The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-15 00:00:00

COLONIAL

SUGAR.—The demand for West India has been good,
and advanced prices have been obtained. Sales of the
week to last evening inclusive, about 1,900 hhds, in-
cluding 100 hhds Barbadoes at 66s for fine yellow, and
Ms 6d to 56s 6d for low.

REFlNED.—Standard Lumps have been at 72s 6d to
73s per cwt, and brisk.

VAST INDIA.-3,553 bags Bengal sold well, mid to
good white 61s to 64s per cwt, low to good mid fellow
53s to 595, and Dhobah kind 70s ; 651 bags Mauritius
sold at 43s to 55s for low brown and yellow. Privately'
the demand for both these sorts has been good, and liis;
nilla is 6d dearer. There were 228 bags Madras solo
at 45s to 54s per cwt.
FOREIGN.— 300 boxes common yellow Havannah Sugar
sold publicly at 21s, and a good deal has been taken at
that rate.

COFFEE.—The business in British Plantation has
been moderate, 141 casks 184 brls and bags, at auction,
sold at 30s to 58s and 94s for triage to good ord and
good mid; Ceylon has not been quite so brisk, at aue•
tion 3,567 bags have only been partly sold at 54s for
ord, and very good ord was taken in at 55s to 565. Pea
berry sold at 75s to 88s per cwt ; 108 bales Mocha went
at 49s to 67s for sea-damaged; 3,532 bags Singapore
Java were taken in at 38s for sound good ord brownish,
and at 32s for very ord brown, some of the damaged
selling at 21s to 35s ; and of 1,698 bags Padang, about
990 damaged found buyers at 18s to 24s 6d, being
cheaper, and the sound being taken in at 27s for goal
ord brown ; 257 bags Brazil partly sold at 29s 6d to
34s per cwt., fine ord coloury being taken in at 43s 6d
to 448.

CocoA.—The demand for Cocoa has continued good.
Grenada had been sold at 42s to 44s per cwt., and
Trinidad at 42s to 445.

SPICES.—Good bold heavy whits Singapore Pepper
has realised bid, and ord -lid per lb. Malabar has been
3d to 3,id, and Sumatra 2.-ad per lb.
RlCE.—Bengal has been firm at 10s 6d to 12s for
white, and Java is firmer.

COTTON.—There have been 7,300 bales of Surat offered►
and which chiefly sold at 2d to aid per lb, the rest being
taken in at 4d per lb ; 1,630 bales Madras sold at 2id to
370 per lb.
TEA.—The market is steady, but not particularly
active.

TALLOW.—P. Y. C. has been 40s 6d to 40s 9d per cwt
on the spot, and 40s 6d for the end of the year.
Rum.--This article has been very dull.

Some very beautiful and extraordinary specimens
of wood from New Zealand, for cabinet work, are now
lying exhibited at the Company's offices, in Broad-
street. They have been lately imported from the colony
by Mr. Levin, who has converted a portion into elegant
articles of furniture. The woods far surpass all others
known in this country, and we should imagine would be-
come a considerable source of gain to the Cor_n_pany.
EXTENSIVE SALE OF HOUSES.—THE VALUE Or
FREEHOLD PROPERTY.—Yesterday a sale by auction
took place at the Auction-mart, by Mr. G. Robins, of
property situated in Lisson-grove, consisting of several
valuable freehold ground rents, producing a clear income
of 2401. per annum, secured upon fifty-six freehold
houses, including shops and corner houses, the annual
value of which was near 2,0001., the reversion in fee of
which went to the purchaser in seventy-five years, which
was the period of the several leases. The auction room
was crowded, and several gentlemen of large capital were
present. The total ground rent amounted to 240/. ssa
and the yearly rent of the houses to 1,9131. The pro-
perty fetched 7,486/. 10s. Among the lots was the floPe
and Anchor public-house, which was subject to Ile
ground rent ; the rent was 1501. per annum. It was $
fee-farm rent, and the reversion fell to the purchaser in
seventy-five years. This went for 100 guineas.
STATE OF THE HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.--
The hosiery trade, in every branch, is gradually getting
worse, and nothing but complaints are heard on all side*
from the workmen especially. The principal branch--
the making of hose properly fashioned on the frame!,
the manufacture of which extends over a large tract ei;
country—is not more dull than the cut up branch, which
is confined to particular districts. The coarse hose, ge-
nerally made about 24 or 26 guage, and which are
termed " boot hose," have been for a long time very
much depressed, in many instances the species of hose
termed " drop-offs" having superseded them.—The
drawer and pantaloon branch is also suffering from
declension.—The cotton glove trade feels the ge-
neral depression ; and in the silk hosiery trade n°-
thing can be more gloomy than the stockingers' shoe,
which, in many instances, are all but deserted. T''e
bobbin net trade has met with a sudden depression of a
slight nature, a sort of panic having seized several
firms, who have, in consequence, discharged manyfemales employed in the warehouses, under rather unu-
sual circumstances. Still this is considered to be rather
a premature alarm, not founded on any serious want erf
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demand, and the scolloping the lace on the machine, 1"
is hoped, will have a tendency to renovate the market
for a time. We have seen a machine on the lever's
principle at work, in which no time is lost by the pro-
cess, which is very singular, contrary to what is gene-
rally conceived must be the method of accomplishing
the scollopping. Any required pattern of scollop may
be made, as the edge is operated upon by the jacquard'
and may be so by wheels, the chain, or any other Pl"'
tern surface apparatus. The extra cost of machinery_
will not exceed 251. The patentees intend to license 1.1.
limited number of machines, at not more than los. per
inch per annum. They have taken out a breveted in'
vention in France, and arrangements are intended to he
made with the machine owners of that kingdom, 33°t
only to license them, but to furnish them with appall.-
tus ready made, the law allowing the free export of no;
chinery giving them every facility. The patent is dated
23d April, 1844, and consequently will not expire 111".0
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April, 1858. It is equally applicable to traverse as 1
straight-down nets.—The silk warp trade has become
extremely depressed, and many frames have beenl"
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stopped and stinted. This has extended at length
the wide rotary frames, which are also now stinted.'
Nottingham Review.
MAN FOUND DitowriED.---Yesterday morning, at
an early hour, some persons who were walking by tha
East Lock of the City Canal, observed the body 01
man floating on the surface. Assistance having hell,
procured he was got out, but life proved to be tote If
extinct. He appeared to be about thirty-five years
age, five feet six inches high, dark complexion and hal,:
full whiskers, stout, dressed in an old pilot coat, dal;
sleeved waistcoat, drawers, and cord trowsers, having Lis
also a blue shirt and a flannel shirt. On searching ,utv„
pockets they proved to contain a small red purse, hav_'in
in it three half-sovereigns, one shilling and fourpensi7ver
silver, and twopence halfpenny in copper. A
1,0,a single-cased hunting watch, maker's name, " S. Gt.°
London, No. 21," with a common key attached by
narrow ribbon; a small brass comb, and an iron toban_rue
box. He had every appearance of a seaman, but 110 u_s'es
being obtained as to what ship he belonged to, or whence
he came, he was taken to the Poplar bonehouse.
In-
formation was immediately dispatched to the chief poliy':
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office at Bow street, and from thence to the differc
metropolitan offices yesterday evening.
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THE WILL FORGERS.—We understand that
seetable oung woman is on er way out to IN'
South Waly es, with the view of being married to Barber. a
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She sailed from Greenock a few weeks ago, and viv:
furnished with a free passage by Government. Si': ):
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longs to the neighbourhood of London. ---Edin 1.1
Evening Post.
The extent to which child poisoning is carried may
be surmised from the fact stated before the ParliaTe_ia
tary Committee on the health of towns, that one
druggist in Nottingham, made up thirteen huna_reof
e of
weight of treacle into Godfrey's cordial in the course
one year !—Nottingham Review.
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Damsons were on Tuesday morning cried about the
per streets at the moderate price of sixpence the
They were quite fresh ; and some late plumsAt this
muscle kind were selling at twopence per Pint-
fruit is
protracted period of the season, the above
scarcely seen in the market, and the present circa.,
may be attributed to the mildness of the vre_lll7 fro'
on the first appearance of frost these fruits dropl

the trees.—.ojvizes Gazette.
Accounts from Genoa state, that the rains have
swollen all the torrents with which that mountainee
.u!
country is interspersed. The greater portionP ofoltu roads
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bridges have been carried away, and some of thet
doffs
stopped up
by the waters.
with rocks, which had been brough