The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-10 00:00:00

MARKET NE WS.-(THIS DAY,

HAY DIARBIITS.
►SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 4115 s .
Useful ditto, 4116 s to 5/4s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 5s t•
51 10s ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 1/ 12s to
1/ 14s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 14s to 11 16s per load. Supply
but moderate, and trade firm.
CUMIERIAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 153 to 41165;
Useful ditto 4/ 17s to 5165; fin• Upland ditto, 5/ 83 to
5/ 12s ; Clover Hay, 4110 s to 51173 ; Oat Straw, 11 130
to 1/ 15s ; Wheat Straw, 11 16s to 11 I7s per load.
A limited supply, and a steady demand.
WRITECHAPRL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 12s to 41155;
Useful ditto, 4/ 16s to 514 s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 5s to
5/ lOs ; Clover Hay, 41 10s to 61; Oat Straw, 1/ 12s to
1114 s ; Wheat Straw, 1114 s to 11 16s per load. Trade,
throughout, steady, at the above quotations.
COLONIAL
SUGAR.—The market has been very quiet, but prices
have been generally steady. Bengal good white has
been sold at 64s to 665, and good brown at 45s to 46s ;
3,446 Mauritius, since our last, have been nearly all
taken in, good mid yellow at 58s to 58s 6d per cwt. The
quantity of British Plantation landed last week in the
port of London, was 1,277 hhds 47 tierces 53 barrels,
and there were taken for home consumption, 1,806 hhds
225 tierces 535 barrels. The stock is 16,020 hhds 1,916
tierces 3,042 barrels.
COFFEE.—Very little doing in British Plantation,
and good ord Ceylon has been dull at 52s per cwt.
RUM.—The quantity landed last week in the port of
London was 322 puns. '.l here were taken for home
consumption 290 puns 53 hhds, and exported 385 puns
130 hhds. The stock is 13,031 puns 1,170 hhds.
TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is 40s 3d to 40s 9d per cwt on the
spot, and Town 43s 6d per cwt.
TEA.—The market is steady, although the deliveries
have been scarcely so large, during the last few days.

PRIVY COUNCIL.—CONDUCT OF THE GOVERNOR OF
GUERNSEL—The Lords of the Privy Council sat this
morning, the Lord Chanellor presiding, to investigate
a petition from Guernsey, touching the conduct of
the Lieutenant-Governor of that island. Sir James
Graham and other Lords were present.
A number of equipages, belonging to the dif-
ferent members of the Royal Family, left town
at an early hour this morning for Black-
heath, to join in the funeral procession of her
late Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda.
The procession was appointed to leave the ranger's
house (the Princess's late residence) at one o'clock, to
proceed to the Great 'Western Railway station at
Paddington. A special train was ordered to be in
readiness to convey the royal remains to Slough,
from whence a procession will be formed to St.
George's Chapel, Windsor, where the cavalcade is
expected to arrive at eight o'clock this evening.

DEATH OF THE DOWAGER LADY FLOYD.—We re-
gret to hear that Sir Robert and Lady Peel have received
from the Continent the melancholy information of the
sudden death of the Dowager Lady Floyd, mother of
Lady Peel. We are informed that her Ladyship, wbo
was at the banquet given at the Royal Exchange in ho-
nour of the Queen's visit, in the enjoyment of excellent
health, a fortnight back left this country for Italy, with
the intention of also sojourning a short time at Nice.
On reaching Paris, however, the deceased lady was
seized with symptoms of indisposition, which, in two
days, terminated in her death. Her Ladyship died on
Wednesday last. The deceased was relict of the late
General Sir John Floyd, Bart., whom she has survived
twenty-six years. By that Gallant General her Lady-
ship leave, issue Lady Fuller. widow of the late Lieu-
tenant-General Sir John Fuller, who died in October,
1841, and Lady Peel.
ACCIDENT TO THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER.--
As the Marquis of Worcester, while hunting, on Satur-
day, was galloping at speed across a field near Petty
France, an accident occurred to him which threatened
the most serious, if not fatal, consequences. The fore-
feet of his horse hitched in a cart-rut, and the animal
fell forward and turned a complete somersault with the
Marquis under him. We are happy to state, however,
notwithstanding the violence of the fall, and that a rider
rode against the horse while down, with considerable
force, his Lordship escaped with the most trifling in_
jury.— Bath Journal.

IGNS OF A HARD WlNTER.—Yesterday, much
curiosity was excited, and a great deal of sport created,
by large flocks of wild fowl making their appearance,
and alighting on the banks of the river. In Battersea-
fields, on the Fulham Lammas land, and amongst the
osier-beds, opposite Wandsworth, the wild ducks were
quite plentiful, and sportsmen were out by dozens, pop-
ping away. The seagulls were also very numerous, and
between Battersea-bridge and Hammersmith, several
stormy petrels were seen by the fishermen. The pre-
sence of wild fowl, and especially of the stormy petrel,
at this early period, is said, by those accustomed to the
water, to be a sure sign of a long and severe winter.
The Earl of Norbury, Lord Seaham, Colonel
Richardson, and the officers of the Royal Horse Guards
(Blue), Colonel St. Quintin and the officers of the 17th
Lancers, have accepted the stewardship of the Windsor
ball, on Thursday next.
ROBBERY AT RUGBY SCHOOL.—Yesterday informa-
tion reached Bow-street that on Friday night a gang of
ruffians, apparently. navigators, and armed with blud-
geons, broke into the house of the Rev. C. Mayor, one
of the masters of Rugby school. The burglars intimi-
dated the inmates with threats and menaces, and suc-
ceeded in carrying off a large quantity of property be-
longing to some of the members of the school, consisting
of a five-pound note, gold and silver, a gold watcb, chaint
and seals, silver chains, silver pencil cases, a quantity of
wearing apparel, and some medals, Tho thieves left
behind them their bludgeons, a coal pick, and a bunch
of keys.