The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-16 00:00:00

purchase Coffee of all clean descriptions.; but of West India
the supply
,at market wai far from adequate for the demand.
The public sales were well attend Id, they comprised. 2.: 69 bags
5 casks Ce'yl•in, 526 bags Java, via the Cape, 500 bags East
India, 203 bales
.1qpcha.,,5,4 casks 9.4nns_Berb'ee, au i 10 bags
Domarara ; Ceylon werit-at ftilliTUrmer fates, fine kinds, how-
ever, brought high prices ; superior 107 s to 1275, fine fine ord
90s 6d to 95s 6d, fine ord Bls:pd, good ord 77s 6d to 80s, pale
good ord ragged 76s 6a to 775. Java brought fell prices, good
fair from the Cave 60s, bulked sls Gd to 555. Mocha, however,
mostly taken in at 103 s to 107 s for low mid and mid. Berhice
went at 120 s for mid culory, 101 s fill. low mid, and 94s Gd to'
93s for fine fine ord.

--Cot:iim.—Britisli Plantation at 44s to 46s for good and fine
rcd Trinidad, and at 39s to 43s for low to mid.. Foreign, 32s
to 33s for good red.
RlCE.—Java is held with firmness,. yellow has realised 8s 6d
to 9s 6d, low to middling white 9s to 10;, good middling to
good 10s 6d to 113 0,1 per cwt. The stock of Rice is still
heavy. Patna Rice good and fine at IBs to 223, low to middling
Iss to 17s : Carolina has been less in request, we quote first
sort 365, second do 31s, third di 325, and inferior 28s to 30s
per cwt.
This afternoon Bengal Rice met with a free sale, and at auc-
tion 4,225 bags 1,040 pockets w. re all d'sposed of, but the
prices accepted show a decline of 3d per cwt ; low white went
at 9.5, mid 9s 6d to 10s, and good said 10s to 105 6d per cwt.
Rom, 131:A NDY, AND HOLLANDS.—For West India Rum
the market has been in a quiet state. Leewards have maintained
the former value, Jamaica has declined Id to lid per gallon,
excepting for the finest sorts, the. sales have been 150 puns
Lecwards, proof common at 2s 2d good, 2s 3d; and of
Jamaica 100 puns, middling quality '2B to 29 pel•
cwt over proof at 4s -Bd, good middling to goOd 30
•to 35 over at 4i 9.1 to 3s 4d to 5s Bd. Of Calcutta Ruin sub-
jeet to the high -duty, • the large quantity of 400
puns were so'd at Is aid to Is 4d proof, but of
Ruin with certificee the sales have been only 100 puns,
Is 10d, good quality at Is 11d, m'ql to goad 13 8d to Is 7d,
1.;:v cloudy Is 7d to is lid per gal. There have been some ar-
rivals of Rum. Brandy was in bisk request towards he close
of last week. Cognac first brands of the vintage of 18.36 has
beoa selling at 5s 9.1 for hhds, and 5s 7d for puns ; do 1837
}Aids 5s sd, puns 5s 11; do 1838 hhds 5s Id, puns 4s lld ;
do 18:39 hhds 4s Bd, puns 4s 6d ; do 1840 hhds 4s '2d, puns 4s
per gallon. Geneva dull of sale at Is lid to 2s for common,
and at 2s tid to 2s Bcl fur the best.

To-day holders of num were firm, anticipating that a Go-
vernmi...nt contract will be shortly declared, and former rates
were sustained ; but there was little business done. liritish

Cora Spirits have declined to 9s Bsl per gallon, at which rate
the distillers arc forcing sales, but there are few buyers.
SracEs.--,-Tolay there was a fair inquiry after several kinds
of Spice, this may be ascribed to the important reduction pro-
posed to he made in the duties. Black Pepper was in good
requt, and stiffer rates paid ; sales of common -and fair Su-
matra made at 2d a 2,73 d. Cassia Lignea much wanted, 893 to
9'2 paid for mid and good mid.
INnico.---Madras 2s 3d to 3s 3d hare been paid for low
and, middling quality. At auction on Wednesday 4 chests
common Mlidras went at 2s 2d to 2s 3d per lb. her sa'e on
the.l2th April, 3,009 chests were,declared. Spanish has met
with more attention.

CoemNeaL.—To-thy the demand was active, and at public
sale 214 serons all sold, but at a dedine of 21 per lb; very low
anti foxy silvers went at 3s Id to 3s 5,1, middling and good
3s 6d to 4s 4d, ordinary blacks 4s 4d to 4s 61 per lb.
. SALTPETRE.—'Phis arternoon there were ready buyers of
Rough, and at public s:aie 2,388 bags Calcutta went off at fully
former reel, and all sold ; refraction 134 to 12i per cent., at
27s 6d, per cent. 27s to 27s lid, 5i to 41 per cent. 27s to
27s 6d, and unretracted (rood 27s 6 Ito 283 per cwt.
TA LLow.—To-day the trade operated freely, and it is diffi -
cult to get P Y Candle under 48s 6d on the spot. The large
quahtity of 1,000 pkgs South American is declared for sale on
Friday, besides 200 casks Russia.
Otr.s.--:The market has been in a dull state for Linseed Oil,

and:, prices have declined :to 3316 d to 33s 9d per cwt. v Rape
has moved off steadily at former rates.. Olive 53/ to 54/ for
Suanish, and 591 to 601. for Gallipoli. Importers of Southern
Oil having submitted tó reduced rates of lOs per tun, has led to
a good demand, and 249 tuns, at public sale, in good casks were
principally sold ; fine-33115s to 341105, good 32110 s to 33/ 10s,
ord and mid 3115 s to 32155, inferior dark 271 r:s to 2815 s per
tun ; the home trade were the principal buyers. Pale Seal
has been little inquired after, but the supply being scanty,
holders have been enabled to get 391 lOs to 391 15s for
small parcels of first quality. For other kinds of Common
Fish Oils the market has been in a dull state, and
prices have declined lOs to 15s per tun. At auction 60 tuns
went as follows :—Straw Seal at 33/ 1540 Newfoundland Whale
301155, Newfoundland Cod 271 lOs to 271 15s, Dog Oil 28/,
Cod Foots 161, Blubber 91, pumpings of Southern 161 per tam.
To-day Cod Oil was in good request for export, at 271 15s ;
and of low dark Seal Oil several parcels were taken at 27/ lOs
to 25! per tun.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-110USE.
Three gentlemen having waited upon the Lord Mayor in the
Justice-room, while his Lordship was engaged ins transacting
the public business. and requested his attention in private, his
Lordship requested that they would communicate with SI
Peter Laurie, who was in another room, and who would readily
give them advice. Soon afterwards Sir Peti•r Laurics entered
the Justice-room, accompanied by the applicants, and stated
that they had to complain of a very extraordinary species of
swindling which he apprehended was becoming very general,
and to meet which,* believed, exposure in the public papers to-
be indispensably necessary. It a•Teared from what had been.
represented to him by two of the parties who happened to be
executors to the will of an old lady deceased, that a person had
gone to Doctor's commons; examined the will; took
down the name and addresses of the executors ; drew
a bill, and forged the name of the deceased to
it, and sued the executors for the amount. Tha executors,
knowing that the old lady at the very time the bill was alleged
to be drawn was bedridden and paralytic, and wholly unable
to sign any document, of course resisted the payment, and a
case which appeared in the newspapers, in which a similar
attempt to impose was made, completely owned their eyes,
and confirmed them in their determination not to be victims
to the miscreants who planned such a nefarious scheme of
robbery.

After a lengthened statement from the applicants respecting
the mode in which the forgery had been committed, and re-
marks from the Lord Mayor sod Sir Peter Laurie on the
danger to the public from such practices, his Lordship said he
would take care that the nefat ious transactio.: should be
inquired into.