The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-16 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
LONDON, Ocr. 15.—Wind westerly, fresh breeze, and
fine.

DEAL, OCT. 14.—Arrd. Kent, South Seas ; Cecilia,
Burrell, Port Philip ; Jane Geary, Birnie, Mauritius ;
Bolton, Monte Video ; Gladiator, New York ; Bengal,
William and Mary, and Harrison, Quebec ; Nameless,
Pyrnan, North America.

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PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 14.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Emily,
Westport.
OFF MARGATE.—Frances Ann, Wardle, Singapore.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Fulmar,
Crocker, Rio Janeiro.

FALMOUTH, OCT. 14.—Wind W.S.W., fresh breeze.—
Arrd. Dislandes, London for Gambia, with loss of boat,
foreyard, &c.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 14.—Wind S., moderate.—Arrd.
Monarch, Booth, Bombay ; Pera, Ichaboe ; Liberty,
Norton, Lucas, Miller, and Sea, Edwards, New York ;
Cygnet, and Sovereign, St. John's, New Brunswick ;
Margaret, Griffiths, Prince Edward's Island; Nicuragua,
Miramichi ; Leo, Montreal ; Gertrude, Lady Constable,
and Neptune, Quebec. Sid. Gratitude, Demerara ; Ann,
Gulf of Mexico ; Calliope, St. John's, New Brunswick.
Off, Britannia steamer, Boston ; Richard Anderson,
Susquehannah, and Quiz.
CARLISLE, OCT. 12.—Arrd. Tipic, Mitatnichi.
LIVERPOOL, Ocr. 14.—The Troy, bound to this port,
was still on the bar of the Mississippi. 9th ult. The Grace
Brown, from Virginia, for this port, was at anchor in
Hampton-roads, with damage, having been ashore on
Crane Island Flats.

DARTMOUTH, OCT. 14.—The Lord of the Isles, which
was driven ashore, 21st ult., at Fishing Ship Harbour,
has been repaired and is loading.
COWES, OCT. 14.—Arrd. Christina Louisa, Lisbon,
for Gelfe, leaky, and must discharge.
BRISTOL, OCT. 14.—Arrd. Eliza, Wsumick, Virginia.
GLOUCESTER, OCT. 14.—Acrd. Briton, Quebec.
PETERHEAD, OCT. 12.—Arrd. Gleaner, Davis' Straits.
BELFAST, OCT. 12.—The Carrywell, from Maryport,
which was ashore at White Abbey on the 10th instant,
has been got off without damage.
STOCKTON, OCT. 12.—A boat, with Nelson, Harvey
inside, and Sarah, of Shoreham, marked on outside, was
picked up, on the 10th instant, in the Gulls, by the
George the Fourth, arrived here.

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CORK, OCT. 12.—Arrd. John Francis, Drewes, Que-
bec. Off, Caleb Angus, Whittle, Honduras.
SUNDERLAND, OCT. 12.—Arrd. Lumley, Topliff, St.
John's, New Brunswick.

HULI., OCT. 13.—Arrd. Cato, Hendry, Quebec.

MARKET NEWS.-(YESTERDAY

SAY AtAIikETS.
SMITIIFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 4/ lOs ;
Useful ditto, 41 12s to 51; fine Upland ditto, 51 3s to
5/ 7s ; Clover Hay, 41 12s to 6/ 6s ; Oat Straw, 118 s to
1110 s ; Wheat Straw, 11 lOs to 1/ 12s per load. Both
Ha and Straw were in demand at full prices.
CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 12s to 4/12s;
Useful ditto, 41 14s to .51; fine Upland ditto, 513 s to
5/ 10s ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 6/; Oat Straw, II 8s to 1/
lOs ; Wheat Straw, 11 lls to 11 13s per load. A
full average supply, and a steady demand.
WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 418 s;
Useful ditto, 41 lOs to 51; fine Upland ditto, Si to
51 8s ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 6/10s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 8s
to I/ lOs ; Wheat Straw, 11 103 to 1/ 12s per load.
Supply tolerably good. and trade on the whole firm.
COLO= /1.1.
SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation is without
change ; about 600 have been sold at previous prices.
The public sales have consisted chiefly of 122 casks Bar-
badoes, 6,107 bags Mauritius, and 5,471 bags Bengal.
which were chiefly sold, but went off very IP avily, and in
most instances at a further decline of fully Is to Is 6d,
the greatest reduction being upon the Bengal. The
Barbadoes brought 54s to 63s for low to fine
yellow ; Mauritius. 53s to 63s 6d ; low to fine
brown 42s to 52s 6d ; low to fine white Benares
Bengal, 57s to 6.5 s 6d ; low soft, date kind,
to fine yellow Benares, 50s to 56s 6d, and fine bright
brown Khaur was chiefly taken in at 47s to 47s 6d.
There has been rather more inquiry for foreign, and
three cargoes have been sold afloat, on, containing
2.900 boxes Havatiliali at 20s, one with 450 chests brown
Bahia at 18s 3d, the latter deliverable over the ship's
side in London, for refinin:: in bond, the former eithor
in London or a near port on the continent, and the other
from Pernambuco, consisting of about 300 chests, chiefly
white at about 225, arid the brown at 17s, deliverable in the
Mediterranean. The quantity of British Plantation
landed last week at the East and West India Docks was
3,446 hhds, 377 tierces, 677 barrels ; and there were
taken for home consumption 1,456 hhds, Ib7 tierces,
354 barrels. The stock in the same places is 1,478 htids,
2,183 tierces, 2,815 barrels.

COPFEE.-1,450 bags Ceylon (British Plantation kind),
37 casks Costa Rica, 48 barrels Rio at auction was
mostly disposed of, but at considerably lower prices, viz.,
60s to 68s 6d for fine fine pale ord to mid
colory quality, and 54s to 59s 6d for good
to fine tine ord coloury. The Rio and Costa Rica
were taken in, the former at 43s to 45s for tine fine ord
British Plantation kind, and the latter at 56s for fine
fine ord colory.
RlJ3l.—The quantity landed last week at the Fast and
West India Docks was 647 puns 8 hhds ; there were
taken for home consumption 189 puns 34 hhds, and ex-
ported 95 puns 119 hhds. The stock in the same places
12,405 puns 1,607 hhds.
RICE.-496 bags Siam sold at 9s 6d to I.os for low
yellow to good mid white.
SPicxs.-442 bags of Pepper (chiefly Malabar) was
nearly all bought in above the value, viz., at 31d
for mid half heavy Malabar.
INDmo.—The sale of Indigo is still in progress. Up
to yesterday, 7,303 chests have passed, of which 2,241
have been withdrawn, and 726 bought in, leaving 4,300
actually sold. The demand has slightly improved.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is steady, at 41s for old, and 41s Gd
for new, per cwt on the spot, and Town at 45s per cwt.
TEA.—The private market is dull, very large auctions
being declared for Thursday next.

(From the London Mercantile Price Current, Oct. 15.)
B. P. SUGAR.—A moderate business was done in
W. I. sorts to-day at steady prices, amounting to
580 cks, including 150 cks Barbadoes at auction. 2,295
bags Khaur Bengal were taken in. The Refined market
is dull.

• MAURITIUSSUGAR.—ScarceIy any business was done
in this description previously to a public sale of 6,017
bags on Friday, but only a portion was then disposed of,
and that at a reduction of 6d per cwt ; middling brown
to fine yellow at from 52s 6d to 63s 6d, with low brown
at from 45s 6d to 49s per cwt.
BENGAL SUGAR was sold at auction on Friday last is
to 2s per cwt under the previously current rates. The
lower qualities experienced the greater decline. Low to
fine white brought from 56s to 645,_ low to fine soft yel-
low from 48s 6d to 54s 6d, and good brown was taken in
at 47s per cwt. By private contract about 200 tons
Khaur sold at from 44s to 46s for fair to very good.
FOREIGN EAST INDIA SUGAR.--About 1,000 bags
middling soft yellow Manilla have been disposed of at
19s per cwt, and about 5,000 bags of ordinary damp
brown at 14s 6d to 15s per cwt.
FOREIGN SUGAR.—The holders have not been dis-
posed to realise, unless at extreme rates, which limited
business until Friday, when there was an improve-
ment in demand, and considerable sales made at
very full prices. The reported transactions during
the week are as follow : 1,300 boxes white
Ilavannah at from 26s 6d to 30s for low to good
quality ; 250 chests fine yellow Trinidad de Cuba at
22s 6d ; a floating cargo of 370 chests white Bahia at
about 235, deliverable et a new port on the Continent ; a
floating cargo of 2,800 boxes brown Ilavannah at 20s,
and one containing 440 chests brown Bahia at 18s 3d,
both to be delivered in London ; also a float-
ing cargo of 350 chests Pernambuc!,, brow n
at 16s, and white at 22s Gd per cwt, deliverable in tht,
Mediterranean. At public sate, 113 chests Rio brought
from 20s to 22s fid for ordinary to good middling white,
and from 16s to 18s fur low to good brown, which are
considered moderate rates, in comparison with other
transactions.

REFINED SUGAR. In the grocery descriptions a steady
business has been done at rather easier rates. Crushed
in bond for exportation remains at the previous week's
quotation, and continuPs to find purchasers. In loaves
there has been no alteration.

MOLASSES —TN/re has been but little business doing
in this article, and there is no change of value to report.
SPIRITS.—In Rum the transactions have been rather
limited, but no alteration of rates can be made. Brandy
is hi full demand, and large parcels probably could be
obtained at ld per gallon under our quotations, but for
small quantities former prices are paid. Delivered for
home use last week 147 punft.
COFFEE.--The market for the British West India
sorts has been very languid. There has been no public
sale. Some small parcels of B.P. were offered and sold
to-day at auction. Ceylon Coffee went steadily at a
sale Of 342 bags. 334 bls Mocha were taken it.
OTHER E. I. AND B. P. COFFEE.—At action 197 bales
Malaba, subject to the high rate of duty, sold at from
39s 6d to 45s 6d, with one lot at 46s per cwt for good to
fine ordinary. In other sorts there has been nothing
doing. Mocha is without alteration.
FOREIGN COFFEE.—Very little business has been done
for exportation, and prices remain unaltered. On Friday
48 barrels superior Rio and 37 casks from Puerto
Cabello were taken in at auction ; the former at 43s to
455, the latter at 50s per cwt for fine ordinary Plantation
kind.

Cocoa.—There has been no public sale. Prices of
both British Plantation and Foreign remain unaltered.
TEA.—Since our last publication no alteration of
prices has occurred, but the demand has been limited
a public sale is advertised to take place on Thursday
next, for which 37,000 pkgs are announced. Tea duty
paid last week 560,4821b5.

tions were disposed of at public sale
ria,l, in cartoons and half ditto 110 s tj 120'.
Quarter and eighth ditto 115 s to 130 s. Quarteilt.t
boxes 655, and eighth boxes 75s per Cwt. e
auction, also, 38s butts, 48 caroteels, and 26 barrels find,
new Patras Currants, all slightly or badly.daulage22
brought from 44s to 48s. A carp, consisting of
butts and 80 caroteels, out of condition, partly 50
damaged 41s to 435, with some sound at 45s per ew"
Privately fine new Currants bring 47s to 49s per cwt.blie
SALTPETRE.—Private transactions since the jeulders
sale have not been worthy of public notice ; the
are firm in their demands for the full rates. The Price
of Nitrate of Soda has been nominal, no sales of interest
having been effected. For British Refined there be'
been a moderate demand at former rates.
Odt
INDlGO.—Yesterday and to-day the demand was g°„
and the prices of desirable shipping sorts fully wain'
tamed, but consuming qualities have occasionally gs,
rather lower. To this day 4,872 chests are actua
sold, 823 chests have been taken in, and 3.098 chests
withdrawn, leaving 4,179 chests for sale.
After the public sales of East India, 181 serous (3f
Spanish were offered, and partly disposed of at a redee'd
tion of about 4d per lb from former rates ; tortes an
sobre 2s 8d to 3s 4d per lb. 0
COCHINEAL—This afternoon 413 bags non'n 1.,,,
were offered at the public sales. A fair proportion
disposed of of at a decline of 2d per lb on the low q
and Id per lb on the good. tt rs
TALLOW.—This market remains steady. -"e-ei,
from St. Petersburgh to the sth of October, report t-6
sale of 5,000 casks in the current week at 103 to 1°
rbls. Exchange 38 9.32 to 5-16.
OILS.—A parcel of British Sperm sold last week
91110 s for Oil and head-matter.

RAILWAY SHARES. bin,
(From the Share List of John Railton and Son, 1'

chester, Oct. 14.)
Improvement per Cent. in the market value of the follow'
ing lines of Railway, between the end of Septembe f
1843, and September, 1844, upon the same amogn,t!th
paid up capital, and producing an average of 56
per Cent. per Share, being more by 61 per Cent, tb
an
at the end of August last.

Per Cent.
Preston and Wyre l7l
Sheffield and Manchester
Chester and Birkenhead
Birmingham and Gloucester 96
Manchester and Bolton
Great North of England
Manchester and Birmingham
Hull and Selby
Birmingham and Derby 55
Manchester and Leeds
Great Western
Northern and Eastern 46
South Eastern 4sk
Newcastle and Carlisle
Eastern Counties 37
Midland Counties
North Midland
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Bristol and Exeter 27
Brighton
Lancaster and Preston
South Western
Grand Junction
York and North Midland no Olin°
London and Birmingham
Liverpool and Manchester less 1 9-10 iv
The greatest rise took place in those lines where "re
capicity of the works was not enough developed to be
lied on at the former period.
There are at the present time plans matured or Preci
paring to carry before the Board of Trade upwarci:„ 0
ninety new schemes for railway extension. requiri'jcb
subscribed capital of upwards of 60.000,000L—t° vv,hircl
may be added 20,000,0001. for the authorised one-,` jolt
that can be borrowed. The present abundance and ore
value of money (there being no foreign attraction 0300
luring) is highly favourable to the extension of 01 esi
works at home. No matter to what extent the rifen 0
of speculation may lead individual adventure, a ,coeuf
national benefit will be secured, available to all, 'lnt, we
infringing on the circulation of the country, so long a 0
continue blessed with the succession of
the main-spring of prosperity ; but should a failorehase
sue, and we become impoverished by foreign Purcdia
for the repair, we shall be deprived, in a corresP°ll„res
degree, of the advantages we now enjoy. Manufae,tlut
good harvests
and foreign trade we can expand or curtail at will' Ito
no art of man can put seasons out of course, or lay
their result. The Board of Trade has an irkgon'et the
to perform to suit all interests, and keep clear (4
confusion to which we are exposed.

THE: QUEEN'S TOBACCO PIPE.—At the Cllst°,4ll
house, damaged tobacco, on which it would not be vv°t.'be
while to pay the high import duty, is consumed near of
oonded warehouses in a furnace, the tall chinmei
which is familiarly known as the "Queen's tobacco P' 10
DREADFUL MURDER.—The Sabbath evening °f
of'
again been chosen by the assassin to commit his °,
blood in the county Tipperary, and the victim wis"c:,00(1.
fallen a sacrifice on this occasion gave no offence It
the fact that he had some connexion with hour' of
appears that on Sunday night last, about the „rent to
eight o'clock, David Maxwell, who is Tinder-7r which
David La Touche, was in his own house in ikerri had been
is only a mile from Roscrea • the room be act
sitting in was on the ground door, and he was in the a!
of undressing himself in order to go to bed, when he
,;,,f/
fired at, and a ball passed through his back and lock; a
in the left breast. The poor man was promptly attectlite,
to, but after lingering a short time in great agonl, ;a
died yesterday. No clue has yet been obtained to le
to the detection of the murderer or murderers---"Cr
respondent of Saunders's News Letter.
DEAFNESS.
TESTIMONIAL from John Sawyer, Esq., of ga,Y,'
wood Lodge, Maidenhead, Berks, to Messrs. S. and B. S
mons, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Gentlemen, ha N°.
been deaf for some time, I was induced, in the month Of
vember, 1839, to make trial of your Invisible Voice Condultb
and, although at my advanced age, at that time past my 77
year, I had no hope of obtaining any relief, yet immediate 901
applied them I could hear the general conversation, odl ox
hearing has become so much improved by their use, that or
now hear acutely without their aid. I am, Gentlemen,
ro
most obedient servant, J. Sawyer. 22d June, 1842.-- to
the late Henry Cowper, Esq., of Tewen Waters, Hertsaeaf
Messrs, S. and B. Solomon, :—Gentlemen, having been
e,
for many years, I was induced to try your Invisible
Conductors. They enable me to hear persons in conlPeol
and at a place of worship most distinctly. The Spectacle. „a
Handglass which you have sent me are very excellent, sip
suit my sight perfectly, the transparency of which is so brof
liant, that although I have passed my 86th year the '"..itk
May last, yet they enable me to read, and by candle-lights 'bet
the greatest ease and comfort to myself. I return you
thanks, and remain your obedient servant, Henry, Cover„e.
22d June, 1839.—Telescopes, Opera Glases, Microscersr,
&c. of the same kind of Lenses.—Caution.—Messrs. S. and 13;witb
Inmons, Opticians and Aurists, arc not in any way connecte",ol,
a person of the same name in their immediate neighbo*"„o.
Nor n any part of the country. To prevent mistakes,
tious, and Ohserve,—Only to be had at 39, Albemarle-9u'
Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel.
[ADYERTISEMBNT.]—AN EXTRAORDINARY
DAVIT MADE BEFORE TER LORD MAYOR CONCERNI%T.
SURPRISING CURE EFFECTED BY HOLLOWAY'S 01-
MENT AND PILLS !--James Stanley, living at T;it,
Ditton, made an affidavit before the Lord 313 i to
at the Mansion-house, on the 14th instant, bail
the purport that he had been upon crutches, aTI the
for two years, with 26 holes in one leg and 14 lilt ao
other ; that he had been into two hospitals and g 7 be
relief ; and that, after every other means had bile"' ocl
had been radically cured by "Holloway's Ointment $
Pills." Sold at the Establishment of Professor Hollowell
244, Strand (where advice may be had gratis), anci„ot
almost all respectable vendors of medicine through
the civilised world.

BIRTHS, 310
On the 12th inst., at Southborough, Tunbridge-wells' -
Thomas Brabazon Aylmer, of a daughter. of
On the 12th inst., the lady of William Woodgate, 1 , 's'ri 4
Woodland-terrace, Greenwich, of a son. iTearl
On the 12th inst., at Thistleton, Rutland, Mrs. ,
Fludyer, of a son.
area',
On the 12th inst., at Portland-place, the Countess ofo.
of a daughter. of
On the 9th inst., Mrs. Haynes, of the Hampstead-ros '
a daughter.
On the 9th inst., at Ghent, Belgium, the wife of --earl
Charlier, Esq., of a daughter. TT T.
On the 11th inst., at Shepley, the wife of the Rev. --*
Newcome, of a daughter. lobo
On the 11th inst., at Henlow, the lady of the Rev. -
Byng, Vicar rf Langford, Beds, of a daughter. ,r,,rasii?
On the 12th inst., at Tottenham, the lady of J. Pi--
Esq., of Finsbury-square, of a daughter. f J.•
On the 12th inst., in St. John's-wood-road, the w•-;4- e °
Sutton, Esq., of a son
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MARRIED. TO'
On the 3d inst., at the Church of the Holy Trinity, ,—,f% er
ton, by the Rev. George Pocock, LL.B., incumbent Mtsq.,
of St. Paul's Chapel, St. Marylebone, Franklin Hudson, of
of Alexander-square, Brompton, to Sarah, eldest daught—terot't
George Gunthorpe, Esq., of Newington-place, Kenoil36'
Surrey.
der!6
On the Ist inst., at St. Martin's, Leicester, Mr. Fre„rill
S. Martin, of the Oro-re, Stratford, Essex, to Marian, 'it.
daughter of the late Mr. W. Taylor, of Burton-upon-Tre6iierf
On the sth inat., at the Collegiate Church, Manchteoii,
Anthony, second son of Thomas Sherwood, Esq., of AV°,.OlO,
square, London, to Annie, second daughter of A"
Glasgow, Esq., of Manchester.