The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-01 00:00:00

BANKING DEPARTMENT.

fropriefors' capital— 14,553,000
Rest • • • .. .... •• • 3,556,666
Public deposits (in-
eluding Exchequer,
Coulmissioners of
National Debt, Sas,
lngs-hanks, and D-
ividend occounts).. 4,868,374
Other deposits • • 8,715,882
sevien dxy and other
bills
.... 1,052,576

Government securi-
- ties (including Deed
Weight Annuity) .. 12,462.735
Other securities .. • • 10,899,000
Notes ••• • • • 8,7:14,240
Gold and silver coin.. 650,513

£32.746,518

Dated the 31st day of August. 18:

£32,746,518
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
148.

ARKET INTELLIGENCE
r:v (From the London New Price Current of Sept. 1.)
•SuoAR.-To-dey 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 Muscovedo, and the
private sales amounted to only 600 hhds, &e., at a
decline on yesterday's rates of 6d per cwt. At
auction 169 hhds and 13 brls Trinidad were partly taken
is rad-ice:under the value; low yellow at 351 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 law 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
51, to pass the standard 525. Bonded Crushed Sugar
is held with firmness at 26s 6d to 27s 6d per cwt.
MAURITIIIS.-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 363 6d to 37s 6d, good 383 to 38s 6d,
fine 39s 6d to 41s, superior 41s 6d to 42s 6d, fine brown
34s to 355, mid and good 32s 6d to 33s 6d, low 30s, ord
to fine grey 358 to 38s 6d, and out of condition 30s
to 41s.
EAST INDIA.-This afternoon at auction 406 baskets,
15 boies and 51 hags Penang, Sugar went off flatly at a
decline of Is per cwt; fine soft syrupy yellow sold at 35s
to 36a,g00d- 33s 6d, mid 32s to 32s 6d, low 30s tc 31s 6d,
very low brown 25s to 25s 6d, better sort 263 to 27s 6d,
and good 295.
MorAssEs.-This afternoon at auction 229 puns of
Barbadoes 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 rale of any
kind, and the private operations were of little moment,
either for home trade purposes or shipping. The value
of lobe to real good ordinary native Ceylon is 26s 6d to
28s per cwt.
CocoA.---:There is no further advance to notiei in the
value of'West India, but there continues to be a good
home deniltud for all sorts, and as supplies are not
large former rates are well supported. At auction
135 hags of Trinidad were sold ; low to good grey at
39s to 41s, red 41s to 42s 6d, and damaged 33s to 383 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, Guayaquill 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 Ilyson and
Gunpowder, there is a more active demand
and a slight advance in the value is visible; for ell
other sorts the market however has been in an inactive
state, and quotations have given way Id per lb for
Hyson, whereas for other kinds quotations were with
dltficulty kept up, especially for Twankay. In Scented
and Pekoe Teas few sales have been made, and quota-
tions tend downwards. Of 1,500 packages offered at
public sale, only 2,250 were sold.
ExcE.-To-day the market for Bast 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.
3,336 bags Bengal were only in part sold, at steady
prices; 3,s9sbagyseAllorwrlcan2o,
ofobraegxspoofrtsaognolyilaoturlOwserteo
lOs 6d for plump
taken in at 18s, being much above the value.
SPICES.-To• day at public auction 1,:330 bags Batavia
Pepper sold at 21d to 2fd for clean black, which are
rather lower rates.
COCHINEAL.-This afternoon, 90 bags Cochineal
At auction, about half sold at easier rates for blacks ;
Honduras silvers went at 33 lld to 4s 5d ; Mexican,
black 3s 8d to 4s, and Teneriffe 3s 10d to 43.1 d.
SPIRITS.-The market is quiet for Brandy, bat prices
are firm, and deliveries continue upon a large scale.
We quote Cognac best brands of the vintage of
1846, at 4s 10d to 55.; ditto, of 1847, 3s 10d to 45.;
2 sto
home
inferior 2s 6d to 3s 7d, and Bordeaux 2s to
2s. 4d. The market forand
a t 2
Genevas 9d to
is
28 ld for shipping sorts,
trade kind. There is a large demand for British made
fi3rsm 6d a
furt
Spirits at former rates. To-day Rum was dealt in with
more freedom, and prices improved. Proof Leewards
selling at is 8d to is 9d. Bast India is 64,d to is 7-id,
and Jamaica 30 to 38 per cent over proof at 3s 6d to 4s 4d
per gallon.

afternoon at auction 50 tons of Sydney
Cccoa Nut Oil sold at 32s ta 365; 15 tons Whale 22110 s
to 2515 ; 70 tons of Seal, yellow and straw 231 to 251 ;
12 tons Nut Oil 35/ 15s to 36/5s ; 25 tons Spern 691 lOs
to 69/ 15s, 14 tons Southern, very low and middling 211
to 241155.

TALLOW.—This afternoon the price of new fine P. Y.
Candle on the spot was firm at 455. At public sale 161
pkgs•South American sold at 43s to 46s 3d, inferior 41s
3i to 42s 3d ; 140 casks Australian 433 3d to 45s 3d;
145 casks Odssa Sheep 44s 3d to 44s 6d per cwt.

POST-OFFICE NOTICE.—The following notice has
been issued by command of the Postmaster-General :
It having been officially notified to the Postmaster-
General tba3 the blockade of the River Elbe by the
naval forces of Denmark will be strictly maintained
egainst all vessels navigating between that river and
the United Kingdom, with the sole exception of the
regulpr packet boats plying between London and
Hairiburgh, all letters from the United Kingdom for or
through Haraburgh 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
liarnburgh or places in the Elbe, described as abovs, to
London,
in order that they may be forwarded by the
regular packets.

MORE POISONINGS BY ARSENIC.
THORPE, ESSEX, AUG. 30.-A horrible yystem of
poisoning in this part of the county, termed the Ten-
drinp.:, Hundred, was the subject of a lengthened loves-
tigr.tion yesterday at the Tendring villa o school-room,
before Mr. W. Codd, the coroner for North Essex, and
a jury.
_ _

-The parish of Wix, where the woman Mary May re-
sided, who was executed at Chelmsford Gael a few
weeks ,iilee for poisoning her brother fur burial fees, is
in this district, and since the wretched creature's death
the police authorities have received such information as
to leave little doubt that similar atrocious acts have been
committed in the surrounding villages, viz., Bradfield,
Itamrey, Dovercourt, and Tendring ; husbands being in
every case the victims.
The wife of the deceased Thomas Ham, now Mrs.
Noutheate, who two or three months after his death
wai married to a farmer of that name, was brought into
the inquest room by the Governor of Colchester gaol, in
whose custody she has been for several days past. She
'
was very respectably attired, rather good-loJking, and
during the investigation frequently exchangud smiles
with her husband. The deceased was 28 years of age
in g, ai
at the time of his death • she appears to be much younger.
Simons, widow
Mary of Tendring, the first witness
called, said the deceased a blacksmith, living at Ten-
ho died on the 27th of April. 1847, and was
burieddr
nndZimelring churchyard on the followieSwiclar
Tlie body wi,icil 14. d bee n -tsicea up bLe kthov to be 11:.-...
She assisted in laying him out, and she observed blood 1
to issue from his mouth. Mrs. Ham, the prisoner, said