The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-18 00:00:00

COLONIAL

TEA.—Ths public auctions were concluded yesterday,
and during the series 8,951 packages passed, of which 890
were sold.

COFFEE.—CeyIon descriptions continue steady, but for
Rio qualities there is a strong demand at full prices.
Swan.--There are very few sales, and buyers will only
operate at rather lower prices, which holders are unwilling
to accept. There is a moderate demand for refined at the
recent reduced values.

RICE is dealt in tea moderate extent at about late prices.
SALTPETRE.—The market is quiet, and holders evince
more disposition to effect sales.
TALLOW is flat, and the quotations are 46s for the
year ; 46s 6d for December; 46s 9d for January to March ;
and 47s 3d for March. New Y.C. is 46s 6d on the spot.

SHIPPING---THIS DAY.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)

GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived—Alcyon, from Candia; Paulina, from Dantsic;
Rose, Anemone, and James and Eleanor, from Cronstadt ;
Marianne, from Konigsberg ; Lady Napier, from Wcadau.
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Passed—Gibraltar, steamer, from Cadiz, for London ;
Helen, from London, for Trinidad.
Sailed—Patrick Henry, in tow, with all homeward
bound, for London.

Imperial _Dictionary of Universal Biography.
Parts 40, 41, 42. Glasgow, London, and
Edinburgh : William Mackenzie. This excel-
lent biographical series has now, in its
second and improved edition, and in its 42d Part,
reached as far as the word "Philip," and the work
may consequently be considered as drawing to-
wards its completion. The notices of distinguished
individuals are written with taste, great judgment,
and discrimination, and, in their leading features,
candour forms a prominent characteristic. The 41st
Part contains a brief but comprehensive and most
satisfactory notice of our most eminent fellow-towns-
man, Dr. J. S. Muspratt, whose successful career as
a chemist has won himself renown, while it has re-
flected credit on the community among wt,om he
resides and labours. The notice, necessarily brief
though it be, contains some interesting information
relative to the College of Chemistry which he has
conducted, and still conducts, with so much eclat.
—Liverpool Albion.

LINCOLN'S INN, Nov. 17, 1862.—The
untler-
mentioned gentlemen were this day called to the degree of
,
barrister-at-law by the Honourable Society of Lincoln alnn,
,
viz. : Edward Gilbert Herbert, Esq.,
LLI:r, 1862) ;
(holder of the Studentship of MichaelmasMichaelmasern London
Oxford; George
Thomas George Fardell, Esq., 8.A.,
oxßess Coulthart,
Moody, Esq., M.A., Cambridge ; John
Esq. ; John Booth, Esq., M.A., Oxforcl.
Jope Hichens,
Edward Howorth
ll
Allen, Esq., 8.A., Oxford ; John
Esq., M.A., Oxford ; Thomas Tindal
Cambridge; Edward John Foster,
E8‘1" 8.A., Oxford;
M'A''
KMnelthold, Esq., 8.A.,
Marshall Hall, Esq. ; Horace Waddington,
~
8.A., Cam-
Oxford ; George Isaac Foster Cooresq.,
8.A,, Oxford;
bridge; Clifford Evans Fowler Noedb,m...,
Oxford ; Ken-
Walter Morshead, Esq , 8.0. L. Henry Burrell, Esq.,
yon Charles Shirecliffe Parker, Et?....:
_Awn, Esq.; Lewis
8.A., Oxford ; Woodyer Morliftrd
;id
James Sterling, Esq.,
Pugh Evans, Esq., M.A., 49 _as Lloyd Murray Browne,
8.A., Cambridge; and Thom
Esq., 8.A., Oxford.
It is announced txhat
a bankerdeficiency of of
£P4 0a Or ,m 0 oao . h fledas
w was
from that town
lhae had caused the failure of several
added that this elaetaturvirl
Ancona.
houses at Bologna
IN ENGLAND.--In our wan-
deringsFLAX-GE%down this old land of ours, We hay, fre-
quently
P
ujiadanpointed out to us, " old flax dykes," and
h do " telling of a system of agriculture long gone
hen* hands'.'
here and there strange implements in the
out of use,
old farmer's lumber-store, for the hand-dressing of flax;
and
we have almost a faint, far-off vision of an age.' mater-
nal ancestor, strumming away at a spinning
wheel, the old
cat on the hearth and the kettle on the hob, all in homely
harmony, with the hour-glass, which told how those an.•
cient hours passed away. This was before cotton became
cheap, and machinery had attained its present perfection.
All this belongs to our past history ; the eternal law of pro-
gress must be submitted to; and those who will not float
with its stream are submerged and seen no more.-219
Grocer.
THE WILD ARROWROOT OF INDIA.—It is not
easy to decide whether the wild arrowroot of India is iden •
tical with the cultivated species from the mere feoula or
starch. A Cup of arrowroot made of the one is not distin-
guishable from a cup made of the other, except perhaps by
a slightly earthy taste and smell observable in the wild
arrowroot, which is easily accounted for by its imperfect
manufacture. The process is as simple as can be. The
tubers are taken up in the cold season, washed, put into a
large wooden mortar, and mashed. The mash is then taken
out and well washed in cold water, the water drained off,
and set to stand in large flat vessels, in which it deposits a
large proportion of this arrowroot Jour, which is re-washed
, in cold water, and set to dry in the sun,—the Grocer.