The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-23 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from returns made in the week ending August 19,
1851, exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable thereon
on the importation thereof into Great Britain:—
From the British possessions in America 255. lid. per cwt
From the Mauritius ... • 245. Sbd. „
From the East Indies ~. • ... 225. 70. ~
Average price of the
jointly,
foregoing de-
scriptions of sugar, computed as
above, and exclusive of duty .„ .. 245. 110. f)
llxVieT By authority of Parliament,
Bic By
Clerk of the Grocers Company.
Grocers'-hall, Aug. 22.

FAILURE.—The failure of Messrs. Fraser and
Lightfoot, East India merchants, has been announced. Their
liabilities arc stated at 50,0001., and the cause assigned for
their suspension is that their assets, which are put down at
53,0001., are not immediately convertible.

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THE I
ELECTRIC ELEGRAPIT.—It affords us great
pleasure to find that the Great Western Railway Company
have at last determined on meeting the public wants, by
allowing the laying down a line of telegraphic communica-
tion all the way from Slough to join the telegraph at Exeter,
and thus we shall have a direct communication by electric
telegraph from Plymouth to the metropolis, and thence to
the principal parts of the kingdom. The South Devon
Company also mean to have a direct communication with
Exeter, so as to avoid the break in the communication
which has hitherto taken place at Alewton.—Plyinouth
Jo:.crnai.

THE NORTH AMERICAN ROYAL MAIL STEAM*
snip CO3IPANY.—We have authority for stating that neither
tender, offer, nor any kind of proposal, to run the Royal Mail
steamers alternately between Galway and New York, and
Liverpool and New York, hai ever been made by the Cunard
Company. _

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CIINEUE o>~ MANSLAUGHTER.—Yesterday John
Hampson was charged, at the Borough Court, Manchester,
with having caused the death of his wife. It appeared that
late on Sunday night. they were quarrelling, and that the
noise of a person falling down stairs in the building in which
they lived was heard by the neighbours. Hampson affirmed
that the woman had fallen down, but she declared that her
husband " had done it." Her death took place on Thursday
morning. A medical man, who had not been called in to
her assistance until Tuesday, deposed to her being covered
with wounds on the head, neck, legs, &c. He attributed her
death to injury done to the brain, but had not made a post
mortem examination of it. The bruises appeared to him to
have been caused by kicks, though some of them might have
been the result of a fall down stairs. The prisoner, who
denied the charge of ill usage to his wife, was remanded for
further investigation.

CHARITABLE BEQUESTS.—The following sums are
given by the will of the late Mrs. Hannah Nicholson, of
Morpeth :...-2001. to the Colonial Missionary Society, 1001.
to the Irish Evangelical Society, both in connexion with
the Congregational Union of England and Wales; 2001. to
the London Missionary Society; 1001. to the Home Mis-
sionary Society; 100/. to the British and Foreign Bible
Society; 501. to the Religious Tract Society; 50/. to the
Newcastle Infirmary; 50/. to the Morpeth Dispensary; 50/.
to the Prescyterian Chapel at Morpeth ; and 1001. to the
Home Mission of the Synod of the Presbyterian Church in
England.
THE SUICIDE AND DOUBLE ATTEMPT AT ASSASSI-
NATIoN AT TorrEnwt.—Many inquiries were made yester-
day as to the condition of Mrs. Brand and her daughter, and
we regret to state that at a late hour last night the former
was in a condition to excite the worst fears as to the result of
her wounds. Miss Brand, on the contrary, was doing as
favourably as could be anticipated. Nothing new has
transpired with respect to the melancholy event, with the
exception of the discovery of a further sum of money on the
body of Crigalo, at a late hour on Thursday evening. It
consisted of 100 twenty-france pieces in gold, secured in a
belt worn round his person. Mr. Brand, the husband and
father of the unfortunate females who have been so seriously
wounded, is a clerk in the Provincial Bank of Ireland, Old
Broad-street, and, besides Miss Brand, is the father of se-
veral children ; and it is a somewhat singular coincidence
that his son, at the time the event occurred, was expected to
be staying in Germany at Crigalo's native town, whither he
had gone, with a younger sister, for the purpose of leaving
her at an educational establishment.

THE ROYAL ACADEMY AND THE ART•UNION OF
LONDON.—The Royal Academy closed its exhibition on
Tuesday evening, the 19th instant, with a conversazione.
About 4,0001. have been handed to the artists of the metro-
rolis by the avociation for 110 pictures selected by prize-
At, ? cw illustrative drawings, engrav-
,,y.uers, anu nearly
ings, sculpture, &c. Of the 110 pictures, _QB Were obtained
from the Royal Academy at the cost of 1,160/. ; ((aril
the Society of British Artists, 1,2241. • 19 from the Port-
land Gallery, 660/. ; 10 from the Wrater-Colour Society,
31.11.; 13 from the New Water-Colour Society. 1951.: and 4
from the eriti.h Institution, 851. The exhibition will open
on the Ist of September, and will comprise a certain number
of the works purchased in former years, besides those of the
current year, The Builder.

TM POTATO , p 07.ALOP.----... vIrg, AUG. 21.—The crop
throughoutd—
tlie county still promises well—the early planted
being.. extremely luxuriant, and the latter sorts, as well as
those ii;jured by the frosts of the 3d and 4th of July, now
shooting forward with unusual vigour. As yet no decided
case of disease hi the tubers has c,.nie under our observation,
but several fields show a considerable amount of blight
imng the he.nlms. Whether this may ultimately develope
itself as the old disease anti extend to the tuber, is a matter
of extreme •uncertairty. Sales are now going forward in
the Peighbor irhood of all the towns, and the crop in small
lots for imm erliate consumption is selling at rates varying
troin'in to 2 21. p er- imperial acre. In the neighbourhood of
Kkaf ' i ' '
r oy or a salebrought as high as 251. per acre; and the
other night , r tear Cupar, a small field realised the enormous
price of pi.,! —rifeshire Journal.