The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-06 00:00:00

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE COLONIAL MARKETS DURING

THE WEEK.
There has been a little business done in these great departments of
trade, and in Canadian produce nothing. Prices of Groceries, wh,re
altered, are lower than last week. All kinds of Raw Sugars, for con-
sumption, must be quoted at Is. lower. Coffee unaltered but heavy.
Tea at public sales,tnust be rer,arded as lid. pet lb. cn an average,
lower, this week than last, and 3d. to 4d. per lb. lower, than the prices
of the last public sale of Free Trade Tea. Rice and Rum have been,
if either, a little dearer. Sp'ces have undergone no variation whatever
in value. The imports have been fair fir the season of the year.

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There is but little business advertised for next weak, 4 present ; for
to.day, none.

COAL 7.1,1.1
ISUIkIoI 0
11e1thurn Main
Holywell
I.2aze's Main . l7 0
Pantap Windsor
'outli Hartley 6:l 0
Willington 22 6
Wylarn
Walls End Clark aria Co. l9 0
Walls End Hilda . 3
W4llll End not spur
Walls End KillinZworth
Wills End Newinareh 2 • 0
Watts End Walker - 22 3
Ships irrive.l since

Per Tor.

rt K KT.- Jan. 5

l'er Ton 11. .1
Walls End Braddyll's Hettan 24 0
Walls End Haswell ...
Walt; End Hetton 24 3
%Valls En.l lanahtoti
Wails En.l Russel's Helton 2I. 3
Walls End Stewar 's ...... .... :4 :3
Wails End Hartlepool 2l 3
Wall; End Barrington
Wall. End' South D,,rhain 23 0
Wa'ts lied Teets , 4.3 4
Blythe iN 3
t'owp•-n
Walls End Hartley 22 6
Howard's Netherton Main
last mara..t-driy. 9

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET (YESTERDAY.) •
The demand Las been very moderate this week, and the market flat.
All the holders of new American have met the demand freely, at a
decline of ru:iy 14 per lb. on the closing ;nice of Friday last., being a fall
of about 4d. from t c highest prices ; in Brazil and other kinds there
is no alteralon worth no ice. To.day there has been, on the who:e,
more inquiry, and the sales are 300 bags of all kinds ; nothing done
this week either in specuLtion cr for export.

THE HEROINE OF " THE Spy."—lt was from
the character of, Mary Philipse (mother of the present Captain
Eitnry G ige Morris, R N.). that Cooper, the American
noye • iis.,
________ formed the heroine of " the Spy," under the name of _ _
•
Nd:sf.enDceuchke,
apnldrand:dapa:caai/eidbi,tostaatNin:.
A FOWL AFFAIR.—On 1 uesday last, cons'.derable
Frances, and an interesting account is given of her interview
merriment was caused in the Sessions Court, ataNbcil.riothgael,leir::
wit shington.—Burke's Commoners, Part 15.
MEETING AT COvENTRy.—A public meeting, at Lou, by the trial of a man from 'Bedale, en a charge of stea!ino.
which not many persons attended, was held in the County a (heck andwiathdr:i
Hall on Wednesday, for the purpose of establishing a " Puli- that at the period mentioned he was crossing
the prosecution, and the
tical Union, breed upon Universal Suffrage." On Monday company Ir'.e.andln
We shall probably copy from the Coventry Herald a report of Swan as to character, whose signet, however, has withheld.
the speeches delivered, and the resolutions passed. The first Mr Drake, the attorney of Bedale, was in Court, but the
lotion which was carried is, " That this meeting having prisoner exchanged no quaking with him.
resolution Mr. Peacock dis-
lost dence in the present Government, has no lugger played his plumage. in conducting
wish for their continuance in office." gentleman of ornithological acquaintance remains a gaol bird.
any
—York Courant.
'BA LLOT.—Much interest has been excited by the
exhibition of one of Mr. Gfote's ballot-boxes at the Reform
all confi
RIPE It AsPBERRIES.—One proof, and a remark-
noorns, with the fouo,ing inscription on it :___Presented to able one too, of the present mildness of the season is to be
the
Indo?endent El,ctors of Beverley, by their sincere and found in ga, den of Mr. Roberts, Veterinary Surgeon, of
obliged friend, George Rennie." The petition; of the inha., Char it,,n Moo, on whose raspberry trees ripe fruit now hangs
bitants, in favour of the b4l!ot, are about to be forwarded to in considerable quantities.—Cheltenham Chronicle.
London for pres.‘ntation—that to the Commons by the Hon. A NAVAL OFFICER'S DUTY.—....,.< A strict atten-
Charles Langdale, with 653 signatures; to the Lords by fiat' to his professional dories, added to
Lord Brous.,,liam, will 649 signatures. Petitions for the ex- had rendered Nelson such a complete seam
seven years' practice,
that th ,ugh he
}tali '
'r of the suffrage are also to be forwarded with the above - hisnineteenth . Captainan - -
, was only Li
.)ear, yet Robinson placed
near the same nurnb:l. of names —Hull Advertiser.
the greatest c ;nfich-nce in his skill and prudence, and was f,•e-
Last evening an Inquest was held at the Craven i quently heard to say that he felt as easy at night when it w, s
Hotel, Strand, on the body of. M*. N'rrk a lodging-house t Nelson's watch ;is When the oldest officer en board had charge
keeper, who put a period to his , xistence yesterday morning of the ship. Thus we have in this illu,trious character a
by hanging himself from the balustrades of the staircase of his st iking examile that to learn to command it is first necessary
own house, No. 116, i:-. the Strand. No cause could be as- to obey, and that, in order to obtain distinction in any pro.
signed for the act, and the jury returned a verdict of— Tem- Cession, something more than a superficial knowledge is abso-
porary Insanity. lutely roonis,te."____Nava/ Keepsake for 1838, containing a new
Life qf Nelson by an Old Sailor.
- Yesterday morning the naked body of a female
infant was found adjoining the railroad, in St. Olave's parish, THE SUBLIME.---Tlie sun was just lifting his ra-
southwark. From the condition in which it was discovered it diant head above the fleecy clAwls of the moroin7—the sweet
is conjectured that it was placed in the situation where it wag songsters, of Nature were Pouring forth their e'cliest met Idles
found when alive, and that It died in consequence of exposure : --twhen Mary, more beautiful than Diana„...,walked forth to._
to the Severity of the weather, I NO thg eili4ell4.l