The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-25 00:00:00

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SUGAIL—Coarse brown is very plentiful, and may be ge-
nerally
obtained at from 18s. Gd. to 20s. per 1001bs. ; but the
market is badly supplied with the better sorts, which aro
worth. and would realize, from 225. to 255. per 1001bs. The
accounts f rom the manufacturing districts report very favour-
ably of the prospects of the 1847 crop, and it is expected
that there will be larger " taking off " than there has botn
for some years past. It is impossible, however, to hazard an
opinion as to the probable quantity which will be actually
manufactured. In some parishes it is rumoured that the al-
most hopeless competition which he has before him will induce
the planter rather to permit the canes to perish in the earth
than yet further to risk his limited means in attempts to
overcome the difficulties by which he is surrounded. Eng•
fish double refined may be quoted at 90s. per 1001bs. for small
loaves.
Rum is worth 4s. 3d. to 4s. 4d. per gallon.
EXCHANGIZS ON LONDON,
Planters' Bank, 30 days, 1 Iyd per cent. pm.
60 days, 1 ft
JaLica Bank, 30 days, 14
60 days, 1
ff
Colonial Bank, 30 days, 1 tit

HER MAJESTY'S STEAMER
SPHYNI.s

MOTTISTON, SUNDAY, THREE, r.m.--We base had a heavy
gale raging from the south to south-west, but the ship has
not received any further injury. She is now so far in that
there is not more than 21/2 feet of water in her. She drew
17 feet when she struck, but the pilots expect there will not
at the spring tides be more than seven feet where she sits.
The rocks outside break the sea, so that it has very little
effect on her. She sits quite upright, and a stranger not
aware of what had happened, would not take her for a
wreck. The men saving her stores, &c., walk to and from
her at low water; indeed there is no other means of ap-
proach either from this wild sea or shore, for the rocks on
one sick and the cliffs on the other.
WIED

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SSR,—A paragraph which appe:ue in The Sun of
the 12th instant, under the head of police office, Lambeth,
stating that "on Monday, John J'Ats, a young fellow,
whose friends were said to be highly respectable, his father
being barrack-master at Cork," &c., &c., having been
brought under the notice of the widow of the officer therein
referred to as his parent, I, at her request, beg you will con-
tradict so much of the assertion as stated "John Jones" to
be a son of the barrack-master at Cork, such being incorrect,
the only son of that lamented officer being at present in the
East Indies, where he has served for- the last five years with
one of her Majesty's regiments.
Your attention to this will oblige, your obedient servant,
JOHN MULLEN,
Captain and Staff Officer of Pensioners.
nedoch-street, Glasgow, Jan. 22, 1847.

26, L:

BRITISH AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE.—The opening
soirée of the season was given last Friday evening, at the
rooms of this society, which were as crowded as usual with
an elegant and fashionable assemblage—Madame Dulcken,
Mr. Muhlenfeldt, Mr. Blagrove, Mr. Goffrie, Mr. Goodbere,
Miss Birch, Miss Rainforth, Miss Dolby, Miss Ransford,
Signor Marras, Mr. Manvers, Mr. Machin, Mr. Seguin,
Signor and Madame Frederick Lablache, Miss Eliza Birch,
and bliss Messent, contributed many agreeable morceaux in
the musical department; after which an exhibition wan made
of a new lite-preserver and life-buoy called the Nautilus,
of
which appears to have these advantages over al
self-i l preceding
ones—namely, greater simplicity, the power n
great buoyancy, easy portability, and a structure which pre-
serves it against the risk of its air being exhausted by punc-
tures or superficial injury. Mr. Buckingham then gave an
outline sketch of his late tour throug Italy, including a visit
to Herculaneum and Pompeii. He gave also some interest-
ing details respecting the character and policy of the new
Pope, with whom he had enjoyed a long personal interview,
and after this he adverted in terms of just eulogium to the
genius of a rising English artist, resident at Rome, Mr.
Theed, specimens of whose talent were placed in the draw-
ing-room for the inspection of the company. The Noble
President of the institute, Lord Devon, was present.
ADULT DEAF AND DUMB INSTITUTION, RED
LION-SQUAlLL—Yesterday morning divine service
per-
formed in the chapel of this excellent institution was
full congregation, when the entire discourse andsertvoicaeTlevit.tYs
rendered intelligible to the poor deaf and dumb creatures by
a new, most admirable, and rapid mode of interpretation,
which to witness is both interesting and affecting. In con.•
sequence of the liberality recently extended to this valuable
charity having occasioned the liquidation of a large debt, a
considerable number of deaf and dumb of both sexes, from
the age of 13 to 17 will shortly be added to the already nu-
merous inmates of the institution, who, in addition to being
wholly maintained,
are taught by the most experienced
masters distinctive t
the inclination, d. trades or occupations most suitable to
patients, disposition, or constitution of the various