The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-05 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

SUGAR.—There is a steady market for British Plan-
tation, and the sales are 820 hhds, including 120 Barba-
does by auction at 39s 6d to 41s 6d; Mauritius, 100
casks and 6,700 bags sold with animation, the low( r kinds
at fully former rates, but the.better sorts went 6d lower,
mid to fine yellow 38. to 425. grey 37. 6d to 41s,
and fine brown 375 to 37. 63 ; Bengil, 4,400 bags were
mostly disposed of at rather higher rates, white
Crystalized brought 45. 6d to 47s 6i, mid to fine white
Benares 40s 6d to 445, and brown and yellow 36. to
39s 63; Madras, 1,200 bags sold briskly at stiffer prices,
brown at 32s 6d to 355, and low to mid yellow at 36.
to 375 6d. The quantity of British Plantation landed
last week at the East and West India Docks was 2,132
libels, 222 tierces, 589 barrels; there were taken for
home consumption 1,224 hhds, 115 tierces' 247 barrels.
The stock in the same places is 14,186 hhds, 2,045 trcs,
3,843 barrel..
COFFEE.-240 bags 20 casks Plantation Ceylon sold
without material change in prices; but 300 bags good
ord native were disposed of at a slight reduction, viz.,
30. 6d to 31s ; 50 bales Mocha sold at 58s 6d to 59. 6d
for mid long berry ; 620 bags Bahia sold steadily at 285
61 to 30s for common to good erd.
Runt.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 786 puns 87 hhds ; there were
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RICE.-2,300 bags and 2,000 pockets Bengal were
only partly sold at 83 6d to lOs 6i for low to good white
in bond, being rather lower.
SALTPETRE.-1,450 bags Bengal were disposed of at
• 26s to 27. for 10 to 5i per cent. refraction, being again
6d lower.

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SPICks.-270 bags white Pepper were ehitfly dispcsed
of at 4*d to 44 d, being rather easier.
TALLOW .—The market price for new Y.C.. first sort,
deliverable in the last three months, is 39s to 39s 3d, and
39s 6d, separate monthly deliveries. The supply from
South America is, and will remiin, in much doubt; it is
presutre:d that it will be continued, but on a ,mailer
scale than for the last twelve months. The same remarks
apply to the Australian colonies. The present losses iu
shipments tram thoEe parts will doubtless have the usual
etiect of checking shipment!. llho bupply of ll!,me
'l',Clow continues good, but there is no probability of the
malt' ~ for the next few months, being so large as of late.
TEA.—The market is steady fur black, bu. rather dull
fur green.

DEATU or A POACHER.—On Friday Evening a
party of three pers,m,t, whom a ft urth joined on V-le
road, left W, lshpool for the rtn-pos,. of 11, itif:g in the
ltiv, r Vurriew, a rapid and dangerous one, near the
village of Meifod. Shortly after midnight, while par-
their illegal amu,euent, one of the party, n. m d
Robert Davies. aged tiventy• four, whose parents re side
in Welshpool, was suddenly n.ißsetl by his companions,
tho first intimation of his fate b,ing the floating of his
bat down the stream. The immediate cause. of the ca-
tastrophe is not known, for not a Bound was heat d by
his fellow poachers. The body was found some lours
acterwards.
APPLEDORE, JUNE 3.—The Friends, of Bideford, from
Cardiff, was run into about twenty miles off Lundy
Inland on thi 26th ult., and sunk by an unknown
schooner, bound up Channel; crew saved, and landed
I lon.

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