The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-28 00:00:00

MA RICE 7 S-7 MS DAY.

HAY AND STRAW.

The supplies were light, and prices were well supported,
Our quotations of Saturday may be repeated.

•POTATOES.

The markets are dull, scantily supplied, and the trade is
quiet without change in prices.
COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE.

Sugar.—On the spot the market ripened quiet, with
only a limited inquiry, but holders asked former rates.
Floating cargoes are still in request. Refined sugars aro
unalter in value, with a moderate demand.
Coffee.—The market is steady for good qualities of
colonial, but pale gray and inferior qualities are dull.
Tea- In China tea only a limited business is passing,
and rates are unchanged.

Rice is still easier in price, 1,364 to Bengal sold at
Its Gd and 12s middling, mixed with broken, and 12s for
good middling.

Saltpetre—Demand is vary moderate, but prices steady,
at 18s Gd to 19s 6d for best fine Bengal.
Sheep in steady request at 37s to 38s for St. Peters-
burg clean.

COTTON.
LITERPOOL, July 28.—Sales probably 8,000 bales.
Market rather steadier.

MARINE DISASTERS.—The monthly statement
published by the Bureau Veritas of Paris shows that in the
month of June last 119 vessels were reported as total
losses, including five steamers. Of the vessels lost 47 bore
the British flag, 20 the American, six North German, six
French, four Dutch, four Norwegian, two Danish, two
Swedish, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, and Russia were each
represented by ono disaster, and the nationalities of 24
vessels remained unascertained.

MAURITIUS RAILWAY.—The traffic receipts on
the Mauritius Government lines, 66 miles ill length,
amounted •in the month of May last to £4,488, and for
the same month in 1867 to £4,827, showing a decrease of
£339.

OUTWARD CAPE MAILS.—The Union Company's
Cape Royal Mail steamship Roman, Captain W. R. Dixon,
embarked the fortnight's outward :nails for the Cape of
Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena, at Plymouth, on
Saturday, and proceeded on her voyage. She takes out
also 40 passengers and a large general cargo. The Cape
of Good Hope Stoam Shipping Company's steamship Asia,
Captain Gaine, embarked a mail of ship letters for the Cape
of Good Hope at Falmouth, on Saturday, and left for that
colony.

PRESENTATION OF COLOURS TO DINGIVALL.-
An interesting ceremony took place at Dingwall on Wed
uesday afternoon. The 78th Highlanders (Ross-shire
Buffs), at present stationed at Montreal, having been
recently presented there with a new set of colours, in
token of the kindness and welcome given to the regiment
by the inhabitants of Ross-shire on their return from
India in 1859, the old colours were presented to the capital
of the county.

On Saturday a general parade of the troops in
garrison at Chatham was held, on the oxasion of the pre-
sentation of silver medals and gratuities which had been
awarded by the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief to
the following non-commissioned officers and men for long
service and good conduct, viz.:—Sergeant-Major John
Watts, Ist battalion of the 7th Royal Fusiliers, medal and
gratuity of £l5; Colour-Sergt. Charles Grace, 29th Regi-
ment, Colour-Sergt. John Roberts, 31st Regiment, and
Sergt. William Coffee, V.C., 82d Regiment, each a medal
and gratuity of £lO ; Sergt. William M'Evoy, Private
Patrick Donahoe, Private Nathan Keleher, and Private
John Conolly, 29th Regiment, Private John M'Triggan,
31st Regiment, Private James Donovan and Private John
McNamara, 2d battalion of the 10th Regiment, each a medal
and gratuity of £5 ; Private John Flynn, 29th Regiment,
received a medal without a gratuity. The distribution of
the medals was made by the officers in command of the
respective battalions.

WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE IN ENGLAND.—The over-
seers of the township of Conside and Kuitsley, West Dur-
ham, having resolved to put on the Parliamentary register
all women possessing the necessary qualifi,:ations, have
prepared their list in conformity to such resolution. The
overseers of Marsden, in Lancashire, have agreed to place
their qualified women on the list of voters.

SP ECTROS';'OPE. —Professor Osborn, of Lafayette
College, has so modified the sp4ctroscopa that he can de-
tect, from a room many hundred yards distant from a
furnace, the sodium in the coal or decomposed fire-brick
proceeding from the .furnace mouth; also any limo or
potash that may be present.

The Danish Plenipotentiary sent to Washington
to negociate the treaty for the sale of the Danish West India
islands to the United States returned to Copenhagen last
Wednesday, the ratification of the treaty having been
postponed until the next session of the American Con-
gress.

The enormous sum of £540,000 was remitted by
the Irish in America to their relatives in Ireland dur-
ing the past year. Of this sum .£202,000 was transmitted
as prepaid passage orders. Since 1848 the Irish in
America transmitted .£14:500,000 sterling to that country