The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-04 00:00:00

POTATOES.

The market was quiet, but prices firm. The accounts
of the crop are very had.

COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE.

Sugar—The market is steady but not active, at late
rates.

Coffee—The sales were opened with a fair demand, and
quotations are firm.
Tea--The new k.eason's congous by the Ariel are sell-
ing to a fair extent at 2s 4d to 2s 9d per lb.
Rico is firmly held and is in moderate demand.
Oils are unaltered.
Metals—Straits tin has sold largely at £92 per cwt.
Tallow—The market is steady at 45s to 45s 3d spot
last three months, 45s 6d.
BOROUGH HOP.

Henry Turnbull and Co. report large arrivals daily of
the new growth, but the trade rules slow at irregular
prices, the demand being confined to actual wants.
COT TON MARKET.

LIVERPOOL, Sept. 4.—Sales, probably 10,000 bales.
Market quiet and unchanged.

PROFESSOR RISLEY'S IMPERIAL JAPANESE TROUPE.
These clover artistes, who created so decided a success in
London last spring, have pitched their tents in Madrid,
and astonished the grave Spaniards by wondrous acrobatic
feats. The Spanish press is unanimous in its verdict of
approval ; and one paper, La Espana, places tho Japanese
on the very topmost branch of the tumbling profession.
The troupe will shortly return to this country for the pur-
pose of making a tour in the provinces.

THE NEW LAW ON TELEGRAPHY IN GREAT BRI-
TAIN.—The important statute passed at the close of the
recent session will, when carried out, create a new system
of telegraphy, and establish a uniform charge of " one
shilling" for twenty words to any part of the United
Kingdom, and eventually at a more moderato sum. The
object of the act is to enable the Postmaster-General to
acquire, work, and maintain the electric telegraphs, and
tLe preamble recites the great benefit that 'cull accrue to
the public by a cheaper, more widely extended, and more
expeditious system than the present insufficient means
of communication. The Postmaster-General has entered
into various agreements with telegraph and railway com-
panies for the purchase of their undertakings, and unless
Parliament in the next session appropriates means to be
at his disposal for the purchase of the same, the agree-
ments aro to bo void, and he is to pay the expenses in-
curred. The Postmaster-General, with the consent of the
Treasury, is empowered to purchase. Special arrange-
ments are to be made with newspaper proprietors and
others for the transmission of words at the rate of ono
shilling per a hundred words, with other conditions.
The present servants of telegraph companies will be em-
ployed by Government or compensated after a length of
service. There are various general provisions in the
measure which, when adopted, will be of general public
benefit.

TIIE NATIONAL PEABODY TESTIMONIAL.--The
medal ordered by Congress as an acknowledgment of the
national appreciation of Mr. George Peabody's liberality
in giving a fund to aid the cause of education in the
South has been completed. . This testimonial cost £5,000
in gold. In design and workmanship it has not been
equalled In America, and connoisseurs assert that it has
not boon surpassed by the best work of European goldsmiths.
It consists of a massive gold plinth, resting on the centre of
which is an upright modal, the front disc of which presents
au admirable profile in bas-relief of the eminent philan-
thropist. Leaning over the modal, on the right is a statuette
representing Benevolence, who is apparently about to
crown Mr. Peabody with a laurel wreath. On the loft
a clump of palmetto trees rises, their smooth boles
twined with parasitic plants, and their flexible branches
appearing to wave. At the foot of this clump of trees
aro two children, representing the white and black
races, whose attitudes are graceful, their presence con-
veying the idea of the catholic ch•tracter of Mr. Peabody's
munificent gift. Ou the front of the plinth, immediately
under the medal, is the shield of the Union, the azure field
and the red and white bars being in enamel. On either
side of the shield, and directly under the figures we have
described as standing on the plinth, are the words "Edu-
cation," " Benevolence." On the reverse of the medal is
a suitable inscription, while scattered about the plinth or
resting against it are the Bible, moveable globe,
rule, compass, and other objects typical of science and
education. 'l'ho testimonial is enclosed iu a beautiful
casket of ebony and bird's-eye maple, which is lined with
purple velvet.— New York Tintai.