The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-06 00:00:00

COL-ONIILL

SUGAR.—There has been very little business done in
British Plantation, and for the small quantity sold rather
lower prices were accepted. Only about 300 hhds have
found buyers. The public sales have consisted chiefly of
7,454 bags 128 casks Mauritius, 238 bags Bengal, and 603
hhds Porto Rico. The whole of the Mauritius and Bengal
found buyers, the former at a decline of 6d in some instances
on the lower sorts, and the latter at about previousprices low
to fine yellow Mauritius brought 55s to 645, and low to fine
brown at 42s to 54s 6d ; nearly all the Porto Rico was taken
in at 19s to 21s for low to fine yellow, being above the value,
but subsequently have been partly disposed of for stores,
which, however, affords no guide to the market generally.
The stock of British Plantation in the Port of London on the
Ist inst. was 15,900 hhds 2,406 trcs, against 15,527 hhds
2,370 trcs, at this time last year. The quantity landed this
year has been 46,958 hhds 5,703 trcs, against 44,207 hhds
5,213 trcs, at this time last year. The home consumption
this year has been 44,107 hlids 5,093 trcs.
COFFEE.-2,112 bags Ceylon mostly sold at 53s to 62s for
good to fine ord, which prices must be quoted again fully is
higher. The stock of British Plantation in the Port of Lon-
don on the Ist inst. was 4,363 hhds, 4,283 barrels and bags,
against 4,141 hhds, 2,206 barrels and bags at this time last
year. The home consumption this year has been 3,188 hhds.,
1,475 barrels and bags.
Rum.—The stock in London on the Ist inst. was 12,212
puns, 2,913 hhds, against 16,431 puns, 5,114 hhds at this
time last year. The quantity landed this year has been
8,206 puns, 2,453 hhds, against 10,973 puns, 4,613 hhds, up
to the same period of 1843. The home consumption this
year has been 5,900 puns, 1,330 hhds.
RIM-2,674 bags Bengal found buyers, at and after.the
sale, at lls to Ils 6d for good mid white, being a shade
cheaper.

TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is 41s to 41s 6d per cwt. on the spot,
and Town 43s 6d per cwt. P.Y.C. for delivery in autumn
is 428 to 42s 6d.

CorroN.—The market is firm.

TEA.—A steady private business is doing, and prices are
firm.

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HEMP.—Clean is 29s per cwt.
WooL.—The sales are going on well.
PlNES.—Messrs. Keeling and Hunt are continuing their
auctions, having received 35,000 this season. The quality is
much improved, and full prices are obtained.
INDIGO realises full prices, also Lac Dye and Cochineal.

REQUIRED IMPROVEMENTS AT

WAPPING.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
If the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, who direct
the metropolitan improvements, have any bowels of com-
passion for the public good or the morals of the inhabitants
of Wapping, who reside in the immediate vicinity of the
Dundee, Aberdeen, and Perth steam-wharfs, they will as-
suredly improve the narrow street in this neighbourhood, by
pulling down some few old houses of comparatively little
value, and remove the cause of the nuisance periodically
taking place, sometimes four and six times a week; indeed
every time those steam-ships come up or leave the port of
London. Great credit is due to the police for their exertions,
but they cannot abate the nuisance while the streets continue
so very narrow. The number of vehicles of various descrip-
tions standing in this narrow thoroughfare at times is not
less than from thirty to forty. If the desire for the public
good does not affect those gentlemen, the convenience of
passengers of their own class ought to make some impression
on their feelings, inasmuch as they-are greatly incommoded ;
for many of their carriages cannot get near the wharf. One
old gentleman last week, an invalid, who arrrived just time
enough for debarcation, was carried a-pic-a-back ; and many
others, ladies and gentlemen, were obliged to make their
way through this dirty street on foot to the steam-ship, with
evident marks of chagrin.

A correspondent on whom we place reliance assures
us that land is certainly in the ascendant. The other
day a farm near to Hemel Hempstead was sold, and by a
country practitioner, at near forty years' purchase. There
is a property contiguous to it, which is announced
in our columns this evening, by Mr. George Robins.
It includes an ancient mansion and 300 acres of land,
with a tenant whose family have numbered one whole
century upon it; there are ornamental woods, extending
to 50 acres ; and our friend the knight of the hammer
facetiously observes in his announcement, that it will be
in accordance with good judgment to have them grubbed
up, and substitute crops of wheat and barley, concluding
thus—" A farmer does not need the luxury of woodland
scenery to interfere with his more important avocations."
FATAL ACCIDENT.—WORCESTER, AUGUST 5.
I write in haste, as the post is just leaving, to say that, at
seven o'clock this evening, twelve of the navigators employed
in our Severn improvement were drowned, while crossing the
water, at the works, a mile below 'Worcester. They rushed
into a flat-bottomed fisherman's boat, and, when in the
middle of the stream, the boat upset. One body only has,
as yet, been found.—From a Coreespondent.
WELSH HERRING FISHERY.—The herring fishery
has commenced at Dinas this week, although the take
on the commencement is not large ; but it argues well
for a plentiful fishery, the herrings taken being large and
very fat.— Welshman.
WELSH SALMON FISHERY.—The Salmon fishery
is very successful here this season ; there was not such
a plentiful supply of salmon taken in the recollection of
the present fishermen. Prices at present, Salmon, 4d.
per lb., Sewin, 3d.— Welshman.
THE EXISTING PARLIAMENT.—At the close of this
present protracted session, Parliament will nearly have en-
tered its fourth year of existence, having already lasted
about three years—viz., from August, 1841 (on the 19th of
which month it first assembled), to August, 1844. In order
"to die a natural death," the actual Parliament must, of
course, linger until the expiration of the session of 1848, four
years in prospective. Since .the era of the Reform Act, the
average duration of Parliaments has been generally less than
three years. The first reformed House of Commons, elected
in October, 1832, was summarily dissolved by William IV.
in December, 1834; the second reformed Parliament had its
existence cut short by the demise of that Sovereign in 1837,
but the third, which was elected on the accession of Queen
Victoria to the throne of Great Britain, lasted nearly four
years, and was finally dissolved by the Melbourne Ministry in
June, 1841. Of these three defunct Parliaments, only one,
therefore, was extinguished by an inevitable, or constitutional,
as contradistinguished from a party or political, cause. Of
the other two one was dissolved by a Whig, and the other
by a Conservative Government ; and it is curious that in both
instances the attempts to gain a majority proved a failure.
The longest Parliament immediately preceding the passing
of the Reform Bill was that elected in 1826, which lasted till
the death of George IV., in 1830, put a period to its exist-
ence. The shortest was the very next, which was elected
in the summer of 1830, and suddenly dissolved by the Grey
Administration in the spring of 1831, amidst the alarm and
excitement attendant on the introduction of the first Reform
Bill. It is worthy of remark that of the Parliaments which
were chosen for some time after the passing of the Septennial
Bill in the year 1716, not a few died a natural death, that is
to say, lasted their full period of seven years.
DESTRUCTIVE FlRE.—Shortly before three o'clock,
yesterday afternoon, a most alarming fire, resulting in loss of
property, estimated by the proprietors at not less than
2,0004 broke out in the extensive sheds connected with the
rope, marquee, tarpauling, and rick-cloth manufactory of
Messrs. Staff and Son, 2, Dawson-street, Great Dover-road,
Borough. Flames were first discovered by the inmates,
issuing from the shed in which the composition is prepared
for smearing the canvas used for waggon-covers, tarpauling,
&c., and it appears that the fire originated through the
neglect of a lad, who allowed the inflammable matter to
boil over, during the temporary absence of the man whose
duty it was to attend to the mixture. Before any assistance
could be obtained, the fire extended most fearfully, seizing
with the utmost fury upon immense piles of marquee covers,
one of which was sufficiently capacious to cover 4,000 per-
sons. It contained upwards of 12,000 yards of the best
canvas, and was completely fitted for immediate use.' Be-
sides these there were several thousand yards of manufac-
tured tarpauling, sacking, rick cloth, and other stock in
trade. The shed in which they were stored was 140 feet
long by eighteen feet broad, and the height was eight
feet. Upwards of half this warehouse, with the valu-
able contents, is destroyed. Engines from the South-
wark-bridge. road station, with Mr. Henderson, the
foreman of the Borough district, and from the Waterloo-
road, with Mr. Hambleton, the West of England, and the
County fire-offices, were shortly upon the spot, but upwards
of twenty minutes elapsed after their arrival before water
could be procured, although the Lambeth, Southwark, and
Vauxhall mains reach the immediate spot. When water
was obtained streams were poured upon the blazing pile, and
the effect was soon evident, the fire being confined to the
principal or. northern half of the shedding. It was nearly
five o'clock before the firemen concluded their labours, and
by that hour no further danger was apprehended. The pro-
prietors, unfortunately, are uninsured. Some of the houses
in Great Bland-street are injured, and those in Deverill-
street, at one time, were in much danger. Several 'willow
trees in the rope walk of Messrs. Staff and Co. are much in-
jured by the fire.
PRESENTS TO THE QUEEN FROM LOUIS PHILIPPB.
—" The Sevres, Gobelins, and Beauvais Royal manufac-
tories," says the Constttuttonnel, "and several private artists
and manufacturers, have received large and splendid orders
from the civil list, destined, it is believed, for presents from
the King during his visit to England."
Low FARES ON RAILWAYS.—We understand that
the third-class-passengers on the Brandling Junction Rail-
way are carried at less than one halfpenny per mile.—Rail-
way Record.