The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-24 00:00:00

WOOL.

Although business in English wool has not materially
increased since we last wrote, the trade here—owing to an
improved feeling in the state of the market in the manufac-
turing districts—has shown more firmness, but without
leading to any change in prices as compared with our
previous reports. This improvement is attributed to the
recent news from America, and to the probability of an
approaching and early termination of the civil war. In
colonial wool very little is doing : the supply in the market

is about 93,000 bales, the imports last week having amounted
to 4,247 bales from New Zealand, and 988 Swan River.
Current prices of English wool per lb.

-s
s
Fleeces —South Down hoggets 18 d d 1 9
Half-bred do 1 9 110
Kent fleeces
South Down ewes and wethersl 6 1 7}
Leicester do 1 8 1 9
Sorts -Clothing 1 6 111
Combing 1. 7 1 101

SEEDS.
Cloverseed and trefoil have been in fair average request,
on former terms ; but the amount of business transacted in
other seeds has been trifling, and no change of importance
can be noticed in prices. Cakes have.met a slow sale, and
the quotations have a downward tendency.
Curntp, White,p.hus.2os to 22s
Swede —s —s
Mustard, Brown —s 6
White,
Tares, Spring — a
New winter, bush 9 10s
Canary, per quarter 41s 50s
Rye grass
Clover, Red Eng., ot 62a 12 'a
White .
Foreign Red..., 54s 70s
White. 56a 803
Trefoil 3ss 4es

Carraway. 338 33s
Coriander 22s 24s
liempseed, per qr 4os 43s
Linseed, Eng.sowing ns 72s
Crushing
Baltic -s —s

Odessa
—5 —s
Linseed Cake, p ton —s —s
English £lo Os £ll Cs
Foreign .i 9 10s £llos
Rape Cakes,p ton £5 Os £5lOB
Rapeseed, new,pr qr 71s 788

TALLOW.
The tallow trade is quieter to-day, on rather easier terms,
P.Y.C. is quoted at 41s 3d on the spot. Town tallow com-
mands 398 net cash. Rough fat, 2s 2id per 81bs.
Particulars. 1851. I 1881 I 1863. I 1866. 1865.

Stock this aay.

Price of Y.C. .• 11
Delivery lastweek
Ditto from June 1
Arrivals last week
Ditto from June 1
Price of Town ....

I 0,201 36.618 42.294. 50,38: 35,655
sUsoa to 4 sod 43561 t 0,40631. %o 410 3:1 to
—s Od - sOl Od —s Od —s Od
1,625 1,424 1,17.3 1,2 11 1,319
72,927 1 2,.74 73,1,63 62,581 87,437
1,016 379 1.64 77
_ _

•
116,374 19 .73) 1 77,878
57s 31 47s 111 44s 3.1

83.114 78,132
12a 3d 42s 3d

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
THE EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AT A JEWELLER'S IN OX-
FORD-STREET.—Charles Davis, a tailor, residing in Marl-
borough-court, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, with
being concerned with two others in stealing 50 watches
and other articles of jewellery of the value of £7OO from
the shop of Mr. Jacobson, jeweller, 312, Oxford-street, on
the 24th of February last.
Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, ap-
peared for the prosecution.

Evidence having been given by Loosley, 46 C, to the
effect that on the night of the robbery he saw the prisoner
near Mr. Jacobson's shop, in company- of the two persons
in custody. The prisoner, who was taken into custody by
Inspector Dafter, of the S division, was at the request of
Mr. Lewis remanded for a week.

AN ALLEGED LUNATIC CHARGED WITH ASSAULTS.--
George Haddon, a coachman, was charged before Mr. Tyr-
whitt with assaulting John Muller, of No. 24, Phillip's'
buildings, Euston-road, cabinetmaker, and Mr. Albert
Rudd, of 74, Dean-street, Soho, pianoforte-maker.
The prisoner was originally charged with assaulting the
first complainant, and was then bailed out. He afterwards
assaulted the other complainant, and was then taken into
custody, when he behaved in a very excited manner, and,
with the view of keeping him quiet, it was thought advis-
able to allow his brother-in-law to remain with him in the
dock.

Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, ap-
peared for the defence.

Mr. Albert Rudd, pianoforte-maker, of 74, Dean-street,
said that on Friday the prisoner called at the house several
times and asked for Mrs. Head. He told the prisoner that
no such person lived in the house, and he left. On Saturday
night the prisoner came again and knocked violently at the
door, and asked for Mrs. Head. He again told the prisoner
that no such person lived in the house, and remonstrated
with him, and was closing the door when the prisoner
struck him on the head with his fist. Two policemen
coming up, he told them what had occurred, when the
prisoner returned, and in their presence gave him another
blow, and he gave them in charge.
A constable proved seeing the prisoner strike Mr. Rudd,
and he then took him into custody. The next day the
prisoner, who was very excited, threatened to blow Mr,
Rudd's brains out, or to take his life in some other way.
Mr. Lewis said it was the wish of the friends of the
prisoner that he should be remanded, as there was every
reason to believe his mind was affected.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said he would remand the prisoner for a
week that the state of his mind might be inquired into.

THAMES.

MORE RECKLESS DRIVING.—John Garton, aged 52, who
was described as a Clerk of Works to the Metropolitan
Board, Spring-gardens, and dwelling at No. 22, Cottage-
grove, Mile-end-road, was charged with furiously driving
in the Commercial-road East, and running over Edward
Sadler, aged five years.
Edward Dillon, a police-constable, No. 19 K, stated that
the child run down by the prisoner was in the London
Hospital, under medical treatment. He charged the pri-
soner with having, on Saturday last, the 22d of April,
while ho appeared to be in drink, driven a horse and cart
along a public road, and endangered the lives of people
on that road. He was called to the surgery of Mr.
Harris, in the Commercial-road, on Saturday, and
saw a child in great pain, and looking Tory
pale. There was the mark of a cart-wheel over the
child's loins. He said to the prisoner, who was present,
"The surgeon is not in. You had better drive me in your
trap to the London Hospital." The prisoner said, " I will
take the child, but the like of you shall not ride with me ;
mind what you are talking about. I shall'write to Sir
Richard Mayne and have you severely punished ; perhaps
you don't know who I am." He asked the prisoner his
name, and he pointed to a man in the crowd and said that
man will tell you my name. He told the prisoner he must
have it from himself. The prisoner said his name was
Garton, and that he was an inspector of the Metropolitan
Board of Works, in Whitehall-place (Spring-gardens). He
said, "As you will not drive me to the London Hospital with
this child, I must send it to the London Hospital in a cab."
The prisoner then addressed the people, and asked if
any one had seen him driving. Two men named Carey
and Abbott stepped forward and said "Yes, we saw him
run over the child." The prisoner asked if he was driving
quick, and both men said yes. The prisoner said he was
not. Another witness named Lee came up, and others said
" 1 saw him driving very fast, and there were four in the
cart at the time." He told the prisoner the child might die
and he must take him into custody. The prisoner said,
" Very well, but you had better be careful ; I will severely
punish you for this ; there are too many of the d-d
children about the streets." The prisoner was very much
excited at the time and appeared to be in drink ; on the
way to the court the prisoner said " Poor little fellow, its a
bad job."--Ile had seen the child in the hospital, and
there was no doubt it was very severely injured.
Three men named John Curay, James Abbott, and
Richard Harrison deposed to seeing the injured child with
another boy a little older crossing the Commercial-road
near the White Horse-gate, Stepney,
when the prisoner,
who was in a dogcart and driving furiously, knocked down
the child, and the wheel went over its body. The other
boy had a very narrow escape. There were three other
men and a boy in the prisoner's cart.
In cross-examination by Mr. Charles Young, the wit-
nesses could not speak with certainty of the speed of the
defendant's horse. One witness said the horse was going
at the rate of more than five miles an hour, and another at
the rate of six or seven miles an hour.
Dillon said a gentleman had given him his card, and said
the prisoner ought to lie ashamed of himself for driving so
furiously. That gentleman would, attend if necessary.
The name and address on the card was "Mr. P. C.
Gavella, Lower Clapton."
The prisoner was remanded until Thursday, bail being
taken for his appearance, himself in £lOO and two sureties
of £5O each.
Before. the hearing of the night charges a gentleman
applied. to Mr. Paget for a summons against a man for en-
dangering his life by furious and reckless driving, and said
the east was becoming worse every day.
The summons was granted.
Inspector Griffin of the K division said three mounted
police constables were continually on duty in the Mile-end
and Bow-road, between Whitechapel Church and Bow-
road, to check the dangerous and illegal practice of furious
driving, so prevalent in that important line of thorough-
fare.

A NEW EPIDEMIC.—Dr. Velpeau, on Monday
last, communicated to the Academy of Sciences a
paper by Dr. Carre on a disorder which has been raging in
Savoy during the last few years, and which seems to have
some points in common with the present epidemic at St.
Petersburg. It makes its appearance in winter, and its
intensity is in proportion to the length and severity of that
season. It chiefly attacks children, women, and old men
—that is, persons who, in mountainous countries, remain
within doors, without any distinction of classes. It begins
with headache, singing in the ears, nausea, and vertigo.
These symptoms soon disappear if the patient has but a
slight attack ; but, in the contrary case, is soon seized with
an obstinate cough, anxiety, and a tendency to syncope,
diarrhoea, and spitting of blood, which may end in death.
Children are known to have been carried off in 24 hours.
The disorder bears some resemblance to croup, to cerebro-
spinal meningitis and typhus fever. It is not very well
known, and has only been observed in Savoy since the in-
troduction of cast-iron stoves; and it is only in those
houses which are heated by them that children, women,
and old men, are attacked by it, while those who work in
the open air are never seized with it. In a school at Cham-
bery it was observed that the pupils who were kept in
rooms warmed with stoves of earthenware, were quite
exempt from the complaint, while those who were exposed
to the action of cast-iron stoves were nearly all seized with
it ; and in a room where the stoves were new, four deaths
occurred, without counting the cases which did not end
fatally. Dr. Carre is of opinion that cast-iron stoves ex-
hale oxide of carbon, a very volatile and deleterious gas ;
so that wherever there is an evolution of this substance
with a certain degree of intensity, the epidemic infallibly
bi-eaks out. M. Regnault, after the reading of this com-
munication, inquired whether the places heated by cast-
iron-stoves had been well ventilated ; he feared they had
not, and that this was the chief cause of the complaint
alluded to.