The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-29 00:00:00

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

( From the London New Price Current of Yesterday)
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 Gd to 398 per cwt. For the week total ope-
rations aro 1,670 hhds and trcs.
REFINED.-The market has been nearly cleared ; brown
lumps at 44s Gd to 45s ; titlers low to fine 45s 6d to 495,
double 50s to 51s Cad ; Hambro loaves 46s to 50s, double
51s to 535, and standard lumps 46s Gd per cwt. To-day
there was only a limited business concluded in refined
sugar for home trade purposes.
MAURITIUS.-Several parcels have been sold privately
at full previous terms, indeed 6d per cwt. advance has been
obtained for brown. At auction 9,356 bags found pur-
chasers ; good to fine yellow at 36s to 388 Gd, low to mid
34s to 35s Gd ; fine brown 32s fal to 33s Gd, 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 prices were obtained
at the public sales of 6,560 bags, the whole finding buyers.
Fine yellow went at 378 to 38$ 6d, mid to good 355 to 36s
Gd, ord 34s to 34s Gd, mid to fine brown 31s to 345, ord
29s 6d to 30s 6d ; and refined 32s 6d to 37s per cwt. The
lower sorts aro yet most wanted.
EAST INDIA.-The prices obtained were for grainy white
40s to 445, yellow ditto 36s to 38s, fine 38s Gd to 40$, brown
34s to 355, white Benares, fine 39s to 40s, low to good 36s to
38s Gd, common to mid like Mauritius 32s to 355, good to
fine 35s Gd to 37s 6d, soft brown 26s Gd 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
358 to 395, common to good grocery 335 to 375, and fine 37s
641 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
doing, 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 Gd. to 24s Od for numbers 101 to 16, brown 19s
9d to 20s 3d for 9 to 10, white 27s to 28s; new brown Per.
nambuco 188 to 18s Gd, white 21s to 245; old brown Bahia
17s 9d to 18s 6d per cwt. Havannah, brown at 33s 6d to
34s Gd, low to mid yellow 35s to 37s 6d, good to fine 38s to
40s, floretts 40s 6d. to 41s 6d; Java, grey and white 36s 6d
to 40s, brown and Yellow 32s to 368 ; foreign Muscavado,
good to fine yellow 37s Gd to 39s 6d, low to mid 34s to 375,
brown 32s Gd to 33s 6d ; China, brown and yellow 308 to
338 ; Porto Rico, fine to superior yellow 39s to 41s, low to
good 34s 6d to 388 Gd, and brown 33s to 345. Tho terms
demanded for unclayed Manilla in bond are 17s to 18s, and
clayed 208 6d to 21s per cwt. The transactions in floating
cargoes of foreign sugar here for the week comprise one of
now white Pernambuco at 245, one brown 18s, and one old
Bahia at 17s 9d per cwt.
MoLAssEs.-Supply 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 West
India 15s Gd 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 468, and Jamaica 408 to 525. There is only,a limited
supply. Of tamarinds stock i 5 less than for some time
past ; the currency is for West India 24s to 445, and East
India 2s to 14s per ewt.
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, stilt prices are not
lower, ruling for Bahia at 24s to 255, Para 268 6cl to 27s Gcl,
and Guayaquill 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 568 to 618, other
sorts 53s to 555, and Triage 4-6 s Gd to 48s. Of Singapore
Java 561 bags sold at 36s Gd to 47s 6d for good, 258 bags
Madras ord to good ord 43s to 465, and black 24s 6d. to 25s
per cwt.

TEA.—Thoro are sellers-of ord to good common sound at
10d to 104 d, rather blackish leaf to blackish leaf lOid to
ls, strong pekoe flavour is ?d to is Bd, and superior is 9d
to 2s 2d per lb. Sorts under lid aro the most neglected.
Oolong has been dealt in with reluctance, and holders are

disposed to realiZlfino is offered at is 54 to is 84,
good is 14 to is 4d, and low to mid 9d to Is. Pouchong
is more plentiful, and not being 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 5(1 to 2s 7d ; superior, 2s 84 to 3s ; young
'Tyson Canton, 104 to is ; Hyson kind, is 24 to is 8d ;
fine, is 9d to 2s 3d ; Twankay, 104 to is 14 ; gunpowder
Canton, 104 to is 1(1 ; Hyson kind, 2s 9d; fine, 3s to 3s
6d ; imperial Canton, is to is 2d ; Hyson sort, is 3d to is
64 ; Hysou skin, 84 to is. In flowery Pekoe, sellers accept
for low to good, is 24 to is 104 ; fine to superior, 2$ to
3s 6(1.

RICE.—A larger business has been concluded in East
India during the week--rates have also rather improved,
INDIGO.—This afternoon 402 serous 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 Gd to 5s Gd, Cortes 3s 4d to 4s 4d, low 3s to 3s 3d per lb.
SPICES.—An extensive demand has been experienced for
pimento since last week, and prices have advanced id per
11), although supply is plentiful. At auction 1,050 bags
nearly all found buyers ; good at 5.0 to 51d, and ord to
mid 5Ad to 58d, exporters have been the leading operators
To-day at auction the sound of 640 bags Batavia pepper'
was taken in at 311 d per lb. for clean.
TALLOW.—Purchases in Russian are even less than laE t
week, prices have further given way, 445 9d to 45s per
cwt. having been accepted on the spot for fine yellow
candle. Few buyers are to bo met with for delivery, and
44s Gd is the quotation for the last three months of the