The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-08 00:00:00

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SUGAR.—The demand has this week been slack Wino
and prices have been barely maintained. Jamaica has
been taken iu at 37s to 40s for mid and good
and Barbadoes has been sold at 40s to 41s for fine yel-
low, at 37s to 38s 6d for mid, and at 35s Gd to 36s for
low. Chrystalised Demerara has realised 45s to 47s for
good and title yellow.
REFlNED.—Standard lumps have been 51s 6d per cwt.
EAST INDlA.—Mauritius, 2,206 bags, went at
barely previous rates, fine yellow, 398 to 41$,
and middling, 36s to 375; low to fine gray, 34s to
39s per cwt; Penang, 80 bags; 256 baskets went at sa
decline; good greyish strong yellow 34s Gd, and low
31s to 31s 6d; Madras and Bengal privately went rather
cheaper. Batavia has been taken in at 40s to 458 for
low to fine white, and at 388 to 39s for brown and yel-
low. Foreign : St. Croix partly found buyers at 40a to
44s 6d for middling and fine yellow; 233 cases 520
bags. Maceio were taken in at 398 to 428 for
low to good white, at 37s to 37 6d for yel-
low, and at 33s to 37s for brown low to fine. Ha'
vannah, 3,602 boxes about half sold, low and middling
yellow at 37s 6d to 39s 6d, good and fine at 39s to 421,
and mid to fine brown at 37s to 37s 6d per cwt. Per'
nambuco, 4,295 bags brown were taken in at 34s to 360
for low to mid damp, and at 36s 6d to 37s 6d for good.
White Ilavannah, 27s 6d to 295.
COFFEE.—In British Plantation there has been very
little doing. Ceylon has been offered to some extent,
and has realised 41s to 52s 6d for mid and good mid
Colory, 54s to 59s for g00d,.70s for fine, 36s to 40s for
fine fine ord and low mid, 27s 6d to 30s for triage, god.
41s to 5656 d for Pea Berry. Better prices were realised"
earlier in the week. Native good ord colory sold then
at 28s 6d; Mocha is 2s to 3s lower.
Cocoa.—Trinidati mid to good bright red has realised
40s to 428 6d, fine 43s to 445, and grey 38s to 401 i
Grenada good and fine 4ls to 435, and grey 39s to 400.
SPICES.—In Jamaica ginger sales have been made at
54s to 120 s; black pepper has realised 2kd to 28; nut-
megs have been at 2s 9d to 2s 10d; mace at 2s 3d to
2s 4d, and cloves at is 7d per lb.
TEA.—The market continues quiet. Ord sound Con'
you Sd per lb.

TALLow.—P.Y.C. has been 45s 3d to 45s 6d per cwt.
SALTPETRE.—A moderate demand has existed. Lori
to fine Calcutta has been sold at 25s to 284 per cwt.
RICE.—The market has given way. Bengal mid whit°
12s, and Madras pinkey white lOs to lOs 6d per cwt.
COTTON.—This article has had a fair sale.
RUN.—The transactions have been rather limited.
Woot.—The public sales have progressed more
favourably within the last day or two for most samples
of colonial.

METALS.—English bar iron and rails have been rather
cheaper during the last month. In copper no change,
nor in English produce. Spelter not so firm.

M. LAMARTINE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—It is with unmingled feelings of delight and
satisiaction that I read your proposed vindication of the
character of the noble Laraartine, which has never for
one moment retrograded in the minds of men of true
genius and real patriotism. The brilliant remarks you
have made upon the subject ought to be written in letters
of gold, and tabletted in every corner of the globe.
They do equal honour to your head and heart ; hence-
forward I shall class your journal as the most enlight-
ened in Europe. It is committed to your hands to do
justice to unquestionably the greatest man now living
amongst us, and as great a man as any who have
ever
lived in the course of time.

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We must expect but a dull appreciation by the world
of exalted merit and noble aspirations--a mere scintil-
lation of the coruscations of genius and effort of an
almost superhuman talent. The greatness of soul dis-
played by Lamartine upon many trying and momentous
occasions has never been equalled In any age, and truly
glad am I that we have ono leader of the British press
who possesses the just sense and honour of an English-
man, to do an act of justice peremptorily demanded by
all true lovers of liberty and men of genius.
Your affording me a little space in your valuable
journal for these brief remarks will oblige, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
8, Eastcheap, Sept. 7, 1848. H. B.

EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA.—SeveraI vessels with
labourers for the Australian colonies have cleared out
i from London within the last fortnight; amougst the rest
two ships have gone for the first time with emigrants
i direct to "Boyd Town," Twofold Bay, and also to More-
. ton Bay, one of the most northern settlements. " Boyd
Town" is the entrepot of the fertile districts of Maneroo,
and is rapidly rising in importance.
BOLTON ELECTION..-.. 011 Tuesday evening, Mr.
Ainsworth, for some years M.P. for Bolton, and a
Liberal, issued an address to the electors soliciting their
suffrages, and on Wednesday morning he commenced *
canvass. A meeting of the Conservatives was held at
the Swan Hotel the :same forenoon, C. Briggs, Esq.,
solicitor, in the chair, when it was resolved to bring for-
ward S. Blair, Esq., who was mayor of the borough in
1846. D. C. Aylwin, Esq., a Calcutta merchant, who
has for some years been in England agitating against the
East India Company's salt monopoly, came from London
to offer his services in the Conservative interest; but on
finding that a townsman was proposed, he determined
not to create a division in the ranks by becoming a can-
didate. The nomination is fixed for Tuesday next.
THE LATE CHELTENHAM ELECTION.—The preli-
minary steps to prove the alleged disqualification of
Mr. Grenville Berkely, the newy-elected Member for
Cheltenham, have been already taken. A formal pro-
test, signed by John Parker, George Micklewight, Henry
Battenbury, and Thomas Thornton, bas been laid before
the returning officer of the borough' of Cheltenham. The
Hon. Craven Berkeley, the late Member for Chelten-
ham, has addressed the electors in vindication of the
remarks lately made by him on the Committee appointed
by the House of Commons to try the case. Mr. Berke-
ley courts inquiry, and is determined to petition the
House of Commons on the present mode of trying
election petitions.
Tua .MEMBER FOR PAISLEY CENSURED BY 111
CONSTITUENTS.—Mr. Hastie, the Radical Member for
Paisley, has fallen into unpardonable disgrace with his
constituents. It appears that he has not been such an
" out-and-out" Liberal as those he represents wished him
to be; and, therefore, in not only refusing to support Mr.
llume's motion for reform, but, on the contrary, de-
cidedly opposing it, together with sundry other Parlia-
mentary shortcomings, he is doomed for ejectment.
These dissatisfied constituents have had a meeting to,
discuss their Hon. Representative's misconduct, and they
resolved that Mr. llastie .should resign his tru.st...But;
the question is, will he? -Mr llasue;..seems to ha
gave it to him. of
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and as,a. seat is not to be:-etcevery"day in the'VrearThe
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ACCIDENT ON BOARD THE I3RITANNIA STEAMER.
—On Sunday evening, as this vessel was returning from
a pleasure excursion to Bangor and the Menai Straits,
a hen about mid channel, a passenger, named Jackson,
a boatman, well known at George's Pier, fell overboard,
and, it is presumed, was struck by the paddle, for al-
though the boat was got out immediately, and every
effort made to save him, his, body could not be found.
Two gentlemen on board, having ascertained that the
poor fellow had a wife in Liverpool, immediately sug-
gested a subscription for her, and after going round the
vessel, through the liberality of the passengers, they
were enabled to place a very liberal sum in the hands of
the stewardess. The brother of the deceased was els°
on board. On Monday morning the 'widow came to the
landing stage to inquire after her husband, the tidings
of his death not having then been communicated to her. Times.
MAILS FOR THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, MADEIRA,
&c.—Notice was issued yesterday at the General Post-
office, that mails will be made up at this office, on the
evening of the 12th instant, for the Cape of Good Hope,
to be conveyed by her Majesty's' ship
Southampton'
Letters for the Cape will be liable to a postage of lg.
per half ounce ; newspapers free of postage. Her Ma-
jesty's ship Southampton will sail from Devonport on
the morning of the 13th instant. Mails will also bowel:
up on the evening of the 30th inst. for Madeira and the
west coast of Africa, to be conveyed by one of her Ma:
jesty's ships. The postage on letters to Madeira will eu
la. 10d. per half ounce, and so on in proportion. News-
papers 2d. each, which must be prepaid. The postage
on letters to the west coast of Africa ls, per half ounce;
newspapers free.
SUICIDE IN A VAT OF RAISIN WlNE.—Yester-
day Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Green Gate, City
-
road, relative to the death of George Davis, aged 27,
carman, in the employment of Messrs. Bishop and Sr!
British wine merchants, Finsbury. It appeared that the
deceased had lived separate from his wife many years,
and that she had been lately in the workhouse. It 1
supposed that his circumstances preyed upon his mind,
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as he had been lately very dejeeted. On Tuesday
morn-
ing, about nine o'clock, he WllS'ltl'dd4itlly migling, I and
about halt an hour after he was found in a raisin wine.
vat, which contained 944 gallons, and which was about
3i feet deep. The body was floating on the surface of
the liquid. Verdict, "Fond drowned."