The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-22 00:00:00

SILK MARKET.

There is not much doing just now, either in Italian or East India.
Prices however, continue firm.

OIL MARKET.

The only fresh matter is that 193 pps., 207 hhds., and 20 tanks of
Ceylon Cocoa Nut Oil were put up to public bale—part only sold.
/Ihds. and pipes at 351., and tanks at 301. per ton.

BALTIC PRODUCE MARKET.

Hemp fetches, at public sale, 191, 15s. to 201. and Jute 12/. to 13/.
per ton. Tar is quoted at 17s. 6d. per barrel for Archangel. British
Pitch, 68. 6d. Timber secures a steady produce—prices firm. Tallow
575. 6d. for P.Y.C.

COLONIAL MARKETS.
The imports are not very heavy. Business continues languid. Bri.
Hall Plantation Sugar is very quiet; the sales do not average daily more
than 100 hhds., prices tending downwards. To-day we have public
sales of Mauritius Sugar, Havannah, and Brazil, but not large. The
market continues without activity, and, with the exception of Foreign
Produce, the tendency of prices is to decline, and where to-day they
liter, they are again lower. Coffee, 8.P., a public sa'e, but not a
large one. The market is flat, and prices, where they vary, decline.
Refined Sugar is little better than nominal. Fine crushed 365. In
Molasses nothing doing. Spices are flat, but still not tending to de-
cline so much as other Commodities. Pepper, Ginger, and Pimento
.firm. Rum is not dearer, but very firm. Cotton very dull. We have
large Public sales of Colonial Wool and Drugs this evening. For to-
morrow the principal sales are of Wool, Mauritius and Bengal Sugar,
Ceylon Coffee and Saltpetre. None of then large, except Wool.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAncit 21.
The sales to.day are altogether about 3,500 bags. We have no
altotation to report from the business of yesterday. The purchaser has
the advantage of a larger choice, there being considerably more Cot-
ton offering than during last week. 180 Surat, 4j 51 ; '2OO Egyptian,
12; 150 Bahia, 8; 150 Laguayra,l ; 150 Pernam, 9 ; '2,670
American, 5% 81.

STATE OF TRADE.—The yarn market still con-
tinues in a depressed state, and lower prices were in many
cases submitted to by the spinners yesterday. This decline,
and perham the activity of the Liverpool Cotton Market, had
some effect upon the buyers, nnd there was more business done
than for some weeks past. In goods there was no material
ehatrge.—lllanchester Guardian.
ROCHDALE. FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY,
March 19.—There is no improvement in the market to.day ;
business has been slack and prices low. In the Wool market
there has been but little doing, and Wool of every quality is
easier to purchase than it has been for some time back.—
Manchester Guardian.
THE RAILWAYS.—The railways in this neigh-
bourhood are now progressing with all possible activity. The
works on the North Union line are in very busy operation,
and the disasters occasioned by the February storm are
nearly repaired. A very sensible difference is observable
in the state of the town generally, now that the canals are
open for facilitating trade, and that the railways and other
works are affording employment to the working population_
Presto re Chronicle.

On Thursday afternoon, as the Vanguard steamer,
about to be placed on the station from Goole to Hamburgb,
Was corning up the Humber, an accident happened by which
the loss of life occurred on board. The second engineer was
applying oil to some parts of the engine, when, through some
unfortunate circumstance, be became entangled with the ma-
chinery, and before the stupendous engines of this large vessel
could possibly be stopped, the poor fellow was crushed in the
most lu rrid manner, his head being nearly severed from his
body, and his whole frame completely destroyed. It is sup-
Posed that he died immediatelv.—Hull Observer.
THE " VICTORIA " STEAMER.—Joseph Robin -
son, one of the stokers, died on board the Dreadnought hos
ltal-ship on Tuesday afternoon, between four and five o'clock.
esterday afternoon the Coroner and Jury met at the Mitre
Tavern, Greenwich, and proceeded to view the body, which
presented a shocking spectacle. On their return the Coroner,
said it would be useless to take any evidence, as all the unfor-
Innate men met their death from the same cause. They were,
heerfore, discharged until Tuesday next, that being the day
4Ploointed for the adjourned inquest on the bodies of the other
three.

A letter from a valley in the Canton of Berne
Mates, as a certain prognostic of the spring being unusually
Mild and the summer extremely hot, that a great number of
bears have come down from the upper mountains, and are
seen playing together as if they had entirely renounced their
natural ferocity. A short time ago, a hunter advancing in-
cautiously found himself completely surrounded by several of
these animals, who, instead of attacking him, continued their
gambols, and allowed him to get out of the scrape without
sustaining the least injury.
On Tuesday afternoon a barge, laden with a cargo
of bacon and butter, proceeding down the river in charge of
two lighterrren, who were navigating her, was capsized by the
Iwell raised by the large steam-ship llienai, as she was pro-
ceeding up the river at full speed. The men had a narrow
escape of their lives, and the barge went down nearly off East-
banc-sairs, ermondsey. A reat portion of the cargo ha
eensinco pßicked up by dredgermeng employed for the purpose.s

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, MAneu 21.—Wind S.W.blowing strong.—Arrived and sailed
for the rim-, the Eatl Powis, Spittall, from the Mauritius; Eagle,
Paterson, from St. John's, N.B. ; Robert, from Cuba. The outward_
bound remain. P.S., Eight e M.—Just put back and remains, the
Miranda, Hopper, for the Mauritius.

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 21.—Wind S. W., fine—Arrived, Le Triton,
Metaire, from Havre, for St. Brieux.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 20.—Wind S.W. to N.W.—Arrived the Cathe-
rine Boland, Primrose, from Antwerp to Belfast, with loss of jibboom.
l'ut back, her Majesty's ship Volage, for the East Indies ; John Hayes,
Hutchinson, for Barbadoes.
FALMOUTH, MARCH 20.—Wind N.W. to W., strong gales, with vio-
lent squalls.—Arrived the James Hunt, M`Donald, from Aux Cayes to
Falmouth for orders, sailed Feb. 6, with loss of mainmast, foretopmast,
jibboom, yards, sails, rigging, boat, &c., part of the cargo thrown over,
has had three feet water in the hold, having been struck by a heavy sea,
and thrown on her beam-ends on the Ist inst., in lat 39. N., long. 43
W. Sailed, the Royal William (steamer), for Dublin. Put back, the
Shannon (steamer), for Dublin. Spe ikings—The ship Mars, Castle, of
and from Glasgow, for New Orleans, on the 10th Feb., oft' the west
end of St. Domingo.

DARTMOUTH, MARCH 9. a —The sloop Olive Branch, Ellison, from
Rotterdam to Dublin, was dismasted, and became a wreck during a
dreadful squall of wind, ten miles W. of the Eddystone this morning,
and towed into this harbour by a pilot smack.

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WHITSTABLE, MARCH 9.l.—The Thomas Blyth, Bowes, from the
Mauritius to London, lost an anchor and cable in the Nob Channel yes-
terday, and has been supplied from hence. Wind, W. by S. Blowing
hard.

LOWESTOFFE, MARCH 21.—For the last two days it has blown a gale
from W. to W.S. W., and continues.--Several large vessels have parted
from their anchors near the Gunfleet beacon.

YARMOUTH, MARCH 21.—1 t has blown hard yesterday, and to-day
from S W. to W.S.W—The Leda, of Dundee, and the Brechin Castle,
of Shields, Geldant, got in contact yesterday in working into the
Cockle. The latter has received considerable damage, and is leaky. A
steamer has been sent to tow her into these Roads.

BERWICK, MARC!! 9.o.—The Swift, of Dundee, Small, ran ashore at
Holyhead, on the I6th instant, but has been got off with loss of anchor
and cable.

HULL, MARCH 20.—Last night and this morning it blew a gale from
S.W. to W.S. W. A sloop has upset and sunk off Cleaness. A schooner
has parted and gone to sea. 6 C.sr , the sloop has righted, her mast is
about half out of the water. 10 r.st., the gale continues from W. to
W.N.W. 21st—It is blowing strong from N. W'.
MARGATE, MARCH 21.—The Louisa, Lewis, from Gloucester to Lon-
don has come into the harbour to repair.
RAMSGATE, MARCH 21.—Arrived the Lord Collingwood from Shields,
with loss of bulwarks, &c., having been in contact with the Newton,
from London to Cadiz.

MARGATE, MARCH 21.—Arrived off, the Vivacious, Proom, from
Seville; Nora, Brewer, from Sligo.

DOVER, MA.RCII 21:—Arrived off, the Margaretta Catharina, from
Batavia.

DUBLIN, MARCH 20.—Arrived, the Ann Mondcl, Roberts, from
Demerara.

CALLAO, Nov. 29.—The Brilliant, Echevaria, arrived here I.sth inst.,
from Guayamas, very leaky, and has been condemned as unseaworthy.
ST. JOIRN'I, N. 8., Fee. 9.—The Magnificent is reported to be in
the Bay.

The following has been posted at Lloyds :
Extract of a Letter from the Agents at Lima, dated Nov. 29.
We beg to acquaint you that last night we received accounts of the
celebration of a treaty between the Plenipotentiaries of Chili and Peru,
which happily terminates the war which these two countries have been
waging with each other for the last fifteen months.

Extract of a letter from the Agents at Liverpool, dated 21st inst.
—" Mr. Court's letter of to.day will record further losses, the wind has
veered to the N. W., which causes a heavy sea to roll in Bootle Bay, in
consequence of which we much fear the Avon will become a wreck,
although her cargo will be all saved. The Orient does not appear to
have strained, and it keeps moderate; we expect she will float either
to-morrow or Friday."
Mem.—Mr. Court's letter not yet received.

The Betsey, Tate, from Whitby to London, was totally lost on the
Blacktail Sand, on Tuesday.
The Consort, Armstrong, from Nullto Hambro', was driven on shore,
near Paul, 20th inst., during a gale.
The Mermaid, of Montrose, sunk oft' Holy Island, 17th inst. Crew
saved.