The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-21 00:00:00

COLOWIAIL.

SUGAR.—There has been only a limited business done
in British Plantation, about 400 hhds, having been sold
at previous prices. The public sales have consisted princi-
pally of 1,264 bags Bengal, and 2,102 bags Madras, which
chiefly found buyers at previous prices, viz. good mid to good
white Bengal, at 54s 6d to 57s 6d, low soft to (rood brown Khaur
at 36s to 4 is 6d ; low to good brown Madras74os to 45s 6d ; low
soft to fineyellow ditto, 46s 6d to 54s 6d. The only transactions
which have transpired privately, worth reporting, consist of
sonic large parcels of crushed (amouning to about 200 tons),
which have been sold at 35s to 35s 6d, being a further reduc-
tion of is to 2s. The quantity 6f British Plantation !anded
last week at the East and West India Docks was
229 hhds 90 tierces 339 barrels, and there were taken for
home consumption 1,807 hhds 195 tierces 323 barrels. The
stock in the same places is 16,800 hhds 2,170 tierces
3,165 barrels.
COFFEE.-4,190 bags 30 casks Ceylon (about one-half
British Plantation kinds), and 250 bales Mocha, offered
by auction. The better sorts of the British Plan-
tation kind of Ceylon sold r( adily at 54s to 70s for
tine ord to mid colory quality, being fully lormer rates; the
remainder was chiefly taken in at 45s to 50s. for 'Common
mixed good ord to tine ord, which are about previous pi ices..
Nearly all the Mocha was likewise taken in chiefly at 56s to
58s for mid clean garbled,
RUM.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 1,279 puns 44 h'ds, and there were
taken for home consumption 282 puns 28 hhds, and exported
55 puns. The stock in the same places is 4,308 puns 1,146 Mids.
TALLow.—P.Y.C, is 41s Oa per cwt on the spot, and Town

44s per ewt.
TEA. —The marbet is quirt, but tie deliver:es have been
good.

BANKRUPTCY--(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner EVANS.)

IN RE PAPPS.

This insolvent, who had carried on business as a coal-
incrchaut in Kennington-oval, came up for an interim order,
and was opposed oa behalf of Mr. Langley, a surgeon, fur a
debt of 25/. •

The ground of opposition was, that the iniolvint's debts
only' amounted to 1791., to rneet,whieh he had al income of.
14u!. a -.ear, arising-out of funds in the FcAr per Cents. The
creditors soheitor said it was quite absurd to argue that a
perffm situated like the inFilvent was entitled to relief under
the Act;

The insolvent said he had been driven to the present
course through the proceedings of Mr. Langley, whose
debt 'amounted only to a little mare than 10/. lfe
vent). had accepted au accommodation bill for -101., which
Langley was to have taken up,- but bad not done so. Mr.
Langley then pressed him to become security for a loan
society, which he declined. A breach of friendship had re-
sulted,and Mr. angley bad brought an action.
The Learned COMMISSIONER asked the insolvent whether
he was disposed to make any proposition for the payment of
his debts? The insolvent said he really could not, for, in the
first instance he had not received Any money under the trust,
and the trustees anticipated great difficulty in obtaining it,
and that even when obtained, it would belong to his wife.
- The Learned COMMISSIONER said, as there was no disposi-
tion to meet the case fairly, he should dismiss the petition.

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THE POTATO DISEASE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sias farmer in this neighbourhood who had a bury of
about.fifty sacks of potatoes, discovered that they had been
attacked with the prevailing epidemic. To such an extent
had the ravages of the disease prevailed, that only s:x bags
out r.f the lot were thought worth saving, and these (being
more or less affected), he sold :o a tradesman of this City for
pigs. This latter gentleman bad them emptied into an out-
house, which was dry, and to which there was a free access
of air, and i❑ a very short time he found that the diseased
parts were completely dried up, and the remainder fit for
culinary purposes.
This suggests the propriety of keeping the potato out of
the damp, and in places where there is free ventilation ; and
I trust this communication will be attended to by potato
growers, who have the accommodation of barns, out-houses,
&c., to enable them to try the experiment.—Tours, &c.,
Worcester, Oct. 20, 1845. P.

To-day is the fortieth anniversary of the last of
Nelson's great battles—the battle of Trafalgar. It says little
for the gratitude of the inhabitants of Lomb,n that, while in
so many provincial towns monuments have been for twenty
or thirty years erected, forty years after his death the monu-
ment in Trafalgar-square is still untiniAted.
A woodcock was shot in the parish of Halwell,
near Totness, on Tuesday, the 7th inst.—Western Times.

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DRINKING roR A WAGER.—On Tuesday a per-
son called Thomas Lister, a shoemaker, living at Barnesley, un-
dertook, for a trifling wager, to drink two quarts of ale and a pint
of rum in ten minutes, which he accomplished, but was so ill atter,
that a surgeon was obliged to be sent for, and narrowly saved his
life by the application et the stomach-pump. —Leeds Intelligencer.

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I'S'i 3

SHARING A WOMAN IN A SACK.— At. 11. e Black-
burn Petty Sessions on Wednesday, Sylvester Whalley, Thomas
Taylor, William Whitehead, and George Heap were charged by
Mary Pollard with having shaken her in a sack. All the parties
were employed at the print.works of Mr. Hargreaves, at Broad
Oak, Accrington. The complainant stated that on Mo,,day week
a person who had previously courted her had got married, when
the defendants, who worked in the same room in the mill as her-
self, came up to her, and said, as she had " lost her chap," they
woult: shake her in a bag if she woual not pay them some money
for drink She refused to comply with their request, when Ileap
got hold of her, and Taylor found a sack, and they all forced her
into it, and shook her. Her person was very indeccatly exposed
while she was being forced into the sack. The defendants ad-
mitted having committed the offence, and said in extenuation, that
the complainant had laid bold of one of them by the neck and
tried to kick him. The magistrates expressed their surprise at
the cowardly nature of the assault, arna the pitiful excuse offered,
and fined each of the defendants in the penalty of 20s. and costs.
The defendants expressed themselves eery dissatisfied at this de..
cision, as "shaking in the bag" was a custom on such occasions as
that referred to by the complainant, whereupon the magistrates re-
called them, and incteased the fine to 50s. and costs, and ordered
them to find two sureties to keep the peace fur twelve months.
Subsequently, however, at the intercession of Mr. Hargreaves, who
pleaded the ignarance of the defendants and the custom Spoken of,
and on the defendants dcclarirg their contrition for the offence
they had committed, the penalty was mitigated to 20s.' tacit and
costs.—Halifax Guardian.
A RAILWAY CASE DECIDED WITH RAILWAY SPEED:
—Yesterday morning a youth, named John Silvester, was charged
before the mayor with having stolen a carpet hag, containing a
variety of articles of wearing apparel, the property of the Rev.
Matthew' Henry Farrer, of Shirley, Croydon, Surrey. The
rev. complainant said that, upon the evening of the 7th inst., he
arrived by a train at the London railway station in this town, on
his way to Lancaster. On alighting from the carriage he placed
his carpet bag upon the platform while he went to look for his
portmanteau, and en his return ho found it was gone, and had seen
nothing of it till that morning, when it was pointed out to him in
the possession of Mr. Inspector Edmonds. Inspector Edmonds
stated that on the evening of the Bth inst., from information lie
had received, he apprehended the prisoner in New Summer-street,
and found upon him part of the property that Lad been stolen.
The carpet bog and the remainder of the articles claimed by Mr.
Fearer were found at the prisoner's lodgings. After hearing the
above evidence, and the property having been identified, the pri-
soner was committed to the sessions, then being held, and In less
than two hours he was brought before the Learned Recorder, and
having pleaded guilty to the charge, was sentenced to twelve
months' imprisonment with bard labour.—Birmingham Journal,
Oct. It.
THE RECENT SECESSIONS FROM THE CHURCH.--
we are enabled to correct one or two misstatements which have
appeared in several of our contemporaries respecting the recent
secessions to Rome. It is not, as has been reported, Mr. and Mrs.
Crawley, of Littlemore, who have gone over to the Roman Catholic
Church with Mr. Newman, but Mr. and Mrs. Woodmason, also
residents of place, who, with some of the members of their
family, have taken that step. Again, the resignation of Mr.
Boger., Fellow of Oriel, has, we believe, been erroneously connected
wish ecclesiastical circumstanc:s. On the other hand, we under.
stand that the Rev. E.tgar Esteourt, M. A., of Exeter College (a
nephew of the Hon. Member for the University), has withdrawn
from his college, with a view to enter the Roman Catholic Church.
We understand also, that a clergyman and member of Oriel Col.
lege has resigned his living with a similar intention. The Oxford
Herald, of Saturday, corrects a statement which has appeared in
the English Churclanan and ether papers, to the effect that Mr.
Newnan was received by Dr. Gentili, of Loughborough; whereas
it was Dr. Dominick, Supetior of the Passionist Monastery, at
Aston.hall, it, Staffordshire, under whom Mr. Newman made his
profession ; and the admission took place, not at Oscott, but, as we
originally stated, at Littlernore, where Mr. Newman has long re-
sidqd in strict retirement.—Post.
Mons. Tillers returned to Mivart's Hotel yesterlay
from visiting Lord Ashburton at his seat, the Grange, mar Hasing7
stoke, and, accompanied by Mr. Greville, subsequently proceeded
to the Foreign-office.
*memObnersSoafttUhle.daito' ItohgiecaGaarrdl enosf, I nptebrebyß egPernet"se: at TIC! thlwill:e
two
measuring
OF A SnAng.—On Mornlay, a. shark,
large alligators.
Arii,,,
seven feet eight inches in length, and four feet one
inch in girth, was caught by John Robertson, and three othca
fishermen on the shore at the Magdalene Fields. This is the fifth
of these voracious fish which has been caught here within the
last twelve months, and tne fishermen say that they have even
several others in the bay.—Berteick Warder.
THE CIRCUIT OF THE TUSaF.S.—The City onmi •
buses are still going the circuit. Business with them has 'been
very dull, !or persons who are in a hurry to get from Piccadilly
to the Haymarket do not like being 'carried round the Regent's
park, whilst an excursion into Holborn and Covent-garden is Hot
found, upon trial, to he the shortest cut from 'Temple-bar to the
Bank. Scvezal old gentlenmein who are it. the habit of ridiate to
the City every moritiag, have adopted lb plan of getting out OLti.e
omnibus at Fetter-lane, and waiting- for it as it comes Into its
mital track again at Fatriagdon strata. During this ton g intearsia•
of time they quietly take their breakfasts; and on heir rattut.
home they dine. This arrangement-of tiding up a tedious lout
Ines become so popular that most of the amaibusea hate ice.
obliged to adopt the theattieai system of g'tving checks to person.'
who go out and intend to come in again; and it is now mtta'
for a cad to ask of every passenger whir ttepi car, " Do you rettitn.
Sir ?" This plan will ti. kept tip as long as the ea hibitiar the
sewers cantinues open in Fleet street font iaintsins to ;lack.—

ea UTItiN. 1 )11T :--,1::1) PoTA 0,1.,. , • '..2:, 1.:,)1.-i.rday
last the police-olilo-Js of this City s-ized ..two cart loads. of
potatoes which were exposed for sale in (~ur btarket, as
"-unfit for human food." Ihe OWiIeTH Were -brought before
the mayor and other magistrates at the To:vn-hall, by
whc.m the potatoes were ordered to Le forfeited, and the first
offender fined 20s. In both oases the owners TiCI3 severely
reprimanded, and cautioned that they would-be still more
severely dealt with if they repeated,the offrnee. By .inaking
a slight reduction in the price, the. poor were tempted to par-
ade, and bad thus imposed' upon them food of the most
unwhelcsome kind. . :WO understand the pol;co have Lad
strict orders to prevent, as fer-,as passible, the .exposhreof
• diseased potatoes for Fa' e,--Carlide 7e it =.