The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-02 00:00:00

7.4 HE SUN,

and the market is consequently somewhat unsettled.
In white shirtings a few sales have also been made,
without much change in value. White jacconets
are dull, and the transactions unimportant. In gray
jacconets also sales are quite insignificant, and mada-
pollams are in less inquiry. Grey twills are still
wanted.
Glasgow fabrics are in a worse position than
before, or as compared with the staple Manchester
cloths, stocks of the former being much more in
excess of the wants of the market. Holders in some
instances showing an anxiety to sell, prices have
generally given way, and the demand is of a very
languid description. Book muslins have been disposed
of to some extent at the low prices of 1 to 1-Irs. for No.
1, and 3 annas consecutive rise for Nos. 2 and 3. A few
sales of common lappets have been effected by submit-
ting to lower rates. Mulls of common and middling
qualities. Nos ;3 to 5, are in fair inquiry, but no sales
have been made. Scarfs are neglected. In other
light goods nothing of moment has occurred.
The sales of printed goods are small, and confined
to a few lots of zebra dresses, and such prints as are
likely to suit the Affghans, now shortly expected.
Printed handkerchiefs are still very saleable.
Turkey reds are also dull. Twills have been sold
at 6 annas per yard, jacconets at Co.'s rs. 6 3 per
piece, and diagonal printed 20 yards schinders at Co.'s
rs. 8-12 per piece.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price Current of Feb. 1.)
Sun &R.—To-day there was increased firmness in the
Raw Sugar market, the home trade were anxious to
make purchases in both free and slave labour of every
kind. On the part of merchants there was also much
confidence, and theymoderately supplying the market,
were enabled to obtain rather advanced rates.
Exporters and our refiners working under bond
came forward with greater freedom. The de-
mand was active for all sorts of West India for
home consumption, and the rates paid were 6d to is per
cwt above those of Friday, but business was checked by
the diminished supply, and the refusal of some holders
to sell. The private sales amounted to 860 hhds, &c.,
and the rates current are as follows:—brown 36s 6d to
37s 6d, yellow 36s to 475, and grey 38s to 42s per cwt.
At public sale 20 hhds, 19 tres, and 26 barrel :of Berbice
went at 37s to 38s for fine strong brown. The rise on
West India Sugar from the lowest point of the market
is 3s 6d per C.
REFINED.—To-day there was less disposition evinced
to operate in Refined goods, but prices ruled firm ;
Standard Lumps at 55s 6d to 565, and brown Grocery at
55s per cwt. A slight increase in the supply is observ-
able. Bonded Crushed Sugar is in brisker request, and
prices are firmer—first and second quality selling at 29s
to 309 6d per cwt.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Bengal Sugar of all
kinds was in excellent request privately, and the parcels
offered at auction, amounting to 5,154 bags, all sold at
full, and in some cases at stiffer rates. Benares fine
white fetched 485.t0 90s,good 44s 6d to 465, middling 43s
to 43s 6d, low 42s to 42s 6d, good yellow date kind 41s
to 435, damp and washed 37s to 475, brown ditto 27s to
325, good strong yellow like Dobah 47a 6d to 48s 6d. Of
Madras some parcels were taken by private treaty, and
stiffer rates were paid. At public sale 93 bags went at
33s for low soft yellow.
MAURITIUS.—This afternoon there was a lively de-
mand for all kinds of Mauritius Sugar, and a further
rise in the value took place, although the market was
better supplied. At public sale 6,943 bags and 25 casks
were offered, consisting chiefly of middling .grey sorts :
the whole sold at a rise on the rates of the last auction
of is per cwt.
FOREIGN.—To-day there was no public sale of Fo-
reign Sugar, but numerous parcels were taken by private
treaty, and at higher rates by 6d to is per cwt. The
chief sales to-day were 1,700 chests brown and yellow
Havannah at 395; 400 chests brown Bahia at 40s to
40s 6d; a cargo afloat of 400 tons of brown Rio at
37s 6d ; one of 200 tons Pernambuco at 38s 6d. To-
wards the close of the market it was difficult to purchase
sound brown Foreign Sugar however low in quality
under 38s.
MOLASSES.—To-day there was a good demand for
West India, and the rates obtained were rather above
those that existed last week. The value of low to fine
quality is 16s to 18s 6d per cwt., indeed some parties
will Rot take these rates.

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COFFEE. —This afternoon Native Ceylon was sold to a
fair extent by private treaty, at 33s to 34s for good and
real good ordinary. Of Plantation 117 bags and 5 casks
were sold at rather better rates, good bold coloury
mountain berry went at 665, good middling 60s, mid-
dling 56s 6d, damaged 50s to 55s 6d, triage 39s 6d ;
27 casks of Jamaica went at full value, fine at 103 s 6d,
good 81s to 90s, middling 70s, fine ordinary 44s to 48s,
good ordinary mixed 35s to 36s per cwt. The market
for nearly all sorts of Coffee has a firm appearance.
TEA.—The deliveries have again been of a satisfactory
nature, and amounted to 557,965 pounds at this port
during the past week, and which is a larger quantity
than last year during the same time. The market has
assumed a tranquil appearance for both Black and
Green sorts, and only a limited amount of business has
been concluded since our last report, but holders
refuse to sell upon lower terms; the market
is, however, more liberally supplied. The rates
obtained for common and good common Congou
are 8d to 9d ; Hyson, ordinary is to is 3d;
Gunpowder Canton is to Is 4d, and Imperial 10d to Is.
There are sellers of common yellowish leaf Twankay at
the low rates of 5d to 6d, still few purchasers are to be
met with. The public sales declared to take place are
heavy, and greater than for some time. None has come
in since our last report, and the trade all over the
country are scantily supplied; prices are also much under
those of this time in 1847.
RlCE.—This afternoon ne improvement was perceiv-
able in the demand for any kind of East India Rice,
and holders were disposed to realise. At auction 3,063
bags Madras sold, but upon rather lower terms—fine
pinky white went at I Is, good 9s 6d to 10s, fine pearl
barley 10s, good 9s to 9s 6d, fine bold white 12s 6d to
13s, tine cargo Ss 6d to 9s, and damaged 8s to 12s 6d ;
2,049 bags of Bengal were offered—the sound was all
taken in—fine white at 14s 6d and good 12s 6d, but the
dsmaged sold at 8s to 13s per cwt.
SAGO.—To-day 146 boxes at public sale were taken
in at 19s for small Pearl, being above the value.
SPIRITS.—To-day there was an active demand for all
kinds of Rum, and a further advance in the value took
place, Leeward Island selling at Is 10d to is lld proof,
East India is Bid to is 9d, Jamaica 30 to 38 per cent.
over proof 4s to ss, and Demerara 3s 3d to 3s 6d per
gallon; indeed some parties will not accept these rates,
on account of the expected reduction in the duty.
TALLOW.—On the part of holders of Russian there is
more desire manifested to realise, and the rates accepted
are rather under those previously quoted. Only a limited
amount of business has been concluded, and 47s to 47s 6d
are the prices taken for P.Y.Candle. There are sellers for
the next two months at 475, but few buyers are to be

met with. The operations are upon a more extended
scale only for the last three months of the year at
43s to 445, and upon which terms there is a desire to sell
Home made is not cheaper, but is not so much in de-
mand, and the supply is rather larger, still 49s to 50s
per cwt are the rates insisted upon nett cash. Other
sorts of Tallow are less wanted, and rather lower rates
are accepted. At public sale 133 casks of P. Y. Candle
were disposed of. For auction 800 packages of Tallow
are declared.
Ou.a. —Prices& not improve for Linseed Oil, although
the home demand is good, and exporters having been
buyers to a fair extent. The supply is, however, larger
than of late. For forward delivery several sales have
been made at 24s to 24s 3d per cwt, indeed there are not
generally sellers upon these terms. Rape Seed Oil in
good demand, and the supply beingsmall, buyers have to
pay stiffer rates. Little change in the value of Olive Oil.
For Palm a much better demand has been experienced,
accompanied by an advance in prices. By private
treaty several parcels have been sold, and 99 casks at
auction fetched 31/ to 341 for good and fine quality.
The supply is on the decrease, whilst the consumption
is improving. Cocoa Nut is offered upon reduced
terms, still few buyers are to be met within the
private market, and 68 pkgs at auction were only
in part sold. One the part of holders of Fish Oil
more desire has been shown to realise, and the market
has been better supplied, whilst the demand is not so
good. The deliveries are, however, yet exceeding the
arrivals. For Southern prices remain much the same as
previously, but only a limited business has been con-
cluded privately in every sort. At public sale 10 tuns
realised 30/ 5s to 32/. Seal is offered upon rather lower
terms, but the private sales are of little moment in all
sorts; at public sale, however, 42 tuns found buyers.
'1 he sales made in Cod have been of little moment, and
251 to 251 lOs are the rates taken. Sperm is, however, in
good request, and prices are firmer.

LOSS OF THE STEAMER SCOTIA

(From the Malta Times of Jan. 25.)
On the morning of the 15th the Scotia was observed
lying in the Bay of Stora much deeper in the water
than customary, consequently, as there was no one on
board, Captain Williams, of the schooner Rhoda,
lying at anchor close by, lowered his boat and went
on board accompanied by a portion of his crew,
when to his surprise he found that the water had
risen so as to cover the machinery, and that it was
fast increasing, which he imagined must have been
occasioned by a material damage from a French brig,
which parted from her anchors, and went foul of her
on the night of the 13th inst. Captain Williams did
not leave the Scotia until the arrival of Captain
Pereira, which took place shortly, when a consultation
was held as to the expediency of running her on shore,
in order, if possible, to save a wreck of the ill-fated
ship, which was done by the sole exertions of the
,Rhoda' s crew and three or four of the Scotia's men.
She was speedily run on the sandy beach and imme-
diately parted asunder. On the following day a large
portion of her wood work was sold by auction on the
spot. The boilers and part of her engines were ob-
served peering over the troubled waves, and will no
doubt be ultimately recovered.

. _
PLITT'S FAILURE.—It is stated in a letter from
Frankfurt that the failure of the house of Plitt and Co.
of St. Petersburgh, is severely felt in that city. The
principal creditors reside there, and among them is one
for 2,080,000 r., and another for 1,040,000f'.
[ ADVERTISEMENT.] —CAPTAIN KRAMER, OF THE
BARQUE WILHEIMER CURED OF A DREADFUL SCORBUTIC COM-
PLAINT BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.—HI this astonishing
case the whole of the body and legs were covered with lumps nearly
the size of Tonquin beans, and had been so for the last thirty years :
surprising to relate this terrible disease completely disppeared from
the system in the course of a month, by having large quantities of
the ointment well rubbed in every night and morning, and taking the
pills in copious doses. This cure is known to many respectable
people, as the vessel was discharging her cargo in the Thames only
about a fortnight sluce.—Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Hot-
14vrare eetatandunent 244, Strand, Loden,

THE CONFIRMATION OF DR
HAMPDEN.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Feb. 1.
:Before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, and Justices
PATTESON, COLERIDGE, and Faux.)

THE QUEEN V. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.
The following is a fuller report of the Lord Chief
Justice's speech than we were enabled to give in our
afternoon:Edition of yesterday :
Lord DENMAN said—This is an application for a
Mandamus to the Archbishop of Canterbury to hear
certain parties in opposition to the confirmation of the
Bishop elect of the diocese of Hereford ; and their
affidavits state, in substance, that a citation had
been issued, requiring opponents of the confir-
mation of the Bishop elect to appear with any
objections they might have to urge; that they had ac-
cordingly appeared with their objections in due form,
and that their counsel had not been permitted
to do more than to argue in favour of their
right to be heard. The affidavit then states
that the vicar• general then proceeded with the
confirmation, and declared that no opponents had pre-
viously appeared, and that opponents were contu-
macious for not appearing. It is also further stated
that the objections tendered were founded on doctrines
contained in certain books written by the Bishop
elect, which, it is alleged, are repugnant to the arti-
cles of religion ; and the applicants contend that the
confirmation which followed was, by reason of that
refusal, null and void. Various arguments have been
used to show that a writ of mandamus will not lie in
the present case. I have no doubt that in this case
the mandamus sought for ought not to issue ; and,
even if I were at all in doubt on the subject, I should
think it better not to issue the writ than to run the
risk of abridging the clear and established preroga-
tive of the Crown in a matter of such vital import-
ance, still more to the best interests of the people than
of the Crown itself. I admit that there has been
established a prima facie case of wrong, where, after
citation issued for persons to appear in opposition,
and after proclamation to the same effect, persons so
appearing were prohibited from stating the grounds
of their opposition. The proceedings by which op•
posers were invited to appear, and then had their
mouths stopped at the very outset, and were excluded
the court, clearly reflected no honour on those who
instituted the form. It is an absurdity, only exceeded
by the further proceeding of declaring those very
persons contumacious for non-appearance, who had
actually appeared, and, ,claiming to be heard, were
not heard. That these things are anomalies there
can be no doubt ; but they do not constitute a case
for setting aside a clear and established rule, founded
on a distinct Act of Parliament and settled by in-
variable practice. By wi•ose authority have these
proceedings been sanctioned in the present in-
stance, and of whom is complaint made ? In the
first place, of a prelate entitled to the un-
bounded respect and confidence of all men—
of that of the venerable Primate of England,
who has been a bishop during a quarter of a century,
and Archbishop of Canterbury during nearly a simi-
larly long period, and who must, therefore, in that
long career, particularly as metropolitan, have taken
a leading part in the confirmation of almost all the
prelates in his province now on the episcopal bench,
and who, in the most trying times, has ever displayed
the utmost uprightness, prudence, moderation, and
circumspect care, whose mind and understanding are
not impaired by age, but matured by experience and
reflection. The other party of whom complaint was
made was a person whose mind, learning, and judg-
ment, are as well established as is his high character
in all other respects. These parties, so conversant
with the law and custom' in this matter, relied not
upon the abstract justice or propriety of the particular
form ; on the contrary, they lamented the continu-
ance of that empty form ; they admitted it was strange
and scandalous; but they relied on the express
terms of the Act of the 25th of Henry the VIIIth.
The Learned Judge here recited the provisions of
that Act, so often cited already, as to the proceedings
in electing and confirming bishops, and then went on
to say that the first observation that occurred to him
in reference to this Act was, that no form of confir-
mation whatever was set forth in it or in the preced-
ing Act on the same subject, the 23d of Henry the
VIIIth. ; which latter statute, after denouncing
former exactions of the Pope, by means of delaying
the confirmation of bishops named by the king en-
acted that for the future, any person presented to the
Court of Rome as bishop of any English see, and
whose confirmation by Papal bull should be unduly
deferred, should be consecrated by his archbishop, and
be then and thereafter taken to be, and be, bishop of the
see to which he had been named. In this statute the
word confirmation does not once occur. This statute
was kept alive by the 25th of Henry the Eighth. The
statute in question was framed in that spirit of
jealousy of Rome which was at that time severing
one by one all the ties between this kingdom and that
see, but neither King Henry nor any other king was
likely to leave the means of making bishops imper-
fect or uncertain for the time to come. That was one
of the objects of the statute, as put forth by the
preamble; and it has been asked whether such a king
was likely, at the same time that he deprived the
Pope of his veto, to give it to one of his subjects ?
The only answer which has been made to this ques-
tion, I confess, I have heard with surprise and regret,
because as I caught it, and I believe I am correct, it
was a severe reflection on that great father of the
English Protestant Church, Archbishop Cranmer.
I understood it to have been said that the King
knew how obsequious an archbishop he had
in Cranmer, who would readily comply with
the King's will. True, Cranmer was not a
blameless man ; far from it; for shortly before
his death he betrayed a great want of firmness; but
I may be permitted to say not greater than that ex-
hibited by the apostle whom the head of the church
selected from among his brethren as the rock upon
which that church was to be built ; and his death at
least might have atoned for this fault, and have saved
his memory from such observations. I must say, I
did not expect in this court of law, and in the pre-
sence of so many learned lawyers, and in the pre-
sence of so many of the faithful sons of the Church of
I England, to hear the name of Cranmer introduced
for such a purpose, and I think it shows great excite-
ment of mind existing somewhere on the present
occasion, whether in the clients or in the counsel who
made the remark. I will say that I feel it is doubly
the duty of this Court on such a question as this
to take care that it is not led away by
such impressions, or yields too much to the
authority of these ecclesiastical powers, which, in my
opinion, it has been the duty of this Court, in all ages,
to watch with peculiar jealousy. If Henry relied on
Cranmer as upon a mean and servile Churchman, who
would truckle to his caprices, he was wholly mistaken
in his man. The Archbishop, on more than one oc-
casion, thoroughly thwarted the monarch on points
which the monarch was especially bent upon carry-
ing. He opposed him in the matter of Anne Boleyn,
and, despite Henry's utmost anger, manifested him-
self the unswerving friend of the unfortunate Queen ;
and again, on the matter of the Six Articles, both
in and out of Parliament, opposed the monarch,
though it was perfectly well known that the latter
was determined upon the extirpation of all views and
doctrines contrary to his own by torture and death.
But Cranmer was not immortal, and other less tract-
able metropolitans might hare arisen, even suppos-
ing his character had been what it has been repre-
sented. Henry was no stranger to the obstinacy of
religious faith. From experience he knew its strength,
having seen his own well beloved Chancellor lay his
head on the block rather than admit his supremacy.
He had witnessed constancy, too, in many of the
clergy, and he was no doubt well read in that page of
Church history which recorded the firmness of
Thomas A'Beckett. It is, therefore, inconceivable,
by any ingenuity, that Henry should have allowed
any doubt to remain as to the prerogative which he
proposed to establish. Besides, Parliament itself had
made complaints with respect to the proceedings of
the Archbishop on this subject. These considerations
are surely entitled to great weight. The arguments
on either side, in this respect, rest upon the meaning
to be attached to confirmation, as the word is found
in the statute. The word, however, does not occur
alone, but is connected with the proposed elec-
tion. The words, " should confirm the said elec-
tion,. plainly indicate the duties devolving on the
metropolitan. When the election was real, two
things require to be certified to the Archbishop
first, that the election is duly made; and secondly,
the identity of the person who brought the certifi-
cate,
it being further desirable, no doubt, that the
Archbishop, by his benediction and gracious recep-
tion of his new colleague, should inspire the people
with confidence and respect for him. But it is said
he is to cite all persons to oppose ; and it is a ques-
tion whether heis bound to open a court of this de-
scription. I would ask, can there be any necessity
for such a course when the person to be confirmed
has already been ordained a deacon, on which occa-
sion all people have been called upon to pronounce
whether they suspect him of any crime or offence,
when, if anything was alleged against him future pro-
ceedings were deferred until inquiry should be made ?
The same person must have undergone the same
ordeal on being ordained a priest ; and, when bishop
elect, he comes with the additional testimony of
parties well qualified to judge of his fitness in all
respects; for, since the provision of that statute, he
brings the recommendation of the Crown—and is that
to pass for nothing? Why is the Archbishop, then,
to commence an inquiry ? Why is he to call upon
all the world to come forward and oppose ? If the
election were in the people I could understand the
argument ; but here it has passed away from the
people, and been vested for ages in the Dean and
Chapter on the recommendation of the Crown. The
limitation of time imposed in the two great
processes of election and confirmation —of
twelve days in the former case, and twenty