The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-23 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

Sucen.—The business done in British Plantation has
been only of moderate extent, but last week's prices
have been supported. Barbadoes by auction realised 40s
to 41s for fine yellow; 38s to 39s 6d tor mid to good,
and 37s to 37s 6d for low.

REFINED.—Brown lumps bare been quiet at 47s 6d,
and fair grocery at 48s to 495.

EAST INDIA: Bengal 7,900 bags, only about half
sold, and in some cases rather lower; low and mid white
Benares, 38; to 393; good and fine, 395 Gd to 41s 6d; and
mid and good yellow, rather grainy, 39; 6d to 42;; mid to
fine white sold at 445 6d to 485. Madras, 3,192 bags,
only partly sold at barely previous rates ; low to
fine brown 28; to 30s 6d, and ord and mid yellow 30s 6d
to 32; 6d, and good 355 to 364; Penang, 2,589 bags went
at 39s to 4ls 6d for white, 34a to 38; 6d for yellow, and
31; to 33s for brown, Mauritius has not been in much
request.
FORElGN.—Havannah has been lower; washed 17s 6d
to 21s 6d for brown to fine bright yellow, and sound mid
to fine 38s to 415 6d. Porto Rico low to fine yellow has
been sold at 37s 6d to 41s. Java has been bought in
above the value; low and mid yellow and grey 18s to
21s 6cl, and good and fine 22; to 245.
COFFEE.—Most descriptions have been cheaper to-day.
Plantation Ceylon has been sold at 60s to 68, for good
and lino marks; peaberry 568 to 60s • good and fine ord
45; 6d to 498 6d; fine fine ord to mid 50s to 555; and
triage 33s to 48s. /sTltive has been sold at 448 6d to
45s for low ord, 453 to 45s 6d for good ord, and 48s for
superior. Mocha mid has been taken in at 60s, and fine
ord at 85s. Washed Rio has been sold at 561. Madras
good and fine ord at 47; to 495, and Mysore good and
fine ord 44s Gd to 516 6d.

C coA.—Trinidad has realised full rates; low grey to
mid rt:d 38s to 42s per cwt.
RlCE.—Bengal good mid white has been sold at 98 6d
to 10s, and Madras mid pinky white at 5s to 8s 6d
per cwt.
tSricEs.—Jamaica Ginger sold at 41 to 6/ 17s for mid
to rood, awl Malabar at 22s to 265. Sumatra Pepper
has been sold at 2Fl—this article is firm. Pimento 5d
to 5d per lb. Nutmegs 2s 6d to 3s 2d per lb.
SALTrETBE.—BengaI has been steady; good small
grey 3id per lb refraction 29s per cwt.
COTTON.—Ti.ere has been much less animation in the
market.
COCHINEAL.—This article is firm.

ARROWROOT, &c.—St. Kitt's has been sold at &id
to 9d per lb; St. Vincent's, 9d to is 2id ; and Rio taken
in at €ld per pound. lkarl Sago, 19s to 21a 6cl; and
Tapioca 6d to 6id per lb for good Rio.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. has been steady at 37s on the spot,
and 36s 6d for delivery until the end of the year.
TEA.—The market has been dull for Congou, and the
public sales of 11,000 packages went off heavily at about
previous rates.
GREEN FRIIIT.—The market is lively. A cargo oil
Oranges, ex Cruz from Fayed, via Bristol, and brought
from hence by railway to London, being the first arritld
of the season, was sold at public sale by Keeling titid
Hunt, and brought a good price. The sale of Chesnuta
continues brisk, the cold weather assisting consumption.
Lemons dull of sale. A cargo of new Barcelona Nuts
has arrived, the opening price moderate. Black Spa-
nish scarce, none remaining in first hands, but aeveral
cargoes expected.

LANCASHIRE PUBLIC SCHOOL ASSOCIATION.—A
meeting of the promoters of the Lancashire Public
School scheme of education was held at the rooms of the
association, in Manchester, on Wednesday evening. A.
Henry, Esq., M.P., occupied the chair. Mr. Peter Ry-
land, of Warrington, read an essay upon the facilities
for the religious education of the people, which might be
afforded in connexion with the plan of the Lancashire
Public School Association. The essayist defended the
scheme from the aspersions of those who condemned it
as "godless" and irreligious, and contended that the
communication of secular instruction and sound princi-
ples of morality would tend to promote the religious
education of the people. Some opposition was offered
to the scheme by the Rev. Mr. Gillian, a clergyman'
from Glasgow. An animated discussion followed the
reading of the paper, the sentiments of which were ge-
nerally approved of,
ROYAL DISPENSARY FOR DISEASES OF THE EAR,
DEAN- STREET, SOHO-SQUARE.—The quarterly meeting
of this institution, founded for the relief of indigent
persona labouring under deafness and other diseases of
the ear, was held on Wednesday last at the dispensary;
Dr. Richards in the chair. The secretary read the
amount of subscriptions, from which it appeared that
the charity bad been aided by the contributions of her
Majesty the Queen Dowager, his Majesty the King of
the Belgians. &c. Mr. Ilarvey stated the new admis-
sions from July to September to be 250; discharged
cured, 59. The committee therefore solicit the contribu-
tions of the benevolent and charitable, to enable them to
meet the expenses of the charity, and to permit of its
more extended usefulness. A vote of thanks was passed
to Mr. Harvey, the surgeon, and to the chairman, and
the meeting separated.
A SurrosED WITCH.—Last week a woman. re-
siding at Melvich, was dragged before the session for
her supposed connexion with the Evil One, and for her
skill in the unhallowed mysteries of the black craft.
The immediate crime for which she was arraigned was,
that she had " ta'en the yellow treasure" from the milk
of one of her neighbours, at whose instance she WAS
brought to account. The ceremonies she is said to have
gone through were at once singular and simple. She
went to her neighbour's byre. took a turf from it, burnt
it on her own fire, boiled her own milk above it, and
this, in conjunction with the charm of some mystic
spell, sufficed to effect her " deed of darkness." It ap-
pears, notwithstanding the rapid march of intellect, that
the relics of dark and blind ages are not yet wholly
eradicated from this locality.—John o' Grout Journal.
MELANCLIOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Tues'
day forenoon, Mr. Alexander Stenhouse, farmer,White-
hill, near Niddry, was accidentally and instantaneously
killed from the following melancholy circumstances e-e•
Desiring to go out to a newly-sown field to shoot the
crows infecting it, he took up a gun lying in a tool room,
but on trying it with the ramroad he found some ob-
struction in the barrel, and sent his grieve for a sponge
to clean it out, but unhappily, in the absence of the
grieve, ho endeavoured to draw out the charge himself'
and in doing so, the gun accidentally fired off, en',
lodged its fatal contents in his lungs, in consequence or
which he immediately expired. An investigation was
immediately made into the case by the proper tuthori.:
ties, and the cause was found to be purely aceident.e.le
Mr. Stenhouse was an intelligent and highly respectable
farmer, and pretty well advanced in years, and his ud
des death will be much regretted by As numerous
friends.— Caledonian Mercury.
We have this week to record a remarkable i
of lot gevity, occurring in the lowest parts of
country, in the chapelry of Whaplode Drove: On
Wednesday last died " old Robin Dixon." He "„
attained within a few weeks of 104 years. He was_ :ss:
the
Fen
d
egrionitural labourer, and never had a day's sickness
nutil hi, last illness. Last) ear he dug with a spade tic°
acres of land! He was not a teetotaller, and in his early
days he had been the reverse.—Stuniford Mercury.