The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-12 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Cs to £4 lOs Od ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 lOs Od; and straw, £1 3s to £1 lOs per load.
Moderate supply—trade slow.
CUMBERLAND.•—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4los Od ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 10s Od; and straw, £l2s to £1 108 per load.
Trade dull.

WHITECHAPEL•—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 10s Od ; and straw, £1 be to £1 ]Os per load.
A slow demand,

COAL MARKET.
Prtoes of Coal per Ton at the close of the market.
s. d.
Buddle'sWest Hartley 15 3
Cowpen Hartley 15 3
Hastings Hartley l5 3
North Pelton Gas .13 6
Canfield Moor Butes ..15 0
Wylam 17 0
Eden Main ...17 6

Walls End.
Hasw3ll l9 0
Braddyll's Hetton 18 0
Hartlepool
South Hetton 19 0
Kellue
South Kelloe 18 0
Tunstall
Heugh Hall 18 0
Hetton lB 6
Harton 15 6
,t, 61; sold, 49.

Walls End.

Stewart's 18 6
South Hartlepool.... l7 6
Ships at market

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, March 12.—Wind this day at noon—South-
bleat ; light breeze, and fine weather.
COWES, March 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Boadicea,
from London for Pernambuco, with loss of jibboom, and
other damage.

NEWPORT, March 10.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Rising
Sun, from London for New York,
YARMOUTH, March 11.—Wind S. W.—Arrrived—Water-
loo, from London for Alexandria, leaky, and with crew
refractory.

SUNDERLAND, March Io.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Ever-
green, for Malta.

HOLYHEAD, March 11.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Bag-
dad Packet, from Liverpeol for Havannah.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Salied, March 12—Hanover, steamer, for Calais ; Seine
et Tamise, steamer, for Paris.

DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Passed—Catherine and Margaret, from Port Maddock,
for Copenhagen; Oriental, from Falmouth, for London;
Hero, of Weymouth, from the north, for thewest; Regina,
of London, from Demerara, for London ; Indies, Greek
brig, from London, for Swansea.

THE PRIEST AND THE CONSTABLE.--011 the 9th
of December last a Protestant constable named
Wiggins, stationed at Dundrum, in the county of Tipperary,
then almost in a dying state, sent for a Roman Catholic
priest, and the Rev. W. Corcoran went at once to the
police barracks to receive him into his Church and admini•
ster to him the sacraments. Sub-Inspector Boyce, in
command of the station, refused to admit the priest till
'le had communicated with his superior officer, because
Wiggins had been a Protestant all his life, and had just
been visited by the Protestant clergyman, and he seemed
0-o be then in too weak a state to understand what he
was about. Mr. Corcoran made his way intc the sick man's
room, but was obliged to withdraw immediately, at Mr.
Boyce's request. Aided by the man's wift and a Roman
ijatholie policeman he subsequently endeavoured to force his
way upstairs, but was firmly though gently repulsed. The
priest was, however, freely admitted next day, and the con-
stable died a member of the Roman Catholic Church. The
temporary exclusion of the priest caused a great deal of
popular excitement in the neighbourhood, and Mr. Corcoran
made a formal complaint to the Government against Mr.
Boyce. The Lord-Lieutenant ordered a caurt of inquiry,
which lasted about a fortnight, and the result has just been
made public. It came to the conclusion, from the evidence,
that sub-inspector Boyce had unwarrantably obstructed
Mr. Corcoran in the discharge of his duty as a clergyman,
and denied to the deceased constable liberty to receive the
religious consolation he sought for; but, taking the entire
report and the evidence adduced before it, Lord Carlisle
thinks the conduct of Boyce may fairly be attributed to an
error of judgment rather than to any perverse or improper
motive. His Excellency, however, is of opinion that he is
of opinion that he is " deserving of some censure" for the
course he took in even temporarily excluding the priest
from the constable after he had expressed his determination
to become a Roman Catholic. He has, therefore, given
orders to the Inspector General of Constabulary that the
raanded, and removed from
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Sub-InspectorDun ru m t o another

WHY WE SHOULD EAT TRUFFLES.—What the
spices of the tropics did for the act of cookery
towards the close of the 15th and first half of the 16th cen-
turies, the rediscovery of the truffle has done for it in the
,o of
introduced
eth e reign
pu
Duke
et
last half of the 18th and in the present century. It was in
of Louis X 17., that
Dl:duibo.
ao,
Ili
ainsn, thetsearlytdhee l
a c
his dinner those
of Orleans made
truffles aux vins de Champagne a dish at every supper—a
dish to the daily enjoyment of which, nearly a century
u minister,i
si part
ne,
later, that prince of diners, Talleyrand, is believed by all
profound thinkers to have owed much of the keen shrewd-
ness of his intellect. For truffles, be it remembered, "en-
liven the mind, exhilarate the spirits, assist the digestion,
and render the reasoning Acuities more clear."—The
Reader,

WORTH SENDING FOE.--The Chicago corres-
pondentriintesthis city from Idaho
9 under date of the
oth alt, o: thef_ "
ANge
ewntlie'omrkanTi.mes
arrivedve
last week says that when he left it Was estimated that there
was X 15,000,000 dole. in gold in the hands of the miners,
awaiting the means of transportation to the States."
MADAME RATAZZI'S BALL DRESS.--The Italian
r e
to a
that ball journals relate the following incident which occur-
red
city.gi MostvenetbiciolenT during Victor Emmanuel's
visit conspicuous among the ladies was
Madame Ratazzi in a very striking toilette composed of a
white satin tunic embroidered with silver lilies, and accom-
panied by eight puffed tulle skirts, of which the upper one
was studded with floss silk bouquets, each having three
marabout feathers in the centre. Her head-dress consisted
of a cluster of marabout feathers, attached by her splendid
ruby, which is known among the mist famous gems in
hwears
osno
thveolsuumblencotu. sHthat the King could not help rallying
Europe as the " Due Oenevois." Madame Ratazzi's dress
i
His Majesty was looking for M. Ratazzi,
and, not finding him, he accosted Madame Ratazzi and
laughingly inquired, " Where is M. Ratazzi ? Is it pos-
sible that he can have disappeared under your dress ? This
sally of his Majesty was, of course, followed by a universal
laugh.

The waters of the Seine have reached the height
of 2.1 metres by the Neale at the Pont Royce