The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-09 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

SIM-AlL—The demand has not been quite so active for
British Plantation, and prices have scarcely been main-
tained at the previous range. Still holders have not gene-
rally pressed sales. Demarara at auction brought 34s to
40s for low to fine crystallised. East India.—Mauritius pri-
vately has not been much dealt in. The brown and common
sorts have been scarcely so high. Good and fine yellow
went at ns 6d to 375, low to mid at 33s to 3E3, and mid
to brown at 30s C I to 33s by auction . Bengal publicly brought
38s to 39s for good and very good white Benares, and 34s
to 36s 6d for mid to good yellow. Penang realised 30s to3ls.
The grocery and white Bengal descriptions have been in re-
quest.
Foreign.—There has been an inquiry for cargoes
afloat. At auction Cuba realised 31s 6d to 38s for
low brown to good yellow. Pernambuco sold publicly at
31s 6d. to 33s for ord to good brown. Porto Rico realised
36s Gd to 41s for mid grey to fine bright grocery. Ha-
vannah partly sold at 34s to 36s 6d for mid brown to mid
yellow.
COFFEE.—TIIO market has been very active, and again
at advancing prices. Native Ceylon has been sold at
47s 6d to 48s. Plantation went at 54s 6d to 61s for fine
ord to low mid. The latest sales have been at 58s 6d to
64s 6d for f fine ord, small to gootl mid bold corory up to
70s and 71s 6d for peo.ber.y. Triage, 48s to 545. Mocha,
mid to good clean garbled, brought 668 6d ; triage, 48s to
55s ; and black, 32a to 36s 6d. Foreign is wanted, and
is scarce
SPICEEL—Pimento has seen in strong demand and prices
have been hardening. White pepper has been firm, choice
has been sold at 2s 9d to 2s 11d for ord pale, and Jamaica
ginger at 42s to 55s for ord to mid.
RlCE.—There has been less doing. Moulmein 10,228
bags was taken in at high pricer, mid to good Arracan kind
10s Gd to lls Bengal has been taken in at 14s.
COTTON.—There has been rather' a firmer market and
with more doing.
TEA.—This article has been flat, and has not improved
since the public sales.
SALTPETRE.—BengaI 5 per cent. refraction has been
taken at 28s.

TALLOW.— P.Y.C. is firm at 52s on the spot.
GREEN FRUIT.—A livelier character exists in the mar-
ket ; some parcels of Grapes, per " Tagus" steamer, sold
by Keeling and Hunt, at public sale, realised prices pro-
portionate to quality. No improvement in the lemon
trade, the cold weather having checked the sale. Barcelona
nuts have advanced to 45s per bag, the new crop of which
will be short ; and the disease in Spanish and Lisbon
grapes is further confirmed by the last packet.

MExreo.—The commercial advices from Mexico give
a favourable account of the peaceful condition of the
country as regards the supp,ression of internal intrigues,
although, in other respects, there are no signs of improve-
ment. Considering the shortnt•ss of the interval since
Santa Anna's return to power, th e way in which he has
re-established that kind of order which results from terror
is said to be most remarkable. Every
r)!- ovince appears
nce, and it is
,that peculiar
oto
s ehravve de
art which he posseses of making his countryme:l , been reduced ef dhuec
had t
any
n yimplicit
boebyeoni I i
tempo-
rarily respect his will, he might secure the regeneration
of the Republic. The sordid and ignorant adventuCers,
however, by whom he is surrounded destroy all hope of
any permanent results, even if the alliance which is be-
ing cultivated with the priests were not a sufficient in-
dication of his hostility to any real progress. The recent
project of a national bank, after exciting great discus-
sion, had ended in total failure, chiefly owing to the
opposition of the Finance Minister, who subsequently
brought forward a measure of his own, which had to be
discarded as totally impracticable. One feature of it in-
volved the favourite principle of Mexican financiers—
namely, the suspension of every kind of payment, in
order to give the Government time "to restore the
national credit." Smuggling continues unchecked, but
in this respect great complaints are made of the com-
manders of the English vessels on the Pacific coast, who
are alleged to connive in the most notorious manner for
the evasion of the export duty on bullion.
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ON THE CONTINENT.—During
several d tys of last week a conference has been sitting
at Hesse Homburg, in Germany, and has resulted in the
formation of a provisional committee for the protection
of religious liberty. The meeting was attended by a
deputation from the Protestant Alliance, consisting of
the Earl of Shaftesbury, Mr. M'Gregor (the secretary),
and Mr. Oliphant; a deputation from the English branch
of the Evangelical Alliance, consisting of Sir Culling
Eardley, Mr. Brooke, and Dr. Blackwood, clergymen
and members of the committee, and Dr. Steane, one of
the secretaries ; a deputation from the French Evan-
gelical Alliance, including Messrs. Frederic and Adolphe
Monod, and Dr. Cooke ; a deputation from Switzerland,
including the President of the Evangelical Alliance of
Geneva and others ; Professor Tholuck, who attended
at the request of the President of the German Kirchentag,
and other gentlemen from Germany. Letters of ad-
herence were also received from Holland, Sweden, and
Italy, though deputations were unable to attend.. A
basis of action was unanimously agreed upon, including
a declaration of the right of all men to the free exercise
of conscience, restricted only by the demands of public
order and of morality. A provisional committee was
appointed, of which the English brethren were consti-
tuted the executive sub-committee, and arrangements
were made for the development of lans and increase of
numbers during the next few months, with the intention
of holding a more numerous assembly on the continent
in 1854.

BARNET FAlL—This important cattle fair, the largest
in England, terminated on Wednesday, greatly to the
satisfaction of a large class of salesmen-vho succeeded
in disposing of nearly the whole of their live stock.
The grazing beasts alone were estimated by competent
judges at 40,000 head—every description of which, from
the tiny Scot to the large Lincoln, were sold in rapid
succession each day, at prices unequalled for many years.
And so great was the demand that several lots ware sold
two or three times at considerable profit to the re-seller.
Milch and in-calf cows and heifers were in great demand,
at extraordinarily high prices. Horses of all sorts and
ponies were seldom if ever known to be so dear. Alto-
gether this was one of the best selling fairs ever known
at Barnet.
DEATH OF A LUNATIC BY FlRE.—Between seven and
eight o'clock on Wednesday morning the inmates of St.
Peter's Hospital, Bristol, were alarmed by an outcry
from the female lunatics' ward. On inquiry it turned out '
that the clothes of one of the female lunatics had, by
some means caught fire. The event caused great con-
sternation in the ward, which was heightened by the
fact that the doors were locked, and the poor creature
unable to get out, or any immediate assistance rendered
her. The nurse who had possession of the keys was not,
it appears, up at the time, but she quickly appeared,
half-dressed, with the keys, and having entered the
ward the woman on fire was soon stripped of her clothes,
though not before she received some severe burns. She
was promptly attended by the house surgeon, but the
injury she received was such that she lingered in the
greatest agony till yesterday, when death put a period
to her sufferings. At an inquest held yesterday it ap-
peared that her name was Caroline Gwillam, and that
she had been an inmate of the lunatic asylum for twenty-
nine years. When asked how the accident happened,
the deceased said she wanted to burn the house and
herself to, and that she set herself on fire with a lucifer
match. The jury returned a verdict to that effect.
DARING ESCAPE.—As the steamer Baron was sailing
down the Clyde on Saturday last, a man suddenly sprang
h
praingge
into the river. He struck out for the shore, which
n
i wasn
g.
He h
reached in safety. liaemkperoeveper
proved to
on a charge °he, a pr
r
ge f pbeing conveyed to Dumbarton in custody of a constable,
accompanied
bya
.handcuffed,gamekeeper,
but the irons had been re-
moved
a
df,leti reafew minutes, at his urgent request, until he
should retire. Then it was that he seized upon a favour-
able moment to effect his escape. It is not known
f, whether he has been recaptured.