The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-23 00:00:00

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London New Price Current 00f2:1a723.)
SUGAR.—To day the market was in a satisfactory
position for ail descriptions of raw Sugar; home buyers
purchased with more readiness, and for all sorts
enhanced rates were obtained.
,and The demand was good
for West India of all kinds, and the prices paid 6d per
cwt above those of Friday. s
firmness manifested by holders. The sales
425, middling 40s to 40s 6d
to 980 hhds and tics, including a o
n p
hhds of Barbadoes, which went
advance—fine yellow realising 43 t o 24'3hser6ed
g du bl ic
were a u
readily at 6ni tnino
hn of 2 i
n Ires.
, 'd
per cwt
amounted
goodwas
s 41s to
Berbice realised 38s to 393 for liodw 38s 6d. 40 hhds of
m and good strong grey.
quest by the borne trade, and prices ruled firm at 54s
r
tor standard, and at 56s for b
Bonded crushed Sugar there wasown grocery lumps. In
27s 6d to 28s are the rates asked
df not much passing, but
for fine quality.
MAURITIUS.—This after noon the demand was active
for all sorts of Mauritius Su
auc-
tion were all sold at 6d to is gar'and 4,368 bags at
p cwt advance.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoeortißengal Sugar was in
excellent request, but the market wa
plied. At public sale 8,853 bags 3 more freely sup-
plied, were sold at 6d, and in
some cases is advance.
FOREIGN.—This afternoon a fair
‘amount of business
was concluded privately in Foreign Sugar
of; at auction
403 hhds, 54 trey, and 27 barrels Muscovado were sold
at 6d to is advance.
CoFFEE.—Thts afternoon there •
was an active demand
for Plantation Ceylon Coffee, and 2,010 bags at auction
were sold at Is to 2s per cwt advance, nearly the hole
consisted of the lower qualities—ordinary went at 28s
good ordinary' 29s to 325, fine ordinary 341 to 365 6d,
,
triage 17s to 295, damaged 19s to 26s 6d, low ordinary
pea berry 365 to 38s 6d. The market
totalss firm for Native;
good and real good ordinary at 31s
a fair business was concluded.
Cocoa..—There are sellers of all descriptions of West
India upon reduced terms, but the sales made by private
treaty have been limited in all sorts, and arrivals are
upon a more extended scale. At auction 127 bags
Grenada were disposed of upon lower terms, middling
red went at 40s, good and fine 42s 6d to 445, but 604
bags Trinidad were taken in middling good bold grey at
44. to 455, good dark red 45s to 46s per cwt. For
auction 300 bags of Trinidad are announced.
TEA.—In Congou large purchases have been made in
all descriptions, and the rates paid are fully equal to
those previously current. The market is less plentifully
supplied, whilst merchants display firmness. To-day
the quantity of Tea offered at public sale amounted to
3,500 pkgs. There was a good demand, and the chief
part sold ; black at full rates, and green at a small
advance.
RlCE.—Although all kinds of. East India can be pur-
chased upon rather lower terms, still there is no increase
in the export demand, and home buyers make purchases
with caution; there is also no decrease in the supply.
Privately only small parcels have been disposed of. At
auction 3,000 bags of Bengal found buyers at 8s 6d to
9s for middling broken dusty white, low is 6d to Bs, and
damaged 2s 6cl to 95 per cwt. Carolina is not much in
request, and can be obtained at 21s to 25s for town
dressed. Patna is dull of sale, and can be obtained at
12. to 16s.
SPICES.—This afternoon a good demand was expe-
rienced for Mace, and 14 cases of Penang at auction
were all sold, realising full rates. Nutmegs are wanted,
and 25 cases 6 bags went at full market rates. Ot
Cloves, 50 cases went at Is 3d for middling rather small
dull Penang.
CocursreaL.—This afternoon there was no increase
in the demand, and the market was abundantly supplied.
At public sale 100 pkgs of Honduras were offered, and
a part only sold at former rates for the better kinds,
but inferior went ld so 2d cheaper.
SasreeTass.—The market has been in a dull state for
Rough since our last report, and there are sellers upon
rather lower terms. British Refined are not much in
request, and can be obtained at 36s 6d to 37a per cwt.
Nitrate of Soda has been dealt in with caution.
SPIRITS.—The market for Geneva is inactive, and
sellers •
are willing to accept Is 9d to is 10d for
ordinary, and 2s 8d to 3s 3d for fine home trade
kind. For Brandy the market is inactive, and
the tendency of prices is to decline, us large parcels
are near at hand. Cognac best brGnds of the vintage of
1846 can be obtained at 4s 8d to 43 10d, and 1847 at
3s 811 to 3s 10d per gallon. For British Corn Spirits
the
demand is active, and former rates are well supported.
This afternoon there was little passing in Rum, and
holders are not so firm; East India proof can be oh
tained at is 64 to is 7J, and Leeward bland is Bid to

ls 9d.
TALLow.—holders of Russian are willing to make a
furthtr concession in the value, and accept 45s Ei I to
46a per cwt fur fine P.C. Candle on the spot, still the
trade continue to operate with much caution, on
account of the decreased consumption. The sales
made for forward delivery have been trilling, and

sellers are ready to accept 44s 6d to 45s per cwt.
Home made is not in demand, and can be obtained at
46s to 46s 6d per cwt nett cash, there is also an increased
quantity on offer. For other sorts of Tallow prices keep
on the decline, and there is no decrease in the supply.
At auction 13 casks of new South %Vales were sold. The
value of roneh Fat is 2s 71d per stone. For auction
600 casks of Tallow are declared.

OILS —Prices are further depressed for all descrip-
tions of common Fish Oils, as the demand continue on
the decrease for all purposes, and there are further ar-
rivals. None has been submitted to public sale, but
privately the market is well supplied. Cod has been
obtained at 241 lOs to 251, still the purchases made have
been trifling. Seal has been operated in with caution, and
there is a desire to sell pale at 251 to 251 10,,, tinged
241 10,, straw 23/ lOs to 241. yellow 23/ to 231 ss, and
brown at 221 to 221 10s. The demand tor alt snort of
Southern has been extremely limited. Sperm is little
wanted. Alibouo Linseed Oil is only in moderate sup-
ply, the con-umption is large; yet prices have declined.
Li Rapseed Oil there has been less bust ness.
done, but prices are steady. The market for Olive is
inactive, and at arrivals are near at hand, holders evince
a desire to sell. Cocoa Nut is little wanted, and prices
continue to decline. Palm is dull of sale. Lard Oil
is offered at 46s to 48s, and Ground Nut Oil at 38s to
38s 6d, but few buyers are to be met with.

THE NEW DISTRICT CHURCHES, DEVONPORT.—
Two of the new churches in this district, we understand,
it is contemplated to commence the erection of this year:
that for the district of St. Stephen, in George-street; and
that for the district of St. James, Morice. town, on a site
at the top of Charlotte street. Towards the latter the
Admiralty gives a grant of 4,0001., for which seats will
be reservtd for the officers and men of the new steam-
yard at Morice-town.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, May 22.
THE CHURCH.

In answer to a question from Earl BROWNLOW,
The Bishop of LINCOLN said—l feel obliged to the
Noble Earl for putting the question, and enabling me to
offer an explanation upon the subject to which it relates.
As soon as I read the report of the Honourable Gentle-
man's speech in the Times newspaper, which repre-
sented him to have said that two clergymen in Lincoln
or the neighbourhood had died of starvation, thinking
that such a statement cast a great stigma upon the
clergy of the county, I requested the Honourable Gen-
tleman to furnish me with the names of the two clergy-
men. In his answer he tells me that the report in the
Times is incorrect: that he did not state that two clergy-
men had died of starvation; but that he could give
instances of clergymen who had died in such a state of
destitution that it would hardly be too much to say
that it was bordering on starvation. In confirmation
of this, as I asked him for two cases, he enclosed
an extract from a report made to him on the subject
in January last, and of the correctness of which,
in all essential points, he had no doubt. He adds, they
are by no means the only cases of extreme destitution
and suffering which he could cite :—" In the parish of
Auborne, six miles and a quarter from Lincoln, there
died, in the year 1834, the Rev. Mr. Watkins, the vicar
of that parish. He came there in 1810, a widower.
Some years after he became afflicted with a cancer. Of
course he stood in urgent need of the best medical as-
sistance, but his income, 541. per annum, and that some-
times not regularly paid, precluded the possibility of his
obtaining such advice. His disease became so terrible,
and superadded to the misery of his position, weighed
down his health and spirits so heavily, that he was
driven to the consumption of opium in order to produce
stupefaction. Thus he went on for several years. The
services of the church were of course neglected. Some-
times there was no service for six or nine weeks toge-
ther. No administration of the sacrament for two years.
A large dissenting chapel sprung u 2, and the district
soon became what it still remains, the focus of dis-
sent. Sometimes, when the poor vicar awoke completely
to a sense of his position, it is reported his feelings
proved almost maddening. He had no one to care for
him—not even a servant to look after him. He was
obliged sometimes— so dt ep was his poverty—even to beg
his daily bread. He was forced to the humiliating ne-
cessity of asking for the smallest sums of money from
neighbouring clergy, net as a loan but absolutely as a
gift. At last (math put un end to his sufferings, which it
must indeed have required all the fortitude of a Christian
minister to endure—agony of body, agony of spirit,
agony of mind I He died with no other attendant about
, him than a charwoman, and he was buried at the cost
and by the direction of the clergy of the adjacent villages.
Nor is this a singular case of distress. Within the last
few days a case has occurred in this very city, by no means
dissimilar from that I have depicted. The incumbent
of a parish of 951. a year, two miles from the cathe-
dral, has died. His death was occasioned, I am sorry
to say, by his own excesses, and therefore that amount
of pity cannot be entertained for him that must be felt
for the poor vicar of Auborne. But the account of his
death—l have it from one cognisant of all the facts—is
dreadful. He had been some time ill; his wife was ill
also. The only other person in the house was a little
workhouse girl of fifteen or sixteen years of age—a
dreadful beginning of life indeed for her. In the middle
of the night this child was awoke by the poor man's
groans. She went to his room, found him writhing in
extreme agony, threw a sheet over him, and left him to
expire. A dog could scarcely have died more wretchedly.
It was not till late in the evening that any one could be
fa heearls a....*ehed death-bed. When they
house, not a single cotu or any kind, nor a
single article of food, was to be found. The body of this
clergyman of the Established Church of England and
Ireland was interred at the cost of Archdeacon
Bonney." On the first of the two cases, which
occurred fourteen years ago, when I was not
resident in the county, and consequently could not
be acquainted with the circumstances of indivi-
dual clergymen in it, I can say little. I remember only
that Mr. Watkins was represented to me as very poor;
and, if my memory does not deceive me, he had once
been confined fur debt in Lincoln Castle; but I am con-
fident that the' neighbouring clergy would never have
allowed him to 'die of starvation. The second is a recent
case, and I know that Mr. Baker died in circumstances
of extreme destitution; but he had contracted inveterate
habits of drinking, and his death was the consequence
of those habits. I know that he had borrowed money
of the Dean of Lincoln within six weeks or two months
of his death; but if a clergyman spends all that he re-
ceives in the purchase of intoxicating liquors, how can
he do otherwise than die in extreme destitution? I will
offer no further remarks on the Honourable Gentleman's
statement, because as the report in the Times, the only
one which I have read, appears to be incorrect, I may
be commenting on that which the Honourable Gentle-
man did not actually say. He quoted a letter from a cor-
respondent,
giving an account of a clergyman who rode
over the country performing several duties on the
Lord's day, at churches at great distances from each
other. My persuasion is that this statement, if in-
quired into, would be found to relate to facts which
took place some years ago. But I must be permitted to
remark that if the Honourable Gentleman's correspon.
dent had communicated the facts to the bishop of the
diocese at the time when they took place, in order that
means might be taken to prevent their recurrence, he
would have shown a more sincere desire to correct the
abuses in the Church than by the course which he has
taken.