-
directed, he had ordered that it should be charged only
Id., now it was charged 2d., and he hoped a few days
hence to announce which contract for paper for the Post-
office he had accepted ; and Mr. Fox ManLE stated
that it was intended to bring in a measure to take a
census of the people.
Mr. WALLACE, in bringing under the notice of the
House a petition from a place in Roxburgh for a post-
office, asserted that the revenue of the Post-office
under the old system had not been above 1,400 000/ ,
and he believed that the revenue would not lose znore
than 600,0001. by the alteration in the postage. In
the conversation which ensued the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER stated that it was his intention, in a short
time, to introduce envelopes into local districts, in order
to try their effect, but he could not name a time when
they would be generally introduced. Mr. WALLACE
withdrew his motion, and properly left the matter in the
hands of the Post-office authorities.

The remainder of the evening was occupied with the
debate on Mr. LIDDELL'S motion, and Lord MoarEnes
arnondment, to which we yesterday adverted. Mr.
LIDDELL of course began the discussion, and explained
at considerable length his objections to Lord Mon-
PETII'S amendment, and his preference to his own
resolution.

Lord MORPETH then moved his amendment, and
ridiculed the Mover's speech. The Noble Lord dwelt
at great length, and with great effect, on Sir JOHN
NzwroßT's long life and great services as entitling
him to the pension the Ministers bad bestowed on him.
Mr. LEADER charlcterised the whole business, which
he reviewed through all its stages, as a gross job. In
one word he said it was a Whig job, and he could give
it no worse epithet.
Mr. BARRON was extremely vehement in favour of
Sir JoHN NEwroaT, and declared that he had been
a great benefactor both to Ireland and England.
Mr. O'CONNELL separated Sir JOHN NEWPORT
from Lord MONTEAGLE in the transaction, threw the
latter overboard, declared that the only question before
the House related to Sir JoHN YEWPORT, whom he
he warmly eulogized, and whose pension he defended.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM, after paying some very high
compliments to Sir JoHN NEWPORT, made a severe
attack on his former Friend Lord MONTEAGLE, and
on the Government, for giving the pension to the Comp-
troller of the Exchequer, which he declared was con-
trary to the law concerning pensions, the holder of that
office being expressly excluded from the ability to re-
ceive a pension.

Lord JOHN RUSSULL repelled the personal attack of
Sir JAMES GRAHAM on Lord MONTEAGLE, by a
spirited eulogy on the latter. The Noble Lord de-
clared that, while Mr. SPRING RICE, when Secretes. of
the Treasury, under Lord GREY'S Administration, of
which Sir JAMES GRAHAM was a member, was nightly
defending that Administration by most spirited and
able speeches, Sir JAMES GRAHAM had shrunk from
his duty. On the broad grounds of Ministerial dis-
cretion, the Noble Lord justified the penslon given to
Sir JOHN NEWPORT.
Sir ROBERT PEEL first defended Sir JAMES GRA-
HAM with great warmth, from the charge of having
shrunk from his duties, and pointed out his arduous
services as First Lord of the Admiralty, and his having
found time to take charge of the measure for reform-
ing the Exchequer, as complete answers to Lord J. Rus-