The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-15 00:00:00

1111 E SUN, LONDON, SATLJ DAY EVEN IN 6, JANUARY 15, 1848.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE•
From the London New Price Current Of Jan. 14.)

SUGAR.-To-day there was only a limited business
transacted in 'West India Sugar for home consumption,
and which is to be chiefly attributed to the darkness of
the atmosphere. The private sales, iu consequence, did
not exceed 510 hhds and tierces, and in prices
no change has taken place, but upon former
terms merchants were willing sellers. At public sale 22
hhds of Barbadoes were sold at 396 for middling, and at
39s 6d to 40s for good midling yellow, being the full
value. 61 hhds Demerara were taken in at 37 6d per
cwt for good strong grey. 114 hhds of Berbice fetched
steady prices.
REFINED.-To-day the market for Refined goods was
in a quiet state for all sorts. Standard Lumps can be
obtained at 54s and brown grocery 535. Bonded Crushed
Sugar sells slowly, and the finest is not worth more than
30s per cwt.
MAURITIUS.-This afternoon several parcels of Mau-
ritius Sugar were sold in the private maiket, and 685
bags at auction went at the full value-good yellow
syrupy 37s 6d to 38s 6,1, middling 36s to 375, and low
35s per cwt.
Lisa' INDIA.-This afternoon three parcels of Bengal
Sugar, amounting to 2,404 bags, acre offered at auction,
and the whole sold at full rates, except soft yellow,
which went at 64 to Is. per cwt. cheaper-Bemires, fine
white realised 46s to 48s 6:1, good 445, good mid-
dling 42s to 42s 6d, middling 40s 6d, damp and
washed 40s to 465, middling soft greyish yellow
30s 6d to 31s, low 296 to 30s, fine strong yellow
like Mauritius 404 to 41s, good 39s to 396 6d, damp
and washed 38s 6d to 403 6d. 320 bags of China sold
at the low rates of 35s to 36s for ordinary soft yellow.
50 cases of Singapore were taken in at 49s for good
soft grey, being above the value. Madras met with at-
tention, and 532 bags at auction fetched full rates, viz.,
good strong white 44s 6d, fine yellow 414 64 to 435,
good 38s. middling 35s 6d to 365, damp and washed 355
to 43s 6d, low damp yellow 30s, and brown ditto 283
per cwt.
FOREIGN.-To-day there was no public sale of Fo-
reign Sugar, and the purchases made privately were
trifling by exporters as well as the home trade, whilst
holders are willing to accept rather lower rates.
MoLasszs.-The dealings in all sorts of West India
have been limited by private treaty at from 155 to 18s.
A.t public sale 29 puns of St. Lucia were sold at 16s. The
market is dull for East India Treacle, at 17s to 17s 6d.
Of Cuba Molasses a large parcel has been sold at 16s
per cwt.
COFFEE.-This afternoon the market was more libe-
rally supplied with Jamaica Coffee. The public sales
consisted of 150 casks, 75 half ditto, and 23 barrels.
There was little desire shown to do business, and nearly
the whole was taken in at barely the former value ;
low middling at 54s to 60s, fine fine ordinary 45s to
48s, good ordinary 355, ordinary 29s to 325, the
small part sold at easier rates-good middling
805 6d, low middling 565. and Triage 16s to 27s 6d.
Of Ceylon 622 bags were offered, but a small part only
sold at easier prices-fine fine ord 41s to 42s 6d, fine
ordinary 395, good ordinary mixed pale 335, low ditto,
30s, damaged 20s to 40s, middling coloury was taken in
at 50s ; 217 bags Madras bought in-good ordinary
yellow 525, fine ordinary 565, ordinary 40s ; low mixed
315, damaged 28s per cwt. Native Ceylon sells slowly
by private treaty at 32s for good ordinary.
Cocoas-This afternoon West India met with less
attention, and of 330 bags of Trinidad at auction a small
part only sold at 47s for middling dark red, and at 46s
for good grey, being the full value.
TEA.-A further increase is perceptible in the amount
of business concluded in Congou, as well as a slight im-
provement in the value, making the rise during the last
two week's id per lb. A good demand prevailed from
the town and country trade for all descriptions, whet eas
merchants have more confidence, and supplied the
market less freely. The latest rates paid were at
follows:-Low common Congou 70 to Bd, fair and good
common sound 80 to 9(1, but mid 90 to I Id, middling
and good strong blackish leaf 110 to is 30, fine Is 4d
to is 50, and Pekoe flavour Is 6d to is 10d. In other
kinds of Black the sales concluded are upon a more
extended scale, and at slightly enhanced rates. There
has been a marked improvement in the position of the
market for Green, and large transactions in all descrip-
tions have taken place privately at a rise on previous
quotations.
Sricas.-This afternoon, at public sale, 518 boxes of
Cassia Lignea were sold, but at a decline in the quota-
tions current of late by private treaty of 3s to 41-
fine thin quill went at 69s to 70s ; good, 66s to
66s 6d; middling, 64s to 65s ; low middling 62s ad
to 63s 6d; good ordinary coarse, 61s 64 to 625;
broken, 61s; mouldy, 60s to 635. 4 cases 1 bag
Nutmegs went at the former value, fair middling brown,
2s 10d; ordinary small shrivelled, 2s 2d to 2s 44-
I case Mace fetched 2s 2d for low middling. 266 bugs
Sumatra Pepper sold at full rates, and fetched 2id to
20 for half-heavy clean black, and 24 to 2; d for
damaged. 90 casks Jamaica Ginger sold at 41 to 71 34
for middling to fine, and at 50s to 68s for inferior. 100
bags Pimento were taken in at 4d to 44ci for middling
and good, which was above the value.
RICE.-To-day there was more inquiry for East India
Rice, but stiffer rates being asked, checked business, and
3,209 bags of Bengal at auction were only in part sold
at 15a to 15s 6d for fine pearly white, and at lOs to 14s
for damaged. Of Sago 383 boxes were taken in at 17s
for middling small pearl.
INDIGO.-Although the quantity of East India de-
clared for public competition on the 6th of February is
3,307 chests, with a prospect of its being increased to
nearly 10,000 chests, yet on the part of holders there is
firmness, and they insist upon previous improved rates,
and which are 2(1 to 4d above those of the last quar-
terly sale. Purchases to a fair extent have been made
by exporters and home consumers in all sorts. For
Spanish a fair demand exists, and fomer rates are fully
supported.
SFIRITS.-The demand for all descriptions of
Jamaica Rum has much improved this week;
large purchases having been , made (by the home
trade; whereas exporters were. induced to take a
fair quantity. Raiders, howeverse.have been com-
pelled to accept the moderate rates that prevailed
previously. Foi the week the sales are 600 puns.
Demerara sells more readily at the former value, but not
above. The sales are 250 puns. The purchases made
in Leeward Island have been extensive, and amount to
GOO puns at is 7d to is 8d proof, being rather above
former rates. In East India the operations are
upon a more extended scale, and prices are
firmer. For Brandy former rates are well
sustained, and the demand is good for all sorts.
The purchases made in Geneva are of little moment ;
holders, however, show more firmness, and insist upon
2s 6d to 2s 7d for common shipping kind, and 3s to.3s
6d for fine home trade kind. The quotation for British
Corn Spirit is 1033 d, cash, but the sale is not a brisk
one. Gio sells slowly, 22 per cent. under proof 8s 11d,
17 under 9s 3d; and Spirit made from Sugar at 103 3d
proof.
C.cRINEAL.-Silvers have been in excellent request,
and former rates are well supplied for the lower kinds,
whereas fine and good realised an advance of Id per lb.
Black, however, has been only in moderate request, and
the market having been more freely supplied, prices
suffered a depression of 3d to 441 for low and middling,
and 14 to 2d for the better kinds. The parcels offered
at public sale amounting to 179 bags of Honduras
were, however, all sold-low and middling black 4s lld
to 5s sd, good 6s to 6s 91 ; silvers, low and middling,
4s 6d to 4s 8,1, good 4s 9d to 4s lid, and fine 5s to 5s 4:e
TALLow.-This afternoon the public sales of Tallow
went off at stiffer sates ; 164 pipes. 10 hhds South Ame-
rican were sold at 41s 6d to 42s 6d ; 700 cads!, New
South Wales, fine 45s to 465, good 43s to 44s 6d, low
and middling 38s to 42a 6:i ; 263 casks of first sort P.Y.
Caudle stranded 43s 94 to 44s 6d per cwt.
Wes.-This afternoon prices declined for Cocoa Nut
Oil, 277 packages at auction selling at 58s to 60s for
fine. Of Palm 65 tunes were disposed off at 29s for fine,
and at 27s 6d to 28s for good; 21 tuns Sperm, good and
fine 801 to 821; 16 tuns of Southern, low and very ordi-
nary dark 221 to 241 10s;, 18 casks Seal, brown 241 15e,
and yellow 261.

GOOD YOU A GOOSE.—The Rei. Caesar Otway, in
his paper on " The Intellectuality of Domestic Ani-
mals," gives the following anecdote, which is by far
too good not to receive the benefit of a wider circula-
tion:—At the flour mills of Tubberakeena, near Clon-
reel, while in the possession of the late Mr. Newbold,
there was a goose which, by some accident, was left
solitary, without mate or offspring, gander or goslings.
Now, it happened, as is common, that the miller's wife
had set a number of 'duck eggs under a hen, which in
due time were incubate d, and of course the ducklings,
as soon as they came forth, ran with natural instinct to
the water, and the hen was in a sad pucker—her ma-
ternity urging her to follow the brood, and her selfish-
ness disposing her to keep on dry land. In the mean-
while up sailed the goose with a noisy gabble, which
certainly (being interpreted) meant, leave them to my
care, she swam up and down with the ducklings; and
when they were tired with their aquatic excursion she
consigned them to the care of the hen. The next
morning down came again the ducklings to the pond,
and there was the goose
_waiving fur them, and there
stood the hen in her flustration. On this occasion we
are not at all sure that the goose invited the hen—ob-
serving her maternal trouble—but it is a fact that she
being near the shore, the hen jumped on her back, and
there sat, the ducklings swimming, and the goose and hen
after them, up and down the pond. And this was not
a solitary event-, day after day the hen was seen on board
the goose, attending the ducklings' up and down, in
perfect contentedness and good humour, numbers of
people coming to witness the circumstance, which con.
tinued until the ducklings, .coming to days of discretion,
required no longer the joint guardianship of the goose
and hen.
The Marquis of Granby and the Right Hon. J. C.
Herries -arrived in Stamford yesterday, to be present at
the National School bail, and afterwards to pay visit! of
thanks to their constituents. To render their calls more
acceptable, their patron (the Marquis- of Exeter) has
made arrangements to send two hares to each voter who
supported his nominees ; but as a sufficient quantity of
these vermin (as the farmers of Rutland cult them) can-
not be obtained all at once, those voters aro to be first
supplied who are not directly under Burghley influence
as tenants: the tenants are to be treated as persona to
whom small thanks are due, their vote being considered
part of their rent, and accordingly they are to be sup-
plied last, or as soon as enough animals can be con-
veniently shot. The fact that hares are thus preserved
to reward pliant voters may act-as a key to the extraor-
dinary sentence passed the other day upon a lad found
poaching on Lord Exeter's estates.—Stamford Mercury.
A French ship, the Pacquet of Bordeaux, was
driven on shore and wrecked near Aberdeen on Saturday
night. The crew were saved by a life-boat from the
town, but the Frenchmen appeared to have so little con-
fidence in their rescuers that they armed themselves for
defence, and it was with the utmost difficult f• the mate
could be prevailed on to leave the vessel.