The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-23 00:00:00

RICE.—For Bengal stiffer rates have been paid ; lOs 6d
to Its for good midd"ng, and lie to lls 6d for good
white ; lOs to 103 6d is the value of middling. Java
yellow at 8s 6d to 9s, low white 9s 6d, middling to good white
lOs to lls per cwt, common kinds have been the most in re-
quest. Madras at 9s 6d to lOs for fine yellow. Patna at 15s
to 17s for common and middling, and 18s to 22s for good and
fine quality. Carolina for home consumption, first sort at 365,
second 345, third 325, inferior and broken 28s to 30s per cwt.
TALLOW.—Holders of Russian Tallow have, displayed more
firmness during the last few days, and have obtained an ad-
vance of 3d per cwt.
To-day several purchases were made in Petersburgh Yellow
Candle at 48s 6d on the spot, and 49s 6d for delivery in the
last three months of the year.
COFFEE.—Holders of West India Coffee have displayed
firmness, and have supplied the market sparingly ; many in-
quiries have existed, and stiffer rates have been paid for all
middling clean sorts, the !supply of which has not been ade-
quate to the wants of the trade. Other kinds have brought
full rates.

This afternoon a fair amount of business was transacted pri-
vately in Coffee for home consumption, and buyers were com-
pelled to pay stiffer rates, holders supplying the market
sparingly, which may be principally ascribed to an opinion
being current that Government will reduce the duty on all
kinds of Coffee. Sales of good ordinary Ceylon were made at
70s 6d to 71s ; Company's Java, 55s to 60s ; Singapore, 46s to
525; and good ordinary Samarang, 46s to 48s; middling and
good middling sorts of West India are scarce, and much wanted.
The only public sale consisted of 120 bags Manila, which was
taken in at 70s for fine fine ordinary coloury, being above the
value.

SPICES.—For Cassia Lignea there has been only a limited
demand, and prices have declined is per cwt. For Pepper
there has been a fair demand privately since our last report,
and full rates have been paid. The stock of Pepper is still
heavy, but prices are moderate. Prices have been sustained
for Pimento, and there has been a steady demand. Mace sells
slowly. Nutmegs are held with firmness, and fair business has
been transacted. Cloves have been little sought after, but
prices keep up. Cinnamon is difficult of sale, and in same
cases rather lower prices have been accepted. East India
Ginger at stiffer rates. West India has met with a fair sale.
This afternoon a better demand existed for Cassia Lignea,
and 200 chests at public sale sold brisklyat Is 6d to 2s advance;
good middling fetched 86s to 87s; middling, 83s ; broken ends
and mouldy, 65s 6d to 82s 6d per cwt.
Oits.—For common descriptions of fish Oils, in the middle
part of last week, prices declined ; during the last few days,
however, a better demand has existed at stiffer rates. Pale
Seal, 40/ 10s ; yellow, 321 to 361; brown, 28/10s to 31t. Cod,
281 15s to 291; Southern, common, 311 15s to 32110 s; mid-
dling, 331 to 33110 s ; good to fine, 341t0 35/ per tun. In Sperm
Oil prices are firm ; 89t to 90/ for fine British, and 87/ for or-
dinary quality. Linseed Oil, 34s 3d to 34s 6d, for parcels on
the spot, and 34s 9d to 35s for delivery. Rape Oil, 49s 6d for
pale, and 49s for brown ; to-day holders were firmer, and would
not sell pale under 50s per cwt. Palm, first quality, has been
selling at 31/ to 31/ 10s, and inferior, 291 to 301 lOs per tun.
Olive, at 511 to 52/ for Spanish, and 601 to 61l for Gallipoli.
In Cocoa Nut Oil, 401 given for first quality, duty paid.

MODE OF EDUCATING DAUGHTERS.—The
desire which many persons feel to give their chil-
dren a better education than has been bestowed upon
themselves, is laudable, because it proceeds from sincere
affection ; but how often is the success equal to the mo-
tive which actuates ? How often is the manner of at-
tempting at all calculated for attaining the object so ear.
nestly sought ? An ambition to promote the welfare
'of children reconciles parents to part with them at that
tender age when they ought to command more constant
care than they generally need at a more advanced time
of life ; and this ambition is so strong, that it will even
cause ittle girls to be consigned to the blighting atmo-
shere of a crowded school-room, there to bewail the loss
of the warm hearth, or the airy room of their own homes,
and all the comforts which depend upon a mother's soli-
citude. With a view to their being educated,—that is
to say, fitted for the world, and for the discharge of their
respective duties in it,—girls are sent to school, and aro
there condemned to a dull course of lessons, before their
minds have sufficient strength to imbibe any kind of
learning that requires mental labour, and before their
understandings are equal to any greater exertion than
that of receiving the difference between a roasted apple
and a s•var plum.—English Housekeeper.
Lepretre Dubocage, whose name has figured in se-
veral political prosecutions, and who was condemned to impri-
sonment for attempting the lives of two sergens de !tulle, in the
riot at the Impasse Saint Sebastien, in 1836, but was included
in the amnesty on the marriage of the Duke of Orleans, has
since been living quietly, maintaining himself by his trade as a
house-painter. This man on Tuesday committed suicide under
the following extraordinary circumstances. Having become
enamoured of a young woman, the intimate friend of his own
mistress, he used every attempt to seduce her, but she indig-
nantly repelled his advances. On Tuesday he informed a
friend named Roasselet, who occupied the same room with him,
that he had had a quarrel at La Courtille, and must fight a
duel. 'faking a pair of pistols they went together to Belleville,
and entered a wine.house, where Dubocage said his adversary
was to meet him. No one, however, came, and they remained
drinking with some other companions till night, when they re-
turned together into Paris. While in the Rue du Faubourg
du Temple, Dubocage, who was in advance of the rest, sud-
denly turned round, and saying, " Good night, my friends,"
put one of the pistols to his head, fired, and instantly fell dead.
An immense quantity of snow has lately fallen in
the mountains of the Artleche, and many of the passes have
been entirely blocked up. On the 3d instant a hundred artil-
lerymen, who had left Puy for Aubenas, on their way to Africa,
were only able to cross the Peyrabaille by dint of excessive fa-
tigue, and holding each other from time to time by the hand.
Several lamentable accidents Lam occurred in different parts of
the mountains.

The adventure of the tame bear and traveller, on
the top of the Havre diligence, which our readers may remem-
ber as having recently occurred, did not terminate so risibly, it
appears, for one of the parties concerned. Young Bruin, after
the precipitate desertion of his companion, being driven to
seek another pastime, occupied himself with inspecting the
bandboxes, carpet bags, and other light articles on the top of
the coach, and not being in possession of the keys, he made
forcible entry, by means of tooth and claw, with such effect,
that boxes and bags with their contents were in a few minutes
Ulm to pieces, many of them in the operation being thrown
down upon the road. This new disturbance again awakened
the attention of the conducteur, and he endeavoured to put a
stop to the devastation. The juvenile bear, however, was not
to be so easily diverted from his frolic, and showed fight. A
conflict ensued, and became so desperate, that the man was soon
compelled, in order to save his own life, to put an end to that of
the refractory outside traveller, who terminated his long journey
from Texas to the Garden of Plants more in the form of a gre-
nadier's cap than a living animal. An action, it is said, has
been brought against the conducteur for the loss of the animal.
The Handelsblad of Amsterdam announces that
Mademoiselle Rachel is to arrive shortly at' the Hague, for the
purpose of performing for a limited number of nights.
BERLIN, FEB. 16.—His Majesty, the King, arrived
here in good health, at ten o'clock to-day, on his return from
England.

MARCH OF AN ABYSSINIAN ARMY.-At an
early hour, Uhi's army began to climb the hill by the winding
footpath which we had descended the day before. A part of
the disorderly train had reached the summit four miles off,
while the hindmost were still in the valley, and yet no gaps
were discernible in the king line of march. Here was a
troop of women of the lower class laden like beasts of burden,
with large dishes, and the most miscellaneous assort.
tnent of all indescribable kinds of property ; there a knot
of ladies of quality on their mules, surrounded by their
female attendants, most of them young, on foot. In
many places were groups of priests—. some in leather
shirts, whets in yellow mantles. The most remark•
able party was a band of four- and- twenty kettle-
drummers on white mules. They wore red jackets, and caps of
the same colour, terminating in two sharp points. They sat
quite back on the rumps of their beasts, with a large and a
small drum before each. Uhi was distinguished by the suite of
distinguished warriors, on their beautiful mules, who clustered
round him. * * * At the top of the hill we were
met by a horde of priests in party-coloured garments, some of
whom had velvet canopies held over their heads, whilst others
carried Greek crosses of silver on long sticks. They re-
ceived Uhi and the females who accompanied him, with a
prolonged quavering cry of joy. An ox was killed, and the
warm quivering flesh devoured raw. The scene of this
barbaric feast had only been a few days clear of snow, and
from the want of wood it was impossible to light a fire. No
human beings but an Abyssinian army would have lingered in
such a spot for a small slice of raw flesh; to the beauties of
the sublime panorama, splendidly lit up by the sun, which
stretched away to the north, all of them were dead.—ltup..
pell's Travels.

THE INTRODUCER OF TOBACCO.---Talk of
Wellington and Nelson, indeed, while no memorial exists to
remind the grateful smoker of his best friend, Sir Walter
Raleigh, the discoverer of the true philosopher's stone, or
rather the regenerator of that discovery—for surely the an-
cients were well acquainted with " the weed," otherwise how
could Homer have invented for Jupiter the epithet " cloud-
compelling," which clearly demonstrates that the great bard of
Greece was not only a smoker himself, but likewise deemed
the occupation of smoking as one of heavenly origin ; or what
can Horace mean by the line, " Ducere solicitor jucunda obli-
via vitm ?" If the jucunda oblivia mean not the Lethean
odour of " the week," then, as the Yankees say, am I " up a
tree." Methinks I spy old Flacons now, reclining on his back
upon the green sward, his arms under his head, his eyes half
shut, with a pipe of slender stem and ample bowl in his beak
—ealanso-agrests—gracili arena--and-wondering at the ab-
surdity of hurtian nature, which can never be contented with
its lot, and blow a cloud an honest pagan, but must ever
be envying the occupation of others, and fretting after posses-
sions which it can never attain.—Sporting Magazine.
A. letter from Algiers of the sth instant, says :
" Throughout the campaign General Mustapha has shown himself
as skilful in general policy as he is experienced in arms. It was
supposed by some that he would have taken umbrage at seeing
raised to the dignity of Bey a young man who was living in obscu.
rity at Mostaganem, and of whom we knew nothing, except by his
claims to the Casbah of Oran, which, he said, belonged to him.
This, however, has not been the case, and, on the contrary, Mus-
tapha has cordially co-operated in the views of the Governor-Gene.
ral. The new Bey is 36 years of age, has a fine countenance, and
wears his gold-embroidered dress with ease and dignity. When he
appears at the head of 300 or 400 Mecljehers, who compose his
maqzen, he is preceded by his colours, and a band of native musi.
clans, who are considered by the Arabs to be excellent, follows,
playing triumphal marches. The squadron of Mekahlia or fusileers,
which was composed of about twenty deserters from the red ca-
valry of Abdel Kader and of the elite of the horsemen of the tribes,
is to be comprised in the new organisation of native troops. The
command is given to Capt. Walzin d'Esterhazy of the Artillery.
The battalion oftiralleurs raised from the Tut ks and Coulouglis of
Mostaganem will also be included. It is commanded by Captain
Bosquet. These two officers arc immediately to be promoted to
the grade of chef d'escadron. Their troops, without being under
the immediate orders of the Bey, will be at his disposal for the sup.
port and defence of the tribes who have made their submission.
With the contingents of these tribes, and this nucleus of regular
troops, the Bey will be at the head of an imposing force, and in a
position to attack or resist under all circumstances. The true na.
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A dreadful conflagration occurred, a few nights
since at Cressins, in the Ala, on the banks of the shone. Twenty_
five houses, and all the furniture, forage, provisions, Fec., were de-
stroyed, but the cattle were preserved. The loss is estimated at
60,090 f.

The late cold weather and the prevalence of snow
in many parts of France seem to hare been highly propitious to
sportsmen fond of wolf-hunting. The departmental papers
have recently been prolific in accounts of animals of thiq species
having been shot in all parts of the country, especially in Nor-
mandy and in the Jura.
Yesterday, being
the anniversary of the birth, of the
Marquis of Douglas and Clydesdale, was observed at Hamilton Pa.
lace with the accustomed honours. At twelve o'clock the ancient
brass cannon at the palace, which have celebrated so many a joyful
event since the battle of Langsyde, were again in requisition.—
Glasgow Saturday Post.