The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-01 00:00:00

DA MONO DEPAHTDIENT.

Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Rest.. • • ............ 3,630,633
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ing's Banks, and

Government securities
(includg.Dead Weight
Annuity) .... • • • . . 13,461,539
Other securit'es.... • . 15,931.447
Notes • • • • • • • • „ • • • 10,790,310
Gold and silver coin.. 638,991

Dividend Accounts) 8,469,758
Other deposi4 ...... 12,721,782
Seven Day and other
Bills 1,351,103

X10,725,•286

410,725,286
If. MARSIIALL, Chief Cashier.
153.

Dated the 31st day of Muth, L

PRICE OA
The ayerago price of Brown o
from the returns made in the
March, 18.53, is 275. 7d, pm
of tho duties of Customs paid a
portation thereof into Great Brie

SUGAR.
r Muscovado Sugar, computed
week ending the 29th clay of
r hundred weight, exclusive
pr payable thereon on the im-
itain. •

COURSE OF EXCITANGE—THIS DAY.
Amsterdam ...... ••.•.. 11 17% Gibraltar . • .........
Ditto, three months .. 11 19 % Legilorn .......• •..... 30 15
Rotterdam .. •
• .. 11 19% Genoa ................25 35
BAntwerp •.••.•. • • • • • .. 25 30 Milan ................
russels •.••••• • • • • • .. 25 30 Venice
................ ....
Hamburgh ... .. —l3 8% Naples ................ 41%
I
Altona ...• .• .........• Palermo •
.. —.. _ .... _ 124%
Paris •••......• • • • • • • .. 25 7 % Messina ........ ...... 125
MDitto, three months •• 25 32%; Lisbon .............• • • 53%
Barseilles.. ••...•• • „ • .. 25 32% !Oporto .......... ..... . 53%
ourdeaux .......... • • 'Rio Janeiro . ...... ..... .
Frankfort-on• Maine ...• 120%!Buenos Ayres ..
.. • •
Berlin —..•....• • • • . • • New York, 60 days' sight
Vienna . . • •
......• • • • .. 11 6 ' Philadelphia •.••• • • • • • —.
Oz. _
Trieste ................ 11 8 PRICES OF BULLION, FEB
Petersburgh.. • • .......• 37% Foreign Gold in Bars £3 11 g
Madrid . ........... .... 80% Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 „' 0
Cadiz...... bO%
.... ' • 50% Mexican Dollars •• " 0 0 0
Barcelona .......... ....
New Dollars ...... 05 1 s
Seville .............• .• Silver In bars .• • •

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

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

SUGAR.—Of colonial there is a plentiful supply, and
home dealers not being disposed to make large purchases
prices have declined for all sorts, still consumption is not
smaller and stocks are much under last year. To-day there
was a better assortment of West India sugar. some
dealers operated with reluctance, and sales were only 64
hhds, &c., making for the week 291. Prices, compared
with those current provious
to the holidays, show a decline
ry
of 6d per cwt
Supply isfor both refining and groce sorts.
REFINED
yet scanty of al sorts of refined,
and home dealers having been desirous to operate, full
prices obtained. Sales of brown lumps made at 46s
Tittlers low to fine 46s 6dto 49s 6d, double 50s to 57.8'
Hamburgh loaves 47s to 51, double 52s to 545, standard
lumps 475. Wet lumps are. less required, there are sellers
of low to mid. at 41s 6d to 42s 6d, good to fine
43s to 445, whilst production is evidently on the increase.
To-day Refined Sugar met with little notice for home trade
purposes, yet at present brown lumps cannot be obtained
under 46s per cwt. Few buyers of crushed sugar for
shipping, and in some cases there are sellers at rat her lower
prices.
MAURITIUS.—This afternoon the quantity of Mauritius
Sugar offered at public sale amounted to 3,500 bags, The
demand was limited and 2,600
sold at lo ws eru
irates mss " aokfi Digs
a decline for the week of 6d and in
o
per cwt, fine and good yellow d rent at 363 to 37s 6d,
naendbrorwefinn3in3gs t303334t05,
low to mid 34s 6d to 35s 6d,
mid to line grainy yellow 36s' to 309 p,
36s 6d.
EAST INDIA,—Of grainy Madras supply is large, and

LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKETS.—March, 31,

SUGAR has been in fair demand, but the transactions are
rather confined, on account of the market having been par-
tially closed. About 400 hhds Demerara have been dis-
posed of at 33s Gd to 35s 6d; 7,500 bags East India, in-
cluding Benares, at 398 6d ' • dates at 36s 6d to 37s ; low to low middling white Bengal at 36s to 37s 6d ; and
Khaur at 29s 6d. Also about 400 bags white Pernams at
22s 6d to 23s per cwt.
MOLASSES.—A large business has been done for arrival,
two parcels of Antigua having changed hands at 19s ; a
cargo of Cuba Muscovado at 18s Gd; and 700 casks (in-
direct, via Halifax) at 18s per cwt.
Rugs.—Nearly 400 puns Demerara have been sold at
rather easier prices.
COFFEE.—At the public sales on Tuesday there was not
so much desire to operate for export, and of 1800 bags
offered about 650 were sold, at 46s 6d for St. Domingo ;
37s to 52s 6d for Bahia ; and at 60s 6d. to 62s Gd per cwt.
for Maracaibo.

IticE.—Abort 2,000 bags Bengal have been taken chiefly
at 9s 6d to Os 9d for broken, up to lls 6,1 for very good
white ; also 200 tierces Carolina, at 21s per cwt.
TEA.—The market remains quiet but firm, and is with-
out any neat feature. Several vessels from Shanghai are
reported off the coast.
_ _

150 bags black pepper are reported at 3d to B.Bld per lb.
DRYSALTERIES.—Brimstono has been in fair request,
and about 100 tons taken at 61 10s to Cl 15s per ton for
thirds to best seconds; about 100 tons nitrate of soda are
reported at 18s Gd; and 1,100 bags saltpetre, chiefly at
28s Gd for 5 per cent. refraction, to 308 for East India re-
fined. A steady demand exists for Argols, which com-
mand full prices. Nothing worthy of moment has trans-
pired in madder roots. 1000 bags Sumac have been sold
at 14s 3d to 15s for Palermo, and at 7s Gd to 7s 9d for
Tyrol ' • also 100 bags sago flour, at 21s ; and 50 bags Plate
lac, at 39s per cwt. By public sale yesterday, 10 chests of
indigo went at 4s 2d to 4s Gd for Madras, and at 4s 8d to
5s 7d per lb for Bengal ; 125 boxes Singapore mother-of-
pearl shells, at Cl 6s to 6/ 16s ; 20 casks discoloured tartar,
at 77s ; and 1000 bags Myrabolams, at lls 9d to 14s 3d per
cwt.

DYEWOODS.—The transactions comprise some parcels of
Campeachy logwood, at 71 17s 6d to Si, with St. Do-
mingo at 61 7s 6d to 6/ 10s ; 220 tons Zapote Fustic,
at 5/ lOs to 5/ 12s 6cl ' • 150 tons Brazil wood, at 13/
2s Gd to 13/ 7s 6d ; and 15 tons Lima wood, at 14/ 2s Gd to
14610 s per ton.
JUTE is without alteration, and about 700 bales haVe
changed hands for arrival at prices not reported.
HIDES.—The market is firmer, and about 2,000 salted
Australian ox and cow brought at auction on Tuesday 41d
to 5d per lb, being advanced prices.
OILS.—Of palm oil a few hundred tons have been sold,
chiefly at 33/ lOs per ton. Fish are in limited demand,
without material change.
The tallow market remains quiet, with yellow candle at
465. Lard is nominally worth 52s to 53s per cwt.
Some parcels of turpentine have been sold at 12s 3d per
cwt.
A small lot of Calcutta linseed is reported at 49s per
quarter.
LIVERP

100 L COTTON MARKET—MARcH 31.
The sales since the 23rd instant are 60,000 bags, of which
28,000 are taken on speculation and for export. To-day's
sales are 25,000 bags, 15,000 of them being taken on specu-
lation and for export. Prices are advanced this week
nearly id per lb. The arrivals are 17 vessels from the
United States, 5 from Brazil, 1 from Egypt, and 2 from
Bombay.

SALES AND IMPORT OP COTTON INTO LIVERPOOL.
Sales. Imports.
D:scription.
Week
Prices. Week Jan. 1
ending ending to
Mar. 24. Mar. 24. Mar. 24
--
Bags. d. (1. d. 1852. 1852.
Sea Island
500 22 to 32 )
Upland. Bags. Bags.
Ditto, stained 340 4 —2l
9220 9386 513567
63
Pernaor l eannsi
b&4l3a ba m a 221038100
64a 8 ,
...
34,91
Maranham l3OO 64 74
480 6 6
Bahia, &c
Egyptian lB7O 5i -- 14 j ••• 21840
Demerara
40 0 -- 8 1
805
West India, &c
633700 0
93 : 8 I - •
East India
43068
---- - 45510
Total
9386 614271
Import into Great Britain for 12 weeks
ending March 24. Export.
—.---------___________..______
Year 1852. Year 1851. Year 1852.
__________ American ................
519710 341791 14000
Brazil ..................... 34991 18911 moo
Demerara,Etian I. V. . 1
1000
--
East India .............. 70724 14494 22000
Total number of bags —678-09-3 ------391991 ----38000

ALARMINGPUTEREAK OF FEVER IN .THE HOUSE OF
CORRECTION, CLERICENWELL. Yesterday Mr. G. S.
Brent held an inquest iu the louse of Correction, Clerk-
enwell, on James Snookes,- a well-known member of the
swell mob, aged 21.
week out of Deceased, who was hardly ever a
w prison, was committed for a month. The
day after his admission symptoms of typhus fever set in,
when he was instantly removed to the infirmary, where
he gradually sunk, and died on Tuesday. Dr. Wake-
field said that there was an alarming outbreak of typhus
fever in the prison ; but he was happy to say that this
was the only fatal case. On one day there were six or
seven patients in the infirmary, suffering from that dis-
ease. Deceased's was from the first a dangerous and
hopeless case, and although wine, beef-tea; and every
nourishment was given, he sank and died. Witness
could not account for the fever, unless it was introduced
by the prisoners themselves, as he understood that it
very much prevailed throughout the poorer and denselyt
populated districts of the metropolis. In answer to
fie
question from the coroner, the doctor said thatl
mortality in the prison was 10 annually, while the
.___
num-
ber
of prisoners varied from 1,000 to 1,200. The
wentlurY
returned a verdict of "Natural death ;” and then they
over the prison, with the arrangements of which
expressed themselves highly pleased.
-
PEOPLING TUE PACIFIC.----The New 0,4; "Jerald
"
says :—" Nearly 1,500 men women and children, left
,
this city on Saturday for California.
Twme a month a
of the Pacific.
like number leave our shores for those
immediately filled
The places left vacant by them are
by others crowding in from Europe. They are only a
drop from the stream of human beings running into this
metropolis. 7

prices have given way Gd per cwt, still a good demand
prevails. This afternoon Bengal sugar was only in limited
request. Of 3,900 bags at auction only 2,000 sold at 6d
per cwt decline, making a fall of 6d to is for the week—
good to fine grainy yellow went at 38s to 39s 6d, fair to
mid whito do 403 to 41s Gd • Benares, fine 38s to 38s Gd,
low to good 35s Gd to 37s Gd. Of Madras 2,000 bags were
in part disposed of at lower terms, ord to mid grocery at
33s to 365, good 36s 6d to 37s 6d, and low to fine soft yel-
low 29s to 32s 6d.
FORElGN.—Continental accounts do not represent any
further advance for Sugar, yet supply does not exceed the
demand. To-day there was less inquiry after floating car-
goes of Foreign Sugar, and previous terms cannot be ob-
tained. Duty paid parcels met with little notice, and
prices continue to give way.
COCOA.—A reluctance is evinced to operate in West
India, and prices have a downward tendency, although
larger parcels are not on offer. The value of Trinidad is
for low to mid red 35s 6d to 38s, better sorts 383 6d to 435,
grey from 31s to 355, and Grenada 30s to 36s per cwt.
Stock still exceeds that of last year, but consumption is
favourable. In Foreign sales have been trifling—Bahia, at
2.5 s to 25s 6d, Para 25s to 275, and Guayaquil 343 to 365.
Stock is almost the same as last year.
MOLASSES.—The currency is still 16s to 18s for le* to
fine West India, the market however has a quiet appear-
ance, and supply is rather larger. Prices for Bengal and
Mauritius rule at 14s Od to 15s, Cuba and Porto Rico 173
to 18s, but few buyers are to be met with. Honey is fully
as dear, and in good demand, with a limited supply.
Tamarinds wanted—West India at 26s to 465, and East
India Os to 14s per cwt.
COFFEE.- - In Native Ceylon purchases have been upon a
small scale'for all purposes this week, and prices are rather
lower, ruling for good ord new import at 48s, and old 76s
61 p2r cwt. To day there was no public sale of any sort of
coffee, and privately purchases were trifling, both by ex-
porters and home dealers, prices closing with a downward
tendency, both for colonial and foreign. There are sellers
of good ord Native now import at 48s, and low to good
ord 47s 3d to 47s Gd per cwt.
TEA.—Green continues in extensive request for home-
trade purposes, and speculators have been again operating ;
last week's improved terms are well sustained, at which
there are not generally sellers.
RICE.—To-day rice met with little notice privately, and
in auction 2,000 bags Bengal were taken in at lls to uls Gd
for very good white.
SPICES.—Although nutmegs are in larger supply, still
full rates have been obtained. At auction 60 cases sold
freely, common to low brown at 2s to 2s 6d, mid to good
mid 2s 7d to 3s, good 3s ld tc 3s sd, and fine 3s 6d to 3s 7d
per lb.

RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—The better sorts of
Jamaica rum have been in brisker request since our last
report, and stock being fight an advance has been obtained.
There is still a reluctance to do business in lower kinds,
yet in the currency we have no change to record.
COCHINEAL.—The demand continues active and there
is a further advance of ld per lb. In auction 230 bags were
disposed of ; Tenesiffe, silvers at 4s 2d to 4s 4d, black 4s 6(1
to 4s 9d, Mexican silvers good to fine 4s to 4s 2d, ord to
good black 45 to 4s 4d, Honduras ord to mid silvers 4s to
4s 3d, and pasty grain 3s 10(1 to 3s 11d.
Te-day there was no increase in demand for rough salt-
petre, and at auction 990 bags Calcutta were taken in at
2s 6d for 83 to 74 per cent. refraction, being barely the
former value.
INDIFO.—The market for East Idia is in a firm posi-
tiou, several purchases have been made by exporters and
home dealers, the terms obtained are 2d, and in some cases
3(1 perlb above last quarterly sales. Previous advanced prices
are well supported for Spanish, and a good demand exists,
Guatemala Flores, at 5s 8d so 6s Sobres 4s 5d to 5s 7d,
Cortes 3s to 4s 4d, and Carracas ,3s 2d to 5s 10d per lb.
None has been offered at auction this week.
TALLOW.—A larger demand has been experienced for
Russian on the spot since last week, and prices have
advanced. Fine yellow Candle selling at 448 9d to 45s
per cwt. For delivery in last three months of the year
many contracts have been concluded, and 45s to 45s 3(1
is now the currency. Home melted in limited supply,
and cannot be obtained under 455 6d cash. This afternoon
tallow was in good demand at the public sales, and stiffer
rates were paid. Of Australian 1,100 casks were mostly
sold ; low to fine beef at 41s to 42s 61, mutton 40s 6d to
45s ; 76 casks Italian 43s 6d to 442 6d ; and 84 casks
Petersburgh 43s 6d to 43s 9d per cwt. Stock of tallow is
10,000 casks less than last year.
OILS.—The demand for cocoa nut continues active, and
rates rule firm Cochin at 40s to 41s, and other sorts 38s to
39s 6d per cwt. A large demand exists for palm, and 32s
to 33s paid for mid to fine quality. Rape oil sells more
freely, yet brown can be obtained at 33s to 345, refined 38s
to 36s 6d, and foreign 37s 6d. Lard oild is cheaper,
60s to 61s having been acceepted. Olive remains in small
supply and rates rule firm ; Gallipoli at 691 to 71/, and
other sorts 65/ to 681 per tun. Ground nut wanted at 468
to 46s 6d, and Gingelly at 47s to 485.4 There is a reluctance
to operate in seal ; pale can be obtained at 34/ to 34110 d,
and other sorts at 311 to 311. Cod is dull of sale at 331 to
331105.