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

IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST_ WEER.

From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs.
Rotterdam .... 640 .. 1362 ~ 280 .. 649 .. 143
Ebuihagen'.... 138 .. 1714 .. 151 .. 63 ..
Hamburg .... 86 .. 2477 .. .. 191
Aansterdana....
-- .• ••

Bremen .. • • .. ** **
Dordt. l2 .. 130 .. 253 .. 3 .. 3
Guernsey
Antwerp .. • •
Ostend . .... 27 ..
llavre — ..

- -
. . 14 . . .• - -
- I : -- -
. . 58 . . 16

Oporto
Dunkirk 1 ..

• •
a • - .. 7 .. 103

Total •• .. 925 .. 5863 .. 684 .. 964 .. 542
The yearly comparison of weekly imports is std follows :
Beasts, Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs.
1863 5lB .. 3,272 .. 1014 .. 945 .. '29
182 .. 483 .. 4,077 .. 277 .. 401 .. 25
1861 478 .. 5,562 .. 692 .. 520 .. 607
18G0
1859 l6O .. 1,931 .. 537 .. 602 .. 13
1858 202 .. 2,459 .. 481 .. 459 .. 4
A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of
fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan
Cattle Market on Monday, June 8, 1863, and this day,
Monday, June 6, 1864,

Per 81b. to sink the offal.
Juno 8, June 6,
163. 1
Coarse w 8
ad inferior beasts 3 4to 3 8 3 2 8
t6o 4.
3 6
Second quality do. 3lO 4 4 3 8 4 0
Prime large oxen 4 6 4 8 4 2 4 4
Prime Scots, &c... 4lO 5 0 4 6 4 8
Coarse and inferior sheep
Second quality do
.. 4 2 4 6 4 0 4 4
Prime coarse-woolled do ..... 4 8 410 4 6 410
Prime Southdown do. . ..... 4 8 410 410 5 0
Lambs ...... 6 4 6 8 6 0 7 0
Large coarse calves
Prieto smell do
Large hogs
Neat small porkers
Beasts
Sheep and lambs
Calves
Pigs 3lO 560
SUPPLIES ON SAL; June 9, 1862.—Beasts, 3,260—
sheep and lambs, 24,900—calves, 200—pigs, 350.
Juzil 10, 1861.—Beasts,: 3,94 o—sheep, 26,940-.calves,279—pigs, 440.

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
For the time of year full average supplies of each kind of
meat are on sale here to-day. Generally speaking, the trade
is heavy, at drooping prices,

Per 81b. by the carcase.
sd ad
[nferior beef .. 2 10 3 2
Middling do. .. 3 4 3 6
Prime large do. 3 8 3 10
Do. small do. .. 4 0 4 2
Large pork .... 3 4 4 0
Inferior mutton, 3 6 3 10

dsd
Middling mutton 4 0 4 4
Prime do .. 4 6 4 8
Vaal
Small pork 4 2 4 10
Lamb .... 5 6 6 6

BOROUGH HOP.
The accounts from the plantations this morning are
favourable. The recent easterly winds have had the effect
of checking the too rapid growth of the bine, which, although
it made but little progress last week, looks healthy, and is
tolerably free from blight. The amount of business doing
in our market is moderate; nevertheless, all good and fine
hops command extreme rates. Inferior hops are obtainable
at slightly reduced quotations. No imports of foreign hops
took place into London last week.
Mid and East Kents £5 Os to £9 lOs per cwt.
Weald of Kents 5 Os to 7 7s
Sussex
Yearlings 3Osto 5 Os Bavarian .... 558t08 8s )1
),
Belgian

BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELD S.
Large supplies of old potatoes continue on sale, and the
trade for them rules heavy, at from 20s to 50s per ton. With
new potatoes the market is but moderately supplied, and
most qualities move off steadily, at from 10s to 15s per cwt.
The import last week was 229 boxes Madeira, 173 from
Genoa, and 13 baskets from Jersey.
Yorkshire Regents to
50s 60s per ton.
Flukes
Rocks ........•
Perth, Forfar, and Fife Regents 40s to 50s ~
Rocks ........
Kent and Ess,,x Regents -s to —8 „

WOOL.
The public Bales of colonial, which will be brought to a

close this week, have gone off steadily since our last, at
very full prices. Pcrt Philip wool is now ld to lid; Syd-
ney, Adelaide, and Cape, id to ld per lb dearer than at the
olose 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.

Current prices of English wool per lb,
Fleeces —South Down hoggets 1 10i to 1 111
Halt-bred do , 23i 2 5
Kent fleeces „ 1 Il} 2 0
South Down ewes and wethers 1 8 1 9
Leicestor do.
Sorts—Clothing
Combing ...........

SEEDS.
Considering the time of year there was i a steady nqu. ry
for seeds, and the quotations were firm. Cakes were in
slow request on former terms
Turnip, White,p. busals to 14s
Swede.—s-5
Mustard, Brown lO3 13s
White,
Tares, Spring....4s Od 4s 6d
Old per quarter - 6
Canary, per quarter 52s 6!s
Rye grass, new 223 24s
Clover, lied Eng., et -a 8
White
Foreign Red —B
White --5
Trefoil, new. —ll

Carraway 22s 268
Coriander l2s 16s
tlempseed, per qr 44s 46s
Linseed,Eng.sowing 763 78s
hi u Crsng
...

Baltic — —9 —s

Odessa —s —5
Linseed Cake, p ton —s —s
English £9 10s.£10 108
Foreign £9103 £lO 5s
Rape Cakes,p lona Os £6 Os
Rapeseed, new,pr qr 62s 65s

................

TA
The tallow trade is dull LOOP.
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.
Particulars. I 1880.) 1861
1862. 1863. I 1864.

Particulars. 1860. 1861 1862. i 1863. 1864.
________ c— Stock this day.... 26,980 65.693 37. f 67 ( 37.338 44.862
{ 5250,1 to 51801. to 4656 d to'43sod to 4is 6d to
Price of Y.C. .. 516 3d
—s Od —s od —s Od —s Od
Delivery lastweek 2,255 950 . 1,289 656 755
Ditto from June 1 2,975 1,426 1,289 656 519
Arrivals last week 2,479 1,478 544 251 204
Ditto from June 1 2,861 1,562 514 231 160
Price of Town ....i 53s 6d 62s 9d IGs 6d 4is 3d

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day

The June sessions of the Central Criminal Court corn-
menced this morning before the Common Sergeant, Alder-
man Sir R. Carden, Sir G. Moon, Phillips, and Lusk, and
the Sheriffs.

There are 83 prisoners for trial, but the greater portion
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 iavour.
Sir R. Carden asked what course he would pursue
supposin 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 R. 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.

Sir R. Carden said that if such claims as tho present
were to be frequent great difficulty would arise. They
were, however, very rare, and under the circumstances he
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
satisfact3ry 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 was sorry to see, however, that five of
the charges involved the loss of life, and ono assumed the
more 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, resulted from the
effects of drink. With regard to the case of murder the
prisoner and the deceased had had a quarrel in a public
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 he alluded to the case of which a captain of a vessel
was charged with embezzling LINO belonging to his em-
ployer. The prisoner, it appeared, received the money
abroad and ought to have at once accounted for it, and
remitted it to the owners of the vessel. Instead of doing
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 be 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, as he
stated, a mere matter of negligence.
The Court then proceeded with the business of the session.
William Heath, a respectable looking man, pleaded guilty
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
OW 110 was only civilly liable to the prosecutor for the
money.

He was bound over in hie own recognisances to come up
for judgment when called upon.

A SCOTCH MINISTER
ON CALVIN.--in the course
of a sermon on Sunday afternoon, in his own churoh,
at Dundee, on the words—" Call no man father on the
earth," Mr. George GiMilan alluded to the influence of
Reformers. These had been, in his judgment, the most ill-
used of all men, inasmuch ea during their lifetime their
bodies narrowly escaped feeding the flames, and after death
their
nearly suffocated with rancid incenses
John
the hero of the past week, but it
been
was rather ominous that his admirers had selected for
fame Calvin had
had been
anniversary not the date of his birth, July 10, 1509, but
the dale of his death, the 27th of
May, 1564. Calvin,
no doubt, was a great Man, and there was a great
amount of truth in his system. But Calvin was not only
not Christ, but he had less of Christ about him than almost
any Christian divine be could name. He was harsh, nar •
row, dogmatic, cold, cruel. The system of polity established
while he lived in Geneva was worse than that which pre-
vailed in Naples under Bombe. It was a system of brutal
cruelty. One James Griot, for writing some loose verses,
was beheaded. Even little boys and girls wore liable to
capital punishment for trivial offences. And need he name
Servetus—a name which, despite the one-sided sophistry of
like a
restedbloodyl,
Calvin's defenders,-.lot on that Re-
former's brow. lie 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 than o.lv ;
-at. 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 M 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 hie 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
1 science and Scripture.—fitindee 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 v ho had to make their
bow before a Parisian audience. His talents were of the
very highest order, but he 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-
guege will admit of, It was published, with illustrations,
by Gustavo Dore, and to some of your readers, at least, the
book must he well known.
JOHN LEECH'S CARTOONS FROM
PUNCH."--
Following the example of Mr Tenniel, Mr Leech is prepar-
ing for the press a volume of his Political Cartoons.
A SECOND VOLUME of MR 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,
of Ladock, Cornwall, broke over a fence into a garden and
upset a couple of beehives. A vast number of bees at once
stuck to the aninvAl and stung her so severely that she died
in a few hours,