The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-14 00:00:00

IMPERI.

AMEN T.

HOUSE OF LORDS, May 13,

ROUSE OF COMMONS, May 13.
The &PURER took the Chair at Four o'clock, but
there being' only twenty-one Members present, the
House adjourned until to-morrow, at twelve.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURN.
GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAL—Traffle for
the Week ending May 10, 1851 :
Passengers (19,848), Goods, &c.,
and Horses and Carriages ... £3,774 14 1
Corresponding week in last year
for Glasgow and Ayr and Glas-
gow, Dumfries, and Carlisle
Railways £3,184 11 9
Glasgow, May -12, 1851.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price Current, May 13.)
&MAR.—To-day, in consequence of the extensive
parcels of East India and Mauritius Sugar offered at
public sale, there was little desire evinced to operate in
West India, but holders were firm, and obtained rates
equal to those of Friday. The purchases are 454 hhds,
&c., including at auction 160 hhds 9 tierces Barbadoes.
which went at full terms, fine yellow at 42s to 42s 6d.
good 403 to 41s, middling 383 to 39s 6d; the chief por-
tion went at 40s to 403 6 1 per cwt.
REFINED.--To day Refined Sugar met with ready
buyers for home consumption, and brown grocery
lumps cannot be obtained under 495. The export de-
mand for British Crushed Sugar is still dull, but orders
for Foreign are on the increase.
MAIIILITIUS.—This afternoon the quantity of Mauri-
tius Sugar offered at public sale was extensive, and
amounted to 20,370 bags; still the chief portion found
buyers, and at prices equal to those of Friday—fine and
superior yellow realized 41s to 438, good and middling
38s 6d to 40s 6d, ordinary 37s to 38s, refining sugar
37s to 41s, good and fine brown 34s to 36s 6d; other
sorts 31s to 33* 6d, and crystalized yellow 39s to 44s
per ewt.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Bengal Sugar was again
in good demand; and 4,200 bags at auction were chiefly
sold at full rates—Benares. fine white went at 421 to 43*
6d, other sorts 39s 6d to 425, damp 385 to 42s 6d, fine
soft yellow 39s to 39s 6d, ;middling to good grainy 38*
to 445, fine white Cossipore 48s to 495. Of Penang
1,354 bags went at the full value, ordinary white at 39s
to 40s 6d, low to good yellow 343 to 38s, and brown 318
6d to 335. Of Madras 3,867 bags went at former rates
—soft brown 28s to 31s, yellow :32s to 345, ordinary to
middling like Mauritius 35s to 3Ss per cwt.
FOREIGN.—To-day there was a good business trans-
acted privately in Foreign Sugar both for home trade
pu►poses and shipping at full rates, but the precise par-
ticulars are not allowed to transpire. A cargo of fine
brown Bahia was sold et 19s 3d; two of yellow lie
vannah at 21s 61 to 245 9d per cwt. At auction 993
bags Manilla were sold at 30s to 31s 6d for ord clayed
brown.

MOLASSES.—OnIy limited purchases have been made,
yet rates rule firm, the stock being less than last year.
The value of low to fine West India is 14s to 16s 6d,
Cuba and Porto Rico 15s to 163, Bengal and Mauritius
12s to 13s per cwt. There is, however, a fair consump-
tion which is likely to continue. Honey is less in re-
quest, and can be obtained at a decline.
COFFEE.—To-day there was more desire to operate
in Ceylon Coffee, and privately some parcels were sold
at 40s to 40$ 61 for good ordinary. None was offered
at auction. For all other sorts of Coffee the market has
a dull aspect. Of 152 casks Plantation Ceylon at auction
a small part only sold at barely former rates, and went
at 49s to 50s for low middling, whilst 2 775 bags Rio
were taken in at 40s to 40s 6d, for goode ordinary;t 22
bales 361 bales Poddy Mocha at 70s p
COCOA.—To-day there was much per cwt.
in the
s hags
market for Cocoa, and at auction 0 fine Bahia
were taken in at 32s per cwt.
TEA.--To-day the trade operated with reluctance
Tea at the public sales, and of 2,400 pkgs offered, only
on
900 sold at easier rates—Gunpowder went at is lad to
2s 4d for mid and good quality; imperial mid is 9g do
u; andth e
ord scented Orange Pekoe I hi. For low c
market is dull at liii per lb.
RICE.—FuII terms are required for East India, al-
though shippers or home dealers have evinced little desire
to transact business, whilst large arrivals have taken
place, and stock is greater than last year, whereas deli-
veries do not improve. The value of low to white Bengal
is 83 to Ils, Madras 7s 6 I to 93, cargo 73 3d to 75 6d, and
Arracan 8s to 8s 3d. At auction 1,200 bags and 697
packets Bengal were chiefly taken in at 103 for good
white. Cleaned Rice is cheaper, but operations are now
upon a larger scale, low to fine Paton at 103 to 15e,
towndressed Carolina 20s to 255, and American 15s to
Tear cwt. The rates taken for Bermuda Arrowroot
are te Is 3d, other sorts of West India 31d to 84,
and East India 2id to 3d per lb. In Tapioca
purchases
have been upon a small scale at 2d to sd. Sago met
with little attention, and small pearl is to be obtained at
Sago 19s to 235.
kr Flour has been dealt in with caution
at 15s to 15s
SP,ICES..-01 Cassia Lignea several parcels are near at
halm; prices, however,
iremain at 92s to 100 s per cwt.
Buds are dull of sale
,thoeos to 105 s. Holders of Pepper
yetar e
tdisposedhe privateto operationsrel
haver.ates taken are
been upon4ad small scale.
At auction 3,232 bags
Malabar were sold at 3/d to
3iel for heavy and half heavy. Tihe value of Sumatra
and Penang 3d to 30,
de still
still wanted at 6cl
to Bd. African Pod is in better
ed. Jamaica tk .
Ginger a u c t i o
hasn 8
pkgs sold at 62s to 70s for fine R
been operated in with more freedom, and
at auction 142
good. For other
pkgs were sold at 74s to 122 s for ord to
rbeat, given
230
o3rot
sorts the market is dull. At public sale 90
edzeeaclut
teitin.
Bengal sold at 179 6d to 18s. or Chine p
gd to 9d. Nutmegs have been
cases went at
with caution. There are sellers of Cinnamon at pre-
vious rates, but only small orders. have been
Prices declined 2s to 3s for African Ginger, and at auc-
tion 2,520 bg3 were only in part sold at 30s for mid.
Cloves are cheaper, and 144 bags Bourbon went at 6,1 to
60. Pimento realized full rates, and 76 bags sold at 4ta
to 5d for mid.
Sl'insTs.—East India Ram is offering at is 4d to la
5d Per gallon proof; few transactions have taken place,
and there is a fair supply. Leeward Island remains dull
of sale at le scl to is 61d. At present the quantity on
iS limited. In Demerara transactions have been
man, with sellers at 2s to 2s 3d for 30 to 40 per cent
d
over pro. .
caution both for
Jamaica has been operated in with
ping, and a desire • home consumption and ship-
ping,
over
evinced:to sell plat quality
'n and mid
30 to 34 per c
to 38 over 2s 10d vteor proof at 2s 4d to 2s 9d, good 32
to 4a 2d, but these cl, fine and choice marks 3s 5d '
are not 4
'?ot to be obtained for large
reels T
Pa • The consumption of
last year, but the stock isßum is yet not equal to
There is a large stock smaller by 4,400 puns, Bae.
11,700 puns and Wads, b Irandy amounting to
cases, and consumption ..
..esside a quantity in
tau
There is much dulness in the mark
short of last year.
Cognse best brands of the vintage oft with sellers of
4s 6d, 1849 ditto 43 6d to 4s Bd, 184,, 1850 at 4s 4d to
104, 1847 ditto 5s 31 to 5s 54, as °I I
4 itto at 8d to 4s
to 44. Geneva is purchased with Inferiorcantioti sorts 2s 6d
Is Bd, and fine at Is 91 to 23 per gallon. Br,
and Ginlttill,s 7d to
Spirit is still quoted at 93 8d to 9s 91 nut eao, --s" made
_
at 8s 3d for 22s per cent under proof.
INDIGO.—The quantity declared for sale was 7 677
chests in the A, and 2,205.. in the B catalogue- 43 --1
9,882 chests, of which 400 have not been printed, leaving
the quantity, to be brought forward 9,482 chests. 1,459
Chests (of which 405 were
.withdrawn) have passed the
sale.tbis day. The bulk of the above quantity consisted
•of Madras and Kurpahs, the proportion of Bengals not
exceeding 200 chests.. The biddinga upon the whole were
languid,, and notwithstanding -the support given by the
proprietors, prices were cettremely uneven, ranging
from the last salels•prideidtteBd diseeant feriae Ikarpabs,
34 to 3d discount for the dry leaf l!dedrath whilst the

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his 113E11 upon the
Woolsack at Five o'clock.
PETITIONS.

The Earl of WINCHILSEA presented several peti•
tions against Papal aggression.
The Duke of ARGYLE presented a petition from Edin-,
burgh very numerously signed against Papal aggression,
and that no facilities and titles should be given to
Roman Catholic priests in the colonies, and that the
grant to Maynooth should be discontinued. He was
opposed to Papal aggression, but he did not see the pro-
priety of mixing up the colonial and Maynooth questions
with the question of Papal aggression.
MARRIAGES (INDIA) BILL

. .
Lord BROUGHTON moved the second reading of
3 , Bill. If their Lordships referred to the re-
.orts on the table, they would see the necessity of
3gWation on this subject. Sir Samuel Romilly, Mr.
sergeant Lens, and several other high legal authorities,
bad so long ago as 1818 recommended legislation on this
subject, and in that recommendation several learned
persons who now filled the highest stations in the law
bad concurred. They had recommended that divers
alterations should take place in the law, and
the Commissioners appointed to investigate the sub-
ject had drawn up a Bill which had been submitted
to the authorities in England mad India, and upon their
recommendation this Bill was founded. The Commis-
sioners who recommended this Bill were the late Re-
corder of London, the late Lord Advocate of Scotland,
the late Chief Justice of Bengal, and one whose autho-
rity would, he knew, be considered as entitled to the utmost
respect, Dr. Lushington, the Chief Judge of the Court of
Admiralty. The principle of this Bill was the same as
that of ,1836 and with the Aces passed in 1839 for faci-
litatingof marriages in foreign parts. The
clergy in India authorized to celebrate marriages_ra.
number
amounted to only 1,049, and their Lordships
.wouldaeltt
that this was not a sufficient number to soiemniz. marriages
..
throughout the immense extent of our Indian territories.
The Bill had been drawn up with the greatest possible
eare, but he would notlength of saying it was
be ready to agree
incapable of amendment. He .
go the
wouldrove the Bill without
to any alteration which would . p_
p improve
Noble Lord con-
cluded with its secondprinci-eereading of the Bill.
...tided by moving the
_OROUGII said he had no ob-
jection Earl of ELL B_
ENof the Bill, but he considered the
jection. to the principle of
forms which would greatly details were loaded with
re-
tard its operation.
The Bill was then read a second time.
SUPPLY OF COALS TO THE NAVY.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH called the attention
of the House to the report of Sir H. de la Beche and
Dr. Lyon Playfair, with regard to certain experiments
which they had made for testing the advantages of diffe-
rent
descriptions of coal in generating steam in the
steam-vessels of her Majesty's navy.
Lord MINTO said the object of the experiments was
not so much to ascertain the power to generate heat of
certain descriptions of coal, as to show their relative
value in this as well as in other respects, especially as
regarded their liability to spontaneous combustion.
Their Lordships then advanced several Bills a stage,
and adjourned.