The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-06 00:00:00

MARKETS—This Day.

close this week, have gone off steadily since our last, at
very full prices. Port Philip wool is now Id to lid; Syd-
ney, Adelaide, and Cape, id to ld per lb dearer than at the
close of last series. Up to the present time, rather more
than 90,000 bales have been disposed of, and of this
quantity a considerable proportion has been taken by foreign
buyers. In the English wool trade there is much less fine-
ness, owing to increased supplies having been forwarded to
market, as well as to a disposition on the part of holders to
realise. Prices, consequently, have fallen ld to 2d per lb
for the late highest point, The import into London last
week amounted to 535 bales from East London ; 672 Port
Natal ; 3,730 Launceston ; 3,008 Moretown Bay ; and 479
bales from Odessa.

MARK-LANE.

The country markets held on Saturday were Um for
wheat, and selected parcels were held at enhanced rates.
In most descriptions of spring corn a moderate business
was transacted at previous quotations. The flour trade
was steady on former terms. •
We learn from New York that the value of wheat and
flour had improved, and that the shipments to Great
Britain had been on a liberal scale. On the Continent the
trade, generally speaking, is steady.
Limited supplies of English grain were received up to
our market last week. The imports from abroad amounted
to 13,925 quarters of wheat ; 590 barley ; 8,113 oafs ; 853
beans; 1,035 peas; 140 linseed; 6,500 rapeseed ; 1,000
maize ; 70 sundry seeds, and 27 sacks of flour.
Fresh up to our market to-day, the arrivals of English
wheat were decidedly on the increase, and the condition of the
produce was for the most part good. The accounts at hand
respecting the appearance of the crops being very favour-
able, he demand_for red and white qualities ruled inactive.
Compared with l‘londay, however, no quotable change took
place in prices. At the close of business a fair clearance
was effected.

Current prices of English woor per lb,
Fleeces —South Down hoggets 1 101 to 1 11
Half-bred do , 231 2 5
Kent fleeces
South Down ewee and wethers 1 8 1 9
Leicester do. ...... 110 111
Sorts—Clothing ............................ 1 6 1 9
C0mbing...........

SEEDS.

Considering the time of year there was a steady inqu'ry
for seeds, and the quotations were firm. Cakes were in
slow request on former terms
rurnip, White,p.bus.lls to 148
Swede -8 ---g
Mustard, Brown loa 13s
White,
Tares, Spring.... 4s Od 45 6d
Old per quarter - s —8
Canary, per quarter 52s 6 a
Rye grass, new 22s 24s
Clover, lied Eng., et s —8
White
Foreign It ed —s —8
White —s —8
Trefoil, new --a

The supply of oats on sale was very moderate, and the
trade ruled firm, with an upward tendency in prices.
Beans, the supply of which was small, fully supported
last Monday's currency.
Peas were firm in price, and most descriptions met a
steady sale. The show of samples on the stands was small.
Most descriptions of flour changed hands to a moderate
extent, at late rates.
The supply of foreign wheat on the stands was but mo-
derate. In most descriptions sales progressed slowly, at
the rates current on Monday last.

Carraway 22s 263
Coriander l2s 16s
Rempseed, per qr 44s 46s
Linseed,Eng.sowing 763 78s
Crushing
Baltic —s -s

Odessa —s —s
Linseed Cake, p ton --s —s
English ..,...X9105£10 16s
Foreign 4910 s £lO 5s
Rape Cakes,p tonXs Os £6 Os
Rapeseed, new,pr qr 62s 65s

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Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly at previous
quotations.

TALLOW.
The tallow trade is dull to-day, and prices are 6d per cwt
lower than on Monday last. The quotation for .P.Y.C. on
the spot is 40s 6d. per cwt. Town tallow is selling at 39s 9d,
net cash. Rough fat remains quoted at 2s 2d per 81b.

The market was seasonably well supplied with barley.
Both for grinding and distilling qualities the demand ruled
far from active; nevertheless, previous quotations were
supported.
Malt changed hands to a moderate extent, on former
terms.

Particulars,

1850.

18" I 1862.

1863,

Stock this nay....
Price of Y.C.
Delivery lastweek
Ditto from June 1
Arrivals last week
Ditto from Juue 1
['rice of Town ....

26.980 ? 65,693 37 r 57 37.338
s!s 3d —l3 Od —s Od
52s0a ;o 54s Od to 4C861 to 43803 tol
—s Od
2,255 550 -,, 1,289 656
2,975 1,426 1,289 656
2,479 1,478 514 251
2,851 1,562 514 251
53s 61 528 91 468 6d 448 3d

444,662
us 6d to
1 -8 Od
755
, 519

CURRENCY PER DIPERTAL MEASURE,
Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, 1863, per qr 3is to 41s
Ditto, old •—s —s
Ditto, white, 1863 lls 16s
Ditto, old _ _

160
416 6,1

Norfthk and Lincoln, red, old —s —s
Ditto, 1863
Talavera,
Rye—
Barley—Grinding 22s 25s
Malting —s —s
Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk 6os 66s
Brown
Kingstown and Ware 6os 66s
Chevalier 66s 68s
Oats —Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding lBs 23s
Potato
Youghal and Cork, black lss 23s
Cork, white l6s 23s
Scotch, Feeding
.193 23s
Beans—Tick
Pigeons,
Peas—Grey
Maple
White 33s 36s
Boilers
Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b
Suffolk 2Bs 30s
Stockton and Norfolk ....—. 27s 29a
American, per barrel l9s 2.5 s

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day

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The June sessions of the Central Criminal Court com-
menced this morning before the Common Sergeant, Alder-
man
prisoners for trial, but the greater portion
Carden, Sir G. Moon, Phillips, and Lusk, and
of the charges are of the ordinary character.
One of the gentlemen summoned on the grand jury
objected to serve on the ground that he had conscientious
objections to taking an oath.
In reply to Sir R. Carden, the jurcr said he knew he
could not claim exemption, but if excused he knew it would
only be as a matter of favour.
Sir R. Carden asked what course he would pursue
supposing he should be obliged to bring an action against
any one.
The gentleman replied that he always settled any dispute
of that nature without going to law. He should not take
the oath under any consideration.
Sir It. Carden observed that if he were a witness in a case
of murder, he would be compelled to give his evidence, or
else he would be committed.

The gentleman said he had no desire to evade the per•
formance of his public duty, and he had on various occa
sions been excused from taking the oath.

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Sir R. Carden said that if sucenhudletcryl
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would admit the excuse.

Another juror was then sworn, and the grand jury com-
pleted.
The Common Sergeant, in his charge, said he was happy
to inform them that there were not more persons for trial
than would have been expected, considering that the inter-
val of five weeks had elapsed since the last session. He
was glad to be able to state that from having for the past
few years watched the state of crime, this showed a very
satisfactory state of things, and that, taking into considera-
tion the very great increase in the population, and a like
increase in property, and the consequent increase in tempta-
tion, criminal offences did not increase in the like propor-

tion ; indeed, as regarded juvenile offenders, the number
during the last three or four years had decreased at least two-
thirds, which could be accounted for by the exertions which
were being made by philanthropists in taking charge of aban-
doned children. He wis sorry to see, however, that five of
the charges involved the loss of life, and ono assumed the
mere serious charge of murder, and the other four for the
milder offence of manslaughter; and he could not help
noticing with regret, that this, as usual, in most cases of
violence that came before the Court, resultbJ from the
effects of drink. 'With regard to the case of mna'ller the
prisoner and the deceased had had a quarrel in a
house, and deceased went up to the prisoner in a fighting
attitude, but it did not appear whether or not he struck
him. However, the prisoner, who had a knife in his
hand, made a cut at deceased and stabbed him, and
he died in three weeks after from the effects
of the wound. If these facts were extenuated he
thought it was prima facie murder, and it would be rather
for the jury to consider more minutely whether there was
anything to justify the charge being reduced to manslaugh-
ter. The Common Sergeant then alluded to the charges
for manslaughter, amongst which was that of the woman
lately residing in Johnson-street, New Cut, remarking that
all of them appeared to have been committed while the pas-
sions of the prisoners were inflamed by drink. In conclu-
sion
£4,000 belonging' to his he alluded to the case of which a captain of a vessel
was charged with
em-
ployer. The prisoner, t appeared, received the money
abroad end ought to have at once accounted for it, and
remitted it to the owners of the vessel. Instead of doing
embezzling
i
so, he came to England with the money which he deposited
in different banks. The prosecutors hearing of the fact of
his arrival in England caused him to be apprehended, and
his statement was that he invested the money for security,
while he foolishly went about to see his friends instead of
going directly with it to his owners. The question for them
would be whether or not the prisoner had any felonious in-
tent when he invested the money, or whether it was, es ho
stated, a mere matter of negligence.
The Court then proceeded with the business of the sessions.
'William Heath, a respectable looking
man, pleaded gui!ty
to a charge of embezzling Money, the money of Mr. Ed •
wards, the proprietor of the Building, News. The prisoner
had been ,in prison two weeks, and he appeared to believe
that he was only civilly
liable to the prosecutor for the
money.

He was bound over in his own recognisances to come up
for judgment when called upon,

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earth," Mr. George Gilfillan alluded to the influence of
early suffocated with rancid incense.
Reformers. These had been, la his
judgment, the most ill-
at' daring their lifetime their
escaped feeding the flames, and after death
theirub os
John Calvin had been the htro of the past week, but it
was rather ominous that his admirers had selected for
anniversary not the date of his birth, July 10, 1509, but
the date of his death, the 27th cf May, 1564. Calvin,
de di
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no doubt, was a great man, and there was a great
amount of truth in his syst,em• But Calvin was not only
not Christ, but he had less of Christ about him than almost
any Christian divine he could name. He was harsh, nar•
row, dogmatic, cold, cruel. The system of /nifty established
while he lived in Geneva was worse than th it which pre-
vailed in Naples under Bomba• It was a system of brutal
cruelty. One James Gru3t, for writing some loose verses,
was beheaded. Even little boys and girls were liable to
capital punishment for trivial offences. And need he name
Servetus—a name which, despite the one-sided sophistry of
Calvin's defenders, rested like a bloody blot on that Re-
former's brow. He ventured to make an assertion—it
might seem strange now, but there was a day Coming when
it would appear a mere truism—that Shakespere whose ter-
centenary had been recently celebrated, was a better repre-
sentative of the Christian religion Calvin. than n
„ in. The one
was a Jew of the stoniest type; the other a Christian of
the noblest grain. The one found evil in things good ; the
other a soul of goodness in things evil. The one wrote in-
stitutes of theology in elegant Latin, which were read only
by scholars; the other dramas in plain English which were
read by the civilized world, and would be read after Cal-
vinism was, to say the least, no longer, as now, absurdly
identified by many with Christianity. He
spoke then of
creeds, and expressed his delight that Dr. Candlish had
broken ground on that question by asserting that there were
statements in the Confession of Faith opposed at once to
science and Scripture.—Dundee Advertiser.
M. FIORENTINO'S DEATH is announced, he being
a theatrical, or rather musical critic, whose name
was a subject of terror to all artists NA ho had to make their
b)w before a Parisian audience. His talents were of the
very highest order, but ho was often swayed by considera-
tions to which he should have been inaczessible. His
greatest achievement in a literary way was a translation of
Dante, which is as good as the baldness of the French lan-
vulge will admit of. It was published, with illustrations,
by Gustave Dole, and to some of your readers, at least, the
boils must be well known.

V
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JOHN LEECH'S C " "ARTOONS PROM UNCII ."
Following the example of Mr Tenniel, Mr Leech is prepar-
ing for the press a volume of his Political Cartoons.
A SECOND VOLUME of iqR CHARLES KNIGHT'S
" Passages of a Working Life" is in the press.
A HORSE KILLED BY BEES.—On Thursday even-
ing last a valuable mare belonging to Mr Richards, farmer,
,)f Ladock, Cornwall, broke over a fence into a garden and
ipset a couple of beehives. A vast number of bees at once
_tuck to the animal and stung her so severely that she. died
in a few hours.

THE SUI, LONDON, MONDAY EYI4:4.NING, JUNE 6, 1864.