The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-12 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation is firm, and
about 900 hhds have been sold at rather higher prices. A
large business has also been done privately in other parcels,
out of the hands of the importers, and likewise in brown and
yellow Bengal. 1,395 bags Bengal at auction sold rather
dearer, viz. at sls to 59s Mr low to fine white Benares. The
only transactions which have taken place privately worth
reporting consist of a cargo of white Alaceio, which has been
sold afloat at 30s 9d, deliverable at Trieste, and two cargoes
of Porto If ice also afloat, but the exact particulars have not
transpired. The quantity of British Plantation landed last
week at the East and West India Docks was 3,491 hhds,
228 tierces, 769 barrels; and there were taken for home con-
sumption 2,003 hhds, 222 tierces, 313 barrels. The stock in
the same places is 14,665 hhds, 1,521 tierces, 2,423 barrels.
Corr-Ex.-988 bags Ceylon (chiefly British Plantation
kinds), and 430 bags Java (imported rid the Cape of Good
Hope), mostly found buyers at 45s to 47s 6d for very good to
very fine ord. Ceylon 62s' 6d to 67s for fine ord to mid celery
British Plantation kind, and 50s to 58s 6d for f. fine ord even
palish to f. fine ord celery, being for the Ceylon rather dearer.
Coco A.-1,310 bags Para sold briskly at 35s to 40s for ord
grey to good red.
Rust.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 678 puns, 25 hhds ; there were taken
for home consumption 179 puns, 50 hhds, and exported 67
puns, 4 hhds. The stock in the same place is !0,171 puns,
1,706 hhds. A Government contract fiu. 100,000 gallons
has b, en taken at is 9id per gallon tor proof strength ; not
less than one• half to be from British possessions in America.
RICE.-1,400 bags, 1,545 pockets Bengal at auction was
all disposed of, and went off with much spirit at 13s to
13s 6d for mid white, and small broken at Ils 6d, being fully
6d dearer. Since these sales the market has become even
firmer, and for good and fine Bengal 15s to 16s per cwt has
been paid.
SALTPETRE.-358 bags (chiefly Madras) sold at 25s 6d
for 5} and 5 per cent. refraction.
SPICES.-709 bags Pepper sold at 2id to 23d for ord to mid
black Sumatra, which are previous rates.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 40s 3d to 40s 6.1 per cwt on the spot,
and Town 42s per cwt.
TEA.—The market is quiet, but consumption goes on well.
COAL MARKET.

Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Adair's Main,
13s 9d ; Bates Hartley, Ise; Buddle's West Hartley, 15s 9d ;
Carr's Hartley, 16s; Chester Main, 15s; Dean's Primrose,
14s 6d ; Fenhain Hartley, 13s; Hasting's Hartley, 15* 6d ;
Holywell Main, 163; Nelson's West Hartley, 163; Original
Tanfield, 133 6d ; Old Pontop, 13s 6d; Ord's Redheugh,
13s 6d; Ravensworth's West Hartley, 15s 6d; Stewart's
Hartley, 14s 6d ; Taylor's West Hartley, 153; Tanfield Moor,
16s ; Wylam, 14s 9d ; Wall's-end, Bewicke and Co , 17s ;
Gibson and North Durham mixed, 15s 6d ; Gosforth, 16s 6d ;
Heaton, 16s 6d ; Killingworth, I6s ; Walker, 16s;
Whcrn-
clifle, 16s 6d; Eden Main, 17s; Eden Main ( re-shipped),
16s; Braddyll's Hetton, 17s 9d; East Hetton, 16a 6d; Has-
well, 18s; Hetton, 17s 9d ; Lambton, 17s 6d; Pemberton,
16s 6d ; Russell's Hetton, 17s 3d ; Scarborough, 17s ; Stewart's,
17s 6d ; Caradoc, 17s 6d ; Heugh Hall, 17s 3d ; Kelloe,
17s 6d ; Adelaide Tees, 17s 6d ; Barrington Tees, 15s 9d ;
Evenwood, 16s ; Richardson's Tees, 16s ; Seymour Tees,
17s ; Tees, 17s 9d ; Cowpen Hartley, 16s 6d ; Hartley, 15s ;
West Hartley Netherton, 165.—Ships arrived, 133.

BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.)
IN RE LORD HUNTINGTOWER.
Mr. LEWIS applied in this case for a day to be fixed, ever so
distant, so that his Lordship should be able to get protection,
as he was " harrassed and hunted" in a most distressing manner.
The COMMISSIONER said no difference could be made be-
tween the case of his Lordship and a tradesman who did not
deserve protection. The order was therefore refused.

SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff Bu HELL. )
HAZARD AND ANOTHER V. NIMBER. •

The plaintiffs in this action are the well-known brewers at
Brentford, and the defendant is a tailor and beer shop keeper at
Walcot-place, Lambeth. The claim was for 181. 18s. 6d. for
beer supplied to the defendant, who pleaded that he never was
indebted.

The solicitor for the plaintiffs said that, although the plea was
a sham plea, and the defendant did not attend to support it, it
would be necessary to call the several draymen and clerks who
knew anything about the matter.
The several witnesses were called, and a verdict was given
for the amount claimed.

The UNDER-SHERIFF remarked that by this plea the plain-
tiffs had been put to great inconvenience and unnecessary expense.

PINK V. MONTAGU.

The plaintiff resides at Notting-hill, and the defendant at
Colonel Montagu's, of Montagu-house, Montagu-square, and of
Hazlewood, near Watford. The action was brought to recover
the stun of 10 guineas for turf supplied at the latter place by
order of the defendant.

The defendant had paid 81. 10s. on account, and disputed the
difference, on the ground that more had been charged for than
delivered.

The particulars set forth that there were 60 tons at 3s. 6d.
per load. Several witnesses who dug and carried the turf mere
called to prove the weight ; they all agreed that there were 54
cart-loads, and they all came to the conclusion that not one
weighed less than a ton and a half, but it efts all guess-work.
The whole were put on eleven railway trucks at the Shepherd's
Bush station of the new Junction Bailway, and conveyed to
the Langley station of the Birmingham line. One witness
said he had put six loads and a half on one truck, and had done
so merely from curiosity to see how much it would take.
Another said he loaded four others to the same extent; he did
so because he had a spite against railways, and wanted to break
the bottoms of the trucks through. No evidence could be given
as to the weight of the rest.

For the deiendant it was urged that the claim was an over •
charge, and that plaintiff had agreed to be bound by the railway
weight, and that that only amounted to 49 tone.
Two of the defendant's servants were called who proved that
after the turf was sent plaintiff called at Hazlewood and Mon-
tagu house, and in conversation it was agreed that they should
be bound by the railway weight.
11r. James Tyas, clerk of the luggage department of the
London and Birmingham Railway at Camden-town, deposed
that in the early part of May instructions were given that an
average truck of turf should be brought to be weighed at the
permanent weights. It weighed 4 tons ll cwt. The
usual weight carried in them was 4 tons. Gravel
would weigh that, and be level at the top. Turf
was an unusual thing to carry. Plaintiff afterwards called,
and said he ci,nsidered that there was 60 tons, and
suggested that the plaintiff should be charged carriage on that
amount. Witness said he did not see how there could be such
a difference in the weight, and was satisfied with their weight.
The colonel was charged for 50 tons.
A servant of the defendant, who fetched the turf in one of
the colonel's carts, had one load weighed by his orders. It
weighed 1 ton 8 cwt.

For the plaintiff it was urged, in reply, that the mode of
weighing was not satisfactory, and further, that the plaintiff, if
he delivered the full quantity at the railway, was not responsible
for .any diminution in the transit.
The UNDER-SHERIFF held that this was strict law. The
question, therefore, vi as, first, whether the plaintiff had agreed
to abide by the railway weight, and next, whether that had
been ascertained so as to satisfy the jury. If the plaintiff had
agreed it would have been better for him not to have gone to
the railway at all, or if so to have required other
trucks to be weighed. The clerk, however, con-
sidered justice was done to the Company, and it
could hardly be considered they would lend themselves
to any fraud on the defendant. It was singular, too, that if
he (defendant) had considered the conversation binding, he
should have sent a load to be weighed. This dispute would, in
all probability have been avoided, had there been a weighing-
machine at other stations than Camden-town.
The jury, after five minutes' deliberation, gave a verdict for
the plaintiff for the amount claimed.

FOOT RACE.—Yesterday the one mile race be-
tween Gazeley, of Greenwich, and Williams, of Shepherd's
Bush, came off near the Three Cats public-house, at Acton
Bottom. The men were matched for 101. a side, Gazeley re-
ceiving twenty yards at the start. Gazeley went away with
the lead for half a mile, when his opponent came up to him ;
after a desperate struggle Gazeley succeeded in coming in the
winner by ten yards. The one mile of road was covered by the
winner in five minutes and forty-four seconds.

DESCENT OF THE BALLOON.—About twenty minutes
to eight o'clock Mr. C. Green (who had ascended from the
Albert Saloon about half-past six o'clock), having reached an
elevation of about 3,000 feet, made preparations for his
descent in the usual way, by allowing the escape of gas through
the upper valve of the balloon. Finding as he approached the
earth that he was about to alight on a corn-field, he flung out
some ballast, when he cleared it. By this time a number of
the inhabitants, upon seeing the position of the aeronaut,
afforded simultaneously their assistance, and laid hold of the
rope to which the grappling-iron was attached, when it was
safely brought to terra firma on a grass field in a hamlet called
Kidderborough, between the rear of Mordon College and
Woolwich common, the property of Mr. Pope, the eatensive
coal-merchant, and who is a farmer, residing there. An ex-
press pigeon being dispatched (and which arrived at the Albert
Saloon in about halt an hour), the balloon was released of its
gas, when Mr. Green, with Mr. and Mrs. Brading, were in-
vited to the residence of Mr. Pope, where they were bounti-
fully regaled, he having also offered to forward the balloon to
Vauxhall Gardens, where Mr. Green ascends this day. Mr.
Green and Mr. and Mrs. Brading reached the Royal Albert
Saloon about half-past ten o'clock, where they were received
with loud cheers. Subsequently Mrs. Brading delivered a
poetic address upon her retirement from the stage, in which she
alluded to her first appearance as an aeronaut.

WILFUL FIRING OF THE WHITE HART INN, AT
Hamprox-WICK.—At Staines Petty Sessions, yesterday, John
Henry Davidson, a young man, about twenty years of age
ostler at the White Hart Inn, Hampton-wick, was charged
with having wilfully set fire to his master's premises. Mr. John
Baker deposed that he kept the White Hart Inn at Hampton-
wick, and the prisoner was in his service as hostler. On the
evening of Saturday, the 2d instant, about nine o'clock, witness
was in his bar, when he heard the back door opened, and on
looking towards that door, saw some person going out. Wit-
ness immediately called to a boy in the passage, and inquired
who it was going out, when the boy replied that it was John
the, ostler. Witness then told the boy to go out and see who
it was, but witness had to repeat the order three times
before the boy did so. He. however, then went out, and
edgiest itnmed-iately returned, and called out, "Master the
loft! is on fire." Witness instantly ran into the parlour and
told the customers, who ran out with him and assisted him in
putjing out the flames. On afterwards examining the loft,
witness found that it had been on fire in two places. On the
pr6ious Tue,tday, a most determined attempt had been made
to set fire to the inn itself, by setting fire to the beds in two
separate bed-rooms, which witness fortunately succeeded in
extinguishing. On Sunday, the 3d inst., witness, with a
policeman, again examined the loft, and discovered, tucked
int 4 a hole in the feather-edged boarding, a small whisp of
straw, containing lucifer matches, and a small whisp of straw
placed on the inside against it. Other witnesses were exa-
mined, whose evidence corroborated that of Mr. Baker, and
tending in some degree to criminate the prisoner, though his
attorney strongly contended that there was no case against
him. The magistrates, however, thought the circumstances
sufficiently suspicious to warrant their sending him to prison
for trial.

FISIIING.—The fishing in the lochs and estuaries
of the Clyde promises to be exceedingly successful this season.
—,Edinburgh Evenisg-13434-•