The Sun.
London, England, 1828-03-17 00:00:00

,COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

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• LIVERPOOL, MARCH 15.---Our market continuing
to be barely supplied with good grocery Sugar, the
sales this week are confined to 600 hhds, which
brought full prices; the brown description may ue
quoted rather lower. Nothing done in other kinds;
there is some inquiry for Brazil Sugar, but at lower
rates than the owners are willing to •accept. West
India Molasses are in :more request : 600 casks De-
.merara. have been sold at 275. to 275. 6d. per cwt.
The demand for Coffee is still confined to the home
trade, and the business done consists of about 50 tes.
Jamaica, and 120 brls, Trinidad (by public and pri-
vate), which in some instances went Is. to 2s. per
cwt. lower. Cocoa, Pimento, and Ginger remain
in the.same dull state. About 200 punchs. Rum
,have been disposed of during the week, consisting
chiefly of Demerara 4 0. P. at 2s. 3d. and strong
qualities suitable for the home trade at 3s. 9d. per
gallon.
We have experienced a good demand for Cotton
this week, particularly for American descriptions,
which have fully maintained our last quotations, and
in some instances a shade advance has been obtained
on them, but other. kinds are dull, and without altera-
tion. Of 2,470 Surat offered by auction yesterday,
only 60 bales were sold at 3d. for very ordinary to
41d. per lb. for fair quality, the rest being withdrawn
for want of buyers. The sales by private contract
consist of
5590 Bowed at sd. to 6P. (55 at 7d.) chiefly at sid.
to 6P. for middling fair to good fair.
2290 Orleans at 64rd. to 70. (122 at 74d. to Bid.)
3160 Alabama and Mobile at sd. to 61d. (90 at 60.)
400 Sea Island at Did. to 19d.
10 Stained ditto at '7d. to led.
380 Pernambuco at 74d. to 81d. (26 at Erid.)
20 900 Maranham at 7id. to Id. (40 at lid.)
;) 650 Bahia at lid. to 7P.
494 140 Egyptian at lid, to BP, chiefly at 7141. to Id.
50 Demerara at 7.id.
„Li 10 West India at 4-44.
30 140 Carthagena at 4d.
94010
420 Surat at 41d, to 4.0.
- 10 Bengal at 4d.

Making a total, including those sold by auction,
of 14,450 bags. The arrivals are 10,279 bags.
The Tobacco market haS exhibited rather more
WO life than we have recently witnessed, the trade hay-
: in g been purchasing more freely, and about 90 hhds.
Iso ordinary Virginia Leaf haying been taken for export
- at 2d. per lb.;-Carolina Rice has been more in-
qiiired for, about 70 tees, have been sold at 18s. to
18s. 6d. per cwt.-The Corn market has been on
the whole dull, with the exception of Oats, of which
large sales have been effected at an advance of ld.
per 451bs. Wheat and other descriptions of Grain
have remained stationary. Indian Corn is neglected,
and our quotations nominal. Several public sales
of Clover•seed have been brought forward this
week, but the demand is at present so dull that but
little business has been done; the holders have ap-
peared anxious to press sales, and the consequence
has been a reduction of 3s. to 4s. per cwt. on the
previous prices. The sales are 220 bags old Ger-
man at 295. 3d. to 295. 9d. ; 110 bags new red
Dutch at 6jis. 9d. down to 585..6d.; 35 bags good
French at 60s. 3d. to 625., with small lots of white
Dutch at 755. to 775. 6d. ; and 30 casks old and in-
ferior American -at 35i. 6d. to 365, Od, per cwt.-
Sowing Flax-seed has been in limited demand; 150
In I
tees. New York have been sold at 475.; 90 Phila-
delphia rt 435. 6d, to 445,; and 20 Dutch at 605.;
some parcels of New York (old seed) have also
been sold for crushing at 365. to 435. per hhd.-
The sales in Qtiercitron Bark are 24 hlids. middling
Philadelphia at 11e. 9d. to Its. ; and 30, good qua-
lity, at 15s. 6d. per cwt.-No sales in Turpentine or
Tar worth notice- The market for Ashes has been
dull, and the total sales are only about 270 brls., of
which 210 brls. were New Yerk Pot at 3ls. 9d. to
325„ and the remainder Montreal Pot at 30s. 6d.
for new, and 28s. to 295. per cwt. for old, Nothing
has been done in Pearl Ashes.

Our market for DvEwoons has been dulls Of
Logwood the sales are about 300 tons Campeachy,
250 of which were taken for export at a price equal
to about 71. 15s. duty paid, and the remainder for
home use at 71, 15s. per ton, Fustie has been parr
tially inquired for, and 75 tons good Spanish sold at
7/. 10s. per ton. Nicaragua wood is neglected, and
prices are barely supported. Some sales have been
made in Cochineal, but in Lae Dye and Safflower
nothing has been done.--Indigo remains dull of sale,
and the few orders which have appeared have been
executed on fully as good terms as last week.—
Sales of Sicily Shumac continue to be made freely
at 103. 6d. but all other descriptions go off slowly at
our quotations. There has been some demand for
French Madder Roots, and about 150 bales have
been sold at 41s. 6d. to 425. per cwt.—Madders are
steady.—A few small sales have been made in Brim.
stone at Si. 15s. to 61. per ton, and abmit 200 bags Salt-
petre have been taken at 243. to 255. 6d. with a small
lot of fine quality at 275. 6d. per cwt.—There has
been rather more disposition on the part of holders
to sell Olive Oil, and several sales of Gallipoli are
reported to have been made a little below our quo-
tations; small parcels of this description find buyers
at 37/. to 38/., and the price of Malaga and Sicily is
maintained at 35/. to 351. 10s. per tun.—Tallow
continues steady, with a further tendency to ad-
vance.—The sales reported in Hides are about 3000
dry :Valparaiso cow and ox at Bd. to Ild.; 1,200
North American salted at sd. to 54d.; 150 West
India salted at 7d., and 150 dry salted Brazil at
7d. per lb.

CONFESSION AND EXECUTION OF

MOSES SHEPHERD.

This unhappy young man, although he evinced
considerable firmness during his protracted trial, im-
mediately on leaving the bar appeared much affec-
ted, and on being visited- by the chaplain, shortly
after his return to the gaol, be was greatly agitated,
and generally acknowledged his guilt. On the fol-
lowing morning he entered into particulars, and
stated that jealousy was the only motive whicl
ac-
tuated him, and that he had meditated the crime a
very short time before he perpetrated it. On the
evening of the murder he accompanied Harmsworth
from Brockhurst, having a case-knife in his pocket.
The evidence of the witnesses' tracing him within a
short distance of the fatal spot was true. He first
knocked down his victim with a large stick, and in-
stantly accomplished his purpose with the knife
he had previously prepared. After the murder he
proceeded to his sister's, whom he did not see, and
left the yarn in the shed, as stated on the trial. He
next went to the public-house at Elson, and then
returned to his father's house, and whilst his father
was gone to Gosport, on Sunday morning, he
washed and wrung out the sleeves of his' coat and
shirt, both of which were stained with blood. He
expressed the greatest contrition for his crime, and
was frequently overwhelmed with agony. He atten-
ded the chapel on Sunday afternoon with the other
convict under sentence, when the Rev. Chaplain
preached from Psalm 51, 14 v. " Deliver me from
my blood-guiltiness, 0 God, the God of my salva-
tion." The discourse seemed to make a very deep
impression on all jiresent, After divine service,
Shepherd took an affecting leave of his brothers and
sinters. Early on Monday morning he was visited
by the Chaplain, and his conduct was such as be-
came. his situation. Shortly after eight the bell
sounded, and the wretched criminal was conducted
to the platform, attended by the usual officers. He
said nothing but appeared to join fervently in prayer.
In a few minutes the signal was given, the fatal bolt
was drawn, and life was extinct after two or three
convulsive struggles. The body, after hanging the
usual time, was delivered to the surgeon of the
gaol, for dissection.—Hants Chronicle.

CAUTION TO PERSONS LEAVING GOODS.
EXPOSED AT CrI.LAR WINDOWS.-This morning, between
three and four o'clock, the cellar window of the house of
Mr. R. G. SMITH, Ann-street, Waterloo-road, Was forced
open, and a quantity of clothes drawn through the window,
(although protected by an iron grating,) by means of a
hook, supposed to have been attached to a stick.