The Sun.
London, England, 1838-02-23 00:00:00

lIOP MARKET.
There was a steady business done to-day i■ Hops, at tinvariell prices.

TALLOW MARKET.
P. Y. C. continues steady at 495.
METAL MARKET.

The only matter worth notice in this department is a speculative
busineet in Spanish Lead at 194 per ton.

COLONIAL MARKETS.
he chief sales to-day were 6,000 bags of Mauritius Sugar, in which
there were some kinds for refiners, and 2,700 bags of Foreign Coffee.
Neither of these sales can be said to have presented any thing
particular for remark, either as to spirit or prices. The fact
is, that the state of the market is such, that there is nothing
to give sales any particular impulse of any kind. When we left
Mauritius Sugar was 545. to 58s. for brown; I,Bs. 6d. to 655. for low to
fine yellow. Foreign Coffee, 365. to 465., according to quality, for
Brazil. A steady business doing in B.P. Sugar at former prices, 60s. to
62s for brown, 625. dd. to 645. for yellow low to good, and 648. 6d. to
655. 6d. for fine. Tea is quiet but firm. Spices, Rise, Rum, Cotton, and
Indigo present nothing for remark in addition to what we said yesterday.
There are some public sales of Drugs and timber (Baltic) this evening.
In East and West India produce there is but very little doing pub!iely
or privately. The imports are but slender, but the deliveries at the
customs are on the increase.

We are requested to state, that Air. C. M. West-
macott having disposed of all his interest in the Age News•
paper, he has ceased to be in any way connected with tha
Journal.

Steam navigation to distant parts of the world is
likely to receive a new impetus by an important discovery
which has recently been made by an English gentleman of the
name of Bennett, who has recently visited Franse for the
purpose of making an experiment which it is believed will be
attended with the most important results to steam naviga-
tion and manufactures, particularly in that country, by means
of which the steam in engine boilers can be generated at one
third the expense and with less than one-third of the quantity
of coals now used. The experiment was recently tried in
Normandy by Mr. Bennett, in the presence of several scien-
tific French gentlemen, and in every instance produced the
desired result, and excited the admiration and applause of the
spectators. Mr. Bennett has been offered all the expense of
taking out a patent in that country, accompanied with the
most tempting pecuniary offers to secure the advantages of his
ingenious discovery exclusively to France, where a number
of wealthy gentlemen have proposed to him the formation of
a Company, offering at the same time to secure him the su-
perintendence of the establishment, with a very liberal salary
for life.

Two meetings took place yesterday in Marylebone—
one at the Buffalo's Head Tavern, New-road, and the other at
Lawson's Assembly Rooms, Upper Gower-street, for the pur-
pose of selecting Candidates to represent that Borough in
Parliament. At the former meeting Mr. Murphy suggested
the name of Colonel Thompson, and " positively declared that
no power on earth should prevent that gentleman going to the
poll ;" and Mr. Wilson, the name of Lord Nugent. The
latter meetieg consisted exclusively of the friends of Mr.
Ewart ; that gentleman, who was present, addressed the
company at some length, and summed up by saying, that
" with regard to the Ministry, he would support all the good
measures they might introduce, and oppose all the bad ones."
REFORM INCOMPLETE.--Our Paper yesterday
contained the account of Sir Samuel Whalley being unseated
for Marylebone, because ha had not a pecuniary qualification,
and of Sir James Graham being returned for Pembroke, be-
cause Colonel Owen nominated him to a vacancy which the
Colonel made. These two facts thus coming together, and
placed in juxtaposition, demonstrate the incompleteness of the
Reform Act. On the one hand the chosen representative of
twelve thousand electors is rejected because he has not 3001.
a year, and on the other the nominee of the Owens assumes
the character and performs the functions of a representative of
the people. The Reform Act has not put an end to the prac-
tice so loudly denounced, when it was passed, of the Aristo-
cracy usurping seats in the House of Commons.
A royal yacht has been ordered to be prepared to be
in attandanee on the Queen at Brighton in April next.
Last night an express arrived in town with the in-
telligence that the extensive mills of Mr. Rickards, at Merton,
were in names.
Between eleven and twelve o'clock on Sunday night
last an extensive and alarming fire broke out on the premises
of John Woodhams, Esq., in the parish of Udimore ; caused,
there is every reason to believe, by one or more infamous in-
cendiaries. A barn, stabling, and outhouses, have all fallen a
prey to the destructive element, together with three loads of
sheaves, some nine quarters of thrashed corn, four fine and
valuable horses, and three pigs. A labourer, named George
Hookham, who was in the habit of sleeping in the barn, had
been apprehended on suspicion.._ Kentish Chronicle.
While there has been a heavy fall of snow at
Exeter and the surrounding district, the weather in other parts
of Devonshire is as mild and warm as though it were the
middle of spring,