The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-05 00:00:00

COLONZAZ.

SUGAR.—Very little- business is doing in British Planta-
tion, only about 150 hhds having been sold at previous prices,
but the market is firm. The public sales have contained
3,484 bags Bengal, 342 bags East India (imported from Sin-
gapore, subject to 32s per cwt duty and five per cent), 740
boxes white Havannah (chiefly damaged). All the Bengal
was sold, but went off heavily at 62s 6d to 70s for good yellow
and fine white Benares, and fine grainy yellow (Dobha kind)
at 68s 6d to 70s, being for the better sort of white, in some
instances, 6d to is cheaper. The Madras sold comparatively
at high prices, viz., at 54s to 61s 6d for strong low brown
to low greyish yellow. All the sound Havannah was taken
in at 24s 6d to 28s 6d for low to good white, being rather
o r t
firm,reporting;
and
above the value ; the damaged brought rather higher rates
than were previously obtainable, viz., 21s to 25s 6d. There
has been very little business doing privately, no transactions
ha holders generally, how-
ever, purchases of Foreign Su-
gar cannot be made at lower prices. A cargo of white Macao
has been disposed of afloat. The quantity of British Planta-
place
extremelyworth
Planta-
tion landed last week at the East and West India Docks was
vi
remaing taken
155 hhds 1 tierce. The stock of British Plantation in Lon-
don is 5,882 hhds 673 trcs, against 10,700 hhds 1,408 trcs at
this time last year. The stocks of Mauritius and Bengal are
lower.
COFFEE.-746 bags Ceylon, and 566 bags East India
(chiefly Singapore Java), offered by auction, were all
taken in, the former at 66s 6d to 69s for good ord pale to
very good ord coloury quality, being rather cheaper, and at
which prices there were net purchasers ; and the latter at 40s
for good ord coloury Singapore Java, and ord Batavia at 30s.
Privately, a small parcel of very fine Pedang sold at 345,
which is a very high price, but at which there are not
further buyers. The consumption has increased this year.
The stock of B.P. in all the docks is 2,406 hhds, 1,775 brls
and bags, against 3,833 hhds 2,055 brls and bags on the Ist
March, 1843.
Rum.,--The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 76 puns 134 hhds. The stock in
London is 13,237 puns 2,795 hhds against 18,780 puns 5,014
hhds at this time last year.
SALTPETRE.—Of 350 bags at auction all was withdrawn at
24s for 20i per cent refraction, being about the comparative
value.
SPICES.-1,517 bags Black Pepper and 289 chests Cassia
Lignea at auction, the former only partly sold at 3d to 3d for
good ord Sumatra, and ord at 2id to lid, all the latter found
buyers at 57s to 66s for good ord coarse to good mid quality,
which are about former rates.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 40s 6d to 41s per cwt on the spot, and
Town at 43s 6d per cwt.
Ty..—The public sales have gone off with spirit, and prices
are fully maintained.

4 The Rectory of St. Mildred's, Bread-street, has be-
come vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Ackland.
TIIE THAMES TUNNELL.—This day, at one o'clock,
a general assembly of the Proprietors of the Thames Tunnel
was held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, for gene-
ral purposes, Mr. Hawes, M.P., in the chair, when, from the
Report, it appeared that the number of passengers who had
passed through the Tunnel, since its opening, was 2,038,477,
producing 8,478/, 2s. Bd., and the shopkeepers had paid 460/. ;
while it had been found that the water in the Tunnel came
from the land springs and not the Thames, but which the
engineer expected would quickly cease. The accounts up to
the 31st December being received, and it being stated that
there would be a saving of 1,0001. the next year, and that on
the anniversary of the opening of the Tunnel there would be
a fancy fair, the meeting broke up.
THE ANTI-LEAGUE.—At length the Anti-League,
alias the " Association for the Protection of National Indus-
try," has ventured to do a bold thing. After weeks of pri-
vate meetings--meetings kept as carefully a secret from the
public as if the parties had been preparing for the commis-
sion of some terrible act of high treason—the agricultural
clique of persons acting under the inspiration of the Dukes of
Richmond and Buckingham, have screwed their courage to
the sticking-point, and held a meeting with open doors ! But
in what way have they gone to work? Not in a manly,
honourable manner, by coming openly forward themselves.
They hired a number of working men to take the most pro-
minent part in the proceedings, hoping thereby to bring over
the labouring classes to their side, and then make them the
blind instruments of carrying into effect monopolist purposes.
How much of the money which has lately been raised in the
counties, was expended in bribing the Spitalfields weavers
who played so distinguished a part in the drama which was
last night performed in the Freemasons' Tavern, we have no
means of knowing; but no one 'who was present can doubt
that the sum must have been very.large. But what, it will
be asked, was the result? Did the ingenious" device succeed?
There never was a more signal, as there could not have been
a more deserved, failure. So complete was the discomfiture
of the artful dodgers who attempted this experiment on the
intelligence of the working classes, that we may safely ven-
ture to predict it will never be repeated. The working classes
have done themselves immortal honour by showing that they
were not thus easily to be gulled. They at once saw through
the deception which it was intended to practise on them, and
with becoming spirit resolved not to be made the cat's-paw
of an insolent aristocracy. They mustered in large numbers,
and caused the blow which the monopolists intended for the
League, to fall with terrible effect on themselves.—Advertiser.
WILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTERTAINMENTS. Last
night Mr. Wilson gave his favourite entertainment of " A
wi' Burns," and notwithstanding its being an "even
(loon pour o' rain" all day, and little better in the evening,
the room was filled by a happy and delighted audience—
a proof that this gentleman's exertions counterbalance a good
ducking and a squeeze in a crowded room. The programme
was made up of gems from Burns's store, and in addition Mr.
Wilson gave
poet's satirical effusion of " My spouse Nancy," in which the
vocalist sustained the dialogue between the fiery-tempered
Fridaygreat amusement by his introduction of the
wife and the cool husband
and Saturdaywith admirable humour. On
Mr. Wilson gave entertainments in '
Brighton under the patronage of the Duchess of Somerset and
other distinguished personages, when the rooms were
crowded by all the nobility and fashion now resident in that
fashionable locality. We perceive by the provincial papers
that Mr. Wilson visits Oxford, Bristol, and Bath during the
present week, •