The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-01 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE:

SOUTHAMPTON RACES—TUESDAY.
The Town Members' Plate of 501., added to a Sweep-
stakes of 5 sovs. each; weights, same as for County
Plate ; winner to be sold for 200/. Heats once round
and a distance. (3 Subs.)
Mr. Sadler's Defy, 3 yrs-, 6st 131 b (Howlett) 1 1
Mr. Legg's Stickler, aged, 9st 1113
Mr. Booth's Colchictn,? yrs, 9st 71b

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Won easy. • ,
Match ; 25- sous., 8A each ; mile ball. Mr. T.
Neale's Deception (Goslin) beat )4.. G. Ncale'a
Eleanor, in a canter.

The Borough Plate of 50/., given by the Tradesmen and
Innkeepers of the town, added to a Sweepstake of 5
sows. ; winner to be sold for 1001. Heats, once round
and a dis. -(4 Subs.)
Ld. Huntingtower's A ustralia, 3 yrs,7 stllb (Evans) 1 1
Lord G. Bentilek's Gobemouche, 3 yrs, 7st 11b 3 2
Mr. Budd's Arian, aged, Sat 121 b 2 dr
Wo,i easy by two lengths.
The Champagne Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 30 added ;
the second receives 5/. froxn the fund and saves his
stake. The winner to be sold for 80/., &c. Heats.
__(4 Subs.)

Mr. Fosters Variety, 4 yrs, lOst 31b .(King) 4 1
Mr. Budd's Adrian, aged, I Ist 31b 1 2
Mr. Lucas's Traitress, 3 yrs, 9st 2 3
Mr. Hopkins's Vignette, 5 yrs, lOst 71b • 3 4
The first and second heats were won easy. The race
was not finished when the train left.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London Mercantile Journal of August 31.)
SUGAR.—The market' for West India Muscovado
Sugar has become very heavy, and even at further re-
duced prices the buyers cannot be induced to purchase
except from. actual want. The derriand has been very
limited, and almost confined to the grocery descriptions,
the refiners, from the dull state of their trade, having
paid very little attention to the raw material ; and
altogether a very -small amount of business has been
done, and a further reduction of is to is Gd per cwt is
established on all descriptions, except the good bright
grocery sorts, the supply of which being still compara-
tively small, causes them to be better supported than
the lower kinds, and they have not declined more than
6d to is per cwt ; still, upon the whole, prices have
ranged very uneven, and the tendency of the market is
decidedly downward, the trade being much influenced
by the heavy stocks on hand, while the deliveries do not
equal those of former years at this particular period.
Privately Jamaica good strong greyish brown for the pan
sold at 58s 6d to 59s 6d, lov,• mid yellow at' 60s to 61s,
and mid to good grocery sorts, from the different Co-
lonies, at 61s ad to 63s ; of a better quality there are
few samples to be seen.
The demand for West India Muscovado Sugar con-
tinued very limited to-day, and the sales did not exceed
200 hlids and trcs, at prices if anything rather in favour
of the buyers.
Mau RITIUS.—The deinand continues very limited, and
prices are still drooping : 6,447 bags 58 casks were
brought to the hammer and disposed of, but without
the least spirit, and prices ruled very irregularly ; the
result, however, is that brown and low yellow sorts
are is to Is 6d lower than last week, while the better
qualities, of which the proportion was small, have sup-
ported previous rates ; fine bright yellow 63s to 655,
good bright yellow 60s to 62s 6d, good middling bright
yellow 56s Gd to 58s 6d, low soft and middling yellow
53s 6d to 565, fine brown 50s to 51s 6d, middling foxy
brown 47s to 47s 6d, and very low brown 38s to 39s
per cwt.
REFINED.--The prices of grocery goods are still ra-
pidly declining, and the market *is in a very unsettled
state, with few buyers. Sales made in standard lumps
at 80s, and in common brown lumps at 77s to 78s per
cwt. The prices of refined goods have been comparae
tively much too high for some time past. Double
crushed refined from Foreign Sugar in demand at 30s
per cat
EAST INDIA.—The demand for Foreign East descrip-
tions continues limited, and the market being more freely
supplied with Manila, a reduction of 6d per cwt has
taken place on that description ; while Siam and Java,
especially the strong qualities of the latter, maintain
previous rates, and the quantity offering is small. Of
I Manilla 7,669 bags have been offered by public
I auction ; there was no animation in the biddings, and
about two thirds only of that quantity were con-
sisting chiefly of the low and washed piles ; very good
grey sold at 18s to 19s, low brown at 14s to 145.6 d,
damp ditto at 13s 6d to 14s. and washed low yellow at
16s 6d to 17s ; middling soft yellow bought in at 18s,
good dry foxy brown at 17s to 17s 6d; damp ditto at 16s
to 16s 6d, and low damp foxy brown at 14s Gd per cwt.
Privately about 2,000 bags have been sold at 17s to
18s for low and middling yellow.
FORElGN.—Brazil—the enquiry is almost exclusively
confined to the strong'brown and grey sorts, chiefly for
refining. Bahia—good middling strong greyish white at
24s to 255, middling ditto at 23s to 23s 6d, low greyish
white at 21s to 22s 6d, good strong grewish brown at
18s fid to 19s Gd, and low brown at 16s to 17s per cwt.
Moaassas.—There has been little business done in
West India, and prices are a shade easier; a small parcel
new St Vincents of good quality sold at 24s 6d, and
about 50 puns- of Old Antigua (imported five years ago)
of very inferior quality at 17s per cwt. A part of the
Mauritius Molasses bought- in at the public sale on
Tuesday at 21s, has been dispoae of privately at 203 Gd.
Some enquiry has existed for Foreign Molasses, and se-
veral parcels of Cuba and Porto Rice have been sold at
Gs 6d and 7s per cwt.
COFFEE.—There was little demand for home consump-
tion sorts to-day, but the little business done maintained
the previous value.
For Foreign Coffee the inquiry is limited, but holders
are firm, and the whole of the sound of 3,175 bags Rio
offered at public sale was bought in above the value at
40s for common yellowish, at 41s to 42s for common good
ordinary, and at 44s for good ordinary dingy colory ; the
demaged sold at 37s to 41s Gd for Ist and 2d class sea-
damaged, and at 35s to 36s 6d for 3d do.
COCOA.—The demand for West India sorts is limited,
and in the absence of public sales very little business has
been done. Of Foreign a parcel of about 160 bags Para
has been sold at 37s per cwt.
TEA.—The market remains in the same quiet state as
for some days past, neither the trade nor the merchants
being disposed to transact business until the arrival of
the express from Paris, in amicipation of the over-land
mail, which is very anxiously looked for. Prices of
Free Trade descriptions are merely nominal, scarcely a
transaction having occurred to-day ; but 2s id cash ap-
pears to be the lowest point of the market for law Con-
gou of sound quality. A few transactions took place in
Company's Congou at about 2s 3id per Ib, cash.
Seiarrs.—The demand fur Runs has been slack this
week, and few transactions have taken place but prices
arc without
Jamaica,
v a ri a t i
32. ;1013e4 sales
over are
a t
5 s4d
confined
to stsoBadb, 3
out
100 puns
to 38 over at .5s 8d to 53 10d, 39 and upwards at 6s to
as 3d, with fine marks at Gs 8d to 6s 10d, a few parcels I
of Leewards, proof at 2s ld to 9s lid, and about 100
puns Calcutta, proof at Is 7d per gallon. Corn Spirits
in demand at Is 4d per gallon. The Brandy market re-
mains firm, but there is little bnsiness doing in the ar-
tide. Geneva without variation. •
COTTON.—The market is fiat, and few sales have been
public l
ie
sa duringie w
ertehebou‘sg'eheitc. 2,ooointid :per lb above the
balesto Surat offered at
market ; but about 700 bales sold subsequently at the
previous market prices, viz. 4 d to 4,;d for middling fair
to good. The private transactions during the week are
about 1,200 bales Surat, ordinary to good at 3d to 5d
and 200 bales Madras, fair to good at 4id to 4ild per lb.
Wooa—The public salea of Colonial Wool are still
in progress, and will occupy the greater part of this
week, owing to the unusually large quantity brought
forward. The attendance of buyers is as large as ever
remembered, and the biddings are brisk at prices fully
supporting the currency of the last sales, indeed on some
kinds a slight a lvance is apparent. Nearly the whole
quantity offered up to this time has found buyers,
and the result thus far appears to have given general
satisfaction.
RICE.—The weather continuing favourable for harvest
operations and the yield expected to turn out good, the
dulness before apparent has considerably increased and
prices
are drooping ; sales are with difficulty effected
even at a reduction on last week's rates of 3d per cwt,
and small parcels only have changed bands privately,
while the only parcels broughtao public sale consisting
of 3,900 bags 1,790 pockets Bengal, went off heavily, but
chiefly sold at Ils 6d to 13s for good middling to very
good white. _ _

SALTPETRE.—The demand for Rough continues steady,
and prices are firmlymaintained, with few parcels offering.,
and some of the merchants are not inclined to sell at
present.. We have not had a public sale this week, but
a fair business has been done privately.
INDIGO.—The demand for East India is still limited to
small lots, at about the rats of the April sales, except, for
picked lots, which obtain a profit of 2d to 3d per lb. TlCe'
next quarterly sales of Indigo are fixed for the 3d of
October. 11,900 chests are already advertised.