The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-02 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 10s ; clover,
£5 lOs to £6 lOs ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 14s per load.
Fair supply.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 lOs ; clover,
£5 lOs to £6 10s ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 15s per load.
Trade steady.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 10s ; clover,
£5 lOs to £6 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 14s per load.
A moderate demand.

COAL MARE
Price per ton at the

:ET, JAN. 30.
close of the market.

s. d.
North Pelton Gas l4 0
Carway and Duffryn
Malting 22 0
Walls End Haswell l9 6
Lambert's W. Hartley 14 9
Walker Primrose l3 0
Kelloe
Walls End Hetton
Bowers West Hartley 15 3
Ships at niarke

s. d.
Hartlepool
East Hartlepool
West Lambton l7 9
By ass's Bebside West

Hartley l5 3
Wylam l6 0
Holywell Main l6 0
West Hartley

4, 31; sold, 21.

INSIDE THE HIVE.—In every hive there are a
queen, male bees or drones, and workers, which are
of no gender, or rather are undeveloped females. The queen
is considerably larger than the drone, and the drone is
about as much larger than the working bee. There is never
more than one queen in a hive, and if a stranger queen
should happen by accident, or in the indulgence of her
curiosity, to enter a hive in which her authority is not re-
cognised, the bees who act as guards at the entrance in-
stantly seize her, and though their respect for royalty is
too great to allow of their ill-treating her, they crowd upon
her so closely that she cannot escape, and they do not re-
lease her until their own queen arrives to do battle in de-
fence of her lawful rights. The conduct of the commonalty
under such circumstances is exceedingly remarkable ; they
could put the intruder to death if they chose, without suf-
fering their own queen to run the risk of being killed, but
they do not do so; they act strictly on the principle of fair
play ; at the same time they will not allow the combatants
to separate until the victory is achieved by one of them.—
Once a Week,.

SOMETHING LIKE THREATENING LETTERS.—Some
rather wild specimens of literature came before the
Sligo magistrates the other day in the shape of a number
of threatening letters, alleged to have been sent by Patrick
Monaghan, of the Sligo Rifles, to Sergeant Martin Boyle,
of the same regiment. There were seven or eight of the •
letters in all, bUt two or three of the documents, as given
in the Sligo Chronicle, will be enough to quote. Threaten-
ing letter No. 1 begins —" Dear Martin so my God and
with the aid of the most high 11l see some old woman
washing and laying you out for the wake the coffin is
reddy this 2 weeks past waiting for you to put in it you
and that red hedded orange man may prepare for the coffin
and hell is yours you need not think we care about Walker
or hannoway or o donnell. Ye may all go to hell where
I will see yet. [Here were, sketched four coffins, bearing
these—' hannoway,' Boyle,' Walker," o donnell.'] I
see ye 4 yet in hell." Letter No. 2 is in the same style :
"Dear Martin you know your nabors stiled this the house
of divils you could not get a better name you tried once or
2 to hurt me but could not succeed you are only one but I
have forty or 50 to aid me I will see you yet kicked out after
G urley you have no friends on this staf prepare the parson
or the priest for the coffin is ready for your doom—[Coffin
here, bearing the word`ready']—in which another joins
me." No 3 is well worthy of a place with the others : "Dear
Martin I don't give a damn for you or any other man on
this staff I'll see you and old West and Willy Bond old
Savage put .out of the wicket like thieves me and my band
of men are determined to kill a cuple on the staf of course
you know who I mean—[sketches of four coffins in a row,
idscribed respectivrly, as fellows: Willy Bond,' old Say,'
old West,' old Boyles1—" with the aid of the most high
11l S3O all in hell yet. Show this to who you like." There is
immense force in the postscript: " Hell blast the pin I care
for any one ill be of to America soon and what can you do."
The accused was committed for trial bail being refused.