The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-30 00:00:00

HAY AND STRAW.

The markets were again well supported this morning,
and the trade dull. Quotations, whilst not really lower
wore sustained with difElzulty. Meadow hay, 635. to 86s.
clover, 60s. to 100 s.; straw, 28s. to 365.
LIVERPOOL COTTON. —Market quiet, and prices droop
lug. Sales probably 8,000 bales.
COLONIAL.

G Mt. —The extensive transactions of yesterday have
materially lessened the supplies on offer, and the market
opens with increased firmness, while The inquiry both on
the spot and for floating cargoes continues active.
COFFEE.—There is no quotable cbange in this market,
which continues firm, coloury qualities of Ceylon being in
most request.

TEA.—The market is firm, with moderate transactions
in China teas, at full prices. ludittu totte-tero-salthag very
bteadi!y.

Rice is well held, but the demand is not active.
saltpetre is steady, with a moderate demand.

_ .
SPICES.-At the auctions yesterday common Jamaica
ginger sold at lower prices, ranging down to 33s for ordi-
nary dark and lean. Other spices were not materially
altered.

To-night Mr. Rearden will ask the Secretary
of State for the Home Department whether it is his inten-
tion to recommend to the Crown the respiting of the pri-
soner Michael Barrett, against whom a verdict of guilty
was returned by the jury, and sentence of death passed
by the judge on his trial at the Old Bailey on the 27th
inst., notwithstanding the sworn testimony of six wit-
nesses, who proved that the prisoner was not in England
at the time the crima was committed for which he has
been found guilty, in order to afford the prisoner an op-
portunity of producing further evidence to establish his
innocence.

THE IRISH CHURCH.--It is not improbable that
the discussion on Mr. Gladstone's second and third
Resolutions will be sufficiently protracted to enable the
Irish Church Royal Commissioners to
present their report
before the final division is taken. Extra exertion has been
lately used with a view to an early close of the Commis-
sionerb' labours, and report says that their recommenda-
tions will largely cut at the root of anomalies and abuses
in the Establishineut.—The Owl.

MR, STIRLING Corr, we are grieved to learn: is
seriously ill.

LORD Lrrrox, it is understood, has recently
written a new five-act drama, which, according to a wel-
come rumour, is to be produced at lat)st in the ensuing
autumn with Herr Bandmanu in the principal character.
M. ALEXANDRE D UMAS, it is also reported, has
written a new drama founded on the romance of " Les
Blanes et les Blanes," which is to bo the opening spectacle
at the new Th6:itre de Belleville, now in course of eree-
•
tion.

At the Preston Police Court, on Saturday, the
Rot. Henry Thrower, Catholic priest, Woodplumpton, was
summoned for refusing to pay 6d. as church rate ; but as
the validity of the rate was disputed the magistrates said
they.had no jurisdiction in the matter.
The foundation stone of the College which is to
bo raised as a memorial of the author of the "Christian
Year" was laid at Oxford, on Saturday, by the Archbishop
of Canterbury. Lord Carnarvon, the Bishop of Oxford,
and Mr. Gathome Hardy also took part in the pro-
ceedings..

M. Pougin, one of the pleasantest French writers
on musi has published a monograph on Bellini.
Mrs. Howard Paul has, after deyoting her best
years to "entertainments," returned to the stage.
ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH.—Her Majesty
the Queen has been graciously pleased ,to subscribe £250
towards the rebuilding of the Royal Infirmary of Edin-
burgh.
A ROYAL CHARITY.—The wives of two Cornish
miners, named respectively Mary Dadds and Jane Tre-
mews]; anxious to join their husbands in Nova Scotia,
but unable to provide the portion of Money necessary to
secure an emigration grant from the Corntiall Central Re-
lief Committee, wrote to 'her Majesty and acquainted her
with their poverty and their great desire. Inquiries were
at once made as to the accuracy of their statements, the
result being that her Mijesty, with that kindness of heart
which has always characterised her, commanded £lO, the
sum needed, to be forwarded to the Rev. J. G. Wulff, rector
qflllogan, for the US3 of the two humble applicants.
DEFALCATIONS OF TAX COLLECTO3S.—A recent
Parliamentary return shows that in the last 20 years there
have boon as many as 230 instances of defalcation among
the parochial collectors of taxes in England and Wales.
In most cases the amount was either recovered from sure-
ties or by re-assessment -on the parish, but in 21 cases
there was a loss to the public revenue, amounting in one
instance to £1,586, and in another to £3,038. Appended to
the return is the following note, explainins tho absence of
a Scottish list :—" There has been no loss to the revenue
by the defalcations of collectors of taxes in Scotland within
the last 20 years."
TliE GREENLAND FISIIERY.—Dundee, Apra 27.
The Eclipse, Salvador, Polynia, Catnporlown,Esquimte tuaxs,
and Victor, sealers, were spoken, some of them as IaCIOS.D•
April 18, by the :Narwhal,:Narwhal, arrived here.
Theyl relB, and the
The Intrepid, sealer, was spoken on A
Erik, sealer', on the 19th, by the Arctic, arrivedr here, and
both were clean. Lerwick, April 21.—The Alexander,
p
ts Coe Queen, with 60
arrived here from Greenland, repor
tuns of oil, the Alibi with 20 tuns, and the Alexander with
20 tuns.