The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-15 00:00:00

COLONSAL.

SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation has been dull
this week, the supply not being large, and the sales were not
above 550 hlids and trcs, exclusive of to-day's. Prices are
barely so high.
MAURITIUS AND BENGAL.-4,651 bags of the former sold
at 63s to 66s for good to fine yellow, and at 59s to 64s for
grey, being 6d to is cheaper; and 9,568 bags of the latter
were offered, but went also 6d lower, viz., 508 6d to 51s for
damp brown, 66s to 69s for good to fine white, and 57s to 66s
for yellow ; there were also 1,387 bags in bond, which sold
at 33s to 33s 6d for yellow.
FOREIGN.-298 hhds, 2 trcs, 15 brls Cuba realised 19s to
20s per cent.
REFINED.—Sugar has not quite supported its value. Brown
Lumps have been at 75s 6d per cwt. A. cargo of Havannah
has been sold privately.
COFFEE.—British Plantation has been firm. In Ceylon
there has been a decreased business • the auctions have com-
prised 2,144 bags, which were nearly all taken in at 70s 6d to
71s for good ord pale, and 77s to 85s for the other qualities.
In East India sorts, 1,645 bags were mostly taken in at 33s 6d
for Singapore, and 53s to 55s for Company's Java, being full
rates. Some Salem at 4d duty, was taken in at 85s for good
yellowish ; 1,578 bags Costa Rica sold at 50s to 57s 6d per
cwt, and 538 bags Manilla at 40s to 455.

litnw.—The market is firm. The Government contract has
been taken l'at 2s °id per lb. for proof, half East and half
West India.

RICE.-2,876 bags Bengal were taken in at 12s to 12s 6d
for sound, 9,518 bags Java at 8s 6d to 9s per cwt, and 186
trcs Carolina at 18s 6d for good bright white. The Java sold
afterwards at about 8s 6d.

SALTPETRE.—Of Bengal, 640 bags sold at 26s 6d to 27s 6d.
for 7* to 4iibs refraction.

• SncEs.--91 bags White Pepper were taken in at 54d to
5P for good bold dingy, and 41 bags Black 20 to 24d per lb.
Jamaica Ginger has realiseds/ 8s to 1312 s per cwt. Pimento
has been in moderate demand.

Cora:c.v.-44 market has been dull.
TEA.—The market has been quieter, but holders generally
require former rates, which checks business.
TALLow.—P.Y.C. is 41s to 41s 3d on the spot, and 24s 6d
for three mouths.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
A neat littlerfarce, entitled Gone to Texas, the production,,
it is understood, of Mr. J. Oxenford, whose former contribu-
tions to the stage have achieved much popularity, was
brought out at this house on Wednesday evening, and met
with complete success. The plot of the piece turns on the
deception practised by a gentleman, of easy habits and de-
cent exterior, upon a milliner's assistant, whom he induces to
become his wife, finder the pretence of having a comfortable
situation and a trifle in the funds; whereas, in fact, he is' .on.
the contrary, in general difficulties, and much annoyed by
duns and bailiffs. The exasperation of the lady at making
this discovery, through the medium of a very chatty maid-
of-all-work, is only heightened by finding that the second-
floor lodger is her jilted lover, one Frederick Rapture, who
kas taken to the cornet-a-piston as a solace for his grief, and
as a means of melting her obdurate heart. The manner in
which he declares his passion, and the ability with which he
executes the obligato accompaniment of the " Light of other
days," has no other effect upon Mrs. Swellington (the changed
name of the lady) than creating supreme contempt for the in-
dividual, who thus dares to intrude himself upon her privacy in
the hour of misfortune, and the comfort she seeks in the altered
position of her affairs is in the reflection that Swellington
was always " unexceptionable in his choice of a Valentia
waistcoat,,' and unsuryassed in the tone with which he " or-
dered up a glass of mixed." Swellington being driven from
pillar to post, at last avows openly to his wife his distressed
condition ; and, in order to gain time for the arrangement of
his difficulties, proposes that lie himself should go round to
the creditors, none of them being acquainted with his person,
and tell them, as "a friend from the family," that he (Swell-
ington) had " gone to Texas." With this determination he
goes to the legal representatives of one of his creditors, and
assumes the name of Rapture, and while descanting upon his
own virtues, is attacked by that gentleman, and charged, on
the authority of a letter from Rapture's father,' with carrying
on an intrigue with. Mrs. Swellington. This was the best
scene in the piece ; the rage of Swellington in discovering the
supposed intrigue between Rapture and his wife, and which
is attributed to remorse for his conduct by the legal adviser,
was inimitable ; the way in which he expressed, sotto voce,
his determination to annihilate the guilty couple, and the
broken delivery of his sentences, when, in a state of fear and
jealousy, he gave vent to his opinion, elicited much applause
from, all quarters of the house. The whole affair is not
explained till Rapture, at the suggestion of Mrs. Swelling-
ton, has assumed the part of Swellington, and finds him-
self arrested at the suit of one of the numerous creditors,
who is lenient enough to accept 101. as a compromise. From
first to last the piece was kept up with much spirit, Keeley
and his wife taking' the parts of the married couple, Fitz-
james that of Rapture, and Granby, the lawyer. Mrs. Keeley
displayed her usual vivacity of character and played ex-
ceedingly well; her surprise and chagrin, at finding herself'
the dupe of her husband, was only equalled by the acidity,
with which she treated the communication of the servant,
relative to the state of her master's affairs. Keeley never
flagged at all in his exertions to bring his character out pro-
minently, and at the fall of the curtain the announcement of
the repetition of the piece every evening was received with
unanimous applause. After the many translations and
adaptations that we have had of late from the French, it is
rather refreshing to see something which at all events, among
its particular class, approaches near to English manners and
English customs, and which may be found in the every-day
walks of life.

His RoyCalOHiUghßneTs PCrinicße AlCbUerLt,Aantte.ndedFs--lioffst.
George Edward Anson, and Major-General Sir ",
Bowater, presided yesterday at a meeting at tbe
of the Duchy of Cornwall in Somerset House. „ be
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent y..sue'
Majesty yesterday afternoon at Buckingham palace, .
,3 her
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent vi,edier
Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge on 11
day at her residence at Kew. -
Baron de Moncorro, the Portuguese Miul--ster'sCed.
prevented from attending her Majesty's Levee On
nesday by severe indisposition in his family.
At her Majesty's Levee on Wednesday the 0;001
ward James, Chaplain to the Lord Mayor, was P
to the Queen by the Lord Mayor. gr• Air
Mr. Somes, Governor of New Zealand, and
alms
lionby, had an interview with Lord Stanley iee'
at the Colonial-office. m
Lord Sandon, M.P., Sir. Howard Douglas, —.4, od
Pakington, M.P., Mr. Hawes, M.P., Mr. Gill, as•,_„' si
a Deputation of the Soap Manufacturers of Enga`u els
an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday,
official residence in Downing-street. Cole°
Dispatches, were received yesterday at the Sol?
office, from the Governor of New South walesaiss rr
Australia, and New Zealand. Dispatches *ere, me'
ceived yesterday from the Governor of the Noe'
rican colonies.
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FAFASHIONABLE-c
ARRIVALS. t 0°11;
'
The Duke and Duchess of Somerset, at SonleS , astee
Cumberland-gate, from Brighton • Lord and LadY „Iwo,
Lord Cantilupe, from a visit to Lord and Lath' ",
Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray; Sir R. and LseYsii. Jobs
in Stanhope-street, from their seat, near Arundel ithrisles
and Lady B. Johnstone, in Grosvenor-square, front yobt
Harkness-park, near Scarborough ; Lady Emily dsoe,,!"
in Grosvenor-place, from Kent ; Lord and Ladtr,recestVP!
Privy-gardens, from Brighton ; the Hon. G.IID. I,lo'
M.P., in Belgravo-square from Ashford Hall, er,Se 11
the Dowager Duchess of Beaufort, from a visit told •i,sige'
Frederick and Lady Charlotte Calthorpe, at West6etd, Yer:i
Brighton ; Mr. J. and Mrs. Wood, at Nelson's , fist
land-place; J. Clarke, Esq., at ditto; John Brosea•pascsr,'
ditto ; W. P. Barall, Esq., at ditto ; Lord and Lady Id
VI;
in North-street, Berkeley-square, from Bath; ispOi
Old 10 • 01
Sarah Ingestre and family, at Bute House, F
the Right Honourable Sir George IL Rose, se• ;xo';
Palace-yard, from Cuffnells, Hants ; Lientensl
Sir Loftus and Lady Otway, from Brighton; weae, 11`..
Harrowby, in Grosvenor-square, from London e.
Lichfield.
DEPARTURES.
Mrs. Murray, from Nelson's Hotel, Portland-Paliatt-o:
Ancoat's Hall, Manchester; J. Murray, Esq., foto, cli,,t'";
ditto ;W. H. Wickey, Esq., and Mrs. Wicket', y,l,ge:„,
T. Mason, Esq., from ditto, for Aldenham Lod* Jere:
the Rev. Nicholson, from the Cavendish hotel' sarrSei
street ; Mr. Curteis, M.P., for his seat, near no
Mr. Ricardo, 7th Hussars, for Brighton ; thtr i ht
Ongley, for Leamington Spa; Captain Fane, 4th
goons, for Brighton. es.
CHANGES. . hoe, es,
The Hon. General and Miss St. John, at lir_lf,„sa,'"
their seat, near Lewes; Lieutenant-Colonel Ti!
from Leamington Spa, on a visiting tour; tiro
Countess of Sandwich and Lady Harriet Baia,. eelps,;•
on a tour; General the Hon. Sir William and eivey
from Nice, on a tour in the south of Europe; Sir
W.
ley and Lady Knighton, at Brighton, from
Horndean, Hants; Vice-Admiral TomliisollsajOete
Brighton, from Middleton House, Sussex; -I,l4"the (1,01
Cheltenham, from a tour; Earl Howe, at
Dowager's, Witley Court, from Gopsall Hall, Legh"eitta'
the Hon. and Rev. James Torrens Cocks, at '-
from Earl Somers', Eastnor Castle.
RAILWAY BUSINESS IN pagL
MENT.
South Eastern Railway 8i11,—." To enable the och to
Railway Company to complete and maintain. a 'toe, 113
way and approach to the harbour of Folkeso.'cosaftss
construct other works in connection with the siu.
and also to effect certain alterations and extensTioslemos
works of the Maidstone branch of the said soe oStl°
Railway, and to amend the Acts relating to tee ept
pany," presented, and read a first time. ss 0'10)
Leeds and Selby Railway Purchase (No. s. apd
vesting the Leeds and Selby Railway in the York, off ei
Midland Railway Company, and for enabling
to raise a further sum of money to complete the P
such railway," presented and read a first time- for
Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Bill,—Reportw' g
lie on the table, and to be printed. • ,„ urfa,d
Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Acts relating to the Maryport and Carlisle ItaLA"-er.""
making certain extensions and branches
presented, and read a first time. 001
Chester and Holyhead Railway Bill,--" F°l. ond
Railway from Chester to Holyhead," preeent4
first time. -
' Blackburn and Preston Railway,—Report read' ; 13-,5;.11
from Select Committee on Standing Order*
dered to be brought in by Mr. Wilson Patten, 101
Feilden, aid Sir Hesketh Fleetwood. 11,°t,
es
Eastern Union Railway Bill,—" For eail' erg'
from Colchester to Ipswich," presented, and reit'e,
,iscS
A i• ,„, ate '"l',
SIR ROBERT AND NICHOLAS.-23. .e „oia
Sir Robert Peel dined with the merchants of the
pany. Praise of the Emperor Nicholas came, send/
course, with the dessert. The buyers of Judes;sl ksoe',.;
tallow, considered Nicholas to be the very Pat',•-isll
magnanimity, and their potentate, more fanieL ito iv re
as Nick, would have been equally lauded ha,d„'-,-slier
crown of Muscovy. Praise of Nicholas, the,e";solergli ,`"
land, the merciless tyrant of the Jews, was Ilse
the
day, and the Prime Minister showed that, of ls.;"
adulation, he could earn his dinner. Speaking serS„ust#
of the Grand Duke Michael, the bland Sir
„„P:al 11040,
'I do hope that the account which his lier-e
will give of -us, after twenty-five years' abstct
will induce a vet snore illustrious member of
Emperor of Russia himself—again to visit te, these, 00;
(Loud cheers)—and to receive from us
the cordial demonstration we will then Offer to ;tea otei,
of respect for his personal character, and the ele„,° t c1„,a00!
he occupies, and of the desire every Englishilta4 is ; cOt
to cement with him the feelings and sentimee. rsaabotsrt
good understanding." Yes, respect for " the
racter" of the Emperor Nicholas—the ruthless et Sir lolci
is sometimes the best charity to believe mad. `.th I'4
Peel would gladden the eyes of Englishmen v°
riot „lie;esf,e`i
the Russian Autocrat. But he will not ague", it
only wish he would; then would we advisee :ill e sw
" for his personal character," that he shoubluardreriae
honour, composed of Polish refugees, and an
English Jews—a dinner in the Minories --ruse °se"'
The number of newspapers korivalll,ceric°
United States and Canada, by the North I.r."(s.sstriiirl
„'f
steamers, from Liverpool, is greatly on the' rot
last outward steamer from England came" ;toil bletteo
newspapers than have ever before been triulsla'clisg 0,0
one steamer. The number of bags, Laelhe eelfd
amounted to the immense number of Iwo 00" sod
formed almost a freight in itself. On the deP afie 00,
of these vessels, as well as of the West India 5`,01 pie;
Southampton, Messrs. Willmer and Smith, Sh,ecelleil„l4(l
agents of Liverpool, regularly publish a most endi
,„00
under the title of their European Times, and ,"'bie eyeeto
advantage and value, as containing an adalitagsarat°ol,l
of all European intelligence, together with ri,stoe''
ments of the latest prices in aIL our various arects
immense mass of tabular matter on all alibi t"fi
with commerce.
1,1"-
ir es d 0
„T„ f, al
SCHOOL FOR THE INDIGENT P
the 'annual meeting of the members and oral
Institution, established in 1799 for the Ir°
el llftt
education of the blind, and situate in St. t;elqo
held at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate" lire P,.40" el, s'
Hon. Lord Radstock, G.C.8., in the cha,V,o,l,,Pet,-roe""e'
statedthat during a period of 43 years 304 "-t:llothe ~e
-
been educated, being able on leaving the es„,vt laof'cb of
earn from 6s. to 28s. per week. There were svjO
stitution about 70 males and 72 females, the erviily ce
labour in the manufactory amounted au° s Gr1;1
1,400/. The inmates were principally
baskets, hampers, shoes, clock lines, and ra:deet'oS4
the Archbishop of Canterbury was elected rcrcdos if
envie"' 111,,,,t
Marquis of Bute, Earl Cornwallis, Earl of tn,se';"'
London, Bishop of Worcester, Lord Teigw-
Baring, and others, Vice-Presients. ii Isits
03,
CONVERSION OF THE THREE-AND-A'pi-PisooD
contemplated conversion of the Three-a° Orbs r 4
already thrown the money market into 611d,be gb
The Bears and the Bulls are down on all-foars4,ith
is so doubtful, that it is quite a toss-uP
whether they will come out losers by the Weis wos tbo
Chancellor of the Exchequer also contemeletefo o d
od 'or'
of the short sixes into long fours, for he has iigbt,it OfiAlf!
perience that the fours give a much better,
sixes will consequently be gradually extinetk-sa it la,
rally believed that the conversion of the '1- e !tot'
is preliminary to the abolition of the ineelby,
as well be said that the invasion of Englau49:.-- be
was preliminary to the introduction of rsilrtoot
t the
*- The Sheffield Botanic-Gardena:lre „•tivg,oo,
in consequence of the want of public suPP°' re $35- ree`e,
Two days ago some persons, who 18,4eby trrcets
Cemetery of Pere la Chaise, were stulirise-the 'aft'r;srL'ffi
a pistol at no great distance. Following 01 v the,
the sound, they came to a new-made gra`'.7 istebere,
were led by the traces of blood irons l_bs, Itt big
path among some of the more ancient tog.tit yeooliivoi
found the body of a young man senseless'bv acc bot"
from a wound inflicted upon himself ./etteetse 0,4 f
grasped in his hand. Upon him was founclioaired ir!tiligi octs
his name to be Auguste B. aged 21, oral) OP'soaiosg
of a merchant in the rue Montmartre, fe De,,, e
having lost his affianced bride the day he°, r
survive her. He added that at his 10dg.1,101. .oed
to pay the charges of his funeral would be I.',,cesee
ther inquiry all these circumstances were
true.—Galignani.
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BIRTH Jig
S.
On the 9th inst., at Brixton, Mrs. k e
jail °f
Ili
On the lath inst., at Sydenham-hill,
r'
Charles Price, Esq:, of a son. "'fie
of• At te
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to
toA Britishs es,s
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oEmbassy,nd
MARRIED. 131cosls
point Burton, Esq., Westmeath, Irelartirhorh--,:r r sfe
On the 4th inst.,
coed son of J. A. Lloyd, Esq., Con 0
Customs at Leith, to M-ary, eldest daughlt`
Esq., of Rochester. Church,%,
Florence,d
a titer tnlle I'l°lk
Gels
Old ho DoEfV
id
•g, ,s' On the 9th inst., atat TSoLttGerei :igen s'O
King, of Watling-street, to. Ann, °nil., Barlo„P.„010C,
Anthony Edmonds, Esq., of Loxford- at:;rsca, eceb'srles
ti'roller off 6-sorge
,fito
On the 12th inst., at St. Mary's, 13a f Jolla
dom, R.N., to Jane, second daughter o
surrey
stable, Esq., of Oak House, Battersea,

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DIED lietal ip
• Oda' po
On the Ist inst., at Anglesey Hunt, J. -—A #6
Esq., Commander, R.N. ' 00000°4 ll°
On the Bth inst., Thomas Howard, Es.' 4f 1110- 4V'''
On the 9th inst., in the Rue d'Alger, ' _..-
_gef'
Esq., late of Lauderdale House, Ili ,bgate• lisPVor
b chelten lit )1,)
relict
otfhtehleOltahteiHns.tH.,
eamtanHolsqy Cootftpagaen,cer,s 1ikie110,10,,,,,,
.r,
On the 10th inst., at law e Villas, , A rutv•
3.
P* 11' Che orre
George Henry Hutchins, late of the 13engal "'pip „Ad
On the 11th inst., at Dover, John Sluith' od, ''
at-law, aged 62. il, n's-',4' 44.
On the .11th inst., in Grove-road, 5t..,,0•--
soi', of
Cunningham, son of J. Feot, E:sq., aged °. stride, '
On the 11th inst., at Islington, Mr. Jolin o,o?'' to,
On the 11th inst, at Cadhay House, OtterY, )00
1%
John Collin, Esq. .
. On the 12th inst., at Bedford-square, , -
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vlizA.Det
the daughter of Phineas Nathan, Esq., aged ‘7

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