The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-17 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TEA.—A moderato amount of business has bean entered
into, and late rates are in most instances well supported.
SUGAR.—The market is not very active, but prices
remain steady. Refined goods sell at a moderate rate, at
about previous quotations.
Coffee—Colonial descriptions have been in fair request,
and generally at full values, fine qualites of plantation
Ceylon iu sonie instances realising enhanced prices.

Rice—Only a moderato amount of business has been
entered into, and date rates are, in most instances, sup-
ported for cleared descriptions.
TALLOW.—Business has remained very inactive, and
quotations for present and forward delivery show a further
slight downward tendency. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted
435. 3d., and last three months' delivery 445. per cwt.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET—This Day

The market opens with a good healthy tone.
Sales probably 15,000 bales or more.

DISTRESS IN THE WEST OF IRELAND.—Memorials
received by Government during the last few days leave
no longer doubt as to the sufferings now being experienced
throughout the wild area of mountain and moorland, some
60 miles in length by 35 in width, known as Connemara.
A winter and spring of extraordinary severity every-
where have been peculiarly intense in the Irish High-
lands, destroying nearly all promise of crops of every
kind, whether for human or animal sustenance.
Ominously startling features of the former famine are
already re-appearing. Fever and nakedness, and the
palsied look of hopeless helplessness, accompany chronic
hunger, as of old; while there is the terrible novelty of
cattle disease, which is so virulent that the despairing
people seldom even skin the stricken beasts and, sheep but
leave them unburied where they fall. The imminence' of
pestilence from this source is aggravated by the fact that
the carcases of pigs dying from the murrain are being fed
upon by the more destitute of the sufferers, for
the price of the two local staples of food, namely,
potatoes and Indian meal, is now much beyond what
the ordinary miserable wages of the district would
supply. But even such are now no longer
being earned. Employment there is virtually known.
There is no scope for it, and no means of payment if there
wore, the few landed proprietors having to go without
their rents in great part, if not altogether. Emigration I
has been carried to its uttermost limits, and further exodus
is impossible, for lack of the wherewithal to sustain =it.
Hence the memorialists pray that the Government will
give directions fer some public works, which would era
long be remunerative in themselves, and would much
alleviate the pressure of the current visitation. Mean-
while private benevolence is earnestly solicited,
and in proportion to its promptitude will be its efficacy.
P.ending the formation of committees •of relief, however,
subscriptions will be prudently administered if addressed
to the Rev. Canon P. MiMantts, either at Clifden, County
Galway, or 3, Cannon-row, Parliament-street, Westmin-
ster. At the latter place will also be thankfully received
any articles of new or worn apparel, for adults or children
of either sex, blankets, linen, or small items suitable for
raffles, bazaars, or other similar purposes.
A COLLEGE FRIEND OF CORNELIUS O'DOWD.—
When I was a student of Arts at Trinity, Dublin, in days
of more lightheartedness than I am like to know again, I
chanced to have for my "churn" a man of considerable
ability, and who, but for a disposition to indulge in drink,
would have swept the college of all prizes. After repeated
acts of insubordination, originated iu this unhappy fault,
"calls to the board," fines, &c., ho only escaped formal
rustication by a pledge solemnly given to his tutor, ac-
companied by a convention, that he was to have the daily
privilege of one tumbfer of punch, never to be exceeded,
except if wet through and thoroughly soaked, when a
second might be taken. Now, my poor friend, not having
that confidence in the climate of his native country that
he might have fairly posses&i, conceived the idea of aid-
ing nature ; and might be spied towards six of an after-
noon standing on the steps of his chamber, while his ser-
vant, with a watering-pot, performed the part of Pluvius
from a window overhead, after which ho would return to
the company, and beg them to note the condition he was
in, and 1;6 able to bear testimony, if called upon, that he
was in the predicament specified in the act, and eligible
or another tumbler.—Blackwood's Magazine for May.

THE KING'S DRAGOON GUARDS. -- The annual
dinner of the King's Dragoon Guards will take place at the
Albion, Aldersgate- street, on Thursday, the 23d instant.
This distinguished regiment having recently returned
from service in India, it is expected that a considerable
number of the former and present. officers of tho corps will
meet together 911 thli occasion.