The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-17 00:00:00

SHARES,

THE MARKET S._-•(THIS DAY.)

HVNGERFOIiD MARKET.

A tolerable attendance, and a fair amount of business done.
Beef, 70. to 81-d. j Mutton, 74d. to 8:7d; Veal, 81 to 9d. ;
Pork, 7,12 d. to 8!2; per lb. Turbot 83. to 20s. ; Cod, 53. to
123. ; Lobsters, 2s. t 6 6s. ; Salmon 3s. per lb.
BILLINGSGATE MARKET.

Good supplies, and a very fair trade, prices stationary. Tur-
bot, ss. to 20s. ; Cod, 3s. to lOs ; Salmon, 2s. 6d. to 3s. per
lb. ; Lobsters, Is. 6d. to ss. ; Oysters, 245. to 60s. per bushel ;
Mackerel, ad. to Is. ; Haddocks, Sd. to ls. 2d. ; Halibut
plentiful and cheap.
HAY MARKETS.

The supplies were moderate, and the demand good ; prices
much as before. Hay, 603. to 955. ; Clover, 90s. to 115 s. ;
Straw, 345. to 425. per load.

TALLOW MARKET.

Great quiet in this department, and the price of P.Y.C.
was 51s. 6d.

COLONIAL MARKET.

Owing to Tea attracting less pub is attention, this depart-
ment was more brisk. The Sugar Market was rather languid,
and British Plantation sold slowly. Low prices, about 575. ;
mid. quality yellow, 635. ; and fine, 68s. 17,000 bags Manilla,
600 boxes White Havannah, 600 half hhds. Porto Rico. and
4,000 of Siam were announced for sale. All did not
sell, but prices ranged much about as last quoted,
and were altered easier. Refined Standard Lumps at
795. 6d. to 80s. Black Pepper 3L-d. to 4d. per lb. ; and Salt-
netre, 1,200 bags, 225. to 235. for 3i refraction. About 2,000
bags Ceylon Coffee, and a small quantity of Java, were put up,
and moAly sold at about the market prices. Small parcels of
Ginger, Cloves, and Mace fetched about their former value.

TEA SALE (SECOND DAY).
'I he sale was of much the same character as previously re-
ported ; scarcely any thing whatever sold, and the prices ob-
tained were those to which 'lea dropped on Friday afternyon,
and from which it has not yet recovered. The large holders
will not sell any quantity, and the number of buyers were very
few, although there was a tolerable number of persons in at-
tendance.

At Friars, Jeclburgh, on the sth current, Sa-
muel Wood, Esq., writer, in his 74th year. He had filled the
office of town clerk for twenty years, and his resignation in
1839 was deeply regretted by every inhabitant in the burgh.
During that long period he did his utmost to promote the pros-
perity of his native town. He was a man of strong sense and
strict integrity ; a most sincere and steady friend, and his me-
mory will be affectionately cherished in the hearts of those
amongst whom he had so long resided, and to whom he had
been endeared by a mild and unaffected deportment and a ge-
nuine benevolence of mind.

MARRIAGE OF PRINCESS MARY OF WUR,
TEMBERG.—STUTTGA RD, MARCH 6.—The marriage of Prin-
cess Mary to Count Nipping takes place to-morrow. It wilt
be celebrated without any pomp in the bosom of the family.
The bridegroom possesses large estates in the neighbourhood
of Heilbronn. The Princess has a veil considerable private
fortune inherited from her mother, and it is generally believed
that the King, her father, will present her with an estate
ately purchased, as a wedding gift.
1 The Duke of Wellington was in the House of
Lords last night, and remained during nearly the whole of their
Lordship's sitting. His Grace looked remarkably well, and
walked firmly, considering his age, but by no means so well as
he did previously to the recent attack. He appeared as if the
cold winds rather affected him. He wore a short cloak while
ermaining in the house. He talked with the Peers near him
as briskly and earnestly as ever.
A vacancy has occurred in the household of his
Royal Highness Prince Albert by the accession of Viscaunt
Boringdon to the Peerage, as Earl of Morley.
We are authorised to state, that the information
contained in the letter of our Dublin correspondent, in yester-
day's paper, is not correct as regards the relationship said to
subsist between the Earl of Enniskillen and the soldier named
Robert Dane, of the 3Sth regiment. The young man is, we
believe, very respectably connected, but he is in no way related
to, or connected with, the Noble Earl. —Morning Herald.
The Prince de Montfort (Jerome Buonaparte)
and family were amongst the passengers who left London on
Sunday last by the Antwerp Company's steam-ship Princess
♦ictoria.

A letter from Berlin, dated the Bth instant, an-
nounces that the marriage between the Imperial Crown Prince
of Russia: and Princess Mary of Hesse Darmstadt was defini.
tively arranged, and would be celebrated next April.
A statue of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, the author
of " Paul and Virginia," executed by M. David, is about to
be erected in the town of Havre.

The Earl of Brecknock has returned to town
om Maidstone, where his Lordship went to attend a county
meeting to congratulate her Majesty on her marriage.
The Earl of Durham continues daily to improve
in health, and in a few weeks will probably admit of the Noble
Earl attending his place in the House of Lords.
CASTLE HILL.—The venerable Earl of For-
tescue completed his 87th year on Thursday last, when this
mansion was the scene of great festivity. His Lordship, al-
though at so advanced an age, is in excellent health.
Lord Mount Edgcombe has been indisposed with
the gout, at his romantic seat Mount Edgecombe, near Devon-
port. His Lordship and the Countess, in consequence of ill
health, are not expected to visit town this season.
Baron Weither, the Prussian charge d' affaires,
left this country last. week for Berlin, on leave of absence.
The Baron only awaited the return of Baron Below to take
his departure.
Lord Clinton, Earl of Egremont, Lord Rolle,
Lord Wodehouse, and Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., have come
forward with handsome subscriptions to erect a chapel of ease
at Flushing.
SUICIDE OF THE HON. EDW. PERCEVAL.
—This unfortunate individual was the son of Lord Arden. He
was of unsound mind, and on Wednesday night threw himself
out of the window of the Denham Park Establishment. He
was 45 years of age.
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The Rev. Sir Edward Bowyer Smyth, Bart., of
Hill-hall, in the county of Essex, has contributed not less than
3,000/. for the erection and endowment of a new church in
the parish of Camberwell, Surrey, where he has an extensive
property. Sir Edward Bowyer Smyth is the representative
of Sir Thomas Smyth, who was Secretary of State to Queen
Elizabeth.

The Wiltshire farmers do not appear disposed to
join in the nefarious ery of " Long live the Corn-laws—down
with the masses—let the people starve." The Wilts Herald,
in an agony of despair, asks " What are the farmers of Wilts
about ?" They are probably minding their own business, and
are sufficiently shrewd as well as patriotic not to leave their
fields uncultivated for the sake of swelling the numbers of a
sordid set of persons, who care not who starve so that they
themselves live luxuriously.
THE WOODCOT MURDER.—The unfortunate
man, Charles Morley, who is now under sentence of death in
our county gaol, for the murder of Mrs. Fanny Phillips, at
Woodeot, near Henley, has since his trial paid great attention
to the religious exhortations of the Rev. Mr. Brown, the Chap-
lin, who has been indefatigable in his endeavours to arouse the
unhappy culprit to a sense of his awful situation. At present he
has made no confession, but it is expected he will do so. No
official order has yet arrived for the execution, but we believe
it will take place on Monday, the 23d instant.— Oxford
Chronicle.

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SUICIDE BY A MAN ABOVE FOURSCORE.—
A gentleman's maid-servant, who, by the orders of her benevo-
lent master, was in the habit of carrying a portion of dinner to
an old and decrepid man, aged 84 years, residing in East Port-
street, Dunfermline, went as usual on Tuesday, the 3d instant,
when, on gaining admittance, she found, to her great horror,
that the poor old man had hanged himself, by suspending him-
self by a rope from one of the beams of his loom. When as-
sistance arrived he was cut down, but life was extinct. Wil-
liam Rennie, the deceased, was a weaver, but has not done any
work for a considerable time ; he was supported by the poor-
rates and the charity of individuals. No cause has been assigned
for the horrible act.—Caledonian Mercury.
Two Portuguese slavers have been captured, one
of which arrived at Simon's Bay on the 22d of December,
with about 720 slaves, many of which have been given out as
apprentices. The agriculturists, who complained of a want of
hands, were at first highly delighted at this event, but their
joy was somewhat damped by the Governor's proclamation that
every person who had received the apprentices should pay at
the rate of 11. per head.
The Dutch ship Scheldt going into Ascension
went down with all her sails set. The crew escaped, and a
subscription for these Dutch sailors was made by the crew of
the Melville, who had witnessed their distress, and every man
landed at Simon's Town in possession of 2/,

In consequence of the spread of Liberal princi-
ples in the borough of Doncaster, the Tories are driven to all
kinds of underhand and disreputable expedients, to give the
appearance of a counteracting power, by obtaining signatures to
a dear bread petition. The Tory petition is carried about from
house to house in the evening, and the poor people are re-
nested to sign it, as Earl Fitzwilliam's petition for cheap
read! The Anti-Corn-law people are awake and on the
atch, and when the Tory-name collectors turn out on their
zpedition of fraud and falsehood, the Anti-Corn-law party
ollow at their heels, from house to house, and ask the inmates
what the Tory deceivers have been promising or declaring.—
Halifax Express.
We are given to understand that a very import-
ant desideratum in classical literature is about to be supplied, in
a translation of the select Orations of Cicero, by F. B. Cal-
vert, the Professor of Elocution. No language is so deficient
in this department as our own, and the translations which have
hitherto appeared are notoriously mere jejune reports of these
finished productions, and do not even affect to embody their ora-
torical qualities. Much may be expected from, the well-known
qualifications of the present translator ; and it is the opinion of
all who have inspected the manuscripts, that they exhibit much
of the fervid spirit, and the lofty and fluent eloquence which
distinguish the most copious, the most•graceful, and majestic of
ancient orators.

GRAND KROUT FESTIVAL.—On Wednesday
last the annual grand krout festival was held at Nowlan's, and
went off with the greatest possible hilarity and glee. Sandy
Welsh was installed grand krout, and honoured with a wooden
spoon, for eating 116 plates of sour krout, and drinking six
quarts of sour cider. After this, of course, he was carted into
town in triumph, labelled "Prize Ox." John A. floah, his pre-
decrssor, managed to devour 112 plates of krout and four
quarts of sour cider, when he burst. About 120 sat down to
a most magnificent dinner. The venison, game, and wines,
were all of the finest order and best quality, and everything
went off with harmony and gratification. The fragments
filled 33 baskets.— New York Morning Herald.

We observe that the Wednesday night is chosen
by the leaders of the fashionable world for their balls and par-
ties. This is well judged, ts, there being usually no House on
that evening, the young, aristocrats and beaux are free to come.
The Countess of Jersey has fixed on the next, and this ball is
given on the introduction into the fashionable world of her La-
dyship's eldest daughter.
POST-OFFICE ARRANGEMENTS.—`'4'e have
authority to state that the Directors of the Midland Counties
Railway have at length received an official communication from
the Postmaster-General, notifying that letter bags would be
conveyed by this railway on and after the 6th of April next.—
Nottingham Journal.
In the parish of Inkberrow (Worcester) four
individuals were recently buried within the space of nine days,
whose united ages amounted to three hundred and forty-five
years I

COLLISION AT SEA.—Loss OF LIFE AND A
VEsSUL RUN nowN.—The following is an extract from the
log of the ship Richard Anderson, Richard B. tt, master,
for!.y-one days from New Orleans bar, left the City 29th or
February, which arrived at t his port yesterday :—" March 12,
at 3.30 A.M., Holyhead light in sight, distance twelve miles,
the Richard Anderson came in contact with the ship Roman,
Captain William P. Salisbury, from Savannah. The latter ship
sunk in two hours afterwards; Captain Salisbury died in one
hour after he came on board of the Richard Anderson. The
Richard AnderSon lost jib-boom, head, cutwater, stem, and
larboard cathead. The anchor falling on the ship's decks the
chain had to be cut to clear the ships. Both ships were stand-
ing upon the same tack ; the Roman came up with the Richard
Anderson, passed under our lee, lulled up a-head of us, and