The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-04 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TEA..—There has been a very limited business transacted;
but prices, however, remained without material alteration.
SUGAR.—The market has been dull, and in some in
stances prices have slightly given way. Refined descrip-
tions, however, had realised previous values.
COFEEE.—OnIy limited dealings have been recorded in
colonial descriptions, and prices have remained without
change of importance. Good and fine qualities of Planta-
tion Ceylon, however, command high rates.
RICE.—For the better descriptions of East India there
has been only a moderate demand, and late quotations are
barely maintained.
SALTPETRE.—Business has been inactive, and the few
bargains recorded have led to no material change in values.
TALLOW.--The market has been rather dull ; prices,
however, have experienced no material change. P.Y.C.
on the spot is quoted 475, March delivery 46s 9d, and last
three months delivery 48s per cwt.

THE MEMORIAL FUND,—Last evening the fund
now being raised by the committee at the Mansion-house
for a memorial of his late Royal Highness the Prince Con-
sort exceeded £25,000. Yesterday afternoon the Lord
Mayor was honoured by a letter from the Duke of Cam-
bridge, enclosing a contribution of £lOO.
ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE.—The following is an
extract from the letter of the Governor of Antigua to a re-
lative, dated the 11th of January last, when the expecta-
tion of a rupture with America was imminent We are
taking steps for defence against predatory attacks. An ar-
rangement is being made with the captains of merchant
vessels in port, by which, on a given signal, men from such
vessels will repair to a battery which commands the entrance
to the harbour; and I find that on board these vessels are
men of the Naval Reserve, who have been drilled to gun-
nery, and are delighted at the idea of giving their service.
This incidentally shows the value of that system. But I
heartily hope there will not be war."
NEW MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.—
The follom ing gentlemen will be entitled to take the oaths
and their seats as members of the House of Commons on
the re-assembling of Parliament on Thursday :—Mr.
Charles Turner, elected the third member for South Lan-,
cashire, under the act of last session; Mr. W. Morrison,
elected for Plymouth, in the room of Viscount Valletort,
who has become the Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe ; Mr. Chas.
Seeley, returned for Lincoln, in the room of Major Sib-
.t
'l°rP, deceased ; Mr. Edmund Potter, returned for Carlisle,
in the room of Sir James Graham, Bart., deceased; Mr.
Wm. Cox, returned for Finsbury, in the room of Mr. Thos.
buncombe, deceased ; Sir Robert Clifton, Bart., returned
for Nottingham, in the room of Mr. J. Mellor, who has been
raised to the judicial bench; Mr. J. Laird, returned as the
first member of the new borough of Birkenhead ; Mr. Foley
-Vernon, elected for East Worcestershire, in the room of
Mr. R. J. Hodgetts Foley, deceased ; Colonel Fane, elected
for Oxfordshire, in the room of Mr. George Granville Ver-
ten deceased ; Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, elected for Cole-
r
..,aine, in the room of Dr. Boyd, deceased. Three seats—
ohoreham, Greet Grimsby, and Lincoln—remain to be
filled up.