The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-13 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

SUGAR..—There has been an increased demand for all de-
scriptions of British Plantation, more particularly the low and
mid sorts, which have been purchased chiefly by the refiners,
and must be quoted again fully 6d to Is dearer since last Friday.
The transactions amount to about 2,200 hhds, inclusive of 105
hhds Barbadoes, which sold briskly by auction at 60s to 6Ss 6d
for mid to fine.

MOLASSES.—For the parcels sold rather higher prices have
been obtained. About 500 puns have found buyers, chiefly at
23s 6d for Nevis, Trinidad at 23s 6d, Demerara at 26s to 26s
6d, and Antigua at 26s 64 to 27s 64.
MAURITIUS AND BENGAL.—The public sales have only
offered 1,017 bags of the former, and 2,504 bags of the latter,
the whole of which found ready buyers at an advance of fully
6d to 1s on all, excepting the former descriptions, which
brought the extreme value. Low to fine brown Mauritius sold
at 50s 6d to 563 6d, good to fine white Benares 67s to 68s 64,
and mid to fine soft yellow (date kind) 57s to 60s ; 872 bags
Madras sold likewise on public sale at 58s to 61s for low to
good bright yellow. Some business has been done privately in
nearly all descriptions admissible for home consumption at
corresponding prices, but the transactions have not been ex-
tensive.

FOREIGN.--There has been scarcely any demand, but as
holders remain extremely firm, purchases cannot be made
at lover prices. The business reported since our last has
been confined to about 400 chests brown Bahia; for refining
in bond at 17s 3d. Refined Crushed is still held firmly at
26s to 26s 6d. Grocery descriptions continue in good demand,
and a fair business has been done at gradually advancing prices.
COFFEE. The public sales have contained 695 bags
Ceylon, 182 packages of Mocha, 1,743 bags East India, and
2,419 bags Costa Rica, all of which went off very heavily, and
were nearly all taken in at about previous prices; mid coloury
'eylon at. 80s to 80s 6d ; mid to good clean garbled Mocha at
70s to 76s ; good to fine ord Manilla at 37s to 39s 6d; good to
fine ord Singapore Java at 32s to 345, fine ord greenish Mysore
(subject to 4d per lb duty) at 80s; and fine ord brown to low
mid coloury Costa Rica at 40s to 70s 6d, but chiefly at 52s to
60s for fine to fine fine erd. Privately few transactions have
taken place. except in Ceylon, of which some parcels were sold
at 62s 6d to 63s for good ord coloury quality. A large parcel
of good ord Padang, amounting to about 1,000 bags, was pur-
chased by one broker at 245. Foreign sorts remain without
demand.

Cocoa.-942 barrels awl bags Trinidad brought to auction,
only partly sold at 44s to 51, 6d for orb grey to good red; 798
bags damaged Guayaquil sold also at 19s 6i to 24s for first to
fourth class damaged.
RUM.—About 150 puns Jamaica have been sold at rather
higher prices, viz., at 3s to 4s for 32 to 35 per cent overproof
of fair to good quality.
RlCE.—There has been rather more inquiry for Madras.
Bengal has been only in limited demand. The public sales
have offered 16,41 s bags Java (imported from Lombock), 674
bags Madras, Lnd 270 bags Bengal ; the farmer were nearly all
taken in at Ss to Rs 6d for low yellowish to mid white mixed
with Paddy ; the remainder sold at lOs to 11s for good mid
white Bengal ; 8s to 8a 6d for mid cargo Madras, and 9s 6d
to lOt for low yellowish ditto Bengal kind.
SALTPETRE.-There has been a partial demand from the
refiners, and extreme prices have been obtained for the quan-
tity sold. Nitrate of Soda is held with rather more firmness.
SercEs.-300 packages of Pepper were mostly taken in at
31d to 3id, for good half heavy Malabar. Privately very little
has been done. Pimento still continues in demand. Cassia
remains without inquiry.
_ _

COTTON.—A fair business continues to be done at the prices
of last week.

TEA.—The market is steady, but with rather less doing on
account of the large public sales advertised for next week.
TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is 41s 6d per cwt on the spot.
COAL MARKET
Ships arrived since last market.day, 1,
. d. s d.
Ord's Reuheugh l2 6 Wall. Eud Quarrington..... 19 6
West Wylam 4 t Walls End Hopper l7 0
Wylam
Walls End Clennell l5 0 Howard's W. Netherton.. 14 9
Walls End Heaton 8 0 W all: End West detton ... 17 0
Walls End Hilda l7 6 Powcll's Duffryn Steam ... 20 6
Walls En,l Hetton
Walls End Morrison . .....
Walls End Caradoc 20 3
pra E' OF SEE:OS— _

Pei Quarter

Per Cwt. ._
Sew English Res: C10ver...35s 56s St. Foin
Old DM:. Ditto , —s —s —s Rye Grass ...... „„..... FBs r:.
New Foreign Ditto.. —s 55s 54s Pacey Grass —s —s
Old Ditto Ditto —s —s —s Linseed, for feediii .—s 54s 5t
New White (Isver 453 srs (3.13 Ditto, for sowing ..... —s I)2s 14
Old Ditto Ditto —s s—s Ditto, for erushi,.g ....—s sOs 53
4tw Trefoil —s 12s 21s He
...—s Ws 42
Old Ditto —s —s —s Canary —s 603 fits
It forlorn —II —s ...-3 Per Kishel.
Eng Ugh Carraway —s 4ts 41s White Mustard...3os Od to 12. s U
Foreign Ditto —s 40s 411 s Brown Ditto lOs Od to 14s Or-
coriander ...... —s 14s 20s.Tates ...... . 49 Cd to 1 e

(From the London New Price Current of Jan. 12.)
Stwaa.—Buvers of West Indit Sugar have come forward
with increased freedom this week, and a further advance in
prices has taken plaCe for every description. In the private
market this week, Berbice. low greyish brown sold at 575, mid
grey 59s to 59s 6d .Demerara low yellow, 58s 6d, Canis-
eta', a m'xcd parcel at 58s, Demerara low middling
and middling 61s 6d; Jamaica fine and fine mid, 665; the
range of prices i; from 57s to 69s per cwt. To-day stiffer rates
being asked for %Vest India Sugar, together with the indifferent
assortment at market, rather tended to operate against business,
still on the whole the demand was good, and prices closed is
per cwt above those of last Friday.
REFINED.—There has been an active demand for Refined
Sugar of all descriptions for home consumption this week, and
higher prices have been again paid. Treacle has sold readily ;
boiled from West India Molasses at 21s, patent 22s to 255, best
made 26s to 27s per cwt. In bonded crushed Sugar large
sales have been made, and prices are still on the advance.
Today stiffer rites wet e paid for Refined goods, anti the
Grocers purchased largely ; brown Grocery Lumps 755, and
standard Lump• 75s 6d to 76s per cwt. Bonded Crushed
Sugar is with difficulty to be had at 26s per cwt.
111attainus.--This afternoon there were ready buyers of
Mauritius Sugar, and 1,875 bags at aucion sold at former
rates—good middling yellow at 635, middling 59s 6d to 62s 6d,
low 57s to 58s 64, middling grey 58s 6d. fine yellow 66s to
675, midd ing to good brown 54s Gil to 565., and low foxy 50s
per cwt. _

EAST INDIA.—AII descriptions of Bengal Sugar have met
with ready purchasers this week, and prices have further an-
vanced 6d per cwt. In Java Sugar sales to a fair extent have
been made privately at 18a to 21s per cwt. Holders of Manilla
Sugar aro firm. This afternoon Bengal Sugar, fine white
68s 6d, good 66s 6d to 67s 6d, middling 63s 6d to 64a 6d,
middling yellow 60s to €l2s 6d, low 57s 6d to iSs, damp brown
50s to 51s 6d, and sound 54s per cwt. Batavia bought in at
1-1 s 6d for low dark brown. and at 14s per cwt for washed.
FOREIGN.—Holders of this description of Sugar are firm,
and none has been offered at auction. To-day a cargo of old
white Havansah, not yet arrived off the coast, was sold at the
low rate of 25s far fair average quality, to be delivered at
Trieste.

AloLasssts.—For West India, prices have advanced 6d. per
cwt ; Demerara, good at 26s to 26s 6d ; Antigua, good 26s 6d
fine 27s 6d ; Dominica 24s to 255, fine Barbadoes at 29s per
cwt ; Bengal Syrup at 17s to 18s 6d per cwt ; Foreign Mo-
lasses 6s to 7s per cwt.
Ruiz, BRANDY, AD HOLLANDS.—For Rum of all descrip-
. .

tions prices are still on the advance. Jamaica 32 to 34 per
cent overproof, fair quality at 3s to 3s Id, good 33 to 35 per
cent over 3s 5d to 4s per gallon. Demerara at 2s 8d to 2s 9d,
for rather cloudy 34 to 36 per cent overproof, and really fine
2s 10d to 2s I ld per gal. Leewards Is 100 per gal paid for proof.
Calcutta Rum proof, with certificate, Is 7d to Is lid, and fine
I s 8d per gallon. In Brandy prices are again higher for every
description. Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1838 selling
hhds at 5s Bd, puns bs 6d; ditto, 1839, hhds Sc sd,
puns bs 3d • ditto 1840, hogsheads 55 3d,
puns 5s Id; ditto 1841, hhds 5s Id, puns 4s 11d;
ditto 1842, hhds 4s Ild, puns 4s 9d, and inferior sorts of
Brandy 2s 11 d a 3s 6d per gallon. Geneva, shipping sorts at
Is 10d to Is 11d, fine pale 2s 4d to 2s 10d. Hamburgh Gin
common is is 6d to Is 7d per gallon • British Corn Spirits
at I Cs to lOs 2d cash ; Scotch and Irish Grain Spirits 103
to lOs 2d, and Malt Spirits 12s 6d to 13s per gallon. To.
day Leeward Island Rum sold at Is 10id proof; Jamaica 23
per cent overproof fetched 2s 10d for common quality. Brandy
at the rates quoted above.
COFFEE.—The home trade are much in want of clean de-
scriptions of West India Coffee, and the supply being scanty
and far from ample for• their wants, they were compelled to
pay further advanced rates. Mocha has been only in limited
request, at full prices.
This afternoon Ceylon sold at a further advance of Is per
cwt : good ordinary pale went at 63s 6d to 641, good ordinary
colour} 65s 6d, fine ordinary 67s 6d to 68s, and fine and tine
fine ordinary Plantation sorts 69s to 77s per cwt. The home
consumption Coffee market has a firm appearance.
Cocon.—For West India further reduced rates have been
taken. Trinidad good red at bOs 6d to 52s 6d, good middling
to good dark red 47s to 495, middling bold grey 44s to 45s 6d,
good 46s to 46s 6d, fine 50s, and sea damaged 4ls 6d to 45s 6d
per cwt. Sea damaged Guayaquil first class good grey went at
245, second class 22s 6d to 235, third class 20s 6d to 21s, and
fourth class 19s 6d to 20s per cwt.
TEA.--A fair demand has prevailed privately for nearly
every description during the week, and the rates previously
established have been maintained. To-day prices were firm for
Tea, but there was not much demand, the trade for the most
part waiting for the sales declared for neat week.
SPICES.—For black Pepper rather higher rates have been
paid ; White good and fine at bid. to 7d, and inferior at 4 to
5d per lb. Pimento common is 2;41, and better sorts 21d to
30 per lb. Cassia Lignea is held with firmness. Nutmegs
firmer. Cloves rather lower. Bengal Ginger at 69s to 79s for
bold scraped; Jamaica, 4118 s to 1215 s for low to good bold.
Rtca.—Caroliae Rice cleaaed here at 26s for first, 245 for

second, and 21s per ewt for third quality. Patna at 13s to 17/
low mixed %slim Paatly ild, *OW .A Mk, OS 0:1, Liartra,4eit UrSt .
and second class at 63 6d to Bs, third class 4s, good ord repacked
8s to 8s 6d. sweepings 5s 6d to 6s Gd, common white 8s per cw
low white at 8s to 8s 6d, and mid mixed 9s 6d to 10e. Bola' •
low broken white les to lOs 3d, middling bold lOs Ed to llsr
and good lls 6d per cwt. Java at the former currency. ,j
SAGO.—Ordinary re.rrl at lls 6:1 per cwt ; 13s to 13s
for good middling large Pearl. Sago Flour 18s. per cwt. St.
Vincent's Arrowroot at 5d to Iod. Tousles ;iois 6d to
61-, id per lb.
Istnico.—The purchases of East India made have been upon
a small seale in al dpt
escriions for home use ad exportation,
and prices rule is to Is 3d under those of then last quarterly
sale for Bengal, and 6,1 to 10d per lb for other sorts. 112
Spanish Indigo prices have still a downward tendency.
Oils.—Linseed 011 at 27s 6d to 27s 941 per cwt on the spot
Rape Oil at 31s to 36s 61 for pale, and 35s to 35s 6d per 04
for brown ; Cocoa Nut Oil at easier rates; Palm good to fin!
28s to 29s 6d per cwt. Olive. Oil has been in p".'d
request, and former rates are fully suppoeted. Sperm
0:1, British at 6,5/ 155 to 72/ for low to fine, and very
inferi. r at 661 per tun. Cod Oil is 3•4 lOs ; Pale Senal
361 10s. Southern Whale at. 36/ 15s to 37/ for poi', —Ai
Northern 34/ 55 per tun. This afternoon Sperm Oil went at 7‘.'•
to 721; fine Southern at 341 to 371 ss; Newfoundland Whale
at .L9l to 351; Seal at ::41 15s to 35/ for finger., at 341 IV'
for straw, and 29/ 5s to 32/ for
..trown. Palm bougirt 111 at
261 lOs to 28/.
Tantow.—The trade have purchased Russian Tallow ccitl
caution on the spit this week, and prices have a downward
i
tendency. P. Y. Candle of first quality 41s to 4ls 3d rtr
cwt; for delivery in the next two months, 4ls ; for the
three months of the year 4ls 6d to 42s per cwt. Town Tallow
at 40s to 40s 61 per cwt, nett cash. American at ratbet
lower rates. This afternoon South American sold at 30s
to 41s 6d, New South Wa!es 40a to 41s per cwt.

STATE OF TRADE.
There has been rather a larger business done ea°
week in the principal articles of consumption, be
stocks have been sufficiently heavy to prevent
material advance in prices. The accounts to ban
from Bombay, China, and America, have bad no
small effect on our business and the trade of the
manufacturing distrits, as it is evident, from the
range of prices for goods in India, that no shir
merits of much weigfit Kill be made should spinner
insist on advanced rates, whilst the latest letters front
the cotton-growing States of America are calculated to
enhance the prices here of the raw material, as the esti'
mate of crop has been reduced, and shipments now arriv-
ing will leave a loss that may fairly be estimated at seven
per cent. on the amount invested ; luckily, however,
the planters e been the principal shippeis, and the
losses will, consequently, be of far less moment to our
merchants, whose Lrders have been given at rates much
below the currency of the principal cotton markets in the
States. One rather important statement is reported in
some correspondence, to the effect that the southern
banks were again assisting the planters to withhold their
crops from market, and that, whilst the stocks in thel
port were accumulating, prices were also advancing'
under the influence of such assistance. Let us,
however,
hope, that the severity of past losses has not so soon heen
forgotten. Here we have had a lively market, with
large sales, chiefly to speculators, at prices a Jut°
higher ; yesterday, especially, an enormous business Wu°
dose, roughly estimated from 18,000 to 20,000 bales.
The excitement in the share market has apparentlf
blown over, and the transactions are not so numerous.-'
Liverpool Mercury.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TRING STEEPLE CHASE—WEDNESDAY NEXr.
All have accepted except Cheroot.
By the kind permission of Earl Jersey, the match between •
Mr. Parson's Ghuznee and Mr. Burford's Beeswing was dr
cided in the Home-park, on Tuesday. Ghuznee woe.cleverll'
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Crawley and Horsham hds, Monday, Capel Village; Thu
day, West Grinstead; Saturday, Pound Hill, 10 —Cheshits
hds, Monday, Abbey Arms ; Wednesday, Wryne Hill ; Thurs;
day, Wilke ley Village; Saturday, 14renbury, ti—Ess"
Union hds, Tuesday, fieZelai2h Hall ; Saturday, Tothain
Maypole, loi—Montgomeryshire lids, Tuesday, HwyllthGwallni;
Friday, Car Howell Village, 10—Mr. Roe's his, Tuesdni, •
CreycAnoe Friday, Kingstone Village, 10—Tiverton
has, Monday, Bampton Down; Friday, Dulverton—Tickbaln •
hds, Monday, The Squirrels, Stockbury ; hursday, Wicklit4
Wood, loi—Mr. Candler's hds. Monday, Old Hills • Wedne°'
day, Bishop's Wood; Friday, Ham Bridge, 101 —Hereford' •
shire hds, Tuesday, 10th mile-stone on the Abergavenny Road;
Friday, Wall Hilts, 10—United Pack, Tuesday, Buckley, 9".
Brighton harrieis, Monday, Thunder's Barrow; Wednesday,
Patcham ; Friday, Dyke, 11—Mr. Trelawney's hds, Tuesday •
Ivybridge, loi—Brnokside harriers, Monday, Newmarket
; Thursday, Te!scembe Tye, Io}—Essex and Suffolk lot
Tuesday, Got Grove; Friday, Little Fentiey Hall, ICi—North
Warwickshire hds, Tue-day, Kenilworth Castle;
Meridens, Warwickshire lids, Monday% Bearlay Village s
Tuesday, Oxhill Village; Thursday, Mitford Bridge; Saint'
day, .Red Hill, IN—Ayrshire lids, Tuesday, Enterline Gate;
Friday, Auchans.

FRENCH LAW FOR ENGLISH RESIDENTS.--he
—T,
Correctional Tribunal of Tours was engaged on January 6w'
with the trial of a Mr. T an English gentleman, moe.pl'r.
in the first society of the town, for ill-treating his children.
appeared that this gentleman, who was a person of good for'
tune, had discharged his valet for some fault, and the latter; •
out .f revenge, went and lodged the above complaint against
him. The commissary of police, accompanied by a mecres'
man, proceeded to Mr. T—'s residence, and found on the
backs of his two little girls seine black and blue marks. MP
T— at once admitted that those marks were caused by I
small horsewhip, which he used for correcting his childrees-
On the trial a number of persons came forward, and bol
testimony to the general good health of the children. Severs
English ladies declared that they had seen the little girls about
tbe time of the Commissary's visit, and that they appeared te
be both gay and cheerful. M. de Noe, Captain in a Hussar
regiment quartered in the town, declared that a kinder inso
than Mr. T—could not be found, but that it was the habit
England for parents to correct their children with a rod er
whip. He had himself been educated at a public school in that
country, and knew it to be a fact. After a lengthened sittil
the Court deliberated for half an hour, and then declared that
Mr. T—, having been proved to have given blows to his chil-
dren' be fined IsOf? and pay the costs.— Galignani's Messenger'
ARREARS OF CASES IN THE COMMON LAW COURTS'
—On Thursday Hilary Term commenced, at whist* time the
arrears of the three Common Law Courts were as follow :-"'
In the Court of Queen's Bench there is a list of 74 rules foe
new trials standing for argument, the earliest of which Ws*
moved in Michaelmas Term, 1842. In the special paper of
the same Court there are 24 cases, whilst in the peremi,torl
paper there are 47 rules. In the Court of Common Pie°
there are in the remanet paper six enlarged rules, and twenti
others for new trials, all of which latter rules were obtained its
last term, and would probably have been disposed of but for the
new business introduced into the Court by the registration ar
peals, two of which remain for the consideration of the Court.
There are ten causes in which demurrers are to be argued. lei
the Court of Exchequer there are 30 new trials which were move,'
for in November last. In the peremptory paper there are seven
eases, and 13 in the special paper. These lists will be increased
by applications, which, according to the practice of the Courts;
must be made within the first four days of the present terser , •
arising out of causes tried at the sittings after last term. There.
is a diminution in the arrears, and it is evident that they have
been materially decreased by the somewhat recent Act enabling
the Courts to decide similar matters out of wins. A rumour is
rife among the profession, that a measure will he brought
before Parliament for the purpose of lessening the labours 0,
~"
the Court of Queen's Bench, by creating an additional•Coark,
for the disposal of the ordinary business, and to be a Court et
Appeal in criminal matters. The measure alluded to is said
to be deemed necessary, as the business of the Court of Queen's
Bench is cf a very heavy description, and partly to be attri-
buted to its exclusive jurisdiction in criminal proceedings. 1311
an Act which came into operatiun on the Ist instant, the
Crown-office is thrown open to the profession and a number of
offices abolished.

The lo'it of the four-horse coaches, whose excellent
appointments, accommodation, and speed, used to be the glori
of Maidstone, ceased running on Saturday last, up to which •
day . Coastworth had spiritedly maintained with his coaehr
the Favourite, an unequal competition s-... 11 the steam-carriages'
on one side of the old London-road and the steam-boats on the
ocher. The inconvenience to the residents on the line of road,
we reed not say, will be severely felt.—Maidstone Journal.
S Ettious 41, CCIDENT.— f hursday afternoon, about
five o'clock, as r gentleman, named Welland, residing at Hater
stead, was driving in his cab along the Hampstead-road, so: •
companied by a young lady whom we understood to be hi°
'laughter, the horse, a high-spirited animal, took fright at t ;
parcel of boys dressed up as Christmas mummers, and stave('
off with terrific speed in the direction of Hampstead, and 111 - •,
Welland having lost all command over the horse, in passing •
a coal waggon the off-wheel of the cab ran with fearful vie-
lence against it, precipitating Mr. Welland and his daughter t°'::
the ground. Mr. Welland fortunately escaped with a few
slight bruises; but the young lady received such severe in'
juries, that it is extremely doubtful whether she will survive-
She was picked up insen-ible, and, together with her father, •
conveyed home in a street cab. The horse, a most valuable
one, was fortunately stopped uninjured a few yards from where
the accident tonic place, but the cab was literally dashed to atoms.. _
METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS,- On Thursday, iv; •
consequence of an order from the Commissioners of Woods of A
Forests, the remaining houses in Upper St..iMartin's-Woe'
which are on the line of street leading from Coventry-stre6t to
Holborn, were sold by auction. There remain now be "t fele
houses to be disposed of for the completion of the iff,prove-
ments in this part of the metropolis. These are situated ati
the top of Great St. Andrew's-street, Seven-dials, and at the
south of the hi uses on the lower side of Sydney's-alley, whficht
when removed, will form the opening from Coventry-street'
The whole of the houses south of Cranbourne-alley have beets
cleared away. In a few months, therefore, the thoroughfare of
the new street might be formed. A now sewer is to be built upo°
part of the line, which will communicate with the sewer in the
course of erection at the top of St. Martin's-lane.