The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-01 00:00:00

COLONXAL.

SuGAn.--There has been agood business done in British
Plantation, about 1,800 hhds having been sold at rather
higher prices, arulthe market is generally firm. Only 500
bags Bengal, and 364 barrels 29 casks Foreign Muscovada,
have been brought to auction, which found buyers at
'..ather lower prices for both descriptions, but being only
small parcels, they afford little guide to the market;
low to good white Benares Bengal brought 53s to 565, and
low to good yellow Porto Rico, 23s to 24s 6d. The
quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the
East and West India Docks was 6,102 hhds, 662 tierces,
1,235 barrels ; and there were taken for home consumption,
1,880 hhds; 154 tierces, 356 barrels. The stock in the same
places is 15,504 hhds, 1,770 tierces, 2,709 barrels.
Russ.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 1,068 puns 21 hhds. There were
taken for home consumption 140 puns 9 hhds, and exported
125 puns 29 hhds. The stock in the same places is 10,609
puns 1,047 hhds.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 41s 3d to 41s 6d per cwt. on the spot,
and town 43s Gd.

TEA.—The market is steady without any particular
activity.

(From the London New Price Current of Sept. 30.)
Suaan.—To-day, an increased desire was shown to pur-
chase West India Sugar, the demand was extensive, and a
larger quantity was taken for the outports. The private
purchases amounted to the immense quantity of 1660 hhds
and tierces, and the rates obtained were fully equal to those
of Friday, indeed in some cases strong working and the lower
sorts of yellow brought 6d advance.
REFINED.—To-day prices ruled firm for fined Sugar, and
the demand was good from the home trade; brown grocery
lumps at 65s to 665, and Standard lumps 66s 6d to 67s per
cwt. Bonded Crushed Sugar further declined in value, 39s
to 40s having been taken for first quality.
MAIIRMUS.—This afternoon several inquiries existed pri-
vately for Mauritius Sugar, but at present the quantity in
the market is small, and the rates paid were rather above
those previously quoted.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon white Bengal was much
sought after, and as the rates paid were rather above those
before quoted, the supply has become inadequate for the de-
mand. Brown sorts were purchased with increased freedom
at 38s to 42s for low and middling; of grainy yellow some
parcels were sold at very full rates. Of Madras 1511 bags, a
superior parcel, were submitted to public competition, and
sold at high rates.
MOLASSES.—The demand has been brisk for West India,
and rather higher rates were paid; the sales reached 600
puncheons nearly all new Antigua, very fine at 24s to 24s 6d,
and fine at 23s 6d per cwt.
Hors.—ln the value little variation has taken place, but
the amount of business transacted has been small. At the
Worcester market new Hops were sold at 61.
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offslowly by private treaty at 47s to 48s per cwt.
TEA.—lmporters manifest firmness, and have refrained
from offering any at public sale, although the large quantity
of 46,718 pkgs arrived during the past week, and further
arrivals being near at hand ; duty was paid on 471,5191 b
during that period. In Congou large purchases have been made
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been transacted at firm rates. Twankay has met with in-
creased attention, and prices are on the ascendancy. For
Ilyson merchants are unable to obtain any advance. Young
Dyson has been extensively dealt in. Gunpowder has met
with a good sale. Of Imperial several parcels have been dis-
posed of. The business done in Caper has been at stiffer rates.
In Orange Pekoe the operations are upon a more extended
scale. For Plain Orange Black leaf and flowery Pekoe the
demand is improving.
RICE.—Of Bengal several parcels have arrived. Madras
is little wanted, and may be purchased at 17s to 20s per cwt.
Of Java there is still little in the market, but few inquiries
have PreValledt canning has been purchased with caution

EXPLOSION 01' GAS AND SMOCKING ACCIDENT.-
On Monday morning, between seven and eight o'clock, the
inhabitants of Fleet-street and its vicinity were alarmed by
a loud report and smashing of glass, .while smoke and flame
were seen to issue from East Temple Chambers, in White-
friars-street. It appears that that the housekeeper on going
in as usual to prepare the rooms, perceived a strong smell of
gas, and called a lad, who came into the room with a lighted
candle. Immediately a loud report took place, and the mom
and furniture were quickly on fire. The Farringdon-street
engine was speedily on the spot, and the firemen succeeded in
confining the flames to the room in which the explosion oc-
curred. We regret to add, that the unfortunate woman was
severely burnt, while her clothes were destroyed. She now
lies in a very dangerous state. The poor boy was also in-
jured by the fire, but not so severely. The escape of gas
which caused the accident is supposed to have arisen from
its not having been turned off at the main.

DISTRICT ASYLUM, ST. GEORGE'S, SOUTHWARK.—
On Monday a meeting of the rate-payers of St. George's, South-
was held in the vestry-room, for the purpose of taking
into consideration an order of the Poor-law Commissioners
to combine with other parties to erect an asylum for the
temporary relief of the poor and destitute, and for supplying
them with work. The Rev. Mr. Horton, the rector, pre-
sided.:Mr.Matthews moved a resolution to the effect—" that
the parishioners contemplated with alarm the junction of that
parish with others in the forming of a union which only
tended to carry out the system of centralisation, and deprived
the rate-payers of control over their own officers—that it
would entail vast additional expense, and strongly recom-
mended that every resistance should be offered to it both by
the guardians nominated over it and the parish generally,"
The motion having been seconded, Mr. Boxer observed,
that Mr. Hall, the Poor-law Commissioner, had shown more
humanity at the meeting than most of the supporters of the
poor-law, for he expressed his regret that the only relief
that could be afforded would be food and a night's lodging.
If the asylum were established it would be a sign-post for
the dissolute and idle who would flock to it. St. George's
could not afford it, for independent of 10,0001. for building
the asylum, it would require 2,000/. a-year for the working
of this most objectionable proposal. The resolution was
carried unanimously, and after the usual vote of thanks to
the Rev. Chairman, the meeting broke up.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—On Monday afteenoon, about
three o'clock, as Ellen Brooks, parlour-maid to Samwell,
Esq., of Canterbury-street, Lambeth, was running down the
kitchen stairs, she slipped and fell, when a carving knife she
had in her hand at the time entered her right thigh, and in-
flicted a frightful wound; she also broke four of her ribs by
the fall. Medical assistance was obtained, but it was some
time before the flow of blood was stopped, the wound in the
thigh having divided an artery.

SUICIDE IN A WATER-BUTT.---On Monday, Mr.
Bedford held an inquest at the Rose and Crown, Rose-street,
Soho, on the body of Ann Foxwell, aged fifty-eight. The
deceased, a widow, carried on the business of a turner and
stand-maker, at No. 24, Crown-street. She bad been very
unsettled, and at times depressed in spirits since the death of
her husband, eleven months since, and would frequently ex-
claim, " That there was no one in the world she cared for,"
and "that there was nothing worth living for." On Satur-
day morning last, at twenty minutes past seven o'clock, her
sister left her in bed, and a quarter of an hour after she was
found by her foreman in the water-butt in the back kitchen,
her feet upwards. On being taken out she was quite dead.
The top of the water-butt being within a foot of the ceiling,
she must have had some trouble in effecting her object. Ver-
dict " Temporary insanity."
MILITANT MOVEMENTS AT PORTSMOUTH. It has
been decided to enlarge the Cambridge Barracks, and for thig
purpose the Theatre Royal and the houses at the upper part
of the High-street, Portsmouth, together with those facing
the ramparts on the south of the High-street, will be taken
down as soon as the Government can obtain possession of
them. The space thus obtained will provide one of the finest
sites in the town for this object, and as the property is not
occupied by persons in business, no inconvenience is likely to
result from the procedure. The building now occupied as
the Portsmouth workhouse, which will be vacated in a few
weeks, the inmates being about to be removed to the new
union house, will be purchased by the Government for
theh
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of harvest in England, Scotland, and Ireland, the value of
grain secured on an average in every week, is not less than
than
six million pounds sterling, reckoning the total quantity of
i n any week of the
wheat grown at 20,000,000 quarters, each of the value of 505.,
and other sorts of grain at half the value of wheat. Of course
the quantity led each week varies, but we should take the
present week to have yielded to the stack-yard to the amount
in value of 10,000,0001. in grain. Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday, were fair and fine days with severe frost, on
Monday and Tuesday nights. On Wednesday the day was
favourable for harvest work, but in the night the barometer
fell considerably, and on Thursday, about noon, we had a re-
turn of heavy showers, since which time the weather has
been unsettled. The frost of Monday and Tuesday nights
has checked the growth of the winter potatoes, and rendered
their tops as black as ripe bean straw. We do not find that
it has in any degree increased the murrain amongst the dis-
eased potatoes, or brought on the decay where the crops
were before sound. We fear that the late crops of grain in
the hilly countries, still in an unripe state, will be shrivelled
by the frost, and rendered unproductive upon the threshing-
floor. On tho whole, we feel it to be our duty to put our
readers upon an economical use of grain, and particularly of
potatoes, which are sure to be scarce and dear during the en-
suing winter. Of turnips, the crop is generally good, and the
Swedes in particular, being natives of a cold climate, have not
suffered either in the bulk or in the top by the premature se-
verity of the weather. The unfavourable prospects in conse-
quence of the weather of last week, combined, perhaps, with
a more perfect knowledge of the yield of the crops of grain
in the present year, caused a serious advance in the London
market on Monday, which has since been confirmed both in
Leeds and Liverpool Leeds Mercury.