The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-25 00:00:00

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London New Price Current of April 24.)
SUGAR.—To-day there was a good business transacted in
all kinds of West India Sugar, considering the scanty show,
and the private purchases amounted to 400 hhds and tres,
for which rather higher rates were paid, making the advance
for the week Is, and in some cases is 6d per cwt. The total
quantity disposed of during the four market days has
amounted to 2,220 hhds and tres. The market closes very
firmly for all kindsof home-trade Sugar.
REFINED.—To-day Refined Goods were extensively dealt
iq by the home trade, and advanced rates were paid, brown
lumps selling at 64s to 64s 6d, and standard lumps at 65s to
65s 6d per cwt. In Bonded Crushed Sugar a good business
was transacted, but the Refiners were compelled to take
33s 6d to 34s per cwt for first quality.
MAURITIIIS.—The demand has increased for all descrip-
tions this week, and although the market has been largely
supplied, chiefly with the better sorts, still an advance in
prices of is per cwt has taken place. Several parcels have
been disposed of privately for grocery and refining purposes,
and the public sales of 13,872 bags 473 casks went off with
spirit.
EAST Nl:al.—This afternoon Bengal was in excellent re-
quest, and four parcels offered at public sale, amounting to
3,967 bags, were all sold at an advance on former rates of Is.
per cwt.
FOREIGN.—The market has presented a firmer appearance
for yellow and brown Havannah this week, a fair business
has been transacted privately, and the rates paid exhibit a
small advance on those previously current. Holders of
Brazil have refused to further reduce their prices, and refrain
from offering any at auction this week. White has been
purchased with caution; brown is, however, wanted, and the
parcels sold privately were upon former terms: there is a less
quantity of all descriptions on offer. All kinds of Foreign
are cheaper than they were last year, white sorts in parti-
cular, and the stock is still less.

TEA.—There has been a much better demand for Congou
of all descriptions this week, but at present no advance has
taken place in prices. In Pouchong there has been rather
more business transacted, and holders evince more firmness.
Hyson has been in mach better demand, and there art
not sellers upon former terms. Twankey of common qua-
lity is dull of sale, but the better sorts are wanted. Young
Hyson sells more freely. A larger business has been trans-
acted in Gunpowder. For Pekoe Tea the market has a dull
appearance, and prices are on the decline. Souchong has
been in fair request. Bohea is dull of sale.
COFFEE.—This afternoon 253 bales, and 267 bales Mocha
Coffee, were submitted to public competition; the trade
evinced little desire to operate, and the sound was nearly all
taken in at moderate prices.
Rica.—Morextrict attention has been paid to Bengal Rice
since our Oast publication, and white descriptions have brought
prices rather above those that previously existed.
SPIRITS. —There has been an extensive business trans-
acted in Calcutta Rum this week, and an advance on former
rates of Id to 2d per gallon has taken place. Demerara has
been in good demand, and stiffer rates are given. There has
been a strong desire evinced to purchase Jamaica, and a
further advance in the value has taken place, but the supply
at market is far from ample for the demand. For Leeward
Island prices are still on the advance, and business has been
checked by the scanty supply at market. Although Brandy
is offered upon further reduced terms, still exporters and the
home trade have operated with much caution.
INDIGO.--Up to this day 11,670 chests have passed the
hammer, of which the proprietors have withdrawn 3,932, and
bought in 1,452, leaving 6,256 actually sold. The attendance
of foreign and home buyers were exceedingly small, and the
sale, during the bre, four days, was very languid, and prices
very uneven.

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COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
On Thursday a Court was held for the dispatch of public
badness.

ADDRESS OF CONGRATULATION TO THE SING

OF THE FRENCH.
The LOUD MAYOR said, it gave him much pleasure to in-
form the Court, that the Court of Aldermen had, on Tuesday
last, unanimously adopted an address to the King of the
French, upon his Majesty's deliverance from the hands of an
assassin.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. WIRE said, he rose with the greatest pleasure to move
that the Court should concur in an address of congratula-
lation to his Majesty the King of the French, for his recent
providential escape from the hand of a cowardly assassin.
Every one must detest and abhor the crime of assassination.
All must agree that the preservation of the life of so great
and so illustrious a man was a source of gratification to all
good men, in all countries, and a fesh cause of thankfulness
to Divine Providence for saving the life of one on the con-
tinuation of which depended, in a great measure, the peace
and the happicess, and the civilisation of the world.—(Hear,
hear.) He was glad to see that the universal feeling of
horror and indignation which pervaded all France, at the
atrocious attempt, was shared by all true-hearted English-
men. While peace was a blessing, all would rejoice to see
that England and France were joined in preserving
it, and that the only rivalry which existed between ourselves
and our gallant neighbours was, which should most accelerate
the march of improvement; which should sooner develope
the resources of their respective countries, and give pledges
to the world that not France and England alone rejoiced in
the interposition of Providence on that occasion, but that all
nations participated in the feeling of gratitede that a life so
dear to France, so valuable to all, had been spared.—(Hear.)
He knew the feelings of amity and friendship which existed
between our own beloved Queen and the Bing of the French.
He felt happy that that feeling was growing and increasing
between the wise and good of both nations, and he trusted
that henceforth whatever gave occasion of joy or sorrow to
the one would be participated in by both, and that
while those Sovereigns lived in friendship the people would
dwell in peace.—(Cheers.) He was indeed gratified to find
in the acclamations of the Court so hearty a response to his
remarks, as he felt satisfied that the best interests of our
species were promoted, extended, and secured in proportion
as peace prevailed—knowledge was diffused and religion was
spread. He knew that the King of the French had dedicated
his valued life to the promotion of these objects, and that
under his sway France was daily growing rich, prosperous,
and happy. In these riches, that prosperity, and that hap-
piness we must partake, and therefore he proposed the
adoption of an address of congratulation to his Majesty on
his escape from the blow of the assassin.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. Asnmerost felt the utmost pleasure in seconding the
proposition. The feeling of congratulation was expressed in
language of the most animated character from one end of the
kingdom to the other, and every Briton participated in the
sympathy which the attemptdiabolical had excited. The
Lnglish were as deeply concerned in
t as
hat
the
eh
Frenchpre se r ie
roen of
the
life of the King of the French
se l ves.—(Hear. ) He trussed
goad
friendship which existed between thethtewo lanaanrchls ,
and
between the two nations, would be of uninterrupted con-
tinuance. Let the two nations be rivals in the art and
ability of giving peace to all the rest of the world—the
great bond by which the glory and felicity of both would be
established.—(Cheers.) When he considered the attempt
which had been made, and the exhibition of feeling which
followed, he could not say that he regretted what had oc-
curred, for it gave to the French people an opportunity of
evincing their affection for their King, and the English an
opportunity of proving how sincerely they sympathised with.
their gallant ueighbours.—(Cheers.)
Deputy STEVENS heartily joined in the sentiments just
expressed by Mr. Wire and Mr. Anderton. He did not feel.
regret at the attempt, because it showed that so completely-
was the King of the French established in the hearts of hug
people that there was to be found only one solitary being
who entertained a thought of inflicting an injury upon him.
—(Cheers.) That solitary individual might be mad or in-
fluenced by motives of private vengeance to the perpetra-
tion of so desperate a crime. The act was not instigated as
former attempts had been, and there was no reason to appre-
hend anv future attack upon the life of a man who was the
friend of peace and the glory of his people.—(Cheers.)
Mr. W. JONES observed that the feeling of congratulation
did not exist in England alone. As a Welshman, he could.
bear testimony to the warm sentiments of respect and affec-
tion entertained by the inhabitants of Wales to the illus-
trious-King.
The motion was then unanimously agreed to ; and the
Court having been cleared of strangers, the address, which
was moved on Tuesday in the Court of Aldermen, was read
and unanimously adopted as the address of the Corporation.

RAGGED SCHOOLS.
Mr. BENNOCK presented a petition from the committee o
the Ragged School Union for a grant in aid of their funds
He calculated upon the unanimous support of the Court in
a case which called so loudly for the exertions of the bene-
volent. The ragged schools were established for the ex-
press purpose of receiving and giving education to poor
children, the victims of the neglect of abandoned parents, an
important class, shut out from the benefits which other chil-
dren enjoyed, by the very excel sof the calamity by which they
were overwhelmed. He instanced the wretched children who
inhabited the close, and filthy, and miserable lanes and alleys
about St. Giles's, Saffron-hill, Shoreditch, and other localities,
with the horrors of which but few who were present could
be acquainted. In London there were, he said, 100,000 chil-
dren, under fourteen years of age, who were wholly destitute
of the rudiments of education. It was to ask the assistance of the
Corporation in the benevolent plan of improving the moral
social, and religious condition of those helpless fellow crea-
tures the committee came to the Court. Mr. Bennock here
described the efforts made by the numerous unpaid teachers
of the thirty schools now in active operation. He argued
upon the importance of an economical, as well as a moral and
religious point of view, in changing the condition of the
wretched children who belonged to the class from which the
prisons were peopled. He had, he said, visited most of these
schools, in which the poor children, perhaps for the first time
in their lives, heard the accents of encouragement and kind-
ness, and to which they crowded with eagerness and hope;
and he trusted that such objects would not plead in vain to
the Corporation of the City of London.—(Cheers.) He con-
chided by moving that the petition be referred to the Coal,
Corn, and Finance Committee.

Mr. Kum seconded the motion, which was carried unani-
meu.sly.

THE GAME-LAWS.

Mr. W. S. HALE, the Chairman of the London School
Committee, rose to move that the Court should petition Par-
liament for the repeal of the game-laws. lie said it was im-
possible to read the details of the terrible consequences ot
the iniquitous game-laws in the newspapers without being
impressed with the opinion that the sooner they were
totally abolished the better. He rejoiced that Par-
liament were engaged in an investigation of the in-.
jurious effects of the system which was adopted for
the amusement of a few at the fatal expense of the
many. The moral consequences to the poor were mess
serious, as appeared from the multitude of committals which
took place in all parts of the country in which the temptation,
from poverty or other motives, existed. Was it to be for a
moment supposed that a man whose family were almost
starving could see a hare cross his path without making an
effort to supply his wife and children with food by possessing
himself of what he considered as much his property as it was
the property of the man of fortune, who pursued it with
impunity? Some people argued that the individuals who
were tried for transgressions of the game-laws were not the
most moral in any part of their conduct. But what rendered
them loose of morals but the existence of those cruel laws
which deprived them of their liberty, and dismissed their
families to the workhouse for an offence which, though
criminal in the eye of the law, could not be made by any in-
genuity other tkan venial, if regarded in a moral point ot
view?—(Hear.) It was also said that the inhabitants of a
commercial city were not justified in opposing laws which had
no operation as regarded them ; but he called upon the Court
to express its condemnation of every thing calculated to op-
press any part of the population of the empire.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. WILLIAMS seconded the motion for the repeal of laws
which originated in class legislation, aid are calculated to
harass and oppress the poor. The: result of every session
bore testimony to the unjust and tyrannical operation of the
game-laws.
Mr. H. TAYLOR supported the motion, and pointed out the
prisons all over the country as evidence of the demoralising
tendency of the game-laws. The chaplains who attended
the gaols in which were deposited the mdividauls who had
violated those laws, stated they found no other kind of de-
pravity amongst them, and that it was quite impossible to in-
duce them to believe that they had committed any crime.—
(Hear, hear.) Neither morality nor religion intimated to
them that they bad not as good a right to possess themselves
of game as those who were out of the reach of necessity. It
was seen in what multitudes labouring men came to town
to the unions. Was it to be wondered that the want which
drove these multitudes to London
which
driveshould
adoption of those unlawful practicesoften n them
e tot theo th e
commission of more
those dreadful conflicts which
awfulo ffn
involved e ce offences? Letmu murders,
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and lrerkmai -t
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so
fact, that men who were
nated in execution. ( Hexecuted
or t fhl et fat was
a
of those conflicts were objects of commisseration, and not of
the abhorrence and detestation which marked the departure
of a criminal found guilty of murder under other circum-
stances. The Legislature were, in fact, by continuing the
game-laws, manufacturing poor people into criminals.
Deputy CORNEY opposed to motion. It should, he said,
be recollected that the honest labourers were seldom or never
poachers. The idle and the dissolute, who would not hesitate
to rob the farm-yard of poultry, were the persons who devoted
themselves to the exercise of that nefarious trade.—(Hear.)
Mr. KM agreed with Mr. Corney, that the idle vagabond
and not the industrious man was the poacher who killed
game, and afterwards killed his fellow-creatures.—(Hear,
hear.) He had no sympathy for such depraved characters.
He had no objection to petition Parliament for some altera-
tion of the game-laws, but he could not think of the annihi-
lation of the game-laws, and he had no ambition to hear it
asked in the House of Commons, of himself and his fellow-
citizens, "What are these fools about ?"—(Laughter.) Under
all these circumstances, he should move the previous question
Mr. BOWER supported the original motion. The best
writers agreed in calling the game-laws a fruitful source of
misery and crime. If Parliament laughed at the Corporation
for petitioning on such a subject, the laugh must be extended
to nine-tenths of the public, who joined in condemnation of
so oppressive a system.---(Hear, hear.)
Mr. T. 11. HALL said that his feeling went with those who
had pointed out the game-laws as an immense source of dan-
gerous evils, and not with those who rose to make game of
the question.(Hear.) He called the attention of the Court
to the evidence, which proved that 44 persons had been
committed to prison by one young gamekeeper, and he
strongly expressed his disregard for the ridicule which might
be visited upon the desire and intention of doing good.

The previous question was then negatived.
Mr. KING then moved that instead of " repeal," the word
"alteration" should be introduced.
Mr. PRIOR seconded the amendment, which was, however,
negatived, and after sonic further discussion the original
motion was carried by a very great majority.

LORD FIELDING ANITCASTAIN RENNEDYS TRAVELS
Is ALGERIA.—A popular English work on the subject of
Algeria (says the Athenceum) was much wanted : and we are
glad that Viscount Fielding and Captain Kennedy undertook
their jouniev, and that the latterhas been so prompt in laying
the record of- their ramble before the public.. Algeria has
remained with the genertaeleitthy,om.f.hriecandherass ale
left
of dreamland
of romance. It is not merely our insular self-occupation
but the alcianssitat'iro°csa:egiletwhthmheill'ee.nZinisotofi:ll:wr ch'fhthheisfringohttf‘t:'et beguu ;
uni-
versal jir,?farontratle of the French* Journalists, and of the
French peo-,
11c, the strange mixture of anecdotes of " tire,
famine, and slaughter,'
fashions, the realities being all
all thetlie lw'ahrinseianberyagened foorarAkreanb.
Then Abd •el-Bader, with his vanishings, .and his re-appear-
andes—his energy and his mysterious power—is more like
the .bila:odgrabirl
iosr
i to
o some Oriental tale of magic than a flesh
and
adversary,ewhodmo
battledisciplwini.
disciplined m.
thtroops go forth from
the Place du au
S Pto wasFlE)B' 1311RIAL-GRoUND.—Mr. Bramwell, barris-
ter, who
appointed the arbitrator in this matter by the Court of
Queen's Ranch, has concluded the reference, and will in a short time
make his report to the Court. The object of the reference was to
ascertain whether the ground is a nuisance to the neighbourhood,
and in what manner it should in future be conducted. There have
been a good many examinations before the learned referee, but re-
porters were excluded, he having decided at the commencement
that the proceedll4l 1110Rld not Dii made 15011% until ha had ut4co
his award,

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