The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-19 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.-(YESTERDAY'

HAY Mani= TO.
Clover
SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 2112 s to 31 165 ; ditto.
3/ 8s to 4116 s ; and Straw, 11 103 to 11 143 per lead. Troll,
dull, at barely late rates.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 15s to 31 185; Clover
ditto, 3/ lOs to 4114 s ; and Straw, 11 12. to 11 165 per load.
A full average supply, and a sluggish demand.
WHITZCHAPEL.—bIeadow Hay, 2/ 105 to 31 160; Cliz.
ditto, 3/ 10s to 51; and Straw, 11. 103 to 11 145 per load
Supply good, and trade dull.

COLONIAL.
SUGAR.—The market for British plantation is stesui.
about 450 hhds having been sold without alteration in valllr
The public sales have consisted chiefly of 10,522 bags Saari.
tius, 4,669 bags 141 chests Bengal, 1,723 bags Madras.
and 210 hhds Porto Rico, nearly all of which sold a
steady prices, with the exception of the latter, which
being held above the market value was all withdrawn. pri-
vately about 5,000 bags Manilla have been disp.osed of at
44s 6d, being a full price. The quantity of British Planta-
tion landed last week at the East and West India Docks Wl'
1,451 hhds 104 tierces ; there were taken for home consumr_
tion 1,143 hhds 140 tierces; the stock in the same places 15
10,180 hhds 892 tierces.
Mysore!
COFFEE.-133 bags Plantation Ceylon, 422 bags
and 141 bales Mocha. The Ceylon realised steady prices, bill
the Mysore and Mocha were taken in. and
Rux.—The quantity landed last week at the East
West India Docks was 876 ped
uuli
uns 37 hhds. Tbere were talc!!
for home consumption, 325 puns 70 hhds, and expoll_,°°
puns 52 hhds. The stock in the same place i5"9,120 p
504 hhds. 9 538
Ricu.—At auction 2,937 bags 1,857 pockets Bengal,
bags Madras, 285 tierces Carolina, 2,940 bags Java, a"
bags Manilla, which nearly all sold, the better qualities. Pa
the previous currency, whilst on the lower kinds a reductao
of 3d to 6d was submitted to.
SALTPETRE.-1,590 bags Bengal were witbdravrn.
SPICES.-200 bags Pimento, 314 bags Malabar Penn
and 140 chests Cassia Lignea were offered by auction. I:
Pimento and Pepper realised former prices, but the Cass,'
Lignea was withdrawn.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 47s to 47s 9d per cwt on the spot,
and Town 49s 6d.

TEA.—This article is quiet.
CorroN.—There is an increased disposition to buy.

(From the London New Price Current of May 18.)
Bm:4u.—To -day no advance occurred in the value_u`
Raw Sugar. The home-trade were desirous to do busia%
in most sorts to-day, whilst some parcels were taken by
brewers and distillers. On the part of exporters, ht'wfver,
little desire was shown to operate. Importers of West en
Muscovade evinced firmness, and insisted upon prices .clu_l
to those of Friday for all kinds, and at which a good bustu,""
was transacted. uelt
REFINED.—To• day refined goods were in excellent re-
by the home trade, and prices ruled firm. Bonded Crushed
Sugar sells freely for exportation.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Bengal Sugar did not sale
with much attention, and the parcels offered at pullr
onic
3/U
at a fa a
a f.o3ri
amounting to 4,175 bags and 76 casks, went
mer rates of 6d. Madras met with little deman d
bags were only in part sold.
"A demand for
MAURITIUS.—This afternoon there was a go— -
The
bust
Mauritius Sugar for the use of refiners and gr ocers, w
the brewers and distillers were buyers to a fair extent.
parcels offered at public sale amounting to 11,238 bags 500
casks were nearly all disposed of, but merchants were cow•
pelled to submit to a reduction on the rates of Friday of 6d
to is per cwt.
FOREIGN.—This afternoon at auction 416 Ude, 79 boxes,
11 trcs, 61 brls Cuba were offered, but a part only sold at
barely the former value.
COFFEE.—This afternoon the c,nantity of Ceylon Coffee
submitted to public competition amounted to 1,206 bags; the
Plantation was only in limited demand, and prices declined 2s
to 3s per cwt, but the Native was in excellent request, and
went at a rise on the rates of the last auction of is 6d to 25
nreo Trinidado
insistedu ‘ Ve West Ina
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na s
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eorte muchonly
partlyi n re
per cwt ; the whole offered sold.
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ebasaf afternoon
1:661;
Cocbo;uA.tand
full
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To-day at public sale 620 pkgs Assom Tea were all
sold, and at prices above what the proprietors expected to
obtain ; Pekoe fetching Is 10d to 3s I ltd. Congou qd to
is 31d. Souchone• Is 2d to 2s Id, and a few chests of lni•
perial Hyson and Young Hyson is llid to 33 6d.
Rica—To-day there was only a limited demand for East
India Rice. At public sale 2,414 bags of Manilla were sold
but at rather lower rates. Of 1,864 bags Bengal, the soupa
was taken in, but the damaged sold. Privately, there was
little business done in any kind of Rice.
SAGO—To-day, at public sale 228 boxes of Pearl Sago sold
at reduced rates.
CocinNElL.—This afternoon at public sale 100 bags ct
Ikl - Cochineal were all withdrawn, and 364 chests Lae

A.exican
Dye were nearly all taken in at 6d to l la for IOWtO middling
quality.
SPIRITS.—The demand for Leeward Island Rum has c°11,.:
sidorably improved since our last report, and a rise in Pri‘7
of 3d to 4d per gallon has taken place. Purchases to. e
large extent have been made, and 35 5d to as 6d are
rie
Pi!
rates paid. East India met with a good demand, and pma.ee
have risen. In Demerara several purchases have been
and prices are on the ascendancy. For all kinds of Jamaiels
there has been an extensive home demand, whilst exporters
operated with freedom ; prices have risen 3d to 4d per gall":
Brandy is offered upon further reduced terms, still few cop
tracts have been entered into by exporters or the home trade.
whilst the stock is on the increase; the deliveries; however:
continue to be satisfactory. Geneva is wanted for ex
tion, tion, and prices are higher. Fine for home use in good as'
mend. For British Corn Spirits the demand is very good.
INDIGO.—To-day 921 chests (all second-hand goods) bar
passed the sale. During the progress, proprietors have sea
withdrawn 438 chests. The few lots of good and fine quality
which passed the sale continued to be in good demand at
about 3d discount on the February sale's prices, whilst the
ordinary and defective kinds were chiefly bought in at the
prices previously established, viz. from 4d to 6d discount on
the last sale. The quantity bought in to-day is 450 chests.
Ou.s.—lmporters of Southern Oil submitting to a further'
nd
ind
l)treductiontoucypaerprevail
svb.aeilosifbe
,notaral pricesnlm ledecmet with
12.
qualities,
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TALLow.—Prices of Russian suffered no furtFeraeall
of business transacted in Cod has been to .a
small extet
only. With Sperm. the market continues to be well supPit'
sion, but the purchases made on the spot have been trill!!
by
.soip makers. and chandlers, who took only sufficientAT.
their immediate wants. Home-made met with a god "-
mud on the spot. There
is a plentiful supply.
For other
kinds of Tallow prices remain much the same as previously
quoted, but only a limited demand has been experienced'
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DEPLORABLE DEATH OF A MOTHER AND CHILD 774
THE PENITENTIARY.—An inquiry took place on Saturday%
before Mr. Bedford, in the Milbank Prison, on the body PI
Agnes Dewsnap, who died under the following naelanchog
circumstances :—Mr. Laurent, the Deputy-Governor of.tA_4!.
prison, stated that the deceased was admitted on the 10ts!.0±
February, from York Castle, having been convicted at the
February,
Sheffield sessions of stealing boots, and eentenced.
deposed
previous conviction) to seven years' transportation.
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AnthonyhWath oi tne ,
tthhee3edmoi
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was n ,
soefn
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He saw deceased, who was suffering under pueryeal convvuni,
sions and in labour. He saw Mr. Davy, the resident surgeo..
and suggested her immediate delivery, or the efforts
WOal"
cause her death. The mechanical effort proved unavailing.
from the excessive size of the bones of the child's head, and
their excessive hardness. As the only hopes of saving the
mother, it was deemed expedient to remove the child, which,
after some time was effected. It had probably been dead
some hours. In answer to the Coroner, Mr. White said that
all had been done in good time, and to his perfect satisfaalion
by Mr. Davy. Mr. Davy, the resident surgeon, and other
woitnapssynas, stated
hethastthwedteackeasen ill, and diedgoneedhad
theon well
next
day
up to
Te.
The jury returned a verdict of "Natural death," and paid a
high coophraent Me. Davy, for the skill ant kindness 110
had shown.

BIRTHS.
On the 14th inst., at Babraham, Cambridgeshire, the WI/
of the late Henry John Adeane, Esq., of a son.
On the 14th inst., at Eastbourne-terrace, Sussex-glude"
the wife of Charles Pemberton, Esq., of a daughter. ~
On the 15th inst., at Clapton-square, Mrs. F. Engelharue
of a daughter.
On the 17th inst., at Highbury-grange, Mrs. James 13'
Scott, of a son.
On the 15th inst., Mrs. Joseph Ludlam, of

MARRIED.
On Monday last, at the Unitarian Chapel, Park-NW'
Diss, Norfolk, by the Rev. Thomas Hunter, Mr. S. IL J°l!n:
son, one of the representatives of Mr. Heary Cuthbert, win;
and spirit merchant, to Catherine Elizabeth, younges•
daughter of Mr. John Mallott, all of Dies.
On the 11th inst , in Paris, at the Catholic Church of Notr:
Dame de Lorette, and afterwards at the Protestant Chu"
of the Oratoire, Flora Frances Rebecca Davison, eldest dangt*
ter of Major-General Davison, of Northumberland, to t
•
Vicomte Henri de Milhau, of the Chateau de la Baulks'
Toulouse, Haute Garonne, France.

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