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 bad.
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 season's congous by the Ariel aro sell-
ing to a fair extent at 2s 4d to 2s 9d per lb.
Rico is firmly held and is in moderate demand.
Oils aro 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 Gd.
BOROUGII HOP.

Henry Turnbull and Co. report largo arrivals daily of
the now growth, but the trade rules slow at irregular
prices, the demand being confined to actual wants.
COTTON MARKET.

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

PROFESSOR RISLEY'S IMPERIAL JAPANESE TROUPE.
These clever artistes, who created so decided a success in
London last spring, have pitched their tents in Madrid,
ani astonished the grave Spaniards by wondrous acrobatic
feats. The Spanish press is unanimous in its verdict of
approval ; and one paper, La Espana, places the 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.

TIIE NEW LAW ON TET.EGRAPIIY 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 " ono
shilling" for twenty words to any part of the United
Kingdom, and eventually at a more moderato sum. Thd
object of the act is to enable the Postmaster-General to
acquire, work, and maintain the electric telegraphs, and
the preamble recites the great benefit that v, ill accrue to
the public by a cheaper, more widely extended, and more
expeditious system than the present insufficient moans
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 moans to be
at his disposal for the purchase of the same, the agree-
ments are to be 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 one
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 bo of general public
benefit.

THE 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 boon completed. This testimonial cost £5,000
in gold. In design and workmanship it has not boon •
equalled in America, and connoisseurs assert that it has
not been surpassed by the bast work of European goldsmiths.
It consists of a massive gold plinth, resting on the centre of
which is an upright modal, the front di,c of which presents
an admirable profile in bas-relief of the eminent philan-
thropist. Leaning over the medal, on the right is a statuette
representing Benevolence, who is apparently about to
crown Mr. Peabody with a laurel wreath. On the left
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
are two children, representing the white and black
races, whose attitudes are graceful, their presence con-
veying the idea of the catholic character of Mr. Peabody's
munificent gift. On the front of the plinth, immediately
under the medal, is the shield of the Union, the azure field
anti 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, wheel,
rule, compass, and other objects typical of science and
education. ihe testimonial is enclosed iu a beautiful
casket of ebony and bird's-eye maple, which is lined with
purple velvet.—Yew York Tintes.