The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-20 00:00:00

MARKET NE WS.-(THIS DAY.

RICE,-614 bags 1,000 pockets Bengal, and 5,189 bags
Madras, chiefly
sold at 18s to 19s for good mid to good white
Bengal, 153 Gd to I6s for good Cayo ditto, and 15s to 17s for
yellow to mid white Madras, being about is below the
highest period.
SA LTIASTE.E.-3,073 bags Bengal chiefly found buyers at
25s to 25a 6d for 10% to 5% per cent refraction, being pre-
vious rates.

Slue Es.-618 bags Pepper and 84 chests Cassia Lignea—
the Pepper brought 214 d to 3d for fair heavy Malabar, and
2%d to 234 d for good sifted Penang, which are about former
rates. The Cassia Lignea sold at 55s Gd to 56s for good mid
quality, but large bundles, being comparatively cheap.
?ALLOW.--P.Y.C. is 48s to 48s. 6d per cwt on the spot,
and Town 50s Gd per cwt.
TEA.-There is not much doing, but the consumption is
good.
INErtao.—The quarterly sales concluded yesterday. The
quantity bought in is estimated at about 3,000 chests, which,
with 12.915 chests withdrawn, leaves 5,478 chests actually
sold ; but of the withdrawn and bought in, it is stated that
1,500 chests have been taken by the buyers, making the total
amount actually sold at about 7,000 chests Prices ranged
from July rates to 6d per lb. advance for Effigal, 2d per lb.
Madras, and 3d per lb. for Kuspah and Oude.

We are authorised to state that Mr. Bancroft, the
American Minister, did not arrive at Liverpool by
the steamer Cambria. He intended to leave New
York by the steamer Great Western on the till inst.
The Hon. Harriet Grimston expired at an early
hour on Sunday morning, at her residence in Upper
Grosvenor-street, in her 70th year. The deceased was
the only surviving sister of the late Earl of Verularn.
SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION.-Mr. Gould, the na
turalist, who was some years absent on an ornithological
tour in New Zealand and Australia, is about to leave
England on an expedition to Guatemala, and other parts
of central America, in order to explore the natural his-
tory of those regions.

METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—Yesterday the
range of buildings extending from the Hall of Com-
merce to the corner of Threadneedle-street, and thence
down Broad-street, were sold by public auction, by
Messrs. Fuller and Son, the auctioneers. Among the
lots sold were 500,000 stock bricks. The ground will
be speedily cleared, and measures taken to render mere
commodious these important approaches to the Royal
Exchange. The formation of the new street from Hol-
born-bridge to Clerkenwell %proceeds slowly, and the
traWc is but mull, as the road is at present carried to no
imertant place.
FOOT RACE.—Yesterday the 200 yards -
tween Lambert and Gill, for 20/4 was decided at Hole race be.
way, and won by the latter.

MIL'S 2Y/ALIMETR.
SMITIMELD.—Meadow Hay, 2183 to 3/ 18s ; Clover ditto,
31 83 to 41 15s ; and Straw, 1/ 65 to 1/ 12s per load. Trade
dull, at the above quotations.
CumBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 103 to 41; Clover ditto,
318 s to 4/ 14s; and Straw, 11 8s to 11 13s per load. A full
average supply, and a heavy demand.
WIIITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 2/ s to 3/ I6s Clover
ditto. 3/85 to 51; and Straw, 117 s to 1112 s per load. Supply
good, and trade very dull. _

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CGAlL—Therebas been an improved demand for West
India, and a large business has been done at fully previous
rate., but no material advance can be quoted, as holders met
the purchasers freely. The public sales have consisted of
168 hhds Barbadoes, 6,402 bags Mauritius, 2,382 bags
Bengal, and 55 boxes Savanilla. All the Barbadoes was
taken in (excepting a few lets), being held above
the value. Both the Mauritius and Bengal found
ready buyers, the former at rather higher prices,
and the latter at previous rates. The Savanilla sold
at 48s to 60s 6d for good mid yellow to fine white. The
quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East
and West India Docks was 740 hhds 91 tierces 182 barrels,
and there were taken for home consumption 1,196 hhds 161
tierces 229 barrels. The stock in the same places is 12,208
hhds 1,660 tierces 3,607 barrels.
COI'FEE.-1,429 bags Ceylon, 86 bales Mocha, 150 pack-
ages Mysore, and 28 casks (washed) Rio offered at auction,
were nearly all disposed of at former rates.
.111731.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 859 penis 149 hhds; there were taken
for home consumption 246 puns 15 'ids; and exported 66
puns 27 hhds. The stock in the same places is 13,280 puns
886 hhds.