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

KINGSTON ➢fARKETS.

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(From De Cordova's Meicantile Intelligencer.)
No transactions of a speculative tendency have been in-
duced by the approach of the Christmas holidays, and the
market has been most unusually quiet for the period of the
year. This inactivity is attributable to the disinclination of
dealers to purchase largely now, when it is confidently ex-
pected that the supplies will in a short time be considerably
increased, and prices must consequently fall. This remark,
however, applies more directly to flour than to any other ar-
ticle, as, if we except rice and pork, it is the only staple of
which there is at present any quantity in stock. The ar-
ticles in most demand are butter, lard, hams, cheese, bread,
cod oil, pigs' tongues, herrings, alewives, candles, and meal,
ix which there is no doubt a good business could be done.
were the supplies at all adequate to tie demand. e
may notice that the retail trade is very buoyarsto, as it
always is at this season, but ;it is checked in a great mea-
sure by the scarcity of most of the articles of every day's
consumption.

EXPORT:4.
SUGAR.--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 are
worth. and would realize, from 223. to 255. per 1001bs. The
accountsfrom 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 been
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.
lish double refined may be quoted at 90s. per 1001bs. for small
loaves.
Ruin is worth 4s. 3d. to 4s. 4d. per gallon.

EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
Planters' Bank, 30 days, 11h per cent. pm.
~ GO days, 1
19 ),
Jamaica Bank, 30 days, 11h „
~ If 60 days, 1
)9
Colonial Bank, 30 days, 1 ~

HER MAJESTY'S STEAMER
SPHYNX..

MOTTISTON, SUNDAY, THREE P.M.—We have 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 21A feet of water iu 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 front
her at low water; indeed there is no other means of ap-
proach either from this wild sea or shorei for the rocks on
one side and the cliffs on the other.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,— A paragraph which appears in The Sun of
the 12th instant, under the head of police•office, Lambeth,
stating that "on Monday, John Joan, 'a young fellow,
whose friends were said to be highli 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 live 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.
26, Lynedoch-street, Glasgow, Jan. 22, 1847.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE.—The opening
soiree 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 Ranstord,
Signor Marras, Mr. Manvers, Mr. Machin, Mr. Seguin,
Signor and Madame FrederickLahlache, Miss Eliza Birch,
and Miss Messent, contributed many agreeable morceaux in
the musical department; after which an exhibition was made
of a new lite-preserver and life-buoy called the Nautilus,
which appears to have these advantages over all preceding
ones—namely, greater simplicity, the power of self-inflation,
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 through 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 be 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, 11 _r.
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
INSTITUTION,Present.
RED
ADULT DEAF AND DUMB
LION-SQUAN,R.—Yesterday morning divine
(tldl.ent institution to a very
per-
formed in the chapel of this exc service was
full congregation, when the entiresiscourse and service was
rendered intelligible to the poor. deaf and dumb creatures by
a new, most admirable, and r
which to witness is both interestingaPid mode of interpretation,
sequence of the liberality re, and affecting.. In con-
charity having occasioned theeutlY extended to this valuable
considerable number of d liquidation of a large debt, a
the age of 13 to 17 will
shortly
and dumb of both sexes, from
nu-
merous inmates of the ortly be added to the already nu-
wholly maintained, institution, who, in addition to being
masters distinctive traders taught by the most experienced
the inclination, disposition, aders or occupations most suitable to
patients. or constitution of the various