The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-17 00:00:00

&c. &c.

SIR,—We, the Mayor and the undersigned inhabitants of
Liverpool, impressed with a sense of the great services rendered
by you to our beloved country, and to the interests of Europe,
request the honour of your company at a public dinner, on
your being released from quarantine, or as early afterwards 23
may be convenient to you .—We have the honour to be, Sir,
with profound respect, your obedient servants,
THOMAS BOLTON, Mayor.
(With ups aids of 200 signatures.)
Liverpool, 14th April, 1841.
The deputation saw and conversed with the gallant Com-
modore, who seemed in high spirits, and very much gratified
by the compliment. On ascertaining its nature, he exclaimed,
" 0, I'll stop a day fur this," and conversed for some time
with the Mayor and deputation. It will be seen from the ad-
vertisement that a meeting of the requisitionists will be held
this day at the Cotton Sales-room to make arrangements for a
public dinner on a grand scale. Neither time nor place has been
fixed, but we have no doubt that the demonstration will be
worthy both of the visitor and the town. The hero of Sidon
deserves a hearty welcome from his fellow-countrymen on his
return to his native shores, and we are quite sure thathe will
receive it. It is expected that the necessary papers will be
received from London this morning, in which case Sir Charles
will land in the course of the day.

ON COMMODORE CHARLES NApIER.
Will Wallace was a bra' chic!,
For claymore or for rapier ;
But for rockets, bombs, and cannon-balls,
Our Commodore has NAE..YEEIt.*

SAWNEY.
No poor, or equal.

S UlClDE.—Yesterday, about half-past eight
o'clock, a gentleman of the name of Reynolds threw him-
self from the second floor window of bit house in Pimlico
and was killed on the spot. The unfortunate gentleman
was a very eccentric individual, and had resided for up-
wards of twenty years at the house of Mr. Pratt, boot_
maker, at Pimlico, nearly opposite Elliot's Brewery. The
deceased gentleman, who was possessed of independent
property, was well known for his singular but harmless
behaviour, Nothing beyond his usual conduct had been
particularly noticed of late, and it is at present impossible
to account for the desperate act. He was greatly re-
spected by a very numerous acquaintance,
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, APRIL 14._
The brokers' offices having been closed since Saturday for
the Easter holidays, we have no business to report this
week, but, up to that day, the buyers evinced a decided
disinclination to buy colonial produce of any kind' and the
few sales made were at reduced prices.—Bristol Gazette.

The steam-ship British Queen, which sailed from
Portsmouth for New York on the 10th of March, encoun-
tered very stormy weather during her voyage, and was
obliged to put into Halifax for coals and to repair her
paddles. She reached that port on the 30th, and sailed
again for New York oa Wednesday evening. The fol-
lowing is from the Halifax papers of the Ist inst.
THE BRITISH QUEEN AT HALIFAX,

SIX DAYS LATER FROSt ENGLIND.
We were startled from our propriety on Tuesday by the
announcement of " a steamer east," and at once cencluded
na
that it was our own " Acadia,"booming along and .kirg
an incomparably short passage across the Atlantic in the
most boisterous season of the year.
As soon as she turned the beach, however, and by the
aid of a glass, we could survey her plainly—the painted
port holes, in man-of-war style, so different from the
black sides of the Cunard line—a figure head cf. the
British Queen in flowing robes, inJez.d of the fierce
Indian, tomahawk in hand, on the bows of the Acadia—
proved at once that we were recti%iiig a vilt f',-ern some
strange bird of the ocean, and for an hour every body give
himself up t..) conjecture. On the steamer came, but
slowly—was cheered as she passed close to the wharves,—
when the " British Queen" was descried on her stirn ;
every body knew that she was twenty dajs out frorn E., g-
land, and every body began to whisper " U. K., Out of
Koal."

The Queen dropped in a the end of Curia d's wharf,
when it was discovered that her paddles were breken, (a
fact which accounted for her slow pa, eup the harbour),
and that it was for the purpose of betting the so repaired and
a supply of coal, that she had put in to H.i'i!ax.
Oa inquiring on board, we found that she bad sailed
from London on the Sth, and Portsmouth on the 10th of
March—that she had encountered such severe gales from
the Westward, during the passag-, that her paddles were
shattered, and one of them rendered completely useless.,
until the weather abated, and temporary floats were rigged
on the paddle wheels, and enabled her to make this port.