The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-06 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Wirripso2, TUESDAY.—Her Majesty and his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales,
Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice,
and the Princess Helena, attended by the Countess of
Mount Edgecurnbe, Lady in Waiting, the Dowager
Lady Lyttelton, Lady Caroline Cocks, Maid of
Honour in Waiting, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps,
Colonel Seymour, Dr. Meyer, and Major-General
Bowles, Master of the Household, arrived at the
Castle from her Majesty's marine residence, Osborne,
Isle of Wight, at twenty-five minutes past six
o'clock this afternoon, and were received at the
royal entrance by Lord Byron and Sir Edward
Bowater.

Her Majesty and her Royal Consort were escorted
by a party of the Royal Horse Guards, commanded
by Lieutenant Sheffield.
Lord Byron and Sir Edward Bowater arrived at
the Castle this afternoon to take their duties, as the
Lord and Groom in Waiting on the Queen.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Meiningen
took leave of her Majesty the Queen Dowager yes-
terday, and took his departure from Marlborough
House, attended by the gentlemen of his suite, for the
Continent.

His Serene Highness Prince Gustavus of Saxe
Weimar left Marlborough House on Saturday even-
ing, for the Continent.
Mr. Eastlake had tin interview with Lord John .
Russell yesterday at his official residence in Down-
ing •street.
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His Excellency the American Minister had an
interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer
yesterday. Mr. Freshfield had also an interview
with the Right Hon. Baronet yesterday at his official
residence in Downing-street.

THE NORTH AMERICAN MAILS.—The Cambria
sailed for Halifax and Boston yesterday afternoon. She
has a full complement of passengers, and the mails for
Halifax and Boston.

MAuurrius.—Extract from a letter, dated Mauri-
tius, July 22, 1847 :—" The new labour regulations have
already had some effect in driving deserters to seek for
employment on sugar plantations ; but, on the other
band, much derangement has been caused by the old
hands being required to appear before the authorities to
procure their certificates of exemption from the new
stamp duty ; and the duty itself, payable in British coin
at 4 per cent. premium, presses heavily upon employers,
the more so as the object for which the tax was imposed,
viz., the augmentation of labour, has been so little
attended to by Government."
WEST INDIA TAMS.—Amongst the matters of pre-
sent interest, nothing is more important, or displays
more the character of the commercial enterprise of the
day, than the steps now being taken for ensuring a future
supply of vegetable food to this country; amongst the
novelties of lute has been a large importation of yams,
caused by an anticipated scarcity of potatoes, which has
given a stimulus to the cultivation of this tropical sub.
stitute for that root, some tons of which have been con-
signed to Messrs. Keeling and Hunt, and, from the pre-
sent abundant crop of potatoes in this country, have been
sold for the purpose of cattle feeding. A quantity has
also been sent gratuitously to Ireland, to test their ap
plicability to the feeding of pigs as a substitute for the
potato.
THE CASE Or HUTCHINGS, THE ALLEGED MUR-
DERER.—The warrant for the execution of this unfor-
tunate man, who still solemnly declares his innocence,
was received by Mr. Bone, the governor of the gaol, and
was read over to Hutchings in the presence of the Rev.
Mr. Winter, the chaplain, on Sunday. The excitement
in Maidstone on this subject is very great, it being the
general topic of conversation. On Friday night a meet.
ing took place, and a memorial to her Majesty having
been taken round the town by Messrs. Busby, Clayton,
G. Edmett, and C. Peppercorn, on Saturday, received
four hundred signatures in a few hours, and more than
four hundred more signatures have been since appended
to it. A deputation, consisting of the Rev. H. H. Doh-
ney and Mr. T. Clayton, were despatched yesterday
(Monday) morning to present this memorial to Sir G.
Grey. The Right Hon. Gentleman was in Northumber-
land, but Sir,Denis Le Marchant, who was in attendance,
received the deputation most courteously, and promised
that a special messenger should be instantly despatched
to Sir George Grey with the petition, and a faithful
statement of the circumstances that had been brought
under his notice. The prisoner's son has, we understand,
also memorialized, and certificates of previous good cha-
racter, extending over several years of the prisoner's life,
have also been sent to the Home Secretary. Mr. Bal-
lantine, the prisoner's counsel, has sent in a statement,
which_we understand contains some important evidence
in the prisoner's favour, which evidence would probably
have been adduced at the trial, had the prisoner employed
an attorney instead of drawing up his own brief.—
Maidstone Gazette.

SPORTING IN SKYE.—Mr. Barlow and party, at
Sligachan Cottage, have had good sport this season at
the grouse shooting, and have also killed some deer.
Lord Macdonald has been very successful with the deer,
and has been distributing them to the poor people about
Sconser, keeping up something like a venison soup-
kitchen there. This is a new and interesting feature in
the annals of sporting.—lnverness Courier.
SmALL-rox IN SHEEP.—A very fatal disease, and,
it is believed, new to this country, has lately made its
appearance among sheep. It is the small-pox of that
animal, and in its first stages, more particularly, many
fall victims to it. It is desirable that the public should
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into many flocks. Several sheep affected with it have
also been exposed for sale in Smithfield market. At
the Royal Veterinary College experiments have been
instituted, by which its infectious and contagious nature
have been completely proved, and others are being
carried on with a view to check its progress and to
lessen its fatality.—Essex „Herold.
AMERICAN Biscu ITS.—The American line of
packet ship Gladiator, arrive d in the Docks from New
York, has brought the very large quantity of 1,139
boxes and 40 barrels of bi'scuitS'Of;American manu-
facture. The soda or fancy tilisctrits-,:membling in shape
and quality our biscuits called cracknells, are now, in
consequence of their abundance, sold at a very moderate
price.
Mary _ MILITARY KNIGHT OF WpDson.--4,ient,
Griffifths, of the Royal-Staff Corps has been appointed
one of the Military Knights of Windsor, in the room of
the late Quartermaster Johnson, deceased.

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LONDON,

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—The necessity for some means of com-
municating with the engine-driver in case of any
accident to a railway train has at length been officially
recognised by the authorities of the Great Western,
who have issued a circular that appeared in our paper
of yesterday. It is something to the credit of this
great company that it should be the first to attempt
to remedy an evil that has been lately the subject of
much complaint, and has been the cause of several
most fatal accidents. Our Monday's publication
contained a letter adding one more to the already
existing proofs of the constant danger arising from
the neglect of a precaution which we have frequently
demanded the adoption of. The express train from
York was on Thursday last placed in the most
perilous position, and the lives of the passengers
were exposed to the utmost risk by one of the car-
riages having got off the line while going at the
rate of more than fifty miles an hour. Fortunately
the train was so short that the engine-driver was
not too far in advance to detect the jolting, or, as
he described it, the " jumping motion;" and by
stopping the train, which consisted of only three
carriages, he prevented the incident from having
a serious or, perhaps, a fatal consequence. If the
train had been one of the ordinary length, it is al-
most certain that the engine-driver would have ex-
perienced no shock until something frightful had
occurred to arrest his attention. The carriage which
had gone off the line in the case to which we refer
was the last of only three, but it might have been the
last of a dozen or more, in which event it would per-
haps have overturned or been jolted to pieces before
any irregularity had become perceptible at so great a
distance as the engine. There was, it is true, a
guard in charge of the train, but this individual
seems to have stowed himself comfortably away
in the luggage van, and was therefore of no more
use than a trunk, a carpet-bag, or any other of the
inanimate objects among which he had placed him-
self. The guard who retired to the luggage van
might just as well have taken the lamps from
the back of the train and placed them inside one
of the carriages, or performed any other act of dan-
gerous absurdity ; for if the use of a guard is to keep
a look-out, he is a piece of superfluous cargo when he
takes up a position in which he can see nothing. The
guard could not, surely, have imagined that he was
carried as a species of talisman or amulet to preserve
the passengers from harm, and that it mattered little
whether he took his seat in the place assigned to him
or crept in among the luggage, so that he accom-
panied the train on its journey. It is to be hoped
that the guard whose strange conduct we have no-
ticed is not an average specimen of his class; for if he
were, there would be little hope for the success of the
plan proposed by the Great Western 'for facilitating
communication between the carriages and the engine.
A man, to be called " a travelling carriage porter,"
is to accompany the train, and will occupy a seat on
the tender, from which he is to keep a steady and
vigilant look-out on both sides and along the top of
the carriages, so that he may at once observe if any
accident should occur, and communicate with the
engine-man. This is a step in the right direction,
but it is, we fear, a very small and inefficient one.
The public will, after all, be at the mercy of a rail-
way servant, against whose carelessness there will
be no provision ; and we hold, therefore, to the expe-
diency of some mechanical contrivance by which the
passengers may make a signal for themselves in case
of accident. It has been too often made evident
that there is less dependence to be placed on the
human than on the material agents of railway tra-
velling, for the latter have been seldom known to
fail, except through the carelessness or blundering
of the former. For our own parts, we should feel
much safer if we knew the means of making a signal
to be within our reach, than we could do if left
dependent on the vigilance and promptitude of a
man seated on the tender with instructions that he
might, or might not, thoroughly comprehend or
faithfully follow. We cannot belp observing, also,
in reference to the circular put fortes by the Great
Western, that the precautions just adopted applies
only to the express trains, which certainly, from their
speed, demand particular care, but which ought not
to enjoy exclusively a provision calculated to increase
the safety of railway travelling. Though the ex-
press trains carry only first-class passengers, we are
sure the Great Western directors do not wish to
draw a distinction between ;,first-class and second
or third class lives, which are all equally pre-
cious, and ought all to participate in any arrange-
ment that can be made for their security. It must
also be objected to the plan proposed, that at night
it will be almost useless, for the utmost vigilance
would not enable the " travelling carriage porter" to
see in the dark, and thus the superiority of some
mechanical contrivance for communicating with the
engine-driver is manifest. We must, however, give
credit to the board of the Great Western for having
evinced a readiness to meet in some way or other the
daily increasing demand made on behalf of the public
for some provision against sudden accident when the
train is in motion. If other companies imitate the
good example that has been set, we shall, doubtless,
have the satisfaction of seeing the general adoption of
some simple and ~effectual:contrivance by which pas-
sengers may gain the attention of 'the guard and of
the engine driver in cases of danger.
CHRONICLE.—To persons anxiously interested
in the industrial progress and social improvement of
Ireland nothing can be more discouraging than to see
how very little the leaders of opinion in that country
appear to have profited by the lessons of recent expe-
rience. It is truly mortifying that, so much of the
schooling of adversity should have produced so small
an amount of its appropriate results as we find in the
public proceedings of the various bodies which are
there allowed to assume the functions of popular
leadership. What with her " Loyal National Repeal
Association," and her " Irish Confederation," and her
" Irish Council," and her " Irish Party" (or so much
as is left of it), the sister country certainly enjoys
the benefit of a large multitude of counsellors ; but
we are bound to deplore the absence of that which
a high authority has pronounced to be the natural
accompaniment of this description of social wealth.
We have studied from time to time, with the best
disposition to be edified and pleased, the reported
and applauded utterances of those philosophers and
introduce to the notice of the
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triotism of Ireland is pleased to exhibit its extreme
unfitness for the task of popular guidance. Uproar-
rious invective against generous benefactors, insolent
repudiation of just debts, and well meaning but
drowsy and ineffectual twaddle of the sentimental
sort, constitute generic diversities in the manifesta-
tions of the Irish patriot mir.d, which a regard to
psychological exactness obliges the critic to recog-
nise. The future historian, however, who may
perhaps content himself with looking at things
more in the mass, will be at no loss to assign certain
common characteristics of Irish popular leadership
during the year of famine and loans. He will,
we apprehend, have his attention mainly fixed on
that inveterate preference of talking to doing,
that insatiable appetite for discussions, reports, depu-
tations, and addresses, and that unconquerable
reluctance to learn the first truths of economical
science, which seem to animate one and all of those
gentlemen who meet weekly and monthly for their
country's good. We cannot indulge the hope that
the annalist of the year 1847 will be able to put his
finger on any one useful practical thing done, or put
in the way of being done, either by the combined or
the separate exertions of these most laborious and in-
defatigable idlers. 1 Take, for instance, the demonstra-
tion with which we have have been favoured, during
the course of the last week, by the body calling itself
the "Irish Council,"—certainly not the most extra-
vagantly irrational of the trio of confederacies just
now contending for the civic crown. The Council
meet, under the presidency of a respectable Irish
nobleman, to talk over things in general, and deter-
mine what things in particular can be advantageously
selected for minuter discussion in speech and print.
After a few cursory observations by the chairman on
what would, should, or might have happened if
Ireland had had a Parliament of her own to manage
the crisis, and a cheerful hope that the Council would
be able to think of something to everybody's mutual
advantage, and an ingenious suggestion that things
might go on better if landlords would use their tenants
" kindly," and a firm protest against the policy of
letting Irish farmers sell their corn in the best market,
the business of the day begins with a discussion on
Irish manufactures. A gentleman brings up " a re-
port," we are informed, on this really most interesting
and important subject, in which the mode of making
Ireland a thriving manufacturing country is carefully
chalked out, according to the very best of the patriotic
author's ability. The grand desideratum, in the judg-
ment of the framer of this document, for realising
manufacturing success and prosperity will strike Lan-
cashire and English readers as indicating an admirable
boldnlss and originality of conception. Mr. Keogh,
m.p., the gentleman whom the Council has deputed
to philosophise for them on this topic, has evidently
gone deeper than most in his study of the nature and
sources of the wealth of nations. It is not improved
steam-power, nor a wiser use of water-power,
nor steadier habits of industry, nor abstinence
from illegal combination and outrage, that
Mr. Keogh reccommends to his countrymen
as the prime conditions of manufacturing pros-
perity. The gentleman has hit on a shorter cut
to industrial eminence. He makes it altogether an
affair of the heart. He would do it all by "'senti-
ment." " Evoke public sentiment in favour of Irish
manufactures," and the thing is done. The only

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steam•power which this admirable industrial teacher
recognises the necessity or desirableness of getting
up, is a steam of enthusiasm. If we could perceive
the slightest prospect of operating usefully on the
minds of Irish councillors by anything so unsenti-
mental as English common-sense, we would suggest
that there never was a country yet in this world that
rose to manufacturing greatness by the way of the
sentiments. If Ireland wants to be a great manufac-
turing country, there is but one method that we know
of—namely, to set to work and manufacture. Let
the talking and preaching alone ; print no more ad-
dresses ; bring up no more reports ; but make some-
thing that somebody wants, and if it be good and
cheap somebody will buy it. As for the " fair pre-
ference," only let Ireland take care that her articles
be fairly preferable, and we will answer for their
being preferred. The very Saxons themselves will
give a fair preference to the cheapest and best pro-
ducts, whether of loom or forge, and never ask a
question of the race, creed, or geographical where-
abouts of the producer.

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SALE OF RAILWAY SHARES BY
AUCTION.—(THIS DAY.)
There was considerable inquiry for shares at Messrs.
Lamond's sale of shares to-day, and the more specula-
tive stocks were easily sold at full prices. The following
are a few of the principal sales :
North British, Extension 0 10 0
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) 3 2 0
Eastern Counties. York Extension 8 5 0
South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 4 0 0
Taw Vale Extension and Dock
North Staffordshire
Northern Counties Union 0 6 0
Great Northern

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS

NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN

THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCT. 2, 1547.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... 317
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 150
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 169
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ... ... 227
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 29
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion... ... 80
Diseases of the Kidneys. &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. ... 9
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ... 4
Diseases of the Skin, &c. ... 2
Old Age, car Natural Decay. 35
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemperance ... HO
Causes not specified ...
DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES

... 1,143

ronulation Average weekly Deaths
Enumerated, ,
Deaths 1842-6. in the

1841. Fi •
ve Summers. Week.
West Districts... 301,326 • • 137 ... 153
North Districts.. 376.396 ••• 175 194
Central Districts 374,759 ••• 173 ... 207
East Districts ... 393,247 ••• 212 ... 273
South Districts .. 502,483 ••• 244 ... 316

Totals... ..... 1,948,211 ... 940 ... 1,143
Males ... ..• ••• ••• ... 589
Females ••• ••• ... 554

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

..„ ... 721
••• ... 733

•.• ... 1,454

1110NKLAND AND KIRKINTILLOCH, BALLOCHNEY,
AND SLAMANNAN RAILWAY COMPANY. --The half-
yearly. meeting of this company was held at Glasgow,
on Monday; T. Hill, Esq., in the chair. The report
stated that there was a balance over the expenditure for
the half year, ending the 31st of July last, of 10,4401.
10s. 3d. An increased expense of working had been
caused by the increased wages and cost of fuel, and the
large amount of interest. The free balance was equal to
a dividend at the rate of nearly seven per cent. on the
capital of the companies, as fixed for the amalgamation
with the Edinburgh and Glasgow Company. The di-
rectors much regretted that the continued withholding
of funds by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Company, and
the non arrangement of various matters, rendered it
impracticable for them to declare the payment of a divi
dend. The directors had felt called upon to institute
proceedings for the recovery of the first instalment of
the Slamannan and Borrowstowness Extension line. The
dispute with the Edinburgh and Glasgow could not be
settled until the sitting of the courts on the 2d of
November.

DErLonInLE SCENE AT CuLßoss.—ln one of the
Burrowin huts a whole fatni!y, comprising Line persons,
were lately all lying at once ill of fever. Two of the
children died of the malady, and the corpse of one of
them lay two days before any person ventured in to
separate the dead from the living. Some of the inmates
of the neighbouring huts, who visited this abode of
affliction on Thursday morning, found that the father of
the family had also breathed his last. A few hasty
,arrangements were made, a cart was proourgd, Isnd four
individuals conveyed his remains to the grave-yard on
the same day. While on the way, by some mismanage-
ment, the cart was upset, and the coffin was thrown out
and burst open. The few who formed the funeral
party got the coffin replaced on the cart, and the grave
soon closed over it. The deceased belonged to Rothe-
say.— Witness.
DON'T GRUMBLE.—IIe is a fool that grumbles at
every little mischance. Put the best foot forward, is an
old and good maxim. Don't run about and tell ac-
quaintances that you have been unfortunate. People do
not like to have unfortunate men for acquaintances.
Add to a vigorous determination a cheerful,spirit ; if re-
verses come bear them, like a philosopher, and get rid
of them as soon as you can. Poverty is like a panther
—look it steadily in the face, and it will turn from you.
It was decided the other day, by the Stockport
magistrates, that the absence of the husband in America
for a continuous period of four years, without any in-
timation of his being alive, would widow his wife and
enable an order in bastardy to issue in her favour, as
though she were a single woman.
" Come down this instant !" said the boatswain to
a mischievous son of Erin ; " come down, I say, and
I'll give you a good dozen, you rascal I" " Troth, sir,
been raised
against towtahreds a
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Berkeley has been held at the Lamb, and 1,1001. have
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present Member

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MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price Current of Oct. 5.)
Straau.--To-day on the part of merchants there was
an. increased disposition shown to sell, and large
parcels being pressed upon the market, caused a further
fall in the value of every kind of Raw Sugar. The low
rates that existed, however, induced the home trade
to direct their attention to the article, but exporters
were cautious in their proceedings. A good business
was transacted in West India Muscovado, both for the
scale and pan, in consequence of merchants reducing
their prices generally 6d to is per cwt. The public sales
of 253 hhds 8 trcs Barbadoes went off with heaviness,
and at a fall on former rates of is per cwt, but the whole
sold.

REFINED.—To day although there were sellers of
refined goods upon lower terms, still the home trade
operated with caution, and the rates, taken for standard
lumps are 545 to 54i 6d, and for brown grocery lumps
53s 6d. Bonded crushed sugar is little required, and 283
to 29s 6d is the value of fine
MAURITIUS.—This afternoon there was not much
disposition evinced to operate in Mauritius Sugar, and
at public sale 6,895 bags 215 casks went at decline
?'
on
former rates of is to 15 6d; but the whole
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the
anaquantity of_ Madras
of strong
Sugar submitted to public competitionsou,ntedtn 9,308
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bags, of which 4,654 bags consistedono white, and
the whole sold, but at moderate rates.
FOREIGN.—This afternoon at public sale 10 hhds St.
Croix were sold at the moderate rates of 43s 6d to 44s
for good yellow. Privately there was
little passing in
any kind of Foreign Sugar for home
trade or export,
although there were sellers upon rather lower terms.
MOLASSES.—This afternoon there was little
passing
privately in Molasses, and at public sale 47 puns of Bar-
badoes were taken in at 20s per cwt for good quality.
COFFEE. —This afternoon there was little desire
to operate in Native Ceylon, and at public sale 1,982
bags were only in part sold at 6d per cwt decline. Of
Plantation 17 casks and 154 bags went at th© full value.
Of 4,184 bags 10 barrels Costa Rica a small part only
sold, as holders were not disposed to take lower rates.
RlCE.—There are sellers of East India at a reduction
on former rates of 6d per cwt, still the purchases made
by private treaty have been extremely limited in all
kinds by exporters and the home trade; on speculation
there has been nothing doing, whilst the market con-
tinues to be liberally supplied. Of the parcels offered at
public sale, amounting to 8,000 bags and 73 pockets, a
part only found purchasers.
TEA.—To-(133- the market presented a heavy appear-
ance for all kinds of Tea,
and on the part of merchants
there was an increased desire to sell. Of the parcels
offered at auction, amounting to 8,236 packages, only
1,700 were sold at a decline on former rates of 2d fur
fine Congou, 2d for flowery Pekoe, 2d to 3d for Ilyson,
and 2d for Gunpowder.
FRUIT.—For New Valencia Raisins prices are on the
decline, and the trade continue to operate with caution ;
47s is the value. Muscatels have fallen in the value,
and the demand has been limited at LOs to 70s. Cur-
rants are in very good demand. Turkey pulled Figs
moved off steadily at 503 to 7as ; Sultanas GB3 to 70s
per owl. Of new Fruit large arrivals are near at hand.
SPIRITS.—Fur Jamaica Rum a reduction oa former
rates of id to 2d per gallon having been accepted caused
a good demand to prevail for all sorts, but chiefly for
home consumption, and the total sales since our
last report are 450 puns. Demerara mot with
littlo attention, and can be obtained upon rather lower
terms ; the sales are only 150 punt. For Leeward Is-
land the market has a dull appearance, and 2s to 2s 2d
is the nearest value of proof strength, w hilst there
is a fair supply. East India is little required, and
holders are willing to take is 10d to Is lid for proof

EVENING, OCTOBER 6, 1847.

with certificate; the supply is on the increase, and
is likely so to continue. In Havannah there has been
very little business transacted. Brandy is little required
for home consumption or exportation, and the stock
being large there were willing sellers upon low rates, the
older kinds continuing to be pressed the most upon the
market.

COCHINEAL.—This afternoon there was only a limited
demand for Cochineal, and 120 bags Honduras at public
sale sold at 4s 7d to 5s 3d for silvers, which are lower
rates by id. Of Camphor 500 chests were in part sold
at 558.

Southern Oil of all descriptions the market
has been plentifully supplied since Tuesday last, and
merchants having been willing sellers a decline in prices
of lOs per ten has taken place, still a good demand
prevailed, and 132 tuns at auction all found buyers.
Seal is offered upon reduced terms, still the purchases
made have been of little moment. Cod sells slowly, and
at easier rates. For Sperm lower rates have been taken,
still there has been only a limited business concluded.
At public sale 36 tuns were sold. The stock of Fish Oils has
been increased, and lower rates are expected to prevail.
For public sale on Friday 40 tuns of Southern, and 20 tuns
of Seal are deche:ed. For Palm lower rates having been
taken occasioned a good demand to prevail privately, and
at auction 181 casks were sold. The prices for Cocoa Nut
are high, but only a limited amount of business has been
concluded at 56s to 61s. For auction 50 pipes are de-
clared, and large parcels have been received. Linseed
Oil is offered upon further reduced terms, still the pur-
chases made luive been to a small extent only for all
purposes, whilst the supply is getting large. Rapeseed
Oil sells slowly. Olive is offered upon lower terms, still
the amount of business concluded has been to a small
extent only. Lard Oil has been operated in with caution.
TALLOW.—There has been an increased desire evinced
on the part of the home trade to operate in Russian on
the spot since Tuesday last, and a further advance in
prices has taken place. From both soapmakers and
chandlers a good demand has been experienced, and
46s 9d to 47s per cwt are the rates paid for fine P.
Y. Candle, but upon these terms merchants are disposed
to sell. For forward delivery many contracts have been
concluded at 45s 9d to 465. Home made has been in
excellent request at 48s to 48, 6d nett cash. Of other
kinds of Tallow many parcels have been disposed of
privately and at firm prices. At auction 126 casks of
New South Wales went at 44s 9d to 46s for middling to
good, and 50 casks of Taganrog at 46s 3d to 46s 6d per
cwt. The value of Rough Fat is 2s 9d per stone. For
auction 600 pckgs of Tallow are declared.