The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-19 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP.

We have to report a slow trade for all kinds of hops. The
demand is in a great measure confined to good and fine
parcels, which fairly support last week's currency. The
supply of foreign hops on sale is seasonably large. Advices
from the plantations state that considerable progress has
been made during the week, and that the prospects are very
favourable.

COLONIAL.
TEA —The market has remained very dull, and prices
ether qualities have
are unaltered. Good common Conen is quoted 13d. per lb.
SUGAR.—A fair amount of business nas been done in
e s t generallyl nd
exhibitab oeudt
af oslight decline.rices In the refined market
there has been little alteration, good common lump being
quoted 475. per cwt.
eitohndsel:manded enhanced
COFFEE.-- .For colonial descrliaputtiaotnisonthaeur
has been checked. A tew parcels
uol
poni
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abea
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business
ur limited
n, atcie t'esEr
sa. d_t
ihinnie rather
prices, and
of Egst India have realised full values.
SALTPETRE—There have been no g
sales of impor-
tance,c 1 p übl.
and in the private market . •
British refined is quoted 39s 6d to
40suotattons are unaltered.
Gd per cwt.
TALLow—The market has shown rather more anima-
tion, and quotations are well
spot being marked 42s Gd, and maintained, P.Y.C. on the
45s 6d per cwt. last three months' delivery,

Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur-
chasing norniman's pure Tea; very choice at 3s. 4d. and
4F." High Standard" at 4s. 4d. (formerly Bd.), is the
strongest, and most delicious imported. Agen+s in every
town supply it in packers.
PROGRESS OF POPULATION IN ENGLAND.—In
the year 1862, the excess of births over deaths in
Great Britain amounted to 315,156. The deaths were rather
more than 50d,000; the births exceeded 800,000. But
when emigration has been allowed for, the registrars
estimate the actual population—which in April, 1861,
was 23,128,518—at no more than 23,417,000 in the mid-
dle of the year 1862.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday a meeting of the Common Council was
held at Guildhall for the dispatch of business.

THE ROYAL VISIT TO THE CITY.

The LORD MAYOR, on taking the chair, said that
he was happy to state that he had received a com-
munication from Lieut. General Knollys expressive
of the gratification which the entertainment given
by the corporation on Monday week had afforded
their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Wales. The Lord Mayor added he had received
assurances from many other distinguished persons
of the great pleasure they experienced on the occa-
sion.

Mr. WOODTHORPE, the town clerk, read th
letter as follows:

Marlborough House, June 9.

" Lieut. General Knollys presents his compli-
ments to the Lord Mayor, and is desired by the
Prince and Princess of Wales to express their Royal
Highnesses' sense of the warm reception which they
experienced, and of the exce'lent arrangements
which prevailed at the entertainment last night at
the Guildhall,

" Their Royal Highnesses request the Lord Mayor
to convey to the corporation, and especially to those
gentlemen who undertook the duty of carrying these
arrangements out, their grateful acknowledgment
of the exertions which procured them so agreeable

an evening.
The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor." (Cheers.)

On the motion of Mr. TItUSCOTT, chairman of the
City lands committee, it Was resolved that the com-
munication of Lieut. General Knollys be entered on
the journals of the court and printed in the minutes
of proceedings.