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

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

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

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 fiae, and there not being
sufficient means for curing, a large quantity was sold for
manure at a nominal price. A good sale has also
taken place at 2s. 31 to 2s. 6d. per basket.
The Porthleven 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 Is. 64. 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 pflehe.rds was discovered
on Tuesday night about one mile from the land. Three
seines were shot at Gorran Haven on Saturday; one caught
about 40 maunds of small-sized fish. 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. 41. per 120. Tho 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 L'so to be shot for at the next
meeting of the National R,fle 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 cares that has been before the Court for some
time, and its details afford plenty of plot and incident for
a first-class sensational novel :—" It appears that in Decem-
ber, 1849, the plaintiff was a young jeweller, about 19 years
of age, and the defendant was a dressmaker of 23 years of
age. He was French, and she was English. The conse-
quence of their intimacy led to the arres.: of the plaintiff
by the detitradant on a charge of seduction. While in the
station-house a settlement was had and the parties were
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 ego,
when she was informed he had died in the mines of Cali.
fornia. About two years after not having heard from
Cordier, and in the full belief that ho had departed this
life, she married Mr. John Price, by whom she had five
children. Ten years after her second marriage, and four.
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,
pteapered, and now returned home rich to claim his bride.
Fine2ng that his wife bed re-married, he brought a suit for
divorce. He alleged that the rumours of his death had
been startcd by his wife herself, and that she had never
made any in..3uiries respecting him. The wife admitted
the marriage with Price, but claimed that she had done sae
believing that Cort.lier 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 bad no standing in court, the well known
rule of equity requiring a suitor to come into court with
clean hands, having no application in this case, inasmuch
as he had abandoned his lawful for 15 years, and only took
the present steps for malice. The plaintiff denid that he
had abandoned his wife, but claimed that they had been
regularly separated in pursuance of an agreement between
them before the marriage took! place. The judge directed
that the report of the referee must be confirmed, and granted
a divorce to plaintiff.
The following is an cntract of
a August
General Credit Company, dated La Guiqr Co., in
9, 1564, from Messrs. H. L. Bouttronis and
64 :—" We
respect of the Venezuelan
L"nlerewith the fol-
have the pleasure to advise Y:
the custom notr“,,s
amounts collectectbferc;lo, a letter to the
as under :—ln La
6th inst.,
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de s. 82c. ; to 6th
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