The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-15 00:00:00

MA.RI(RT INTELLIGENCE.

(From, the London New Price Current of this day.)

SUGAR.—To-day West India Sugar was much enquired
after for home trade purposes, and the rates offered were
fully equal to those of Friday for both refining and grocery
sorts, but supply is still scanty. Operations amounted to
320 hhds, &c., including at auction 298 hhds 19 tierces
Barbadoes which went with spirit—middling at an advance
of 6d per cwt, and other sorts at full prices ; fine yellow
realized 39s to 40s, middling to good. 37s to 38s 6d, and
one lot low middling 36s 6d per cwt. The Sugar market
closes under favourable auspices.
REFINED.—To-day the home trade demand was active
for Refined Sugar, and rates rule firm, brown lumps at
455, low to fine grocery 45s 6d to 48s per cwt. Of Crushed
Sugar there are many export buyers at previous rates.
MAIIRITIIIS.—A large business has been transacted, and
in some cases the rates obtained rather exceeded those
current previously. This afternoon there were ready
buyers of Mauritius Sugar, and full prices were obtained ;
brown and refining sorts meeting with the most attention.
At auction 9,500 bags were sold, middling to fine broWn
realised 32s to 34d 6d, low to good yellow 34s 6d to 36s 6d,
fine 37s to 38s 6d, and refining 33s 6d to 37s per cwt.
EAST INDIA.—Thin afternoon Bengal Sugar was in good
demand, and at auction 6,906 bags were mostly sold at full
rates, indeed grainy went gd per cwt higher. Benares,
good fine whitef realised 38s to 495, low to mid 36s 6d
to 37s 6d, fine and good grainy yellow 38s to 40s. Penang
is required, and stiff rates are paid. At auction 1,270
bags found buyers, ord soft white at 36s to 36s 6d, fine
brown 32s to 32s 6d, and low to fine yellow 32s 6d to
35s 6d. There was no public sale of Madrrs, but several
parcels sold privately at Friday's valuations.
FOREIGN.—To-day there were several buyers of floating
cargoes of Foreign Sugar at former rates, but at which
there are no sellers. Duty paid parcels met with a good
demand privately at previous terms.
COEFEE.—To-day there was no public sales of any sort
of coffee, and the auctions advanced, are of little moment.
In Plantation Ceylon a good deal was concluded privately,
and the rates obtained are is to 2s per cwt above Friday ;
sorts from 545 to 61s per cwt have been most in request. Operations since Saturday amount to 530 casks, a part
having been taken by exporters. There is more activity
in the market for native, and rates are firmer, a fair bun-
ness having been concluded by ivate treaty
pr at 47s c 1 to
48s for good ord, new import
and rather old '46s 6d t6o 47s
per cwt. Accounts from Ceylon state there is likely to be
a decrease in the crop 25 per cent. Shipments from Ist
October had been 44,594 cwt against 82,927 in same time
last year.
TEA..—There are now few buyers of low to good common
Congou, supply keep on the increase, and there are sellers
at 9id to 10.1 d per lb, Although a good demand exists for
better sorts, yet rather blackish leaf to blackish leaf can
easily be obtained at 10Ad to is, stronc, to Pekoe kinds
is Oti to is 8d and superior is 9d to 2s 2d per lb. The
currency is as follows :—Hyson ord is 1d to is 2d, mid ls 3d to is 4d, good ls 5d to ls 9d, fine ls 10d to 2s 6d,
superior 2s 7d to 3s, young Hyson Canton 10.1 to ls,
Hyson kind is 9d to is 10d, fine 2s 6d. to 2s 3d, Twankay
10d to is ld, Gnpowder Canton,lod to is Bd, Hyson kind
is 2d to 2s 9d, fine 3s to 3s 6d, Imp Canton is to is 2d,
Hyson sort is 3d to 2s 3d, Hyson skin 8d to ls.
RICE.—There is a reluctance to operate in East India
or all purposes, and the prices accepted are rather under
those current previously, although stock shows a decrease
of 4,000 tons compared with this time last year, and de-
liveries are large.
INDIGO.—To-day during the progress of the sale 164 chts
have been withdrawn. 1,019 thus (including 207 with-
drawn) have passed the sale. Of the quantity which has
now passed the auction (6,326 chests), 650 have been with-
drawn, and 1,683 bought in, leaving 4,063 sold.
SALTPETRE.—To-day the market for saltpetre presented
a quint aspect, and at auction 1,148 bags Calcutta went
rather lower ; 8i per cent. refraction selling at 22s 6d to
27s per cwt.

COCHINEAL.—To-day rates were supported for coeld-
neat, still a reluctance is evinced to operate, Of 113 bags

COUNTRY MARKETS.

COLCHESTER--FEB. 12, 568;
Prices to-day were as follow :—Wheat, white, 46s to
red, 38s to 50s ; barley, 28s to 36s ; oats, 18s to 248 ;
Mazagan, 30s to 32s ; middle and small, 34s to 388 ;
white, 40s to 42s ; grey, 30s to 325.

CHELMSFORD—FEB. 11.
Prices to-day were as follow :—Wheat, white, old Os °ato
to 53s Od, new 39s to 56s ; red, old 37s to 48s, new 2,,,%.
44s ; barley, 25s to 278; chevalier, 30s to 368 • ' grintur,tZ
21s to 27s ; malt, 55s to 568 ; chevalier, 55s to 58s °„L„:
19s to 258 ; peas, partridge, 30a to 35s ; white, 32s to
boiling 38s to 418 ; dun, new, 29s to 33s ; beans tick,
to 34s ; Harrow ticks, 31s to '
368 ; Mazagan, 29s to 325.

The following is the official statement of the quantit'ruiel
of corn, &c., received in the port of London from theri„,
in Essex, from the 7th to the 12th February, both
clusve

Colchester
Harwich
Leigh
Malden__

44 • ,h
6
- 90 370 -
803 - 640 -173 94 -
1359 375 123 10

ET-FEB. 14.

80 31
70°
2015.

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close of the market : -"

0. IV
a 6
Haswell ....•10
................ . 6
Kepier Grange ...........9
Lambtou ................... 17 0
Pensher . .. ............ g
Russell's ........ • 3
Stewart's .. . ................. 10 0
Heugh Hall ... ............... 17 6
Kelloe .. . . .........17 s
South 6
Cliwering Tees ............ 0
Pease's West ............. ju
South Durham •........... 17 5
Tees ......... 9
15 Woodhouse ...
C105e.......... . • 17
Cowpen .... . -•1,7 0
Ships at2larket ...... 155eirwsoelndtwate-r•Hartlei D • 3
Sidney's Hartley ........
106.

SEABORNE MAILS.

(N signifies that the mails are sent from the Goner..l
by the night—and Mby the morning—dlopatch.]

.---"------en
Day when made up e
From what du nt
COUNTRIES. in General Post- Port
_, England:-.
Office, London. Dispatch...
.......„...----
--..._______________
----- ---------
America(byßrit.pack)N Every Friday .... Liverpool • ''' Each boa.
America (by United Sts.
Packet) .... •.....N Feb. 24.... . LiverPoo-, ••• rob. 16
America (by U States ••• • • Feb. 26
packet) .... •• • • ..N Feb. 16 Southampton - -
ampton) ..... .• ..M 4th of March .... Southall)
.. April
Australia (via •South- ••
••••• • - 4
outtt ::
_vreeabb• L:
PO" Feb. 1
Ditto (via Marseilles) N Bth
c..0.t)....NN 22d of °fofFetlbirue "Y
11311'
of
March •• .. Dover .• .*
Ditto (via cape of Good
.p., rob 118
Affiricaope()W•eet•
month. Plymoti-
Alexandria..........N 8,9, 24, &30of m. Dover • •Z. Alexandria .. .... ....M 4th & 20th of mon. Southam- ..to•11 Feb.
Bahamas ...........M 2nd of the month southanZton 1.l °I 00,
Belgium ............N Daily .... ........ Dover ..... B.:11g
Brazil P..... .. ......M 9th of the month.. Southampton Fel 0
Buenos Ayres .... ....M 9th of the month.. Southampton Febrs 0
Cape of Good Hope ..N 14th of the month Plymouth .• „,fe',',ll gi
Cape of Good Hope ..N 2n. of Apri1...... Plymouth -.•
.r.,1"„" - 26
Cape de Verde ......N 14th of the month. Plymouth .• r e''''
Ceylon (see India) 20
, Fob. Fi.
Ceylon ...... ........N 14th of the month Plymouth • To...
Channel Isles ........N Mon.,Wed ,&Frid. Southampton fib. 16
Chili—. .. .. .... .... 31 ad & 17th of month Southampton
China (see India) Feb*
,ss 16
'
Constantinople.......N 7,8,17,21,&27 of m, Dover .... •. ~.. .cD;iO
Constantinople ......31 4th 3z 20th of mon Southampton Li
cont. of Europe Ai & N Twice daily ...... Dover .• .. • . ''"
Egypt (see India)
.. Tilicell -
France .. .. M & N Twice daily— ... Dover ...• ~,, 1
Gibraltar ... ... .. -34 4,7, 17, 20, 27 of m. Southampton .
16
Greece (see India)
ton Feb' SO
Greytown ..........M 2nd & 17th of mon. Soutbamp- . ~,,e ,
Hamburgh ..........N Tuesday & Friday London .... ',."_,.eb '.,•
Havannah ..........M 2nd of the month Southampton` ,E.',70.1111"
Holland ... Wednesday & Sat. London ..• • • Feb'
16
llonduras ....... M 17th of the month. Southampton
kr.ovb 20
India (viaSouthampt.)M 4th & 20th of mon. Southampton "lee l
India (via Marseilles)M Bth&24th of month Dover ...• ••,ni
lonian Isles (see India) Tl.lc orl.-
Ireland .. .. ..11 & N Twice daily ... Holyhead •• • Feb, 16
Lisbon ..............M 7,9, 17, &270 f m. Southampton Feb ,16,5
Madeira ............M 9th of the month Southampton gall '
Madeira ......... N 23rd of the month Plymouth • • '"
Malta (see India) ob. I`,
Malta ..............N 7,17,19,27, 30 of m. Dover ......
Mauritius (see India 16
) • reth ploi.
Mauritius ..........N 14th of the month Plymouth • • ~t of _,
Mexico ............M Ind of the month.. Southampton 'F'o,of.
Naples ........N sth tOth2sthof mon. Dover .. •• •• etsc.r'ir.rog
New Granada .. .. ..M 2d & 17th of month Southampton , 0
New Zea1and.......... By private ship .. Various port) ~,ts. ,
'' 1.
Papal States ........N sthl sth2sthofmon. Dover ••• • • • eb
Peninsula ..........M lthl 7th27thottnon Southampton
•,_b• 16,
Peru ..............M Id & 17th of mon. Southampton rt,'"eb, n
Port Natal ..........N 14th of the month Plymouth • • rob. $1;
Sicily ...... ••• • • ...N sthlsth2sthotmon, Dover •• •• •• b. ,6
Tuscany ...... • .....N sthlsth2sthofmon. Dover .. •• •• Fe
b.'
Venezuela ..........M 2d & 17th of month Southampton
Van Die•nen's Land (see
West
Auslndies tralia)
........ M . .. , „, 16
2d & 17th of month Soutb4niptoo re1_......

12d& 17th of month!SouthamPt°n

moil 5
A TRIP ON THE PANAMA RAILWAY.--Ada,„t yn
crowd of passengers landed from the Sierra Neva
the
crowded to the railway cars, on the morning eary
of October. Here was the owner of a CaliforluiThere
mill, with his wife, sister, and six children-- croo'
learned judge. In other spots might be seen 9;llaiit
of rough lumber men from the pine forests 01
going to seek their fortunes in thefar west; Igelf,, or 1°
tradesmen and merchants going to see frielludol
attend some business in San Francisco ; broken" btl°,`'
soldiers from the Mexican war going ttog,;
ness at all ; an engineer with his old father, a silo 1,-;
narian, and large family ; a-party of English of
gaged to work a silver mine in the mountains
rrotyp,
Sierra Nevada ; a young German with a clag,linetool'eo
of his lady-love, bound to the "diggings," `iberofmg
fortune previous to his marriage ; with man? ° bornP-Al
bustling to and fro on the platform under
sun, and jostling each other most unceremonietTe car!
length all was ready, the whistle sounded,
teludeep:4
started, and away we went, plunging each milinhose
and deeper into the thick pestilential forest, vi
0. 1,0
vegetation rises from a black unwholesome In?rasoreeP.7
trees, whose age may be counted by centuries,,„stainl'i
of every description, flowers of allhues, palms, P,.11; tej
and every kind of tropical plant, crowded here one
another in the thickest confusion, and as they.w roatw-
die away, others spring up ; while the decarligd senrefl
sends up a fever, which cleared off, by scores anji.t le
the unhappy workmen of that fatal raikoad• here
noon our destination was reached, at the spot tg.„....isi
railway at present ends, on the banks of C
or
god
where a little village has risen up of five te,- te
d
called Barbacoas. The railroad from AsPin of a ona
bacoas is 25 miles in length, consisting
line, and reached this point about two roori_wid" icop
about nine months more ft will have joro, ,0
along the banks of the Rio Charges)vo Ite
ivords'
Grande, to Panama.—Dickens's "Ilotiseho7-

BIRTHS. 3o*
OF A SON. , ~..ifou-P
1 On the 9th inst., at Waverley-place, St. Job -
t Gorci?lv
G. Harding.
,
On the 11th inst., at 1, Upper Gordon-6Ueo-
square,
there
rs
. H. Mahall. note,
OF A DAUGHTER. ~,,,Darit-°'
On theM 11th inst., at Chester •place, ITY""
the wife of Adrian de Bruyn, cl Es., stillborn.
MARRIED. tai nit
ton, CAP SO°
On the 10th inst., at St. Mary's, Broo2P"—'lst Pr 3 coif
Wilson, a Hereford-square, formerly of the
~ jane?notor
Guards and 13th Light Dragoons, to Catheriostiul
child of Captain John Cook, of the Borw. )0),-
del 0,
and Middlesex Light Infantry. b, lIY A. On the 12th inst, at St. James's-church, Dm A . ,
gardens, J. B. Jordan, Es . grandson of the 'Ate j''
Jacob Jordan, to Anne Mara, daughter of tuv
Guitard, Esq.
mph
r";ne:rin_ostfre:'' o#3't
DI ED . vir inestlett OP '
aged
notite
Ellscith,inst ,at Neasdon-house, ~,, iteY''' '
Mlie'
late senior
aged 64. . +. grof
On the 12th inst., at 54, W-311. a6l
wife of William Chapman, Esq., age'''.

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