The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-19 00:00:00

WOOL.

The public sales of colonial wool were brought to a close
on Thursday lest. During their progress 88,828 bales were
disposed of, comprising 21,891 bales from New South Wales
and Queensland, 18,005 Victoria, 8,041 Tasmania, 5,604
South Australia, 11,229 New Zealand, 247 N,Vebtern
Aus-
tralia, 26,213 Caps, and 2,595 bales from sundry ports.
The sales opened at an average decline in prices from last

series of Id per lb. Subsequently, howpver; the biddings
for good and fine wools increased in activity, whilst the.
quotations improved, and were then nearly or quite equa
to those current last sales. Faulty wools were extremuly
difficult of disposal throughout, and ti fall varying from ld
to 3d per lb. took place in prices. The sales closed at the
rates current last series for good and fine descriptions of,
wool, but at the above decline of from is to 3d per lb. for
inferior parcels. A very small portion of the supply •Wits
taken by foreign buyers.

s d s. d
Fleeces —South Down hoggets ........ 2 0 211
Hali-bred do
Kent fleeces. 2 2 221
'south Down ewes and wethers 111 2 0
Leicestor do.
Sorts—Clothing
Combing . , 1 8 2 2

SEEDS.
The.demand for moat agricultural Buds is inactive, yiet
the quotations remain unaltered from last week. The', is
a firm inquiry for rapeseed, and the currencies are str.adily
maintained. East India linseed is sFghtly easier in. pi ice.
Few transac:iona have occurred in the cake fre.tled, and in
some instances a tall of es per ton has taken place.

arnip,White,p.bus.2Cs to 22s
Swede —s —2
Mustard, Brown s
White,
Tares, Spring — a a
New winter, bush 1 s 148
Canary, per quarter —a - a
Rye grass
Clover, Red Eng. , ot. - —s
White - s
Foreign Red —s —s
White —s —s
Trefoil new —s —s

LO W.

T AL
The tallow trade is dull 1
P.Y.C. is quoted at 41s per c
commands 41s Gd net cash,
per 81bs.

Particulars.

Uarraway 34s 31.11
Coriander..., Yls
ilempseed, per qr 4ts
Linseed,Eng.sowing as 6%-
Crushing sos (32;
Baltic —s
Odessa —B.
Linseed Cake, p ton —s - a
English .clo Os .£ll
Foreign £9 lOs £ll 5s
Rape Cakes,p ton £slos 46 5s
Rapeseed, new,pr qr 74k. 78i

Stock this day....
Price of Y.C. t
Delivery last week
Ditto from June 1
Arrivals last week
Ditto from June 1
Price of Town ....

today, and prices are lower‘
;wt on the spot. Town tallow
Rough fat is selling at 2s 1(4

1850. 1 1861 -I 1862.

H

73.044 ) 53,146 ) 55.435 # 71.348 C 0.847
60831 :o 51s Od to 45831 to 40591 to 418 ou to
—s Od ' 518 cd 45$ 6d 51s Od -- 8 0d1.319 1,521 1,823 2,419 2,E98 \
53,358 81,716 47,558 , 40,388 50,8 3
267 2,954 809 3.676 1,171
99.3J8 78.181 64,684 73,849 66,639
6.s 041 52s 98 46s 68 430 Od 438 94

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH STREET,

SNOWBALLING.—Joseph Wood, a lad, was charged
before Mr Tyrwhitt with disorderly conduct.

Gordon, 33 C, said that on the previous morning, about
half-past eleven o'clock, he saw the defendant and about
forty other lads in Castle-street, Leicester-square, snow-
balling every person passing along the street, elderly pens
sons going to church being more especially selected. One
person complained to him (Gordon) that his hat had been
broken by a snowball thrown by one of the lads. As the de-
fendant was the ibiggest of the lads, and the most active, he
took him into custody.

Mr Tyrwhitt ordered the defendant to find one bail in
£6 to keep the peace for two months.

ASSAULT ON AN OMNIBUS CONDUCTOR..—Mr. George
Frederick Bridges, sculptor, of No. 3, Vincent-square,
was ;charged before Mr Tyrwhitt with be'ng drunk, and
assaulting Sydney Simmonds, an omnibus conductor,
badge 505.
The conductor said the defendant got into hisomnibus on
Saturday night while he was giving some ladies change, he
(complainant) not noticing that he was drunk. While
passing along Oxford-street. near Berwick-street, the
defendant put his hand through the window of the door and
gave him a blow on the back, He told the defendant to
keep his hands to himself, and on the omnibus reaching the
end of Orchard-street, the defendant got out, and as he
would not pay, and had kept the omnibus waiting a quar-
ter of an hour, he gave him into custody.
Mr Tyrwhitt said if the defendant liked to settle the mat-
ter with the conductor, he would permit him to do so.
Subsequently it was mentioned to the magistrate that the
conductor had offered to take 7s 6d, he having lost a day's
work, but that the defendant declined to give it him, where,
upon Mr Tyrwhitt fined the defendant 20s.

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