The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-02 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

The British Funds have a lively appearance this morning, in
consequence of a report that Government had received des-
patches from Mr. Fox, by the Britannia steamer from Halifax,
which are stated to be of an amicable tendency towards the
settlement of the differences between this Government and the
United States, in respect to Mr. APLeod.
Consols, which left off yesterday at 89fr II for the Account,
opened at 893 4 for the Account, and at present may be quoted
at 8n ; Money spi 3; Exchequer Bills improved, 8 10 pre-
mium; India Bonds 3 discount, 2 prem.
;
In the Foreign Market Spalnsh Active rather better,
left o
2te3r, closed at 334 341, now 34 ;
* ; Deferred, 12* ; Passive,
ffP
Brazilian, 64693 ex div. ; Colombian rather better, left off
23*, at present 24; Chilian, 59 61 ex. div. ; Mexican also
oTtiugiu'
e as, . present
a,
s o bet
improved, left off 31*, at present 31i ; Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. 516 a ; Five per Cents. 97* iex div.
SHARES.—Great Western 26 27 prem. ; New 12i 114
prem. ; London and Brighton 4 dis. ; Blackwall 6bi dis. ;
Birmingham 65 67 prem. ; Southampton 55 56 per share ;
Croydon 134 per sh 're ; Greenwich 74 S* per share ; Man-
chester and Birmingham 153 14i discount.
HALF-PAST ONE;
By the arrivals received from Montreal we learn that the
Bank of Montreal and the Commercial Bank of Kingston, will
lose but a very trifling amount by the failure of their New
York agents, Messrs. Christmas, Livingston and Prime. An
engagement has been made with the banks by these gentlemen,
by which nearly twenty shillings in the pound on claims is se-
cured. The elections were proceeding highly favourably to the
Government in Canada, and it is calculated they will have
about 25 majority.
The Rio Janeiro papers, received this morning, have ac-
counts from Monte Video, of the 12th of January, confirming
the defeat of Lavalle, who, having lost 6,000 of his horses in
the desert, was attacked by General Cribe, and totally de-
feated.

The British funds continue buoyant, with an appearance of
a further improvement. There was a good deal of general bu-
siness doing in the course of the morning.
We have received the Harnburgh mall of the 30th March,
bringing the Exchanges on London, higher, 13 141 A ; Gold
has come 3k marks higher, 428 k.

Consols may be quoted at present 894 4 for the Account ;
Money, 894 ; Exchequer Bills also higher, 9 10 8 11 ; India
Bonds 1 prem., 2 dis. ; Bank for the opening, 1724; India
for the opening, 250.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, 234 5 ; Deferred,
125; Portuguese has improved during the morning about 1
per cent. reached 345, since which it is not so good, ar d may
tte quoted 34 ; Three per Cents., 20A, has been 20/ ; Colom-
bian, 234'; Mexican also improved 31/ ; Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. not quite so good, 51A, have been 51/ ; Five
per Cents. also lower, 9744 ex div., have been 9744.
Very little doing in the Share Market. London and Brigh-
ton,_4ss 4 4 ; South Western, 553% ; North Midland 774.
QUARTER TO THREE.
Consols, Money, 894 4, Account, 89/ 90 ; Colombian, 235 4;
Mexican, 31%4 ; Deferred, 10A 4 ; Portuguese, 344 4 ; Spa-
nish, 234 4.
Markets good, with every appearance of a further improve-
ment.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.'
India Stock
Ditto Bonds 2 dis
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities —
Ex. Bills, .1,000/....21d 11 pm
Ditto 500/ ll pm
Ditto Small lO pm
Bank Stock for Opg 1721
,India Stock for Opg 250
Consols for Acct 9O
4 FUNDS.
Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Ditto, New Ditto 34
Prussian, 5 per cent.
Russian, 5 per cent
Ditto, Metallic
Spanish, 5 per cent 231
Ditto, Deferred l2i
(Exchange............
5 per cent. —f. ---e.
French, 3 per cent. —f.
Dutch, 2i per cent.
Ditto, 5 per cent 97 a

Bank Si oek ____
3 per Cent Red. —
3 per Cent Cons B9i
3i per Cent Red —
New 3i per Cent 9B
New 5 per Cent

- - •
Long Annuities to expire
Jan. 1860
Oct 1859.

Jan. 1860.

FOfIEIG:

Austrian, 5 per cent
Belgian, 5 per cent
Brazilian Bonds

Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent
Chilian, 6 per cent......
Colombian, 6 per cent... 23
Ditto, 1824 . . .....
Danish, 3 per cent 774
Greek, 18:45, 5 per cent —
Mexican, 5 per cent.
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 —
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct

SHARES.
Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 pd)... 70
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid ••• ••••• 9
Ditto Debentureq ( 4 paid) .•• • • ...... ••• 7
Great Western Railway (65 paid) ......
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) .............. b 3
11
Ditto Fifth (4 paid) .....................
London and Brighton (50 paid) ............ 46
London and Blackwall Railway (25 pd) ••• 19/1
London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 153 i
Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) ••
Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid). ............ 23i
London and Greenwich Railway(2o pd)
Ditto Scrip. (3 paid) ........................ 44
London and South Western ••• ........... ••• 55i
Ditto Tenths ................................. 2A
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk)
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)•••••• •• •• 68*
Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ••• 25fr
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) •••••
Ditto Quarter Shares (10 paid) ......... 16
North Midland Railway (100 paid) ...... 77
Ditto New Shares (40 paid) .• ........ 7i
South Eastern and Dover (33,paid)... 18

THE MAREETS.-(THIS DAY.)
CORN-EXCHANGE.
There has been better supplies of Grain and Flour this week
than for some time past. Wheat languid in sale, at Monday's
prices. Barley unchanged in value. Oats firm, with only a
moderate demand. Flour sold s'owly.
SMITHFIELD.

The supply of Cattle was short, and trade very brisk ; full
2d. per stone was realised on all kinds of Beef. Of Mutton
we had a good supply ; the demand was not so brisk as on
Monday. Of Veal a pretty good supply, and brisk demand.
Of Pork a middling supply, and the trade very good. Beasts
474 ; Sheep 3,200 ; Calvss 131 ; Pigs 317. Beef 3s. Bd. to
ss. Mutton 4s. to ss. 4d. Veal 4s. 4d. to 6s. Pork 3s. to
os. Hay 41. 4s. to 51. Clover 4/. 4s. to 61. Straw 21. to 2/. 4s.
COLONIAL MARKET.
The market was in a dull state, and prices had a downward
tendency; the arrivals were small from most parts.
TEA MARKET.

There was little business done ; but prices were .firm, and
Company's Congou was not to be had under I. iid. cash.
TALLOW MARKET.

Prices of P. Y. C. were firm on the spot, and a fair business
was done at 46i. pa cwt. For delivery there were not many
buyers.

THE WEATHER.

ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-

STREET.

NOON, APRIL 2
Birometor 29 68 In.
Thermometer
Highest
Lowest
Wind W. by N.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.
COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a Court t.Tid Privy Council at half-past
two o'clock yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace.
At the Court Chekib Effendi, the Turkish Ambassador,
Fal an audience of her Majesty to deliver a Letter. His
Execlerey was introduced by Viscount Palmerston,
G. C. 8., her Majesty's princiFal Secretary of State for
Foreign Aff,irs, and conducted by Sir Robert Cheiter,
Master of the Ceremonies.

Lord Holland was presented to the Queen at an au-
dience by Viscount Palmerston to take leave.
Viscount Palmerston also presented Mr. Hamilton Ha-
milton at an audience.

The Pi ivy Council as attencled by the Lord President,
the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord
of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home
and Foreign Departments, the President of the Board
of CoLtrol, tle Secretary at War, the Lord Steward, and
the Lord Chamberlain.

Mr. C. Grtville was the Clerk of the Council in

Waiting.
Her Majesty gave audiences to the Lord Chace()llor. the
Marquis of Lansdowne, Marquis of Normanby, and Via-
count Alelkurrie.

The Couit was attended by the Marquis'of Headfort,
Lord in Waiting ; Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting ; Sir
Robcrt Otway, Groom in Waiting; and Colonel' Boa-
verie, Equerry to Prince Albert.

The Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty and Prince
Albeit yesterday.
Color:el Bouterie has relieved Major-General Sir Ed-
ward Boviater in the duties of Equerry in Waiting on his
Royal Highness Prince Altert.

Mr. W. C. Ross, A.R. A., wa3 yesterday honoured
with the second sitting for a portrait of her Majesty, at
Buckingham Palace.

The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace last
evening included the Duchess of Sutherland, Earl of
Surrey, Viscount Melbourne, Dowager Lady Rivcri,
Lord Georg,: Lennox, Baron Stockmar, and Sir George
Anson.

The Princess Sophia Matilda came to town yesterday
from Ler residence on Blackheath, and paid a vi>it to her
Majesty the Queen Dowager at Marlborough House; her
Royal Highness also visited the Duchess of Kent at Ir-
geftrie House, Belgrave.square.
The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anne Maria
Dawson and Colonel Couper, honoured Covent Garden
theatre with her presence last evening.
Mr. Holmes, M. P., had an interview with Lord John
Russell yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Mr. George Nicholls had an interview with the Marquis
of Normanby y esterday at the I-Lime-office.
Despatches were sent off last evening from the Colo-
nial-office for the Governor of Jamaica and of the other
W,st India Colo Lie•.

LEAMINGTON.—The Countess of Darlington,
La ly Auq'usta Paulet, the I-En. Mrs. L. Fox, Lady Na-
pier, the Right Hon. Sir Robert Gordon, Lord Maidstone,
&c., have, been here the last few days, from the Duke of
Rutland's. Mrs. Lane Pox loft to-day for Sir Ct arks
and the Hon. Lady Knightley's, Fawsley I'Lrk, near Nor-
thampton.
The Hon. Mrs. Gage has been seriously; indis-
posei at her father's, Sir Charles Knightly, in Northamp-
tonshire.
The Duke of Rutland will lerive Belvoir Castle
the end of this week for the year, it teing now the close
of the hunting season.
Viscount Duncannon is recovered from the in-
fluenza. and was overlooking his works in the parks e_
terdsy.
Lord Chesterfield is now at Lincoln, for hunting.
CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 10.—Syria was
finally and entirely cvaniated by the Egypt:an troops.
On that day the last three thousand men embarked rt
Gaza fur Alexandria, to which city Ibrahim Pacha and kis
suite proceeded in the steam-boar, the Ni,e. The Eng-
lish mariners that were in Sands, Beyrour, and St. Jean
d'Ac- e, have also lett those olec:s and embarked in ti-is
English mea-of.wzr which hlt 13cyrJut on the 25th of
Febri,ry, and sailed for Marmorizza, to varieh port tl e
Au trial corvette elerae-ra), which was also cff Beyrou',
is got e.

BRUSSELS, MARCH 31.—The average price
of wheat last week 7111318 f. 24c. and that of ryelof. 99e.
pe. hectolitre.
AFFAIRS OF TfIF EAST.—We find the fol-

lowing in the Observaleur of Brussels :—" France, Eng-
lind, Austria, and Prussia have signed e.t London a treaty,
whereby all -ships of war cot telonging to the Sultan
are interdicted from entering the Dardanelles or the Bos-
phorus. The Russian Envoy Extraordinary declare 3 that
be could not sign the treaty without fresh instructions from
his Court. It is believed that those which he will rectsivc
will not be at variance with the pacific views of the above
four Powers. We learn alco that 'a treaty of commerce
and navigation has been- entered into between the Fotte
and the German Customs Union."
DrturtY LANE.—At the Theatrical. Fund din-

ner on Wednesday the foil ming subscriptions were an.
nounced:—.l he Queen, 100 guineas; the Duke of Cam..
bdige, 251. ; the Marquis of Normanby, 101 ; the Duke
of Devonshire, 251. ; the Duke of Bedford, 50/. ; Miss
Burdett Courts, 50/. ; Lord Adolphus Fitzclarenee, 101. ;
B. B. Cabbell, Et.l (11th donation), 101. 10. ;
field, Esq., 101. ; and Charles Kean, 201. Altogether
the subscriptions amounted to between 8001. and 9001.
TIIE STEA M-SIIIP

POOL, THURSDAY, QUARTER PAST 10, A. m.—The Orpheus,
New York sailing•packet, which left that port on the 11th
inst., in company with the President, has arrived here this
morning. Of the President no further intelligence has
reached us, and, as..she is reported to have a large freight,
and 27 passengers, many anxious fears are entertained f r

her safety ; still the general feeling is that she is doing
well in all other respect!, excepting speed. The Orpheus
was in company with the President two days after they left
New York.

DUBLIN;APRIL I.—During the whole of Wed-
nesday there has been a perfect hurricane, blowing from
W. S. W., scarcely exceeded in its violence by the memor-
able gale of Jinuary, 1839. The Liverpool mail boat,

due a-t
7 this morning, had not reached Kingstown up to
3 o'clock.

THE WEATHER IN THE NORTH.--The
month of March, now near a close,' has been the finest
experienced in the Highlands for at least twenty years,
The atmosphere has had all tl:e warmth and clearness of
May, with iha thermometer ranging from 50 deg. to 60
deg. The effect of this fine weather has been to facili.
tate all kinds of agricultural operations. The oat sowing
may be considered as finished, a considerable breadth of
barley laid down, and in some places-a good deal of the
fallow-break cross ploughed. Stock thrives %sell, and
provender is plentiful. Indeed, the turnips are so abun-
dant, that they can scarcely be consumed, and we observe
that generally about this town they are running to seed.
Vegetation is at Wait five weeks in advance of the usual

average of years. This may be seen from our gardens;
but it is st 11 more visible in the country, where the hedge-
rows are already in leaf. The tadpole has been seen in
ponds in Rossshire ten days since 1 On hill farms the.
deer-hair (a valuable species of grass, of which shrep
and cattle arc fond) is seldom eatable before the middle
of May ; but it v,ill tlis season be ready next week.
Siccl the above was written, we have received the follow_

ing from Caithness :—" Spring has been uncommonly
fine, without a vestige of frost all this mouth, and vege-
tation as fcreiard as in May. Most of the oats are sown
and things are generally in advance. Stock are in high
order."—lnverness Courier.

ROBBERY AT WINDSOR CASTLE.--WIND-
-505, APRIL I.—lt has just been ascertained that a large
and valuable portion of the splendid marquee, well known
as " Tippoo SaiY3 Tent" (which was captured at the
storming of Seringapatam, and presented to the thr n So-
vereign of England by the Marquis of Cornwall s), had
been taken away from the stores at the Castle, where it
has been de,)osited for a number of years pass. It was
formerly occasionally used by the late Sovereign! William
IV. and George IV., upon the Royal excursions to Vir-
inia Watt r. Amongst various parts which are mi sing is
the long pole which supported the roof. This was studded,
and many .portions of it cased with massive silver orna-
ments, and the two large knobs at each end are stated to
have brea of solid silver. These, of course, are gone with
the rest. Other poriens, containing various silver and
other ornaments of greet value, arc also stated to be miss.
ing. No traces have been discovered of the movements of
the party who has absconded, beyond what have heen made
public up to the period of his arriving at the Slough sta-
tion, from Windsor. No reward has yet been offered for
his apprehension.
SEAMAN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY.—On Wed-
neulay the twentieth anniversary of the foundation of th •
Seaman's Hospital (the well-known Dreadnought, moored
off Greenwich) was celebrated et the London Tavern,
Bishopsgate-street, by a capitA dinner, to which about
150 gentlemen sat down. Amongst the subscriptions and
donations announced were the following:—Her 11Iajeqy,
annual, 105/. ; the Queen Dowager, ditto, 10/ ; Trinity
Corporation, twentieth donation, 3001.; Merchant Elder
Brethren, fifteenth ditto, 100/. Honourable East India
Company, eighteenth ditto, 105/. ; Sir George Cockburn,
10/. ; B. B. Cabbell, Esq.. 10/. bOQ. ; John Labouchere
10/. 104.; William Pott, Esq , 10/. 10s. ; R. N.
Hunt, Esq. 10/. 10s. ; Joseph Hambro, Erg , 101. 103. ;
Shipping Gazette, 51. 5.1. Towards the conclusion of the
evening, the Treasurer announced that the subscriptions
for the present year had amounted to 1,081/., o Which i
nearly 000/. had been subscribed at the table.