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

COLONIAL.

&MAR.—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 6d. Demerara crystallized
went at 37s 6d 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 Gd per cwt. has been obtained
on brown sorts. By auction about 10,000 bags sold at 3Gs
to 37s 6d for good to fine yellow, at 34s to 35s 6d for low
to mid, 32s Gd to 33s Gd for fine brown, and 32s to 3Gs Gd
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 Gd, and good to fine yellow 38s
Gd 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 Bahia 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 bps,
for good colory 52s 6d to 575, for low mid and mid, 62s for.
peaberry, and 67s Gd to 69s for trjage. 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 rod.
RlCE.—Prices have not been quite so buoyant. Java
was taken in at 13s 6d 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 ; ord and
mid being at 4d to sd, and good at ssd to sd. Batavia
pepper sold at nd to lad for mid and good, and black at
3:12(1 to 3Kd for mid. Cloves realised 61 to 6id for mid.
SALTPETRE.—Prices have been much the same, with
little doing. Bengal went at 29s 6d for fine 31 per cent.
refraction.

COTTON. —This article is firm, and with fair sales.
TEA.—The market is quiet; onl congou 10d to 10Idper lb.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is dull, at 45s to 45s 3d per cwt. on
the spot.
GREEN FRIIIT.—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 cours are in demand, and but
few arrivals have as•yet been received. Nuts of all kind:
have improved in value, and the stock daily d;minishing.
Tho terms of sale for green fruit, as adopted in London,
are now made similar at all the outposts.

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,"
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 I
and
swains attractive
who
are
and
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
wa
res, and
nymphsof the
most
valuable re,
anea
about to visit Hymen's altar, he found himself minus
two cases of wedding rings, value 401. It is quite evi-
dent, from the statement of Mr. Fal_aer,
bery stands unprecedented in the hist at this rob-
crimes for agility and calmness, the thing
had to
go round the counter, open a glass
in which were the lost rings, the door of which had been
again fastened with all apparent
PASSPORTS FOR PRANCE. I composure'
t
railroad station, London-bridge, is the practice at the
packet boat stations of Brighton, at the inns, and at the
Folkestone, and Dover,
to inform passengers des' • iring to visit Paris that no pass-
port is necessary. The consequence is that when such
travellers arrive in Pa. • nstthey find that they cannot be
admitted to see the sights, or visit thebing
public
iisestablish-
ments,teto the production of
entitle them to such privilePgaes.spolrnt thissitrueatiquon they
apply to the British ambassador for a passport, and find
that they cannot have one. All that the ambassador can
do is to f •
h
furnish 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 which render the possession of a passport of the
first importance.
EXTRAORDINARY ADVANCE IN THE PRICE OF ICE.—
Amongst the various articles that have
has risen from 14s aadvanced in price
through the 'weather, is ice, which
ton to 18s a cwt, the former being
carts laden with this
its price four months
ago. At an early hour yesterdayin
London, where they
refrigerating luxury
arrived
quickly wet with liberal purchasers.