The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-15 00:00:00

PROMISSORY NOTES.

(From last Night's Gazette.)
An account of the Average A,ggregate Amount of Promis-
sory Notes payable to bearer on demand, which have been
in circulation by the Banks in Scotland, by the Bank of Ire-
land, and by all other Banks in Ireland, during the four
weeks ending the Ist day of March, 1845, pursuant to
the Act of 4th and sth Victoria, cap. 50 :

SCOTLAND.
Chartered, Private, and Joint-Stock Banks £2,986,708
IRELAND.

Bank of Ireland 3,991,050
Private and Joint-stock Banks

Total
11. L. WICKHAM.
Stamps and Taxes, March 14, 1845.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London New Price Current of March 14.)

SUG A It-The market has an improving appearanee for all
descriptions of Colonial Sugar. To-day there was a good de-
mand for bright yellow descriptions which fetched fully former
rates, and of brown and gray qualities buyers were induced to
purchase on a more extended scale in consequence of rather
lower rates having been submitted to. At public sale 469
Wit's, I 1 tierces, and 137 boxes of St. Lucia, subject to the
new duty of 14s per cwt, were nearly all disposed of
at and after the public sale at a decline on former
rates of is per owl, fine yellow however brought the full worth,
very low heavy brown went at 35s to 365. low 38s. 38s Gd, mid
40s to 40s 6d, good to fine 41s titl to 42s Gd, low yellow 42s to
43s 6d, mid 44s to 45s Gd, good 495, fine 535 6d to 565, low gray
38s 6(1 to 40s, mid 41s to 425, and good 43s to 41s per cwt. The
total quantity of Sugar disposed of to-day amounted to the large
7nantity of 550, making the sales for the week 1290 hhds and trs.
REFINFI).-To-day there was a better demand for home
trade goods in consequence of a further decline in prices having
been accepted : brown lumps were sold at 66s to 67s and
standard lumps at 68s per cwt. For bonded crushed the de-
mand is on the increase at 315 per cwt.
Mauairtus.-This afternoon 242 bags of Mauritius Sugar,
subject to the new duty of 14s per cwt, were submitted to public
competition, and went at about the former value, via., good
middling yellow at 465, middling 42s 6d to 455, good brown 39s
to 39s 6d, middling 36s 6d, and low 33s 6d per cwt.
EAST INDIA.-This afternoon at public sale 59 hhds 417
cases Manilla were offered, admissable for home consumption at
the 231 4d duty, and taken in above the value, that is-mid
yellow good strong grain bond at 225, low 20s Gd to 21s,
fine brown 20s to 21s, mid 18s to 19s, low rather soft 171 to
17s 6d, dabs 15s to 16s, and sound grey 19s to 20s. ; there
were buyers of the best lots at 20s per cwt. 1,097 bags of
Madras, and 518 bags of Bengal, subject to the 14s per cwt
duty, were brought forward at public sale ; the former sold at
the full value, viz., good mid bright yellow at 445, mid 52s to
52s 6d, low 36s to 37a Gd, damp and washed 36s to 445 ; the
Bengal was damaged, and formed no criterion of the market-
low damp white went at 45s to 465, and washed 41s ted to 44s
Gd per cwt.
FOREIGN.-This afternoon there was a better demand for
most sorts of Foreign Sugar : '2OO chests of white Bahia were
sold privately at 22s 3d, and 300 chests of' fine white Havannalt
at the high rates of 34s 6d per cwt.
Alor,AssEs.-The transactions in all descriptions of West
India have b"en extremely limited ; but holders refrain from
pressing sales, and in the value no variation has taken place.
The stock is a large one, and is nearly three times of what it
was last season,
COFFEE.-To-day there was no public sale of any kind of
Coffee. For good ordinary Ceylon 46s 6d to 47s were insisted
upon, by private treaty there was little business done. Of_ Costa
Rica 1,200 bags were sold at 43s to 445, 400 bags good Singa-
pore Java at 395, and 1,100 bags of Manilla at 41s lid per cwt.
COCOA.-West India purchased with caution and prices are
ring down ; at auction 394 bags of Trinidad went 47s to
47s 6d for good dark red, 40s 6d to 41s for good fair grey,
and 39s to 39s 6d for fair, being Is to 2s per cwt under former
rates, Foreign little inquired for, but in value no variation
has occurred.
hases to a fair extent have been made in
FaUIT.-Pure 7. t
Currants, at firm rates ; that is, Patras at 50s to 525, e
and Cephalonia 49s to 50s per cwt. Valentia Raisins 47s to
48s, Denia 345, Lexie 365, black Symrna 325, and red 40s to
465. Figs 42s to 500 fur Turkey pulled, and 31s to 33s for
Greek.
SPICE.C.-This afternoon 20 boxes of Nutmegs at auction
were all sold, but at a decline of 2d per lb-Penang fine old
brown went at 3s 10,1 to 4s, good 3s 6d to 3s 7d, good mid-
dling 31 2d to 3s 4d, middling 3s to 3s ld, rather small 2s 9d,
sea damaged is 6d to 3s 2d, wormy 6d to 2s 9,1 ; 13 cases of
Mace went rather cheaper, and sold as follows-Penang, good
at 2s Pd, good middling 2s 6d to 2s 8d ; Singapore, sea da-
maged Is lld to 2s 4d, very badly 6d, slightly wormy 2s lid
per lb.
TEA.-The market firm for black and green Tea. An in-
creased demand for lower kinds of Congou, and the rates are
rather higher, com fetching 10d to 10W, and good corn lojd
to lid ; for fins Congou the demand has been extensive, and
better prices are paid, large parcels have been sold at 2s 4d to
2s 7d. In Twankay a good deal doing upon former terms,
common realising Is 20 to Is 3d. Importers of
Hyson show firmness, and many parcels have found
purchasers at stiff rates, that is to say, common at
12s 6d to 2s 7d, and fair to good 2s 8d to 3s per lb. In Young
Hyson a good deal doing, rather lower rates having been taken

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for New descriptions : fair quality at is Sd to 2s, and JaeigtgaV.-11
leaf 2s 3d to 35. Pouchong unaltered, but at 5d to )11411lella
several parcels sold. For scented Orange Pekoe a rootion
of Id to 2d per lb has been taken : many parcels halre-Ebeen
sold at 3s 2d to 3s 4d for fine. For Imperial and Gllowder
prices are fully as high.
Rum, BRANDY', AND HoLLANns.—Free sellers 4 ifrandy,
and a further decline has taken place. Cognac best brands, of
the vintage of 1838, hhds 4s 10d, puns 4s &1 ; ditto 1839, 13144,-,
4s 7d, puns 4s sd; ditto 1840, hhds4s id, puns 4s isd ; dittosit:l4.lc;' v
hhds 4s Gd, puns 4s 4d ; ditto 1842, hhds 4s 3d, puns 4s 1 d ; ditto
1843, hhds 4s Id, puns 3s lid : ditto 1844, hhds 3s 104, puns
3s Bd, middling and good middling of the various vintages 2s 6d
to 3s Bd, low 2s 7d to 2s Bd, and Bordeaux 2s Gd to 2s 7d per
gallon. Geneva Is 9d to is 10d for common export sort,
and fine fit for duty 2s 4d to 3s per gallon, but little busi-
ness done. English Corn Spirits command 105 2d per gallon cash.
Holders of Leeward Island Rum are not disposed to submit to
any further decline in prices; is 10d te Is lld is the value of
Proof. Demerara purchased with caution ; 2s 10d to 3s 2d is
the value of strong. Calcutta may be purchased at is 9d te
Is 9id with, and at Is 8d for proof, without certificate. The
demand for Jamaica has been limited, and holders experience
difficulty in keeping up prices ; 3s 4d to 4s is the value, 4s 2d
to 5s for fine, and 5s 4,1 to is per gallon for high flavour.
RlCE.—Bengal has met with eager porehasers since this
day week, and the advanced rates previously established have
been fully supported ; the parcels offered at public sale,
amounting to 3,000 bags, were all disposed of ; good middling-
white bold but rather old fetched lls Gd to 12s, middling II
to Its Gd, broken I Os, and sea-damaged 95 to Its per cwt.
Madras much wanted, and the parcel= disposed of were at stif-
:',.r rates, yellow fetching Os 3d to Os Gd per cwt ; none has
been altered at auction. There are buyers of Java at- firm
rates, while is worth 108 6d to 12s Gd, and yellow 9{ 6d to 101
per cwt. In cleaned Rice a good deal doing, but prices cannot
be quoted higher : Pena 13s 6,1 to 181, Carolina 23s to 28s
per cwt.
TA I.Low.—This afternoon at public sale 373 casks of Aus-
tralian Tallow were partly sold at 37s 3d to 89s: 7 casks of
Gibraltar 41s to 41s 3d, 10 cases of Fart India 40s Gd, 300
casks 202 bxs South American at 36s to 3•Fs, and inferior 30s
te 335.

O 1 LS—There has been a limited business transacted in Fish
Oils. Cod Oil 29/ lOs to 30/, pale Seal 31/ to 31l 10s, yellow
and Straw 271 lOs to 30/, brosn 251 lOs to 27/, Southern com-
mon to good 29/ to 28/, and tine 28/ 105 to 29l 10s per tun.
l'ormer rates are fullysustainedf:w Sperm. British 83/ to 851
and American SO/ to 82/. per ton. Linseed 0.1 has met a de-
cline in value, 24s 3d to 2-1 s tied having been accepted on tho
spot, 24s 9d to 25s for delivery, and 25s 3d to 25s Gd. per'ewt
for delivery in the last six months of the year. Rape Oil ars
rot so firm, pale selling at 36s Gd to 37e, and brown 35s 6d to
86s per cat. Olive in excellent, demand, quote Gallipoli
in bond 41/10s to 421, Spanish 40/ lOs to 411, Sicily 40/, Bar-
bary 391 per tun. Lucca in jars 5/ lOs to Cl, and Florence in
half-chest 18s to 2-4 s. Palm, fine at 26s 6d to 26s 9d, good 2.5 s
6d to 265, and inferior 23s to 25s per cwt. Cocoa Nut little
wanted, and prices drooping.

COAL MARKET.
Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Adair's Main,
15s 6d; Buddle's West Hartley, IGs •
' Carr's Hartley, 16s 6d;
Chester Main, 16s; Davison's West Hartley, 16s 9d ; Hest-
ing's West Hartley, 16s; Holywell Main, 17s; Morrisols's
Hartley, 15s ; Medomsley, 15s 6d ; New Tantield, 15s ; Old
Pontop, 14s 6d ; Ord's Redheugh, 15s ; Oakwellgate Main,
14s 6d ; Pontop Windsor, lis6d ; Pott's Primrose, 14s 6d;
West Hartley' 16s 6d ; West Wylam, 16s ; W.E., Bewicke
and Co., 18s 6d ; W. E., Gosforth, 18s 6d ; W. E., lleaton,
19s ; W. E., Hotspur, 17s 6d ; W. E., Killingwortb, lis ;
W.E., Newmarch, 16s Gd ; W. E., North Durham, 16s 6d ;
W. E., Wharnclifl'e, 18s; W. E., Walker, 17s Gd ; Braddylr ;
Hetton, 203 9d; W. E„ Charterhaughpeareth, ISs ; East
Hetton, 172 6d •, Hetton, 20s 9d ; Lambton, 20s 6d ; North
Hetton Lyons, 18s; Pemberton, 18s; Russell's lletton, 20s;
Shotton, 20s ; Stewart's, 20s 6d ; Heselden, 17s Gd ; Heugh
Hall, 18s ; Kelloe, 19a 3d ; Leasingthorne, 20s 6d ; South
Kelloe, 19s ; Adelaide, 19s 6d ; Brown's Deanery, 18s 6,1;
Cowndon Tees, IBs ; Gordon, 16s; Richardson's *Tees, 17a;
Seymour Tees, 18s 9d ; Tees, 18s 6d ' • Victoria Tees, lis ;
Derwentwater Hartley, 16s; Sidney's Hartley, IGs ; Snape-
thorpe, 17s 6d ; West Hartley Netherton, 16s C.—Ships
arrived, 104.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Worcester, March 14.
THE CROOAIE MURDER.

The LORD CHIEF BARON, after a most impressive address,
in which he pointed out the cruelty and aggravated nature
of their attack on the keepers, sentenced Dingley, Joseph
Turvey, Samuel Turvey, and Joseph Tandy to transportation
for life; Hooper, Collins, and Broomfield, for ten years;
George Brant, in consideration of his youth, to seven years'
transportation ; and Cosnett and Collins, on account of their
previous good character, to two years' hard labour in the
House of Correction.

---- This finished the business of the assize, and the Learned
Judges proceeded to Stafford, where the Commission will be
opened this afternoon.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
SENTENCES AND SESSIONAL RESULTS.

Subjoined are specified the principal sentences passed epos
the convicts at the late session :

Death.—Sentenced to die—James Tapping (for murder).
Transportation—The under-named convicts were ordered to
be banished beyond the sea for the periods set against their
respective names :
For Seven Years—C. Howard, G. Saville, W. Alexander,
Elizabeth Knowles, Mary L. Murphy, C. Browse, G. Whis-
ton, N. North, W. Smith, J. Case, F. World, 0. Ward, W.
Smith, W. Brightwell, J. Carpenter, J. Brewer, H. Martin,
R. Brewster, J. Stafford, P. Bowden, J. 3lurphy, J. Stenney,
W. Stewart.

Ten Years—H. Onley, Eliza Peach, alias Frazer, Elizabeth
Norman, T. Shew, alias Shay, T. Payne, J. Andrews, T.
Wright. E. Smith, M. Grimes, E. Rowland, T. Grant, W.
Webb, J. Howell, H. Smith, R. Franklin, J. Williams.
Fifteen Years—Ann Wilson, alias Pridon (for attempted
murder); D. H. Donney, 3. Nightingale, R. Elliot.
Life—W. Camplin (for rape)
Imprisonment, &c.—The under-named were sentenced to
hard labour in the House of Correction, for the counties,
wherein their offences were alleged to have been committed
One Year—G. Jennings, alias Cummins, otitis Davis, J.
King, alms C,lline, J. Cummins Clements, Susan Paulo, J.
James. W. Wallace, T. D. Nestor., W. Freeman, G. Hilary
P. Smith, T. Carter, W. Evans.
Nine Months—Captain R. H. Smith, S'elins. Edwaids, W.
Kelly, J. Connor.
Eight Months—J. Smith, .1. Brown, G. Newman, W.
Parrot t.

Six Months—Elizabeth Montgomery, Maria Hobbins, Ataria
Clark, Eliza Emery, J. Josephs, W. M`Donald, E. Bright, J.
Murray, E. nalker, J. Owen, W. Britton, H. Somers, G.
31‘Carty, G. Brown, J. Jones, J. Carroll, J. Ill(Gee. W.
Ward, G. Smith, B. Gray, John Smith, R. Wade.
Four Months—Mary Ann Smith, Louisa Wilkins, Maria
Pearce. J. Perfect, Margaret Sullivan, J. Brown, %V. Bow-
den, W. G. Butter, H. Dickenson, G. Ward, . Akers, .1.
Morgan, J. Nash.
Three Months—Amelia Mayden, Mary Davis, Ann Brown,
Sarah Slater,
__ Jane Carey, Eliza Bond, W. 0. Thomas, J. C.
Clarke, J. Dunn, J. Beale, J. Alk ars, J. Collins, M. Brown,
C. Phillips, J. James, R. Alwin, J. Bland, C. Cockbill, J.
Wootton, G. Norman.

MINOR. SENTENCES AND OTHER ADJUDICATIONS.
Acquitted, 38; ignored, 3; pleaded, 30; whipped, 3 ; bailed,
2 ; surrendered, 6 ; discharged, 3 ; two mouths, 8 ; six weeks,
1 ; one month', 2 ; three weeks, 2 ; fourteen days and under, 7 ;
judgments respite& 5; traversed, 3. Comparative ages of
prisoners:—Between 10 and 20, 60; 20 and 30, 70; 30 and
40, 27 ; 40 and 50, 9 ; 50 and 60, 5 ; 60 and 70, 2 ; 70 and
80, 4. London committals, 40 ; Middlesex, 92 ; Surrey, 3.2 ;
Kent, 7 • Essex, 5 : total, 176.
The dourt, at its rising, adjourned to Monday, the 7th of
April next.

MAIDS or HOICOIIII.—A new historical novel is
announced as immcdiately forthcoming, under the above
title, which will afford, we understand, a most extraor-
dinary picture of the Court of England in the last cen-
tury. The scenes of Court life introduced to the reader
are said to convey the most singular revelations respect-
ing the various royal and noble personages who form the
dramatis persona. Among them are th Court Beauties,
who give the title to the work, together with the Royal
Family, the Ministers, and the various great officers of
the Palace, and some of the leading characters, fashion-
able and literary, of the period, which is perhaps one of
the most striking in our social history. Much curiosity
has been excited respecting the authorship of the work,
which, f,)r obvious reasons, has been studiously con-
cea'ed.

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THE ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO SHOOT PRINCE AL.
BERT.—As many reports are at present afloat regarding this
alleged attempt to assassinate his Royal Highness Prince
Albert on Tuesday last, and these reports are all exaggera-
tions, it becomes necessary to disabuse the public mind, and
state the real facts of the case, which are these :—The Prince
left the Palace on horseback by the garden gate shortly after
12 o'clock on Tuesday noon, attended by Sir E. Bowater
(Equerry in Waiting) and a groom. The Prince had
proceeded about half way up Constitution-hill, when a
man, who was standing on the pathway, presented a pistol
(as it is alleged) at his Royal Highness. There appeared
to be no attempt made to discharge it, and the action was
unobserved both by the Prince and his Equerry, but Colonel
Knight, of 29, St. James's-place, and a Mr. Arnold were on
the spot at the time, and having observed what passed noti-
fied the same to Sir Edward Bowater. The man who had
the pistol walked on towards Buckingham Palace, as did a
man who was with him. Sir Edward Bowater dis-
patched the Prince's groom in search of a policeman, but
he failed to meet with one until he Ina reached Hyde park
corner, when he called police-constable Bolton, 57 B, to his
assistance and took that officer with him to the Prince's
Equerry. Sir Edward described the appearance of the man
to the policeman, as did Colonel Knight and Mr. Arnold.
These gentlemen also accompanied the constable in search of
the man. He was traced, through the information of one of
the park gardeners, to the little gate by the Duke of Suther-
land's mansion, but here all further trace was lost. The
man was described as being from eighteen to twenty years
of age, about five feet six inches high, of sallow complexion,
with brown hair; he was dressed as a decent mechanic. The
constable continued his search until he reached the Horse
Guards, where he apprehended a man somewhat an-
swering the description given him, and took him to
Sir Edward Bowater. That gentleman at once dis-
covered that he was not the individual who presented
the pistol, and he was immediately set at liberty. All
further inquiry has proved fruitless. A description was
dispatched by route to the different police-stations. The
opinion of those acquainted with the fact is, that even sup-
posing that a man did present a real pistol at the Prince, it
was done without any evil motive. The Police Commis-
sioners have, in consequence of this occurrence, placed an
extra constable on duty on Constitution-hill. It is a singular
coincidence that on Monday night, about a quarter to twelve
o'clock, as the Queen was returning from the French Plays,
lh e called
womana out,
and in the act of entering the Palace gates, a woman threw
herself on her knees before the carriage,
" Queen Victoria, save your country
re-
moved in custody immediately. It was a miracle that she
escaped with her life, as the hOrses were all but trampling on
her, when the coachman pulled up. It appears this woman,
who is about forty years of age, Irish by birth, and resides
in the low part of Westminster, is well known to the police
and soldiers on duty at the Palace, and has been many times
driven away from the Palace gates. She was taken to the
station-house in Gardiner's-lane, but after a short confine-
ment was set at liberty.
METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—The whole of the
old Fleet Ditch, so long allowed to remain open as a prolific
source of miasma and fever to the crowded districts in the
neighbourhood of Cow-cross, on the line of the new street
front Farringdon-street, has been covered over, so that not
a vestige of the old river now remains. Great activity pre-
vails in the formation of the new street from Spitalfields to
the London Docks, the whole of the houses in the line being
pulled down, and the ground made ready for the erection of
new buildings. The part between Whitechapel and Spital-
fields has been paved, the road is being made, and the gas
lamps have been erected. An appropriate site, near Went-
worth-street, adjoining the line, is spoken of for the erection
of a new district church. At the upper part of the line form-
ing Leman-street the road is traversed by the Blackwell
Railway, over an iron bridge. In Leicester-square, the last
house in the new street is levelled with the ground, and it
is expected the road will be opened for traffic in about another
month.

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TILE WEATHEIL.—SuN OFricE, MARCH 13.

TUERMOMETEP., Lowest, 12 ; Highest, 30 ; Noon, 28.
BAROMETER, 29.83.—W1ND, E.

OTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and
tlighet" denote the lowest and highest state of the
Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All
the other observations are made at nocn.