The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-22 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TEA.—The operations have been moderate in all descrip-
tions, but prices remain firm.
SUGAR.—A fair amount of business has been transacted,
and the late advance for British Plantation is well sup-
ported. For refined descriptions there is a rather active
enquiry and full rates are current.

COFFEE.—A moderate amount of business has been
transacted in colonial descr ptions, and prices have remained
without material variation.

RICE.—For the better qualities of East India there has
been more enquiry, and a rather large business has been
done at, in some instances, enhanced prices.
SALTPETRE.—The operations have been to a fair extent
at about late prices.

TALLOW.—The market has been more animated, deal-
ings for forward delivery having preponderated. P.Y.C.
on the spot is quoted 495., and last 3 months 50s. per cwt.

RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN PARMA-
MENT.—The amalgamation bill of the Eastern Counties and
other companies has been reported from the select com-
mittee with amendments, and now waits a third reading n
the Lords, where it is understood it will be further opposed
by the Eastern Union Company. The examiners on stand-
ing orders having reported that no further standing orders
are found applicable to the bill for the Thames embankment,
and the evidence taken before the committee of the Com•
mons having been communicated to the upper house, the
bill will be read there a second time forthwith. In Mr.
Buller's committee, in the Commons, Mr. Smith, steward to
the Duke of Bridgewater, was examined on the merits of
the Mersey, Irwell, and Weaver Navigation Bill. It is op-
posed on the ground that, although professing to be for the
prevention of rubbish and other substances being thrown
into these streams, it is, in fact, a bill for giving additional
powers to the Navigation Company, and should have been
introduced as an amendment on their acts ; that it purposes
altering the common law of the land as regards these rivers
and their tributaries, and that it will seriously interfere
with the prescriptive right and prejudicially affect manu-
factories amounting in annual value to upwards of £300,000.
THE CIVILIAN AND THE SOLDIER IN INDIA.—
The class jealousies of the services, which are apt to be
very strongly exhibited In India, are a favourite theme for
the local satirist. These are founded upon divisions and
sub-divisions; but the main difference is, of course, between
civil and military. The civil service is the better paid of the
two ; it also monopolises most of the highest appointments
of the State. The civilians are, therefore, the favourite
section of the community. They have the most potent
influence in public, and they take the lead in society,
where the black coat is always held in greater respect
than the red—especially by match-making mammas,
who are often heard to say that their daughters shal
never marry into the barracks. The civilians
are naturally proud of their silt erior position,
and are accused by severe censors of " giving
themselves airs" on a: count thereof. Bitter are the sar-
casms which they are assailed in consequence ; and these, it
must said be in their favour, they bear with immense forti-
tude. But there are two sides to the picture. The civi-
lians, though enjoying the lion's share of the loaves and
fishes of the State, are not quite happy. They are unap-
preciated in Europe, where people cannot be made to un-
derstand the nature of the duties they have to perform. The
British public can comprehend the office of a magistrate or
a judge, but the office of a collector puzzles them,
and they usually imagine that these administrators of the
revenue department go about with a portable pen and
ink, and leave slips of paper at people's houses with " Last
Application" printed in red letters. Nor are the duties
even of the higher rank of " commissioner" much more
comprehensible; except, indeed, by popular prejudice,
which associates the office with a great deal of "grind-
ing down" of the natives, and the exercise of arbitrary
power. And it happens, unfortunately for the civilians,
that the legal posts are exactly those for which
they have always been supposed least fit, and of
which recent legislation has deprived them alto-
gether. The military, on the other hand (I allude more
especially to the old " Company's army"), exercise a voca-
tion which cannot be mistaken. They are called captains,
colonels, and so forth, like the military everywhere else.
They have always done their work well, when there has
been any fighting to do ; some among them have made
great names, not only in the field, but in the political
arena—the latter being the only arena in which the
civilians have had a chance of gaining their fair
share of honour. The military having more leisure for the
cultivation of literature and art, besides being the larger
class exercise a greater influence over the local Punch than
the members of the sister service.—Dickens's "All the
Year Round."

PUNCH IN INDIA.—The idea seems unpromising.
A professed jester must surely be out of place among a
people who have but little turn for comedy. The Asiatic
Asiatic temperament is solemn, and finds no enjoyment in
fun for its own sake. A Bengalee or an Hindustanee can
laugh at what is ridiculous ; but his laughter is contemp-
tuous, and it may be malignant. It knows nothing of
the loving quality of humour. For such people, Punch
must be libellous and cruel, to the outrage of all law and
humanity. Look, too, at the incongruity of the thing.
Fancy Punch among palm-trees and palaces all domes and
minarets, and goinz about in a palanquin. Fancy him deep
in the silent jungle or out on the arid plain. Fancy him
schorched by a burning sun whenever abroad, and bored by
inane enjoyments whenever at home--with hookahs of sickly
scent,dancersof monotonous motion,fiddlers of soulless music.
Fancy him—but there is no need to fancy anything of the
kind. Not for the idolent Asiatic does Punch dispor# him.
self in India, but for the active European ; not for dreamers
and drivellers, inhalers of hookahs and patrons of aenans, but
for stickers of pigs, smokers of cheroots, drinkers of brandy-
pauee. It is to our brave and
fair compel riots in the East
that Punch appeals, and it is in the Jocose illustration of
their manners and customs that hefinds his Principe ]sport.
The natives are not forgotten ; but
' when they are remem-
bered, it is generally less for their amusement than that of
ether people.—Dickens' s "All the Year Round

consumption
demand_ol at
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At the Liverpool Corn-market today th ere was
a good attendance. Wheat sells freely for
the extreme prices of Friday. Flour in
3 per
late rates. Indian corn, with a better del:nal:li, .
quarter dearer. Mixed, 28s. 61. Egyptian
scarce
Saidi, 30s. 6d. to 31s. Oats dull. Oatmeal, 6d, per load.
dearer and scarce.
It appears, from a parliamentary return issued
yesterday, that the aggregate annual receipt on articles in-
dividually yielding £lO,OOO and upwards to the Customs'
revenue, the duties on which were repealed in the tea years
from 1852 to 1861, inclusive, was £821,035.
Advices from Cracow state that the administra-
tive separation of the Kingdom of Poland from the Russian
Empire is decided on. A Russian 'custom-house will be
established at Kowno, and a Polish one at Kribartz. The
Grand Duchy of Lithunia is not to form a part of Poland.
The Emperor is said to have the intention of restoring to
Poland her administrative autonomy, the Grand Duke
Constantine being considered likely to be appointed to carry
out the plan. A general amnesty is expected at Warsaw.
Two new self,ighting lifeboats, belonging to
Portugal, and on the plan of the National Lifeboat Insti-
tution, will have their harbour trial in the Regent's-canal
Dock, Stepney, to-morrow (Wednesday) at 2 o'clock. For
the information of foreigners we may add that the dock is
close to the Stepney station at tee Blackwall Railway.
The guardians of the Blackburn Union have una-
nimously resolved to petition th 3 Poor-law Board for pecu-
niary assistance. The guardians request the central board,
by application to Parliament orotherwise (but not by a rate
in aid), to assist them with money which will be repaid in
more prosperous times. Front a calculation of one of the
guardians it appears
that the rite of 3s. in the pound, laid
in February, and now nearly exeausted, produced £18,000;
now, it is assumed, the same !ating would not produce
£12,000, whilst a much larger mount will be required to
meet the existing distress.