The Sun.
London, England, 1834-05-22 00:00:00

MOBILE MARKET, APRIL 12.

COTTON.-The receipts since our last review are 5,669
bales, the exports 1,719, and the stock on hand, including
all on shipboard not cleared, is 45,436 bales. There has
been an active demand for Cotton during the week.
Holders and purchasers have gone freely into the market,
and about 6,000 bales have changed hands at our quo a-
tions. Choice, 12%; good, 111/ al2 ; good fair, 1034
a 11 ; fair, 10% a 10%; middling fair, 9% a 934 ;
rior, 9 a 9%.
FHEIGHTS.—First class American vessels are holding
out for 11-16 d. to Liverpool, but no engagements have been
made at that rate. British vessels are taking freely_ at
%cl. We quote to Liverpool, %d. ; Havre, I%e. ; New
York, %c. ; Providence and Boston, Nc.

REVIEW OF THE NEW ORLEANS MARKET, APRIL 12.
COTTON.—Arrived since the 4th inst.— Of Louisiana
and Mississippi 8,170 hales ; Tennessee and North Ala-
bama, 9,526 ; Florida, 256 ; together, 17,952 bales.
Cleared, in the same time—For Liverpool, 9,199 bales ;
Havre, 4,182 ; Antwerp, 153 ; Cowes, 149 ; New York,
904 ; Boston, 72 ; Philadephia, 52 ; Baltimore, 29 ; to-
gether, 14,740 bales; making an addition to stock of 3,212
bales, and leaving on hand, inclusive of all on shipboard
not cleared on the 10th inst. a stock of 103,663 bales.
The sales of the week amount to about 17,000 bales, of
which we have been able to learn the particula frs o the
following, viz. :-776 at 11 ; 975 at 104, 60 at 10i ; 2441
at 11 ; 500 at 11A ; 108 at 114 ; 300 at A; 50 at 94;
94 at 11% ; 140 at 11; 120 at 131; 800 at Ila ; 200 at
121; 600 at 104 a 13 ; 70 at 104 ; 420 at 11% ; 233 at
10a ;42 at 114 ;70 at I‘l ;89 at 11%; all Louisiana
and Mississippi ; 512 at -101 ; *OOO at 10, 10} a 10%;
600 at 10 ; 1,000 at 10% ; 100 at 111,!2 ; 53 at 101 ; 400
at 10a; 2,150 at ;of Tennessee and North Alabama;
50 bales Arkansas at 103/4 ; and 300 Lake, at 10a cents.
per lb. There has been a good feeling manifested In the
Market throughout the week, and nearly all descriptions
have met with a brisk demand, at an advance of fully
cent, and in some instances a shade higher, on the Liver-
pool
article, it still continues to arrive freely.
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dollars 25 cents per barrel ; we quote 3 a 3 dollars 25 cents.
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in the rates to Havre, three vessels having taken up at la
for Cotton, per lb. ; and for Tobbacco, per hogshead to
Cowes, 60 shillings is now taken. We have to remark
they are dull.

The sudden transition in the weather the
three last days of the preceding week was so great
that it was sufficient to shake the most robust constitu-
tion, and many individuals have, no doubt, suffered se-
verely from the change. The hail which fell on Sun-
day evening, between five and six o'clock, broke much
glass in some of the gardens in the neighbourhood of
the metropolis, and at night the weather was piercing
cold. Between Thursday and Sunday night the ther-
mometer varied not less than 22 degrees, but yesterday
the weather became more mild and settled.

ADVENTURES OF A GENTLEMAN OF
vim COURT OF CHARLES II._" In this auto biogra-
phical novel of Sir Ralph Esher' we are introduced
OUR TOWN.---The two volumes of this to the centre of that gay circle of wit and beauty
wvel contain about as much quiet satire as is gene- which Waller worshipped and Lely painted. We
rally to be found in the same number multiplied by converse with the lovely Lady Castlemain, and the
ten. The author has something of the tact of Le fair Miss Stewart, listen to the naiveté of Nell Gwynn,
Sage, in detecting and displaying the foibles and ab- and the pretty prattle of the Duchess of Portsmouth.
surdities of mankind, and, like that writer and most We are made partners in the gallantry of Buckingham
masterly humorist, his vein is neither ill tempered, and Rochester, and follow the wild pranks of Buck-
nor coarsely severe. His subject matter consists of hurst and Sedley. We are, in short, made hand in
the magnificos of a country town. Each chapter en- glove' with all the feathered fair ones, who sported
circles some joke perfected. Peregrine laughs not silks and sentiment in the apartments in Whitehall,
loud, but heartily ; and his reader joials in the gentle and with all the gay gallants who buzzed in the court
peal.—Morning Herald. of Charles."