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[PRICE 6D.

London, Jan. 26, 1850.

Liverpool, Jan. 26.

.Z4E MARKETS.
EDITOR OF THE SUIT.
-a Money Article of the 25th inst. is
" Franks and Millard's Commercial
upon the present and prospective position
,fee markets, and which has also appeared in
_nent position in the columns of the " Com-
mercial Daily List."
I am not personally interested in " coffee," but I
have, nevertheless, closely watched its movements
during the whole of the past year, and having ven-
tured an opinion in the month of May last, that prices
would, in the spring of 1850, most probably reach
their present point, and being satisfied that under the
present prospect of supply and demand, there is more
reason to fear a further advance than decline, am
led to suppose that the writers of the article alluded
to mast have been deceived in the information upon
the faith of which they have ventured to express
themselves so warmly, so strongly, and so contrary
to the actual position of the article which they profess
to understand much better than those whose opinions
being practical are entitled to some consideration at
least.

Without entering upon the intrinsic quality of
native Ceylon coffee, as compared with other de-
scriptions, the cause of which any one personally
acquainted with the island is fully alive to, and deny-
ing that Messrs. Franks and Mt'lards' means of in-
formation as to the extent of deficiency of the Java
crop are as good as my own, I must say that their
observations on the movements of the Brazil coffee
crop show little knowledge and less judgment, as it
would appear from advices received yesterday, via
Pernambuco, that the Americans, instead of being
prepared to re-export coffee from New Orleans, New
York, &c., to Europe, could not buy sufficient at Rio
to load their vessels then at that port, and that many
of them were in consequence leaving in ballast. Ship-
ments of coffee from Rio in the month of November
last to the whole of Europe were only about 40,000
bags, the bulk of which went direct to France and
the Mediterranean ; whilst to the United States the
exports were some 107,000 bags, in the face of which,
so great was the demand caused by the actual ab-
sence of stock in the interior, and by the vastly in-
creased consumption, that prices were advancing until
they had reached within cent per lb. of the highest
point which Rio coffee has yet attained in Europe,
notwithstanding the effect of the speculative purchases

complained of.
(
It may further be useful to know, that the total
export of coffee from Rio to the United States for
the year 1849, was proving some 660,000 bags against
808,000 bags in 1848, which latter quantity had been
found far below their increasing requirements, their
consumption having shown no symptom of decline
under the enormous advance in prices.
It is currently reported that the coffee market is
suffering from the attacks of certain Bear:, whose
object i i to reduce the price at present, and thus enable
them to come out strong at the ensuing sales in hol-
land ; be this as it may, the late accounts from Cey-
lon, from Java, from Brazil, and from St. Domingo,
are not in my humble judgment such as to cause any
permanent decline in the value of coffee ; but further,
that our continental friends may, ere many months
be over, be forced to take to the much-abueed native
Ceylon, by reason of actual scarcity of other descrip-
tions, which the more provident Yankee has fore-
stalled, and which he is wealthy enough to consume,
without grumbling.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
QUIVIS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—About a month ago I rod in your Money
Article a circular from Messrs. Frank• and Millard
(inserted at their request), as to the future prices of
coffee.

I observe in your paper of yesterday, the 25th
inst., another epistle from the same source, and which
you shrewdly preface with these remarks—" The
following, if it be really an impartial statement, is
important to trade generally."
Now, Sir, you and the public shall judge its im-
partiality and disinterestedness, or otherwise.
About four or five weeks ago the firm of Messrs.
Franks and Millard sold to one of eur most extensive
coffee dealers 5,000 bags Native Ceylon Coffee—viz.,
1,000 bags at 535., 500 at 524. 61., 500 at 525., and
3,000 at 51s. 6d , all to be delivered in 1850. I was
present when this contract was made.
Probably had the party been the buyers instead of
the sellers in this transaction, your columns and the
" Daily List" would have enlightened the public
with an opposite opinion, from the same impartial and
disinterested party.
You will oblige me, and the coffee trade generally,
by inserting the foregoing in your Monday's im-
pression.—I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
JANES GOODISON.

THE OPENING OF THE SEssrox.--The dinner at
Lansdowne-house, on Wednesday next, preparatory to
the osening of Ithe session, at which the Royal Speech
will be read to the Members of the Upper House con-
nected wish the Government, will include Lord Essex
(the mover of the address), Lord M e'huen (the seconder),
the Lord CI aecellor, the Duke of Norfolk, the Masquis
of Breadalbane, the Marquis of Anglesey, the Marquis
f Clanricarde, the Marquis f Donegal, Earl Grey, Earl
Mitt e Earl of Carlisle, Earl Granville, Lord Eddisbury,
and Lord Campbell. The full-dress dinner t f Lord J.
Russell to the mover and seconder of the address in the
House of Commons, and the Members of the Lower
House cmnectel with the Government, precious to the
opening of the session, will take place in Downing-strei t,
at the official residence of the Prime Minister, on Wed-
nesday rex' when her Majesty's Speech will be read to
the aNcenbled guests. The following Members have
Beef-FAA Lord J. Russell's invitation, and signified their
intention to be present:—The Speaker, Attorney-Gene-
ral, Solicitor-General, Lord-Advocate. Solicitor-General
(Scotland), Mr. C. P. Villiers (mover), Sir James Duke,
Bart. (seconder), Lord Palmerston, Sir G. Grey, Bart.,
Mr. G. C. Lewis' vi Mr. naes, Mr. Gibson Craig, Mr. R.
M. Bellew, Mr.
H. Rich, Mr. G. Hayter, Mr. H. Tuf-
nell, Sir C. Wood, Bart,, Right Hon. Fox Mettle, Sir J.
Hobhou,e. Bart., Hort. J. Elliott, Mr. J. Wilson, Right
Hor. H. Laboucbere, Sir F. Baring, Bart., Mr. J.
Parker, Admiral Dundas, Lord John Hay, Hon. W.
Cowper, Admiral Berkeley, Lord Clarence Paget, Colo-
nel Anson, Right Hon. R. L. Shell, Mr. M. T. Bahasa ,
Lord Ebrington, Hon. W. Lascelles, Lord Alfred Pap
Lord E. F. G. Howard, Lord Marcus Hill, Lieutenant-
Colonel R. Boyle, Sir William Somerville, Bart., Sir
David Dundac, Mr. B. Bernal, Mr. It. W. Grey.
TISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON'S SOIREE. •—• Viscount
and Viscountess Palm( rsten entertained a select party
at dint er on Saturday evening at their mansion in
Csrlton•gardens. The guests included the Marchioness
of Normanby, the Marquis c f Lansdowne, the Marquis
and Marchioness of Clanricarde and Lady Emily ee
Burgh, the Earl and Countess Grey, the Hon. C. P.
Villiers, M.P., the Hon. F. Leveson, the Hon. F. Byrn
the Hun. W. Cowper, M.P., and Mrs. Cowper, and Mr.
Charles Greville. Later in the evening the Noble Vis-
countess held a soirée, at which nearly all the leadirg
members of the political and fashionable world at pre-
sent in town assembled. -Among the company we re-
marked his Excellency the Turkish Ambassador, his
Excellency the Russian Minister, his Excellency the
Pe'gian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, his Ex-
cell( ncy the Danish Minister and the Countess Revent-
low, his Excellency the Basarian Minister, his Excel-
lency the Minister for Costa Rica, his Excellency the
Swedish Minister and the Baroness Rehausen, the French
Chargé d'Affaires and Madame de Montherot, the
CCoouunntteeess DFothaa;eirt iNaranldde hglraadreemaonidseMiler.dlerarFcloaubratu,lMt
the
the Earl of Mulgrase, Viscount and Viscountess
Ebrington, Lord and Lady Milford, Lady Cottenham
and the lion. Miss repys, Lord and Lady Eddisbury, and
the Hoe. Miss Stanley, Lady Vernon and the Hon. Miss
Vernon, Lord R. P. Clinton, Lord Campbell, the Baroness
Stratheden, and the Hon. Miss Campbell, Lady Elizabeth
Milt' el, Lady Dufferin and. Lord Dufferin, Baron Roths-
child, M.P., Baron Isola, Count de Bark, Baron Wieden-
bruck, Lord and Lady Burghersh, Lady Ilislop and Miss
Elliot, Lady Seaford and Miss Hardy, Mr. Trend!,
M.P. and Lady Anne Tuft,ell, Captain the Hon. S.
Jocelyn, Sir George and Lady Grey, Hon. W. Ashley,
Hon. J. Talbot, M.P., and Mrs. Talbot, Lion. 11. Elliot,
lion. E. Stuart Wortley, Mr. W. Grey, M.P., Mr. Gibson
Craig, M.P., and Mrs. Gibson Craig, Mr. J. A. Smith,
SIX., and Mrs. Smith, Mr. W. Illackburee, Mr. Crayezr.
Mr. Macdonald, Mr. Bulled, Mr. Partridge, Mr. Panizzi,ftil
Mr. Cornewall, Mr. Calcraft and Miss Calcra MA
r.
Erskine, Mrs. Henry Brandt, Mr. Barrington,C.lare
H.
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selves by skating. The river at this part is rather bre ad.
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part of the ice gave way, and five of them disappeared ;
the others bast• ned to their assistance, when they unfor-
tunately met with the same fate. The whole of the
bodies were afterwards recovered, quite dead. Nearly
all the sufferers were married men.
Mr. It. Wade, tide-surveyor of Customs, port- of
Rye, has been directs I to proceed to Dublin to fill the
situation of additional tide-surveyor tl at, port, which
has been re nilered necessary by the sieve arrangements
of the waterside department at Duhlitc. Tie situation
iide-surveser at Rye has been abolished, and the du-
ties cf the office annexed to that c f Controller of Cus-
toms there, and the salary of the tide surveyor thereby
saved to the public. The Qat en has pres.t.t,d the Rev.
Edmund Luby to the perpetual curacy of Glasson-justa-
Lancast'r. The Lord Chancellor has presented the vi-
carage of licddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland, to the
Rev. M. Heron Maxwell, who resigns the vicarage of
Frampton, Dorset, now held by him, Thomas F. John-
ston is appointed Colonial S:cretary and Auditor of
Public Accounts for the Island of Trinidad.

ROYAL ENGlNEERS.—Lieutenant-Colonel Jebb,
Inspector-General of Prisons, who has been seconded
on the corps for the last tin years (the utmost time
allowed by the regulations of the Ordnance for him to
remain away from the effective strength). has, pursuant
to recent orders from the Lords of the Treasury, been
allowed to retire with his rank, and lull pay as Lieutt"-
nant-Colonel, to enjoy all the advantages arising from
future rank appertaining to officers iu that sitteatiupeT.-c.:
British Army Despatch,
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