The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-09 00:00:00

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the 'Landoll New Price Current of April 9.)
SUGAR.—There has been more activity in the home
consumption Sugar market, and prices have assumed an
upward tendency for all descriptions ; fov West India'
the prices paid were 6a above those previously quoted
for common yellow and brown, and is per cwt higher
fur bright yellow and strong refining sorts.
REFINED.—To day Refined Goods brought higher
rates, brown grocery lumps selling at 763, and standard
lumps 775, per cwt. Bonded Crushed Sugar much
wanted, and is not to be procured under 26s per cwt.
MAURITIUS.—,.A good demand has sprung up for alt
descriptions, and prices have advanced 1; to Is 6d per

cwt. To-day some parcels were sold privately at rather
higher rates, low to middling yellow 59s to 645, good-to
fine 65s to 6Ss, and brown 56s to 58s 6d per cwt.
EAST INDIA.—For some parcels of Madras full rates
given by private treaty. Java has been•more in request
privately. Manilla yellow at 18s 6d to 20s, and brown
17s to 18s per cwt. To-day several purchases were made
privately in Bengal, and prices are looking up ; common
white 62s to 625• 6d, middling 63s to 645, good to fine
65s to 68s per cwt.
FOREIGN.—Since our last report, the market has pre-
sented a firm appearance for all descriptions of Foreign
Sugar, and none has been brought to public sale; a good
disposition has been shewn to purchase yellow liavannah,
but holders asking higher prices, business has been re-
striced. This afternoon, several inquiries existed for
Foreign Sugar, and a floating cargo of Bahia was sold
for the Baltic, at 19s for brown, and 22s 9d per cwt for
white. _ _

MOLASSES.—For West India rather lower rates ac-
cepted. Trinidap at 25s 6d, Antigua, 27s 6d, Demerara'
255, and ,imported indirect 24s to 24s 6d per cwt for good
quality. Bengal Molasses at 15s to 17s per cwt. Fine
Honey has brought full rates, but inferior is cheaper.
COFFEE.--There bas been little desire shown to pur-
chase West India Coffee since Tuesday last; clean quali-
ties of which the supply is still scanty have maintained
the former value, but for unclean kinds prices have given
way.. To-day the market for all descriptions of Coffee
was in a fiat state, and prices are still going down for
Ceylon ; good ord. selling at 58s to 59s per cwt ; the
large quantity to arrive cause the trade to operaie with
much caution.
Cocoa.—lmporters of West India have refused to fur-
ther give way in price, but the demand has been limited
privately, and 329 bags of Trinidad at auction only
partly sold ; low red at 48s to 495, middling 50s 6d to
51s, and 45s to 46s per cwt for sea damaged. Of Foreign
some parcels sold privately at 28s 6d to 29s 6d per cwt ;
holders show firmness, and none has been brought to
public sale.
TEA.—Since Tuesday last the market has presented
a firm appearance for all descriptions of Tea, purchases
to a fair extent have been made in black and green, and
full rates paid. Common Conou, cash, has fetched ls,
good common is id to is id, Twankay, ordinary
Is 2d to is 3d, and Hy son common 2s 2d to 2a 4d per lb.
To-day several parcels of Tea were dispose,l of, and the
rates paid show a slight advance on those of the last
public sales for the lower kinds ; common and good
sound common Congou, cash, sold at Is Old to is
per lb.
RICE.—The fine weather and the late dull state of
the Wheat market, operates against the demand for
Bengal Rice : few purchases made privately, and prices
are looking down, mid white selling at lls 3d to lls 6d,
and good 12s per cwt : none has been submitted
to public competition. For Java the demand has been
ctily for small parcels at lOs to 10s 6d for
mid. and Ils to Ils 6d for good mid white, being rather
cheaper. Madras has been taken sparingly at 9s to
9s 6d per cwt for yellow. In Patna the, operations are
upon a small scale only at 14s 6d to 18s, and Carolina
has been taken sparingly at 21s to 26s per cwt. To-day
1,000 bags Madras Rice was sold privately at 9s per cwt
for yellow.
SA.oo.—Prices are still looking down for this article,
the demand being' limited and supply large; ordinary
13s to 14s, middling 15s to 16s, and good to fine 16s to
20s per cwt. Sago Flour is scarce, and 21s to 22s per.
cwt paid. To-day some parcels of common Pearl Sago
were sold privately at 15s per cwt.
RUN, BRANDY AND HOLLANDS.—Jamaica Rum at
stiff rates, 30 to 32 per cent overproof has fetched as 6d
to 3s 7d, 33 to 37 over 3s 8d to 3s 11d, fine 4s to 4s 6d,
and superior rather high flavoured 5s to 6s per gallon.
Demerara 37 per cent overproof. Leewards 2s 2d
to 2s 21d paid for proof. Calcutta Rum at
Is lld proof, with certificate, for Brandy
_holders
display firmness.—Cognac, best brandies the
vintage of 1838, hhds 5s I ld, puns 5s 9d ; 183Eqihhcls
5s 9d, puns 5s 7d ; 1840, hhds 5s 7d, puns 5s 5d ; 1841,
hlids 5s 6d, puns 55 4d ; 1842, hhds 5s sd, puns ,5s 3d,
mid marks 3s 6sl to 4s Bd, and low 2s 10d to 3s 4d.
Geneva for exportation at Is 8d to is 9d ; fine pale fit
for duty is 2s 2d to 3s per gallon. English Corn Spirits
is firm. _ _

INmoo.—There has been a good export demand for
East India since Tuesday last ; several purchases have
been made by the home trade, and the rates paid show
an advance on those of the last quarterly sale of 3d per
lb. for all descriptions.
OILS.—For Linseed Oil for immediate delivery, prices
htve an upward tendency ; 27s to 27s 3d paid for large
parcels on the spot. Rape Oil in excellent de-
mand,: pale selling at 39s to 393 6d, and
brown 38s to 38s 6d per cwt. For Olive Oil
higher prices again paid, Gallipoli fetching 524 Sicily
50/ to 51/, Spanish 491 to 501, and Barbary 481 to 48/, lOs
per tun. Cocoa Nut Oil at 30s to 32s per cwt. Palm
01 at 28s for good, 27s 6d for mid, and 24s to 26s Gd
for low ai:d very common quality. Sperm Oil at 761 to
76/ lOs per tun for prime British. T-leadmatter much in
request. For common Fish Oils rather lower prices
taken for all sorts. Pale Seal at 341 5s to 34/ 10.5;
Southern sold at 29110 s to 29/15s, very low dark 271155,
and Newfoundland Cod at 33/ 15s to 34/15s per tun.
TALLOW.—To-day good business was transacted in
P.Y.C. for delivery in the last three, and for the first
two months of next near at 42s to 42s 3d ; but on the
spot the demand was dull—prices vary from 40s 3d to
41s per cat, according to quality. The accounts front
St. Petersburgh state that prices had advanced fur Tal-
low, and the supply will be less than last season. On
Friday, 353 casks of American Tallow will be submitted
to pub!ic competition.

COURSE OF EXCHI
Amsterdam CF 12 6
Ditto, at sight l2 4
Rotterdam 2U. 12 Gi
Antwerp 26 0
flamburgh M.B. 14 0
Altona - l4 0
Paris, 3 days' sight... 25 70
Ditto, 3 months ...... 25 95
3larseilles 26 0
Bonrdeaux ..
Frankfort on Maine l22i
PetersbUrgh, 3 Us— 36i
Berlin 7
Vienna, effee. fl. 3 M 957
rieste, ditto
Madrid
Cadiz • ••`.36:
ilbao 36
Barcelona 36
•
Seville

LNGE.-(THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar —
Leghorn 3O 65
Genoa 25 95
Milan —
Venice........
Naples ........ ...... .
Palermo, per oz ll7
Lisbon
Oporto s3t
Rio Janeiro 23
Bahia 23
Buenos Ayres —
NewYorls.,2ldys sight
Philadelphia —

PRICES OF BULLION, nut OZ.
Foreign Gold, bars 0 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons OO Of
New Dollars 0 4 .94
Silver in Bars 0 4 11i

DR. KALLEY AND RELIGIOUS
LIBERTY IN PORTUGAL.

imprisoned at Madeira on
Scotch physician, who
a%v
aclsh:ahlre,giscetaoasefuto,u,fibulDnas,rpi.hlllee(ingaalyllely3a'n,
da
heresy,"
and "abetting
apostacy, and heresy," has been tried at Lisbon and
Funchal.
On the 24th Feb., the Judge Conservator at the
latter place passed the following sentence :—" Sup-
posing the British subject, Dr. Kalley, to have dis-
turbed the public order of this island by preaching
nevertheless, the said
doctrines opposed to its religion, as is sworn by the
preaching an- abuse
which
degenerates
toconsideringcrime;
this
Dr. Kelley, as a Protestant, which he ig, is not
punishable, seeing that there does not exist a law to
punish in the person of the accused the act charged.
I, tlferefore declare the accusation given against the
said Dr. Kelley irrelevant, and order him to be held
lear of guilt."
Baffled on the religious question, Dr. pro-
secutors, we understand, are going to institute pro-
ceedings against him as a disturber of the public
peace. On the other hand, Dr. Kelley, at the sug-
gestion of Lord Aberdeen, is about to petition the
Government at Lisbon, for compensation for the loss
of hiS professional income during his illegal im-
prisonment.
In the course of the proceedings before the tribunal
of Rellaqao at Lisbon, the public prosecutor, acting
as counsel against Dr. Kalley, gave a very lucid ex-
position of the existing law of religious liberty in
Portugal,. wherein he clearly showed thatrthe supre-
macy of the Romish Church is no more, but that
Portuguese. subjects enjoy the same liberty as
Englishmen do in all religious 'natters. He says,
" I .do not.
.characterise the accusation as bias
phemy, nor as heresy, because these crimes . are
only considered such when committed by follow-
ers of the Roman Catholic apostolic religion,
and not by those. who, like the appellant, follow' a
different .faith, and therefore, being extra eeclesiain,
are beyond .all censure civil and ecclesiastical. Nor
can I characterise it as apostaCy, because I under-
stand that the crime of apostasy cease? to exist among
us in virtue of Article 145 of the- Constitutional
Charter; .in which ample religious liberty is guaran-
teed to Portuguese citizens in the following terms :
No one shall be prosecuted for motives of religion ;'
wherein the absolute term no one' excludes all ex-
ception of persons, and the very broad expression 'for
motives of religion' embraces all that relates to the re.
ligious creed of every one; and, therefore, if these
two citizens apostatised from our religion, though
hey did great injury to their.souls, yet they did not
commit any civil crime for which they can be pu-
nished."

POLICE IN-tELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
GUILDHALL.

Charles Freeman, otherwise Pether, was brought up
in the custody of Daniel Forrester for re-examination,
charged with uttering, at Messrs. Child's, the banker's,
a urged cheque for 55/. 10s. 2d., purporting to be drawn
by Mrs.. M•Pherson, of Cadogan-place, whose trustees
have an account at the bank, and permit her to draw.
The evidence already published was read over, to the
effect that the prisoner presented the cheque as the busi-
mms was closing; that it was paid; after some scruples
as to its genuineness, with three 101. notes, a 5/. note,
and the rest in cash; that the prisoner changed oue of
the 101. notes at a hatter's in the Strand, in payment for
three hats; that two of the hats were sent to Mr.
Kebble's, N 0.3, Dean-street, Soho, where the prisoner was
found by Daniel Forrester on Wednesday night last, the
cheque having been uttered on the 12th of March.
Daniel Forrestal' now stated that he could carry the
ease a little further, by tracing another of the 101. notes
to him, and showing that he went to the banker's.
Sir P. LAURIE asked the prisoner if any one was de-
fending him?—The prisoner replied, no.
Sir P. LAURIE asked if he meant to employ any per-
son.—The prisoner said he could not afford to do it.
Sir P. LAURIE, asked if he admitted or denied the
char;.e.—The prisoner replied he denied everything, ex-
cept th at he bought the hats.
irP LAURlE,having looked at the cheque, expressed

some surprise that it was paid, as there were inaccuracies
in the spelling of common words.
Mr. Shepherd, the banker's clerk, said there were
many such genuine .cheques paid at banking-houses.
The imitation of the lady's signature was good.
Alexander Austen, a bookbinder, residing in King-
street, Long-acre, statei that he knew the prisoner, and
met him about three weeks ago, about four o'clock, on a
Tuesday. He said he was going to take some money,
and should not be above five minutes. 'Witness accorn-

rallied him to the door of the banking-house close to
Temple-bar,' which the prisoner entered. Witness
waited for him twenty-five minutes, and then left, act it
began to rain. He saw the prisoner again the same
evening, and win invited to be one of a small party; he
intended to dire at the White Lion, Drury-lane. He
accepted the imitation, and dined on the Thursday fol-
_

•
lowing. •
Sir PETER LAURIE ees'red him to state who was
present.
1. he Witness.--There were Mr. Perry, a journeyman
priwer and comic singer;. Mr..Kebble, a picture frame-
maker; Mr. Willett, a tailor; Mr. Bartlett, a coffee-
-;ot:se-keeper; and three others whom he did not know.
Richard Watson, apprentice to Mr. Kebble, deposed
;,h t he asked the ur:soner about a fortnight ago to lend
him a few shillings. The prisoner gave him a 10!. note
to get change, and he got it changed at Mr. Rippon's,
No. 400, 0A:1-d
-street. a licensed victualler.

Mr. Rippen identified a note produced by Forrester
from the Bank as the one he changed for Watson on
the 16th ult., and Mr. Shepherd identified it as one of
the notes he paid to the prisoner in cashing the forged
cha quo.
Mrs. M`Pherson stated that the cheque was not signed
by her. The prisoner was in her service for about a
year, and left four months ago. She once sent him with
a cheque for his'own wages to Child's.
A second charge was then entered into.
Mr. Frazer, a clerk from Messrs. Child's, proved the
payment of a cheque for 351. 16s. 9d., purporting to be
drawn by Mrs. M`Pherson en the 19th of February. He
did not remember nho received it. He marked the num-
ben of the notes he paid on the back of the cheque.
The 51. note produced was one of them.
.nines Hodge, the landlord of the White Lion, Drury-
lane, stated that he changed the note produced for the
Crisuner on the 19th of February, and paid it on the
same day to the brewer. He did not know the prisoner
at the time, but found he was known to a young man
who frequented his house. He made the prisoner write
his name and address on the back of the note.
Mr. Kebble, of Dean street, said he had known the
prisoner from his boyhood. He believed the cheque and
the address on the back of the note to be in the pri-
soner's handwriting.
Mrs. M'Pherson proved the cheque was forged.
Sir PETER LAURIE inquired of the banker's clerk if
the crime of forgery was increasing or diminishing?
The witness said it was increasing.
The prisoner boldly denied that he ha-1 uttered either
of the cheques.
Sir PETER LAURIE thought the charge was very
clearly made out, and committed the prisoner for trial.
WORSHIP-STREET.

ROBBERY AT A BROTHEL.—Yesterday Robert

Wentlover, a tall thin man, who wore a ;bade over I
his eyes, and Thomas Dennis, a short and thick-set
man, wearing a smock frock, were placed at the bar
before Mr. Broughton, the Magistrate, on suspicion of
having been concerned in stealing a valuable gold
watch, which was now proved to be the property of
Mr. Bennett, a surgeon, resident in Upper Southwick-
street, Hyde Park.
About noon yesterday the prisoner Dennis offered
a gold watch in pledge for 51.; at the shop of Mr.
Peachy, a pawnbroker, in Goswell-street, stating that
he had been sent with it by Mr. Richards, of North-
ampton-square. Mr. Peachy detained him in order
that he might make inquiry, as he suspected the watch
to have been stolen, but while-he turned his back the
prisone'r ran away, but was pursued and taken back
to the shop. He got away again, however, but was
again pursued, and after a hard run and much
chasing, in the course of which he was lost sight of
for a few minutes, he was at last found concealed in
a cow-shed, and was given in charge to police-con-
stable 92 G. He then said the fact was, that he had
not been sent to pawn the watch by Mr. Richards,
but had it from a man with a shade over his eye, and
he mentioned where that person was then to be found.
Policeman 142 G, said that he went to the St. John
Jerusalem public-house, Jerusalem-square, where
he found in the top room the prisoner Wendover, who
had a shade over his eyes, and answered the descrip-
tian which the other prisoner had given. Wendover
being told' that he was taken into custody on suspi-
ei`on of stealing a gold watch, said he would say no-
thing about it till he got to the station-house, where
he made a statement to the sergeant on duty.
Sergeant Ellis, who received the charge at the sta-
tion-house,. said Wendover told him that he had found
the watch in Tottenham-court-road, and that he did
not know what had become of a gold chain which he
admitted was then attached to it. On searching him
a knife and case, now prodticed, were found upon
him; and also a document, produced, which pur-
ported to -be the Queen's free pardon from seven
years' transportation.
Mr. Bennett, the surgeon, now identified the gold
watch, and also a knife and case now produced; and
stated that on Thursday se'nnight he went to a place
in Brook-street with a female, whom he had met in
the New-road, and there lost his watch with gold
chain, &c., and also his gold pin, silk handkerchief,
tooth pick, knife and case, and about 19s. in cash.
The prisoner Wendover, who felt his way as he
moved as if nearly blind, now repeated that he had
found the .patch, and sent his fellow-prisoner to pawn
it. He admitted that he had been convicted and trans-
ported, but afterwards pardoned, as shown in the pro-
duced document ; but neither he nor the other pri-
soner would state where they lived.
Mr. BROUGHTON remanded them both. .

OCCUPATIONS OF THE POPULA-
TION, ACCORDING TO THE CENSUS
OF -1841.

That portion of the census which relates to thetoc-
cupations of the population is only completed as to
27 counties ; those not yet finished being the follow-
ing thirteen, viz. :—Lancaster, Salop, Somerset,
'Tants, Stafford, Suffolk, Surrey, -Sussex, Warwick,
West Moreland, Wilts, Worcester, and York. These
13 counties include the principal manufacturing
counties of England—viz., those of Lancashire, York
shire, Staffordshire, and -Warwickshire; and there-
fore it may be presumed,_, that the proportions ex-
hibited in the other 27 counties will become still more
favourable to the manufacturin,g and trading portion
of the . People, when these great manutacturing
distrietS. are included. The proportion .of the
'various 'classes in 27 counties in - England—viz.,
Bedford, I3erks' Bucks, Cambridge, Chester,'Corn-
wall, Cumberlatid, Devon, Dorset, Derby, rham,
Essex, GlonCester, Hereford, Hertford, Huntingdon,
Kent; Leicester, Lincoln, Middlesex, Monmouth,
Norfolk,. Northampton, Northumberland, Notting-
ham, Oxford, and Rutlandshire, comprising a popula •
tion of 28,048,321—are as follow ':—
Farmers, graziers, yeomen
Agricultural labourers

640,222

Persons employed in trade and other occupa-
tions
Persons returned as of independent means
Residue of population, consisting of almspeo•
pie, pensioners, paupers, beggars, other per-
sons (of course including females not in
trade, and children)

... 4,871,609

Total population
The decimal proportions of the different classes may
therefore be thus stated :
Farmers and agricultural labourer3 8
Persons employed in trade and other
occupations
Persons of independent means
Residue of population

per cent.

1 00• per rent

A HARD CASE.—It is most probably known to our
readers that-in 1830 an order emanated from the Horse
Guards oking that the widow of no officer who had
served for:ft.-less period than ten years should be entitled
to a pension. It is not our present purpose to discuss
the propriety of such an order, so far as it relat6s to
the widows of those who have entered the - service as
commissioned officers, but we notice the subject with
the most sincere wishes th;it the authorities at the
Horse Guards will, upon consideration, come to the just
and charitable conclusion that the case which we now
lay before our readers does not come within the
spirit of the order of 1830—a cold interpretation may
bring it within the letter. The sad case is this:—A
gallant soldier served for twenty-eight years in the ranks
of the 78th Regiment, for twenty•five of which he was
a noncommissioned officer. He rose to the rank of
sergeant-major, serving in the West and East Indies,
and was at length, through the unaided recommendation
of his own merits, promoted to an erisigncy in the 78th
Regiment. From that corps he was removed to the
22d Regiment, and served in the late campaign, under
Sir Charles Napier, in Sinde, where he fell a victim to
that illness which, more than the enemy's fire, thinned
our brave army. At the time of his death this
officer was acting adjutant to a wit:g of the regiment,
and we are assured that had a vacancy occurred, his
gallant commander, Colonel Pennefather, who has often
spoken of him as one of the best officers and soldiers
he ever knew, would have made him adjutant to the
regiment. The widow of this old soldier and officer ap-
plies for the usual pension ; she is met by the order of
1830, and told that she has no claim, inasmuch as her
husband had not served his Sovereign as a commissioned
officer for 10 years. In the name of common justice, is
this the fitting answer to give to the widow of a gallant
soldier who, though not promoted to an ensigncy until
1838, had been faithfully serving in every subordinate
grade of the profession from 1816? The case of this
widow is still further aggravated by the misfortune of
her having to maintain two daughters by a former mar-
riage of her late gallant husband. Most sincerely do we
hope that the authorities at the Horse Guards may re-
consider this case, which is not more distressing than it
will be disgraceful to the national honour, should the
just claim of the afflicted widow be repulsed by the un
feeling interpretation of an order which never contem-
plated. such a claim.—Observer..
The Earl of Haddington visited Sir James Graham
yesterday.