The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-24 00:00:00

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London New Price current of April 23.)
817 C A n.. To-day buyers of British Plantation Sugar were
flusireus to purchase; merchants manifested firmness, and a
good business was transacted in all descriptions, considering
the scanty show; the prices given are equal to those of
Friday ; several of the brokers have nothing to offer for sale;
one pareel of 160 hlads St. Kitt's sold at 61s to 63s for grey,
111 id 64s 6d for yellow.
int;
Gor Tiorps
•—To-day there was no variation in the price of Re-
e d
; several purchases were made
_ by the home trade;
th refiners are not Willing sellers. Bonded Crushed Sugar
is in improved demand, and prices are firm; sales made
at As 9d to '263 per cwt for first quality.
for loaves. The market is firm_
Af•URITIUs.—This afternoen 513 bags were submitted to
public competition, and nearly all sold at steady rates: g‘nod
end fineelioT at 64.1 to e:5313c1, 02s Gel to e.,33 ed, 107. 604

I to 61s 6d, strong grey 62s to 62s 6d, mid 60s 6d to 61s, low
' 59s 6d, and fine brown .59s to 59s 6d per cwt.
Karr INDlA.—Bengal Sugar has been in excellent request,
, and the prices paid are 6d to is per cwt above those of the last
i public sale. This afternoon Bengal Sugar was in request,
I and 726 bags at auction went at full rates; good white at
1 65s 6d to 665, damp 64s to 655, damp Khaur 50s to 53s per cwt.
14 casks 103 boxes of Ceylon Sugar were sold—strong mid-
dling yellow at 60s 6d to 61s, good greyish yellow 61s 6d, bright
yellow 62s 6d, ordinary grey 89s per cwt.
Foasiew.—The market has a firm appearance for all de-
scriptions of Foreir Sugar. This afternoon 1,840 boxes of
white Havannah sugar were submitted t. public competition,
sound all taken in at stiff rates, good at 28s 6d to 30s, mid
261 6d to 28s, low 23s to 24s ; the washed, amounting to 430
boxes, all sold at 23s to 25s per cwt, being the full value. A
floating cargo of brown and yellow Maceio sold for Hamburgh
at 17, per cwt.
MoLssaxs.—Holders of West India submitting to rather
lower rates has caused buyers to operate more freely. Trinidad
at 225, Demerara 24s to 255, Antigua fine 27. 6d per cwt.
Madras, in bond, bought in at 9s, and Bengal, duty paid, at 18s
per cwt. To-day Berbice Molasses sold at 24, per cwt.
Cocos.—Brazil 28s 6d to 30s per cwt, St. Domingo at
27s 6d for ordinary old grey, and sea damaged first class 21s to
243 per cwt..
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TEA.—The demand is on the increase for Tea of all descrip.
tions ; a good business has been transacted since last Tuesday,
particularly in the lower qualities, which have brought rather
higher rates; the better kinds maintain the previous currency.
To-day several purchases were made in Tea, and the market
closed firmly; common Congou for cash at is Oird to Is Jd
per lb. No public sale is yet announced.
SAGO.—There has been more disposition to purchase Sago,
and hither rates paid for fine qualities; the lower sorts have
maintained the previous currency ; Sago Flour at 20s 6d to
21s 6d per cwt. Tapioca at 5d to 544 for good. West India
Arrowroot at 644 for Jamaica, 94d to Is 2d for Bermuda, 5d to
100 for St. Vincent's, and Tousles Mois 5d to 54d per lb.
COFFEE.—The market has been better supplied with West
India Coffee, still bu)ers have operated with reluctance, and at
at auction 50 casks Jamaica of the new crop went
prices 3s to 4s per cwt under those paid in the private markets.
This afternoon there was only a limited demand privately
for Ceylon Coffee; 881 bags at auction were, however, nearly
all disposed of, but at rather lower rates ; good ordinary
pale went at 59s to 59s 6d, real good ordinary rather coloury
60s, middling greyish coloury Demerara sort at 85s to 85s 6d,
fine fine ordinary 793, and sea damaged 56s to 83s 6d ; bold
black taken in at 17s 6d. Demerara taken in at 60s for fine
ordinary unclean. The Foreign market is quiet ; Rio taken in
at 45s to 48s for fine fine ordinary ; one lot sold at 50s per
cwt. First class sea damaged St. Domingo (bankrupts' effects)
taken in at 28s to 29s per cwt; middling coloury Rio fetched
59s per cwt.
RUM, BRANDT, AND HOLLANDS.—The good and fine
qualities of Jamaica Rum sold at an advance on the prices of this
day week of 2d per gallon ; inferior sorts are firm in price, 33
to 36 overproof fine quality at 4s 8d to 4s 10d, 31 to 34 over
good 3s 10d to 3s 11d, 22 over very fine high flavour 4s 6d, and
common and middling 30 to 34 over 3s 6d to 3s 8d per galh.n.
In Leewards at 2s 1d to 2s 241 per gallon for proof ; there are
large purchasers at 2s Id. Demerara at 3s 2d to 3s 4d for 32
to 36 per cent overproof, and superior at 3s 5d to
3s 6d. Calcutta Rum proof at Is 10d to is 104 d per gallon.
To-day the demand for brandy was good, and prices firmer ;
speculators are the chief operators. Cognac beat brands of
the vintage of 1838, hhds 5s 10d, puns 5s 8d ; ditto 1939, hhds
5s Bd, puns 5s 6d ; ditto 1840, hhds 5s 6d, puns 5s 4d ; ditto
1841, hhds 5s sd, puns 5s 3d ; ditto 1842, hhds 5s 4d, puns
5s 2d ; middling marks 3s 5d to 4a 6d ; and low 2s 93 to 3s 4d ;
and Spaniels brandy 2s 8d to 2s 93 per gallon. In Geneva
several slapping orders executed at Is &I to Is 9d, the value of
fine for home consumption is 2s 2d to 3s. English corn
spirits 10s 2d, and Scotch and Irish malt spirit 12s 6d to 13s
per gallon.
RICE.—For Bengal the tendency of prices is still downwards.
Madras and Java on lower terms. Patna cleaned rice 13s to
17s, and Carolina 21s to 26s per cwt. This afternoon Bengal
good white went at lls middling 10s 6d to I Is, sea damaged
first class lOs to 11s, second 9a 6d to 10s. Java taken in at
8s 6d for low yellow mixed with Paddy; Carolina from Bos-
ton good at I6s to 16s 6d, and middling 15s per cwt. This af-
ternoon Tapioca sold at 5d to 64d per lb for good and fine
quality.
INDIOO.—The quarterly sale of East India Indigo wa
brought to a conclusion this day. From the beginning of th
sale the biddings were very brisk, and the demand for all the
qualities fit for shipping unusually active. This afternoon
Manilla Indigo went at Is 3d to 3s 2d, Madras 3s to 3s 2d, and
Guatemala 2e 10d to 3s 9d per lb.
Tar.Low.—There has been only a small business transacted
in Russian Tallow, on the spot; and 40s to 41s per cwt is the
value of P Y Candle : for delivery in the last three months of
the year 42s to 42s 3d per cwt. Town Tallow nett is 40s to
40s 6d per cwt. In the value of other sorts of Tallow thire is
little change ; North American fetched 38s to 40s 6d ; Odessa
sheep 40s to 40s 3d; Gibraltar 43s ; and Italian 40s 9d to 41s.
This afternoon P Y Candle was in request for delivery in the
last three months of the year at former rates, but the demand
on the spot was limited.
OILS—Pale Seal is 341 to 341 lOs and Cod 3415 s to 341 10s;
on Friday, Sperm, prime British at 751 to 761, and inferior at
731 to 741 per tun. Palm at 24s to 28s per cwt for common
to fine. Cocoa Nut Oil less inquired for, 301 to 3015 s for
Ceylon, Olive Oil is in excellent request ; Gallipoli 521 to
531, Spanish 511, and Barbary 481 10s to 491 per tun. Rape
at 39s 6d to 40s for pale, and 36s 6d to 39s for brown. Lin-
seed Oil at 27s 3d to 27e 6d per cwt °lithe spot.

THE WELLINGTON STATUE IN THE CITT.—At the
last meeting of the Royal Exchange Committee on the sub-
ject of placing the statue of his Grace the Duke of Wellington,
by Sir Francis Chantrey, the trustees, Mr. John Masterman
and Sir Peter Laurie, and the executors, Mr. Turner, R.A.,
and Mr. Jones, discussed, at considerable length, the question
as to the most eligible position of the equestrian figure on the
spot selected in the front of the Royal Exchange. Upon that
occasion Sir Peter Laurie stated that Sir Francis Chantrey
always expressed a wish that the statue should face the
south, in order that it might have the advantage of the sun,
for which purpose the eminent sculptor suggested the re-
moval of the ugly upper storey of the Mansion-house, which
was accordingly taken down, to the manifest improvement of
that edifice. Mr. Jones confirmed the statement as to the
opinion and wish of Sir Francis Chantrey. The Committee,
however, came to the resolution, that, as the front of the
Royal Exchange faced the west, it would, notwithstanding
the impression upon the mind of so high an authority, be
preposterous to turn the face of the statue away from that
direction, and they accordingly agreed unanimousiy that the
Duke should front Cheapside. Mr. Turner, the other exe-
cutor, informed the Committee that the statue and pedestal
had long been completed; and he trusted that by the 18th
of June, the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, the public
would have a complete opportunity of judging of the merits
of the performance. The Committee seemed to entertain no
doubt that on the anniversary of the memorable event the
statue would be erected.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE—CHATHAM, APRIL 22.
The following regiments from theprovisional battalion of this
garrison have this day received orders for embarkation, to
proceed to the three presidencies of India during the present
season. These for Bengal are the 9th, 10th, 29th, 31st, 39th,
40th, 50th, and 62d, with the following officers of each corps,
ordered by Colonel Thomas Weare, K.H., of the battalion,
to hold themselves in readiness to embark for India in the
ships as they are taken up for the conveyance of troops :
Lieutenant •Creagh, Ensign O'Connor, Ensign Foster, Ensign
Hawes, of the 9th; Captain Staunton, Captain Shandly,
Ensign Angelo, of the 10th ; Enn Francis, Ensign White,
Ensign Scudamore, of the 29th ; Major James Spence, Lieut.
Elmslie, Ensign Paul, Ensign Hutton, 31st ; Lieut. Wolfe,
Lieut. Reader, Lieut. Ensor, Lieut. Bray, Lieut. Fitzgerald,
Assistant-Surgeon M'Gregor, 39th ; Captain Valiant, Captain
Smith, Ensign Payne, 40th ; Captain Stapleton, Lieutenant
Maloney, Actiug-Adjutant of the Provisional Battalion, Lieut.
3.lontmorencie, Ensign Venables, Ensign Vemett, Ensign
Purcell, 50th ; Ensign Roberts and Ensign Cox, of the 62d
Regiment. The officers for Madras are Captain Bell, Captain.
Teale, Lieutenant Bolton, Lieutenant Cumming, Ensign Col-
ville, Ensign Ellison of the 4th ; Lieutenant Peddle,
Assistant-Surgeon Webster, of the 21st Fusiliers ; Lieu-
tenant L. Trevors, Ensign Smith, 25th ; Lieutenant
Frost, Lieutenant Ahmuty, Lieutenant Grant, 57th ' • Lieu-
tenant Higginbotham. Ensign M'Cauley, Ensign Le Grand,
63d ; Captain Richardson, 84th ; Captain M'Gee, 94th Regi-
ment. the officers for Bombay are Captain J. Carney, En-
sign M'Carty, and Ensign Engles, of the 2d Queen's; Cap-
tain Burslem and Ensign Hogg, of the 13th ; Captain 'Quin-
verer, Lieutenant Armstrong, Lieutenant Johnstone, and
Ensign Noland, of the 17th ; Ensign Baldwin, Lieutenant
Miller, 22d; Lieutenant Dane Ensign Wright, Ensign Ellis,
28th ; Captain Elvington, Lieutenant Prettyjohn, Ensign
M'Lean, Assistant-Surgeon M'Kinnon, and Assistant-Sur-
geon Bowie, of the 78th Highlanders; Lieutenant Wood,
Ensign Gerahtley, Ensign Robinson, and Ensign Stewart—
'taking a total of 73 officers. The two following detachments
marched this morning from this garrison, as a convict guard,
to Deptford, where they embark on board the convict ship
Barrosa, to proceed with convicts for Van Diemen's Land.
The guard comprised 1 sergeant, 3 corporals, and 31 rank and
file of the 58th Regiment, with 15 rank and file of the 80th,
to complete the guard. Lieutenant William Birch, of the
25th, formerly Adjutant of the 6th Royals, commands the
guard, in lieu of Lieutenant Page, of the 58th, who enters the
7th Hussars, by purchase ; Ensign St. John, of the 80th4 and
4 women and 1 child, belonging to the soldiers of the 58th,
proceed with the detachment.

DEATH OF LIEUT.-COLONEL SIMSON,
This Gallant Officer, who had held the appointment of
Town-Major of Hull, as reward for distinguished ser-
vices, for upwards of twenty years, died at his quarters in
the citadel on Friday week, in the 61st year of
his age. The deceased entered the service of his
country at an early period of the present century,
as an ensign in the 81st Regiment, and with which
he first did duty in Sicily in 1805. Subsequently he ob—
tained a lieutenancy in in the 43d Light Infantry, then form-
ing, with the 52d and 95th Rifles, a crack brigade, under his
relative and patron, Gen. Sir John Moore, at Thorneliffe' on
the coast of Kent. In 1807 Lieut. Simson embarked with his
regiment at Deal, in the expedition under the late Lord
Cathcart, against Copenhagen, and was present at Sir Ar-
thur Wellesley's gallant affair in the island of Kioge. In the
following year Lieutenant Simson was again afloat with
a force under the orders of Sir John Moore ; but on their ar-
rival at Gottenbuigh, it being found their services would be
unavailing, the expedition was ordered to Portugal. From
this period he was identified with the fortune of Sir John
Moore, in his advance on the Spanish frontier, and subsequent
disastrous retreat. Capt. Simson next served through a con-
siderable portion of the Peninsula campaign, was present at the
battle of Vittoria, and at the last ffght before Toulouse. On
the preliminaries of peace being signed, the 43d, and other
regiments of the light divisiop, were ordered to America,
where they took part in the war of reprisal for the outrages
committed in Canada. At the attack on New Orleans, Cap-
tain Simson, leading the storming party against the principal
redoubt of the enemy's position, was thrown into the trench
by a round shot, causing the severe wound which resulted in
the amputation of his lett leg and thigh, and 'rendered him
unfit for further active ditties. He then retired with the
rank of Major, but afterwards received his staff appoint-
ment, and the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel, with the
Hanoverian Guelphic Order, as an acknowledgment of his
s7-r'•'ich7: The funeral of the gallant officer took place on
Tuesday last, and there have been few occasions of this de-
tientehnien Hull where the public feeling and sympathy
de-
script
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everyT houwsainnddeswofinperhe onsleantg-
procession was occupied • many persons were congre-
gated on tie roofs of houses and nearly the whole of the shops
wereH ewnhosllytaourdipgarit,iatlhlye•
erninentllGuleirPmatn ctket.singer, is ex-
pected to arrive in London on the 10th or 12th of May. His
first appearance will be at the fourthconcert of the Philhar-
monic Society on the 13th of May. The services of Staudigl
have also been already secured by
thetdierect ,arsereofd Harmonic
Ancient
7riocf
Concerts for three occasions ; by h
Society, at Exeter Hall, to take part in the
perform
the oratorio, The Death of Abel, and for the Oxford, Man-
chester, and Liverpool Musical Festivals.

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CUSTOMS.—Iii consequence of thebusiness at Folkestone, it has become necessary to augment
the Customs establishment at that station ;
future consist of a sub-collector, a sub-controller, one
searcher, landing and coast-waiter, and a proportionate
number of tide-waiters and boatmen. Officers of experience
in the service have been selected to fill the superior situations
at Folkestone. It is not proposed to make Folkestone a dis-
tinct port,but it will still remain as a subordinate station
under tho control of the Cu ms at Wvtit

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, April 23.
The Earl of SIIAFTESBURY, in the absence of the
Lord Chancellor, took his seat on the Woolsack at Five
o'Clock.

Lord ROSEBERY presented a petition from a
Dissenting congregation in the neighbourhood of Man-
chester against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill.
The Bishop of BANGOR presented several petitions
from places in Wales, against the union of the sees of
St. Asaph and Bangor.
PRO-CORN-LAW LEAGUE.

Earl RADNOR wished to ask his Noble Friend near
him (the Duke of Richmond, as we understood) and the
Noble Duke opposite (the Duke of Buckingham), whe-
ther a certain pamphlet, published under the auspices of
the Pro-Corn-law League, was sanctioned by them,
for, in his opinion, a more discreditable work never
emanated from the press 2—(" Oh, oh 1') He re-
peated the assertion, because it was dishonest.
The pamphlet laid doWn particular dogmas, with-
out at all giving' data for their conclusions. (The
Noble Earl then read several votations from the
pamphlet alluded to, in support of his assertion, and
concluded by repeating his question.)
The Duke of RICHMOND said he thought that
the practice of asking questions ought not to
be extended. It was all very well to put
questions to the members of her Majesty's Govern-
ment, but certainly he thought it was not likely to
increase the dignity of their Lordships' House for a
member of the Anti-Corn-law League, as his Noble
Friend was, to stand up in his place and put a question
to him (the Duke of Richmond), who was a member of
a Protection Society.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) He
felt that the proper course to adopt was not to answer
so paltry a question, further than to say that he thought
the pamphlet a most excellent one, and that if it was
not a good one his Noble Friend would not find fault
with it. He thought his Noble Friend was quite as
much in error in the present instance as he was
when he last attacked him (the Duke of Richmond). In
that instance, instead of replying to him in his place, his
Hon. Friend published his answer in the shape of a letter
in the newspapers, with his name attached. The autnor
of the pamphlet was long known, and although of similar
politics to the Noble Lord, yet he did not seek to destroy
the agriculture of the country. It was true the Noble
Lord had taken the chair at a late meeting of the Anti-
Corn-law League in Covent-garden, wh re he certainly
exhibited as a great actor—(Laught,r)—and, there-
fore, it was natural that he should wish to impugn a do-
cument which so successfully exhibited the Anti-Corn-
law League in its true colours. For his own part, he
should say, in reply to the observations of his Noble
Friend, that he would never leave the Agricultural Pro-
tection Society until they had completely succeeded in
putting down the Anti- Corn-law League, than which
he believed there never existed in England a
more unconstitutional body. The Protection So-
ciety would never have been formed if the- Anti-Corn-
law League had not attacked the tenant farmers of
England as they had done, and accused them of apathy.
He should only say further that he considered this
pamphlet quite as good as his Noble Friend thought it a
bad one.

After a few words from Earl RADNOR, the matter
dropped.
PRESBYTERIAN MARRIAGES.

Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition, complaining
of the late decision in the case of the Presbyterian
marriage question.
DISSENTERS' CHAPELS BILL.

The LORD CHANCELLOR stated to their Lord-
ships that, on Friday next, the day originally named, he
should propose the second reading of the Dissenters'
Chapels Bill, and go into Committee en the Bill upon
the following Friday. ___ _