The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-30 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

The foreign and colonial produce markets remain closed
for the Christmas holidays, and will re-open on Tuesday
next, Jan. 6, 1863.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE---This Day.

LONDON, Dec. 30.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly; moderate breeze, and fine weather.
HOLYHEAD, Dec. 29.—Wind S.W., fresh gale.—Arrived
—Douglas Castle, from Liverpool, for Bombay; Hannibal,
from Liverpool, for CBlo4tta.
PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 29.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrivecl--:-Ro-
berto, from Hartlepool, for Naples
GLOUCESTER, Dec. 29.—Arrived—Coral Isle, and Vic-
tory. from Now York.
GRIMSBY ROADS, Dec. 29.—Arrived ilenrich von
Gejouen, from the North, for Newport.

MUMBLES. Dec. 29.--Arriyed—Deerslayer, and Chile,
from Caldera ; Acacia, from Valparaiso ; Ocean King,
from Coquimbo.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning.

Arrived—Alliance, steamer, from Havre.
Sailed—Ouse, for Hull; Chenamus, for Newcastle;
Reaper, for Sunderland.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRArII.)
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning,
Arrived, Dec. 30—Perseverance, from Gravelines ; Istam-
boul, from Bombay ; Prince Alfred, from Foo• Chow-Foo ;
Ocean Mail, from Shanghai; Louwine, from Nykiobing ;
Maldon, from Tuticorin•

DEAl,,.Tuesday Morning.
Passed—William Carey, from Singapore; Othini, from
Canton; Aminta, from Calcutta; Aden, from Liverpool;
Bard of Avon, from the west; Ashburton, from New
York; Drogheda, from the west;
Odin, from New York;
Lecellin, from the East Indies—all for London.

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THE PREACHER AND HIS VOLUNTEER ALLY.--
A half-witted youth asked his mother if she did
not think it wrong for people to fall asleep at church, and
she replied that she did. Next Sunday, before starting for
church, the youth filled his pocket with apples. One bald-
headed old man, who invariably went to sleep during the
sermon, particularly attracted his attention. Seeing him
at last nodding, and giving nasal evidence of being in the
" land of dreams," he gave the astounded sleeper a blow
with an apple on the top of his bald pate. The minister and
aroused congregation at once turned round and indignantly
gazed at the boy, who merely said to the preacher, as he
took another apple in his hand, with a sober, honest expres-
sion of countenance, " You preach ; I'll keep 'em awake I"
REFINED HAPPINESS !—We can tell our readers
a story hitherto unedited, and which we think will
not be considered the less terrible for being grotesque. One
Boxing-day, not very long ago, a labouring man and his
wife were overheard in violent altercation in the street.
The man was drunk, but he had arrived at the lachrymose
stage of inebriety, and was sobbing piteously. " What's
the matter ?" querulously asked his wife. "I—l—l'm so
unhappy," blubbered the husband. " Unhappy I the
lady repeated, with a profound expression of contempt. ,
"Unhappy I You were drunk on Sunday, you were drunk
on Monday, you're drunk now, and you ain't happy.
What more do you want P Do you want to be a Rangel ?"
—Daily Te!eqraph.
HARTLEY COLERIDGE.— A humble-hearted,
highly-gifted man, " dear Hartley." as my father
called him, dreamed thr, ugh a life of error, loving the good,
and hating the evil, yet unable to resist it. His companion.
ship was always delightful to the Professor, and many
hours of converse they held. His best and happiest moments
were those spent at Eillary. My father had a great power,
and exerted it with a kind but firm determination. On
one occasion he was kept imprisoned for some weeks, under
his surveillance, in order that he might finish some literary
work he had promised to have ready bra certain time. He
completed his task, and when the day of release came it was
intended he should leave Eillary. But Hartley's demon
was at hand; without one word of adieu to the friends in
whose presence he stood, off he ran at full speed down the
avenue, lost to sight amid the trees, seen again on the
open highway still running, till the sound of far-off foot-
steps gradually died away in the distance, and he himself
was hidden, not in the groves of the valley, but drinking
among his low companions, where his mind was soon
brought to a level with theirs. Then those clouds would
after a time pass away, and he again returned to the society
of those who could appreciate him, and who never ceased
to love him. Every one loved Hartley Coleridge; there
was something in his appearance that evoked kindness.
Extremely boyish in aspect, his juvenile air was aided not
a little by his general mode of dress—black round jacket,
white trousers, with a handkerchief tied closely round hie
throat ; sometimes a straw hat covered his head, but more
frequently it was bare, showing his black, thick, short, curl-
ing hair. His eyes were large, dark, and expressive, and a
countenance almost sad in expression was relieved by the
beautiful smile which lighted it up from time to time.—
Ilfemoirs of Christopher North.

SERIOUS RAILWAY ROBBERY. —£1,200 STOLEN.
—On Christmas .day a serious robbery W4S effected
on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. By ono of the
early morning trains into Yorkshire a number of cashboxes
were sent from the head offices of the company, containing
the wages of the employes at the stations along the line. On
the train reaching North Dean it was discovered that three
of the boxes (those for Bradford Halifax, and Wakefield,
containing £1,200, chiefly in gold and silver) had been
abstracted. The guard did not miss them till he reached
North Dean, and it is supposed they had been taken from
his van during his temporary absence at one of the previ-
ous stations,---Leeds ffercury.