The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-26 00:00:00

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK

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MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London New Price Current of April. 25.)
SUGAR.—There has been a further increase in the
home demand for all descriptions, and export orders
arriving more :freely. On the part of, holders there
is firmness, and they have sparingly supplied the
market; an advance in the value is apparent fur
both free and slave labour. For West India Mus-
covado of all kinds a good demand was experienced
on Wednesday and Thursday from refiners and grocers,
there was also an advance in prices of 6d per cwt. Brown
realised 34s to 35s 6d, yellow 36s to 445, and grey 35s
to 395. The market has been closed since Thursday,
but business will be resumed to-morrow. Of Barbadoes
of the new crop arrivals may be looked for quickly.
REFINED.—To-day Refined goods were much in de-
mand for home consumption, and in consequence of the
diminished supply, buyers were compelled to pay stiffer
rates—Standard Lumps selling at 545, and brown gro-
cery 53s to 53s 6d per cwt. There is more activity in
the market for Bonded Crushed, and 25s 6d to 26s 6d is
the value, according to quality; upon which terms seve-
ral parcels have been disposed of. Of Dutch Crushed a
cargo of 250 tons has been sold, but the price is not
allowed tq transpire.
MAIIRITIITS.—The stock is less than at this time in the
past year, the deliveries are proceeding largely, and
exports from the Mauritius are likewise much less than
in the former year. Holders here have confidence, and
less freely supplied the market; the demand privately
has been good, and a rise in prices of 6d per cwt. is
apparent. We quote low to fine brown at 30s to 34s 6d,
yellow 35s to 425, and grey 34s to 39s per cwt. The
chief part of the stock is in the hands of one firm.
Mauritius is yet cheaper than any other sort of raw
Sugar.

EAST INDlA.—There is firmness on the part of
holders of all descriptions of Bengal Sugar, and the
market has been sparingly supplied with all sorts since
our last report. Buyers have manifested an inclination
to do business upon a more extended scale, and large
parcels have been sold. Madras is in good request, and
realises stiffer rates; there is also a further decrease in the
supply. In Penang the operations are upon a more ex-
tended scale, and enhanced rates are obtained, whilst a
less quantity is on offer of all sorts. For East I❑dia
Sugar prices are nearly one half-less that at this time
in 1847. _ _

FOREIGN.--Today there was much inquiry after all
kinds of Foreign Sugar, but holders asking rather higher
rates, caused the purchases to be limited for both home
use and export. _

MOLASSES.—There is no improvement in the demand
this week, and sellers are willing to accept low rates.
Only small parcels have been sold at 14s to 18s for low
to fine. The market for Bengal Treacle has a dull ap-
pearance, and prices are on the decline, whilst the stock
is on the increase.
COFFEE.—TO• day the purchases made by private
treaty, in all sorts of Coffee, were upon a small scale
only.
Cocoa.—For West India prices are not higher, but
the demand is more active—Trinidad selling at 43s to
455, red 45s to 48s per cwt. The stock is still on the
decrease. The market for Foreign has a very dull ap-
pearance, and late rates cannot be obtained, although
there is only a limited stock.
'f EA.—To-day the purchases made in ordinary Congou
were upon a more extended scale, but better prices wei
not to be obtained. For other sorts of Tea the market
is 'yet in a very dull state.
RICE.—To-day a fair demand was experienced for
East India Rice, and rather higher rates were obtained
—middling white Bengal realised 10s, and cargo 7s 6d to
8s per cwt. Some holders will not sell at these rates,
and several parcels have been withdrawn from the market.
SPIRITS.—To-day Rum met with a good demand, and
prices closed with firmness ; East India proof at is 7d
to is 7id, and Leeward Island is 9d to is 91d per gallon.
SPICES —For Pimento the decline amounts to id to
Of 408 bags offered at public sale, a small part only sold.
Holders or Black Pepper are not disposed to accept lower
rates, and have refrained from c ffering any at
public sale ; the purchases made privately have
been limited in all sorts both for home use or export.
White is little wanted, and low to tine can be obtained
at 3id to 6d, but the supply is not so plentiful. Ginger
cannot be called cheaper, but there has been little
passing in home trade or export sort ; former
rates are, however, supported, as the supply is small.
The market for Cinnamon is in a very dull state, and
prices are on the decline. Cloves met with little atten-
tion, and there is a desire to sell. Cassia Lignea is
not cheaper, as the supply is light, but the sales
made have been limited. There has been but little
desire evinced to purchase Nutmegs for home use or
exportation.
FRUIT.—The market for Currants has a more active
appearance, and there is less willingness on the part of
holders to sell. A good demand has been exhibited at
39s to 41s for new, and at 34s to 35s for old. Raisins
are in better request, Valencia at 38s to 42s for old.
'fALLow.—Prices have suffered a further depression
for Russian on the spot, and there has likewise been
little desire evinced on the part of the home trade to
operate. Only a limited amount of business has been
concluded, and 50s to 50s 3d per cwt are the rates ac-
cepted for fine P. Y. Candle. For delivery in the last three
months of the year there are sellers at 46s to 46s 3d, but few
buyers to be met with. Home made is not much required,
and can be obtained at a further reduction, as the supply
is on the increase; whilst the demand is limite'l at 49s
to 505. nett cash. The consumption is also not so satis
factory as of late. Other descriptions of Tallow are not
much required, and we have to announce that a further
decline in the value is apparent, as there is a plentiful
supply.
__

'OH-A
—There are sellers of Linseed Oil upon previous
reduced terms, although there is only a moderate supply,
and the consumption is still satisfactory. The pur-
chases made have been limited by the home trade,
and the export demand has nearly ceased. There
are sellers on the spot at 22s 3d to 22s 6d—prices,
however', are not expected to be much lower. For for-
ward delivery there are sellers at 23s to 23s 3d, hut
the purchases made have been limited. Rapeseed Oil
has not improved in value, but a larger amount of
business has been conclu:led; pale at 34s to 34s 6d, and
brown 33s to 33s 6d. .The supply is not so plentiful,
whereas there is a larger consumption. The market for
Olive has a quiet appearance, still prices remain much
the same as those previously current, as the supply is
moderate, and the consumption better than of late.
Palm met with more attention, and the stock continues
on the decrease. Cocoa Nut is not much required.
Prices remain much the same as those previously current
for Fish Oils,aud the market has been less freely supplied
with all sorts. The imports have been of little im-
portance since this day week, but the du liveries
are progressing under favourable auspices. Holders
of Cod are asking 251 to 251 55., but the pur-
chases made have been limited ; indeed there are sellers
for arrival rather under these rates. The purchases
made in all sorts of seal has been of little consequence.
The amount of business done in Sperm has been limited,
whilst the tendency or prices is to decline.
SALTPETRE.—To-day the market for rough was in a
dull state, and lower rates were accepted. British Re-
fined is cheaper, and 37s 6d to 33s is the value. For
Nitrate of Soda there are few buyers, and 14s to 14s 3d
per cwt is the value.

_ - -
INCENDIARY FIRE AT TORPOINT. DEVORPORT,
APRIL 24.—Last night, shortly before ten o'clock, a
wheatstack, the property of Mr. Jeffery, at Borough,
near Torpoint, was discovered to be on fire. Alarm was
given, and engines were sent from the ordinary at De-
vonport and the town. The country people and those
from Torpoint rendered all possible assistance, but the
wheatstack and also a stack of reed were destroyed. A
man had been seen lurking about the premises on whom
suspicion fell, and he was taken into custody in a field
near the fire, last night, and on neing charged did not
deny the act. He was taken before Mr. Roberts, this
day, at the union workhouse, Torpoint. After a lung
examination he was committed to Bodmin on the charge;
he had little to say ; he gave his name Matthew
Vivian, and stated that he had been a soldier, but by
some means he had lost his pension. It appears very
little can be got from him ; he is decently dressed, and
is stated to be an Irishman.

MONEY-MARKET.—The last quotation from Paris
gives the premium on gold at about 40 per mille, which
at the English Mint price of 31. I7s. 101 d. per ounce for
standard gold, gives an exchange of 26.16; and the ex-
change at Paris on London at short being 25.65, it follows
that gold is 1.99 percent. dearer in Paris than in London.
The course of exchange at New York on London
is 109} per cent., and the par of exchange between Eng-
land and America being 109 23.40 per cent., it follows
that the exchange is 0.08 par cent. against Eng-
land; but the quoted exchange at New York being for
bills at 60 days' sight, the interest must be deducted from
the above difference.

SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.
Small countries, in the present times of revolutionary
turmoil, stand as bad a chance of being' resrected as
short men in a crowd. To be smothered,
trodden down, their voice and existence stifled amidst
the rush and collision of larger and taller bodies, is
inevitably their fate. This seems to be the case with
Schleswig today, as it would be that of Ireland to-
overlooked,
morrow, could it shake off its allegian and suffer itself
to become the seat of strife between E ce,
ngland and any
continental power.
The contest which occupies the German public and
press, and which was brought before the Rouse of Com-
mons on Wednesday C
night, is between Denmark on
the
one hand, and Prussia on the other. The Danish our r
t
and Ministers have put forth, in many documents, the
rights to Schleswig. The Chevalier Bunsen has drawn
i f
withgfroeragtoatbui.lni.ty the pretensions of Germany. But
in all this the rights and interests of Schleswig tsel
up
are quite
The misfortune of poor Schleswig is, that though
small in population, it still possesses a port and a com-
munication between two seas of very great in]portauce.
The greater part of the population of the duchy is
el, cidedly Danish. But the noisier portion of it is Ger-
man. Moreover, at the university as in the commerce
nf' Kiel, the Holsteinian and the German
either
and
either to
language certainly predominate. Therefore,
Danify all Schleswig, as the King of Denmark menace!.
or to Germanize all of it, as the King of Prussia ins
is doing very great injustice and annoyance to a great
portion of the Schleswigers.
But as we said, no one thinks of
_they Scleswigeris.
The King of Prussia is merely anxious togeup 3 lit.t,.°
political capital, in the way of popular effort and nolitt,"
tary success, and he makes himself the head of the no 0
sea-board, and which, as Mr. Disraeli said, not daring
German feeling, which demands extension towards the
to encroach on either France or Russia, b'
demo
from these powers the countries of the German cg
which they have absorbed, makes an aggression upon.
Denmark for this purpose, merely because. it basMenke!
less, and glory can be won in such a case withut riss.
The King of Denmark, on the other hand, rtl 11€
into Schleswig, much as an English military. corateit.ead_edi:
of the Orange school of politics would rush into Irel.P!_
with a determination to carry everything before ht,ta.,
with the sword, merely promising to absorb all Sobleawlb
in the Danish assemblies and administration. . .00
Between these two princes, following each
ambition and ends, there has started up a third, eqt?.l
selfish and more unwarranted. This is Prinec futureFreoe'
of Augustenberg, who evidently sets up to be the b
Duke' of Schleswig-Holstein, and who commenees,.,,L
placing himself at the head of a provisional governtae..o,
This renders the strife far more rancorous and serwri,
their pig ‘,.,
for the Schleswigers, and gives to the King of Deatilbe
some pretext for being ferocious. Ile rushes in t° r,g,
field; the German students of Kiel, formed in avec'iorce.
are 'abandoned and sacrificed; whilst the gallant he rind
Frederic and his troops disappear hastily from the
of battle. the P
In this brief political and-military campaignoOr
0,,
Schleswigers have been universally the victims. ant
lute
ever prince triumphs, the people are deciniated,. fire
dered, and ruined. Danish and German troops will
efts
upon them, and devour their substance. Their self tod
will be bombarded, their inland villages raVake" op
burned; whilst the- end will very `-"
probably be, ,t",,erosti
ting of the Dnchy of Schleswig into two, its the
half and its Danish half, thus annihilating for epeeTo
King
importance and even name of the Duchy; d, iir
sisting on Danifying Schleswig to the Sell
King of Denmark has made a proposal of this kin of
Prussians demand a large half, and would place the„.eion
tier at Flensburg and Tondern. To this neg°"ci 'fie
for the compromise, Lord Palmerston alluded;
terrainsng°
have little doubt that existing hostilities will uest.
in this, in lieu of any more extreme result of coadcloo
But we repeat, the princes will each have gah'e witif
they desired : the King of Prussia, German Peri d the
the King of Denmark, a character for spirit, Irecie,
eldt. fro,
actual loss of none of his dominions; and Prince r the
gmaoinesmweinl will be nadt thehi his
xa
vie of Augustenberg will have shown his zeal for these
plaecnrsietyuf
tinherscethreieast.w
be halved and sliced, and sacrificed anu m ". thet
Nor can we say but that they richly deserve it, Or no.
small pods'
foolish attempt at a nationality which their a ode'
lation could not pretend to, and at a resistance Ay f great
punenesdeenee which small countries under the shade:as 01a1
Lan never attain, however their unquiet sP"
strive it through cent • uries of blood. the question
We have not y t spoken of that part or iilsidera'
which ht k M e ruc a r. Disraeli as the most serious eon iude.
~uite k
tion, and which, we must own, appears to ti. ?
s„ orge tlie
crous.Fir Immediately after the accession of —e
entangle(' 4.i.,e
a st to the throne of England. that Prince, L 1,0 deli
knot_di of' political threads and intrigues whic erti°
ofCE pus himself to unriddle, guaranteed a certain P tops
Schleswig to Denmark, in return for certsin„,o by
acquired by Hanover. This treaty was enterer, '"%eg
George,aud almost altogether as Elector of Illaneveuntee'
Yetl had no interest in the business or in the &Ii late,
now, in 1848, nearly a century and * bagtroops
whilst Hanover has actually marched itst, loi
t drive the Danes out of Schleswig, Englund
1613e:11.a:1n' l'h
oh oleidri.
is called upon to defend he D • h rig"-
Schleswig against the Ha er anis
of 511 the,
monstrous absurdities of diplomacy,vejans!
' surely is 1,51
sure., . A AI
the greatest. And we cannot but think that ns' ed
man of common sense in tall'
the House of Commons Danish
his attention to the subject, the pretension of a o- 11
claim to our intervention
would. at once have
scouted.—Examiner.
ere I