The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-18 00:00:00

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London New Price Current of Oct. 17.)
SUGAR.-To-day merchants were anxious to sell raw
Sugar, and for almost every sort a further decline in the
value took place; there was also a large quantity
pressed upon the market. In conseqence of a
reduction on former rates of 6d per cwt having
been submitted to for %Vest India Muscovado, a good
business was concluded, and the purchases amounted to
500 hhds and tierces, including a public sale of 158 hhds
Barbadoes, which went off heavily-fine yellow at 41s,
good 37s 6d to 395, mid 36s to 375, low 35s 6d, very ord
34s 6d ; 36 hhds, 48 trcs, 55 brls Jamaica, low yellow
35s to 35s 6d, mid 36s to 36s 6d, good 37s ; 121 hhds
Trinidad, middling yellow taken in at 34s 6d to 355, low
33s 6d to 34s ; 113 hhds 30 barrels Berbice, ord yellow
34s to 34s 6d, and good brown 33s per cwt.
REFINED.-To-day Refined Goods were dealt in with
caution for home-trade purposes, and prices are further
reduced-brown melting lumps selling at 47s to 47s 6d,
and standard lumps 48s 6d per cwt. The market for
Bonded Crushed Sugar is firm at 26s to 26s 6d; there is
also a good demand.
MA URITIUS .-This afternoon the trade manifested
little desire to make purchases in Mauritius Sugar, and
4,195 bags at auction went 6d per cwt cheaper, whilst
not above one-half sold; fine yellow 38s 6d to 40s, good
37s to 38s, middling 35s 6d to 36s 6d, low 34s to 355,
ordinary brown 28s 6d, low to good grey 34s to 36s 6d,
and out of condition 27s 6d to 38s 6d.
EAST INDIA.-This afternoon little disposition was
skown to do business in Bengal Sugar, at the public sales,
which comprised 1,500 bags, and a part only sold at
about the former worth-good yellow like Mauritius
at 38s, fine 39s to 39s 6d, and damp and washed
36s 6d to 395, tine strong white 43s 6d, and washed 435.
Madras is not much wanted ; 2,300 bags were withdrawn.
FOREIGN.-To-day there was little passing in Foreign
Sugar by private treaty, and 2,218 pkgs Santa Martha
at public sale went at about the former value-damp
yellow 34s 6d to 40s, washed 23s 6d to 36s 6d, white
42s 6d to 43s per cwt.
COF/EE.-This afternoon there was little activity in
the Plantation Ceylon Coffee market ; and at public sale
178 csks 600 bgs were nearly all taken in at the full
value-fine 655, good 54s to 565, low middling 43s to 455,
fine and fine fine ordinary 30s to 39s 6d ; but damaged
sold at 27s to 295. Native sells with more freedom, and
2,000 bags at auction went at stiffer rates-good and real
good ordinary 27s to 28s, very superior yellow 29s to
29s 6d. Mocha finds a dull sale ; and 220 bales were
taken in at 48s for middling yellow.
CocoA.-Of West India there is a plentiful supply,
and on the part of the trade little desire is shown to
do business. At public sale, a small part only of 867
bags Trinidad found buyers-low to fine red at 39s to
445, and grey sBs to 40s; 34 bags St. Lucia 38s to 40s,
and 54 bags St. Vincents 37s per cwt. For Foreign the
market is in a dull state, and prices tend downwards.
TEA.-Prices are still supported for Black, still the
demand has been limited, and a larger quantity is pres-
sing upon the attention of the trade. The value of ord
and good ord Congou is lid to Sid. With Green
the market continues to be well sulied, and
on the part of dealers little desire ispp manifested
to make sales prices are in consequence rather
lower for Gunpowder and fine Hyson. The public sales
of 8,900 pkgs went off flatly, and only 2,500 found
buyers. For public auction OA Wednesday 18,000 pkgs
are declared. Prices continue to rule under those of this
time in the past year.
RICE.-To-day East India Rice was dealt in with
caution privately, and 1,430 bags of Bengal at auction
went at a reduction of 6d per cwt for inferior, whilst the
best sort realised the full value-fine bold clean white
sold at 14s, good 12s, damaged 6s 6d to 13s 6d, ordi-
nary and middling stained yellowish white 9s to 9s 6d.
Of Sago Flour 250 bags went at 10s to 16s for damaged.
SAGO is in larger supply, whilst less demand exists
and a fall in the value is apparent. At auction 360
boxes, and 1,360 bags were sold; good and fine small
pearl at 19s 6d to 21s 6d, and Borneo 14s 6d to 16s.
Sago Flour has been dealt in with caution at 16s 6d to
17s. Tapioca is held for 6clto Bd, and West India Arrow-
root 4d to Is Id, but not much demand exists.
FRUIT.-To-day at public sale 2,530 packages new
Valencia Raisins damaged sold at 35s to 365, a few lots
at 31s to 335; 142 boxes New Eleme were withdrawn;
420 drums Sultanas 755; 13 boxes damaged Jordan
Almonds 71 1 ls per cwt.
MOLASSES.-West India can be obtained upon the low

terms of 15s to 18s per cwt, still on the part of buyers
little desire was manifested to do business. Bengal
Treacle is held for 15s to 18s per cwt, there is not much
demand. Honey sells with more readiness ; Jamaica
at 40s to 60s, and Foreign 25s to 355. there is also a
smaller quantity on offer.
SPICES.—To-day at auction 180 bags of white Pepper
went at 4d to 4d per lb for middling bold, being the
full value. The quarterly sales of Cinnamon are de-
clared for the 30th October.

SALTPETRE. To-day the market for Rough pre-
sented a more active appearance, and 430 bags at auc-
tion were sold at fully former rates:—Calcutta, fine grey
4 per cent. refraction went at 26s to 26s 6d, good strong
yellow 6} per cent. 24s 6d to 255, not refracted 25s to
25s 6d, and damaged 22s 6d per OWL
INDIGO.—To-day during the progress of sale 293
chests were withdra%/n, 818 chests have passed the sale.
The biddings were quite as brisk as on any previous day
and the rates previously established have been fully sup-
ported. Of the quantity which has passed the auction
(4,843 chests) 914 have been withdrawn, and 760 bought
in, leaving 3,159 sold.
COCHINEAL. To-day the quantity of Cochineal
offered at auction was large and amounted to 244 bags,
and sold at full rates ; Honduras silvers 3s 7d to 4s 2d,
Mexican 3s 6d to 3s Bd, and black 48 per lb.
SPlRlTS.—Leeward Island Rum has been dealt in with
caution, and is 6d to is 60 per gallon is the nearest value
of proof. East India is dull of sale, and is not worth
more than Is sd. The purchases made in Jamaica have
been trifling by exporters and. home buyers, and a desire
is manifested to sell low quality, 28 to 30 0.P., st 3s to
3s 2d, mid and good 30 to 34, 3s 3d to 3s 9d, fine 34 to
38, 33 10d to 4s 6d, there is a plentiful supply of low and
raid. For Brandy the market looks firm, and the de-
mand continues good, deliveries are likewise exceed-
ing arrivals. The value of Cognac best brands of the

♦ictag of 1846 is held for 43 10dto ss, ditto 1647 351-0 -

to 4s, inferior 3s to 3s 3d, and Bordeaux 2s to 2s 4d per
gallon. Geneva is held with firmness at 2s to 2s ld for
common export sort, and at 2s 6cl to 33 6il for fine.
Former rates are well kept up for British made Spirits,
and the demand does not fall off.

TALLOW.—There are sellers of Russian on the spot at
a further reduction, still on the part of; the trade little

desire is manifested to make purchases, 44s 9d to 45s I
the worth of fine new P. Y. Candle. For delivery up
to the close of the year sellers are willing to accept
44s 6d; few buyers are to be met with. Other sorts of
Tallow have been dealt in with caution, and quotations
are on the decline. At auction 121 casks of Odessa were;,
chiefly taken in at 43s 3d; 6 casks South American sold
at 42s 3d; 395 casks New South Wales, good and fine
42s to 445, low to middling 39s 6d to 41s 9d; 61 mats of
Vegetable from China were taken in at 46s to 48s.
Home made is not much wanted, and can be obtained
at 45s to 45s Gd nett cash. The quotation for rough
Fat is 2s 7d per stone. For Auction 500 casks of Tallow
are declared.

OlL.—Southern met with less attention; former rates
are not to be obtained, as there is an enlarged supply.
At auction PO tuns were disposed of; fine quality at
271 ss, low to good 241 to 261 ss. Cod has been
dealt in with caution at 23/ lOs to 241. For Seal there
is a firm market, but not much business has been done;
pale is held for 261 lOs to 27/, and other sorts 23/ to 261.
Sperm is in good request, and former rates are well sup-
ported, good and fine quality realising 701 to 741 per
tun, there is also only a limited quantity on offer,
Ileadmatter is held for 721 to 751. Linseed sells with
more readiness.

ENGLAND MADE SNUG FOR THE
WINTER.
We may again this week announce, for the further
satisfaction of those nations whose pride and endea-
vour have been to rival England's naval supremacy,
that the greatest activity prevails on the part of this
country to cripple her fleets, and to render her
dockyards incapable of "repairing them. Men-of-
war are spaying off, and sailors are being turned
adrift, to join those already starving in our
ports, till they can " ship foreign." There
is a sort of commission from the Admiralty going
from dockyard to dockyard, to report upon what
reductions can be made, short of shutting up the
yards, or letting the grass grow in the docks ; even
now not an uncommon exhibition at Deptford. Thus
we can state, without fear of contradiction, that no
means will e left untried by her Majesty's Go-
vernment to reduce England to a second-rate naval
power. No augmentation will, of course, be made
to the army, and here no reduction is contemplated,
as, it must be satisfactorily known to all Europe and
America, that we have hardly a sufficient num-
ber of soldiers to form the military po-
lice of the United Kingdom and her colo-
nies. Our " little wars" are generally transacted by
marines sand naval ;brigades, with a score or two of
artillerymen, near at home, while in Asia we are ac-
customed to expose a few hundred English sol-
diers, and a half-dozen regiments of sepoys, against
the countless hordes and trained warriors of vast em-
pires. Now and then a General commands ; but, if
one is not at hand, a Colonel or a Cap-
tain, or, in a recent gallant instance, a subaltern is
commanding officer, who, if he has not enough of
his own soldiers, subsidises a neighbouring
nation to make war, or picks up a robber chief or
two with his merry men. England fis always
successful, and if the battle is a little more bloody
on our side, because we ever fight weak-handed, the
keep of an efficient army is saved, and those who die
have been paid for running the chance of being killed.
England, we believe, is not going to reduce her army,
she being perfectly content to know that it ought to be
augmented. The decay of old, and the lack of any
new fortifications being in progress on the coasts of
the United Kingdom, leaving the country open to,a
coup de-main, also show her bold determination to
trust to her luck and make herself snug for the
winter—the winter, the stormy winter of the world.
Monarchs trembling on their thrones or struggling
with their peoples; nation threatening nation; all
Europe in revolution and convulsion around her ; but
what is that to England ? A strongly-armed neu-
trality, guarding her own vast interests, might have
well become her, but Mr. Cobden says "No," and
she makes herself snug for the winter. A few names
and figures will show what has been done in the way
of reduction during the last few days, and what is
ordered to be done in this respect in the course of
the ensuing week. The ships paid off into ordinary
since October 12, and to be paid off next week, are
—The Grampus, 50 guns, 500 men ; Amphion, 34
guns, 330 men ; Dmdalus, 19 guns, 240 men ; Comus,
18 guns, 130 men ; Jumna, 12 guns, 60 men ; Torch,
1 gun, 50 men ; Comet, 2 guns, 40 men.—Total, 136
guns, 1,350 men. The Kingfisher, 12 guns, but
manned by general service men from the flag-ship
at Devonport, has been commissioned in the same
period, so that our naval forces will be reduced no
less than 6 ships, 124 guns, and 1,350 officers and
men by the middle of next week. Next year it is
confidently hinted that the Coast Guard will be paid.
off, the Custom-house abolished, the ports thrown
open, and, by a further reduction in the navy, Eng-
land will be at the mercy of her neighbours, who, if
they are impatient, and will not wait till they have
ruined her by free-trading, may then step over the
water and help themselves in the once well, guarded
warehouse of the world.— United Service Gazette.

DEATH WHILST SWIMMING FOR
A WAGER.
An inquest was held before Mr. Jewison, coroner,
at the Mexborough Arms Inn, Methley, on the 7th
instant, on view of the body of James Carr, a
waterman from Leeds, aged sixty-two years. The
evidence was as follows :—Joseph Burnly said—l
am a labourer at my brother's colliery, in Meth-
ley, and attend the coal staith at that place. The
deceased, James Carr, was a waterman, and re-
sided at Leeds. I was in his company on Thursday
last. We had each drank about one shilling's worth
of ale, and during the time we were drinking the ale,
Carr boasted of having swam a great distance, which
I disputed, when we agreed to bet a wager of 41. each.
I bet he could not swim from the Bottom Boatstaith
to our staith—a distance of about three quarters of a
mile down the river Calder. We went from our staith
(the Methley staith) to the Bottom Boatstaith. It
was about fire o'clock in the evening when we got
there. Several boatmen were with us. When Carr
had got partly stripped, I told him I had only Iss.,
and said, " Let us only bet 13., it will be as much as
either of us can afford to lose ;" but some of his
friends said, " We'll have all the four sovereigns bet,"
and that I must borrow the remainder. The deceased
said he would not swim for the 13s. So I went to
a person and borrowed the rest of the money. He
continued partly stripped until I came back. We put
the money down in George Waring's band. I did
not ail much for liquor. I can't say he was right
sober. After the money was put down, he stripped
the rest of his clothes off, and went into the river.
There was no boat cr any kind of preparation made to
succour him in case of need. There was about two feet
fresh in the river. They all thought that he would win,
and I thought so too, for he swam very manfully until
within three minutes of his sinking. There were nine
or ten persons on the river bank. When he had swam
about a quarter of a mile he shouted, " 0, lads, I can
do it." When he had swam about half a mile, his head,
which he had kept up well till then, began to dip, and
he went partly down, but came up again, and said,
"0, dear." I called to him and said, "I'll fetch
thee, lad," and I began hastily to strip; but when I
had got stripped into my shirt be sunk, as I was about
to go in. I then donned me, but did not help to seek
him. I was over much troubled. I never spoke to
him as he was swimming until he cried out, and then
I said, " I'll fetch thee, lad." George Waring
delivered up the wager to me directly after the
deceased sunk. The money was in his purse. I
have given the purse and the money up to John
Roberts, my brother's bookkeeper, to give to the wife
of the deceased. There was 41. 10s. in his purse.
There was no foul play or obstruction shown to him.
He swam about half a mile. His body was got out
in about an hour. Henry Wilkinson, a waterman,
deposed to the same facts as before sworn by Burn-
ley, and the jury found a verdict of " Accidentally
drowned while swimming fora wager."—Manchester
Courier.

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Antrim.
On the 2d inst., at Adwell, Oxon, the lady of R. B. Thorn.
hill, Esq., Bengal Civil Service, of a son.
On the 11th inst., at Earl's-terrace Ken,ington, Mrs. T.
Walmesly, of a daughter, that lived only one hour.
On the 13th inst., at Newton Stewart, N. 8., the wife of
11. Stuart, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 13th inst., at Ilighclerc Parsonage, Hants, the wife
of the Rev. R. M. Caunter, of a daughter.,

MARRI.
On the 16th inst., Captain GeorED
go Henry Cavendish, 14
Life Guards, youngest son of Major-General the Hon. Henry
F, C. Cavendish, to Emily Victoria Elizabeth, only daughter
of the late Sir William Rumbold.

DIED.
At his seat, Hayne, near Lifton, Devon, J. D. Harris'
Esq., aged 78.
On the sth inst., Louisa, the widow of the late P. Walker'
Esq., of Huntsland-house, Sussex.
On the 10th inst., at St. Catherine's-bay, Jersey, William,
eldest son of W. Wheelwright, Esq., of Erdington.
On the 12th inst., at St. Margaret's, Darenth, T. Char
man, Esq.
On the 13th inst., at Kingston-upon-Thames, Miss Jane
Hutchins, aged 22.
On the 13th inst., at Twickenham, John E. Conant, Esq•'
of Upper Wimple-street, aged 71.
On the 14th inst., at Walham-green, Mr. James

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