The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-19 00:00:00

HOP MARKET.

The demand is still inactive. Prices much the same as
quoted on Wednesday last. The duty is calculated to be from
155,000/. to 160,000/.

SPIRIT MARKET.

This market is quiet, but prices arc firm. Price of Lee-
ward Rum 3s. 2d. ; good Jamaica 4s. to 4s. 6d. ; Brandy is
unaltered in value ; Corn spirits are 10s. 2d.

TALLOW MARKET.

The nominal quotations of P. Y. C. Tallow to-day, for it
was no better, was 555. 6d. .

INDIGO SALE.—(NINTH DAY.)
The sale to-day shows no novelty. It goes with spirit, and
prices are as before quoted.
PUBLIC SALE OF COTTON —(THIS DAY).

This morning, at the Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing-
lane, about 8,000 bales of Cotton, mostly Surat, were brought
to the hammer. All did not sell, but that which did fetched
about previous market prices, of from 3d. to sd. The sale
was steady.
TEA SALE.—(FOURTEENTH DAY.)

The sale to-day was rather more quiet, but prices did not
vary from previous quotations. Up to the time we left the
sale, we should say that about 200,000 packages had passed,
out of which about 100,000 were sold.
COLONIAL MARKET.

This market is now dull, and but very little passing either
by public sale or private contract. For a Friday very little
has been done, and but little during the week. B. P. Sugar
sells slowly, and prices are 50s. for the lowest, 565. for mid-
dling, and 635. for fine. These prices are full 6d. per
cwt. lower than this day week. Refined goods are secur-
ing no business. We had no public sales of Sugar to-
day. Coffee, 1,200 bags Brazil, sold much at previous
prices, which are 345. to 485., according to quality.
The quotations of British Plantation Coffee are from
80s. for ordinary, to 115 s. for middling, up to 130 s. for fine.
There were some small sales of Ginger, Pepper, Mace,
Cloves, and Nutmegs, which passed off without showing any
variation in value. Saltpetre, 1,309 bags, sold at prices
varying from 245. to 265. 6d., according to quality. A small
parcel of Cocoa fetched previous rates. The imports arc
increasing.

DUTY ON COFFEE.—MORE PLUNDER.—On the
Continent the price of raw coffee per pound is somewhere
about 8d or 9d. ; here it is about Is. 10d. But the duty here
on British Plantation Coffee is only 6d., which duty cannot be
the cause of the difference in price. The duty, however, on fo-
reign coffee is Is. 3d , so that we may conclude we pay about 9d.
per lb. on our coffee for the advantage of drinking coffee grown
in Jamaica or Demerara, instead of drinking that which is
grown in Martinique. We call the attention of the landowners
and agriculturists to this tax, levied on them so far as they are
coffee-drinkers, for their brother agriculturists of our
colonies; and will readily aid them m getting rid of it.
They, however, we arc afraid will smile encouragement on the
coffee growers of Demerara ; it keeps them in countenance,
and they will insist on the propriety of protecting the agricul-
ture of our own colonies, if they may only be allowed to retain
their tax on our bread. The compromise, however, between
coffee-growers and corn-growers will not satisfy the bread-
eaters and coffee-drinkers, who are plundered and sacrificed to
gratify the unjust cupidity of planters abroad and planters at
home.
Mr. George Combe, the Phrenoloaicnl Lecturer,
who arrived in the Great IT'ciern, from Edinburgh, intends
giving a series of lectures in Boszon. Capta:l sass
a St. Louis paper, is bound to the Rocky Mountains and Pa-
cific, with a fur or trading party.