The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-04 00:00:00

FREIGHTS

To London

10 0 per ton.

To Liverpool ... ... 3 12 6 per ton.
To Clvde ... 3 15 0 per ton.
To China ... Rs. 13 per Cy.
To Calcutta, Salt... ... No quotation.
To Calcutta, other frt. per Cy. ... No quotation.
Cotton Pi( co Goods—The supply at market is very
small, and owing to the active demand prevalent, prices
have in some descriptions advanced. Grey Jacconets
are in active demand at fair prices. Grey Mulls have
been more inquired for lately. 40 in. Grey Shirtings
are eagerly inquired for, and an advance of from 1 to 2
minas per piece has been obtained. The same remark
is applicable to 45 in., but not in the proportion given for
40 in. There is also a better demand for Grey Mada-
pollams, stocks of these having been lately very much
reduced. Bleached Shirtings are in active demand at
good prices. Bleached Madapollams are also inquired
for, and sell readily at paying rates. Bleached Jacco-
nets :have also experienced a fair demand for low and
middling qualities, and the finer kinds have been more
inquired for. Cambrics are dull of sale. Scotch goods
are very dull of sale. Turkey red fabrics have lately re-
ceived more attention, but dyed goods generally have
not been much inquired for. Swiss Prints are rather
scarce.

Cotton Yarn—The sales reported are 39 bales Mule,
No. 44, 46, and 48, at annas 81 per lb., to arrive; 70
bales No. 20, at 5f annas ; and 40 bales, No. 40, at 8
annas; 100 bales Water, No. 30, at 8 annas per lb. ; 22
bales No. 20, at 64 annas; 6 bales No. 30, at 8 annas.
The Sir T. Gresham, which arrived on the 27th instant,
brings 1,000 bales, which will no doubt command remu-
nerating rates, as stocks are unusually low, and the
demand very active.
Yellow Twist-24 bales No. 30 to 60 at 121 ans. per
lb. have been disposed of.
Green Twist—This article has also declined an anna
per lb., 10 bales, No, 30 to 50, having been sold at ans.
124 per lb.
Cochineal—The Sophia Moffat's arrival on the 27th
inst., with 25,000 lbs. of this article, has slightly de-
pressed the market for this article. 8,000 lbs. prior to
the receipt of the above importation are reported to
have been disposed of by Natives at Rs. 2 12 ans. to Rs.
2 14 ans. per lb., but this statement can hardly be relied
on. The sales we have heard of are: 2,700 lbs. at Rs.
21, 60 lbs. at Rs. 2 121 ens , 1,500 lbs. at Rs. 2 13 ans.
and 1,200 lbs. at Rs. 2 14 ans.

Saffron-75 lbs. at Rs. 11 per lb. have been dis-
posed of.
Spelter has slightly improved in price-400 cwt. 28 to
35 lbs. plates having been sold at Rs. 11 3 ans. per cwt.
and 180 cwt. 561 b. plates at Rs. 10 14 ans. per cwt.
English Bar Iron—Since our last 300 candies of
British Bar have been sold at Rs. 33 per candy.
American Copper—We hear of a sale of 600 cwt. at
57rs. per cwt.
Cordage—A sale of 80 cwt. at Rs. 23 per cwt. is re-
ported.
Paints—We also hear of sales of 40 cwt.. White, and
25 cwt. Green Paints at Rs. 11 4 ans., and 25 Black at
Rs. 9 per cwt.
Brandy-2 hhds have been sold at Rs. 210 ans. per
Gin—A sale of 90 cases at Rs. 16 per case, is re-
ported.
gallon,rskosatl,2oo gross of these at R. 1 per gross have
150 boxes Cognac at Rs. 8 per dozen.
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27 hhds at E. 60. By the George Buckham and
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Sophia Moffatt 250 hhds of Hodgson 's have arrived. By
private sales we understand a few hhds have been dis-
posed of at Rs. 65; but our quotation for this brew is also
Rs. 60. We quote Tennant's at Rs. 30.
now3loGreat Britain
Cotton—ln this article of export the purchases have
been extensive, but chiefly for the English market. The
against
steady. The
to date are 53,400 bales. To China
prices during the fortnight have varied considerably.
Broach being quoted at Re. 78 to Its. 80, at which rate
4tr rhi, 3 m
omarketOl,st Januarygst 74,0 0 and 2h5e,0 aexports to
respectively to the
corresponding period of 1848. The purchases reported

... at Rs 78 0 per candy
... 78 8 ditto
78 8 ditto
▪ 78 4 ditto
• 79 o ditto
▪.. 79 0 ditto
• 75 0 ditto
• 79 0 ditto
71 8 di,tc

13 D ollera
arelooo :—bales
200 „ ditto •••
200 „ ditto •••
300 „ ditto
100 „ ditto 0••
100 „ ditto .•• •••
100 c 3 d. Oomrawutty (Now)
1(0 „

50 „ Mangalore ditto .."'0
100 „ „. 71 0 ditto
100 „ l9urat ditto .„ ... 80 0 ditto
Opium—About 800 chests changed hands at prices
from 1,385 to 1,420. Holders have been very firm since
the arrival of the last China mail, bringing us accounts
of the improved state of that market. Our present stock
being about 2,800 chests, and not more than another
thousand expected before the monsoon sets in, we have
no doubt we shall have the price at 1,600 in another
month. There are at present several parties in the market
purchasing for their China friends.
Wool is very scarce, and prices have advanced to our
quotations. Shipments have been made entirely on na-
tive account.
Elephant's teeth are scarce, and we have heard of no
transactions.
Gums have not changed in value, and there ta. nothing
dying therg 6%000 by Luttive exporter/.

Pepper has been shipprd to an inconsiderable extent
by native dealers, and our quotations may be considered
Bernina].
Coffee—There have been recently large shipments of
Malabar coffee from this place, and preparations are now
being made for futher considerable shipments.
Telegraph and Courier-office, Bombay, April 30, 1849.
ORIENTAL BANK.
RATES OF INTEREST, EXCHANGE, AND COMMIS-
SION.
INTEREST ON CURRENT DEPOSITS.
Withdrawable on Demand.

Allowed :
Subject to Commission of i per cent.... 5 per cent. per an.
Sot subject to Commission ... ... 21 ~ ~

ON FIXED DEPOSITS.
Withdrawable on the sum at six months' notice 5 per cent.
Ditto ditto at three months' notice 4 ~
Ditto ditto at one month's notice... 3 „
Charged :
On Government bills ...
On private bills ... ...
On loans on Government notes
On loans on goods, &c.

.. ... ... 6 percent.
... . 8 „

... Is. 10d. per rupee
... Is. 94d. ditto.
... Is. 9id. ditto.
.. Is. 91 ditto.

EXCHANGE.
On London at 6 months' sight ...
Ditto at 2 months' sight ...
Ditto at 1 month's sight ...
Ditto at 1 day's sight ...
Circular Notes payable throughout Eu-
rope, and Drafts on Ireland and Scot-
land, at 1 day's sight ••• •••

Is. 9d. ditto.

COMMISSION.
Charged on the purchase or sale of Govern-
ment Notes, Shares in Public Companies
or other Securities per cent.
COMMERCIAL BANK OF INDIA.
Exchange on London :
6 months' sight ...
5 months' sight ...
4 months' sight ...
3 months' sight ...
2 months' sight ...
1 months' sight ...
Sight ... .. ••• .. ...
Discount on Private Bills, without rebate :
At 2 months' sight 8 per cent. per an.
At 3 months' sight ... 8 per cent. per an.
At 4 months' sight ... 8 per cent. per an.
Ditto with rebate 1 per cent, more.
Interest charged :
On fixed Loans on Government paper ... 6 per cent.
Cash credits, secured by Government paper... 7 per ct. per an.
Cash credits, on Bonds and other securities... 8 ditto.

lc 10d.
Is. 9%d.
ls. 9%d.
••• is. 9%d.
ls. 9Nd.

... ... Is. 91/;d.
le. 9d.

Interst Allowed :
On Current deposit accounts payable on demand 2 per cent.
On Money deposited with one month's notice of
withdrawal ... ... 3 per cent.
On Current Deposit Accounts payable on de-
mand, subject to a charge of per cent comn. 5 per eent.
On Money deposited for three months certain .. 4 per cent.
On ditto for 6 months certain, with one month's
notice of withdrawal ... ... 4 per cent.
On ditto for 9 months certain, with 3 months'
notice of withdrawal ... 6 per cent.
Commission on purchase and sale of Government
and other Securities ... percent.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE
METROPOLITAN REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Sir,—On Thursday the 31st of May the House of
Commons met again after the 'Whitsuntide recess ;
and, on the principle on which a general in India
makes a short march on the first day, broke up at
9 o'clock, after getting through a quantity of routine
business, in the course of which nothing very remark-
able took place.
On Friday a rather perplexing question was thrown
before the Liberals and Free Traders of the House,
and, as was to be expected, they took different sides.
Each will of course think the other wrong, and each
must trust for its justification to the degree in
which it can carry public opinion along with it.
The case was this. In the Committee of Supply,
the Protectionists advanced, that a great diminution
in the prices of everything having taken place, attended
by a diminution of every man's income and every
man's profits, it thereby became desireable that the
salaries of the Treasury and officers connected, should
be reduced by 10 per cent; for which purpose a di-
munition of 5,0004 was moved in the grant.
What was a Financial Reformer and Free Trader
to do under such circumstances ? Was he bound to
run without further question, into every course pro-
posed by the Protectionist body, merely because the
words " reduction of salaries' were attached to it ?
Might he not fairly argue,—the effect of this measure
is to obtain an acknowledgment from the House, that
"a diminution of every man's income and every man's
profits" has taken place in consequence of the aboli-
tion of the Corn-Laws and the alteration of the Na-
vigation-Laws. The words:between inverted commas
were not employed by the mover, but they were
brought out literatim by his principal supporter, which
makes them parcel of the case. The Protectionists,
with a little imagination, may be conceived hold-
ing a council of war, as all men have a right
to do in their own cause, and saying to one another,
" Move that the Ministers' salaries be reduced on the
ground of national loss and damage by the alteration
of the Corn and Navigation-Laws, and see which of
the Manchester school will go against us. Those that
go with us, will help to set up our side. And those
that do not, will lose caste and be run down as men
who will not vote for retrenchment; only wait and see
what the Northern Star will say to them." There is
nothing in this but what is quite allowable on the part
of political opponents. It was an excellent good piece
of war-craft, worthy to be ranked by a parliamentary
Frontinus among his " Strategemata," and very likely
to have a fair effect on the Third Reading on the Na-
vigation-Laws in another place. But this does not
prove, that anybody was bound to give into it unless
he liked.
A young Member (Simeon, a name of mark with
ancient Cambridge men) who habitually sits on
the Conservative side, made the ablest exposure
which was given, of the weakness of the claim for
support to the motion before the House. The motion
was finally negatived by 84 to 33, and the division
tist will present an appearance of some interest.
A debate of a more amusing kind than ordinary,
took place on the vote for the expenses of the so-called
colony of Labuan. An enterprising yachter goes and
plays the part of " Illustrious Stranger," under cir-
cumstances, to say the least, of very doubtful morality.
Commercial men in England thereupon petition that
he may be established in a colony; as they are likely
enough to be disposed to favour any experiment,
which other people are to pay for. And thereupon is
set up what a Catholic might call a government in
partibus, a government to govern not what there is,
but what there ought to be ; a Governor at a high
salary, and because he has nobody to govern, a Lieu-
tenant• Governor to help him; a Postmaster because
there is nobody to write; and a Consul, who lest he
should quarrel with the Governor, is the Governor him-
self. Meantime the Navy gets promotion and boun •
ties, for acting against what are denominated "Pi-
rates," such pirates being, as there is reason to believe,
the different tribes or nations carrying on war with
one another as well as they know how ; so that the
Governor has only to chuse the aide that suits him,
and the other are the " Pirates."
The last time the subject was raised in the House,
it was stated with great simplicity and open-
ness by some of the supporters, that the intended re-
sult was to effect a footing in what may be called
the continent of Borneo; and on Friday a Member
interposed for the preservation of claims existing on
the part of Great Britain to portions of its coast.
Great pains are evidently taking, to find Punjaubs for
our posterity.
For some reason no division was called for, though
there was every appearance that a considerable num-
ber would have supported.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, June 4, 1849.

FIRE AT THE KATESGROVE IRON FOUNDRY.—Be-
tween one and two o'clock this morning a fire broke out
in a range of sheds at the extensive ironfoundry of
Messrs. Barrett, Basil, and Andrewes, the large iron-
founders of this town. The inhabitants of the neigh-
bourhood were dreadfully alarmed, but two engines were
speedily on the spot, and owing to there being but little
wind, the flames did Rot extend to any other buildings.
There were a considerable number of new agricultural
implements, chiefly ploughs, in the sheds, but the greater
part were removed without injury, and a cart together
with a few other implements comprise the only property
destroyed, in addition to the out-buildings. It is almost
miraculous, notwithstanding the stillness of the wind,
that the fire did not communicate to the workshops and
timber lying in the yard; and the extensive premises of
Messrs. Philbrick, tanners and curriers, are situate only
a few yards on the opposite side to the burnt sheds, and
where some years ago a most fearful conflagration took
place. As it is, the damage done has been comparatively
small, but the origin of the fire is unknown.—Berkshire
Chrenicle of Saturday.
THE ASCOT RACE Cups.—The "Royal hunt cup,"
which will be run for this week at Ascot, is a cup of a
novel design, and of a shape different from any former
i
ones which have been the prizes of a racecourse. It
ins a
Tazza, supported on a foot, on which are represented
There are
relief devices emblematical of field spormts
;irk of buck-
hounds,
rai
spirited
groupo n summittheofdo
g
tustyanleshpipartis very elaborate, it:Cldattehreindesign elegant. The
i Messrs.s ic s' of the ItabanandatEltihzeabeestistaables.ihimareauctteroi
Hunt and Roskell, of Bond-street, under the di-
"lHtakes been modelled
recion of Mr. Batley, R.A., and is one of the best spe-
cimens of this species of art hitherto produced. It w
last week submitted to the inspection of the Queen and
Prince Albert, who expressed their approbation of it.
The Emperor of Russia's vase is the production of Mr.
Cotteril', and has been manufactured at the establish.
ment of Messrs. Garrard, of the Haymarket. Of this
cup, and of the " Queen's cup," also the work of Mr.
Cotterill, and manufactured by Messrs. Garrard, we
have already trade favourable mention. They are both
very elegant pieces of modelling and workmanship in
silver.

A ROYAL FISH.—On Friday afternoon a fine stur-
geon was caught in the Medway, at a place called Bream
Hole, near Snodland, between Maidstone and Rochester,
by Richard Baker and John Orpin. The fish, a fine
baited specimen of its species, was brought to the mayor
of Rochester, and was by his orders packed in ice, and
forwarded to her Majesty on Saturday morning. It
Measured 6 feet 11 inches in length, and 2 feet 9 inches
in ciictunfexonce.

LITERATURE.
1 DAVID COPPERFIELD.: No. 11. By Charles
Dickens.
If one thing more than another is conspicuous in
"David Copperfield," it is an absence of all exaggera-
tion--whether in style, in incident, or in character.
Already in two numbers it has afforded triumphant
evidence against the would-be stabhers and poi-
soners, the cutthroats and assassins of Mr. Dickens's
great and beautiful reputation. "David Copperfield"
has already in six introductory chapters proved by
the purity of its diction, by the reality of its
characters, by the nicety of its descriptions, by its
genial and unstrained humour, by its sweet and
all pervading naturalness that Mr. Dickens has not
" written himself out," that he has not fallen into
an unconquerable mannerism, that he has not
bidden an eternal farewell to all the rules
of rhetoric—but that he is still the "Box" of
"Pickwick," of " Nickleby," and of" Chuzzlewit," the
creator of Paul Dombey and Nell Trent, the writer
of the inimitable " Sketches," and of the immortal
" Carol." Those who have been waiting this long
while with their mouths agape to see the stick of that
rocket which was mentioned by the Quarterly fall to
ground, will very likely be disappointed. The will-
o'-the-wisp turns out after all to be no will. o -the- wisp
whptever, but a veritable star shining serenely (in
despite of all their stone-throwing) from the celestial
region of English Literature. Here is Dickens as
popular as ever, as beloved as ever by that people
whose eyes he has made shed tears, whose hearts
he has moved to goodness, and whose laughter he has
won with his wit—notwithstanding the jealousy of
his fame which has instigated so many of
his contemporaries to a miserably abortive effort to
" write him down." Christopher North says
in his new serial Dies Boreales something to the
effect—" You might as well throw stones at a star 1"
So say we to these Sir Benjamin Backbites, these
Sneers, and Lady Cantwells of a coterie, who—un-
provoked—have endeavoured to destroy the gold en
reputation of a man a million times their superior.
How much more noble, how much more manly, true,
beautiful, and touching, is the conduct of a really
eminent contemporary writer of Mr. Dickens,—we
mean the man who has gained such distinction by
writing " Vanity Fair" and " Pendennis l" In what
a fine, genial spirit he paid his tribute of respect to the
genius of his illustrious brother author when speak-
ing of this same "David Copperfield," in a recent
number of Punch ! But, enough of this : Mr.
Dickens is himself in the most effectual manner vin-
dicating his right to his prolonged popularity—which
may he live to enjoy many and many a long year 1
In " David Copperfield" he is compensating his ad-
mirers for such a creation as Edith—a character he
himself must feel by this time to be a failure. "I fall
into disgrace"—" I am sent away from home"—" I
enlarge my circle of acquaintances"—are the titles of
the three chapters comprised in the second number.
They recount how poor little David is harshly
treated at home through the instrumentality of his
horrible stepfather—how he is hurried away, alone,
prematurely—and how he finds himself established in
a boarding-school for young gentlemen near London.
In narrating all this Mr. Dickens is thoroughly in
his element. His profound knowledge of the mys-
teries of a young child's nature renders his account
of David's loneliness and grief ; his difficulties
over his lessons ; his punishment, when, being
thrashed by his stepfather, he bites through
the hand of his chastiser; and his feeling himself
afterwards so " wicked " when he is locked up for
five days in solitary confinement—all are wonderfully
true and touching. the child's sorrow and his
breaking out into "stormy sobs" even when he has
done crying, on his journey in the carrier's cart—
are as vivid as a chapter out of our own recollections
of childhood. With all this—the number abounds
in the most facetious passages and the drollest incl.•
dents told in a manner the most provocative of
laughter. Instance the scene with that abominable
waiter and the consequent jokes showered upon the
unfortunate urchin, "six foot," who is supposed to
have devoured five chops, an entire dish of potatoes,
a corresponding quantity of bread, and a whole
batter pudding! Or, again, that preposterous touch
of the " tender passion" on the part of the taciturn Mr.
Barkis ! Miss Murdstone, too, is capital—an awful
lady with such very heavy eyebrows that it seemed
as if, " being disabled by the wrongs of her sex from
wearing whiskers, she had carried them to that ac-
count." Even her reticule is characteristic, being
" a bag which hung upon her arm by a heavy chain,
and shut up like a bite.' Mr. Creakle, the brute of a
master who conducts the academy at Salem House,
threatens to rival Dr. Blimber ; and Salem House
itself is perfectly in keeping with the " tartar," its
occupant—especially when, during the process of
cleaning, it gets so full of dust, and keeps little
David so continually sneezing, that it seemed like "a
great snuff-box." Mr. Mell, the under tutor—Mr.
Sharp, the upper tutor—the man with the wooden
leg, whose name is Tungay—J. Steerforth, the first
boy—Tommy Traddles, who introduces himself to
David by informing him that he will find his name
on the right-hand corner of the gate, over the top
bolt—the old woman in the alms-houses—even Mr.
Mell's very dismal flute—and the stout old gentle-
men, by name Topsawyer (a myth born from the
imagination of that beast of a waiter at Yarmouth)—
must be known by perusal. They are creations—
already begin to people our memory.