The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-26 00:00:00

COLONIAL

SUCIA.R.—The market for British Plantation is heavy
and very little business has been done, only about 350
hhds having found buyers, inclusive of those sold by
auction, and previous prices were barely supported. The
public sales have consisted chiefly of 320 casks, 125
barrels; St. Lucia ; 5,817 bags, 232 casks, Mauritius
(chiefly of the new crop); 2,810 bags Bengal ; and
697 baskets Java. The St. Lucia, Mauritius, and
Bengal, went off without spirit, and only part of
the former sold at 536 6d to 61s for good brown
to good bright yellow, being for the inferior sorts
fully 6d cheaper. Nearly all the Mauritius and
Bengal found buyers, the former at 55s to 67s 6d for low
to very fine strong yellow, and low to fine brown 45s to
54s 6d, which are comparatively good prices, more par-
ticularly for the better descriptions ; the latter partly
sold at 533 to 55s 6d for low to good mid yellow, but
soft being at fully previous rates ; the remainder was
taken in above the value. The Java sold briskly at 19s
to 22s 6d for good brown to fine strong grey, which are
extreme prices. The quantity of British Plantation
landed last week at the East and West India Docks was
1,136 hhds, 25 trcs, 117 brls, and there were taken for
home consumption 1,107 hhds, 177 trcs, 431 brls. The
stock in the same place is 12,166 hhds, 1,609 trcs,
2,439 brls.

COPFEE.-92 casks 84 bags B. Plantation, 964 bags
Ceylon (about two-thirds B. P. kind), and 3,089 bags
East India, were offered by auction. The B. Plantation
was chiefly taken in, about two-thirds of the CAsylon
fnnnii buy, at, 6.3. E. 67, otl, for fine to finotineorcillP.
kind good ord was taken in at 555, the remainder was
mostly taken in at 30s to 36s for ord to good ord. Singa-
pore, Java, and very ord Sumatra, and ord Padang,
partly sold at 19s 6d to 225, being for this latter descrip-
tion fully is to 2s below the previous value.
MlN.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 199 puns 103 hhds'; there were
taken for home consumption, 265 puns 40 hhds, and ex-
ported 79 puns 18 hhds. The stock in the same places is
12,194 puns 1,439 hhds. A contract for 100,000 gallons
is advertised.
RICE.-1,698 bags Java at auction was bought in at
10s to 103 6d for mid white, which is the former value,
but at which there were no purchasers.
SPICES.—Of 3,274 bags Pepper, at auction, only a
small portion found buyers, at 2ed to 2-id for ord to good
earthy ; Sumatra, and a few lots Malabar kind, at 2id,
being for the inferior sorts rather cheaper ; good ord
Batavia was taken in at 2/d.
TA.L.Low.—P.Y.C. is 40s 6d to 40s 9d per cwt on the
spot, and Town 43s 6d per cwt.
TEA.—The market is steady.

ANOTHER FIRE AT SAXHAM.—On Tuesday night
between nine and ten o'clock, a barn, full of barley, be-
longing to Mr. Cockerill, of Sexharn, was discovered to be
on fire. The barn and its contents were destroyed, together
with a cottage which stood within a few yards of it. A
row of cottages (the residences of ten families) was con-
sidered to be so much in danger as to cause the inmates
to quit them and remove their furniture, &c., which, in
the hurry and confusion caused by the alarm, became
so much broken, that the strewed about fragments, and
trampled down gardens, rendered the scene truly dis-
tressing.—lpswich Eapress.
HARROW ScHoor..—The election for the Head
Mastership of Harrow School, which will be vacant at
Christmas, takes place early in December, and the testi-
monials of the candidates are to be sent in on the 7th of
the month. The choice rests with the six governors of
the school, but, in the event of the numbers being even,
the Archbishop of Canterbury has the casting vote. A
subscription has been set on foot among the old Harrow
men for the purpose of rebuilding the Head Master's
boarding-house, which was destroyed by fire a few years I
back. It is proposed that the architecture of the new '
boarding-house should correspond with that of the I
school, chapel, and private house of the Head Master ,
but that " The :Hall' should be rebuilt precisely 45 lc
stood iu. L9rd ,ByrCirei ticUe. I ,