The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-23 00:00:00

PRICE OF CANDLES.
The price of good Store Candles in the Retail Shops is as follaws
Candles, per dozen, 7s Cd ; inferior, 65.. d.—Moulds, es rd.
Sixpence per dozen discount for cash.

COAL MARI
Per Ton. 8. d
East Percy lB 6
flebburn Main 2O 3

:El.—Dec. 22.
Per Ton
Wall 6 End Killingworth

rd s Itedhugh l7 0

Walls End Newm-arch 2O 3
Walls End Northumberland 2O Ii
Walls End Walker 20 3

Pontop Windsor lB
Picton l7 6
Russell's Main l7 (1

Walls End Hetton 92 6

Walls End Bewicke and Co 21 31
Walls End Carr and C.. l9 0
Walls End t lark and Co. l9 0
W lls End Heaton 2l 9
Walls End Hilda 2O 3
Walls End Hotspur
Walls End Jesmond l7 6

Wally End Russell's Lynn's... 28 6
Wal,s En .1 Russet's Hetton... 22 8
Walls End Stewart s
Walls End Stobart l7 0
Walls End Adelaide
Wais End Gordon
Walls End Tees .
Walls End West Hetton
Cowpen
Hartley . .. ... 17 6
Walls End Heaton damaged 21 3
last market-day, 15

Walls End Medomsley ,un-
rcreened), Stanhope and
Tyne Company l7 0
Ships arrived since

The following anouncement has been put forth at
the Post-office, for the informat. on of persons corresponding
with the West Indies :

" General Post-office, Dec. 8, 1834.
" The mails for the Leeward Islands and Jamaica will, in future,
be made up at this office on the Ist and 15th days of every month,
and will be despatched the same evening to Falmouth. If either of
these dates should fall on a Sunday, the mails will be made up on
the day following. The Jamaica mails will be conveyed from Bax-
badoes to Jamaica by steam-vessels, which will bring the return
mails to St. Thomas's, to meet the homeward-bound packet.
" This arrangement will commence on Thursday the Ist of Ja-
nuary, 1535. (Signed) "FRANCIS FREELING."

Charleston Papers to the 21st of November con•
tain accounts from New Orleans up to Nov. 9, which state
that the weather had been so favourable for several weeks
past, that both sugar and cotton growers could not have
prayed for better, and the gloom which hung over the staple
interest a short time since had been dissipated by the best
weather for gathering either the sugar or cotton crop that has
been recollected for a long time. In the market there has
been a steady uninterrupted demand for cotton ; throughout
the week all that came forward has been immediately disposed
of, and had the supply at market been greater the demand
would have kept pace with it. The inquiry has been general,
not confined exclusively to any particular quality, the sales
including portions of every description offered. The arrivals
of cotton since the 31st of October, have been 14,828 bales ;
cleared in the same time I-2,184 bales, making an addition to
stock of 2,644 ; and leaving in hand, exclusive of all on ship-
board, 37,142 bales. The unexpected improvement in price
is said to have originated in orders which were positive and
L without limitation.,

ISLAND of ASCEIdSION.—A molls which grows
in abundatiCe oothe Island of Ascension, has been brought to-
England.* Rear-Admiral Warren, and we are glad to hear
that on examination, it has proved to be the Archill, Archilla,
Racella, or.'Orisilfe, a whitish moss of the same description as
is found upon rocks in the Canary and Cape Verd islands,
which yields a rich .purple tincture. This discovery, together
with the many judicious arrangements respecting turtle, water,
cattle, &c., which have been introduced into the island, by the
Rear- Admiral, will, it is believed,' enable that hitherto expen-
sive island, to nearly pay its own expenses.—Hampshire
Telegraph.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.--LIVERPOOL, DEC. 21.--
Last night ( Saturday) about eleven o'clock, a destructive fire
broke out in the timber-yard of Messrs. Foster and Stewart,
the eminent builders for the corporation, &c. From the na-
ture of the materials the flames of course spread with amazing
rapiding, and a very short time elapsed before the whole range
of buildings surrounding the yard were on fire. However,
the surrounding property, though at one time in great danger,
was ultimately preserved. The counting-house and offices si-
tuated on the opposite side to where the fire commenced, a
distance of upwards of fifty yards, caught fire, and were com-
pletely gutted. By one o'clock the fire had so far exhausted
itself as to become manageable. During the whole of Sun-
day, however, the flames kept continually bursting out afresh,
so as to render the attendance of the fire-engines necessary.
Messrs. Foster and Stewart are insured to a large amount in
the Protector and Manchester Fire Offices. _ _

THE UNFORTUNATE MAN.—The new novel by
Captain Chavnier, author of " The life of a Sailor," is said to
be founded on actual experience. In it are detailed, with al-
ternate humour and pathos, a series of adventures which cha-
racterized the life of one whom the author terms the most un-
fortunate man in the world. He is kidnapped in boyhood, and
made bitterly acquainted with the horrors and cruelty of a slave
cruiser ; after this he falls into all kinds of mishaps in London
and Paris; shoots his best friend in a duel; gets into ruinous
partnerships ; is involved in the misdoings of a French che-
valier d'industrie ; and, when on the very verge of ruin, loses his
only chance of retrieving himself by a mere omission in tho
wording of a legacy. The spirit in which the unfortunate
man's misadventures are communicated is full of wit, and dis-
-1 plays that keen and intimate knowledge of life without which
a novel is but a caput mortuum.
EMIGRATION TO JAMAICA.—On Thursday last
the ship Hira, Captain Lerigie, sailed from Gravesend for
Falmouth, Jamaica, having on board 103 agricultural labour-
ing men, women, and children, who are to be attached to the
estates of the Hon. Richard Barrett, the Speaker of the As-
sembly there. That gentleman's agent, Peter Wells, Esq.,
Harrow-road, Paddington, has taken infinite pains in making a
proper selection of individuals under the recommendation of
the respectable inhabitants of the differentparishes from whence
they were taken, and in explaining to them the terms on which
they are to become settlers there. This measure is expected
to be speedily followed up by the landed proprietors of the
West India Colonies, as they consider it necessary, in order
that their valuable possessions may be preserved in cultivation.
It is hoped that emulation will thus be raised in the breasts of
the slothful or refractory negroes, who will perceive that it
they persist in their present habits their places will be sup-
plied by those who will work.