The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-11 00:00:00

KOSSUTH DEMONSTRATION IN

BIRMINGHAM.

Birmingham was yesterday the scene of what was
generally admitted to be the most important and
general popular demonstration that had been witnessed
there since the memorable year 1832, when the meet-
ings of the working classes of that great manufacturing
town bad so beneficial an influence on the progress of
the Reform Bill. But although Birmingham itself
was the great scene of excitement, the progress of
Kossuth and his friends might be deemed a triumph
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almost from their departure from London. Owing to
misinformation as to the time of departure, which had
appeared in the weekly papers, there were compara-
tively few persons assembled in Euston-square, where
Koseuth and party arrived at 9 o'clock ; but from
those present the illustrious exile received a most
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as at that place there must have been several thousand
persons congregated about the station. The Hunga-
rian colours might be seen in every direction—in
cockades, in bonnets, and on the costumes of the ladies.
Several ladies rushed together to the carriage doors,
and presented bouquets, which, we need hardly add,
were most gracefully and gratefully received. Kos-
suth bowed his acknowledgments repeatedly, and as
the train glided away from the station received two
or three distinct rounds of cheering.
All these demonstrations were, however, eclipsed
by the triumph that awaited the exile in Birmingham,
the capital of the " small masters," with whose ho-
nesty and independence of spirit Kossuth bad shown
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himself so intimately acquainted by the allusions made
to them in more than one of his speeches. The station,
although situated in a remote and inferior part of the
town, was completely surrounded by the people, who
cheered vociferously as the party alighted on the
platform. Kossuth was received by Mr. Geach,
M.P. for the county, Messrs. Scholefield and Muntz,
the two Members for Birmingham, and Mr. Wright,
Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Reception.
The party proceeded at once to partake of an elegant
dejeitrzer, which had been provided by Mr. Bacon, of
the Queen's Hotel, and, after a few minutes spent in
refreshment, repaired to the carriages in which they
were to form the head of one of the most imposing
processions ever seen in the town of Birmingham.
Kossuth, Mr. Geacb, and Mr. Toulmin Smith, took
their places in an open barouche drawn by four
greys, the postillions in scarlet jackets, and wearing
the Hungarian colours, and the remainder of the
party were accommodated in carriages of a similar
description. As they drove et a smart pace down the
Green Lanes every moment added to the length of the
cortege, until by the time it had reached Small-heath
all resemblance to a procession had disappeared, and
the whole of the road, the hedges, the trees, and the
dscptio n. All
houses, appeared swarming with people, or densely
blocked up with vehicles of every eri
the working people of the busy hive of skilled indus-
o
give a hearty English welcome to the best exponent
try had obtained a general holiday, and turned out t
in our days of the true principles of political and so.
cial freedom. It would be impossible to do justice to
Every hedge,wall, and tree, every window and house-
the appearance of the line of road from_ henceforward.
banners of the various associated trades fluttered in
the air, and as the operatives passed on in dense
top was crowded with people. On every side the gay
ons of welcome, of masses, each body headed by. their standard bearer,
we could recognise iescript
sym-
pathy, and of sentences extracted from Kossuth's
various speeches. Bands of music played Hungarian
airs, and at every corner where the density of the
crowd occasioned a momentary stoppage a deafening
cheer arose as the people caught a glimpse of the dis-
tinguished stranger.
At this point the mass of the people bad been gra-
dually congregating from eight in the morning; at
about eleven o'clock the crowd appeared to have
reached its limits, inasmuch as at that time there was
about six miles of space—from the village of Yardley
to the Bull •ring—one mass of human beings ; every
house-top, every tree, and every lane seemed alive
with life. From windows streamed flags with ap-
propriate devices, and from hundreds of carriages and
vehicles were displayed the Hungarian colours.
. At eleven o'ol9ok the ragabale begau to (ono the

IN G,

order of the procession ; this occupied until after one
o'clock, and every minute new arrivals thronged up
in such bodies that, notwithstanding the enormous
open space where the people were now assembled,
with open fields on every aide, it became difficult to
march. All the trades were now ranged iu order;
indeed, such was the anxiety of the people to preserve
the peace and to assist in affording every possible ac-
commodation, that they fell into line almost without
an effort on the part of those charged With the ar-
rangements. At one o'clock the line of procession was
complete ; the seven or eight bands had been placed
is convenient positions, and all the regalia of all the
trades shone in the midday sun.
The following order of procession was observed very
nearly, with the exception that the groups of " fifty
men" noticed in it were swollen to thousands

" Six men bearing the banners of England, Hun-
gary, America, Turkey, Italy, and Poland. The old
standard of the Birmingham Political Union. Glass-
lilowers and cutters with hand, group of fifty men.
Brassfounders, group of fifty men. Jewellers, group
of fifty men. Sdltley workmen and band. Tailors,
group of fifty men. Carriers, group of fifty men.
Saddlers, harness and whip makers' group of fifty
men. Wire-workers, wire.drawers:, and pin-makers,
group of fifty men. Tin-plate workers, group of
fifty men. Stone-masons and bricklayers, group of
fifty men. PzArl button-makers and band, tool-
makers, coach-makers, group of fifty men. Coopers
and packing-case-makers, brass cock founders,
moulders, group of fifty men. Japanners. Odd Fel-
lows with regalia. Leicester brass band. Private car-
riages and horsemen. Fire brigades. Deputations
from Midland Towns. Large banner•—"Eljen Kos-
suth." Band. Bodyguard on horseback. First car-
riage and four—Kossuth, G. F. Muntz, M.P., W.
Scholefield, M.P., Charles Geach, M.P. Second car-
riage—M. Pulsky, Mr. Toulmin Smith, and M.
Kossuth's Aid-de-Camp. Carriages with committee.
Body-guard on horseback. Gun-makers. Shoe-
makers. Joiners and carpenters. Band. Carriages,
horsemen, &c. _ _

The neighbouring towns, Coventry, Welverhamp-
ten, and throughout the district far away into the
Potteries, had all poured forth their thousands, and
these were placed in proper order, most of them dis-
playing handsome banners, especially thoze from Co-
ventry, which were extremely beautiful in design, with
appropriate mottoes.
At a quarter to two o'clock the carriage and four
containing Kossuth hove in sight. This was the
signal for one burst of cheering. Rising in his car-
riage (in which also Messrs. 14Tuntz, Schole-
field, M.P., and Geach, M.P,, were sitting), he bowed
to the assembled thousands, whose shouts rent the air
for many minutes. The carriage having taken its
place in the line, was immediately surrounded by a
body-guard of one hundred and fifty gentlemen on
horseback, and followed by many carriages and four,
hundreds of other carriages„ private and public, and
vehicles of every description.

In this state Kossuth entered Birmingham. To
describe his progress would be to describe one con-
tinued ovation ; every housetop and every window—
every manufactory and every building where human
beings could place the sole of their foot, their clung
the welcomers to the hero of Hungary. A little before
Kossuth entered the principal part of the town his
carriage was stopped and the entire procession marched
past him, that all might gain a sight of him. All the
exertions of his body guard were necessary to restrain
the enthusiasm of the people. The procession neces-
sarily moved slowly, and was many times stopped in
consequence of the enormous pressure on every side ;
as it approached the Bull-ring the masa of people was
such that it was fearful to look upon ; it was one vast
sea of human heads as far as the eye could reach ;
every nook, every gullet, every alley, and every lane—
every window, and every parapet presented their hun-
dreds of the population. From the corner of the Coven-
try-road to the Bull-ring occupied nearly one hour,
so slow was the progress made. As the cortege
turned out New-street the effect was very fine ; there
were impromptu scaffolding, bearing hundreds of
people ; omnibuses at anchor crowded even to the tyre
of the wheels, and from Deritend to the Town-hall
there was scarcely a window without a banner, and
from the hands of thousands of ladies streamed rib-
bons of the Hungarian tricolour. From the windows
of the Journal newspaper a splendid banner fluttered,
and from many houses in the neighbourhood rockets
were cast in abundance.

In the Bull-ring the first copy of the Times was
burnt, and at intervals this ceremony was repeated
until the procession terminated at the Five Ways.
Many copies of the paper, with the words " Lying
Times" in large characters upon them, were elevated
on poles, and swung to and fro over the heads of the
crowd amid vollies of derisive cheers and groaning.
The Town-hall, the theatre, and all the public build-
ings along the line were made use of in some way or
other to serve the purpose of spectators. The bells
of the various churches rung cheerful peals, but these
were almost drowned by the deafening cheers of the
populace.
One hundred Frenchmen who had formed a band
marched near to Kossuth's carriage, which was pre-
ceded by a splendid banner, with the words " Eljen
Kossuth," emblazoned upon it. There were thou-
sands of other banners with appropriate mottos and
devices upon them, which the limited time at our
disposal does not enable us to do more than thus
briefly refer to. So with the triumphal arches which
Kossuth passed on his route; the enthusiastic dis-
plays at the various manufactories ; the multitudinous
warm greetings he received from the enormous mass
of people who hailed him on every side, we pass them
over—to be imagined they must have been seen—no
description would convey any idea of the fact. Kos-
suth himself seemed almost amazed, and Mr. Muntz,
used to largo meetings in the days of the Political
Union, appeared lost in astonishment at the over-
whelming multitude.
It was computed by persons used to estimate large
masses that there could not have been less than half
a million of persons present. When it is consi-
dered that the population of Birmingham alone is a
quarter of a million, the great majority of whom
poured out on the great occasion, and that the entire
district far and near sent their quotas, it will be at
once seen that this is by no means an exaggerated
estimate. Even places so distant as Sheffield contri-
buted their thousands.

At four o'clock in the afternoon the procession
reached the Five Ways. Perfect orderliness prevailed
without a single policeman or soldier ; without the
presence of any person in authority to preserve order,
this crowd swayed to and fro, bearing every amount
of pressure with patience, and apparently absorbed in
the spirit and determination to do honour to the illus-
trious exile.

Immediately before the signal was given for the
departure to the residence of Mr. Geach, that gen-
tleman briefly addressed the crowd, stating that
Kossuth felt deeply grateful for the reception
he had experienced, so far beyond anything
he could have anticipated, and only regretted that
the state of his chest, and the engagements he was
under to address public meetings to-morrow and the
day following, preventing his thanking them as he
could wish himself. Mr. Geach concluded his ob-
servations by expressing a hope that he might, in the
name of the assembled thousands, give to Kossuth a
true and hearty welcome to Birmingham.
It is needless to add that the welcome was echoed
most vociferously by the crowd, and as the word
passed backwards to the more distant masses of the
people, it was sent back again and agai❑ in vollies of
cheering which continued as long as the cavalcade re-
mained in sight, most of the carriages following
Kossuth's carriage up to The Dales, Mr. Geaoh's
residence.

Vast numbers of the people broke up into parties,
and followed the line of carriages to Mr. Geach's
entrance lodge. There, as soon as Kossuth had en-
tered the house, the mounted body-guard formed in
a semi• circle round the entrance-gate. Dlr. G. Daw-
son appeared and stated that he was commissioned
by Kossuth to return his most heartfelt thanks to
the people, for the manner in which they had re-
received him.

This evening a select party is invited to meet Kos-
suth at dinner at Mr. Geach's, and to-morrow morn-
ing he proceeds to ➢Manchester.
At the luncheon at the Queen's Hotel, Messrs.
Muntz, M.P., Scholerield, Toulmin Smith,
Alderman Weston, George Dawson, Blythe, T.
Jaffray, Robert Wright, T. C. Salt, R. K. Douglas,
end Ryland, were invited. The party assembled on
the invitation of Mr. Geach, M.P.

INVITATION OF KOSSUTH TO MANCHESTER.
The interest in Kossuth's visit continues unabated,
and it would be vain to attempt to depict the anxiety
prevailing to secure tickets of admission to the Free
Trade Hall. The question of an address to him was
mooted in the quarterly meeting of the Town Council
this day, and the proceedings lasted from half-past ten
A.M. to four P.M. The opposition were strangely ex-
cited, and such a meeting has never been held before.
In the absence of a good number of supporters of the
motion, who had gone out to dine, however, the
council was counted, and there being only 21 of the
64 members of the body present, it was declared
short of a quorum. Mr. T. L. Williams, a Tory, who
moved that the house be counted, ran out without his
hat, to reduce the numbers sufficiently; and Mr.
Alderman Bancroft took a similar course.

SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHow.—ine prepara-
tions for the annual display of prize cattle, roots, seeds, and
implements, have already commenced at the Bazaar, King-
street, Portman-square, under the able superintendence of
Brandreth Gibbs, Esq. The club intend this year to use
every effort to produce a more than ordinary display of the
capabilities of British stock breeders and agricultural im-
provements ; and will occupy double the space that they have
done un former occasions.
A VERY WIDE OPENING,--"Wanted, at the
Great Exhibition, in llyde-park, an active lad, where no
other is kept. his work will be comparatively light, as he
will only have to clean the windows!"

VEMBER ll, 1.51.

THE WEST INDIA MAIL.
SOUTUAMPTON.—The Royal Mail Company's
steamship Great Western, Captain Woolley, has
arrived from the West Indies, with the usual
mails, in charge of Lieutenant Prince, R.N., Admi-
ralty agent.
On her homeward voyage the Great Western expe-
rienced easterly winds and a heavy sea, with the ex-
ception of two days off Fayal, where the Great
Western had to proceed for coals.
The latest dates brought by the Great Western are
—Vera Cruz, Oct. 8; Tampico, 5 ; Chagres, 10;
Carthagena, 12 ; Jamaica, 14 ; Demerara, 12 ; Tri-
nidad, 12; Barbadoes, 14; Grenada, 13 ; Porto Rico,
17 ; St. Thomas, 13 ; Fayal, Nov. 3; Antigua, Oct.
16; Santa Martha, 10 ; Grey Town,6; Carriacou,
13; St. Vincent, 13; St. Lucia, 14 ; Martinique, 15 ;
Guadaloupe, 15 ; Dominique, 15 ; Montserrat 16
Nevis, 16; St. Kitt's, 16. ,
List of Passengers—Mr. Stevens, son, and four
servants, and Mr. C. W. R. Chapman--from Grey
Town ; Messrs. Paul. Cornelia-, Rosenthal, Myers,
and Kerstat—from Cbagres ; Mr. Glennie, Mr.
Stozzel, lady and child, and servant, Messrs.
Leroux, Peyersfeld, Lohse, Ilaran, Armengal.
Lamana, and Favrien, Mr. Palacios, lady and child
—from Vera Cruz • Mr. T. Cridland, from Gre.
nada ; Mr. J. Ahara,' from St. Vincent ' • Mr.
Gadsden, 11.1 r. Pre.ttijohn and lady—from Barbadoes;
Mrs. Longmore, two children, and female servant,
Mr. E. V. Causyer and daughter, Mr. J. B. Wright,
and Captain Berwick—from Demerara ; Mr. Le
Mesle, Mr. Ileureon azd daughter, Messrs. Douillard
and Foyon, M. Rabou (Procureur-General)' lady,
child, and two servants—from Guadaloupe ; Mr. J.
A. Sanchez, from St. Thomas ; Mr. Ribera and bro-
ther, and Mr. Solomon Sabers—from Fayal ; three
distressed British subjects and three invalids.
The Great Western brings on freight 153,258 dolls.
on merchants' account, 20,943 dolls. for the dividends,
309,748 dolls. gold dust, 700 dolls. pearls, 8 barrels of
coffee, 8 barrels of copper ore, 15 vanilla plants, 190
pimento, 8 cases of arrow-root, 10 bales of tobacco,
3 cases of tortoiseshell, 9 turtle, and 45 other
packages.
Stations of the Company's Steam:—The
-
ships
Trent, at St. Thomas ; the Dee left Fayal on the 12th
October, having put in for coals; the Medway passed
at sea on the 11th October, en route for Cbagrea ; the
Conway, at Barbadoes; the Eagle, at St. Thomas;
the Esk, at ditto.
We have received files of Jamaica papers to the
14th of October inclusive.

_
We extract the following from the Jamaica Des-
patch of that date :
"It is now considerably more than a year since, in
alluding to the contemplated change in the route of the
Royal Mail Steam Company's vessels, we ventured to
predict from it a rapid, and in the end, total diversion of
the foreign trade from this ill-fated island. Those pre-
dictions have, there is every reason to believe, been too
literally verified. The large trade formerly carried on
between this island and the Spanish main is being ra-
pidly transferred to St. Thomas, whilst that heretofore
existing between this island and Cuba has ceased alto-
gether. At this moment there is no mail communica-
tion between Jamaica and those foreign ports which
until lately have been largely and beneficially connected
with our trade, save by the singularly indirect course of
St. Thomas—that is to say, the trader in Carthagena
who desires to order an assortment of British goods
from Kingston is under the necessity of sending his
letter all the way round by St. Thomas, at which island
he can supply himself with all he requires. The conse-
quences of such a system are obvious. Jamaica has lost
the trade she has hitherto carried on with Cubs, Cartha-
gene, and Santa Martha; and St. Thomas has acquired
it—a British colony and British merchants have been
deprived of the honest gains of a fair and legitimate com-
merce with forei,gx countries, and those gains have been
transferred to a Danish settlement and a Danish people—
British manufactures, which found an extensive foreign
market through Jamaica, are supplanted by French and
German manufactures through St. Thomas; and the
British shipping that used to be engaged in the carriage
of British goods to Jamaica for the Spanish market, is
replaced by foreign shipping performing a vicarious duty
for the same market, by way of St. Thomas. This, is,
in plain truth, the state of affairs produced by the tho-
roughly selfish system last adopted by the Royal Mail
Steam-packet Company. A more fatal attack on British
commerce could scarcely have been made; but although
warned of the consequences, directors, Government, and
Admiralty have been deaf to all remonstrance. As for
the directors, one scarcely wonders at their obduracy,
since it has been well understood that certain private in-
terests connected with St. Thomas oppose an effective
barrier against the successful advocacy of any mere
national interest. Gain, we aro told, has no country ;
and if directors and leading shareholders
.find their ac-
count to lie in concentrating trade at St. Thomas, Ja-
maica Kill plead in vain to their nationality for a resto-
ration of prosperity to her failing commerce. The avowed
excuse for the un-English features of the new scheme
is founded on an assumed necessity of competing with
the American steamers at Chagres for passengers and
freights of specie. We have shown a dczen times that
this excuse is purely delusive. Had the scheme we pro-
posed upwards of twelve months ago been carried out,
of making Antigua the first point of contact for the dis-
tribution of the Windward island mails, and Jamaica
the principal depot on the main line—there would not
have been a loss of six hours, as compared with the
route by way of St: Thomas ; and that six hours would
have been amply made good by the gain derivable from
the increased impulse which would have been given to
trade between Jamaica and the Spanish Main, and the
ports on the Pacific. But the truth is, that there were
private interests as between the directors and St. Thomas
which overruled any claims that a British route could
advance, and therefore, having hood-winked the Admi-
ralty into compliance with their schemes, the directors
snapped their fingers at Jamaica and her remonstrances;
and we have every reason to believe that, pernicious
and injurious as are the present regulations to the trade
not only of Jamaica, but of Great Britain herself; the '
scheme will be determinedly adhered to, and that the
large steamers now under construction, and almost
ready to be placed on the route, will be dispatched by
way of St. Thomas direct to Chagres, increasing still
further the disabilities under which the now system has
placed Jamaica.

" It is not easy to prescribe a course by which the
calamity now in progress may be averted ; but, unsuc-
ceasful as have been our efforts hitherto, we think it
ought not to b 3 submitted to, without still further active
remonstrance. 'There have been unfortunate jealousies
between agricultural and commercial interests that have,
probably. in some respects been injurious to both. The
inhabitants of Jamaica, however, cannot learn too soon
that all interests are not so interwoven that none can
bo damaged without sensible injury to the others. It
behoves all, therefore, to take part in a question, no less
important than one which threatens with immediate ex-
tinction one of the moat important branches of our
commerce. The Council and the Assembly have already
protested against the alteration contemplated by the
company, but that was in anticipation only of the inju-
ries that have since been realised. Why not again me-
morialise the Government, now that all the damage that
was predicated from the scheme has been made appa-
rent ? There can be no reason why the Council and
Assembly should not now join in a memorial to Govern-
ment on a question so important as this, and we do
hope that some member will be found in the House pre-
pared to propose and support such a proposition at an
early period after the meeting of the session."
(From the Jamaica Despatch of Oct. 9.)
" Tho carriage of his Excellency the Governor, lately
distrained for the amount of income-tax assessed against
him by the vestry of St. Catherine, has, it seems, been
actually brought to the hammer, and sold by auction
to the highest and best bidder for a paltry sum, falling
short by 151. of the amount of the tax, and, wo may
presume, by many times that sum of its actual value.
his Excellency, it would appear, has preferred to allow
the law to take its course, instead of resorting to the
usual course of a replevin, in order to try the legality of
the assessment which he disputes. What step his Ex-
cellency will take, now that matters have proceeded to
this extremity, we are not aware, but it is probable the
affair will become a subject of representation to the Co-
lonial-office, and it is not unlikely that it may yet be the
subject of reference to the Legislature. It will be time
enough to consider this circumstance when the occasion
arises, meanwhile we have to deal with the matter itself.
" Whilst we deeply regret this occurrence, as ono
likely, we fear, to recoil at some future day on the
colony itself, it is impossible not to see in it irrefrsgable
evidence of the almost universal unpopularity of the in-
dividual whom not even exalted rank and station could
shield from an indignity which would only bo resorted
to in the case of a private person with pain and regret.
We see in it undoubted proof that, after a residence
amongst ns of nearly five years, Sir Charles Grey has
so contrived to administer his government as to be now
literally without a political friend. We aro satisfied we
shall bo uncontradicted from any quarter, when we state
that there never yet has been a governor of Jamaica—
bad as many of our governors have been_towards
whom so extreme a course would have been taken
that to which we this day direct public
attentioans
governors
nonehave been
ever
completely with
succeed one classe a'
or Many
another,
in driving from him the confidence and
pathy of an entire community.
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governed has
antagonistic
induced the catastrophe now
under consideration.
The distress and sale of his Excellency's per-
sonal equipage, under circumstances which are already
known, may be looked upon_ as nothing short of a deli-
berate vote of want of confidence on the part of the
whole public. The act itself, harsh as it is, and unparal-
leled, speaks the voice of the people, and says that Sir
Charles Grey, the nominee of the worst Minister that
ever held the colonial portfolio, cannot be any longer
our governor. Nor is it likely that, after such a signifi-
cant proof of the feeling of the public, Sir Charles Grey
can long be retained in his present station. No indivi-
dualas can efficiently administer a government, who has
ceased to possess the confidence and respectwe do regret
of
those
over whom ho is placed.
We regor;t confidence and
but the fact still remains,
the particular mode in which y
wantmaa
respect has been expressed, _
place, the government of this island can be retained in
and it seems scarcely possible that, after what has taken
'
the hands that now hold it. Lot us only hope that the
St. Catherine's levy operate seriously to our
may not
disadvantsge in the selection of a successor.,,
GREY TOWN, OCT. 6.—The route from Grey Town
to the Pacific is attracting a large number of passen-
gers to and from California, as it has decided advan-
tages over the Panama route. The San Juan River
is navigable the whole distance, with the exception of

about 200 yards, where there there is a rapWigral2-.
the Castello Viejo. At the foot of the rapid fis---seri-.-
gets have to disembark from the steann>r, walk or
ride a distance of 200 yards, and re-embirk in an-
other steamer, which they have succeeded,in carrying
up the rapid, which steamer takes them 4:the river
into the Lake of Nicaragua, a distance of 30 miles,
and across the lake to Virgin Bay, a further diatimce
of 60 miles. From this place to San Juan del=:Sad,
the port on the Pacific, is a distance of 12 miles. Thu
road is mostly level, and in the wet season very
muddy, but infinitely superior to the Cruces and
Gorgona roads, on the Panama route. It being the
wet season, and the water in the river being conse-
quently high, the steamers have at present no difficulty
in navigating it, but whether they will be able to do
so when the water has fallen, the next season will
show. The passage from Grey Town to San Juan •
del Sud is 40 dollars ; this includes a riding mule
from Virgin thy to Sen Juan. Passengers' baggage
is charged at the rate of 10 cents per lb. There were
five vessels with passengers expected at San aaan on
the 22d September.

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COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, JAMAICA.
(Frew De Cordcva's Mercantile Intelligencer, Oot.11.)

GENERAL REMARKS.

We have little Jr no charge to report as having cc.
carted in the state of this market since our issue of
the 96th ult. But few operations of a wholesale cha-
racter have been effeceti, whilst the retail demand has
is no instance exceaded the usual average. The stock
of flour has received an accession during the fortnight of
upwards of 4,000 barrels, which quantity, bricig in excess
of the existing inquiry, has thrown down the wholesale
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paid prices are always given, and are to. be considered as
wholesale prices. In filling small orders, higher rates
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Phi!adelphia have been moved at 30s.
Meal is in very small inquiry, and nothing over 16s.
can be got for the smallest retail parcel.
Rice—We quote Bengal at 13s. 6d. per 100119. Low
Madras is being placed in parcels of 50 to 100 bags at
9s. per 1001'o. No operations in Carolina have tran-
spired.

Butter—Since the arrival of the packet holders of
Coil: seconds have been holding firmly for lod. to 10 d.;
previously the article had been dull at 9kd. to 10d.
lot of Halifax in large firkins has been engaged, subject
to approval, at Sid. per lb. There is not any American
at market. Some parcels of Belfast in firkins branded
Cork," are on offer at 9d. per lb.
Oil—The last sales of cod were at 28. 3d. per gallon,
but an improved rate is likely sooa to be obtained, in
constquence of the greatly diminished stock on hand.
Of lard oil 40 casks have been moved at 4s. 3d. per gallon,
Lard—The receipts since our last wero confined to
200 kegs, which were all placed at 9d. per lb. The article
is scarce, and in demand.
Hams—lrish are unsaleable at 6d. to 7d. Lancashire
move slowly at 9d., and American at 7d. per lb. West.
phalia may be quoted at 9d. to 10d.
Soap—We have no improvement whatever to notice in
the market for this article. The depressing influences
alluded to in our last exist to an undiminished extent,
in addition to which we find that the home-made article
interferes in a considerable degree with, the sale of the
imported descriptions.
Candles—Tallow is inactive, at 6id. per lb.
Cheese—D. G. has been moved at I Id. per lb. A few
parcels of American have changed hands at 7d. per lb.
Brandy is inactive at ss. per gallon short price.
Salt—Liverpool stoned may be quoted at 4s. 6d. per
sack.

Rum—Sono operations for export are reported at
Is. 2J. per gallon. Sales for home consumption have been
effected at 3s. Id. to 3s. 3d. per gallon, duty (25.) paid,
for proof 21.

Sugar—We quote dark to fair at 14s. to 18s. The
latter is in strait supply.
Coffee—There is not any at market.
Pimento—There aro ready buyers at 341 d. to Sid.
per lb.

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