The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-16 00:00:00

(Dividends, &c., in our next.) •

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price Current of May 15.)
SVGAR.—This afternoon the market was better supplied.
with West India Muscovado Sugar, still grocers and re-
linen t were eager purchasers of all descriptions, and the
parcels offered at public sale went briskly at full rates.
RE FlNED.—There has been a considerable increase in the
de 7na nd for Refined Sugar for home consumption this week ;
all'. descriptions have been extensively dealt in, and in cense-
gut mcci of the limited supply buyers have been compelled to
pa, r an advance on former rates of ls to 2s per cwt.
IllAnrarrius—This afternoon Mauritius Sugar was in ex-
ceillen t request, and 7,906 bags 18 casks at auction were all
sold at fully former rates, and in some cases even 6d per
cwt a elvance.
EA ST INDIA—This afternoon Bengal Sugar met with at-
tentic n, and 823 bags at public sale were sold at full rates.
Foi RElGN—Although the arrivals of Foreign have been
upon a more extended scale this week, still merchants have
show' a firmness and refrained from offering any at auction.
The'stock still shows a decrease in comparison with that of
this time last year. Brown Brazil has been in extensive re-
quest and brought rather higher rates. •
Mons% SSES—AII fresh descriptions of West India a.re
sought after, and rather higher rates have
the been pakid The
is cone
supply is small of all descriptions, and stoc
.
siderablv le.a than it was last year at this time, but prices are
'ng up.
In low kinds of Honey large sales h;b-•-her.. Bengal Treacle has met With increased attention,
and cos are oot .
have'he en made, but the better sorts are at present little
wanted.
.—This afternoon Mocha Coffee was only in limited
d 123 bales at auction went at rather lower rates.
Corn.'Etal
7 bags were taken in at 38s for fine ordinary
160 ,:,ags Java at 50s for good yellow Comuany:s;
request,.
Odifrißgya.hta Ls!
20 b4ol6lAlifto4o Yell9W At iOS i bag% Pianutti94

Ceylon, fine fine ordinary colour), 655, and 30 casks of Ber-
lbite unclean, fine and fine fine ordinary 54s to 635, ordinary
and good ordinary 45s to 50s, being all above the value.
TEA.—Although the arrivals continue to be heavy, still
merchants have cofidence, and refrain from offering any at
public sale. There has been only a limited demand for Con-
gou this week, but full rates are insisted upon. Pouchong
has been disposed of to a fair extent at 4d to 10d. Hyson
has been in excellent request. Of young Hyson several
parcels have been disposed of upon former terms. There has
been a good business transacted in Twankay at full rates.
Holders of Imperial and Gunpowder having been free sellers
lat late rates, caused several parcels to be disposed of. Fine
scented Orange Pekoe has been taken more freely, but not at
better prices, 2s per lb being taken.
Ricx.—This afternoon the market was abundantly sup-
plied with Bengal Rice; at public sale 6,040 bags were
offered, but the whole sold, in consequence of inerchants
cepting rather lower rates fur white, and 6d per cwt decline
for yellow.
SPICES.—This afternoon Pimento was purchased with
caution, and the sound of 231 bags at auction was nearly all
withdrawn at B%d fur middling, 3%d to 3%d for low mid-
dling, but the damaged sold at 31Ad to 314 d. Of Mace 15
chests went at 2s 9d to 2s lld for middling Singapore, 2s lOct
for Penang; 8 casks 48 bags Bourbon Cloves taken in at
9d to ls.

FRUIT.—In Currants there has been a good deal done this
week, Zante and Cephalonia at 465, Patras, 46s to 48s. The
importers are evidently disposed to facilitate sales, to meet
the present demand, expecting further arrivals.
Seteers.—The market has assumed a quiet appearance for
Jamaica Rum, the trade purchasing with much caution, and.
former rates are not c btainable, there being a larger quantity
on show. In Leeward Island there has been very little
business transacted, and prices are on the deline. Calcutta
is dull of sale,_ and there are sellers of proof with certificate
at ls. 9d. For strong Demerara former rates are asked,
but the demand has been only for small parcels.
Holders of Brandy are for the most part unwilling to further
reduce their prices, but the purchases have been limited.
Geneva is little wanted for exportation, and prices are droop-
ing, is 10d to 2s being taken for common; fine for home
consumption has been in less request, but 2s 6d to 3s are
.
rates insisted upon. The market for Corn Sprits has still a i
dull appearance, but prices remain at lOs 6d for English nett
cash ; lOs 4d to lOs bd for Irish and Scotch.
COCHINEAL.—There has been less demand, but holders
generally are unwilling to take lower rates : of 151 bags of
Honduras offered at auction, a part only found purchasers at
about previous prices.
SALTPETRE.—HoIders of Rough have shown more firmness
this week, and refrained from offering any at auction; there
has been more desire shown to operate privately, and several
limitedi
ts
parcels have been taken, but holders are unable to obtain
higher prices. -
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only a limited business has
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a large one. For roughmore money is insisted upon ; but
and Headmatter were offerer and sale 47 tuns of Sperm Oil
..done.
Ou.s.—This afternoon at been
was titkortw
British at 791 to 8015 s, low and vewr ~enito a little cheaper, viz.
in—Oil
175a/t,
tHead-
matter, good, 801. Foreign
801 10s, and Headmatter 811. 66 tuns of Southern went at
23115 s to 251 for mid to good, and at 231 in 23/ 5s for low
being cheaper. 18 hhds of Ceylon Cocoa Nut .Mold at 32s 3d
to 32s 6d ; 35 hhds of Cochin at 335.
TALLow—This afternoon at public sale 230 pkgs of South
American Tallow partly sold, good and fine at 41s 3d to
41s 9d, middling 38s 6d to 395, low and soft 33s 9d to 36s 6d ;
129 casks of New South Wales all sold, good and fine 40s to
41s 9d, low' and middling 35s 6d to 39s 6d; 199 pkgs of
North American melted part sold at 425, middling to good
38s Gd to 40s 6d ; 100 casks first sort Petersburgh yellow
Candle were taken in at 41s to 41s 6d.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
STEAM. BOAT REGULATIONS.—The captains of no less than
thirty-five of the river steam-boats appeared before Alder+.
man Gibbs, who sat for the Lord Mayor, to answer infor-
mations issued at the instance of the Watermen's and
Lightermen's Company, wherein they were charged with
acting as commanders without being licensed by the said
Company. These proceedings were a preliminary step to
enforcing the bye-laws recently passed by the Corporation
for the regulation of steam-boats, particularly to prevent
the over-crewding which has long been deemed so dangerous
to the public. When all commanders of steam-boats Shall
have been duly licensed, the boats must also be licensed to
carry only a certain number of passengers, according to
measurement
There appeared, in support of the informations, Mr. Cooper
firm of Clark and Cooper), solicitor to the Watermen's and
Lighhtennen's Company; and for the defence, the solicitors
for the respective steam-boat companies, viz. the London
and Westminster (wooden boats), Waterman, Citizen, Eagle
and Falcon (Gravesend) ; the Putney, Old Woolwich, Chel-
sea (iron beats); and Diamond . (Gravesend) Steam-boat
Companies. The first five companies have signified their in-
tention of taking, out licenses, twenty- one of the informa-
tions, as against them, were not proceeded with.
The solicitor for the Gravesend Diamond Company said
that their steam-boats had now beeriestablished many years,
and had given great satisfaction to the public, who had not
complained or called for the bye-laws, which were therefore
not necessary.
Similar remarks having been made by Mr. Catterns for
the Old Woolwich Cempany, and all having intimated that
they should appeal against any conviction, the evidence in
the cases was taken pro forma, and the captains of the four-
teen boats, viz., the Cricket (penny boat), Moonlight, Day-
light, Matrimony, Bride, Bridegroom, Bridemaid, Wedding
Ring, and Bachelor (Chelsea iron boats); the Ariel, Sylph
and Fairy (Woolwich); the Rainbow (Putney); and the
Diamond (Gravesend), were each fined 40a, and cods.
The Cricket only paid the fine; for all the others notice of
appeal was given. This will have the effect of deferring the
carrying out of the bye-laws for nearly two months longer,
as the next London Sessions will not be held till the 9th of
July. . _

The ease excited great general interest, and the Court was
much crowded throughout, particularly with those connected
with the steam and other navigation cf the river.
BOW-STREET.
John Farr, alias Farmer, Cook, &c., was brought before
Mr. Jardine for further examination, charged with stealing
the London mail-bags from the Gravesend Poet-office, in
June, 1845.
Mr. Peacock attended for the Post-office, and Mr. Lewis,
solicitor, defended the prisoner.
Mr. m. H. Waller stated, that he was clerk in the
banking-house of Hills, Mcßae, and Co., of Gravesend, on
the 26th June, 1845, on which day he wrote a letter, ad-
dressed to the Commercial Bank, Lothbury. He inclosed
seven bills of exchange for 1,259/. 2s. 6d., a cheque for 100/.,
and four 20/. notes of the Canterbury bank,—the numbers of
which were 742, 744, 745, and 746. He sealed the letter,
and Shen posted it at Gravesend, between seven and nine in
the evening. The three notes now produced are unqugg-
tionably the same, their numbers being 742, 744, and 7.
On the following morning he ascertained in London that the
letter had not reached its destination.
Mr. Charles S. Comber, postmaster of Gravesend, deposed
that the letter spoken of by the last witness should have
reached London by the mail-bag leaving Gravesend at two
o'clock in the morning. The bag containing the letters was
sealed at half-past eleven. The letter produced by the last
witness, and addressed to the Commercial Bank, bears the
Gravesend post-mark of June 26, 1845. The mail-bags for
Deptford and Dartford were made up at the same time, and
the three were strapped together as usual. He then placed
them upon the floor in the passage, leading from the office
to the street-door, it being customary for the mail-guard
to call at two o'clock in the morning to receive them. The
guard obtained them by ringing a bell, upon which the
servant inside pulled a wire communicating with the latch
of the street-door, and let him in. At one o'clock witness
saw the bags safe in the passage. At about a quarter
past two in the morning witness heard the house-bell
ring, and was informed that the three mail-bags were
mis,ing from the lobby or passage, when the guard arrived
for them. Did not see the bags again till the Bth of the
following September, when they were discovered at No. 4,
Edwin-street, Gravesend, many of the letters being still in
them, unopened. Others were open, strewed upon the floor.
Upwards of 100 were left unopened. The letter produced
was among them, having been placed, to witness s know-
ledge, in the London bag. The London letter-bill, made out
by witness, and also placed in the bag, was likewise found
among the letters in the London bag.
Henry Everett stated that he was a letter-carrier, and was
in the-habit of sleeping at the Gravesend post-office for the
purpose of giving out the London, Dartford, and Deptford
mail-bags. They were generally called for at a quarter-past
two in the morning, at which time the mail-guard pulled a
bell which aroused him, and, by a contrivance adopted.to
wsahviechhicmomthmeuntriocaubteled owfitghetthtienglatocuht ofof bt;eide,
opened it.
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from a window after he had d metimes
Witness resumed—He heard the Rochester mail-bags
to lock the stable-door, the horse having been stolen.
barto3ut ifigr•el tGranreaadeocsleekuf left in o etsdht e passage on the 26th of June, and in
about ten minutes afterwards he heard the bell ring again,
upon which witness pulled the wire and opened the door again.
He then saw John Reese, the London mail-driver, enter the
,aoindgcotftiaat--cathiensoathnye body might have en_
passage, and begin to arrange the bags as usual. He could
see what Reese was doing from a window over the door, by
sitting up in the bed.
By Mr. LevA.—His bed was situated on the ground floor,
about seven yards from the passage, so that he could see who
was in the passage through a glass door, there being a light
over it.

Examinationtresumed—Reese presently missed the Graves-
end bags and called up witness. They could see nothing of
them, but the Chatham bags :were all safe.
William Maddox, of Gravesend, said that he conveyed the
mail-bag from Chatham to Gravesend on the night of the 26th
June last, reaching the latter office at two in the morning.
On arriving there he rung the bell, as he was accustomed to
do, and the door came open, and he then threw in his three
bags, and lett again, shutting the door after him. When on
the door steps I did not observe any other than the Sidney
bag, but there might have been others upon the floor. It
was not his place to look after them.
John Reese, of 40, Newgate-street, London, stated that he
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office at a quarter past two, on the morning of the 27th, and,
having rung the bell as usual, entered the passage to take
possession of the Gravesend bags, which, however, were
missing. He then called up Everett ; but they could not
find them.
Harry Jones, a clerk in the Commercial Bank, proved that
the letter containing the notes did not reach the firm in the
usual course, as appeared from the bank books.
syttlasrtleer pwroorse-
theMpaor which bad been un-
inhabited diolrvhaerceonsshiedewraebnite to clean, n, and
George Whittick (the witness p
d that the prison rersentdd former
e ten ere one e
xa-
mination) prove
Canterbury bank-notes at the shop of Sewell and Cross, the
at the fo.
t
drapers, of Soho.
Another witness proved the payment of one of the other
notes at the shop of Fortnum and Mason, oilmen, Piccadilly,
also by the prisoner ; but.hhoe
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ro tastwle6a3r,
positivelyjonathantowhtitidchenert,itwy
Sloane-street, Chelsea, after having watched and followed
him from several houses in the neighbourhood of Drury-lane
the previous, night, deposed that on accusing him of steal-
ing the four 'Canterbury notes, he said " it was all a mistake.
and he was not the man" He then asked when the notes
were changed. Witness replied on the 6th of April, upon
which he said he could prove that he was in France at the
time. He refused to give his name or address at the station-
house, but subsequently stated that his name was John
Farmer, and that he was a glover, having no fixed residence)
John Shirt, another constable, found a quantity of good
at the prisoner's house, which had been purchased by th
notes produced.
The prisoner was then remanded upon the above charg
till Friday next.
It being nearly five o'clock, the other was were also
(erred to Tuefiday and Friday next.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, Ifay 1 1.
The LOKI) CHANCELLOR. took his seat upon the Woolsack,
st Fi•e o'clock.