The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-02 00:00:00

BANKING Dl

Proprietors' capital.. 14,553,000
Rest ..... ••••. • • • • 3,556,686
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ings-banks, and Di-

vidend accounts).. 4,868,374
Other deposits .... •. 8,715,882
Seven day and other

b111s• • •-• .• •-:..7.:: 1,052,576

£32,746,318

Dated the 31st day of August. 113'

MARKET INTELLIGENCE
(From the London New Price Current of Sept. 1.)
SUGAR.—To-day the home and export demand for
raw Sugar was not so good, and a decline was observ-
able in the value of most sorts. There was not much
business concluded in West India Muscovado, and the
private sales amounted to only 600 hhds, &c., at a
decline on yesterday's rates of 6d per cwt. At
auction 189 hhds and 13 brls Trinidad were partly taken
in rather under the value; low yellow at 35s to 35s 6d,
and mid 36s to 36s 6d; but 112 hhds Barbadoes sold 6d
to is per cwt lower; fine yellow went at 41s to 41s 6d,
good 38s 6d to 40s, mid 37s to 38s, and low 36E. The
total sales for the week are 3,827 hhds and tres.
REFINED.—To-day Refined goods met with a ready
sale for home trade purposes, brown grocery lumps at
51s, to pass the Standard 525. Bonded Crushed Sugar
is held with firmness at 26s Gd to 27s 6d per cwt.
Maxarntis.—This afternoon there was less demand
for Mauritius Sugar, and at the public sale of 6,973 bags
prices declined 6d, but the whole sold; low yellow went
at 35s to 365, mid 36s Gd to 37s Gd, good 38s to 38s 6d,
fine 39s 6d to 41s, superior 41s Gd to 42s Gd, fine brown
34s to 355, mid and good 32s 6d to 33s 6d, low 30s, ord
to fine grey 35s to 38s 6d, and out of condition 30s
to 41s.

EAST INDIA.—This afternoon at auction 406 baskets,

15 boxes and 51 bugs Penang Sugar went off flatly at a
decline of Is per cwt; fine sit syrupy yellow sold at 356
to 366,g00d 33s 6d, mid 32s to 32s 6d, low 30s to 31s 6d,
very low brown 25s to 25s 6d, better sort 26s to 27s 6d,
and good 295.

M-OLASSES.—This afternoon at auction 229 puns of
I3arbadoes Molasses were taken in at 19s per cwt.
FOREIGN.—To-day there was no public sale of Fo-
reign, and privately the amount of business done was
of little moment; former rates were with difficulty ob-
tained.

COFFEE.—To-day there was no public sale of any
kind, and the private operations were of little moment,
either for home trade purposes or shipping. The value
of low to real good ordinury native Ceylon is 26s fid to
28s per cwt.

Cocow.—There is no further advance to notice in the
value of West India, but there continues to bo a good
home demand for all sorts, and as supplies are not
large former rates are well supported. At auction
135 bags of Trinidad were sold ; low to good grey at
:39s to 41s, rad 41s to 42s 6d, and damaged 33s to 88.3 6d.
Of fine red the supply is small, and 44s to 47s is the
value. The stock is 6,079 bags, and in 1847 it was 7,326
bags. In Foreign rather more business has been done;
Para 32s to 365, Guayaquil] 30s to 325, Bahia 32s to 355.
TEA,—There has been less demand for Black this
week, still holders evince firmness, and will not sell ex-
cepting at full rates. The lowest quotation for sound
common Congou, is 8d per lb, and of such only a
limited quantity is on offer. For Young Hyson and
Gunpowder there is a more active demand
and a alight advance in the value is visible; for all
other sorts the market however has been in an inactive
state, and quotations have given way ld per lb for
Hyson, whereas for other kinds quotations were with
difficulty kept up, especially for Twankay. In Scented
and Pekoo Teas few sales have been made, and quota.
tions tend downwards. Of 7,500 packages offered at
public sale, only 2,250 were sold.
litcE.—To-day the market for East India Rice pre-
sented a dull appearance, but holders were not disposed
to press sales. At auction 1,947 bags Madras were
taken in at 12s for fine pinky white, being the full value.
p3r,33e6smgs,s9sbag
Bengals A n
r wererae onlya, f
rin
exportpart sold,on lonly,
Batavia
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for plump yellow; 200 bags of Sago Flour were
taksepwniEns.—at 110
B,s,..dbaeyingatmpunchhheabaonveetiothn l,
ev3a3luoeh.
Pepper sold at 2id to 2id for clean black, which are
rather lower rates.
sie9rOrabteasgsfoCr Cochineal
at
about L.— Thhailsf
soalfdterantooena,
faloCaicdcullirioains7Asilvers went at 3s lid to 4s 5d ; Mexican,
blackspm3ts
TBsd..! oT4hse, andmat
kTeetniesr iqffnei
quiet
ts
for ledntroan4(si
We tainnduse upon are ficirmno,teancdoegnelaieverhioesst continue Brandy, but prices
1846, at 4s 10d to 55.; ditto, of 1847,itivoidntatg20
se 4 s o.
;f
inferior 2s 6d to 3s 7d, and 1
2s 4d. The market for Geneva
is
firma
atx to
2s id for shipping sorts, and at 2s 9d to 3s 6d for home
° nut
Bordeaux
3dae
se large scale.

The Prometheus and the Gleaner steam-vessels have
been taken into the basin to-day.
' The Arrogant, 46-gun frigate, now in dock, has her
- boilers on board, and her engines, of 560 horse power,
similar to those in the Encounter, will occupy two
i months in being fitted. The Arrogant is nearly double
the tonnage of the Encounter, and, both their engines
being of the same number of horse power, the Arro-
• gain's are only intended to serve as auxiliaries.
The Count and Countess de Neuilly, the ex-King and
Queen of the French, the Prince de Joinville, and the
' Duke and Duchess d'Aumale, and a large party accom-
panying them, visited the Chinese junk to-day; and,
being recognized on the Brunswick-pier at Blackwall,
just as several steam-boats arrived, a great number of
spectators assembled around them, and it was difficult to
keep the crowd back. The Count and Countess de
Neuilly appeared rather pleased than otherwise with
the anxiety of the people to see the late Monarch of
France; and three cheers being given on the party
leaving the Brunswick-pier in one of the Woolwich
Company's boats, the Count de Neuilly rose and took off his hat, respectably bowed, and thanked the spectators
in a most cordial manner. The Prince and the Duke and
Duchess also appeared to be much gratified with the re-
spect paid to them.
PLYMOUTH, AuG. 30.—A1l the ships in commission at
this port on Saturday were decorated with flags and
fired a royal salute at twelve o'clock A.m., in honour of
thy birthday of his Royal Highness Prince Albert.
The royal standard was also exhibited on the Guild-
hall, his Royal Highness being Lord High Steward of
the borough.
Her Majesty's troop-ship Belleisle, 24, Captain John
Kingcombe, arrived yesterday from Portsmouth, and will
be paid off to-day. She is ordered to be caulked and
painted, and placed in ordinary.
Messrs. J. Drake and R. Edgcombe are appointed in-
spectors of joiners in this dockyard.
The barque William Lushington, timber laden, which
went ashore in Bigbury Bay on Monday, was this morn-
ing towed into Catwater by the Sir Francis Drake steam-
packet, Captain W. Sadler.
The Danish brig Condor, of Apenrade, Captain F.
Freillson, from Newcastle, with coal for Rio Janeiro,
when 60 miles west of Scilly on the night of the 26th,
was run into by a large barque, supposed to be English.
The barque struck the Condor on the larboard side, and
carried away sails, rigging, spars, bulwarks, roundhouse,
&c. One man at the wheel and one forward are mis-
sing from the brig. The barque's anchor fell on the
brig's bulwarks. Her captain promised to keep near the
Condor, and exhibited a light for 20 minutes or half an
hour, when it suddenly disappeared. The brig arrived
here on the 28th.

FRAN CE.

The following appeared in our Third Edition of
Last night :

Movements of a warlike character are now actually
making in the French capital. The Government has
given orders for the immediate embarkation at
Marseilles of a brigade consisting of two regiments
of infantry, to be sent to Italy, but the
exact place is not yet settled. It is also
said very confidently, that it has been de-
termined to send a fleet into the Adriatic, to
defend Venice from any attack that the Austrians
may contemplate, by means of a naval force. It is
added that England will join in this expedition to
Venice, and that it will consist of 4,000 men. Two
divisions are to be got ready in Paris, one of which
will be sent to Strasburg and the other to Metz.
Colonel D'HuLtEas, the chef de cabinet of Gene-
ral LAMORICIERE left here to-day for Marseilles.
He is to be the head of the staff of the carps dame(
to be sent to Venice.

The Minister of War, foreseeing the necessity of
intervention in Italy, has accepted the service of the
Duke D'ELCHINGEN and Colonel BERTIN DE VAUX,
who were Aides-de-camp to LOUIS PHILIPPE, and
they left Paris yesterday for the army of the Alps.

-
POST-OFFICE NOTICE.—The following notice hes
been issued by command of the Postmaster-General :
It having been officially notified to the Postmaster-
General that the blockade of the River Elbe by the
naval forces of Denmark will be strictly maintained
against all vessels navigating between that river and
the United Kingdom, with the sole exception of the
regular packet boats plying between London and
Ilaniburgh, all letters from the United Kingdom for or
through Hamburgh and places in the Elbe, unless spe-
cially directed to be forwarded by any other foreign
route than that of the Elbe, must for the present be
transmitted by these packets, and must be treated in all'
respects as packet letters. postmasters will, therefore,
until further orders, transmit all letters for or through
Hamburgh or places in the Elbe, described as above, to
London, in order that they may be forwarded by
the
regular packets.

REPRESENTATION OF CIIELTENIIAII.—CIIIILTEN-
HAM, THURSDAY.—The Hon. Grenville Lennox Berke-
ley, a cousin of the Hon. Craven Fitzhardinge Berkeley,
recently unseated, has now declared himself a candidate
to represent this borough until Mr. Craven Berkeley is
in a position again to offer himself, i. e., after the disso-
lution of the present Parliament. Yesterday morning
an announcement was made, by handbills circulated
about the town, that Mr. Grantley Berkeley, M.P. for
West Gloucestershire, would address the electors in the
afternoon from the balcony of the Royal Hotel, and
accol Jingly, it being understood that his object was to
propose Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton as a candidate, a
large number of persons assembled at the appointed
hour. On Mr. Berkeley appearing before them, how-
ever, he was received with such unequivocal marks of
disapprobation, that he withdrew without making the
promised speech. Subsequently, however, Mr. Grantley
Berkeley issued a manifesto, which has been circulated
to-day in the town, in which he says :—" My speech
was prevented by the noise of a few individuals who ap-
peared to have been sent into the street to burke the
my intention to have proposed to your notice a Liberal
utterance of truth, and to prevent explaylnooanutgioa
instead of Mr. Grenville Berkeley, the rejected nominee
of West Gloucestershire. He is incapable of represent-
ingwerefetwoheileheethahsimso
un-
happily interfered with the best interests of continue3ea, tahnedpoilitLeaul stri
your beau-
tiful town. If returned, I promise you that a, petition
against him will be the inevitable consequence."
EARLY CLOSING.—A public meeting wag mg was held on
Thursday evening last, at the Hall
the purpose of securing an ear:ler h of Commerce, for
our of closing in the
wholesale grocery, tea, coffee,
meeting, though a merelyand spice trades. The
preliminary one, and' not-
withstanding the very unfavourable state of the weather,
was numerously attended. Ir. Lilwell (the secretary
to the General Association)
stated that, on being so-
licited to turn his attention to the hours of employment
l grocery business, it appeared to
him that it was desirablega to ascertain, as far. as possible,
in the first place,
whether
those engaged in the before-
mentioned important branches of trade were of opinion
that a curtailment of those hours was practicable; and,
in the second place, whether they thought such curtail-
ment desirable. his, observed the secretary, was the
more immediate object for which the meeting was con-
vened. A resolution to the following effect was then
unanimously passed:—" Encouraged by the success
which has marked the early closing movement in con-
nd
o
nexion with the bankers, merchants, and various other
woulds It
onlylvwas
trades, and believing that the wholesale grocery,
business may with ease and advantage be suspended at
the uniform hour of six o'clock in the evening, this
meeting hereby resolves that a respectful memorial re-
questing employers to effect that alteration shall be pre-
pared by the secretary; and that the same shall be sub-
mitted at a subsequent meeting." The names of those
present having been taken, pledging themselves to do
their utmost to carry out the spirit of the above reso-
lution, the meeting, which was a highly intereresting
one, separated.
The Lord Mayor had an interview with Sir George
Grey, on Thursday, at the Home-office.