The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-17 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

SUGAR.—The market has been firm for British Plan-
tation, but by no means active, holders not being in-
clined to pay the rates asked. Barbadoes by auction
realised 42s 6d to 43s 6d for good, and 41s to 42s for mid.
REFINED.—Grocery lumps have been sold at 50s to
528. The stock is getting larger.
EAST INDlA..—Mattritius has been offered sparingly at
auction, and has barely supported former prices; yellow
37a to 41s, and fine brown 36s to 36s 6d. Native Madras,
1,309 bags went is lower; ord yellow, 30s to 30s 6d;
common to fine brown, 28s 6d to 30s; and mid and ord
grocery yellow, 37s to 38s 6d. Bengal sold at full prices;
mid to fine white Benares, 43s to 45s 6d. Penang,
3,765 bags only partly sold at 31s to 33a 6d for soft
brown, 41e to 41s 6d for mid white, and 38s 6d
to 40s for mid to good like Mauritius. Some
common yellow Bombay brought 30s to 31s. Foreign
has been nominally cheaper, but there have not been
many buyers. Yellow Havannah has been taken in at
39s to 42s for ord to mid, and good and fine at 42s 6d to
435. The white was bought in at 29s to 34s for mid and
good. Rio was taken in at 37s to 40s 6d for mid to good
yellow, and at 353 6d to 36s 6d for ord yellow. Cuba
was taken in at 403 to 41s for the sound.
COFFEE.—There has been more firmness in this ar-
ticle. Native Ceylon has been less offered, and 49s to
509 has been paid for good ord, with more buyers.
Plantation also is dearer, sales having been made at
56s 6cl to 60s for low mid and mid, and at 61s 6d to
63s 61 for good; triage, 38s to 555. Mocha has
realized full rates to a slight advance; mid and good,
61s to 655; triage, 42s to 475; and long•berry, 69s 6d
to 725. Costa Rica, for a few bales, has realised 45s to
46s 6d. Tellicherry has been sold at 59s 6d for mid. St.
Domingo has been taken in at 48s to 49s per cwt.
Cocoa..—Bahia has been taken in at 31s for good red,
and Trinidad at 48s for ord grey. The market is dull.
SPlCES.—Nutmeg has been at full prices; ord small to
good bold 2s 3d to 3s 6d. Mace has been sold at 2s 3d
to 2s 53 for mid and good. Cloves have been steady.
Black Pepper was in good demand; sound mid to good
3fd to 3id, and white 6kd to bid for mid to good. Pi-
mento was taken in at 6d. Ginger dull.
COTTON.—There has been no animation in this article.
RlCE.—Very little has been done, and prices are not
maintained at their previous height.
TEA.—The market continues dull.
RU3l.—There has been a fair business.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. has been steady at 37s 6d per cwt.
on the spot, and Town at 375.
GREEN FRUIT.—The mild weather is in favour of
consumption. Oranges of all kinds are lower, and in-
creases the sale, three cargoes of St. Michael and one
from Terceira, sold by Keeling and Hunt at public sale,
went at a reduction of 2s to 3s per box. The short crop
of Lemons is confirmed, and renders holders indifferent
to• pressing sales. Black Spanish are nearly off the
market. Barcelona are a shade higher. Brazil dull of
sale. Chesnuts in the same depressed state as reported
last week.

Tim MARBLE ARCEL—The arrangements for the
erection of the marble arch at the Cumberland-gate entrance
to Hyde-park will, it appears, be carried into effect with an
extraordinary degree of dispatch. The necessary excavations
and formation of the foundations are proceeding rapidly.
THE VACANT SEATS.--The elections for the coun-
ties of Bedford and South Nottingham will take place on or
about the 12th of February. The time for holding that for
the Falkirk Burghs, vacant by Lord Lincoln's elevation to
the Peerage, cannot be ascertained until the usual notifica-
tion of the circumstance be gaaetted under the Speaker's
hand. In each of the cases the course of proceeding has been
assimilated by the Act 24 Geo. 111., c. 2, subject to the pro-
cess for issuing the writ before the meeting of Parliament en-
suing the occurrence of the vacancy.
SILK Gowrts.—We understand that a more than
usually large number of applications have been made to the
Lord Chancellor by gentlemen of the bar for silk gowns, but
that at present his Lordship does not intend to accede to any
of the applications.

FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT AT DEVONPORT. -- On
Wednesday, as two watermen named Yeo were engaged in
taking Lieut. Saumerez, R.N., front Mutton Cove to her
Majesty's steam-vessel Volcano, in the Sound, and when
passing over the Budge the boat upset, and one of the bro-
thers, a fine young man, was unfortunately drowned. The
other brother and Lieut. Saumarez had a very narrow escape,
but were fortunately rescued. The body of the drowned
man was recovered shortly after. The boat was upset by
the force of the weather at the time.

A MAN SAVED FROM ROBBERY BY A STRANGE DOG.
—C. Dench, captain of the Isabella schooner, was walking
from Maidstone to Rochester some time since, between nine
and ten o'clock, and having got about half a mile beyond
the Bridgewood turnpike-gate, two men rushed out of the
wood, and one of them gave him a severe blow on the back
of the head, which caused him to stagger to some distance
and fall. At that moment he heard a dog growl and bark,
and having lain on the ground completely stunned, he be-
lieved, for some minutes, on recovering he saw a large black
and white dog, apparently of the Newfoundland breed, at-
tacking the robbers, who ran away. The dog, which he
had never seen before, then came up to him and crouched
at his feet, afterwards following him closely all the way to
his home in Rochester. Having slept in his house, been
fed, and stopped about two hours after Dench arose in the
morning, the dog disappeared, and has not been seen by
him since.

Dr. Henry J. Hayles Bond, Deputy Regius Pro-
fessor of Medicine in the University of. Cambridge, has been
appointed Regius Professor of Physic in that University,
rendered vacant by the death of Dr. Haviland.
CHELTENHAM HOTEL COMPANY.—Yesterday Mr.
J. Hutton, of Moorgate-street, was appointed official manager
of this company's affairs, by his Honour Master Brougham.
DEATH OF SIR HENRY CLAUDE LORAINE, BART.
—We have to announce the demise of the above baronet, who
expired on Saturday, at Ramsay, Isle of Man. He was the
youngest son of the late iSir Charles Loraine, Bart., and is
succeeded in the baronetcy by his uncle, now Sir William
Loraine, of Northumberland.

FALKIRK DISTRICT OF BURGHS.—Our Hamilton
correspondent states it has been reported that Sir Edward
Colebrooke will become a candidate for the representatim
of these burghs, vacated by Lord Lincoln being raised to the
'louse of LordlN—Falkirk Herald.