The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-23 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

SUGAR.—The market has been firm for foreign, but with
little doing. There are buyers both for shipment and
home use. Refined is at 45s to 48s for low to fine grocery
lumps. The quantity of British Plantation landed last
week at the East and West India docks was 747 hhds, 105
tierces, 379 barrels ; there were taken for home consump-
tion 1,418 hhds, 129 tierces, 365 barrels. The stock in the
same places is 14,541 hhds, 1,747 tierces, 3,796 barrels.
COFFEE.—Plantation Ceylon has been quiet, but holders
are firm. Native is at 47s for the new import. Costa
Rica and Mocha have been in demand at previous rates.
Rurx.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 245 puns., 3 hhds., there were
taken for home consumption 345 puns., 8 hhds., and ex-
ported 61 puns., 81 hhds. The stock in the same places is
14,111 puns. 602 hhds.
SPICEB.-106 cases 17 bags Calicut ginger at auction rea-
lised 33s to 46s ' • Pimento, 43 bags sold at 5i to 51 per lb.;
160 bags Cassia Vera were taken at 48s to 60s per cwt.
SALTPETRE.-1,292 bags East India, at auction, sold at
25s 6d for 9 per cent., at 24s 6d to 25s for 14 per cent.,
and 26s for 81 per cent. refraction.

TALLow.--Y.Y.C. is 47s 6d to 47s 9d per cwt. on the
spot, and Town, 498 3d.
COFFEE.—There has been no decline, but business .is
limited.

TEA.--The market has been firm but quiet.

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHPIELD.—Meadow hay, 2/ 15s to 3/ 18s ; clover
ditto, 3/ 15s to 4/ 18s ; and straw, 1/ 4s to 1/ 10s por load.
A moderate supply, and a heavy demand.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 2/ 15s to 4/ Os ; clover,
ditto, 3/ 15s to 4/ 16s • and straw, 1/ 58 to 1/ ns per load.
Supply tolerably good, and trade dull.
WHITECHAPEL. —Meadow hay, 2/ 15s to 36 18s ; clover,
ditto, 3/ 15s to 5/ Os; and straw, 'l/ 4s to 1/ 11s per load.
Trade dull.

DESERTING FROM A SHlP.—Yesterday at the Thames
Police Court, Robert Crail, a respectable looking man,
was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with unlaw-
fully deserting from the ship Competition, of which he
was carpenter, at Port Adelaide ; by which he had ren-
dered himself liable to three months' imprisonment, with
or without hard labour, at the discretion of the magis-
trate. He was sentenced to a month's imprisonment,
but -without hard labour. '
ARRIVAL OF THE FORERUNNER.—The African Steam
Navigation Company's steamer Forerunner, Captain J.
B. Atkins, arrived at Plymouth, last evening, at six
o'clock. She left Gibraltar on the evening of Sunday,
the 14th ; experienced head wind in passing through the
Gut, and has had severe weather ever since. On the
night of the Ist of November, between Madeira and
Teneriffe, passed the Hellespont, Captain Watts, for
Sierra Leone. Yesterday morning, the 21st, spoke the
Arthur, of Glasgow, from Calcutta, going up Channel.
DEPARTURE FOR AUSTRALIA.—The departures for
Australia from the port of London during the past week
have been rather numerous, and the exprt trade con-
tinues active. There were five vessels to Sydney, of an
aggregate burden of 3,158 tons; two to Port Phillip, of
341 tons; two to Swan River, of 738 tons; and one to
Van Diemen's Land, of 578 tons.

-- -
THE NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC 'PRIMATE.—The con4e-
oration of Dr. Dixon to the Primatid. Chair of St.
Patrick, was performed yesterday with the usual pomps
and ceremonies in the. Royal College of Maynooth. The
officiating prelate ,was "his Grrce',' of Dublin .assisted by
nearly every member of the hierarchy. The Marquis
and Marchioness c 4 Kildare were present at the spec-
tacle.