The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-05 00:00:00

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London New Price Current of yesterday.)
Suchiß.- The West India sugar market has opened
under favourable auspices, both refiners and grocers being
eager buyers, and the rates obtained were 6d to is per cwt
above those current previous to the holidays ; the lower
and brown sorts being the most in demand. The purchases
amounted to 1,200 hds, &c., including at auction 250 hds
16 trcs Barbadoes, which went briskly at a rise of is per
cwt, fine yellow realised 39s to 40s, common to good 35s 6d
to 38s 6d; 158 hhds 6 trcs and 46 brls Demerara crystalized
sold at 4.1 s to 42s for fine, and 33s 6d to 40s for other sorts.
For auction on Friday 5,000 bags Bengal, and for the 12th
800 cases Brazil sugar are declared.
REFINED.-There continues to be an active demand for
Refined Sugar from home dealers, and production not in-
creasing prices have further improved for all descriptions.
Sales of brown lumps have been made at 45s to 45s 6d ;
Tittlers, low to fine 45s 6d to 49s 6d, double 50s to 52s ;
Hambro' loaves 46s to 50s, double 51s to 52s ; and Stand-
ard lumps 46s 6d per cwt. Several purchasers for delivery
at these rates and with few sellers. An impression exists
that Refined Sugar will be dearer, arrivals of Foreign. keep-
ing small. In wet lumps many purchases have been made
at 42s to 435, and fine 43s Gd to 445. A free sale exists for
Bastards, brown at 27s to 31!, and yellow 32i to 355. Pieces
have hoen in request, fine 40s to 425, and low to good 35s to 395.
To-day home dealers were desirous to operate in Refined
Sugar, and rates closed firmly ; brown lumps at 45s to 45s
6d per cwt. Several buyers of Crushed Sugar for shipping
at previous terms.
Meunrrius.-The lowest rates current were in the early
part of February ; brown selling at 22s 6d. to 295, and yel-
low at 29s 6d to 37s ; the present currency is, for the for-
mer 28s to 33s 6d, and 34s to 39s for the latter. This after-
noon the quantity of Mauritius Sugar offered at auction,
was large, and comprised 11,500 bags partly of the new
crop; still the whole found buyers, and the rates obtained
were 6d to is per cwt above those current previous to the
holidays :-good to fine yellow realised 36s to 38s 6d, low
to middling 34s 6d. to 35s 6d, good to fine brown 32s to
345, ordinary to middling 28s to 31s 6d, black 24s to 275,
refining from 33s to 375, and ord to fine grainy yellow 35s
to 39s 6d per cwt.
EAST INDIA.-Of Bengal the" quantity received to this
port has been for the last year 29,100 tons, and in the pre-
vious one 31,500; for home consumption there has been
delivered 30,800, and 25,300 in the fernier one; stocks are
12,500, and the close of 1851 they were 13,50 tons. In
the early part of January, prices for soft brown ruled as
low as 21s to 24s 6d, and for white Benares in April at 31s
6d. to 36s 6d. The value of the former is now 28s to 29s
6d, and 37s Od to 40s for the latter. An extensive demand
has been experienced privately for soft brown at 28s to
29s 6d, and yellow ditto 30s to 32s per cwt. This after-
noon the market was plentifully supplied with Bengal
sugar, and the quantity offered at public sale amounted to
6,800 bags; still all found buyers, grainy at is advance,
and Benares at full prices; the former realised for mid. to
fine yellow 38s to 42s 6d, the latter 39s 6d to 40s for fine,
ordinary to good 37s to 395, and Mauritius sorts 36s to 37s 6d
Of Madras 800 bags went at is advance, low to mid. grocery
at 32s to 355, and good to fine brown ditto 29s to 31s.
Penang met with much attention, and at auction 1,100
bags realised 641 to is advance, ordinary to fine yellow went
at 32s to 36s 6d per cwt.
COCOA.-The rates obtained for Trinidad were-low to
middling red 35s to 38s, good to fine 39s to 445, grey 32s to
355, and Grenada 31s to 38s per cwt. An impression exists
imports will not bo equal to the former year, and that a
further increase will take place in consumption. Foreign
at present attracts little notice, the currency is, however,
firm : Bahia at 24s 6d to 255, Para 26s to 275, and Guaya-
quill 34s to 36s per cwt.
COCHINEAL.-To-day stiffer rates being demanded for
cochineal operated against business. At auction 80 bags
Honduras, a second-hand parcel, was taken in ; Silvers at
3s lld to 4s 4d, dead grain 3s 2d to 3s 7d per lb.
FOREIGN.-The prices required for brown Havannah aro
20s 6d to 21s numbers 9 to 10, yellow 21s 6d to 25s for i 0
to 16, white 27s to 28s 6d, brown Pernambuco 17s 6d,
white 20s to 235, and brown Bahia 17s 9d to 18s 6d per
cwt. • A good demand exists for duty-paid parcels, and the
rates obtained are rather above those current previously.
Since this day week private operations are 2,800 chts
Havannah ; brown at 34s to 355, low to middling yellow
36s to '3Bs, gobd to fine 38s 6d to 40s, floretts 41s to 42s ;
400 chts Bahia white 36s to 40s, yellow 34s 6d to 35s 6d ;
300 bskts Java, 37s to 41s, brown and yellow 33s
to 36s 6d ; some parcels foreign Muscovado, good to fine
yellow, 37s to 40s ; low to middling, 34s 6d to 365; brown,
33s to 4.1 s ; 3,000 bags China, brown and yellow, 30s to 33s ;
20,000 bags Manilla in bond at 18s to 188 6d for unclayed,
and small parcels clayed, duty paid, at 33s to 35s per cwt.
There is yet little passing in white Havannah in bond, still
the currency is firm ; good to fine, 28s 6d to 31s • low to
middling, 26s 6d to 28s per cwt.
To-day foreign sugar was much sought after at previous
rates, but there are few sellers. _ _

COFFEE.-An extensive demand has been experienced
for native Ceylon last Tuesday, and there is an advance of
is 6d per cwt. Private operations have amounted to
14,000 bags, chiefly for home consumption, and the latest
rates paid were 48s to 48s Gd for good and real good ordi-
nary. There is a material increase in the demand for
Plantation, and rates compared with this day week show
an advance of 2s per cwt., whilst transactions have been
1,000 casks, consisting chiefly of sorts under 60s, and home
dealers are the loading operators. The prices paid
were for fine to fine fine ordinary 51s to 555, losp middling
to middling 56s to 60s, good middling to good 61s to 675,
fine to superior 68s to 86s, triage 43s to 48s, and pea berry
58s to 70s. Prices compared with that time show an
advance of 8s to 9s for Native, and 8s to 12s for Planta-
tion. Jamaica is wanted, and few parcels can be obtained;
the currency is for low to good ordinary 45s to 48s, fine
ordinary 49s to 51s, fine fine ordinary to middling 52s to
60s, better sorts 62s to 945, and triage 42s to 465. In
Mocha important purchases have been made privately ;
prices are firmer, fine clean garbled realising 80s to 85s,
common good diet() 70s to 78s, and ungarbled 56s to 66s
per cwt. The public sales of coffee declared for Thursday
and Friday comprise 600 casks 1,000 bags Plantation Cey-
lon, and 180 bales Mocha. To-day there was no public
sale of any sort of coffee, but several parcels are announced.
Plantation Ceylon was in good demand privately, and rea-
lised stiffer rates. The currency is firm for native at 48s
to 48s 6d, and there are several buyers.
TEA.-- A material increase is apparent in the demand for
common and good ordinary Congou during the last few
days; rates are also firmer, ruling at 104 d to 10id per lb.
Other sorts have been operated in with more freedom, and
the market is firm ; rather blackish leaf to blackish leaf at
lid to is id, strong and Pekoe sorts is id to is
Bd. ; fine, of the new crop, is 9d to 2s 2d ; but medium
meet withmost attention. Several parcels of clean Pouchong
have found buyers at 8d to 9id. A much better demand
exists for Souchong, especially for superior kinds ; rates
rule for fine at is 7d to 2s, mid to good is to is 6d, and
common 10d to lid. For common green Tea few buyers
are to be met with. The following is the general currency
-Hyson mid is 2d to is sd, good to fine is Gd to 2s 10d,
choice 3s to 3s 4d, young Hyson Canton 10d to is, Hyson
kind is 2d to is Bd, fine to superior is 9d to 2s 3cl Twan-
kay 10d to is id, Gunpowder Canton 10d to is id, Hyson
kind is 2d to 2s 9d, fine 2s 10d to 3s 6d, Imperial Canton
is to is 2d, Hyson sort is 3d to 2s 2d. Hyson skin 8d to
9d. Flowery Pekoe has not improved in value, still pur-
chases are on a more extended scale-low to good at is 3d
to is 10d, and fine 2s to 3s 6d. There is yet a reluctance to
operate in Caper ; sellers are willing to accept 8d to is, and
for scented 10d to is 7d. In scented orange Pekoe many
purchases have been made, fine at is 6d to is 10d, mid to
good la id to is sd, and common lld to is. To-day im-
portant purchases were made in Tea, and the market has
a firm aspect. There are not sellers of clean common Con-
gou under lOid per lb.
RICE.-At present purchases are limited on the spot ;
Bengal, good to fine white, at ils 9d to 12s 3d, low to mid
lis to lis 6d, broken 10s 6d to lis, Madras 10s to lis,
Arracan 9s 9d to 10s, white Java lOs to 12s, fine 12s 6d to
13s, yellowish Os to 9s 6d, and cargo Bengal 9s to 9s 3d per
cwt. To-day there was a reluctance to operate in East
India Rice, and rather lower rates are taken-mid to good
mid white Bengal selling privately at lis 6d to lis 9d per
cwt.
Rum.-To-day several parcels were disposed of, and the
market closed with a firm aspect-Leeward Island proof at
2s, East India is lld to is 11 id, and Demerara at 2s 8d to
3s for 30 to 40 over proof.
OILS.-In linseed oil extensive purchases have been
made, both for shipping and home consumption ; there is
also an advance, 29s 6d to 30s per cwt having been obtained
on the spot, and 30s 3d to 30s 6d for delivery. Rapeseed
oil is much required, and the upward movement continues ;
pale realising 365, brown. 34s 6d to 355, and foreign refined
36s Gds to 375. Palm met with more attention and rates
are firmer, ruling at 32s 6d to 34s 6d for mid to
fine. Cocoa nut is not much required. Cochin is offered.
at 38s 6d to 40s, and other sorts at 37s to 38s. A good de-
mand exists for Cod, and there are few sellers under 341.
per tun. Seal finds a more ready sale, and rates are firmer,
pale realising 351. lOs to 361., and other sorts 321. to 351.
Southern is not much required, but supply remains scanty,
and 341 to 381 is the value of low to fine. In Sperm there
is more doing, at 851 to 86110 s, and Headmatter 871 to 881
per tun.
TALLOW.-There is a reluctance to operate in Russian,
and fine Y.C. is offered at 45s per cwt. Purchases are
limited for spring delivery at 44s 9d to 455, and at 44s for
the last three months of the year. Home melted is held
for 45s 6d to 46s cash, still only a moderate demand exists
and supply is plentiful.

THE DEATH OF GREAT MEN.—A superstition pre-
vails among the lower classes of many parts of Worces-
tershire that, when storms, heavy rains, or other
elementary strifes take place at the death of a great
man, the spirit of the storm will not be appeased till the
moment of burial. The superstition gained much
strength on the occasion of the Duke of Wellington's
funeral, when, after some weeks of heavy rain, and one
of the highest floods ever known in this country, the
skies began to clear, and both rains and floods abated.
The storms which have been noticed to take place at
the time of the death of many great men known to our
history may have had something to do with the forma-
tion of this curious notion in the minds of the vulgar.
It was a common observation hereabout, in the week
before the interment of his grace, " Oh, the rain won't
give over till the Duke is buried."—Notes and Queries.

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S OPINION OF NAPOLEON
His opinion of Napoleon's capacity for making the most
of large means in war was as high as Napoleon's warmest
admirers could have desired. I have frequently heard
him say, that it was more dangerous to make a mistake
in front of Napoleon than in the face of any other man ;
and I think he quite acquiesced in the dictum, popular
with the French army, which estimated the presence of
Napoleon in the field at the value of 40,000 men. One
of the Duke's tenets was that after a certain age, which,
I think, he roughly stated at 45 or 50, commanders
in
general would do well to give place to younger men.—
Lord Ellesmere.
OVERDONE EMIGRATION.—There is one class of emi-
grants, whom the local journals specially caution against
hastily leaving situations in England for Australia. It
is the very large class of clerks and shopmen, &c. With
this description of labour, it is remarked, "the market
is constantly overstocked, and eager as is the demand
for most kinds of labour, it is quite distressing to notice
the number of worthy young men, incapable of severe
manual labour, who, with delicate health, and probably
still more delicate purses, swarm our towns m search
of employment, exposed to very heavy expenses, which
they can earn nothing to meet, and gradually sink into
poverty, and too often into dissipated habits, till
they vanish somewhere, and make way for the con-
stantly recurring supply. Such men have rarely
been successful at the diggings ; the demand for their
labour in their accustomed pursuits is very limited in
proportion to their numbers ; and. we distinctly warn
them that in rashly throwing up good situations at home,
and 'trying their luck here, they are guilty of an act of
sheer insanity." -

MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. ' Price.
Annum. Share.
—...-------
X. s. d. X. 3. d.
Assam Tea • • ........ 50 0 0 20 0 0 10%
kuctien Mart ••-•• • • • 11. ss. 50 0 0 35
Australian Agricaltarl 11. 100 0 0 35 0 0 292
Australian Trust •• .. 61. per cent. 85 0 0
0
Australian Roya Mail 10 0 0 2 0 5
Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 10s. 10 0 0 24
10
0 0
British American Land 158. 38 10 0
Canada .•• • • ...... 61. percent. 100 0 0 32 10 0
..
Do. 5 per cent Bonds 5/. per cent.
116 '—
Ditto, 6pr ct. Bonds 61. per cent. 1A
City Navigation Bonds 3} per cent. 97
2
Electric Telegraph (A) 25 0 0 00 0 22
Ditto .. •• • ... .. (B) 25 0 0 710 0 8
Equitable Reversienry 5/ pr. cent. 1100010_14000061.000
11101007000
100;0
0000
2122210597:14
50 0 0 10 0 0
Ditto New .. ......
Gen. Revers. & Invest. 5 p .c.fcbcts., 21 1000
00
00 11004
nO 0 100
Gen•SteamNavigation 10 p.
Hudson's 8ay...... ••
Hungerford ...... • • ..
London Institution ... 7B 15 0
London Reversionary 51. 21. 10x.
cent. l5 0 0 15 0 0
155
Russell Institution •• • • 12 10 0
Price's Patent Cand. Co. 10/. per cent. 20 0 0
Reversionaryß3ya
na.... 41. p. share. 100 0 0
nsiatistlonat. Soo. 4%1. pr cent. 100
0 106 •
60 0 0 8014
Bluth Australian ..... 51. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 55
Trust and Loan Comp.
of Upper Canada •. •• 20 0 0 3 0

THE CORK PAVEMENTS.--In Cork, the stone used for
pavements is a variety of the old red sandstone,
different stratifications differ both in quality and c9lorueid-,.
They are generally either of a purplish or brownish red.
or of a lighter colour, varying from gray to
.!
grebni these
also differ greatly in hardness and durability ;
appearance.
qualities can be known at once from their. app
of which
h in general
The stone which breaks in solid masses
fracture is very „, c, is
f th. kind
a right-angled
never saw, in the oldest building,
artsmnallest degree to
which seemed to have yielded
in
texture, also it differs
the action of the elements.
from the softer kinds : its surf ice sni‘tesehardness, peculiarly fit
gritty—
qualities which, together withsort
seems to have been
is roug and
it for pavements. The otherr
material. It breaks with
originally formed of a
e finer
naend in flatter masses, some-
timesmuch more acute
in great flags of ground, and thereby prevent-
inganglwhichs are used as foundation stones,
covering a large breadth
upon them
softer and less durable than
them from sinking. This kind
o f s ttohnee ,
and also much smoother in its texture. Hence,
the other,
t d for furnishing paving-stones. Some
it is much less fit e .
11 e of it very badly, and,
well in was, som
wall
however,r a i raised
i
of it lasts very
not much better by being laid with its
strange to say,
they are often used together
in the same quarry, .
stratification in a flat posiion. As both kinds often
occur
in the same wall,—Correspondens of The Builder.