The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-08 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

MARSEILLES, DEC. 30.—WHEAT.-111 consequence of
the festivities of the season, the commercial week has
been of short duration. The orders from England, so
confidently looked for, have not yet arrived, and the im-
portations continue to be extensive, producing a certain
depreciation, which would have been more notable but
for the already extremely low price of wheat. Several
cargoes of Roumelia have been sold, and the good sorts
h aye obtained no more than 17f. to 17f. 25c. per charge.
Mention is made of sundry sales of Polish at 21f to 21f.
50e., and 22f. for a very superior parcel.
OLEAGINOUS SEED.—There has been some business
done in Sessame this week, without, however, producing
any real activity in the market ; 400 quintals, disponibles,
were sold at 45f., discount one per cent., and 2,000
quintals to arrive in January, at 44t. 25c. ; 600 quintals
Russian Linseed, disponibles, have been sold at 26f., dis-
count one-half per cent. ; while in other descriptions no-
thing whatever has been done. Our market for cotton
seed continues dull ; 500 quintals Rape have realised
18f., discount two per cent., which is reputed a high
price ; 2,000 quintals Poppy have been disposed of at
38f. ; but this seed has as yet no fixed position or rate
of value. _ _ . .

011.s.—Olive, notwithstanding the absence of arrivals,
has fallen in price this week, iu consequence of the in-
activity
of the soap-boilers, and the amount of business
douu has been very trilling. First quality, disponible,
remains offered at 1111. 70c. per hectolitre, but without
buyers. In cc livrer, what was in demand at 112 f. 50c.,
is now neglected at 1121. 10c. Malaga Oil, to ar-
rive between March and June, has been contracted
for at 1101. 93c. ; Tunis, between January and
March, at 1051. 46c. ; and Sicilian, between January
and February, at 1061. 25c. Sessame Oil occupies a
somewhat better position than it has done of late. Fifty-
' live thousand kilogrammes have been sold, deliverable
over the first nine months of 1844, at 89f. 45c. per 100
kilogrammes. The price now held for future delivery
is firm at 901. 70c. Linseed Oil has not yet recovered
from its degraded position, although the price of
disponible is maintained at 71f. 10c., and an
amelioration is expected to take place in the
early part of next month. The position of edible
Oil has mush improved, and during the week
some rather important transactions have been concluded
for re-exportation, principally in the products of the
kingdom of Naples. In Bouches du Rhone qualities
there has been less demand, and in the Department du
Var purchasers are few at 1231. to 1451. per hectolitre.
COAL.—There is no change to notice in this commodity.
The price continues high, and the arrivals not sufficiently
important to shake it. Freights remain low, and ship-
ping is abundant.

PELIGIOUS ENTHUSIASM.—During the whole of
last week, special services were appointed to be observed daily
at the Wesleyan chapel at Holmfirth ; and as early as six
o'clock in the morning numbers of devotees might be observed
wending their way towards the meeting-house. It was on one
of these occasions that a most melancholy incident occurred, by
which considerable alarm was communicated to the assembled
members. Amongst the congregation was the wife of a re-
spectable general shopkeeper in the neighbourhood, named
Joshua Moseley, a woman noted for her activity in the Me-
thodist cause, and for her regular attendance at chapel. On
this particular occasion, however, she prayed with more than
ordinary zeal, and ultimately worked herself up to such a pitch
of imaginary and extravagant inspiration or delirium, as to pro-
duce a decided state of insanity, in which state she still remains.
—Leeds Intelligencer.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE.—This new
Literary Association opens on the 15th, under the auspices of
his Royal Highness the Prince Albert, and the Presidency of
the Earl of Devon, with a thousand members on its registry,
and the probability of a large accession to its numbers as soon
as town begins to fill with the opening of the two Houses of
Parliament.
The League Fuud for Liverpool amounts to 6,0201.
The noble subscription of the Marquis of Westminster, alluded
to elsewhere, seems to have completely paralysed the monopo-
lists—more particularly the so-called friends of the landed in-
terest--in this neighbourhood.—Liverpool Journal.