The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-10 00:00:00

29,3,59,7
M. MARSILALL, ChiefX
Cashier
Dated the 81h day of October, 1846.

BANKING DEPARTMENT.

Proprietors' capital.. -14,553,000
Rest .. .• • • •• • • 3,886,985
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ings-banks, and Di-
vidend accounts). • 9,776,195
Other deposits ••• • • • 8,167,143
Seven day and other

Government securl-

141 U
21
113

Ms •••••••• .. • • • • 930,793

4 37,314,116

Dated the fith day ofOctober, 18

Price,

CC*S.

Price.

14%
27%
23
18%
73

ties (including bead
Weight Annuity).. 12,961,360
Other securities •. • • 15,086,775
Notes ••• • • • ••• • • • 8,809,160
Gold and. silver coin.. 456,831

• X37,3i4116
M. MARSHALL, Chief Ca&hier. •
146.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London New Price Current of October 9.)
SUGAR.--To-day there was a good business transacted in.
West India Sugar of all kinds for the scale and pan, in con-
sequence of merchants being sellers at previous moderate
rates. The purchases amounted to 600 hhds, &c., including
at auction 45 hhds 26 trcs of Jamaca, which went at..sos for
good yellow, 48s to 48s 6d for middling, and 468 to 463'6d for
low yellow.
REFINED.—The home trade have been induced to purchase
Refined goods with more freedom this week, in consequence
of rather lower rates having been taken; the supply. of all
qualities is, however, larger than it was, as the refiners are
working freely, and likely so to keep, as they are ob-
taining satisfactory profits, and are getting 18s for working.
Pieces have slightly declined in value, there being att'in-
creased quantity on offer, but a good demand has been, ex-
perienced. Bastards have met with little attention, and the
supply being large there are ready sellers. For Treacle of
every sort prices are rising, the demand being extensive and
the supply small. Crushed Sugar for exportation has been
purchased ;with caution, although there are sellers of first
quality at 33s per cwt ; the refiners continue freely at work.
Treacle is still wanted, and prices are firm. Dutch Crushed
Sugar is heavy of disposal. For Loaves manufactured here
the export demand has been good.
Kaunrrios.—This afternoon at public sale 1,484 bags-and
16 hhds were offered, and sold at the former worth, good
yellow at. 47s 6d to 50s, middling 45s to 475, low 43s -to
445, fine brown 42s 6d,- washed 42s to 475, and syruppy 428
p6r bwt.
kin -Ilinu.—This afternoon the public sales of •Bengali,
Sugaeoonsitted of 4,145 bags, nearly the whole sold, and at
full

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MoLasszs.—West India is wanted, and having but a mo-.
dera,te supply prices are looking up. The private sales thiii
week are 400 puns, Dominica at 225, and St. Vincents 225.
Bally Khal Treacle has been in' good request, and prices are
firm at 225; the supply has again become small.
Fonnfort.,—There has been a larger supply of all descrip-
tions of Foreign Sugar at.market this week.. For brown•and
the lower kinds of yellow, of which there is a heavy stock
here, prices are generally lowering, but for white and
the better kinds of yellow they rule firm, the home trade
being inclined to get stocked with such. Porto Rico
has been in excellent demand and brought advanced
rates, more particularly the better sorts. At auc-
tion 198 hhds and 100 barrels were all sold. Manilla has
met with little attention by private contract, and at...auction
9,530 bags were mostly taken in at the former value.- White
China is wanted at previous rates, but little desire has been
shown to buy the brown and yellow kinds, although they
can be had upon easier terms. Java has been sold to a fair
extent at the former currency, the better sorts being the
most preferred. White Havannah is attracting less atten-
tion, but stiff rates have been obtained far the few parcels sold
privately. Yellow in good request, and prices fully equal to throe
previously current, and several parcels have been sold by
private treaty. Brown, however, has met with little atten-
tion, and can be obtained at moderate rates. For exportation
Foreign has been sparingly dealt in by private contracts, al-
though there are sellers at moderate rates, and several parcels
are pressing for sale.
COFFEE.-This afternoon 677 bags Plantation Ceylon were
offered at auction, and partly sold at 52s fcr line ordinary
grey, and at lOs to 33s for triage, being about the former
value, fine fine ordinary was taken is at 545. 10 bales
Mocha sold at 40s for triage. 55 casks of Jamaica went at
69s Gd to 70s Gd for middling, at 33s 6d to 48s 6d for other
sorts, and at 26s to 30s for triage, being the former value.
70 bags 71 barrels La Guayra fetched 50s to 51s 6d for fine
fine ordinary, and 41s 6d for good ordinary, and 80 bags
Costa Rica 35s 6d for good ordinary.
CocoA.—West India has been purchased with more free-
dom, but no improvement in prices has taken place. At
public sale 162 bags of Trinidad were sold. For Foreign
previous rates are asked, but few buyers are to be met with.
TEA.—None has been offered at public sale since our last,
still Congou has been dealt in sparingly, notwithstanding
the low rates that prevail ; the trade only purchase sufficient
for their present wants, and there is only a fair supply at
market of all descriptions. In Pouchong a good business has
been done, and the supply being small, prices rule firm.
Of Souchong some
134r0e15 Ilitve been dispose 4 of, but ac

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STIRLING . AND DUNFERMLINE
BURGHS.--DEATH OF MR. GILLON.
We regret to have to record the death of W. D.
Gillon, Esq., of Wallhouse. This melancholy and un-
expected event occurred on Wednesday morning; and
the tidings have thrown a deep gloom over the extensive
• district in which the deceased's tiall*:WaS so prominently
before the public as a candidate forche honour of serving
them in Parliament. The lamented. gentleman's poli-
tical opponents unite With his supporters in deploring a
• calamity which thus deprives society of an usetul member
and inflicts an irreparable loss oh an-amiable and highly
esteemed family. As a public man, Mr. Gillon had long
been admired for the literality of his views and the
manly independence• of his character, whilst his private
life, his extensive hospitalities, and generous social quali-
ties' justly endeared him to a large circle of neighbours
and friends.
It Li supposed that this painful event will prevent fur-
ther serious opposition to the election of Mr. J. B. Smith
as representative of the Stirling_Berg...hs. The personal
esteem in which Mr. Gillon was held by a large circle of
local connexions is believed to have been the only ob-
stacle to perfect unanimity among the Liberal electors
of all classes in behalf of Mr. Smith: whose superior
qualifications and pre-eniinent claims te a seat in Parlia-
ment were frankly acknowledged by Mr. Gillon himself,
and the 'great bcdy of his supporters Opposition, in-
deed, in any other instance, we' belief would would be hope-
less. The, Edinbutgh Whig- clique '.cannot possibly
-select' another 'candidate_ whom Abe: supporters of Mr.
Gillen fvotila pr.fcf to the distinguished_ ex-Chairman of
thet.Anti-Corn-law League, andexrPiesident of the
„Maknckester Chamber of Commerce ; nor do we think
they will hem- the. folly. to• betray thtir own weak-
ness by making such an attempt„. The Whig
ekctors of the Stirling and Dunfermline Burghs are
numerous and powerful, but they.-are likewise staunch
free-traders, and incapable, we trest;fif 'succumbing to
metropolitan dictation ; and we dg ':nOt ~believe one of
them was induced to withhold his support from Mr.
Smith by any other consideration than
.that of personal
attachment to Mr. Gillon. Indeed; it is scarcely possible
that any of them could oppose Mr; Smith from other
motives, inasmuch as the perfect unanimity of political
sentiments displayed in the respective addresses of that
gentleman and Gillon shoWed theWo-candidates to
be without difference of political opinion. That Mr.
Allison cannot succeed to the support afforded Mr.
Gillon is clearly manifest. The gentlemen who were
prepared to repose confidence in the •latter, on account
of his long experience and tried services, can scarcely
be expected to repose similar confidence in'a young, un-
tried, inexperienced man ; more especiallihen another
long-tried candidate offers himself' to their preference.
Under these circumstances it may confidently be hoped
that the harmony which it is so essential should exist
among Liberals of all Classes will ho larger be disturbed
in these burghs on occasion of .Lord.Dalmeny's retire-
ment; but, on the-contrary, That the- Unanimity which
pervades all parties in regretting 'Mr. Gillon's untimely
death will be equally extended to the important event
affected thereby. The political -friends 'or Mr. Gillon
cannot, on the occasion more suitably ere their re-
spect for his memory than by testifying -that; the " high
respect" which: he so recently proclaimed'towards Mr.
Smith operates as paramount inducement to them to
transfer to Mr. Smith the political confidence and sup-
port they. were prepared to have rendered to Mr. Gillon.
—Edinburgh Chronicle of this day.

RESCUE FROM DROWNING.—On" Thqrsday, the
boatmen of the Royal Humane Se;ciety effected, at the
Serpentine, the rescue of a female who had precipitated
herself over the bridge-in Kensington-gardens; and who
did.not once rise to the surface. It was at. least four
minutes before she was recovered,' Me. Charlier, the
secretary, happening to be. present. On the 'arrival of
the. baat (which takes nearly three minutes to man it
and pull it from the boat-house to the. bridge),7the drag
was thrown three or four times before ,site.yas found ;
hence at least four minutes had expiiecrbefore she could
again breathe atmospheric air. • She was placed in a
warm bath, and Mr. Woolley, on his arrival,-bled her, as
she suffered much both from congestion or the brain and
chest. She was conveyed t 6 St. George's Hospital,
where she is pronounced cut of danger. She Proves to
be a servant out of place, lately - come-froth- Reigate,
Surrey.
DEATH OF A CONVICT BY DROWNING,.--.on ,Thurs-
day afternoon, about two o'clock, a convict of the War-
rior hulk, named Turner, while at Workunloildini timber
from a London trading vessel, overbalanced himself and
fell into the viier. A waterman's boat,wasproraptly on
the. spot, and -every exertion made' tp Save hit:Out he
disappeared ahnostinstantatteouslf at the the
Vessel. The same Convict .fell into • -the liver 'about
twelvemonths ago in a nearly similar manner as thie pre-
-sent, .whiclilida' proved fatal, and it w4ttswith;th9„gseatest
'difficulty he was.savecl the first.thie.
DEATH' 02" A VERY OLD SOLDIER.—Off • Ffiday
last,' .Aleiandir Duncan died in this eityokt„..the treat
age of 111 years. He Was ti• native of the parish of
Cairney. lie enlisted in thearmy-in 1777, and was dis-
charged in. 1803, returning to his original cratrof a
shoemaker, and drawing his pension for 43 years;,.% Al-
though his appearance bespoke the frailtie3 of extreme
age,.yet he was able to .step about until withip,afew
com-
pleted a century he regularly drew
i,hisailptedTot .to drink
months of his death. For some years after I.loe2,l4:ro_pria persona, on which occasions he
deaf, and hi- int -
considerable time he has beenh rather_
tit was impossible to ob-
tainhis sovereign's health, with 'all due 1 .yalty. "rot: some
mory had so failed of late,
.t a
reminiscences
of his Jong
from him any interesting
n the morning of
0
milvitrzA
Wednesday, the 23d ult., whilst a number of Men, em-
INicien.—orAyberodcecenußJßoEusrcnuEL._
ployed at the repairs of the road between Tomdown Inn
and Glenquoich, were engaged in excavatipg a gravel
pit, the bank st.ddcnly fell in, in consequence orylkiph
a young man, named Angus Maernaster, tt as killed ion
the spot, and a younger brother so seriously injured that
he expired on the second day after the accident. Sneh-
was"the consternation and confusion of the whole party,
that for a length of time doubts existed of the elder
brother's fate, and nearly a quarter of an hour had
elapsed before his mangled remains were dug out of the
gravel. Dr. Gwynne of Fort Augustus yeas imMediately.
summoned to the spot, and rendered every assistance in
his power to the survivor; but his friends being de.sirous
to remove him to his father's house, near Fort'William,
a spring cart was procured, and he was conveyed
Letterfinlay, where he breathed his lust eialit)ii- Saar-
dity morning. They were both young men of excellent
'character, and a third brother (the overseer of the party)
was within a few feet of the fatal spot at the time the
accident happened.—lnverness Courier.
THE CARLTON CLl:l3.—The whole of the premises
in Pall-mall, situate between the Carlton Club and the
Duke of Buckingham's mansion, have been razed, the
site occupied by them being required for the enlarge-
ment of the club-house. It is intended to raise that
building another story ; an entirely new frontage is also
to be erected, the eajw,etecl opt a the improveuichts
' being ;4,0004