The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-08 00:00:00

ruE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 8 1345.

Average Amount.
Wilts and Dors( t Banking Company, Salisbury 69,178
West Riding Ur ion Banking Company, Hud-
..„.
......

dersfield
Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company,
Whitchurch
Worcester City a .1d County Banking Company,
Worcester..... , 4,503
York Union Banking Company, York 63,420
York City and Cc, inty Banking Company, York 86,230
Yorkshire Bankir. ; Company, Leeds
P. LEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns.
Stamps and Ta.:, es, Jan. 4, 1845

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
SHERIFFS' COURT, Jan. 7.
BRETTON AND ANOTHER V. FENTON.

7,902

This action was brought to recover the sum of 161. 165.,
for goods sold and delivered by the plaintiffs to defen-
dant under the following circumstances.
In the course of November, 1844, the defendant or-
dered of a person of the name of Jackson, one of the
present plaintiffs, a number of dining-room chairs, which
were to be delivered to defendant on the 13th of the
same month. The plaintiff Jackson desired the other
plaintiff, Bretton, to make these ehairs, and to deliver
them to the defendant on that day. On the plaintiff
Bretton taking them to defendant's house, however, he
(defendant) refusad to pay for them, on the ground that
it was from Mr. Jackson, and not from Mr. Bretton he
had ordered them.
Defendant pleaded that he was not indebted, and it
having been proved that the goods were ordered of the
plaintiff Jackson, and not of the plaintiff Bretton, the
jury, without retiring, found a verdict for the defendant.
The Court rose shortly after one o'clock.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(YESTERDAY.)
OLD COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
William Hunt, who our readers will recollect surren-
dered to his bail yesterday, was this morning again
placed at the bar. The prisoner, it will be remembered,
was charged, upon two indictments, with having, on the
12th of March last, at the parish of St. Paul, Shadwell,
forged an undertaking for the payment of the sum of
1,7391. 10s., with intent to defraud Thomas Rogers. In
a second count of the indictment, the prisoner was
charged with uttering and putting forth the under-
taking, well knowing it to be forged. The pri-
soner was also charged, upon a second indictment,
with forging an undertaking for the payment of
400 L, with intent to defraud Thomas Rogers. Oa the
prisoner surrendering yesterday to his bail, upon the ap-
plication of his counsel, the case was postponed to this
morning, the counsel for the prosecution stating that it
was uncertain whether they would be prepared to pro-
ceed with the prosecution. On the prisoner being placed
at the bar this morning, the case was postponed till next
session, in consequence of the injury received by one of
the witnesses last Friday by a kick of a horse, render-
, ing it impossible for him to attend the court.
David Rees, aged 35, labourer, was charged with
stealing, on the 21st November last, a firkin of butter,
value 405., the property of Wm. Carr.
Mr. WildaNs defended the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence, that the firkin of butter
in question had been placed outside the prosecutor's
shop door, in the Walworth-road, to be in readiness for
a carrier, who was to have removed it.
The prisoner, who was acting in concert with a man
who drove a cart slowly along, first attracted the atten-
tion of an intelligent little boy, named John Charles
Woodford, in attempting to carry off a bale of hosiery
from the shop door of a Mr. Lyons, who lived opposite
the prosecutor ; but finding himself foiled through the
watchfulness of the boy Woodford, he dropped the bale,
and crossing over the way was seen to take up the firkin
of butter and throw it into the cart, trusting to the dense-
ness of the fog, which was prevailing at the time, to
escape detection ; however, the boy, who still kept his
eye upon the movements of the prisoner, instantly gave
the alarm to the prosecutor's shopman, upon which the
latter went over to the cart, and in it saw the firkin of
butter belonging to his master, which he took hold of,
but was instantly struck back by the man who was driv-
ing, and who immediately whipped his horse furiously,
arid escaped in the fog.
The prisoner, who was well known to the little boy,
Woodford, was not taken into custody until a month
after the occurrence. The driver of the cart has never
been discovered.—Sentence, seven years' transportation.
Ellen Carroll, aged 38, a widow, was convicted of
stealing 40s. 6d., the property of William Thurgood, her
master, the proprietor of the Black Horse, Barbican.
A previous conviction for felony was then proved
against the prisoner.—Sentence, seven years' transpor-
tation.

men, were fined ten shillings each for knocking at
doors and ringing bells at three o'clock in the morning.
The Lord Mayor received 21. for the poor-box
from A. L. A. X.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

EMBEMILEMENT.—George Edwards was brought be-
fore Mr. Maltby, charged with having embezzled ♦arious
sums of money, the property of his master, Samuel Sug-
gett, baker, No. $5, Margaret-street, Cavendish-square.
Mr. Suggett said the prisoner had been in his service
about three months. He was authorised to collect bills,
but as soon as the money was received it was his duty to
pay it over to him. The prisoner was ascertained to
hare received a number of bills from various customers,
which he had never accounted for.
Mrs. Amelia Barber, of No. 9, Market-street, proved
that she paid the prisoner a suns of ten shillings on ac-
count of his master.
Mrs. Elizabeth Laming, 58, Castle-street, proved that
she paid the prisoner seven shillings and fourpenco for
his master, and
Mrs. Martha Adams, No. 15, Hamilton-place, proved
she paid a bill of four shillings, for bread, to the prisoner.
Mr. Suggett said none of the above amounts had been
paid into his hands.
The prisoner, in defence, said he knew nothing about
the amounts in question.—Committed.
MATRIMONIAL MONOMANIA.—Ann Nunn, a well-
dressed woman, between thirty and forty years of age,
possessing no very remarkable personal attractions, was
charged with having importuned William Simmons,
tailor, of No. 200, Oxford-street, with so much pertina-
city as to create a serious annoyance to himself and an
obstruction to his business.

From the statement of Mr. Simmons it appeared that
the female laboured under a delusion that he intended, or
else that he ought, to marry her. She constantly pre-
sented herself at his shop, conjuring him, in the most
pathetic way, to accede to her matrimonial proposition.
It was in vain that he appealed to the police to take her
away. She was no sooner free from the constable than
she ran back and repeated her unwelcome solicitations.
Mr. MALTBY asked the complainant if anything had
occurred to sanction the defendant's delusion ?

Mr. Simmons declared that no promise on his part,
nor any familiarity, could warrant the female's conduct.
The only way in which he could account for the infatua-
tion was by supposing that the defendant was not quite
right in her head.
The defendant, who appeared quite absorbed by her
attachment, said, in a low voice, that the complainant
would not call upon her, so she was obliged to call upon
him. lie had promised to marry her a twelvemonth
ago, and she was resolved that he should not dally with
her any longer.
Mr. MALTBY—Unless you promise to keep away from
the complainant's shop I must order you to find bail.
Defendant— I'll keep away—not unless he promises to
come and see me.

The complainant declared there was no truth in the
assertion that he had promised the defendant marriage.
Mr. MALTBY thought the father of the defendant
ought to be required to restrain his daughter's be
haviour, and he should, therefore, advise the constable
to take her to her home and leave her in the charge
of her friends.

Police-constable English tcok the defendant to her
father's, a tailor, in Windmill-street, but very soon
afterwards returned with both daughter and father, in
consequence of the daughter having as soon as relieved
from custody made her way once more to the com-
plainant's shop in Oxford-street.
The father said he was quite at a loss to account for
the infatuation of his daughter. She was sane on all
points, except as far as regarded her matrimonial passion
for the complainant. The origin of his daughter's at-
tachment was from the circumstance of her having worked
as waistcoat maker in the same shop where the com•
plainant was formerly employed.
After some expostulation, the defendant gate a half
promise that she would not go to the shop in Oxford-
street again.
The complainant quitted the court.
The defendant, on being released, was observed to
break away from her friends and to follow the corn
plainant.

disposed to comply, Mr. Duckett became very much
excited, and threatened that if the bill was not delivered
to him, and that very speedily, he should break every
bone in the skin of the party who held it. He also
expressed his determination to kick both him and Cap-
tain White on meeting them, even in the most public
place, unless the bill was restored. Lord Huntingtower
added that, under the apprehension Mr. Duckett would
have carried his threats of personal violence into effect
or. the spot, he resigned the possession of the bill, at the
same time informing him that he should adopt proceed-
ings against him for the violent nature of the threats,
and for the purpose of making him deliver up the bill.
Lord Huntingtower added that several persons were
within hearing during the time he was so improperly
treated by Mr. Duckett, against whom he wished a war-
rant to be granted, for putting him in bodily fear, and
thereby obtaining the possession of the bill alluded to.
Mr. Tram, said that, as the applicant was ready to
swear he went in personal fear of the party against whom
he made the application, a peace warrant should be
granted for his apprehension.
Shortly after Lord Huntingtower retired Captain
White entered the Court, and made a similar application
fur a warrant against Mr. Duckett.
Mr. TaAILL said that there would be no necessity for
issuing two warrants, that Captain White could be in
attendance on the day Mr. Duckett was brought up, and
that he would then have an opportunity of having his case
investigated, as well as that of Lord Huntingtower.
William Mariner, a weather-beaten old tar, was
charged with being found lying drunk in the public street.
The defendant received his pension on the previous
day at the Pay-office, on Tower -hill, and afterwards be-
came so intoxicated that he fell down, and was found
lying on the pavement insensible, and his pockets turned
inside out, having been plundered of the whole of his
quarter's pension.
The defendant's account was that he had been robbed
of nearly all his money, but still he had a " shot left in
the locker."
The policeman said he had not a farthing about him
when he was searched.

Defendant (giving his trowsers a hitch)—Oh, yes. I
" bolted a sovereign when I found the ' land sharks'
about me, and I expect that I shall have it safe and
sound by and-by."----(Laughter.)
Mr. TRAILL discharged him, remarking that he hoped
he would discover the sovereign he had swallowed
without sustaining any injury from such an experiment.
LAMBETH.

GROSS CRUELTY AND NEGLIGENCE OF A CHILD BY
ITS PARENTS.—Yesterday, Jonathan Storey, a middle-
aged man, and formerly a publican in Newport-market,
was charged before Mr. Henry with grossly neglecting
his child and keeping her without the necessary supply
of food, so that her life is at present in great jeopardy.
From the evidence it appeared that some days past
the attention of the neighbours had been directed to the
gross negligence of the prisoner towards his child
Martha, between five and six years of age, and informa-
tion of the circumstance was given to Mr. James, one of
the overseers of the parish of St. Mary, Lambeth. On
Saturday afternoon that gentleman applied for the assis-
tance of Dunn, one of the beadles of the parish, and with
that officer proceeded to a house in Doughty-place, Lam-
beth, and on forcing open the door of a room on the first
floor, they found the poor child, who presented a fright-
ful spectacle, sitting in a chair nearly benumbed with
cold, and without a fire, or a morsel of anything to eat
in the place. The poor child was nearly naked, and.her
person and head were a moving mass of vermin. Mr.
James had the poor child at once removed to the work-
house, where she at present remains in a very dangerous
state.

Caroline James, a nurse in the parish workhouse, de-
scribed the appearance of the poor child when brought
there. She said that the few rags by which her person
was scantily covered so swarmed with vermin that they
were obliged to be destroyed, and her head was obliged
to be shaved to get rid of the vermin. Witness put
some questions to the child as to the manner in which
she had been treated, when she said that her father had
been in the habit of leaving her locked up all day during
the late cold weather, without any fire ; that her only
food was a little bread and water ; and that her father
was in the habit of ill-using her. The parish doctor
considered her case of so serious a character, that he
had been to see her as late as ten o'clock on the night
before, and his impression was that her recovery from
the state of exhaustion to which she had been reduced
was very doubtful.
The prisoner, in reply to the charge. said he was a
married man, and had two children and a wife living.
About three years ago he kept the Jolly Butchers pub-
lic-house, Newport-market, but had been burned out
from there. He subsequently received 1601 from the
insurance company, and with this he paid several debts
he owed, and placed 401. in the hands of his wife for
security. Shortly afterwards his wife left him, taking
away one of the children, and leaving him the other.
The prisoner here became very much affected, and wept
bitterly, saying the conduct of his wife in leaving him
had nearly broken his heart. He said it was true that,
through poverty, he was reduced to the greatest want.
but still he loved his child too well to allow it to want
food, for while he himself had but a pennyworth of dry,
bread, he took care that she did not want. He had ap-
plied, he said, for relief to the parish of St. Anne, Soho,
where he had a settlement, but they refused to give him
any, and knowing the way in which poor people who ap-
plied for relief were generally treated, he did not wish to
make a second application, nor had he gone to the parish
officers of Lambeth at all.
Mr. HENRY remarked that it was much to be lamented
that he had not applied for relief to Lambeth parish to
have something done for his unfortunate child, and not
allow her to be reduced to such a state of wretchedness
and suffering as that described by the witnesses who had
been examined. As the child was described to be in a
dangerous state from his negligence and improper treat-
ment, he (Mr. Henry) should feel it to be his duty to re-
mand him to a futnre day.
The prisoner was accordingly remanded until
Wednesday.
ANOTHER CASE OF CRUELTY.—Robert Pratt, who had
been remanded since Wednesday last, on a charge of
grossly abusing his son, a boy of five years of age, was
again put to the bar for further examination.
At the last examination Mr. Henry expressed a wish
that the parish officers of Lambeth should prosecute in
a case of so serious a character as the present, and de-
lired Dunn, the beadle, to communicate his opinion to
ti`ie vestry-clerk. On Monday Mr. Logan, who holds a
situation under the Poor-law Guardians, attended, and
said they had no fund in the parish applicable to such a
prosecution, else they should with pleasure act upon the
magistrate's suggestion, and aid the ends of justice in
such a case as far as they could.
Mr. HENRY said he should certainly send the case for
trial as it was, and thought it was one in which the pa-
rish ought to prosecute.
George Prince, a bone. collector, Catherine Waley, and
Mary Jones, described as residing in North-street, Lock's-
fields, were charged with coining.
Police-constable, P 28, stated that from information
which ho received, he went on Monday evening to the
prisoners' lodgings, which was in a small back room in
North-street. On going up stairs he suddenly opened
the door, and saw the male prisoner with some coin in
his hand, which be attempted to place in his pocket, but
which the officers prevented, and the prisoner was secured.
On searching the fire-place the officers found some coin-
ing implements. The male prisoner said, " Aye, you
have found all you will find, which, I suppose, is suffi-
cient for your purpose. The prisoner Waley said that
she had only just come in, and had nothing to do with
the coining implements.
Mr. linsine ordered the two female prisoners to be
removed from the Court, and asked the male prisoner
what he had to say to the charge ?—The male prisoner
(Prince) said Waley had nothing to do with it, and that
he found the implements en a dunghill at Lock's-fields.
The two females, on being again brought into Court,
were asked if they wished to say anything, but they
declined.
Mr. HENRY asked if the police knew anything about
soners were well-known characters.
the prisoners ?—The officers said the whole of the pri-
Mr. HENRY said the prisoners must be remanded until
Saturday.

INcENDIARISIC—WARWICK.—We are this week
called upon to record one of the most revolting acts of
incendiarism that has ever occurred in this borough.
On the evening of Wednesday last An alarm was given
that the hay-ricks, belonging to Mrs. Ledbroke, of the
West-street, were in flames, and the report was found to
be correct. Some few yards on the right hand side of
the Longbridge-road, and about five minutes' walk from
the West-street, there were two ricks of hay, and imme-
diately opposite two hovels, one thatched and the other
tiled. The smaller rick was fired at the side nearest
the hovels, and the larger one, about 20 tons, was ignited
upon the same side, but, happily, the fire was soon ex-
tinguished. The engines were speedily sent for, and
continued playing
upon the flames for some time, and
about eight tons of hay were saved. Upos examining
the hovels, some rails and a hurdle bad been placed upon
a quantity of straw, and evidently so arranged that the
air could draw through, so that the whole building
would, in a few minutes, have been in flames ; fortu-
nately, however, the wood was in a green state, and
would not easily burn. The villains by whom this
scheme was concocted then attempted, it is supposed, to
set the stall on fire, directly opposite, in which was a
quantity of hay and straw locked up, and on the other
side, where two beasts were confined. There is no doubt
these points were first attempted, as the fire was seen to
burn faintly previously to the two ricks becoming ig-
nited. The whole of the circumstances evince a brutal
determination entirely to consume the property. We
understand that the hay is insured in the County Fire-
office, and that Mr. Elvins, the active agent, has travelled
to London to lay the case before the authorities of that
o ffice.—Leatninyton Courier.
CRIM. CON. IN PARIS.—We mentioned some time
back a curious case which occurred in the Rue Dauphin,
where it was said that the wife of a Peer of France had,
with her lover, a poor student, escaped from the just
anger of her husband, by getting out of the garret,
and crossing the roofs of several houses at the risk of
her life. It appears, from an application made on
Friday to the Civil Tribunal of the Seine, for a separa-
tion from bed and board on the part of her husband,
that though some of the minor circumstances were mis-
stated, yet all the main points of the story were correct.
The husband is not a Peer of France, but a person
of great celebrity in the arts. Suspecting the conduct
of his wile, he had her watched, and the result of
the investigation which he instituted was to discover her
place of rendezvous in the Rue Dauphin. It appears
that after her escape and return home she was so much
borne down by fatigue, bodily and mental, that she
avowed her fault, and it was on this acknowledgment
that the husband bra ,ught his action for a separation.
The counsel for the wife confined himself to demand-
ing that one of the three children should be left with
?he mother until the age of seven years. But the Court,
in pronouncing the separation, ordered the three chil-
dren to be placed excatusively under the futhor's care.—
Galignani.

PRICES OF SHARES

LI t,ANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE
AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK.

Dividend
per

46um.

per cent.
4.

224
161.
41. 10e.
per cent.
4i.
401.
.151
71.
11. ss.

LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. 7.

171.
301.
3%
17!. M.

101.
6percent.
28

204
1/. 105.
151.

321. 10s.

'US.
4r.
1.44.

cent.
4 per cent.
4i per cent.
I per cent.
31. 10s.
5 per cent.
S per cent.
1% per cent.
4 per cent.
4 per cent.

I% per cent.
11. Os. Bd.
18s. Id.
per cent.
11. 7s.

Si. Ws.
pet cent.
6 per cent.
tl per cent.
3s. 6d. pr sh
51. ss.

er share
per cent.
Si.
6s.
per coati
is 303. bs.
I 3 per cent.
sper cent.
per cent.
6per cent.
per cent.
4s.
2t. 6d.
per cent.
'l9s.
12 ih. & bs.
1/. 51.

5 per cent.
taper cent.
5 per cent.

per cent.
IL U.
4r.
5 per cent.
4,', per cent.
IL 46.
5 per cent.
%.)% per cent
51

$ per cent.

6 per cent.
5 percent.
5 per cent.
6per cent.

per cent.

per cent.
8 per cent.
6 per cent.
:Is per share
6s, per share

10 per cent.
per cent.

18s.
IL sa.
11. MI.
51. and tn.
-441. and N.
per cent.
neat.

101.
101.
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15s per sh
2L

6 per cent.
5 per cent.:
6 per cent.

5 per cent,
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13 per cent.
31.
12s.

Names of Com-
panies.

Canals.
As.. and Oldham,
Ash by -de- la-Zouch..av
Basingstoke ..
Br eckn lack & Abergay.
Birmingham, I-16th sh.
Do. and Liverp. June.
Chelmer & Blackwater
Coventry
Cromford
Dudley
Danube and 'Mayne
Ellesmere and Chester
Erewash .....
Forth and Clyde...,
Grand Junction .....
Grand Union
Grand Surrey
Grand Western...—
Glamocgansh., ay. cost
Gloucester & Berkeley
Grantham
Huddersfield
Kennet :.nd Avon ...av
Lancaster
Leeds and Liverpool
Leicester ....
Leicester & Northamp.
Loughborough ........av
Monmouthshire
Montgomeryshire .
Melton Mowbray
Mersey and Irwell.
Macclesfield
Oxford
Peak Forest J 7
I Regent's (or London)..
R0chda1e...........
Shropshire
Somerset Coal.
Do. Lock Fund Stock
Stafford and Worcester
Shrewsbury...
Stourbridge... ..... .......
Stratford .on- A von av
Swansea
Severn & Wye & Rail.
Trent & Mersey, 14 sh.
Thames & Medway..av
Warwick and Birming.
Warwick and Napton...
Worcester & Birming.
Wilts and Berks ,av
Wisbeach
Wey and Arun....
Docks.
Commercial
East and West India
London
Ditto Bonds
Bristol ~«........„......a,
Do. Bnds, var. amounts
St. Katharine
Ditto 80nd5...".
Ditto Bonds
Southampton ......
Bridges
Hammersmith
Southwark, new Subs
Ditto New of 7) pr c
Waterloo
Ditto Old Ann. of tll
Ditto New ditto of 71
Ditto Bonds
Vauxhall ..... ...av
Assurances.
Albion.
Alfred Life .....
Alliance Brit. and For
Ditto Marine .....
Atlas
Birmingham Fire
British Commercial
Cler. Med. & Gen. Life
County ...........
Economic Life ....
European Life
Ditto New
Freemasons
Globe
Guardian ........
Hope Life.. ........
Ditto Fire. ..........«„.,
.....
Imperial Fire
Ditto .
Indemnity Marine....,
Law Life
Legal and General Life
London Fire..„..,........
Ditto Ship .....
National Loan Fund...
Neptune Marine
Palladium Life
Protector Life
Provident
Rock Life
It yal Exchange
Sun Fire .........
Ditto Life......
University Life
Universal Life.. .....
Union Fire and Life
Joint Stk Banks
Australasia
Ditto New
Brit. North American
Commercial of London
Colonial
London & Westminstr
Ditto New........
London Joint Stock ,
Metropolitan.
Provincial of
Ditto New
National of Ireland
Nat. Provincial Englnd
Ditto New..„,..,,
Gloucestershire ....
Union of Australia
Union of London
Gaslight 6, Coke
Bath

British
Ditto Provincial...—
Birmingham
Binning. & Staffordsh
Bristol
Brighton
Ditto General
City of London
Ditto New
Continental Consolid
Ditto New
Equitable
Imperial
Isle of Thanet
Independent .....
Phoenix ...........
Itatcliff... .............
South Metropolitan United General .....
Westmins. Chartered
Ditto
Water Works.
Birmingham
East London .....
Grand Junction av
Kent ..... ........
Nw Riv Lon. Bridg An.
Manchester and Salford
Vauxhall, late S. Lond.
West Middlesex .av
Yrk Buidg Co. Les. Prop
Zron Railways.
Birmingham & Derby
Birming. & Gloucester
Bristol and Exeter
Caledonian ........
Chester and Holyhead
Eastern Counties
Edinburgh & Glasgow
Grand Junction
Great North of Englnd
Great Western
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Fifths .......
Harwich (Braithwaite)
Hull and Selby .......
Lancaster and Carlisle
Leeds and Selby
Liverpool & Manchestr
Ditto Half-Shares
London and Brighton
Ditto Loan Notes
London and Blackwell
London and Greenwich
London and Birmingh.
Dittouarter-Shares
Th
irds
London Thirds...—.
London and S. Western
London and Croydon
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto New Shares—.
Manchatr and Birming
Midland Counties
North British
Norwi h & Brandon
Northern and Eastern
Ditto Scrip, iss.sl. dis.
Paris and Orleans.
Paris and Rouen .....
Rouen and Havre
Stockton & Darlington
South East. and Dover
Yarmouth and Norwich
ork and N. Midland
Ditto New Shares.
Mines.
Albion Copper.,
Alten
Anglo Mex., iss. 51. p.m
Ditto Subscription
Bolanos
Ditto Scrip
Brazil. Imp. iss. 54 p.m
Do. Mocaub. & Coc. U
Do. St. John Del Rev
British Iron
Candonga.
Ditto Registered
Cobre Copper
Copiapo
Columbian iss. 51. p.m
General Alining
Hibernian
Impenal Slate Compy.
Mexican
Mining Co. of Ireland.,
Real del Monte, Unreg.
Ditto Loan Notes....
Rhymney Iron
Santiago de
United Mex., iss.2l. pm.
Ditto Scrip
Ditto New Scrip
Literary.
Londn,with Sin. Ticket
London University
Russell
King's College
Miscellaneous
Anglo Mexican Mint
Australian Agricnitur
Brit. American Land,
Canada
Upper Canada Bonds
Gen. Steam Navigation
Iberian Mercantile Co.
Ditto Property
Met. Wood Pay., in. 11.
Mex. and S. American
Newßrunswick (Land)
New Zealand •..
Penins. & Orien. Steam
Royal Mail Steam
Reversionary Int. Soc
South Australian
Thames Tunnel.
Van Diemen's Land {

Amount

of
Share.

125 0 0
145 0 0
79 9 8
100 0 0
26 9 9
50 0 0
19 5 8
100 0 0
100 0 0
78 8 0
67 10 8
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PREMIX? TO AN EDITOR. Ihe editor of the
Devonport Telegraph acknowledges ti-se receipt of a barrel
of ale from a brewery in the town .2 a Christmas-box,
.
the excellence oc which of course, duly testified in
grateful terms.

MARKET NEWS.-(YESTERDAY.)

SILT 3128RKETS.
SMITIIFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 4115 x;
Useful ditto, 41 16s to 5/ 4s ; fine Upland ditto, Si 5s to
5/ lOs ; Clover Hay, 41 10s to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 11 15s to
11 16s ; Wheat. Straw, 1/ 16s to 11 18s per load. A fair
average supply, and a sluggish demand.
CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 12s to 4/ 17s;
Useful ditto, 41 18s to Si 5s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 6s to
51 I2s ; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 5/18s ; Oat Straw, 11 16s
to 11 18s; Wheat Straw, 1/ 18s to 21 per load. Supply
but moderate, and trade tolerably steady.
WHITECHIPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ lOs to 41165;
Useful ditto, 41 17s to Si 4s ; fine Upland ditto, Si 58 to
5/ 105 ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 6145; Oat Straw, 11 15s to
11 17s ; Wheat Straw, 11 17s to 1119 s per load. The
best Meadow Hay moved off steadily, at full prices.
Otherwise the demand was extremely dull.
COLONIAL.

SUGAR.-The market for British Plantation is with-
out animation, about 500 hhds having been sold at rather
easier prices. The public sales have only offered 2,451
bags Bengal, which chiefly found buyers at previous
rates, but being principally of mixed qualities and in small
lots, it affords little guide to the market generally. The
quantity of British Plantation imported into London
last year was 84,933 hhds 10,986 tierces, against 82,827
hhds 10,429 tierces in 1843. The home consumption
last year was 84,056 hhds 10,998 tierces, and in 1843
85,151 hhds 10,476 tierces. The importation of
Havannah fell off last year, that of Mauritius increased, as
also of Bengal. The consumption of Mauritius was
larger, but of Bengal scarcely so great. 'The stock of
British Plantation, on the Ist inst., at the port of Lon-
don, was 13,799 hhds 17,777 tierces, and at the corre-
sponding date of 1844, 13,416 hhds 2,056 tierces. The
stocks of nearly all other descriptions show an increase.
COFFEE.-The market has been very quiet. The
quantity of British Plantation landed at the port of Lon-
don last year was 5,735 hhds 6,177 barrels and bags,
being an increase on the previous year. The consump-
tion was 5,434 hhds and 3,461 barrels and bags, being
a failing off. The stock is 3,516 hhds 3,724 b Irrels and
bags, against 3,742 hhds 1,419 barrels and bags at this
time last year. The consumption of Foreign has in-
creased to some extent, and that of East India was
larger, but the quantity admitted at the 9d duty was
much lower. Stocks in general are larger.
Rum.-The quantity landed last year was 16,882 puns
3,932 hhds, against 20,896 puns 7,621 hhds at the
same date in 1843. The stock on the Ist instant was
12,572 puns 2,242 hhds. The consumption last year
was 10,423 puns 2,584 hhds, against 10,951 puns, 3,009
hhds in 1843. The stock in January, 1844, was 15,365
puns 3,216 hhds.

TEA.—The market is steady, but the deliveries are
not yet so large as usual.

TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is rather dull at 40s to 40s 3d per
cwt on the spot, but Town has improved to 44s per cwt.

(From the London New Price Current of Jan. 7.)

SUGAR.—To-day, in consequence of importers of
West India Sugar submitting to prices rather under
those previously quoted by private contract, buyers
were induced to come forward with increased freedom,
and a large business was transacted in grocery and re-
fining descriptions ; in all, 930 hhds were disposed of.
At public sale, 100 hhds of Barbadoes and 388
hhds 13 tierces 71 barrels of St. Lucia were brought for-
ward, the former all sold at the previous currency—good
yellow at 63s 6d, good middling 60s to 625, middling 57s
to 59s 6d, and low 53s 6d to 54s ; the latter was disposed
of at and after the sale, but rather under the former cur-
rency, viz—fine yellow at 645, middling 55s 6d, to 575,
low 54s to 555, brown 53s to 53s 6d, and low 52s per cwt.
REFINED.—o-day there was not much business done
in the Refined Sugar market ; standard lumps are 73s
to 73s 6d, and brown lumps 72s to 72s 6d per cwt. An
increased desire was shown to purchase Bonded Crushed,
and a further advance occurred in the value ; there are
not further sellers under 31s per cwt.
AURITIUS.—The market having been much better
,upplied, has produced a decline in prices of 2s to 3s for
good and line yellow, is to Is 6d per cwt for inferior
brown and grey descriptions. At public sale fine yellow
at 60s to 63s 6d, good middling and good 56s to 59s 6d,
low to middling 52s 6d to 55s 6d, very low heavy 49s 6d,
good brown 495. low 425, good to fine grey 56s to 595.
low to middling 52s 6d to 555, and washed 43s to 60s per
cwt. The principal part consisted of bright yellow of
good and fine quality.
EAST It-rms.—There has been an excellent demand
for Bengal Sugar, and previous rates are maintained for
white and yellow, but brown, of which the supply has
principally consisted, must be quoted Is per cwt cheaper.
This afternoon 2.727 bags of brown Bengal were offered
at public stile, and all sold upon former terms—middling
brown at 42s 6d to 435, and dump 41s to 42s per cat.
FOREIGN.—To-day there is an increased desire ti
purchase Foreign Sugar, and in consequence of the firm
ness of merchants, buyers were cotnpelled to pay higher
rates. Of yellow Havannah 7.000 chests were sold pri-
vately at 21s 6d to 23s for mid to flue, but principally at
21s 6d to 22s 6d; 200 chests inferior at 21s partly for
exportation and the remainder for refining under bond.
1,300 bags of Manilla at 19s 6,1 to 20s for yellow, being
all 6d per cwt above the rates previously quoted.
MOLASSES.—A considerable increase has taken place
in the demand for all descriptions of West India, and
the large quantity of 550 puns found purchasers at rather
higher rates, viz.—Antigua at 22s to 23s 6d, fine 255,
Nevis 225, and Barbadoes old 25s per cwt—prices are
much lower than they were last season, and this circum-
stance causes buyers to come forward more freely. East
India are more in request, and prices have taken an up-
ward turn.

RicE.—lti consequence of the short supply of Bengal
previous rates are sustained, but at present there are
not maiy orders; none has been offered at auction, and
privately only small parcels have been disposed of, low
white at Ils to its 3d, mid Ils 6d to Its 9d,
and good middling to fine 12s to I2s 6d ; the
market will, however, be better supplied shortly,
when moderate rates may be looked for. Other kinds of
East India are not much wanted, but merchants insist
upon full prices, and require lOs to 12s for white Java,
9s to 9s 6d for yellow, and for yellow Madras 8s to 8s 6d
per cwt. The market is firm for cleaned Rice, and
many purchases have been made at 14s to 18s for Patna,
and at 23s to 17s per cwt for South Carolina.
COFFEE.—For West India the market has presented a
firm appearance since this day week : the cheapness of
Coffee in comparison with that of last year deter im-
porters from pressing sales, and the trade in consequence
are more inclined to get into stock ; of middling and
good kinds there is still a scarcity. Public sales, chiefly
of Berbice, are announced. In East India there has
generally been more activity. Ceylon has sustained
the former currency. In Plantation kinds the
operations are upon a more extended scale : good
ordinary pale went at 52s to 535, country damaged,
first and second class 50s 6d to 51s, pale broken 48s,
sound pea berry 69s to 69s 6d, and country damaged
first class 65s per cwt. Today the market presented a
firm appearance tor all descriptions of Coffee; there was
no public sale,; privately several parcels of good ord
Ceylon were disposed of at 52s to 52s 6d; in Plantation
the operations were upon a more extended scale at
former terms. For other sorts of Coffee the demand is
on the increase for home consumption.
TEA.—Firmness still characteri ,es the market for
Black and Green Tea. Common has been fetching lld
to 11 }d ; good common 1 lid to Is Oid ; but middling to
good blackish leaf Is Oid to Is 6d ; fine is 7d to 1:. 9d,
and Pekoe flavour is 10d to 2s 7d per lb.
Pouchong is much wanted. and prices are still going up;
large parcels have been disposed of at 7d to lld for
clean quality, and superior at is to Is 2d per lb. Twan-
key has been in good request; common is fetching is 3d
to Is aid; bright leaf Is 4d to is 9d; superior and Hy-
son kind is is 10d to 2s sd. Hy son is greatly wanted,
sales of common made at 2s 7d to 2s 7id; mid 2s 811 to 2s
9d; good 2s 10d to 3s; find and very line 3s 2d to 4s 6d per
lb. Young Hyson has met with re,dy purchasers, and
prices are stilt on the advance. Hyson skin is selling
rather above the rates of the last auctions. In fine
scented Orange Pekoe sales made at 3s 4d to 3s 5d ;
there is a scarcity of this kind of Tea. In Flowery
and plain Orange, more business has been done upon
former terms. Gunpowder and Imperial are much in
request. _ .

SPICES.—The stock of Pimento being small causes
holders to require full rates, but the demand is only for
small parcQls, at 3,0 to 4f4 for low to fine quality.
There are sellers of Cinnamon rather under the rates
that prevailed at the last quarterly sale. In Nut-
megs the transactions are upon a more extended
scale, at former terms. Although prices are very
low for Mace, still there are few orders. Cloves
are not cheaper, but the demand has been limited. East
and West India Ginger are more in demand at firm rates.
In Black Pepper there has been rather more business
done privately, holders show firmness, and none been
offered at auction. We quote Sumatra 24d to 2d,
Penang 20 to 21d, and Malabar 28d to 30 per Ib, white
sells more freely upon former terms. There has again
been no public sale of Cassia Lignea ; it is wanted, and
owing to the short supply prices are advancing, 53s to
55s 6d paid for ord to fine ord, 56s to 61s for low to mid
62s to 64s for good mid to good, and fine thin 653 to
67s per cwt.

RUM, BRANDY, AND lIOLLANDS.—There has been
only a limited business transacted in Leeward Island
Ruin since we last wrote, but holders are not inclined to
further give way in price, and 2s 2id to 2s 3id
per gallon is the value of proof strength. Jamaica
is not much wanted, and for 100 puns of
common quality rather smoky 30 to 32 per
cent overproof 3s 6d has been accepted, being rather
cheaper ; for clean quality 30 to 33 over 3s 8d to 4s is
asked ' • 4s 2d to 4s 6d for good, and 5s to 5s 6d per
gallon for fine. Demerara has been taken sparingly at
3s to 3s 4d for strong. Geneva shipping sort is in de-
mand at is 10d to Is lld ; fit for duty is worth 2s 4d
to 3s 6d. English Corn Spirits lOs 2d per gallon cash.
To-day, in consequence of lower rates being accepted,
for Calcutta Rum, buyers were induced to purchase more
eily, and the large quantity of 430 hhds, and 170 puns
sold at 2s 2d proof with certificate, but subject to an al-
lowance of 2d per gallon, in consequence of being old
import, and a deficiency of strength, so the real price is
2s proof. Of Leewards 100 hhds were sold at 2s 3d
proof, and 50 puns of Demerara 33 per cent overproof
at 3s 3d per gallon.
INDIGO.—Since this day week there has been little
business transacted in Bengal for home consumption or
exportation, and prices remain as previoussly quoted,
that is, 2d to 3d per lb under those of the last quarterly
sales ; in other kinds there has been little passing, and
the rates taken are rather under those of the October sales.
SALTPETRE.—The market is firm for Rough, and, the
stock here being small still deter merchants from offer-
ing any at public sale. A fair demand has been expe-
rienced by private contract, and very full rates have been
paid.
FRUlT.—There has been an improved demand for Red
Smyrna Raisins, and several parcels have been disposed
of at 46, per ca t. Sultanas of middling quality fetchcd
61s, fine are held for 62s and 635. In Valencia Raiiiins
the price is firm at 50s. Currants are not much in re-
quest at present, but holders are reluctant to reduce their