The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-18 00:00:00

wore lessened it would induce many persons to Insure their pre.
mimes who were now deterred by the heavy expenses of it.
Mr. MARK PHILIPS said the greatest difficulty some-
times was experienced in effecting insurances upon farming
premises. If only a stove were erected in a dairy a large extra
charge was made, on the ground of it being hazardous. How-
ever it was not so much his intention to interfere with the ar-
rangement of those offices, as the matter was an extremely
difficult one to deal with.. However, the fact of its being so
difficult madr it incumbent upon the Government to make the
duty as low as possible.
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, when the numbers
were—

For the original motion
For the amendment
Majority —47
The remaining clauses were then agreed to, the House re-
sumed, and the Report was ordered to be received on Monday.
Mr. G REENE brought up the report on the Isle of Man
Customs, which was received. _ .

The West India Relief Bill then went through Committee,
and the Report was ordered to be received on Monday.
Mr. WYSE moved for the appointment of a Select Com-
mittee on Art. Unions.

Mr. EWA RT seconded the motion, which was agreed to
without discussion.

Mr. HUTT obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend the
laws relating to aliens.
Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN moved for leave to bring in a
Bill to prohibit the holding of vestries in churches.
Mr. HUME objected to the motion, and it was eventually
postponed until Monday.
Sir J. GRAHAM gave notice of his intention to move for
a Select Committee to inquire into the operation of the Gilbert
Poor-law Acts.

The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
41-louse adjourned at One o'clock.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London New Price Current of May 17.)
SCGAR.—To-day buyers of Wrest India Sugar were cautious
in their proceedings; prices, as compared with last Friday,
show a decline of 6d to is per cwt for the low and middling
descriptions, of which the supply chiefly consists, but in the
value of good and fine yellow kinds there is little change at
present, as the stock is trifling. The market is on the whole
much better supplied with Sugar than on Friday last.
REFINED.—To-day few parcels of Refined goodswere taken
by the home trade, and prices are still drooping ; standard
lumps selling at 77s 6d to 78s, and brown lumps 76s Gd to 77s
per cwt ; bonded Crushed Sugaishas been taken readily, and
it is with difficulty to be had under 26s per cwt.
MAURlTlUS.—lmporters are still anxious sellers, and have
supplied the market largely ; the prices accepted show a re-
duction on those of this day week of is to Is 6d per cwt.
This afternoon there was no public sale, and very little busi-
ness was transacted by private contract.
EAST INDIA.—ThiS afternoon Bengal Sugar was only in
limited request; duty paid good white 64s 6d, middling and
good yellowish Gls Gd to 62s 6d, damp GOs to G3s 6d, sound
grey 60s to 62s 6d, damp 57s to 62s 6d ; in bond, strong ye:-
low Dobah 40s, fine white 395, good 38s Gd, middling 36s 6d
to 375, damp 32s Gd to 33s per cwt.
FORF.IGN.—The demand for all sorts of Foreign Sugar is
decidedly increasing, and prices are looking up ; the quantity
on offer in the private market is unusually small; prices are
still considered to be moderate, and our Refiners working
under bond are scantily supplied.
Ruw, BRANDY, AND liOLLANDS.—ForJamaica Rum holders
remain firm, and former rates are sustained. Leewards small
parcels at 2s 2id to 2s 3d per gallon, proof, and 9 per coat
overproof at 2s sd. Demerara 3s 2d to 3s 4d, 36 to 37 per
cent overproof. Calcutta Ruin at is lld per gallon proof
with certificate. holders of Brandy are not inclined to
give way further in price. Cognac best brands of the vintage
of 1838, hhds 5s 71, puns 5s sd; ditto 1839, llhds 5s sd, puns
55 3d ; ditto 1840, lrhds 5s 3d, puns 5s Id; ditto 1841, hhds
5s 2d, puns 5s ; ditto 1842, hlids 5s Id, puns 4s lld ; middling
qualities 3s 2d to 4s 6d, and inferior 2s 8d to 3s per gallon.
Geneva for exportation at is 8(1 to is 9d ; fine, for home con-
sumption, is 2s to 3s per gallon. English Corn Spirits at
108 2d per gallon, cash.
SAGO.—A reduction on former rates of 2s to 3s per cwt
has been submitted to. Sago Flour at 19s to 20s per cwt.
This afternoon Jamaica Arrowroot was taken in at 8d per lb.
Pearl Sago taken in, middling small brown at 435, and good
large white Pearl 18s 6d per cwt.
COFFEE.—In the value of West India no change has oc-
curred this week ; none has been submitted to public compe-
tition, and by private contract few purchases have been
made in any descriptions; parcels could only be dis-
posed of upon lower terms. Holders of Mocha have
submitted to a further reduction in prices of 2s to 3s per cwt.
Ceylon Coffee this afternoon at 53s to 54s ,for good ord ;
Plantation fine fine ord grey Demerara went 78s, fine ord 703
to 74s 6(1, pea berry 80s to 88s, country darn 57s to 60s, triage
37s to 45s ; broken Mocha sold at 54s per cwt. Jamaica, of the
new crop, sold at former rates ; mid colory went at 85s, fine
and fine fine ord 70s to 745, triage 35s to 66s per cwt.
MoLassEs.—West India at rather lower rates ; Demerara,
good, at 255, St. Vincents 245, St. Kitts low and mid '22s to
23s per cwt. For Bengal Syrup holders are not inclined to
take lower rates.

TEA.—To-day the market was firm for Tea, and several
purchases were made in nearly all descriptions ; Common
sound Congou cash is to Is Id, and Twankay ordinary is 3d
per lb.
COCOA.—Para held for 34s to 355, Guayaquil 35s to 365,
and Bahia 36s to 37s per cwt. British Plantation has still a
dull appearance, and prices are going down. This afternoon
Trinidad taken in at 44s to 47s per cwt.
In n(lo.—For East India holders remain firm and will not
sell, excepting at the rates previously established. For Spa-
nish higher rates have been asked, Guatemala taken in at
3s 8d to 4s 3d per lb for middling and good middling.
Rica.—The market has an improving appearance for all
descriptions of East India Rice—Patna at 13s to 178, and
Carolina at 21s to 26s per cwt. This afternoon Bengal Rice
met with attention, mid white went at lOs 6d to lls, and
sea damaged first class lOs Gd per cwt.
On.s.—ln common Fish Oils this week prices are still
going down. Pale Seal is 331 10s, and Cod 331 lOs to 341
per tun ; Sperm Oil firm at 75/ .to 761 for the best British,
and 731 to 741 per tun for inferior. Linseed Oil at 26s 9d to
27s per cwt on the spot. Rape Oil, pale, at 395, and brown
38s per cwt ; Olive has brought full prices. Palm at re-
duced rates. Cocoa Nut Oil is dull of sale, and prices droop-
ing. This afternoon Southern Oil at 271 to 301 for good and
fine ; Cocoa Nut Oil at 29s Gd to 30s Gd ; Palm at 24s to
235, and low 235. .
Tat,Low.—There has been little inclination shown to pur-
chase P. Y. Candle on the spot this week, and 40s to 40s Gd
per cwt is the value. For delivery prices are going down :
sellers for the last three months of the year at 41s 3d to
41s Gd per cwt. Town Tallow at 39s to 39s 6d per cwt nett
cash. This afternoon New South Wales Tallow sold at
35s Gd to 388; South American at 34s Gd to 38s 6d, and
in-
ferior 32s per cwt.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HO USE.
Mr. Thomas, the extensive newsvender and publisher,
of Finch-lane, appeared before Sir Peter Laurie, to an-
swer a complaint made by the Soda, for the Sup-
pression of Vice, of which Society Lord reignmouth was
stated to be the chairman. Upon a former occasion, a
gentleman belonging to the Bank of England made a
representation to Alderman Wilson, that he had seen
and purchased a French publication in Mr. Thomas's
shop, containing a blasphemous caricature, of a stupen-
dous Scriptural fact, and that Magistrate advised him to
apply to the Society to inquire into the matter, and to
prosecute, if they should be of opinion that'a prosecution
would benefit the public. The subject was yesterday
suddenly brought before Sir Peter Laurie, who had no
previous intimation of the case.
Mr. Pritchard, secretary to the Society for the Sup-
pression of Vice, attended to make the complaint offi-
cially, and called the gentleman who had communicated
with Mr. Thomas on the previous occasion, to give
evidence.

The witness produced a copy of the publication, of
which the name was not mentioned. Like the London Il-
lustrated News, or Pictorial Times, it contained a num-
ber of woodcuts ; but one of them, which professed to
be the " Conversion of St. Paul," represented a figure
in the clouds, with finger to nose, looking down upon a
horseman who had just tumbled to the ground, and
was looking in as complimentary a manner at the figure
in the " upper element of air." The illustration was
called in the paper " The Conversion of St. Paul," and
the witness went into the shop, and expostulated with
Mr. Thomas upon the injurious tendency of such an ex-
hibition. At first Mr. Thomas laughed at the complain-
ant, but upon being called on as one who respected the
religious institutions of the country, he admitted that the
objection was a reasonable one ; and, after some consi-
deration, he seemed to be disposed to drop the sale of the
work. As the suppression of the blasphemous woodcut,
for the sake of the public morality and religion, was the ob-
ject of the complainant, not a word more was intended to he
uttered on the subject; but Mr. Thomas still persevered
in the sale, and witness, in order to be in possession of
legal evidence, purehased a copy in the shop, intimating
at the same time, that he meant to lay it before the
Lord Mayor, and to have the matter investigated at the
Mansion-house. He not only learned that the " blas-
phemy " was published here, but that it had beenwidely
circulated amongst the boarding-schools, and the semi-
naries of education for English youth at Paris, and he
considered that he :was bound to represent the matter to
the proper authorities under the most sincere impression
that great public mischief might result from the sale of
such an importation.
Mr. Thomas said ho did not think it necessary to refer
to the character which he had long had in the city of
London as evidence that he was not a publisher of bias.
phemous works or publications calculated to throw con.
tempt-upon religion in any way. He would merely ask
the Magistrate to look at the work before him, and to
examine it in all its numbers, and try whether he could
find any thing whatever in it calculated in the slightest
degree to reflect dishonour or slight upon religion or
morality. It was conducted by men who, on every oc-
casion, testified the highest regard for and admiration of
Christianity, and he would willingly submit to any
penalty the Magistrate might think proper to inflict if
any sentiment of an opposite tendency should be detected
in the pages of the publication.

Sir'''. LAURIE said that the print which purported to
represent " the Conversion of St. Paul" was certainly
calculated to throw contempt upon the Christian reli-
gion. It was a caricature of one of the most remarkable
events exhibiting the efficacy of the doctrine of Christ.
Whether there was an allusion to it or not in the letter-
press, there it stood, incapable of being explained away
from its palpable meaning.
Mr. Thomas stated that it was quite a mistake to sup-
pose that the print was meant as an irreverent comment
upon the Christian religion. It was merely placed in the
publication in ridicule of a bad picture which had, in the
course of the year, been exhibited at the Louvre. Not
one word appeared in support of the suggestion that re-
ligion was meant to be assailed.
Sir P. LAURIE said that, sitting in the chair as a ma-
gistrate, it was not hiS business to inquire whether the
print objected to was a copy of, or intended to ridicule,
a picture at the Louvre, or to examine whether there
was anything in the editorial composition which did; or
did not, refer to the subject.
Mr. Thomas declared that ho could not see how a
figure iu a picture " playing Mr. Snooks " with another
figure could by being exhibited in a shop window sub-
ject a man fairly to a penal infliction. lie had written
to the editor of the paper in which the caricature had
appeared, informing him of the offence which the com-
plainant had taken at it, and that gentleman was in at-
tendance to disclaim• and utterly repudiate the most
remote intention of making any contemptuous anti.'"
to the religion of Christ. The Rev. Mr. `Winch, too,
the rector of the parish, was satisfied that no offence to
religion was meant by the representation.