The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-18 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TEA.—The market continues firm, and a large business
has been done in the finer kinds at full prices. The general
tenor of the market is considered exceedingly healthy.
SUGAR.—Rather less activijy prevailed, but full rates
were obtained for grocery and refining qualities. In the
refined market prices are firm, the parcels on offer being
very limited.
COFFEE.—A good business has been done, chiefly for
home consumption. Plantation Ceylon and Jamaica realise
full values, and Costa Rico advanced about Gd per cwt.
RlCE.—There is a moderate demand, and quotations are
steady.
Ruar.—A good business has been transacted, an l prices
rule firm. Demerara, 2s 8d; leeward, 2s Id; and mid to
fine Jamaica, 4s (id to 5s 9d per proof gallon.
SALTPETRE.—There has been a good inquiry, and full
rates are readily realised for all qualities.
TALLow.—The market is dull, and prices have receded.
P.Y.C. on the spot 59s Gd to GOB, and last three months
58s Gd to 59s per cwt.

SUICIDIC FROM Loss OF CHARAOTEU.—Last evening
Mr. C. J. Carttar held an inquest at the Forsters' Rail-
way Tavern, Forest-hill, on the body of Mary Ann
Pipe, 23 years of age, who had lived in service at Car-
shalton. On Wednesday evening deceased and the
mother and father of deceased's mistress, arrived from
Carshalton at Sydenham about ten o'clock. Mrs. Rush,
the mother of deceased's mistress, bad been to Car-
shalton, and found deceased had been stealing several
sums of money. On being promised forgiveness, de-
ceased confessed, whereuppn Mrs. Rush brought her to
Sydenharn to her friends with the intimation that she
should not give her a character. Deceased slipped away
from Mrs. Rush, ,and a little after five o'clock in the
morning the head body of the young woman was taken
from the canal. The jury returned a verdict that de
ceased destroyed herself while labouring under mental
excitement.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—A. tradesman and his wife in
the rue Vieille du Temple went on Sunday to see their
child, who is out at nurse at a farmer's, named Lefort,
at Bonnenil, and at about ten at night, Lefort and his
wife set out with them, in their cart, to convey them to
Maisons Alfort, totake the railway to Paris. On arriving
at an isolated spot, Madame Lefort whi:pered to her
husband that an ill-looking fellow bad been following
them for some time, and had just thrown a stone at her,
without, however, hitting her. Lefort, a strong and re-
solute man, immediately jumped from his cart, and
the man who bad thrown the stone struck him, several
blows on the head with a stick and attempted to throw
him down, at the same time 'whistling in peculiar way.
Lefort seized the highwayman by the throat, and began
to treat him rather roughly, when two other men rushed
on him,- and beat Mtn in a savage manner. On this,
the tradesman, who bad provided himself with a sort cf
club, went to Lefort's assistance, and the two then at-
tacked, one with his club, the other with the handle of
his whip, the highwaymen with the greatest vigour. At
length, the highwaymen having the worst of the fray,
deemed it prudent to decamp. Lefort then drove
rapidly to Maisons Alfort, and stated to the gendarmerie
what had taken place; they immediately went in pur-
suit, and at Creteil they overtook throe men whose
heads and faces bore cuts and bruises, and whose gar•
merits were torn. They arrested them, and Lefort and
the tradesman- fully idenffied them. Wednesday, the
three highwaymen were brought up to Paris and lodged
at the Prefecture of Police to await their trial.
EGYPTIAN EMBALMING.—Ali that has been written by
modern authors upon this interesting sort jest seems to
have been gathered from the account first given to us by
Herodotus. Those writers—Diodorus Similes, Priny,
Dioscorides, Galen, Sec.—who followed soon after, appear
to have stated nothing that was riot originally advauced
by Herodotue. He tells ua that there we re three different
ways of embalming. The most magnificent was bestowed
only upon persons of distinguished rank, and the e xpense
amounted to a talent of silver, about 1371. 10-. (Calmet
says, about 3901.) sterling ; but 20 mince, or 60 pounds,
was considered moderate ; and the lowest price wes wry
small. When a person of distinction died, the [roily was.
put into a caffir, the upper exterior of which represerited
the deceased, with suitable embellishment. Ti e eriffia
itself was usualy made of sycemore wood, which accord•
irg to Dumont, is almost incorruptible. Sometimes i
deal was used, io which case it was brought from abroad. ,
The embalming of the body occupied trim forty to twenty
days. It consisted mainly of the introduction of avrin- .
gent drugs and.spices into the body, anointing it with
oils of cedar, myrrh, and cinnamon, and saturating it
with nitre. It was then washed, and wrapped in linen
bands dipped in myrrh and gum—these bands in some:
instances being one thousand yards long—commencing I
at the head, an I terminating at the feet, avoiding tiler
face. The body was then restored by the embalmers to)
the relations, who placed it in the coffin. A less expen-)
sive process of embalming was simply to inject into the:
bowels a liquid extract of cedar, and wrapping up the
body in spit or nitre., others were soaked, cr, as some,
think, boiled in a kind of bitumen made of mixed ree
,-oitubeous substances. _ They were then placed without any,
sr covering than the bandage:a sati rated with this
rubt
anee, in sepulchres, and tt ere depeeited in rows by
thousands.—Curiosities of
ilLtiry.