The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-20 00:00:00

FILE SUN, LOA DON, iIIONPAY MARCH 20, 1865.

Day,

home buyers has improved, and there has been a full
average number of foreign buyers present at the sales.
Pieces are now id to 1d per lb higher than at last series
as regards all good and fine Australian wools, whilst nearly
all descriptions of Cape wool command fully ld, and in
some instances lid per lb more as 3ompared with the same
period. •With the improvement in the home demand there
has also been a better inquiry for export to the continent,
but there is still an absence of demand on American
account. About 65,000 bales have now been disposed of.
In the English wool trade, however, there is no improve-
ment to report, the demand in the contract market being
in a sluggish state with a downward tendency in prices.
The import into London last week was 12,254 bales from
Melbourne, 2,033 Port Philip, 946 Sydney, 1,938 Adelaide,
350 Cape, and about 300 bales from sundry ports.
Current prices of English wool per lb.
d a d
Fleeces - South Down hoggets. ...... ...1 10 111
Half-bred do 2 1 2 2
Kent fleeces t 114 2 0
outh Down ewes and wethersl 8 110
Leiee4er do
Sorts -Clothing 1 6 1 114
Combing 1 8 2 1

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MANSION-HOUSE.

SEEDS.

Canary seed was dull, and late rates were barely sup-
ported. Other agricultural seeds were in limited request,
on former torms. There was a fair sale for East India lin-
seed and rapeseed at previous currencies. The demand for
cakes was quiet. Foreign linseed cakes ruled the turn in
favour of buyers, but cottonseed cakes were very firm in
price.

Curnip,White,p.bus.2Gs to 22s
Swede ---8 -s
Mustard, Brown
White,
Tares, Spring..... • s s
New winter, bush 96 108
Canary, per ,quarter 448 50s
Rye grass ..... 24s 28s
Clover, Red Eng., ot 62s 120 s
White
Foreign Red s4s 70s
White 563 80s
Trefoil

Carraway 33s 33s
Coriander l2s 24s
Hempseed, per qr 4os 433
Linseed,Eng.sowing 70s 72s
Crushing 6os 640
Baltic —l3 —s

Odessa —s —s
Linseed Cake, p ton —s —s
English £lo Os .£ll Os

Foieign £9los £ll Os
Rape Cakes,p ton £5 Os £5 10s
Rapeseed, new,pr qr 74s 78s

POLICE INTEL LIGENCE, This Day,

EMBEZZLEMENT BY A COLLECTING-CLERK.--A respectably
dressed young man was placed at the bar charged with
embezzling various sums of money, the property of his
employers, Messrs. Letts and Co., of the Royal Exchange.
Mr. Skinner said he was cashier in the service of Messrs.
Letts. The prisoner was also in the employ in the same
department, but he occasionally acted as collecting-clerk.
Some suspicion having arisen the prisoner's accounts were
examined, when it was found that various sums of money
received by him on account of the Messrs. Letts had never
been paid in as in the ordinary course of business they
ought to have been. The defalcations having been dis-
covered, the prisoner was given into custody.
Patrick Murray, in the Canadian Land and Emigration
office, said he had paid the prisoner £2 ls., due to Messrs.
Letts from the company for advertising. He gave the
usual receipt for the money.
William Lewis, clerk in the Universal Life Assurance
Company, proved the payment of Li 7s. to prisoner, for
the Messrs. Letts.

Neither of these sums had been paid in by the prisoner.
James Lee, assistant to Mr. Barker, pawnbroker, High-
street, Aldgate; produced an opera glass, pledged by the
prisoner in the name of Boyer.
Mr. George Wilkinson, manager to the Messrs. Letts,
said the opera-glass was the property of Mr. Charles Letts.
John Jackson, clerk to Messrs. G. andF. Ridgway, Army
agents, Leicester-square, proved the payment of £1 18s. to
the prisoner for Messrs. Letts.
This sum was also unaccounted for.

John Bull, a constable in the City police force, said he
took the prisoner into custody. He told bim the charge
against him, and he (the prisoner) then asked whether mat-
ters could not be arranged. He found in his possession the
duplicate of an opera-glass.

In reply to the usual question, the prisoner said he had
nothing to say in answer to the charge.
The Lord Mayor committed the prisoner for trial on the
charge of embezzlement, and also for feloniously stealing
the opera glass.