The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-12 00:00:00

BANK OF ENGLAND.

An Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday the 6th day of August, 1853.
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Notes issued • .... 31,052,235 Government debt.... 11,015,100
Other securities...... 2,984,900
Gold coin and bullion 17,033, 81
Silver bu11i0n........ 19,154

£31,052,235
M. MARSHALL,. Chief Cashier.
Dated the 11th day of August, 1853.

£31,052,235

RANKING DEPARTMENT.

Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Rest 3,342,083
Public deposit 3 Lin-
eluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National liebt, Sav-
ing's Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 2,218,227
Other deposi a . 12,475,518
Seven Day and other
Bills 1,576,361

Government securities

(includg•Dead Weight
Annuity) .... • . 13.127,333
Other securit' es .. 13,226,701
tsT,tes • • .. 7,529,440
Gold and silver coin .. 382,325

£34,165,799

I £34,165,799
M. IVIARSIIALL, Chief Cashier.
1e53.

Dated the 11th day of August,

The average PRICE OF SUGAR.
price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the returns made in the week ending the 9th day cf
Augu.st, 1853, is 255. 10. per hundred weight, exclusive
of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.

COLONIAL MARKETS-(TiIIS DAY.)

A irtlawtatis
'l3l
&MAR.—A good in
and prices are a trine for
oa,l4:llo7,46dEsiseceyecrtds.ritepofit'ooginonoinnt:sigd_,
ton Barbadoes h
t
bronciine:lfryagys
htu:::::yeeoaxiftiilirfilstoyeduar.
for tow
By auc-
grocery, and 37s forght 333 t° 389
The refined
/0:001:vbae:gs
Trinidad 33s to 345,
up
uu
er ps ovseersys ofilrdm ata
t34456s tof
03r5sh Ir
brown
public salel,nat
for low to fine grocery, the forrnieuhl.
very scarce Mauritius sells freely
33s 6d to 38s for low to good
to 33s for mid to fine brown.m
inBo9._:d at 30s
auientis grocery,has rteoalis4ei:
higher prices for white Benares, and Bengal
previous prices, white Benares selling at r 3sr?rts fully
for mid to firm, 343 to 33e for
to 32s 6d for brown, 38s to 403 for mid tor cs.'ooB 6(1
eery yellow, and 42s to 415 6d for white. Pert gr°-
at public sale was taken in at 31s to 32. Brown
is an
and yellow Bahia at 30s 6(1 to 365. Cuba went at
30s 6d to 37s Gil for ordinary dark soft brown to
good yellow and whites and at 303 to 31s for good to fine
Havannal. Privately, the demand for floating
holders
indisposed to sell, except at a still further advan
and ce.
porters
COFFEE.—The market has been inactive, im
not being disposed to give way, the chief part of the quan-
tity offered at the public sales was withdrawn. Plantation
Ceylon partly sold at 53s to 593 6d for fine ord to mid ;
bold colory at 455 to 51s 6d for triage, and at 66s to 67s for
peaberry. Native Ceylon is held for 45s 6d to to 46s 6d.
Mocha is dull, being taken in at 65s to 68s for mid and good
mid, and 85s for longberry ; but good and fine ord sold at

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-(YESTERDAY. )

In consequence of the naval review at Spithead there
was no morning sitting to-day, and the hour fixed for
the meeting of• the house was the unusual one of ten
o'clock in the evening. At that hour from twenty to
thirty members had assembled. By half-past ten the
numbers had increased to upwards of forty ; but the
Speaker did not arrive till ten minutes before eleven,
when the benches, especially those on the Ministerial
side, were pretty well filled.

CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved
that it be an instruction to the committee on this bill
that they have power to receive a clause of appro-
priation.
The motion was agreed to ; and the house having re-
solved itself into committee, the clause was received and
the house resumed.
CROWN SUITS BILL.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved
that the order of the day for the third reading of this
bill be discharged. The question involved in the bill
was one of considerable delicacy. As regarded the sub-
stantial object of the measure, namely, that in revenue
suits the Crown should take and give costs, there was
no doubt or hesitation ; but the subject was one that
ought to be dealt with as a whole, and he thought that
it would not be possible to proceed with it safely at the
present moment.
Mr. WALPOLE expressed his opinion that an altera-
tion in the existing law was necessary, so that the Crown
might pay costs in the same manner as the private
suitor.

—Tile order of the day was then discharged.
METROPOLITAN SEWERS ACT CONTINUANCE

BILL.

On the motion for the third reading of this bill,
Captain LAFFAN observed that he could not help
regretting that the hon. member for Westminster( Sir J.
Shelley) had thought proper, at an earlier stage of the
bill, to make remarks injurious to Mr. Chadwick. It
was not fair to attack that gentleman in his absence,
when he had no opportunity of vindicating his conduct.

Lord PALMERSTON concurrred with the hon. mem-
ber in regretting that an attack should have been made
on Mr. Chadwick, who had rendered great services to his
country, who was a man of great ability and zeal, and
was very undeserving of an attack being made on him,
either in his presence or in his absence.
Lord D. STUART was sorry that his hon. friend (Sir
J. Shelley) was not present to vindicate the course which
he had taken on a former evening. Hon. members had
only to turn to the minutes of evidence taken before the
committee appointed to examine into the proceedings of
the Andover Union, and to the opinion of the President
of the Poor-law Board of that day, and they would there
find the grounds on which the censure passed by his hon.
friend had been founded. He (Lord D. Stuart) protested
against the principle that no reflections should ever be
made upon the conduct of a public man because he did
not happen to have a seat in that house, and could not
therefore defend himself.
Captain LAFFAN did not mean to say that the acts
of a public man could be taken away from the cognizance
of the House of Commons, but he did say that due notice
should have been given by the hon. member for West-
minster of his intention to attack Mr. Chadwick, in
order that that gentleman's friends might have been pre-
pared with his defence. (Hear.)
The bill was then read a third time and passed.
LUNATICS CARE AND TREATMENT BILL.
On the motion for the third reading of this bill,

Mr. MICHELL moved the following clause

" Pro

vided also, that it shall not be lawful for a proprietor or
superintendent of any licenced house, to keep or confine
beyond the period of six months any person admitted
into such house as a lunatic under the provisions of this
act, unless a jury, as in the case of a writ de lunatico
inquirendo, shall have been summoned to ascertain the
lunacy of such person ; on the unanimous finding of this
jury, the person shall be discharged or detained, as the
case may be; if the jurors cannot agree, then the per-
son shall be transferred to the nearest county lunatic
asylum, as provided for by clause 20."
The clause was negatived with a division.
Mr. WALPOLE moved the following clause, viz. :
" And whereas by the said recited act it is provided that
every person to be appointed in the room of any com-
missioner, being a barrister of five years' standing at the
bar and upwards, shall be a practising barrister of not
less than five years' standing at the bar ; and whereas
it is expedient to amend the said provisions as hereinaf-
ter mentioned, the present or any future secretary to the
commissioners, if at the time of his appointment to be
such secretary he was or shall have been a practising
barrister of not less than five years' standing at the bar,
shad be eligible to be appointed a commissioner in the
room of any such a commissioner as aforesaid."
The clause was added to the bill, and the bill was then
read a third time and passed.