The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-08 00:00:00

SALE OF TEA.

The East India Company's sale of Teas, which com-
menced ori the 4th inst., terminated yesterday, containing
in all 46,618 chests as follows
hea, for borne consumption, duty paid 500,000 lbs.
Corgou and Souchong 3,370,000
ll,yson

Total 4,000,000
There has been more than ordinary animation on th►s
occasion, with a vtry full attendance of the trade, who
generally evinced great anxiety to supply their stocks, which
have been sufl•'ered to become exhausted in the expectation
that from the late deranged state of our monetary system,
the merchants, or present holders, would be obliged to make
a further sacrifice upon the last sales, at which the importers
were obliged to submit to a loss of from 30 to 70 per cent.
Since :hat period the panic in the Money Market has gra-
dually subsided, confidence succeeding distrust, and a buoy'
ancy has been observable in the Tea Market for some
months past, equal in advance to the commencement of the
present sale, of 10 per cent, upon all kinds of tea, but upon
Boheas, from 50 to 100 per cent.
At the sales concluded to-day an improvement has taken
place, above the Co►npany's sale prices of June last, of 25
to SO per cent. upon Congous and Hysons, and 133 per
cent. upon Boheas.

June Sale. Present Sale.
s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d.
Congous 0 11:1- to 1 0 per lb. 1 3to 1 6 per lb.
Ditto -
1-I)sons - 2 2i— 2 6 --
Ditto
B )beas ( Citn-

ton) 0 41 in bond 0 101-
Now that the monopoly of the East India Company
done away with, and there will only be another Company 5
sale of 4,216,0001b5., who will then have disposed of all the
teas in their warehouses, it is much to be apprehended that
as the supply is consequently entirely left to the merchants,
the consumers will have to purchase at prices as propor-
tionably high as they have been depressed, more particu-
larly at the present period, in consequence of the late
ruinous losses so generally sustained by the importers, wil°
will be but too reluctant, even if they had the same faci-
lities, to embark again in a speculation they have in. the
onset found to be so hazardous and unprofitable. Eve"
the present prices are considerably below the importing or
first cost of the article.

The consumption of tea in this country being now greater
than ever, involves more considerations than simply Cour
tnercial why a sufficient and regular supply should not be
kept up in a manner similar to the East India Company.
who seldom had less in stock than sufficient for nearly three
years' consumption, as circumstances may arise which might
for a season prevent our obtaining supplies ; for the arbi-
trary character of the Chinese may lead, at some period, t°
a temporary suspension of intercourse with this country
The imports this year do not exceed :32,000,0001b5., vrhde
the consumption for the United Kingdom is pearly
40,000,0001b5. per annum, and the exportation for our CO'
lonies and the Continent is 8,000,000165. more. Thu!•
agreeably to the subjoined statement of the present stock
of tea in the country to the Ist instant, instead of having 3
supply on hand against casualties for nearly three year,, "
have barely a supply for a year and a quarter.
Stock of free trade teas in London, Sept. 1 36,550,000 M
Do. Company's teas (sold and unsold), do. 10,530,000
Do. tree trade in Liverpool, do.
Do. do. Bristol, Scotland and Ireland, d 0... 5,500,000

Total stock on Sept. 1, 1837
No more teas arc expected until the middle of next year,
with the exception of one or two ships.

EDGINGTON'S MARQUEES.--.." We refer our
readers with confidence to the advertisement, which appear°
in another column, from Mr. Benjamin Edgington, Duke'
street, Southwark. The Marquee furnished by him for
the Conservative Festival, on Tuesday last, was universally
admired ; and now that we are upon the subject it would
be injustice not to spoak in terms of commendation of the
obliging and praiseworthy conduct of Mr. Edgingtod°
workman, by whom the erection was superintended. 'DI'
tea equipage, &c., presented a pleasing and interesting Li'
pearance, as viewed down the spacious tent, extending 2'20
feet in length, and affording accommodation for nearly too
thousand persons to be seated at one time ; and thong':
rain fell at night the Marquee was so well constructed, and
so thoroughly waterproof, that even the showers did not
damp the lively spirit which prevailed."—Extract from the
Nottingham Journal, Sept. 1, 1837.
At
SPORTING EXTRAORDINARY.—Last week, -0
Halton, near Lancaster, a young gentleman shot a lame
pike, that was basking in the river Lune. It weighed up.
wards of 201 b.

TRADE OF HULL.—Such is the briskness of the
trade at this port, that the wages of common labourers bei",
been raised from 3s. to 3a. 6d. a day. The demand for la.
boor is so great, that there need not at present be a single
able-bodied man out of employ.—Hull Advertiser.

ROCHDALE FLANNEL.NIARKET, SEPT.-1.--1111
flannel business seems to be progressively improving. Tn.
market to-day has been very brisk ; and the demand ibr
goods, especially of the middling and better qualities, is °3
the increase, and at rather better prices. Wool has una'r-
gone little or no variation since last Monday.
Mits. HALL'S NEW NOVEL, " UNCLE lit):
RAGE."—When arrived at nearly the last stage of
task Mrs. Hall remarks—" I have endeavoured to describe
persons as they really are, and circumstances as they Nall,
occurred ; not to create human beings, endow the"'
the attributes either of angels or their opposites, and
plunged them into all manner of difficulties, suffer ther"
of
extricate themselves after the most approved manner
romance." In this laudable endeavour Mrs. Hall has 5°,11
ceeded. Her fiction is full of truth—her truth is s°
told that it has all the charm of fiction. Her character,
are neither saints nor devils, though they partake abc°;
dantly of
.human grace and deformity--yirtue and
and her story is not a record of the impossible, thong" 1,
overflows with the mysterious, the exciting, and the r 0
mantic.
eel
A recent tourist in the Highlands mentions A n°o6
mode an innkeeper had of ascertaining what would he of
state of the weather—" He has only to send his tlo°,`l ba
geese to the loch side, and if they put out to sea it Yri"
fair ; if they anchor on shore it wi be rainy."
There is a certain tailor, residing in Chester-
le'
Street, so imbued with the spirit of libetTty. and entertain'
ts
ing an abhorrence to everything like restraint, that
other day he came to the resolution of giving the '
larks, and thrushes which he kept in his house their le j
charge from the confines of their cages, which he "Tr as
into effect, alleging that whilst they were in their Pr's%
it put him in mind always of that tyranny and oPc'ewg'_..
which is so congenial with the feelings of the Toriee•
Tyne Mercury.

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Plain Ivory handles, silver ferrules, per dozen ' ig'la3ted3ol:'
Carved ivory handles, silver ferrule,s er doellatliar.i.r 310 it ►d
Plain pearl handles, silver ferrules per dozen pir 44 0 1,) •
Carved pearl handles, silver ferrules' , per dozen Fair 5 6 14 Steel Blades. 31 6
King's pattern or Queen's pattern, silver handles... rs 15 6 "
T. COX SAVORY,
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Plated Good, Watches, Clocks, &c., may
application.
forwarded in answer to a post-paid
grsamlitisht, 47, Cornhill, London.
be load gratis, or wilt t

SIR7'IIS.
On the sth inst., the lady of the Rev. A. Fennell, of Ipiwich,
O
of a daughter. of
On the t2d inst., at Wood-house, Shepherd's-bush, tile laly
Geo. lirid,ge, lisq., of a daughtor.
On the 2d inst., at Brussels, Mrs. Weer, of a

ARRIED.
Last month, at the British Ambassador's Chapel, at 13russeig.
John Hobert, son of Joseph Tim Peron, Esq., of New Bones, nerto•
to Louise, daughter of the late I F. Pfeiffer, of Neufchatel, io
Switzerland. I,f
On the '26th ult., at St. James's, ClerkenwAl, e'',
son of It. Goodrich, Esq., of the Temple, to Amelia, elder
ter of the late Wm. Illingworth, Esq., surgeon, R.N.
On the sth inst., at Enfield Mr. T. Cutush to Sarah, ti"..
younger daughter of the late, Mr. Moses 31ay, of, Bartholome"
close, and Stoke Newington. f James
At Bordeaux, Edmond S. Coppinger, Esq., 31. D., *on
Coppinger, Esq., of Paris, to Ultima, daughter of J. Dcrt,
of Bordeaux.
On the sth inst., at West Hackney,
Broad-street, to Elen Anne Shove, only (11.1.01ter of \VII.'
gory, Esq., of
ateShacklwell. Ireston,
On the 6th inst., St. Mark's, Kennington Mr. Jart)" :elz
of Camberwell, to Matilda, third daughtleV.:clifa:lrE:Jcalems:sE:l6.6'..l3
of North Brixton.

regretted by his family DIE D. iiielt
On the 7th inst., at Holloway in the Gist year of his age, t',1,•301
. 0,1, of the house oafnSdhears%%-io'doed, cGiriellbecrotf, Sherwo
and publishers, Paternoster-row lfr lit°n''i°
On the sth inst., at Peckham. -rye, Lucy, relict of i •
Miller, of the same ace. ~ ,hanilci,
On the sth inst.. Elizabeth Sarah, wife of Thos. H. 1-I°'
Esq., of Champion-hill, and Coleman-street. Mr JaPn4
On the 26th ult., at Beaufort-row, Chelsea,-aged 63,- '
a-furilsni:ilsp,er.rt,fbr.ol:ii,r,
Potts, the patentee and scientific improver of artificial liallTant soil
On the sth inst., at St. Leonard's, Charles Shepley, i"'
W. Wilson, jun., Esq., of the Grove, Clapham. Tur let, 1.:"1"
On the 3lst May, at the Hague, Demerara, SpiY --- t _,, for
agistra,-
late a Captain in the tilst Regiment, and a Special 31
syife
that Colony and its dependencies. ,„„elia, •
On the i9fla of June, at the (-;apc of Good Hope! ,'"' a eltle°-
T. C. Robertson, Esq., of the Bengal Civil Service, a_rti.re,
daughter of the 'Lou, J. E. Elliott, M.P. for Lioxbareol ;_, 1.7,3 q.,
On the 7th inst., in New Burlington street, John Haig"
of
of Whitweil Hall, Yorkshire. late
Oct the 7th inst., Sir James Alexander Wright, Dart"
Carolside, N,11„ aged 37, los

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