The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-30 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day,

A good market and prices rather dearer. Saks
probably 8,000 bales.

COPENHAGEN, Aug. 27.--The Flyveposten an,
nounces that the Folksthing has adopted the budget
of extraordinary expenses by 73 to 13. This vote
the above-mentioned journal considers to be due to
the menace of a dissolution from the Minister of
Finance.

TIM MUSTARD CRor.—A rather larger area of
brown mustard seed has been grown this season than usual ;
the whole of the crop has been safely " piled" in exceed-
ingly fine condition. The cutting was rather late, and
owing to the excessive dry weather, we shall not be sur-
prised to hear that the seed is rather small.—U7 ocer.
_

A young married lady was placed in a critical
position a few days back while bathing Lt Douarnennez
(Finistere). She had entered a small grotto on the shore.
and having remained too long admiring the natural beauties
of the cavern, found, when she attempted to retire, that
the tide had risen and prevented all egress. The water
still continuing to rise, she at length was obliged to cling
to the projections of the rocks to keep her from drowning,
and remained in this precarious situation, half submerged,
for four hours, when the ebbing of the tide brought wel
Came release.

PILCHARDS.—Some of the Cornish boats made
large catches during the past week, but, on the
whole, the fishery was not so satisfactory as in the five or
six preceding weeks. Oa Sunday about 300 hogsheads were
caught by the Love, Union, and Miners' seines at Perran-
porth, making a total of 1,500 hogsheads taken within a
few days. The fish were very fine, and there not being
sufficient means for curing, a largo quantity was sold fur
manure at a nominal price. A good sale has also
taken place at 2s. 3d, to 2s. 6d. per basket.
The Forth:even driving boats averaged each about 4,000
pilchards per night throughout the week, a great
quantity of which was sold to metropolitan and country
buyers at Is. 4d. to ls. 6d. per 120 ; a large stock was left
for bulking. The drift boats at Fowey brought in several
thousand fish per boat every night, but the seine boats were
very unsuccessful. There was no fishing at Mevagissey
on Monday or Tuesday with the seines on account of the
weather, but a large quantity of pilchards was discovered
on Tuesday night about one mile from the land. Three
seines were shot at Gorran Haven on Saturday; one caught
about 40 mounds of small-sized fith. The catches by the
Mount's Bay boats for the week showed a great falling off';
some of the boats took from three to four hogsheads. The
seines did nothing. The drift boats at St. Ives brought
in nightly from 1,000 to 4,000 fine fish; price 2s. 2d. to
2s. 4d. per 120. The seines commenced on Monday, and
all the men are now in pay.

The directors of the London and South Western
Railway have given a prize of to be shot for at the next
meeting of the National Rifle Association at Wimbledon.
A ROMANTIC STORY.—The Morning Herald
gives the following report of a case, Jean Hyacinthe
Cordier v. Mary Jane Cordier, which was recently before
the Supreme Court of Canada. This is one of the most
romantic cases that has been before the Court for some
time, and its details afford plenty of plot and incident for
first-class sensational novel :—" It appears that in Decem-
ber, 1819, the plaintiff was a young jeweller, about 19 years
of age, and the defendant was a dressmaker of 23 years of
ag©,
He was French, and she was English. The conse-
quence of their intimacy led to the arrest of the plaintiff
by the defendant on a charge of seduction. While in the
station-house a settlement was had and the parties wore
married in a cell by a Catholic priest. Immediately after
the ceremony plaintiff left, and, as alleged by defendant,
ran away secretly. She heard nothing till 18 months ago,
when she was informed he had died in the mines of Cali.
fornia. About two years after not having heard from
Gerdier, and in the full belief that he had departed this
life, she married Mr. John Price, by whom she had five
children. Ten years after her second marriage, and foure
teen years after her first marriage. Mr. Cordier turned up.
He had emigrated to California, as he claimed, with the
knowledge of Mary. He had there opened a restaurant,
prospered, and now returned home rich ID claim his bride.
Finding that his wife had re-married, he brought a suit for
divorce. He alleged that the rumours of his death had
been started by his wife herself, and that she had never
made any inquiries respecting him. The wife admitted
the ma.eriage with Price, but claimed that she had done se
believing that Cordier was dead; that he had abandoned
her for a number of years, during all of which she had
no tidings of him. The case was referred to a referee,
who reported in favour of plaintiff. To this report the
defendant took exceptions. It was claimed that
plaintiff had no standing in court, the well known
rule of equiey requiring a suitor to come into court with
clean hands, htsving no application in this case, inasmuch
1 as he had abandoned his lawful for 15 years, and only took

the present steps for malice. The plaintiff denid that ho
had abandoned his wife, but claimed that they bad been
of regularly separated in pursuancean agreement between
them before the marriage toolit place. The judge directed
that the report of the referee must be confirmed, and granted
a divorce to plaintiff.
The following is art extract of a letter to the
General
Credit Company, dated La Guayra, August
9, 1864, from Messrs. H.
respect of the Venezuelan L. Bculton and Co., in
Loan of 1664 :—." wre
have the pleasure to advise you herewith the fol-
-I°sing amounts collected from the custom houses
of this port and Puerto CabcUo,
as under :—ln LA
G asyra, up to week ending
Saturday, 6th inst.,
Puerto Cabello, to July 30, 6,61 S
6,824 dole. 40a.;
Lis. 82,,.; to 6th inst., 9,003 dole, 62c. Total,
22,448 dole. 84c."
The quotation of gold at Paris is about 24 per mule pm., at d
the short exchange on London is 25.30 per 5/1. sterling. On
oomparing these rates with the English 31int price of £ i
vs. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that bold is
nearly 3-10ths per Cent. dearer in London than in Paris.