The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-22 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TEA.—A very moderate amount of business has been
transacted, and since the public sales prices have remained
without alteration.

SUGAR.--The demand has been moderate; holders, how•
ever, do not press sales, and prices generally are well sus.
tained. In the refined market late rates aro, in most in•
stances, well supported.

COFFEE. —Oaly a moderate quantity has boen on offer,
and mostly of an inferior quality, prLes, in some instances,
ruling a shade lower.

RICE.—A amount of business has Wen entered into,
and prices tend upwards.

TALLow.—Business has been rather inactive, although
quotations for both present and forward delivery are well
sustain,d, P.Y.C. on the spot being at 425. Gd.; December,
435. ; and spring delivery, 433. Gd. per cwt.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKE7 —This Day

Market quiet. Sales probably 8,000 bales.

WANDERING LUNATICS.

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At the beginning of the week we witnessed two
sights in the streets of the metropolis which reflected
disgrace equally upon our police regulations and the
administration of public and private charity. Early
o❑ Sunday morning, at the time when the stream
of church-goers was beginning to set steadily along
the chief thoroughfares, a crowd drew together to
watch the actions of a man in one of the west-central
squares. This unfortunate man was so thinly and
imperfectly clad that the barest rule of decency was
hardly met, and but the very slightest protection
from the bitter cold was afforded. His feet, arms,
neck, and great portion of the shoulders were bare,
and exposed to the piercing wind, and they had a
horrible, dusty-red, mottled aspect. With his arms
closely folded as if to protect himself from the in-
clement weather, and an aspect of suffering, he was
moving about in a restless, indeterminate fashion,
paying no heed to the lookers on, and not soliciting
any charity. His lips were moving rapidly, as
if he were muttering to himself, and his face
had an unmistakeable appearance of weak in -
tellect. Presently, and before any scheme of
dealing with the man could be, devised, he started
off at a very rapid pace, and was soon lost to the
sight. On Monday, again, in a back street of
Bloomsbury, we saw a man pacing along with a
regulated step. He was bare-headed, and with bare
feet, and the latter, as well as the face were purple
with cold. Under his arm he carried the semblance of a
bagpipe, to the drone of which were attached bunches
of jingling metal. At every fou:th pace he uttered
a loud kind of imitation of the instrument, shaking
the seeming drone and its metallic appendages at
the same time. He looked neither to the right nor
the left, but passed along the centre of the street,
while he remained in sight, as if heedless of all else
except his own imaginations. He was wretchedly
clad, and it was a sad spectacle to witness the effect
of the nipping but seemingly unfelt cold upon his
exposed head, feet, and hands. If the two men we
thus casually saw were not lunatics, they were cer-
tainly accomplished vagrants, who plied their trade
with heroic indifference to physical suffering ; for,
under ordinary circumstances, and in a normal state
of body, the condition of the exposed skin, as
affected by the cold, must have caused acute suffer-
' ing. But whether lunatic or vagrant, it is surely a
grave public scandal that such spectacles should be
witnessed in the teeming thoroughfares of the me-
tropolis. If these men were vagrants, surely it was
the duty of the police to remove them from the
streets, and prevent the public being imposed upon
as well as horrified. If they were lunatics, surely
it was equally the duty of the police to see that they
were placed under control, and properly supplied
with food and clothing. The law has amply pro-
vided for both contingencies, and the Commissioners
in Lunacy would do a welcome service to the coun-
try if they would make inquiry as to the state of
vagrant lunatics, and the mode in which the provi-
sions of the law with regard to them, or applicable
to them, are carried out. We commend the subject
to their consideration.—Lancet.

The Architect of the House of Parliament—
Pugin or Barry ?

The _67.ent Coast Times of yesterday, in comment-
ing upon Mr. Welby Pugin's recently-published
pamphlet, takes occasion to remark as follows :

" Mr. Pugin declines to submit the dispute to any
tribunal but that of the public at large ; and unless
the Barrys have a much stronger reply than any-
thing they have yet advanced, that verdict will
will be what we have above indicated.

" A strange phase has, however, just arisen, for
the Messrs. Cooper, solicitors to the executors of the
late Sir C. Barry, have written to Messrs. Longman
and Co., prohibiting the publication of the pamphlet,
until they have compared the same with the original
documents.

" We can understand the Messrs. Barry wishing
to be in possession of all the facts of the case, but
why they should desire to restrain the publication,
if the facts are incorrectly given, is beyond our
comprehension, for should such prove to be the case,
their success in damning Mr. Pugiu's claim would
be simply proportioned to the number of copies
issued.

611IPPING INTELLIGENCE.— This Day.

(By Telegraph.)
POIITSM.OUTII, Friday. 10.30 a.m.
Her Majesty's troop steamships Crocodile, from Alex-
andria and Malta, and the Serapis, from Alexandria, are
now anchoring at Spithead.

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GRATESTIND, Friday Morning.
Arrived, Nov. 21.—Italia, steamer, from Valencia ; Ba-
tavier, steamer, from Rotterdam.
Arrived, Nov. 22.—Lady Nesboro, from Rouen ; Leo,
steamer, from Rotterdam; Souvenir, steamer, from Brus-
sels ; Ranger, steamer, from Rotterdam ; Rhine, steamer,
from Boulogne ; Lord John Russell, steamer, from Dun-
kirk; Blonde, steamer, from Dunkirk; Vigilant, steamer,
fion, Calais ; Nora, steamer, from Harlingen ; Sabrina,
steamer, from Palermo ; Belgium, steamer from Ostend.
Sailed.—Diana, steamer, for Amsterdam; Beta, steamer,
for Oporto; VelnEquez, steamer for Cadiz.
DEAL, Friday Morning.
Passed—Star of the East, for Guernsey ; Baroness Ottono
for Belize; Catherine, for Rio Grande—all from London;
Crisea, from the Cape of Good Hope, for London.