The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-17 00:00:00

X ANKING DEPARTMENT.

Proprietors'capital • 14,553,000
Rest . .. • ... .. 3,194,398
Public deposits (in-
eluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ings-banks, and Di-
vidend accounts) .. 6,455,107
Other deposits .• • • 10,975,856
Seven day and other

Government securi-
ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity) • • 14,150,256
,Other securities •• •• 13,511,364
'Notes ••••••• • • • • • • • 8,132,590
Gold and silver coin • • 631,659

Bills.. :..... .... 1,247,508

£36,425,869

£36,425,869
SI. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
1851.

Dated the 16th day of January:

MARKET IN TEL LIGENCE.
(From the London .New Price Current, Jan. 17.)
The announcement which we made a few days ago,
that the Government was about to put in force the
penalties exigible by Act of Parliament against the
adulterators of Coffee has caused no small sensation
among the fraudulent dealers in that article, who, un-
fortunately fur the public, form about nine-tenths
of the Coffee dealers. What has added!' to
their alarm, is the activity displayed by the
Excise is detecting the adulteration of Spices ;
and the conviction of one of them a few days
adeo in penalties to the amount of 3001. for adulterating
Pepper, is considera to be a heavy blow and great dis-
couragement to the fraudulent dealers in Coffee. For it
is now quite evident that the Government cannot permit
the extensive frauds in Coffee to be tolerated any longer,
while the comparatively harmless adulterations of Spices
have the vengeance of the law directed against them.
Indeed, es the Times very justly stated in their City
article yesterday, the Coffee question is finally
di posed of, the Government having keen beaten
oft* in every argument they have urged for
further delaying legislative enactments to prevent adul-
teration. In the whole kingdom there aro only three ,
parties who support the present system of adulterating,
Coffee. These are, Ist—the adulterers themselves.
2nd—Our present brilliant Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, who is reported to be a grower of Chicory
himself (see Lancet of 4th January); but whether
this is a fact or not we cannot vouch for. And
3rd—the growers of Chicory—certainly a very
small number of men For the sake of these
parties the public has been cheated for many years
—the Government has been defrauded of several hun-
dred thousand pounds per annum—the honest tradesman
has had his business injured by his fraudulent neighbour

—and our Colonial grower has had to compete, with his
production taxed at the rate of 3716 s 8d per ton, against
the home producer of Chicory, which does not pay one
farthing of duty. So soon as the Order in Council
which permits the dealer in Coffee to vend Chicory
is rescinded, and which we understand will be done im-
mediately, the adulteration of coffee will cease instan-
taneously—for it is certain that ao tradesman of any
means, or any one who has the slightest regard for his
respectabilty, would mix coffee with any other substance,
when he was lisble to Eve informed against by his own
servants, end fined in heavy penalties by the Govern-
ment.

Our advices by the Overland Mail yesterday from Cal-
cutta are dated 7th ult., at which time the stock of
Sugar there was reduced to 5,000 bags, or under 300
tons; and ;he shipments from thence to this country, for
the seven niondas preceding the Ist December, were
only 33,797 tons, against 47,747 during the corre-
sponding period of the preceding year. It is mani-
fest, therefore, that our arrivals for some months for-
ward will be very deficient. This circumstance, com-
bined with our greatly reduced stocks in the docks
and in the hands of the refiners and grocers, will,
we have no doubt, soon cause a more active demand, and
probably at stiffer prices than we have experienced for
the last two mouths. From the United States we hear
that owing to their short stocks and deficient crops in
Louisiana, they will require again to resort to the Dutch
and Belgian markets for supplies of Refined Sugar.
From Ceylon, up to the latest dates, the shipments of
Coffee to this country w ere only about 5,000 cwt against
50,000 cwt during the cDrresponding period of last year.
SUGAR.—To-day the market !'or West India Sugar
again presented a dull aspect, and the purchases were
only 170 hhds, &c., at rather easier rates. For the
week operations are confieed to 955 hhds, &c., and there
is a fall of 6d. For all sorts the market closed dull.

Run:ann.—To-day only limited parcels of Refined
Sugar were taken by home dealers, and prices closed at
49s to 49s 6d for brown Lumps. Crushed Sugar has not
improved.
MAURITIUS.—This afternoon Mauritius Sugar was
dull at 6d decline from last Friday's rates; at auction
2,493 bags more than half sold, fine yellow went at 41s
to 42s 6d, low to good 36s 6d to 40s, mid to fine brown
34s to 36s 6d, refining sorts 37s to 40s, and fine grainy
yellow 43s 6d to 44s per cwt.
EAST INDIT.—This afternoon little doing ; of 3,000
bags of Bengal at
,auction only a small part sold at
rather lower rates, good and fine yellow wernt at 43s to
45s 6d, ord ditto 37s 6d to 395, low and good soft yellow
35s 6d to 38s 6d, ord and good white Benares 42s 6d to
44P. Of Madras 923 bags sold at 43s to 44s 6d for fine
and goad strong yellow, being easier rates.
FOREIGN.—The demand from home dealers continues
trifling for all descriptions of Foreign Sugar, few parcels
have been taken for refining under bond, and the
shipping orders executed are of little moment, being
less than last week. The business transacted is rather
under the rates current on Friday last. Of 1,857
chests Havannah at auction, a small portion only
sold; fine brown at 39s to 40s, ordinary and
middling yellow 40s ad to 425, good 42s 6d to 43;, and
washed 38s to 42s 6cl; the sound of 1,111 chests white,
in bond, was taken in; low at 26s to 28s 6d, middling
to good 29s to 32s 6d, and fine 33s to 345, but the
damaged sold at from 23s 6d to 275, and a few
lots sound, duty paid, at 428 to 435. Of Rio,
279 cases and 87 barrels were all taken in ; brown
at from 35s 6d to 37s 6d, and yellow 38s to 40s 6d; 69
cases Pernambuco, in bond, at 19s for yellow; of 132
hhds 22 tierces and 55 barrels Porto Rico, duty paid, a
few lots only found buyers, good and fine brown at 36s
to 375, low and mid yellow 37s 6d to 39s 6d, and good
40s to 41s per cwt.; these rates are all rather under
those prevailing previously.
MOLASSES.—Operations have been to a fair extent in
West India, and rates are firm, at from 15s 6d to 17s for
low to fine, with onlY limited parcels on offer. Bengal
and Mauritius are wanted at 12s ad to ,14s, but the stcck
is mach reduced. 'The value of Cuba -and Portoßio is
15s to l 69,. but few inquiries have been experienced.
At public sales 200 casks of East India Molasses sold
at 13s tee 14s, low damaged at' lls ad t0.12i 6d fri. cwt.
Cocoa:—There is no decline in prices of British Plan-
tation, few parcels being offered for sale; the market has,
however, a quiet appearance, but stock remains less than
last year, and there is no falling off in consumption.
The value of Grenada is from 43s to 48s; Trinidad,
grey, 486 to and red 53s to 569; at scution 10 brls
common grey Trinidad were taken in at 48. In Foreign
little has been done privately, and there are sellers rather
under previous terms ; at public sale 135 bags Bahia
were taken at 31s for rather wormy; the value of Guaya-
quil is 32s 63 to 335, and of Para 31s 6d to 325. Prices
of Cocoa rule above those of late years.
COFFEE.—To-day many parcels of Plantation Ceylon
Coffee were disposed of privately at firm rates; there are
now few sellers of mid colory under 625. In Native not
much was done, but former terms are well kept up. At
aution 174 bgs sold at 50s to 50s 6d for good ord.
Mocha Is wanted, and stiffer rates obtained at a public
sale of 212 bls 112 2 bls, good and fine or clean selling
at 62s 6d to 655, common long bean 68s to 71s, and
triage 42s to 46s per cwt.
TEA.—There has been more business transacted hero
in Congou ; sales have been made to a fair extent, low
and good ord: at I lid :to: Is Oid, medium is Id to
Is 10, other sorts is 2d to is sd, fine is 6d to is 9d. Of
Green many parcels have been disposed of, in conse-
quence of easier terms being taken. Scented and Pekoe
Tess are operated in with cauiion, with sellers rather
under the rates of Vast week. No public sale is at pre.
sent declared.

SPICES.-To-day at public sale 50 bags Bourbon
Cloves sold at 6d to bid; 200 bags Pimento, damaged
at 2id to sil per lb.
RICE.—To day at public sale 1,652 bags of Bengal
Rice were taken in rather above the value—mid and
good mid white at 103 6d to 11s per owl; there were
buyers at market rates; damaged sold at 5s 6d to 9s
per cwt.
SPlRlTS.—Demerara Rum is not cheaper, but demand
has fallen off ; sales are only 250 hhds at 2s 6d to 2s 9d
for 34 to 38 over proof. East India met with little at-
tention, and only 100 hhds sold at is 6d to is 7d; the
supply is more plentiful. The scanty stock of
Leeward Island enabled merchants to obtain Is 8d
to Is 9.1 proof, but demand is trifling. The sales
of Jamaica are only 200 puns, but holders r( quire
full rates-30 to 36 over proof 2s 8d to 3s 4d, and bet-
ter sorts 3s 6d to 4s 6d for 34 to 38 over. There are
several purchasers of Rum at a small reduction. Brandy
is quiet; the value of Cognac best brands of the vintage
of 5849 is 4s 9d to 4s lid, 1850 ditto 4s 4d to 4s 6d,
inferior 3s to 4s 3d, and a reduction expected. British
made Spirits are dealt in with caution; but rates are
firm at 9s 8d to 9s 9d.

SALTPETRE.—The market has assumed a quiet ap-
pearance for rough, and supplies are on the increase.
Of 2,200 bags Calcutta at public sale to-day, a small
part only sold at rather lower rates, 114 to 234 per cent.
refraction went at 27s to 27s 6d, whilst 4/ to 9 per cent.
was taken in at 28s to 295. The rates asked for British
Refined are 31s to 325, but there are few buyers. Nitrate
of Soda is held for 143 9d to 15s per cwt.
CociansEAL.—The market continues to be freely sup-
plied, and there having been again only a limited home
or export demand, prices have further declined Id to 2d
per lb. Of 214 bags at auction not more than half sold;
Honduras silvers, very ord and mid, as 4d to 3s 8d;
Mexican, common and mid, 3s 5d to 3s 6d; 30 hgs
Teneriffe were partly disposed of at 3s 6d to 3s 9d; 3
cases Java realised 3s 6d to 3s 1 Id per lb.
INDIGO.—The transactions in East India have rather
exceeded those of the previous week; the rates paid are
equal to last quarterly sales at a small advance. Of
Manilla 60 chts at auction part sold at 2s 4d for common
and good mid, and 6 chts Bengal 4s 9d to 5s 2d.
For Spanish the demand has been much better, and at
the public sales of 430 srns Guatemala prices advanced
2d to 3d, the whole selling from 3s 7d to 5s ld for low
hard coppery Cortes to good and fine Sobres.
METALS.—The stiff rates demanded for Tin have pre-
vented much business from being concluded this week.
East India is held for 85s to 86s; British block and Bar
833 6d to 85s per cwt, still operations are to a fair ex-
tent. For Tin Plates a good demand prevails, and the
market is firm ; one C Coke at 28s to 28s 6d and
Charcoal ditto at 33s to 34s per box. Although Spelter
is to be obtained at 161 5s per ton on the spot, still few
buyers are in the market. In Lead large operations
have taken place, and British Pig is firm at 171 to 17/
10s. Copper is unaltered in value, but there is
not less doing. The Pig Iron market has been
quiet this week, at the same time prices are not lower;
and Scotch mixed numbers are not offered under 44s
per ton. There is, however, yet a good demand for Rails
at 51 to Si ss; and for common Welch Bars at 4117 s 6d
to 5/, whilst stocks are smaller than a few weeks back.
Prices continue to rule firm for Swedish Steel at 141 10s
to 15/ 103 per ton.
TALLOW.—ThIS afternoon there was not much desire
to operate in Tallow at the public sales; 900 pkgs Ame-
rican went at from 35s to 375; 190 pkgs Sydney 34s 6d
to 37s 6d per cwt.

Oms.--tbis afternoon at auction 147 tuns Sperm Oil
were taken in at 861 lOs to 871 for fine, and headmatter
951.

COURSE OF EXCH
Amsterultm .... ...• .. 11 16

INGE.-(THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar..
Leghorn .. .. • • .... 30 70
Genoa • • . • • .. 25 60
Venice ....
Naples •• • • •• •• •• •• •• 41%
Palermo, peroz 124%
Messina 114%
Lisbon•• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 63%
Oporto .• •• • • .. .. • • •• 53%
Rio Janeiro ..
Buenos Ayres ..
New York, 60 days'sight
Philadelphia
?RIM OP BULLION, Pll 08.
Foreign Geld tubers.. £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
SpantahDoubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars .. 0 4 11%
Silver in bars 0 5 1%

Ditto, three months.. l 1 17%
Rotterdam • • .... 11 17%
Antwerp ••••••• • •• • • •• 25 22%
Brussels.. •• .. •... 25 22%
Hamburgh . . M.B. 13 5
&tone
Paris, 3 days'sight .• • • 24 95
Ditto. 3 months 25 20
Marseilles •• .. .• .• .. 25 22%
Bourdeaux.... •• •• .

Frankforton Maine..., 1175 i
Berlin.... • • ..........

-
Vienna, effec. tic," •• .. 13 0
Trieste, ditto •• •• •• •• 13 0
Petersburgli,Sil• Ebbe..
Madrid •• •• •• •• •• •• 49X
Cadiz •• •• •• •• •• •• •• .• 50
Barcelona •• •• •• •• •• ••
Seville •• •• •• ••

ECCENTRIC CHARACTER.—An inquest was held a
few days since on the body of a very eccentric character, of
the name of Baptist Morton, of the parish of Killylea, in the
neighbourhood of this city, who is generally believed to have
died of starvation, though there is lying to his credit, in the
Armagh Savings Bank, very nearly 2001.1 the result of many
years' earnings as a labourer. So penurious was he, that
when employed he frequently fasted at his usual meal•hours,
rather than lay out a halfpenny for food. lie rarely shaved
himself. His earnings ran up to the considerable sum above
mentioned by his having commenced, about 28 years since,
to lodge in the bank, from which he has never since taken a
farthing, while he has been constantly adding to the capital
by fresh lodgments, and never from the first day lifted any
interest, which has, of course, increased considerably the
amount, on the principle of compound interest. The sum in
bank to his credit is upwards of 1971.—Armagh Guardian.
THE PAPAL RoSE.—It ;is customary for the Pope
to give every year a golden rote, ornamented with diamonds,
to whichever of the powers of Europe appears in his eyes to
be the most distinguished for sincere piety. His counsellors
intrigue deeply to obtain the preference, every one proposing
his favourite nation. Don Miguel once received the prize:—
Boston Evening Transcript.

PATENT LAW REFORM.
The following outline of a Bill, to alter the law
relating to Patents for Inventions, has been for-
warded to ua by .Mr. Henry Lund :
Acts, and part of Act, repealed :-5 and 6 Wil-
liam IV., c. 83, 2 and 3 Victoria, c. 67, sects. 2-8,
7 and 8 Victoria, c. 69.
1. An Office for the Registration of Inventions to
be established under the control of the Board of
Trade. Fees and Profits to be applied to compensa-
tions and the expenses and purposes of the office.
2. Every invention at present the subject of a pa-
tint to be registered; the exclusive right thereby
granted to include Great Britain and Ireland, and the
Channel Islands, for seven years on the payment of
50/.; for a further period of seven years on the pay-
ment of 30/.; and for another and final period of
seven years on the payment of 201.
A penalty for the unauthorised use of the words
" Patent," " Letters Patent," or " Registered."
This method of paying for a patent or an exclusive
right to an invention, the first payment being the
largest, and the period hetv;eeti each consider-
able, has the advantage of removing from time to
time useless or neglected grants, without tempting
poor inventors to speculative habits, or crowding the
list of inventions with a multitude of minute improve-
ments and fanciful absurdities. If the first payment
be small all the mischief of cheap grants will be en-
countered, and an evil equally ruinous to the poor
and the wealthy inventor will result from the uncer-
tainty and deterioration in the value of all exclusive
grants ; if, on the other hand, the periods of payment
be too frequent, the capitalist may stand by and use
the inability of the poor inventor to pay his instal-
ments, as an opportunity to get gratuitous possession
of his invention.

I. TEE DUTIES OF THE REGISTRAR.
1. To receive, and classify all the specifications now
in the Inrolment Office, Rolls and Petty Bag Offices,
and to prepare an index.

2. To receive, on the payment of 501., two short
outline descriptions, with or without drawings, of one
substantive invention, under one title, and to note the
exact time of their receipt as the period from which to
date the commencement of the exclusive right : to
register one set of these descriptions and drawings,
signed by the inventor, as a deposit, and to return the
other, stamped with the seal of the office.
3. To publish a weekly list of titles in the gazettes,
&c., and to receive notices of opposition within four-
teen days.
This opposition to be restricted to depositors, under
like titles, who have not yet specified.
The power of the registrar to reject a title and de-
posit, to be confined to the questions of interference
ar,d priority.
The papers and the 501. to be returned to the in-
ventor if his title and deposit be rejected.
4. To receive, within three months from the date of
the deposit ( ). Copies of the specification
and drawings relating to the invention of which an
outline has been already registered. (Specifications
to be printed uniformly, and with the drawings en-
graved particularly to describe and ascertain the na-
ture of the invention and in what manner the same is
to be performed.) To register one copy and set of
drawings signed by the inventor, and return the other,
stamped with the seal of the office.
5. To register, on the payment of 101, a disclaimer
or any alteration of the specification during the sub-
sistence of the registration, which does not extend the
original grant. Notice thereof to be published con-
cisely in the weekly list of titles.

Tile formalities required OD registering a specifica-
tion to apply equally to a disclaimer or alteration.
6. To cancel a registration on the order of one of
the superior courts (see post); 'or at the end of seven
or fourteen years respectively, if the, several.sums of
301. or 201. be not then paid.

7. To register assignments of the exclusive right
over the whole of the district, or any part of the dis-
trict, granted.
(Sealed copies of these several entries to be evidence.)
8. To keep a printed classified index from time to
time, of all grants, disclaimers, alterations, existing
grants, forfeitures, and assignments.
9. To prepare and lay before Parliament annually
a classified index of the inventions registered during
the year, with a report on the chief improvements
claimed, and on the general business and transactions
of the office.

10. To publish annually as many of the specifica-
tions and drawings of expired registrations and patents
as the surplus funds of the office will permit ; be-
ginning with the most recent, and gradually including
the older, until they are all published.
11. To distribute quarterly the printed specifica-
tions and drawings received from each inventor, and
a copy of so much of the classified index and other
documents printed or published during that period in
the following manner :
One to every city, borough, or large town in the
empire.

One to each capital of the colonies.
One to every foreign state.
11. PROCEEDINGS AGAINST AN INFRINGER.
The question of infringement, or the unauthorised
use of the words " patent," or " letters patent," or
"registered," to be decided by the County Courts in
England ; Sheriff's Court, in Scotland ; and Civil
Bill Courts, in Ireland ; the issues in the action for
an infringement being restricted to the title of the
applicant, to the identity of the two inventions in
dispute, and to the priority of the specifications, or of
the deposit in point of date. The judge to inflict a
penalty under 201. for an infringement, and under 101.
fur the illegal use of the words " patent," &c. ; in the
latter case any one to be prosecutor. Procedure by
injunction to remain unaltered.

111. PROCEEDINGS TO CANCEL AN ILLEGAL REGIS

TRATION.
The illegality of a registration to be decided before
a judge of one of the superior courts, assisted by one
or two assessors, from a list to be kept at the office,
with or without a jury, as the parties may agree ; the
appointment to the list to be made by the Board of
Trade. Proceedings to be commenced by a writ of
summons to the party on the R?gister to, defend his
right, otherwise judgment by default. The final
judgment for plaintiff or prosecutor being an order
directed to the Registrar to cancel the registration.
The issues to be restricted to the following :-
1. Insufficiency of deposit and specification, ori-
ginal or altered.
2. Invention not subject for registration.
3. Original grantee not true and first inventor.
4. Invention useless.
5. Invention not new.
No action to be commenced as long as a prior suit
remains undetermined. Action to be prosecuted with
reasonable dispatch by plaintiff and defendant, or to
abate on motion to the Court.
A judgment once given in favour of the party on
the Registrar to entitle a subsequent successful de-
fender of the same right to double costs.
3, Hare-court, Temple, Jan. 7.