The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-27 00:00:00

NEWGATE AND
The trade ruled steady, and
Per 81bs by

s. d. s. d.
Beef, inferior 210 3 0
Do., middling 3 2 3 4
Do., prime large 3 6 3 8
Do., do. small 3 8 310
Pork, large

Lambs

BOROUGH HOP.
We have still to report rather an active inquiry for all
kinds of hops, the prices of which aro freely supported,
as follows :—Mid and East Kent pockets, 120 s. to
168 s. ; Weald of Kent, 115 s. to 1265. ; and Sussex, 112 s.
to 1265. per cwt.

COLONIAL.
SUGAR.—There has been very little doing and prices
have slightly declined for British Plantation. At auction
St. Lucia sold at 31s 6d to 335 for ord to good brown,
33s 6(1 to 35s for ord to fair grey, 35s 6d to 37s 6d for good
grocery. Barbadoes went at 345 6d to 39s for low mid to
fine. These rates are about 6d lower. Crystalised Deme-
rara brought 380 to 38s Gd for good. Refined has been
firm at 47s to 49s for grocery lumps. Mauritius went 6d
lower for about 12,000 bags, good and very superior yellow
selling at 36s to 38s 6d, low to good mid at 33s Gd to 35s 6d,
and fine brown at 328 Gd to 33s 6(1, white 41s to 418 Gd,
Bengal went at 388 to 38s Gd for fine yellow Dhoba, and
34s to 35s for low yellow, and 32s to 338 for brown.
Foreign Paraiba has realised 19s, and a cargo of yellow
Savannah, No. 154 sold at 255. Manilla brought 18s for
Muscovado.
COFFEE.—The market is firm but inactive. The latest
sales of Plantation Ceylon have been at, 60s to 66s for good
colony, 73s for fine, 55s to GOs for low mid. and mid., 50s
to 52s Gd for triage, and 66s to 70s for peaberry. Native
is at about 47s Gd. Mocha was taken in at 698 Gd for good
yellowish, and Rio at 41s for good ord. mixed.
COCOA. —Trinidad has been rather lower, fair grey to
good rod being 30s to 378 per cwt.
RlCE.—Scarcely any business has been done.
SALTPETRE.—BengaI 61 per cent. refraction, has been
sold at 275.
COCRINEAL.—Prices tend downwards.
COTTON.—There is a firm market.
TEA.—The demand is good, at higher rates.
TALLOW.—There is a steady inquiry, but not much
activity, in the market. P.Y.C. has been at 475. Gd. per
cwt. on the spot.
GREEN FRUIT.—The warm weather is in favour of
consumption. Four cargoes oranges from Lisbon have
been received, a portion of which sold by Keeling and
Hunt, at public sale, went at a reduction of 4s. to ss. per
box. Lemons sustain their value. Nuts in fair demand,
although buyers supply themselves for immediate want,
awaiting the reduction of duty to lay in stock.

MAILS FOR AUSTRALIA.—GENERAL POST-OFFICE,
MAY, 1853.—The lino of contract packets heretofore con-
veying the mails to Australia, via the Cape of Good
Hope, every alternate month, having been withdrawn,
provision has been made for forwarding the mails of
June by the clipper barque Stratford, the owners o•
which have entered into a contract for that purpose with
the Postmaster-General. The Stratford will be dispatched
from London on the morning of the 4th of June next ;
and all letters and newspapers for South Australia, Vic-
toria, New South Wales, and Van Diemen's Land, reach-
ing London previous to her departure, and not addressed
to be sent by any othee vessel, will be forwarded by the
Stratford. Postmasters will cause this arrangement to
be made known as extensively as possible ; and care
must be taken that letters and newspapers to be con-
veyed by the Stratford are forwarded to London and
not to Plymouth. The packet rates of postage will be
chargeable upon all letters transmitted by the Stratford;
but uo charge will be made upon newspapers,