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London, England, 1856-03-22 00:00:00

Yong and Oolong, 10d to le 10d; Soucbong, Sid to 2s 8d;
Flowery Pekoe, le 4d to 4e; Caper, to —; Scented Caper,
le 3d to le 11d; Orange Pekoe, to ; Scented Orange
Pekoe, le 4d to 23 6d ; Twenkay, Ad to Is 2d ; Hyson Skin, 8d to
le 2d: Hyson, is 2d to 43 ; Young Hyson, 6itl to 26 6d;
Imperial, lld to 23 4d; Gunpowder, bd to 8s 6d; Assam, le 6d
to 4s 4d per lb.
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SUGAR-'there has been an improved consumptive demand
for most kinds of raw sugar, and prices have advanced 6d to Is
per cwt. The supplies on otter have been tolerably good. Re-
lined goods have changed hands to some extent, at from Us to
641 per cwt.

MOLASSES--Thin article is steady, and fine West India
qualities are selling at les per cwt.
COFFEE—For most descriptions we have to report a
firm, though not to say brisk, market, as follows:
Java, 43a to 538. Sumatra, Padang, and Batavia kind,, 41a
to 48.. Manila, 44s to 4es. Mysore, 41a to 79$ ad.
Mocha, garbled, 70a to 869; ungarbled, 56. to 625. Ceylon
native sorts, ordinary to good ordinary, 498 to 525; plantation
kinds,; good °ruiner), 52s to 545; fine to line tineurdivary, 558 to
60.; middling to good middling, cis to bus. Jamaica, ordinary,
47a to 495; goou to line oidivary, SOB to 548 ; low middling
to middling, st• to 648 ; good to fine middling, 65e to tios. Costa
Rica, ordinary to good ordinary, 468 to 52.; line ordinary, Ws to
568 rid; fine fine ordinary to colury, 578 6,1 to Go. 6d. St.
Domingo, 461 to 495. Hotline and Cuba, ordinary to good ordi-
nary, 44s to 475; flue ordinary to middling, 488 to 60s. Purto
Rico, 4135 to 61s. Rio, 408 to 57.. La Gusyra, good ordinary to
middling coloury, bus to 698.
COCOA—The stock is increasing, and business is almost
wholly confined to small parcels on rather easier terms. Red
Trinidad, 44e to 495; grey, 418 to 445; Grenada, 408 to 468 ;
Bahia and Para, 87. to 40s per cwt.
RlCE—Large quantities of rice are still on offer, and the
demand is heavy, at barely the late improvement in value. The
supplies on passage from India are very extensive.
HEMP ANL) FLAX—We have to report a dull market for
all kinds of hemp, and mice, are almost nominal. In liar
scat rely any nansactions have taken place.
COTTON—The demand has fallen off, yet we have no actual
change to notice in the quotations.
WOOL—For English wool there is still an active inquiry,
at very full prices. Foreign and colonial qualities are quite as
dear a. lati. week. The imports this week are very limited.
METALS—Scotch pig iron has changed hands slowly, at 718
down to 7011 per ton. Manufactured parcels coninianu former
terms, but the demand is by no means active. Sheets, single,
in London, 111 to 111 Ills; hoops, rain quality, 11l to 111 W ;
and nail rude, 91 los to 101 per ton. There is very litthe
business doing in tin. Banes, 1:4411, to 126/ 041; Straits, 1271
to 12sa ; British, 128 s to 1295; and refined, 134. to 13:.a. Tin
plates are tolerably firm. I.C. coke, 30. to Sus 6tl; I.X. ditto,
36a to 361 6d; J.C. charcoal, 358 to 351 6d; and 1.X.,40. to
428 per box. Leadmoves off freely—British pig, 261 10a to
271; Spanish, 251 to 251 los; milled sheet, 271 to 271 101
per ton. Quicksilver, ls 84d to Is 9cl per lb. Spelter,
2317 s 6d to 231 10$ per ton on the spot. English zinc,
301 108 to 311 per too.
SPIRITS—The supply of rum being very extensive, the de-
mand for most kinds 1111. folk° off, and prices have a downward
tendency. Proof Leeward., 2'. Id to 2s 2d; East India,
Is 10d to 28 per gallon. Brandy is mostly held on former
terms. Sales of Cognac, best brands of lebl, 10s 4d to 10. 6d;
leso ditto, lue 5d to 10e 7d; older, 10s 10d to lls 6d per gallon.
Gin, 17 underproof, is selling at 9. 10d ; 22 ditto, 9. 4d; raw
spirit, 10. bd; Geneva, 211 10d to 3s rid per gallon.
INDIGO—There is a lair demand for most kinds, at 2d per lb
above the rates obtained at the last sales.

HOPS—The imports of foreign hops still continue good ; and
the show of English is extensie. I,,ne new qualities command
previous rates: but all other kinds are very dull. Mid and East
Kent pockets, 41 los to tit 10s; Weald of Kents, $1 to 51;
Suss 21 IMIto 41 .0s per cwt.

POTATOES—The supplies continue very large, and all kinds
move off heavily, on the following terms :—York Regents, 61.4 to
Ws; Kent and Essex ditto, bbs to 70s; Scotch ditto, 60s to 70s;
ditto reds, bus to &hi per ton.
OILS—Our market generally is in a very sluggish state. Lin-
seed oil, on the spot, 33. per cwt. TurFentine is steady.
Spirits, 32s to 3.3; rough, J. 6d to ;Us per cwt.
TALLOW—Great heaviness prevails in the demand, at a re-
duction in value ut 01 to 71 per ton. P.Y.C., on the spot, :1011 lid
to ale per cwt. 1 hiine are no buyers tor furwaru delivery. Ihe
imports have been nearly 2,000 casks, chiefly from Memel.
COALS—Hedley, 15s 64; Modell, 158 ud; Eden Main, 17s
Haswell, los ; Lianbtun, 17s ad; btessut's Iris lid; kisugh
Hall, lbs ad ; South Kelloe, 18. lid ;'lees, Iss titi per ton.
METROPOLITAN CA'l7 LE—There has been only a mode-
rate demand for beasts, and prices have had a downward ten-
dency. Sheep have moved off slowly, at barely fate rates.
Lambs, however, have commanded very high cuirencies. The
veal trade him ruled brisk, at 4d per tubs more money; but pigs
have ruled heavy. Beet has sold at from 8s 2d to 4s 6d ;
mutton, 3s 4d to 4s Uhl ; lamb, 7a 6d to :,s; seal, 49 Bd to 6s;
pork, de 641 to 45 Ind per Bibs to sink the offal.
NEWGATE AND LEA DENIIA LL The trade generally
has been less active, as follows:—Beef, from as Ind to 45 2d;
mutton, 2s Ind to 40 2d; lamb. bs ad to 7s 4d; veal, 3s ad
to ba ad; pork, 3s 2d to 4s +ad per sibs by 'he carcase. _

ARGYLE—On the 13th ult., at Bishopston, the wife of th
Bishop of Argyle, of a son.
BRIDGE—On the 12th instant, at Upton•pbrk, near Slough,
the wife of Captain Bridge, of a bUll.
GREENOCK—On the 16th instant, at Woodend, Lady Green.

ook, of a sou.
NUGENT—On the 16th instant, at No.l, G

Belgravia, the wife of Richard Nugent, Esq., of a daughter.
ROMELLY—On the 16th instant, Lady Elizabeth Eunu,ly, of

a SOD.
VAVASOVR—On the 16th instant, at Hatherton-hall, Stafford-
shire, the Hon. Lady Vavasour, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
COTTON—KING—On the 4th instant, at. St. George's, Hanover-
square, Capt. Harry Calveley Cotton, to Georgiana, daughter
of Bolton King, Esq., of Umberslade and Chadehunt, War-
wickshlre.
DURANT—LORD—On the 15th instant, at St. James's Church,
Lieut. Anguish Honour Augustus Durant, son of the late Col.
Durant, to Emma Eliza, daughter of Edward Lord, Esq., of
Reading.
ROSE—THELLIISSON—On the 15th instant., at St. George's,
Hanover square, William, son of the late Right Hon. Sir Geo.
H. Rose, to the lion. Sophia M. A. Thellusson, daughter of
John, Lord Rendlesham.
TU ER—DAY— On the 15th instant, at St. George's, Hanover-
square, Walter Turner, Egg., A suit- taut Commissary General,
to her Mejesty's Fortes, to Mary Morgan, daughter of the
lion. Charles Dewey Day, Senior Judge of the Court of
Queen's Bench, Montreal, Canada.
DEATHS.

BINGHAM—On the 17th instant, at Southend, Essex, Swab,
widow of the late Itear•Admiral Bingham, aged 92.
BOSTON—On the 12th 'natant, at Bedew', Buck*, the Eight
lion. Lord Boston, egad 79.