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

BOROUGH HOP P/XIIRKET.

Although our market is well supplied with all kinds
of new Hops, the quality of which is good, the demand
`'or 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 noticsd. The duty is called 80,0001. to 85,000/.—
New mid and East Kent. pockets 8/ 10 to 101 10s; New
Wcald of Kent ditto, 61 to Si; New Sussex ditto, 61 to
71; Farnhams, 10110 s to 11/ 11s; Yearling Kent, 3110 s
to 5/ • Yearling Sussex, 21 16s to 41 lOs ; Old Ilops,
11 to 41.

COLONIAL.
SUGAR. —There has not been an active market, but
holdtrs generally have asked about previous rates for
British Plantation. Barbadoes at public sale his 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 40s 6d for mid to good.
EAST INDlA.—Manilla has been taken in at 38s for
mid and 368 for washed of the clayed kind, and
at 33s for ord dark unclayed. Mauritius has
only been partly sold at 6d to is decline, ord
and low brown 29s to 31s, mid 32s to 32s Gd,
ord and mid yellow 35s to 36s 6d, and good 37s to 37s
6d. Benares 6d to is lower; white 40e to 425; mid
strong yellow 385 6d to 39s ; low brown 33s 6d to
34s 6d; and fine yellow, like Mauritius, 38s to 39s 6i.
Madras has been 6d 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5,000 bags, was withdrawn above the market price.
llarannah has been taken in at 32s 6d to 355, for good
end 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 100 s for fine, 60s to 65s
for good, 40s to 45s for fine and fine fine ordinary, and
38s fur good ord, being more than the market value.
Costa Rica has been rather lower ; fine fine ord 45s to
46s 6d. Porto Rico has been sold at 42s for fine ord;
)show and La Guayra at 41s for fine ord. Yellow Mocha
was taken in at 70s. A few parcels of Jamaica have been
sold at 475 to 54s for low mid and mid. Ceylon has
realised 51s to 65s for mid and good mid. Plantation
45s to 505 for fine fine ord and low mid, 39s to 41s 6d
for good and fine ord, and 49s 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 fur East India.

SPICES. —There have been sales of Pimento at 4id to
5d per lb for good; Malabar Pepper brought 3d to 31d
for shorts; and a good deal of damaged black Pepper
has been sold at 2id to 2id per lb; African pod Pepper
has been taken in at 35s for ord ; Jamaica Ginger has
been sold at 81 8s to 91 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.
INDIGO.—The public sales of over 12,000 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 Kurpab 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 bas rather improved this
week. P.Y.C. is 37s 3d to 37s 6d per cwt on the spot.
GREEN FRUIT.—The demand coutinues good. Lisbon
Lemons are in request owing to Malaga being too green
for use. Some parcels of Madeira Orangos have been
sold at public sale by kceiling and VLunt, and realised
high prices. Hamburgh"Grapes fließ With a ready sale.
Spanish green Grapes will be icdracrand dear;. Lisbon
bltek vt ill be short. No arrivirS 'ntf black Spanish, which
is in favour of Barcelona. -

REDUCTION OF WAGES AT BLACLUTJRN.—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 haie 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 cent. 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 TAlLOR.—Within the last few days, a
poor MUD, a tailor in Tama, 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 he 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 vile for many months.
—lnverness Advertiser.

COMMUNISM DEFINED.—" The other day," says
the Constitutionnel, "a workman was declaiming in the
midst of 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 THE THAMES.—In 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 " Firmer,' measuring
not less than 58 feet in length and 30 in girth ; and
the men value their prize at about 2004 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 Cnolac —A man employed in grinding
colours at a shop on the Qusi Napoleon committed
suicide the day before yesterday, by blowing out his
brains. He was impelled to commit 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, near 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 expected to remain until the ensuing spring, by
which p...riod the repairs and improvements in progress
at Hy de• 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 assistant phyaician to St. Thomas's Hospital
has been filled up by the appointment of Dr. Thomas
B. Peacock.

SUICIDE BY A SHOPKEEPER.—Yesterday Mr. IL
M. Wakley held an inquest in the Middlesex Hospital,
on Mr. Joseph Kaye, linen-draper, late of 55, 'rotten-
ham-tour!-road, who committed suicide by precipitating
himself from one of the top windows of his house.
Vet dict—" 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 so far as the dockyard, but he still
appears very ill.