The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LOADON, MONDAY EVENING,r3tTNE 5, 1865.

MARKETS-

—This Day.

MARK-LANE.

The country markets held on Saturday were quiet for
all descriptions of wheat, and prices had a drooping ten-
dency. For spring corn, however, there was a moderate
demand, and the quotations, in most instances, ruled firm.
Flour was in limited request, at late rates.

_ .
On the continent the corn trade generally is steady at
full currencies. Advices from New York state that the
export demand for wheat and flour had somewhat im-
proved. . .

The arrivals of English wheat up to our market last
week were slightly on the increase, but the receipts of
other grain were limited. The imports from abroad
amounted to 14,262 quarters of wheat, 7,390 barley, 26,280
oats, 68 beans, 1,330 peas, 40 tares, 12,109 linseed, 12,964
rapeseed, and 742 sacks of flour.
Fresh up to our market to-day the arrivals of English
wheat were very moderate, both for Essex and Kent. The
condition of the produce was' good, and the limited number
of samples on offer was somewhat readily cleared from the
stands, at the prices current on Monday last.
With foreign wheat, both American and continental, the
market was but moderately supplied. For most qualities
there was a fair demand, and the quotations ruled firm.
Floating cargoes of grain were in moderate request.
Scarcely any change took place in the value either Of
wheat or spring corn.

The supply of both English and foreign barley on sale
was very moderate. Generally speaking, the trade ruled
quiet, at about stationary prices.

The malt trade was quiet, on former terms.

Oats were in fair supply. In most descriptions sales
progresSed steadily, and the rates current last week were
fairly maintained. _ _ _

The supply of beans on sale was small, and the trade
ruled firm at full currencies.

The market has been freely supplied with foreign peas,
but the show of English qualities was limited. The de-
mand for most descriptions ruled steady at quite previous
rates.

Very little barrel flour was on offer. French flour
moved off steadily, at full prices. For English qualities
there was a fair demand, at last Monday's currency.

CURRENCY PER IMP. MEASURE.
VFliest—Essex and Kent, red, 1863, per qr 37s to 11e
Ditto, 1861
Ditto, white, 1663 4ls 46$
Ditto, 1861
Norfolk and Lincoln, red, 1864
, Ditto, 1863
Talavera, 1864
Rye—
Barley—Grinding 23. 26s
Malting
Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk s4s 61s
Brown
Kingstown and Ware s4s 611
Chevalier
Oats—Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., k'eeding l9s 235
Potato
Youghal and Cork, black lBs 23.
Cork, white
Scotch, Feeding 175 228
Beans—Tick. 358 385
Pigeons,
Peas—Grey. ... •• '338 36s
Maple
White 37s 40s
Boilers 375 405
Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b
Suffolk 2Bs 30s
Stockton and Norfolk 2ss 27s
American, per barrel 2ls 25s

attended by home buyers. Foreign buyers—more espe-
cially French—have operated freely since our last report;
and the demand for home consumption having been of full
average extent, the sales have passed off with a fair amount
of animation. Good and fine fleece and greasy wool
has sold readily at the full prices current last week, or at a
slight advance in the opening rates; but faulty wools still
exhibit a decline in value from last series of ld per lb. Up
to the evening of June 2 the following were the quantities
of produce actually disposed of :—Sydney, 10,725 ; Port
Philip, 31,150 ; Van Diemen's Land, 2,333 ; Adelaide,
14,923 ; New Zealand, 5,144 ; Swan River, 993 ; Cape,
14,051; sundries, 205 ; total, 82,724 bales. In the trade
for English wool, by private contract, only a moderate
business is doing ; prices, however, rule firm. Last week's
import was—
From Bales.
Adelaide
Melbourne
Sydney 2,939
Otago
Algoa Bay
Mossel Bay 834
Caps Town
Current prices of English wool per lb.
e d

Fleeces - south Down hoggets ...... i 8
Half -bred do 1 8
Kent fleeces .. .1 8
oath Down ewes and wethersl 6
Leice-ter do 1 8
Sorts -Clothing 1 6
Combing 1 5

TALLOW.

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1
1 8)
1 9
1 7
1 9
1 11
1 11

Tho tallow trade is steady to day at full prices. P.Y.C.
is quoted at 40s 6d per cwt on the spot, and 41s Gd to
41s 9d for October to December delivery. Town tallow
commands 39s net cash. Rough fat, 2s id per Blbs.

Particulars. 1851. 186! 1 1863. ! 1854. L 1865.
Stock this day.... 65.693 37.567 37.3 M
--- —-
44 662 (~, 31.890
Price of Y.C. ..
c 51s0a :o 4686'1 so 43s0d to 40861 to;lus 61 to
t —s Od —a od `96G —s 0(1 —s Od
Delivery last week 950 2,249 , 755 1,215
Ditto from June 1 1,426 3,289 6 6 519 636
Arrivals last week 1,478 514 251 201 1,373
Ditto from June 1 ~5G2 611. 251 160 43
Price of Town .... s:!s 91 4's 61 41s 31 41$ 6d 41s 6d

POLICE INTEL LIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A " MAGICIAN " CHARGED WITH OBTAINING GOODS BY
FALSE PRETENCES.—Frederick Wm. Albert, of 62, Dean-
street, Soho, describing himself as a magician, and who was
formerly assistant to Herr Wiljalba Frikoll, the well-known
prestidigitateur, was charged before Mr. Mansfield with ob-
taining a box of linen, &c., the property of Alexander Hoff-
man, shopman to Mr. Mesen, a Russian merchant, of 491,
Oxford-street, by false pretenses.

Mrs. Ann Eve, of No. 23, Rupert-street, Haymarket, said
that in April last the prisoner came to her house and asked
for Mr. Hoffman's box, which he had left with her upon
leaving her house. She told the prisoner it was strange he
had came for it, at the same time asking him whether he
was prepared to pay a guinea for the box, and ho said ho
was, and that Mr. Hoffman lived with him at 62, Dean-
street, and knew he had come for the box, and that ho was
going to take the box to Mr. Hoffman. Having paid her
the guinea she gave him the box. Sho thought Mr. Hoff-
man might be ill, and believing the prisoner's representa-
tion that he had been sent by him for the box, she allowed
him to take it away.

The prisoner asked whether he asked for his own things
or Mr. Hoffman's ?

The witness said be asked for lir. Hoffman's box.

Mr. Mansfield asked the witness whether the prisoner
had ever resided in her house? and she said he had for a
short time, Mr. Hoffman having taken him in to lodge with
him out of charity.

Mr. Hoffman said he had never lodged at 62, Dean-street,
and never sent the prisoner for the box. The linen in the
box was of the value of Li, but there were papers, &c., of
some value to him.

In answer to Mr. Mansfield, the witness said the prisoner
was a " wizard," and that a few of his things were iu the
box that he used in his profession.

The prisoner said the reason why he went for the things
was because he had a chance of giving a morning per-
formance, and wanted his property.

Mr. Mansfield remanded him, consenting to take one
bail in £lO.

A POLICE-CONSTABLE CHARGED WITH EMBEZZI.E3IENT.
Wm. Robinson, a police-constable of the Liverpool police,
was brought up, charged on a warrant, signed by Mr.
Raffles, the Liverpool magistrate, with embezzling the
sum of <£3 9s. 6d. received by him on account of Mr. Ed-
ward Lawrence, tho mayor of Liverpool, and others, his
employers.

The prisoner, by order of Mr. Mansfield, was ordered to
be given up to Marsden, a Liverpool detective, to bo taken
to Liverpool.

WESTMINSTER.

DESPERATE ASSAULT AND SUM➢fARY CONTICTION.—Wm.
Taylor, a short and powerfully-made man, was charged
before Mr. Arnold with the following disgraceful conduct
and violent assault :

It appeared from the evidence that on Saturday evening,
about 7 o'clock, as an old lady was going down the Grosve-
nor-road, the prisoner went up to her and put his hand on
her shoulder. She complained to him of his conduct. lie
paid no attention to her, and followed her to her residence
in Grosvenor-road. When she got there she told the com-
plainant, who came out and remonstrated with the pri-
soner, who became very violent, and struck her. Tho
prisoner became very abusive, and was given into the cus-
tody of Sergeant Whither. He kicked him and otherwise
assaulted him. Tho sergeant was obliged to get the assist-
ance of other constables, who were also violently assaulted,
and was obliged to bo taken to the station-house by the
sergeant and the constables. On being removed there ho
offered great resistance.

Police-constable Smith, 33 division, said ho went to the
assistance of Sergeant Whicher, and was kicked in the
most savage manner by the prisoner. He also seized hold
of witness's hand with his teeth, and bit him in the fleshy
part of it. (Witness had his hand bound up.)
Mr. Arnold asked the prisoner what he had to say to the
charge ?

Tho prisoner said ho was drunk, and did not recollect
anything of what took place.
Mr. Arnold observed that drunkenness was no excuse,
and that it was a bad case, -which he must punish with
some severity.

The prisoner was sent to the House of Correction for the
first assault, and one month for the assault on the police.
He was also required to find bail in one security of £lO to
keep the peace for six months.

THAMES.
AN ILLEGAL PAIR—IMPORTANT QUESTION.—This morn-
ing an important application was made by Mr. Reeves, the
architect and surveyor of the Clare Ilan College estate in
Stepney, the object of which was to prevent the holding of
a fair on the property, which is within a few yards of the
court. It consists of seven acres, and part of three streets
have already been erected, with a large public house called
the Princess of Wales, which was licensed in March, 18G4.
Yesterday and Saturday a large number of shows, swings,
caravans, and materials for booths were placed on the
ground, and a circus was completed this morning. Mr.
Reeves was on the ground with Mr. Edward Worels, the
superintendent of $ division, and Mr. Griffin, an inspector
of the X division, and directed the parties who had
taken possession of the ground to remove, but
they refused,
and put every ono who remonstrated
with them at defiance. Mr. Reeves asked Mr. Paget for a
summons against Frederick Fredericks, theatrical show-
man, of No. 17, William-street, St. John's-wood, for wilful
damage and erecting a booth there. Mr. Paget said he
would accompany Mr. Reeves and the police superintenden
to the ground. There wore several thousand persons
there. On his return to the court Henry Boxley, a labourer
of No. 1, Old Ford, Bow, was
placed in the dock charged
with wilfully damaging a private road on the Clare Hall
estate.

Inspector Griffin, of the R division, said that between
7 and 8 o'clock last evening he saw the prisoner driving a
largo stake into the gronad in one of the new streets formed
on the Clare Hall estate.

Mr. Joseph smith, solicitor, said the prisoner was a
poor labourtag man, and complained ho had been singled
out for prosecution. The prisoner was perfectly ignorant
of the law, and went to the ground as a spectator, and was
asked to assist others in driving a stake.

Mr. Reeves said ho could not get at the principals. N o
one knew them, or pretended not to know them. The
ground was taken possession of by a great number of
showmen, tramps, swing proprietors, and others.

Mr. Paget said the parties had no right on the ground,
or to hold any fair whatever. They wore all liable to
pay damages and costs. Ho
ianngdittoa harsh measure to lock up the
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etlrpe spthinking
prisoner whom he could have been proceeded against by
summons. The defendant and others had not the shadow
of right to pull up the ground and disturb it, or to fix
stakes on it. Ha pointed out to the defendant the illegality
of his conduct, but as ho had acted in complete ignorance
of the law, and was employed by others who wore amenable
to the law he should discharge him.

Mr. Reeves then renewed his application against Frede-
richs, and a summons was granted. Mr. Stubbs, who has
erected 12 houses, forming part of Copley-street, applied
for a summons against parties who had knocked down a
wall and erected a ginger-bread stall on the footpath close
to the door of ono of the unoccupied houses, The sum-
mons was ordered to issue.

Mr. Reeves asked that the hearing of the summons
against the comedian Fredericks should be heard that
afternoon. The magistrate said he must hear it on Thurs-
day, not before. The consequence of this decision is, that
Stepney fair will exist to-day, to-morrow, and Wednesday.

LANGUARD POINT WORKS. —An estimate,
amounting to £lOO,OOO, of the sum required to be voted in
the year ending the 31st of March, 1866, for works at Land-
guard Point, near "Harwich Harbour, was issued on Saturday.
The probable expenditure to the 31st of March, 1866, is
£io,ooo, and the vote proposed is for half that sum, the
remainder of which will be obtained by the Conservancy
Board by a loan from the Public Worlo Loan Corn-

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Registrar Murray.)
IN RE CREAGH.-A CORNET IN THE DRAGOONS,

The bankrupt was described as a cornet in the Dragoon
Guards, lately of Hastings, and the present hearing was
upon a prison adjudication. His debts amount to about
£2,200, with assets at present not ascertained.
An assignee was chosen, a day being appointed for the
first meeting.

LORD MAYOR'S COURT.
(Before the Recorder and a Common Jury.)

BANK SPECULATIONS.-EXTRAORDINARY PLEA OF FRAUD.-
THE BANK OF GIBRALTAR AND MALTA (LIMITED) Y. 'COS.
This was an action to recover £5O, allotment money on
50 shares in the Bank of Gibraltar and Malta, defendant
having accepted the shares, and paid the £5O deposit
money.

Mr. Henry James (instructed by Messrs. Ashley and
Tee) appeared for the plaintiffs ; Mr. H. Williams (in-
structed by Mr. Smith) representing the defendant, who
pleaded that he had been induced to accept the shares by
fraud.

Mr. James, in opening the case to the jury, stated that,
in the present action he appeared on behalf of the liquida-
tar to the bank estate, certain proceedings having been
taken in the Court of Chancery. It would be found that
in the early part of 1863 the Bank of Gibraltar and Malta
was projected, and defendant, who is the secretaryto the
Metropolitan and Provincial Banking Company, sent in a
written application for 50 shares, paying £5O deposit
money into the bank appointed by the plaintiff. The
present action was to recover .£5O, that being the allotment
upon such 50 shares. It would seem that the bank was
not successful, and the defendant now stated that he had
been induced to accept the shares by fraud. He (Mr.
James) considered that it was only for him to prove the
allotment of the shares, leaving defendant to prove his
plea if he could do so.

Mr. Gray, who acted as secretary to the plaintiff for
three months, was then called to prove the letters of
allotment and minute book of Parliament.

In cross-examination the wituess stated that ho had
never acted as a provisional director of the bank, nor took
any part in the voting, nor sat at the board with the direc-
tors. The directors on the articles of assurance were pri-
vate gentlemen, and Mr. Cookson was the promoter of the
bank.

Mr. Williams produced a prospectus, and asked the wit-
ness if ho had over seen it before ?

Witness—Yes. I knew that it was published in Jan.,
1863. Some of the gentlemen on the prospectus did not
act as directors after my appointment as secretary. When
a certain number of shares was taken up a board of
directors was elected. Ido not know that some of the
gentlemen on the list of directors had been put in without
their consent, but they did not act.
Mr. Williams then urged that when defendant took the
shares he accepted them on the faith of the names in the
first prospectus, and it was clear that the prospectus ori-
ginally sent out was a fraud in law.
Mr.' James said that if the Court could refer to the 69th
article of association it would have been seen that when a
sufficient number of shares were taken up it would be for
the shareholders to elect directors, and this was done. Of
course, in the original prospectus names had been inserted,
but at that time, as there were no shares taken up, there
could be no regular election of directors.
Mr. Gray deposed that when the directors were elected
more than 3-sths of the shareholders were present.
Mr. Williams then addressed the jury for the defendant,
and said that it was quite clear a fraud had been committed
on the defendant. As to the bank, it had no account and
received no money except that paid by the shareholders,
and if defendant proved that he had been induced to ac-
cept the shares upon the faith of the names in the first
prospectus, then it was clear he was not liable for the pre-
sent claim.

Defendant was called, and deposed that ho applied for
the shares in the ordinary way, after having seen the names
of the directors in the first prospectus.
Cross examined—lf the shares had been at a premium
it is very likely I might have sold them. I attended at
a meeting of the shareholders held at the offices of Messrs.
Ashurst and Morris, and I went there to see if I could get
.any money. I was elected on a committee, but refused, as
it interfered with my duties. The light burst upon me that
I liad been defrauded before and after that meeting. I
knew that the direction was not as represented before that
meeting, but I took no steps towards repudiating my shares
beyond expressing myself in terms of great indignation at
the meeting.

His Lordship—After this you cannot go any further;
the plea cannot be supported. It seems that defendant
took his chance, which proved a bad one.
His Lordship then directed the jury to find a verdict for
the plaintiff.
Verdict for the plaintiff for the full amount.

ROYAL HORTICULTURAL GARDENS.—There was a
special show of pelargoniums at the gardens, South
Kensington, on Saturday, when a very lino collection of
these beautiful plants was exhibited. The weather luckily
cleared about 4 o'clock, and a large number of visitors flocked
to the gardens to enjoy the excellent music performed by
the band of the Royal Horse Guards. There was also an exhi-
bition of vermin traps by the Society for Prevention of
Cruelty to animals, similar to the exhibition made by that
society at these gardens last year. Among the visitors were
the Duke of Rutland, Lord Henry G. Lennox, M.P., Sir G.
Chetwynd, Lady Jane Walsh, Lady Byles, Lord Southamp-
ton, Sir W. Duke, Sir D. Cooper, Colonel and Major Good-
enough, Major Best, Mrs. General Perry, Colonel and Mrs.
Sydney, Lady Fitzroy, Lady Gipps, Lady Smythe, Lord
and Lady Egerton of Tatton, Lady M'Keven, Admiral
Burton, Lady Mathew, Harvey Lewis, Esq., M.P., Lord
and Lady Cawdor, Baron Minnow, Marquis of Tweedale,
Hon. Miss Parker, Countess of Harrington, Archbishop of
Armagh, Lady Stuart de Rothsay, Marchioness of Water-
ford, Lady Lugard, Sir E. Belcher, &c.
" The Princess Dagmar," says the Inde'pendance,
" who, with her mother, visited the young Grand Duke of
Russia at Nice, has just received the Order of St. Anne of
Russia, with a yearly dotation of 40,000 roubles. The
princess is expected to visit the Court of St. Petersburg
during the summer."

FATAL ACCIDENT IN SHETLAND.---On Thursday
evening last week, a young man named Jamieson,
residing at Burravoe, in Yell, fell over over some high
banks and was killed. He was on his way home from the
hill, when, at a little distance from his own house, he was
met by a young man, a friend of his, who asked him to
come and grip one of his sheep, which had gone a little
way down over the banks. It seems that Jamieson was
more accustomed than any other lad in the neighbourhood
to climbing on the banks, and had often before gone down
for animals that had strayed there. On this occasion he
went as usual, but on catching hold of the sheep the animal
sprang off the point it was standing on, and dragged the
lad off his balance, so that he fell down over the preci-
pice into the sea. His sister and one or two others were
on the top of the bank and saw the accident. Some of
the neighbours immediately took a boat, and on coming to
the foot of the cliff found the body floating_on the surface,
but life was quite extinct.—Edinburgh Colirant.
James C. Johnson, one of the wealthiest men in
the South, died on the 12th ult., at his home, near Eden-

ten, in North Carolina. He disinherited all his relatives
because they left him and identified themselves with the
rebel cause. His property, amounting to many millions of
dollars, he left to a few personal friends. His immense
possessions on the Roanoke river comprise the richest lands
in the country. At the-outbreak of the rebellion he told
his slaves, numbering nearly a thousand, that the war
would make them free, and that they could remain with
him or go where they pleased.— Washington paper.
THE CROPS IN SOUTH WALES.—Two months ago
the crops in this as well as the other districts of the king-
dom looked rather unpromising, and it was feared that the
long and severe winter would be followed by an indifferent
spring, and thus put an end to all hopes of a bountiful har-
vest. This, however, has not been the case, but, on the
contrary, from the commencement of April to the present
time, the weather has been everything that could be desired,
and the backwardness of the crops at the early part of the
season has been fully recovered by the rapid growth of the
last few weeks. The wheat plant in dry ground and fairly
sheltered is likely to be an abundant crop, and the clayey
and other descriptions of soils promise an average yield.
Barley looks equally promising, more especially the earlier
sown, and there is some so far advanced as to be in ear. A
very fair crop of oats is looked forward to, and beans will
probably give about the same yield as last year. The pota-
toes are looking remarkably well, and in another fortnight
new ones will be in the market.

Mr. Granger, of Holborn, has just issued to the
public a very ingenious article, viz., a Pocket Time-
keeper, by which means every person is enabled to tell the
exact time of day with the greatest accuracy. The pretty
little article, which is to be used in the same manner as the
sun-dial, consists of au enamelled card, printed in geld,
with a little bead attached to a thread. The thread must
be allowed to fall vertically, and the bead will then show
distinctly the time of day. To tell the rising and setting
of the sun the string must be placed as near the date of the
month as possible, and allowed to hang parallel with the
hour time, the intersections of which will then give the
rising and setting respectively. The timekeeper is en-
closed in a very attractive case, and, as the cost of it is but
one penny, the sale of the article cannot fail to be
enormous.

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