The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-06 00:00:00

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The Cierk of the Crown having amended the return for
Weymouth, Messrs. Bernal and Christie last night took the
oaths and their seats.

The Southwark Improvement Bill (No. 2) was postponed
after a division.

Several petitions were presented against parts of the tariff, and
one of them was from liquorice growers about Pontefract, who
have obtained a vested right in a restriction on the importation
of foreign liquorice b) an exacted duty.
Mr. Williams gave notice of a motion to apply the sliding
scale to public incomes, and to subject real property to the le-
gacy duty.
Mr. Manners Sutton obtained leave to bring in a Bill to
continue for a limited term the General Turnpike Acts, and
provide for the better regulation of turnpike trusts in England
and Wales.

Lord Eliot obtained leave to bring in a Bill to regulate
fisheries in Ireland; and Sir T. Blake obtained leave for a Bill
to regulate admission to the bar in Ireland.
On the motion of Lord Ingestrie, a return was ordered of Sir
Samuel Bentham's plan for a floating breakwater, which was
invented in 1811, in order to enable the House to judge of a
Bill now in progress for establishing a floating breakwater on
Captain Taylor's principle.
The House went into Committee on the Corn-keeping- out-
Bill, and was occupied with it for the remainder of the even-
ing. No alterations of importance were made, the Committee
having selected. by considerable majorities, amendments pro-
pose
(1 by Lord Worsley, Mr. Childers, and others. The House
adjourned at a Quarter past One o'Clock.
10101VITZ—th."11.11D.ZI—CO2YFMEMCE.
The run upon the Greenock banks for gold, immediately on
the failure of the Re frewshire house. last Thursday, was un-
precedented, but the call was fortunately supplied to the full
demand, and a meeting held declarative of their stability. The
liabilities of the bankrupt firm will exceed 200,0001., to meet
which, the private estates of the partners, Mr. Napier, of Black-
stone, and Mr. Roger Ayton,' will yield but little. "They have
been gasetted, and the first meeting is fixed for Monday,
April 11.

NAVAL AND BTILITA2.7.
The regiments proceeding to India are the 10th, 29th, 58th,
61st, and the 78th infantry, with others, that will altogether
amount to between 8,500 and 9,000 troops. The naval depi,rt-
ment is also most active in increasing its stores : a contract for
100,000 gallons of rum has been announced, being the second
Since the commencement of the year.
During the present year, nine new ships will be launched at
the various dockyards of Woolwich, Deptford, Chatham, Ply-
mouth, and Pembroke; besides creamers and other small vesAels.
Three hundred men marched from Canterbury on Monday, to
proceed to India.
LAW AND PO LICE,
At Bow-street on Monday J. Hedgcock, errand boy to 'Mr.
Morse, clock and watchmaker, Charing•cross, was committed
to take his trial for stealing two gold watches and other arti-
cles, value 351. 10s., the property' of his master.
Monday, at Lambeth-street, Mary Newton, an unfortunate
female, was brought before the Magistrate,' charged with at-
tempting to cut her throat, and also with cutting and wounding
a young woman who lodged in the same house with her. It
appeared that the prisoner, disgusted with the life she had been
leading for the last eighteen months, had made the desperate
attempt, and her friend had been severely cut while wresting
the knife from her. The Magistrate remanded the prisoner
till some asylum could be found for her.
Eleven of the soldiers implicated in the late outrage at
Stockport, have been committed to take their trial at the en-
suing Chester Assizes.
TrazAT32.xca.x.

Madame Persian; arrived in town on Monday from Boulogne,
and appeared la,t• night.
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Prince and Princess Nicholas Esterhasy left Chandos
House yesterday for Germany.
The Duke of Buccleuch, accompanied by the Duchess, left
Boughton House yesterday for Kettering House.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland left Trentham Hail
yesterday, for town.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort leave Badminton for
Beaufort House to. day.
The Marquis of Salisbury returned to Arlington-street on
Saturday, from Strathfieldsaye.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has been indisposed since
his return from Betchworth Park.
A magnificent entertainment was given by the members of
the Kildare Club on Thursday evening, to theLord-Lieutenant
of Ireland and the Countess De Grey. Dancing was carried on
with great spirit till an advanced hour in the morning.
AIZSCEZZANEOTSS.
Yesterday, in 1797, died William Mason, the poet. There
is a tablet to his memory in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey.
Doncaster fair began yesterday.
At the anniversary festival of the St. Ann's Society, held
on Monday at the London Tavern, it was stated that the Society
was founded in the reign of Queen Anne, alter whom it was
named, and that since that time upwards of 2,000 children had
been fostered under its care.

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510 riEV -and - C 01115TERCIAL , 51.t.:1"
CITY, TUESDAY Evisplio•
The price of Consols improved 14, to • per Dent. ne
...i.f
the closing prices of yesterday, the last quotations fri',
being 90i 90i, both for Money and for the Accoant. ,T11%!_,..
to be attributed to some large purchases in the New T,P,FI'..
and-a-Half per Cents. as well as in the Consols -therrisety;
supposed to be s•) on account of a large insurance establi,
the great amount of unemployed capital must. however,'
had some influence. • The Money Market has for a 10nk,,,_14
evinced a. -degree of buoyancy which it scarcely cermet F.l
done had it not been fur the last reason ; and it lies been; ,i
that at no period have appearances been so favourable !ter,
funding operation, which would have precluded the neeesslt4'
resorting to the proposed financial, plan. It has been state
parties well versed in monetary affairs, that the marknt Z
ever!.
have sustained the calling in and funding all the eints
Exchequer Bills, without causing a decline of more thrskte
two to.three per cent. Had such a proceeding beee ±tS '.
an opportunity would have been afforded fur re-i*,lzu .
ones of impreved security to the public, fur such surf's 110,7
have been required for the present exigences, thus giving{
for testing the result of the changes in the import dutiii).".. 1,
New Three-and-a-Half per Cents, left off at 9(4- 100, nucg, e 4.1
l,
chequer Bills 35 to 37 press.
The Foreign Market was dull as to the extent of Wsloie
but the quotations for tke Bonds of the iasolventStates'igise
not allowed to droop; the Portuguese Five per Ceolg'-:4:?:1;
35-} 36*; the Three per Cents. 20.1 21*; Colombisir:*2_?i the
Mexican 39a 40; Spanish Five per Cents. 2451,- .9.4 i/ '104;
Three per Cents. 24* /. The price of Belgian was 103
Brazilian, 67 68 ; Danish, 11101 811; Dutch Two-anclea-kW:
Cents. 52 to 52* ; and the Five per Cents. 100 te 100.1:4i
'fhe prices of Shares were without much variation, bu'-iiiiP
showed an evident disposition to advance. London and 11
mingham were 84 86 ; Great Western. 27/ 2se !1,0.146
Shares, • 14* 14 premium; Birmingham and Gloucelterii4,
58; South Western, 591 60 ; Gosport, 59. 60 ; N°rtiP oil
land, 69 70; the New Shares, 34 35 ; Blackwell, 12 t37.'
the New Shares, 10; and Brighton, 361 36i. per share. elf
The Foreign Exchanges were all firm, and in some il p
higher than on Friday. Amsterdam. 12 ‘I 12 5 ; lit'tie,
$1;
1.5 12 5* ; Antwerp, 12 4a 12 5 ; Hamburgh, 13 121 tf 1
Frankfort, 1514 1511 ; Paris, 25 80 2585 ; Vienna, 9 55.1 elle!
Madrid, 361; and Lisbon, 52/.
,Helit#
The private letters by the India Mail add .but ht,": 01
mercial information to that which has alreadyippearedr, fafir
Sun. The failure of a small establishment at Calegt'u„,;(ol
tioned, but the limited extent of its business rendes-P.lldg.
trifling importance. There have been no other foreigllo4,74
(From The Sun of Last Night.) • '
•
A leading broker having bought largely in the New
,Toilltea,er
and-a-Half per Cents., all the English Stocks have &dip,: toe
and from the appearance of the market it is probable I fro
present prices will be still higher. Consols have rivioeit;
901 to 90i % for Money, and the same for the ,A,,c.‘t 109.
the New Three-and-a-Halt per Cents. have been 01"-e 00
India Bonds are 10 to 12, and Exchequer Bills 3j t°", 400.
Very little has been done in Foreign bonds ; the tinc2:3s,i
fir Mexican are 39j i; the Spanish Three per Cents•oopee
24% ; the Spanish Active, 241 ; Portuguese, New L' Vie
36/ * ; and the Three per Cents: 21 for the Account. of
price of the Dutch Five per Cents. is 99E 1001; •
Brazilian, 67e. Se°
The Share Market is firm, and prices rather better. 9?;
Eastern have improved to 25a i ; Grand Junction' Oi
Eastern Counties, 8-/- • Grand Junction, Half ..s.hare* so;
Hull and Selby, 39 • lila •k •11 101 1 Croydon,l3h ii
. ip C. wa , - „, ;
Brighton, 36* a.-,„ op
Money was comparatively easy at-the early part of ' k 1:s.
but is now scarce, and worth four per cent. on the St°;.,,t de
change. The Bills were generally well met yesterday,
.libe" se;
notaries were extremely busy last evening, which WY
counted for by the extra number of bills tailing due. v
dig
The news froth India still engrosses the larger share of rse--1
attention. The letters have been delivered this moreir-ul ;0
mercantile affairs appear tube be.ter than the accounts ',OO
last mail would have induced the expectation. - '1 he i' obsi
for English manufactured goods had improved, and boo° fre
advice% state that if shipments be not too large arei .Ilquern, a permanent advance in prices may be to,,ked forTisst.
present, it is to be feared, the rates are very far from re .01
rating the shippers. Freights also had fallen, and dead l; it
could be sent home at 455. to 505., and measurement b
50s. to 84s. per ton. silt'
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Arnie., 4.-An imp0„,,,10
mand, and about 4,000 bales mere sold at the prices of 5a";40.0
of which the exporters took 400. They comprised 40001,
at 3*(l. to 41d. ; 120 Egyptian, 7d to 71d. ; 400 AU"' 4
50. to 6d. ; 100 Peruvian, 74d.. ; 2,880 American, 41d'
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 4.-Eastern
and Great Western were purchased to a fair extent to-o
there was little done in other Shares. The sales i
Chester and Birkenhead, 28; Eastern Counties Di-t,-
10/. 9s. 2,(1.; ditto New, 41. Bs. 2,1 ; Edinhnrgh and Of -
49; Great Western Halves, 64',; ditto Fifths, 104 ; Pet,g'
and Birmingham paid-up 321. Shares, 5.4 ; Alsq,ll,
Bolton, and Bury, 54; Micland Counties, 79; Nen7oir.
land Thirds, 22/. 13e 4d.
t •litit;
ri MaNcesTea.:••rocic Esten.exce, APRIL 4.- t •:14..'
good inquiry for Railway Stock, and a larger amount "04
ness would have been done had Shares been more 40.
offered. The following sales have been . reported ''.l4'
Eastern and Dover, .25i ; Edinburgh and GhsecerAveeg
Grand Junction, -181 ; Lancaster and Preston, 27;' 151'
Loan Notes, bi ; Bank cf Manchester, 51. . .
' CLOSING PRICES ''',/
BRITISH' FUNDS. -• . "'-j),,'",
Bank Stock - India Stock .....,-..;. •;,..ler
3 per Cent, Red. - 'Ditto Bonds .•••" ,e
3 per Cent Cons 9Oll Ditto Old Annuities ••• de,
31 per Cent Red:. - ,Ditto New Annuities., 74,
New 31 per Cent . 99/ ;Ex. Bills, 1,0001... lid sir,
New 5 per Cent.. .. ; ... - ; Ditto 5001......" ef•
Long Annuities ;.oexpire i Ditto 5ma11...."
Jan. 1860 .. -
,Bank Stock for Opene• , •
Oct 1859......... - 'lndia Stock for Acct., 4
Jan. 1860. ... .... 12 7-16 Consols for Acct .........
FOREIGN FUNDS. e•
Austrian, 6 pea vent.... - Portuguese, 5 per Cent' "
Belgian, 5 pet rent - Ditto, New Ditto ......••• ..,
Brazilian Bonds-, 671 Prussian, 5 per cent. ••• /
Buenos Ayres 6 perceat - ,Russian, 5 per cent. ••• /,
Chilian, 6 per cont --;Ditto, A1eta11ic....... ••" ggg
Colombian, 6 pet cent.. - Spanish, 5 per cent. ..••• ,
D:,`,!‘), 1824.. ....... .... . 27 Ditto, Deferred.... • ..-e'
Dsn',.:ll, 3 per cent - French, 5 per cent. ---;• e.
Greek, 1025:5 per cent - • Exchange - ' 2
wgiome,
.4, tier rent. .. 391 French, 3 per cent - ' :,'3,
Ditto. 6 per emit 1637 - Dutch, 21 per cent.. joil
Peruvian. 1825; fi per et. 174 Ditto, 5 per cent... ,
1 4
SHARES.
16/ -ij
Birmingham and Gloucester Relieves, (100 p 1 `71'.5
Cheltenham and Great Western (721 piiid) l 4
(65 paid)
East ern Counties Railway (23 paid) ...
. 9 ,o
101
Great NV esferil
.. ...
/ f
London Ditto
GrandE iftli ( 4iial lt
Junction) Railway
Ditto Half Shares (50 paid) a -'''
Railway ....... ,; :,.
, 3.
Hull and Selby (50 p 4141) ati
London and brighten (50 PM)
London and Blackwall Railway (0 p* )..• 1 '04,•
Ditto New Shares (- paid) 9/
60. ,'
London ands South Western
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) ..... iii
Paris and Rouen (14 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (48 paid) ......

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H.AYMARKET THEATRS.
The platforms of two of our chief *London stages P.. 1,
this moment the contrastive picture of ,Shaksperc'e ‘l4,
Macbeth, represented by their individual companies,
leaders at each of acknowledged eminence. Both esTn.,
ratters are familiar to the efignizance of play-goers, ...fl,.
ready, Mrs. Warner, and Mr. Phelps, being the Meeb'
Macbeth, and Macduff at Drury-lane ; and Mr. Chi
Mrs. Charles Kean, and Mr. Stuart personating -
..„ Kee
ing parts at the Haymarket. To invest, therefore, PO%,
wise trite subject with somewhat of a glossier air !banioSl
in reiteration of whet has been subject of praise en' oelie
in former seasons, we shall far once, like l'lntlai474
in parallels, and put in juxtapoeition. the more strik.ii
of the two. The mannerisms of Mr. Kean are 06.0 ),
041;w
sent with those of Mr. Macready : the latter diielelltr, or
verbal pecalletrities ; tie former attitudinizes iiis• 10./0
creed), makes manifest the man, and works out with P. 1,44
terlinm the abstruser imegipetions of the poet, make:ir $
the being operated upon by *pii.teal agencies, en'efff„ ,iiii
under the influence of 'destiny through!' the 1, tegeort
dark, unriddled, and pot tent-laden future, ,eras',, S
has, on the other hand, little ideality, of '' asvoo.
he reads it mote as a truism ; and intivesopa‘o.
high-pitched melodramatic strength into his positienfnesf,e
ceptions. The dazzled bewilderment of Mavreak Leo '?teS
trayal in his constantly glassed eye, which alwaY'seesto'elr
trally splendid with the propheeked dooms of the weir(' s, ieei4.,
eye of the latter is comparatively eon;-eeeeeolate in its e 0
scent; the unalterable hoarse gravelly 44000 'of 1;401
Kean is at variance with some passages, whose rtt)jr. lets
a flexile intonation. But points there are wbi' 0641
essentially make; hip own, and invests with startling 1i ewe
night beheld him magnificent in the banquet-seene•
eteelySet
of" unreal mockery—hence I" when, with hands erefhiSr-
his face, he strove to shutout the bluodered phinteal..,"o,4l, c,
fir
friend, while his spirit, nevertheless, seemed 1-4e,"„e. ii
roots with (enrol. was surpassingly fine—w.' un..„- /
Again also did h; as
outrun tt,e gauntlet with 31ace';:5Pcnitslrle'
fall under the sword of the " none-of-woman-bnr;iee:neerc'
in which with desperate lion-mettle he twice .irnP, Lee'eril
on his antagonise*: sword point, and then falls—nT,flOit'thit
with breast to the sky—but foreeeeet in a death-sPer's pOO.O. en
his adversary, hungry after annibilatireo. OpentP, ,h 001,
strikes us, however, shows we think dne re 47
,eel' P
Mr. Maeready's part ;it is Where amid tli: 0
confusion of the advancing enemy . Illeebe Des.ttlotle*
the physician the state of his wife's with
~,,ity,
same breath that a minute before was hos'l6iete s.„ tbat,
orders and denouncement, slides into an evq, 0:1 tr'
commuuicative of pain and condolence, 47,teeeter;;e t et;
asks of her state: a chivalric tenderness o'4' teeep'nele
touch, and its pathos was consummated in the of b,'',ells'
age, when tl--.e messenger on eetry, informing "e'oa, are.', opt
death, he in sudden painfulness drops his trunch gear, uaanj 'AI
quizes on the transitoriness of mottfility ; ,1 fiidial. 4110,1
perceived this sure beauty: the herald of i" eiell''' e oir
physician, are botlitreated by
Warner in at ength of voice has undoubtedly die; ;their,
Mrs. Charles Kean in deeper tregie passages ; the latT.eii/fil
him wit h seurrilen°,,acent,g.. oifie
oxytonal character, she loses by tompariWft ; , eeelillheif°
tauntings of her husband for his cowardice, senl,l'edveli.3l#
stand stiffly to his purpose, were delivered ni`i; sleel"/ a tier
key. Very choice, too, indeed was she in t eieeee—an Afr
scene—her internal communings mare finel.YoP'Auedeft;;.o. ,
stifled acting was emphatic. With regait''ts the hid 4
Phelps still stands unetralleled. He drPjawer; ti e..•
tension of manful grief with matchless l's ,oneuffecat ;r
chords seem wrung by an internal peilifulne '
, 1 pours. 6tl;;;eit :,
utterance. Mr. Stuart, on the other %WI:, ~, i'ber:fr.
tively, and nothing is left to be uederst 0"_,
of „sletenL4is
kings at Drury-lane forms a rich re(Tfsor., its Vitpf,
the Haymarket it is dull ; while, deeiee—: elle'
on the otan:el -1 rilS 1
scenes, with their dusky paraphernaleewboo, or iii et
.FrOv, .adiell-
than its higherrival's—the charm seems tn, , b„ the
au „elf,
fur. and Mrs, Chat lee Kean were ealicao7on: The ',171,',
and enthusiastically greeted, at the c-, e
n 'elle Celeste c farce
the If reek ensued, in which illarlemo.'s _ anal
0)e
herself with some very pretty figuration.,
oag ti, 'lwo,
lidin Jones concluded the entertainments. iken
h plendid debut 11, Of
grade of company present to view
bt
he Lord Can'O to
P
and Mrs. Kean, we were glad t°
" se
health and spirit',
. ,
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It TII , _
ilia;tgetwCohabnecatu.ltloifrolfllurgehlateitinlcellent
MIE RAN.IOAI .O.LONET
to by Sir W. Ill'it :fireel
*tulation entered in .9
simult
a the calm
ills Pettineer, ' theurie° et
and contieued by. .
—andOu4w
believe other trees al i
at tins, and we,
1
presentation
which
thhetimirooswt
throws
nygeurhlarapsfearat.°u(r.resaoref
clearer
tte e Ye
reinttsha_tts:lo.44o,4
tecit P 4.
money, aountine, .
be the ransom of certedn,
_.
'd reported to
so excessive, s.nSeet,
rupees, at.
however, are
in Cabal ; the sums, however,
sdariazihnts
altiortovetv,ren4%.brt:
,_,7401
site belief that they must De Tv
cannot divest ourselves of .
n executioia of the tregeleif
the upper pro 7
silents made by Major Patin
anxious for their friends in Cabu , h 'scu 7 ge `4
man there to procure seats ik, 111,
had concluded with the Affghageriihiefsa.ve Startrel,_ejafttenseinrTr_e
for the purpose of *ending a
fruit merchant wit i b ..,
they despatched an Afghan
e..
_ea
eite, Fe . g
handsome reward fpr his services.—all, lA ci r
No Hindoustanee could be found to undertake.l tpheronii.v,
of