The Sun.
London, England, 1838-04-05 00:00:00

COLONIAL MARKETS.

The disposition of the market generally is quiet. Not the slightest
speculation in any commodity. The chief of the business is still by
pubic sale and for consumption. There is not quite so much doing in
B. P. Sugar as there was, still prices are firm. Brown is 555. to 565. 6d.,
yellow, low to good, 575. to 61e. ; fine, B2s. to 645. 6d. Refined Sugar
is quoted at 355. 6d. for fine crushed. The stock of B. P. is 9,905
hhds. and trs., which is 530 more than at this time Last week. Mau.
ritius Sugar is firm in price, and rather inclined to advance. Brown,
i3s. to 565. ; low and fine yellow, 565. 6d. to 645. Te-day
we have no
public sales of Sugar, and by private contract Mlle doing in any kind,
either for consumption or export. Coffee is still very quiet, and prices much
as they were. The stocks of Coffee are short. That of 13. P. is 1,:;30
casks and 1,071 bags ; Ceylon, 13,369 bags ; Mocha, 3,864 bales ; Bra-
zil, 39,989 bags. Spices are flat, but not tower. No Rice in the mar-
ket. To-day our public sales are very insignificant, consisting of a very
little Saltpetre, Pepper, Cloves, Mace, and Nutmegs, with a very trifling
parcel of East India Coffee. No variation occurred in the price of any
of these commodities. Indeed the parcels are too small to be any crite-
rion to the market.

The Imports continue very slender, and for to-morrow the principal
sales are Drug's. Brazil Coffee is quoted at 40s. to 415., and Ceylon at
78s. to 845., for good and fine ordinary,

ELOQUENCE.—It were unjust, both unjust to a
Clifton orator, and a fraud upon the public, to withhold the
following brilliant passages of a speech lately made by Mr.
Aiken, a candidate for the distinguished honor of a voice in
the Town Council. The Bristol Mercury, besides the two
surpassing specimens which we subjoin, contains several others
of at least equal force and beauty "To obtain these objects
was one of his (Mr. Ford's) first wishes, and I can only say
that these objects shall be sacred to me as one of the represen-
tatives of the ward (and I think I may say the same of my
colleagues), and that we will do all in our power to obtain
them.--( Hear, hear, and cheers. )" What do our readers sup-
pose these " sacred" objects are ? A market and a common
sewer I Again—" A gentleman will be proposed whose elo-
quence stands unequalled by that of any one in this part of her
Majesty's dominions—(Cheers)—a gentleman who will make
the Radicals in the Town-Council hide their diminished heads,
and like an eagle in a dovecote, will flutter all their Volscians
A MAYOR FINED.—On Saturday a question
came before the Magistrates of Rochester, respecting the cus-
tody of prisoners committed under the Act constituting the
Court of Requests for that city and neighbourhood. The
proceedings on this occasion were grounded on a clause in the
Act empowering the Magistrates to inflict a fine on the party
refusing to receive a prisoner ordered for committal by the
Court, and there now being no gaoler the charge of refusal
was abandoned.—Kentish Observer.
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.-During the late
storm, when lake and frith were partially covered with ice, a
small sloop said to be from Dundee, appeared in Dingwall
Frith, at the mouth of the Canal. The men went ashore to
a public-house, and the tide flowing at the time, carried off
the vessel. To intercept its progress, one of the seamen ran
into the frith on the ice, but seeing that he could not succeed,
he prepared to return. When about sixty yards from the
shore he fell into a hole in the ice; there were not above five
feet of water, and his head and shoulders were not immersed,
yet the poor man could not extricate himself from the ice ; he
called aloud, and was heard and seen by several persons, but
either from fear or culpable carelessness, no assistance was ren-
dered to him. In this pitiable situation the poor man conti-
nued for an hour and five minutes, when nature exhausted
with the struggle, and paralysed with the cold, gave way, and
the poor seaman sunk below the surface of the ice. The ves-
sel drifted along till opposite the ferry at Fowlis, when it struck
on a rock and went down. It still continues under the water,
of course a total wreck.—lnverness Courier.

FORCE OF HABIT.—The following story is re-
lated in a provincial Journal :—" A gentleman went to his
bed-room to dress for an evening party, which was about to
be given in his own house. He sat in his arm-chair as usual,
to take off his clothes, then put on his night-cap and went
into bed, where he soon fell asleep ; but when the band be-
gan to play quadrilles be awoke, jumped out of bed, and
ran, just as he was, into the drawing room, to ascertain the
cause of the noise and bustle. The sequel may easily be
imagined."

MYSTERIOUS DEATH.—In the western outskirts
of this town is a street newly laid out, extending from the
Anlaby-road to Hessle-road ; in this street a drain has been
constructed, and arched over, with the exception of two or
three apertures at considerable distances. On Wednesday
morning two boys about eleven years old, having taken a cir-
cuitous route to school, had the curiosity to descend one of
these apertures, for the purpose of investigation or play ; they
had not proceeded far before they found a bag, which they
drew out, and on examining its contents found it to contain
the body of a male child. In the afternoon an inquest was
held. It did not appear to hare been delivered by a pro-
fessional person, and might possibly hare bled to death. It
had been in the water a month or six weeks. Verdict.—
Found Dead. —.Hull Advertiser.