The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-28 00:00:00

Fr it E SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28 1i445.

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to his expulsion from Otaheite, as a concession on the part
of our Government to that of France; and he claims this
removal as a disavowal of Mr. Pritchard, on the part of
England, which counterbalance s the concessions made by
France in slightly disavowing D'Aubigny. Now, Lord
Aberdeen has alma) s represented the appointment of
Mr. Pritchard as Consul to the Navigators' Islands as a
promotion which that gentleman deserved for his past
valuable services. Which is the correct version ? We
cannot help thinking that M. Guizot has truth on his
side. When the expulsion of Mr. Pritchard became
known in England, the first thing Lord Aber-
deen did was to, demand that Mr. Pritchard
should be restored to his position. This would scarcely
have been the case had Mr Pritchard been pre-
viously promoted to a better place; but the fact is,
that M. Guizot knew the people he had to deal with,
and repudiated the idea so peremptorily, that Lord
Aberdeen never dared afterwards to hint at such a
matter. We trust that this part of M. Guizot's state-
ment a ill not be lost upon the people of England. Mr.
Pritchard was disavowed, and removed from Otaheite
on the demand of France, and as a concession to
that country." This paragraph has been written
solely for the purpose of introducing the sentence—
" Lord Aberdeen has always represented the appoint-
ment of Mr. Pritchard as consul to the Navigators'
Mantis as a promotion which that gentleman
deserved for his past valuable service." This was
written for Paris, not for London, and we are sorry
to be obliged to say that it is not true in the sense
in which it is intended to be taken, or, as we believe,
in any sense. We have never heard that Lord Aber-
, deen gave any reason for admitting Mr. Pritchard
to the consulate of Navigators' Islands, and we are
pretty sure that his Lordship's only reason was that
Mr. Pritchard probably asked for what scarcely
any other man at all competent to the duties of a
consul would accept. If, however, any acknowledgment
of Mr. Pritchard's services have been made to him or his
friends, the services referred to must be anterior to the
French occupation of Tahiti, and of course mere routine
services ; for upon the French occupation Mr. Pritchard
ceased, by his own act, to be in the service of the Bri-
tish Crown. But there is an alleged inconsistency in
acquiescing in Mr. Pritchard's removal from Otaheite,
in compliance with the wishes of France (rather say in
submission to international law), and in rewarding his
past valuable services by a new appointment. We can-
not see the inconsistency. Mr. Pritchard may be a
very good mall, and yet (without any disposition on
his part to do wrong) a very dangerous man to
the French interests in Otaheite. The French nation
themselves exclude by law from France the family of the
man whose memory they idolise, though no doubt many
members of that family are very quiet and estimable per-
sons. In the same way our fathers and grandfathers
of the last century interdicted the British soil to the
innocent descendants of its ancient monarchs. Such
proscription attaches no stain—expresses no ill opinion
—it is merely a measure of precaution. The Morning
Chronicle itself has told us that for years Mr.
Pritchard exercised the virtual sovereignty of Ota-
heite ;, if, therefore, the French Government is justified,
as we apprehend it is by the public law of Europe,
in taking possession of Otaheite, it has the same
motive and the same right to exclude Mr. Pritchard
from Otaheite that the French people have to exclude
the Bonapartes from France, or that the British nation
had to exclude the most unoffending of the Stuarts from
England. This, however, is no reason why Mr.
Pritchard's services as a consul. should not be con-
, sidered by the Government that he served, and the
more anxiously considered because of his necessary
deprivation.

at 23-3, good 20s Gd to 21: 6d, mid '2os, washed 20s Gd to
235, repacked from loose in ships hold 16s p r cwt: by
private contract there was little done in any kind of
Foreign Sugar. but holders remain firm.
COP FEE.-Although there arc sellers of West India
uiell rather lower terms, still buyers have purchased
with much cs.ution, and of the various parcels offered at
public sale a very small part only found buyers ; Ber-
bice, middling went at 81s to 88s, low mddling
70s to 755, fine fine ordinary 63s to 6fis, fine
ordinary 54s to 58s, good ordinary 51s to 535,
low ordinary 40s to 48s ; Jamaica low middling
unclean 70s, fine fine ordinary.6os to 635, and good ordi-
nary 51s to 52s per cwt. Jamaica is still in short supply,
but common sorts are abundant; the consumption of
West India Coffee is still interfered with by Ceylon,
which is cheap and plentiful, the liquor of which is good
and the Coffee roasting well. There has been a large
supply of East India Coffee at market, adapted for the
wants of the horse trade, and a decline in value has oc-
curred. With Mocha the market has been abundantly sup-
plied, and a decline in the value of 2s per cwt has oc-
curred. Ceylon of native description is not much in
request as present ; and the market having been freely
supplied, previous rates are barely supported. Java is
held for the former value, and a fair amount of business
has been transacted privately. Common East India Coffee
has met a ith increased attention privately, but prices do
net improve, although the market is spazingly supplied.
For Foreign Coffee there are few orders at present, but
•holders of Brazil and tit. Domingo will not sell bat at
full rates, and common sorts are held for 27s 6d to
28s 6d. This afternoon there was no public sale of any
kind of Coffee, and the limited transactions privately
were extremely limited; 51s per cwt is the nearest value
of good ordinary Ceylon. The stock is very large of all
sorts of Coffee adapted for home consumption.
TEA.-Mrchants are firm, and with black and green
Tea the market is not over supplied. Congou has
brought fully former rates, and a brisker demand has
been experienced ; common sound has been selling at
lld to I lid, and good common 'lid to is per lb;
there is a scarcity of Tea worth from is 4d to
Is 9d per lb. For Pouchong there has been a
lively demand, and the rates paid show an advance
of Id to 2d per lb. Fine scented Orange Pekoe brought
an advance on former rates of ld to 2d per lb. In
Twankay a fair business has been transacted, yellow
leaf is 3d to is 3id per lb. Hyson is held with firm-
ness, but there is a pause in the demand, common is not
to be purchased under 2s 6d per lb, the supply is small of
all descriptions. Previous rates are fully supported for
Gunpowder and Imperial. Young Ilyson is wanted at
former terms, but for Flowery Pekoe prices rule mode-
rate, and the same remark is applicable to Hyson skin.
To-day there was a good business transacted in nearly
every kind of black and green Tea ; the tendency of
prices is upwards. Sales of common Congou were made
at lld to good common llid to Is, and Twankay
ordinsry is 3d to is 31d per lb.
SPICES.-This afternoon Pimento was in limited re-
quest, and 781 bags at public sale went la per lb under
former rates, viz. at 344 to 3-1-,d, and
,inferior 2i-d to 3d
per lb.
Run, BRANDY, AND HOLLAFDS.-Jamaica Rum is not
to be purchased at any further decline in prices, but the
demand has been limited for home use and export, 28 to
33 per cent over proof, is held for 3s 5d to 3s 9d; 34 to
36 per cent over, good 3s 10d to 4s 2d; fine 4s 4d to
5s 6d; and high flavoured sorts suitable for the German
and American market Gs to 7s per gallon, of these the
supply is scanty. Leewards are not much wanted, and
2s 21d. to 2s 3d are the latest rates taken for proof, some
parcels are offering for sale. Calcutta is dull of sale at
2s to 2s ld proof with certificate. The home and ex-
port demand has been limited for Demerara, strong de-
scriptions are 3s to 3s 3d per gal. The stock of Runs
has been further increased. Brandy has fully sus-
tained the former value, and there has been
a lively demand, especially., for the better de-
scriptions. The stock is diminishing, prices are firm
and rule as follows :-Cegnac, Lest brands of the yin •
tage cif 1838, hhds 5s 3d, puns 5s Id ; 1839, hhds ss,
puns, 4s 10d ; 1840, hhds ss, puns 4s 10d ; 1841, hhds
' 4s lid, puns 4s 9d ; 1842, hhds 4s Bd, puns 4a 6d ; 1843,
bhds 4s 6d, puns 4s 4d, common 2s 8d to 2s 11d,
mid to good mid 3s to 3s to 4s, and Bordeaux
2s 6d to 2s 9d per gallon ; indeed, upon these terms,
some holders will not sell. The stock of Geneva here
beimg small, buyers are compelled to pay is 10d to is
101er for shipping sort, and 2s 4d to 3s 6d for fine fit for
duty, but for arrival there are sellers of the former at is
9d to is 9id per gallon, and large parcels are shortly ex-
pected. British Corn spirits at lOs 2d per gallon, cash.
INDIGO-To-day 931 chts have passed the sale, nearly
the whole of that quantity consisted of Madras and
Kurpahs, and sold with spirit at the advance on the
prices of the beginning of the sale, which we noticed in
our former report, proprietors bought in 64 chests, 356
chests remain for sale to morrow.
COCIIINEAL.-This afternoon there was a brief de-
mand for Cochineal, and 230 bags at public sale were
disposed of at an advance on former rates of 2d per lb.
Honduras silvers sold at 4s 7d to 5s Id for low to fine,
and a few black Mexican at 4s 10d to 5s 4d per lb.
RICE.-This afternoon, Bengal Rice, at public sale,
good middling at lls to lis 6d; sea damaged, first class
10: Gd to I Is; second class lOs to 103 6d; third class
9s 6d to 10s; fourth class 8s per cwt, being the former
value. Madras is still wanted, and 1182 bags were sold
at and after the public sale, pinkey rather broken and
dusty at 8s Gd, ordinary white Bengal kind 9s Gd, and
damaged 6s to 8s per cwt.
TALLOW. -At public sale 379 casks of New South
Wales were disposed of at 35s to 40s 3d, 339 pkgs South
American 36s 6,1 to 38s ; 190 pks of North American
39s to 39s 3d,102 pkgs of Cape 39s 61 to 40s 6d, 291 casks
of St. Petersburgh 37s to 38s 9d, and 253 casks of Odessa
37s to 30s 6d. On Friday 550 pkgs of South, 100 pkgs
North American; 441 casks of Sydney, 83 of Cape, and
50 casks of St. Petersburgh Tallow will be offered at
auction. There has been a good demand for Russian
on the spot for Candle and Soap-making purposes in
consequence of holders being willing sellers, and accept-
ing 39s 3d to 40s for P Y Candle of first, and 38s Gd to
39s per cwt for second quality. For forward delivery
39s 6d to 40s per cwt fur the last three months of the
year. Town Tallow is 415 per cwt net cash.
OILS.-.--There has been a better demand for Seal Oil,
and prices have become steady ; pale has been selling at
321. 10s to 331, straw 30/ 103 to 321, brown and yellow
281 to 30/, but of all other descriptions of common
Fish Oils a further decline in the value
has occurred. Southern is little wanted, and a public sale
of 30 tuns went quietly at 271 lOs to
35l 5s per tun for low to good quality ; Cod 29/-per tun ;
of Sperm, at auction, 60 tuns British went at 821 to 83155,
and Headmatter at 841 15s to 851 5s per tun ; Linseed
on the spot at 23s 6d to 24s ; for delivery exten-
sive contracts hare been entered into at 24s to
24s 6d up to May, and at '24s 91 to 25s for the distant
months. The market is firm for Rape, and a good
demand has exisied at 363 to 36s 6d for pale,
and 35s to 35s 6d per ewt for brown. Cocoa
Nut privately at 27s to 28s Gd for Ceylon. Palm,
322 casks at public sale were nearly all taken in
at 25s for good. and inferior at 22s to 24s per cwt. In
the value of Olive there is little variation to notice.
Gallipoli at 431 to 421 10s, Spanish 41/ to 41/ 10s, and
Barbary 391 to 401 per tun. Lard and Ground Nut Oil
are fetching former rates, and the supply is small.
SALTPETRE.-To-day the market presented a dull ap-
pearance fur Rough, and 4458 bags of Calcutta at public
sale were nearly all taken in and withdrawn at rather
lower rates: that is to say mid grey rather damp G-ft per
cent at 265, 101 to II per cent common grey 255, a few
lots were sold 6d per cwt cheaper : low white, 12.,1 per
cent, went at 265, mid grey 41 percent 26s 6d, and mire-
fracted sugar drainage damaged 24s per cwt.

SUN OFFICE, &yen o'Coc%

AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL
COMPANY.-(THIS DAY.) 1
The annual meeting of this Company was held this
day at one o'clock, at the King's Arms-yard.
Mr. BRowNRIGG, the Chairman of the Board of Direc-
tors, said that he would not delay the meeting by making
any prefatory observations, but would in the first in-
stance read the report, and would then be happy to give
any explanation that any Proprietor might require, and
which it was in his power to give.
The report was then read, from which it appeared
that there were grounds to hope for returning prosperity,
and that the colony was emerging from the extreme
state of depression under which it had been lately
suffering. The report then went on to state the circum-
stances of the Company with regard to their stock of
various kinds in the colony.
The CHAIRMAN then said that there was a surplus of
5,5821. after the expenses were paid, which had during
the last year been considerably diminished, and from
this, and the small surplus which remained last year,
it was proposed to declare a dividend of 155., or 21 per
cent., on the paid-up capital, which would be paid on
Wednesday, the sth of February next.
The dividend was declared, and the report adopted.
It was then proposed and seconded, that R. W. Blaine,
Esq., be appointed Deputy-Governor in the room of W.
Brown, Esq., deceased.
John Lock, Esq., W. S. Dawson, Esq., and J. Hodgson,
Esq., the outgoing Directors, were re-elected.
G. W. Thornton, Barclay, Esq., Knox, Esq.,
and Abel Smith, Esq., were appointed auditors.
A vote of thanks was then passed to the Directors,
for which the Chairman returned thanks, and the meet-
ing then separated.

7,849,085

10,717,542
39,412

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FRO3I THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAL
GLOBE.—To indulge in predictions as to the pro-
bable tone and character of the policy which will cha-
racterise the legislation of the coming session, is hardly
a profitable task. Events often falsify the expectations
of Ministers and Oppositions, and baffle the best con-
cocted schemes of party. One thing, however, is tan-
gible and certain ; viz., that prospective legislation must
have some reference to that which has preceded it. If
firm and consistent, like an additional story to a well-
constructed edifice, it rests on the basis of its immediate
predecessor : if vacillating, and feeble, it is employed in
palliating the emissions and failures, or controlling the
undue bias—often by an equally eccentric course, in an
opposite direction—of the preceding year. Let us
recur, then, for a brief space, to what was done in the
session of 1844. The tone of our Contemporaries,
when accounts of things " done and undone" came to
be made up in August last, was by no means cheering
to Sir Robert Peel. With a large majority, so often
the theme of triumph to his party, he was justly
considered responsible for the small amount of useful
legislation that had marked a session of upwards
of six months duration. It is true that a thorough-
going supporter of the Cabinet exhibited a list of
nineteen benefits conferred on the country as the " re-
sults of the Session"—beginning with the reduction of
the Three-and-a-Half per Cents., and terminating with
some regulations of the Colonial Post-office, and
" many useful Committees." The public was not,
however, adequately grateful for the paternal anxiety
cif Ministers, and the midnight toils of Parliament, fur
its welfare. Notwithstanding the nineteen legislative
blessings which Parliament, under the guidance of Sir
Robert Peel, had munificently showered upon it, the
nation was not generally impressed with a due sense
of gratitude. Perversely, enough, it took to recollecting
and numbering up a considerable array of really im-
portant measures, which were either abandoned, or con-
signed to the chances which might regulate and control
the legislative course of another year. One considera-
tion
.that occurs, then, is, Will the forthcoming session,
in this respect, be the supplement of the last ? A
leading journal of the Conservative party, toward
the close of the session, gave a formidable list of the
omissions and mistakes by which it had been charac-
terised ; and remarked, "It gets more and more
the instincts of the millionaire, the policy of the
soldier and the method of the policeman." For our-
selves, though little disposed to concur in the general
policy of the Government—which we should rejoice
to see displaced, and supplied by a better one—there
were some of its measures which we approved, and
lent our support to their authors, against the op-
position of many of their professed friends—the Dis-
senters' Chapels and the Charitable Bequests Bills, as
recognitions of religious toleration ; and the Budget, of
the policy of clearing away cumbrous and unprofitable
branches of petty taxation. Will the latter be further
carried out in the forthcoming session ; and proceed
from flint glass and vinegar to windows, soap, paper, and
cotton-wool ?On the answers to these questions will
depend the character to be given by history to the legis-
lation of 1845. Neither are wo disposed to cast on the
Minister all the blame of delay and procrastination of
important measures ; for, though a considerable portion
of this blame is, doubtless, assignable to the lack of de-
cision and consistency which characterises his adminis-
tration, much of it is to be attributed to the prolixity with
which the debates are conducted. On this count full two-
thirds of the speakers are pal Skips eraninis. The cor-
rection of this growing evil must be left to the good
sense and tact of the Members themselves. Undoubt-
edly, the debates of twenty years back—allowing that a
less number of topics of interest were then handled—had
a superiority in this respect. Many of the Parliamentary
orators of the present day seem to fear that some-
thing will be left unsaid, fur which a future oppor-
tunity may not arrive. Hence, the introduction of
irrelevant topics, and repetition of more opposite ones,
inevitable in all mixed debate, becomes doubly frequent
in the House of Commons, to the great detriment of the
stores of information and high -oratorical talent,
which in the course of a lengthened debate are thus lost.
Are we anticipating too much in hoping that in this re-
spect the forthcoming session will be honourably distin-
guished from the past? This evil—of which there is now
a general and loud complaint—would be remedied, if
speakers would more generally recognise the principle,
concerning which we believe there is theoretically no
cavil, that a little reserve heightens the effect of what is
said—as a well-skilled rider gives his horse a timely
check to bring him well through a tract of heavy ground.
Not to indulge in tedious retrospection, we think the
Session of 1844—especially as controlled by the Minister
and his majority—was characterised by the absence of
plan and conduct. Much energy was wasted on mea-
sures of doubtful or negative utility ; much was left in
arrear for others of minor moment. The Qui tam
Actions Bill exemplified the first—the Ecclesiastical
Courts Bill the second—of these faults. The former, a
measure to legalise a species of gambling patronised by
the influential and wealthy classes, was guarded and
guided, with unwearied vigilance by the Ministry ; the
latter measures—involving, to say the least, very im-
portant principles—were languidly pursued, and dropped,
or turned over to the incertitudes of the future ! It is,
then, with a feeling entirely distinct from that of fac-
tion, or even of party, that we trust the ensuing
session will be marked by a juster calculation of the
relative importance of measures, and the energy ne-
cessary for their completion, than was the last. Least
of all was the last Ministerial campaign, as respects
Ireland, satisfactory to its supporters here, or in
the sister island. It embodied a policy of great pre-
tension and of occasional energy—which were, again,
badly calculated, both as respects time and place, for
its execution ; resulting, if not in au absolute
negation, at least in very insignificant and prospec-
tive results. Lord Devon's Commission, to wit. The
last legislative Act of the session reversed the sentence
against the repeal leaders, on the justice and legality of
which Ministers had taken their stand. If the agi-
tation for repeal has subsided, it remains to be shown
that it would not have done so under a different and
less irritating policy. It remains to be seen what arrears
of legislative inaction, or misdirected policy, in that vast
and troubled community, will be brought up in the session
of 1845. Foreign policy, as usual, occupied a very small
share in the debates of the last session; the convenient topic
" Injury to the public interests," being ever at hand to
stop the mouth of an inquisitive Member who moved for
papers. A few discussions, however, did arise on
motions of indivi..ual Members, end some of these
were curious enough. If the sentiments of the British
Parliament were to be sought for in the reports of its
debates, it might be inferred that we were, nationally,
great admirers of Don Carlos, and were prodigiously
in awe of foreign admirals and governors in distant
regions. We fear the most striking point, on a general
review of the session of 1844, is the ludicrous dispro-
portion between the promises of its commencement and
the performances at its close—the contrast between the
programme and the performance, incidental, in some
degree, to all human affairs ; yet, in many points,
remediable by a little care and attention. We
must not omit all mention of the Opposition.
With a due remembrance of the powerful talent
and high principle frequently displayed in its ranks,
we hope to see their attention concentrated, and their
energies engaged, in a few cardinal points of general po-
licy. The lightening of taxation ; the public reief from
the landlords monopoly in food ; and the government of
our colonies _involving, as that does, so many subsidiary
questions—are subjects worthy of their position in the
Legislature, and of vital interest to the country. The
past is full of lessons for the future ; and the state of the
nation is critical enough to make it desirable not to lose
time in endeavouring to bring them before the Legisla-
ture, so as to compel attention to their bearing on the
essential interests of the people.
STANDARD.—The organs of the Thiers-Palmer-
ston coalition are placed in a situation of some difficulty.
The greater share of the difficulty falls to the English
organs ; for as the French opposition journals have a
modest consciousness of the utter contempt in which,
one and all, they are held in this country, they
are under no temptation to try to practise on the
minds of the English people ; and, therefore, they
may, without distracting themselves, pour one con-
sistent stream of abuse upon their own government.
It is not so with the English organs of M. Thiers
and Lord Palmerston ; the railing at the British
Government, though a natural enough indulgence of
ill-will, is chiefly designed to give colour to the hints
that are hoped to produce a mischievous effect in
France. If the journals to which we refer had,
like the Times, acquired by experience the happy
facility of saying one thing one day and another the
next, the task of meconciling complaints of de-
grading English concessions, with hints of degrading
French concessions in the same paragraph, would be
spared to them. Fortunately, however, there is in the
world but one Times, and the Palmenton and Thiers
journals are driven to such shifts as the following
" We have only time at present to draw attention to the
extraordinary declaration made by M. G. nizot, that Mr.
Pritchard bad been appointed to another situation previous

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Ditto, at sight l2 6
Rotterdam 2U. 12 8
Antwerp 26 10
Hamburgh M.B. 13 14
Altona l3 14
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 80
Ditto, 3 months 26 0
Marseilles 26 5
Bourdeaux 26 10
Frankfort on Maine 122
Petersburgh, 3Us 37
Berlin 7
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Trieste, ditto
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THE LONDON GAZETTE

(THIS EVENING.)

WHITEHALL, JAN. 25, 1845.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Francis Hart
Dyke, Esq., to be her Majesty's Procurator in all causes
and matters Maritime, Foreign, Civil, and Ecclesiastical,
in the room of Iltid Nichol!, Esq., deceased.
CROWN-OFFICE, JAN. 28.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Henry Shep-
herd, Esq., one of her Majesty's Counsel learned in the
Law, to be one of the Commissioners of the Court of
Bankruptcy, in the place of Sir Charles Frederick Wil-
liams, deceased.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex.
Sir J. J. Hamilton, Bart., to be Deputy Lieutenant,
Jan. 22.
IN THE EXCHEQUER OF PLEAS.
Hilary Term.—ln the eighth 'Year of the Reign of
Queen Victoria.
Tuesday, Jan. 28, 1845.
This Court will, on Monday the 10th day of February
next, and on the following days, namely, Tuesday the
11th, Wednesday the 12th, Thursday the 13th, Friday the
14th, Saturday the 15th, Monday the 17th, Tuesday the
18th, Wednesday the 19,h, Thursday the 20th, Friday,
the 21st, and on Saturday, the 22d days of the said
month, hold Sittings, and will proceed in disposing of
the business then pending in the New Trial and Special
Papers. By the Court.
Read in Court—Samuel Dare, Master.
WHITEHALL, JAN. 7.
The Right Hon. Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal,
Knight, Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's
Court of Common Pleas, has appointed Edward
Handscomb, of Ampthill, in the county of
Bedford, Gent. to be one of the Perpetual Com-
misssioners for taking the acknowledgments of deeds to
be executed by married women, under the Act passed
for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and fur th.:
substitution of more simple modes of assurance, in and
for the county of Bedford.
WHITEHALL, JAN. 18.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Charles Wyatt
Estcourt, of Newport, in the Isle of W ight, Gent., to be
a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery

WHITEHALL, rex. 22.
Thetord Chancellor. has appointed Richard Harvey,
of Dover, in the county of Kent, Gent., to be a Master
Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
BA NKRUPTS. _

Allen llurrell, wine-merchant, iark-place, St. John's-
wood, to surrender Feb. 5 and March 13, at twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee,
Basinghall-street ; Chilcote, George-street, Mansion-
house.
Charles Moore, carver; St. John-street, Clerkenwell,
Feb. 5 and March 13, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Champion, Ely-place, Holborn.
William Smith and Robert Smith, warehousemen,
Bow-lane, City, Feb. 4 and March 11, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy- Pennell, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street ; Parkes, Smith, and Co., Bedford-row.
Charles Burrage, carcass butcher, Newgate market,
Feb. 4, at half-past twelve, and March 11, at twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee,
Basinghall-street r Philipp, Gray's Inn-square.
William Fairclough, licensed victualler, Liverpool,
Feb. 12, and March 4, at twelve, at the Liverpool Dis-
trict Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool ;
Wilkin, Furnival's Inn, London ; Wardle, Liverpool.
Charles Maxwell Wilkinson, wine-merchant, Ulver-
ston, Feb. 10 and March 4, at twelve, at the Manchester
District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester ;
Jones, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars ; Yarker, UlvQr-

ston.
John Kelsall, fishmonger, Hanley, Staffordshire, Feb.
3, and March 10, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Jack-
son, Gray's Inn, London ; Harrison, Birmingham.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price Current of Jan. 28.)
SUGAR.—To-day the market for West India Sugar
presented a flat appearance, the demand was limited for
the scale and pan, good and fine yellow, of which there
is still a scarcity, fetched the former value, but for all other
sorts the rates taken were rather under those previously
quoted. The total purchases are 300 hhds, and including
a public sale of 114 hhds of Barbadoes which went off at
former prices for good to fine, but middling and low
must again be quoted Gd per cwt cheaper ; low sold at
52s to 53s 6d, middling 543 to 575 6d, good middling
58s 6d to 59a Gd, good 60s to 61s 6d, and line 66s per cwt.
REFINED.—To-day there w as no variation in the value
of Refined goods, but the home trade purchased with
much caution. Bonded Crushed Sugar is selling fur
forward delivery at 30s to 30s Gd per cwt, it is not so
much wanted as it was.
MAURITIUS.—This afternoon at public sale two par-
cels amounting to 1,845 bags, were brought forward, and
sold at a decline on foru.er rates of is per cwt, middling
yellow went at 52s to 545, low 50s to sls 6J, low brown
42s to 42s Gd. middling 43s 6d to 45s 6d per cwt.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon buyers of Bengal Sugar
operated with caution, and 1,739 bags at public sale
were only partly disposed of at a decline of Gd to is per
cwt, good white went at 62s too 62s Gd, good middling 61s
to 61s 6d, mid 60s to GOs 6d, lw 595, damp and washed
580 to 60s 6d. By private contract a large parcel of
Dobah has been disposed of. 202 bags of Madras at
auction were sold at lower rates, and went at 38s to 40s
6d for very low dark damp brown. 101 casks of Calcutta
Tamarinds were only partly sold at 13s to 13s 6d
per cwt, being cheaper.
ClNNAstow.—The extensive public sales, which com-
menced yesterday, were brought to a conclusion at a
late hour this afternoon ; the demand was very li-
mited throughout, although there was an evident desire
on the part of merchants to realise ; the biddings were
unusually languid, and of the total quantity of-
fered, amounting to 3,524 bales 305 cases, not above a
third part were actually disposed of, at prices showing a
decline on those of the last quarterly sales of 4d to 7d
for firsts, 4d to 5d for seconds, and 3d to 4d f„r thirds.
Ceylon, first sort sound went at 3s ld to 4s Bd, broken
2s 10d to 3s, sec, nd sort sound 2s 2d to 3s Bd, broken
2s 4d to 2s 10d, third sort sound 2s to 3s 4d, and broken
2s to 2s 6d per lb.
FOREDZIN.—To-day 278 hhds, and 185 brls of Porto
Rico Sugar were submitted to public competition, and
all taken in at moderate rates, fine yellow but rather soft

NEW QUEENS COUNSEL..—It was generally
rumoured in Westminster hall, this morning, that the
following gentlemen of the bar, in the course of a few
days would be raised to the dignity of Queen's Counsel,
viz., Mr. Huinfrey, Mr. Montague Chambers, Mr. Rus-
sell Gurney, and Mr. Butt.—Evening Paper.
STRANGE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.-011 TliursdaY
morning, when the three-quarter past eight o'clock train
from Gateshead arrived near .to the Fence House station,
a commercial traveller, proceeding to Stockton in a first-
class carriage (from whom we derive our information)
was roused from his sleep by an unaccountable " crash,
crash, crash!" and knew not what to think, but was in-
clined to the supposition that the train was falling from
a precipice, and that he and his fellow-pasengers must
inevitably be dashed to pieces. It was not quite so bad,
however, but bad enough. One or more rails had sprung
up, and entered the train. A gentleman's leg was grazed
by the ugly weapon, and narrowly escaped more serious
injury. Two passengers were forced against the win-
dows of a first-class carriage, and had their faces cut.
The engineman, being thrown violently on his chest,
became insensible from the shuck, and was grievously
hurt. We have not heard that any other personal in-
juries were sustained. A gentleman, passing on horse-
back at the time, rode off for medical assistance, which
was promptly on the spot. The Stockton passengers did
not reach their destination until half-past one o'clock.—
[On Wednesday a plate-layer was run over by a train,
and killed.]— Gateshead Observer.
HEARTLESS CONDUCT OF A SWEDISH CAPTAIN.—
On Tuesday morning, as the crew of a Deal boat called
the Princess Royal, were off the South Foreland, they
observed a brig, which, from certain evolutions, they
were led to conclude had a pilot to land. Impressed
with this belief, they proceeded to the vessel,
and on nearing her, the captain, to their asto
nishment, called out that he bad lost a boy
overboard, at the same time pointing to windward. The
conduct of the captain appeared so thoroughly heartless,
-and unfeeling, that the boatmen bitterly exclaimed against
it in no very uumeassured terms, asking him why he
bad not hove to, and lowered his boat, particularly as
there was nothing in the state of the weather to prevent
him doing so. No reply was made, and the brig pur-
sued the same undeviating course, going at the rate
of five knots an hour, leaving the poor boy every
instant at a greater distance. The boatmen, with that
prompt alacrity and humanity for which they are
proverbial, proceeded in the direction indicated, and,
after making two tacks, discovered the boy strug-
gling with the waves. To keep up. his spirits they
loudlyhailed him, at the same time waving their hats, and
using every possible cheering demonstration. Strange to
say, they arrived at the critical period on which the boy's
fate seemed to depend—a few moments longer, and all
would inevitably have been lost. A firm grasp of the
arm soon rescued the sufferer, and brought him into the
boat. By judicious treatment the boy ultimately re-
covered, and was removed in a cart to Deal, whero he
remains under the protection of the Vice-Consul. Too
much praise cannot be given to the boatmen for their
noble and disinterested conduct. The name of the brig
is the Preia, Captain Hendtman, bound to Rio Janerio.
—Dover Telelpaph.
MGR TIME TO RESIGN.—Judge R. M. Shearne,
of North Carolina, has resigned his office. In doing so
he says—" During the time I have been in office, I have
had seven fights, a great number of quarrels—have been
indicted twice—and I conceive the greatest act of justice
which I can do the public and myself, is to resign my
said office of justice of the peace.—American Paper.