The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-29 00:00:00

NG SU :4-, 7 MAY 29, 1852.

(From the London New Price Current,
MARKET - INTELLIGENCE.
May 28.)
Suoare-7sTo-day there was only a limited business
concluded in West India- Sugar for grocery or refining
purposes, but lower rates- were not taken. The yans-
actions reach 550 hbds, Ac., Making 2,670 for the week,
At auction to-day 40 hEcls Demurer& crystalised sold
at 35s 6.1 to '37s 6dlonmid bellow. -The Colonial Sugar
market pluses with a,quiet espect.
REFINED.-To-day Refined Sitgtu• was much wanted
for home coesuroption ; but few parcels are to be ob-
tained, and 483 to 503 is- the value of low to fine grocery
launmd a goodps.Tbedemmaarnkciete.
x-clisotssefsorfisrhuliplypinfogr:Crushed Sugar,
•
MAUEITIes -This -afternoon the billings were lan-
guid at the,public sales of Mauritius Sugar, still 1,000
bgs vrerenaarly all soki,and previous terms generally sae-
rained. Fine and 'Rend yellow went at 343 to 375, low
to mid 31s 61 to 33 61, mid to nee brown 27s to 31s,
Refining:eOrts 30i to: .36; grainy white 4211 to 475, and
good fine yellow dittO 37s to 418 per owl.
-,----EAST INDTA.-Thit-afternoon previous terms were
sustained Ice Bengal- Sugar, and at auction 1,200 bags
were sold, mid and---good white Bentires at 35s 6d
to 375, and fairgraiiii--white 418 61 to 425. Madras is •
unaltered in: values bat there -is a niet market; at
auction 950 bags aold-lt 24s 6d to 25s 61 for soft brown,
and 26s to 28s for celnicaon to good mid soft yellow.
• l'ottErnst.-To-clay Pacer() were several buyers of Fo-
' reign Sugar at last week's valuations, but the scanty
supply prevented buslness of the least moment by private
treaty, and none wita.offered at auction.
COFFEE.-This afternoon, there was firmness on the
part:of- holders of eaffee, and none of any sort was of-
fered at public sale. For native Ceylon there was a
much-better demand privately, the purchases being
3,000 bags at 44s :6cl to 45s for good ord. Of Plantation
several parcels were taken at full former terms.
.-TWa.-1-Although only limited transactions have taken
place in Congou this, week, - yet the confidence of mer-
-chante ist undiminished; the rates obtained for good to
kiienoninfon are 81 to 9-e', rather blackish leaf to black-
ish led 9i-d to 100,- strong 'and Pekoe kinds lid to is
5d per lb. Prices for Souchong range firm, and a good
demand prevails, ord 9d to 10d, mid to good lld tots 3d,
fine is 4d to is 81 In Oolong sales have been immaterial,
good to fine can be obtained at is to is 7d, low to mid
Sid to Ilid.. Several transactions have taken place in
Pouchong at 6d_ to Id, • and supply continues light.
Green Tea cannot be purchased under the rates existing
previously; but at present there is a reluctance on the part
of dealers to operate. The quantity on offer is not so
large asof late. The. terms obtained are for Hyson, low to
mid Is to is 4d, good to fine, is 5d to 2s 3d, choice 2s 4d to
23 10d, Yonng Hylton, common 9d to I Id, mid to good
Is to is 6d, fine is 7d to 2s 3d, Imperial Canton 10d to
I Id, Hyson sort is to Is 7d, fine is 8d to 2., Twankay
Sid to 1414:Gunpowder, Canton 101 to ls, Hyson kind
Is Id to 2s 7d, fine ditto 2s 8d to 38 4d, Caper 9d to
100, scented 11d-to Is 4d,and Hyson skin 7d to is per lb.
There is still a dull sale for scented Orange Pekoe of
inferior quality, aid sellers are willing to accept 10d to
Is, but a large iniSiEless is yet doing in good to fine at
Is Id to is 81.`'A good lemandexists for flowery Pekoe,
fine and superior at Is 81 to 3s, and low to good is 3d
to is 7d per lb. --
MoLASSE3.--The, West India market remains in a i
firm position, and a good demand prevails; Trinidad, St.
Kitts, and Demerara at 145 to 145 6d; Antigua 158
to 16s, and other sorts-of West India 13s to 13s 6d.
Several buyers of''-Cuba and Porto Rico at 14s to
-15 i; ,Mauritius and Bengal 12s to 12s 6d, but few par-
cels are yet on offer.- Tamarinds are still wanted; East
India 9a to 14s; West India 255 to 40s, and stock con-'
tinues td-'decrease of . all - kind& Honey has been to a
fair extent, Jamaica 38s to 521; Cuba 30a to 38s; Nar-
bonne 50s to 58s, aid supply remains firm.
COCOA..-A good business has been concluded in
Foreign by private treaty, and holders are firm; they
obtained for Bahia and Para 24s 6d to 265; and Guy-
equil 29s to 30s. ,The-previous currency has been well
sustained, and a good demand exists. At Auction 798'
bags Grenada sold at 281- 61 to 315 6d for ord to mid
quality; 253 ,bags Trinidad, IoW red 325 6d to 341, mid
34s 61 to 358 6d, good mid to good 365-to 395, one lot
fine at 433, and grey-from 303 6d to 33i per cwt.
SPIcEs.-To-day at auction 40 casks Jamaica Ginger
were sold at 415 to 52s for low to good ord. Of Pimento
60 bagi fetched 51d to 51c1 for mid and good mid;
these- are full terms.
RICE,-In consequence of previous low rates having
been accepted for Esst India, operations have been
upon a more extended scale, both for shipping and home
consumption. At Auction 5,278 bags Bengal were nearly
all disposed of, good white at 9. 6d to 10e, mid and
good mid 9s to 9s 61, broken 8s 6d, and damaged 68 to
9s 6d. Privately a fair business has been transacted;
sound Bengal at___Ra- to Itsft, white, Madras 71 6d to
Bs, Coringa grain 81101NtiTNt, 'Moulmein, white 9i to
10;, low ditto 83 6d to 41 9d, Arracan 9s to 93
6d, white Java 94 to 121, and Cargo 7s 6d
to 83 per •
,cWt.': Cleaned Rice met with a more
active ,demand; Patna Its to 16s, Carolina 21e to 275,
`and American 18s- to Supply is more plentiful of
Sago, and,prices are net so firm. The public sales ot
690 chests went at 16s to- 17s 61 for mid to fine small i
pearl, and at i 19.3 to 20s 6d for medium sort. Sago Flour
is wanted at 14s to 1,40 61, -and Farina 15s to 20s. Ta-
pioca is still attracting little attention.
SPIRITS.-There is -still a reluctance to operate in
East India Rum, rates are rather lower, and rule at
Is 3id to is 4e' per gallon proof. Leeward Island has-
been deals-in with caution, and is 4iitols *1 is now
the value 'of pro9f- .At the ' reduction of last week
holders of Demerara are inclined to realise, the conse-
quence has been that many parcels have been at
from is Ild to 24 2d for 30 to 40 per cent -over
proof. Operations in Jarnaice have been ot litte moment
for shipping or
Prices are readily borne consumption; there is a plentiful
supply, and -
previous - accepted-
choice sorts 35 to 38 over proof can be -obtained
at 3. 4d to 4s, thin 21 101 to
3s 3d, good
mid to good 32 ---to- 34 - over 23 4d to 2s 91,
mid 2e to 2s 3d, and-lOW 24 to 28 over is 101 to Is 11d.
There has been to-brisk demand for Brandy. The
value of Cognac befit brands' of the vintage of 1851, is
4s 2d to 4s 4d, 1856 ditto 48 5d to 43 7d, 1849 ditto
4s 9d to 4s lld, 1848 ditto 54 3d to 5s sd, older
5s 7e' to 6s 6d, low.
to mid 3s to 4s, and Bordeaux
Is ltd to 28 2d. A reluctance is yet evinced to operate
in British made Spiriti-there are seller: at 93 7d to 9s Bd,
cash; Gin 83.3 d for-22-under,and ditto 89 9d. In
Geneva little has been do l7. 81
-Ile, common is offering at le
to Is 10d, and fine 23 to 2
-8 4d per gall. To-day several
parcels of Demerara Rum were sOld, making the sales
of the week 600 e
Pees, at 2s to 2a 2d for 34 to 40 over
proof.
SALTPETAE.- er ;
T 4
---a -I. -yet a reluctance to operate in
rough, ant:l, the rates accepted are rather under
those of
last wet k. Of 3,800 bags at auction barely one-half
sold; Calcutta, refraction 91 to d mid
71 per cent., goo
and good quality at .-2f...
' -to 263 6d, 12k to 13i ditto
mid 25s 61 to 265; Mat}-
sto 5i- d' 25e, and 101 t
ditto ditto 24e. A small paruq „
131 Bombay was taken in at
235 for not refracted: Thee highest tation for Cal-
cutta is now 29s Per cyst; .n
.. (lucid
met with a
8 Refuse
Cal-
slow sale at 22s totoi. Tirlti h
, ere are few buyers of Nitrate
or Soda, with,se:iers atl4s 6d t is pe cwt.
COCHINEAL;.-Stiffcr rate,
°s-
r f
previous
are obtainedor Silvers,
black supporting terree. Al auction 350 bags
were chic fly disposed of; u d .
on dares Silvers, ord to
good
9 low to
s C4t-e 1,
-geed black 33 10d to 43 10d,
Mexican 3s 10d to 4s 10d. The rates obtained privately
for Mexican ilvers were 3s 6e' to 3 and Teneriffe
s Bd,
from 38 8d to 4s 6d per lb.
FRUIT.--The business-done in Currants since our last
has been very
limited,but,
prices continue firm. New
30s to 355. Valencia Raisins
are in better demand, and
at full prices., Valencia at 25s to 27 • Dania 20s to 235.
The clearance's for heme cons •3'
consumption l for Currants
and Valencia Randle are large. ,hot
TaiLow.-To-day full rates are obtained for Tallow,
and at suction 6535s0,pkgnd arsunth
4naerican were mostly
sold at 328 ,e-verY ord 30sOILS.-There'
although.
s.-There is a dull sale for L,!see to 359.
d Oil
a good home and export dSmand
,
exists. The valeta iS
273 tO 2.7,s 2d_ver, ewt for early delivery. A fair
sidi rz Atifs-fote. ICTP6.. Oft - brown at 3.15, pale
.324„ and refined Foreign 32a 6d to 33s Lard Oil
th 49e-tei 51s. There are ready '
nil 'wOrbuyers of Palm;
ir 263 6,
thg-rates paid are --am 1 -to 27s 61 for mid to
fine, and only a limited quantity is on otier. Cocoa Nut
is in good demand, Cochin 38 to 35s ~,,,
nu, Ceylon 32. 61
to 34s 6d, and Sydney 3to 326. A free sale exists
for Olive; Gallipoli g 431 4:1/ i
, bt°
--- to,?, and Other 'sorts
411 to 421103. Soul - nitad .been only in limited demand,
and prole can obtaine A,2/ to 321 58,
other sorts
291405 to 311. : Southern less wanted, and
prio are not
from 31110 s to 341. c es
so firm, ruling at . Cody Is not offered
under 341, although few buyers are *- L--
-- ou met with. A
greater demand
realisingexists for
toSP7iel, and prices are still on
the rise;' Colonial a
/ i B9l per tun for first
sort. kleachnatter 92 to per cwt.

GERMANY.

The budget of Hanover for the year commencing
on Ist July is calculated at 8,145,498 thalers for
expenses, and at only 7,702,232 thalers for the
receipts.

THE LONDON GAZETTE, May 28.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MAY 12, 1852.
Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold a
Drawing•room, at St. James's Palace, on Thursday, the
al of June next, at.two-o'clock.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 27.

The Queen has beenpleased to approve of Mr. George
Ware as Consul at Sydney fur his Majesty the Ring of
S;veden and Norway. •
WA-R-OFFICE, MAY 28.
_ . _ _

2d Regiment of Dragtions.L-Mkjor-General Archi-
bald Money,C.B. and K C., to be Colonel, vice General
Sir William Keir Grant, K.C.8., dtccased, May 24.
17th Light Dragoons—Captain Augustus Saltren
Willett to be Major, by purchase, vice Brett, who retires;
Lieutenant Augustus Frederick Cavendish Webb to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Willett; Cornet Wild= John
Pearson Watson, from the 16th Light Dragoons, to be
Cornet, MEI 28. I

_
Ist Regiment 'of Foot—Lieutenant Charles Edmond-
atone Kirk, from the 7th Fusileers, to be Lieutenant,
vice Finney, May 28.
2d Foot—Gentleman Cadet George Pomeroy Colley,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Boylan, deceased, May 28,
6th Foot—Sergeant-Mejor John Dawson to be Ensign,
without purchase, vied Metford, deceased, Mee, 28.
7th Foot—Ensign Charles Cullen Maunsell, from the
90th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Kirk, ap-
pointed to the Ist Foot, May e 28.
19th Foot—Lieutenant Richard Doyle Barrett, from
the Ist West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice
Stoney, promoted to an Unattached Company, without
purchase, May 28.
21st Foot—Second Lieutenant Thomas Bailey
Richards to be Ist Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Tuke,
whet retires, May 28.
24th Foot-:-Lieutenant Thomas Airey to be Quarter-
master, vice Madden, appointed Adjutant; Ensign
Charles Patras Geneste to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Airey,A. appointed Quartermaster; Sergeant
William Werge to be. Ensign, without purchase, vice
Geneste, May 28.
27th Foot—Ensign Heneage Charles Chester to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Rae, who retires, May 28.
50th Foot—Major Henry Edmund de Burgh Sidley
to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Bonham,
who retires; Captain John Lucas Wilton to be Major,
by purchase, vice Sidley; Lieutenant Edward George
Hibbert to be Captain, by purchase, vice Wilton; En-
sign Roderick Maingy Murchison to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Hibbert, May 28.
zad Foot—Lieutenant Charles Francis Webster Wed-
derburne to be Captain, by purchase, vice Carter, who
retires May 28.
56th Foot—Ensign Richard Jones Hobson' from the
2d West India Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Borrowes,
appointed to the 80th Foot, May 28.
65th Foot—Captain John Cramer Roberts, from half-
pay, Unattached, to be Captain, vice Brevet Major Wil-
liam Johnston, who exchanges ; Lieutenant IJenry
M'Gregor to be Captain, by purchase, vice Roberts, who
retires; Ensign Octavius John Blake March to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice M'Gregor, May 28.
74th Foot—Major George William Fordyce to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Seton, de-
crUscd; Captain Waller Douglas Phillipps Patton to be
Major, without purchase, vice Fordyce, Feb. 27; Gen-
tleman Cadet John Swaffield Orton Swaffield, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Russell, deceased, May 28.
80th Foot--eEpeign Thomas William Hunt to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Dunn, deceased, March 9;
EnsignErasmast BotTowes, from the 56th Foot, to be
Ensign, vice Hunt, May 28.
84th Foot--Enslgn John Mac Mahon, to be Lieuten-
ant, without purchase, vice Macbean, deceased, Feb. 9.
86th Foot—Major-General Roger Parke tp be Colonel,
vice General John Meister, deceased, May 26; Ensign
Augustus Nicholas Wilson, from the 65th Foot, to be
Ensign; vice Gardner, promoted, Msy 28.
98th Foot—Captain John Morton Jeffery to be MajoF,.
Ed-
by purchase, vice .Lovett, who retires; Lieutenant
ward Grantham to be Captain, without purchase, igloo
Cully, deceased; Lieutenant Spencer Henry Hutchins
Edwards to be Captain, by purchase, vice Jeffery; En-
sign Jones Harper Reade to be Lief:loo6lA, without pur-
?r T
Ensign
Robert Westropp Ellis, from the 55th Foot, to be Ensign,
vice Wade, May 28.
Gold Coast Corps—Staff Surgeon of the Second Class
Thomas Kehoe, M.D., to be Surgeon, May 28.
UNATTACHED.—LieIItODIII3t Henry Butler Stoney,
from the 19th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase,
May 28.
BREVET.—Captain John Cramer Roberts, of the
65th Foot, to be Major in the Army, June 28; Major
John Cramer Roberts, of the 65th Foot, to be Lieuten-
art.Colonel in the Army, Nov. I I.
HOSPITAL Swan—Assistant Staff Surgeon William
Donnelatal Merchant, to bo Staff Surgeon of the Second
Class, rice Dolce,, deceased; Assistant Surgeon James
from the Gold Coast Corps, to be Assistant-
Staff Surgeon, Surgeon, vice Merchant, promoted, May 28.
CONNlSSARlAT.—Commissarist-Clerk Robert Cellem
to be Deputy-Assistant Commissary-General, his com-
missio • n to bear date 27th February, 1851.
ERRATUM in the Gazette of the 14th May, 1852.
21st Regiment of Foot—For John Charles Sheffield,
Gent., to be "Ensign," by purchase, vice Steward ' pro-
meted 14th May, 1852, read John Charles Sheffield,
Gent., to be ''by purchase, &e. Second Lieutenant,"
mwdoßANDuee—Major-General Archibald Money,
C. 8,, has repaid the difference he received on exchanging
froin the 11-th Light Dragoons to* the half-Tay on the
24th June, 1819.
The Commission of Lieutenant William Paterson, of
the 80th Foot, to bear date 13th October, 1851, in lieu
of sth 1),-cember, 1851, as previously stated.
Cotnmiseions by the Lord-Lieutenant of the West Riding
of Yorkshire.
Sir John Runuden, Bart., to be Deputy Lieutenant;
VVIIISArr 41, to IJe poputy Licutenot-
,

BANK
1118 t, night 8 Gazette.}
to A.ot7th Lind Btho " "ap .32 for
BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Men Pq" ..tjletaniay the 22 c
the weekrsea
ending on lid d ay et. 3,14 y,
1862.
won •DEPAanorta.

•
Notes Issued •.• 34
109,490 1
Other securiti. •• • • Government debt 11 5,100
G '2 900
old coin and bullion 20:076984 115 Silver bullion .... • • 33:375

434 109.49,0 ;I'
' • MAINnAt X 34109,49)
Dated the 27th day
r„
ale, cashier.
tr-MANKaim'aIBDSs2iANTMER T.

Proprietor s'c apital . • 14,553,000
Rest < 3,126,171
Public deposits (In-
cluding Exchequer,
omeldssibners
National Debt, Kay-
ings7lianks and Di-
vidend tuii.s).• 5.132,209
Other deposits . • .... 13,788,837
Seve..n day and other
'plug•;•• .'• .• 1,2201236

Government securi-
X.
ties (including Dead
Weight A.nnuity).. 13033,241
Other securities •• 10,662,923
Notes •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 12,805.045
Gold and Bilyer Coin.. 519,244

'37,820,153

• X 37,820,453
H. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
i 2.

Dated the 27th dayoiNay;

FEMALE
her RoBBEBT,A lady in Louisville was
rubbed, a few nights since, by a fellow who secreted himself
in her chamber until she had retired. The:box containing her
jewellery, and that containing her rouge, were just alike, and
the thief took the wrong box. She looked pale on discover-
rork roper.
loss, but her colour came again tho next day. new

[PRICE SD.

,
._ ~. FRANCE.
George Sanders, Esq., M.P., to be Deputy Lieutenant;
M. GRAINIER DE . A..AGis ,Ac fills nearly a page of, the Bon. Egremont William Laseelles to be Deputy
P - -
the Constitutiopnet svith remarks on the systematic Lieutenant, May 24.
hostility towards' LOUIS NAPOLEON by a portion of
tenCrionult,mmiasysio2nl.by the Lord-Lieutenant of Berkshire.
the Belgi9n ' natio! i, including to a certain extent nenzy William Vincent, Eq., to be Deputy-Lieu-
the Chamber of Representatives, but does justice to Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Devonshire.
the SOVEREIGN, and appreciates his position. He
Edwin Drake
In the let Devon Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—
say $
---, .
ging Leopold is a man of too elevated and prae- Rog' ri, deceased
Gent, to be Veterieary Surgeon, vice
field a mind, and of a too noble 'character, not to hive In the East_ Dtee.Monayltelgsiment of Militia—Henry Elton,
appreciated, eqUallywith the other Sovereigns of Europe, Esq., to Tee
constuJituaein,Vßce Elton, resigned; Right lion.
x removed
the ininieese services rendered to the pause of order by Jobe
.rd Kingsale, to be Lieutenant,
Prince Louis Napoleon. It is, therefore, just to say, vice Road,-,
u 23. George Henry Weeds, Gent.,
that the King of the Belgians has never concealed the to be Ensign, Apr
sentiments of esteem and kindness. with which he has In the North Devon Regiment of Militia—George
been inspired by the firm, and at the same time Chichester, Esq., to be Captain, eie- vice ediyTreigoed;
moderate, conduct of the French Government; but Richard Bury Russell, Eq. to be Captain, vice Hole,
King le opold is, after Queen Victoria, the most promoted, May 8.
strictly constitutional sovereign in Europe; fur him to
BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.
take or keep a Ministry, it is not necessarily to choose Edmund Curtais,
cheesernonger, Blackfriars-road.
or approve of it. No political man in Europe can be Alfred Elburough, coal-mere-bent, al ;titanic.
ignorant that as far as regards the new Government BANKRUPTS.
of France the King of the Belgians is very far from Lbert Harland Whiteman, apothecary, mghst' r,,,,i
sharing in or approving of the prejudices of his Putney, to surrender June 5 and July 3, at' on, "
Cabinet. Although the two Belgian Chambers are Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee,' Guild-
equally equally the result of election, their present political spi- hall-chambers, Basinghall-street; Lawrence, Plews,and
Fit is very different. The great majority of the Senate Boyer Old Jewry. chambers, City.
is Catholic and Conservative, and in this point of view Robert Buck, builder, Church-street, Hackney, June
favourably disposed towards France. It is, in the Chem- 4, at one,_and--July 16, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ber of Deputies, in consequence of the general reduction ruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Aldermanbury; Ped-
of the property qualification to 42f, made by the law of dell, Cheapside.
the 18th March, 1848, that the Belgiaa Ministry finds William Rowland Hill, silversmith, Birmingham, June
support for its system of policy hostile to the present 7 and 19, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District
Government of France." Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham; Stand-
In another part M. GRAINIER DE CASSAGNAc says— bridge, Birmingham.
"It is principally in the language of the press, in Thomas Francis Millar, music seller, Bath, June 10
the insulting conduct of some refugees, that the bad and July 13, at eleven' at the Bristol District Court.
feeling of the Belgian Government towards the Chief Miller, official assignee, Bristol; Hellings, Bath.
of, the French nation is shown. Mountains might John Simpson Leake, salt merchant, Wheelock,
be formed with the paper blackened and soiled with Cheshire, June 10 and July 8, at eleven, at the Liver-
calumnies which is printed in Belgium, and distil- pool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool;
buted throughout Europe, in contempt of all feel- Keary and Sheppard, Stoke-upon-Trent.
legs of good neighbourhood. We know that the William Howard Heginbottom, hosier, Manchester,
law on the Belgian press of the 16th October, 1830, June 11 and July 2, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis-
frees journalism, in an absolute manner, from every trict Court. Lee, official assignee, Manchester; Sale,
shackle, but we also know that the greater num- Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester.
ben of the Belgian journals are edited by foreigners, Thomas Marsden and John Clayton, cotton manufac-
placed under the authority of the decree of September turers, Rochdale, June 11, and July 2, at the Manchee-
-22, 1835, relative to expulsion. These foreign journal- ter District Court. Mackenzie, official assignee, Man-
ists may, therefore, write all kinds of insults against chester; Harris, Rochdale; Sutton, Manchester.
nations and against. Governments; the law of 1830 au• Henry Evans, carpenter, Ilchester, Somersetshire, June
thorises them in it, but if one amongst them should 8, at eleven, and July 2, at one, at the Eexter Dis-
allow himself to say anything a little sharp against the trict Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter ; Garland
r Belgian Government itself, M. Charles Bogier, without and Fear, Sherborne; Terrell, Exeter.
l' infringing on the liberty of journalism, would have re- PRICE OF SUGAR.
course to the decree of 1835 relative to The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
his man beyond the frontier in 24 puted from returns made in the week ending May 25,
foreigners, and send
paid payable
tthheeimoreatien thereof
. into Great Britain:—
hours. A sort of terror took possession of the Belgian 1852, exclusive of Customs Duties orthereon
From Cabinet after the 2d December, and the Ministers ima-
gined that Louis Napoleon would infallibly invade British possessions in. America 235. Bid. per cwt
From the Mauritius ... ... ... 255. 7d.
Belgium. It was a false and puerile alarm. Bel- From the East Indies ... ... ... 255. lid. "
"
gium would have an immense commercial interest Average price of the three foregoing de-
in being re- united to France; the interest of France acriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as
in that reunion is infinitely less. Besides, the Prince above, and exclusive of duty ...• ... 235. Had. „
President, as all Europe well knows, only entertains By authority of Parliament,
ideas of organization at home and peace abroad; it
is HENRY BICKNELL, Clerk of the Grocers' Company
not to set nations one against the other that hehas saved Grocers'-hall, May 28.
them from socialism, and his task is greater and more
glorious for., his ambition than any conquest could be.
But if the Prince President has not, and never had, any
idea of invading Belgium' he certainly has sought to
have the idea of making himself and France respected
on the part of the Belgian Government, as of every
other; and the next elections in eastern Flanders, in
Hainault, and in the provinces of Liege and Limbourg,
will considerably advance the question. The electors of
these provinces, in choosing *their deputies, will have to
consider whether, it auits them best to strengthen their
commercial relations with France or to break them off.
It will not come to an affair of cannon, but it certainly
will be one of tariffs. Belgium has undoubtedly a right
to retain her Ministers, but France has also an indis-
putable right to protect her markets. When favours
are to be granted, a preference is not usually given to
enemies."

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RAILWAY RETURNS

Miles
opened,
1852.

21tITISH.

Aberdeen ..... • . • • .....

Beleast and Ballymena • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Belfast and County Down• •
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire
Bolton, Blackburn, and West York ..
Bristol and Exeter
Caledonian.. . „

26
85%
18N
94%

Chester and H01yhead........::: :: ::
Cork, Blackr ock, and Passage ......
Dublin and Ballast Junction .. „ „ „
Dublin and Drogheda.• • ... ...

Dublin and Kingstown ••
Dundee and Arbroath

Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction
Dundalk and Enniskillen • ...........
East Anglian.:.. • • • • • • • • • • • ..... ....

East Lancashire •• • • ..,...

Eastern Counties and Norfolk..
Eastern Union • • • • • • • • • • •......•

Edinburgh and Glasgow .• • • ......
Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee•• • • • •
Exeter and Creditors.. •• ....•• • • •• • •

171%
223(
188
277

Furness Railway •. • .... • • ...• ....
Glasgow, and South-Western.• •• . • • •
Great Northern and E. L
Great Southern and Western (Ireland)
Great Western

Irish South Eastern •• •• ••

Le.icaster and Carlisle ..
Lancashire and Y0rk5hire............
Leeds and Thirsk • • •• • ....•

Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport....
London and North Western- •• • • • • ••
London and Blackwall • • • •
London, Brighton, and South Coast..
London and South Western...•.....
Londonderry and Enniskillen
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, lac.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
Manchester and South Jtinction......
Maryport and Carlisle • • • • • • • • • • • •
Midland ••• • • •• •" " • ••'' •• •*
•• • •
Midland Great Western (Irish)
Monklands ••• • • • •,. "••• • • • •.• •• •
Newcastle and Car •• • • • • •
North British 7.._•• •• •• •• • •

Stafiordshiro •• •••• • • • •

North-Westgrli. • ..... .. • • • • ••

Scottish Central . • • •
Scottish Midland •••• • • • • ........
Shrewsbury and Birralitghiun
Shrewsbury and Chester • •
Shropshire Union • •
South Devon• • •• • • ••• • ••••••'••••••
South Eastern • • • • • • • ......
. _

228 !i
93%
77

South Wales ..... .• • . .....
South York., Doncaster, and Goole •
Taff Vale •••••• •• • ..... •••••••• ...
Ulster . • ....... • • •••••• • • • • .
Waterfbrd and Limerick ••
West Cornwall •••• • • • ••• • • • •:::'•
•
Whitehaven Junction . • • •
York and Newcutle and Berwick
York and North Midisnd

IN
12
30436
279

442%
134%
234
240

£1,450

254
1,309

725
4,346
7,613
2,574,
104
620
861
831
441
740

656
3,985
14,084
2,044
3,955
2,359

323
3,854
10,433
4,608
20,193

137
3,b76
15,247

412
60,204
1,173
16,476
12,744

128
6,528

557
21;015
1,306

815
2,3.50
i 6
5,036

524
1,683

535
1,571

FOREIGN.
Dutch Rheni.sh • • •• • •
Maria Antonia •••••• ***** ••
Montereau and Troyes
Namur and Liege
Northern of France
Orleans and Bordeaux.. •
Orleans and Central
Paris and Lyons
•••••••
Paris and Rouen.
Paris and Strasburgh •• .......
Rouen and Ilavre ..... . ..•
Tours and Nantes

£1,600

251
1,595

778
4,372
8,210
3,119

598
1,867
13,076
1,001
1,181
2,409
919
365

663
4,510
14,625
2,061
3,945
2,577

441
4,127
11,076
4,894
18,317

149
4,361
16,37 S
1.026

186
14,816
6,966

:slO
44.675
1,263
9,722
11,550

122
6,548

614
22,159
2,479

938
2,372
3,6)2
5,014

1,109

633
1,9G4

686
1,695

628
1,988
13,243
1,617
1,314
2,475

927
441
355

187
14,534
7,490

128
1,008

1,140

192
1,172
1,114
25,096
5,386
13,933
14,702
7,729
12,287
3,193
2,981

829
19,146
3,267
11,384
6,863
6,259
6,139
2,652
1,541

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

w BRISTOL,ehad 11a1AvYery quiet 281 market to-day,
.
STOCK EXCHANGE
.—We
prices had a downward tendency. The only sales re-
ported were—Bristol and Exeter, 95—Great Western, 89%4.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 28
STOCK EXCHANGE.—We have no improvement to notice
to-day. The transactions have been very limited, and prices
varied little from those which have been quoted for the last
few days. The sales reported were—Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire (late Chester and .Biikenhead), 18%—Ditto,
221. Shares, 5% dis.—Caledonian, 185/8—Eastern Counties,
8 —Lancashire
'and Yorkshire, 70% - Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, 3114—Midland, 67—South-Eastern and
Dover,
205,x,—York and North Midland, 23%—Dutch Rhe..
nisb, 3% dis.
MANCHESTER, MAY 28.
STocE EXCHANG.E.—The business to-day was very limited,
but prices, which were lower in the morning, became firmer
as the day proceeded. The transactions were as follow
Manchester and Birmingham (C), Quarters, 2 p.—Man-
cheater, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 31—Eastern Counties,
8% -c.—Chester and Birkenhead, 18%—Ditto, 221. Shares,
gas dis.—Chester Junction, 10% dis.—Leeds, Fifths,
n, d.—South-Eastern and Dover, 20 11-16--C 1 6y
18 9.l6—North British,: 7% —Midland 663; —East a edonian,
Lance-
shire, 16%. —East
BIRMINGHAM, MAY 28.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business to-day
'mite& but prices were firm. The only was rather li-
Birosiogham, Wolverhampton, and Storer Valley,
were-
--Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B), 5 lOl. lls. 3d.

--------
BRITISH SPERM CANDLE COMPANY.—Many of our
readers may remember having seen some beautiful white and
semi-transparent candles at the Exhibition. Little would they
have supposed that these could have been made from the com-
monest and most refuse fatty matter, however dark or coarse.
Yet so it is. By the operation of certain gases, acting on this fatty
matter, when in a state of saponification, stearic acid is pro-
duced of a white substance, almost like alabaster; this again
is run into candles. They have been very largely sold in this
country, to the extent of hundreds of tons; and although
rival companies have insinuated that the candles could
not be made, or, if made, not at the price, yet we
are told that it has paid, and paid well, to import
and sell them here and in the colonies, although charged
with extra duty, freight, &c., equal to 20 per cent. To say
that the French manufacturers would have the complaisance
to import at a loss, and put a large profit in the agents'
hands here, seems indeed absurd. However, it seems the
directors of the company, before appealing to
the public, sent
their engineer, Mr. Ressenier, to Paris, who fully inspected
the works, and, coupled with the report of the commission
appointed by the Soeiety for the Encouragement of Indastery,
in Paris, to inquire into the manufacture (proved by cl(nalri investigating the subject for four months), they felt
asantelrd a
of these points :—First, that the new process Pr°---a pre-
larger quantity of stearic acid than any other
known
both
cess ; secondly, that the quality was infinitely suPeest was
in colour and transparency thirdly, that the
,c, lastly,
much less than by any other process ; and,
were that the candles themselves not only cot
less, but
infinitely superior to any similar article before that the
cost in addition to these points, ascertained
h under that in
cost of all the materials in England was
Paris, and that altogether the manufacture., ,
__; as-
conducted more economically, they resolvetdare'
la Pants for
Bored themselves by competent authorityd n
valid g
good, to esta-
Great Britain and the colonies were v
vending them in this
might be
blish a company for manufactunng and
100,0001•, with power to
.tai of 10v,,,, and report of
country with a paid-up cap appearance
the
increase to 200,0';0/. Judging
the new candles, the large dern_aade, it appears that
.ehn
the amount of sales already n°
their claim to the attention
a
directors have fairly provecdenti 2
1 world, as develop
by
nd for exportation, etude
.le
of capitalists and the
omfort in elegance and
new source for employin,gm;3ll`w
adding to the consumers c
it TAXES ON KNOW-
GREATEST
young fellows
ONE or THEmaterial and capietcaol,nolwmhyi
half-dozen hungry iy
LEDGE."—Having some,, dropping seriatim into
your carriage at
Punch.
Derby day.—
fellow in
lunch-time on the Der
_own
East they put a
.....
ROGUE.—"
CLEVER
of your acquaintance, uroPp
~ 11914 it NE 016 The audacious scamp dried anew, and
gaol for swindling.

He E
of
Rangoon
has BURMESEopened WAR.
dthAe Burmeseß. war
The capTtur
with a brilliant feat of arms, and we shall be happy to
learn that the irresistible force of the British
squadron
on the coast, and the fall of ,the chief port of Burmab,
has at orce e( nvinced the Court of Ava of the inexpedi-
ency of prolonging so unequal and so disastrous a conteat.
But we cannot confidently entertain any such expects-.
tion. From the time of year at which we are now ar-
rived, it is extremely doubtful whether these operations
can be followed up with cif, et before the rainy season. It
was not till the 25th of March that dispatches were re-
ceived by the flagship on the East Indian station, then
' lying at Penang, to direct the Admiral to proceed to the
; scene of action. The Indian Government appears till
then to have relied on some illusory hope of arrange-
ment. On the 28th of March Admiral Austen
sailed for Rangoon in the Rattler screw-steamer,
but, to the grcat surprise and disappointment of the
officers on the station, the Admiral thought proper to
leave his flagship (the Hastings) at Penang, several hun-
dred miles from the theatre of war. In spite, therefore, of
the laudable diligence displayed by the Indian dock-
yard.,, and especially at Bombay-, and the fact that a
large steam squadron was assembled in the Gulf of
Manahan early in the month of April, we aro by no
means sure that there will be time enough to enable
General Godwin to make a decisive advance into the
interior. Rangoon has at once been taken, as was ex-
pected; but, situated as that plans is in the low and
marshy delta, of the Irrawaddi, the lands about
the city are completely flooded in the rainy
season. Oa the outbreak of the last war Rangoon
off,,red no serious reAstanee; but the Burmese Govern-
ment had contrived to remove the whole po-
pulation into the in'crior. Their other fortified
positions,
at Mr.:,endine and Donabevv, had still to tie
carried, not without difficulty, and by separate expedi-
tions; and no affect whatever was produced on the
Court of Ava until the invading army bad penetrated
far into the interior. It is, therefore, by no means
certain that the capture of Rangoon and the adjacent
forts will now bring the enemy to terms; and, on the
other hand, to hold these places during the rainy season
is precisely the most trying and unwholesome pesition
in which our army can be placed. At Prome, which is
a considerable distance up the stream, the banks become
higher and the climate
more healthy. Sir A. Campbell's
di • vision passed the rainy season there in the former cam-
paign without inconvenience.l h be observed that
It may ere
Rangoon is situated oneastern channel of
the extreme
and not on the principal stream. The point at which
this channel forks off fromth e main stream is so shallow
that the boats of the expedition could onld only be taken
over it with difficulty; and i! would, therefore, not be
passable for our steamers or s
or principal stream offers muctPs-of-war. The middle
vigation, and we have reason t greater facilities for na-
o
line-of-
battle ship of the size of the Efagcingbelieve that a
channel for a considerable distanceifinig4t ascend that
aha unaccountably left by the Admiral atPehad not been
nang. The
western channel by Bastein was found to be far too
shallow even for the boats of the squadron.
The most calamitous part of the campaign of 1825
wa
the attempt to march the division commanded b Ge-
neral y
Morrison into the Burmese territory from the Chi-
Chit-
tagong frontier. The passage of the mountains which
separate Arracan from Burmah was believed to be
im-
practicable, and the army was compelled to remain in
the pestilential flats until it was disorganized and well
nigh destroyed by disease. Hence an opinion has arisen
that the line of the Irrawaddi is the only practicable mode
of invading the Burman empire. But on this point an im-
portant discovery was made just after the conclusion of
the peace, which left the province of Arracan in our
hands. It was ascertained that a road of unusual
excellence had been constructed by the Burmese
themselves in 1816 from a place called Sembwghewn,
situated on the Irrawaddi, some 300 miles from its
mouth, to Aeng, in Arracan, now a British posses-
sion. Captaint Trent was accordingly sent by Sir A.
Campbell with a battalion of Sepoys and the elephants
of the army to explore this road, which he found in
excellent condition, and much frequented by the natives
for purposes of trade. The whole distance from the
Irrawaddi to Aeng is only 124 miles, and this march
was accomplished by the detachment with the elephants
in eleven days. If General Morrison bad known of the
existence of this road his division would have been en-
abled to join the main army on its march up the,river,
and he might have arrived to take part in the battle of
Psgahm-mew, which terminated the war.

The present ruling race in Burmah poured down some
eighty years ago from the mountains of Thibet upon
the comparatively feeble and defenceless kingdoms of
Pegu, Arracan, and Manahan, and they continue to
bold the previous inhabitants of the soil in close sub-
jection. Their conquest of this territory was, indeed,
not entirely dissimilar from the Mogul conquest of Hin-
dostan, and on both shores of the Bay of Bengal we
find a people smarting under a foreign yoke which it
seems our own strange destiny to impose on their
masters. Bat, in truth, the monuments still existing of
the former grandeur of the Pep empire attest the
progressive decline of the country. From the arrogant
tone lately assumed by the Court of Ave there can be
hide doubt that preparations for this war have been
made on a vast scale. The Burmese are no
longer ignorant, as they were in 1825, of the power of
the enemy they have rashly provoked; though they may
well be unprepared for the enormous increase of the
military and naval poster of civilivA nationr, which has
taken place since that period. The force now brought
against them inns! prove irresistible, if its operations are
conducted with energy, and aCapted to the seasons in
that country. But in spite of the success which has
already crowned our arms by the capture of Rangoon,
it may be well to rcme•mber that we have to deal with
a cratty enemy and a deng, rous country, and that in the
campaign of 1825 the mibtalits occasioned by want of
attention to thc, peculiar climate of this region were far
more fatal to our !rf-.ops than all the stockades and gingats
of the Burmese.—Times.