The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-16 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN-EXCHANGE.—FRIDAY.
Since Monday a very limited supply of English Wheat
has been received up to our market, and the show of
samples was small. Owing to the prevailing heavy
showers of rain, and the comparatively little progress
made in the fields in carting Wheat, the demand was
rather active, and prices were Is to 2s per quarter higher
than on Monday. Foreign Wheat waa a free sale, and
commanded is to 2s per quarter more money. In Bar-
ley and Malt only a moderate business was doing, at
late rates. The best Potatoe Oats were held at 6d per
quarter more money. Other kinds of Oats, as well as
Beans, Peas, and Flour were unaltered.

Oats. Flour
620 qrs. 3,720 Basks,
I 10,440
14,590 I 13,690 —.
Malt. 4.350 qrs.
SMITHFIELD.
The supply of beasts—in which was embraced 200
Scots from Aberdeen, and 30 Oxen and Cows from
Rotterdam—was, the time of the year considered, tole-
rably good, but of very middling quality. For all kinds
of beef the demand ruled heavy, and Monday's prices
were barely supported. The number of sheep was
rather small ; however, the sale for that description of
stock was steady, at full quotations. Lambs—which
were rather numerous—sold slowly, but we have no
alteration to report in their value. Although the supply
of Calves was good, the veal trade was active, at prices
quite equal to those noted in our last report. In Pigs
next to nothing was doing. Milch Cows moved off at
from 161 to 191 lOs each.

Wheat.
Eng1i5h.......... 1,810 qrs.
1rian..••..... 00000 -
Foreign. ..... .... 19,010

ARRIVALS.
I Earley.
KO qrs.

Per 81bs. to sink the effaL
s, d. to s, d. s. d. to s. d.
Inferior Beasts .. .
Second quality ditto 3 0 3. 4 Coarse-woolled ditto.. 3 6 3 8
Prime large Oxen 3 6 3 8 Southdown Wethers 310 4 0
Prime Scots, &c.
Large coarse Calves 3 4 4 0 Large Hogs 3 0 3 6
Prime small ditto 4 2 4 8 Small Porkers 3 8 4 0
Suckling Calves, each 18 0 34 0 Quarter old Pigs,eachl6 0 20 0
Inferior Sheep
SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Beasts. I Sheep. I
I Calves. Pigs.
751 9,980 31$ 230
NEWGATE AND 36EADENBALL.
We had a fair average supply of meat, while the de-
mand was steady, at full prices.

At per stone, by the Carcase.
s. d. toe. d. s. d. to s. d.
Beef, ..... 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior 2 4 3 0
--- middling ..... 2 6 2 8 middling 3 2 3 :4
---- prime large ~.... 2 II 3 0 - prime ..... 3 6 3 8
--- prime small ...... 3 2 9 4 Pork, large ........ 2 6 2 4
Veal ..«.«.«....«........ 3 4 4 4 3 6 3 10
Lamb, 3s 8d to 4s Bd.
BOROUGH HOP MARKET.
The prevailing unfavourable weather having proved
extremely injurious to the growing line, and as it is now
fully expected that the produce will be very deficient,
have caused considerable excitement in our market, and

prices have generally advanced from 2s to 4s per cwt.
The duty has fallen to 120,0001.—Weald of Kent pockets
616 s to 61 12s ; Mid Kent ditto 71. 2s to 91 16s ; East
Kent: ditto 71 to 91 ; Choice' ditto 101 to 111 lis ; Sus-
sex pockets 61 to 61 lOs ; Mid Kent bags 71 to 815 s.

COLONIAL -
SVGAR.—The market for British Plantation has been
active at full rates. Sales about 2,000 hhds ; and at
auction 145 hhds, 5 tres. Barbadoes sold at 64s for fine
yellow, and 57s 6d for low greyish yellow.
REFlNED.—Standard Lumps have been at 74s per cwt.
EAST INDIA.---9,359 bags Bengal of earthy sold at
58s 61 to 70s for low white to Dobah sorts, and at 57s
6d to 72s 6d for damp and washed ; 156 bags Manilla
realised 17s for the sound ; 1,393 bags Mauritius sold
rather easier, good mid and yellow at 58s 6d to 60s, and
good and fine brown at 51s to 58s per cwt ; Molasses, St.
Kitts, sold at 22s to 24s per cwt.
FOREIGN.—There have been no public sales, but 2,000
boxes yellow Havannah, afloat, sold at 20s 6d for
Konigsburg.
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COFFEE—British Plantation has been rather dull,
but Ceylon continues in request, good ord 53s to 565.
At auction 3,795 bags mostly sold at .53s to 57s for good
to fine ord, and at 66s 6(1 to 92s for Plantation sorts.
Some Mysore sold at 45s 6d to 46s 6d; 300 bags Brazil
privately realised 3ls 6d; and 1,017 by auction were
mostly taken in at 34s for sound; 1,707 bags Havannah
were taken in at 28s to 48s for sound; 313 bags East
India at 273 6d to 39s for Batavia and Java; and 202
barrels Trinidad at 56s to 635.

COCOA.—Trinidad has sold publicly at 40s to 475,
and Grenada at 40s to 42s 6d, being advanced prices.
RlCE.—Bengal has been at lis 6d to 12s for mid
white, and not much doing. _ _

Ru:►s.—The market continues firm. Proof Leewards
has been 2s 4d to 2s sd, and Calcutta proof 2s Id to
2s 2d per gallon.
SPICES.-11 chests Cassia Lignea sold at 48s to 60s,
and 65s for low to good and good mid. ; sound Penang
Pepper has realised 21d per lb ; Malabar 30 to 31d,
white 4id to sh-d per lb ; and a few bags of Pimento
brought 4d per lb.
SALTPETRE.-1,892 bags sold at 24s 6d for 111 and
8 per cent. refraction, being lower.
TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is 40s 9d to 41s 6d per cwt on the
spot.
COTTON.—A small business has been done.

TEL—Owing to continued difficulties relative to the
inspection of samples. the sales have been going off
flatly, about 28,000 packages were declared, and yes-
terday of 14,200 passed, only 3,100 sold, Congous being
heavy at previous rates, and other sorts without altera-
tion. There is a slight increase of business to-day.
The deliveries are good. Common Twankay is is 21d
per lb.

MONEYAND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THIrEE.
The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was steady.
Sales, 5,000 bags, all to the trade. Shares were gene-
rally dull, except Midland Counties, which were in in-
creased request. Blackburn and Preston, 7k ; Dublin
and Belfast Junction, 3 ; Ditto and Cashel, 6s ; Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, 65i ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Gree-
nock, 12f ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter, 10 ; Man-
chester and Birmingham Ditto, 58 ; Midland, 10V ;
North British, 2i Sheffield and Manchester, 83i; South-
Eastern, 38i ; Ulster, 374 ; Paris and Lyons, 2i.
The accounts that have been received this morning
relative to the financial affairs of Holland for the first
six months of this year, are anything but satisfactory
to the bondholders here, a very large diminution of re-
ceipts having occurred as respects exports as well as in
imports.
The only ship arrivals to-day arc from iiaenos Ayres,
but the dates are old.

From the Cape of Good Hope papers we gather the
following:—
" The exports and imports of the Eastern province for
the first quarter of this year, compiled from the official
returns, show abundant reason for congratulation. They
exhibit a healthy state of affairs, and a proof of undi-
minished, or rather of increased energy and enterprise,
which are most cheering ; while at the same time they
afford the best and most indisputable proof of the capa-
bilities and steady progression of this division of the
colony. The following brief analysis will be
decisive proof of this :—The gross amount of im-
ports is, we find, 38,7301. ; of exports, 35;645h
From the former, however, must be deducted the
sum of 4,8011. for goods warehoused, and which may
probably be re-shipped hereafter for another market.
Hence the result will leave a surplus on exports for the
quarter, amounting to 1,716/. ; thus leaving the large
military and missionary expenditure, as well as many
private incomes drawn from foreign sources, entirely un-
touched in our account current of trade with
the parent country. We may safely challenge
any other British possession to exhibit an equally
healthy state of affairs, or one which affords
a more telling example of industry, enterprise, and per-
severance, than is here exhibited. The items afford
abundant testimony to this. Thus, the article on which
there is the greatest increase, is precisely that which de-
mands the greatest share of attention from the producer,
and which may be considered as the chief staple of the
colony. We refer to wool. The value of that shipped
in the corresponding quarter of last year was 9,997/. ;
in the present case, 20,2461., thus showing an increase on
the quarter of no less a sum than 10,2491., arising in part
from the increased value of wool, and in part from the
the large quantity actually exported."
There is in many quarters a feeling prevalent, that the
repudiating States of America will be shamed into an
honest course of action. And it is satisfactory to find
that the value Gf American shares shows signs of re-
suscitation from the extreme points of depression that
have long ruled in this market. It may be added that
some of the largest holders look with confidence to the
ultimate liquidation of their claims.
The Commissioners bought 10,0001. Consols at 98i.
The market is heavy, money being rather more in re-
quest. In the morning the price for Money was 984,
and for the Account 98i. Now, 981 buyers is the gene-
ral value. The other stocks are dull. The premium
upon Exchequer Bills has declined to 735.
There has been a good deal of business done in the
Dutch Funds this morning. TheT wo-and-a-Half per Cents.
at one period were sold at a fall to 61/, and the Five per
Cents. are now only at 1001 ; Spanish Bonds have re-
mained at 221, the Three per Cents. at 334-; Portuguese
Converted are at 43i- ; the Five per Cents. Mexican at
351 1 ; and Brazilian at 841
The Railway Shares continue rather dull. Birming-
ham are down to 1231 and 1221 premium, but this is
ex dividend. Generally prices seem steady.
BRITISH FUNDS TEIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List)
Bank Stock ... ......... •••••• 99% %
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ... ..... 9%
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities.. ........ 99%
3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities 102%%
New 3% per Cent. Annuities... ...
South Sea Stock
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 97%
Consols for Account •••• ....... ....... 26%3
Exchequer Bills, I%d. 114 d.
LOON. .....«.«.»....»..... ..».«..... 75 73 pm.
Ditto ..... '73 pm.
Ditto Advertised
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Belgian Bonds 5 per Cent 103%
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Mexican Bonds, P 837,5 per Cent. ..... ..... 95%%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Converted •••
Ditto for the Account. 43%
Spanish. Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 223
Ditto Passiveßonds.
Ditto Deferred. 12%
Ditto Three per Cent. ...... ....... 33%
Ditto for the Account ........
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 42
Ditto for the Account
Dutch 234 per Cents ...... ..........
Ditto for the Account %!4
Dutch 5 per Cents ••••••• 1 001F4 100%
New Loan. 5 per Cents. (1837)
PRICES OF SHARESeTHIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SRAM
Birmingham and Gloucester lOO .........113% 14 to IN%
Ditto New
Brighton, Lewes, and Hasting5... 5
Chichester and Brighton 5
Dublin and .......... 234 6 to
Eastern Counties
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O . to
Ditto % Stares
Great North of England
Great Western

Ditto 34 Shares ............ ......... 50 ....... 81%
London and Birmingham. lOO .222%
London and Blackwall 16% 7%%% to
Landon and Brighton 5B ... .....
Ditto Loan Notes
London and Greenwich
London and South Western ...... 41%
London and Croydon
Lynn and E1y.... DA .„.:1 %% ... to
Manchester and Leeds 7O .........120 ..... to
_ Midland Counties _

Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 21.. 44 to

North British - 234
Northern and Eastern 45 SS% to
Trent Valley
York and North Midland ..... .... 50 ....JOS to
Ditto 34 Shares
Ditto Scarboro' Branch

Orleans. Tours, and Bourdeaux 1.; .... ..... to

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 15.—There
has been an extensive business done to-day, owing to a
better supply of Stock, at rather lower prices :—Black-
burn and Preston, 7i ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Ac-
crington, li; Bristol and Gloucester, 55 to 54k; Churnet
Valley, * prem. ; Dublin and Cashel, 61 and 64 Bs. 9d. ;
Huddersfield and Manchester, 48s. 9d. ; Lynn and Ely,
3,k to 4 ; Manchester and Leeds, Half Shares, 50; Man-
chester and Birmingham, 541; Ditto, Quarters, 5i 5-16;
Manchester and Buxton, 375.; North British, 24 ; Shef-
field and Manchester, 841 to 84 ; Paris and Lyons, 495.
and 2-f ; Lancaster Canal, 394.

THE NATIONAL SWIMMING SOCIETY.--This morn-
ing the swimming matches for prizes given by the Society
were brought to a conclusion. The matches commenced
on Monday morning, in the Serpentine, Hyde Park, and
the arrangements made were, that the list of contending
parties should be divided into four classes, and that one
class should contend each successive day previous to this
morning, and three of the winners from each proceeding
should be selected, when the grand heat for the cham-
pionship should take place, and the medals awarded, and
accordingly all parties were on the spot by six o'clock,
the spectators amounting to between two and three
thousand. Flags were staked on either side of the water
for the direction of the swimmers, and other preliminaries
having been admirably arranged (by the founder of the
Society, Mr. Strachan), the competitors, eleven in num-
ber, all of whom were winners on the preceding morn-
ings, were placed in equal positions for the start, and the
signal being given, they simultaneously plunged into the
water, each making strenuous efforts for the lead. The
distance to be contested is once across and back, which
is about 400 yards. The motion of each competiter ap-
peared to be different, one swimming with his head high
out of the water, while another was scarcely perceptible;
some making short and rapid strokes, and others took a
long and easy one. They made great exertion for the
winning goal, and came in as follws:—Antonia, first;
Turner, second; and Nicholson, third. The time oc-
cupied in swimming the distance was five minutes and
twenty-eight seconds. During the race, Townshend,
one of the competitors, when within 100 yards of home,
was seen to go under water, from exhaustion, when
Pewtress, another competitor, swam to hii assistance,
and a boat being at hand he was safely rescued.

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FLANDERS and HAMBURGH MAIL

(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
FROM THE RHINE, AUG. 6.—We have received 3
confirmation of the very welcome news that the
German Diet at Frankfort, conformably to the reso-
lution of November, 1837, is now engaged in
tending the law concerning the rights of authors and
publishers, and will endeavour to bring about a con-
vention on literary property between different nations,
for which purpose negotiations are opened with Eng'
land, France, and Belgium.
BERLIN, AUG. B.—The notion that Tschech is out
of his mind seems to gain ground, and in fact many
circumstances of his previous conduct cannot be
otherwise accounted for.

ST. PETERSBURGII, AUG. 3.—An Imperial Ukase
of the 27th of last month to the Directing Senate,
orders a general levy of recruits in the western pro-
vinces of the empire of five men from every thousand-
it begins on the Ist of November next, and must be
completed by the Ist of January, 1845.
The commercial treaty between England and
China see,:ns likely to have a considerable effect on
the course of the inland trade of Russia. The orders
for the next fair at Nischerie-Nowgorod are much
less considerable tion in preceding years. Many Of
our manufacturers find it necessary at present to act
according to the decreased demand.
Rain, violent south-west winds, and storms of hail,
continue with scarcely any interruptions, and greatly
impede the harvest, which is already begun. A few
days ago the environs of our city were visited by s
most furious hailstorm, so that all the splendid fur-
niture of the steamer which plies daily between St.
Petersburgh and Peterhoff was dashed to pieces, the
steamer compelled to stop, and the passengers with
difficulty found refuge in the cabin. The hailstones
were of the size of pigeon's eggs, and some even of
hen's eggs.
SCHWERIN, AUG. 7.—lt is said that our Govern'
ment has entirely given up the idea of joining- the
Customs Union ; hut that it will make proposals to
the State for a change in the system of taxati en.
The inland tolls which impede the communication,
and the collection of which is very expensive, will
probably be abolished, and the import duties ow .
foreign articles be considerably modified, in particular'
the exemption of the nobles from the payment of.
customs, be much restricted.
BRUSSELS, AUG. 14.—The measure by which a•
higher charge is made for the license to travellers, to
German merchants and Belgium, has been partly
caused by the Prussian Government itself. Before
the Ist of January, 1844, Belgian commercial travel-
lers in the States of the Customs Union, paid only
13 dollars (about 60 francs) for their licenses. Sin
that time they have taken a license at 60 dollars"
which is about 250 francs. In order to make'
the Prussian Government return to a system recipro—
cally favourable to the commercial intercourse of the
two States, it has been necessary to raise, in propor-
tion, the license to German commercial travellers-
It is to be observed that the licenses previou ly give°
them in Belgium, cost in general only 60 fr ncs, ancf
that no measure of this kind afforded a reason for the•
charge made by Prussia on Belgian travellers.
The King, who left his seat at Ardenne yesterday
morning, arrived at Brussels at half-past five in tho
afternoon.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS-
The Moniteur of Thursday contains the follewiug
TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH.

" PERPIGNAN, AUG. 13, FIVE O'CLOCK, P.
" The Prince de Joinville to the Minister of
Marine.

" Before Tangiers the 7th.
" On the 4th instant, a reply to the ultimatum of
M. DE NYON was received, but was not of a nature tc''
be accepted.
" On the sth, I was informed that M. Hay was is
a place of safety.
" On the morning of the 6th, I attacked the for,.
tifications of Tangiers. Eighty pieces of artillery
returned the fire. In about an hour their fire was
silenced, and their batt erica dismantled. Our loss is
men is trifling, and the injury sustained of little
consequence.
" The quarter inhabited by the European Con
has been respected.
" A true copy.
(Signed) "Baron De MACKAIL"
Our accounts from Madrid of the 9th instant are
unimportant, and we hear from Barcelona, under the
same date, that the Ministry was again menaced io its

existence by a court camarilla.
From Constantinople they write, on the 27th
ult., that the cordiality which had hitherto pre-
vailed between the English and French Ambas-
sadors at the Ottoman Court had been of late some-
what impaired, and that they now opposed each
other in almost every question under negotiation.
Our Alexandria letter of the 27th ult. confirm;
the account of the resignation of the Pasha " without
naming his successor, or giving any other reasons
than that there must be a traitor in his family, and
that ho will discover him and take his head, or retire
to Mecca."

Early in the morning the Pasha started for Cairo
alone. Ibrahim had decided that the Government
should be carried on, as usual, in the name of I,le-
hemet Ali, until further intelligence could be ob'
tained from his Highness.
Our Malta letter, of the sth instant, state that the
Pacha had adopted that resolution in consequence °r
the discovery of some treasonable intrigues of Abbo
and Sheriff Pachas.—Times.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM ODR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
COWES, AUGUST
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENLiv

ARRIVALS.
AUG. 9. Psyche cutter, B. H. Jones, Esq., soutile
ampton, and Railed the 10th for Plymouth.
10th. Charm, ditto Sir Wm. Gallaway, Ireland. ,
11th. Kestrel ketch. Commodore Lord Yarborough;
Dartmouth ; Syren cutter. Sir T. Wilson, London
Charlotte, ditto, Hon. W. H. White Hedges, Ireland.

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