The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-12 00:00:00

XIONLOUGH BOP MARKET.

Although our market is well supplied with all kinds
of new Hops, the quality of which is good, tho demand
for them is tolerably steady, at full prices. Picking has
been brought to a close in the whole of our districts.
In yearling and old Hops scarcely any transactions can
be noticed. The duty is called 80,0001. to 85,0001.—
New mid and East Kent pockets 8/ 10 to 101 10s; New
Weald of Kent ditto, 6/ to 81; New Susscx ditto, 61 to
71; Farnhams, 101 lOs to 11/ 1 Is; Yearling Kent, 3/10s
to 51; Yearling Sussex, 2/ 16s to 4/ 101 ; Old Hops,
1/ to 41.

COLONIAL.
SIIGAR.—There has not been an active market, but
holders generally have asked about previous rates for
British Plantation. Barbadoes at public sale has realised
37s to 38s for low and mid yellow, 40s to 41s for fine.
St. Croix has been sold at 41s to 42s for fine, and at 38s
to 403 64 for mid to good.
EAST INDlA..—Manilla has been taken in at 38s for
mid and 36s for washed of the clayed kind, and
at 33$ for ord dark unclayed. Mauritius has
only been partly sold at 6d to is decline, ord
and low brown 293 to 31s, mid 32s to 32s 6d,
ord and mid yellow 35s to 36s 6d, and good 37s to 37s
6d. Benares 64 to is lower; white 40$ to 425; mid
strong yellow 38s 64 to 39s ; low brown 33s 6d to
34s 6:1; and fine yellow, like Mauritius, 38s to 39s 6J.
Madras has been Gd cheaper, mid and good soft yellow
33s to 34s 6d, and low to good brown 28s to 30s 6d per
cwt. Foreign has been cheaper. Pernambuco, about
5,000 bags, was withdrawn above the market price.
Havannah has been taken in at 32s 6d to 355, for good
and fine white, and a few lots, duty paid, sold at 40s to ,
42s 6d, for mid to fine yellow, and at 36s to :39s for
washed.

COFFEE.—There has been no buoyancy in this market.
Jamaica has been bought in at 1003 for fine, iOs to 653
for good, 40s to 45s for fine and fine fine ordinary, and
38s for good ord, being more than the market value.
Costa Rica has been rather lower ; fine fine ord 453 to
463 61 Porto Rico has been sold at 42s for fine ord;
}allow and La Guayra at 41s for fine ord. Yellow Mocha
was taken in at 703. A few parcels of Jamaica have been
sold at 47s to 54s for low mid and mid. Ceylon has
realised 51s to 65s for mid and good mid. Plantation
45s to 50s for fine fine ord and low mid, 39s to 41s 6d
for good and fine ord, and 493 to 58s for pea-berry.
Good and fine ord Native 38s to 40s per cwt.
RlCE.—There has been a steady market, and at firm
rates for East India.

SPICES.—There have been sales of Pimento at 4;3 to
5d per lb for good; Malabar Pepper brought 3d to aid
for shorts; and a good deal of damaged black Pepper
has been sold at 2d to 2/d per lb; African pod Pepper
has been taken in at 35s for ord ; Jamaica Ginger has
been sold at 81 8s to 9/ 6s for fine; and Nutmegs have
been taken in at 2s 4d to 2s 9d per lb.
COTTON.—The rise at Liverpool has made the market
more active here, and at fuller prices.
Irrnico.—The public sales of over 19.000 chests are
proceeding satisfactorily to a full attendance of buyers.
Fine shipping sorts of Bengal have realised last sale's
prices, and the mid previous rates, to 2d advance. Madras
has gone at previous quotations, and Kurpah from that
to 2d higher. At yesterday's sale 1,803 chests passed,
865 were withdrawn, 174 bought in, and 764 sold, the
auction progressing then, and again to day, much the
same as at the opening.
TEA.—The market is quiet. Common and good
common sound Congou 9d to 9id per lb.
TALLOW.—The demand has rather improved this
week. P.Y.C. is 37s 3d to 37s 6d per cwt on the spot.
GREEN FRIIIT.—The demand continues good. Lisbon
Lemons are in request owing to Malaga being too green
for use. Some parcels of Madeira Oranges have been
sold at public sale by Keeling and Hunt, and realised
high prices. Hamburgh Grapes meet with a ready sale.
Spanish green Grapes will be scarco,and dear; Lisbon
ble.ck will be short. No arrivals of black Spanish, which
is in favour of Barcelona.

REDUCTION OF WAGES AT BLACILAURN.—A notice,
of which the following is a copy, was posted in the ma-
jority of the cotton mills and weaving sheds in this town,
on Thursday evening last:—." Notice.—The master
cotton-spinners and power-loom manufacturers regret
the necessity which compels them to reduce wages to
their previous rate. Other towns have made no advance,
and trade has become very much depressed. The
masters feel obliged, therefore, to give notice, that, in
one month from this date, the five per cent. which was
advanced will cease to be paid. Blackburn, 4th October,
1849." In reference to the above, it will be necessary to
state, that a short time ago the manufacturers of Black-
burn unanimously agreed to make a general advance of
five per cant. on the wages of their workpeople, but
with the proviso that, if in six weeks a similar increase
of wages was not granted to the factory hands in neigh-
bouring towns, it should be withdrawn.—Manchester
Guardian.

A LUCKY TAILOR.—Within the last few days, a
poor mun, a tailor in Tain, received tidings of a brother's
death in Canada, leaving a fortune of 10,0001., besides a
large amount of property. The lucky tailor is a hard-
working but illiterate man. In his younger days ha was
a noted smuggler, and for many years defied the excise
to discover the whereabouts of his bothy. At last an
informer led them to the spot, and poor Donald was
pounced upon and suffered durance rile for many months.
—lnverness Advertiser.

COMMUNISM DEFINED.—" The other day," says
the Consiiiutionnel, "a workman was declaiming in the
midsteof a group against communism. One of the group
said, you talk against communism, and you do not even
know what it is.' The workman said nothing in reply
at first, but taking off his blouse he tore it into frag.
ments, and after giving a portion to each of the persons
present, he said, Communisim, my friends, has for its
object to make of what may be very useful to one
person a collection of morsels which are useful to no-
body.'"

CAPTURE OF A WHALE IN TIIE THAMES.—^III the
course of Tuesday, some labourers in the employ of
Messrs. Meeson, the lime•merchants, who were at work
in the village of Grays, Essex, succeeded in capturing
a full-grown whale, which they discovered fast ashore on
the Black Shelf, a shoal running abreast of the village.
Upon examination it was found to be a fine specimen of
the species of whale termed the " Finner," measuring
not less than 58 feet in length and 30 in girth ; and
the men value their prize at about 2001. A vast number
of persons, from Gravesend and other places, have
arrived to view it, and a screen being placed round the
carcase, the captors are in a way of making a handsome
sum by the exhibition of the monster.

PAINTER'S Cuouc —A man employed in grinding
colours at a shop on the Quai Napoleon committed
suicide the day before yesterday, by blowing out his
brains. lie was impelled to comm-4 this act by a desire
to put an end to the sufferings that he endured from the
malady called the painter's cholic, which he had con-
tracted in grinding white lead. Our readers are aware
that the Government has recently ordered that in future
the white paint used in public buildings shall be made of
the white of zinc, which is not injurious to health, in-
stead of white lead. Considering the results of the use
of paint made from white lead, and the dreadful effects
that the lead produces in the manufactories where it is
prepared, it is much to be hoped that the example set by
the Government will be followed by the public.—Galig.
nani's Messenger.

A VISITOR FROM A DISTANT CLIME.-A Cocoa-
nut tree was drifted ashore a few days ago on the island
of Valentia, mar Kerry—another proof that the Gulf
stream, after running along the coast of America, sets
across the Atlantic.

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HYDE PARK BARRACKS. These barracks now
present the unwonted spectacle of being untenanted by
a single cavalry soldier, the whole of the Royal Regi-
ment of Horse Guards (Blue), under the command of
Colonel Bouverie, being quartered at Canterbury, where
they are expt cted to remain until the ensuing spring, by
which pyriud the repairs and improvements in progress
at Hyde. park Barracks will be completed. A corporal's
guard of the Fusilier Guards mount guard at Knights-
bridge daily.
ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL—The vacancy in the
office of wistant physician to St. Thomas's Hospital
has been filled up by the appointment of Dr. Thomas
B. Peacock.

SUICIDE BY A SHOPKEEPER.—Yesterday Mr. H.
M. Wakfey held an inquest in the Middlesex Hospital,
on Mr. Joseph Kaye, linen-draper, late of 55, Totten-
ham-tour:-rood, who committed suicide by precipitating
himself from one of the top windows of his house.
Verdict—" Temporary insanity."
We are glad to hear that Captain Worth, late of
the Calypso, now in Melville Hospital, is so far re-
covered as to be able to leave the hospital, in the
middle of the day, for exercise. On Tuesday after•
noon he ventured to far as the dockyard, but he still
appears very ill.