The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-16 00:00:00

COLONIAL

SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation has been
active at full rates. Sales about 2,000 hhds ; and at
auction 145 hhds, 5 trcs. Barbadoes sold at 64s for fine
yellow, and 57s 6d for low greyish yellow.
REFlNED.—Standard Lumps have been at 74s per cwt.
EAST INDIA.-9,359 bags Bengal of earthy sold at
58s 6d to 70s for low white to Dobah sorts, and at 57s
6d to 72s Gd for damp and washed ; 156 bags Manilla
realised 17s for the sound ; 1,393 bags Mauritius sold
rather easier, good mid and yellow at 58s 6d to 60s, and
good and fine brown at 51s to 58s per cwt ; Molasses, St.
Kitts, sold at 22s to 24s per cwt.
FOREIGN.—There have been no public sales, but 2,000
boxes yellow Havannah, afloat, sold at 20s 6d for
Konigsburg.
COFFEE.—British Plantation has been rather dull,
but Ceylon continues in request, good ord 53s to 565.
At auction 3,795 bags mostly sold at 53s to 57s for good
to fine ord, and at 66s 6d to 92s for Plantation sorts.
Some Mysore sold at 45s 6d to 16s 6d; 300 bags Brazil
privately realised 31s 6d; and 1,017 by auction were
mostly taken in at 34s for sound; 1,707 bags Havannah
were taken in at 28s to 48s for sound; 313 bags East
India at 27s 6d to 39s for Batavia and Java; and 202
barrels Trinidad at 56s to 635.

COCOA.—Trinidad has sold publicly at 40s to 475,
and Grenada at 40s to 42s 6d, being advanced prices.
RlCE.—Bengal has been at 11s 61 to 12s for mid
white, and not much doing.

Rum.—The market continues firm. Proof Leewards
has been 2s 4d to 2s sd, and Calcutta proof 2s Id to
2s 2d per gallon.
SPICES.-11 chests Cassia Lignea sold at 48s to 60s,
and 65s for low to good and good mid. ; sound Penang
Pepper has realised 2-id per lb •, Malabar 31d to 31d,
white ,tid to sti-A per lb ; and a few bags of Pimento
brought 4d per lb.
SALTPETRE.-1,892 bags sold at 24s 6d for 111 and
8 per cent. refraction, being lower.
TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is 40s 9d to 41s 6d per cwt on the
spot.
COTTON.—A small business has been done.

TEA.—Owing to continued difficulties relative to the
inspection of samples. the sales have been going off
flatly, about 28,000 packages were declared, and yes-
terday of 14,200 passed, only 3,100 sold, Congous being
heavy at previous rates, and other sorts without altera-
tion. There is a slight increase of business to-day.
The deliveries are good. • Common Twankay is is 2id
per lb.

MONE AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The Cotton market at Li'l;erpool yesterday was steady.
Sales. 5,000 bags, all to the trade. Shares were gene-
rally dull, except Midland Counties, which were in in-
creased request. Blackburn and Preston, 7i ; Dublin
and Belfast Junction, 34 ; Ditto and Cashel, 6i ; Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, 65 ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Gree-
nock, 121 ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter, 10 ; Man-
chester and Birmingham Ditto, 5,2,- ; Midland, ;
North British, 24:1; Sheffield and Manchester, ; South-
Eastern, 38i ; Ulster, 371 ; Paris and Lyons, 2i.
The accounts that have been received this morning
relative to the financial affairs of Holland for the first
six months of this year, are anything but satisfactory
to the bondholders here, a very large diminution of re-
ceipts having occurred as respects exports as well as in
imports.
The only ship arrivals to-day are from Buenos Ayres,
but the dates are old.

From the Cape of Good Hope papers we gather the
following :
" The exports and imports of the Eastern province for
the first quarter of this year, compiled from the official
returns, show abundant reason for congratulation. They
exhibit a healthy state of affairs, and a proof of undi-
minished, or rather of increased energy and enterprise,
which are most cheering ; while at the same time they
afford the best and most indisputable proof of the capa-
bilities and steady progression of this division of the
colony. The following brief analysis will be
decisive proof of this :—The gross amount of im-
ports is, we find, 38,730/. ; of exports, 35,645 h
From the former, however, must be deducted the
sum of 4,8011. for goods warehoused, and which. may
probably be re-shipped hereafter for another market.
Hence the result will leave a surplus on exports for the
quarter, amounting to 1,7161. ; thus leaving the large
military and missionary expenditure, as well as many
private incomes drawn from foreign sources, entirely un-
touched in our account current of trade with
the parent country. We may safely challenge
any other British possession to exhibit an equally
healthy state of affairs, or one which affords
a more telling example of industry, enterprise, and per-
severance, than is here exhibited. The items afford
abundant testimony to this. Thus, the article on which
there is the greatest increase, is precisely that which de-
mands the greatest share of attention from the producer,
and which may be considered as the chief staple of the
colony. We refer to wool. The value of that shipped
in the corresponding quarter of last year was 9,997/. ;
in the present case, 20,2461., thus showing an increase on
the quarter of no less a sum than 10,2491., arising in part
from the increased value of wool, and in part from the
the large quantity actually exported."
There is in many quarters a feeling prevalent, that the
repudiating States of America will be shamed into an
honest course of action. And it is satisfactory to find
that the value of American shares shows signs of re-
suscitation from the extreme points of depression that
have long ruled in this market. It may be added that
some of the largest holders look with confidence to the
ultimate liquidation of their claims.
The Commissioners bought 10,000/. Consols at 98k.
The market is heavy, money being rather more in re-
quest. In the morning the price for Money was 984,
and for the Account 98k. Now, 98i buy ers is the gene-
ral value. The other stocks are dull. The premium
upon Exchequer Bills has declined to 735.
There has been a good deal of business done in the
Dutch Funds this morning. The Two-an- a-Half per Cents.
at one period were sold at a fall to 611, and the Five per
Cents. are now only at 1004 Spanish Bonds have re-
mained at 221, the Three per Cents. at 331; Portuguese
Converted are at 43i ; the Five per Cents. Mexican at
351 ; and Brazilian at 841
The Railway Shares continue rather dull. Birming-
ham are down to 1231 and 1222 premium, but this is
ex dividend. Generally prices seem steady.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Rank Stock « ................. 19914%
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 99% %
3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities 10.041%
New 3% per Cent. Annuities
South Sea •
Stock
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 97%
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, I%d. 150-
iOOOl. ..... ........ ..... '75 73 pm.
Ditto . .
Ditto Advertised'" ....
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent 103%
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent- . ....... 3531
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Converted
Ditto for the Account 43%
Spanish, Bonds. Five per Cent 1840 22 IA
Ditto Passiveßonds.
Ditto Deferred 12%
Ditto Three per Cent.
Ditto for the Account
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 4o
Ditto for the Account
Dutch 2% per Cents 61,0006%
Ditto for the Account 61%1A
Dutch 5 per Cents.... ................ ....... 101% 100%
New Loan, 5 per Cents. (1837)
PRICES OF SHAItESeTHIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester lOO 1133 14 to 12%%
Ditto New 17% to 27%

Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings... 5 4 to
Chichester and Brighton
Dublin and Cashel. 2% 6% to
Eastern Counties
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O . to
Ditto U Shares
Great North of England
Great te Wesrn
___ 75

Ditto % Shares
London and Birmingham. lOO 22234
London and Blackwall 1635 ...... 7%%34 to
London and Brighton 5O .... .....
Ditto Loan Notes
London and Greenwich
London and South Western 41% 8634
London and Croydon
Lynn and Ely.
Manchester and Leeds 7O l2O to
Midland Counties
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 21
North British
Northern and Eastern 45 55% to
Trent Valley
York and North Midland

Ditto % Shares
Ditto Scarboro' Branch

Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux 1— 1.4..... to

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 15.—Thero
has been an extensive business done to-day, owing to a
better supply of Stock, at rather lower prices :—Black-
burn and Preston, 71 ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Ac-
crington, Bristol and Gloucester, 55 to 541; Churnet
Valley, /3/4- prem. ; Dublin and Cashel, 61 and 61. Bs. 9d. ;
Huddersfield and Manchester, 48s. 9d. ; Lynn and Ely,
3i to ; Manchester and Leeds, Half Shares, 50; Man-
chester and Birmingham, 541; Ditto, Quarters, 58 5-16;
Manchester and Buxton, 375.; North British, 2,4-1 ; Shef-
field and Manchester, 841 to 84 ; Paris and Lyons, 498.
and 21 ; Lancaster Canal, 391.

THE NATIONAL SWIMMING SOCIETY.—This morn-
ing the swimming matches for prizes given by the Society
were brought to a conclusion. The matches commenced
on Monday morning, in the Serpentine, Hyde Park, and
the arrangements made were, that the list of contending
parties should be divided into four classes, and that one
class should contend each successive day previous to this
morning, and three of the winners from each proceeding
should be selected, when the grand heat for the cham-
pionship should take place, and the medals awarded, and
accordingly all parties were on the spot by six o'clock,
the spectators amounting to between two and three
thousand. Flags were staked on either side of the water
for the direction of the swimmers, and other preliminaries
having been admirably arranged (by the founder of the
Society, Mr. Strachan), the competitors, eleven in num-
ber, all of whom were winners on the preceding morn-
ings, were placed in equal positions for the start, and the
signal being given, they simultaneously plunged into the
water, each making strenuous efforts for the lead. The
distance to be contested is once across and back, which
is about 400 yards. The motion of each competitor ap-
peared to be different, one swimming with his head high
out of the water, while another was scarcely perceptible;
some making short and rapid strokes, and others took a
long and easy one. They made great exertion for the
winning goal, and came in as follws:—Antonia, first;
Turner, second; and Nicholson, third. The time oc-
cupied in swimming the distance was five minutes and
twenty-eight seconds. During the race, Townshend,
one of the competitors, when within 100 yards of home,
was seen to go under water, from exhaustion, when
Pew tress, another competitor, swam to his a,,siqance,
and rt t)oat,ben,g tit hand 110 Ns ijs

FLANDERS and HAMBURGH MAIL
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
FROM THE RHINE, AUG. 6.—We have received a
confirmation of the very welcome news that the
German Diet at Frankfort, conformably to the reso-
lution of November, 1837, is now engaged in ex-
tending the law concerning the rights of authors and
publishers, and will endeavour to bring about a con-
vention on literary property between different nations,
for which purpose negotiations are opened with Eng-
land, France, and Belgium.
BERLIN, AUG. B.—The notion that Tschech is out
of his mind seems to gain ground, and in fact many
circumstances of his previous conduct cannot be
otherwise accounted for.

ST. PETERSBURGH, AUG. 3.—An Imperial Ukase
of the 27th of last month to the Directing Senate,
orders a general levy of recruits in the western pro-
vinces of the empire of five men from every thousand.
It begins on the Ist of November next, and must be
completed by the Ist of January, 1845.
The commercial treaty between England and
China seems likely *to have a considerable effect on
the course of the inland trade of Russia. The orders
for the next fair at Nischerie-Nowgorod are much
less considerable than in preceding years. Many of
our manufacturers find it necessary at present to act
according to the decreased demand.
Rain, violent south-west winds, and storms of hail,
continue with scarcely any interruptions, and greatly
impede the harvest, which is already begun. A for
days ago the environs of our city were visited by a
most furious hailstorm, so that all the splendid fur-
niture of the steamer which plies daily between St-
Petersburgh and Peterhoff was dashed to pieces, the
steamer compelled to stop, and the passengers with
difficulty found refuge in the cabin. The hailstones
were of the size of pigeon's eggs, and some even of
hen's eggs.
SCHWERIN, AUG. 7.—lt is said that our Govern-
ment has entirely given up the idea of joining the
Customs Union ; but that it will make proposals to
the State for a change in the system of taxation.
The inland tolls which impede the communication,
and the collection of which is very expensive, will
probably be abolished, and the import duties on
foreign articles be considerably modified, in particular
the exemption of the nobles from the payment of
customs, be much restricted.
BRUSSELS, AUG. 14.—The Measure by which a
higher charge is made for the license to travellers, to
German merchants and Belgium, has been poll)"
caused by the Prussian Government itself. Before
the Ist of January, 1844, Belgian commercial travel-
lers in the States of the Customs Union, paid only
13 dollars (about 50 francs) for their licenses. Since
that time they have taken a license at 60 dollars,
which is about 250 francs. In order to make
the Prussian Government return to a system recipro-
cally favourable to the commercial intercourse of the
two States, it has been necessary to raise, in propor-
tion, the license to German commercial travellers.
It is to be observed that the licenses previou ly given
them in Belgium, cost in general only 60 fr ncs, and
that no measure of this kind afforded a reason for the
charge made by Prussia on Belgian travellers.
The King, who left his seat at Ardenne yesterday
morning, arrived at Brussels at half-past five in the
afternoon.