The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-10 00:00:00

SPIRITS.—To-day the purchases made in all kinds of TWO
were small, and for all purposes, although the stock exhibits
the large deficiency of 3,660 puns and 280 hhds compa:ta
with this time last year, but holders refused to .take loiter
rates for any sort.
OlLS.—There has been a large business transacted in Oliver
Oil, and holders manifest much firmness, although some
parcels have been received. The consumption continues
large, although prices are much above those of this time last
season. Rape Seed Oil has been in extensive request, and
prices are still rising, whilst the supply is on the decrease of
all descriptions. Linseed Oil has been in excellent request
by the home trade, and many purchases have been made for
exportation. Cocoa Nut Oil is less wanted. For Palm rather
lower rates having been taken, occasioned a good demand.
In American Lard Oil a fair amount of business has been
transacted. Of Fish Oils none has been submitted to public
competition since our last report. There are further a rrivals
of Cod, but of all other sorts they continue trifling, a-ed the
deliveries being good, a further decrease has taken p lace iu
Ow stock. Cod cannot be quoted higher.
TALLOW.—Holders of Russian on the spot have been .eager
sellers since our last report, and largely supplying the mar-
ket, produced a fall in prices of 9d to is per cwt. Other
sorts of Tallow are offered upon lower terros, still the amount
of business transacted has been upon a small scale only.

The firm mentioned as having failed at Leghot n is
that of Bo and Co., silk manufacturers. Their liabilities in
London and Manchester are stated to amount l'o between
40,0001. and 50,0001.
According to advices from Odessa the 'whell,..t
market was mjntained with much firmness, but bu.scne ss,'"
consequence of the high demands of holders, had ,fren
limited. The latest sles of Polish, good seconds quali
,: tY,
were at 273/4 to '2Bl/2 rouLlles. Advices from Riga to tL'e
30th ult. quote the exchange at 40%, which is a shade foal
unfavourable for this country.
SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. B.—The inquiry respecting
the delay of the Trent for wantof coal between Havana ah and
Jamaica has concluded, by the dismissal of the capti In and
suspension of the first engineer, who is to be recomn )encled.
to a junior engineer birth until he has had more expt Tiraoine,
The Oriental Company's steam-ship Tiber, Captain
k liairg
t-
Admiralty Agent Lieutenant Inglish, left the doca..a, three
rm. this day, for Gibraltar, with the usual In 115
cargo, and LboYe twenty passengers.
Illation was
-
DARING Inc( STREET ROBBERY. 'r and 3
on Monday received by the police that, between
o'clock uu isaLuraay afternoon, as Mr. 'vviiitaui J. Car waruin
clerk, in the employ of Messrs. Wilsod and Comparu, Of
Silver-street, Wood- street, City, was proceeAng
from Me ears. Barclay and Company's, bankers, Lombard-s:reet, to the Old
Jewry, by way of the Poultry, he was robin
41 of a bl ack
leather pocket-book, containing a bill of exchange tor 511-1 4s.
also of a canvass bag containing 25/. in gold. The robbery
was effected by the thief cutting through both Mr. Csrvfor-
dine's great coat and pocket of the under coat.
WooLwicif, FEB. 8. The Odin steam-vessA
under the charge of Captain Woodford J. Williams, with then
officers and crew of the Amphion steam-frigate, is now ready
for sea, and has her steam up to-day for the purpose of leav-
ing Woolwich this afternoon to have her compasses adjusted
at Greenhithe, and will then proceed to Portsmouth to take
on board meal and rice for Ireland. The Rosamond steam-
vessel, Commander John Foote, left Woolwich on Friday
morning for Greenhithe to have her compasses adjusted, and
will leave the latter place this afternoon for Portsmouth to
be paid in advance at that port. The Antelope steam-vessel
has been taken out of the basin, and will be tried down the
river in a few days. Captain enham, R.N., F.R.S., had an
interview with Lord Clarendon, at the Board of Trade, On
Thursday last, and immediately after proceeded on cotnada-
sion of inquiry respecting the loss of the Sirius steamer 011
the coast of Ireland.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETIr.—M°II(III7
the annual general meeting of the supporters of the West
City Auxiliary to the above Association was held at the
London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill. The Rev. 'Air. Charles-
worth having taken the chair, the secretary mead the report-
Since the formation of the society, the members had con-
tributed the sum of 4731. for the distribution of the Scrip-
tures amongst the poor of the neighbourhood. The number
of bibles circulated was 335, and of testaments 260, in addi-
tion to a few prayer-books. The Rev. W. Ellis moved the
adoption of the report. The Rev. R. Monro, Chaplain of
Bridewell, in seconding the resolution, stated that the present
society bad distributed, since its formation, forty years ago,
no fewer than 18,000,000 copies of the Holy Scriptures. II
the n lather of copies circulated by foreign societies were ill-
eluded, there would be found a total of 30,000,000. The re-
port was unanimously adopted, after which the usual formal
res)lutions were passed, and the meeting separated.
OLD.NICK, OR THE CHIMNEY SWEEP..--A short

time since, in a pari,h on the confines of Devon and Corn-
wall, an honest and thrifty farmer engaged a sweep to come
to his house, for the purpose of sweeping his chimneys and
flues ; and as the worthy knight of the soot brush arrived late
in the evening, he was provided with a warm supper and
comfortably domiciled in the barn, in order to commence
his operations early on the following mornitvg. Sooty bad
wrapped himself comfortably in the winnowing-sheet,. and
stretched his weary limbs on some clean st raw, and had
just resigned himself to the arms of Morpheus,. -when, 10,
man with a dark lantern, and another with a number of
sacks entered the barn, and speedily began to fill the sacks
wmhkteht. ire Theopersawtieoenps,
with the wheat, which was lying in the barn-pc of just fit for
thea
without llay snug
sayingug his d.
a word
of the thieves remarked to his companion, that,: they should
7aiwtobreyliand e
onteeadr
get on much more expeditiousl3 in filling their ea cks, if they
had got a third person to hold their candle. Sooty, with
great simplicity, aroused himself from his rushic crib, and
exhibiting his ebony figure to the astonished r&obers, coolly
raid to them, " hold the candle for pat." The con-
science-stricken thieves in their excited imagin.s.tion readily
conceiving the "gentleman in black," to be no :less a person-
age than his satanic majesty himself, hurriedly- threw down
the sacks, flew through the doorway like a fl-ash of light-
ning, and in their terror and hurry to escape tl le clutches of
Old Nick. actually took their departure, leavir.,g a horse and
cart behind them, which they had intended hJr the transit
of the corn, and poor sooty, the only actor lett on -the stage,
speedily alarmed the sleeping inmates of the
.ta rm-bouse, and
put them in pursuit of the marauders, but w !t1
I what success
our reporter does not inform us Western .1:u urinary.
A society is about to be formed in North Shields,
having for its object the prevention of the s awoke nuisances
arising from steam-boats and manufactor Newcastle
Journal. _ _ _

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rADVERTISEMENT.j—THE EARL OF .ALDROROUGH
AND HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—An astounding cure by this miraculous
medicine, after every other means had failed. Sre slx tract from his
Lordship's letter, dated " Villa Messina, Leghorn Feb. 21, 184.5.
Professor Holloway—Sir : I beg to acquaint you tha t your pills havo
effected a cure of a disorder in my liver and start) Itch all the most
eminent of the facility, at home and all over the cos 'anent, had not
been able to effect; nay, not even the waters of ( 'a.rlsbad or Ma-
rienbad. (Signed) " ALosoßouou." These wono let rill PillB I'll
sure any disease of the liver or stomach.—Sold s Ist. ilell"raYl
Ointment) at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 24;4, Strand, an
by all medicine vendors throughout the civilised wor Id.

BIRTHS.
of York-
On the sth inst., the wife of Thomas Alexander, :
place, Portman-square, of a son, still-Dom.
On the sth inst., the wife of Mr. John William Burr Div%
of Upper
Albany-street, Regent's-park, of a daughter.
On the 6th inst., at Beddington, the lady of Joseph LarcrMee, Esq.,
of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 4th inst., at St. Mathew's, North Brixton, Char lea uled'',
solicitor, Ryde, Isle of Wight, to Ellen, second daughter of the late
Thomas Forster, Esq.

DIED.
On the 17th ult., William Thornton, Esq., late surgeon: of the 99th
Regiment of Foot, aged 69.
On the Ist inst., at Bayswater, Alexander Gordon Rose,. aged 24.
On the 3d inst., in Old Cavendish-street, Miss Sarah Wrigbt.
On the 3d inst., at Chester, the Venerable Unwin Cla eke, M.A.
4 rchdeacon of Chester and Canon of the Cathedral, aged 83.
--- oh the 4th inst., at Kensington, Susanna, relict of the late lAeate.
_
mint
lust at Sion-hill, Bath, Harriet Margaret, rel id of the
ral Charles Barters, agel 72.
On the 4th
.aged 69.
" Denton Hall, Lincelnshire, Lady WeThy, wife
Bart
Csf Sir William Earle Wei Cy. aged I 5.
lateo
On the 4th inst , at Gilston Rectory, George Moody, Esq., a ged 75.
nlitalijeor4tlh)eit't.,
On the 501 inst., at LarFs-eou:t, Brompten, Jane, the wits of Cap-
tain T. VT. Baldwin.
Oil the s;ji inst.. Mr. Alfred Fisher, li.Ose-street, Newgate-market.
On the sth InSt., Mr. William Pearce, of Clare-street, Lfeacoin's
Inn-tlehis, aged 43.
On the sth inst., at Thavies inn, Mrs. Ann Luke, aged 61.
On the 6th inst., at Pitilly Brook House, Leyton, Essex, Sylph
Henry Doxat, Esq., aged 46.
On the 6111 inst., in Dorset-square, R. Fellewes, LL.D., aged 77.
On the 6th inst., at Well-street, Hackney, the Rev. George coat-
son, resident tutor of the Hackney Theological Seminary.

Pr,bllo,o by
MUItDO YOUNG. of No. 1.12.
Priotter, At 1h burs. (Alice, No. lit Strand. in the Precimet
of SP
the ElsvoY, in tho Count; of KwAuelfa, Weductdar.
brwari le. 1847.

MARKET NEWS.--(YESTER DAY.)
EAT 710113.-A IL 'lets.
over ditto,
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow B 2/ 5s to 31 15s; Cl
31 5s to 41 16s ; and Straw, 1/ Ss to
li 13s per load,
Supply but moderate, and trade dull.
CUMMICLAND.—Meadow Hay,. 2/ 83 to 3/ 169 ; Cl(' Ver ditto,
3/ 5s to 41 14s ; and Straw, 11 9s to 1114 a per tom I. 4 f4ir
average supply, and a slogOsh demand.
21 159 ; ; Clover
WIIITECIUPEL.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 5$ to .
ditto, 3/ Ss to 51; and Straw. 1/ Ss to, II
Trade 138 1 '6l. toad'
dull, at the above quotatim.l9.

(From the London New Price Currea of E. ebr. nay 9 9.)
,:,-9.ait.—To-day there was a falling off in t 1 „ ate rand for
all descriptions of raw Sugar for home consume
tiot'e and the
..Uet!cling
quantity broughi, forward being very large, an
the wants of the grocers, refiners, 'brewers, ant
whilst there was no specti)ative demand, a decline in prices
consequently took place.
FOREIGN.—This afternoon Foreign Sugar meth VI little
attention privately. At public said 2,596 bags of i 3truaqr
buco aid under former rates.
REFINED.—To-day Refined goods were purchased with
caution by the home trade, although there were selle rs upon
lower terms. Bonded Crushed Sugar met with a dr al sale
at former rates. In Loaves a good deal has been don .e.
31auttmas--This afternoon the ,quantity of M auritiue
Sugar submitted to public competition was very let ge, and
ainc.unted to 20,204 bags, and 241 eas.lte, the chief part of
which consisted of the better descriptions.. The tram:bents
were eager sellers, but submitting to a fall on the 'sates. of Is
to 2s on and brown, and 6d to is / Ner cwt for ge*Y
kinds, induced the trade to purchase the ptinci nal !Jana velvet.
EAST Imam--Thies afternoon at the public 's
ales of Be. Val,
consisting of 4,710 hags, the biddinga were lanh,,tlid, and Ate
rates accepted exhibited a cline of is to is 6d white,. Ba
to is for grainy yellow, and Is ;:,er cwt for brown; bat net al/
the whole found purchasers.
IriniGo.—The market has assure ed a brisker a ppeara nee
for East India suited both for home consumption and ex-
portation, and prices have taken an upw,:rd tendency. 'srlse
quarterly sales of East India commenced to-day,sisted of 9,509 chests. The sale has gone oh and con.'
' with spirit Aar
the new goods, but those marks that were bouge.t in, in pre..-
vious sales. have not sold quite so well.
COFFEE.—This afternoon Plantation Ceylon met with laws
attention, and 1,419 bags at auction were only in art sold;,
but former rates were sustained. Native is less wanpt ed. OR
Singapore Java 1,923 bags were submitted to public &ADP-
tion, and all taken in at 38s to 40s for good ordinary, and hte
32s to 32s 6d for damaged, which is above the value.
Cocoa..—There.has been much inquiry after West India,
and further advanced rates are offered. The pai•cele on offer 7
have been readily cleared off the market; indeed the' supply'
is not sufficient for the demand. •
TEA.—There has been more activity in the market Cat
Black since the issuing of our last number; holders h.tmre
shown firmness, and supplied the market less freely with. al
descriptions. In Congou a good business has been transact( 4
by the town and country trade at the former currency. C)f
New Tea many parcels have been disposed of, and the qualit) a
is superior to that of last season. In Pouchong the operations
are to a larger extent, add at firm rates. In Green Tea of
good and fine quality a large business has been transacted, .
and at firm rates, but in the lower sorts only a moderate
business has been dane at present, notwithstanding the low -
prices at which there are sellers. V.le arrivals of Tea have"
been less than they were last year, whist the deliveries are
larger, and the stock is much the same aa' it was in 1846 at
this time; still all kinds are cheaper.
SAGO.—The demand has been active, and stiff prices have
been paid. Sago Flour is wanted.
SALTPETRE.—To-day there was a good desire evinced to
operate in rough, but stiffer rates being asked, checked
business, and 729 bags of Calcutta at public sale were Aker'
in rather above the value.