The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-08 00:00:00

HAYMARKET THEATRE:

The longest and most successful season ever recorded in
the annals of any theatre, closed here last evening with the
following address, spoken by Mr. Webster in the character of
Nathan Thompson, after the conclusion of the new and suc-
cessful comedy of Borough Politics. This address is favour-
ably distinguished from the generality of managerial valedic-
tory addresses. It is true to the letter :

.
"Ladies and Gentlemen,—l must beg of you to suppose Nathan
Thompson to be Mr. Webster addressing you, at the close of the pre-
sent highly successful season. Were Ito drop my character, I might
lose it, and many would be glad to pick up the good one you have
been pleased to give me for the many years devoted to your service.
We have now been open 562 consecutive acting nights —that's rather
a hard word for a countryman—consecutive acting nights; and the
patronage you have so liberallylhestowed on the little theatre in the
Haymarket, during the longest season of this or any other theatrical
establishment, has given bread to hundreds. II thank you,
Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you with all my heart.
Indeed, my managerial life has been a succession of grateful
acknowledgments of your favours. Allow me to hope that my efforts
to please you hitherto will hold out good promises for the future. I
assure you that no exertion of mine shall be wanting to carry another
ensuing season with renewed vigour. I have reason to believe that
I shall be enabled to present you with a large number of sterling
comedies of British manufacture ; and when I mention the names of
Douglas Jerrold, Sheridan Knowles, Bourcicault, Marston, with
others, as yet unknown to fame or partiality so, dramatically
speaking, my assertion will, I trust, not be considered without foun-
dation. I will, at all events, endeavour my utmost to deserve your
approbation ; and what I says, I sticks to."
" Ladies and Gentlemen, in the name of this company collectively
and individually, until the 7th of September next I respectfully wish
you all health and happiness."
Mr. Webster then retired amidst the most enthusiastic
cheering.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of last Night.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 60,000 to
70,000 bales. American sorts ranged from 4d. to 51,0. per
lb.—Shares were not so lively.
We have been favoured with a file of the .Neai Zealand
Spectator, which bears date as late as the 14th March last.
They notice several events which, as far as the colony is
concerned, are of interest. From a statement made of the
assets and liabilities of the Colonial Treasury of New Zealand,
it appears that the liabilities amounted on the 15th
November to 53,939/. 13s. 2d., and the assets to 4991. 9s. Id.
The amount of specie in the Treasury chest was but
227/. 9s. ld., and taking bad and doubtful debts off,
there was the considerable amount of 440/. 45. Id., to be
provided for. In the three quarters ending September, 1845,
the sale of Crown Lands had only produced 227/. 7s. 2d. It
must be admitted that, notwithstanding the Parliamen-
tary grant, the revenue accounts of the colony are in a very
indifferent position. The contention with respect to the Govern-
ment grants of land were still kept up, and it is affirmed that they
have to a very considerable extent crippled the power of the
Government. Indeed, it is asserted that the confirmation by
Lord Stanley of the purchases under Captain Fitzroy's
penny-an-acre proclamation would, as far as Auckland is
concerned, tend to prevent immigration in that district.
We cannot, however, believe the assertion hazarded thatthe
Government had become powerless in that district. A pro-
clamation had been issued by the Governor putting an end
to martial law. It would appear that a very fair amount of
business is doing in the markets of New Zealand. Lamb's-
wool was freely taken at Is. 4d. per lb.—a good price for the
produce of the colony. In imports a considerable amount
of business was done. Freights were in demand at from 4/
to 6/. per ton.
From another source we learn that more than thirty fami-
lies, settled in the valley of the Huth, had been driven from
their houses by armed natives, that their crops had been in-
jured, and much property plundered. There was, however,
but little personal violence. The military had punished the
offenders, but not much of the property had been restored.
In the Canso' Market there have been but a very few pur-
chases made this morning. For the Account the only prices
have been 96 ; and for Money, 953/4 %. The premium upon
Exchequer-bills is lower-7s. being now the only price. A
purchase has been made in Bank Stock at 2091% ; and In-
dia Stock is firm, at a rise from 2601/2 to 262. The New
Five per Cent. Annuities are at 121.
In the Foreign Stock Market the principal feature has
been a fall of from 3 to 4 per cent. in the Portuguese Bonds,
in consequence of some very heavy sales, said to amount to
about 25,000/. or 30,000/. of the Four per Cents. The present
price is from 38 to 40. Spanish Consols for the Account re-
mains at about 26 ; the Three per Cents. at 36% ; Mexicans
have rallied to 25; but the Brazilian Bonds are heavy at 88.
The Railway Share Market is firm this morning. There
is a very good demand for East India Scrip, of which consi-
derable amounts have been taken within the last few days.
BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .. .. 209 20854
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 961 A% 96%
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 95 953/4
Three per Cent. Annuities, 1726 .. 94% 94%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anna. 97% 98 93
New Five per Cent. Annuities .. .. 121 121
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10 5-1 G 7.16 10 7-16
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 10 1-16
India Stock .. . 262 260%
India Bonds, 1,000/. ..
Ditto, under 1,000/.
Consols for Account .. •
Exchequer Bills. d.

fly d.

1,0001...
5001. -.
Ditto, Small

11 7 -- pm. 11
8 11 - - pm. 11
8 12 - - pm. 12
ONE CLOSING
O'CLOJK. PRICES.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian BondF, 5 per Cent .. ..
Ditto, New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 .. 88
Equador Bonds .. 3%
Grenada, 1 per Cent .. .
Ditto, Deferred .. 4
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Ceni ..
Ditto, for the Account 24% 25
Portuguese Three per Cent • .. ..
Ditto, for the Accoant .. 41
Ditto, 4 Der Cent .. ..
Ditto, :or the Account .. .. 41
Russian Bonds ..
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. ..
Ditto, for the Account .. 26
Ditto, Three per Cent .. ..
Ditto, for the Account .. 36%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent .. 97%

Ditto, Two-and-a-Half pa,* Cent .. 55
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent ..
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates ..

BUSINESS CLOSING
PAID. DONE AT PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.

393
112 k.

PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES.
Aberdeen.. .. .. 13 .... 10 ••• • • • •...
Amber., Notting., Boston, and
Eastein Junction .. 2% 24% • •
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 7A 5/8 • • ......
Bristol and Eieter .. 75 .. .. • ..... .

Ditto New .. .. 5 .. 11 .... 11
Buckinghamshire 425. .... par dis. 1,(3 dis.
Caledonian 20.. 15% 1614 .... 1G

Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 2
Central .. 2 % .. •
Churnet and E'ythe 2 .... 2 ..........
Cornwall .
Derby and Crewe .. .... 7% •.••.. • • ..
Direct ➢lanchester (Remington's) ..........
Direct Northern .... 2% 1% ......
Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 10 .... • • .
Eastern Coundes 141. 165..... 24
Ditto New .. .. 10/. 165..... 8%14 p••••••
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. Gl. 13s. 4d. p• • ......
Ditto, York Extension lOs % ........
East Lincolnshire ........114 •• • • 14 ••••• • • • • •
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12%.. • • 18%......
Edinburgh and Northern .. .. 10 .... 11
Edinburgh end Pe, th 3 .... 3 1/,3% .
Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) I %.... 1 1.......
Great North of England . .. 100
Ditto, New ..
Great Western

.. .. .. 85 ....151 .......

8% P
% P
2%

18%
151

Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 10 .... 22Y2 ..........
Guildford, Fareham, &Portimoth 5 .... 5% ........
Hull and Selby .. .. • . 30.... ..........

Ditto, IA Shares 1214 .... 22 ..... 22
Leicester and Bedford .. 225..... 3l dis ..... dis.
Leicester, Tamworth, &c. 425. % di5....... dls.
London ant Birmingham . ..100 ....233 . 231
Ditto, Thirds .. 32 .... .......... 73
Ditto, Qaarters . .. 2 .... 3114 .. • • ...... 3114
London and Brighton .. 50 .. . 66 .......... 66
London and South.Western..4ll. 6s. 10d... 7614 • • ...• • ... 7634
Ditto, New .. • . 1734 .... 28 .......... 2334
London and York .. 214 .... 2%14 ........ 21'

17;
13
120%
3% P

Ditto, Half Shares .. 2;.4 ig..-...••..•.
Lynn and Dereham .. 15 .... 131 13 • •
Manchester and Leeds .. 82 ....122 120%
Ditto Extension .. 425. ...• 3% p.. ••.. • •
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 . •••••• • • • •
Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) • • 5 .• .• 15% 10
Ditto, Quarter Shares (B .. 5 .... .. • • .... • •
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) 1 .• 11
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. % p
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 1%
..100
Ditto, New .. 24 .... .. • •
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 108 .... 118
Newcastle and Darlington Janet. 25 .... 441 44%
Newcastle and Berwick .. 15 .... 28% 29 28% 2B
Norfolk .. •• .. 20 .... 28% 28%
Ditto, Tenths .. • • .. .. 2 ....
Ditto, Extension .. 2 .... —2%
North British .. .. 25 39% 39 %
Ditto, Half Shares .. 8%.... 14% 14%
Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 11,E .... 43%••• • • • .•
North Kent and Direct Dover .. 2%....
North Staffordshire 425..... 4% 4 p.. • • 4 p
Oxford,Worcest.,& Wolverbmptn. 12% •. •
Portsmouth Direct .. • • 3% •• •• 5% •• •••• •• • • 5%
Preston and Wyre .. • • 25 .... 371,E 361,E •• • . 36%
Herding, Guildford, and Reigate 425..... dis .. % Is
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2 .. 31f ••••• • • • • • 31
Shropshire Union 425..... %% % dis %
Soath Midland 425. — %
South Eastern and Bowl' 33%....

1594
10
1 p

Do., New (do. pl. 65.8 d.) No. 2. 10— .... 1834 18M
1)0., New (do. ZOL) .. No. 3. 15 .... 2114 % 21%
80., New (do. bit.) .. No. 4. 2% 3% 3%
Staines and Richmond 1 .... ..... •.. 1%
South Wries .. 5 ....3 3104 4% 4
Tring,Readlin, and Ba Ingstoke.. 5M .... 3M .......... 3U,
Vale of Neath .. 2 .... ..
Waterfd., Wexfd., Wick., & Dub. 1% ..........
Welsh Midland .. .... 1% 1........
West Rldingthilon .. • • .. 425..... 3% 43% p..
York and Carlisle
York aad North Midland .. 50 ....
Ditto, Selby .. 30 .... 73 ,
Ditto. Extension • • .. .. 20 .... 39%
Do. E. and W. Riding Exten... 1 133,, 14
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. .. 14 .... 12%34
Dutch Rhenish .. , . 6 .... 6%31 ••••• • • •
East Indian . ss. 1 %
Jamaica South Midland Junction 1 .... ..........
Louvain ala Sambre .. 1%

ry; .

Luxembourg ..
Namur and Liege ..
Orleans and Bordeaux ..
Paris and Lyons Constituted ..
Sambre and Meuse
West Flanders .

6 .... 3 .....
6 .... 8%%%••••••

G_ 3X.•••••••..

MINES.

Real del Monte, Unregistered 31i • • • • • • . • • •

P
7f,

•
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.--(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam ......C.F 12 914 Gibraltar.. • • ...... •• ..
Ditto, at sight
Itotta. dem .... •. 2 11. 12 10 Genoa .. •• • • .......... 26 20
Antwerp .... 26 PO Milan .. •• .... • • ...• • •

Hamburgb M.B. 14
Altona • •
Paris, 3 days' sight .... 25 85
Ditto, 3 months .... .. 2G 15
Marseilles .......... 26 20
.. 26 20
Frankfort on Maine.... 122%
Petersburgh, 31.15.... • •
Berlin
•
Vienna, effee..fio ••• • • • 10 15
Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 10 15
Madrid ••.. • •• • • 354(
Cadiz • • ••• •••• • • • • 36%
.kreelona • •

Net,les .••••• • • • • • . 393
Palermo, per 0z........ 119%
Lisbon.... ••• • • ••••• • • 52%
53
Rio Janeiro . • ........ 24
liahia ........ .....
Buenos Ayres —
New York. '2 l d vys' sight
Philadelphia .... • .....
PRICES OF RE i T.. ON", PER OZ.
Foreign Gold in boys.. X 3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 3 17 5
New Doubloons . ....• 0 0 0
New Dollars •• . •• • • 0 4 9%
lilver in bars ...... • • 0 4 11%

Awe.
SeNille

THE LORD MAYOR'S VISIT TO OXFORD.—OXFORD,
WEDNESDAY.—The Lord Mayor reached Oxford by special
train soon atter eleven o'clock yesterday morning, and im-
mediately proceeded to the residence of the Mayor of that
city, Alderman John Thorp, and invited his Worship and the
Town-clerk to dine with him in the evening at the Star
Hotel. The Lord Mayor and his friends spent the day in
visiting the chief attractions of the city and neighbourhood ;
and as it appeared to be his Lordship's wish that his visit
should be as private and unostentatious as possible, there was
nothing beyond a little additional bustle to denote that they
were honoured with the company of the ruling powers of the
great metropolis. His Lordship and party purpose leaving
Oxford by eight o'clock this morning, and will proceed by
water in the state barge.
Two privates of the 69th Regiment were charged at
the Sunderland Police-court, on Wednesday, with having
severely assaulted a police officer, who is at present in a dan-
gerous state. They were remanded.

COURT CIRCULAR.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent 'visited the
Queen and Prince Albert, and their Majesties the King and
Queen of the Belgians, yesterday morning at Buckingham
Palace.

His Majesty the King of the Belgians left Buckingham
Palace at eleven o'clock yesterday morning, for his residence
at Claremont.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by her Majesty
the Queen of the Belgians, and the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Royal, left Buckingham Palace at two o'clock yes-
terday afternoon, in a carriage and four, for Osborne House,
Isle of Wight. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince Alfred,
the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena, accompanied by
the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, were in another carriage and
four. The Countess of Charlemont, the Countess Vilain XIV.,
Major A. d'Hanins de Moerkerke, Lord Alfred Paget, the
Hon. Capt. Gordon, Col. Bowles, and Dr. Prmtorius, followed
in three of the Royal carriages.
Her Majesty and her Royal Consort, and their august
visitors, were conducted to their carriages by Lady Caroline
Cocks, Hon. Miss Napier, the Lord Steward, the Lord Cham-
berlain, the Master of _the Horse, the Groom of the Stole to
Prince Albert, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Earl of Morley,
Lord George Lennox, and the Hon. Captain A. N. Hood.
The august party proceeded from the Palace escorted by
a detachment of Hussars, to the terminus of the South-
Western Railway at Nine Elms, and left by a special train
for Gosport.
During the absence of the Court from town the repairs
rendered necessary by the recent storm in the Picture Gallery,
and other parts of the Palace, will be proceeded with, and in
consequence no parties whatever will be permitted to view
the interior. The following official order on this subject was
issued yesterday

" Buckingham Palace.
" Ordered,—That no person whatever shall be admitted to
view Buckingham Palace during the repairs consequent en
the late storm.

" SPENCER, Lord Chamberlain.
" Lord Chamberlain's-office, Aug. 7, 1846."
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by
Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Sir George Couper, left her
residence, Clarence House, St. James's, at three o'clock yes-
terday afternoon, for Frogmore House, Windsor.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge, Prince
George, and the Hereditary Grand Duke of Alecklenburg
Strelitz, honoured Mr. Burford's Panoramas in Leicester-
square with a visit yesterday.
The Lord Advocate for Scotland had an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official re-
sidence in Downing-street.
The Lord Provost of Glasgow had an interview yesterday
at the Home-office with the Rigbt Hon. Sir George Grey, on
the subject of the extension to Scotland of the stipulations
of the English Bill providing for Baths and Washhouses.
He had afterwards, accompanied by Mr. Forbes, town clerk
of Glasgow, 'an interview with the Lord Advocate for
Scotland.

Lord Audley had an interview with Lord John Russell
yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. Sir
Charles Adam had also an interview with his Lordship.
Mr. Walker and Mr. Smith had an interview yesterday
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Mr. Wawn, M.P., with the Mayor of Great Yarmouth, had
an interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, at the
Board of Trade yesterday.
Mr. Hutt, M.P., and a deputation, had an interview yes-
terday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The Chairman of the Customs transacted business yester-
day at the Board of Trade.