The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-09 00:00:00

COLONIAL

SUGAR.—The demand demand for British Plantation has been
moderate, but on the average at rather 4: it bier rates.
'lle sales have been about 1,450 MI& this week up to
!ast evening, including 150 hhds Barbad,es at 64s 6d to
67s for fine strong yellow, and 57s 6d to 58s for low.
REFlNED.—Etandard Lumps have been at 75s to 75s
6d per cwt.

LAST INDIA.-5,986 bags Bengal were mostly taken
in, a part selling at 53s 6d and 58s to 61s for low to
bright yellow and mid white ; damp and washed, 57s
to 51s ; 2,017 bags Manilla were taken in •at 18s 6d for
sound. Mauritius has been quiet ; fine at 63s to 68s.
FOREIGN.-2,600 boxes fine yellow Havannali sugar
sold at 21s 6d for the Mediterranean.
COFFEE.—There has not been much doing in British
Plantation; 267 casks 74 barrels Jamaica at auction
were partly taken in at Gss to 88a for fine .ord to mid,
the rest selling at 25s to 105 s. In Ceylon there have
been moderate sales, but prices are scarcely so high;
1,900 bags Ceylon sold at 83s to 90s for pia berry, at
70s to 70s 6d for low mid, and at 54s 6d to 55s 6d for
good ord. In Mocha 108 Brazils were taken in at 68s
fur low mixed greenish yellow, 415 bags East India went
at 278 6d to 28s 6d for Padang, and 101 bags La Guayra
were bought in at 32s to 32s 6d per cwt.
PlNES.—Messrs. Keeling and Hunt have sold from
eight to ten thousand this week at very Inll rates, and
the quality has improved. First class 2s 6d to ss, second
Is 10d to 2s 6d, third 8d to Is. To-day 500 are being
shipped to Paris, and 300 to Hamburgh.• There are fur-
ther sales next week.

Cocos.-291 bags, 8 brls Trinidad, went at 34t to
45s 6d per cwt., otherwise very hale has Ix en done.
RlCE.—Privately a moderate demand exi,ts, mid and
good white has been at Ils to 12s for Bengal.
SALTPETRE.—BengaI has been taken at 25s to 27s for
81 and 2i lbs refraction.
SPlCES.—Pepper has been rather more in request at
fuller rates, Penang at 24d to 2d and Malabar at 3*d
to 3P. Cassia Liguea has been sold at 60s to 61s 6d
for good mid fair.

COTTON.-A good business has been done at firm rates.
Rum—This article has been very firm, proof Lee-
wards at 2s 3d to 2s 4d, and Jamaica 30 to 37 over at
3s 4d to 4s 9d per gallon.
TOBACCO.—Last month's total sales were about 1,000
hhds ; prices on the whole being I.teady, though in some
instances rather easier.
WOOL.—There have been 29.083 Fags Colonial and
2,777 bags Foreizn offered. '1 he finer combing flocks
have gone at high rates. The condition of the Wool
was good, and also the demand. Australian super ctmb-
ing, is 8d to 2s ; ditto clothing, is 8d to 2s Id ; ditto
average, is 5d to is 7d ; Cape super combing, is 7d to
Is 10d.

TEA.—There has been a steady demand, at fuller
rates. Common sound Congou lldto II id. Deliveries
are w4pd.

Tim.ow.—The market is quiet. P.Y.C. 41s to 41s 3d
on the spot.

LEAMINGTON, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 7.—The grati-
fying intelligence of the safe accouchement of her Ma-
jesty, and the birth of the infant Prince, was received
here last evening, and hailed with every demonstration
of loyalty and rejoicing. The bells of the parish church
rang out their merriest peals ; and at a grand gala, which
had been previously announced to take place in the Vic-
toria Gardens, the conductor of the fete, with great spirit
and liberality, introduced several additional sources of
attraction appropriate to the occasion, the illuminations
and fireworks being altogether of a splendid description,
and the attendance highly fashionable and numerous.
Among the latest visitors to the Spa are Lord and Lady
Byron, Lady Montagu, Hon. and Rev. H. Pertie and
Lady Georgiana Eertie, Lady Howard and Hon. Mr.
Howard, Hon. Fitzroy Petre, Laurence Peel, Esq., and
Lady Jane Peel, Sir Richard Ottley, Major Ogle, Rev.
C. Isham, &c.

Bell's' Life in London of Sunday next, Aug. 11,
will contain till Reports of the Bloodstone Trial, and of the
Qui Tam Action against Lord George Bentinck, at Guildford,
Engraving of the Goodwood Cup, and the usual matchless
variety of Sporting Intelligence—Turf, Aquatic, Cricket, &c.
Price of Bell's Life, 6d.—Office, 170, Strand. Bell's Life is
published in time for all the Saturday afternoon Railways.
We regret to announce that Ben Morgan, the
celebrated Irish vocalist, expired on the 4th inst., at King-
ston, in Surrey, after a long and painful illness. Perhaps no
man ever enjoyed a higher reputation as a singer of Irish
comic songs than poor Morgan. He possessed a rich brogue,
and a vein of quiet humour, which imparted an especial
charm to all his efforts. We are sorry to hear that Morgan
has left a widow totally unprovided for.
The Hon. G. H. Nevill died at his seat, near God-
ston, on Monday, in his 84th year. Ile was only brother
to the late and uncle to the pre,ent Earl of Abergavenny,
and married 11th May, 1787, Caroline, daughter of the
late Hon. Richard Walpole, by whom he has left issue
the Rev. Henry Walpole and Mr. Reginald N. Walpole.
ACCIDENT AT BIRMINCIIANI.—At Birmingham, on
Tuesday, Mr. John Riches, builder, and a labourer in his
employ, were killed by the falling of a wall, in a house in
w_4l44teratioua were din on. :

CHINESE EPICURISM.—Dogs are fatted and eaten
n China as a delicious food, and are always found at the
tables of the great. Horseflesh, ruts, and mice, are stan-
dard articles of food, and sold publicly at the butchers' ;
a fact which reflects credit on the taste and good sense
of the Chinese, for there are not more cleanly animals
than those existing. Bird's nests are another article of
food ; but neither mud nor sticks enter int) their com-
position. The nests are found in the rocks along
the coast of Tonquin, &c., &c., and are built by birds
resembling the swallow. Thty are constructed, as is
supposed, of a small species of sea-fish, cemented by a
glutinous matter exuding from the bird itself; and when
usually formed resemble the rind of a large candied
citron. Bear's paws form another favourite dish. They
are rolled in pepper and nutmeg, and dried in the sun
When about to be dressed they are soaked in rice-water
to make them soft, and then boiled in the gravy of a
kid, and seasoned with various spices.—From captain
Pidding's Chinese Clio and Tea Talk, No. 15.
tAN ELEPHANT AUCTION.— A number of persons
were attracted to the St. Katherine's dock-house on
Tuesday to see " Tom Thumb sold by auction." , This
novel kind of lot turned out to be an infant elephant
just arrived in the John Bartlett, East Indiaman, and of
such miniature proportions as to have received the above
popular cognomen. He is of the highest Caste, is
only twenty months old, and probably the most dimi-
nituve example of his colossal race that his yet reached
this country. It was purchased by Mr. Warwick, the
late superintendent of the Surrey Gardens, for,lhe new
Zoological establishment at the eastern part of 1411tiont
pear the iaew Victoria )felt" - •
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