The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-28 00:00:00

BANKING Di

proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Rest.. • • .... • . .. 3,214,206
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Lett:, Sav-
ing's Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 4,991,754
Other deposits ...... 13,727,637
Bevels Day and other
Bills..

1,438,€ 99

£37932,296

Dated no 27th day of January,

£37,932,296
I,f. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
1153.,

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the returns made in the week ending the 25th day of
January, 1853, is 255. 7d. per hundred weight, exclusive
of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain. •

MARKET INTELLIGE.ENC
(From the London New Price Current of. this day)
SUGAR.—An improvement has occurred in the home
trade demand for Colonial, and a less quantity having been
brought forward ; prices have assumed a firmer aspect.
To day the rates obtained for West India Sugar were equal
to last Friday, but the home treacle demand was small.
Purchases are only 443 hhds &,c., including at auction 70
hhds crystalized Barbadoes, a part only of which found
buyers at 35s 6d to 39s per cwt. For the week total ope-
rations are 1,670 hhds and tres.

REFINED.—The market has been nearly cleared ; brown
lumps at 44s 6d to 45s ; titlers low to fine 45s 6d to 495,
double 50s to 51s 6d ; Hambro loaves 4fis to 50s, double
Us to 535, and standard lumps 46s 641 per cwt. To-day

there was only a limited business concluded in refined
sugar for home trade purposes.
MAITRITIIIS.-Several parcels have been sold privately
at full previous tems, indeed 6d per °W t. advance has been
obtained for brown. At auction 9,356 bags found pur-
chasers ; good to fine yellow at 36s to 38s 6d, low to mid
34s to 35s 6d ; fine brown 325-6 d to 33s 6d, good 31s 6d to
32s 6d, mid 30s to 31s 6d, inferior 26s 6d to 29s 6d ; black
24s 6d to 26s ; refining from 32s to 36s 6d. This afternoon
Mauritius Sugar was wanted, and full prites were obtained
at the public sales of 6,560 bags, the whole finding buyers.
Fine yellow went at 37s to 38s 6d, mid to good 35s to 36s
6d, ord 34s to 34s 6d, mid to fine brown 31s to 345, ord
29s 6d to 30s 6d ; and refined 32s 6d to 37s per cwt. The
lower sorts are yet most wanted.
EAST INDIA.-The prices obtained were for grainy white
40s to 445, yellow ditto 36s to 38s, fine 38s 6d to 40s, brown
34s to 355, white Benares, fine 39s to 40s, low to good 36s to
38s 6d, common to mid like Mauritius 32s to 355, good to
fine 35s 6d. to 37s 6d, soft brown 26s 6d to 28s, yellow 28s 6d,
and better sorts 32s to 355. Madras met with a good pri-
vately at previous terms, soft brown at 26s to 28s 6d, yel-
low ditto 29s to 325, grainy white 40s to 435, yellow ditto
35s to 395, common to good grocery 33s to 3es, and fine 37s
6d to 38s 6d. This afternoon Bengal sugar was held for
previous prices, still there was a reluctance to operate. Of
3,400 bags at auction a part only sold ; ord to good white
Benares at 36s to 38s 6d, and superior grainy yellow 40s to
40s 6d. No public sales of Madras, and less demand exists
privately ; still rates are unchanged.
FOREIGN.-At the continental markets the currency is
firm for raw sugar, although only a moderate business is
doidg, but supply does not increase. For floating cargoes
there is an increasing demand, chiefly for the United King-
dom, and prices have an upward tendency-yellow Havan-
nah at 20s 6d to 24s Od for numbers 10i to 16, brown 19s
9d to 20s 3d for 9 to 10, white 27s to 28s; new brown Per.
nambuco 18s to 18s 6d, white 21s to 245; old brown Bahia
17s 9d to 18s 6d per cwt. Havannah, brown at 33s 6d to
34s 6d, low to mid yellow 35s to 37s 6d, good to fine 38s to,
40s, floretta 40s 6d to 41s 6d; Java, grey and white 36s 6d
to 40s, brown and yellow 32s to 36s ; foreign Muscavado,
good to fine yellow 37s 6d to 39s 6d, low to mid 34s to 375,
brown 32s 6d to 33s 6d. ; China, brown and yellow 30s to
33s ; Porto Rico • fine to superior yellow 39s to 41s, low to
good 34s 6d to 38s 6d, and brown 33s to 345. The terms
demanded for unclayed Manilla in bond are 17s to 18s, and
clayed 20s 6d to 21s per cwt. The transactions in floating
cargoes of foreign sugar here for the week comprise one of
new white Pernambuco at 245, one brown 18s, and one old

Bahia at 17s 9d per cwt.
310LAssEs.—StIpply keeps small, and there are several

buyers at stiff prices. Porto Rico-realised 16s to 17s, St.
Vincents and Antigua 16s 6d to 17s 6d, other sorts of 'rest
India 15s 6cl to 17s, Bengal and Mauritius 14s 6d to 15s
per cwt. Stock is 3,600 tons less than in the former year.
Honey is still wanted, Narbonne at 56s to 60s, Cuba 38s
to 465, and Jamaica 40s to 525. There is only a limited
supply. Of tamarinds stock is less than for some time
past ; the currency is for West India 24s to 445, and East
India 2s to 14s per cwt.
COCOA.—At present no advance has taken place for West
India, although the supply at market is small, and a fair
business has been concluded. Prices for Trinidad grey rule
at 31s to 345, low to mid red 34s 6d to 38s, good to fine
38s 6d. to 435, Grenada 30s to 375. Stock is now only
1,000 bags more than last year, and consumption is favour-
able. In foreign purchases are small, still prices are not
lower, ruling for Bahia at 24s to 255, Para 26s 6d to 27s 6d,
and Guayoquill 34s to 36s per cwt. Stock is rather under
last year.
COFFEE.—To-day previous prices were sustained for
native Ceylon, and a fair business was conducted privately.
At auction 500 bags realised 47s for good ord of recent
import. The market is quiet for plantation, still lower
rates are not accepted. Of 138 casks 270 bags at auction
a small part only sold mid to good at 56s to 61s, other
sorts 53s to 555, and Triage 46s 6cl to 48s. Of Singapore
Java 561 bags sold at 36s 6d to 47s 6d for good, 258 bags
Madras ord to good ord 43s to 465, and black 24s 6d to 25s
per cwt.
TEA.—There are sellers of ord to good common sound at
10d to 100, rather blackish leaf to blackish leaf 100 to
ls, strong pekoe flavour 1s id to is Bd, and superior 1s 9d
to 2s 2d per lb. Sorts under lld are the most neglected.
Oolong has been dealt in with reluctance, and holders are
disposed to realise; fine is offered at is 5d to is Bd,
good is ld to is 4d, and low to mid 9d to ls. Pouchong
is more plentiful, and not 'Doing much required, prices
have a downward tendency, ruling at 7d to 80. "With
green the market is well supplied. Prices now rule as fol-
lows :—Hyson, ordinary and middling, is ld to is 4d;
good to fine, is scl to 2s 7d ; superior, 2s 8d to 3s ; young
Hyson Canton, 10d to is • Hyson kind, is 2d to is 8d ;
fine, is 9d to 2s 3d ; Twankay, 10d to is ld ; gunpowder
Canton, 10d to is ld ; Hyson kind, 2s 9d ; fine, 3s to 3s
6d ; imperial Canton, is to is 2d ; Hyson sort, is 3d to is
6d ; Hyson skin, 8d to ls. In flowery Pekoe, sellers accept
for low to good, is 2d to is 10d ; fine to superior, 2s to
3s 6d.
RICE.—A larger business has been concluded in East
India during the week—rates have also rather improved.
INDIGO.—This afternoon 402 serons Guatimala indigo
sold with animation at an advance on the last auctions of
3d to 5d per lb ; Floras went at 5s 6d to 5s Bd, Sobras
4s 6d to 5s 6d, Cortes 3s 4d to 4s 4d, low and lean 3s to
3s 3d per lb.
SPICES.—An extensive demand has been experienced for
pimento since last week, and prices have advanced id per
lb, although supply is plentiful. At auction 1,050 bags
nearly all found buyers ; good at s:id to sid, and ord to
mid 50 to sd, exporters have been the leading operators.
To-day at' auction the sound of 640 bags Batavia pepper
was taken in at 3d per lb. for cotton clan.
_ _ _

TALLOW.—PurCha;es in Russian are even less than last
week, prices have further given way, 44s 9d to 45s per
cwt. having been accepted on the spot for fine yellow
candle. Few buyers are to be met with for delivery, and
44s 64.1 is the quotation for the last three months of the
year. Home melted is only in moderate demand, and can
be obtained at 45s cash.
OiLs.—This afternoon at auction 80 tuns Southern went
at 351. to 361. 10s ; 25 tuns sperm 851. to 86/. ; 150 tuns
pale and straw seal 321.105. to 551.

.POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Reuben Thivaites, who ap-
peared to be about eleven years of age, was charged by
Mr. Ward, of Liverpool-street, baker, who said—About
twenty minutes to twelve o'clock yesterday the prisoner
crawled into my shop, threw himself across the. counter,
pulled out the till, and took out 1/. 12s. Old., and started
away the moment he put it into his pocket. I was en-
tering the shop at the time, and I ran after him, stopped
him in Moorfields, brought him back, and gave him into
custody. I feel quite positive that the money found in
his trouser's pocket was taken from my till, because I
miss about that sum. He begged me to let him go.
The Policemen—l found 1/. 12s. Old. in the pri-
soner's trouser's pocket, and he told me that was all he
had taken out of the till. I found ls. 6d. in his waist-
coat pocket.
The father of the prisoner said that correction had been
thrown away upon the unfortunate child, who was, there
was every reason to believe, under the tuition of expe-
rienced thieves, who had picked him up at the " gaffs,"
or penny plays, with which the est-end used to swarm
some time ago.
Alderman Wire, after a strict investigation into the
case, sentenced the prisoner to imprisonment for three
months, and such labour as he might be able to perform.

MARYLEBONE.—Captain Henry Hugh Clayton,
residing at 1, Woodfield-terrace; Harrow-road, and upon
whom summonses had been previously issued, was
brought up by Whipp, 86 D, on a warrant charging him
under very peculiar circumstances with having assaulted
Eliza Remington, a young woman of prepossessing ap-
pearance, and about 26 years of age. She was house-
maid to the defendant.

Complainant, on being sworn, said—On the morning
of the 4th of November last the captain made overtures
to me of an improper nature, which I repulsed. In the
afternoon of the same day, while I was cleaning the fire-
grate in my bed-room, he came up, saying he was going
to kiss me, and on my telling him that I could not suffer
him to do anything of the kind, he said, " If you will
only consent to my wishes, I'll settle upon you so much
a year. I have been in the habit of doing it with all my
servants, and why can't you and I agree ?" I told him
that I could not think of agreeing to him scandalous and
offensive proposal, when he patted me on the shoulder,
and, aftel ringing the bell, said that if I did not accede
to his wishes he should kick me down stairs. I pushed
past him and went below, declaring that I would quit
the house on the same day.
Mr. Long—You have summoned Captain Clayton
here for assaulting you. Let me know what you have
to say upon that ?
Complainant—ln the afternoon, while in my bedroom
and in the act of packing up my clothes, Captain Clay-
ton came in and said I should not go till the next day. I
told him that my mind was made up to go instantly,
when he rung the bell, and I then rushed down stairs
into the kitchen. The captain told the cook that she-
had corrupted me, and he then thrashed me with a cane
with such violence that marks were upon my person for
several days. He has repeatedly made to me improper
solicitations, and I have upon every occasion repulsed
him.

Mr. Long (to the defendant)—What answer have you
to this ?

Defendant—she made some improper and insolent re-
marks as a servant, and I gave her a slight tap with the
cane.

Mr. Long—The assault—and you do not deny it—
has been proved, and for that I shall fine you 50s. and
costs.

Captain Clayton (pulling out is well•filled purse) said—
Did you say 501.
Mr. Fell, the chief clerk—The penalty is not 501., but
50s.

Captain Clayton—Oh, very well !
He paid the penalty with much sang-froid, and then
quitted the court.

PENNY POSTAGE.

The following is an estimate of the number of charge-
able letters delivered in the United Kingdom in each
year from 1839 to 1852

' ANN UAL INCREASE.
Year. No. of Letters. Per centage reek-
No. of Letters. imed on the num-
ber for 1839.
1839 76 mil lions.±
1840 169 93 millions. 123 per cent.
1841 196 i 274 36
1842 2084 12 16
1843 2204 12 16
1844 242 214 28
1845 2714 294 39
1846 2994 28 37
1847 322 224 30
1848. 329 7 9
1849 3374 84. 11
1850 347 9X 121
1851 3604 13. 18
1852 3794 19 25