The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-09 00:00:00

POLONIAL.

SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation is firm,
about 520 hhds having been disposed of at an advance
of Is since this day week. The public sales have com-
prised 3,C00 bags Mauritius, 8,000 bags Bengal, 400
bags Madras, 400 cases Bahia, 207 cases and 450 bags
Pernambuco. The Mauritius was partly realised at
very full prices—grey and yellow at 36s to
40s ; Bengal brought an advance of 6d per
cwt, low to fine white Benares 38s Gd to
435, and grainy descriptions 38s to 51s ; Madras
sold steadily at 28s 6d to 31s for low brown and very
low yellow; white Bahia brought an advance of 6d to
Is, but brown descriptions of Bahia and the Pernam-
buco were withdrawn above their relative value. The
quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the
East and West India Docks was 910 hogsheads 179
tierces 368 barrels. There were taken for home con-
sumption 958 hogsheads 82 tierces 135 barrels. The
stock in the same place is 12,792 hogsheads 1,346 tierces
2,393 barrels.
COFFEE.-670 bags Plantation, and 1,725 bags native
Ceylon havelkeen offered by auction. Only a small
portion of the Plantation was realised, at extreme prices;
but about two•thirds of the Native sold at steady rates,
good to superior ord at 30s to 31s, and inferior at 29s
to 29s 6d per cwt.
Rum.—The quantity landed last week at the East
and West India Docks was 873 pun's 281 hhds. There
were taken for home consumption 256 puns 169 hhds,
and exported 30 puns 42 hhds. The stock in the same
places is 14,498 puns 2,870 hhds.
SALTPETRE.—Of 983 bags Bengal at auction only
about one-third was disposed of at 33s 6d for 34 per
cent. refraction, which was again lower.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 48s per cwt on the spot, and
Town 50s 6d per cwt.
TEA.—The market has been steady, and the deliveries
are good.

COAL MARK E
Buddle's W. Hartley 14s Gdi
Hedley's Hartley
Holywell Main ... ..... 14s Od
Original Tanfield
Tanfield Moor ....
Tanfield Moor Butes l2s Gd
Wylain
I
West Wylain
West Hartley ..
Wall's End, &c.
Acorn Close
Bewicke and Co.
Harton
arberland

: T. - YESTERDAY.

(Washington - l4e 6d
Belmont lss 9d
Bell lss 6d
illaswell l7s 3d
Lambton ............. 16s 6d
Ilettoa 16s 6d
Stewart's
Caradoc ..... 16s Od
Hartlepool
Hudson's Hartlepool lss 9d
Adelaide
South Durham l4s 61
West Cornforth
Ships at market 63.

EAST INDIA MAIL.
SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY NIGHT.—The Peninsular
and Oriental Company's steam-ship Erin, Captain T. S.
Russell, arrived at Southampton, at six o'clock, from
Malta and Gibraltar, and landed mails from the follow.
ing places and dates, in charge of Lieutenant W. P.
Newenham, Admiralty agent. The mails were forwarded
to London by the night mail train.
Dates of Sailing—Constantinople and Sinope, 18th of
April; Samsoun, 13th; Trebizond and Alexandria, 12th;
Malta, 25th; Gibraltar, Ist May.
The freight of the Erin consists of 159 packages of
specie, 150,0001. in amount; and a general cargo, con-
sisting of ten Cashmere goats as tribute to her Majesty
from Gholab Singh, in Cashmere; 54 bales of silk, 29
ballots of silk, 62 cases of silk, 50 bags of yellow berries,
108 barrels of gum, 1 bale of rugs, 374 boxes of raisins,
188 drums of ditto, 121 bales of goatswool, 54 cases of
sponge, 40 bales of carpets, 15 tubs of leeches, 2 half
tubs of ditto, 69 cases of empty bottles, 31 barrels of
elephants' tusks, 80 packages of sundries.
Miscellaneous Intelligence.—A fine Turkish steamer,
called the Escudear, was wrecked on the Ist of April
near Cape Fiurez, in the Black Sea, on her first trip ;
number of people lost. She sailed from Constantinople
same time as the Erin. Vast numbers of persons are
flocking down to all seaports on the Continent to embark
from the disturbances. Numbers are leaving Rome.
There were more than thirty passengers at Malta, for
whom the Erin bad not room. The packet crowded to
suffocation in the saloon. Very much illness (fever)
prevailed in the fleet at Malta; there were 125 cases
reported. The Trafalgar, 120, was to leave for Eng.
land on the 26th, with Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis on
board, and hoisting his flag. Admiral Harvey had
entered on his duties at Malta. Many Jesuits had
arrived at Malta. The Government had assisted at
some Roman Catholic procession, and which had given
offence to many. At Alexandria the English inhabit-
ants are pained to see the church there unfinished for
want of funds.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVEIIFOOL, MAT 8.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties,
14js —Great Northern, 10 dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire
(late West Riding Union), 37/8 dis.—London and North-
Western, 132—Ditto, New Quarters,' 48s. 9d. p.—Midland
Stock, 10212—Ditto, Halves, 516 dis.—Ditto, Erewash Val-
ley, 7 p.—North British, New Quarters, % dis.—North Staf7
Share
re,
dis.— Shrewsbury and Chester, New 131/
s, 3/4 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 241417Ditt0,
No. 4, Thirds, 3 dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (N.
and B.) Extension, 3/4 p.—Ditto, G. N. E. Purchase, 7 p.—
Ulster, 61/2 die.

MANCHESTER, MAT 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—.Hirkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 6% dis.—Eastern Counties,
15—Great Northern, 10 dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire,
Fifths, FE, dis.—Ditto (West Riding Union), 3 dis.—Lon-
don and Korth-Western (Leeds and Dewsbury), 12 dis.—
North Staffordshire, 2% dis.—South-Eastern and Dover,
No. 4, 2 15-16 dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, Exten-
sions, No. 2, 1 p.

THE NORTH MAIL TRAIN,—(From a Corres-
pondent.)—This morning, about half-past three o'clock,
as the mail train from the north was approaching within
a few miles of Derby a violent noise was hearu, caused,
it appears, by the breaking of a wheel of a second-
class carriage. After proceeding upwards of two miles,
having passed through a tunnel, it was discovered
the carriage referred to was off the rails, and the train
was stopped. The gentlemen in the next carriage, a
first-class one, were for a considerable time in the
greatest alarm, having discovered the cause of the fear-
ful jolting and clouds of gravel, &c., which was conse-
quently occasioned, long before the servants in charge
of the train did. After a delay of an hour and a half,
the passengers were taken into the foremost carriage,
the others being left behind, in consequence of the
second•class carriage being so much damaged. One
gentleman, from jumping out before the train was stop-
ped, was much hurt about the shoulders. The above is
another instance of the absolute necessity of some
means being adopted whereby passengers may commu-
nicate with the guards, as our correspondent was fully
aware of the great danger of his situation some minutes
before the officials discovered it. It is but right to men-
tion that the servants of the company acted in the matter
with the greatest attention.
SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.—This morning a shock-
ing occurrence took place in Little St. Thomas the
Apostle : a man named William Page, a book warbler,
&c., residing at No, 1, having thrown himself out of a
window on the third story. He had been ill for a con-
siderable time, and his mind was affected. On being
taken up he was found to be dreadfully injured, and was
conveyed to the hospital, where not the slightest hopes
were given of his recovery.
THE BODY OF A MURDERED CHILD SENT BY THE
PARCELS DELIVERY.—On Thursday evening a small
wicker-basket was brought to the Parcels Delivery
Company's Office, in Middleton-street, Clerken well, by
a respectable-looking young woman, who paid the car-
riage; it was addressed to the relieving officer, Holborn
Union, Gray's Inn-lane, where it was delivered in due
course, and on being opened the body of a male child
about three days old was discovered, in a shocking state
of decomposition. On Saturday an inquest was held on
the body, before Mr. Mills, at the board-room of the
Holborn Union, when, in accordance with the medical
evidence, the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder
against some person unknown.
Mr. A. Moxhel, the Consul General of Belgium for
New York, arrived in London yesterday morning, by the
General Steam Navigation Company's ateatu.ship
from Antwerp. `•,i oho,