The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-29 00:00:00

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
About an average business was transacted in each kind
of meat, as follows :

Per Sibs by the carcase.
s. d. s. d.
Beef, inferior 3 0 3 4
Do., middling 3 6 3 8
Do., prime large 3 10 4 2
Do. , do. small 4 4 4 6
Pork, large 3 0 4 0

.. d. s. d.
Mutton, Inferior 3 4 3 6
Do., middling 3 8 4 2
Do., prime 4 4 4 $
Veal. 2 10 4 2
Pork, small 4 2 4

BOROUGH HOP.

About 1,600 pockets of new hops have come to hand up
to this time. The demand for them is steady. Choice
East Kents and Farnhams have realised 201 to 261 5s ;
Weald of Kents, 18/ to 211; Sussex, 181 to 201. The duty
is called 50,0001. Yearlings are firm, at our quotations.
This week's impoits are 235 bales from Ostend, 1,200 from
Hamburg, 11 from Antwerp, and 56 from Rotterdam.
East Kent pockets, 1853'5, 13/ 13s to 181 Os; Weald of
Kent ditto, 131 Os to 151 15s ; Sussex ditto, 121 Os to
1610 s ; and foreign, 111 Os to 131 13s per cwt.

COLONIAL.
SUGAR—The demand has been steady for British plan
tation, at full quotations, and a fair business has been
transacted. Mid to fine yellow and grey has been in
chief request. Publicly, Barbadoes fine yellow has realised
395, brown 30s to 31s. Demerara csystallised 39s to 40s for
fine yellow, and 33s to 39s for low to good. Refined has
been in moderate request, brown lumps at 43s and gro-
cery at 43s 6d to 49s per cwt. East India—Privately,
grocery Madras sold at 33s to 38s, grainy yellow at 34s to
40e, and white at 40s 6d to 425. Benarea white was in
demand, low to mid 38s Gd to 39s Gd, and grainy yellow
38s to 41s. There have been no public sales. Mauritius
sold at full prices, low and very ord brown 25s to 26s 6d,
and ord to good yellow 31s to 34s Gd. Foreign—There
have been full prices paid. Pernambuco was taken :n
above the market value, low and mid damp brown 27s to
28s, and low damp yellow 30s. Low brown has been sold
at 27s per cwt. Brown Bahia, a cargo for export, went at
19s, and yellow Havannah, No. 15i, at 245. 3d. Porto
Rico, by auction, sold at 30s for low brown, 33s 6d for low
grey, and 34s to 39s Gd for mid to fine grocery. Cuba sold
at 29s to 31s for low to good soft brown, and at 31s Gd to
34s for low to mid grocery.
COFFER—There has boon a firm market, but with
limited purchasers. Native Ceylon has been almost
nominal, at 44s 6d to 45s Gd for ord to fine ord. Planta-
tion has been steady ; good and fine marks have been sold
at 71s to 755, low mid small to mid bold colour), 55s 6d to
595, peaberry 64s to 655, and triage 43s 6d to 525. Porto
Rico sold rather cheaper, fine ord and low mid greyish
mixed 51s to 555, and good ord 46s per cwt. Mocha has
been firm, and other descriptions of foreign have been
maintained.
COCOA—This article has been very firm. Porto Rico
raid greyish red was teken in at 40s.
111cE—The market has ruled firm throughout the week,
but buyers have not been disposed to operate freely. The
latest sales have been at 12s 3d to 13s for Bengal low to
good mid, and at 11. so 11s lid cash for Madras.
SALTPETRE.—The inquiry has been good. Bengal 15 to
31bs refraction has been sold at 23s to 264 6d, and 73Ibs at
21s per cwt.
COCHINEAL.—Pricos have been supported generally.
Honduras silvers, ord to good, 34 7d to 4s 2d ; and blacks
4s Ild to 5s ; Teneriffe ord blacks 4•1 1,1 per lb.
COTTON.—The demand has rather improved since the
beginning of the week.
Rum.—Tbe inquiry has been good, and at fuller rates.
Leewards pale 2s 2d, brown 2s 3d to 2s 4d; Jamaica 31s
to 365, common to good 4s ld to 4s 6d; andDemerarL432s
to 365, over 3s 4d to 35 6d per gallon.
SPlCES.—Pimento has slightly advanced ; old and mid
coarse sad to sid, and good mid and good even Sad to 5d
per lb.
INDIGO.--Prices are improving, the accounts of the crop
in India being unfavourable.
HEasr, &o.—Business has been dull both in hemp and
flax, but previous rates are current. Jute has been a shade
lower.
TEA.—The market is rising upon the China news per
telegraph, and the latest sales of common congou are at
lld per lb.
TALr4ow.—P.Y.C. is dull at 62s for old, and 63s to G3s
3d for new on the spot.
GREEN FRUIT.—The subsidence of cholera has caused a
better demand. Grapes have improved in value. Lemons
scarce and dear, a parcel of Naples brought 'mid France,
sold by Keeling and Hunt, at public sale, went at an ad-
vance of 3s. per package. Now Spanish nuts daily ex-
pected. The grape disease has extended its ravages to
Spain. The crop will be short in consequence.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
We learn by electric telegraph from Plymouth that her
Majesty's ship Alg!7rs, 91 guns, sailed from Plymouth
Sound at noon yesterday for the Black Sea. The Hornet,
22 guns, repairing at Keyham Dock, will probably leave
on Saturday morning for the Cape of Good Hope, the East
Indies, and China.

Her Majesty's steamer Viper, from Sheerness, arrived at
sal yesterday and proceeded down Channel.

The transport-ship No. 105, and Herefordshire, from
Cherbourg, for Woolwich, passed through the Downs yes-
terday morning at six o'clock. _ _ _

The Janus sailed ,yesterday for Sheerness ; her defects
having been completed.

Timothy Jennings (1846), recently serving in the Wel-
lesley, 72, guard-ship in ordinary, has been appointed clerk
to the St. Vincent, 102, at Portsmouth.

CAPTURE OF MORE RUSSIAN SHIPS.

Adyices were received yesterday, under date Memel,
September 24, that her Maj‘str's steamers Archer and
Amphion had captured no less than 20 Russian coasting
vessels, laden with grain, and rags for the manufacture of
paper

The Revenue cruiser Lively has taken a Russian prize,
called the Goth, into Hull. Another Russian vessel, called
the Furst Beckhoff Albrecht, has been seized by the Cus-
toms' officers of Dundee with simulated papers.

MONTROSE, September 27.—The Bognoja Medaschda
(schooner), Manthorp, R.N., in charge, prize to her Ma-
jesty's steamer Miranda, and bound frpm Kola to Sheer-
ness, put in here to-day for supplies and a pilot. She
parted company with the Dwina (prize) on the 4th, off the
North Cape, in a gale from the west. The latter may be
expected up soon.