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

BREAD.

The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are fro)
Qd to 7d, of household do., 5d to Gd per 41b loaf.

HIDES AND SKINS.

fiAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs Od ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 3s to £1 108 per load.
Moderate supply—trade slow.
CUMBERLAND.--Metvlow hay, £3 Os to £4los Od ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 2s to £1 lOs per load.
Trade dull.

WHITECHAPEL.-11eadow bay, £3 Os to £4 103 ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 Os to £1 lOs per load.
A slow dethand.

COAL MARKET.
Prfoes of Coal per Ton at the Glove of the market
s. d.
Buddle'sWest Hartley 15 3
Cowpen Hartley 15 3
Hastings Hartley l5 3
North Pelton Gas 13 6
Tanfield Moor Butes l5 0
Wylam 17 0
Eden Main l7 6

.... --
Walls End.
19 0
Ha5we11......
'''' 18 0
Hartlepool lB 9
South Hetton ...19 0
K elloe . . . ..... .17 9
South Kelloe .18 0
Ttuistall
Fleugh Hall 18 0
lletton 18 6
Barton 15 6
;t, 51; sold. 49.

Walls End.
Stswart's 18 6
South Hartlepool... l7 6
Ships at market

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, March 12.—Wind this day at noon—South.
Neat ; 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 10.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Ever.
green, for Malta.

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

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

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

THE PRIEST AND THE CONSTABLE.—On 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•
star to him the sacraments. Sub-Inspector Boyce, in
command of the station, refused to admit the priest till
he 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
to be then in too weak a state to understand what he
was about. Mr. Corcoran made his way into the sick man's
room, but was obliged to withdraw immediately, at Mr.
Boyce's request. Aided by the man's wife and a Roman
Catholic 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-Lieutnant ordered a court of inquiry,
which lasted about a fortnie ght, and the result has just been
made public. It came to the conclusion, from the evidence,
Mr.
that sub-inspector Boyce h ad unwariantably obstructed
Corcoran in the discharge of his duty as a clergyman,
excludingand denied to the deceased constable liberty to receive the
but,l
taking the entire
religiousthinks
report
ta hand
d
d conduct
nh the
consolationuec evidence
of Boyce he
i sought for;
d enc s e u
may
adduced t
before it, Lord Carlisle
fa
iry be attributed to an
error of judgment rather than to any perverse or improper
onr otpivineionEthisaEt hxeceilsle'n' dyes however,erving of is of opinion that he is
some censure" for the
u
the priest
from r s
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n tooksta b
li
en
after even
he
had temporarily
expressed his determination
to become a Roman Catholic. He has, therefore, given
orders to the Inspector General of Constabulary that the
co
Sub-Inspector "shall be reprimanded) and removed from
Dundrum to another station."
WIIY WE SHOULD EAT TRUPFLEs.__What the
spices of the tropics did for the art of cookery
towards the close of the 15th and first half of the 16th cen-
turies, the rediscovery of the truftla has done for it in the
last half of the 18th and in the present century. It was in.
1720, in the early part of • the reign of Louis XV., that
Dubouis, the minister, introduced at his dinner those
e' diamants de keuisine," and the Duke of Orleans made
truffles aux vies de Champagne 3 dish at every supper— a
dish to the daily enjoyment of which, nearly a century
later, that prince of diners, Talleyrand, is believed by all
profound thinkers to have owed much of the keen shrewd-
ness of his intellect. Fur truffles, be it remembered, " en-
liven the mind, exhilarate the spirits, assist flie digestion,
Lnd render the reasoning faculties more clear."—The
Reader.

WORTII SENDING TOR.—The Chicago corres-
pondent of the .Yew Fork Times writes, under date of the
15th ult. :—" A gentleman arrived in this city from Idaho
last week says that when he left it was estimated that there
was £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
journals relate the following incident which occur-
red at a ball given at Milan, during Victor Enamanuel's
visit to that city. Most conspicuous among the ladies was
Madame Ratt.zzi 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
ru which
of a cluster of marabout feathers, attached by her splendid
by, is known
among
was looking lonlosintgfafomr Mous. Igtactulazsziin,
Europe as the " Due Genevois." Madame Ratazzi's dress
her
was t
hveo lsuunabitt. ou thatsnsMajesty
he n g could not help rallying
and, not finding him, ho accosted Madame Ratazzi and
laughingly inquired, " Where is M. Ratazzi ? Is it pos-
sible that he tan have disappeared under your dress ? This
sally of his Majesty was, of course, followed by a universal
l.

The waters of the Seine have reached the height
of 2 1 metres by
the scale at the Pout Royal,

Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 2d to 3(1 641 b to 721 b, 3d
to 2id ; 721 b to SOlb, 3d to 34d ; bOlb to 881 b, 31d to 4d ;
881 b to 901 b, 31d to 4ld ; 961 b to 1041 b, 4d to 4:ld ; 1041 b to
1121 b, —d to —d. Horse hides, 95 Gd to lOs Gd ; calf skins,
light, 2s 6d to 4s Od ; full, 7s Od to Os Od ; polled sheep, 12s
Od to 14s Od ; half••breds, lOs Od to 12s Od ; Downs, 8s Od to
Os 9d; lambs, Os Od to Os Od; sheatlings, is 8d to Os Od.