The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-03 00:00:00

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London Yew Price Current of this day. )
SUGAR. —Early in the week there was a good inquiry
for British Plantation, but since very little has been of-
fered. Barbadoes low to good realised 31s 6d to 38s, and
fine yellow 45s per cwt. East India—The dealings have
been limited. Mauritius, Bengal, and Madras have been
taken by private contract, but none has been sold by auc-
tion. Full prices, however, have been current. Foreign
—Yellow Havannah was held at is per cwt advance, &-
rettes, however, brought 38s to 39s 6d, low to good soft
yellow 34s to 36s mid to hue brown 32s to 348, and fine
36s Gd to 31s per cwt. Cuba went at 32s to 36s Gd for low
to fine yellow, but Manilh was taken in at 27s to 28e.
Refined has been supported at 43s for brown lumps, and at
43s 6d for grocery.
COFFEE.—The market has been quiet at full quotations.
Plantation Ceylon found buyers at 72s to 80s for fine, 63s
64.1 to 68s for good, 564 6d to 60s for fine erd and mid, and
46s to 47s for triage. Native publicly realised 46s to 463
6d for low to good ord, and 43s 6d to 45s for damaged.
Rio brought 44s to 45s per cwt.
Iplßb6dlliCoEts.oa—lleT6,
shheafrso berhegaeosnodtabemkenei
(nib. BengaliuntFaitlristl:slsecfloairsn:mudii(arimyw.ahgietde, at
13s 6d to 14s per cwt.
SPlCES.—Pimento has sold readily at sid to ssao:ndlddfaoatrt
good mid. White pepper advanced id, SingsP ore mid
dingy selling at Gil to 6wd. Black mid sifted brought 41d
to odd. Cadent ginger was taken in at 40s to 501 for ems 11
and mid bold. Ord and part wormy wild nutmeg realised
is 3d to 18 4d. At the public sales of cinnamon a general
decline of 2d to 31 took place.
TEA.—The new seasons congou has sold at 2s 4d. The
market has been inanimate.
COTTON.— This article is dull.
SALTPETRE.—Madras low 33 to 16i per cent refraction
sold at 21s, but mid crystal was taken in at 22s 6d for 12
per cent.
COCHINEAL. —Geed and fine silvers have receded ld;
small clean foxy grain selling at 3s 2d per lb.
MOLASSES—The market is lees brisk to-day, and ord.
West India is not offered under 14s Gd.
COCOA—The demand continues to get larger, and at a
publictoisp
earalcewtto 3-d;!.s to 3
y of
8e 293
bbeaigusgGorbetnaat
obtained.
, prices advanced 6d
GINGER-65.5
pkgs Calicut in auction were realised, the
at high figures, and low qualities at
small proportion fine
lower rates. The range was from 34s to 80e.
CLOVES-67 nungs Bombay brought 54(1 to 5§,1 being
the full value.
PEPPER—BIack continues in steady demand at former
terms. 400 bags Eastern at auction went at 4,3 d for sound,
and 41d to 4.1A1 for dingy.
ARROWROOT.-45 cases East India sold at 2id ; and 68
o veryd:Angryabsimeall7lsEtaoh,3oia smitT.ai
alp ioca 4d per lb.
an
Gult--390 brla Ge dds part sold 20s to 20s 6d ;
East
ittditdo 4s for' good tongue.
cks 4 cs, 3 bgs Brazil sold at is for low
aandßllkings,dvance ; strong
s errandD. continues animated, and rates to
FIEMP.-13 bl
44 lOd to 53 2d.
ROSIN.-325 brls North erni) tow out at 381.
American Went at Bic 6d.
TALLOW.—The market has closed today wit a fiat ap

THE PATRIOTIC FUND.

THE CITY MEETING.

Yesterday, a meeting of the citizens of London was
held at the Mansion house in aid of the Royal Commis-
sion. The Lord Mayor presided ; and there were also
preseat :—The Lord Mayor Elect ; Mr. T. Baring,
M.P. ; Mr. G. C. Glyn, M.P. ; Mr. Thomas Hankey,
M.P. ; Mr. S. Gregson, M.P. ; Mr. M. T. Smith, M.P.;
Mr. J. G. Hubbard, Governor of the Bank of England ;
Mr. T. M. Waguelin, Deputy Governor of the Bank
of England ; Mr. R. C. L. Bevan, Mr. B. Oliveira,
M.P., Mr. C. Mills, Mr. C. B. Young, Mr. J.
Bates, Mr. E. Baring, Mr. E. Burmester, Mr. R.
W. Crawford, Mr. J. H. Palmer, Mr. R. Hanbury, Mr.
R. N. Fowler, Mr. J. Dillon, Mr. K. Hodgson, Mr. D.
Meinertzhagen, Mr. S. Hodgon, Mr. A. Perkins, Mr.
Alderman Finnis, Mr. J. P. Foster, Mr. H. H. Gibbs,
Mr. D. B. Chapman, Mr. Alderman Salomons, Mr.
Alderman Wire, Mr. J. Cattley, Mr. R. Sturges, Sir
J. L. Goldsmid, Mr. A. W. Roberts, Captain Shepherd,
Sir John Musgrove, Bart., Mr. B. Cohen, Mr. J. D.
Powles, Mr. G. Moore, Mr. W. G. Sheldon, Mr. G.
Houghton, Mr. G. Lawrence, Mr. C. S. Paris, Mr.
J. Blyth, Mr. B. B. Greene, Sir G. Carroll, Kt.. Mr.
Alderman Farebrother, M. T. H. Brooking, Mr. G.
Frith, Mr. H. J. Prescott, dze.
The LORD MAYOR said he could not agree with those
who thought we were approaching the close of a mo-
mentous struggle. On the contrary, he was afraid
that we were only at the commencement of a great
European war. (Hear, hear.) He had received many
letters, enclosing liberal cheques in aid of the object for
which they had met ' • but it was only right to say he had
also received several others, stating that the writers
could not conscientiously subscribe to such a fund, be-
cause they considered it to be the bounden duty of the
Government to provide for those who fell in battle.

(Hear, hear.) But whatever might be the-abstract
right of that proposition, there was no statute by
which relief of that kind could be afforded, and there
could thus be no such national provision as those per-
sons contemplated. (Hear, hear.) Reason, judgment,
and justice alike declared the war to be a necessary
one ; and if we duly valued our national privileges—
if we prized, as we ought, the freedom of which we
were the inheritors, and the constitutional principles,
the extension of which so many expected as one of the
results of the war—we should feel ourselves bound to
act liberally and justly towards those brave
And patriotic men who bad volunteered to go
forth to a distant clime, to endure hardship
and to meet perils of which we at home could form
nothing but the faintest idea. (Cheers.) He felt cer-
tain that the citizens of the present day would not allow
themselves to be surpassed by those of the last half cen-
tury. Forty or fifty years ago the citizens of London
had set an example of patriotic benevolence to the whole
world ; and he trusted that they would again repeat
that example, and make a liberal response to the appeal
of her Majesty's commissioners. (Loud cheers.) His
lordship then stated that he had received a great num-
ber of letters of apology—amongst others from the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, who
both pleaded diocesan engagements. He had also re-
ceived a great number of remittances, amongst which
were cheques from Messrs. Cooke, Son, and Co., for
1001.; Sir Peter Laurie, 201 ; Mr. Thomas Haynes (the
Mansion-house reporter), 10 guineas ; the Illustrated
News, 100 l.• Sir G. Carroll, SOL; the Lord Mayor and
the Lord Mayor elect, 50/. each ; Aldermen Farncomb,
Hunter, Musgrove, Wire, and Duke, 201. each ; the
Shipwrights' Provident Society (a working man's in-
stitution), 1001.; with a promise of further donations,
&c., &c.
Lord J. RUSSELL was received with loud applause.
He said—My Lord Mayor and gentlemen, I am sure it
will not be necessary for me to use many words to per-
suade you to adopt the resolution that I shall have to

propose. We are engaged in a just and necessary war—
a war in defence of an ally—a war for no immediate ob-
ject of our own, but in order to defend and maintain that
ally, and to support the independence of Europe.
(Cheers.) Upon that point I need not, and I shall not,
attempt to adduce any proof. When as a candidate for
this City I had to speak to the electors of London, I
addressed myself to that subject. I had afterwards oc-
casion to speak in Parliament upon the same topic ;
and both Parliament and the electors of the United
Kingdom have generally—l might say almost unani-
mously—assented to the justice and necessity of that
war. (Hear, hear.) But, gentlemen, even if the
war were altogether an error, I hope we shall not be
the less inclined to support those brave men who, at
' the call of their country and at the desire of their
Queen, had gone forth to the East, to distant climes, to
dare every privation, to submit to every disease, and to
encounter every enemy that might be found. (Cheers.)

This is not a question depending upon the general policy
of the war. It is a question that depends upon the
judgment that you are inclined to pass upon your own
eountwymen in arms. Upon that topic I have not one
word to say. I said the opinion of the public upon the
war was nearly unanimous ; but 1 think that upon this
subject public opinion will be quite unanimous. All will
agree that never did Englishmen more distinguish them-
selves—never did they show greater patience under pri-
vation—never did they show greater valour in the field
—than they have done in the course of the present war.
(Loud applause.) We have seen how, on the heights et
the Alma, they met and overthrew the enemy to whom
they were opposed. We know that every obstacle was
placed in the way of their success. We know that all the
machinery of war, all the dread engines which are
employed in martial enterprises, had been collected
together to oppose their progress. But the nerve
and the bravery of Englishmen overcame all those
obstacles, and made them victors on the crest of
Alma. (Loud cheers.) This shows, gentlemen, that
notwithstanding many years of peace, the character
of our countrymen has not degenerated, and that our
soldiers have not been enervated by that long period of
tranquillity. (Cheers.) It shows, likewise, gentlemen,
that discipline has not been relaxed ; for there are no
men, however brave, who would have attempted such
an enterprise or encountered such an enemy unless they
had been bound together by discipline, and had had full
confidence in one another. (Hear, hear.) There is one
change, perhaps, with regard to the British soldiers of
our own times ; but it is a change that can only give
us gratification. The letters which have been published
from officers and private soldiers during the last few
weeks have shown that there are private soldiers that
can express themselves with an intelligence and pro-
priety, that while it marks their good feeling, at the
same time proves how much progress has been made in
their education since the former war. (Cheers.) In the
meantime we have seen that while this progress has been
made under their auspices and with the encouragement
of those who have had the administration of the army,
there has been no corresponding loss of that energy
and of that nerve which distinguished the British
soldiers of former days. (Cheers.) I think we have,
therefore, an earnest that in whatever remains to be un-

dertaken—and at this moment a great enterprise is keep-
ing the whole of the country in anxiety—in whatever re
mains to be undertaken, you may rely upon the valour
both of your armies and your fleets in order to accom-
plish all that human skill and valour can achieve. (Loud
cheers.) The Lord Mayor has alluded to the opinion of
some persons who think that whatever is sought to be
provided by the fund now being raised should be sup-
plied by means of votes out of the national funds. (Hear.)
Now, that is a question I am certainly not going to dis-
cuss. It has been the opinion of Parliament hitherto
that such grants could not be made on ordinary occa-
sions without leading to great abuses. (Hear, hear.)
But, be that as it may, we know that there are no such
funds at present ; and that it is to the voluntary zeal
and the voluntary liberality of the people of this country
that we must look to supply the needs of these widows and
orphans,
and to give that last consolation which a man
dying on the field of battle or expiring on the bed of
sickness can have—namely, the thought that, although
his arm may be wanting, his family may yet look to the
gratitude of their country for support in their future
life. (Great cheering.) With these observations, there-
fore, I venture to propose to you a resolution which I
am sure you will all heartily adopt ; and I will only say
that I have no doubt the civilians of this country in the
conduct of this war will show themselves worthy of
their brave countrymen abroad. (Cheers.) The resolu-
tion is as follows :—" That this meeting regards with
the highest admiration and gratitude the gallant con-
duct of their countrymen who have been engaged in the
recent naval and military operations in the East of
Europe."
Mr. T. BARING, in seconding the resolution, said the
case had been ably stated by the Lord Mayor, and elo-
quently seconded by the noble lord ; but the deeds of
our brave countrymen themselves spoke so eloquently
that the eloquence of words was not needed. (Loud
cheers.) Allusions had been made to the duty of Go-
vernment to supply the wants of the widowed and
orphaned families of our soldiers and sailors, but it
must surely be much more gratifying to those who tall
in the service of their country to know that the wants
of their wives and little ones will be met by the libe-
ral sympathy of their countrymen themselves than by
any dry and formal votes of Parliament which might be
contested at every stage. (Cheers.) Englishmen abroad
had nobly done their duty ; let Englishmen at home now
do theirs. (Loud cheers.)
The resolution was unanimously agreed to.
Mr. HUBBARD, the Governor of the Bank of Eng-
land, moved the next resolution :—" That this meeting
cordially responds to the proposition of her most gracious
Majesty, that a patriotic fund be formed for the relief of
widows and orphans of soldiers, sailors, and marines
killed in action, or dying from other casualties when
employed on services connected with the present war.' "
Mr. BaveN, is seconding the resolution, stated that
the committee of the Infant Orpiaa Asylum at Wow.