The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-29 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TEA.—There has been very little done and common
Congou is about 81d per lb.
SIVIAII.--No public sales have been held and the market
is quiet. The business will be commenced to-morrow
after the holidays. At the East and West India Docks
there were landed last week 1,739 hhds, 1;3 trs, 340 brls ;
there were taken for home use 1,061 hhds, 35 trs, and
265 brl., and the stock is 8,573 brls, 806 trs, and 783 brie.
COFFEE.—There has been no change in the private
market.
RlCE.—This article is dull.
RUM.—Prices have an upward tendency, and the quan-
tity in first hands is very small. At the above-named
docks there were landed last week 797 puns. There were
taken for home use 162 puns 17 Ma's, and exported 462
puns 67 hhds, The stock is 8,514 puns and 511 .hhds.
SALTPETRE.—The demand has improved.-and full prices
have bee❑ paid. For 2, per cent refraction the quotation
is 29s ; 81 per cent has been sold at 25s 66.
COTTON —The demand has been brisk, at the advance
of Ad per ib ; 3,500 bales having been sold yesterday.
TALLow—There has been less disposition to sell and our
concluding prices are Y.C. on the spot new 50s 9.1 ; old
49s 66. June 503 96 ; Aug. 52s ; Sapt. 52s 6d ; Oct. and
Dec. 52s 96. Sorts the same price as on Friday. Palm
oil 43s ; town tallow 483 nett cash
Our Petersburg ad vices are to 19th instant; the exchange
36 3-16, and considerable purchases of tallow had been
made between the 16th and 19th, amounting to not less
than 1,200 qasks. The prices were 118 s to 120 s on the
' spot ; 115 s 103 d down Aug.,. and 1189 2d forfeit should the
buyer not wish to take the tallow, carriage, and again de-
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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.—The Cannel], at
their session on Saturday, received notiee of the resigna-
tion by Mr. Graham of the professorship of chernii-tryt
,
in consequence of his having received the appointmen
of Master of the Mint.
Michael Morris, a labourer, Frederick Hobbs, a clerk,
Francis Higgins, a mechanic, with Etnily Lane, Eliz
beth Froggarty, Eliza Seal, and Anne Collins, decent-
looking young,: women, were charged with gathering
flowers in the gardens attached to the
we Royal
each fi Hospinetald
The charge baying been proved, they re
five shillings.
A youth named Hawksworth, who attended an hy-
draulic machine at the goods station, Bridgehouse,
Sheffield, was returning from dinner on Wednesday
afternoon, and attempting to jump on a goods train
coming in from Manchester, he slipped his footing
and fell under the wheals. One side was dreadfully mu-
tilated, and he has since died.
DREADFUL SUICIDE.—Yesterday Mr. Watley, coroner
for the western division of Middlesex, received inforrim,-
tion of the death of Mr. John Bindely, aged 64 years, a
jeweller, who resided at Ne. 39, Dudley-street, St.
Giles's, under the following circumstances : Shortly
after nine o'clock on Sunday morning deceased sent his
wife out on an errand, who, on her return, found the
door locked, and receiving no answer, she got one of the
lodgers to force it open, when they found the deceased
on the ground, with a razor clenched firmly in his hand,
weltering. in a pool of blood. He had inflicted a fright-
ful gash on his throat that had nearly severed his head
from the body. A shell having been procured The, the bodY
, was removed to St. Giles's workhouse.
jdeceased
was an old inhabitant, and highly respected.
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