The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-27 00:00:00

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London Mercantile Price Current of Feb. 27.)
B. P. SUGAR.—There having been a very small quantity
on show to-day, only 280 casks have been sold. Prices re-
main firm.
MAURITIUS.—A public sale of 5,804 bags took place to-day,
and passed off very briskly. The full value was realised, and
in some instances prices advanced 6d per cwt ; low to mid
yellow from 59s 6d to 64s 6d, and brown from 53s to 59s
per cwt.
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BENGAV—There was offered to-day 1,177 bags of middling
to good white, which brought 67s 6d to 69s per cwt. 5,816
bags damp brown were also offered. The sale passed rather
heavily in consequence of the quality not being desirable.
47 casks went at 52s to 56s per cwt. All the Khaur has been
sold at, and since the sale, at 53s to 52s per cwt.
FOREIGN.—No business has been reported to-day, the
holders not having been anxious to effect sales at present.
REPINED.—A fair amount of business has been done to-day
at the quotations. For Crushed 26s per cwt has been re-
fused, but there are sellers at 26s 6d ; however, no business
has been transacted at that price.
COCOA was dearer at public sale. 107 pkgs Grenada were
partly sold ; good red at 46s to 47s 6d per cwt.
COFFEE.—The market is very firm, but generally the busi-
ness transacted to-day has not been extensive. At public
sale 13 cks Demerara were chiefly taken in; 602 bags Cey-
lon found buyers at rates corresponding to those paid in the
private transactions; good ordinary pale at 68s 6d to 69a per
cwt. A parcel of 97 bags Madras, of fine quality, admissible
at 4d per lb duty, was also sold at 70s to 96s 6d per cwt at
public sale.

COCHLVEAL was sold at an advance of Id per lb at public
sale ; 60 bags and 17 serons silver Honduras, ordinary to
good, at 4s 5d to 4s 10d per lb.
TALLow.—The market has become firmer, and there are
few sellers of good Y. C. on the spot under 41s. New Tallow
likewise is dearer, and for delivery in the last three months
of the year 44s 3d is demanded.
MOLASSES.—A fair business has been done in the W.I. de-
scriptions at the former value. Very ordinary St. Kitts, at
20s 6d, and good Berbice at 25s per cwt. Molasses of good
quality went at 20s per cwt.
Srinrrs.—Since our last report there has been a further
rise in the prices of W.I. rum. All the parcels have
long been cleared out of the first hands, which have been
re-sold at a profit. The Brandy market is firm at the quota-
tions. Delivered for home consumption in the course of last
week 167 puns. A fair business has been done in Foreign
Corn Spirit for exportation. There is now but little demand
for this description for home use.

TEA.—The public sale, on the 20th inst., consisting of
37,400 pkgs passed off very flatly. About 15,700 pkgs found
buyers at the previous value. Two or three parcels of Congou
were sold at id per lb. reduction from the prices of the pre-
vieus sale. Junk Tea taken in at high prices. Yesterday, a
large business was also done in Congou and Twankay, and
the current rates are fully Id per lb higher for the former,
and id per lb for the latter description.
RlCE.—Bengal at 6d to 9d per cwt advence ; low to good
white from 11s 3d to 12s 3d per cwt. Madras at 8a 9d to 9s
3d per cwt for middling ; cargo at 9s. Java at 9s 6d for
middling to good middling white. The prices of Carolina
remain unaltered.

SPlCES.—Cassia Lignea 58s to 67s for good ord to good
middling, which is about is to 2s per cwt advance upon
former rates. Sumatra Pepper good light at 3d to 30 per
lb. Penang at 3d per lb cash, for good half-heavy. Malabar
remains steady : white taken in at sid per lb at public sale.
Pimento at fully hd per lb decline ' • good ordinary at 241c1 to
2id per lb. Jamaica Ginger at 4/19s to 101 7s. Bengal at
15s 6d to 16s 6d per cwt for fair to good quality.
OlLS.—Common qualities at fully 20s per ton under the
prices of the previous transactions. Southern, fine quality,
at 341. In Sperm Oil, there is no actual advance in prices.
Linseed Oil, a shade higher. Southern Whalebone, at 2361.
to 240/. per ton.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
(THIS EVENING.)

H OUSE OF LORDS.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool-
sack at a few minutes after Five o'Clock.
The Earl of YARBOROUGH presented petitions
from Wisbeach, and other places in Lincolnshire, against
any alteration in the corn-laws.
RELIGIOUS TESTS IN. THE UNIVERSITY OF
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GLASGOW.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented a petition
from the Lord Provost, the magistrates, and Town-
council of Glasgow, with reference to the imposition of
religious tests upon professors in the University of
Glasgow. The petitioners stated that the im-
position of these tests in many cases was
unjust. The petitioners, however, were not desirous
of abolishing those tests, in so far as they related to
professors of theology, but they thought them unneces-
sary with respect to the profession of philosophy, che-
mistry, and other sciences. The petitioners stated that
many excellent and competent men had been prevented
by these tests from giving their services to the Univer-
sity, and therefore prayed that in such cases the tests
should be abolished. 2_

Lord BROUGHAM said, that having had the honour
of filling the chair of Rector of the University alluded to
in the petition, as had also his Noble Friend (the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne), he had had communications with
that body upon the subject, and he would say from them