The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-04 00:00:00

COLONIAL

SUGAR—The market for West India has been moderately
active, but prices have been rather easier in some in-
stances. Sales of the week up to yesterday inclusive
about 1,250 hhds and tres. At auction Barbadoes
brought 55s to 55s 6d for law yellow, and 58s 6d to 59s
for good mid to good. Refined Standard Lumps hare
been firm at 74s 6d to 75s per cwt East India. There
have been large sales of Bengal, 11,352 bales, and
prices have receded a little; low to fine white 59s to
67s 6d, fine brown 51s to 51s 6d, and damp and washed
48s to 50s; 4,694 bags Mauritius mostly sold at 39s to
65s for low brown to yellow and white; 6,518 bags Ma-
nilla brought 15s to 19s for yellow, and 14s to 14s 6d for
brown, but only part sold; 172 bags Madras sold at
41s 6d to 515 per cut.
FOREIGN.-2,013 bags Java were taken in at 155 6d
to 23s for yellow, and 14s Gd to 15s for brown; 100
cases 153 chests Bahia sold at 18s to 25s 6d for low to
good greyish yellow, and 16s to 17s 6d for brown.
COFFEE.—The market generally has been in favour
of buyers. At auction Jamaica has realised 90s 6d to
I 99s 6d for the mid and fine sorts. Ceylon, 3,290 bags,
has not been freely taken, only part selling at 68s to
69s • and 92s 6d for Plantation sorts, being lower rates.
Mochas has also been cheaper. There have been 2,754
bags 2,668 mats Manilla (Hared, but nearly all has been
taken in or sold rather cheaper, ord to good ord 38s to 455,
for fine ord 46s to 48s, and some parcels as high as
65s ; 1,140 bales Costa Rica, went at 49s 6d to 56s for
part only; and 1,198 bales foreign East India realised 41s
to 41s 6d for good ord yellowish Singapore Java, Su-
matra being taken in at 245.
Rum.—This article has been firm.

SPICES.--There No been a fair business in Pepper ;

Sumatra 2id to 20, and Malabar, 30 to "id per lb.
Pimento is clearer.

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RlCE.—Bengal has been in good demand, mid white
at 113 end fine at lls Gd to 12s 6d.
SALTPETRE.—t, 'alcutta has been told at 26s to 26s Gd
for 311 refractien, and at 24s to 27s fiir 181 to 24lbs re-
fraction.
CocoA.—There is a fair demand, and good to fine red
Trinidad realised 45s to 47s per cwt.
Tonacco.—The market has been tolerably good lately,
and on the average prices have been maintained.
DRYSALTERY.—Indigo has been firm, although full
supplies arc expected. The sales begin on Tuesday, and
12,950 chests are declared. Ccchineal has found ready
buyers, at full rates.

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TEA.—The quotations are steady, but the market 1$
quiet. The Stock in London, on the Ist instant, was
30,000,000 Ibs, and the deliveries this year have been
26,700,000 11)9. Congou, ord to good ord 10d to UV
per lb.

TALLow,—P.Y.C. is 41s to 41s 6d for old, and 4153 d
to 41s 6d for new.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.
A new farce was produced here last night under the
title of Thimble Rig. It is founded on very slender
materials, the whole plot turning on the terror and
anxiety of an unfortunate grocer (13uckstone), Who
has borrowed 101. to lend his brother on his emigra-
tion to India—a fact which he studiously conceals from
his wife, of whom he stands in great awe as regards all
money matters. The creditor, however, becomes press-
ing, and actually sends a bailiff into the house to
take possession of the goods. The unwelcome offi-
cial, however, turns out a very jolly sort of fellow,
and knowing the grocer's circumstances, plays into
his hands to preserve the secret of the debt from the
dreaded spouse. Among other expedients, he pro-
poses that Ginger (such is the name of the luckless
husband) should accompany him on a thimble-
' rigging expedition, in order to earn the money in
requisition. But ere the plan can be accomplished,
the wife begins to suspect the bailiff, who has
hitherto passed himself off as a friend of the
brother to whom the money was lent, he having,
on the strength of the prospect of their future
doings, got considerably uproarious. The husband is
sent out for a constable to turn the unruly bailiff out,
and instead of accomplishing the errand, rushes into
the river in despair, but is dragged out without fur-
ther injury. The scene of confusion is wound up by
the arrival of the brother, who is in a position to pay
the debt, and relieve poor Ginger from all his con-
jugal apprehensions. There is very little variety in
the plot, nor was the dialogue or the acting enough to
compensate for the defect. The audience were, how-
ever, tickled at the beginning with the original idea
of the piece, and their good humour lasted to the end.
It was undeniably successful.

ADELPHI.
A pretty little operetta with the title of The Fa
and the Goose has been produced here. Its origin 15
French—Le Panier Flew,: being the parent stock—it
has not suffered by grafting, and an increase of vigour
has been attained by the transplanting. The plot is sim-
ple as the burthen of an old ballad. A pretty widow,
named Angelique, is the landlady of the Fox and the
Goose. She is pursued by lovers of al classes and
complexions, genera, and species—among whom
figure in the foreground Robichon, a sergeant of
police, and Michel, an old rentier. Now the
regulation is that all cabarets must be closed
at eight o'clock ; to evade this, Angelique en-
courages the sergeant's hope of a return of his pas-
sion. The same plan is used with Michel, for the
purpose of securing her lease. An Irish hussar--
O'Donoghue—the widow's husband, returns im-
promptu from the wars. His jealousies have, upon
former occasions, had the effect of disgusting her cus-
tomers. The widow, however, by counter assigna-
tions, contrives to secure her admirers in opposite
rooms, and obtains by her blandishments both the
written permission to keep her house free from the
police surveillance, and also her lease. The
Irish hussar, by fomenting a quarrel between the
rival candidates for his wife's favours, sells the use
of his sword for 501., the sum necessary to re-
lease him from his military service. However, when
the lease and the permit is gained, the truth is dis-
covered. The hussar claims his merry moiety, and
the brace of admirers take their conge. Mrs.
Fitzwilliam acted archly, sang charmingly, and
imparted a point to the music %hich in reality it did
not possess. She is our best singer of vaudevilles.
Bedford's huge comedy and buffo supremacy were
capital ; and Hudson's brogue whilst speaking, and
its absence when singing, were quite in character.
Mr. Cowell evinces much promise—he has excellent
means—with industry, perseverance, and a determi-
nation never to sacrifice propriety of character for the
purpose of eliciting unworthy applause, a career is
open to him which will lead to professional 01
nence. The operetta was laughed at, and applauded
throughout.

DARING ATTEMPT TO BREAK
OUT OF GAOL.
On the night of Thursday last, a bold and well
planned attempt to break out of the Derby Count);
Gaol took place, which, from the promptitude enu,
vigilance of the Governor, and particularly c 3
Mr. Sims, jun., as well as the officers of the
prison, was successfully frustrated. It appears, that
three of the prisoners (whose names we forbear
to publish, as they remain to be tried for various
offences) had for some time previously been in com-
munication with each other during the period when
they were in school and in the exercising yard, and
had contrived to arrange a plan of escape from their
cells, in the first place by forcing the bolt which se"
cures the door, and afterwards, if they were able to
obtain access to the outer wall, of which they con'
sidered themselves certain, as they had determined to
seize the turnkeys who might be in their way, to
scale the wall by means of a rope prepared for the
purpose.

The way in which this plan was discovered was as
follows :—Three weeks since the officers of the prison
found that the quantity of oakum which was given out
to these three prisoners to pick was not returned—that
it was deficient in weight—and this exciting their sus"
picion, they determined to watch their movements, and
to make an examination of the cells, when they found
pieces of rope hidden with the view of being instrumen-
tal in effecting the contemplated descent. No notice,
however, was taken of this, nor was the smallest
attention paid to so strong a circumstance in the
hearing of the three prisoners, as, with the concur'
rence of the Visiting Justices, who were made fie'
quainted with what had been going forwards from the
commencement, it was determined to suffer the men
to attempt their escape, all parties being prepared to
act as occasion might direct. The prisoners were,
therefore, closely watched, and, from what trail'
spired, it was found that they had agreed to
attempt their escape from gaol on the night of Thurs-
day last. On that evening they accordingly coin-
menced operations about seven o'clock, and it Wls
discovered that, during the afternoon, they had con'
trived to bend the bolt of their cells in such a man:
ner as to render its removal from the proper place not
particularly difficult. They were visited about nine
o'clock by the two turnkeys, whose duty it is to go
round the prison to ascertain if all is safe, and if the
prisoners are in their beds. Mr. Sims, jun., had
stationed himself in the passage leading to these cells
as early as seven o'clock, and remained there until
one of the cell-doors was forced, during which time
he frequently heard the prisoners call to each other
and arrange their movements. This took place about
a quarter to eleven o'clock, when one of the
prisoners succeeded in effecting an entrance from
his cell into the passage. He first went to the door
leading from the passage, and found it fast, and at
the top of the stairs Mr. Sims, jun., met him, and
cast upon his face the glare of a lantern wineh
he had with him, and immediately stopped his
further progress by throwing him down the stairs'
Two of the officers of the prison were with Nr.
Sims at the time, who secured the prisoner.
rope, made from the oakum to which we have alluded,
was found in one of the cells, with which the pri'
soners would have endeavoured to have scaled the
outer boundary wall of the prison, had they sue"
ceeded in getting so far. It is most probable, how'
ever, that had they attempted this, they would have
found the task far too difficult for them to accomplish'
We may be permitted to add, that the detection of
this attempt to force the prison, and the means taken
to secure the prisoners, reflect great credit on the
vigilance and discretion of the Governor and officers
of the prison, and will go very far to prevent such all
attempt being repeated.—Derby Reporter.

THE MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, OCT, 3.—The Royal
West India mail-packet the Dee left the river at 4 A-M•
this day, with the South American and West India
mails ; she was detained here since yesterday in conse-
quence of the mails from London not arriving until the
12 o'clock train last night. The Dee has 108 passen-
gers, 100 bottles of quicksilver, and 6,2241. in =toilet-
The Oriental Company's steam-ship Oriental, Captain
Soy, left the docks, this day at 4 o'clock for Alexandria,
carrying out the East India and China mails, also 130
passengers and a very full cargo of bale goods. The
Peninsular Company's steam-packet Royal Tar, captain
Evans, left the docks at 3 o'clock this day for Gibraltar,
with the Peninsular and Mediterranean mails. The
Royal Tar has 131 passengers, including 99 men, con-
sisting of Sappers and Miners, for Gibraltar. This town
has been extremely full for the last two days, in conse-
quence of the vast numbers of passengers embarking,
together with their friends to see them oft
NISBETT.—It is said that the gentleman of
high rank in the Customs, to whom this celebrated and
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accomplished actress is reported to be about to be united,
and in consequence of which she will not again resume
her professional duties, is Sir William Boothby,
the Receiver-General of her Majesty's Customs, a gen-
tleman possessed of considerable private fortune, in ad..
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ditiou to the emoluments arising from his official situa-
tion. tion. If the report be correct, though her loss to, thea
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stage, of which she was so great an ornament, Will„n
much regretted, the public will doubtless be glad to find
she has made so good an exchange for the anxieties and
labours of a professional life.