The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-06 00:00:00

COLONIAL

SUGAR.—TheR.—The business one in ri .t. ish Plantation, as
indeed also in most other descriptions, has this week
been limited. The sales have been about 700 hhds
this week, up to last night, including 100 hhds Barba-
does, which sold at 66s 6d for fine yellow, at 57s 6(1 to
59e for mid, and at 53s for low soft grey.
REFlNED.—Standard Lumps have been at 73s per cwt.
EAST INDIA.-2,588 bags 77 boxes Bengal have been put
up, but only part found buyers, at 41s 6d to 66s for
brown to good white. Fine brown went at 48s 6d and
49s per cwt. 4.158 bags,Jl4o casks Mauritius sold at 63s
to 66s 6d for fine yellow, at 58s to 58s 6d for good mid,
and at 52s for fine brown. Some of the Bengal that
was taken in was at 67s 6d to 70s per cwt . • 6,003 bagA
Madras in bond partly sold, damp at 18s 6d to 335, and
sound at 18s 64 to 33s per cwt.
FOREIGN has been in fair request.
COFFEES.—The market for Coffee has been dull. At
auction 227 casks and barrels of British Plantation
realised full rates, mid Jamaica 82s 6d to 85s, fine ord
53s 6d, and triage 34s to 398 6d per cwt, but part of
the rest was bought in, fine ord Trinidad at 525. Only
500 bags Ceylon have been put. up, and these were all
taken in at 535, and privately there has not been much
doing. 'Good ord pale is quoted 52s to 53s per cwt ;
51 bales 10 cases Mocha brought 40a to 66s for ord to
mid, and some mixed Mysore 34s per cwt.
RlCE.—Bengal has been steady, but there have been
no auctions. •

SALTPETRE.-2,629 bags Bengal mostly found buyers
at 24s 6d to 265, for 104 ten 71bs refraction, the lots taken
in being at 26s to 275, for 6i to 4ilbs refraction ; and
946 bags Madras at 24s 64, fur 10-1 refraction.
SPlCEB.—Pimento has been steady, and also Pepper,
but with very little doing.
Rum.—Leeward Island has been in limited demand,
at 2s 44 to 2s 4i-d per proof gallon ; and Jamaica has
also sold at about previous rates.
INDIGO.—The market during the past month has been
very dull, but holders generally are firm. The deliveries
this year have increased.

COcumEaL.---Within the last
,month 2d to 3d per lb
advance has been paid on the ordinary sorts, and the
market is still tending upwards.
LAC DYE sustains full prices.
TEA.—The market has been very firm since the Over-
land Mail arrived, prices being high in China. The
stock was 29,151,00011 m on the Ist instant in London.
The deliveries this year to the same date were
32,668,0001b5, and the imports 32,885,0001b5.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 40s 6d to 40s 9d por cwt on the
spot. The import of Tallow from Russia this year is
89,329 casks for the whole of the United Kingdom.

PRINCE ALBERT'S (PRIZE) Ox FOR TIIE ENSUING
SMITHFIELD CATTLE Show.—The splendid black poll
Scotch beast, which has been fattening during the past
twelve months, for exhibition at the ensuing Smithfield
Cattle Show, at Flemish Farm, at Windsor, will leave
for town this morning. This extraordinary ox, which
was purchased for his Royal llighness in Scotland in the
autumn of last year, is now of the estimated weight of
upwards of 200 stone, and finely proportioned withal.
Its girth is ten feet six inches, and it stands upwards of
seventeen hands high.

FLANDERS MAIL.
(RECEIVED Tms DAY.)
BRUSSELS, DEC. 3<—The average price of wheat last
week was from 17.06, and that of rye
_f;ann 10.45 per
hectolitre. The-import duty on wheat remains, there-
fore, at from 37.50, and on rye at from 21.50 per 1,000
kilogrammes ; and the export duty on both is 25 cen-
times per 1,000 kilogrammes.
In the sitting of the Chambers to-day M. Savant Mar-
tel brought up the Mort on the Budges of the Depart-
ment of Justice.
The Minister of Justice presented a project of law for
the introduction of the cellular system (solitary confine-
ment) into the principal prisons of Belgium.
The Chamber agreed unanimously to-Ist. The pro-
ject of law, granting to the Budget of the public debt a
credit of 3,400,865 f., annulling a sum of 1,497,254 f. re-
maining disposable upon credits allowed to the same
budget ; and 2d. To the project of law, permitting the
exchange of London of bonds of the New Four-and a-
Half per Cent. Loan for those of the old F►ve per Cent. ;
and 3d. That for the entrepot at Antwerp.
The Chamber then entered on the discussion of the
budget of the Minister of Finance.
This discussion turned chiefly on the necessity of a
new organisation of the several branehes of the Ad-
ministration, and the Minister of Finance promised to
concert with his colleagues on the subject. The Chamber
then voted the first article of the budget.
Most of the trains, and particularly those on the
Southern Railway, have been considerably delayed by
the snow which covered the rails.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bausana, Dam. 2.
Actua Debt, 2% per Cent., ........ ........

Rothsehild's-LO;ri, Five per Cent 98'
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent. ........ , 704
.--- Three per Cent. ..... .....
----Thirty-seven Millicuns, ditto
--- (1840) ii•2%

- - 1844.......••••••••••”•••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Loan of City, 1843, Four per Cent. lO3
1832 lOl%
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent —
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent
Issue of 1841 ...... .......

—Brussels Papers. Dec. 4.
DUTCH FUN 'M.—Minimax, Dec. 3.
Moner. $1:18.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent............ 62% 63
Ditto, ditto, 3 per Cent.
Ditto, ditto, 4 per Cent.
aito. ditto a per mat.
Arnet t Syndic,4% per cent i9% 100
Pato, ditto, 3% per cent... 89% 93%
Commercial Company, 4% per cent l4B 148 %
Loan 1837, 4% per cent. —
Exchange on Londe's, Onemonth
Two months l2 1G
At sight l2 15
Dutch Papers, Dec. 3.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
The Derby betting yesterday afternoon, without being
at all heavy, was at least as lively as it usually is at this
period ; the chief outlay was on Idas, who was backed
for about 3001. ; about half that sum was put on Young
Eclipse, and a smaller amount on Pam, the odds in each
22 to 1. Anti-Repealer was backed at 25 to 1 for sixty
or seventy pounds (the taker willing to go on) ; Con-
naught Ranger f)t• 60/., at 40 to 1 • Miss Whip colt at
2,000 to 45 ; and two other outsiders for small sums.
The odds quoted against Alarm and the Cobweb colt are
nominal. Latest prices :
CHESTER CUP (NAME OR NOT).
400 to 10 was laid agst Foig-a- ballagh ; 1,000 to 15
agst The Dean ; and 500 to 10 agst each of the following,
in one bet :—Ratan, Alice Hawthorn, Foig a ballagh,
Extempore, Croton Oil, Pastoral, Agriculturist, colt by
Gladiator, dam by Capsicum, Morpeth, and Portobello.
DERBY.
15 to 1 agst Forth's lot
11 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Alarm
17 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Cobweb colt
18 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Kedger—taken
22 to 1 agst Mr. Coleman's Y0w1.... Eclipse—taken
22 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Idas—taken freely
22 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Pam—taken
23 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Anti-Repealer—t. 25 to 1
30 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnstone's Rebecca colt
40 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Connaught Ranger—taken
45 to 1 agst Lord Glasgow's Miss Whip colt—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Forth's Lady Berncrs colt—taken
66 to 1 agst Mr, St. Paul's colt—Calypso's dam—t.
1000 even between Anti-Repealer and Idas
1003 even between Young Eclipse and Idas
1000 to 10 agst the Cobweb colt winning the 2,000
Guinea Stakes and Derby, and Lancashire
Witch the Oaks.
THE LATE MR. CROCKFORD'S ACCOUNT.
We are desired to state that the guarantee required
by the Jockey Club will be forthcoming on Monday
next, and that the gentleman giving it will be prepared
on the following Monday to settle the account.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
NEWMARKET CHAMPION COURSIN4 MEET-
ING.—THURSDAY.
Exning Field (Second Ties fur Puppy Stakes)—
Maiden beat Elixir—Crocus beat Kestrel—Knabella beat
German Cloak—Flash beat Machine.
Second Ties for All-aged Stakes—Key beat Brocade
—Kizsie beat Captain—Nell beat Warrior—Farmer beat
Miracle.
First Ties for Chippenham (Aged-dog) Stakes—Fancy
beat Mussulman—Gamester beat Colonel—Railroad beat
Sweetheart (drawn)—Gem beat Miriam.
First Ties for Allington Hill (Puppy) Stakes—Hiber-
nia ran a byre (Rocket paid forfeit)—Flora beat West
End—Entre Nous beat Fullsail.
Match—Mr. Fyson's Freebooter beat Lord Strad-
broke's Maggot.
The sport was very good, but the attendance thin. It
is feared that the severe frost, which postponed the cours-
ing till one o'clock to -day, will cause divisions.
THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.)

BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock.... 2lB !Ditto Bonds £1,000..... Om.
per Cent. Red loo%jDitto under £l,OOB 7B pm
3 per Cent. Cons. ..... 'South Sea Stock
per Cent. Red — Ditto Old Annuities ...
New 3% per Cent. 102% Ditto New Annuities...
New 5 per Cent. .....«....« — Ex. Bills, 1,0001. I%d ... :5 pm.
Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001. ..... 5 pin.
Jar. 1860.............. 12% Ditto 53 put
Oct. 1859 Bank Stock for Acct....
Jan. 1860 129 Consols for Opg ..... 100
Indian Stock. — India Stock for Acct... 286
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per Cent ..... Russian, 5 per Cent.........
Belgian, 5 ner Cent — Ditto, Metallic ••••
Brazilian Bonds Vanish, 5 per Cent., 1840... 24%
Buenos Ayres, ii per Ditto, 1841 ..... ,„„
Cuba Bonds, 61.1er Ditto, 1842.... ..... „ .....
Chllian, 6 per Cent ........... Ditto,
Cokmbian, 6 per Cent .0, ••••• Ditto, 1844
Danish, 3 per Cent — Ditto, 3 per Cent ..
Greek, 18-25, 5 per Cent — Venezuela Bonds, iper Ct...
Mexican, 5 per Cent .... French, 5 per Cent...—.—t. -c.
Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per.Ct — French, 3 per Cent....... —f.
Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent — Exchange ...... —f. —c.
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per CL — Dutch, 2% per Cent
Portuguese Bonds,s per Cr Ditto,;s per Cent.........
SHARES.
-

Eastern Counties (25 paid) . 13%
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid
Great North of England, 100 paid
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid
London and Brighton (50 paid)
Ditto Loan Notes, 10 paid l2
London and Greenwich (12t. lt,s. 4d. paid) 9%
London and South Western (411. Bs. 10d. paid) Bl%
London and Croydon
London and York, 2% paid 4
Midland 5100 paid)
Ditto Fifths, 2 paid
Norwich and orandon. 6 paid
Ditto 'slew Sher s (1 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4,1 paid)
Trent Valley, 2 paid. B%
York and North Midland (50 paid) lO3
Orleans and Vierzon, 2 paid .. 10%
Orleans and Bourdeaux, I paid .............. .......... 6%
Paris and Lyons, 2 paid 334

THE LATE BANK ROBBERY.—We understand that
is consequence of a letter addressed to the banking-
.l-u,e of Messrs. Rogers and Co., by their solicitor, Mr.
llobler, suege,ting a mode of cancelling all the Bank of
England notes which have been recently stolen from that
firm, and thus rendering the property taken valueless to
the robbers and their confederates, some of the partners
of the banking-house have had an interview with the
Secretary of State upon the plan proposed by Mr. Nob-
ler, and the matter is now under consideration with Sir
James Graham. If so, we are quite sure the public, who
have generously sympathised with those gentlemen in
their recent loss, will be glad to know that for once the
most adroit masters in the art of thieving have met with
their match, and there is no doubt the public will con-
tinue to lend their aid to prevent the robbers deriving
any advantage from the possession of the spoil.
THE BLACKBURN AND PRESTON RAILWAY.-011
Tuesday afternoon an accident occurred at King's. bank,
Hoghton-bottoms, on the new line of railway which is
now constructing between Blackburn and Preston, by
wnich one man was killed, another so seriously injured
that he is not expected to recover, and a third much
hurt, though not to a dangerous extent. It appears that
the line at King's-bank goes through a pretty deep cut-
ting at the side of a hill, and the deceased and the two
others were engaged in making the cutting, and were at
the time of the accident at work between the hill side
and a waggon4 They were just about to leave work for
the day, when a large portion of the upper part of the
hill, it is calculated to the extent of nine or ten.
tons, gave way, falling upon and burying the men be-
neath. Assistance was immediately procured, and an ex-
press sent off to Blackburn for medical assistance. Mr.
Pickop, and Mr. J. Pickop, surgeons, immediately pro-
ceeded to the spot, by which time the unfortunate men
had been extricated from their position. It was found
that one of them must have been crushed to death against
the waggon instantaneously. The second, upon exami-
nation, was ascertained to be injured to a very dangerous
extent, and his life, we believe, is despaired of. The
third, we are happy to state, was much less hurt, and it
is hoped will speedily recover from the effects of the
accident. Every possible assistance was rendered by the
Messrs. Pickop to the survivors. As a proof of the
narrow escape the third man must have had, we may
mention that a snuff-box, which was in one of his pockets,
was completely crushed. The deceased was a fine young
man, about eighteen or nineteen years of age. This is
the second accident which has happened at this place.
A short time ago Mr. Pickop was called upon to attend
an excavator, whose leg was broken, and who was very
much hurt, by an occurrence, we believe, of a similar
nature to the above.

FARMING SERTANTS.—A Sussex Correspondent of
the Worcester Journal says :—"I am not learned enough
to write for a newspaper, or I would send a letter to ex-
plain the reason why we farmers gave up having lads in
the house. Why, "sir, we were summoned for the tax
upon men-servants, and I for one. I appealed
against it. One of the commissioners asked me,
Did the man ever clean your boots?' Cer-
tainly he did,' I replied. Then, farmer,' he
said, lam very sorry, but I cannot relieve you; you
must pay 245." Twenty-four shillings !' says I. Yes,'
cries Mr. Taxgather, 31. 2s. ; you are summoned for
two, Farmer Smith, and you can't deny that t'other has
not cleaned your boots and your knives too.' I could
not say that he did not, and so I had to pay the 31.25.,
and never have I dared to have a man in my house since.
Believe me, Sir, this has done more to injure farthing
men than anything else."