The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-29 00:00:00

PRICES CURRENT FOR THE WEEK ENDING JAN. 26.

There has been an improved demand for Sugar, and more
business would have been done had holders been disposed to
proceed with sales at last week's prices. The transactions
comprise 700 hhds. B. P., without material change, 600 bags
white Bengal at 665. to 675., and 400 casks of very low dat k
brown at 455. to 475. per cwt. In Mauritius no sales. The
sales in foreign Sugar consist of 110 caws and 200 barrels
Bahia, at 20s. to 235. for brown, and 255. to 28s. per cwt. for
white. In Molasses there are no transactions. Coffee.—
The trade, being very barely supplied, have taken 140 casks
of Jamaica, offered at auction, at advanced rates; clean or-
dinary to fine qualities have sold at 3s. to 55., and the finer
descriptions 2s. to 3s. per cwt. higher, and the quotations are
altered in conformity. Of foreign, 100 bags common ordi-
nary Brazil brought 40s. per cwt. A small lot of Brazil Cocoa
sold at 405., 1,200 bags Bengal Ginger, chiefly at 235. per
cwt., a small lot of Barbadoes at .505., 300 bags Pimento at 3d.
to 3-1(1., and 150 bags good black Pepper at 4fd. per lb. The
sales of East India Rice have been about 300 bags, at 13s. to
I4s. per cwt. in bond for low middling to fair quality; and 30
tierces Carolina have been disposed of at 335. per cwt. duty
paid. There has been a good demand of Rum, but, i❑ con-
sequence of the market being very barely supplied with suit-
able qualities, the sales have not exceeded 220 puns., consisting
of 70 puns. Jamaica at 4s. sd. to 4s. 10d., and 150 puns. De
merara at 4s. Id. to 4s. 6d. per gallon.
COTTON.-The necessities of the trade have compelled
them to purchase more freely this week, but the business still
has probably been checked by the continued interruption of
the canals by the frost. The market having been partially
cleared of the late imports, the decline in America of id. per
lb. noticed last week, has been nearly recovered, though per-
haps the improvement has been somewhat more difficult to
realize yesterday and to-day ; other descriptions are without
alteration. There have been taken on speculation 1,000
American, 300 Carthagena.
There has again been an extensive demand for Tobacco, at
advancing rates, and the sales are estimated to have been
about 450 hhds. ; of these 100 hhds. Virginia stemmed and
70 leaf, and 40 hhds. Kentucky stemmed, were purchased for
re-sale, a few hhds. for Ireland, 30 hhds. for export, and the
remainder were taken by the home trade. 400 serons Co-
lumbia leaf Tobacco were offered by auction, but only 60
serous found buyers, at 41-d. to sd. per lb.

THE UNSUCCESSFUL CLUB.—A club is so called
from its members having failed in dramatic writing. One con-
demned farce entitles a man to be a member instanter. If his
comedy be withdrawn after the second night, he must be bal-
loted for; but if his tragedy be hissed off during the first act,
comes in by acclamation, and may order what dinner he
pleases. The perpetual president with a silver cat-call at his
button-hole, proudly boasts, that during a seven years' proba-
tion, his most enduring dramatic bantling was a melo-drama
that set everybody asleep. lie counts his hisses as a warrior
does his wounds, and hopes in time, by dint of bad acting
to make the people in the pit tear up the benches.—New
Monthly Magazine.
The Liverpool mail was dug out of the snow on
Monday evening at Preston. When near Lancaster the
guard was missing ; what has become of him no one can tell ,
he was at Garstang, and the coachman saw him once between
that and the place he was missed at, about half a mile from
Lancaster, when he called out to him to blow his horn.

A man unknown, about 40, was found on Sunday,
the 21st, near the well-known Bustard Inn, on Salisbury
plains, frozen to death, with a whip lying beside him. He
was employed driving pigs.
On Wednesday week nine persons were drowned in
the reservoir at Hollinwood, near Oldham. They were skating
at the time, and the ice having broken, 14 were plunged into
the water, and five only were saved. We understand three of
the nine arc married men.

/At Drury-line to-night, Wednesday, and Friday, will bo
repeated for the 10th, 11th, and 12th times, Sbakspeare's
tragedy of Hamlet, with the pantomime of Harlequin; and
Jack-a-Lantern. To-morrow night, being the anniver,sary
of King Charles's martyrdom, there will be a concert of sacred
and miscellaneous music • and on Thursday Mozart's opero.
of Don Juan, with Our Mary Anne, and the pantomime.
At Covent-garden to-night Shakspeare's tragedy of Mac-
beth. To-morrow night there will be no performance. On
Wednesday and Friday King Lear ; and on Thursday Rooke's
opera of Amilie, or the Love Test, with every evening_ the
new pantomime of Harlequin Peeping Toni of Coventry-
Opera Buffs, Lyceum—on Thursday night will be produced-
Mercadante's opera of Elisa e Claudio, in which Mdlle. Scho-
roni Arid Miss Fanny Wyndham, SignOri Lablache, Sanqui-
rico, and CMoni, will sustain the principal characters.
The Adelphi produces to-night a new piece to be called
The Gnome Fly, in which a Signor Hervio Nano, amongst
other personifications, will represent a "fly," in which embo-
dying he will display several extraordinrry evolutions ; after
which The Black Domino, with All for Love, and The
Dancing Barber.
The Olympic to-night, and during the week, presents
Shocking Events, the Black Domino, the Rinydoves, and
Puss in Boots.
The St. James's produces to-night a new operatic burletta,
to be called the Black Domino, in which Mrs. Stirling will
sustain the principal character ; after the burletta selections
from Julius Cresar, by Mr. Otway ; followed by the Culprit,
and the farce of Mrs. White.
The Surrey to-night, and during the week, the Death
Token I with, to-night, to-morrow, and Wednesday, the
Vampire ; on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, My Poll and
My Partner Joe ; to conclude every evening with the new
pantomime of Ola' Dame Trot and her Comical Cat.
The Victoria, to-nibht, and every evening of the week, tho
Dice of Death ; with, to-night, an interlude, Harlequin and
Mother Shipton, and a grand masquerade; to-morrow, and
every other evening, the Black _Legend of Rotherhithe, and
other entertainments.
„-ight, and during
New City Theatre, Norton-falgate, :tc,
the week, the King and the Carpenter, \-9th Beulah Spa,
and Woman's the Devil.