The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-09 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.--Meadow hay, £1 16s to £5 Os; clover,
do., £3 lOs to £6 15s ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 Os per load..
Both hay and straw were in slow request at our quotations.
CUMBERLAND.--Meagow hay, £1 16s to £5 Os ; clover,
£3 108 to £5 15s ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 per load. Trade
dull.

WITITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £1 16s to £5 Os; clover,
do., £3 10s to £5 15s ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 Os per
load. A steady demand.

COLONIAL.

TEA—There has been a very limited business transacted,,
and prices have remained without material variation.
SUGAR—.The market has' been more active, and good and
fine descriptions have fully maintained previous prices. In
refinsd qualities a large businests has been done.
COFFEE-_A fair demand has been experienced for colo-
nial at fully late qualities; inferior qualities of foreign,
however, have been a shade cheaper.
lircE—For the better qualities .of East India there has
been more inquiry, and late prices are generally well sus-
tained.

SALTPETRE—A moderate amount cf business has been
transacted, without, however, any moterial alteration in

value.

TALLOW—Business has been very quiet for both present
and forward delivery. PYC on the spot is quoted 48s 3d;
last three months, 49s 6d; and spring delivery, 49s 9d per
cwt.

In an article on the Polish school. at Paris the
Opinion Nationale has the following passage :—" The Mi-
nister of War recently decided that the sows of foreigners
born in France, and who would not be French, must show
that they have submitted themselves elsewhere to military
service. The effect of this measure has been to constrain
young men, who were little desirous of going to serve in
the armies of the countries of their ,origin, to take their
chance in the conscription of their adopted count Ty."
THE CZAR NICHOLAS.—In the Prince Eugene
Obolenski's "Recollections of Siberian Exiles," a modest
and touching record of suffering, lately published at Leipsic,
we find a very characteristic anecdote of the late Cu tr. The
Prince Troubetskoi had been exiled to Siberia, and Rifts wife
had by extraordinary exertions gained from the E inperor the
great favour of sharing her husband's banishment. Subse-
quently the prince's lot was aggravated, and he wt is sent to
work in the salt mines of Nertsehinsk. When the princess
heard of this she and Princess Marie Volkousky boset the
authorities with the prayer to be allowed to share their
husbands' bard life. At last they were told they might de
so if they would sign an engagement to submit to all the
obligations imposed on convicts' wives. They were obliged
to renounce all their right of birth, they were deprived of
all communicati‘m with their relatives, they were to see
their husbands only when and where it might please the
authorities, and they were liable to menial dutial, such
as washing floors and the like services. On these condi-
tions alone were these two high-spirited ladies allo wed to
join their husbands. The Princess Troubetskoi was
of French extraction, being the daughter of Count
Laval, an emigre, who settled in Russia. She had been
marrie I five years when her husbands catastrophe hap-
pened. Her union had been childless at Petersburg, but in
Siberia she bore five children, one of whom is now Duchesse
de Morny. As her children were growing up, Princess
Troubetskoi caused a petition to be submitted to the Empe-
ror Nicholas that she might be allowed to ,have three of
them educated in some large town in Russia. The empe•
ror's distinct reply to the petition was, " The offspring of
eonyicto, being themselves =vide, always know enough,"