The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-24 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TEA. Business has been very inactive, and the few deal-
ings entered into have been at about previous rates.
SuGAu.--The market has remained dull, and prices
have, in some instances, slightly given way, particularly
for superior descriptions. Good grocery qualities, however,
have sustained former prices. In the refined market the
dealings have been restricted to home requirement, and
quotations have not varied to any important extent.
COFFEE.—The demand for colonial descriptions hes been
moderate, and in some instances rather lower rates have
been accepted by holders.
RICE --A fair amount of bnsiness has been done and
full rates are current for good and firm qualities.
TALLONT.—The market has shown mere animation and
quotations exhibit an upward tendency, P.Y.C. on tha
spot is quoted 41s, and the last three months 435, 43s 6d
per out.

THE DUKE DE MONTPEXSIER.—We hear that
intelligence was received in London yesterday from Wood-
norten, the seat •of the Duke d'Aumale, to the effect that
his royal highness's brother, the Duke de Montpensier,
who had been seriously ill for some days, was considerably
better.
THE CONFESSIoNAL.--Mr. Grieve, 28, Clerk,
street, Edinburgh,was agreeably surprised on Mon-
day by one of the Roman Catholic priests of Broughton-
street calling at his shop and handing over to him the sum
of £2O 3s Gil, which was abstracted from his chop upwards
of seven years ago by a young lad.—Scotsman.
FATAL ACCIDNT ON THE ItivEn.—Yesterday
morning, between eight and nine o'clock, a man named
George Baker, a bargeman, fell from a barge, and in spite
of the exertions made to save him was drowned,

SIIICIDE OF AN INDIAN OFFICER.—Last evening
Dr. Lancaster held an it,quiry at the Silver Cup
Tavern, Cromer-street, Gray's-inn-read, respecting the
suicide of Captain Frederick Lloyd, aged 33 years, late of
the Bengal service. Mr. Skinner, 4, Mecklenburg-street,
said that deceased had lie led in his house for the last three
months. On Tuesday last witness saw him with a pair of
pistols which he said he was goL'g to clean. The witness
went out, and on his return fount that the deceased was
dead. He had sometimes said that he vrlished he was dead,
as ho had nothing to do. Ho was in vel:,v comfortable
circumstances. The witness was not aware tr.:at he was
about to be married. He used to go to the Hayma."ket to
see Miss C. Hill perform, but the witness believed that
ho had no correspondence with her, and that he hail
never seen her off the stage. Israel Reed, 20 G, said
that at 3 o'clock last Tuesday he was called by Mrs.
Skinner, and told that a gentleman had shot himself. The
witness went upstairs and found deceased shot in the
stomach, and lying on the bed in his shirt and drawers.
The witness asked him what made him do such a thing, and
he said, "It is that blessed girl, Miss Hill, that has made
ins do it." The witness found a discharged pistol lying on
a photograph of Miss C. Hill, representing her as Apollo,
in the play of " Venus and Adonis," Mr. Robert Mayer,
of Haddo, said that the deceased was a captain of artillery.
lie served in India, and assisted in the suppression of
the mutiny. He received a coup•de• :0161, and had to
retire on a pension. He was in comfortable circumstances.
Mr. Duff, surgeon, said that he was called in to the
deceased, and found him suffering great agony tram
a pistol-shot in the pit of the stomach. Ho at first refused
to take brandy as a restorative. He was quit,,asensible, and
said, "I have shot myself." He died in a quarter of an
hour. He was nearly naked. Mr Skinner said that it was
quite customary with the deceased to undress and go to bed
in the middle of the day. He did so when in India, as it
was the custom of Indians. Witness did not attach par•
titular importance to the affair of Miss Hill. There were
no letters. Deceased had also a'photegraph of Miss Bate-
man. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide while in a
etate of unsound mind.':