The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-15 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

DETERMINED ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—Jane Simmonds,
a very respectable-looking woman, who is exceedingly
well connected, was charged with attempting to drown
herself at Battersea-bridge.
James Dewar, 136 F, said that, at half-past 10 last night,
he was on duty at Battersea-bridge, when a gentleman
called his attention to the defendant, and told him some-
thing which induced himto watch her. Directly after this
witness saw her in the act of getting over the rails of the
bridge to throw herself into the Thames. He rushed
forward, and seizing her when she was half over,
dragged her back on to the bridge. By a quick
movement she suddenly extricated herself from his
grasp, and running to the other side of the bridge got
partly over the rails and was again prevented doing any
mischief. Witness then walked across the bridge with her,
and considering from what she said that she would surely
destroy herself unless restrained he took her to the sta-
tion and locked her up.
Mr. Arnold asked if any of her friends were present ?
The police replied in the negative.
The poor woman on baing asked whether she wished
to say anything burst into tears.
Mr. Arnold, consulting her safety, ordered her to be
remanded for a week.

MARKE TS. —1 his d~,g.

HAY.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 15s ; clover,
£4 105 to .£5 15s Od ; and straw, £1 188 to £2 6s por load.
Trade quiet, but firm.
Cumnrauarrn.—Moadow hay, £2 5s to £4 15s ; clover,
.£4 108 to £5 15s ; and straw, £1 188 to £2 5s per load.
Prices firm. _ _

WurrzenerEL.—Meadow hay, £2 5s to £4 15$ ; clovet,
£4 lOs to £6 15s Od ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 5s per load•
Trade quiet.

COLONIAL.

TEA.—The market has remained quiet, only a small
quantity is announced for public sale to day, and prices
are not expectsd to vary to any considerable extent.
SUGAL—A good business has been done in West India,
and prices are well maintained. The fog yesterday, how-
ever, in some measure interrupted business operations, the
stock on hand, compared with that of the corresponding
period of last year, exhibits an increase of 2,282 tons.
COFFEE.—The demand for colouring descriptions of
plantation Ceylon continues good, and prices generally aro
firmly maintained.
RlCE.—There continues to be a fair inquiry for cleaned
descriptions, which fully support former quotations.
SALTPETRE.—No sales have been reported in Bengal
but a small parcel of common Bombay has been sold at
13s. 6d. per cwt.

LIVERPOJL COTTON MARKET.

(This Day.)

Market opens quiet. Sales, probably, 5,000
bales.

REAL ENJOYMENT.—As the rocks grew higher and
nearer, and the sun more hot, so the breeze also in-
creased, until we scudded away at a famous pace, while I
stretched at full length, with my head leaning back on the
adjustable back-board (the comfort of one's life in a canoe),
and my feet spread out on deck, and bright clear waves
lapping my hands now and then, or daringly kissing my
cheek. The luxury of this rest in motion, after the hard
tugs against the east wind last week, will always be re-
membered by the passengers of the canoe. To vary the
amusement, I bent my course here and there, into this bay
on tho right, and round that cape on the left, now chasing
a duck that kept diving and diving before me, and again
running close to some little village, where all the folks
came out, but I managed to pass through them without
even once allowing my face to be seen. Their account of
the phantom craft that passed them I should very much
like to hear. The work of a long summer's day, even
with its rests and detours and many stoppages, had
brought me thirty miles on my route, and as the sun
drooped, so died away the wind ; but the water closing
now to the breadth of a river, with a steady cur-
rent, still carried us on through the Bjorno Sje, the
Lake of the Bears. Over the waving weeds, fast by the
dipping bushes, great rocks above us, and health and peace
within, it was all in a mellow light of gloaming, such as
that picture shows us, " With the Stream." I fished the
while —as comfortable in my boat as you are on your sofa—
use makes it so. At last I was lazy, and so were the fish,
for they jumped only half way to the fly, and seemed to
lollop about for play, and did not " mean business." We
were all so pleasant and comfortable—the canoe, the fisher-
man, and the fish—that by consent it was agreed to "make
believe," on all sides, until, I do believe, our coxswain
nodded in the sultry air, and then he fell fast asleep. At
this time the Rob Roy was born on the smooth current,
stern-foremost, side-foremost, any way ; all discipline was
unloosed, and no one was on the watch, as we drifted in
among the long stakes, which were loaning down as they
bent to the stream, and murmuring at the pressure with
an audible thrill. Suddenly I was aroused by a tremendous
tug at my fishing-line. In an instant it was " all hands on
deck," and a rattling of paddles and spars and a clattering
of shoes. What a huge salmon it must be we are catching.
It has pulled the whole boat round! Haul away cheerily.
Ah ! my hook had caught a tree ! —The Rob Roy on the
Baltic. By .1. Macgregor, M.
PUBLIC COMPANIES IN CIIANCERI.—There was
another long list of public companies under the Winding-up
Acts before the Chief Clerks yesterday in Chancery. The
case of Barned's Bank again figured in the paper, and the
application was by another shareholder to vary the list.
The matter stood over until after the accounts were filed.:
REFORM SOIREE AT HANLEY.—We learn, by tele-
graph, that the local members of the Reform League held
a soiree last night in the Lecture-hall of the Mechanics'
Institution, Hanley. Resolutions in favour of the pro-
gramme of the Reform League—registered residential
manhood suffrage and vote by ballot—were carried with
acclamation, and an address was delivered. At the same
time a soiree was hold at the Town-hall at Stoke, under
the auspices of the National Reform Union. The resolu-
tions passed at this meeting ware in favour of the Kan-
, cheater programme.