The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-23 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

SUGAR.—There has been a dull market and prices have
given way slightly. Barbadoes at auction has realised 33s 6d
to 38s 6d. Mauritius mostly sold at 33s 6d to 34s 6d for
low mid and mid yellow, and at 32s 6d for brown. Ben-
gal superior yellow grainy went at 39s to 39s 6d, good and
fine Mauritius sort was taken at 36s to 38s 6d, and Madras
sold at 38s 6d to 39s for superior yellow grainy, and 34s 6d
to 36s for low to mid yellow. Foreign has been heavier
within the last two days, although floating cargoes were
previously in demand. The latest sales of Porto Rico have
been at 34s 6d to 38s 6d for low heavy to good bright yel-
low. Cuba Muscovado went at 31s to 35s 6d for mid heavy
brown to good mid soft yellow. Yellow Havannah sold
at 34s 6d. to 37s 6d for low to mid.
COFFEE.—There has been a duller market, and Planta-
tion Ceylon has declined fully is per cwt. The latest sales
have been at 62s to 65s for mid and good bold, 54s to 57s
for small, and 51s for triage. Jamaica went at 68s to 75s
for mid and good, at 50s to 55s 6d for fine and fine ord, and
at 48s to 49s 6d for good ord pale. Triage sold at 40s to
48s. Costa Rica sold at 46s to 48s for ord, while good and
fine ord pale was taken in at 50s to 57e.
SPICES.—There has been a steady market privately, but
only a few parcels of ginger have been offered by auction,
and these went at 43s to 94s for small and mid, and at 100 s
to 160 s for mid bold to good white.
COCOA.—The demand has not improved.

COTTON.—There is scarcely any . inquiry
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RlCE.—This article has been in request, and holders ask
higher rates.
RUM.—This article is wanted, and prices are fully main-
tained.
SALTPETRE.—There has been a steady inquiry, but
holders refrain frora pressing sales.
TEA.—The demand has been fair for the useful kinds,
chiefly mid to fine congou, at very full prices.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. has advanced to 56s per cwt on the
spot.
GREEN FRUIT.—The market is steady for all kinds.
Some parcels of grapes per " Thames" and "Great Wes-
tern" steamers, sold by Keeling and Hunt at public sale,
sustained the prices obtained for previous shipments.
Lemons have improved in price, the stock being diminished.
Barcelona Nuts 44s per bag. Black Spanish shortly ex-
pected. The shipments from Malaga have been retarted
by heavy rains.

LOVE, DESPERATION, AND DEATH IN

AMERICA.

SUICIDE OF TWO YOUNG LADIES AT MAN-
CHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE.—PREMEDI.
TATION AND COOLNESS UNEQUALLED.
About eight o'clock on Sunday evening, August 14,
two young ladies, operatives in the mills, committed sui•
cide by drowning, the particulars of which are as fol•
low :

One of them was Miss Catherine B. Cotton, of Pow-
nal, Maine, aged 22 ; the other, Miss Clara C. Coch-
rane, aged 19, a native of New Boston, but who had
lately been at home with I er brother at Hopkinton.
They roomed together at 24, Manchester Corpora.
tion, this city, and had frequently expressed a purpose
to drown themselves, but their friends had no appre-
hension that such was their design. For a few days
previous they had talked freely of doing so, and com-
municated their intention to a room-mate, but still with-
out creating any alarm. As they left their boarding-
house late in the evening, however, the lady rooming
with them followed, and watched them. They pro-
ceeded hand-in-hand, and with great apparent cheerful-
ness, to the bridge crossing the upper canal/ leading to
the Manchester Mills, stopped together upon the stone
wall of the canal, just above the bridge, and together
leaped into the water. The act was seen by one or two
persons, and the alarm was instantly given, though 10
minutes elapsed before either was taken out. In that
time the body of Miss Cotton was recovered ; that of
Miss Cochrane, having floated down the canal, was not
recovered for some time after. All efforts to resuscitate
them failed. Miss Cochrane, for some days previous,
had been very much depressed and low-spirited.
Their whole proceedings were marked by great cool-
ness and deliberation. Both of them left letters to their
friends announcing their purpose, and giving directions
in regard to the settlement of their affairs and the dis-
posal of their effects. Miss Cochrane, we understand,
was to come into possession of several thousand dollars
at 21 years of age. Various rumours are afloat in re-
gard to the cause of this rash act. From all we can
learn it is to be ascribed in both cases to the grief of
disappointed love.
Miss Cochrane enclosed in her letter the following
scrap of poetry, which, no doubt, expressed her feelings
at the time of writing :
" I shall soon in death be sleeping,
Far away, where strangers dwell,
Far from all those haints of pleasure
That in youth I loved so well.
Flow'rs shall not be o'er me planted,
Nor shall willows o'er me wave •
Marble columns, decked with grandeur,
Ne'er shall mark my humble grave.
" Friends will shed no tears of sadness
When my dream of life is o'er,
For around me all are strangers—
I am on a distant shore.
Hear me, then, oh friends of childhood,
Hear an exile's dying prayer ;
When I soar to climes Elysian,
Let me meet my loved ones there.
"My heart now droops in loneliness—
My misery's perfect now •
For dark Despair his seal has stamp'd
Upon my throbbing brow.;
No voices in affections tones
Upon my ears now fall ;
Alone I tread the path of life—
I am the last of all.

" I would not have proud marble piled
Above my grassy bed ;
One simple stone to mark the spot,
And one to weep me dead."
The body of Miss Cochrane was placed on board the
cars and conveyed to her friends. The public mind, as
is natural, is anxious to know the causes of such strange
proceedings. Was it disappointed love ? Was it shame
for past acts ? Or was it fear of bringing disgrace upon
themselves and friends ? A tattling, surmising, evil-
minded class in the community simultaneously cry the
last. But we are authorised to say, and feel warranted
in saying, that such surmises are all false. Disappointed
love was the cause, and the only cause, that brought
about such sad and fatal results ; not a late disappoint-
me.nt, but in the case of one of them wearing and prey-
ing upon the mind for some fourteen months, so that
almost nightly her pillow was bathed in tears. The fol-
lowing letter, written by her, and addressed to Cyrus
, Biddeford, Me., has been found, and tells its own
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