The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1844,

BANKRUPTS.

JAMES GAME, corn dealer, Long Melford, Suffolk,
to surrender April 12, and May 17, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Amory, Sewell, and Moores, Throgmorton-street.
JOSEPH STEER CHRISTOPHER, merchant, East
India Chambers, Leadenhall-street, April 18, and May 14, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee,
King's Arms-yard, Moorgate-street ; Gray, Great Tower-
street.

JOHN COTTINGHAM JOHNSON, merchant, Lau-
rence Pountney-hill, Cannon-street, April 18, and May 10, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street ; Fyson and Curling, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
JAMES BRADSHAW, woollen draper, Marylebone-street,
Marylebone, April 16, and May 10, at two, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Moseley, Bedford-street, Covent-garden.
WILLIAM BALL, cabinet maker, Goodge-street, Tot-
tenham. court-road, April 25, at two, and May 16, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old
Jewry-chambers ; Yenning and Co., Tokenhouse-yard.
WILLIAM BROWN, victualler, Wapping, April 23, at
half. past one, and May 16, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-chambers ;
Shoubridge and Co., Bedford. row.
GEORGE M'DONELL, wine-broker, Mincing-lane,
April 18, at twelve, and May 14, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy, Follett, official assignee, Basinghall-street;
Dodds and linklaters, Leadenhall- street.

THOMAS WIN.STANLEY, commission-agent, Lau-
rence-lane, April 10, at one, and May 15, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-
street ; Hall, Moorgate-street.
JAMES FRANCIS BA RNETT, hatter, Wellington.
street, Borough, April 25, at one, and May 16, at half-past
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee,
Coleman-streat ; Shearman and Co., Great Tower-street.

FREDERICK JOHN HENRY MUCLER,"—furrier,
Addle-street, City, April 13, at half-past twelve, and May 10,
at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official
assignee, Abchureh-lane • Teague Crown-court, Cheapside.
SAMUEL BALL, chemist, Liverpool, April 17, at half-
past eleven, and May 14, at half-past twelve, at the Liverpool
District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Milne and
Co., Temple, London ; Hore, Liverpool.
EDWARD GIBSON, builder, Kendal, Westmorland,
April 17, and May 14, at twelve, at the Liverpool District
Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool • Allen and Co.,
Queen-street, Cheapside, London ; Wilson and Scott, Kendal.
THOMAS ROBINSON, wine merchant, Leicester, April
16, and May 14, at one, at the Birmingham District Court.
Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Barker, Rose, and
Norton, Mark-lane, London ; Spurrier and Chaplin, Bir-
mingham.

GEORGE HAWKINS, mason, Bristol, April 15, and
May 15, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Aoraman,
official assignee, Bristol; Daniels and Barker, Bristol.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London New Price Current, of April 2.)

SOCA R.-The rates previously established have generally
been maintained for West India Sugar. To-day more desire
was manifested on the part of Grocers and Refiners to pur-
chase West India Sugar, but the small and indifferent show
operated against business ; the prices paid were fully equal to
those of Friday, and in some cases rather above for bright
yellow and strung grey qualities.
REFINED.-To-day the home trade were large purchasers
of Refined Sugar, and prices are still advancing : brown
saleable lumps fetching 74s 641 to 755, and standard lumps 76s
6d to 77s per cwt. Bastards more in request at 47s to 58s.
In Scum Treacle a good deal is doing at 18s to 20s. Bonded
Crushed Sugar in excellent demand, and 25s 9d to 26s per cwt
paid for the best. Of Loaves seveaal parcers sold, Turkey 2i.
to 41bs at 35s to 38s, Hamburgh 61bs 345, 9 to 101bs 30s to 3 is,
13 to 141bs 29s 6d to 30s ; Tittlers 20 to 301bs 26s 6d to 27s ;
Prussian 40 to 451bs 26s to 26d; Dutch Crushed Sugar is 22s
6d to 23s tad per cwt.
DIAURITIUS.-Holders have refused to take lower rates.
Damaged sold at 56s to 61s 6d, but the sound was all bought
in, good yellow at 64s to 655, middling 60s to 61s 6d, middling
grey 58s to 595, and good 60s to 61s per cwt.
EAST INDIA.-This afternoon Bengal Sugar was in limited
demand, and 652 bags at public sale mostly taken in at 63s to
64s for middling, and 62s for low middling white; damaged
sold at 61s to 63s 6d per cwt. Madras, duty paid, sold at the
full value ; fine yellow damp at 57s to 57s 6d, good ditto, 55s
to 55s 6d, middling 53s to 54s 6d, and washed 54s to 57s 6d.
Java Sugar taken in, good grey at 22s 6d to 235, middling 20s
to 21s, good rnd fine yellow 19s to 203 6d, and washed 19s 6d
to 22s per cwt.
FOREIGN.-To-day there was no public sale of Foreign
Sugar ; privately 120 chests of very superior yellow Havannah
sold at 235, and a floating cargo of 1,000 boxes old soft white at
25s per cwt for Holland ; the market has a firm appearance.
MOLMSIS-For West India previous rates are with difficulty
sustained; prices vary from 22s to 26s per cwt, Bengal Syrup
at 15s to 16s per cwt. Foreign Molasses at low rates.
COFFEE.-West India has been little inquired for by private
contract, but prices are maintained. Mocha has moved off
slowly by ,'private contract, and easier rates accepted. Java
has been taken sparingly, and prices are going down. To-day
the home trade purchased Coffee with reluctance by private
contract, and for shipping few parcels were disposed of; of
Ceylon 409 bags of inferior quality were submitted to public
competition, and sold as follows :-Triage at lOs to 245, bold
ditto at 40s to 43s 6d, Black 16s Gd to 17s, and damaged lOs
to 36s per cwt.
Cocoa.-Trinidad, good red selling at 53s to 54s 6d;
50s to 52s ; low middling 48s to 495, and good to fine
grey 47s to 50s per cwt. Foreign Cocoa cannot be quoted
cheaper. Bahia bought in at 29s to '29s Gd for good bright
red ; a few lot sold at 28s 6d to 29s for repacked, and 27s 6d
per cwt for sea damaged : sound Cocoa Husks from Malaga
taken in at 17s per cwt. This afternoon Trinidad Cocoa sold
at easier rates ; middling Red 501 6d to 51s, good 54 middling
grey 48s to 495, and low 44s 6d per cwt.
TEA. -The market has been in a flat state for Black Tea
since we last wrote, and Green has met with less attention;
prices have given way for all descriptions, the market having
been well supplied. To-day there was more activity in the
Tea market ; sales to a fair extent were made in black and
green, and holders show more firmness ; common sound Con-
gou, cash, la, and Twankay ordinary Is 2d to is 2P per lb.
At public sale 798 pkgs of Assam Tea were nearly all sold at
stiff rates: Congou fetched 3s *d to 3a 4 d, Souchong Is to
4s sid, Pekoe 2s 4d to ss, Bohea 3d to Is, Hyson Skin 11 d to
Is id, Hyson-26 91c1 to 3s 9d, and Campoi sid to 6el per lb.
SPICES.-Blaek Pepper is held for the previous currency ;
white has heen little sought after. Ginger has been less in.
quired for; Malabar, good bold home consumption kind,
selling at 26s to 27s Gd, and middling 21s to 21s iid per cwt.
Cloves are wanted, Bourbon at Ild to Is, and other sorts at
Is 2d to is lOd per lb. To-day Cassia Lignea sold at an advance
on former rates of 2s to 3s per cwt.
RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS. -For Jamaica Rum
prices are still on the advance: fair quality 30 to 34 per cent
over-proof at 3s 6d to 3s Bd, good 36 to 38 over 3s 10d to 4s,
and small parcels of superior at 4s 6d to 6s per gallon. Lee-
wards at 2s 2d to 2s 24d proof strength. For Demerara,
3s 3d to 3s 5d per gallon paid for strong descriptions. Cal-
cutta Rum at Is 11d to Is 114 d proof with certificate; in some
cases 2s paid for superior quality. In Brandy, prices as follows-
Cognac, best bands of the vintage of 1838, hhds 5s 11d, puns
5s 9d ; ditto 1839, hhds 5s 9d, puns 5s 7d; 1840, hhds 5s 7d,
puns 5s sd; 1841, hhds 5s 6d, puns 5s 4d ; 1842, hhds 5s sd,
puns 5s 3d, middling marks 3s 4d to 4s 6d, and low 2s 10d to
3s 3d per gallon. Geneva for shipping at Is 9d per gallon ;
fine in small parcels for home consumption 2s 2d to 3s. English
Corn Spirits at 2s 10d per gallon cash. To-day Leeward Rnm
at 2s 2id proof strength ; Jamaica common 30 per cent 3s 6d
per gallon.
RICE. -The market is quiet for cleaned rice, and more de-
sire shown to sell, Patna is 14s 6d to 18s, and Carolina 21s to
25s per cwt. To-day Bengal rice sound all taken in at lls 6d
for middling white; sea damaged, first class at lOs 6d to lls ;
second ditto lOs to 103 6d ; third ditto 9s 6d to lOs • and fourth
ditto 8s per cwt. Java, nearly all taken in ; good middling
white at lie to 1 Is 6d, and low middling and middling lOs to
lOs 6d ; sea damaged fetched 4s to lOs per cwt ; for the whole
of the sound lOs offered.

Saco.—Middling small pearl at 15s to 15s 6d, low middling
14s, and sea damaged lOs to 15s per cwt. Tapioca, at 6d to
bid per pound for fine quality. Sago Fleur taken in at 22s to
23s per cwt for good white, heing above the value.
INDlGO.—Spanish had been sought after, and the tendency
of prices is still upwards. To-day several transactions took
place in East India Indigo ; the demand is not speculative, but
for actual consumption, and any description is readily fetching
3d per lb advance en the rates of the last quarterly sale.
Gus.—Sperm Oil at 711 10s to 761155, and Headmatter at
78115 s per tun. Southern Oil at 291 5s to 321 101 for com-
mon to fine, and Elephant Oil at 271 10s to 291 per tun. Seal
341 lOs to 351 for pale ; Newfoundland brown Seal went at 27/
to 281 per tun. Cod at 341 lOs a 351. 331 lOs for
Newfoundland. Olive Oil has been in lively demand,
Gallipoli at 501 to 511; Sicily 491 to 491 lOs;
Spanish 481 to 481 lOs ; and Barbary 471 to 47/ lOs per tun.
Linseed Oil on the spot at 26s 9d to 27s per cwt. Rape Oii,
pale 38s 6d to 395, and brown 37s 6d to 38s per cwt. Palm,
fine at 28s per cwt. Cocoa-Nvt Oil at 29s 6d to 325. Madras,
at 301 13s to 311 per tun.
TALLOW.—South American fetched 34s to 40s 3d for low
to good quality ; Ibrail, good, 39s to 40 ; New Louth Wales at
403 to 40s 9d ; black 38s to 38s 3d ; Odessa Sheep Tallow
39s 6d 39s 9d ; Italian 38s to 39s 3d per cwt. In Russian
Tallow the operations on the spot have been upon a small scale
only; P.Y. Candle is 40s 9d to 41s; for delivery several con-
tracts entered into for the last three months of the year at 42s
per cwt. Town Tallow 41s to 41s 6d per cwt nett cash. To-
day P. Y. Candle at 40s 6d to 41s per cwt on the spot ; in the
price for delivery there is no variation.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
ROYAL COMMISSION.
Their Lordships assembled this afternoon at a Quarter
before Four o'clock, and the Home of Commons having
been summoned to their Lordships' bar, the Speaker
shortly afterwards made his appearance at the bar ac-
companied by several Members. The Royal Assent was
then given by Commission, in the usual manner, to the
Mutiny Bill, the Marine Mutiny Bill, the Annual In-
demnity Bill, the Berrill (Huntingdonshire) Inclosure
Bill, and the Mansfield (Huntingdonshire) Inclosure
Bill. The Commons having withdrawn, their Lordships
adjourned during pleasure.

Their Lordships assembled again at Five o'Clock.
The Earl of ROSEBERY presented two petitions
from Manchester and Birkenhead, against certain pro-
visions in the Dissenters' Chapels Bill.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE presented a petition from
the Ret. Dr. Hook, Vicar of Leeds, praying the House
to pass a Bill to divide the parish and vicarage of Leeds
into separate parishes and vicarages, for ecclesiastical
purposes only.
Lord LORTON presented petitions from Suffolk
against the grant to the College of Maypooth.
Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from a place
in Ireland complaining of the late decision of their
Lordships' House with respect to Presbyterian mar-
riages.

RESTRICTIONS ON TRADE.
Lord MONTEAGLE brought in a Bill to repeal cer-
tain laws which restricted the purchase and sale of goods.
In Ireland none of these Acts had been repealed, and
his object was to make the law similar to that in Eng-
land, and also to improve the latter. This was only
pursuing the same course which had been long since re-
commended in the House of Commons. He wished that
the
,Bill should be immediately printed, and that it
should be read a second time as early after Easter as
possible. The Noble Lord concluded by moving that it
be now read a first time.
The Bill was then read a first time.
The Marquis of BUTE presented petitions from Ayr,
Perth, and several other places in Scotland, praying for
the abolition of the tests, which were required to be taken
by Dissenters on entering the several Scotch Universities.
APPEALS AND WRITS OF ERROR.
Lord CAMPBELL rose to lay on the table of the
House a Bill for rewoving objections winch could pow be

taken to the administration of justice in this country
with respect to appeals and writs of error. The Bill
provided that upon the defendant giving security in
such sum as the court might direct that any fine that
might be imposed should be paid, and that the deferdant
should be forthcoming to undergo any sentence which
might be pronounced upon him, that sentence should be
suspended until the court of appeal bad decided upon the
merits of the case. The Bill would not come into opera-
tion until the 9th of August.
FEES TO JUSTICES' CLERKS.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE rose to move for a
return from each of the clerks of the peace at the several
sessions in England and Wales, of the amount of the
fees received by him during each of the last three
years ending the 31st of December, 1842. This was
a matter which pressed most heavily upon the poorer
classes of persons, because in the greater number of in-
stances, the fines :did not amount to
,one quarter of
the amount of the costs, and in many other
cases the costs were thirty or even forty times the
amount of the fine. Thus there could be no proportion
between the crime and the expense to which the
unfortunate culprit was subjected. He felt sure this
was a subject in which all their Lordships
must feel a deep interest. It had been mooted in this
House some time ago, and be trusted that the Right
Hon. Baronet the Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment would take this matter into his serious con-
sideration.

The Duke of WELLINGTON said he had made in-
quiry into this subject, and he found that those fees did
always go to the magistrates clerk. It was a matter of
groat importance, and one to which her Majesty's Go-
vernment would give every consideration.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE was informed upon good
authority that those fees did not go to the magistrates'
clerks, but were generally appropriated to defraying
the incidental expenses of the trial, such as paying
witnesses and constables, so that very often only a very
small amount of the fees reached the clerk of the peace.
Lord BEAUMONT said the principal part of the fees
went in payment to the constables, whose expenses were
regulated according to the distance they had to travel.
Lord CAMPBELL said that as the Government in-
tended to take up this subject, he would suggest to them
the propriety of regulating the fees to clerks of the
peace, so that they should not depend upon the length
of the proceedings. He knew that great extortion had
been practised in consequence of the fees being regulated
according to the length of the proceedings to which they
related.
After a few words from Lord REDESDALE and the
Earl of COLCHESTER, the Returns were ordered.
MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS.
Messengers from the Commons brought up a Copy of
the First Report of the Select Committee of the House
of Commons, appointed to consider the law affecting
Joint-stock Companies, which, on the motion of
Lord MONTE AGLE, was ordered to be printed.
On the motion of the Duke of WELLINGTON,
Their Lordships then adjourned to Tuesday, the 16th
instant.

be ready upon any emergency. There was sometimes
great advantage in concentrating their forces. Let not
the Noble Lord suppose that thir interests in the Me-
diterranean would be endangered because the fleet was
off the mouth of the Thames or in the Channel. The
Noble Lord should allow the Executive Government to
exercise its own discretion. No doubt their interests in
the Mediterranean were important, but there might be
reasons for appropriating them in another place, which
he was unwilling to enter upon. But if the Noble
Lord had a confidence in his judgment, which was just
in many respects—if he was prepared to take the com-
mand of the Channel fleet—(Much laughter)—surely
be might allow the Executive Government to take that
course which it seemed best for them to pursue.
Lord PALMERSTON said that he felt no want of
confidence in his Noble Friend—(Laughter)—in any
command in which resolution and determination would
be required.—( Hear.) And if his spiritand determination,
which were well known, were backed by the professional
skill of his Hon. and Gallant Friend the Member for
Marylebone, he thought they would be very formidable
The disposition of the naval force was certainly to be
left at the discretion of the Executive Government, but
yet the Executive Government exercised that discretion
subject to any remarks which might be made in Parlia-
ment. That discretion certainly was to be exercised
subject to a responsibility to that House. He thought,
therefore, that his Noble Friend, in taking the opportu-
nity which he had taken of making these remarks before-
hand, and directing the—tonsideration of the Govern-
ment to the subject, had not departed from the appro-
priate exercise of those functions which devolved on him
as a Member of that House. It was true that it was
only a question of prudence, according to the
existing state of things, whether we should concentrate
a large force on the home station, or distribute it more
equally among the different foreign stations, where its
presence might be required, not for purposes of hosti-
lity, but to give that moral effect and support to our
commercial interests which the presence of a naval force
invariably afforded. In the present state of things, if
anything occurred requiring the presence of a large naval
force on the home station, it would be quite as easy to
order the force home from the Mediterranean as to or-
der the force from the home station to the Mediterra-
nean, so that the argument of the Right Honourable
Baronet was equally applicable to either side of the
question. There certainly were grounds for hay
ing
.a large force in the Mediterranean, which
did not apply to the Baltic, the Pacific, or
the coasts of the United States. We had important sta-
tions iu the Mediterranean—we had colonies there.
We had Gibraltar, Malta, and the lonian Islands, there-
fore it was natural that we should maintain a large
naval force there, and the maintenance of such de-
fence there implied nothing , hostile or suspicious
towards Foreign Powers ; but if a large force were
to be sent either to the Baltic, the coast of
the United States or the Pacific, it would be supposed
either that we apprehended hostilities from some other
Powers, or that we intended something against them.
The cases were not parallel. The question of the dis-
posableness of the force applied, as he had shown before,
as much to the one case as to the other. Our commer-
cial and political relations were of more importance
in the Mediterranean than anywhere else on the face of
the globe. More things might happen there in which
the interests of Great Britain were concerned than
could happen elsewhere. If, therefore, the Government
intended only to maintain one sail of the line on
that station, he contended that they would not
be properly representing British interests in a
quarter in which they required the most scrupulous care
and attention. He could testify, from his own experi-
ence as Foreign Secretary, that nothing was more com-
mon than for British merchants connected with the
Mediterranean to apply for protection and assistance.
Considering the difficulties which might arise from time
to time in that quarter, he thought it not a wise dis-
tribution of the naval forces to have only one ship of the
line in the Mediterranean, and not the ordinary amount
of force; usual on former occasions. If it were a privi-
lege of Members of that House to criticise events after
they happened, he thought it a more useful privilege to
throw out suggestions before the occurrence of events.
Mr. HUME was sorry to hear any objection to the
reduction of the naval force. He had lately received a
letter from a naval officer at Malta, in which the writer
stated that there could be nothing more disadvantageous
to the interests of the navy than leaving large line-of-
battle-ships in the Mediterranean. They laid up at
Malta and other places there for twelve months, and
were much exposed to losing their discipline. He also
trusted that the Right Hon. Bart. would see the necessity
of removing the swarm of gun-boats from the Shannon.
REISTRATION BILL (IRELAND.
. Mr. WYSE complained of so early a day after Easter
being fixed for the second reading of this Bill, as had been
announced by the Right Hon. Baronet opposite (Sir R.
Peel). If it was necessary that the Bill should come into
operation at once, it should have been introduced at an
earlier period of the session. He thought it would be
more judicious to defer the second reading until a later
period.

Sir R. PEEL said, he would not, on any account, press
the second reading of the Bill against the wish of Irish
Members. Considering the feeling which appeared to
exist on the subject, he would postpone the second read-
ing of the Bill from Monday until Friday.
Mr. EWART wished to know whether it was the
intention of the Government to lay before the House any
&gest or code of criminal laws, founded on the report of
the Criminal Law Commissioners. He begged also to
ask the Hon. Member for Lewes, whether it was his
intention to bring forward that evening his motion with
respect to probate duty.
Sir R. PEEL said he was not prepared to introduce
any Bill to reform the criminal law of this country. All
the information on that subjeet was already in the pos-
session of the House.
Mr. ELPHINSTONE said that so many gentlemen
had left town, that he did not think it would be desira-
ble to bring on that evening the motion to which the
Hon. Gentleman referred.