The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-21 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TE.►.--The public sales have just terminated, and prices
generally have shown a downward movement for the in-
ferior descriptions. The finer sorts have fully maintained
former rates. _

SUGAR.—The market is very quiet; prices, however,
are fairly maintained. In the refined market there has
been a more active demand for home consumption, the
grocers having operated to a large extent.
COFFEE.—The transactions have not been extensive, as
several large parcels of Plantation Ceylon are announced
for public sale during the week. No change can be re-
corded in values.
Rim—The market continues firm, and there has been a
good demand for East India qualities, at fully late rates.
FRUlT.—There.has been very little business transacted,
but advices have been received of the nailing of three
steamers from the Islands with cargoes of the new crop of
currants.
SALTPETRE.—The transactions have been limited to
immediate requirements, and in some instances lower rates
have been accepted by holders.
TALLOW.—A very moderate business has taken place.
Prices, however, have shown more firmness. P.Y.C., on
the spot, 51s 3d ; last three months, 51s 6d to 51s 9d.

COAL MAR
Wrists of Coal per Ton al
s. d.

:ET-Au G. 20.

the close of the market.)
Walls End.
o. d
Fraiawellgate l7 0
Heugh Hail 17 0
Byron ..,,.,,.17 0
Cassop l7 6
South liartlepool 17 6
8rand0n.......
Thorpe .. .17 9
South Durham 17 0
Car. & DuffrynMalting22 6
:t, 21 ; sold, 17.

Davison's West Hart-
ley .16 3
Holyvrell l6 0
Howard's West Hart-
ley l6 3
Wylatn l6 6

Walls End.

Brsddyll's Hetton. 18 01
South Durham ..17 0
Ships at market

THE 31211L5.

MAILS DUE.

Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South-
ampton) .. Sept. 18.
Do. (via Marseilles) Sept. 12.
Bahamas and Havana (via New York) .. Aug. 30.
Canada, &c. (via Liverpool) Aug. 22.
Cape of Good Hope, &c. .. Sept. 1.
China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) Sept. 1.
Do. (via Marseilles) Aug. 26.
Gibraltar (via Southampton) . • Aug. 25.
India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) Sept. 1.
Do. ,(via Marseilles) Aug. 26.
India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. Aug. 25.
Do. (via Marseilles) .. Aug. 19.
Lisbon, Brazils, Buenos Ayres, &c. .. Sept. 5.'
Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) .. Aug. 25.
Do. (via Marseilles) .. Aug. 19.
Lisbon, 'Vigo, and Oporto •• •• •• Aug. 21.
United States, California, &c. .. Aug. 22,
Western Coast of Atrica, Madeira, Teneriffe .. Sept. 10.
West Indies and Pacific, Carthagsna, Cuba, &c. Aug. 28,

SMORING.—The pupils of the Polytechnic School
in Paris have recently furnished some curious statistics
bearing on tobacco. Dividing the young gentlemen of that
college into groups, the smokers and the non-smokers, it is
shown that the smokers have proved themselves in the
various competitive examinations far inferior to the others.
Not only in the examinations on entering the school are
the smokers in a lower rank, but in the various ordeals
they have to pass through in a year, the average rank of
the smokers had constantly fallen, and not inconsiderably,
while the men who did not smoke enjoyed a cerebral atmo-
sphere of the clearest kind.
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father and mother, and their son and daughter, the two
atter aged respectively 33 and 25, were accused of four
cases of infanticide. They lived in the village of Prouvais,
and it was a matter of general notoriety that the brother
and sister maintained, with the full knowledge of the pa-
rents, an improper intimacy, and that the result of it was
the birth of several children, all of whom mysteriously dis-
appeared. At length the scandal became so great that
the judicial authorities instituted an inquiry, and then
the young woman made the horrible confession that
for ten years she and her brother had lived together as man
and wife, that she had borne not fewer than seven children,
and that four of them had been strangled immediately after
birth by the brother, with the consent of herself andmother,
and in their presence. As to the other three children, two
she said were born dead, and the third is now living, seven
years old. The dead bodies, she added, were buried in the
garden, and there the bones of three were found. Although
the woman did not accuse her father, it appeared impos-
sible that he could be ignorant of these fearful crimes, and
he was therefore included in the indictment, but the jury
acquitted him. The brother and sister and the mother
being convicted of the murders, the two former were con-
demned to death, and the latter, on &COW of her age, to
bard 'glow for life,