The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-25 00:00:00

SEEDS.

Linseed and rapeseed are dull, at barely late rates. For
cloverseed, there is a fair demand, at full prices; but
canary is a slow sale. Other seeds rule stdidy in price. In
cakes a limited business is doi
Turntp,White,p.bus 11s to 14s I
Swede —s —s
Mustard, Brown loa 13s
White,
Tares, Spring...As Od 4s 6d
°Riper quarter - s -Ls
Cknary, per quarter 52s 6:8
Rye grass, new 22s 24s
Clover, Red Eng., et —s —s
White
Foreign Red 33s 46s
White sos 643
Trefoil, new.. 22s 26s

ing on former terms
Carraway 223 264
Coriander
llempseed, par qr los 42s
Linseed,Eng.iowing 72s 718
Crushing
Baltic

odesaa —s —s
Linseed Cake, p ton —s —8
English ....,..X9los £lO o s
Foreign ..... lOs £lO 154
Rape Cakeii,p ton.£s Os £0 Os
Rapeseed, new,pr qr 62s 65s

TALLO W.

The tallow trade is dull to-day, on rather easier terms.
P.Y.C. is quoted at 41a 94 per cwt. on the spot. Town
tallow, 41s 3d net cash. Rough fat, 2s lid per 81b.

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Particulars. 1850. 1861 1862. I 1863. 1864.
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Stock this day.... 35,519 82.957 49,572 4 52,218 , C 6,221
59s0a 608 01 to 4753 d t 01448 91 toi4 s9d to
Price of Y.C. —6 Od --s Od --8 Od —s d 008 Od
Delivery last week 1,831 1,333 1,735 2,407 2,368
Ditto from June 1 55,089 CO, 34 89,897 56,332 49,421
Arrivals last week 84 4,4''0 247 805 990
Ditto from June 1 85,527 105,877 82,708 70,291 77,895
Price of Town .... 61s Od 61s 9d 48s 6d 40,1 6d 43s Od
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POLICE INTELLIGENCE-!This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBING A LADY AT THE PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—
Alfred Hill, a young man, was charged befere Mr. Tyr-
whitt with robbing a lady at the Princess's Theatre of a
purse containing half a sovereign end some silver.
Edwin Coathugoa, of the Detective Department, Scot-
land-yard, said that on Saturday afternoon about four
o'clock, while standing at the foot of the stairs loading to
the dress circle of the Princess's Theatre, the audience at
that time leaving after the day performance of the panto-
mime, he observed the prisoner busily, engaged in attempt •
ing to pick ladies' pockets by walking on the right-hand
side of them, and fumbling the folds of their dresses. On
watching more closely he afterwards saw the prisoner with-
draw his hand from a lady's pocket, and put something into
his own pocket, and then leave the theatre. On following
the prisoner into Oxford-street, and asking, him what he
had in his pockets, he replied, " Nothing ;" but on taking
him into custody, and while taking him back to the theatre,
he threw away the purse produced, containing half a sove-
reign and some silver. He afterwards said the purse and
contents were his own. _ _

A gentleman from the Princess's Theatfe said that on
Saturday afternoon a lady complained of losing her purse
and contents, and as the amount of money nearly tallied,
he thought if a remand were granted the lady perhaps would
come forward.

The prisoner was remanded for a week.
DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY WITII VIOLENCH.—
Thomas Amos, of 9 Hampshire Hog-yard, St. Giles, was
charged before Mr. Tyr Whitt with stealing with violence
from the person of Mr. W. Foster, watchmaker, 3 Little
Chesterfield-street, Mayfair, a watch of the vans of £7, and
10s. in gold.

Prosecutor said that on Saturday evening, about seven
o'clock, while walking along Upper Rathbone-plaeo he re-
ceived a violent blow from behind, which kr ocked him
down, and while on the ground the prisoner took from his
pocket £2 10s. in gold, and his watch of the value of £7
On getting up he pursued the prisoner, at the same time
cried " Stop thief," and at last in Percy-street, Tottenham •
court-road, prisoner was stopped.
In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the prosecutor said ho was
positive the prisoner was the man who robbed him. The
watch produced was his property.
Joseph Wells, of SO, Grease-street, Rathbone-place, said
that having joined in the pursuit d the prisoner on hearing
the cry of " Stop thief," he saw tha prisoner while running
fast throw the watch down the area of a house in Percy-
street with a terrible smash.

Robert Keys, 44 E, proved stopping the prisoner and
taking him into custody. The prosecutor was the worse
for drink, and the prisoner was quite sober.
A person stepped forward mil said he occasionally
employed the prisoner, and he was surprised at the charge
when he heard it, never having head anything against the
prisoner before. The prisoner was at his house up till half-
past six on Saturday evening.
The prisoner asked that the monty found upon him might
be ordered to be given up to him.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said he should certainly make no such
order, the prosecutor having been r)bbed of some mone) .
Sergeant Head 2 E, said the witch was brought to the
station by the gentleman residing at 29, Percy-street, in
whose area it was picked up.
The prisoner was remanded.

NEWS OF THE COMING ACADEMY EXHIBITION.
—Mr. Leighton will, probably; send not less than
four works ; Mr. Stanfield the same number, if not a greater
one; Mr. Marks has two, and Mr. Calderon three pictures.
Mr. E. M. Ward has been engaged for a oonsiderable part

of the past summon and autumn on his waterglass picture
for the Hous*f Parliament, but he will,doubtless, not be
absent from tannual gathering.
CAMBERWELL-HoUSE LUNATIC ASYLUM.—The
first of a series of annual entertainments to the inmates of
this asylum, where more than 300 patients are kept under
the care of Dr. Paul, was given on a recent evening. It
was denominated " The Patients' Ball." A large number
of ladies and gentlemen were invited to be present on the
occasion ; and it was most gratifying to see how heartily
many of the patients joined in the dance, and listened with
wrapt attention to the strains of vocal and instrumental
music with which the proceedings were enlivened. ,
FIRE LAST NIGHT—Two CHILDREN BURNT TO
DEATH.—Last night shortly after 8 o'clock, Con-
ductor Stephen Tapsell, of the London Fire Brigade, who is
stationed at the churchyard of St. Clement Danes, received
information that a fire had broken out at No. 17, Hemlock-
court, near Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. He imme-
diately proceeded to the spot with the fire-escape, and was
met by Stockman, a fireman, in charge of the parish engine,
when it was found that a fire was raging in a third. floor
front room, which was occupied by a widow named Coch-
rane and her two children. A supply of water having been
obtained, the room was entered by Tapsell and Stockman,
who, by means of buckets, drenched the bed and bedstead,
which were smouldering, and ultimately succeeded in ex-
tinguishing the fire, which had communicated with various
articles of furniture, and partially burnt the wainscoat and
ceiling. On the room being cleared of the dense smoke
which prevailed, the firemen for the first time became aware
that two children were in the tenement, the dead bodies of
both being found in the bed, locked in each other's arms.
The names of the deceased are Richard Cochrane, aged
six, and Mary Cochrane, aged four. It appears that the
mother of the children was in the house when the accident
occurred, but on the room being entered a good fire was
found to be burning in the grate. It is somewhat singular
Tapsell was called upon to ex-
tinguishthat a week
afiresi nacte
a Conductor
house
in
Hemlock-court, two doors re-
moved from the scene of the present accident, and on that
occasion a widow who ocoupied the room where the fire
broke out was consumed almost to a cinder.
THE LUDGATE-HILL VIADUCT.—After all the
opposition that has been shown to the Ludgate-hill
P in three days without paid
canvassers,viaduct—the
sigpneetditibony, g0t1,60 up in
the leading merchants and
bankers of the City, and all the London clergy, with their
bishop at their head— after the London press, without a
single exception, has spoken strongly against the project—
a project that is now condemned by the Corporation, the
Metropolitan Board of Works, and the majority of the mem-
bers of the Houses of Parliament, the London and Chatham
managers have the temerity to ask for the renewal of the bill
of it which has caused all the mischief. That bill was
disfigured
viaducts and cuttings,
granted when Parliament had no means of judging how far
y
butthe it
will metropolis wouldhardlybe
renewed
in the face of the fullest and moat
painful information upon this point. The activity shown
in destroying the houses on Ludgate-hill, though intended
by the company and its supporters to force Parliament into
probably have the
cgornantrtainryg tehffeescatn. new
nnThmedeiysfil;wreemrsenviiltolf Ludgate-hill—the
chief thoroughfare of the City—could only be realised last
year by the aid of models and pictures ; this year it can be
seen in part of its solid reality. The old powers of the com-
pany, in the present temper of the House of Lords, and in
face of a firm and timely opposition, will surely not be ex -
City
tinendhedastoilry renewed,pulling down in spite of the threat implied
and mortar. Perhaps sviteZ the prospect of a de-
feat becomes more apparent that it is at present,
a few acres of bricks
they will reconsider a scheme which, we believe, originated
in their own board-roonn They may build on the site of
the Fleet Prison their proposed gigantic hotel, and turn the
gap on the other side of Ludgate-hill into a grand entrance
to a Bridge-street terminus. This is perhaps the most sen-
sible way of utilising the Ludgate-hill wreck, and the whole
railway interest would be benefited by such a plan. While
the threat of this universally condemned Ludgate-hill Via-
duct hangs over London, no railway proposition, however
good, can be calmly considered, and the London and Chat-
ham Company is certainly not in that strong financial posi-
tion that it can afford to fly in the face of its fellows and the
Puhlic.—City Press.
.SICILY.--It appears that travelling in Sicily at
present is not unattended; with dung from brigands.
A letter received recently in Malta mentions that an English
gentleman, travelling in the mail coach, and with an escort,
was fired on by brigands, on the road between Catania and
Caltanisetta. One of the armed escort was severely wounded.
The same gentleman was attacked, in October last, near
Licata, robbed of everything he had about him, and much
maltreated. The heavy rains have done much damage to
the roads, and destroyed many bridges, rendering commu-
nication between the different towns and villages very diffi-
cult. From this cause no sulphur has arrived at Licata
from the interior, for nearly two months.