The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-05 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TEA. —There has been a very limited inquiry, the trade
having deferred their operations until the public sales,
which commence to-day, when about 1,800 packages will
be offer ed, 12,000 of which are declared without reserve.

SUGAR.- -The market continues very dull, and quota-
tions generally remain unaltered.

COFFEE.—A fair demand has prevailed for plantation
and native Ceylon, and late rates aro in most instances
maintained.

RlCE.—Business has been inactive, and prices remain
unaltered.

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bridge at 12 o'clock
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match against time, r.stmins Bartlett,
tr Westminster-bridge
cricketer,
undertook
the time occupied by the Victoriae clock ein- chimingg then
four quarters and striking the midnight hour. The belting
was six and seven to four on Mr. Bartlett, who started on
the western side of the bridge, at the base of the clock
tower, and passed the winning-post at the tenth stroke of
the hour.
THE CASE OF MADA3IE VALENTIN.—In the in-
quiry into circumstances connected with this well-
known case, before Master Pollock yesterday, Mr. Day,
barrister, applied on behalf of the Bouillons for an adjourn-
ment of the inquiry until after the indictments against Mr.
Hall, their attorney, had been tried in the Queen's Bench.
Mr. Leverson, the attorney on behalf of Madame Valentin,
objected to the postponement on the ground that the in-
dictments could not be tried before the sittings after
Hilary Term, and in all probability, would not come on
until after Trinity Term. The late decision in the Court
of Exchequer, postponing the judgment of the Court in
the Bouillons' application for a new trial until after the
termination of the case of " Valentin v. Hall," had been as
prejudicial to Madame Valentin as an adverse decision
would have been, and the general system of delay which
adoptedinthew homleasmtearttevr
ohllaodc beenk
said he must
most de-
trimentalha dbeen t
o er interests.
follow the example set him by the Court
of which he was
an officer, and must postpone any further
inquiry until
after the indictments in the Court of Queen's Bench against
Mr. Hall had been tried.

THE MURDER AT BONN.—The Independance,
Beige says :—" The assassination of Ott, the Frenchman
at Bonn,
in a quarrel between soldiers and civilians, which
attracted so much attention a few months since, and even
occasioned diplomatic proceedings, has at last led to a re-
sult favourable to the demands of public opinion. Count
Eulenburg, nephew of the Home Secretary in Prussia, one
of the military suspected of having given the victim the
fatal blow to which he succumbed, has been sentenced by
the court-martial which tried him to nine months' deten-
tion in a fortress. This is not much when the punishment
is compared with the gravity of the offence, but it is a
good deal when the position of the accused, his family re-
lations, the immunities which special tribunals are only
too much disposed to grant, the privileges of the military
in Prussia, and certain facts of the case which may be con-
sidered so many extenuating circumstances, are taken into
account."