The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-20 00:00:00

COLONIAL

SIICAR.—The market for British Plantation is without
alteration. About 400 hhds have been sold at previous
prices. The public sales have •consisted of 10,148
bags Mauritius, and 3,270 bags Bengal. All the Mau-
ritius found buyers (excepting about 1,000 bags which
were withdrawn), but went off without spirit, and in
some instances 6d cheaper ; eery:, low to fine brown
brought 41s 6d to 545, and low to fine yellow 54s 6d to
63s 6d. Nearly all the Bengal likewise sold, but at
a decline of fully 6d upon the lower sorts, whilst the fine
qualities brought extreme prices—r-viz., 56s to 69s for
fine soft yellow to fine white Benarcs. 500 to 600 cases
of Bahia have sold privately at 22s 6d for white, and
18s 3d for brown. The quantity of British Plantation
landed last week at the East and West India Docks was
537 hhds, 29 tierces, 174 barrels, and there were taken
for home consumption 1,244 hhds, 155 tierces, 273
barrels. The stock in the same places is 12,041 hhds,
1,788 tierces, 2,837 barrels.

COFFEE.-4,809 bags East India (chiefly Padang) at
auction; nearly all the sound was taken in at 30s for
Padang; a small portion good ord pale Batavia or Ma-
nilla found buyers at 37s to 38s 6d; about 1,200 bags
first and second class damaged sold at 25s to 26s 6d, and
a few lots at 275, being comparatively cheap.
Rum.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 644 puns 124 hhds. There were
taken for home consumption 110 puns 27 hbds; and ex-
ported 115 puns 4 hhds. The stock in the same places
is 9,240 puns. 2,121 hhds.
RICE.-2,148 bags and 900 pockets Bengal Rice was
chiefly disposed of at 108 to 12s for low yellowish small
and broken to good bold is hite, which are fully previous
prices.
SALTPETRE.-1,142 bags Bengal sold at 24s 6d to 25s
for 10 per cent refraction, and 2 per cent ditto, at 275,
being a shade dearer.
SPICES.—Of 2,777 bags of Pepper at auction, only
about one- half found buyers at the former value, viz.,
21d to 2id for fair Penang ; the remainder was taken in
at 2id for ord to good black Sumatra.
TALLow.—P.Y.C. is firm, at 41s to 42s per cwt, and
town 43s 6d per cwt.
TEA.—The Tea market is steady.

PORTUGAL.

We have received advices from Lisbon to the 14th.

A series of illegal acts on the part of the Govern-
ment prepared the way for the promulgation of an
ordonnance on the 9th inst., signed by the Queen,
and countersigned by the Ministers, which is thus
characterised by an ex-Minister of Portugal, the
Viscount Sada Bandeira :—" This decree, abrogat-
ing the constitutional charter, places the nation in a
similar situation to that in which it stood in 1828, in
consequence of the destruction of the fundamental law
of the state."

Senor Cabral has thus openly, it would appear,
assumed the legislative attributes of the Cortes—the
power of making and revoking laws; and it re-
mains to be seen whether the Sovereign of Portugal
will continue to sanction her Minister's assumption
of the whole powers of the State in his person, or
whether the representatives of the people may not
assemble, and proclaim her Majesty's unfaithful
Minister an usurper.—Chronicle.

CLOSE OF THE PITMEN'S STRIKB.—NEWCASTLE-
UPON-TYNE, SATURDAY.—The strike of the pitmen in
the counties of Northumberland and Durham is now at
an end, the whole of the collieries, with very unimportant
exceptions, having engaged all the workmen they re-
quire on the terms and conditions offered by the
coal-owners previous to the sth of April, when
the strike commenced. The Durham pitmen were
the first to give way, and several collieries on tho
Wear and 'lees resumed work early in the week.
The Tyne pitmen seemed inclined to hold out
longer, but the determination of the owners to engage
other men if their old workmen held out longer than
yesterday, of which due intimation had been given by
placards plentifully posted in the district, at once de-
cided the struggle in their favour. The coal committee,
which has sat weekly in Newcastle during the progress
of the strike, have called for returns from each col-
liery, showing the number of hewers employed before
the strike commenced, the number intended to be
employed this year, the number of men now engaged
who had been previously employed as hewers in
these counties, the number of strangers employed
who had previously resided in the district, and the
number introduced from a distance. These returns will
be not only interesting, but exceedingly valuable, from
the practical illustration they are calculated to afford of
the impolicy of strikes, and the injury they inflict even
on the men themselves. After the men had signed the
monthly bond, orders were immediately given by the
colliery agents to replace their furniture in the houses
they had previously occupied, and such a " shifting"
has perhaps never been witnessed before in this or any
other part of the country. It is to be hoped this prac-
tical lesson will not be lost or disregarded in future
years.
HIGII TIDES.—On Sunday evening there was a
very lofty spring tide. The Fulham " lemmas land"
was flooded, and at the Waterside, Wandsworth, the
tide poured into the fisherman's houses, putting the
basement floors of these miserable dwellings, in some
instances, nearly two feet under water. The Wandle
overflowed its banks, and the waters reached the station-
house, which is situated on the further side of the plain.
At Putney, the towing-path, from that place to Ham-
mersmith, was impassable to horses, and the Lightning
steam-boat, with her chimney down, was, with great
difficulty, got through Putney-bridge. It is high time
that this, and the other clumsy structure, Battersea-
bridge, were taken down, for more lives have been lost,
and more accidents have occurred, at these two bridges,
than all the others put together. It has, we understand,
been determined by the Battersea-bridge proprietors to
throw the five centre arches of that bridge into three,
and the alteration is to commence immediately.
BOULOGNE AND CALAIS.—The number of persons
who passed to and from France, via Boulogne, during
the week ending last Thursday, was 3,208, and via Calais
592. Vie numbers in the corresponding week of last
year were, Boulogne 2,783, Calais 584.
Nonwrcrt AND BRANDON RAILWAY.—The works
on this railway are now in full progress, a great number
of hands having been set on at different parts of the line,
particularly at Ketteringham, Wyreondham, Attleburgh,
and Eccles. The cuttings for crossing-the turnpike-road
near Harford bridges have been begun ; and the bridge
over the Wensum, at Carrow, has been commenced.—
Ipswich Express.
ROGERS, THE JOCKEY.—During the Goodwood
races Sam Rogers rode in no less than twenty-one races,
all being for the Duke of Richmond and Lord George
Bentinck, of which he won eight, ran one dead heat,
and walked over for one. This was a good week's work.