The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-04 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER returned to the House from the bar of
.he House of Lords, and the House immediately ad•
lammed to a Quarter before Four o'clock.

COLONIAL MARKETS.

Scae.a.—The market for British Plantation has been
heavy, and barely 200 hhds have been sold, at the re-
duction of is per cwt. The public sales have con-
sisted of 2,062 bap Madras and 1,319 bags of Bengal,
which mostly sold at rather lower prices, but being
in small lots it affords very little guide to the
market generally. The quantity of sugar landed
last week in the East and West India Docks
was 650 hogsheads 171, barrels ; and there wereis
taken for home consumption 754 hhds, 54 tree, 101 barrels.
The stock in Great Britain and foreign ports, at the com-
mencement of this year, was 106,487 tons.
COPPEE.-68 casks British Plantation, 160 bag
,s.
Ceylon, and 1,943 bales Mocha, were offered by auction
the British Plantation was mostly taken in at
70s for mid colony Berbic, being comparatively a
very low price. The Ceylon sad Mocha chiefly
sold at fully previous rates, the former at 52s for
very good ord quality, and the latter at 58s 6d to 71e for
mid to good clean quality. The stock in Great Britain
and in foreign ports on the Ist ult. was 80,136 tons.
RICE.—One thousand five hundred and two bags
Bengal Rice at auction found buyers at lOs 6d to II s 6d
for mid broken to good white, being for the latter de-
scription rather cheaper.
Rum.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 191 puns 327 hhds. There were
taken for home consumption 156 puns 38 hhds, and ex-
ported 21 puns 5 hhds.
SPICES —Bl4 bags Sumatra Pepper were taken in at
21d for mid to good black, which is the previous value,
but at which there were not purchasers.
TALLow.—P.Y.C. is 39s 6d to 40s per cwt. on the
spot, and Town 43s 6d per cwt.
TEA.—The market is firm. Ord to good ord Congou
lld to 1 lid, and good ord to but mid Twankay is
to is 3id per lb. The stock in London on the Ist inst.
was 27,083,0001b5.

COAL EMMET.
Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Buddle's
West Hartley, 17s ; Carr's Hartley, 174 6d ; Holywell
Main, 17s ; Morrison's Hartley, 16s 6d ; Nelson's West
Hartley, 173 6d ; New Taafield 16s 6d ; Old l'ontop,

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16s 6d ; Ord's Redheugh, 16s ; Old Tanfield, 16s 6d ;
Pott's Primrose, 16s ; Pontop Windsor, 16-1 ; Ravens-
worth West Hartley, 17s ; South Pontop, 193; Tanfield
Moor, 20s ; Taylor's West Hartley, lis ; Townley, 17s;
West Hartle, 17s ; West Wylam, 17s 61 ; Wylam,
16s 9d ; W. E., Bell and Robstn, 18s ; W. E., Ramsay,
16s ; W. E., Wharncliffe, 19s 3d ; Belmont, 19s 9d ;
Braddyll's Hetton, 20s 9d ; Hetton, 20s Ad; East Hetton,
1813 6d ; Haswell, 21s 6d ; Lambton, 20s 9d ; Lumley,
19s 3d ; Pemberton, 18s 6d ; Russell's Hetton, 20s ad ;
Shotton. 20s ; Stewart's, 205 9d ; Carsdoc, 20s 6d ;
Cassop, 20s 6d ; Hartlepool, 20s 6d ; Heeelden, 18s 6d ;
Ileugh.hall, 19s ; Brown's Deanery, 19s ; St. Helen
Tees, 18s ; Sout Durham, 19s ; Tees Hetton, 19s ;
Clackmannan, 15s 6d ; Cowpen Hartley, 17s 6d
Hartley, 17s ; Morgan Stone, 23s 6cl ; Sidney's Hartley
17s 6d; Wst Hartley Netherton, 17s 6d.—Ships
arrived, 38.

THE THEATRES.
LYCEUM.

A new comic drama in two sets, entitled Taking Pos-
session, was produced at this theatre last night. Mr.
Beatus Boodle (Mr. Keeley), a traveller for a fish sauce
and pickle warehouse, goes to Germany in the way of
his vocation, and falls in with a band of gipsies, one of
whom is in possession of a lottery ticket, which he offers
to sell to the retailer of sauce samples for 100 florins.
Mr. Boodle offers ten, expecting that it will be refused;
but he is mistaken. The ten florins are paid, and No.
1,688 is Boodle's. Well, the numbers are drawn for, and
1,688 is a prize, the holder being declared the winner of
Ratenhole Castle ; whereupon the Englishman is all joy,
shouting, " at the top of his bent," " Rule Britannia."
But the ticket, of right, belonged to Carl, the nephew of
the seneschal of the castle, and the leader of the gipsy
band (Mr. Wigan) undertakes to get the title deeds from
Boodle. Of course Ore latter makes all diligent haste to
see his noble castle and demesnes on the banks of the
Danube, and the gipsy leader has everything prepared
to give him a warm reception. In the first place, as lie
is leaving the steamer in the small-boat, he gets a duck-
ing; then, wishing to make a speech to his tenantry on
the subject of allotments, the corn-laws, and wash-hooves
for the poor, he is well pelted by the tenantry. Ile is
next shown into a cold, unfurnished room, where he is to
spend the night. The gipsy leader comes in disguise,
and you know, of course, that poor Boodle cannot sleep.
What between the howling of the wolves and the ghost
st"ries with which his companion entertains him, ho
confesses he is the most miserable of men. Bat
that is not all. lie is told that the gipsies aro
bent on murdering him. One of them, who
took some of his soy, supposing it to be
a very rare beverage, declaring that he has a particular
and especial cause of complaint against him on that ac-
count. The good angel who brings this information to
the disconsolate Boodle you may guess is a gipeey her-
self ; and in order to evade their wicked designs, by her
advice, he alters his appearance, and pretends that he is
a foreign gipsey himself. Of course he is received with
acclamation, and, that he may not be idle,.he is desired
to kill the leader of the band, Balthazar. There is much
humour in his going to act his first murder ; but
Balthazar, who knows he is disguised, says he will tell
who he is, and our poor Boodle is terrified out of being
a murderer nialgrc lui. The gipsies all vow the most
horrid treatment against the new landlord of
the castle, who trembles all over in his disguise, and he
is but too happy to resign the title deeds of the castle,
having got as much money as will bring him back to
England. Carl and his betrothed, Corra (Mrs. A.
Wigan), are thus made happy, and Boodle vows never
to go beyond call of the new police. The idea of the
traveller for sauce samples is evidently taken from "Our
Own Correspondent" of the " Scourge," and like all
imitations, it falls deeply below the original. It would
be difficult to say what is the aim of the piece, except
that it serves as a vehicle for some halting witticisms,
which, however, like lame Vulcan performing the office
of cup•bearer, raised roars of laughter amongst the
blessed " gods." The piece was announced for re-
petition,

STRAND.
We have Rot enjoyed such a hearty laugh for a long
time as we enjoyed at this theatre last evening, at the
burlesque of Antigone. It is a regular screamer—worth
fifty of the spectacle burlesques where fine scenery is
introduced to make up for paucity of jokes. The original
is closely followed—Aristophanes himself could not havo
written a more ludicrously exact quiz upon the tragedy
of his great contemporary. The chorus was excessively
rich, and the Antigone of George Wild was, in every
sense of the word, immense. Hall was Creon, and, on
his appearance, was greeted with a roar of hearty
laughter. He made Creon after Punch's caricature of
O'Connell. The resemblance was exact ; and, when ho
began, in a rich Munster brogue, addressing the Thebaps
as " Hereditary bondsmen," the audience was perfectly
convulsed. his imitations of Vandenhoff, Macready.
and Charles Kean, were excellent ; in fact, we never saw
Hall so great—his Creon is superior even to his Ingo.
But the whole is a piece of rich drollery ; the fun never
flags ; and, if we mistake not, the Antigone of Mr.
Blanchard will have a greater run than even the Anti-
one of Sophocles. The house was exceedingly well
attended.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
CHESTER CUP.
The acceptances, which closed in town and at Chester
at twelve o clock on Saturday night, far exceeded any-
thing on record—the number 71 !—four more, owing to
omissions in copying the list, than appear( d it. yester-
day's papers. The horses omitted were, Vitula, 5 yrs,
Est 91b ; The Old Maid, 5 yrs, 6st 61b; Advice, 4 yrs,
6st 2lb ; and Stayley, 5 yrs, sst 71b. Amongst
the horses left in will be found nearly all that
have been backed since the books were first opened
on the race. The betting yesterday was brisk, without
being so heavy as on one or two previous occasions ;
several commissions, however, were liberal, particularly
with regard to the two favourites, the Era, Pug (the
only one left in by Lord George Bentinck), Agricultur',
and Corranna. Cataract opened at 20 to 1, and closed
at Thursday's quotation. The final averages were as
under :-
10 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Semiseria—t. and aft. off.
15 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnstone's Obscurity—taken
18 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Cataract—taken
20 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Pug—take 25 to 1
20 to 1 agst Mr. 11. Stebbing's Celeste
22 to 1 agrt Mr. A. Johnstone's The Era-25 to 1
taken freely.
25 to 1 agst Mr. O. Parry's Zanoni
30 to I agst Mr. W. Scott's Agriculture—taken
33 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's Winesour
35 to 1 agst Mr. Vaughan's Extempore—taken
35 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Pride of Kildare—taken
35 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's St. Lawrence
40 to 1 agst Mr. Osbakleston's Sorella—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Cuthbert's Queen of Tyne—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Collett's Corranna—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Trwin's Foigh-a-ballagh—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Parry Master of the Rolls filly—ta.
50 to 1 agst Mr. Wesley's Counsellor—taken
66 to 1 agst Mr. Plummer's Alice Hawthorn—Ga.
100 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Mickey Free—taken
2,000 to 30 agst Mr. Collett's The Dean—taken.
The two leading favourites remain in about the same
position as we left them last week, Alarm having the
call. At one time it was a near thing for choice, 1,500 even
having been laid between them, and only 12 to 1 offered
on the field ; 13 to 1 was subsequently betted against Col.
Peel's colt in tildes, and, we believe, might have been
got to a larger sum. Ledger was backed at 14i
and 15 to 1; Idas and Pam at the odds returned; Men-
tor, in two or three quarters, at 1,000 to 30, to the pre-
judice of Annandale, against whom 25 and 30 to 1 was
laid ; The Laird o'Cockpen and the Frederica colt at
40 to 1 each (the outlay moderate); hot:master for two
or three hundred pounds at 40 to I, all in;" and Fut-
bos, at I,ooo's to 15 and 20. Closing prices :-
12 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Alarm
13 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Cobweb colt—taken
15 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's.Kedger
16 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Idas—t. and aft. oft
18 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Pam—t. and aft.. oft
30 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnstone's Annandale
30 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's News:nonger
30 to 1 agst Lord Glasgow's Miss Whip c—take 33
33 to 1 agst Mr. St. Paul's Mentor—taken
33 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Pantasa—taken
35 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Old England—taken
40 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Laird e' Cockpen
—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's Frederica colt—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. A. W. Hill's Ironmaster—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Connaught Banger—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Coleman's Young Eclipse
50 to 1 agst Mr. Coleman's Fuzbos_taken
1000 to 15 agst Lord Chesterfield's
Twig—taken
3000 to 30 agst Mr. Tuting's Adonis (Atyrrha colt)
1500 between Alarm and the Cobweb colt
500 between Annandale and Miss Whip colt.
Lord Chesterfield's Brother to Attaghan has bout
named " Javelin."
Lord Miltown's Soalteen died on Friday last at New-
market.

TTIE MAILS..-- SOUTHAMPTON,
Company's steam-ship the Tagus, FEB. .I
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Oriental,o
Constan-
tinople, via Malta, Captain Brookes, went out of dock
tpie,
this day at three P.M. She takes out the East India and
China mails to Malta, whence they will be dispatched by
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orders to retard her departure untilyes yesterday
to-morrow,, butrow reee,wililvd
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that day, at three o'clock P.M., leave her moorings and
proceed on her voyAge with the Mexican and West In-
dian mails. The 'Thames has 50 passengers, a largo
quantity of quicksilver and other goods for the Gulf and
other islands: The Oriental steam-ship is daily ex-
pected round from London, after undergoing a complete
overhaul. She will take out the mid-monthly mails for
East India and China. She leaves here on the 20th
inst. The Gibraltar yacht Royal 'Tar is hourly expected
with the Peninsula and Mediterranean mails. The Forth,
West India packet, will leave here on the 17th, and take
out tke mails for the Gulf, &c.
TVE REV. SYDNEY SMITIL—We regret to hear of
the dangerous illness of this reverend gentleman. It
was feared, last night, that a fatal termination must soon
take place, unless there should be some sudden change,
more to be hoped for than expected.
J. H. Hippisley, Esq., has given directions that all
the game in his extensive preserves at Postbury, near
Crediton, shall be destroyed, seeing the great injury and
arises to the farmer from the preservation ofragbabnilse,
accordingly man: hundred hares, p
them given to the neighbouring farmer
have been shot during the last fewheda
assa;:an'adn and
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Devonport Independent.
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Marquis of Norman ), the Earl of Clarendon, the Earl
Viscount Melbourne, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the
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raAffuocrkdl,aanndd ra"sdelele)te pliratuyieoYf . Lord Sudeley, Lord
the Opposition Peers,
dined together last evening at Brooks's Club, St, James's-
reet.