The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-03 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TEA—The dealings have been limited, operations having
been suspended until the public sales, which commence
to-morrow.

SUGAR—I he market has been dull, and prices have
exhibited no material variation. In the refined market
there has been no alteration in values.

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COFFEE—For plantation Ceylon there has been a rather
active demand at full rates, and other descriptions have
been in fair request.
RICE—The dealings have been limited, and no change
can be reported in prices.
SALTPETRE—Business has been exceedingly dull, and
prices tend downwards.
TALLOW.—The market has been moderately active, and
quotations for both present and forward delivery tend
upwards. P.Y.C. on the spot is marked 455. 9d. ; March
delivery, 465. ; and last three months, 475. 3d. per cwt.

REPRESENTATION OF REIGATE.—The writ issued
on Saturday morning, and the returning officer has
appointed to-morrow morning for the nomination. The
polling will take place on Thursday morning. Both par-
ties express themselves confident of success.
GLASGOW, Jan.
at a reduc-
tion
has been very dull throughout the
week which
31.—Cotton.—The cotton-market
of Id. to ld. per lb. Iron.—The market,pig-
iwar;tof this week
was quiet and drooping during e
the lowest point reached.
bbeeccaommeinvgerk3n•
oflwmat u. pTohnetdh,ecalibdnevoia,nnt hhgcoees
,i:enavrtei IY2r ratehowever,
of discount'
was not material,
and
545. 6d. asked. G.m.b. No. 1, 545. ; No. 3,
During the e laasaht fortw owdaarryasutthhe re has been more inquiry,
this morning the tone was very firm ; 545. 3d. cash freely
; it'd/ !on.
t] GLairnteshoeinrrie,h6a7ss. --• ; Coltness, 575. 6d. ;
Calder, 555. 6d.
offered,
presented to Senator
Sumner, for transmission to Mr. George Livermore, of Cam-,
bridge (Mass.), the pen with which he signed the emanci-
pation proclamaticn,—New York Paper.
CHANGE IN THE TICKET-OF-LEAVE SYSTEM.—We
..-- (Birmingham Daily Post) learn, on the best autho-
Ethnology and Phrenology as an aid to the His- city, that Sir G. Grey has determined upon an immediate
torian. By J. W. Jackson. Trubner and Co. and most unexpected change in the convict system, so far
as regards the granting of " tickets-of-leave." The arrange-
This volume treats of two kindred sciences which, ment hitherto has been that, however often he may have
although too dry and abstuse for general study, are
not without value to the historian and the philoso. been sentenced,. atoonnovficthhisassereceived a conditional pardon
before the expra to . . sentence provided his conduct
pher. Although the writer puts " Phrenolo ~
-gy on has been satisfactory while in prison. Henceforth this pri-
his title page, it must not be supposed that he die- vilege is to be greatly restricted. In all cases where a con-
courses on the minor details of the sel •
enee as it is vict has been previously sentenced to penal servitude no
popularly represented, but he refers rather to his future sentence to the same punishment will receive any
consideration of the mental types e varying of th • remission ;so that a man twice convicted will be unable to
branches of the great obtain what is popularly called a ticket-of-leave. The
human race. It is a work change is to take effect immediately.