The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-27 00:00:00

TEA MARKET.

Prices firm for Free Traie, with a fair demand. Company's
Congou in request at. is. 6.4 d. to Is. 7d. cash. A public sale
will take place on Tuesday.
TALLOW MARKET.

There was a fair business done kin P. Y. Candle on the spot
and prices were firm at 465. 3d. to 465. 6d. per cwt. The de•
mand was good for Town Tallow at 51s. 6d..per cwt.

110NEY and COiVIMER.CIAL NEWS

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.—AS compared
with last week the demand during the present week has been
moderate, neither the trade nor speculations evincing the same
anxiety to buy, yet but for the operation of the latter the mar-
ket must have assumed a very inactive appearance, and it was
probable that our quotations of last week must have been re-
duced, as it is prices are rather in favour of buyers than other-
wise, particularly for the middle and lower qualities of Ame-
rican ; speculators have taken 9,800 bales of American, and SOO
Surat, and Exporters, 100 Surats. The sales to-day are about
5,000 bales of all,kinds.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 26.—We have a
better inquiry for Shares, but no material alteration in prices.
Manchester and Leeds. 754 ; Ditto Halves, 33 ; London and
South Western, 574; Ditto, Tenths, 18 6 prem. ; Lancaster
and Preston 321; Ditto, New, 19/; Midland Counties, New,
141; Bank of Manchester, 9*.

The packet-ship Mediator, from New York has arrived, but
she does not bring later papers than received by the last
arrival (South America) of the 2d instant.

THE FUNDS.

The British Market is inactive, and thera is every appear-
ance it will continue so during the course of the day.
Consols opened at the leaving-off prices of yesterday, 881
Mt.ney ; for the Account, 89* ; Exchequer Bills 6 8 prem. ;
Bank Stock, 166 167 ; India Stock 247 248.
In the Foreign Market the prices at present are nominal.
Spanish Active, 23i 24 ; Deferred 12/1t ; Passive, bi 6k ;
Portuguese 31* 4 ; Three per Cents. 19/ ; Brazilian 711 72C;
Colombian 221 23 ; Mexican 271 28 ; DutchTwo-and-a-Half
per Cents. 50i ; Five per Cents., 991 100.
Shares.—Great Western, 211 221 prem. ; New 101 prem. ;
London and Brighton, 73/4 * dis. ; Blackwall, 6% 6 dis. ;
Birmingham, 79 81 prem. ; Southampton, 56 57 ex-dividend
per share ; Croydon, 113/4 12* per share ; Greenwich, 8* 3/4
per share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 16 15 dis.

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. . Per Share.
Great Western
Ditto New 50 6oi to
Ditto Fifths
London and Brighton
London and Blackwall
cork and North Midland.
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
National Provincial of England... 35
Ditto New

HALF-PAST ONE.
The British Funds continue a 3 in the early part of the morn-
ing. Scarce a bargain doing, and up to the present time there
is not a feature worth noticing. Contrary winds, with the
dale of last night, have prevented our having arrivals this morn-
ing, in consequence of which we are very dull in the .City for
Want of intelligence.
Consols are not so good as in the morning, when they were
89 for the Account ; at present, b 9 sellers; for Money,
881 I. Money continues scarce in the house at the rate of
6 per cent. Exchequer Billr, 8 7 prem. ; In Bank Stock no-
thing done ; India Bonds, 19 dis.
Very litle doing in the Foreign Market to the present
hour. Spanish Active, 231 24 ; Passive, 65i ; Portuguese,
31i; Mexican, 211 28; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.,
501 ; Five per Cents., 991
In Shares also little doing. Great Western, New. 601/2 ;
Fifths, 81; London and Brighton, 42%; Blackwall, 164 ;
York and North Midland, 761/2 754 77 ex div.

DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTEADAM, l'Ea. 23
Money. Blurs.
tctual Debt, 234 per Cent
Jitto, ditto 5 per cent.
Annan Syndic,4% per cent go'p. 67
Ditto, ditto, 344 per cent 7oli 70A
Commercial Company, 4!:, per cent ICO 1 0%
Ditto (1535 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan 16137, 5 percent. 94% 93%
Exchange on London, (inc month l2 0
Two months
Dutch Papers, Feb. 24.
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, FEB. 19,
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares 1620

Anglo. Russian Loan 106% 100%
Russian 5 per Cent. let series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Se,ies 10234
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series 0634
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% pef Cent 48%
Ditto 5 per Cent 4s% --
Polish Bonds
New ticket ..„
Angles Danish Ilan, 3 per Cent
Not wegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent.... lOl
Spanish. New 5 per Cents
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.

HAMBURG, FEB. 14.-13 4.N.—Two months, 13 3
PETERSBURGH, FEB. 12.-.. Two months, 38 3.16 pence.
STOCK H OLM, FED. s.—Seventy-five days,_ 11. 38.
VIENNA. FED. 12.—Three months, P. 48.
CHRISTIANIA, FEB. 10.—Three months, 4 48.

MRS. ADRIAN HOPE.—This lady was better
yesterday. On the preceding day little hope of her reco-
very was entertained by the medical attendant=. The chil-
dren are both dead; one died on Thursday night, and the
other yesterday.
KING'S COUNTY ELECTION.—RETURN OF
MR. ARMSTRONG.--At the filial closo of the poll the num-
bers were—

Armstrong
Bernard

Majority against the Stanleyites... ---216
.Dublin Evening Post of Thursday,
WRECK OF A CHINESE JUNK.—Extract of
a letter from Captain Codman, of the brig Argyle, of the
port of Baltimore s--" On my passage from Canton to 'Val=
paraiso, on the Ith June, at 8, 30 a.m., I discovered a vee.
sel bearing E, S, 8,, apparently in distress, being under
ury-masts. By 8 (Meek Mho up with and found her
to be a Japanese or Chinese junk, dismasted, and in
a totally disabled state. The %reek was heading
to the Iskrth, with thtce poles up, on which Were
bent some old bits of canvass, having been dismasted and
lost all her sails, Saw three persons on board of het,
who made signs by dropping on their knees, and with
uplifted hands praying to be taken oft, The weather
being mild, with light winds and smooth sea, I here to ald
dropped down alongside t f her. The three persens hove all
their baggage on board of us ( whit') they had already packed
ready for leaving the wriielc)i and they jumped on board the
Argyle thcmselver. As we could not tinderdetud a word from
them, and as they appeared perCectly reconciled to leave
their junk to Ler fate, I thought it advisable to Le ipatch a
boat to her, and exathifie if there was anything va'uablt-
which might be saved, and to note the condi ion of the
wreck, as also to obtain any provisions she might have on
beard. She Was found to be st Complete wreck, her masts had
b. en carried away by the deck, her rudder entirely gone, her
:lull strapped round and round with ropes to keep her
from bursting i in fact, being perfectly unmanageable.
She was about SO font burden, with a part of hot
eArgo of riee4 in bags; the greater past of which was
wet and spoiled: We found nothing else on board of her,
ave a few articles belonging to the men, They had about
40 gallor.s of rain water on board; no food, except the rice
.nd a few decayed pieces of fish (shark). We took from her
few baga of the best rife, a few pieces of rope, and seeing
nothing else worth saving, recalled the boat, and left the
junk to her fate, The wreck was covered with barnacles,
Jr clams; frum twu ty fir; inches' in length. She had lost
lone of her crew. Her appearance !mlicatcd having
been at least four or five Months in that sitttation. She could
not have floated many day's longer, d 4 lief. kill s%' already
bursting from the swelling of the rice and the un.4o* of the
wood. It is worthy of notice that this wreck had driLd
sr been blown due east from Japan 2,400 miler. This fact
nay lead to many inlefezting ihqui le'. The three men, the
only ones tint had ever been on on board or her, were in
zood health, and We have sine learned, from undoubted
facts, that tha), had been IPB days on the wreck, after b ing
iitroit:ted ; that they left one of the small islands at Japan
to go t 9 a neighbouring one with lice, that she was dis-
masted in a ftvioatit tiphboni d few hours out of port, and
never xt.* taint alter wards. She was but a small coast'ng
;unk. They had a compass, but no other uide."—liamp.
shire Tekgraph;
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•
rEA M-110 A TS.—Letters ;tom
Copenhagen of the 18th ult. state, that M. C. M. lijorth
has just resolved a problem which, for upwards o' ten
ears, has vainly exercised the sagacity of naval cog'.
aeers—and whose solution has more than once been pro,
uosed for competition, as well by the General Administra-
tration of Pottg, as by the corporation of merchants in the
capital. He has invented a steam-boat, eapatee of Cutting
its way through the thickest ice, with a spte4
equal to that of its unimpeded navigation. The GQnerkt
Administration of Posts have received a most favourable
epsort from a eon-mitt-cc of ship-buil'!c, s and machine-
maKers, to whom they bal submitted the mock!), and hal, e
applied for authority to construct a vessel, for, ,the tran-
port of 14 'pail bags in winter..—Scotsman.