The Sun.
London, England, 1829-02-03 00:00:00

CITY MARKETS.-TWO O'CLOCK.

SUGAR.--The delivery of Plantation Sugars last
week was 2,715 11Hs. and 129 tees., and the stock
yesterday in the West India Docks was 26,299
hhds. and 1,754 tees. Strong descriptions of Ja-
maica are full Is. dearer than this day week, and as
the arrivida will be few for the next three months,
are expected further to advance. The stock of
Mauritius is getting low, only about 20,000 bags.
Since the sale little has been done in East India
Sugars. Refilled goods are firm. The Continental
markets for colonial produce are stated to be active.
This morning the Sugar market opened firmly, but
as yet not merh has been done.
COMSI.—The demand for Coffee is less active
than it was, and since the Company's sale but little
business done. Some sales of St. Domingo are re-
ported at from 375. to 38s. per cwt.
Rum.—Owing to numerous arrivals, the market
to-day is less active than on Friday. Leewards are
2s. 4d.; Jamaicas 28 over proof, 3s. Bd. Delivered
last week 661 puncheons, of which 268 were for
export. The stock in the West India Docks yester-
day was 17,526 puncheons, and 1281 libels.
Tonacco.—Considerable business is doing in
Tobacco, both on speculation and by the trade, but
principally by the former. It is now said to be the
intention of Government to lay the additional duty
on Stemmed Tobacco imported after the sth April
next. If such he the case, the revenue will not be
immediately limited, as it is calculated in the different
ports of England there is sufficient for two years'
consumption. The holders of Tobacco are very
fimromne
;lfiafn: stemmed, 7d. to Bd.; middling, 6id to
6/d.; common and short, sid. to sd. per lb.; com-
31d. to 4d.; good do., qd. to 5d.; fine,
sid. to 5/tel. A further advance expected.
In SPICES a fair quantity of business doing, and
prices maintained.
SALTPETRE.—The demand for Saltpetre is less
active, on account principally of the near approach
of the Company's Sale. The price is from 255. 3d.
to 255. 6d. per cwt. The demand for the Continent
is languid.
BALTIC PRODUCE.—The market for Tallow is
heavy, and there are sellers at 40s. per cwt. The
reported intention of Ministers to propose an addi-
tional duty on foreign Tallows has had little effect,
though it obtains some belief. The quantity of
home Tallow is sufficiently great to supply the trade
at present, and is at 41s. 6d. per cwt. The delivery
lbst week was 1276 casks against 2300 in the cor-
responding week of last year. The stock 26,700
casks. Tallow at St. Pstcrsburgh, on thu 18th ult.,
95 rubles, Hemp, 95 rubles.
On.a.—The market is higher, Linseed 19/. 10s.
old tun ; Greenland 261. ; Pale Seal 20/. par tun.
COTTON.—No encreascd demand : there are some
large sales this week.

The commercial engOic is proceeding steadily
in Paris. The subject, hefere the committee during the
last week was not one of flinch interest to the English
public. The inquiry related to the production of sugar
from beet-root. A Mons. Blangtiet, end others, who
have manufactured a great deal of sugar from this
root, gave long evidence in its favour. They proved,
by certificates from chymists, that the sugar so obtained
is fully equal to the refined anger of the colonies ; and
they estimate the profits of the manufacture e.t from
17 to 25 per cent., according to the extent of the capital
employed and the nature of the soil upon which the beet-
root is grown. I AB I NGDO N.—An affair orrather an unpleasan;
UxBRIDGE;JAN. 31.—0 n Saturday last, a nature to the parties concerned took place on Thursday
sehoolmuter, nnderwrnt an examination before T. T. last. A tradesman of Abingdon was on the point of lead-
Clarke, Esq., on a charge of having criminally assaulted ing to the hymeneal altar the object of his warm affections,
Sarah Higgs, one of his pupils, on Thursday evening, the when, in consequence of some private information received
22d inst. The case is altogether of too revolting a maim, Iby the officiating minister, that gentleman refused to per-
to allow na to detail Prticulare; The prisoner is a native form the ceremony. The fact is, the intended bride was
of Scotland, and has a wife and one child ; he went to • the sister of the intended bridegroom's first wife (he has
players. lie was folly committed Uxbridge about font of strolling had two), and the laws of consanguinity forbade the
trial at the solemnization of the match. The feelings of disappoint,
next Sessions.—County Chronicle. Inn-at may be easily appreciated.—Reading Mercury.
wtoithtaakepahristy

This being the day appointed for the Journey-
men silk Weavers to wait en masse upon the
Prime Minister with a petition, setting forth their
grievances, and praying' for. relief, at an early
hour, indeed long before day-light, hundreds were
assembling from the different parishes of Shoreditch,
Spitalfields, Bethnal-green, and the Hamlets of
Mile-end Old and New Town. The place of meet-
ing was in front of the. Royal Standard, public-
house, and by an extrordinary coincidence, the ex-
pensive area in its front where the Journeymen con-
gr,y,ated, is called " Waterloo Fields.. " Crowds wp
to eleven o'clock continued :pouring- in from evecy
direction until at that hour the meeting comprehended
no less than 10,000 persons. The greatest order-
and decorum prevailed, and though ice had expected
to see much misery, we were agreeably disappoint.
ed by observing, that at least externally, this iodise-
.
, class of the
.community bore the appearance
•
o rative comfort.
•a '-fore 11 Mr. Isaac Duce took the chair
onortt-,-
and addresso :he Meeting from an open window.
sd the Memorial, which was
on the first floor.
The Secretary there.
as follows : Wellington, First Lord of
To Tfis Grace the Duke at
The. humble Petition of
the Treasury, hr. Scc.
the Bread Silk Weavers of ,Sll. italfielda .and its viei-
nity, humbly
have ventured
Showeth, That your memorialists
idy
ce under cir-
to present themselves before your Or& .
cumstances of the most trying descripfi on hr
veraving
laboured for a considerable period of time u.
severe privations,. which your Memorialists 411'1'14
_
06;„h
venture to attribute to the competition into \ •-••
they have been placed in consccpience of the ik 'tr°-
duction of foreign wrought silks, therehy.stiperee, 11"
ing the demand for their labour, and depriving then,
of the means of subsistence for themselves and de-
pendant offppring.
Your memorialists do not presume to dietate
to your Grace, or his Majesty's Government,,
any particular mode of relief for -the 'extreme,.
distress now existing in the district of your memo-.
rialists, in which district alone there are npWards of
16,000 looms, 7,600 of which are totally out' of em-
ployment, .
and the remainder wily partially employed,.
and working at so kr: a rate of wages that they
cannot obtain the most common necessaries Of. life,.
exclusive of the thousands dependent upon thepoor
rates for their existence.
Your metnorielists, labottringii,eder such an accu-
mulation of distress and misery, rest their entire
hopes that your Grace, in eonjunetioi; with his Ma-
jesty's Ministers, will adopt such nurodiete 'mea-
sures as wilt relieve them from the wreehed and
unmerited eawlition under which they flare: now
placed, and your pOitioners, as in duty botirkl. •
Will evervray,

When this petition l„,`1 been read, the diiferenr
passages of which were rece:ired •with universal ac-
clamation, the procession was !'ormed, end shortly
after eleven o'clock moved off the izround to Dowp-
ing-street, The greatest order prevai;ed during their
progress.
On reaching DowninO•street, the Depitation.pre-
sented their petition to his Grace, who received it
with attention, .and promised to.lay it be►;ore his,
Majesty in a feW hours, and endeavour to find some
mode lkv which their situation could be,ameliorated.
The answer appearej to satisfy the Wearers, rho
quietly rerired home. •

FASHIONABLE IN TELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

.Lord Maryboroughvnt his house in Stfirr...llo-dreet, from hi'.
seat, Fern Hill, Windsor; lord and Lady fin_qierst and family,.
nt their house in Lower Grosvenor-street, 'frot.-1 their Prat in:
Kent ; the Marquis and Marchioness of Lanestow,,,e and family,
yesterday, at Lansdowne House, Berkeley-stjuare, from their:
scat, Rowood Park, Wilts ; Prince arid Princess !,ieTen.
Ashburnham House, Dover-street, for the arabot, fro'* Rich
mond; Mr. and Mrs. Francis Drake, in Gloucester-glare, from'
Paris ; Major Clayton, in Pall-mall, from Dublia ;, laj fairs
Edmund Hall, R.N. in Pall-mall, from Lisbon ; Mrs. curet klie4
Leigh, in Baker-street, from Brighton ; Major Owen, in ?fa-.
tugal-street, front Nottingham ; Colonel and Lady FAeanort
Lowther, at their house in Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, Rory}
Cottesinore, Rutlandshire; J. Calvert, Esq. M.P. and family,at'•
their house in Upper W'innxile•street, from their seat, ARAI'S'',
Hall, Herts ; Lord Chichester, at 'the Burlington Hotel, (Mel
Burlington and Cork-streets, from Ireland; Sir L. Lanni',
at ditto, from Ireland ; Colonel Daviei, at Ellis's .Hotel, St.
James's-street, from Sussex ; ThOmas Yard, Emq. at ditto, front •
Brighton ; Count Colbert, at Crawley's Hotel, (late Cook's)•
Albemarle-street, from Thames Ditton ; the Honourable A•
and Mrs. Foster, at the Royal Hotel, ht. Jarnea'satreet, from,
tour; Captain F. D. Radcliffe, at ditto, from a tour; Mr. and
Mrs. C. Cooke, at Symmon's Hotel (late Jordan's), St. James's-
street, from their sent in Hampshire; Lady Pilkington aid SW
Pilking ton, at the Berners Hotel, Berners-street, front their
seat, Dedham Grove, Essex Robert Trevor, Dig. at ditto,
front hit seat, fengrith House, Bedfordshire; Thorns Danieht,
Esq. at ditto, from Berkhampsteed ; Mr. and'lldrs. Albany ant*.
family, at Fenton's Hotel, At Jarises's-street, front' Brighton c•
John Doherty, Eaq. Solicitor-General of Ireland, 'et ditto;;
Lieut.-Col. O'iteillt, Faq. at ditto, from Windsor;. Cot. Van—
eittart and son, at ditto, from Shottesbrocik.

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