The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-03 00:00:00

COLONIAZ.

SUGAII.—The mark•TtlT;Trlti7l; Plantation remains
firm, but quiet; sales about 200 hhds, without change in
prices. Bengal, 600 bags very fine white grainy Cosi-
pore sold briskly at 49s 6d to 50s 6d, also 1,112 bags
date at 35s for low yellow, to 41s for low white soft
Benares kind; but 1,150 grainy brown and yellow Sech-
pore kind was mostly withdrawn at 36s 6d to 40s 6d, as
also 6,824 bags low to good brown Khaur at 30s 6d to
13s. The quantity of British Plantation landed last
week at the East and West India Docks was 142 hhds
13 brls. There were taken for home consumption 1,167
hhds 157 tierces 422 brls; the stock in the same place is
8,679 hhds 1210 tierces 1952 brls.

COFFEE.-130 casks 950 bags Plantatoin Ceylon in
public sale, went rather easier, 250 bags Native kind
were withdrawn at 53s and 535 6d, but 28 casks were
Bold at 52s 6d.

COCOA.-586 bags Trinidad sold steadily at 48s 6d
to 50A; 76 bags Grenada were taken in at 493.

Rum.—The market has been rather quiet, but former
prices are maintained ; the quantity landed last week at
the East and West India Docks was 173 puns;
there were taken for home consumption 200 puns 1 hhd,
and exported 29 puns 29 hhds. The stock in the same
places is 15,434 puns and 1,094 hhds.
SPIOES.-120 bags Pimento were nearly all taken in at
sid per lb.
TALLOW.—The market is firmer. P.Y.C. 37s 6d
per cwt on the spot. Town is in good supply,
at 36s 6d, or 36s net cash. P.Y C. deliverable
all this month 36s ed, and from January to March
375. There are on the way from St. Petersburgh to
London 2,230 casks. The Russians have sold nearly all
their stock, having left over only 8,000 casks against
28,000 at this time last year. The stock on the Ist
January next is Expected to be large, say 54,000 casks.
TEA. —The market is firm, but last week's deliveries
in London were not quite so large.
TOLACCO.—At this period of the year, under ordinary
circumstances, we have generally observed an indisposi-
tion on the part of many of the trade to increase their
stocks, and during the present month it bas been very
apparent; nevertheless, sales of all sorts have been
1,280 hhds, viz., 260 blids Virginia Leaf, 250 hhds Ken-
tucky Leaf, and 770 hhds Kentucky Strips; the market
has continued extremely firm, two or three sales of
limited selections have been made at a slight
advance, and higher prices asked for some
parcels, but we have not seen any change sufficient to
induce us to alter our previous quotations, excepting for
fine spinning strips, which we quote at a further ad-
vance. Sampling has now made considerable progress,
especially in Kentucky strips. Some parcels du not
possess so much substance as the corresponding marks
of last year's importation, but are in better condition,
more colory and very good in flavour. Stock, 26,671
Ws against 25,005 hhds in 1849.

FIRE DAMP.—The constant recurrence of fatal ca-
astrephes in coal mines, arising from the explosion of fire-
damp, demands the serious attention of scientific persons,
with a view to devise some preventive scheme calculated to
obviate these deplorable disasters. No precautions hitherto
adopted have been found successful iu accomplishing with
certainty this desirable object, as the sad records so frequently
reported, but too painfully exemplify. It appears quite
clear that the only expedient which will prove effectual is
one that involves total annihilation. This victory over such
an insidious foe may, perhaps, be achieved by the simple
agency of a voltaic battery and conducting wires, which
might rival its triumph in the telegraph. The fact is
known that noxious gas instantly explodes from ignition by
an electric spark; as the wires may be conveyed with facility
throughout every chamber and gallery of the mine, the ex-
periment can be tried to test the salubrity of each locality
before the labourers descend to their employment, and be
repeated at intervals in order to detect in time the existence
of the fearful element, and ensure its destruction in small
quantities, without causing any material injury to the works.
An invention of this kind combines the advantages of a
cheap apparatus and the practical experience derived from
pursuits, on which grounds it may be
probably lead to the discovery of a
oatnhde r
more perfect process.
eitnstiatplepdlictoatnioonticine,
Archdeacon Manning, it appears, by a paragraph
in the Tractarian organ, has as last resigned his office. This,
we doubt not, is only the first step, to be followed by two or
three others, the last of which will probably land him in the
Romish Bishophric of Southwark. Dr. Wiseman has been on
a visit to Mr. Murray, formerly M.P. for Bucks, where he
met Lord and Lady Feilding, Mr. A. L. Phillipps, Mr. Mas-
kell, Mr. and Mrs. Allies, and Mr. Pugin, the whole being
converts, through Puseyism, from the Church of England, to
the Romish apostacy. Thus it is, that we keep nets and
snares in our own Church, whereby men are entangled and
deluded into Romish errors. Is it right, or wise, that this
system should go on? Would it not be more consistent with
common sense, and with the law of self-preservation, to
break down these bridges, recently built over the gulf which
used to divide Protestantism from Popery; and thus to
leave men, if they will turn Papists, to brave the Hood, in-
stead of making the way smooth and easy for them ? It is
with some views of this kind, we belive, that the meeting of
Thursday next, at Freemasons' Hall, has been convened.
The object is to insist upon the propriety and necessity of
making some rule, that those:who fill offices in a Protestant
Church shall not act as Papists. And we hove no doubt
that the natural honestyand straightforwardness of English-
men will say " God speed" to such a design.--Herald.
ESTABLISHMENT OF A SURREY RURAL POLICE.—
The Surrey magistrates met yesterday to receive the report
of the committee appointed to consider the propriety and
manner of effecting the above object. About 50 magistrates
were present. The committee were unanimous in considering
the present force insufficient to protect that part of the
county lying beyond the metropolitan police district. The
report recommends the introduction of the rural police in
preference to proceeding under the Parish Constables Act or
enlarging the metropolitan police district to take in all
Surrey, which would require a special Act. In complying
with the provisions of the Act 3 and 4 Vict., c. 88, sec. 29,
which requires that every police division shall contain
26,000 inhabitants, the committee propose the formation of
three divisions, the respective capitals of which shall be
Chertsey, Dorking, and Godalming ; the chief constable re-
siding at Dorking. They anticipate an expenditure of 3,0001.
in repairing lock-up houses and erectingstations, and propose
a staff, consisting of a chief constable, chief superintendent,
5 superintendents,, 8 inspectors and 70 constables. After
much discussion, the report was carried, and the election of
chief constable, who will choose the subordinate officers, was
fixed for the first day of Epiphany sessions.
DEATH 01' SIR WILLIAM WHYMPER, M.D.--On
the 28th ultimo this gentleman died at Dover, aged 65 years,
He was educated at the University of Edinburgh for the
medical profession, and in 1805 joined the Coldstream Guards
as an Assistant-Surgeon. In 1808 he accompanied the Ist
battalion in that capacity to the Peninsula. He served in
the campaigns of 1819 and 1810 in Portugal ; in 1811, at
Barrosa ; in 1813, 1814, and 1815, in Spain, Portugal,
Flanders, and France; and from 1815 to 1818 with the Army
of Occupation. The late Sir W. Whymper was present at
the battles of Oporto, Talavera (where he was taken pri-
soner), Busaco, Vittoria, the passage of the Bidassoa, the
siege of St. Sebastian, battle of the Nive, - and IaStIY at
WatetTho. He had received the war medal with five clasps.
111'1825 Dr. Whymper became Surgeon-Major of tire Cold-
stream Guards, and in 1836 he retired on half pay. He was
in ,113.32 knighted by the-fats King. •
FATAL ACCIDENT ON 'BOARD' SHlr.—The Baron
of-Bran:ll)er, of •London. cn Saturday night, Cams ,to
anchor near the Nore; when furling the sails, Joseph.Surn-
niers, the cook, fell from the foreyard, and struck himself
violently on the main rail, fell -overboard, ' and immediately
sunk. All efforts to save him were in vain.