The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-24 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TEA.—The public sales of China produce continuo to
proceed with a fair amount of animation, and prices gene-
rally are well supported.
SUGAR.— Only a moderate business has been done for
home consumption, but there has been a fair inquiry for
floating cat goes, and prices generally are well maintained,
particularly for superior qualities of West India.
COEFEE.—There has been a good demand for Plantation
Ceylon, and saperior qualities have sold readily at full
rates. Native descriptions were also in fair request at full
values.

Rica.—A very moderate amount of business has been
entered into, and quotations remain unaltered.

TALLOW.— The dealings have been ou a very limited
scale, and quotations for both present and forward delivery
remain inactive, P.Y.C. on the spot being 433. 3d., and
last three month 453., 445. 3d. per cwt.

GREEN FRUlT.—Market for oranges not so well sup-
ported, owing to the unfavourable change of weather.
Some parcels Valencia and Sicily, sold by Keeling and
Hunt at public sale, went at easier rates. Cold weather
has checked the consumption of lemons. Nuts of all
kinds in fair demand ; some parcels of Para are to
hand, and likely to be offered at a figure to effect sales.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET—This Day.

Market opens with a fair demand. Sales pro-
bably 10,000 bales.

CONFLAGRATION IN CLERKENWELL.

A very serious conflagration, attended with a
great destruction of property, took place at a late
hour last night in the extensive cabinet factory be-
longing to Mr. Harrision, and a cooperage belong-
ing to Mr. Hunt, and Mr. Cattle, an undertaker,
situate in Brunswick-street, Northampton-square,
Clerkenwell. The building was over 70 feet in
length, and two floors high, and contained a vast
amount of property.

The discovery was made by Police-constable, 244
of the G division, who at once went off for
proper assistance. In the course of a few minutes,
Conductors Shaw and Greathead attended with the
Royal Society's escapes. Aldersgate and St.
John's-street stations followed by numerous land-
steamers, by Shand, Mason and Co. By the time
this powerful force arrived the whole of the spacious
manufacturing premises were encircled with flame,
and the fire rose so high into the air as to illumi-
nate the whole district. Plenty of water having
been procured from the mains of the New River
Company, the steam engines were set to work,
but the flames lapping round seven or eight
houses let out in tenements to poor people,
the inmates commenced removing their fur-
niture and children to a distant place for pro-
tection. The firemen eventually succeeded in
extinguishing the flames, but not until the factory
was entirely consumed, together with the val uable
contents, and the seven or eight houses before
alluded to considerably damaged by water and re-
moval. The origin of the fire is unknown.

We learn from .Glasgow that Sir Archibald
Alison, the historian, died last night at half-past eleven
o'clock of bronchitis.

" RODERICK RANDOM" COMPLETE FOR 6D.—
The new volumes of Mr. Rotten's cheap "library
of world-wide authors" are "Roderick Random,"
complete and unabridged; and Charles Lamb's
" Essays of Elia," from the author's own edition
of 1823, both at sixpence each. To the "Essays
of Elia," Mr. Edmumd Oilier, the son of Lamb's
first publisher, will oontribute some " Reminis-
eenoes of the Author and his Friends," now for the first
time printed. It is a curious fact in the history of cheap
popular literature that this last sixpenny volume was
originally published at nine shillings—or just eighteen
times the price at which it may now be obtained elegantly
priuted.

rILEFNILEN(II4
North Eastern, York. H. and Selby puchafie.
Stockton and Darlington B, 5 per cent., 811
South Eastern ( [tending Auto., .£1.0,6),
Ditto, 44 p.r cent., b 4
YREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS.
London, Chatham, .Vc., 6 per cent. 2d pl., 28
London and S.-Western 43 per cent., kw

LINES LEASED ItT _rum) 111CDITAL5.
London and Blackwall, 81

ruttNIGN RAILWAYS.
Antwerp and Rotterdam, 9
FOREIGN MINKS.
Anglo •Brazilian Gold, limited, 1
Ctiontalea (Jold and Silver Mining, a 2i
Don Pedro, Nor h Del Rey, 2/ g pm
Peatarenna Gold, 3
St. John del Rey, lim., 61

BANISB.

Alliance, lim., 151 164
chartered 4cr. of India, London, and China, 31
ConsolidatQd, lim.,
Ditto, new, 4)1
English and Swedish, lira., 15
Imperial Bank, lim., :2i
Imperial Ottoman, lim., 9
Lamol Mortgage [lank oh Inaba, him., 11
London Chartered uank of Australia,
Loadon and Couuty, 56
London Joint Stook, 421
London and South African, 11*
London and 11 estininster, 95
Oriental Bank Corporation, 431
Union of Loudon, 41

MISCELLAN NM b.
Anglo-American Telegraph, 171
At antio Telegraph,
Dit• o, 8 per cent., 831 61
City of 11loscow Gas, lira., lea
Calla Vomiter of . 31 7-10
Crystal Palace. 21 3
Ebbw Vale, LI 3
le, •lectric and international Telegraph, 135
Fore-street IVaretioubc, lim., 123
Hudson's Bay, 153
International,Finaneial Society, lim.. 23
London General Omnibus company, tills, 3 4
Lon o.L ai.d I'rovincial Marine, 13 3
sI dras Irr gatlon and Canal (guaranteed.s per cent. by In.
than Government). 191

THE ALTERATION OF THE EARTH'S AXIS OF
ROTATION by tidal friction has by some physicists been
assumed as a sufficient explanation of changes in the
earth's climate. Mr. Stone, of the Greenwich Observatory,
has investigated the question, and, in the "Monthly
Notices" of the Royal Astronomical Society, has demon-
strated the failure of that theory to account for the
phenomena. Geologists who have built up elaborate
arguments on that asssumption will have to reconsider
their conclusions. —AthenNunt.

It is reported that an expedition is being orga-
nised at Peshawur for the purpose of chastising
the lioo3sein Dail tribe, who have been for months
plundering our mails and carrying off our police
guard&