The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-21 00:00:00

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MARKETS—This Day.

for most descriptions of wool. Prices, however, are lower
than at the close of last sales, owing to the fall in the pri-
, vats contract markets, the reduction being, on the average,
ld per ib. Scoured Cape wool and grease wool from nearly
all quarters is without material change in value from last
series. The arrivals aro 79,269 bales, comprising 20,507
bales from Sydney; 13,347, Victoria; 6,340, Adelaide; 243,
Swan River; 1,891, Tasmania; 9,514, New Zealand; and
28,422 bales from the Cape of Good Hope. Tho total quan-
tity of wool to be offered at these sales will approximate
90,000 bales. In English wool,' privately, an increased
amount of business is done, and prices have, in some in-
stances, slightly improved. Advices from Melbourne state
that a few parcels of the new clip had been exhftited for
sale, and that shearing in most districts was making rapid
progress. •

MARK-LANE.

The country markets held on Saturday were very quiet
for all descriptions of produce. Selected parcels of wheat
were firm in price ; but, as regards inferior qualities, the
tendency of prices was somewhat in favour of buyers.
Good and fine barley and oats fully supported previous
rates, whilst other articles changed hands at late quo-
tations.

On the Continent the wheat trade is firm, at full prices,
and in the value of spring corn very little change has taken
place. The export demand for breadstuffs at New York
continues firm.

Up to our market last week the arrivals of English pro-
duce were but moderate. The impor s from abroad
amounted to 20,107 quarters of wheat, 3,500 barley, 24,253
oats, 5,484 beans, 1,700 peas, 30 tares, 16,733 linseed,
13,622 rapeseed, 16,372 maize, 41 sacks, and 7,726 barrels
of flour.

Current prices of English wool per lb,

Fleeces —South Down hoggets
Halt-bred do
Kent fleeces • •
south Down ewes and wethers
Leiceßtor do.
Sorts—Clothing
Combing
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2 0
2 2
2 1
2 0
2 2
2 Di
2 11

Fresh up to our market, to-day, the arrivals of home
grown,wheat, coastwise and by land carriage, were less ex-
tensive than on Monday last: Although the show of
samples on the stands was very moderate, the trade, both
for red and white qualities was in a sluggish state; never-
theless a fair clearance had, at- the close of business, been
effected, at the rates current on Monday last. The condi-
tion of the produce exhibited for sale was but middling.
The trade ,for foreign wheat was very quiet, and the
amount of business transacted both in Continental and
American produco was small. In prices, compared with
Monday last, no alteration took place.
Floating cargoes of wheat, maize, and spring corn were
in slow request at late rates.

SEEDS.

The demand for linseed was firm, at enhanced rates. In
rapeseed sales progressed steadily, at full currencies. The
inquiry for other seeds was far from active, at late rates.
The trade for cakes was quiet, yet prices were supported.
Turnip, White,p.bus.2ts to 22s Carraway 34s 35
Swede —s Coriander 22s 258
Mustard, Brown .. —s Henwseed, per qr 56s 60s
White,
Tares, Spring.. • • cs Crushing
New winter, bush 8s 98 Baltic —s —s
Canary, per quarter —s - s Odessa —s —s
Rye grass ..... 24s 281 Linseed Cake, p ton —s —s
Clover, Red Eng., et. - s —s English £looo is
White
Foreign Red :88 Ralp'eredakncs,p t0n£9.£15(14116 55:
White —B —s Rapeseed, new,pr qr 70s 76s
Trefoil new —s —a

The barley trade, with the exception of the finest malt-
ing produce, which sold readily at extreme quotations, was
very inactive, but without leading to any quotable change
in pikes from Monday last. The show of samples on the
stands was tolerably large.

The demand for nearly all descriptions of malt ruled
heavy, at about previous rates. Old malt of good and fine
quality chit fly commanded attention.
With oats the market was well supplied. About an ave-
rage business was transacted in most descriptions, and prices
ruled firm.

Beans were in small supply, yot the trade was in a
sluggish state, at about previous quotations.
Peas changed hands at the rates current on Monday last,
but the inquiry both for English and foreign produce was
eomewhat restricted.

The flour trade was quiet, on former terms. The supply
of barrels on sale was small.

CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASCREJ.

Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, 1863, per qr 36s to 40s
Ditto, 1861
Ditto, white, 1863 lOB 448
Ditto, 1864
Norfolk and Lincoln, red, 1864
Ditto, 1863
Talavera, 1864
Rye—
Barley—Grinding 22s 25s
Malting, new
Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk 6OB 63s
Brown
Kingstown and Ware 6OB Os
Chevalier
Oats —Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding l9s 22s
Potato
Youghal and Cork, black lBs 22s
Cork, white
Scotch, Feeding 2os 23s
Beans—Tick
Pigeons,
Peas—Grey. .
Maple
White .. 368 408
Boilers 368 40s
Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b
Suflblk 2BB 30s
'Stockton and Norfolk ... 26s 288
American, per barrel l9s 25s

heard,

"I HE St N, LOINEON, MONDAY EVENIAG, INOVEIVIBER 21, 1864.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. —This Day.

The November session of the Central Criminal Court,
and the first of the present mayoralty, was held to-day.
There are 97 prisoners for trial—namely, 82 males and 15
females in custody, and two who ars out on bail. There
is one charge of child murder. that of the unhappy young
woman who destroyed her illegitimate child in Lambeth
by cutting its throat, but the prisoner is not yet committed
to Newgate- Among the more serious charges is one
against a young woman, named Elizabeth Thomp-
son, of having attempted to murder her child
while suffering under delirium tremens. Another is
the case of the young man, Frederick Saunders, who
stands charged with feloniously shooting at his brother-
in-law with attempt to murder him ; and there aro several
cases of wounding with intent to murder and to do grievous
bodily harm. There are also a rather unusual number of
cases of bu-glary. The charges against Mr Hammond, the
surgeon, and two females residing with him, of having
assaulted and imprisoned his wife, under circumstances of
a very extraordinary character, will also have to be dis-
paced of at this session ; but at the same t me the entice
tion was made for a pestponemint at the October session, it
was intimated that there was a probability that the parties
might come to some arrangement. Among the other cases
of interest is that of Mary Florstall, who, although a
most illi orate persen, had managed to obtain admission to
a highly respectable establishment at Blackheath, and,
under the representation that she was the niece and heiress
of Mr Horefall, succeeded in victimising the tradesmen in
the neighbourhood to an enormous smcunt, and contrived
to exhibit all the externals of position and wealth pertaining
to an heiress at the expense of th.e'r credulity. She stands
committed upon three charges of obtaining jewelry and other
valuables, and, no doubt, others will be brought forward.
There is one very peculiar charge in the calendar, in which a
person named Anderson, and a quack doctor who goes by the
name of Dr Henery, are charged, under a recent statute,
with misdemeanour in having threatened to publish a certain
libellous matter concerning Mr Montagu Clark, a captain in
the army,who had impudently got into the hands of the de-
fendant Henery, with a view to extort money. There is
also another peculiar charge of fraud against a prisoner
named Augustine William Beauclerk, who describes him.
self as a member of the Christian Church of Christ of Jeru-
salem, who is accused of obtaining money be the false re-
presentation that ho was under-secretary to the Bishop of
London, and wbo also represented himself to be "special
messenger" to Cardinal Wiseman. Besides these charges
of fraud there is one of the same description against two
persons named De Witt and Weight, the charge against
them being one of obtaining a very largo quantity of wine,
of the value of many thousands of pounds, by means of
fraud and forgery.

The Recorder charged the grand jury, and in the course
of his observations referred to some of the above cases, and
very shortly after the trials commenced.
Ed ward Fuller, engineer, was indicted for stealing two
brushes and a piece of flannel, the property of the London
and South Western Railway Company. There was also a
charge against Thomas Smith of receiving the said pro-
perty, well knowing it to have been stolen,but did not sur-
render to his bail.

The evidence to support the indictment having been

The jury returned a verdict of guilty.
Mr Ribton, who appeared for the prosecution, said there
were two other indictments against the prisoner, but as
Smith had not surrendered he had to ask that sentence
might be postponed until next session.
The Recorder said it had been stated that a quantity of
property had been found at the prisoner's house, he should
like to know of what that property consisted.
Mr Ribton said the property consisted of a great many
things, such as oil, grease, So., in weight exceeding a ton.
It was discovered at Cudham, in Kent, where the prisoner
occupied a small farm, under the name of Fidler. The farm
was managed for the prisoner by the wan Smttb, to whom
he paid £1 a week, but as this person was not then in
court he thought if the proceedings with respect to other
indictments wet e postponed he had no doubt he would be
in attendance.

The Recorder asked if the man Smith was in an 3 way
prevented at tending tc-day.
Mr Ribton said he was in custody on another charge.

The learned gentleman engaged to defend Smith said,•
his client was out shooting, and some charge respecting the
identity of a gun prevented his attendance that day.

The Recorder, under the circumstances, postponed pass-
13g sentence this Session.

ILLEGALLY OBTAINING A CHEQUE-B 00K.—Arthur Law
a young man lately engaged as orderly clerk to the 3rd
London Rifle Corps was indicted for feloniously forging
and uttering a demand for a cheque-book for Colonel
Alfred B. Richards, the commanding officer of the corps,
with intent &a.

The evidence showed that an order for a cheque-book
from Colonel Richards was presented by the Agra and
Masterman's Bank where the funds of the corps were kept,
and no doubt being entertained of the genuineness of the
order the book was delivered to him. In a short time
after some cheques torn from the bank-book were presented,
properly filled up and purporting to be signed by Colonel
Richards, at the bank and paid. It was afterwards dis •
covered that five forged cheques had been paid, and the
handwriting of the order and signature " A. B. Richards,"
being believed to be the handwriting of the prisoner, he
was given into custody and charged with the offence.
Colonel Richards and other members of.the corps having
been examined,

The prisoner, who conducted his own defence, made a
long and rambling speech in which he totally denied the
charges brought against him.

The jury found the prisoner guilty, and ho was sen-
;need to five years' penal servitude.

University Intelligence.

OXFORD, Nov. 18.

The Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy (Mr
Price) will resume the Lectures on Physical Optics at the
Museum en Tuesday next ate one o'clock.

The Grinfield Lecturer on the Septuagint (Dr Collis)
proposes to deliver a lecturo "on the Greek Style of the
Book of Judges," in the Clarendon, on Thursday, Decem-
ber 1, at two o'clock p.m. This lecture is open to all mem-
bers of the University.
The University 'Sermons are appointed to be preached, in
the morning by the Yen. Archdeacon Clarke, at Christ
Church, and in the afternoon by the Lord Arohbishop of
York at St Mary's„;