The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-26 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from returns made in the week ending April 22,
1850, exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable thereon
on the importation thereof into Great Britain :
From the British possessions in America 265. Sid. per cwt
From the Mauritius ... 265. 6i d.
From the East Indies ... 28s.
Average price of the three foregoing de-
scriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as
above, and exclusive of duty ... 275. ld. „
By authority of Parliament,
HErmy BICKNELL, Clerk of the Grocers' Company.
Grocers'-hall, April 25.

GRAND NATIONAL ARCHERY
MEETING, 1851.
(From the Leamington Courier.)
During the past week, the whole of the arrangements
in connexion with this great gathering of the Archers
of the United Kingdom, have been brought to a conclu-
sion. Nearly two years have elapsed since the initiative
was taken by a few spirited inhabitants in Leamington
to secure to this town a meeting which, in all proba-
bility, will be unparalleled in the annals of archery.
Since that period, and more particularly within the last
few months, the most untiring exertions have been used
by the gentlemen alluded to, to advance so attractive an
assemblage; and we have now much pleasure in notifying
that the fell programme of the approaching meeting is
in course of publication.
"Stout Arm, Strong Bow, and Steady Eye,
Union, True Heart, and Courtesie,
such is the motto adopted by the National Society, and
which heads the circular of the General Committee of
Management of 1851. In the list of patrons, which at
once stamps the high character of the meeting, there are
the names of upwards of one hundred of the nobility and
gentry of Warwickshire, including the High Sheriff of
the county, his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant of Ire-
land, the Earl of Aylesford, the Earl and Countess of
Bradford, the Earl of Denbigh, the Earl of Buchan,
Earl Somers, the Countess of Farnham, Lord
and Lady Leigh, Viscount and Viscountess Lif-
ford, Viscount Newport, Lord and Lady Somer-
ville, Lord and Lady Guernsey, Lady Emily
Harding, Lady Charlotte Palmer, Lady Elizabeth Boult-
bee, the Hon. Charles and Mrs. Bertie Percy, the Hon.
Charles Lennox Butler, Sir William and Lady Hartopp,
Lady Mordaunt, Lady Cave Brown Cave, Lady Duberly,
Sir Gray Skipwith, Bart., Sir Robert Throckmorton,
Bart., Sir Theophilus Biddulph, Bart., Sir Robert Peel,
Bart., M.P., and Sir Charles Douglas, M.P. Our space
will not permit us to enumerate the whole of the names
which will be found in the official announcement, and
which comprise many of the leading members of the two
societies of Warwickshire, namely the Woodmen of
Arden and the Wellesbourne Archers. In addition to
these, the meeting will have the support of the Beverley
Archers, Broughton Archers, Cheetham Hill Archers,
Cheshire Bowmen, County of Dublin Toxopholites, Dove
Grove Archers, Glasgow Archers, Glasgow St.
Mongo Archers, Heath Common Archers, Hull
Archers, John O'Gannt's Bowmen, Irving Toxo-
pholites, Irwell Archers, Meath Archers, Neville's
Cross Archers; New College, Oxford; Queen's
Park, Brighton ; Queen's Royal St. Leonard's
Archers, Edinbro' Salisbury Archers, Royal Sherwood
Archers, Royal Scotch Body Guard, Fraternity of St.
George, South Saxon Archers, St. John's (Oxford)
Archers, Thirsk Bowmen, Royal Toxopholite Society,
West Berks Archers, West Norfolk Archers, West Essex
Archers, Wexford Archers, Worcestershire Archers, and
the York Archers.
The site of the meeting will be the Cricket Ground
of Messrs. Parr and Wisden, which is admirably adapted
for a such a purpose, its level surface affording facilities
for pitching torty targets, in rows of twenty on each
side of the ground, with the most perfect uniformity—
a
circumstance which will render the scene one of a very
animated and imposing description; and,
.we venture to
assert, that its enjoyments will be materially enhanced
by the performances of the celebrated German Band, the
use of which has been kindly granted for the occasion by
the Jephson Gardens' Committee. On the ground there
will be pavilions and marquees for visitors, and the
archers, both ladies and gentlemen; one also in which
luncheon will be provided each day, and another well
stocked with every article connected with archery, from
which either visitor or competitor can supply themselves
in case of accident or omission. The ladies' targets
will be placed nearest to the tents, and from the induce-
ment held out in the schedule of prizes, and the high es-
timation in which the noble sport of archery is held in
Warwickshire, we anticipate a more than usually large
assemblage of ladies from all parts of the county; for,
if we place implicit reliance upon the Gwent Bowman,
Hansard—who is as indisputable an authority in Toxo-
pholite, as his namesake is in Parliamentary, matters—
our Warwickshire belles have an hereditary reputation to
sustain, which it were disloyalty to all that is pure, and
good, and beautiful, for one moment to doubt will be
most successfully and gracefully sustained, when tested
by the skill of those ladies of the three kingdoms with
whom archery ranks high among amusements chosen to
dissipate the ennui of the fair.
The historian Hansard thus writes upon this deiight-
ful theme:—
" Eternal honour be the award of that distinguished
society of archers who first made the happy dibcovary.
To tho good sense and discrimination of the Woodmen
of the Ancient Forest of Arden' are we indebted for the
introduction of archery as a perfectly unexceptional. re-
creation for ladies. It was fortunate their individual
position in society entitled them to dictate the laws of
the bow
fashion; under whose alapot.verful influence
again made rapid advances in the est,unation of the
British fair. The example of the noble and wealthy
had, no doubt, considerable influence on the spread
.of
archery; nevertheless, its
.own
‘c excellencies
were its chief recommendation. lsequiring no exces-
sive corporal exertion, a combination of the most grace-
ful positions of all the bodily exercises, and invariably as-
sociated with refined and polished society, the bow appears
especially adapted for relieving the sedentary occupies
Lions to which woman are still far too much devoted.
But why seek to justify the practice, when, in our own
day, we see the name of her Gracious Majesty, Alex".
drina Victoria, Qaeen of the Isles, and a nation's hope,
inscribed upon the Archer Rolls ? That illustrious lady,
in imitation of the warrior race of monarchs from whom
he springs, has given a proof of real British feeling, by
the appointment Jot .a Makter a Archery among her
household officers. Ahout Yearkhave elapsed since
the commencement of this era in the annals of modern
archery. Our countrywomen, long rebels in bean, did
not neglect so favourable an occasion for emancipating
themselves from the ancient tyranny of harpsichord, spin-
net, backboard, and embroidery frame; and
In. the good greenwode,
Ataong the lilie flower,
they wanderhd, bow and shaft ine-hand, to seek that
health and vi acity tbe pure.breath of nature can alone
bestow. The ladies associsited with the ,Weodmen, were
originally limited to their itn'mediate fanny ebbnexione.
Soon, however, the admission became more general; and
they complimented the fair members of other societiessocietieswith freedom of access to their grounds. The prizes dis-
tributed by the Foresters of Arden have always been re-
markable for splendour and variety; but then the Mor-
daunfs, the Adamses, the Morlands, and the Bagots, of
the last, with the Boultbees, the Parkers, the Gresleys,
and the Grimesee, of the present age—those air victors
who have won, and who still' win and wear them, eon.
test their possession with a skill and enthusiasm well
worthy of their magnitude."
To return to the detailed programme for the 25th and
26th of June next,
we may state that, in addition to the
usual prizes for competition by ladies, a most beautifully
embroidered Canton crape shawl has been presented to
the committee by a Leamington subscriber, an act of
liberality and spirit on the part of a young tradesman
which we feel much pleasure in recording. There will
also be four local prizes,
two for ladies and two for gen-
tlemen, bona fide residing in the county of Warwick.
Although these rewards are offered exclusively for gra