The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-28 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

SUGAR.—The demand has been good for British Plan-
tation, and fully previous rates have been obtained. Bar-
badoes, by auction, sold for mid to good yellow at 36s to
38s Gd, and fine 39s to 39s Gd. Demerara crystallized
went at 37s Gd to 38s for mid, and at 38s Gd to 41s for
good to fine. Refined brown lumps improved to 44s Gd
and 455, and fine grocery to 48s. Mauritius has been in
demand, and an advance of 6cl per cwt. has been obtained
on brown sorts. By auction about 10,000 bags sold at 36s
to 37s 6d for good to fine yellow, at 34s to 358 6d for low
to mid, 32s 6d to 33s 6d for fine brown, and 32s to 36s 6d
for common to refining. Bengal brought full prices. Pub-
licly low to good white Benares 36s Gd to 38s 6d ; mid.
like Mauritius 35s to 35s 6cl, and good to fine yellow 38s
6d. to 40s per cwt. Madras sold at 30s 6d to 32s for ord.
to good soft yellow. Foreign was in fair demand privately,
both for home use and export. Publicly Bahhs sold at 34s
to 36s for low to mid. white, and at 30s to 355. for ord.
and fine brown.
COFFEE.—The market for most descriptions has been
quiet, although the demand has improved a little within
the last two days. Plantation Ceylon has been sold at 60s,
for good colory 52s Gd to 575, for low mid and mid, 62s for
peaberry, and 67s 6d to 69s for triage. Native Ceylon has
been sold at 46s to 47s for good ord, having been cheaper
early in the week. Mocha ungarbled, was taken in at 60s
to 655, but garbled sold freely at 73s to 74s for mid, and
80s to 85s for longberry. Jamaica good ord brought 455.
COCOA.—Trinidad has been sold at 35s to 35s 6d for ord
and mid greyish red.
RlCE.—Prices have not been quite so buoyant. Java
was taken in at 13s Gd for good and fine table, and 9s Gd
for ord and yellow, and Carolina at 22s for mid.
SPlCES.—Pimento has advanced id per lb ; ordl and
mid being at Rd to sd, and good at ssd to 5,111. Batavia
pepper sold at lid to lid for mid and good, and black at
3Ad. to 3Bd for mid. Cloves realised G‘i to bid for mid.
SALTPETRE.—Prices have been much te same, with
little doing. Bengal went at 29s 6d for fine 31 per cent.
refraction.

COTTON.—This article is firm, and with fair sales.
THA.—The market is quiet; ord congou 10dto 104dperlb.
TALLow.—P.Y.C. is dull, at 45s to 45s 3d per cwt. on
the spot.

GREEN FRUIT.—Tho market continues bare, owing to
want of arrivals, and enhances the value of the limited
stock of oranges on hand. Two cargoes St. Michael, sold
by Keeling and Hunt at public sale, went at an advance
of 2s to 3s per box. Seville sours are in demand, and but
few arrivals have as yet been received. Nuts of all kinds
have improved in value, and tho stock daily diminishing.
The terms of sale for green fruit, as adopted in London,
are now made similar at all tho outports.

SERIOUS CHARGE OF RECEIVING STOLEN GOODS.—
Some excitement has been occasioned in Gloucester by a
case which has been heard before the magistrate, involv-
ing a charge of a very serious nature against parties
respectably connected there and elsewhere. Mrs. Mary
Wingate, of that city, was charged with having received
from her Brother, Henry Brookes, and disposed of, a
large quantity of articles of various descriptions, well
knowing the same to have been stolen. The case was
brought before the magistrate by one of the Liverpool
detective police named Povey. Evidence at consider-
able length was gone into, but the facts are briefly
as follows :—Brookes was foreman to Mr. Easter,
of George-crescent, Liverpool, a general merchant,
having a large establishment. While in his employ,
Mr. Easter missed a large quantity of goods, and
suspicion falling upon the foreman, an officer was
sent to apprehend him, but he decamped. However,
his wife and son, who carries on business in the accor-
dion line, and a Mrs. Hall, sister to Brookes,
have been committed for trial as participators in
the robbery, and certain goods having been traced
to Gloucester, Mrs. Wingate was apprehended, and it
was ascertained that at various times during the last
three years she had sold a quantity of goods of different
descriptions to tradesmen in Gloucester. Of these, a
number gave evidence before the magistrates. Mrs.
Maysey, toy-dealer, had at intervals in the last two
years purchased of her gentlemens' dressing cases,
purses, poCket-books, and other articles • Mr. Henley,
stationer, had purchased five " Lady's 'Companions, Companions,"
and a dressing case ; Mr. Ladkin, hairdresser, a dress-
ing case and, three purses ; Mr. Golder, watchmaker, a
cigar case, dressing case, purse, and other articles since
sold ; Mr. Dobell, watchmaker, bought two gold pencil
cases for ss. or 7s. ; Mr. Mann, jeweller, a card case
and dressing case ; and Mr. Gregory, another silver-
smith, some,scissors, and a silver pencil case. To some
of these parties Mrs. Wingate represented that the
goods had been handed to her by a debtor in lieu of
cash, and to others she stated that her brother had
made her a present of them. The magistrates hav-
ing heard the evidence, sent the prisoner for trial at
Liverpool.
DARING ROBBERY.—At Stockton-on-Tees, on Wed-
nesday morning last, shortly after that old and long-
established shop of Messrs. William and Thomas Farmer,
High-street, jewellers, silversmiths, &c., was opened
for the weekly market-day's business, two men entered,
in a most deliberate manner, who were observed by the
family through a glass door, from a back room, when
Mr. Thomas Farmer re-entered the shop, which he had
only just left, no doubt under the cheering prospect of
giving attention to welcome customers on such a day as
this ; but lo ! before Mr. Farmer had time to salute his
visitors with the compliments of the morning, one had,
unseen, again walked into the streets, leaving his com-
panion in the centre of the shop floor, who also, as Mr.
Farmer advanced towards him, calmly quitted the shop,
pulling after him the door. As Mr. Farmer, by such
hasty departures, could hold no communion, he, of
course, had no alternative but of again opening the shop-
door and taking a survey of the two worthies who, at an
easy pace, turned down Finkle-street, which is about
twenty yards distant, and who were no more seen by
Mr. Farmer. As the ingress and egress of these gentle-
men were so quick, and Mr. Farmer seeing nothing
wrong, dreaded no injury; and it was not until the fore-
noon of the day advanced, when Mr. Farmer was en-
gaged in decorating his windows with the riches of his
egn 's
rings, altar,
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lhuee found d himselfqu minus
envuis.
wares, and when in want of the most attractive and
jt is
valuable pearls to such nymphs and swains who
are
two
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Hedydmin
dent, from the statement o Mr. Farmer, that this rob-
bery stands unprecedented in the hist that
crimes for agility and calmness, the °-
of
Newgato
go round the counter, open thief having had to
a glass case in which were the lost rings, the d placed thereon,
door of which had been
again fastened with all apparent e.emposufe.
PASSPORTS FOR FRANCE. It railroad station, London-brid is the practice at the
packet-boat stations of Bri 1 tge' at the inns, and at the
ghton, on, Folkestone, and Dover,
to inform passengers desiring to visit Paris that no pass-
port is necessary. The consequence is that when such
travellers arrive in Par*
admitted to see the si ihstthey find that they cannot be
or visit the public establish-
ments, the productiongof
a passport being requisite to
entitle them to such
privilege I thisituation they
apply to the British b s
that they cannot have assa.or for a passp ,
ort and find
one. All that the ambassador can
do is to f •
urnish them with a document to enable them to
reach a seaport, and embark for England. No person
should therefore embark for France without a passport,
even for the reasons here given ; but there are many
others others which render the possession of a passport of the
first importance.
EXTRAORDINARY ADVANCE IN THE PRICE or ICE.—
Amongst the various articles that have
advanced
from 14s a
its
through the weather, is ice, which has
risen in price
ton to 18s a cwt, the former beingprice four months
carts ago. At an early hour yesterday
carts laden with this
London, where they
refrigerating luxury arrived _ in
quickly met with liberal purchasers.