The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-10 00:00:00

COI.ONIAL MARKET.

There were few buyers, and holders of goods were not so firm.
Refined Sugar sold slowly; standard lumps at 84s. 6d. per cwt.
Coffee little inquired for, but prices were steady; good ordi-
nary Ceylon 763. pe:. cwt. Rice less in request, but prices
firm. Saltpetre sold at 265. to 2i s. per cwt.
TEA MARKET.

The market was very dull, and it was difficult to quote price*;
I s. 9d. the nearest rate for Company's Congou, cash.
TALLOW MARKET.
Prices for P.Y. Candle steady at 469. 3d. on the spot,. and
495. 6d. for delivery in the last three months of the year.
COAL MARKET.
Ships arrived since last mantet .day, 92.
. d. P. 6.
Adair', 'ls U Walls End Hetton 2ll 0
Buddle's West Hartley l 0, Wall, End Lambton
Carr's Hank/ l3 6; Walls End Morrison ...... .. 1, .
Leaez's Main
Nelson's Wrat Hartley i7 IWalls End Russell's Hetton 9.1), ;.',
~ew far-Melo Moor l3 9 Walls End Stewart's
Ord's Itedheugh ll 6, Walls Eud Ha! tlep00l
l'ontop Windsor
Townley...
i 'nan 19
West Hartley ........ ......... 111 OiWalls Er d Bowburn l7
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Wylam
Walls End Hedlcy tB3' Walls End Coundon
Walls End Hilda ... IS 3 Walls Ent Clarence Hetton 16 9
Walls rand Killingworth ... 18 6 Walls End RichardsaresioeslB.
Walls End Riddell's. ........ 9 6 Wal tt E. d 'less
6
Eden Main lB 6 Blythe l4
Walls End Belmont
W E. Braddyll's Heat, ......0 11 Hartley ...
Walls End Haswell . ....:11 9, Llaneennech Coal

Sir James Duke has paired of with Mr. Alciner-
man Copeland for the present week, both these gentlemen be-
ing on the rota at the Old Bailey Sessions.
Five pieces of cannon and two howitzers, talken
from the troops of Abd-el-Kader, have just been received in
Paris, nom the Governor-General of Algeria. They are plsa:ea
in the Ariillery Arsenal, Place St. I horuas d'Aquin ; they are
of very small calibre, and mounted on carriages with only two
wheels, which were drawn by hand.
The Leipsic Gazette states from Vienna, April 2.6,
that M. Pageot has entirety failed in his mission respecting the
ma riage of Queen Isabella, and that the Cabinet of Vienne
has reivaed to express any opinion on the subject until it ahoula
have consulted the Cabinets of Berlin and St. Ptter-burg.

Yesterday morning, at halt-past twelve o'clock, as a
spirited horse, belonging to Mr. Jonathan Chuter, carpenter'
35, Duke-street, Lambeth, was proceeding along the Waterlo
road, with one of his light vans, it took fright shortly attar
it had passed over the bridge, and ran at full speed against the
railings of No. 62, corner of Stamford street. Toe horise'o
neck was impaled on the iron spikes of the railings, and he wai
killed on the spot. The shafts of the van were smashed to
atoms, but the driver escaped uninjured. The value of the
horse was forty guineas.
The Government of Lucerne. has addressed a cir-
cular to all the other Cantons of Switzerland, inviting them to
come to a definitive resolution in the affair of the convents of
Argau.
THE ARNIY.—We are glad to find that the autho-
rities at the Horse Guards have at last found. cut their mistake
in permitting so long a period to have elapsed before they
made arrangements to have a sufficient supply of light cavelry
to relieve our Indian regiments, and also to send out ex,ra ones.
when occasions like the present call for them. We now hear
that it is immediately contemplated to have the light cavalry
regiments commence from No. 1, and end as at present with
No. 17 ' • consequently tour of the heavy regiments will be
equipped as light (the same as the 3d and 4th heavy were some
few years ago for a similar purpose). This force will at once
afford a sufficient supply for any emergency, and alloys
of a relief to the Indian regiments, at least in every twenty
years, which every one knows is a pretty long banishment froso
one's country in a tropical climate. We also hear that regular
2d battalions are to to be formed out of the new-(angled oil
companies which will he a great and manifest improvement net
the present experiment; indeed, our military force will have
to be greatly increased before the end of the year ; and map)'
more •e'd battalions (besides those alluded to) will have ..to be
raised, as it is quite out of the question going on with our pre-
sent military eseiblishment.—Navai and Military Gazette.
ROYAL ASIATIC SOCILTY.—The anniversary meet,:
ing was held on Saturday, and was very numerously attendfoo
Professor Wilson, the Director, in the chair. On the motio
of 'Sir Alexander Johnstone, seconded by Sir George Steer;
ton, Bart., M.P., Lord Fitzgerald end 'Vesey, chairman of :he.
Board of Control, was elected President, in the roons,,e,facie
late lamented Earl of Munster. 'f he Report of the.oLlessor
commenced by referring to his loss, as that of a had ss.r
whose love for the pursuits of Oriental literature asi•,4 t
dated him with the Royal Asiatic Society from its ear.' d
existence, and whose affable and courteous manner endealie
him, in a peculiar manner, to the larse circle with when no
he d friendly and familiar intercourse. Although be
opportunity of distinguishing himself in the Pindaree war
a soldier, yet he obtained great reputation for his unhesitating
and active benevolence in rescuing the native troops and earnp
followers from the fatal effects of cholera, and by his judicious
administration of remedies many lives were saved. The
loss which the Society had sustained by death was less than
usual, nutwthstanding the casualties from the recent disasterst
in Affghanistan. At the head of these was Sir Alexander
Burnes, than whom few had in so short a period of active se r-
yiee occupied a greater share in the public interest, whilst 'foe
had fallen more generally lamented. Amonst other casuitties'
were Sir Thomas Strange, the first Recorder of Madre s, to
which he was appointed in 1795, Professor Herren, of Crottic-
gen, and Professor (Altman Frank, of Munich. The total loss
of contributing members in the part year was 20, and the nuns'
ber of elections 14, besides two honorary and one foreign mete'
ber. The Society had received many valuable presents during
the part year, including a choice collection of beautiful Persia°
111 Ss., bequeathed by the late Mr. N. B. Edmonstone, 8°
volumes of Oriental M SS. and printed books, principally Turk-
ish, from the late General "homes Gordon, and ,everal Chinese
works from Sir George Staunton.
DARING ROBBERY AT THE POST-OFfiCE, SAINT
MARTIN'S-LE-GRAND.—A few minutes before four o'clod'
on Saturday afternoon, when the windows of the " Moss° rs,
Order office " were thronged with a crowd of persons, eagO
reaching over each other's shoulders for the purpose of haertding,
in their orders, and getting them cashed before the strikf_ne
the clock should put a stop to the business of the day, a gen-
tleman named Marriott, who is a Manchester warehouses's°
residing in '1 hames-street, had his pocket picked of a pocket,
book containing bank- notes and bills of exchange to the ansioso`
of nearly a hundred pounds.
Some time since a female named Spitzer died At
Algiers, by taking poison instead of a medicine which had bel,
oroered for her. 'the druggists, two partners, who caused th'
melancholy result, and their shopman, were brought to trial'
and condemned, the two former to three, and the latter to four
months' imprisorimeot, for their negligence in administering
poison by mistake The affair, however, did not end here: 'le
learn from Algiers that. the three children of Madame Spitzer,
having brought an action for damages against the druggi,"'
they have been condemned to pay 60Uf. a year to each of the
children until of age.
A correspondent writes from Rome :—" None o,f
the offers as yet made for the acquisition of the late Cardinal
Fesch's splendid collection of paintings have been adequate te
their acknowledged value ; but among the lovers of the 61':
arts whose arrival at Rome is daily expected, there are 50",.. to
who come with serious intentions of treating for this assetoblaV
of master-pieces, which although so nunaerons, ought never to
be separated from each other."
The Committee of the wine-growers of the Gironde
have just published in the Bordeaux journals a declaration f
the principles by which they are guided. They declare that(
whilst they will neglect no means of fixing the attention of
the Government, arid the Legislature to the distiessed state 0'
the important branch of industry, in the name of which thel
are acting, they will set no example of a disregard for the
laws, but will, on the contrary, scrupulously respect these'
Alluding to the reported refusal of seine of the wine'
growers to pay their taxes, they say that no such insesr's,
rectiou against the law has been contemplated ; ‘vbits..
has been called fur was permission to pay the taxes is
kind, in consequence of the impossibility of the growers to „ge
their produce and pay in money. This proposition not isel'ea
A few days ago
oep)t.a,coosuuoncgineueb;fai
ntnait
acceded to, the Committee remind the growers that to peace
al
ns
to such an extremity as a refusal to pay taxes would be Meg
and revolutionary.
in
Inen'aercnl: thetanamedaTrtC ret eehruee.
aoctaabtacnee
hrtt I,hweuseei b,noe
hf tehhi;osel titledl
hnat
otniSheaitdishnetdß-terGrbui
ienuoiertritgfbeaessunc-
stabbed his creditor in three places with a knife, and killed's'.
instantaneously. Aucanthe was immediately arrested.
The Strasburt4. journals relate that one of the band
of the theatre in that town, having been sentenced by the Cot
rectional Tribunal to punishment for some slight offence, w°
overcome by sirame that on Wednesday morning last, while oe
the public promenade, he blew out his brains with a pistol' ,0
A few days since some workmen, whilst digging of
the village of Reument, near Camhray, came on the bones
e 8
16 persons, with some swords and pieces of iron. The bladed'
were much oxidized, and the handles, which were of vo,
were quite decayed. Some small vases of baked earth, hearten
the impression of two serpents twined together, as are seen S,
a caduceus, were found V, it I them. Nothing appeared to
Is
sate to what age these remain belong,

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BIRTHS.
On the Ist inst., at Tours, the lady of Thomas Butler, E4''
of Brunton, Nor thumberland, of a ,on arid heir.
On the 2d inst., Airs. Kislingbur3, of High Holborn, of a 5°::;
On the 4th inst., at Lavender-hill, Surrey, the lady of Jo'
Brightman, Esq., of a da u
Hghter. 1, the
on the sth inst., in anover-terrace, Regent's-par.,

lady of Lit utenant-Colonel Goldie Taubman;' Scots
Guards, of a son.

M.4RRIED. hi
On the 3d inst., at Wandsw rth Church, Gr,„,
Key, }- sq , eldest son of Sir John'Key, Bart., to Alai y S APP ';;
second daughter of G. H. Hahn, Esq., of the Orchard, WBll
worth. MaPt

On the 4th inst., at St. Gvorge's, Hanover-square, ":430i
A. S'pong, late of the King's Rifles, to Susannah
of the late James Selby, Esq., of Town Mailing, heat..../

DIED.
On the 361 inst., at Dorking, Elizabeth, the wife Of I‘l'
ander Hart, solicitor. Wet
Ori the 4tii inst.. Mary Teresa Louisa, the eldest daug
of William Church, Esq.
Or. the sth inst., at Leamington. Thomas Colbeck.
surgeon, of Hertford, aged 69.

LoLiticn: Printed End Published Fy ' YecT-ML;cl
4,. 112, titran . at The SUA Office, No 11'2, °tr.—
the County of Middlesex, Tuesday, May 10, 1842.

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