The Sun.
London, England, 1832-08-15 00:00:00

M ARKET INTELLIGENCE .

LONDON MARKETS.
(From the London New Price Current of yesterday.)

Sue It.-The demand for West India Muscovades has
been steady all the last week ; the estimated purchases
were 3,500 hhds. and tees. ; there was not the slightest
variation in the prices. This afternoon the Sugar market
is steady ; the estimated sales this day a►out 1,000 hhds.
The stock of West India Sugar is now 26,096 hhds. and
tees., which is 18,232 less than last year. The stock of
Miuritius is 41,651 hags, bring 58,746 less than last
year. The delivery of West India Sugar is 3,883 hhds.
and tees., being 340 more than last year. The delivery of
Mauritius 4,169 bags, being 1,954 less than the corre.
sponding week of 1831. In the Refined market the very
low goods were held more firmly last week ; the Lumps
could not be purchased on such low terms as formerly;
the fine goods were without variation, hut there was no
briskness in the trade. The Refined market is rather
heavy this afternoon, owing to the ut.favourable accounts
from the continental markets.

Easr INDIA SUGARS.—There was no alteration in
East Indio Sugars, and the purchases last week were
inconsiderable.

MAURITIUS SUGARS.-The purchaser last week were
confined to parcels by private contract at former prices.
FOREIGN SUGARS.-There have been few purchases of
Foreign Sugar by private contract. At public sale on
Friday 385 chests soft yellow Havannah sold 255. a
275. 61. ; 68 chests of Bahia bought in, 255. a 265. ;
7CO bags Manilla also bought in ; the Market was dull.
Average price of Sugar 1/. 7s. I Id. per cwt.
COFFEE.-There was little variation in the price of
Coffee last week. A parcel of good ord. Brazil sold at
605., and another parcel was taken in at public sale at
595. ; very ord. Sainarang sold 555. a 565. ; very ord.
brown damaged Sumatra 525. a 525. 6d.; yellow Mysore
good sold 61s. a 625. 6d., good and fine ord. 78s. a
81s. 6d. ; good ord. Jamaica 765. a 775., fine ord. 795. a
SI s. By public sale this (lay 54 casks Jamaica Coffee,
triage 765. to fine ord. 80s. 6d., all sold at steady prices.
Twesow.-The Tallow Market has become heavy; the
prices are a shadow lower.
IRISH PROVISIONS. -The import of Foreign Butter in
the last week was 7,544 casks, of Irish 14,450 firkins,
and of Bacon 3,898 bales, with a further import yester-
day of about 4,000 firkins of Irish Butter, and 150 bales
of Bacon. The Butter M irket is in a very depressed
state ; fine Friesland Butter we quote 865., and Leer and
Emden, as to quality, 70s. a SOs. per cwt. at the quay ;
upon all descriptions of Irish a decline in price of is.
2s. per cwt. must be noted ; Cork we nominally quote
78s. a 795. on board, 80s. a 81s. landed ; and Limerick
798. on board, 81s. a 82s. landed ; Callow (as to repute
of brands) 78s. a 81s. on board, 80s. a 84s. landed ; and
Waterford 765. a 795. on board, '7Bs. a 80s. landed ;
Newry is offering at 745., and Dublin at 765., on board
for this month's shipment, but the cheesemongers decline
purchasing, looking for prices being much lower, as the
stock accumulates here. Prime fresh parcels of small
singed Beef meet a ready sale, and in some partial instances
514. and 555. has been obtained for Waterford, and 535.
and 545. per cwt, for Limerick of such descriptions; but
the general price for Waterford Bacon cannot be quoted
over 51s. a 535., nor for Limerick over ..'7os. a 525. per
cwt. Bale and tiere Middles go off alorely, the former
at 445. a 465., and the latter at 445. a 48s. per cwt.
Bladder Lard is also a heavy sale at 565. a 625. as to qua-
lity; and although Belfast Hams are selling at 565. a
645., yet Wratrop's prime small Limerick sell freely at 765.
a 78s. per cwt. In Beef and Pork very little doing, prices
for which are stationary.
TURPENTINE.-About 3,000 barrels of the new just
arrived, partly to drawers; some sold at 125.; not more
than 1 ls. Od. now to be obtained. At Liverpool sua
arrivals are large, and sales made at 10s. Id. and 10s. sd.
WooL.-The stock on hand of all kinds is shorter than
it has been for many years, and yet no advance in price
of any consequence, as the (Itsnsnd is very trifling; 1,200
bales of New South Wales see to be sold at the end of the
month by public auction.
Hors.-The duty continues to fluctuate violently; it
is to-day estimated at 160,000/. The accounts from the
country state the hot san after the rains improves the
good Hops, but where there is filth they get black, which
is usually the case. The accounts from Worcester are
very bad.
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Ons.—The Fish Oil Market is firm ; South Sea at
public sale on Friday went off briskly at 261. a 27/. 10s.
Seal Oil comes in very slowly ; Cod Oil is also very
scarce, and quotations obtained for both. Gallipoli Oil is
about 11. higher, owing to the demand for St. Petersburgh;
from hence, Liverpool, and Hull, about 500 tuns have
been exported during the last fortnight. Linseed Oil is
steady in price ; the export demand for America continues
—about 100 tuns bought for that Market since our last.
Cassia EA. —By public sale this day of 310 chests
Cassia Lignea, fair to good quality, 80s. 6d. a 845., all
sold at former prices.
SricEs.—By public sale this day, 52 bags Pimento,
6d. a 6kd., all sold, the prices steady. By public sale this
day, 1,751 bags Black Pepper chiefly sold at 31d., the
remainder taken in at 38-d.; the latter sold higher than the
Pepper at the India•Hou•e.
FRUIT. —A large parcel of Valentia Raisins, at public
sale last week, 425. a 435. ; a few parcels of Currants now
offer under 68s.

RICE.—In Rice there is little alteration. By public
sale, 1,156 bags Bengal Rice, middling white 15s. ; good
white dusty 15s. 6d. to 16s. ; 30 bags taken in at 12s. 6d.
INDIGO.—There is little variation to notice in the market.

TEA.--The market is more firm in Congous ; Boheas
also, especially those in Congou chests, at 3s. 111 d., duty
pa►d, are in sonic request ; large chests at 3s. 11d.
COTTON. —The Cotton market is steady.. The pur-
chases consist of 1,020 Madras, good fair, qd., good, sd. ;
950 Surats, ord. 4-id., good fair, sd. ; 100 Bengal, good
lair, 4id.

A111;ING INTELLIGENCE.-Sales at Redruth last week.
—Quantity of Copper Ore sold, 2,897 tons. Quantity of
fine Copper 212 tons 4 cwt. Average Produce 70.
Amount of sales 15,447/. 17s. 6d. Average Standard,
1101. 7s.

EAST INDIA COMTANY'iI SALE—(THIS DAY.)-503
tons Company's East India Refined Saltpetre, 2 and 2:1
per cent. refraction, 335. 6d. a 355. ; 1,768 bales Com-
pany's sifted Pepper, mid. heavy, 31d. a 3id., light and
foul, Sid. ; 160 bags unsifted ditto, mid, heavy, aid. a
31d. 170 chests Cassia Buds, sifted, mid. flavour, 735.
a 745., bought in.

COUNfRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK.

Wheat.

Per Quarter.
Boston
Gainsborough
Grantham
Grimsby
Horncastic
Lincoln

s. to s.

57 64
56 68
60 63
58 62
60 64
52 68
53 70

Barley. I Oats. I Beans.

8. to S. 8. to 8. E. to S.
23 19 33
37 16 37
37 44 20 26 36 38
`8 32 17 •23 35 40
30 35 18 22 40 44
18 21 35 37
30 32 18 22 36 38
30 38 20 25 33
36 46 16 25 32 40

NORWICH, Aug. 11.
I
Wheat (per qr.) ... 60s 665. 68s. Beans (per qr.) ........,,, 355. 40s.
Barley ...... 30s. 325. 345. Pease, Grey.......-.. 365. 40s.
Oats ---.................. 225. 265. 28s. Flour, fine (per sack) 48s. 50s.

CANTERBURY, Aug. 11.
Wheat, white 60s. to 68s. -- —s. to —s.
red--. 545. to 635. —5. to —s.
Barley, Malting ...... —s. to —s. Grinding.. 265. to 325.
Oats
Beans —s. to 40s. Old. 363. to 38s.
Pease —s. to —s. 33.5. to 375.

MANCHESTER, Aug. 11.
Wheat, per 701 b. 9s. 9d. to 10s. 2d. Red Os. 64. to 9s. Ed.
Barley, per 60113 5 6 6 0 Oats 3 3 36n
Beans, per Imperial quarter
Pease, White, per Imperial bushel 3 0 5 6
Malt, per 6 Imperial bushels 43 0 49 0
Flour, per Sack of 2801 b

EXETER MAR
Beef (score) Bs. Od. 9s. 6d.
Lviutton (114.)--0 5i 0 6
Veal and Lamb....... 0 6 0 7
Pork 0 4 0 6
Geese (each) 0 5 6
Ducks 'c0un1eN.....4 0 5 0
Fowls .—.......-3 0 4 0 I

KETS —Aug. 10.
Wheat (bushel) t... 85. Od. Bs. 6d.
Barley .4 6 4 9
Oats 0 3 2 5
Beans 5 6 6 0
Butter (1b.)—.....,.....1 0 1 3
Eggs (12) ..........--..0 0 1 0
Potatoes (peck) —0 6 0 7

KILKENNY.—Butter 82s. to 83s. per cwt. ; Wheat 30s. to 31s.
per barrel; Flour 20s. to 345. per bag; Oats Bs. to lOs. per bar-
rel ; Barley I3s. to 15s. ; Beef 4d. to 54. per lb. ; Mutton 4(1.
to sd. ; Potatoes 2d. per stone; Coals Is. '2d. per cwt. ; Bacon
Pigs 325. to 335. per cwt.

Mr. Frodsham, of the house of Parkinson and
Frodsham, the chronometer-makers, in 'Change-
alley, appeared to complain against a young man
who had abandoned his employment under the fol-
lowing rather unusual circumstances :—Mr. Fred-
sham had engaged the defendant, who had been oc-
cupied as a watch movement-maker in Lancashire,
to come to London, and work in the more profitable
branches of the trade. The terms were—that the
defendant should ewer into a bond to give his ser-
vices to the complainant for seven years, in consi-
deration of being taught thoroughly the arcana of
the mystery or trade of chronometer-making, the
complainant at the same time engaging to pay him
1/. a week while under• probation, to support him.
The defendant, who was a person of quick parts,
learned the trade in less than two years, and then
thought nothing of his compact, but took it into his
head to move off to other quarters for the purpose
of appropriating all the profits of his labour to his
own use. The complainant produced the bond,
the terms of which were sufficiently explicit. Ile
had made this self-bound apprentice perfect, and
now required that the Magistrate would compel
the performance of th,t agreement upon the part of
the offending party, who was able to earn 3/. a week
at the work, in ,xhich the skill of the proprietors
had made him a proficient, and dishonestly refused
to perform his duty.
Alderman KELLY observed, that such a mode of
making apprentices was unusual, and he felt rather
at a loss to know whether it was comprehended
within the terms of the Act of Parliament.

Mr. HARMER appeared for the defendant, and sub-
mitted that the Act did not recognise such a mode
of binding. The young man exceeded his 21st
year when he enetred into this curious engagement,
which Wf-8 clearly illegal as well as disserviceable to
him. It was never contemplated that a grown-up
person should devote seven years of his life to learn-
ing a trade, which it was clear he was able to make
himself master of in less than a third of the time;
and it was most unreasonable in the complainants
to expect such a sacrifice to be made on the part of
their servant. The establishment was certainly a
highly respectable one, but rather too much was re-
quired of those apprentices.

Mr. Frodsham said that the defendant could not
by any exertion have been able to earn more than
255. a week in Lancashire, and that sum had been
given to him when he complained of the dearness of
London in comparison with the country. With re-
spect to the binding, he considered that as strong as
the more customary plan, and it was attended with
increased advantages to the apprentice, who had no
other way of paying for the knowledge he acquired
of the trade. A considet able degree of indulgence,
too, as to hours, was allowed to him.

The defendant said that he could not subsist upon
the allowance, and that he was determined not to
abide by the bond, which experience had taught him
he ought not to consider himself under any obliga-
tion to regard.
Alderman KELLY said, the defendant was at all
events bound in honour to observe the conditions of
the bond, and desired the parties to retire and en-
deavour to come to some accommodation. He
hoped that in a case which promised benefits of no
inconsiderable extent to the journeyman, there would
be no breach of contract.

The City Solicitor and Mr. Holder advised that
the masters should diminish the time of service, and
that suggestion was adopted to supersede the neces-
sity of applying elsewhere.
John Long, an old Irishman, was brought up,
charged with having robbed a laundress of a bundle
of clothes, which had been left with her to wash,
and also with having knocked the woman down.
The laundress had stepped out for a moment, and
on her return to her house, the hall-door of which
had been left open, she met the prisoner coming out
with a bundle in his hand, and received from him a
violent blow, which stretched her on the ground.
Very luckily a policeman was in the neighbourhood,
and went to her assistance, and the prisoner was
taken into custody.
Alderman KELLY—WeII, prisoner, what have you
to say to this charge ? Prisoner (with a desperate
brogue)—Say, your Honour, why what is it I've
done, your Lordship ?
Mr. Hobler•—Why, you have robbed this poor
woman. Prisoner—What ! Is it me rob a poor
woman ? 0 fie !—(Laughter.)
Mr. Hobler—Yes, and you knocked her down,
too. Prisoner—Who, me ? Me do such a thing
as knock down a poor woman ! Ah, no, your
Honour, never. Oh, dear, no such a thing could
happen as me knock her down. I've something
else to do, plase your Honour.
Officer—l found two handkerchiefs and a piece
of linen in his hat, and I think that he stole them
in that neighbourhood, too.
Prisoner—What ! me steal 'em ! eh, no, please
your Honour; them's my own goods, and I got
'em like an honest poor man as I am.
Alderman KELLY What brought you to this
poor woman's house ? Prisoner—Why, then,
plase your Lordship, I went to get those two or
three clouts that I had in my hat mangled, and
where could I go but to a washerwoman ?

Alderman KELLY—You have been there before
I'm afraid ? Prisoner—Never was nigh the spot
afore in all my born days—never seen the house
afore since I made my poor mother cry out.
Alderman KELLY—How, then,_ could you tell
that it was a washerwoman's ? Prisoner (staring)
—Eh ! How could I tell ? Why, I knew by
the look of it that they washed clothes there—
(A laugh.)
Policeman—There was no sign of washing or
mangling. -
Mr. Hobler—l suppose the fact is you smelt the
soap suds as you were passing by ? Prisoner—
Why, then, upon my soul, Sir, you just spoke the
truth, for my own mother was a washerwoman, and
my nose is acquainted with the smell.—(Laughter.)
Alderman KELLY —We 11, I shall remand you,
and make inquiry whether you have not stolen those
handkerchiefs.

The prisoner (blubbering)—Oh, Lord ! oh,
Lord ! you ar'nt going to lock me up for telling you
every thing---you ar'nt going to take advantage of a
poor man.---The prisoner was then remanded.