The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-26 00:00:00

till SUN, LOVPON", SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 26, 1844.

1 CRIMINAL COURT_YESTERDAY

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HO USE.

PRICES OF SHARES

OLD COURT,
(Before Mr. Justice MAtiLE and Mr. Baron Rout.)
The prisoners cociptr, Weston j and inchson, who
Were tried on Thursday, and tile twd former eon-
victed of a very cruel robbery in the house of a per-
son named Blundell, were again arraigned upon an-
other indictment, charging them with stealing two
watches, the property of Thomas Tanner.
Mr. Simon prosecuted, and Mr. Ballantine de-
fended Cooper.
The case was clearly made out, it appearing that
all the prisoners went to the house of the prosecutor,
who keeps a coffee-shop in Grafton-street, Soho, and
they were observed to leave very abruptly. Imme-
diately afterwards the property was missed, and the
two watches were afterwards found in the possession
of one of the prisoners.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty ; and W es-
ton and Jackson were sentenced to be transported for
fifteen years, and Cooper for ten years.
James Carruthers, 20, a young man of very re-
spectable appearance, was indicted for feloniously
sending a letter, containing threats and menaces, with
a view to extort money from Miss Georgiana Angelina
Burdett Coutts.

all CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE
AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK.

EXTENSIVE PASSING OF HALVES OF STOLEN
I4ANX or ENGLAND NOTES.—William Dobby, a
outlet, residing in Wych-street, Mr. Hurst, a file-
manufacturer, of Greenhill-rents, St. John-street, ant
another tradesman of respectability, appeared before
Sir Peter Laurie, for the purpose of disclosing to him
a system of plunder which had been carried on, they
were apprehensive, to a very alarming extent. The
applicants believed that, under existing circum-
fstances, their losses were irreparable, but they hoped,
by a statement of the details of the plan to which
they had been victims, to prevent any further success
on tue part of those who were concerned in the de-
predation.
Mr. Dobby first stated his case. On the 21st of
September he received from Southampton, by post,
the following letter, containing the inclosure to which
it referred :

LONDON, FRIDAY, OCT. 25.

Div idend
. per_

Amount
Names of Qom- of
pantos. Share.

Paid. i Price.

Annum.

be per cent.
41.

Canals.
Ashton and Oldham...
Ashby-de-la-Zouch av
Basingstoke ...•
Brecknock & Aberga7.

£ s. d.
97 18 0
118 0 0
100 0 0
150 0 0

Birmingham,l.l6dish.
Do. and Liverp. Juuc.
Chelmer & Blackwater
Coventry .....
Crom ford ..................
Dudley .....
Danube and Mayne....
Ellesmere and Chester
Erewash
Forth and C1yde„.......
Grand Juncti0n..........
Grand Union
Grand Surrey
Grand Western........—
Glamorgansh., ay. cost
Gloucester & Berkeley
Grantham
Huddersfield ..........av
Kennet :did Avon ...av
Lanca5ter...............av
Leeds and Liverpool
Leicester
Leicester & Northamp.
Loughborough ........av
Monmouthshire
Montgomeryshire
Melton Mowbray
Mersey and Irwell
Macclesfield .....
Neath
Oxford
Peak Forest av
Regent's (or London)..
Rochdale AV
Shropshire .........
snmerset Coal
- lmcx Film! Stock
Do„ 'vorcester
Staffurd ana

-8
15 0 1
100 0 0
109 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
190 0 0
41 13 4
133 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
172 13 4
100 0 0
1 150 0 0
57 6 6

4L 108.
81.
4 per cent.
4/.
401.
.Iss.
71.
IL se.

"104, High-street, Southampton,
20th September, 1844.
"Sir,---liaving been recommended to you by a friend,
as being able to serve me with some good table cutlery
at a moderate price, but being an entire stranger to yon
myself, induces me to send you the half of a 51. Bank of
,3w8,i3t4h70,a t hopingfaiiyouset w i
ol lf send mi
veobr
yy
carvers, and steel to match ; also with a few table knives
rEa
table sakinditv°ne-sointa:n'tdrN°ofwo.rks, with desert carvers and chicken
and forks for kitchen
'e
yours, &c., P„1 rO. you Sir,
se be attentive to this
and do not fail, and bys.,3 cJ-Zito
" James Edwards—Direct 104, High-street:
The half of the bank-note being evidently genuine. ,
no suspicion was entertained by Mr. Dobby that any
trick was about to be practised upon him, and he
prepared and dispatched the order to Southampton
accordingly with railroad speed. He was, however,
disagreeably surprised at his customer's want of
punctuality in remitting the other half of the note;
and, after the lapse of some days, he mentioned the
circumstance to a friend, Who kept a drawing account
at the Bank of England, and also made inquiries upon
the subject, the result of which confirmed the suspicion
occasioned by the delay. That friend wrote to the
authorities at the Bank, stating that the party who
had obtained the goods had failed to send the coun-
terpart, and had left his residence, and as it was sus-
pected that he might have used that portion of the
note to obtain an equal amount of property elsewhere,
a request was made that if the second half of the note
should be presented, under any circumstances, inti-
mation might be given to the correspondent, The
information received from the Bank of England was,
that the half note in question had been stolen with a
great many other half notes, in September, 1843,
from a banker's parcel, passing from Pares and
Co.'s banking-house, in Leicester, to Smith,
Payne, and Smitb, London, who, on production of
the counterparts, and giving an indemnity to the
Bank of England, obtained, in December, 1843, pay-
ment of the whole amount.

31 12s. Bd.

.sg.
$4l.
101.

89 18 10

4768
100 0 0
140 0 0

In other counts the intent was laid to be to de.
fraud Mr. E. Marjoribanks, and other gentlemen,
partners in the firm of Coutts and Co., the bankers.
Messrs. Bodkin and Doane conducted the prosecu-
tion ; and Mr. Clarkson appeared for the prisoner.
It appeared from the statement of the Learned
Counsel, and the evidence that was adduced, that on
the 2d September a letter, addressed "J. Coutts,
Esq., was received at the bank, the contents of which
were to the effect that a set of men of desperate cha-
racters in London, who were driven by distress to a
state of perfect recklessness and desperation, had re
solved to possess themselves of the property of Mr. J.
Coutts ; that the writer of the letter had accidentally
become acquainted with their intention, and had
been bound to secrecy by the most solemn oaths ;
he had, however, resolved to prevent the mischief,
and if 1001. in gold were given to him he should be
able to do so ; aril he suggested that if his request
was complied with, the following advertisement should
be inserted in the Times :—" C. C. informs D. D.
that his request has been complied with, and
that, on the evening of the same day, the amount,
wrapped in a parcel, should be sent by a boy to the
Monument, where the writer would be in waiting to
receive it." A parcel, containing a half-crown, was
accordingly made up, and a boy dispatched with it
to the place directed, two policemen being sent to
watch. The prisoner made his appearance and
snatched the parcel from the boy, and ran off and
succeeded in making his escape. The next day
another letter, in the same handwriting, was received
at the bank, in which the writer complained severely
of the proceeding of the previous day, and went on to
state that the persons before alluded to were very
much exasperated, and threatened the destruction of
Mr. J. Coutts, and four other gentlemen, and that
they would certainly carry out their threats unless
they received 500/. The letter concluded by requiring
100/. to be sent in a parcel, as before requested, to
the Southwark-bridge-road, where the writer would
be in readiness to receive it ; and he added that the
money would be employed in paying the passage-
money of the conspirators to America. A second
parcel, containing money and clay, was made up and
again sent by a boy, and when the prisoner came to
take it, he was secured by Inspectors Pearce and
Haines, of the detective police.
These facts having been proved in evidence,
Mr. CLARKSON took an objection to the indictment,
and contended that the document produced in support
of the prosecution was not a threatening letter within
the meaning of the statute ; he also urged that the
letter being addressed to J. Coutts, Esq., when it ap-
peared there was no such person in existence, the in-
dictment could not be supported. The Learned
Counsel cited some cases in support of his objection.
Mr. Justice MAULE declined to withdraw the case
from the jury, and said the objection, if it was good,
might be made available upon the record, after
verdict.

83 10 0
142 17 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
78 0 0
33 16 8
85 0 0
125 0 0
150 0 0
12 10 0
140 0 0
125 0 0
0
145 u

Shrewsbury
Sturbridge
Stratford .on.
Swansea
Severn & Wye & *Rail.
Trent & Mersey, 14 sh.
Thames & Medway..av
Warwick and Dinning.
Warwick and Napton...
Worcester & Birming.
Wilts and Berks .av
Wisbeach
Wey and

Sir P. LAURIE said the trick seemed to be a new
one, and Mr. Dobby was certainly right in giving
publicity to a case of such importance, by appearing
before a magistrate, however trivial might be his
chance of restitution. Exposure of systems of plunder
before a magistrate at the Mansion-house was cal-
culated to do, and to his knowledge had done, much
more good than trial at the Old Bailey, where some
of the gentlemen of the bar were so ready to vouch
for the integrity and high feeling of their clients.—
(A laugh.) He desired to know the amount of the
value of the goods transmitted to Mr. Edwards.
Mr. Debby stated that they amounted to 41.75. 6d.,
anl so convinced was he that the transaction was a
bona
.flde one, he inclosed along with the cutlery
12s. 6d., the amount of the difference between the 51.
and the price.
Mr. Hurst, of Greenhill-rents, St. John-street,
stated that on the very day Mr4Dobby was victimised,
h received the following letter :
" 104, High-street, Southampton,
September 20th, 1844.
"Sir,—Being an entire stranger to you, induces me to
cover half a 51. note, No. 91,291, Portsmouth Branch,
requesting you will, if possible, oblige me by sending
to-morrow, without fail, by railway, the annexed order,
being recommended to you by a friend who has used
many of your files in Chatham Dockyard, and am quite
out of files. Your attention to this will greatly oblige,
Sir, your humble servant, " JAMES EDWARDS."
Appended was the order for files to the full amount
of the 51., deducting the usual discount to the trade ;
and the writer added, " You may rely on receiving
the remaining half note the following post, on receipt."
The order was executed, and Mr. Edwards was as
unceremonious to the latter as to the former trades-
man.

Mr. CLARKSON then addressed the jury for the
prisoner, and after again alluding to the cases he had
cited in support of his objection, and expressing
his opinion that the present was an exactly similar
one, and that the prisoner was entitled to a
verdict of acquittal upon the technicality, he went on
to argue that the offence the prisoner had committed
only amounted to an attempt to obtain money by false
pretences from the wealthy prosecutors. The Learned
Counsel then proceeded to state that the prisoner at
the bar was respectably connected, but he had latterly
been reduced to a state of great distress, not having
any food to eat or clothes to wear. His father was
in Montreal, and the prisoner's object was to obtain
the money in order that he might be enabled to go
out to that place and join him.
Witnesses were called who confirmed the statement
of the Learned Counsel, and it appeared that the pri-
soner had been engaged in literary pursuits, but had
been gradually declining in circumstances. He had
latterly, it appeared, been in expectation of receiving
an appointment as secretary to a charitable institu-
tion which Lord Ranelagh was anxious to establish
in the metropolis, but in which object, it appeared,
he did not succeed.
The Rev. T. Binney, the minister of the Inde-
pendent Chapel, Fish-street• hill, also spoke to the
former excellent character of the prisoner, and to his
state of destitution latterly. He likewise stated that
Lord Ranelegh had been in attendance all the pre-
vious day to speak to the prisoner's character.
Mr. Justice MAULE then summed up, and the jury,
after deliberating for some time, retired, and did not
return into Court until nearly three o'clock, when
they gave the following verdict :—" We find the
prisoner guilty of sending a threatening letter, but
we strongly recommend him to mercy."
Mr. Justice MAULE said he could not receive this
verdict. The prisoner was charged with sending a
threatening letter to Messrs. Coutts and Company,
the bankers, in the Strand, with the intent to obtain
money from them by menaces. The jury should say
whether the letter contained menaces with the intent
alleged, and whether or not the letter addressed
"J. Coutts Esq., banker, Strand," was intended for
Messrs. Coutts, the bankers, and the only bankers of
that name in the Strand, whose names were set forth
in the several counts of the indictment.
The jury then again retired, and were absent nearly
an hour, when they returned a general verdict of
Guilty, coupled with a strong recommendation to
mercy._

Sir PETER LAURIE—What was the amount of
the half note in the stolen parcel ?
Mr. Hurst—We were given to understand the half
notes of bank-notes of the value of 1,5001. had been
stolen, and that indemnity having been given to the
banking-house in London to that amount, the Bank
of England had paid the whole sum.
Mr. Sharp, cutler, of Gough-square, stated that he
had received a similar communication from Mr. Ed-
wards, and had written to a friend at Southampton to
make inquiry about the gentleman, and it appeared
that a person who called himself Edwards, and looked
like a pedlar, had lodged in the house of a decent
woman who was in the habit of letting lodgings.
Sir PETER LAURIE—I have no doubt that numbers
of these half notes have been passed off in this way,
and I am very glad that you have come to make the
representation. You will, by this course, serve others
essentially ; but I regret to say that the difficulty is,
how I am to serve you.
Mr. Dobby said they came forward more for the
purpose of checking the plunder than from any ex-
pectation of getting any other satisfaction. They had
been told that many of the stolen portions had been
recently presented at the Bank of England from
Brighton, and various other places of fashionable re-
sort, but no other than those just described from
Southampton.
Sir PETER LAURIE then sent over to the Bank of
England to request the attendance of Mr. Marshall,
the principal cashier.
Mr. Marshall very promptly appeared, and having
been informed of the particulars of the transactions,
said the cases were certainly very serious, but lie
could see no remedy. The Bank of England had
paid the full value of the notes on receiving a gua-
rantee. Messrs. Pares had been the holders of the
notes, and they sent the halves of them to London
which halves were stolen or lost. They possessed the
other halves, and having satisfied the Bank that they
were the owners, and given an indemnity, the value
was handed over to them. In any case of the kind,
and many occurred, if the parties proved that they
were the owners, and gave a guarantee to prevent any
future claim, they experienced no more inconvenience.
week, especially since the alteration
to the Post-office had taken place, there
Ind
withe erde
sepveecrty
were applications made to the Bank on matters of
the kind, and accommodation was regularly granted
upon compliance with the conditions to which he
alluded.

Mr. BODKIN begged to say that the prosecutors
had made minute inquiries relative to the prisoner,
and they had reason to believe that the statement re-
lative to his state of distress was quite true, and they
also were anxious to recommend him to mercy.
Sentence was deferred.
Patrick Harvey, 26, formerly a police-constable,
was capitally indicted for cutting and wounding
Robert Hannan, with intent to murder him.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Montagu Chambers conducted
the prosecution, and the prisoner was defended by
Mr. Prendergast.
The circumstances of this case will be fresh in the
recollection of our readers, as they have only recently
been very fully given in the petty session report.
The prisoner and the prosecutor were both police-
constables stationed at Edmonton, and in consequence
of complaints made by a farmer named Risley that
his cows were milked during the night, the prosecutor
was set to watch the prisoner, and on the night of the
14th September he saw the prisoner get over a hedge
into the field of Risley, and drive a cow into a shed,
and, while he was in the act of milking the animal,
the prosecutor interfered and challenged him with the
offence. The prisoner at first begged to be let go,
but the prosecutor refused, and attempted to take him
into custody. The prisoner, however, made a most
desperate and determined resistance, breaking his
staff upon the head of the prosecutor, and inflicting
very severe wounds upon his head and body with a
mortice chisel. The prosecutor, however, continued
to keep his hold of the prisoner until some other con-
stables arrived, and he was at length secured. On his
being searched a small quantity of milk in a bottle
was found in his pocket.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was
sentenced to be transported for fifteen years.

Daniel Forrester, in answer to questions from Sir
Peter Laurie, said that Messrs. Bush and Mullins,
the solicitors to the Committee of Bankers for protec-
tion against frauds and forgeries, had not taken any
proceedings in the case. He understood the rob-
bery had taken place on one of the railways.
Sir PETER LAURIE—What has taken place here
will certainly operate in checking the system ; and I
am obliged to Mr. Marshall for having so readily at-
tended and so candidly explained the course pursued
by the Bank authorities. lam also obliged, and I
express the obligation upon the part of the public, for the
manner in which these tradesmen have come forward
to admonish their fellow-tradesmen against the prac-
tices of these ingenious thieves.
BOW-STREET.

Samuel Brown was brought up, charged with attempt-
ing to pass a bad half-crown, under the following cir-
cumstances :—Mr. Henry Curtis stated that the pri-
soner, with two others, came into the tap-room of his
house, the Royal Oak, last night. He called for a pot of
beer, and when the waiter took it in he saw a half-crown
lying on the table. The prisoner pointed to it, and said
" Take it out of that." The waiter brought the half-
crown out, and it was found to be a bad one.
The prisoner said he did not put down the half-cro‘sn,
it was another younc, man.
Mr. JARDINE said that under the circumstances he was
fearful no case could be made oat against the prisoner.
Mr. Curtis said he asked the prisoner three distinct
times to point out the young man that had put down the
half-crown, but he refused to do so.
Mr. JARDINE said this altered the case. The prisoner
had been very artful in his attempt, but he (Mr. Jar-
dine) should remand him to Monday, for the solicitor to
the Mint to attend.—(This is a new " dodge" on the
part of " smashers.")
CLERKEA WELL.
A little girl aged about thirteen, named Anne
Carruthers, was charged with robbing her mother.
The mother who cried bitterly whilst giving her evi-
dence, deposed that during the last two years the pri-
soner was in the constant habit of stealing everything
within her reach. She earned a very small pittiance by
brace-making, and the prisoner bad gone to her em-
ployer, Mr. Arrowsmith, of Gutter-lane, Cheapside,
last week and taken away her week's earnings, every
farthing of which she spent before she returned.
Mr. GREENWOOD asked the mother if she wished to
send her for trial? _

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron ROLFE.)'
Jane Hague, aged 44, was placed at the bar, charged
with feloniously wounding Eli en Bryant, with intent to
do her some grievous bodily ha rm.
It appeared from the eviler ,ce, that the prosecutrix
and another woman, named M ann, were very hotly en-
gaged in trying who had the h ardent fists and the softest
head, and the prisoner, who, it appeared, had been en-
gaged in the no less unfeminine occupation of killing
time in the gin-shop all day, came up to where Mrs.
Bryant and Mrs. Mann wet e having their " set-to."
Although she was " very drumk," her sense of delicacy
was so acute, that she " was shocked," to use her own
phraseology, "at seeing two women like them fighting
with each other." Accordinl fly, in order that the affair
might be brought to a satis factory termination, and to
establish the " cordial under sta ,nding," she struck Mrs.
Bryant with a bed•key, which she happened to have in
her hand, over the left eye. It is true that Mrs. Hague
gave a different version of the matter, and represented
that Mrs. Bryant was scratched in consequence of strik-
ing her own head against the Lkey.
Under the direction of his LORDSHIP, tho jury were
of opinion that it was not prof, sable the prosecutrix, be..
sides being engaged with Mrs. Mann, who, it would ap.
pear, was " man enough" for her, would seek an addi-
tionaladversary iinnte'n't.cold iron," found her guilty of the
assault, without
His LORDSHIP sentenced t'he prisoner to three weeks'
imprisonment, she having b eel already confined seven
weeks.

The Mother—Oh, pray, Sir, don't send her for trial,
don't send her to prison, but myself and my family
would feel for ever grateful to you if you could get her
into an asylum.
Mr. Baylis, the second usher, said he had already
taken the child to the Refuge for the Destitute in the
Hackney-road, but they refused to receive her because
her right hand was crippled.
The Magistrate, however, interested himself in the
matter, and got the child into the House of Refuge in
Red Lion-square.

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT ro THE ClTY.—Official
notices hare been issued, slating, that on the occasion
of her Majesty visiting th,e Ci ty, on Monday next, to
open the Royal Exchange, th.e Treasury and the other
public offices will be obut ant 1 the day observed as
holiday.

At the Suffolk quarter sessions, held at Bury, on
Tuesday last, it was decided, on the motion of Mr. Bevan,
to introduce the rural police into the western division of
the county. The numbers were—for the motion 29,
against it 16.—Chelmsford Chronicle,

MARKET NEWS.-.(YESTERDAY.)
CORN EXCHANGE_
Since Monday a full average quantity of English Wheat
has been received up to our market ; hence the stands
were well-filled with samples. In the demand we can
notice no alteration from Monday. Ihe slit* of
Foreign Wheat was not large, yet the inquiry for that
article was inactive, at previous figures. Of Ittglish
Barley, very little was offering • but, 14,000 quarters
of Foreign having arrived, caused the Barley trade to
rule dull, at barely late rates. The best Malt was quite
as dear, but in other kinds very little was doing. i.Oats,
Beans, and Peas supported the prices of Monday.,
ARRIVALS. -..
Wheat. Barley. Oats. 1 Flour
E n1i5h......... ,400 qrs. 4,72dqrs- 1,900 I ass°
0,
1ri5h........ ..... 19,360 qrs. ....-
Foreign. ..... .... 3,580 13,800 6,250 —
Malt. 9,660 nu.
SMITHFIELD.
Our market was tolerably well, but not to say heavily,
supplied with Beasts, the quality of which was very in-
ferior. The primest Scots found buyers at full prices,
but other breeds were a mere drug. There were on sale
100 Beasts and 124 Sheep from Rotterdam, in fair condi-
tion ; while from Scotland 110 Scots came fresh to hand.
The numbers of Sheep were limited, yet the Mutton
trade, owing to the unfavourable weather, was in a
sluggish state, at about Monday's quotations. The sup-
ply of Calves was good ; while the sale for that descrip-
tion of stock was very dull, and prices had a downward
tendency. In Pigs very little was doing. Mitch Cows
sold slowly at from 161 lOs to 191 5s each.
Per Sibs. to sink the oftaL
a d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d.
Inferior Beasts ...... 2 6 2 8 Secondqualityditto.., 3 2 3 4
Second quality ditto 210 3 4 Coarse.woolled ditto.. 3 6 3 8
Prime large Oxen 3 6 3 8 Southdown Wethers 310 4 0
Prime Scots, &c. 3lO 4 0 Ditto out of the wool
Large coarse Calves 3 4 310 Large Hogs 3 0, 3 6
Prime small ditto 4 0 4 4 Small Porkers 3 8' 4 0
I Suckling Calves, each 18 0 33 0 Quarter oldPigs,eachl6 .0 20 0
Inferior Sheep
.0 Lambs 0 0 0 0
SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs.
884 I 4,680 ; 269 1 370
NEWGATZ A.i.VD LEADENHALX..
We had only a moderate supply of Meat, yet the de-
mand was heavy, on the following terms:—
At per stone, by tne Carcase.
s. d.tos.d.. S. d. to s. d.
. ,?,,f,31 Vol 'Mutton, inferior 2 6 2 6
ilea, inteno:. '`."'
middling ......- - n 3 2 1-- prime
.....»
prime large , 3.. - 4 pork, large P..... .... 3 4 :
........ prime small ~,,,,, 3 2 :3
Veal ..... -lmall 5ma11,,,,. -•••••••• 3 g 3j•
nOROUGH Hor ivt.i.-7-2LET.
nably good,
Although the show of new Hops is seas..-
we have to report a very steady demand for the iir!iele,
and the late improvement in the quotations is readily
supported. In old Hops a large business is doing at ex-
treme rates. The following are the prices of new qua-
lities :—Sussex pockets, 61 les to 7/ lOs ; Wealds, Cl 18s
to 8/ ; Mid Kent, 8l to 101 lOs ; East Kent, 717 s to 91;
choice do., 10/ to 121; Farnhams, 10/ lOs to 121.—The
duty is called 130,0001.
COLONIAL.
SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation has been
steady, though not lively. The sales.of the week to last
night are 1,400 to 1,500 hhds, including 143 hhds 7 trcs
Barbadoes by auction, which partly sold at 62s 6d for
fine yellow, and 58s to 58s 6d for good mid.
REFlNED.—Standard Lumps have been firm at 73s to
73s 6d per cwt.
EAST INDIA.-6,237 bags Bengal only partly sold at
65s to 67s 6d for fine strong Dobah kind; at 56s for
greyish dark; and 38s 6d to 39s 6d for low. Some
Khaur was taken in at 455, and bright yellow at 58s per
cwt. 2,381 bags Mauritius partly found buyers at 62s
to 63s 6d for fine yellow, and 56s 6d to 57s for good mid.
1,000 bags low damp brown :Manilla were taken pri-
vately at 14s 9d to 15s per cwt.
FOREIGN.-503 hhds 1 tree 197 boxes and 196 bags
Cuba offered by auction were chiefly taken in at 18s ed
to 22s 6d per cwt.
COFFEE.—The market is a little firmer, but still
there is not much disposition to do business. At auction
a small qt;antity of Jamaica sold at 30s to 75s ed and
80s for triage to fine fine ord and mid. Ceylon has met
free buyers; 1,108 bags at auction realised 63s to 84s
for fine ord to mid; Plantation, 63s to 72s 6d for fine
fine ord, and 51s 6d to 55s for good ord; 307 bales
East India partly sold at 21s to 47s 6(1 for sound
Mysore; 36 hales Mocha at 59s for ord; 14 bags Bengal
at 495; and 75 bags St Domingo at 26s to 28s per cwt.
CocoA.—Grenada has been sold at 45s 6d to 56s for
inr,,riHr to good bright red, and Trinidad at 42s to 50s.
RuM.—This article has been steady. Leeward Island at
2s 42d to 2s rid par gallon, and Jamaica at 3s to 3s 2d,
both for proof.
SPlCES.—Pepper has been quiet, and 2,500 bags black
only partly sold ; Sumatra at 20 to 2-ad per lb, and Ma-
labar at 3d to 31d per lb ; Pimento has been firm at
4d to 40 per lb. Cassia Lignea has been dull.
RlCE.—Bengal is isi request, and lOs 6d to 12s has
been paid for low to good mid whit.
TEA.—The market is very quiet,e and there is only- a
moderate quantity taken for actizal wants.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. Tallow has been rather he3vy. The
quotation for old is 41s per cwt, and fur Dew 411; 3d to
41s 6d per cwt on the spot.
COAL MARKET.
Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Adair's
Main, les 6d ; Buddle's West Hartley, lis 9d ; Carr's
Hartley, 18s ; Helburn Main, 19s 9d ; Morrison's
Hartley, 16s ; New 'Canfield, 15s 6d ; Old Tanfield,
15s Gd ; Pontop Windsor, 15s 6(1 ; Tanfield Moor
Bules, 15s 9d ; Taylor's West Hartley, 17s 6d ; West
Wylam, 174 ; Wylatn. 17s ; W. E., Blenkinson, 17s 6d ;
W. E., Brown's increased, 16s 6d ; W. E., Clark and Co.,
18s 6d ; W. E., Clennell, 18s 9d ' • W. E., Edmondsley,
19s ; W. E., Gibson. 21s ; W. E., Iledley, 20s 3d ;
W. E., Hetton, 21s 9d ; W. E., Killingworth, 21s ;
W. E., Ramsay, 15s 3d ; W. E. Wharncliffe, 21s 6d ;
W. E., Belmont, 21s 6d, 21s 911 ; W. E., Braddyl's
Hetton, 23s 9d ; W. E., Heswell, 23a 9d ; W. E., Hetton,
23s 6d ; W. E., Lambton, 23s 6d ;W. E., Russell's
Hetton, 23s 3d; W. E., Richmond, 21s 9d ; W. E.,
Shotten, 23s 6d ; W. E., Stewart's, 23s Gd ; W. E.,
Sunderland, 20s 6d ; W. E., Whitwell, 22s ; W. E.,
Albert, 19s ; W. E., Caradoc, 23s 3d ; W. E., Gassop,
18s 6d ; W.E., Harvey, 20s ; W. E., Kelloe, 23s 6d ;
W.E., Seymour's Hartlepool, 22s ; W. E., Adelaide,
23s ; W. E., Brown's Deanery, 215 ; W. E., Gordon,
19s ; W. E., Maclean's Tees, 19s 6d ; W. E., Richard-
son's Tees, 20s 6d; W. E., Tees, 23s ; Sidney's Hartley,
18s.—Ships arrived since last day, 125. In consequence
of the Queen's visit to the City, there will be no market
on Monday.

(From the London New Price Current of Oct. 25.)
SUGAR.—To-day there was a fair business transacted
in the British Plantation Sugar market, and 400 hhds
were disposed of at former rates for yellow, but for
brown importers were compelled to take easier prices.
The total purchases for the week are 1,830 hhds and
trcs. A board of fine yellow Jamaica fetched 68s per ow
REFINED.— To-clay purchases to a fair extent were
made in refined goods by the home trade, at the rates
previously quoted. Of bonded Crushed Sugar there is
still very little offering ; sales made at 28s, and in small
packages at 28s 3d to 28s 6d per cwt.
MAURITIUS.—This afternoon 98 bags at auction sold
at rather lower rates—mid yellow at 545, low at Ms 6,1,
mid brown 465, and very low black 39s per cwt. The
quantity left in importers hands is reduced to 12,000 bags.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon at public sale 567 bags
of Madras Sugar were offered, and sold at a decline of
Is 6d to 2s per cwt—strong bright foxy brown went at
42s 6d to 435, washed 40s 6d to 435, damp 43s 6d to 45s
6d; 720 bags Bengal were offered, the quality of nearly the
whole of which was very inferior, and sold at low rates,
fully 2s under former prices—low dingy yellow went at
48s to 51s, mid 52s 6d to 54s 6d, good mid 555, damp
and washed 48s 6d to 50s 6d, good white 63s 6d, damp
603 6d, low dingy grey sulphury 50s to 51s, rather better
52s to 53s 6d, and damp 44s to 53s per cwt.
FOREIGN.—This afternoon at public sale 28 mats of
Carthagena Sugar were taken in at 20s for strong bright
yellow, and rather inferior at 18's per cwt. By private
contract 200 baskets yellow Java sold at Is 6(1 per cwt.
MOLASSES.—For West India several inquiries have
prevailed this week, but stiffer rates being required by
the merchants business has been checked, and not many
parcels have been disposed of : there is nothing to be
purchased under 21s per cwt. The stock is not so large
as it was, and the deliveries continue to be very good ;
of East India small parcels have been disposed of at 15s
to 16s per cwt.
COFFEE.—Although there are sellers of West India
upon further reduced terms, still few purchasers are to
be met with, and the market has a very dull appearance ;
the supply still consists chiefly of ordinary, good and fine
ordinary. This afternoon there was very little de-
mand for Ceylon Coffee, and at public sale 349 bags
were taken in at Ms to 51s 6d for good ordinary ; the
highest price bid being 50s per cwt. For British Plan-
tation there are few orders ; 58 casks Jamaica were of-
fered and sold at lower prices ; fine fine ordinary and
low middling at 62s to 70s, fine ordinary 51s to 555, in-
ferior 45s to 48s, and Triage 32s ; 60 bags Carthagena
went at 32s to 35s per cwt for bold pale.
CocoA.—West India has been in excellent request, and
the rates paid are rather above those previously quoted :
at public sale 344 bags 53 barrels of Trinidad were all
sold ; fine red at 50s, good 47s to 48s, middling 44s to
45s 6d, low 42s 6d to 435, low grey 42s to 42s 6d, mid
43s to 43s 6d : 21 bags of Grenada fetched 50s for fine
red, and 45s to 46s for dull red. Prices are still on the
advance for Foreign, the supply being small ; sales pri-
vately made at 32s 6d to 33s for Para, and 35s to 36s
per cwt for Guayaquil.
TEA.—The public sales were brought to a conclusion
on Monday ; the biddings throughout were languid, and
of the total quantity brought forward, amounting to
41,518 pkgs, the very small proportion of only 5,800
found purchasers, at a decline on the last auctions of id
to id for Congou, to Id for inferior Twankay, 2d to 3d
for Hyson, 2d for Gunpowder, id to ld for Caper and
young Hyson, and id to ld per lb forPouchong ; other sorts
of Tea sustained the former currency. Since the sales the
demand has been very limited for inferior sorts of
Congou, and rather lower rates have been accepted,
common selling at 9id to 10d, and good common lOid
to Ild per lb, cash; but in the better kinds a large
amount of business has been transacted at firm rates; in-
deed of fine Congou there is not sufficient at market to mt•
tisfy the demand. Twankay of ord quality is cheaper;
sales of yellow leaf made at is ld to Is 2d per lh, but the
better sorts are wanted, at is 3d to is Bd, and Hyson
kind is 9d to 2s sd. Hyson, 2s sid to 2s 9d
for middling, and 2s 10d to 3s 9d for better qua-
lity. Gunpowder at 3s to 4s 6d for middling to fine :
in Imperials there has not been much doing. Scented
Orange Pekoe at 35 4d to 3s 5d ; in plain Orange
not much has been done. Pouchong has met with a
brisker sale, but not better prices ; 5d to 9d are the cur-
rent rates paid. For Souchong there has decidedly been
a better demand at former rates. The low prices that
prevail for Caper have caused buyers to operate more
freely. Young Hyson is not much in request, and prices
rule high.
SPicEs.—This afternoon at public sale 100 bags of
Pimento were taken in at 4id per lb, being above their
value. 29 bags of white Pepper at 5d for middling. 609
bags Malabar Ginger partly sold at 36s to 44s 6d for
rather small, being cheaper.
Seoo.—The demand is on the increase, and prices
ere looking up ; holders IJhow Maness, and noue has