The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-14 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL.

THE HAGUE, OCT. 11.—The serenade which the
amateurs of this town offered to the new-married
couple, took place on Sunday evening in the Picture
Galleries. The King and Queen, the Prince and
Princess of Orange, the other members of the Royal
Family, the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of
Saxe Weimar, and Duke Bernard of Saxe Weimar,
the King's Minister, the diplomatic body, and persons
belonging to the Court, were present. The sight of
this rich and splendid Gallery, lighted by numerous
chandeliers, was really magnificent. Among the
pieces performed were some written for the occasion
by M. Calisch, and composed by M. Lubrok, which were
highly applauded. The ball on Monday evening in
the Palace of the Noordeinde, was extremely magnifi-
cent, and the company very numerous. The pleasure
of the company was only damped by the reflection
that the young Princess, the ornament of the fetes at
Court, was so soon to leave us ; in fact her departure
is fixed for Saturday.

MUNICH, OCT. '2l—(From the Leipsic Gazette.)—
The negotiations of England with the Austrian and
other German Governments for the traasit of the
Overland India flails, by way of Trieste, &c., are, as
we are assured, nearly concluded, and an English
courier with the snail has either already taken, or will
very shortly take this route.
liANov ER, OCT. 4.—lt is said that the King has
not entirely recovered from the illness which seized
him at Dusseldorf r, but still feels himself very weak ;
those about hum are not without uneasiness on his
account.—Hambargh Bursenhalle, Oct. 8.

• DUTCH FUNO:).—Amoveitont, Oerr. 11.
Money. Kilts.
Actual Deb , '2% per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
A insi t nrtutic,4 ,i', percent. l4 % 04''
Paths, ditto, 3% per ce4t l7 77k
Commercial Company, 4% per cent ,31 •36%
Ditto (1t535 and 1837) 5 per tent.
Loan 1837, 5 per cunt. - ! 11!:, 100
Exchange on Lontiost, One month t 2 25
Two months .. 12 17y.
Hamburgh, One month 25 $ % •
Two months _ 35 (.2%
Dutch Papers, Oct. 12
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRussats, Oe r. 11.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent , pg
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent
Loan of 'I hirty 113:ions, Four per Cod tti
----- Three per Cent .... ..... --
-- Thirty-seven Milli 113, ditto •
71%
_ —_-- 11849)... 11:N
Loan of City, 1837, Four per Cent 92
Society of Commerce, Four and a Halt per Cent r't
Bank ~f Belgium, Five per Cent •.• 76
National Society . ... ... ..
I.xcha,g • on Lordon (short)
—III-muds PR pers, 0 t It.
A LIbTIII ',lv t• UND3.— VIENNA, OCT. 3
Five per Cents. Metalliques -.. ittl%
Four per Cents
'three per Cents .
Bank Shar a
Allgemeine Zell nag, Oct. 7.
.11 AMBU RGH BORSEN lIALLE, ()cr. 8.
Kills. Money
Austrian S per Cents.
Bank Shares 1035
Anglo. Russian Loan •10 1811%
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate !Wit
Inscription, Ist series l)3
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series 97%
Ditto in Certificates
New 4 per Cent. (1840) LS SS
Dutch Actual Debt, a% per Cent. .........
Ditto 5 per Cent. -
Polish Bonds
New Tickets -
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent.
Spanish, New 5 p .r Cents.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
EFFECTS OF MONOPOLY.

LONDON, Ou•r. 14, 1842.
The following average prices, exclusive of duty, of
Brown or Muscovado British Sugars, will be pub-
lished in the Gazette of this evening :

s. d.
West India 35 9} per cwt.
East India 36 94
Mauritius 29 W
The total average price of the three descriptions is
345. 1 ldi.
The actual weights of Sugar sold on account of tie
importers, in the week ending the 4th inst., accord-
ing to the returns made upon oath by the Sugar bro-
kers, in conformity with the Act of Parliament, and
on which weights the above prices are computed, con.
sisted of 21,482 cwt. West India, 12,820 cwt. East
India, and 8,041 cwt. Mauritius.

About 2,000 cwt. of Kaur, and dark damp Sugars,
have been sold at from 20s. to 265. per cwt. ; the first
kind being classed as East India, and the second as
Mauritius, unfairly depresses the average prices: of
those sorts of Sugars, and of course reduces the total
average price of the three descriptions.
There were several sales of foreign Sugar, on Wed-
nesday, the prices varying from 15s. to 21s. Sugar,
of the average quality of West India, may be readily
bought at 16s. per cwt. The monopolists obtain an
excess of price at 19s. per cwt. Foreign _Molasses,
good, is worth 7s. per cwt. The Government have
advertised for 100 tons of Sugar. Why should not
the navy be supplied with double refined Sugars from
the bonded refineries in London, at 255. 6d. per cwt.,
rather than give the sailors unwholesome raw Sugar,
at 355. per cwt.
The account of the quarter's revenuo, just published,
shows a falling off in Sugar duties of 183,8841., being
a larger amount than that of the Income-tax collected
for the quarter. The 313,8841., set down as Income-
tax, are the proceeds of deductions from the dividends
in July last, and are, for half-a-year, as will be recol-
lected.

RESTORATION of YORK MINSTER.
On Thursday last the adjourned public meeting of
the nobility and gentry of York, interested in the
restoration of York Minster, was held in that city.
Amongst the Noblemen and Gentlemen present, we
recognized the following :—Lord Wharncliffe, Earl
Fitzwilliam, Lord Feversham, Lord Wenlock, the
Hon. and Rev. Augustus Duncombe, Octavius Dun-
combe, Esq., M.P., the Rev. W. V. Harcourt, Gran-
ville Harcourt Vernon, Esq., 11LP., the Venerable
Archdeacon Wilberforce, the Venerable Archdeacon
Todd, the Rev. Dr. Hook, of Leeds, Richard Bothell,
Esq., of Rise. Lord Wharnelitre took the chair, and
opened the meeting, after which the Report was read,
detailing the progress which had been made in the
different portions of the works under renovation.
From the limited means, viz, of 4691., which had al-
ready been exceeded by an over-expenditure of 601.,
advancement could not be expected to he great. The
bell, clock, and the arches and pillars of the nave had
been repaired, and the vaulted ceiling of this last part
of the edifice was next to be proceeded with. The
Dean and Chapter, it was stated, had already supplied
a sum of 4,000/. to the restoration of the nave, in ad-
dition to the sum of 6,0001. which they are now ex-
pending in repairs to the north transept necessary to
the security of the fabric. It was calculated that if
the whole of the requisite funds were placed at the
disposal of the Committee the works of the nave would
be finished early in the ensuing year. Mr. Smirke
estimated that the expense of the whole would be
26,0001, ; the sum of 12,000/, is now needed to com-
plete the whole.

THE WAR IN CHINA. —An account of the pro-
ceedings of our Naval and Military Force in the
Chinese Seas, from an intelligent officer, who has
taken an active part in them, has been greatly de-
sired; and this we are, at last, to have from a quarter
that cannot fail to satisfy the expectations of the most
exacting. Commander Bingham, lt.N., as First
Lieutenant of the Modeste, one of the squadron most
conspicuously, engaged throughout the war, was an
eye witness of every important affair with the enemy,
and from his position unist easily have obtained the
fullest information of all mutters which did not come
under his own observation. lit was seriously wounded
in action, and having greatly dist*guished himself by
his gallantry was promoted and saint home. The
work he has announced, besides its professional value
in the eves of the author's brother officers, is said to
be an exceedingly entertaining narrative, as Captain
Bingham from personal intimacy with many of the
natives of different classes, has been able to introduce
into his pages very graphic and interesting sketches
of the Chinese, from the highest officers of the State
to the humblest of its innumerable subjects. A more
attractive work, at the present moment, it is scarcely
possible to imagine.

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