The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-21 00:00:00

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON MARKETS.
(From the London Nev., Price Current of yesterday.)

SuGaß.—The Sugar Market last week gradually im-
proved ; the holders became more firm, and the purchases
were extended to nearly 3,000 hhds. and tees. ; the prices
were without var'ation, except that the buyers could not
purchase on such favourable terms as during the preced-
ing week. This day the Sugar Market is rather dull,
owing to the purchases for the next two weeks becoming
due about Christmas, when money is generally scarce, and
little or no business doing; the estimated sales this day are
900 hhd.. and tees., including the Barbadoes public sale,
which went is. per cwt. lower. Prices of Muscovades a
shade lower. The stocks now (taking the three dock
warehouses) are about 6,000 hhds. and tees. more than
last year, all next week they will probably be alike; the
only bad feature in the Sugar Market is the failing off in
theweekly deliveries, the last week „nearly 1,000 hhde.
and tees. less than the corresponding. week of .ISr.B.
Total deliveries from the warehouses last week 2,891 hhds.
and tees., and 2,732 hag•. Stock in London and St.
Katharine's Dock. '7,061 hhds. and tees. ; Havannah
Sugar 3.697 boxes, Brazil 1,422 boxes, Mauritius 7,962
bags. The request for refined goods increased consider-
ably last week; the demand for home consumption was
considerable, and was produced by the wholesale grocers
being entirely out of stock; 'the request for export was
chiefly for the Mediterranean ; the purchases made were
at prices a shade lower. The letters from Hamburg
state the arrival of refined goods from the United States;
low lumps sold at 28s. 6d., the quality was very bad, but
it shows the gradual improvethent in America, and we
have no doubt that in a few years she will become a for-
midable rival to England for both raw and refined Sugars
in the Continental markets. This afternoon the whole-
sale grocers appear purchasing on a limited scale : the
demand for export is so considerable that the market is
kept bare of goods, hut the prices of low lumps are a
shade lower; the purchases for the Mediterranean con-
tinue, goods for the double bounty also crushed, the re-
quest for Bastards is also considerable. Molasses 6d. lower.

EAST INDIA SuoAa.—By public sale on Friday last
4541 bags of Mauritius Sugars, a good parcel; nearly the
whole sold Is. per cwt. lower, particularly the Sugars
about 50s. Few purchases of-Bengal Sugar were lately
reported.

FOREIGN SUGAR.—The purchases of Foreign Sugars,
100 chests fair white Havannah 475., middling yellow
2Ss. ; 100 boxes low to middling white Rios 325. ; 25
hhds. good yellow Porto Rico 255. to 255. 6d.
COFFEE.—The purchases of last week were rather on
a confined scale; the ordinary descriptions of Jamaica
went off with more spirit, and at rather higher prices, the
other descriptions unvaried ; there was much competition
for some fine parcels of Berbice Coffee, but ordinary and
unclean descriptions were very dull at a decline of 2s. a 3s.
A parcel of passd ordinary coloury Brazil sold at 345. 6d. ;
400 bags good ordinary Batavia sold at 325. ; the
latter was 6d. to Is. lower. The three public sales this
forenoon consisted of 297 casks 10 bags British Plantation,
544 bags Malabar and 347 bags Foreign; the Brazil
sound 325. a 325. 6d., which is 6d. to ls. lower; the
Jamaica and Berbice sold at full prices ; the Malabar chiefly
taken in 50s. a 555., which is 28. a 3s. lower.
RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—The Government
contract at Is. 93d. has an unfavourable effect on the
Market; some parcels of Leewards are reported, averaging
proofs at ls. 9d. ; in Jamaica Rums there ace no pur-
chases of any extent. Brandy continues firm. In Ge-
neva there are no sales worth reporting. To-day some
Jamaica 11 to 16 over-proof 2s. 4d. a 2s. sd.

HEMP, FLAX, AND TALLOW.—TaIIow has become very
heavy, one of the most eminent firms being determined
and extemive sellers both of parcels here and also fur fu-
ture deliveries. Ilemp and Flax are also dull. The let-
ters from St. Petersburgh are dated 3i inst. Exchange
10d. 21-82; Tallow 98 to 99; Bought 1,600. Ships
arrived 747; Ships sailed 573.
'INDIGO.-The sale commenced on Wednesday, it con-
sists of 6,644 chests Licensed, and 915 Company's Indigo;
2,726 chests Bengal, 225 Madras, and 115 Oude have
pissed the sale ; 800 chests have been bought in, and 720
chests withdrawn; Bengal, ord. and fine 6d. to 9d. under
last sale, mid. Is. lower; Madras 6d. per lb. lower; the
marks not supported by the proprietors have gone off with
great languor ; the third day's sale went oil' with rather
more spirit than the two first days. The sale is post-
poned till Wednesday, on account of yesterd iv and this
day being Jews' holydays. Good and fine violet 6s. 3d. a
71. Id. per lb. ; ord. and middling ditto ss. 3d. a 6s.
per lb. ; violet and copper 4s. id. a 53. 6d. peril). ; mid.
anti good consuming qualities 4s. 2d. a ss.

. _
FRUIL—A public sale of new French Fruit was at-
tempted on Thursday List, consisting of Prunes, Imperials,
and French Plums in half, qr., and small brls., cases,
small boxes. and crrtoons ; only two or three lots were
disposed of; the prices are in consequence nominal.
SPICES. —Several rather large parcels of Pepper are re-
ported sold by private contract. The inquiries after Nut-
megs have also been renewed. By public sale 340 chests
Cassia Lignea 645. to 64.1. 6d. ; 160 chests Cassia Buds
BOA. a S Is.

Ons.—The accounts from the Fishery are more favour-
able ; the estimate is 10 per cent. higher, but the report
has no marked effect on the market prices.
IRISH PROVISIONS.-Beef and pink are little varied.
Butters are still offered at lower prices without facilitating
sales to any extent. The demand for new Bacon is con-
siderable, parcels on the spot at 48s. a 50s. ; the trade
have evinced little inclination to contract for parcels free
on board; they appear to decline taking large stocks at
precept prices, Tierce India Beef? 42 pieces? Sibs. each,

DI PORTED. II EX I'ORJED.
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Same pe-II Prev ton,
This rind last I; Iv this
year. year. I year.
--- -
/3;lgs, &c. 13a,,, - , &c. Bags, &e. Ilirs, .Sze.
Liverpool 60:;,6,16 52-4,5'29 i 1,822 45.359
London 59,803 60,070 2,902 50,011
13 I us go w NI
.1 ,7 34 :39,301 j 237
Total exported in 1829 ...... 160,691.
Same per led 18,4 62,436.

Reckoning five bottles to the Imperial gallon,
the consumer plys to the Revenue for every bottle cf Cape
wine Gil., port,- Madeira, sherry, &c , 10d. ; French
wines, Is. G.l. ; rum, Is. Sd. ; brandy and ll:hands,
4s. 6d. ; producing alto.,;ether annually about 5,000,000/.
Of this Englind pays more than four millions, or 20 times
as much as Ireland, and 17 times as much as Scotland.
Ireland, with its seven millions, producing considerabty
lets revenue than Scotland with two millions.

The trade from Liverpool to Manchester is
estimated by the Directors at 2000 tons per clay
of goods, or 3000 tons gross ; that is, including
the carriages which convey them. Mr. Walker
wns required to frame his report with reference
to this amount of carriage.
The length of the railway is 34 miles. It has
two tracks, one for going, and another for re-
turning ; and three inclined planes, one in the
tunnel at Liverpool, lk mile long, rising 1 foot
in 48 ; one at Rainhill, 7 miles eastward, rising
1 foot in 96, and q mile long; and one at Sut-
ton of the same length and depth. The other
parts of the line scarcely differ sensibly from a
dead level, never rising more than 1 foot in 800.
Mr. Walker assumes the most convenient lo-
comotive engine to have a sower of 10 horses,
wheels 5 feet diameter, steam at 40 or 501bs. per
square inch, and to weigh with its tender (a car-
riage which follows with coals and water) 10
tons. It will be observed, that the Rocket, the
Novelty, and other engines now trying at Liver-
pool, have not one-half of this weight. An en-
gine of this description, he finds, can take 191;
tons gross, or 13 tons of goods, and 6 of wag-
gons, at ten miles per hour, which is reduced to
nine by stoppages. It will cost, with its tender,
720/. Its annual expence in working, he esti.
mates at 561. for capital (assuming it to last 20
years), at 107/. for annual repairs, and 204/. for
wages, coal, &c. The original cost of a steam-
horse, therefore, is 720/., and the annual ex-
pence of working him 367/.

This locomotive machine will make three
trips daily between Liverpool and Manchester,
with thirteen tons of goods, which is equal to
the conveyance of 1170 tons one mile. Now,
estimating the daily traffic at four thousand tons
conveyed thirty miles, or 120,000 tons one mile,
the work upon the railway will require one hun-
dred and two engines, costing 37,0001. of an-
nual expence. But four stationary engines are
necessary at the inclined planes, and these in-
crease the annual charge to 43,0001. This may
be considered a 3 the entire annual expence upon
the locomotive system ; and this divided accord-
ing to the quantity of goods conveyed, gives an
expence of .2787 of a penny, or a little more
than one farthing (li. farthing precisely) per
mile for each ton of goods. This is the mere
expence for vehicles and traction, exclusive of
railway dues.
One-fifth more engines than are used require
to be kept, to supply the place of those under re-
pair. Adding these, the amount of capital ne-
cessary to furnish the locomotive and fixed en-
ables with their appendages, upon this plan,
will be 91,000/. This is exclusive of the steam
power to be employed at the tunnel.
Air. Walker next estimates the expence of the
Stationary Engine System. Upon this system,
the line is to be divided into stations of 1 miles,
and in some cases of one mile long, with two
engines at each. It is assumed that the fixed
engines are to drag the carriages at 12 miles an
hour, which it is reduced to by stoppages. The
whole line would, according to this plan, require
41 steam engines, viz.—two. of 60-horse power,
15 of 30-horse- power, and the others of 12 or
20. These engines would cost 87,0001.; but
the other necessary articles being added, the en-
tire capital required would be 101,0001. The
annual expence of working the fixed engines
would be 33,0001. ; and this sum divided by
the number of tons conveyed makes the rate per
mile 2134, cr one-fifth of a penny, for each mile.
We may now show the results in j uxta- position.
Capital necessary on the locomotive
system
Ditto, on the stationary system

afrerenee in favour of the locomotive... XlO,OOO 0 0
Annual expence and interest of evital on

locomotive system
Ditto, ditto, on stationary system

Difference in favour of stationary system £lO,OOO 0 0

Loenmotive system—rate per mile 2787 of a penny
Stationary s) stem—do. 2134 ditto.

Difference 1-16th of a penny, or
Or the rate by the two 3ystems is as seven to
nine in favour tit the stationary engines.
We should have mentioned that Mr. Walker
assumes the friction upon a well made railway to
be 1-180th, or that a force of traction of 12-,;-
pounds will carry forward a ton at 2-.); miles per
hour.

The consumption of fuel is estimated at 2-!--lbs.
per mile for each ton of goods.
The advantage of the locomotive engine over
the horse is little•ur nothing when we work with
low velocities, but becomes very great when high
velocities are employed.
On the Brunton and Shield's line, horse-
power is found to cost .45 of a penny, or very
near a half-penny per mile, for the ton. But
this is at the animal's most advantageous speed,
21 miles per hour. If it is raised to six miles an
2
hour, the expenee would be three times as much,
and at 10 miles an hour it would rise to 3d. per
ton. On the Darlington Railway the Engine-
men supply firemen and assistants with coals, oil,
tallow, &e. for an allowance of ,} ti . per ton per
mile. The finding and repair of the engine is
estimated to cost Id. more, For a horse and
driver the Company pay -kd. per mile for the
ton. Difference of speed causes 110 difference of

your instructions, or a quantity approaching to
it, the stationary reciprocating system is the best;
but that if any circumstances should induce you
to proceed by degrees, and to proportion the
power of conveyance to the demand, then we
recommend locomotive engines upon the line
generally, and two fixed engines upon ltainhill
and Sutton Planes, to draw up the locomotive
englinneas,reapsotrytepllrianstetdhetlgvooodyseaarnsd
agoca v
carriages."
finds." it
stated that the Company would be able to con-
vey goods from Liverpool to Manchester at Ss.
or 4s. per ton ; but let us call it ss. At pre-
sent the charge varies from 12s. to 205., and
may average about 15s. Now it is estimated
that about 2,000 tons pass each way daily ; and
as 10s. will be saved upon each ton, it follows
that the saving upon 4,000 tons will amount to
2,0001. per day, or the enormous sum of
600,000/. per annum !—a saving such as no
single improvement ever before produced. And
in this estimate we do not take into account the
advantage derived from the unexampled speed of
communication, ~vhich will give Liverpool and
Manchester nearly all the facility of intercourse
they could possess if they were parts of one city.
—Scotsman.

HOLYHEAD PACKETS.

kFrom the Dublin 21,.Turning Register.)

It has been stated as an answer to complaints
uttered lately relative to the lateness of Holyhead
packets, that on an average of voyages it is found
that Holyhead and Howth answer better am
packet stations than Liverpool and Dublin. We
should judge a priori, and without the light of
the least experience, that the former must be pre-
ferable to the latter station, and from this plain
reason, that there is necessarily incidental to it
fewer of the obstructions of adverse wind and
tide. While a packet from Liverpool is plod-
ding its weary way in unfavourable weather to the
longitude of Holyhead, and making probably not
five knots an hour, a coach is running on mer-
rily to the latter point at the rate of nine or ten.
A coach, almost in any weather, will go at the
average speed of a steam-packet in ordinary
weather ; and it is clear, therefore, that the navi-
gation which best answers the Post-office is that
which is conducted between the nearest points of
land. No one, then, who knows ans thing of
the matter, wishes for a change of the station
not that
from Holyhead to Liverpool. Put there is,
nevertheless,public mind ;therea strong wish
operatingot on
the
there s
be any change in the stations, but a material ono
in the vessels. The vessels on the Holyhead
station are propelled by engines of only half the
usual and necessary power. Clearly they should
have engines of the greatest efficiency, else it is
a precious humbug to talk of facilitating tho
tercourse between " the seats of the two govern-
ments ;" and those who were instrumental in
causing so many hundreds of thousands to be
spent on the Holyhead road, in filling hollows,
levelling hills and straightening circuits, ought
to be transported beyond the seas for the term
and period of their natural lives I There is only
one objection to an arrangement so much de-,
manded by the public convenience, and so ens
tirely in conformity with what has been previa
ously done to speed the intercourse with Lon-
don, and that is the hobby of the individual con-
nected with the English Post-office, 'ho origi-
nally suggested the establishment of Liverpool as
well as Holyhead packets. It is his hobby that
things should remain as they are. He is anxious
to show his wisdom ; to evince his perfect
bility in execution as well as design. Ile prog-
nosticated certain things as arising from the
rivalship set up against the Company's packets,
and he wishes to have his soothsaying in every
part of it verified. There can be no doubt that
it is the mere whimsicality of this gentleman, or
some paltry and peddling speculation relative to
passengers' fees, that keeps our mails so fre-
quently late, and renders nugatory all the won-
ders achieved on the Holyhead road, as set
forth in, we suppose, thirty volumes of. reports
presented to Parliament. It is astonishing that
no remonstrance from the Chamber of Com-
merce or any other body in this country has
brought under the consideration of the authoris
ties on the other side the consepences to public
convenience, and even the interests of trade,
arising from the whimsicality or the , peddlin,s to
which ever source the grievance complained of is
traceable. We have heard that these never-
ending and always bothering Commissioners of
Inquiry, are about to betake themselves to
packet stations, and to report of all things that
were ever heard or thought of concerning them,
and many more into the bargain. It parties
here, whose voices ought to he heard at the
fountain of authority, and listened to with de-
ference, wait until these bothering fellows corms
to the end of their mvstification and nonsense,
18-10 will overtake us before the most obviously
necessary alteration or modification in the packet,
or any other useful or rational system, will be
even attempted.

A middle-aged man, named SAYERS, in the
employ of Mr. RANGER, a builder of this place, while
pulling down an old house at Boxhill, on Friday, that a
new one might be erected on the site, a portion of the rub-
bish fell in upon him; he was discovered j.mmed in be-
tween the wall raid an own a short lime wtarwards, but
quite dead. He has left a wi.hAr and steer' or eight chi!.
dren to lament his pretnature end.