The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-29 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY

COLONIAL.
SUGAR.—The market for British Plantations has been
quiet this week, and the sales are about 500 hhds. Prices are
rather heavy.
MAURITIUS AND BENGAL.—There has been a fair private
demand, and at full rates, but very little has been done at
public sale ; 1,503 bags of the former were mostly taken in
at 57s Gd to 65s for low to fine bright yellow, and 880 bags
Bengal at 64s 6d to 67s for sound low to fine white ; these
have been sold since. 2,852 bags Madras in bond sold at 33s
to 33s 6d for mid bright sound yellow, and a small quantity
out, 1,283 bags, duty paid, went at 51s 6d to 56s 6d for
clamp.
FOREIGN.—Brazil sugar has been firm.
REFlNED.—Standard Lumps have been 75s 6d to 765, and
not active.
COFFEE.—British Plantation has not been much dealt in.
At auction 10 casks 9 barrels Berbice partly sold at 56s to
65s per cwt. Ceylon Coffee has only been offered privately,
and good ord has realised GOs to 66s 6d per cwt. There have
been 774 bags East India sold at 25s to 30s per cwt; 110 bags
Costa Rica were taken in at 52s to 53s 6d per cwt, and 3,705
bags Padang at 325, which is a decline.
COCOA.-481 bags 231 barrels Trinidad sold at 47s to
54s 6d for grey,• and 242 bags Bahia at 29s to 30s per cwt.
The former is 2s to 3s lower.
SPICES.-335 bags Pimento went at 3Ad to 3id per lb; 97
chests Cassia Lignea at 59s to 6ls ; a small quantity of Mace
at 10d to Is 9d per lb ; 536 bags Malabar Ginger at 21s to
21s 6d; and four boxes Nutmegs at 3s 3d per lb; 809 bags
black Pepper being withdrawn at 3hd per lb.
RUBL—The market has been firm ; 31 per cent over proef
Jamaica has realised 3s 6d per gallon.
SALTPETRIS..—'There has been very little doing.
RICE.—The auctions have been large, comprising 13,774
bags Java, which partly sold at and after the auction at 9s to
12s 6d for sound, and 2,002 bags Bengal were taken in at lls
to 12s 6d, the damaged realising 8s to lls 6d per cwt.
Corrox.—The quotations are drooping, and not much is
doing.

T&.—The public sales have been to the extent of 31,039
packages, of, which only about 11,000 have been sold. The
(Lc/el-in:4 hap d p.. lb oh Cungou, 2d Oil line,
ld on Twankay, and 2d per lb on Gunpowder and Imperial.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 41s to 41s 3d per, cwt on the spot, and
42s for the last three months.

ALARMING EXPLOSION OF GAS.—Last night, be-
tween seven and eight o'clock, a dreadful explosion of gas
took place in the front shop of Messrs. Foxwell and Co.,
linen-drapers, 26, Judd-street, Brunswick-square. The do-
mestics and others used their utmost exertions in staying the
progress of the fire, and messengers were dispatched for the
engines and firemen, who were in quick attendance. For-
tunately water was soon procured, and those persons first
present at the explosion soon extinguished the flames; but
before they succeeded, stock to the amount of nearly 1001.
was destroyed. The firm is insured in the Phoenix fire-office.
FUNERAL OF LORD WM. HILL.—The interment
of the mortal remains of the above highly-respected young
nobleman, whose melancholy death has cast a deep gloom
over the gallant regiment to which he belonged, took place
on Wednesday last, at St. Mary Tower, Ipswich, when he
was buried with military honours. The manifestation of es-
teem and regret to the memory of the deceased, not only by
the officers and privates of the Scots Greys, but also by the
inhabitants of Ipswich and the local gentry and yeomanry,
was beyond all expectation. At the general desire of the re-
giment, conveyed to the Marquis of Downshire through
Lieut.-Colonel Clarke, commanding the regiment, the funeral
accordingly took place at Ipswich instead of Easthampstead,
Berks. It is probably not within the recollection of the old-
est inhabitant of Ipswich that a military funeral on so im-
posing a scale ever occurred in that populous town, as the
whole of the regiment were called upon to share in the mourn-
ful ceremony. The Marquis of Downshire, Marquis of Sails-
bi!ry, Earl of Hillsborough, Lord Sandys, Lord Edwin Hill,
Viscount Holmesdale, Hon. R. H. Clive, M.P., Colonel Clive,
Hon. Captain N. Hood, Sir W. Middleton, Bart., &c., had
previously arrived from the metropolis to attend the funeral.
The inhabitants, without a single exception, closed their
shops, so that business was entirely suspended till after the
funeral was over.

ACCIDENT TO VISCOUNT CANTALUPE.-HiS Lord-
ship, who has been staying on a visit to Lord Wilton, at
Melton Mowbray, and was following his noble host over a
fence, with the Quorn hounds, when he fell from his horse,
and so injured his eye that when he arrived at the family
mansion, in Grosvenor-street, fears were entertainen that the
sight was irretrievably gone ; but yesterday's account was
much more satisfactory. His Lordship is attended by Mr.
Guthrie and Mr. Harrison, and was so much better as to be
able to receive visits from Lord Liverpool, Lord Bassborough,
Colonel and Lady Catherine Buckley, Mrs. L. Fox, and others
of the family.
Sir Robert Gill met with a severe accident while
hunting with Mr. Candler's hounds, at the Trench Woods,
near Crowle, last week. Sir Robert,.during a check, was in
the act of lighting a cigar, when his horse shied, and, rear-
ing himself perpendicularly, fell backwards, with his rider
underneath. Sir Robert was very severely bruised, but is
going on well.

LAW INTELLIGENCE

SECONDARIES'.-(THIS DAY.)
Mr. Under-Secondary KENNEDY sat in the Court of Com-
mon Pleas, Guildhall, to-day.
WALLIS V. ROWELL.
This was an action to recover the sum of 501. Bs. 11d. fur
meat supplied by the plaintiff, a meat-salesman, to the de-
fendant, a butcher in the Kent-road. The defendant had
not pleaded to the action, and judgment having gone by de-
fault, the action was consequently undefended.
Verdict for the plaintiff.
STEEL v. JONES.
In this action the plaintiff, a tailor in Lombard-street,
sought to recover from the defendant, a publican, 19/. 175.,
for various articles of clothing supplied to him.
Verdict for the plaintiff.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

GUILDHALL.-(THIS DAY.)
Jonathan Little, a young man of respectable -appearance,
aged 23, was brought before Alderman Hughes, charged by
his employer, Mr. John Sherword, cheesemonger, carrying on
business at No. 29, Wood-street, Cheapside, by whom he was
employed in the capacity of book-keeper and shopman, on
suspicion of having stolen one shilling and sixpence, and
other sums of money, from his till, under the following cir-
cumstances :

Mr. Sherwood stated that having missed several sums of
money from his till, he yesterday marked several pieces, part
of which lie put into the till, and part he gave
to persons whom he directed to purchase certain
articles in his shop, as if they were casual purchasers
Soon after these persons came in, and the prisoner supplied them
with different articles. and put the money, as prosecutor sup-
posed, into the till. Prosecutor, who was in a room adjoining
the shop, said that immediately afterwards he counted the
money in the till, and found a deficiency of 3s. 6d. He then
gave the prisoner into custody, and had him searched by the
policeman ; one shilling and sixpence of the marked money
was found in his possession, and about 30s. in a purse.
A gentleman, of the name of Sutton, gave the prisoner an
excellent character, and said he was never in want of money,
as his friends invariably supplied his wants in that respect.
The prisoner desired that lie should be remanded, in order
that lie might be able to obtain professional advice.
The prisoner was accordingly remanded until to-morrow.

UNION HALL.-(THIS DAY.)
CHARGE OF STABBING.-Sarah Best, the wife of a shoe-
maker, in Cottage-place, Wallosl'th, was charged before Mr.
Traill with stabbing Thomas Best, her husband, with a shoe-
maker's knife, an wounding him severely.
Policeman 130 P stated that about six o'clock that morn-
ing, while on duty in Walworth, he was informed that a man
was stabbed at a house in Cottage-place. He went there im-
mediately, and found Thomas Best in the parlour of the
house bleeding profusely from two wounds, one in the breast
and the other on the shoulder. Seeing the man was very
bad he took him to the hospital, where his wounds were
dressed, and he was not in a fit state to be brought forward
now.

A woman, named Manning, who lives opposite, stated that
the prisoner and her husband had been quarrelling for some
days, and that she (witness) was alarmed that morning on
hearing the prisoner exclaim " For God's sake come into the
house ; I've done it." The witness went in, and seeing her
husband bleeding, bound up his wounds as well as she could,
and having given information of what happened, the pri-
soner was then taken into custody.
The dresser of St. Thomas's Hospital described the nature
of the wounds, and the prisoner, who said nothing in answer
to the charge, was remanded until Monday.
Thomas Steward was charged, before 3fr. Traill, with hav-
ing attempted a very impudent robbery on board a vessel
lying off London-bridge.
It appeared that between three and four o'clock that morn-
ing an apprentice on board a brig, being awakened while in
his hammock in the forecastle, aroused his shipmates, and a
light having been procured, the prisoner was found concealed
behind one of the seaman's chests. On examining the fore-
castle it was discovered that the prisoner had packed up a
quantity of the clothes belonging to the crew, and was just
about making his exit with them when a discovery took place
as above described.

It having been stated that the prisoner was well known
about the water-side as a person of bad characterhe was com-
mitted for twenty-one days to hard labour.

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CORN-EXCHANGE.-FRIDAY.
Although the arrivals of English Wheat up to our market
this week have been but scanty, the demand for that article
was extremely dull, and in some instances purchases were
effected on lower terms. Not a single transaction took place
in foreign ; hence the quotations were nominal. The best
malting Barley supported its value, but grinding and dis-
tilling sorts were a mere drug. Malt, Oats, Beans, Peas, and
Flour were unaltered.

ARRIVALS.
Wheat. Barley. Oats. I
--
Flour.
English.... 2 rs. 1 ,440 q,760 qrs. 2,170 qrs. 3,190 sacks,
Irish.. - '7BO 19,980
Foreign. _ -

_ .
Malt, 3,470 qrs.'
SMITHFIELD.
The supply of Beasts was seasonably good as to numbers,
but of middling and inferior quality, if we except the re-
ceipts from Scotland—in number about 290. The Beef
trade was again in a very depressed state, and prices had a
downward tendency. The number of Sheep was compara-
tively small, yet the sale for them was inactive, at barely
late rates. The Lamb trade was active, at an improvement
of from 2d to 4d per 81bs. Calves moved off briskly, and
their currencies were noted 2d per 81bs higher. Pigs wera
quite as dear, with a good demand. Milch Cows sold at from
101 to 19/. each.

Per)iilbs. to sink the: offal.
a. d. to a, d. a d. to a. d.
;...,
Inferior Beasts ...... 2 4 2 6 Second qualityslitte... 3 0 3 4
Second quality.o 2 8 210 Coarse-woolled ditto.. 3 6 310
Prime large Ore 3 0 3 6 Southdown Wethers 4 0 4 4
Prime Scots, &c.
Large coarse Calves.., 3 6 4 0, Large Hogs 3 0 S 8
Prime small ditto 4 2 4 mall Porkers. 3 111 4 4
Suckling Calves, each 18 023 uart er old Pigs, eachl6 020 0
Inferior Sheep
SUPPLY A MARKET.
Beasts. I Sheep. I
133 Calves. I Pigs.
7.25 0,780 315
NEWGATZ AND LEA.XIZNBA.2.I...
We had a very heavy demand here to-day, on the following
terms :

At per stone, by the Carcase
s. d. to s. d.l s. d. tee. d.
Beet, Inferior 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior g 4 2 8
-- middling ... 2 6 2 81- middling 2.10 3 4
--{.rime 1arge...... 2 4 8 0 prime ..... 3 6 3 8
prime 5ma11...... 323 4S Pork, large .....
Veal 3 4 4 4 3 8 4 4
Lamb, 5s 2d to 6s. 2d.
BOROUGH BOP IMARKMT.
This market, although the amount of business doing in it
is by no means extensive, remains very steady, and last
week's quotations are well supported.--Weald of Kent, in
pockets, 61 to 6/ 16s ; Mid Kent, do., 61 12s to 91 lOs ; East
Kent, do., 6115 s to 9l; Choice, do., 101 to 11/ lOs ; Sussex,
do., 61 to 61 108 ; Farnhams, 8/ 153 to 11/ 15s ; Mid Kent
bags, 6/ 106 to 8110 s.