The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-04 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TEA.—There has been very little business transacted,
the trade having deferred their operations until the public
sales, which commence to-day, when a largo quantity will
be offered for public competition.
SUGAR.--The market has been dull, although holders
demand fully previous rates. In the refined there is little
change of importance to report.
COFFEE.—The supplies on offer have been moderate, but
there has been a fair demand, and steady prices have been
maintained.

RICE.—The inquiries for cleaned descriptions have con-
tinued, and owners demand fully previous prices. The
supplies on hand, however, are limited, compared with
thoso at the corresponding period of last year.
TALLOW.—The tallow market has been very steady dur-
ing the week, with only a limited business doing. The
quantity of tallow offering on the spot has been small, and
the transactions for immediate delivery have consequently
been somewhat restricted. Tho price at St. Petersburg
remains quiet at 54} sil. rs.; the exchange is firm at 29k.
To-day the market is steady, 46s is offered for October to
December, 46s Gd December, 45s 3d is paid for old Y.C. on
the spot, and 46s for new Ukrain. Town tallow, 44s Gd
per cwt. not cash.

Liverpool Cotton Market.—This Day.

The market opens quiet. Sales, 6,000 to 7,000
bales.

At the public sales of wool 67,637 bales, being
about one half the quantity to be sold, have passed
the hammer. The attendance has improved, and
foreign buyers compete with greater confidence,
especially for some of the favourite descriptions.
The superior wools of Port Philip are in demand
for France. Fair Australian are 2d. per lb. higher
than at the close of the June series of sales ; Aus-
tralian and Cape washed, ld. to lid. ; and ditto
greasy, id. higher.

In the Foreign and
Colonial Produce Markets
during the last few days there has been very little
animation. Operations in tea have been deferred
until to-day, when a large quantity of China pro-
duce will be offered for competition. Sugars have
been in limited request, but at steady prices, while
moderate transactions have taken place in coffee.
Rice has continued in good demand at full prices,
while in tallow the dealings have been to a very
moderate extent; without any material alteration in
prices.

THE ENGLISH WELSHERS IN FRANCE. —A con-
temporary states that the rumour of tho conviction of Jones
andthe i
t. depredations three
a
otherE ngt welshers who wore detected
in h
litheauville, is premature. The
worthy quartette were brought up for examination before
the Prefect, and fully committed, but their trial cannot
take place for six or eight months.
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WiAs3lA.—Mr. Bowes's famous brood mare died at
Streatiam Paddocks on Wednesday last, from the
effects of dropsy, under which she had been labouring for
some time past. Wiasma was bred ha 1845, got by Hetman
Platoff, her dam Mickleton Maid, by Velocipede out of
Maid of Luna, by Whisker out of Gibside Fairy by Hermes,
&c. She made her first appearance in the Oaks, for which
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Tarahan, byltataplan. She slipped a foal shortly before
her death, and was again in foal to De Clare.
OLD TRAVELLERS.—The decay of inns renders
impossible feats performed by men of our own time, though
of the last generation. Old Dick Tattersall used to have a
relay of backs on the road between London and Grantham
used to mount, after a day's work of auction at the extinct
Corner, ride down one hundred and eight miles before
morning, hunt the,uost day with the Belvoir hounds, and
return by the same means to his duties. Sir Tatton
Sykes, of Sledmere, the last of the real squires, who, was
satisfied to spend a large income at home on hospitality,
field sports, agriculture, and breeding Leinstor sheep and
horses to win the Derby, without troubling either the world
of politics or the world of fashion, had a way of travelling
(with as little baggage as Sir Charles Napier) to Epsom
to see the Derby run, or to an equal distance to ride a race,
that would now be impossible. Wherever he slept the
first night, ho borrowed next morning a clean shirtfromthe
landlord, and left his own to be washed ready for his re-
turn. He repeated the operation at each resting-place on
the road, returning by instalments each borrowed garment
until he arrived back at Sledmere in his own shirt. A
small valise carried the satin breeches and silk stockings
that replaced his leathers and long boots in the evening.
The operation was ingenious, primitive, and clean; but in
1866 the landlords with frilled shirts have followed the
way of satin breeches, and are known no morn.--Dickens's
" All the Year Roma*"