The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-06 00:00:00

MARK-LANE.

The amount of English wheat fresh up to our market to-
day was very moderate. The condition of the produce
being very middling, dry samples (owing to tho limited
number on the stands) changed hands at full prices, whilst
damp qualities were very difficult of sale, and were dis-
posed of at irregular quotations.
There was a fair supply of foreign wheat on the stands.
The demand was by no means active ; nevertheless, prices
of all descriptions ruled firm.

Floating cargoes of grain moved off steadily at full quo-

tations.

The market was well supplied with barley. The trade
was slow for all descriptions at the late decline in prices.
Malt was in but moderate request at late rates.
The supply of oats on sale was tolerably large. Most
qualities moved off slowly at Monday's currency.
Beans and peas ruled firm, and were quite as dear as on
Monday.
There was a fair demand for flour at late prices.
SHIP ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and Scotch lO5O 1960 2560 1090 1880
Irish
Foreign 7620 8490

53,810 310 sks.
brls.
COMPARATIVE QUANTITIES AND PRICES OF GRAIN.
:For the week ending Dec. For the corresponding week
2, 1865. last year.
Qrs. Aver. Qrs. Aver.
Wheat 78,676-46s 6d Wheat 84,026-38s 8d
Barley 84,984-38 s 10d Barley 81,725-29 s 3d
Oats

• BOROUGH HOP.
A very moderate business is passing in most kinds of
hops. In prices no quotable change has taken place.

WHIT W.; H A.PEL.

The supply of meat on sale is moderate, and tho trade
rules steady, as follows :
Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 5s 2d ;
veal, 3s 10d to 4s 8d ; and pork, 4s Od to 5s 6d per 81bs. by
the carcase.

MEMORIAL TO H.R.H. THE LATE DUKE OF KENT.
—On Saturday evening the bells of the parish church of
Sidmouth rang out a merry peal, to announce to the pari-
shioners that her Majesty had condescended to renew her
promise of a stained glass window for the church of St.
Nicholas, in memory of his Royal Highness the late Duke
of Kent, her father, who died at Woolbrook Glen, in this
parish.—Tiverton Gazette.

SUICIDE OF THE lIONd PRESTON KING.—The
many friends and acquaintances of the Hon. Preston King,
Collector of Customs in New York City, and lately United
States Senator from the State of New York, were on the
14th astonished and saddened by the news of his death,
statements from different parties placing it beyond a doubt
that Mr. King, while labouring under temporary mental
aberration, had committed suicide by jumping into the'
North River from the deck of the Hoboken ferry-boat
Paterson. In 1836 Mr. King was confined for a year in an
asylum for the insane, and it is supposed that too close at-
tention to his multifarious duties had resulted in a return
of the disease. Mr. King had been ailing for some time
past, and recently it was observed that his conduct was so
peculiar that his friends deemed it advisable to select ono
of their number to keep him company. On Sunday night,
therefore, the deceased and a relative retired to the collec-
tor's sleeping apartment in the Astor House. At 3 o'clock
on Monday morning, while his room-mate was still slum-
bering, Mr. King rose, dressed himself and left the house,
subsequently returning. At about half-past 7 o'clock Mr.
King again quitted the hotel. According to the state-
ment of the ferry-master at the Christopher-street ferry, a
man, whose description seemed that of the collector, was
seen to alight from a car and go on board the ferryboat
Paterson, which left the pier a few minutes later. When
the vessel had reached the middle of the stream the
unknown individual placed his hat on the deck and jumped
overboard. The alarm was at once given and the engine
reversed, but all search for the remains of the deceased
proved unavailing. The hat remaining on deck was
identified by friends and relatives as having belonged to
the Collector, and the statement of two children, who had
seen the man jump into the water, and that of a deck
hand, which corroborated the statement of the ferry
master, established the sad •truth that the unfortunate
man who committed suicide was no other than Mr. King.
The deceased was sixty years of age. The intelligence
of his death occasioned much regret in official circles at
Washington. Since the above was written further inter-
esting particulars of Mr. King's death have come to light.
It seems that he purchased 25 pounds of shot and attached
it to his person, showing his fixed determination to destroy
himself. The little girls who saw: the Collector leap into
the river have become known and describe him exactly.
At the time of his death he was upwards of sixty years
of age, having been born in Ogdensburg, New ,York, Oct.
14, 1806. Ho graduated at Union Coliege, and was ad-
mitted to the bar. He entered public life in 1834 as a
member of the Assembly, and became the friend of Silas
Wright, being next to him, the most popular and power-
ful man in the St. Lawrence District. In 1842 he went
to Congress. When the Democratic party divided in 1848,
he became a Burnburner, going to Utica and finally to
Buffalo. He• followed the logical consequences of this
action and became a Republican—fighting the Nebraska
measure - accepting the Republican nomination for Secre-
tary of State in 1855, supporting Fremont in 1856, and
being elected to the Senate in 1857. He served a full term,
and remained in private life until the accession of Mr.
Johnson to the Presidency, when he was made Collector
of the Port, which office he held at the time of his death.

BREAKFAST BEVERAGE. —Homoeopathic practitioners, and
the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa as being
the most healthful of alt beverages. When the doctrine of
homoeopathy was first introduce .1 into this country, there
were to be obtained no preparations of cocoa either attrac-
tive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; the nut was
either supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully manu-
factured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London,
homoeopathic chemist, was induced in the year 1839 to turn
his attention to this subje t, and at length.succeeded, with
the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first to
produce an article pure in its composition, avid so refined by
the pert et trituration it receives in the process it passe3
through, as to be most acceptable to the delicate ,tornacb
For general use Epps' cocoa is distin‘uished as an invigo-
rating, grateful breakfast beverage, with a delicious aroma.
Dr. Hassan in his work. "Food and its Adulterations,"
says—" Cocoa contains a great variety of importan t nutritive
principles; every ingredient necessary to the growth and
sustenance of the body." Again, "As a nutritive, cocoa
stands very much higher than either coffee or tea." Direc-
tions : —Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a breakfast cup,
filled up with boiling watcr or milk. Secured in tin-lined
i-lb , and I.b. labelled packets, and sold at is, 6d. per
lb. by grocers* coufcottoners, and ellemikte.