The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-08 00:00:00

Average Aar °eat.
Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 75,651
West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud.
dersfield
Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, ,
Whitchurch
Worcester City and County Banking Company,
Worcester. . . • 6,396
York Union Banking Company, York 71,075
York City and County Banking Company, York 90,196
Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds
P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns.
Stamps and Taxes, April 2, 1847.
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.ARKET NEWS.-(YESTERDAY.
CORN-ILICCILANGE.
Since Monday the arrivals of Engtish Wheat, wilt'
wise, as well as by land carriage and sample, have beep. ,
on a very moderate scale ; hence the quantity yen-
was small. All kinds moved off slowly, at the late dot
cline in the quotations. Foreign Wheat, the supply of
which was somewhat on the increase, commanded very
little attention, yet previous rates were generally sup'
ported. For export we heard of no sales. The show to
foreign Barley was good, owing to which the trade ws° •
heavy, and prices were with difficulty supported. The
Malt trade was exceedingly dull ; but we can notice In
further depression in value. Oats, Beans, Peas and
Flour were very heavy, at barely late rates.

En :11sh
Er, sh
Foreign •• • •

Wheat.
1,680 qrs.

ARRIVALS.
isa.r.y.
910 qrs.

Qstg I Flour.
940 qrs.', 1,170 skl.
640 -:--
3,661 I --

1,750

1.670

Malt. WO 031:
VITHETEONELPEL.
Although the supplies of meat were somewhat on the
increase, the generil demand was firm, at very full
prices. Beef, from 2s 10d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to
4s 6d ; Lamb, 5s 8d to 6s 6d ; Veal, 43 4d to 5s 2d
and Pork, 3s 10d to 5s 2d per 81b8 by the carcase.

CHRISTOPHER COLOMB.
True genius is seldom to be put down by clamour,
though, unfortunately, instances of this kind d!'
sometimes occur, and unquestionably had not Felicia.
David been possessed of strength of mind, as well ,'
high talent, he would have sunk under the storm oft
abuse so ungenerously raised against him last yeeri
on the occasion of his "Moire," whieh, because the
public was disappointed in not finding it another
"Desert," was universally cried down as a worthleee'
rhapsody, and its author as something like an iny'
postor. Some of your men of genius would have:
taken this sorry treatment—and sorry and shabby:
enough it certainly was—in dudgeon, and forswore'
Apollo in a huff—nay, some of our acquaintance'
would infallibly in such a strait have blown out the;
small portion of brains appertaining to them ;
but M. David did far better—he betook himself, not,
to Avernus, but to Auteuil, where he avenged biro'
self on his detractors by writing a symphonft
which not only restores him to celebrity, but places
him beyond the reach of all future cavil among thie
first composers of his time. The subject is a grail°
oi4e, the conception of a man of genius—the discover
of the new world ; the title Christ.phe Colomb, ON, °I:
Discauverie do Nouveau Monde. It was produced at
the Theatre of the Conservatoire, for such was the,.
effect of the clamour to which we have alluded tit'
not a lyric theatre would open its doors to the coIW
poser, and it was to the generous interference of one
of the Princes that this salle, which belongs to the
Crown, was placed at the disposal of M. David. 1114
symphony, is divided into four parts—" The peptic'
ture, ' " A Night at the Tropics," " The Revolt',
and " The New World." These are all described
with an imitative power really wondrous, thou
the auditor is no doubt largely indebted to are'
citative deliveied by M. Henry, of the Open
Comique, who, by a kind of running cornrow
tary on the events described, keeps the audience
au courant of the intentions of the author, like
the chorus in the old Greek tragedy. The sub',
ject opens with the preparations for the departure 01
the expedition, the undulation of the waves, and the
ships riding at anchor. being expressed with singuier
felicity. The embarkation amid the prayers of tbe
people, the signal for sailing, and the departure of the
fleet, with the various feelings of regret and alarm at
such a moment experienced by the adventurers and
those who remain behind, were admirably depicteth
and this part concluded amid load and long plaudits'
The composer subsequently describes the features of
long navigation—the weary calm, the langour of the
tropics, a tempest, a dream of home, a revolt op
board, and lastly, the sight of the new world; th°
rapture of the nearly hopeless sailors at the prospeol
and the dances and choruses of the natives ; all were
received with applause, which, as the beauties tur
folded themselves to the audience, rose at length 0
enthusiastic demonstrations of delight. The syny
phony, we should mention, la not wholly instill;
mental, the subject being developed by severs'
choruses and other vocal morceaux, all of considerable
merit, but we must add that the execution seemed °_,..11
, the whole inferior to the work. The composition 1!
of colossal grandeur, and it would demand
resources of a first-rate theatre to do justice to MVP
a production. all the

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Sir Robert and Lady Peel are passing the holidays
at Drayton Manor, surrounded by a select circle. The
Right Hon. Baronet and family are expected to retUrP
to town for the season on Monday next.
TIIS MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE.—We are happy
to learn that tile Lord President of the Council iS
dually recovering his health, and that there remains n!:)!
the slightest doubt but that he will be able to attend to
the House of Loris at the expiration of the recess.
The Earl of Auckland, accompanied by the fit
Miss Eden, left town on Tuesday for Devonshire. 'in
Noble Earl after s..nne visits, it is understood, will
official inspections at Plymouth and Devonport.
The Duke of Wellington, accompanied by the
Right Hon. Charles Arbuthut t, returns to Apsiei
House on Tue.,:day or Wednesday next from Swath'
tieldsaye, Hants. The Noble and Gallant Duke gives!
grand banquet on the 21st instant to their Royal Big':
nesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and thy
Duchess of Gloucet,tar.

OPENING OF TUE NEW STEAM-BOAT PIER,
GERFORD- MARKET.—Yesierotty, At twelve o'clock, u'ef
new pier at liungerhird-bridge, for the convenience 0
passengers by the steam -boats, was opened oy the director°
toll free. The only access to the boats is now by the
pier from the tower on the Middlesex side, and the
floating pier will be removed forthwith.
We have authority to state that there is no foUll;
dation whatever for a report which has been circulated
for the last day or two, to the eifeet that Mr. Laboucher°
intends to retire from the office of Irish Secretary.
The anstitutionnel says, " The dysentery rage'
among the crews of ti,e French vessels stationed at. the
Antilles and at Otaheite. The first•nareed station ll°
lost more than forty men, and the other more than foAl"
teen."

HERTFORDSHIRE ELECTIONEERING TWO -of
the three Members who represent the county are r°'
ported to be desirous of retiring; and all the gentleqten
who have been thought worthiest to succeed them bare
coyly withdrawn from the flattering proposal. Colonel
Calvert, Mr. Hale, Mr. Spencer Cowper, Sir E. Euliver
Lytton; Mr. Boaanquet are reported to have turned •
deal ear to all such suggestions. Mr. Brand has bees
retiring for fifteen years, or, more properly speakiribi
refusing to come forward, for he never actually nn'
flounced himself a candidate. But now, at last, when
the general voice points to him as the fittest person,
and- the, most certain to unite the suffrages of one parY
at least, he has consented to do violence to his incline'
tions, and tp sacrifice his preference for a country life in
order to perform the duty which will be thrust upon hiul
of serving the public as a Knight of the Shire.—Bert"
ford Mercury.
A baker of Berne, in Switzerland, has succeeded
in making very palatable bread from Iceland moss.
al:
results from a scientific examination of this breed...ll4s
out of 102 parts, it contains 44 of fecula or null"'
matter. Bread made chiefly of potatoes is said to c„,0"•
twin only 15 in the 100 parts of nutritive reatter.--(01.
Eynon.;
DiENT.-I:xtract of a letter, dated 16, Blessington-Street,
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,nvarlably found them to have the most perfect effect in remoln
those diseases, even when of a very desperate nature. (Signal
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