The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-12 00:00:00

COLONI A L.

TEA.--Improved rates have been current for all quali-
ties, although business has not been active, many of the
dealers having been absent owing to Ascot Races. Com-
mon congou realised is Id per lb.
SUGAR.- -There was no publio sale yesterday, and pri-
vately only a limited business was done, Holder=, how-
ever, demand fully previous rates. The refined market
rules firm, and the supplies having been limited, prices
have advanced, Brown lumps are 70s fid per cwt.
COFFEE.----There has been a good demand for both home
consumption and for exportation, and good qualities of
Plantation Ceylon realised a slight advan7,e (la previous
current quotations. Native Ceylon was in fall request,
at full rates.
RICE.—A fair demand has been experienced, and former
values have been current. Fine white Bengal. brought

13s 6il pfr cwt,
SPICES.—BIack and white pepper has been inquired for
at improved prices, and ginger, ina3e, and nutmegs have
increased their value.
SALTPE ERE. —No business of any importance was trans-
acted, and prices unaltered.
TALLOW.--The dealings have been rather animated, and
prices have shown more firmness. P.Y.C., on the spot,
59s 6,1, 59s 91. July and August delivery 56s I'd, 57s per
cwt. Home melted is quoted 57s to 57s 6d per cwt. cash.

ADMISSION OF ATTORNEYS.—Yesterday and to day
are rtt apart to swear in the attorneys admitted dur-
ing the present term. The number presented for ad-
mission was upOards cf eighty, of whom el,,,ven were
" plucked." Some of the former " plucked' students
were admitted.

MERCHANT TAILORS' SCHOOL —Yesterday, be'ng the
feast of Sr. Barnabas, the aueual election of fellows to
St. John's College, Oxford, and to the other prefer-
ments connected with this foundation, took place ac-
cording to its time-honoured statutes. Four fellowships
had fallen vacant during the past year, and after a vivd
ware examination, which had been preceded by five days'
paper work, Messrs. Williams, Johnstone, Neale, and
Vernon, the first four monitors, were elected proba-
tionary fellows of St. John's ; Mr. J. 11. Smith, the
fifth monitor, was offered an Exhibition on Dr. Andrew's
foundation, but declined it, having gained an open echo-
larehip at Merton : and Mr. H. J. Sharpe, as the best
mathematician now leaving the school, was preferred
to an exhibition at Cambridge. After this ceremony,
which took place in the old chapel of the school,
was concluded, the ,Master of the Company (Mr.
Bonus), the President of St. John's College, Ox'ord, the
Examiners, and other electors repaired to the school-
room, where the usual speeches were delivered. The
dramatic, in Latin, English, and French, elicted much
approbation. The beid master. the Rev. Dr. Hessey,
then distributed the prizes :—Hebrew medal, T. K.
Cheyne ; Latin verse and Greek prizes, G. S. Williams;
History and Latin prose prizes, W. E. Neale • chief
mathematical prize, P. T. Main ; chief French' prize,
J. Johnstone. A multitude of minor honours for
Hebrew, classics, mathematics, French, arithmetic,
writing, and writing from dictation, which we have no
room to enumerate, were then distributed. The school
was then dismissed with the customary week's holiday
In the evening the master and wardens of the company
gave a sumptuous entertainment to a numerous and
distinguished party in the ball of the corporation.
THE GLASGOW POISONING CASE.—By the 18th of this
month Miss Sthith must be served with her indictment,
as having " run her letters," as the phrase goes, the 40
days allowed to the Crown will by that time have ex-
pired. After this indictment is served, however, the
Crown may see reason subsequently to withdraw it, and
within, we believe, another 20 days, may serve a second
indictment, on which the Crown officials must go to
trial, if there is to be a trial at all, Them is no denying
that in this case the public prosecutor has experienced
much difficulty in obtaining sufficient evidence with
which to go into court with any chance of obtaining a
conviction. The servant girl, who admitted the unfor-
tunate M. L'Angellier into the house at Blythwood-
square, on the night of Sunday, 22d March, is cut of
the way, and supposing she was really placed in the wit-
ness-box, therm is an hour unaccounted for betwixt the
time when L'Angellier left Miss Smith's company and his
arrival at his lodgings, Franklin-place, Great Western-
road. That Miss Smith's state of health has something to
do with the protracted delay in bringing the case to trial
is very freely stated ,and credited in quarters which we
should suppose likely to be well informed. On a former
occasion we stated that M. L'Angellier bad a diary, in
which were chronicled the varied incidents in his some-
what eventful life, and we believe that when the day of
trial comes such an entry as the following will be oftener
than once disclosed :—" Became ill shortly after seeing
my dear Madeline." That the poison purchased in dif-
ferent places by Miss Smith was coloured with some
other ingredient, and that the poison detected in the
body of L'Angellier was similarly coloured, will, we I
be-
have also be testified in the witness-bcx. Miss Smith
is still in Glasgow, and, in the solemn circumstances, is
Wonderfully composed,--A//oci Adverting. . .