The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-25 00:00:00

MANILLA.

(From the New Weelily-6;;;;;liPrice Current, July 1.)
REMARKS ON THE MARKET.
IMPORTS.

Cotton Goods—We have no change to notice in piece
goods. The market continues very dull, and no improve-
ment can be expected till the end of November. Three
causes, in our opinion, have kept the market so languid
during the last six months--first, the large stocks on
hand; second, the want of exportation of sugar; and
third, the want of exportation of rice. The shopkeepers
dare not purchase but small quantities, and they offer
low prices for all descriptions of coloured goods.

EXPORTS.
Sugar—No demand. Prices nominal, at 3-7-0 dolls.
to 4 dolls. for current quality. Brown at 3-3 dolls. to
3-4-0 dolls.

Indigo--No transactions.
Hemp—The last arrivals have been sold from
5.6-0 dolls. to 5-7-0 dolls., per picul unscrewed.
Demand.
Sapan Wood—The market supplied and firm.

Rice—Neglected.
Cigars—Little demand, even at the factory prices.
The Oquendo, loading for Singapore, it is supposed
will take about 2,000 boxes of [nil.

EXCHANGE.
On England—We understand that there have been
no transactions during the week, and that the
drawers do not admit anything worse than 4-2 for aix
months'

TONNAGE.
We hear that the barque Sir E. Parry has bcen
chartered for England, but we do not know at what rates.

TIIE COPYING TELEGRArn..L-Several experimental
trials have recently been made of Mr. Bakewell's copying
electric telegraph, with a view to ascertain whether the
amount of electrical power transmitted by the wires of the
Electric Telegraph Company is sufficient to work the copying
instruments. The experiments were made between the
Electric Telegraph Company's branch station in Seymour-
street and Slough, that being the only station at which the
he results
wires could be spared for experimental purposes.n•
n which
proved most satisfactorily that the same poNeord hni c
were
e r ies
re-
ceived re-
quisite to work the needle telegraph is amply sufficient for
the copying process. Messages written in Lv
at Slough, copied on paper, and in
original writing, the character of which
might be readily re-
cognised. Speed of transmission was not
small model instruments employed,
but attempted with the
neverthless, transmitted, with a single the messages were,
rapidity of the needle telegraph. l\ wire, with double the
,
Bakewell expects to be able, withe understand that Mr.
instruments constructed
on the working scale, to transmit fac-simile copies of more
than four hundred letters of
single wire, and, by using t the alphabet per minute with a
rapidity of transmission vouwld uwires, as now practised, the
be doubled.
COMMITMENT OF JOHN SMITH FOR MURDER.—
John Smith, who was convicted at our assizes a few weeks
ago, of maliciously
wounding the Rev. Mr. Hadow, at
Everley, and sentenced to seven years' t*
on Tuesday last brought from Fisherto
il
graaozsfinortrietiocnus,tzs
of Mr. Dowding, by virtue of a writ of habeas corpus, to the
Crown Inn, Everley, on a charge of murdering Nlearier Law-
rence. The magistrates present were Sir W. Curtis, T. B.
Fowle, Esq., and E. D. Poore, Esq. After the examination
of eighteen witnesses, the prisoner was fully committed for
trial at our next assizes for the murder; and Mr. Stratton,
the superintendent of police in that district, was bond over
to prosecute. The poor woman, it will be recollected, was
discovered lying in the road, stoned to death ; and the
prisnner, when he made his ferocious attack upon Mr. Hadow,
acknowledged that he had just committed a murder....
Pevizes Gazette,