The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-30 00:00:00

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London New Price Current of July 30.)
SUGAR.-Since Tuesday last the demand has been limited
for brown, common grey and yellow sorts of West India
Sugar, still former rates are generally sustained, but for
strong grey and bright yellow kinds a good demand has pre-
vailed, and merchants have obtained fully former prices.
To-day the market was in a quiet state for British Plantation
Sugar ; the demand was limited for the scale and pan, and
the rates accepted were rather under those of Friday for
inferior yellow and brown sorts, but good and fine yellow kinds,
of which the supply is small, maintained the former currency,
and are held with firmness : at public sale 144 hhds
6 trcs Barbadoes were offered ; the better qualities fetched
full rates, but mid and low went heavily 6d to is under the
prices of the last auction; fine yellow fetched 64s to 675,
good mid and good 60s to 635, mid 58s to 59s 6d, low dingy
57s to 57s 6d, and strong grainy 65s per cwt. The total pur•
chases are only 450 hhds and trcs.
Remeeo.-7Prices cannot again be quoted higher for
Refined Sugar, but the demand has been good from the
home trade, and the supply is by no means large. To-day
Refined Sugar was in good request by the home trade ;
brown Lumps at 74s 6d to 755, and standard Lumps 76s to
to 76s 6d per cwt. The supply is small, especially of the
low and middling qualities. For bonded crushed Sugar
prices are again higher, sales made at 26s 3d to to 26s 6d per
cwt. The market is still scantily supplied. In Loaves there
has been a good deal doing.
MAURITIUS.-A decline in prices of 6d has taken place for
good and fine yellow, and Is per cwt for all other sorts. The
principal part of the Sugar offered Since Tuesday last has
consisted of common and middling qualities.
EAST INDIA.-There has been a falling off in the demand
for Bengal Sugar, at a decline of 6d per cwt. The market
has a firm appearance for Foreign East India Sugar. This
afternoon Bengal Sugar met with little attention. Fine
white at 65s to 65s 6d, good 625, middling 60s to 61s, low
yellowish white 595, midd:ing yellow 58s, ordinary 55s to 565,
damp brown 50s to 52s 6d, yellow ditto 53s to 575, and white
ditto ais 6d to 65s per cwt.
FOREIGN.-To-day the market presented a firm appear-
ance for Foreign Sugar. Yellow Havannah was disposed of
to a fair extent privately at 19s to 21s per cwt. Brown Bahia
in small parcels fetched 18s 6d to 19s per dwt for good and
fine quality.
MoLAssEs.-West India at 20s to 24s per cwt for low to
good quality. St. Lucia taken in at 225. Bengal Molasses
sold at 15s to 17s per cwt.
Cocoa.-Foreign at rather lower rates. Trinidad sold at
40s to 42s fur mid to good sound red, 38s 6d for ord, and
Dominica at 36s per as t. This afternoon Trinidad Cocoa
at 36s to 37s per cwt.
COFFEE.-There has been less inclination manifested on
the part of holders of West India Coffee to realise, and they
have refrained from offering any at auction ; by private
treaty some parcels of clean quality were disposed of at
fully former rates, but unclean sorts are dull of sale and are
offered at comparatively low terms. Mocha has been in
much better request, and in some cases the rates
paid are rather above those of this day week.
This afternoon Ceylon real good ordinary fetched 54s 6d to
555, good ord 53s 6d to 545, ordinary 535, fine ordinary 56s
6d to 58s 6d, sea damaged 41s 6d to 68s 6d, triage 33s to 46s
6d, sound pea berry 70s to 83s, fine fine ordinary coloury
grey Demerara sort 62s 6d to 695. • Of,Pemerara unclean at
57s 6d to 60s for low middling, 65s to 75s for middling, and
32s to 55s 6d for very low to good ord, being cheaper.
Ruu. BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.-For all descriptions of
Jamacia Rum 32 to 34 per cent overproof fair clean quality
at 3s 3(1 to 3s 4d, 33 to 35 over good middling 3s 5d to 3s 7d,
35 to 36 over good 3s 8d to 3s lid, and fine of favourite marks
4s, to 4s 6d, per gallon. Leewards at 2s 3d to 2s 4d for proof.
Demerara 35 to 36 per cent overproof at 3s 3d to 3s 4d per gal.
Calcutta at Is lld to is I lid proof with cetificate. For Brandy
prices rule as follows :-Cognac, best brands of the vintage of
1838, hhds 5s 3d, puns 5s Id ; ditto 1839, hhds 5s Id, puns
48 lld ; ditto 1840, hhds ss, puns 4s 10d; ditto 1841, hhds
4s lid, puns Is 9d; ditto 1842, hhds 4s Bd, puns 4s 6d; mid
and good mid sorts, 3s to 4s 6d, and low 2s 8d to 2s 10d per
gallon. Geneva Is 10d to Is lld ; fine, for home consump-
tion at 2s 8d to 3s 6d per gallon. English Corn Spirits at
lOs 4d per gallon cash.
RICE.--This afternoon the market was well supplied with
Bengal Rice, buyers were more inclined to purchase, and the
whole was readily disposed of at full prices, middling white
fetched Its to lls 6d good bold white lls 6d to 12s 6d, sea
damaged 78 6d to Ils per cwt.
INDIGO.-Since the conclusion of the sale, a good demand
has prevailed for all descriptions from the home trade and
exporters, and the rates previously established are fully sup-
ported. _ .

TEA.—To-day several purchases were made in Tea; com-
mon sound Congou cash fetched lOid to Ild, good common
114 d to Is, and Twankay ordinary Is 2d to is 3d per lb; the
market has a firm appearance. Duty has been paid on
575,800 lbs at this port during the past week.
Oits.— Southern Oil at 251 to 321 per tun for low to fine
quality. Pale Seal at 351 5s to 351105. Cod Oil, at 331 lOs
to 341 lOs per tun. Sperm Oil fetched 841 lOs for Oil, and
861 to 871 per tun for head matter, but the quality was not
first rate. Cocoa Nut Oil 27/ 15s to 29115 s for middling to
good quality. Rape, pale, at 37s to 37s 6d, and brown 36s
to 36s 6d per cwt. East India Rape Seed Oil taken in at
341 15s per tun. Palm, fine quality, selling at 27s 6d to 28s
per cwt. Olive Oil at 441 to -45/ for Gallipoli, 421 to 431 for
Spanish, and 40/ to 41l per tun for Barbary. Linseed Oil at
25s 6d to 25s 9d per cwt. on the spot:
Tan ow.—holders of Russian Tallow arc more inclined to
realize, and the rates accepted have been rather under those
of this day week. The demand on the spot has been limited,
and 40s 9d to 41s 3d per cwt accepted for P. Y. Candle of first
quality. For delivery there are sellers at 42s to 42s 3d per
cwt for the last three months of the year. Town Tallow at
40s to 40s Gd per cwt net cash New South Wales 36s 6d to
41s 9d ; East India 38s ; Archangel 39s 9d, and South Ame-
rican 38s 9d per cwt. To-day P. Y. Candle at 40s 9d to
41s 3d on the spot, and 41s 9d to 42s for delivery in the last
three months of the year. •

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Their Lordships met at Five o'clock.
The Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Dissentients Bill
was read a third time and passed.
The Church Endowment Bill, the Ecclesiastical Juris-
diction Bill, and the Clerks of the Crown and Chancery
Bill, severally passed through Committee, and were re-
ported.
The Metropolitan Buildings Bill also passed through
Committee, and was reported.
The Privy Council Bill was read a third time and
passed.
LAW COURTS (IRELAND) BILL.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE, with some preliminary ob-
servations which were inaudible in the gallery, move
the order of the day fur the Committee on the Bill for
regulating the certain usages and. practice of the courts
of law in Ireland. _ _ _

Lord CAMPBELL objected to the appointment of
prothonotary and other officers by the Lord-Lieutenant
or his secretaries, instead of their being appointed by
the judges of the respective courts. He would, at
another time, move an amendment for the purpose of
removing that objection.
The LORD CHANCELLOR defended that part of
the Bill, which he said was not a new enactment, as the
appointment of the prothonotaries had been vested in
the Lord-Lieutenant. _

The Bill then passed through Committee.
CATHOLIC PENAL LAWS REPEAL BILL.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said that he had been
requested by his Noble Friend near him (Lord Beau-
mont) to move the report of the Committee on the Bill
for repealing certain Acts imposing penalties on
Roman Catholics. He (the Lord Chancellor) had
carefully examined the Bill, and it did not pro-
pose to repeal any measure for the retention of
which there could be the least reason shown. The
motion was that the report be received. That motion
was made with a view to another—namely, that the
Bill be re-committed ; and in Committee it would be
competent to any Noble Lord, or Reverend Pre-
late, to state his objections to any part of it.
It was a strange objection,. under the circumstances,
that the Bill was brought up at so late a period of the
session ; the fact being, that the Bill had been before the
House for two months, to enable every Noble Lord and
Rev. Prelate to examine its details. He defied any Member
of that House to lay his hand upon any Act named
in this Bill which ought not to be repealed. The first
Act was the Act of Edward VI., the Uniformity Act,
which required every person attending a place of wor-
ship to use the Book of Common Prayer, and impos-
ing upon any person attending
worship where the
service was not performed according to that book, a
heavy fine for the first offence ; for the second, impri-
sonment for one year ; and for the third, imprisonment
for life. He did not propose to repeal the Act, but
only that it should not be obligatory on Catholics.
Could any one doubt the propriety of that ? The next was
the Act of Elizabeth, the Supremacy Act, which enacted
that if any one assumed that any person had ecclesias-
tical, spiritual or temporal authority in these realms
except the Queen should for the first offence be punished
by the forfeiture of all goods and chattels ; for the
second, by imprisonment for life; and for the third by all
the penalties of high treason. The third Act imposed penal-
ties for not attending the parish church at least once a week.
Now, how could that law be retained after the Catholics
had been emancipated ? The sth of Elizabeth subjected
every one who denied the supremacy of the Sovereign at
once to a prcemunire. How could any one say that this
Act should be retained in the present times ? The next
act was, that any person who should be reconciled to
the Church of Rome should be guilty of high treason.
Another imposed the heaviest penalties upon any Ca-
tholic who should cause his children to be educated
abroad. Was it reasonable, that in this time,
such a law should be retained.—(Hear, hear.)
Another of those Acts prohibited any Roman Catholic
from departing more than twelve miles from his own
home, or approaching nearer than ten miles to the me-
tropolis.—(A laugh.) Would any one say that that
Act should not be repealed ? The 35th of Charles IL
disqualified all persons who became converts to the
Roman Catholic religion to bold office ; another Act
prevented 'Roman Catholics from having in their
houses, or possessing a horse of the value of more than
sL—(Laughter.) If a Roman Catholic was found to
possess a horse of greater value than that the horse could
be seized and sold for that price.---(Hear, hear.) Who
would say that he did wrong in, repeating. that Act ?
(Hear, hear.) Now, if his Right Rev.. Friend, who ex-
pressed on another evening some alarm for the security
of the Church on account of the proposed repeal of
these Acts, would state to the House the reasons which

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convinced him (the Bishop of London) that any one of
those Acts should be continued, he (the Lord Chan-
cellor) would give up his opposition to it.—(Hear,
hear.) He had recommended to his Noble= Friend
to allow his Bill, after passing through the Committee,
to stand over to the next session, in order
that it might be seen what the Government would do in
the meantime. But if his Noble Friend was not willing
to do so, he (the Lord Chancellor) would feel it his duty
to support the Bill.

The Bishop of LONDON did not wish it to be sup-
posed that he was opposed to the repeal of those penal
laws, which pressed, not practically, but in theory only,
upon the Roman Catholics. Apprehensive as he was of
being supposed to be a supporter of those obnoxious
laws, ho was thankful to his Noble and Learned Friend
for giving him an opportunity of stating his reason for
opposing this motion. His Noble and Learned Friend
expressed an opinion that this was a subject
which it would be more fitting for the Govern-
ment to take up and consider in the course of
the approaching recess. As that was the fittest course,
and as their Lordships had almost an assurance from
the Lord Chancellor that it would be adapted, he would
protest against the measure being now taken up by her
Majesty's Government, at the end of the session, without
consulting any of those Members of their Lordships House
who were the rulers and guardians of the Established
Church, and who ought to be consulted upon matters
affecting so much the interests of that Church. Risking
whatever imputations might be cast upon his charity,
he would protest against the repealing of those statutes,
without giving the House time to examine how
for that repeal would affect other laws. It was to be
remembered that since the Reformation the Constitution
of this country had been not only essentially Protestant,
but anti-Popish. The first time the bulwarks which the
Reformation had set up around the Church were broken,
was in passing the Catholic Emancipation Act.