The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-08 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

SUGAR.—Most descriptions are quiet, but foreign is in
demand. A cargo of Havanna afloat has been sold at 23s
6d for Bristol, the quality being No. 131, and 3,000 bags
Muscovado Manilla went at 30s. The quantity of British
Plantation landed last week at the East and West India
Docks was 340 hhds 6 tierces 128 barrels. There were taken
for home consumption 1,275 hhds 181 tierces 447 barrels.
The stock in the same places is 11,817 hhds 1,991 tierces
4,281 barrels. Refined brown lumps have been at 44s per
cwt.
COFFEE.—There has been a good demand for native
Ceylon at 465, being, a rise of Gd. About 3,C33 bags have
been sold privately.
RUM.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 71 puns 6 hhds. There were taken
for home consumption 249 puns 23 hhds and exported. The
stock in the same places is 8,820 puns 713 hhds.
RlCE.—There is a slight decline.
SALTPETRE.-1,469 bags Bengal at auction were all
bought in, mid to fine 13,E to 7i per cent. refraction, at
29s to 30s per cwt.
GINGER.-91 cases Calicut realised 70s to 105 s for mid
to fine bold, and 48s for small.
TALLow.—P.Y.C. is 55s Gd to 56s per cwt. on the spot,
and town 59s 6d.

TEA.—There is a moderate business doing. Congou is at
is Ad for the useful sort.
COTTON.--This article has been in demand, and firmer.

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 2/ Os to 5/ 15s ; clover
ditto, 4/ Os to 6/ 10s ; and straw, 1/ 14s to 2/ 2s per load.
A full average supply, and a sluggish demand.
CIIMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 2/ 5s to 5/ 15s ; clover
ditto, 4/ Os to 6/ 6s ; and straw, 1/ 14s to 2/ 4s per load.
Supply moderate, and trade rather dull.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 2/ Os to 5l 15s; clover
ditto, 410 s to 6/ 10s ; and straw, 1/ 14s to 2/ 2s per load.
Trade steady, at full prices.

THE SHIPOWNERS AND THE SEAMEN.—It gives us
great satisfaction to find that the dispute which has so
long prevailed between the shipowners and seamen of
the Tyne and other northern ports has every pro-
spect of being amicably settled to the satisfaction
of both parties. We had great confidence that
there was nothing in dispute between them which
could not bear such an arrangement,if the subjects
were quietly discussed between them. Our seamen,
especially those of the northern ports, are sensible and
rational men, and we were certain they would not per-
sist in making unreasonable claims on the shipowners,
when the difficulty and impossibility of conceding them
were clearly explained to them. The meeting which
took place between the shipowners and the delegates
from the Seamen's Union, which met at Hartlepool, is
likely to be attended with the best results, and to pro-
duce a salutary effect on the seamen at other ports.
Very early in these disputes we recommended such a
course. The shipowners and the seamen of the country
can have, or at least ought to have, but one interest ;
and so long as they act on that impression we are cer-
tain that no irreconcilable difference can arisa between
them, but that any trifling matter in dispute can be
easily settled by mutual concessions. We do hope that
we shall henceforth hear no more of "unions," whose
only purpose appears to be to array the seamen in oppo-
sition and hostility to the shipowners. Our merchant
navy is a powerful as well as an important body when it
pulls together ; without such union, it becomes a rope
of land.—shipping &late.