The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-12 00:00:00

Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds 64- 4 5 41
Do. 1863 --
Do 5 per Oent., 1865 —
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1865
D.; 4 por Cont., Guaranteed
Venezuela, 3 per Cent. —
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do 6 por Cent. 1864
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... —
Dividends on the above payanle in Loudon.
Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 24 per Cent. Ex. 12 Gull. —

Do AcicOnnt —
French Rentes, 3 per Cont., Ex. 25f. —
Austrisat a psr Cent. Ex 10 Florins
liglieu 5 per dent. 1851, E. z5l.
Do. Account 4S }
TWO o'o LOOK.
Consols, Money 941 i
Do. Account, 4th June 32k 3

111ARKETS.—(This Day.)

COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE.

SVGAR.—The market opens with a good inquiry, and
firm rates are paid ; but purchases so far have not been
extensive. No. 92 liavannah floating is worth 27s 9d

per cwt.
COFFEE. —The demand cozitiuuss steaiy fur good quali-
ties, but there is only a moderate sale for inferior snits.
TEA.—China teas firm, but not active. Public sales of
Indian teas were opened rather irregularly.

CocoA--The public sales this morning went with' fair
spirit at about late rates. Of 2,122 begs of Trinidad about
half sold. Ordinary to middling, 50s to 633; good to fine,
69s to 82e per cwt., some superior bought in at 102 s, with
bids at 995.

RICE. —The market is firm but quiet. At auction 3,115
bags of Dacca were bought in at lls 3d to 12s 3d; and of
2,725 bags Bengal iu another sale about half sold at 9s to
9s Gd for low and broken ; middling white bought in at
13s to 13s Gd.

Ons.—Linseed is firmer at 38s rather buyers, on the
spot English brown rape has receded to 33s 6J.

TALLOW.

The market is quiet, but rather firm; Y.C. on the spot
43s 6tl; June, 43s 6d; last three months, 41s 6d.
POTATOES, &e:"

- The supplies of best qualities of all growths are short
but with second qualities the markets are fairly supplied.
Prices of the former are consequently supported- whilst
they sell irregularly and in some cases lower. New pota-
toes are in fair supply, and met with a brisk sale, at per
cwt. as follows:—Lisbon, lOs 6d to 15s; Jersey, 16s to
245; Cornwall, 16s to 18s. _ _

COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, May 12.—Sales probably 3,000 bales or more.
Market flat, with downward tendency.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

(BY TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, May 11.—John Bunyan, from Napier, New
Zealand; Cosmopolitan, steamer, from Hamburg; F. B.
Ord, from Cochin ; Victor, steamer, from Brussels; Cho-
bucto, from Jamaica.
Arrived, May 12.—Happet, from Laurvig Margaretha,
from Groningen ; Falcon and Art-Union, from .Macau ;
John and Harriet, from Rouen ; Carrier, from Honfleur ;
Bud, from Jersey; Marie, from Thisted ; Klara Cathiuka,
from Nestved ; James Shepherd, from Shanghai ; Alba-
tross, from Penang; Emperor, from Shanghai; Rhine,
steamer, from Boulogne.
Sailed.—Seine, steamer, for Boulogne ; Fairy Queen,
steamer, for Dieppe.
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Passed.—Empress of India, from Singapore, for London ;
True Briton, from Melbourne, for London; Italia, screw
steamer, from Liston, far London; Souverain, screw
steamer, from the west, for London;, Lavinia, schooner,
from the north, for the west.
Sailed—Plover, and James Holmes, both for the West
Indies.

A NICE DISTINCTION.—Mat is a flute? Is it a
wooden tuba with certain holes and keys? asks the
Atheneum. These are necessary, no doubt; but the Rate,
the sounding instrument, is the column of air which is
confined by the wood, and shortened or lengthened by use
of the holes and keys.

MR. GLADSTONE'S nibbling at the Estimates the
other evening, says the Saturday Review rather whimsi-
cally, only showed the cast of temper in which some
people indulge. when, annoyed by things in general, they
box the ears of the first small boy they meet.

LIGHT AND COLOUR.---here is a fact showing the
influence of artificial light in the production of green
colouring matter. Some lilacs were placed for forcing in
a heated cellar, partially light3d with gas. Those leaves
that were exposed to the light 13.1caele green, as if they
had been in the open air, while the remainder were etio-
lated. The fabt is recorded 1)5 M. Ermine in a recent
number of the "Revue 'lodic...)le."—Land and Water.
LLight thus imparting or creating colour, surely gives some
faint hopo that, ultimately, science may, through proper
agencies applied to the leuso 0f,.0r the sensitised plate in,
the camera, enable light to perform its proper office as a
colourist, and so to produce at last naturally coloured
photographs.—En. 511N..1

THE PRINCE NAPOLEON—bai provoked from a
new journal, entitled Tints Review, the folio wing curiously
incoherent, parenthetical paragraph : the scorn expressed
by which reads almost hysterically.—The Prince Napo-
leon, it is well known, has as tench idea of religion as
his friend the writer of a blasphemous life of Christ.
The worthy pair, with a medical professor named Robin,
who bolds that mart has no more soul than a cat (we
deny M. Robin the sense of one) and a few other choice
spirits (the Prince always has a choice lot about
him) held a grand banquet on Good Friday, we sup-
pose in derision of the Christian religion. Sumo years
since the Prince was a member of a society of
atheists, we are not aware whether his Imperial Highness
(what a highness, it is sufficient to bring loathing on the
name) still holds the post of chairman. This so-called
highness has ever been foremost in every act of folly, and
has gives his cousin, the Emperor, more trouble than he
is worth. The other day he rambled through Germany
seeking alliances and meeting rebuffs at every Court;
truly the Emperor is baid put to it for ambassadors when
he sends such a man as his cousin to represent him. The
place for such a genius, such a wonderful savant (and he
. considers himself iu reality a nonsuch), is decidedly with
King Theodore. Why does not the Emperor give him a
mission, the atmosphere of Abyssinia would bo found
much more congenial than that of Berlin.
REPORTED LOSS OP THE ELECTRIC
The annexed is made public at the request of the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty —" With reference to a
report that has recently appeared in the newspapers rela-
tive to the alleged wreck of the Electric, steam transport
tug, near Aden, on the 18th of February last, and in which
it is stated that seven of the crew, including two engineers,
reached Aden after experiencing great suffering, and that
the remainder of the persons ou beard, 67 in number, were
supposed to have perished, a letter from Commodore
Heath has been received at the Admiralty, dated the 15th
of April last, stating that the ship ran on shore near Adon,
but subsequently was got off without damage of conse-
quence. Commodore Heath further states that the two
naval engineers landed against the wishes of the master of
the tug, and reached Aden, suffering much from the effects
of the journey, and with loss of their clothes. One native
of their party appears to have been killed. The report of
the loss of the remainder of the crow is, therefore, untrue."
THE BARRETT ALIBI.—Mr. Poland, the legal
commissioner despatched by the Home Secretary to
Glasgow for the purpose of making certain inquiries with
reference to the alibi set up in defence of Barrett at the
recent trial, examined a number of witnesses in the
Central Police- court, Glasgow, on Friday last. The
principal evidence was that of two police-constables and a
girl named Kerr, the daughter of the landlady with whom
O'Neill lived at the time he was so frequently visited by
Barrett. The constables, in their evidence, denied the
statements of Lindsay, the printer, examined More
Barrett's agent, as to Barrett and Lindsay having met
them the day of the torchlight meeting on Glasgow
Green, and as to the former having given his name and
address to the constables. The girl Kerr stated that she
knew Barrett well, and that she saw him immediately
before and immediately after the torchlight meeting, and
that there was no apparent change in the length of his
whiskers, as alleged by the witnesses examined for
Barrett. She also stated that, though constantly in the
employ of O'Neill, frequently sleeping with him at night,
he disappeared a few days after the Green demonstration,
and she never saw him afterwards. No witnesses were
examined on the other side, as their testimony had
been previously sent to London by Barrett's own agent.
The evidence was duly authenticated upon oath be-
fore a magistrate. Mr. Poland left the same evening for
London.

The Royal Commission on Primary Education
in Ireland is holding regular sittings in Dublin, and all
the commissioners aro in attendance, Earl Powis being
chairman. Tho Comm:ssion is a mixed one, and repre-
sents the various opinions on education existing in Ireland.
The denominational educationist4, the advocates of the
mixed system, Churchmen, Catholics, and Presbyterians,
are associated in the inquiry. _ _

A competent judge has announced that the
Princess Louise bids fair to attain as high a rank iu art as
her royal mother has attained in literature. At the

anniversary dinner of the Artists' Benevolent Fund on
aturday last, the president of the Royal Academy men-
tioned that "the Queen had this year conferred a signal
honour, not only on the Royal Academy, but on the
whole profession, by permitting the Princess Louise to
send to their exhibition a bust of her brother Prince
Arthur." Sir Francis had no hesitation in saying that
" the bust is a work of infinite talent, an admirable like-
ness, and a production full of refinement and taste." This
opinion, of its merits Sir Francis "knows to b.! sh tred in
by all the members of tlio Royal Academy."'