The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-28 00:00:00

QUEENSTOWN, AUG. 24.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. 233,
Z•Tilyr, I>ai badoes. Sid„ 24th, Jolirt, Bathurst.

PORTSMOUTH. AUG. 27.—Wind N.N.W. to W.—
Arrd. Ann and Funny, Porto Woo, and suili3d for Ham-
burgh.

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MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.)
11.11:3
SMITHFIELD.-01c1 Meadow Hay, 21 181 to 31 123;
New ditto, 21 5s to 31 03 ; Old Clover, 41 Os to 41 153;
New ditto, 3/ to 41; and Straw, 11 6s to 11 123 per
load. A lair average sur.ply, end a sluggish trade.
CUDIBERLAND.—OId Meadow Hay, 2s 18s to 31 14;;
New ditto, 2/ 5s to 3103; Old Clover, 4/ Os to 41 14s ;
ziew ditto, 310; to 41 Os; and Straw, 1183 to 11 14s per
load. Supply tolerably- good, and trade dull
WiThrEcuerEL.—Old Meadow Hay, 2/ 15s to 3/ 12s;
New ditto, 21 5s to 31 Os; Old Clover, 41 Os to 4/ 15s;
New ditto, 3/ Os to 4l 03; and Straw, 1/ 6s to 1/ 123 per
load. Trade dull, at the above quotaAons.

cemoNxis.z.
SUGXR.—The marker for British Plantation continues
without material alteration, and the sales are only 420
hhds, including 110 hhds Barbsdnes at auction, which
realised 37s to 41s for low to good yellow. 250 casks
and 7,500 bags Mauritius were only partially sold
at about former rates, Vie remainder (consisting
chiefly of the better sorts) being withdrawn above the
relative value; 450 bags Bngal realised former
Prices, from 38s to 395, 6d for low to mid
white Benares. A floating cargo of 1,000 boxes brown
lavannah have been sold at 20e. The quantity of
British Plantation landed last week at the East and
West India Ducks was 3,670 fluids, 329 tierces, 887 bar-
hbs;there were taken for home consumption 1,345
rind 143 tierces, 616 barrels. The stock in the same
places is 18 581 hhds, 2,378 tie:css, 6,523 barrels.
COFFEE.-170 bags and 30 casks Plantation Ceylon
Were withdrawn, as also 1,194 bags Rio, of usual import,
at prices above the present market value; but 340 bales
55 half-bales Mocha, and 1;550 bags Native Ceylon were
about half sold, at steady rates, the former from 54s to
33s fur fair clean garbled, and the latter at 37s to 37s 6d
for good ord quality.
Bum.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 865 puns 16 hhds there were
taken for home consumption 196 puns 16 hhds, and ex-
ported 257 puns 71 hhds. The stock in the same places
is 21,487 puns 2,374 hhds.
RICE.—Of 3,100 bags Bengal offered at auction, only
about one-fourth part sold at lOs to lOs 6d fur good mid
white.

SALTPETRE.-375 bags Bengal and 1,500 barrels
Egy Man were chiefly withdrawn, the former at 28s for
4i to 3,1, and the latter at 26s 6d to 27d for 7i to 64 per
cent refraction.

SPICES.—Of 1,100 bags Malabar Pepper offered,
barely tKo. thirds sold at a decline of id per lb; from 3d
to 30 for fair to good shot kind.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 39s per cwt on the spot, and
town 40s.
TEA.—The market is quiet.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Barsms, Aun. 22.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ••••• • • • .• •.•
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ••
Loan of Thirty Millions, FourparCent • •
Ditto Three per Cent.. ...... •• •••• • • • •
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions,ditto • . •
Ditt0,ditt0,1840.................. 9514
Ditt0,ditt0,1842...................... 93%
Ditto, •.. 87%
Ditto, 1836 ..... ...................... 82
Ditto, 18 18 • • • • .• .. •••• • .. •... 94
Ditto of the City, 1832 •••••••••• . 100
Ditto, 1843 .......... • • 91%
Bank of Belgium • • •-• •- ••••• • • • • •
Issue of 1841 • ... • • •• • •
Exchange on London, 25.47%.
DUTCH FUNDS.—A.2.IBTEHDAN, Arc. 21.
Money. Bills
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.• • 52% 51
Ditto, 3 per Cent
Ditto, 4 per ..................811. 8114 81%
Amort Syndic, 3% per Cent ••••• • • • • •
Commercial Company, 4% par Cent • •
Spanish New 5 per Cents. ......
Ditto 3 per Cent., Inland •.........
Exchangeon London, at sight 12.02
Two months...
On Hamburgh, at sight .. 35
Two months.— .• • • • • 34.87
On Paris, at sight ••• • • • .... 56.87
Two months. •• • • • • .• 56.50

Last night, died of cholera, the widow of' a police-
"maetT of the L division, named Bradley, No. 42, who
but a few days ago died of the same disease, and was
buried with due honours at St. 'Mlle's, Waterloo-road.
131411°Y was a steady, unofficious, and sober officer,
bad well respected. Three very young orphans are left
thind, who are at present sheltered by poor but be-
uevolent pelsons till the relatives are found.
th!)id aspiring
Pride sometimes be a useful spring-board to
soul, but it is much more frequently a de-
structive stumbling-block.—Eliza Cook's Journal.
There is no trusting to appearances, we are told ;
dupes
this maxim is of no avail, tor men are the eager
muPes of them. Life, it has been said, is " the art of
bp.
h -mg well deceivd;" to which it might be added, that
fortune is, for the most part, set up with counters;
so that he who will not cut in because he has no gold in
his pocket, must sit out most of his time and lose his
chance of sweeping the tables. Delicacy is in ninety-
nine cases out of a hundred, considered as mere rus-
ticity; and sincerity of put pose is the greatest affront
that can be offered to society. To insist on simple truth,
is to disqualify yourself for place or patronage, the less
You deserve, tfie more merit in their encouraging you;
",n1 he who, in the struggle for distinction, trusts to
realities and not to appearances, will in the end find him-
self the object of universal hatred and scorn.—Eliza
Cook's Journal.
STONYHURST COLLEGE, LANCASHIRE. At the
recent examination of students of this institution, the
first silver medal was awarded to Matthew Boyle Wil-
liams, librarian, of this town.—Cheltenham Journal.
• PESTR SUSPENSION BRIDGE.—This splendid bridge
la generally s
iish,d uosed to have been completely demo-
b, ,x"rkinz, the recent events of the war operations
n tue'llungarians and Austrians, but up to the
Present time, we are glad to learn, from a correspond-
!tit oil the spot, no serious damage has been done
'0 the structure. The first retreat the Austrian
army was obliged to make from Pesth, the General
gave orders for the destruction of the bridge, and
"0 cwts. of powder were placed on it, 30 cwts. on each
t'le, or under the chains, with the view of breakiegthem.
oth charges were fired at the same time ; the person
Who superintended the arrangements and fired the
elearges was literally dashed to pieces. The client it pro-
tii.ll,.eed on the bridge was the breaking down of the road,
Luieb consists of tratieverse cast-iron bearers, to a con-
-,"rable extent. The vibration of the chains was very
'threat, and continued for some length of time; but, after
e retreat of the Austrians, the bridge was
irtia repaired. The Hungarians, however, were
tAiged to retreat over the bridge, when
.
-lark,
gave orders for its destruction.
-lark, at Pesth, went to Dembinski, and remonstrated
with hi
and told him that it would be nothing to his
credit as a General to destroy so fine a structure. The
General told !sir. Clark that his orders were peremptory,
but
Horne a great deal of negotiation he consented that
c'e of the hearers should be taken doe n, and put into
tea,ts, and taken down to the island of Schutt, the boats
ihue scuttled and sunk in deep water: this was done.
"en Caine the Russian and Austrian armies, when the
bearers were taken up, and the bridge again repaired.
several
shots have struck the stonework places, but no
great damage is done.—Mining Journal.
k STRANGE BIRTH.—A boy in the district of Kir-
-1:4, who has a passion for chicken-hatching, got a
rge egg some time ago from some sailors just come
eerne kora Alexandria and placed it under a favourite
Bul, expecting to get, a large Egyptian fowl; but his
rPrise and amazement may be better conceived than
described when he found one morning a live crocodile !
'.Pifeskire Advertiser.
pr 4 few days ago, a mother and daughter, named
utzkener, were executed at Marienweder, in Prussia,
e'e'r the murder of their husband and father. In
ss"lacy, 1848, at daybreak, four gendarmes on their
-ay from Berlin saw the two women kneeling as if in
Prayer at Calvary, near the village of Tullich, with a
large box between them, covered with a blanket. The
officers, conceiving some suspicions, went to the women,
and asked what they were about. They seemed too
terrified to reply, and accordingly the officers opened
the box, and to their surprise found in it the corpse of a
man dreadfully mutthted. The two women were
arrested, and after an investigation had been commenced,
. they admitted that the deceased was the husband of one
and father of the other of them; and that they had mur-
dered him—the mother, to be eua3led to marry a farm
labourer, with whom she was in love; the daughter, to
escape from what she called a hateful tyranny. This
murder, they said, they effected when the man was
ttriunk, by pouring boiling water into the ears and on
beee face, and by afterwards cutting and slashing the
The sentence on them was, that they should be
eeh-4:n.red on the wheel, beginning at the feet ; but
oct-1.1.0.ng commuted this into simple decapitation.—
cgriani.
r -RE OF AN ILLICIT DISTILLERY.—Yesterday
h Edward Thomas, accompanied by Messrs. D. Colqu-
b(Ln a, nd Pee tecost, officers of Inland Revenue, assisted
"i?itice-constable 328 K, made a seizure of an illicit
Wiltsef"Y at No. 4, West-street, Stepney. An entrance
grooLee„tkd at the back door, and in a back room on t e
tat floor they found a copper still, capable of con-
of a 40 or 50 gallons, at full work, about six gallons
eerPi!its'
number of tubs, and other articles, used in
kola/-g °a an illicit trade, from 50 to 60 gallons of
whieses wash in a state of fermentation, the whole of
wiloh_owuesrees
Is.neizßerdoaadndstcroenevt.eyed to the Inland Bonnie
and jtetuiGli CIDER.—A vessel arrived from Guernsey
a por • racy has brought a quantity of cider, in casks, as
weight tn of her cargo. The same vessel brought 26 tons
lid.s.°C new potatoes, the produce of the Channel
tit letter timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affec-
eakil_ancl letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the
7.-----Eliza Cook's Journal.
"e NICARAGUA. QUESTlON.—Liverpool letters
—entice)
rece; , regarding this singular question, that accounts
Crosved by the steamer Cambria report that Mr.
that LE f has been instructed by the United S:ates Cabinet
c'rrn Lord Palmerston distinctly and unequivocally
Barclays exclusive privilege as that claimed by Mr.
kitt the British Consul at New Yoik, will be ad-
of ,;11) and no such possession le cogniz,d. The right
wake,
.etat Britain to a monopoly of the important high-
is 4'lu question is pronoueced to ho ludicrous;" and it
Proieetd that General Tayler's admittistretion intent's to
, ar,d preserve all the jut which have been
'Puree I A .
sett_ In rii an cii z -ns in Nicaragua.
MENT OF IIORSES.—On Saturday last several
akteuk,r andfur es w• re sti, pp. dby Mr. J ,ho
to Bavaria,
on beard the (.; z.z lie, r Ilaaiburgii, en route
•a.riae
elde, . is the firet shit tit of henees that '4B tak'
P 400 This
since the blockadep in
was raised,—Bullrttsen
er.