The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-04 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

The colonial markets are steady this morning. The
transactions in sugar on the spot are still limited, but
there is a continued good inquiry for floating cargoes.
Coffee is quiet, but firm. Cotton continues to be actively
inquired for.

NEW SMITHFIELD AND LEADENUALL.
The dead meat trade is steady, at previous rates.
BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS.
The demand is moderately active at the following
rates :—English regents, 6)s to 130 s; flukes, 100$ to
150 s; Scotch regents, 602 to 1306 ; French, 40f to 80s.
per ton.

LIVERPOOL COTTON.
January 4.--Salos probably 15,000 or 20,000 bales.
:Market firm and advancing.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS—This Day.

Mr. Besley drew the attention of the Court to
the case of John and Jane Smith, charged with
stealing £lO, the moneys of John Taylor, in a
dwelling-house, and the said Jane Smith being an
accessory before the fact. He said he had reason
to believe that the prosecutor was being kept out of
the way. He (Mr. Begley) thought it was a case
to which the attention of the grand jury ought to
be drawn.

The Assistant Judge gave the required order to
the officer of the court, Mr. Hornell.
Frederick Johnson Stevens, 30, blacksmith, was
indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling-
house of John Parnell, and stealing therefrom a
waistcoat and other articles, value £BO, his pro-
perty. The prisoner pleaded fluilty and was
sentenced to be kept in penal servitude for five
years.

THE AMERICAN AND CANADIAN MAILS DUE AT
LIVERPOOL THIS WEBK.—There are three steamers
due at Liverpool this week, with the American and
Canadian mails. On Wednesday next the Inman Com-
pany's steamer City of London, from New York, with
dates to December 26th, and the Allen Company's
steamer Nestorian, with corresponding advice, from
Portland, may be expected to roach the Mersey. On
Saturday next the Cunard steamer Australasian, with
advices from New York to December 30, will no doubt
reach Liverpool. The outgoing mail steamers from
Liverpool this week are :—The City of Antwerp, for New
York, on Wednesday ;• the Peruvian, for Portland, on the
following day ; and the Java, for New York, on Satur-
day next.
REFORMS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE.—It is currently
rumoured that the present accountant-general of the
navy, Mr. James Beeby, with the assistant-general, and
several clerks of the first-class iu the accountant-general's
department at Somerset-house, are to be superannuated;
that Mr. IL W. R. Walker will be accountant-general of
the navy ; and instead of the clerks being in classes as
heretofoze, they will be appointed clerks of sections and
assistant clerks.—Broad Arrow.
Madame do Paiva, wife of the late Portuguese
Minister at Berlin, is said to be placed by the death of her
husband in an embarrassed pecuniary situation, and to have
been obliged to apply to the Government of Lisbon to un-
dertake the expense of his funeral.
PAUPERISM AND TILE POOR LAWS.—We are
requested to state that the adjourned discussion of the
Economy Department of the Social Science Association on
"Pauperism, Chati4 and the Poor Laws," at which per-
sons interested arelinvited to attend, will be held this
evening at the 'Whittington Club, Arundel-street, Strand,
at 7 o'clock.