The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1855.

LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.

MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.)

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

Leasing
Compans•

Closing Price.
Saturday.

Business
this day.

The January session of the above court was opened
to-day by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Right
Hon. the Recorder, Alderman Sir C. Marshall, and Sir
R. W. Carden, the Sheriffs, Under Sheriffs, ,kO.,

The leading country markets held on Saturday were but
moderately supplied with wheat. Most kinds sold slowly,
but no material change took place in the quotations. The
barley trade was heavy, and prices were with difficulty
supported. Oats were tolerably firm, but beans, peas,
and flour were much neglected. _ _ .

The first edition of the calendar contains the names
of 44 prisoners.

The business doing in grain in most of the foreign mar-
kets has been very moderate, yet, in some instances, prices
have had an upward tendenzy.
Up to our market last week the arrivals of English grain
were very moderate. From abroad we received 14,235
quarters of wheat, 1,845 barley, 13,405 oats, 273 beans,
669 peas, 808 tares, 11,166 linseed, 5,568 rapeseed, 45 sun-
dry seeds, 544 sacks and 3,007 barrels of flour.
The supply of English wheat received fresh up to-day
coastwise, was reasonably extensive, and in fair average
condition. By land carriage, the receipts were very mo-
derate ; yet the show of samples of both red and white was
good. Notwithstanding that the attendance of buyers was
by no means numerous, the demand for most kinds of
wheat of home produce ruled steady, and a fair demand
Was effected, at last week's currency.
We were tolerably well supplied with foreign wheat.
Good heavy qualities were in moderate request at fell quo-
tations. In low and middling parcels very little was
doing on former terms.
The inquiry for floating cargoes was less active, yet
holders were firm.

The Recorder, in his charge to the Grand Jury, said
that but for one melancholy case, in which a prisoner
was charged with the commission of two murders, he
should have been able to congratulate them upon the
present calendar being the lightest that he ever remem-
bered since he bad had the honour of sitting in that
court. There were e,ely three cases to which, he said,
he considered it necessary to allude. The first was a
charge of having transferred the Goldsmith's-hall mark
from gold of a superior quality to one of an inferior
description, which was made an offence by a recent
statute, and the only question they would have to con-
sider was, whether the person charged was proved to
have committed the act imputed to him. The next was
A case of manslaughter, in which a woman was charged
with causing the death of her mother, by wounding her
with a pair of scissors. The immediate cause of the death
would appear to be erysipelas, but if the Grand Jury
should be of opinion that the erysipelas was caused by the
original wound, it would bzi their duty to find a bill for
manslaughter. With regard to the remaining case, it
appeared that a foreigner named Barthelemy was charged
with shooting two persons, named Moore and Collard,
and although the circumstances under which the death
of the first person mentioned appeared involved in
some obscurity, it was his duty to tell theft that the
depositions disclosed a clear prima facie case of murder,
and the grand jury, if the facts should be proved to their
satisfaction, would be bound to return a true bill. The
second case was free from all legal difficulty, for it ap-
peared that upon the unfortunate man Collard attempt-
ing to arrest the prisoner after the commission of the
first murder, he deliberately shot him dead with a pis-
tol, and tke Grand Jury he feared, therefore, would feel
that they had no alternative but to find a true bill in
both cases.

Fine barley was comparatively scarce, and realised full
quotations. In grinding and distilling sorts only a limited
business was transacted, at barely late rates.
_ .

Although the supply of malt was but moderate, the trade
ruled heavy, and the quotations were next to nominal.
The oat trade was steady, and prices were well sup-
ported.
We had a very dull sale for beans, the prices of which
gave way from is to 2s per qaartor.
In peas very few transactions took place, at from is to
2s per quarter less money.
The flour trade was in a sluggish state. In prices, how-
ever, we have no change to notiee.
CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.

Wheat—Essex & Kent,
Red •• .. new 72s to 853
Ditto... • ........ old 76s 8331
Ditto, White new 80s 88s
Ditto.. •• .... old 81s 00s
Norfolk and Lin-
coln, Red, old 685 703
Ditto new •• •• .. 68s 735
Bye—Old ... • . • • .... —a —s
New •• • . •• 48s 503
Barley—Grinding ••• .. 325 343
Malting . .• 33s 365,
Chevalier.• •• 37s 3931
Sfalt—Suffolk and Nor-
folk .• •• •• 62s 678
8r0wn............... 553 Os
KingstonandWare 681 703

Mat—Chevalier •• • • 71s to 73s
()ata Yorkshire and
Lincolnsh., Feed 27s 30s
Potato •• 28s 32.
Youghal and Cork
81ack....... 25s 30s
Cork, White 28s 323
Scotch, Feed. •• •• 28s 32s
Beans—Tlek ..• •• .• 41s 45s
Plgeons.• • .•• 45s 50s
Peas—Grey ..•• ••• • • • 37s 40s
Maple. •• •• •• •• • • 41s 433
White... •• •• 46s 48s
Boilers •• • 48s 51,
Flour—Town-undo... 68s 73,
Suffolk ••• • •• • 54s 62,
Btocktn & Norfolk 54s 56,

POST-OFFICE NOTICES.

SMITHFIELD.

The total imports of foreign stock into London last week
amounted to 1,410 head. In the corresponding period in
1853 we received 1,802 ; in 1802, 2,56 x; and in 1851, 2,408
head.

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