The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-07 00:00:00

MARK-LANE.

The fresh arrivals of English wheat to this morning's
market were small, yet the trade was in a sluggish state for
all qualities, at fully Monday's decline in the quotations.
There was a fair average show of samples of foreign
wheat. All descriptions sold heavily at barely Monday's

prices.
Floating cargoes of grain were in slow request, on about
former terms.

The barley trade was in a sluggish state, and the curren-
cies had a drooping tendency. _ _

. ._.
Good and fine malt was firm as to price; but inferior
qualities commanded very little attention.
The oat trade was in a sluggish state, yet no quotable
change took place in prices.
. .

Beans and peas were in short supply and fair request, at
full quotations.

All kinds of flour sold heavily at about previous rates,
ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt Oats. Flour.
Eng115h........ 403 5!0 1,600 630 { 450 sack .
Irish —
• I •
F0reign........ 9,470 • 3,210 15,140

BOROUGH HOP.
Our market is dull, and inferior samples of hops barely
support previous rates.

WHITECHAPEL.

Fair supplies of meat are on sale, and the trade rules
heavy, owing to the heat of the weather. Prices are .
Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 10d ; mutton, 2s 10e1 to 4s 2d ; lamb,
5s 3d to Gs 8d ; veal, 3s 10d to 4s 10d ; and pork, 3s 8d to
48 81 per Blbs by the carcase.

EXTENSIV.E ROBBERY OF JEWEL-
LERY 1X LONDON.

At the Liverpool Police Court yesterday a well- I
dressed young man, who stated his name to be
Arthur Wellesley Simmons, was brought efore Mr.
Raffles, the stipendiary magistrate, charged with
having stolen a quantity of watches and other
articles of jewellery from his father, who resides in
the
London. A few days ago a communication was
received at the Liverpool detective station from
metropolitan police, giving information of the rob-
bery, and stating that suspicions were entertained
that young Simmons had gone to Liverpool for the
purpose of taking a passage for some foreign
country. In consequence of this the Liverpool
police were put on the qui vine, and about 12 o'clock
on Monday, officer 262, from some information
which had been given him, proceeded to the Crown
Hotel, in Lawton street, where he apprehended
prisoner.
'l_e prisoner had been The remaining at the
Crown Hotel since his
arrival in Liverpool a few
days ago. In his bedroom the officer found 5 chains,
26 rings, 12 brooches, 8 lockets, 3 breast-pins, 2
seals, a pair of shirt-links,
and 2 eye-glasses, all of
which articles
also found were gold. In addition the officer
upon the prisoner's person and else-
where 19 pawn tickets, having reference to watches;
in gold and
ten poundssilver coin, a quantity of
1 miscellaneous jewellery,
of newa p
thes,
aboutan and articles
take
suitable for the outfit
a
foreign voyage. In one of the pockets of the pri-
soner a document showing that he had taken a
passage to Australia in the Black Ball ship City of
Melbourne, and had paid £5 deposit, was found.
When apprehended the prisoner said he had been
in his father's service as shopman, in Ledbury-road,
Bayswater, London, and had left on the Ist of May
and came to Liverpool, bringing with him the
jewellery which had been found in his possession.
He had sold two gold rings for 255., a gold watch
and chain for £2 35., and a gold breast-pin for 7s.
the case was remandd, in order that the metropo-
litan police might be communicated with.

UXBRIDGE AND RICKMANSWORTII RAILWAY
COMPANY. - At a special general meeting of shareholders,
held yesterday, at 15, Parliament-street, Westminster;
Mr. Joseph Cary in the chair, the bill to enable the
e
'Uxbridge and Ricknaansworth Railway Company to mak
a deviation of their authorised line of railway, and for
other purposes, was unanimously approved of.
CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.--The annuo.l
meeting of this society was held in Exeter hall yesterday.
The Earl of Colchester occupied the
ichair. The report
showed that the income of the society n the past year had
been £160,000. The Bishop of Ripon,the Rev. Canon
Miller, the Bishop of Sierra Leone, the Very Rev, the
Dean of Carlisle, and others addressed the meeting, In
the evening another meeting on behalf of the society was
held in the same hall,