The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-18 00:00:00

THE SUB, LONDON, MONDAY EVENIN G, SEPTEMBER 18, 1865.

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK-LANE.

Very little business was transacted in wheat in the
country markets held on Saturday. No further change of
importanco took place in prices; but as regards old wheat
the quotations were 3s. to 4s. per quarter below the late
highest point. The demand for spring corn ruled inactive,
and the tendency of prices was somewhat in favour of
buyers. The flour trade was dull at barely late rates.
On the Continent the wheat trade is very inactive, and
prices are drooping. The spring corn trade also is without
animation. At Now York the demand for wheat and flour
for export has fallen off.

Very moderate supplies of home-grown produce were,
received up to our market last week. The imports from
abroad amounted to 27,289 qrs. of wheat; 5,092 barley ;
21,897 oats ; 35 bens ; 141 peas ;- 13,266 linseed ; 2,632
oilseeds; and 350 sacks of flour.

Fresh up to our market to-day the arrivals of wheat from
Essex and Kent were very moderate. A portion of the
supply of new produce was received in good condition ;
but at the same time there were several indifferent samples
on the stands. The trade was devoid of animation ; but as
regards good and fine wheats, prices were firm, and last
Monday's currency was supported. The more important
transactions were ohiefly confined to the best samples of
red and white produce, a portion of the supply, owing to
its inferior condition, being left unsold at the close of
business.

The market was well supplied with Russian and Prus-
sian wheats, but the show of American produce on the
stands was limited. Generally speaking, sales progressed
slowly, and the total amount of business transacted was
but moderate. The prices of this day se'ennight, however,
were steadily maintained.

Wheat, afloat, was in slow request, at the late decline
in the quotations.

The supply of English barley on sale was small, and
varied considerably in quality. With foreign barley the
market was but moderately supplied. The barley trade,
however, ruled quiet, at about late rates.
The demand for malt ruled inactive, at late rates.
The supply of oats on sale was moderately good. On
the whole the trade was steady, and prices ruled firm.

The flour trade was quiet, yet prices ruled stationary.
Foreign sacks were in moderate supply, but the market
was scantily supplied with barrels.

Beans were a short supply, yet there was very little in-
quiry for any description. The quotations were unaltered
from Monday last.

Peas, although scantily offered, met a slow sale at late
rates.

CURRENCY PER IMP. MEASURE.

Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, new, per qr. 34s to 42s
Do., old 428 47s
Do., white, old sow 54s
Do., new
Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old —s —s
Do., new
Talavera, new sos 58s
Rye—
Barley—Grinding
Malting 3os 35s
Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk
Brown
Kingstown and Ware
Chevalier 64s 65s
Oats—Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding 20s 24s
Potato
Youghal and Cork, black l9s 24s
Cork, white 2os 25s
Scotch, Feeding l9s 23s
Beaus—Tick
Pigeons ... 42s 45s
Peas—Grey, new
Maple
White
Boilers
Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b
Suffolk 3os 323
Stockton and Norfolk
American, per barrel 2ss 30s

to a close on the 23rd ult., are progressing steadily. Good
and fine wools fully support the rates of last sales, but in-
ferior qualities exhibit a decline of about id. per lb., as
compared with the same period. In English wools about
an average business is doing, and prices are decidedly firm.
The import of wool into London last week was 3,670 bales
from Sydney, 730 Melbourne, 1,012 Adelaide, 2,482 Algoa
Bay, 1,141 Port Natal, and 459 bales from the Cape.
Current prices of English wool per lb.

s (1
Fleeces—South Down hogets 1 8
Half-bred do 1 11i
Sorts—Clothing
r do 1
6
Kent fleeces 1 11
South Down ewes and wethers 1 81
1 10i
LeCombing

s d
1 9
2 0
2 0
1 9
2 0
1 11
2 0

SEEDS.
Good and fine mustard seed is firm in price, but inferior
qualities aro dull. Tares are a slow sale. Linseed and
rapeseed are steady. Cakes move off slowly at late rates.

TALLOW.
The tallow trade is steady, but with only a moderate
business doing. New P.Y.C. is quoted at 46s 3d to 46s 6d
per cwt. on the spot; 46s 3d for October to December, and
47s 6d to 47s 9d for January to March delivery. Hough
fat, 2s 4d per 81b. Town tallow, 46s 3d net cash.
Particulars. 1862. 1863. 1864. 1865.
Stock this day 36,714 42,615 41,319 30,752
Price of Y.C. • (488 Od to 43s 3d 41s 9d 46s 3d to
Delivery last week 1,652 2,022 1,308 4 2,6 s 481
Ditto from June 1 23,290 16,780 18,985 26,442
Arrival last week , 2,912 2,587 543 1,898
Ditto from June 1
Price of Town ....... sos 44s 3d 4453 d 48s Od

CRIMINAL COURT.—This Day.

OLD COURT.

The September sessions of the Central Criminal Court
commenced this day before the Lord Mayor, the Recorder,
Sheriffs, and Aldermen.

The. Recorder, in charging the grand jury, acid ho re-
gretted that the calendar contained the names of persons
charged with serious offences. There were two charges
of murder, one was against the soldier Currie, for shooting
Major De Vera at Chatham, and the other against Esther
Lock for the murder of her three children at Skin Market-
place, Bermondsey. They would have the whole of the
evidence placed before them in order to ascertain whether
there was a prima facie case against each of the prisoners
accused, because if so it would be their duty to return
true bills against each of the accused, leaving the
state of mind of the prisoners at the time the act was com-
mitted for consideration by the court and jury. There was
also a charge of manslaughter against a foreigner named
Brenner, for causing the death of another foreigner, a Ger-
man, Joseph Kuchen, and in this case also they would be
called upon to inquire very minutely into the circumstances
which led to the quarrel. The learned gentleman then re-
ferred to the depositions, and detailed the facts under which
the quarrel which led to the death of the man arose, and
said it would be for them the Grand Jury to say whether
the charge in the indictment was made out. Besides the
case of manslaughter referred to, there were others of a
similar description, and it was much to be regretted that
such lamentable loss of life should be of such frequent oc-
currence as lhad of late unhappily been the case. In the
case of the prisoner Riciman, he was charged with killing
Sarah Anu Scott, the female with whom he cohabited. It
is alleged by the prisoner that when he wont home (4,
White's-grounds, Bermondsey), he found the woman beastly
drunk, and that, having become enraged, he inflicted blows
on her which caused her death. There was an indictment
against Charles Gordon Sprague, the surgeon, for a rape
on Hannah Hart, a servant of Mr. Jenkins, surgeon, of 22,
Philpot-lane, Fenchurci-street, in whose employment the
prisoner bad been two days. The grand jury, ho felt cer-
tain, would be quite able to dispose of the cases submitted
to them ; but, in the event of any difficulty, the Court
would most willingly render them all the assistance re
quired.
The grand jury then retired to their room,

Advertisement Agents and Public Companies

At the last sitting of the Lord Mayor's Court, before the
Recorder and a Common Jury, Messrs. Allen and Garbutt,
the well-known advertising agents, of King William-street,
suod the United Warehouse Company (Limited) to recover
1,320, the balance of an account for advertising the com-
pany in various newspapers.

Mr. Talford Salter (instructed by Mr. Snell, of George.
streets Mansion-house) appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr.
Philbrick (instructed by Messrs. Sheppard and Reilly) re-
presenting the defendant.

It appeared that the whole bill for advertising the com-
pany was £460, out of which £l4O had been paid, and the
question in the cause was as to the liability of the defendants
to plaintiffs. There was no dispute as to the orders for the
advertisements, but an issue was raised as to whether the
liability was not personal to one of the gentlemen inter-
ested in the company. In the course of the case a letter

received from the secretary was handed to Mr.

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and was read by Mr. Rowley, the deputy-registrar of the
Court. From this it appeared that the let ter was written
upon the company's printed papers, and it requested the
plaintiffs to advertise the quotations of the shares, &c., in
the newspapers in which plaintiffs were advertising the
company's business.
Mr. Philbrick admitted that he was quite surprised at
the letter, and did not expect the production of such a
document.

His Lordship had not the slighest doubt that the learned
counsel was surprised by the letter, and asked how the
case could be defended further.

Mr. Philbrick admitted that ho could not proceed, and
his lordship directed the jury to find for the plaintiffs for
the full amount.

Verdict for the plaintiffs for the amount sought to be
recovered.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day

The market continues strong at ;Id. to id. over
ast week. Sales, probably 20,000 bales.

The coupons of the Atlantic and Great Western
Railway, New York division, Second Mortgage
Bonds, and of the Pennsylvania division, First
Mortgage Bonds, will be paid on the Ist of October,
at the rate of 4s. per dollar, at the Consolidated
Bank.

The directors of the English and Australian Cop-
per Company have received advices from their
manager, dated Adelaide, July 27. The quantity
of coal at Kooringa was 1,3961 tons ; at Kapunda
869 tons; and at Port Adelaide Works all the
furnaces were out for stock taking and repairs, but
would be lighted again about Ist August. At Koo-
ringa there were three furnaces at work. Since
date of last advices about 61 tons of copper had
been shipped.
PROPOSED MEMORIAL TO CHAUCER.—It is pro-
posed to purchase by subscription and to preserve, as a
memorial of Chaucer, the Talbot Inn, in the Borough
High Street. The testimony of admiration thus proposed
would be so far imperfect that it would be hard to prove
any portion of the structure in question to be so old as the
time of Chaucer.
DESPERATE ATTEMPT OF MR. GORDON ALLEN, THE
BARRISTER, TO COMMIT SUlClDE.—Yesterday after-
noon a painful sensation was created in the Inner Temple
amongst the benchers, owing to a report being raised that
Mr. Gordon Allen, barrister-at-law, bad attempted to
destroy his life by cutting his throat. The unfortunate
gentleman, who, it will be remembered, took a prominent
part in the proceedings against Mr. Edwin James, has for
some time been noticed to be in a very desponding and
unsettled state of mind. He occupied chambers at No. 2,
Dr. Johus.m's-buildings, in the Temple, and yesterday
afternoon he was found in his office with his throat cut.
Medical aid was promptly called in, but such was the
languishing state he was in that his instant removal to
the hospital was deemed indispensable, and Assistant In-
spector Harris and Police-constable Henderson removed
him to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where he at present re-
mains without the least hope of recovery.
THE TORPEDO.—Mr. Donald M'Kay, the well-
known American shipbuilder, is at present in this country,
and is in close communication with the Admiralty on the
subject of torpedoes. It is the intention, we understand, of
the authorities to entertain seriously the question of having
on hand a stock of these destructive missiles, with a view
of laying them down, in the event of a war, in the diffe-
rent channels leading into our harbours, thus leaving our
fleet to a great extent free to proceed to sea.—army and
Nary Gazette.
PERIGORD TRUFFLES.—This precious cryptogam,
the nature of which is but little known, though every one
is practically acquainted with its singular appearance and
peculiar flavour promises an abundant crop this year, after
an almost total failure last season. The heavy rains that
fell in the month of August after the prolonged heat in
France have aided wonderfully in the development and mul-
tiplication of this root. The truffles already appear at the
surface of the ground, and, though still in an embryonic
state, begin to emit that peculiar odour for which they are
distinguished, and are now rapidly developing themselves,
as the tubercle increase in size.—The Grocer.
DEATH OF A POLICE OFFICER CHARGED WITH
UTTERING BASE COIN.—It will be remembered that Police-
constable Warren was committed for trial to the Reading
Borough Sessions, for passing a Hanoverian token as a sove-
reign at one of the stalls at Reading races. He was bailed
out, but the disgrace hanging upon him so preyed upon his
mind that he died on Thursday last.—Berks Chronicle.
The Journal de Bruges states that a disease is
destroying the chickens of the district in great numbers.
One proprietor near the town lost 37 in a few hours. The
cattle plague is also raging in the province.
TOM MOORE'S BESSIE.—The grave has now closed
over the last of a poet's household, says the Athe-
nzewn. The widow of Moore rests by her husband's side.
The voice of song had long been silenced in the little
bower of Sloperton, where she who once listened lived on
the memories of the old sweet echoes:
In future hours, some bard will say
Of her who heard and him who sang the lay,
They are gone ! They both are gone !
The papers which have announced the death of Mrs. Moore,
early last week, have agreed in misstating her age, which
they set down at 68. As she married Moore in 1811, this
would imply that she was only 14 when she married
the bard, who was then in his 33d year! The difference
between their ages was by no means so great. Another,
and a graver mistake, is the repetition of the malignant as-
sertion of "the Right Hon. John Wilson Croker," made by
him almost before Moore was buried, that the poet was a
husband who cared little for his wife ! This assertion gave
great pain to Mrs. Moore, and was resented by Lord John
Russell. The "Right Hon. John Wilson Croker" only aggra-
vated his unmanly offence by sneering at Moore's widow
as "Lord John's interesting victim." All this malignity
was the fruit of well-nursed wrath, which was excited
by the fact that 50 years before Moore had omitted to
name Mr. Croker in the notes to Anacreon. Setting aside
the terrible affliction of the loss of all their children, the
home of Tom Moore and Bossy was a happy one, Because
his journal only records his fittings abroad, and barely
alludes to his home except in notice of some labour there,
and thankfulness that he had leisure to perform it—be•
cause he sang lightly of
Brilliant short pleasure that flashes and dies;

men are apt to forget that the poet was a solid scholar, and
that his knowledge of patristic literature was more real
than his acquaintance with Fanny of Thumol. It has
also been said that Moore seldom or never alludes to his
wife in his poetry. He was not publicly uxurious, but all
his allusions are in exquisite taste, and a hundred passages
in his diary are testimonies to the worth of his admirable
wife, and to the high estimation in which he held her.
" Then come," he says, in his metrical invitation to Lord,
Lansdowne to dine at Sloperton,—
Then come—if a board so untemptiing hath power
To win thee from grandeur, its best shall be thine :
And there's one, long the light of the bard's happy bower,
Who, smiling, will blend her bright welcome with mine.
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.—It appears that of
the 196 new Members who have been returned to
Parliament, the army furnishes 35, while the navy supplies
only five. The class of country gentlemen has received
an accession of 47 members; while the merchants have
added 26 to their numbers, but the manufacturers only five.
Three of the new members are bankers, and four are or
were brewers. The medical profession has added a mem-
ber to its strength, while tha lawyers have increased their
numbers by 21. A yeoman farmer of celebrity, a distin-
guished author,' a learned university professor, and a well-
known Irish newspaper proprietor will make their first
appearances in the ensuing Parliament. The railway in-
terest will be assisted, by a gain of three civil engineers,
two railway chairmen, and four Contractors for public
works. There are also six members who have been in the
diplomatic service of the State. There are no less than 30
gentlemen who previously sat in Parliament, and who,
after some years of retirement, have again sought and re-
ceived the suffrages of "independent electors."
The Banffshire Journal notices a roe hunt at Advie :—On
Friday last, Mr. Munn, accompanied by a number of tenants
in the district, and the party from Tulchan Lodge, had a
day's roe-hunting in the Knockfrink plantation. After
beating for some time with good success, the party resorted
to an.elevated spot on the margin of the wood, where they
met with a kind reception from Mr. and Mis. Munn, and
found an excellent luncheon spread "among the bonnie
blooming heather." Mr. Bass, M.P., in proposing the health
of Mr. and Mrs. Mann, expressed a wish, which was
heartily concurred in by all present, that they may long be
spared, and may often return to visit the Highlands. After
ample justice had been done to the luncheon, the party re-
turned with new vigour to the chase, which they continued
till about five in the afternoon, when, on reviewing the
work of the day, they found the result to be as follows ;-
7 roe deer, 21 hares, and 2 brace black game,