The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-13 00:00:00

BANKING DITALTIIZN T.

X.
Proprietors 'capital.. 14,553,000
Rest -. •••• • • . 3,092,021
Public deposits (In-
c,lading Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Say-
I ngs-bank s, and DI-
.

,Government securi-

tics (Including Dead
Weight Annuity).. 14,228,901
Other securities .... 12,7'22,488
(Notes • • • • .. 10,642.205
Gold and silvar coin.. 593,283

viaend accounts).. 9.775,399
Other deports 9,51
Seven day and other
8i115.......... .... 1,24,998

£38,186.877

428,186,877
51". MARSHALL, Chief Cushier.
*, 1850.

Dated the 12th :lay of December

COURSE OF EXCII,
:nsterazun ...... •• .. 11 l 4

(INGE.—(THIS DAY.)
atbranar•••••••••••••• --
Leghorn ........ • • .. • • 30 00
(Genoa.. • • . • ...... • • .• 25 50
Milan .. • • .. • • . • • • • •
Venice . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Naples .. .. • • • • • • .. • • 41
?Cern)°, peroz I 2414
Messina 124
Lisbon.. • 53%
10p0rt0.... • • .... • • .. • • 53%
Rio Janeiro • • .. 27%
Buenos Ayres .. • • . . • .

Ditto, three months.. 11 1614
flottet dam ........ •• 11 1614
Intwerp.• ............ 25 22%
Brunets.— 25 22%
Liamburgh .... • • M.B. 13 6
Altona •• ,
Parts, 3 days'aight .... 24 97%
Ditto, 3 mouths .... 25 20
Marseilles ............ 25 22%
iloardeaus.. ....... .
era.nkfort on Meths.... 113
Berlin.. ... • • • .... • • ••
Vienna, °fee. d 0...—. 13 5
Trieste, ditto.... • • 13 5
Petersburgh, sit. Itble— 371,1,
Madrid •• ......... 49.74
Cadiz
Barcelona ............

New York, 60 days'alihi
Philadelphia

MICE. Cr BULLION, PEE OIL
Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars •... •• 0 4 11
:111,7e-rim bars 0 5 l 3

Seville • • • • • •

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

By the QUEEN.—A PROCLAMATION.

_ .
Victoria, ll.—Whereas, our Parliament stands pro
regued to Tuesday, the 17th day of this instant Decem.

ber, We, with the advice of our Privy Council, do hereby
publish and declare, that the said Parliament shall be
further prorogued, on the said 17th day of December in •
stunt, to Tuesday, the 4th day of February next ; and
We have given order to our Chancellor of that part of
our United Kingdom called Great Britain, to prepare a
Commission for proroguing the same accordingly: and
Wo do hereby further, with the advice aforesaid, de-
clare our Royal will and pleasure, that the said Parlia-
ment shall, on the said Tuesday, the fourth day of Fe-
bruary next, assemble and- be holden for the dispatch
of divers urgent and important affairs; and the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens, and
Burgesses, and the Commissioners for Shires and Burghs
of the House of Commons, are hereby regaired and
commanded to give their attendance accordingly, at
Westminster, on the said , Tuesday, the fourth day of
February next.

Given at our Court, at Windsor, this twelfth day of
December, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fifty, and in the fourteenth year
of our reign.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price Current, Dec. 13.)
SUGAR.-To-day there was not much doing in West
India, owing to the large public sales of East India;
still holders refused to sell except at full former rates
for both grocery and refining sorte. The purchases are
487 hhds, including at public sale 205 hhds 15 trcs 213
brls St Lucia, which sold at stiff prtces, yellow 37s
6d to 41s, fine 42s to 435, good and fine brown
36s 6d to 375, grey kinds 38s to 41s; 42 hhds 23 tres
Barbadoes sold at full rates, ord and mid 405 to 42s 6d,
fine 44s 6d. 76 hhds Demerara chrystolised 46s 6d to
475, inferior and brown 398 93 to 43s 6d. For the
week the total sales are 2,029 hhds, &c.
REFINED.-To-day there were not sellers of brown
grocery Lumps under 51s, but Refined goods were in
demand for home trade purposes. In Crushed Sugarf
there is no variation.
MAIIRITIUS.-This afternoon the public sales of Mau-
ritius Sugar went off with fair spirit at steady rates,
fine.yellow realised 41s 6d to 435, ord to good 375 to
41s 6d, brown 32s to 35s 6d, fine 363 6d to 375, working
kinds 37s to 40s, and grainy 44s to 455.
I LEAST leade.-This afternoon the parcels of Bengal
Sugar offered at public sale were larger than for some
time past, and amounted to 8,580 bags; there was a good
demand and nearly the whole sold, but rather lower rates
were taken for soft yellow and Mauritius descriptions,
whilst other sorts realised fully the former value, good
and fine grainy yellow 44s to 475, mid 41s 6d to 43s 6d
good and fine white Benares 445 to 45s 6d, like Mauri-
tius 35s to 403, superior 41s to 425, brown 31s to 345, soft
yellow 33s to 38s 6d, and brown 28s to 30s. Of Penang
2,448 bags all sold; for the lower kinds a slight decline was
taken, but better sorts brought full rates, ord and mid soft
white 40s to 42s 6d, low to fine yellow 34a to 395,
FOREIGN.-Tu-day there Was no public sale of Foreign
Sugar, and privately operations were of little moment,
but holders would not sell except at former rates.
COFFEE.-This afternoon shippers and home dealers
evinced little desire to overate in Coffee, and 54s to 55e
is the nearest value of low ord Native Ceylon; at pub-
lic sale 9 casks 159 bags Plantation went at barely
former rates, fine and fine fine ord 56s to 57s 63; of Sr.
Domingo 1,830 bags were taken in at 49s to 50sfor
good ord; t::63 cases Tellieherry at 63s to 64s for good;
136 bags Mysore went at 51s '6d for good ord, being
rather loner; and 31 casks Jamaica sold at moderate
rates, mid at 60s, low mid at 575, ord 50s 63; of Costa
Rica a small part only of 397 bags went at barely last
week's rates, ord to line ord at 50a to 54s and fine fine
ord 563-to 583.
Cecoa.-This afternoon a public sale of 695 bags
Trinidad went at stiff rates, and realised from 48s to
555 61.
;;;IVloLsssEs.-Tl:ere are several buyers of West India
at full rates, but sales of moment are prevented by the
limited quantity at market; the rates paid are from 15
ed to 17s for low to fine. Sales to a limited extent have
been wade in Cuba and Purto [tic° at 15a 6d to 16s 63;
and Bengal 12s Gd to 13s. Of Mauritius 25 casks at
auction were sold at 13s. Previous rates are well sup
ported for Honey.
TEA.-Fine new Congou continues in good demand
for home consumption, and the market has been nearly
cleared, prices remain firm at is 8d to le 10d. Other
sorts of Congou are not offered at lower terms, although
dealers have made purchaies with caution; the value
of ord and good ord is is old to is lid,
medium is lid to Is 2d, and other qualities Is 3d to
Is 73. Green Tea has been operated in with caution,
and the parcels on offer exceed those of last week, still
merchants generally have refused to take easier rates.
In Scented and Pekoe Teas less has been done, still in
the value there is no variation. At public sales yester-
day the quantity of Tea off..red was 3,100 pkgs, but only
750 actually sold. -
Rim-To-day at public sale 240 bags Bengal Rice
sold at 103 to 19s 6d for mid white, ord 9s 6d; 175 lesgs
cargo Madras 7s to Bs, these are rather lower rates.
SPICES.-To-day prices declined 23 per lb for brown
Nutmegs at a public sale of 166 pkgs, bat all sold; mid
to good went at 28 8d to 3s 43, common 2s 5d to 2s 7d,
very ord out of condition Is 10d to 2s 3d, wormy 7d to
Is sd. Mace is rather lower, but 63 cases sold at
2s 4d to 23 73 fur sound, and at 28 to 2s 6d for damaged.
Of Cloves 140 bgs Penang sold at is to Is 8d; 25 dgs
mid White Pepper at 6id; GO Lags Bombay Ginger at
21s to 22s 6d for export sort. Of Pimento 305 bgs
realised Sid to Sid, fi r ord and mid there are full rates.
SPIRITS.-East India Rum continues in small supply,
and prices remain at Is 6i3 to is 7d proof, but sales
have been limited this week, and amount to only 150
hhds. Leeward Island is held for is 8d to is 9d proof;
and there is not a better supply, but few buyers are
to be met with, but at a slight reduction several parcels
would be taken. Prices are firm for Jamaica, sales
having been upon a limited scale by shippers and home
dealers, but only moderate parcels are on (Ha. The
rates obtained for 30 to 36 per eent. over proof
of plain and good mid quality are 2s 8d to 3s 23,
33 to 38 over gocd, and fine 35 3d to 3s 103, and
choice marks 4s 2d to 4s 6d. Demerara met with
little attention, rates remain at 2s 6d to 2s 9d for 32 to
40 per cent. otter. Brandy operated in with caution, at
the same time holders are not disposed to press sales,
and obtain for Cognac best brands of the vintage of
1846 5a 103 to es, 1847 ditto 5s 5d to 5s 7d, 1848 ditto
4s lldto 5s 13, 1849 ditto 4s 93 to 4s I Id, inferior
sorts 3s 23 to 4s Bd. Geneva in steady request at is 7d
to Is 83, and fine is 9d to 2s. British made Spirit 98 83
to 9s 9d nett cash.
FnIIIT.--To•day et auction 277 pkgs haat' Carrots

Mr.
Edward Payne said I am cashier to Messrs.
Gosling and Co., of Fleet. street. About four o'clock,
or a little after, on 'Wednesd'ay afternoon, prisoner
presented a cheque for 721., dated December 7, 1850,
and purporting to be signed by "Thomas Harrison."
The cheque produced is the same as presented by the
prisoner. Mr. Harrison keeps an account at Messrs.
Gosling's bank. The cheque is written on plain
paper, and resembles Mr. Harrison's handwriting
very much, and is in fact a most excel-
lent imitation. I hesitated in paying it at once
on account of the general appearance of the cheque
being somewhat different to those usually sent by
Mr. Harrison. I asked him if he knew Mrs. Harri-
son, to whom the cheque was made 'payable, and he
replied in the negative. I then asked him how he
obtained it, and he said from Mr. Harrison, who was
then staying at the Hyde-park lintel. I asked him
in what way ha would have the money, and he said
he would like four 101. notes, and the rest (32L) in
gold. He hsd a canvas money-bag in his hand,
similar to the one since found on him at, the station,
in which he intended to depOsit the money I thought
his statement rather unsatisfactory, and accordingly
carried the cheque to Mr. John Beattie (the clerk
who has the care of the vouchers), and compared it
with other paid drafts of Mr. Harrison's. It did not
sufficiently resemble them, and I referred the matter ,