The Sun.
London, England, 1838-07-25 00:00:00

IMP MARKET.

The market continues very flat, and prices are nearly nominal. The
accounts continue very good from the Hop grounds, and the outy to-day
is estimated at Iso,ooo/.

METAL MARKET.
This department continues very tult, and prices are drooping. S.peiter
is 171. per ton.

TALLOW AND OIL MARKET.

P. Y. C ; 465. 9d. on the spot, and 469. to arrive. Very little doing.
The Oil market i 9 quiet, but prices are si,ble.
SPIRIT MARKET.

Price of Leeward Rums, 2s. 91d., but not sn brisk as they have been.
Brandy and Geneva flat, but t.ot lower. Corn Spirits, 10s. The stock
of Ruin is 10,715 puncheons and 899 hhds.

COLONIAL MARKETS.

These Markets continue Juliet, and prices steady, a. d a good business
is doing, but it is confined to consumption. B. P. Sug..r sells steadily
at yesterday's prices. The stock is 31,054 hhds. and trs. and 2,527
bls. Today we had a public saleot 194 hhds. Barbadoes, which told at
previous sates. The stock of Bengal is 24,419 bags ; that of Manilla
71,729 bags ; Mauritius 19,569 bags. Of Coffee to.day we had public
sales of 215 casks Jamaica, 380 bags liavannah, and 528 bags Brazil,
which fetched previous rates. Indeed with the exception of Foreign Coffee
the whole market is firm. The stock of B.P. is 3,345 casks and 4,005
barrels and bags. Ceylon, 8,828 bags ; Mocha, 3,823 bales ; Brazil,
53,000 bags. Common Teas sell rather freely at small profits on sale
prices. Cocoa, 350 barrels B.P. went at firm prices. Ginger and
other spices are firm in value, but nut active. Saltpetre is steady. The
imports are light, and so are the exports. For to-morrow we have
public sales of 3,828 bags E. I. Sugar, 127 bags of Coffee, 368 bags
Black Pepper, and 1,364 bags Saltpetre.

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, JULY 24

The imports of Grain and other articles have been light since our
notice of last Friday's business, and during that time the weather ha-,
with a slight exception, proved warm and genial. In the intt real he.
twerp last markei.day and this morning a considerable dwirce of langour
pervaded the trade, still no variation was apparent in i;rices. To-day,
however, a better demand was experienced, and allair quantity of Wheat
changed hands. Oats were likewise in request, at an improvement of
id. pry 451bs. ; and Oatmeal moved off' freely at our last. quotations.
Flour, on a tolerable enquiry, maintained late rates, and Barley sold for
2d. more than Friday's currency.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JULY 24.

The sales today are small, in some degree ow,ng to its being Man-
chester market.day. Prices remain as last quoted. The sales consist
of a few Egyptian at 101 d. a 13d., and remainder American at sid. a
all 1,500 bags.

FATAL ACCIDENT—TWO Lt VES LOST.--On
Saturday afternoon, about one o'clock, as a sloop laden with coals was
going towards Hull Harbour, the weather being very hazy and the rain
faliing in torrents, she was i-uddenly struck by a heavy sea, which cap-
sized her, and she went down on the instant. There were on board at
the time five individuals—Mr. Joseph Carmichael, the master, a man,
and a boy, who saved themselves by righting the long boat, and getting
into it; but Mrs. Carmichael and her daughter—a fine girl, ten yews of
age—wint down in the sloop, they being itt the cabin.—Hull Paper
(Observer).

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.---On Sa.urclay informa-
tion was received at the different police-offices and station-houses that
on the 27i h of ;lay last the " Bank of the Metropolis," in the city of
Washington, was robbed of an immense quantity of jewels, valued at
several thousand pounds, the property of numerous depositors at the
above bank. It consisted of diamond brooches, pins, earrings, tiaras,
and rings, suits of pearls, aqua mains, pink topaz, amethysts, &c. ;
gold chains, pins, and rings ; a quantity of plate, consisting of knives,
forks, and spoons, with pearl and gold handles, &c., for the recovery
of which, and apprehension of the thieves, a reward of 5001. has been
offered.

Al 4 Omnibus travelling from the Whitmore Rail-
way Station, along the Market Drayton Road to Newcastle, was upset
last week on entering Newcastle, and all the passengers, ten in num-
ber, more or le,s injured, whilst the driver, named Jones (from whose
intoxication the accident arose) was killed.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.

The had harvest has this week commenced in our
neighbourhood, being fully a month behind our neighbours in the
southern counties. There is an abundant crop, and should the in-4ather
continue favourable for the operation now in pros:ess there win be a
plentittil return.—Berwick ildvertiser.
Last Friday evening, about eight ti clock, a large
Newfoundland dog attacked a groom as he wai walking up Luttgate.hill.
The
dog
p i
t j
up jumped
arm throat and knocked him down The
a°r()(l..s'.nis throat, and was severely bitten by the
groomjumped the
to
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dog. A butcher's boy %dm had charge of the dog, and had instigated
!iim to attack tto groom, immediately ran off without offering the
;lightest assistance, and whistling to the dog they both escaped in a
moment. It is believed that the boy and dog belong to Nee/gate.
market, and are, known in the neighbourhood,