The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-24 00:00:00

PROVISION MARKET.

The only variation to notice is in Butter, both Foreign and Irish,
both of which may be quoted at Is. lower than last week; but this
weather will in all probability, if it continue, advance prices again.
TALLOW AND OIL MARKET.

Prime Yellow Candle is rather brisker; the price is 485., which is ra.
ther better. The stock, we hear, is about 18,000 casks. Fish Oils of
all kinds are dull, and may be quoted on an average now 20s. per tun
lower than they were last week.
CANADIAN PRODUCE MARKET.

The holders of this produce ask more money, which the buyers are
not disposed to give. The consequence is, that nothing is doing.
COLONIAN MARKETS.

The sales to-day of Groceries arc very slender ;in fact there is no-
thing to-day by public sale, and by private contract very little.
British Plantation Sugar is firm in price, and rather brisker, the
holders being out of stock. The deficiency of the stock as com-
pared with that of last year is not so very great. The comparative
stocks stand 17,215 hhds. and tierces now against 24,143 at this time
last year; Mauritius Sugar may be regarded as 6d. to Is. lower than
last week ; the stock is 29,468 bags against 23,941 at this time
last year. Bengal Sugar is cheap compared with Mauritius, and British
Plantation, and either these will be lower, or Bengal will be higher
Refined Sugar is flat at 395. for fine crushed. There is but little doing
in any kind of Coffee, and prices are without variation. The stock of
British Plantation is 2,778 casks and 1,182 barrels and bags. Ceylon,
23,234 bags. Mocha, 4,389 bales, Brazil, 32,153 bags. Tea brisk at last
week's prices. Rum in good demand, prices looking up. Rice and Spices
are very quiet, and Cotton too. The state of the market generally is
this—that no:large sales can be effected ; a large sale appears to oppress
the market. The traders generally must be in short stock, and therefore
we may expect a revival. The deliveries at the Customs are now very
slender.

INDIGO SALE.—(SEVENTH DAY.)
This sale continues to progress; and but very little is told. Prices
may be quoted at last sale prices, 2d. per lb. advance fur all descrip_
tions, or Gd. per lb. lower than the market prices previous to the com-
mencement of the present sale.

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS.

Wheat.

Barley. Oats. I Brand.

Pean.

Per Quarter. S. to 8.
Baiton 43 52
Gainsborough — 54
Grantham
Grimsby
Horticastle 42 60
Lincoln 44 57
Spalding
Stamford 4B 56
York 5O 56

s. to s. s. to s. s. to s.
22 28 15 19 29 39
27 19 42
33 21 23 33 46
30 20 28 36 40
27 20 24 36 42
32 14 25 40 41
35 24 49
33 21 25 36 41
34 24 26 32 14

S. I.

28
28
n 2

IRISH MARKETS.
KET NOTE for the WEEK

30 32

WHITEHALL, JAN. 20, 1838.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Samuel Phipps, of Cains-
cross, in the County of Gloucester, Gent., to be a Master Extraor-
dinary in the High Court of Chancery.

DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.
JOHN JAMES, woollen-draper, Southampton-street, Strand.
PETER WOOLLEY, tailor, Ross, Herefordshire.
BANKRUPTS.
SAMUEL EDMUNDS, provision-agent, Percival-street, Nor-
thampton-square' Middlesex, to surrender, Feb. 6, and March 6
at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Clack, St. Swithin's-lane,
official assignee; Bowden and Co. Aldermanbury.
ALEXANDER HAWK INS, ironmonger, Chiswell-street, St.
Luke's, Middlesex, Feb. 5, at half-past ten, and March 6, at eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Clark, Old Broad-street, City.
THOMAS DEWHURST, printseller, Manchester, Jan. 31,
at one, March 6, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson,
official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Bowden, Walters, and Reeve,
Aldermanburv.
JOHN HENRY BUNN, cabinet-maker, Spicer-street, Spi-
talfields, Middlesex, Feb. 6, and March 6, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Pancras-lane ; Wat-
son, Worship-street, Finsbury.
CHARLES VINCENT SMITH and ROBERT EDWIN
GOULDING, linen-drapers, Tottenham-court-road, Middlesex,
Feb. 6, and March 6, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane ; Sole, Aldermanbury.
T H OMA S HELLYER, tool warehouseman, St. John-street,
West Smithfield, Middlesex, Jan. 30, at twelve, and March 6, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Gibson, official assignee,
Basinghall-street ; Strutt, South-square, Gray's-inn.
JAMES CORNEBY, cattle-salesman, Compton, Hampshire,
Feb. 5, kid March 6, at twelve, at the George Inn, Winchester.
Bowker,Winchester.

WILLIAM GREEN, ironmonger, Sheffield, Feb. 1, and March
6, at eleven, at the Town Hall, Sheffield. Skidmore, Paradise-
square, Sheffield; Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, King's-bench-
walk, Temple, London.
RICHARD STONE, carpenter, Thame, Oxfordshire, Feb. 2,
and March 6, at nine, at the Roebuck Inn, Oxford. Widdows,
Copthall-court, Throgmorton-street, London.
JOHN SMITH, joiner, Leeds, Feb. 5, at two, and March 6,
at eleven, at the Court-house, Leeds. Batty., Fisher, and Sudlow,
Chancery-lane, London ; Naylor, Leeds.
DAVID TAYLOR, worsted-manufacturer, Birstall, Yorkshire,
Jan. 25, at the Court-house, Bradford, and March 6, at ten, at the
George Inn, Bradford. Battye, Fisher, and Sudlow, Chancery-lane,
Landon ; Higham, Brighouse, Halifax.
THOMAS WELDEN, brickmaker, Leekhampton, Glouces-
tershire, Fel,. 7, and March 6, at three, at the Lamb Inn, Chel-
tenham. Gyde, Cheltenham; Blower and Vizard, Lincoln's-inn-
fields, London.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
W. Wilson, jun., merchant, Nicholas-lane, City, Feb. 13, at
twelve—W. F. Evans, coal merchant, Milbank-street, Westmin-
ster, Feb. 7, at twelve—W. Brock and B. Le Mesurier, mer-
chants, Warnford-court, Throgmorton-street, Feb. 14, at eleven
—J. H. Nainby, tobacconist, Blackfriars-road, Feb. 15, at eleven
—G. Stringer, sen., ironmonger, High-street, Islington, Feb. 15,
at twelve—J. H. Miller, seedsman, Mitcham, Surrey, Feb. 16, at 1.

In the Country.
S. Hodson and J. Wardley, calico printers, Manchester, Feb. 14,
at ten, at the Commissioners'-rooms' Manchester—F. Fewston,
builder, Myton, Kingston-upon-Hull, Feb. 14, at eleven, at the
George Inn, Kingston-upon-Hull—J. Whittaker, cloth manufac-
turer, Wortley, Leeds, Feb. 19, at eleven, at the Court-house,
Leeds—H. Shelton, shopkeeper, Syston, Leicestershire, Feb. 15,
at twelve, at the Blue Lion Inn, Leicester—F. G. Brazier, oilman,
Leamington Priors, Feb. 14, at half-past three, at the Lansdowne
Hotel, Leamingtor. Priors—W. T. Jesse, tick manufacturers, Bour-
ton, Dorsetshire, March 1, at one, at the George Inn, Frome—E.
Scott, miller, Hilborough, Norfolk, Feb. 14, at twelve, at the
Duke's Head Inn, King's Lynn—W. and J. Dean, timber-mer-
chants, Birmingham, Feb. 16, at one, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Bir-
mingham.

CERTIFICATES, FEB. 13.
H. Feild and J. Crane, varnish-makers, Bush-lane, City—J.
Pett, builder, Hampstead—G. Bougley, tea-dealer, Bridge-street,
Blackfriars—J. Smith, coachmaster, Cuckfield, Sussex—T.
Vowles, tailor, Yatton, Somersetshire—J. Hall and J. Wager,
calico-printers, Edgworth, Lancashire—J. Wood, collier, Bolton-
le-Moors, Lancashire—E. H. Gough, dealer in wood, Dalston Mid-
dlesex—T. Gaunt, gentleman, Upper Smith street, Northampton.
square. . _

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. W. Welch and B. Nightingale, wine and spirit merchants,
Buckingham .street, Strand—E. Ines and J. Wilcock, stuff mer-
chants, Bradford, Yorkshire—J. Sewell and F. R. Silvester, vete-
rinary surgeons, St. Alban's, Hertfordshire—J. Mellor and H.
Hunt, cotton spinners, Stockport, Cheshire—S. Vale and J. M.
Rees, plumbers, Coventry—J. Wathen and E. Roberts, Wood-
chester and Roch Mill, Gloucestershire—l. A. Isaacs and M. A.
Davis' stationers, Deptford—J. 0. Parry and T. Grummant, cur
riers, Gloucester-row, Walworth-road—J. Lane and J. Hodgson.
mat-manufacturers, Leeds—G. Loft, jun., and F. Ling, corn
merchants, Woodbridge, Suffolk—J. Barker and J. Smith, linen-
drapers, xmouth-street, Spafields—W. and T. Underwood, iron-
mongers, Abersychan, Monmouthshire—G. Davey and G. Smith,
porter merchants, Bristol—J., L., and E. Starnes, farmers—J.
Fry and C. W. C. Russell, sealing-wax manufacturers, Cheapside
—T. S. Cooke and R. Westland) common brewers, Boston Lin-
colnshire—S. and J. F. Pitchforth, wire-drawers, Brighouse,
Yorkshire—J. Dempsey and Co, timber-measurers, Liverpool—
W. W. Squire and C. Jeffery, common brewers, Peterborough,
Northamptonshire—S. Walmsley and Co., engravers to calico
printers, Manchester—W. Sedgwick and A. Wilkinson, jun.,
brokers, Liverpool—H. Mignowitz and J. Greetham, merchants,
Liverpool—H. Benton and L. R. Gilbertson, sill:-warehousemen,
Manchester—S., T., and G. Mills, tailors, Woolwich—L. Cooper
and Co., warehousemen, Norwich.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
ROBERT THOAISON, brush manufacturer, Market street,
Edinburgh, Jan. 31 and Feb. 21, at one, at the Old Signet Hall,
Royal Exchange.
WILLIAM GLENNY and CO., china merchants, Grass-
market, Edinburgh, Jan. 26 and Feb. 12, at twelve, at the Old
Signet Hall, Royal Exchange.
ALEXANDER PATON, GEORGE PEACOCK, and
JAMES MARTIN, coach masters, Glasgow, Jan. 26 and Feb.
10, at twelve, at the Black Bull Inn, Glasgow.

The Times is again in error about the army. The
94th Regiment is not to be sent to Canada. No extra regi-
ment is required for the Cape of Good Hope, and none will
be sent. The whole of the additional force required for
Canada, and intended to be sent, will be completed without
disturbing the regular reliefs of the army in the smallest de-
gree. We can state positively, too, that the whole of the in-
crease which will be made to the army will not exceed 2,300
men, namely, 1,800 infantry, and 500 cavalry.—Morniny Ad-
vertiser.

A PRESS FOR WORKS IN THE PRESS.—SO
great was the throng yesterday for Murphy's Almanack that a
police-officer was obliged to be called in to clear Messrs.
Whittaker and Co.'s warehouse, and such is the rage for the
work that is. 6d. in one instance, and 10s. in another, were
given for a second-hand copy—the original price being Is. 6d.
The hourly verification of his predictions has created an un-
paralleled excitement, and it is impossible to supply them fast
enough.

JOINT STOCK BANKS.—We observe from the
public prints that many of the Liverpool Joint Stock Banks
are declaring handsome dividends on the last half-year. The
stability of the banks conducted on the joint-stock principle, in
the manufacturing districts as well as those in the north of Eng-
land, have, during the past year, been severely tested. They
have not only stood firmly, but have enabled hundreds to stand,
and been the means of re-establishing confidence in a wonder-
fully short period. Wherever joint-stock banks have been
conducted with the same skill and prudence as have characte-
rized the management of those in this district, they have in-
variably succeeded ; and, as this mode of conducting business
in these establishments is now much better understood, their
usefulness must become more extended.

STRANGERS' FRIEND SOCIETY.—We beg to call
the attention of our readers to the advertisement of this So-
ciety, which will be found in another part of our paper. It is
an institution that not only deserves, but demands, the liberal
support of the public. Its operations are not confined to the
metropolis, but extend some miles round, having in connection
with it upwards of three hundred gratuituous agents, male and
female, who visit the abodes of the poor, aid relieve them as
far as their resources will allow. The following is one of the
numerous distressing cases which are daily presented to the
visitors :--" Catharine Hagan, No. 17, Blue Anchor-alley,
Bunhill-row, was found in a state of the most heart-rending
destitution. The poor creature was delivered prematurely
of an infant, which was lying on a table in one corner of a
damp kitchen, under ground ; she was entirely without food or
fire, and almost destitute of clothing, bed-covering, or any-
thing to make her comfortable. She had been in different
circumstances. There were five small children, and the hus-
band was without employment. Assistance was immediately
rendered, and a blanket, with some other articles of clothing
was sent to their relief." Many cases of an equally distres-
sing nature might be noticed if our limits would permit; but
we refer our readers to the Report of the Society for last year,
from which the above is extracted, assured that the facts which
it presents will of themselves be sufficient to awaken feelings
of sympathy in the minds of all who peruse them, and at the
same time carry with them far more powerful arguments than,
any we might be able to use in favour of an institution which
has the strongest claims upon public generosity, and is justly
entitled to be ranked with those which receive the annual sup-
port of the benevolent.

Sam Scott, the jumper, who has been astonishing
the inhabitants of Liverpool and Manchester by his plunges
into the water from the mast-heads and buildings, visited
Bolton on Monday last. It having become known that he
was about to jump from the roof of the warehouse at the
canal wharf, a great crowd of persons were attracted to the
spot. Just as he was preparing to Icap, one of the police
officers made his appearance, and in a loud authorative tour.
called out, " Theaw'rt comet deawn, ar'nt theaw ?" " r,h,
yes, Sir," replied Sam ; and down he came, sure enoug÷., into
the water, amid the laughter and cheers of the crow d. He
was not, however, allowed to reascend. A col►action was.
made for him, hut we understand, the proceeds -were small.—
Bolton Free Press.

THE PA ItKS.—The appearance of the parks yesl-
terday, and, indeed, of the metropolis, was very different front
that which they presented during the past week. Hyde-park
in particular presented a striking contrast; until yesterday it
was entirely clothed in an attire of almost spotless white, but
now the colour has gone—the snow has completely melted, and
the park has resumed its usual verdant hue. Owing to the.
quantity of water which remained after the melting of the snow
on the ice of the Serpentine, skating was quite impracticable.
The ice under the water, notwithstanding the thaw of the day,
was still firm,

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF L ORDS, JA ,v. 23.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at ten
minutes past Me.
THE DUCHESS OF KENT'S ANNUITY BILL

Was read a third time and passed.

BISHOPRICS OF SODOR AND MANN.

The Earl of RIPON laid on the table a Bill for continuing the Bish-
oprics of Sodor and Mann. The Bill related to a subject which the
Noble Lord had brought before the House on a former day, and
he would state more fully his views upon it when he came to move the
second reading of the Bill.