The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-24 00:00:00

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

r,cs:txrc MARKETS.
(From the London New Price or yebtVluay.)

SUGAR.—There was a steady Sugar Market last week,
and the estimated purchases were 3,700 hhds. and till. ;
the prices were rather higher. The stock of West India
Sugar is now 47,367 !aids. and trs., which is 11,415 less
than last year. The stock of Mauritius is 55,947 bags,
being 52,587 less than last year. The delivery of West
India Sugar is 3,323 hhds. and trs., being 216 less than
last year. The delivery of Mauritius 7,277 bags, being
1,517 more than the corresponding week of 1831. The
Market this afternoon has taken a very decided and fa-
vourable turn ; there are extensive orders from the out•
ports, which being met with a good demand, both for the
wholesale grocers and refiners, the Market has been most
animated ; the sales this day are nearly 2,000 hhds. and
trs., and the price about Is. per cwt. higher; no browns
now under 508. The Refined Market was dull last week,
and prices Is. lower were submitted to; large sales of low
Lumps at 605., anti purchases reported were under that
rate, and 255. 6d. on board ; small Lumps were taken
freely by the melters at 625. and 635. ; sales reported in
Crushed 30s. and 30s. 6d., few parcels of good under the
latter price. The quantity of fine goods taken for the
home consumption of the country was on a limited scale.
This afternoon the Market is much changed, though prices
are le. higher, and no sellers. Lumps were freely offered
at 601., now Oleic are few or no sellers under 61s. ; the
rise is owing to the advance of Raw Sugar, and the large
orders in town for Refined.

EAST INDIA SUGARS.—Bengal, Siam, and Manilla Su-
gar.; are very dull, and, where sales have been forced, prices
a shade lower have been submitted to; there are, however,
few sellers at the reduction.

MAnarTrus SUGARS.—The public sale of Friday, nearly
6,000 bags Mauritius sold with briskness, generally 6d. to
Is. per cwt. higher; good brown 495. 6d. and 50s. By
public sale this day 237 chests Brazil, a part sold 2s. a 3s.
under the late nominal quotations ; mid, white Pernams
245., ord. 215,; good dry grey Bahia 235. a 235. 6d.,
brown 198. ; strong white Rio 255. a 265. 6d., mostly
soft Sugars, Average price of Sugar 1/ 6s. Sid. per cwt.
COEFEE.—The prices of Coffee fell last week Is. a
Is. 6d. per cwt. ; nearly 6,000 packs Foreign offered at
public sale, of which only a small proportion sold, fair
quality St. Domingo 535. 6d. a 555. 6d. ; Brazil 535.
and 541. ; good ord. Cuba 525. 6d. a 545. ; good ord.
Jamaica, not clean, 71s. a 725. There were no public sales
of Coffee this day, and up to a late hour no purchases by
private contract were reported. The Market looks more
firm, and it is evident that the holders will not press sales
in the languid state of trade and the reduced prices.
Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—Leeward Island
Rum, particularly proofs, are very scarce, and are held for
high price, ls. 8,1,d. a Is. 9d. ; for the other descriptions
the demand is not extensive, but the Market Las a very
firm appearance. In Brandy and Geneva there is little
variation.

TALLOW.—The Tallow Market continued very heavy
till yesterday, when accoun,s were receiver., of a decline in
the prices at St. Petershurgh, in consequence of the favour-
Ale reports of the British fisheries; the consequence was
that large purchases were made; this report, so unlooked
for, had the effect of making the Market here more firm,
and very few holders will now sell.
TUItrENTINE.-In Turpentine not any arrival of
rough, nor alteration in price.
COCHINEAL, INDIGO, &:e.-At public sale on Friday,
48 bags of Cochineal, the great proportion mid, to good
fair silver; a small proportion sold 6s. 6d. a 7s. ; one lot,
very fine, 7s. 7d. ; 12 bags good to fine black, 7s. 6d. a
Bs. if., being a decline of 3d. per lb. in the prices; 52
herons Guatemala Indigo, a very middling parcel, 2s. sd.
a 3s. 9d., sold ; 99 bags Bombay Safflower, 51. 3s. a
5/. 7a. ; 12 tons Red Sanders, 171. a 171. 10F.

FRUIT.-About a halt of the cargo of the new Patras
Currants sold last week, 755. for butts and 765. for caro-
teels ; the quality was very fine.
Ons.—Oils are steady in prices, and a fair business
doing. The low price of Rape Oil has caused a great de-
mand. In Olive or Sperm Oil but little doing.
INDIGO.—There is no alteration since the India House
sale ; small parcels continue going off at sale prices. By
public sale this day 342 chests East India Indigo went
from 2s. Bd. a 4i. 6d. per lb., and 8 chests for exporta-
tion only from Is. I Id. a 4s. per lb. As compared with
the East India House sale the prices have gone at about
the same rates.

Cocoa.—The demand for Cocoa continues to increase,
and the prices of British Plantation descriptions continue
to improve. The Brazil Cocoa offered at public sale last
week, 760 bags, was all taken in.
TEA.-The Market continues steady ; rather more in-
quiry for Boheas.

SILK.-Tbe Silk Sale commenced yesterday at the
India House; about 900 bales passed, of which about I:)0
were scratched out, being bad Silk ; the others sold with
briskness 21 to 5 per cent. above last sale's prices. This
day the advauce is inaiutaiued, and the sale going cff with

I A C",l/1.1 M A 17 CZ IA
Wheat. Barley. Oats. ['ease. Beans.
First 64s (M 29s Od 21s (3d 3.4 s Od 34s Pd
Second sos Od 24s Od 22s Od 32s Od 32s Od
Third 4os Od 20s Od 15s Od 23s (3d 28s Od

MONTHLY REPORT OF CORN,
BY ORDER OF TILE COMMISSIONERS OF lIIS MAJESTY'S

CUSTOMS.

An Account showing the Quantities of Corn, Grain, Meal,
and Flour imported into the United Kingdom in the
Month ended Ist October, 1832 ; the Quantities upon
which Duties have been paid for Home Consumption
during the same Month ; and the Quantities remaining
in Warehouse at the close thereof.

The Protocols 69 and 70 of the Conference of
London, and the documents which are annexed to
them, contain some reflections upon the course of
proceeding pursued by the Court of the Hague in
the present negotiation. The value which the Dutch
Cabinet attaches to the opinion of the Conference,
and its duty to itself, do nor permit it to remain silent
on this subject. The undersigned Plenipotentiary
of his Majesty the King of the Netherland., in pur-
suance to orders from his Government, will have the
honour to make some quotations from the said
Notes, and will accompany them with the necessary
expositions.
" The Note," it is said, " of the Dutch Plenipotentiary
of the 20th of Septemt,er does not make mention of the
theme which had been forwarded to him on the 6th of the
same month, nor of any of the arrangements which are
proposel in it. The Dutch Government, without enter-
lag into. a discussion of the confidential explanations which
had been transmitted to it on the part of the British Ple-
nipotentiary, without even making► any allusion to them,
addressed to the Conference a new Note. The silence of the
Dutch Cabinet as to these confidential propositions was
little suitable. The Dutch Government preserved an ab-
solute silence with respect to the British Plenipotentiary.
The Dutch Plenipotentiary does not reply in any manner
to the confidential communications which he himself had
received and transmitted."

His Excellency the British Plenipotentiary having,
as it is said, in one of the above-mentioned docu-
ments, formed the theme in question on his own
motion only, and having presented it confidentially
to the undersigned, the Court of the Hague would
have deemed itself committing an indiscretion to-
wards that of London in addressing to the Confe-
rence its answer upon a project not emanating from
the Conference, and in developing to it the motives
which had not permitted it to accept that project.
It judged that the respect due to the source from
whence the theme emanated required that the answer
should take the same direction, and caused it to
explain at London and at the Hague that the matu-
rity to which the negotiations had reached did not
permit the Dutch Court to transfer it to a ground
entirely new. In very protracted interviews with
the Minister of Great Britain at the Hague, the
Dutch Minister for Foreign Affairs expressed him-
self upon the entire situation of affairs with an open-
ness and a frankness which could not but find a
favourable reception from the representative of a
nation so eminently distinguished by its patriotic
virtues. On his side the undersigned had the
honour to explain himself as to the non-acceptation
of the theme with his Excellency the British Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs.

Now that the theme is introduced into the Pro-
tocol of the Conference, and that they testify their
having expected to see mention made of it in the
Dutch Note of the 20th September, the considera-
tions which in that case had guided the Court of
the Netherlands having ceased, it hastens to fulfil
that expectation.
For that purpose the undersigned has the honour
to join to the present note the principal observations
to which the before•mentioned project has given
place.
" The Dutch Cabinet," it is alleged, " appears to apply
;NW •tsf "

The Dutch Government has constantly sought to
abstain from all dispute of a nature which was as
little analogous to its relations with the Conference
as to the spirit of concibation of it and of the Dutch
Cabinet. It confined itself to Explaining succinctly
its propositions, and the non-acceptation of some of
those which had been proposed to it.

" The Journals of the two countries," it is observed,
" seized on questions in which rival interests combated
each other, and in agitating them unveiled such intentions
of the Cabinet of the Hague with respect to the navigation
of the Scheldt, that one could scarcely be suroriseii at see-
ing complaints raised in Belgium against the execution of
such intentions, and particlarly against the provisional ap-
plication of the Tariff of Mayence to the Scheldt."
It is by no means astonishing that the uniformity of
language of the Netherland Journals, in discussing
the external politics of Holland, and the present ne-
gotiation, have given rise to the supposition in a
foreigner that they were directed by the Govern-
ment. But this uniformity has no other origin
than the good cause of Holland, and the public
spirit and rectitude of judgment of the nation. No
other nation enjoyed so unlimited a liberty of the
Press, naturalised amongst them for ages, without
being subject to any censorship, or to any other im-
pediment. It follows that the Cabinet of the Ilague
is not responsible for any article in a journal, with
the exception of the official part of the Stoats
Courant, and that the journals of the country are not
tied to consequences as if they unveiled its inten-
tions. Moreover, there is in the lines quoted an
inversion of facts, the Netherland Journals not
having began to occupy themselves with the navi-
gation of the Scheldt till after the Belgians, in op-
position to the 24, articles, had raised their voices
by means of the Public Journals, of Brochures, of
Addresses, of Petitions, and of Memorials, against
the application of the Tariff of Mayence to the
Scheldt, in such a manner that the articles in the
Netherland Journals became the effect, not the cause,
of these complaints.
" The Government of the Netherlands," as it is ad-
vanced, " addressed to the Conference, which had not
provoked it, a note more bitter than any of the preceding
ones, more unfriendly than was consistent with a proper
spirit of conciliation, and by which it loudly claimed,
without delay, the immediate signature of the treaty which
it had proposed to the Conference by its note of the 30th
of June, renewed by that of the 25th of July. The first
effect of this note, which had all the air of a manifesto
against the Conference, was to give the latter the idea that
ail means of conciliation were exhausted."

The note of the 20th of September was pro-
voked and became imperiously necessary in conse-
quence of the interruption which the new exigencies
openly proclaimed in Belgium suddenly caused to
the negotiation in the beginning of August, at the
moment when it was believed at the Hague to be
nearly arrived at a signature, and in consequence of
the apprehension that the silence of the Govern-
ment of the Netherlands might favour these exigen-
cies, and prepare for them at London a favourable
reception. A second reading will render it evident
that this note, like those which had preceded it,
was drawn up in measured and conciliatory terms,
and that, instead of containing anv one expression
that could be disagreeable to the Conference, it ex-
plicitly recognised the amicable reception which
the last proposition made by the King had met
with from it, and the maturity which the negotia-
tion had attained through these relations of mutual
confidence ; that in this state of affairs the under-
signed did not claim loudly nor immediately, nor
without delay, but simply in terms as mild as com-
ported with the subject, the signature of the Treaty ;
but so far from identifying the Conference with Bel-
gium, which would not only present an absolute
contradiction but would be diametrically opposed
to all the
acts of the Conference, and to its charac.
ter of mediation, it was possible to apply the last
part of the Note only to Belgium ; lastly, the
means of conciliation could not be considered ex-
hausted by the transmission of a Note in which Hol-
land only expressed the desire of coming to a con-
clusion according to the agreement which had pre-
viously taken place and until August with the Con-
ference; an agreement of which the correspondence
of the undersigned, accompanied by the justifica-
ers) had informed the Court of the Hague,
tory pap