The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-22 00:00:00

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

( From the New _London Price Current of Feb. 21.)
SUGAR.—The stock of West India Sugar is now 18,794
hhds. and trs., being 4,134 more than last year. The stock
of Mauritius is now 45,348 bags, which is 18,034 less
than last year, (including the East India Dock.) The de-
livery of West India last week was 2,682 hhds. and trs.,
which is 794 more than last year. The delivery of Mau-
ritius was 4,616 bags, being 1,308 less than the corres-
ponding week of last year (including the East India Dock).
This afternoon there was a good demand from the refiners as
well as grocers, and for the coloury descriptions rather stiffer
prices were obtained. At auction 120 casks Barbadoes went
at sd. a Is, advance for the best sorts, other qualities sold at
full prices ; low and fine yellow went at 61s. a 675. 6d. The
purchases, including the sale, amount to 1,000 hhds. and trs.
In the value of Refined goods there has been no change;
there has been much inquiry from the shippers to execute im-
mediate orders at 365. to 365. 6d. for double Crushed. Lumps
that would pass the standard selling at 785., rather under 775. ;•
Prussian Lumps 745. to 755., and 745. to 775, for single
Loaves ; for melting Lumps 71s. to 71s. has been paid for
large, and 74a. to 775. for small. The supply of Treacle at
Alark'Jt is still short ; the demand continues brisk. Bastards
have been taken very sparingly, but in the prices there have
been no particular variation. Of Dutch Crushed 100 hhds.
have been taken at 345.

Nlautirries.—There has been little demand by private con-
. tract, but in the quotations there have been no particular
change ; 6,790 bags at public sale were nearly all disposed of
at full prices for the good qualities, but the ord sorts gave way
6d., ordand fine yellow went at 565. to 635., good brown 535.
to 6-ts. 6d.

EAST INDIA. —This afternoon at public sale 800 bags Ben-
gal, which went at an advance of Is., low middling white sold
at 295. a 30a. ad., damps 293. a 295. 6d., very ordinary 253.
6d. a 28s. 6d.

F0Rxhax.,..F,....1.4e Brazil Sugars there continues to be
much inquiry at prices fully equal to thoso which have ruled of
Lice, but owing to the supply at market being short and stiffer
rates demanded by the holders, but few actual transanctions
have taken place ; there is very little disposition evinced to do
business either in the yellow or brown qualities, and nothing
has been done, although there are sellers at prices rather un-
der those of last week. 1,300 boxes good white Ilavannah
have been taken at 38s.
Nfor.AssEs.—The prices of West India have given way 6d.,
and the transactions have been confined to small parcels of
fair and good Demerara, a: 265. to 275., and mid. Antiguas
at 276. 6d.
Rust, BRANDY, AND riouallos.—Leewards and Demerara
have declined Id. ; 6 per cent. over proof of the former at
2s. 6d., and 28 to 36 over proof of the latter at 3s. Id. to 4s.
For Brandy there has been a good request for home consup-
tion. In Geneva little doing.
Ort.s.—Sales of Seal have been made at 50/. for pale; and
44/. to 461. for brown and yellow ; southern, 431. to 47/. At
auction 12 tuns cod sold at 451. to 45/. 10s. Sperm is in good
request ; linseed oil dull of sale at 345,
Rtes.—Bengal low mid and good mid white at 10s. 6d. a
135., good Patna kind 1.55. a 13s. 6d. ; Madras taken in at
10s. 6d.

SPELTRa.—About 1000 tons have been disposed of on the
spot at 161.

TALLOW. —Sales of Petersburg Yellow Candle made at
455. 3d. for first quality. For delivery in the last three months
425. 6d. is demanded.

TEA.-Small profits have been paid on the rates of the last
public sales--2s. Id. a 3s. 4d. for Hysons, and ltd. a 101 d.
for Congous.
CoFFEL_Jamaica of mid. and low mid. quality sold at 96s
to 103 s. tid., good and fine ord. 725. to 935. ; Bcrbice mid
and good mid. 89s. to 935. 6d. ; Demerara good mid. 88s. 6d..
fine fine ord. 80s. The Foreign Market remains in a languid
state, and the business done has been almost entirely confined
to the public sales of 1,000 bags Brazil, not above 600 bags
of which were disposed of at 2s. decline, good and fine ord.
Rio salting at 445. 6d. to 495. 6d. ; the private sales have
been only 150 bags St. Domingo at 525. for fine ord.
SPICES.-This day at auction 84 bags Pimento sold at 3+l.
to 31d, for mid. 396 chests Cassia sold at very steady
prices, low to fine at 555. to 635. 6d. 3:37 bags Pepper went
at 30. for Malabar ; Sumatra taken in at 34d. to 3
TURPENTINE.-Of Rough there have been no sales, 12s.
s3d. is the price offered, but the holders require 13s. per cat.
Spirits are rather more enquired after at a shade better prices
say 625. a 645. per cwt.
Sit.x..-There was a good attendance at the East India
Company's Sale : of 800 bales Bengal, about 390 bales were
refused, the remainder went at a decline on the former sale of
10 to 20 per cent, the greater decline on the ord. descrip-
tions. The prices obtained are as follows :-Bauleahs 1 is. a
125., Gonateas 143. a 14s. Id., Jungpore 13s. 3d. a 16s. 3d.,
white 17s, 11d. a 1/3s. Id., Radnarrore 13s. 2d. a 15s. 6d.,
Ilurripaul 12s. 7d. a 153. 63., Surdah 12s. 7d. a 183. The
Private Trade sales of about 300 bales are going off heavily,
a very small portion finding buyers.

EXPLOSION.—.TiIe Manchester Times of Saturday
gives an account of a most extraordinary explosion of gas in
a steam-boiler, by which a man lost his life. On the inquest
which was held, Dr. Dalton gave evidence to the following
effect :—" There are but two kinds of explosion can possibly
take place in a ease like this : one by the too high pressure of
steam bursting the boiler, the other from a mixture of atmo-
spheric air and combustible gas. The first of these, in this
instance, is entirely out of the question, the boiler being
empty and cold at the time ; the explosion must therefore have
been occasioned by one of the second class of causes. I find
there are gas-works on the premises, and it may be imagined
that they have been instrumental in this explosion, but from
the inspection I have made I find that this was impossible;
I do not think that the ingenuity of man could have ac-
complished it. Ido not think that gas could have gene-
rated in the boiler after the water had been drawn off;
but I conceive that it was generated by letting the
water fall upon the red hot coals, and the greatest
error was in neglecting to take off the lid of the
manhole. I expect that the water was trickling out during the
whole of the night and part of the next day, in consequence
of no air having been admitted into the boiler at the top.
There are two kinds of gas generated by means of burning
coals, when water is thrown upon them : the one hydrogen,
the oth,r earF.lnnic oxide. Both of them are lighter than com-
mon air, and would therefore have a tendency to ascend ; and
it appears to me there was an opportunity iu this case for that
to have taken place. This process might have been going on
for twelve hours, and so have continued to work on until a
considerable quantity of combustible gas had ascended. A
quantity sufficient to fill one-tenth of the boiler would pro-
duce an explosion. After the fire was extinguished, the com-
mon air would t into the boiler through the plug-hole. The
explosion would not have occurred but for the introduction of
the candle. The gas could not have found its way out of
the boiler while the lid was on except through the plug
hole, and that not in less than a day or more. In his judg-
mente that was the cause of the explosion."
SErtmus CALAMITY.—Extract of a letter from
Troy, United States, dated Jan. 2, 1837 : —The lower part of
our city has become a modern l'ompeii. Last evening, about
seven o'clock, the hill at the lower part of the city slid down,
covering up houses, barns, Sze., with men, women, and children
in them. It has covered up everything half way to the river,
psssing over Sixth, Fifth, and Fourth-streets, to Third-street.
Never was there greater consternation—the whole city is in
motion. Eight dead human bodies have already been found,
and 19 horses. It is impossible to say how many lives are lost.
I have just come from the spot, and I saw them dig out two
little children, lying on a truckle bed, sleeping the sleep of
death, without a bruise upon them. Where Fourth-street was,
the travelled earth is at least sixty feet high. Fortunately
there were not many houses near the spot, but what were arc
buried. It is calculated that seven buildings, each occupied
by two or three families, are destroyed. There was one house
upon the hill, which has totally disappeared. I was sitting in
my house, and heard a rumbling noise like distant thunder ;
went to the door, and saw a light in the south, and a cloud
coming over the city with gravel filling like hail. The brick-
kiln has been removed about a hundred rods, and yet kept
burning, giving light enough to see the horrible scene. To
odd to the dreadful sight, water came foaming down the hill
i a torrent. The swamps that are not filled up with earth are
filled with water. It is a melancholy day with us. We may
add that Troy is the capital of Renselaer county, New York.
MM. FOR R EST.—" We have private letters from
Mr. Forrest himself," says the editor of the PlaindenlPr (a
newly-commenced American political and literary journal),
" in which- he speaks of his success with characteristic mo-
desty, and in terms that show the most grateful sense of the
kindness of the London audience. The letter was written in
the unreserved communicativeness of private friendship, and
not designed for the public eye ; yet we take the liberty so far
to violate espistolary confidence as to place the following brief
extract before our readers:—' My success in London has been
most triumphant. It has greatly exceeded my most sanguine
expectations. Here, in the land of Shakspeare, and where
his productions bring audiences to the theatre who really un-
derstand their intrinsic merits, I have, in some of his noblest
characters, the masterpiece of dramatic art, been received with
such warmth, such exceeding fervour of applause, as must be
my excuse for the air of egotism and vanity which my letter
will, no doubt, wear. Not only in my profes,ional efforts, but
in my private walks in society, I have been greeted with t}"
utmost kindness. Macready has behaved in the noblet man-
ner, and has taken every occasion to express himself in the
handsomest terms concerning rne."
Thomas Everett, a brickmaker, who had been drink-
ing freely at a Tom-and-Jerry shop, at Spalding, on Wednes-
day night, offered for a wager to drink a gallon of strong ale
is -five minutes. The people present consented, and found the
ale for him, which he went into the yard to drink. Everett
put the pot to his month, and at two swallows drank nearly
half of it, when be fell senseless to the ground. The landlord
and those who were present left him there for some time, and
then put him down before a fire in the room, where they left
him for several hours without attending to him. When they
entered the room again, they found his legs and one hand
much burnt and dreadfully blistered. The fellows then pro-
cured a cart, into which they threw him, and conveyed him
home, where he died without coming to his senses.
—Boston
Herald.