The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-04 00:00:00

IMPORTS.

Coal-Liverpool Orrel has been sold at 6 dolls., pPr
chal. ex ship by auction, and 7 dolls. per chal. by pri-
vate sale. The demand is languid.
Coff e-The stocks of every description are consider-
ably reduced, and holders are 6rm at the following quo-
tations:-Brazil, 1110.; Java, 13c.; Laguira, 1 lie.; St.
Domingo, 11c. per lb. cash.
Drugs and Dyes-Opium sells at 4 dolls. per lb.; pow-
dered arsenic, 24-o.; bicarbonate soda, 4i0.; cream tartar,
181 c.; camphor crude, 31c., refined, 29c. to 30c. per lb.;
copperas, 90c. per 100 lbs.; sal soda, 24c.; soda ash (80
per cent.), 2ic. to 2ic ; bleaching powders, 24-c. to 2ic.
for ordinary, 3c. per lb. for favourite kinds.
Dyewoods-We have a good demand for low priced
dyewoods, and shipments to England have been made at
the following rates:-St. Domingo logwood, 13 dolls.
50c. to 14 dolls.; Jamaica, 13 dolls. per ton; Savanilla
fustic, 15 dolls. 50c. to 13 dolls. 75c. per ton. The better
descriptions are comparatively neglected, and the prices
remain nominal. Cuba fustic, 25 dolls.; Tampico,
22 dolls. per ton; Campeachy logwood, 22 dolls. per ton.
Hides are inquired for, and sales are daily making at
144 dolls.; for Buenos Ayres, 2141 b.; Laguira, 221 b.,
1 lic.; Carthagena, 221 b., 104 c. per lb. A quantity of
Buenos Ayres to arrive have been sold at 14i-c.
Indigo is quiet at 1 doll. 20c. for Bengal, 1 doll. 05c.
for Madras, 1 doll. 120. for Caraccas, and 900. for Ma-
nilla, per lb.
Iron continues steady. Merchantable bars have been
sold, to arrive, at 39 dolls. per ton. Holders demand
40 dolls. Refined is worth 50 dolls. per ton. Scotch
pig iron has been sold at 21 dolls. for Gartsherrie, and
204 dolls. to 201 dolls. per ton for other brands, six
months. Tin plates IC, 1-8 X 104 dolls. per box.
Paiats-We have no particular inquiry to note. Our
present prices are, for Venetian red, 1 doll. 25c. to 1 doll.
75c. per cwt.; white sugar lead, 1 lie.; Chinese blue,
75c ; Prussian blue, 50c.; Vandyke broien, Bc.; rose
pink, 74c. per lb. for the beat qualities.
Sugar-We have had an increased demand for New
Orleans daring the past week at 61c.; other qualities re-
main unchanged at the following quotations:-Brown
Havannah, ; Laguira, 64-c.; Cuba, sic. ; Dutch
crushed, 84c. per lb.
Salt-Liverpool is worth 1 doll. 40c. for Ashton's
fine; other brands, 1 doll. 95c. per sack.
Spirits-remain as last quoted. Cognac brandy sells
at 1 d 011.4300. to 1 d011,35c.; Hennesey broad, 1 doll. 75e.
to 2 dolls.; Martell's, 2 dolls. 25c.; Godard's,2 dolls. 25c.;
Whiskey is very dull at 95c. to 1 doll. for Irish; Scotch
malt, 1 doll. 25c. per gallon; domestic whiskey is in bet-
ter request than foreign at 26c. per gallon.
Freights-To London: tobacco, 225. 6d. per hhd.;
naval stores. ls. 6d. per brl.; beef and pork, 3s. per
tierce; flour, Is. per brl. To Liverpool: cotton 4d. per
lb.; flour, 74d. to 9d. per brl.; wheat and corn, 30. per
bushel.
Exchange-In fair request, 110'4 to 1104 per cent. for
first class bills, 60 days' sight on London.

WEST IN DIES.
Our dates from Kingston are to Jan. 11. The cho-
lera was still raging in the different parishes of Jamaica
In Trelawny, 1,900 deaths had occurred, and the num-
ber would probably reach 2,000. In Montego Bay
there had been 870 deaths; in St. James's, 944; Port-
land 40; Lucia, 114. The reports from St. Amis were
favourable, and the disease was decreasing. The ac-
counts from St. Thomas-in-the-East were also more
favourable.
In consequence of the stoppage of communication be-
tween Jamaica and the Main, by the means of the
Royal Mail Company's steam-ships, since the establish-
ment of the new route, the merchants of Kingston have
catered into arrangements to supply the deficiency by
means of sailing vessels.
The Kingston Journal understands that the Royal
West India Mail Steam-packet Company would be pro-
hibited by the Government from taking passengers and
cargo for Lisbon by the Brazilian packets, in order that
they may not interfere with the trade of the Peninsular
and Oriental Company's mail steamers. The object of
Brazilian packets calling at Lisbon is to secure the traffic
between Portugal, Madeira, and the Brazils.
The Bishop of Jamaica has addressed a pastoral letter
to the clergy of the island. The Journal states that
when the intelligence of the calamitous visitation of
cholera reached England, his Lordship's earnest desire
was to return to the island immediately, but that in con-
sequence of excessive debility, which had confined him
to his house for several weeks, he was recommended to
abandon the idea. His Lordship has forwarded 251.
toward the relief of the sufferers, and intimated his rea-
diness to procure further aid in the mother country.
The Colonial Standard states that a monthly commu-
nication between Kingston, Chagres, and Grey-Town,
had been arranged, through the efforts of a few influen-
tial merchants of Kingston. The vessel selected for the
service was the schooner Florida. She was to sail for
Chagres direct on the Ist of each month, and after land-
ing her passengers and mails at Chagres she is to pro-
ceed to Grey-Town ; remain there three days, and on
her return to Kingston is to call at Chagres and to re-
main there two days for mails, passengers, &c. As the
entire voyage will be performed within the month, par-
ties in Kingston will have three days to reply to their
correspondence with the Main.
MARKETS.
KINGSTON (JAMAICA), JAN. 11.—The market is in-
active, as it usually is at this period of the year, and
large stocks, especially of fish and flour, are accumulating.
The trade are, for the most part, well supplied, and
evince no disposition to purchase on speculation. Prices
are, therefore, greedy in favour of buyers, and will re-
main so, we expect, until the supplies in second hands
are sold out. Bread-50 barrels Georgetown pilot have
been sold at 18s. Crackers are in good inquiry; there
arc not any of Wattson'a in market. Corn-200 bags
American have changed hands at 6s. 6d. per bag of two
bushels. South American remains at our last quota-
tions. Flour—The market is overstocked, and prices
have fallen in consequence; the decline in the value of
the article in the United States has also contribued to
depress our market. Four vessels reported in our ship-
ping list have brought over 5,000 barrels. The sales re-
ported are 400 barrels. Howard-street, fresh, at 85i.
(since resold in lots at same figure) ; 200 barrels
Brandywine at 303.; and 1,500 barrels of a mixed lot
at 293.

INTELLIGENCE FROM BUENOS AYRES.
The barque Marion, Captain Lowery, brought dates
from Buenos Ayres, to the Ist ult., at which time the
port of Monte Video remained strictly blockaded by
the French fleet, General Oriba still refusing to yield.
The previous reports of the probability of a war be-
tween Buenos Ayres and Brsz,l are confirmed by this

arrival.

THE TYNE.-- ANOTHER STRISE.—The South
Shields shipwrights struck work on Saturday morning.
The Tyne shipwrights are about 1,100 in number, and are
pretty well known as close unionists. In the fall of last
year they met, and, without consulting their employers,
adopted a code of rules, many of which are found by the
master shipbuilder and shipowner to be most obnoxious in
their character, and injurious to the trade of the river. The
masters met at Newcastle in November last and re-adopted
a set of regulations passed by the dockowners in 1842.
These regulations came into effect yesterday, and the strike
at South Shields is the result. It is also supposed, that if
some arrangement is not come to between the masters and
the men, the whole of the shipwrights on the Tyne will turn
out. The Hecate and Trident war-steamers, sent down by
the Admiralty, at the request of the mayor of Tynemouth,
in case of a riot amongst the sailors during their strike, are
at present lying in Shields harbour; but there is no necessity
for their presence, as the river is clearing of ships, and the
men are receiving the advanced wages as soon as the vessels
are laden. A great number of colliers have left the Tyne
during the last three days. Notwithstanding the antipathy
of the seamen to the shipping offices, there seems no danger
of a repetition of disturbances, which were confined to a
small section of the men.
TUE MERCANTILE MARINE ACT.—The clause
strictly enforcing the provision that all masters, first or se,
cond, or only mates, of foreign-bound vessels shall produce
certificates of competency before being allowed to sail in
such vessels, yesterday came into full operation • and no
vessel will now be permitted to put to sea unleJs the officers
in charge produce certificates proving them to be fully com-
petent. This regulation was not carried into force on the Ist
of January because the authorities were not able (owing to
the immense number of applications) to supply the certifi-
cates within the prescribed time.
TaE IRON 'fitADE.—The slight advantage ob-
tained during the late quarterly meetings has been supported
with little difficulty ; but it is evident that the buoyancy
then experienced is gradually subsiding, and with it the san-
guine expectations of steady improvement in prices. No
symptoms of unusual activity in the forthcoming spring
trade are yet developd, but rather an unexpected sluggish-
ness has supervened in the nail and chain departments, and
other manufacturing branches of our home consumption,
orders bung proportionately slacker. In pig iron little is
doing, most parties having made their purchases early in the
last month, and there is no tendency to any further advance
in this article. Coal and ironstone also remain unal!ered.
The reports from other districts are as various
whole as the sourcesouces
from whence they are derived; upon the , t
quite as satisfactory as the facts within our own knowledge
would seem to warrant. Welsh bars are said to be in good
demand, and a considerable increase of make has been lately
brought into the market. Scotch pigs have a downward
tendency, though the price of manufactured iron is there re-
pre.leuted as argt.—RinninghaiTh Gazette.