The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-13 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from returns made in the week ending Dec. 9,
1851, exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable thereon
on the importation thereof into Great Britain :
From the British possessions in America 21s. 7d. per cwt
From the Mauritius • ... No return „
From the East Indies ... 15s. 2id. „
Average price of the two foregoing de-
scriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as
above, and exclusive of duty ... 20s. i d.„
By authority of Parliament,
HENRY BICKNELL, Clerk of the Grocers' Company.
Grocers'-hall, Dec. 12.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
Rear-Admiral Deans Dundas, C 8., left the
ralty yesterday for Portsmouth, to visit bis flag-ship
the Britannia, 120. This ship has been taken out of
dock, and is finishing ber equipment with all dispatch.
She embarked yesterday a detachment of Royal
Marine Artillery.

Captain the Hon. M. Stopford, of the London, 92,
at Sheerness, is acting superintendent at Woolwich
Dockyard, in the absence on leave of Commodore
Eden.

Captain Horatio Austin, C. 8., the chief of the late
Arctic expedition, is named as a candidate for the
packet superintendence at Southampton, on the pro-
motion of Captain Corry. It has been hitherto under-
stood that Captain the Hon. H. Keppel would succeed
to this appointment when it became vacant.
Lieutenant C. B. lore (1846), who was superseded
from the Trafalgar, 120, has been appointed to the
London, 92, joining his former captain.
Lieutenant George F. Day, of Southampton, 50,
flag-ship at Rio, has been appointed to command the
Lucifer steamer, ecr.,
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appointed to the Britannia; as also Mr. George
Gilpin, second master.
THE COAST OF AFRICA FLAG-SHIP
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squadron the letter of an officer of the s
STEADI-The—The followin is PENELOPE,
eoxntrtahcet fwroemst
coast of Africa, dated Oct. 9
is a wonder ; she sails 3, 1851 :—" The Penelope
or steams—stows her pro-
visions, water, and men, and has (almost) no sick list,
and is the least expensive steamer afloat."
Arrow, ketch, at Portsmouth, ordered to be fitted
is
for foreign sury • eying service.
Champion, 14, Commander Hayes, left Rio, Nov.
8, for Portsmouth.
Cyclops, steam-transport, Master Commander Hoff-
meister, is ordered to Sheerness on her arrival from
the Cape.
Bonetta, 3, brigantine, Lieut.-Commander Wake,
having refitted, left Rio on a cruise, October 30.
Grecian, 12, Commander Hon. D. Keane, left Rio
for the Cape, November 4.
Rapid, 8, Commander Blau., left Spithead for
Hong-Kong on Thursday.
Virago, steam-sloop, Commander Stewart, was to
leave Rio, November 17, for Valparaiso.

A MOST UNWELCOME " KISS."--A rustic, staring
at the group of the Amazon, and noticing upon the pedestal
the name of the artist—A Kiss—exclaimed, as he saw the
tiger's huge paws round the horse's neck, in its terrible em.
brace, " Well, I know 1 shouldn't like such ft hiss as that."
DRURY•LANE THEATRE.—At a meeting of the
committees on Wednesday last, the Earl of Glengall in the
chair, T. Marsh Nelson, Esq., was unanimously appointed
architect to the theatre in the room of the late Samuel
Bsaz.ley, Esq.