The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-21 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

SUGAR —There Lai been an ec:ive demand f,,r British
Plantation, and an advaneo of Gd pc r cwt has been paid.
Batt arlora, has been at 41s to 4ls 61 for fine yellow, aid
at 38s to 40s 61 for mid to good. _

REFINED advanced t,.) 49s 6d, and 50s for brown lumps.
EAST INDIA —Madras has been brisk at full price.;
good and tine grocery 29s 6d to 44t, and good
and fine white 41s to 433. Bengal has had
a brisk sale by auction ; good and fine strong
yellow, 428 6,1 to 445; low and mid 37s 6d to 40.;
cood and fine strong brown 35s 61 to 37r; strong white
44a 61 to 46s ; and Bemires ord fine yellow like
Mauritius 35s to 398; Mauritius privately bus realised
fuller rates.

FOREIGN.—Porto Rico his been sold at 36i to 39‘ for
low and mid yellow, and at .4.9 s 6d to 43s 6,1 for
good and fins,. Java went at 32s to 33s for ord and law
brown, at 36s 6 1 for mid grey. llarannah has been
bought in at 39s 6.1.

COFFEE.—The value of Plantation Ceylon has been
barely supported. Low mid has be, n sold sit 59s to 60s
6,1, and up to 643 for mid coloury. Yitive is also lower,
grod ord bls to 525, and real good ord 52s 6'l. Madras
t,ni been bold at 56s 61 to Gls 6d for fine and fine fine
ord pale, and at 45s to 47a for triage, being lull priers
In West India and other samples there has been no par-
ticular change.

COCOA.—This articles has been dull. Trinidad has
been bold at 404 to 45s for-low grey to mid red, and at
47s for good. _ _ _

SALTPETRE.—Extreme rates have been paid for
good and fine rough, but lower sorts went heavily.
SPlCES.—Nutmegs have been a shade cheaper— ls Id
to 3s 3d per lb. Mace has been sold at is 4d to 2s 6
per lb, being full prices. Cassia Lignea of first and
second quality has been steady. B,urbon Cloves,
to 7d per lb. Malabar Pepper, St f for half heavy;
white rather cheaper.
COTTON.— I he market is quiet at about previous rates.
TEA.—At the public sales 19.800 packages were
offered, and 4,300 sold without spirit at previous sales'
prices.
TALLOW.—This article is quiet at 3115 3d to 38. 9d
per cwt on the spot.
EicE.—Extensive purchases have been made privately
in Bengal, at Os 9d to lOs 6d for mid and good mid,
being fuller rates.
GREEN FRUIT.—The demand continues good, the
moderate price of all kinds having its influence on con-
sumption. Oranges have not sustained the advance ob-
tained last week. Two cargoes of Seville China, one of St.
Michael's, and 800 boxes Lisbon, sold by Keeling and
Hunt, at public sale, went at a reduction of is to 2s per
package. Lemons are in request, and the stock is nearly
cleared from first hands. s cargo of good quality has
been wad at an advance of Is per case. Chesnuts, 3s to
4s per barrel higher. Black Spanish 425, Barcelona 41s;
Brazil, in fair demand.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings ai Nisi Prins, at Guildhall, before leird Chief
Justice WILDE, and a Special Jury.)
DAKIN, ADSIINISTRATRIX, V. BROWN.
In this case Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, Mr. Ogle, and
Mr. Needham were counsel for the plaintiff; and Mr.
W. H. Watson, Q.C., and Mr. Edwin James, repre-
sented the defendant.

The action was brought, under Lord Campbell's Act, I
by the widow and administratrix of the late Mr. Dakin,
the eminent tea-merchant of St. Paul's Churchyard,
who, it will be remembered, was killed in the summer
of 1848, by the explosion of a boiler, which he
was using in his endeavours to perfect an
improved method of roasting coffee. The de.
tendant is a straw - bonnet - maker, in Wood-
street, Cheapsido, and the manulacturer and patentee
of a patent cellular steam•plate for boilers, at
Great Suffolk-street, in the Borough. The defendaht
had supplied by contract the boiler which bursi, and
killed the plaintiff's husband on the occasion referred
to; 'Aral this action was brought to recover a compensa-
tion in damages from the d,,ttlidant for the be,eavewetit
and sorrow which had been occasioned to the plantiff
and her childriqi by ihe explosion, which the plaintiff
alleged had arisen from the badness of the metal of which
the boiler was constructed.

Mr. Allred NV uttroothe proved, on the part of the
plainiitY, that it happened at a warehowe belong-
ing to Mr. D,lttn, situated in Shoemaker lane.
Earl-street, Blackfriars. The building consisted of
four storeys, in the topmost of which the boiler which
bursted was placed, the furnace (which cianmucicateti
with the boiler by means of a hydraulic pump) being
situated on the ground fluor. The c)liiidlical boiler
which bursted was in court, and appeared to be about
two feet in diameter and three and a half feet long. Ii
was fixed in solid brick-work, with two inches of sand
all round between the btick•viork slid the oven. 'The
c) Linder was not heated in the ordinary way, but by
me alts of hot water from the furnace on the ground-
ior, which was poured into a series of longitudinal
holes placed ionnd the machine, at intervals of about
half an inch, A silver cylinder, in which the coffee was