The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-03 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

HENRY WEBSTER, lamp-manufacturer, Bedford-street,
Covent-garden, to surrender June 11, and July 14, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Fins-
bury square; Few, Hamilton, and Few, Henrietta-street, Co-
vent-garden.
PHILIP BARNES, bricklayer, Jamaica-street, Commer-
cial-road East, June 15, at half past one, and July 14, at eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Ba-
siaghall-street ; Seaman, Pancras-lane.
EDMUND PATRICK, salt merchant, Gloucester, June
19, and July 14, at two, at the office of Mr. Samuel Mayer,
Gloucester. Mayer, Gloucester ; White and Whitmore, Bed-
ford-row, London.

COLIN CAMPBELL, shipowner, New City Chambers,
Basinghall-street, June 9, and July 14, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Gibson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Tucker, Bank Chambers, Lothbury.
THOMAS ST ALSALL, coal merchant, Liverpool, June
13 and July 14, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool.
Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford-row, Lon-
don ; Gaskell, Wigan.
C:IARLES M'LEAN, upholsterer, Poland-street, June
12, and July 14, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Gibson,
official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Kinsey, Suffolk-street,
Pall-mall East.

THOMAS MORGAN, innkeeper, Lantrisaint, Glamorgan-
shire, June 12, and July 14, at twelve, at the Cardiff Arms
Inn, Cardiff. Perkins and James, Merthyr-Tydvil ; Gregory
and Son, Clement's-inn, London.

BENJAMIN SPENCER, baker, Nottingham, June 15,
and July 14, at eleven, at the George the Fourth Hotel, Not-
tingham. Percy, Smith, and Percy, Nottingham; Austen
and Hobson, Gray's.inn, London.
ISAAC GRUNDY, woollen-draper, Preston, Lancashire,
June 30, and July 14, at twelve, at the Town-hall, Preston.
Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple, London ; Winder,
Preston ; Grundy, Bury.
EDWARD ELFICK, grocer, Sittingbourne, Kent, June
12, and July 14, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Shepherd, Faversham ;
Egan and Waterman, Essex-street, Strand.
STEP HEN HASTE KS, iromnDnger, Newport, Monmouth-
=hire, June 12, and July 14, at eleven, at the Royal Hotel, Bir-
mingham. Colmore and Beale, Waterloo-street, Birming-
ham ; Clarke and Mccicalfe. Lincoln's-inn-fields, London.
GEORGE HUTCHINSON, corn-merchant, Sheffield,
June 17, and July 14, at eleven, at the Town-hall, Shef-
field. Hicks and Harris, Gray's-inn-square, London ; Vickers,
Sheffield ; Holden, Hull.

FRANCIS WILLIAMS, ship-builder, Canon's-marsh,
Bristol, June 16, and July 14, at 'three, at the Commercial
Rooms, 13,-istol. Clarke and Me-dcalfe, Lincoln's-inn-fields,
Loudon; Smith, Bristol.
DIVIDENDS.'

At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
M. and W. King, millers, Kingsley, Hants, June 25, at
half-past mie-11. Walter, ribbon manufacturer, Coventry,
June 25, at half-past eleven—A. C. Marsh, navy agent, Great
Scotland-yard, June 25, at half-past twelve—G. A. Kollman,
piano-torte maker, St. ,Martin's-lane, June 24, at twelve—G.
Woolcott, builder, Brownlow-mews, Gray's Inn-lane, June 24,
at eleven—E. L. Pox, jun., broker, Idol-lane, Tower-street,
City, June 23, at half-past eleven—M. Morgan, lodging-house
keeper, Bloomsbury-square, St. George's, Bloomsbury, June
23, at half-past twelve—M. C. Jackson, corn merchant, Old
Trinity-house, Water-lane, Thames-street, June 23, at twelve
—G. Long, coal merchant, Croydon, June 25, at one—T.
Agutter, fellmonger, Mill-lane, Deptford, June 25, at twelve.

In the Country.
G. T. Bolton, wine merchant, Manchester, June 25, at one,
at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester—W. Shawcross, J.
Greenhalgh, and J. Shawcross, cotton spinners, Stockport,
Cheshire, July 1, at ten, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Man-
chester—M. Porter and J. Lever, merchants, Manchester,
June 25, at ten, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester—
J. Holden and T. •M. Fisher, cotton spinners, Manchester,
July 1. at twelve, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester—
!. Medley, innkeeper, Landogo, Monmouthshire, June 30, at
two, at the King's Head Inn, Newport—H. Higson, common
bre /ger • Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire. June 26, at one, at the
Swan Inn, Bolton-le-Moors—J. B. Nicklin, ironmonger, Wol-
verhampton, June 20, at one, at the Swan Hotel, Wolverhamp-
ton—J. Ogden and C. Walmsley, cotton spinners, Holinwood,
Lancashire, June 29, at half-past ten, at the Commissioners'-
rooms, Manchester—L. Cambridge, shipowner, Bristol, June
26, at three, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol—H. Francis, R.
J. Turner, and C. J. West, money scriveners, Norwich, June
25, at eleven, at the Rampant Horse Inn, St. Stephen, Norwich.
VT,' _

CERTIFICATES.-JuwE 23.

R. Franklin, miller, Ferriby-sluice, Lineonshire—W. Bull,
upholsterer, Lichfield—G. Raw, innkeeper, St. Helen's, Lan-
cashire—R. Spincer, cattle salesman, North Stoneham, South-
ampton—S. Lenox, sail maker, Liverpool—J. Cutts, machine
maker, Manchester—J. Arnott, grocer, Witney, Oxford—
J. Storer, auctioneer, Ibstock, Leicestershire—G. Jull, grocer,
Leamington, Warwickshire—R. Harris, auctioneer, Leaming-
ton-priors, Warwickshire—T. Howard, cotton spinner, Bury,
Lancashire—W. Edington, jeweller, North Audley-street, Ha-
nover-square.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. Batey and T. Finley, tailors, Pall-mall—R. and T.
Briggs, masons, Sheffield—W. Brown and J. Pink, tea dealers,
Bristol—N. Jenkins and J. Hall, bankers, Daventry, Northamp-
tonshire—J. Parkyn and J. Gaskin, tailors, Bodmin, Cornwall
—W. Forbes, T. W. Wells, and F. M'Neill, patent felt- ma-
facturers, Clement's-lane, City—G. Mover and B. F. Frankis,
wine merchants, Southampton—J. Wilson and J. Henchman,
nurserymen, Ilford, Essex—J. Brown and W. Tucker, woollen
manufacturers, Lightpill, Gloucestershire—J. and H. Fardon,
smiths in general, Leamington-priors, Warwickshire T.
Waters and T. Withers, curriers, Newport, Monmouthshire—
S. Cannon, A. Bean, and R. Byron, woolstaplers, Bradford,
Yorkshire—C. Dixon and T. Badcock, linen drapers, Lyming-
ton, Southampton—S. Scotson and D. Tunstall, tanners, Kirk-
dale, Lancashire—M. Barnett and W. Franklin, carpenters,
Chapel• mews, Belgrave-square—J. Wilson and J. Askham,
bricklayers, Leeds—T. and J. Cundy, farmers, Whitehouse
Farm, Sheffield—T. W. Wells and F. M'Neill, merchants,
Clement's-lane—J. and T. Barnwell, builders, Leamington-
priors, Warwickshire—J. W. Green and H. W. Martin,
printers, Barlett's-buildings, Holborn—E. Hilton and J. Col-
linson, wholesale stationers, Trinity-lane, City—J. Copestick
and E. Ashworth, worsted dyers, Manchester—J. Marshall and
L. Harman, orchell manufacturers, Norwich.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.
DAVID MACKINLAY, merchant, Canongate, Edin-
burgh, June 9 and 30, at two, at the Royal Exchange Coffee.
house, Edinburgh.

_
MUSCOVITE LADIES.—When •
the Moscow
women have eyed you from head to foot, have kissed you four
or six times instead of twice, recommended themselves to your
eternal friendship, told you, in a riotous tone and abrupt expres-
sion, that you are charming, inquired the price of each article
of your dress, and speculate on the brilliancy of the next as-
sembly of the nobles, there is nothing more to be hoped for.
There scarcely seems to be an idea beyond this, except to abuse
the vulgarity of the Russian jewellers, and to praise the perfec-
tion of the French.—Memoirs of the Princess Daschkaw..
The Siqffordslthe Gazette says that since that
Government withholds from it official advertisements they
will regularly publish such notices gratuitously, headed in con-
spicuous characters, " Shamefully and spitefully withheld by
the Whig Ministry, because this Journal advocates Conservative
principles !"

ITALIAN OPERA.--Tuesday night Petsiani's
Ines di Castro was repeated here. After the opera Taglioni
appeared for the first time this season in La Gitana. She
was welcomed with the loudest plaudits. Her consummate
grace, the matchless delicacy of her style, the wonderful rapi-
dity of her movements, and that without the least apparent
effort, was never more triumphantly developed than in La
Gitana. Throughout the ballet La Deesse de Danse was
enthusiastically applauded. The theatre was crowded.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—Tuesday af-
ternoon an inquest was held before Mr. Payne, at St. Bartho-
lomew's Hospital, on the body of Ebenezer Challoner, aged
twenty-eight, a bricklayer. It appeared from the evidence of
Mr. F. Morgan, builder, of Merstham, Surrey, that deceased,
who was in his employ, was engaged in constructing a scaffold
in the Merstham tunnel, over the London and Brighton Rail-
road. On Tuesday week, about four o'clock, witness having
heard that an accident had occurred at the tunnel, went thit her
and found the deceased lying in it at the bottom of a scaffold
which had just given way. He was net dead, but his lower
extremities appeared paralyzed. He spoke, and said he thought
his back was broken, and he told witness that in building the
scaffold he had forgotten to nail the plank he stood upon, which,
in consequence, gave way as soon as additional weight to his
own was placed on it, and precipitated him the distance of
twenty feet. Mr. Cooke, the house surgeon, said deceased
was admitted on the Monday after the accident, and died on
the fallowing Saturday, of fracture of the spinal vertebrae and
laceration of the spinal marrow, the effects of the accident.
Verdiet—" Accidental death."
A RUSSIAN TABLE D'HoTE•—Every dish at
table was served in the Russian style—not less, I dare say than
one hundred, and all peculiar to the country. To make the
matter complete, la maitresse d'hotel, dressed in gold embroi-
dery and diamonds, sat at the head of the table, with her face,
neck, and arms, painted like a doll. This sort of painting is a
national usage, and has been so ever since Russia was in exis-
tence. Our attendants to the number of forty, were bearded
men, dressed in yellow, purple, and party-coloured shirts,
tucked up at the wrists, so as to leave half of their arms naked,
and without coats or waistcoats. There was a boy who played
on the organ, and who, for the permission to do so, paid the
master of the tavern several hundred rubles a year, which shows
how much the tavern was fiequ nted, and how music is here
considered a necessary of life. After coffee, a group of gipsies
was brought for our amusement, dressed in gold brocaded sawls,
tied on one shoulder, and with ear-rings formed of various
coins. How beautifully they danced the Bohemian and Egyp-
tian dances, calling to one's recollection the dancing figures of
Herculaneum !—Memoils of the Princoss Dashhaw.
CORRUPTION.—WhiIe corruption is vic:orini S
in elective struggles, it is really ,iisgusting to talk of a repre.
sentative Parliament. The Tories may by such debasing
means gain majorities out, and consequently majorities in, the
house of Commons ; but to maintain that such a House is, as
William Pitt said it ought to be, " an assembly truly elected,
between whom and tic mais of the people there is the closest
union and most perfect sympathy;" is a cruel mockery, an out-
rage on truth and common sense.—Hereford Times,

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London New Price Current of June 2.)
TEA.--In the early part of last week there was a good
demand for Free Trade Tea, and prices were firmer; for
Common Congou for cash 2s lid to 2s 2d was currently
paid, and 23 2d to 2s 21el for ordinary Twankay. In Com-
pany's Congou a good deal of business was done at 2s 22d
to 2s 3d for cash; but towards the close of the week ac-
counts being received stating that all the English vessels
had not left China, as was expected, without
cargoes, but some had sailed already laden, amongst
which was the Thomas Coutts, the Slains Castle, the
Ann, and the Harbinger, ehecked the demand for Tea,
and the market was very quiet on Friday and Satur-
day for all kinds; prices declined to 2; Id for common
Free Trade Congou for cash, 2s lid to 2s 2d for Twan-
kay, and 2s 12d for Company's Congou. The deliveries
during the last week have been 330,000 lbs. of Tea.
At the public sale yesterday of Tea, imported per Alex-
ander Baring and Pekoe, from Hong Kong, and by
several other ships, for export only, there was a good
muster of the trgutie ; at the opening it was, however,
evident that they would not even pay the reduced rates
which were accepted in the market towards the close of
the week; lout the merchants showing a disposition to sell
at prices the trade were inclined to pay, led to the disposal
of nearly all that passed the sale of Tea imported direct-
the decline on last sales rates amounts to 2d to 2.id on
Congou, 3d on Hyson, and 2d to 3d on Souchong and all
other descriptions. out of 7,000_ packages put up to the
hammer. 6,0000 were actually disposed of, the chief
part Congou of good and fine quality. The Tea for
exportation only was chiefly taken in and withdrawn; only
1,000 packages found buyers out of 4,015 brought forward.
Congou, blackish leaf, sold at 2s 34dto 2s 4d, blackish
leaf rather strong Pekoe flavour 2s 441 to 2s 51c1 ;
Souchong, fine 3s 3d to 3s 34d, good 3s op to 3s 2id,
fair 2s 4d ; Hyson, fine 2s lld to 33 2d ; Hyson Skin,
good ordinary to but middling 2s Oid to 2s 2d ; Flowery
Pekoe, middling rather strong not full 3s to 3s Old ;
Souchong for export only sold at is 9d to is 92d ; Pou-
chong is 9d to is led; Twankay 2s; Hyson 2s Old to
2s 7d ; Imperial was taken in at 2s 4d ; Young Hyson 2s ;
Orange Pekoe 2s 3d ; Gunpowder was all withdrawn.
The market for Company's Congou has become unusually
dull, and prices since Saturday have given way lid to 2d
per lb, 2s to 2s ofd having been accepted for small parcels
for cash.
To-day there was more life in the Tea market, and
prices appear to have seen their lowest at least for the pre-
sent. In Company's Cengou several purchases were made
at 2s id to 2s Id for cash. Free Trade was in better re-
quest, and nearly the whole of 4,113 chests Congou at auc-
tion were disposed of at prices equal to those of yester-
day within Zd to id per lb, the reduction thus esta-
blished appears to have caused some of the large
houses to operate; Congou, but middling blackish leaf
rather coarse fetched 2s 2d to 2; 21d, and j2s 3d, but
mid blackish leaf, rather strong burnt Pekoe flavour 23 3i-d
to 2s 34d, but mid to mid -even blackish leaf 2;34d to 2s 4d,
but mid blackish leaf full flavour 2s 4d to 2s 54d, rather
preferable 2s 4id to 2s 4id, mid blackish leaf rather strong
and full burnt Pekoe flavour 2s 42d to 2s 44d ; 135 chests
fail Congou, withdrawn from former sales sold at 23 ld for
cash on Saturday ' • and 27 chests Twankay 2; 24el per lb,
but for mid rather fresh.
This afternoon prices closed as follows for money com-
mon Free Trade Congou 2; to 2s Id , Twankay 2s lid to
23 2d ; and Company's Congou 2s op to 23 Id per lb.
There was not much business doing, still the trade enter-
tained a better opinion of the article.
CHINA, JANUARY 18.-The Royal Saxon has not yet
commenced loading. The Abercrombie Robinson is load-
ing Teas for England, to sail on the 20th of
February. The Manilla and Queen blab arc loading
for England. The Thames, partly loaded with Cotton,
is filling up with Teas, fur England, at 61 lOs per ton.
The cargo of the Eliza Steam, t was to be put cn board
another ship on demurrage, and load immediately with
Teas, for England. The Earl Balcarras is empty, and
ready to receive: freight for England, but at not less than
Si per ton. The 7'yrer is full of English Piece Goods.
It was in contemplation: when the Ann left, that the
ships which had not discharged their cargoes, should pro-
ceed to the nearest port to unload the same.
SUGAR.-At public sale 100 hhds of new Barbadoes
were offered, which sold heavily ; not above half was dis-
posed of, at a reduction on former rates of 6d per cwt,
fine yellow went at 733 63 to 755, good 723 to 735, mid
70s 61 to 71s Gd, low mid 691 per cwt. The stock of
British Plantation Sugar is now 8,743 hhds and trs,
which is 9,423 less than last year at the same period.
The stock of Mauritius is 42,518 bags, being 69,066 less
than last year. The stock of Bengal is 27,523 bags,
which is 7,459 less than last year. The delivery of
British Plantation Sugar for the last week was 1,079 hhds
and trs, being 629 less than during the same time last
year. The delivery of Mauritius was 12,816 bags, being
4,381 more than last year. The delivery of Bengal was
3,105 bugs, being 502 more than the corresponding week
of last year.
REFINED.--To-day Refined goods were in brisk request
by the Grocers, and prices have again improved, standard
lumps selling at 88s to 88; 6d. Treacle sells freely, and
prices have further improved Is per cwt; sales in common
Treacle at 365, and in the best old make at 39s 6d to 40s.
Pieces and Bastards at former rates. Bonded crushed
only in limited request at 34s 63 per cwt.
MAURITIUS.-This afternoon the trade were anxious to
do business, and 8,246 bags at public sale sold freely at
prices fully up to those of the last sale, good to fine yellow
fetched 70s to 725, good middling 69s 6d, middling 68s 6d
to 695, low middling 67s 6d to 68s, fine brown 675, and
low 63s per cwt.
EAST INDIA. -A good demand has existed for Bengal
of all kinds for home consumption, and the parcels die-
posed of by private contract have been at fell .former
rates. For Siam, previous rates were maintained.
This afternoon some small parcels of Manilla and Java
were taken by the refiners by private treaty, at former
rases. Bengal is in good demand by the home trade. At
auction 777 bags sold at full rates, fine white at 74s Gd,
middling to fine yellow 69s 6d to 735, damps 72s to 745,
very ordinary 603, washed 71s 6d, low 60s 63 per cwt.
FOREIGN. -White Havannah rather higher rates; for
the Baltic, at 39; a 40s for good and fine new strong qua-
lity ; for St. Petersburgh, at 39; to 40s. For yellow, the
importers have submitted to rather lower rates. Brazil at
rather lower rates. White Pernams at 25s ; 25s a 26s for
good middling grey to middling white ; low to middling
brown 21s 6d a 225. New Rio good white went at 25s a
265, low to middling 22s 6d a 245, low to fine fine brown
20s 6d, good yellow 22s per cwt. Porto Rico, of the new
crop, in hhds low brown to good greyish dry yellow went
at 223 63 a 26;, in brls middling brown 235, and one lot
23s 6d per cwt.
COPFRR.-The demand has been limited for the clean
descriptions of British Plantation since we last wrote, the
trade buying only sufficient for their wants, and prices
have further given way 3s per cwt. For unclean sorts
prices have still a downward tendency. Ceylon at 80s to
823 for common good ordinary ; good bold at 62s to G3s
Gd. Mocha has maintained its former currency.
This afternoon there was no improvement in the demand
for Coffee for home consumption, and the purchases were
exclusively confined to the public sales, consisting of 180
casks 120 barrels and bags British Plantation ; nearly the
whole of which was taken in, the merchants not being dis-
posed to submit to any further reduction, the small part
disposed of was rather under the rates of Friday, and con-
sisted of Jamaica, middling to good middling went at 1083
to ll4s, low middling 104 s to 107 s, fine fine ordinary 101 s
to 103 s 6d, ordinary to good ordinary 80; to 975, fine
middling was taken in at 120, the market closed with a
dull aspect.
OILs.-Previous rates for Southern. Pale Seal for ar-
rival at 25/15s, and on the spot at 261 to 261 103. Cod at
281 to 281 10s. Sperm still on the decline; the nearest
price for first quality is 971 per tun. Linseed at 253 on the
spot, and 283 3d to 25s 6d for delivery in the next two and
three months. Rape pale at 37s to 37s 6d, and brown 36s
to 363 6d. Olive on the decline. For Palm 351 is asked
for small, and 341 for large parcels. East India Cocoa
Nut duty paid sold at 36s 9d to 37s 3d per cwt.
&tureen:el.-Rough is not offered at lower rates;
Caleutta at 243 to 24a 63 for refraction 141 to 91 per cent.
English Refined, 29s paid for hhds, and 293 6d in barrels.
RICE.-For Bengal the demand has again been limited,
and importers having been more desirous to realise, prices
have given way fully 6d per cwt. since last Tuesday; or-
dinary sorts are the most neglected : at public sale, 7,127
bags have been offered, which went heavily, a fair part was,
however, disposed of at the reduction above noticed ; good
middling white went at 133 to 13s 6d, low middling and
middling 113 63 to 12; 6d, low yellow cargo was taken in
103. For Java there has been less demand, and at the
2,e 17 b.ga, prices gave way 6d to Is ; the
bulk of the sound was taken in at lls tor clean middling
white and low and middling broken and dusty 93 to 10s, a
few piles sold at 9s to 10; 6d for low and middling white,
sea damaged was all disposed of at 8s to 9s per cwt. The
stock here being large, and prices on the decline for
Wheat, cause some parties to think Rice will be cheaper.
For Carolina there has been a brisk demand from the
grocers, who have paid 343 for old, and 36s for new qua-
lit y ; there have been further arrivals of Paddy.
RUM, BRANDY, *ND HOLLANDS.-In WeSt India Rum
fine descriptions are held firmly, but common sorts may be
purchased on easier terms. Proof Leewards, 3s 7d per
gallon. In East India and Foreign nothing has been done.
In Brandy prices remain the same. Cognac first brands
of the vintage of 1836 is held for 5s Od in hhds, 5s 4d in
puns ; do 1837, 5s 4d in hhds, 53 2d in puns ' • do in 1838,
5s 2d in hhds, in puns ss; do 1839 puns and bhds 4s 10d
5s lOd to 5s per gallon. Geneva at Is 113 to 2s for
common shipping quality, and fine for home consumption
at 2s. 4d to 2s 6d. British Corn Spirit lOs 2d per gallon.
TALLOW.-Previous rates last week were maintained for
P. Y. Candle on the spot; first quality was not to bo had
under 49;; yesterday, however, prices advanced to 49s 3d
to 49; 6d ; at auction 105 casks South American sold at
41s to 45; 3d for low and very soft, and 46s to 48s for
middling and good quality. For delivery in the last three
months there were no sellers under 42s 3d, and some par-
ties required 4.2 s 6d per cwt. ; but yesterday a good many
Contracts were entered into at rather higher rates, few
sellers now under 501 per cwt. To-day there was a fair

business doing in P. Y. Candle on the spot at 49s 6J, and
to arrive in the last three months several purchases were
made at 49s 9d to 50s per cwt.
At auction 275 casks South American sold at 46s to
48i 6d per cwt.
COCOA —This afternoon the demand was limited for
West India, and 370 barrels and bags at public sale, a small
part only of which found buyers at a reduction on former
rates of Is to 23, viz. low to good red Trinidad at 51s 6d to
b7s; 6d per cwt.
111oLAssEs.—To-day West India was in good request,
some parcels of line Antigua sold at 393 to 393 61 per cwt.
SPICES.—This afternoon 341 bags Pimento at auction
all found buyers, but id undor former rates; middling to
good middling sold at 3d to 3i-d, very ordinary 2d to 2id
per lb.

Earl and Countess Cadoan entertained Vis-
count and Viscountess Canning, Viscount Griniston' Colonel
Bag ot, Countess of Radnor, Lady Jane Booverie, Viscount
Cantilupe, Marchioness and Lady Oeorgiana Codrington, &c
at dinner, on Monday evening, in Piccadilly.

EVENING EDIT lON.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS'

(TUESDAY EVENING.
CHRONICLE.—The English Funds experienct d
a further improvement to-day, having closed at 931 to
t, being k per cent. higher than the closing quotations
of yesterday. Exchequer Bills have also advanced Is.,
being 265. to 28s. premium.
The Continental Exchanges are without alteration
since last post.
The following are the official returns of the exports
of the precious metals from the port of London for the
week ending on the 28th ult. : _ _

Silver Coin to Hamburg . . . 11,000 oz.
Ditto Rotterdam . . . 12,000
Silver Bars to ditto . 37,000
Gold Coin ditto , 100

. . .
Ditto Bars ditto 850 ,
• • . •
We feel called upon to say a few words upon a sun'
ject alluded in the City article of the Times of tbi.s
morning, where our contemporary finds occasion to call.
in question the conduct of " one of the most eminent of
the private bankers," for having demurred to paY
crossed check for 25,0001. over the counter. In de-
dining without previous inquiry to pay a crossed ace,'
under those circumstances, where no intimation is n`"
leged to have been given, the private bank on whom 4
was drawn seems to have adhered with some questiiwir
able rigidity to the rule established for the purpose 0'
safety, it being the practice to refuse to pay checks over
the counter crossed according to the common business
practice. In the case under consideration a crossed
check, with the words " and company" written through
it, was presented for money at the counter of a private
bank, where payment was refused. On receiving thic
si
answer the party presenting it appears to have gala
that it belonged to a Joint Stock Bank who " could
net clear." Payment, however, was still refused " tid
Monday," but when the drawer of the check apPesre
it was paid.

HERALD.—The petition of the wholesale and re.
tail grocers, confectioners, &c., to the House of of
mons, praying for the admission of foreign sugar'
home consumption, at a fair reduction of duty, "-
noticed under this head on the 18th ultimo. 1111,3
traordinary decrease of sugar production in the west
Indies, which, as compared with the average import
the ten years from 1830 to 1839, has fallen off to this
event of 40,000 tons, and as compare' Tzith the tea
years preceding, from 1820 to 1829, 50,000 tons, has
led, of course, to a corresponding increase of price,l
that foreign sugars in bond, of similar qualities, %chic
are not admissible to entry from the high rates of Pl.
hibitory duty now levied, may be purchased at one-hw
the cost of British Plantation. This is a heavy don
back on consumption, and a tax on the consumer, 7:
sugar has become almost a necessary of life, and ell
so largely into general use in a variety of ways, 1411
no substitute can be had recourse to here, as abroad,
to make up for the deficiency of supply from natural rLe;
sources and home cultivation and manufacture from t°
beet-root.

Whist the cost of home.colonial sugar is thus en
haneed here by diminished production, the price of
reign coloniil sugar is kept down, consumption lease"'
and Stocks accumulated by the extension of the bee'#i
root manufacture throughout the whole of continents
Europe. In France the quantity of beet-root sagas
s
produced ascended to 40 or 50,000,000 kilogramme ;
and was a great source of the prosperity of the migak
refineries in conjunction with the bounty or drawb3e
on the export of refined sugars. According to accounts' ;
in the Dwell papers lately, the manufacture of Ogg
from beet-root was extending there rapidly, and one
establishment :is cited at Vosterbick, Gaidg°
land, which alone consumed in the process from
r;
4,000,000 to 5,000,0001b5. weight of beet-root per
annum. In Prussia and Central Germany the salsa
efforts were making to extend cultivation, the ave;
i,
rage yearly production from 1836 to 1838, o
paperbl
which alone the returns are given in the
being estimated at about 11,000,0001b5. wet,
of sugar. But it is calculated that the 9'1'13%1
now made is very considerably more. Austria was El"
behind in the same branch of industry and cultivation:
At the close of 1838 the quantity of sugar
produced
from the beet-root exceeded 9,000,000165. weight, or
from 12 to 13 per cent. of the whole annual coconsume"tion, calculated at about 115,000,0001b5. In Bohemia
alone the number of beet-root sugar establishmet4s i.a
stated for October, 1838, in the Commerce, Frenchpaper, at 87. In Russia the cultivation and '.oanuf4c;
ture of beet-root sugar was equally on the inercase, an
was pushed with great activity, and in numerous in-
stances the culture of hemp had been abandoned for thatof beet-root sugar, to which the peasantry were en-
couraged by premiums from the land proprietors. In
Moscow and the neighbouring Governments the 'beet-
root establishments are said to have increased in number
since 1832, at the average rate of 40 per annum.lt is
not to be wondered at in the face of these facts that,
forcgn colonial sugars should no longer be in the WO
demand abroad
lowered,road as
whilstforin the Stocksry l ,andth
in bond he
be that theprieessrbce,nalea
sensibly ,
cumulate to such an extent.

SUN.—The Foreign Exchanges were rat), r steady
this afternoon. On Paris Bills were negot-,,fate% at 25f50c. Ito 55c., on Amsterdam at 12 11 ;0 1, on
'Mit..
werp at 12 1A to and on Frankfort ut 1491 to 4'
and on Hamburgh at 13 9 to -1.
The Funds closed rather firmly t 11;, afternoon. Cor
sols for present transfer at 92a
Exchequer Bills touched 265. to c:4Bs, premium, and the
New Three-and-a-Half per Cer.o. advanced to par.
Spanish Bonds were a sb.ade higher, viz., 2711 t°
and Portuguese New Fire per Cents. realized 35P
azy:i for time at 934 i s ;
None of the other Securities were dealt in.
rates
The Railway Shales have been at rather higher
in some instances. Great Western, 32 ; the Net'
16 ; York met North Midland, 18 ; New North Mid-
land, 81; Manchester and Leeds New, 111; Black-
wall,
.
wall, 2 ; and Birmingham, 88 premium ; North T‘Li
land at 3 ; Birmingham and Derby at 131; and Brigp,
ton at 4-1 discount. Provincial Bank of Ireland Sher'
were at 19i premium.
As a specimen of the despondency existing on thet
other side of the Atlantic, we give the following extrse
of a private letter from Mississippi. The writer says
" In order to remit you, it has been necessary to Pur..
chase Louisiana money, though at a heavy discoa.;
and therewith procure a New Orleans draft on Y° °J.
city (Chaeeston). We are in an awful condition. e°_,
the days of the Brandon Bank are come again.
mor,;:y (standard) is 35 to 40 per cent. below Pa ft
From present appearances we shall not have a bank ,
in six months.
" The anxieties and responsibilities attending collect
Lions here are so great that life itself is almost irks
No No one can lie down at night with the assurance,,t°
his money will buy bread and meat in the morning.
et.
The loan system has not, it seems, had full Play
A Detroit paper has a paragraph to the follow 7
effect :—" A petition is circulating in the western Pr,
tion of the State, requesting the Governor to cell
.B,rl
extra session of the Legislature, to make appropriario
to prosecute out works of internal improvement. to
critical condition of some $700,000 of the unfortullapt
five-million loan, more than the internal improvone,,
question, may make some legislative action necessary

The following very easy process of destroyil
caterpillars on gooseberry trees, has for some time been Pr,.aar
tised in the gardens of Mr. Gaitskell, at Hull Santos, f
Whitehaven, with complete success. Obtain a quantitY., °to
finely-powdered helibore, and when the caterpillars beg'" 0r
make their appearance, avail yourself of the first eveninfot,
morning after a shower of rain, and, w bilst the foliage is,rees
to dredge a quantity of the helibore upon the infected
the
from a pepper-box or any similar article, taking care that (i
interior portions of the branches are well sprinkled with tirf
power. If the caterpillars make their appearance during la oe
season, better wet the trees from a watering-pan, and applY,,to
powder as above. Destruction is almost instantancous,, h 4.0,
the operation is as simple as it is cheap—a pound weight
nem)°, I‘,. au., being sutiloient rug ..••
dred ordinary sized trees.— Carlisle Patriot.
Sroum.—On Monday forenoon Edinburgh ;4
visited with a heavy gale from the westward, but we have 1)6,40
of no other damage from it than the blowing down the erect
in the Zoological Garden which contaiced the skeleton of the
whale.
A RUSSIAN BRIDE.--We afterwards atter--
her to the bathing-room, with all her young compodtg;
to between thirty and forty girls, who assisted in undressing, o
in another chamber, and then led her, still in tears, naked If
the bath. The attendant nymphs having taken off their the
clothes also, and performed the usual ablutions, scouring
bride elect to her heart's content, began to dance around 9 sci
clapping their hands, arid drinking wine, which was dispel 04
by another Eve, who sat with a bottle in one hand and a
in the other, her long tresses falling down about her should Jo,
which with the others was the only covering they could 1Y
Memoirs of the Princess Daschhaw. —.per

7v/
THE NEW PORTABLE ALA'it Vbh,
size of a small Snuff Bog, can be placed on the Dress.firicr-tharee
and set to ring at any hour that may be required. P rice '—
Guineas.

T. COX S NVORY,
Goldsmith, Watchmaker, &c., 47, Cornhill (Seteeti doors fro
Gracechurch-street),.London.
N. 13. A Pamphlet, containing a detailed list of the Priee9.°
Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c., Tu. ay be had gra::(
or will be forwarded, post free, in answe.: to a rust-P-1
application.

B Ili THS.
On the 2.(1 inst., in Stamford-street,. Mrs. F. 0. Dickinsf
of a son. cn"
0f n. S. I isi lmer, Esq., of Del
On the 20ili ult., the lady
shire-street, Porthnd-place, of a glaug'ater.
On the 31st ult., Airs. H. Barclay. 01. a son.
_...--

On the 2Sth ult., at Gretna Hall„ and afterwards at St. Illar):5
church, Marylebone, on the '2(l int.., the Viscount Drumianrig:
only ~,nt of the Martinis of Queensberry, to Caroline Margaret
younger (laughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Robert
day ton, Bart., M. P., of Glocester-place, Portman-square.

On the 23(1 ult., at Kingston-upou-Thames, Harriett Mary,
wife of R Mann, Esq., late of Chelsea, aged 66.
On the 30th ult., at Croydon, J. 'Phillipson, Esq., aged 8(i.
e
On the 30th ult., A. Q. Henr;.ques, Eq., formerly of the
Island of Jamaica, aged 66.

Loildnii: Printed and Published by I.IIIIZDO V(111-:%1(''
No. 112, Strand, at The SrinOt ce, No. I 10, Strauell
tl:e county of i‘lithileiex.—Wednestitty, June 3, le4o.