The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-14 00:00:00

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(Prom, the London New Price Current of yesterday. )
I tiGAR.—To-day the demand was good for British plan-
t from home dealers, and the rates accepted were 6d
ter cwt. under those of Friday. Operations were 932 hhds,
:_leludin at auction 291 hhds 18 tierces Barbadoes, which
at 31g s 6,1 to 37s 6d for mid to good yellow, and fine
388;- 31 hhds, 2 tierces, and 78 barrels Nevis, brown 30s to
,4a 6kl; low to mid yellow 33s to 345, but 98 hhds crys-
iAllised Demerara fetched 31s 6d to 41s, being the full
REFINED.—To-day another reduction took place for
);'ll,e•tuade goods, dealers operating with caution. Brown
itta 'ss were sold at 45i t 45s 6d, dl to grocery
h, Pa 6d to 49s per cwt.o Crushedan sugarow metfine with little
for export, and all sorts can be obtained at rather
°Wer rates.
tr,ALTRITius.- To-day there was a decrease in demand
Mauritius sugar; the best yellow and grainy generally
,;°tlght full rates, but on other qualities a fall took place
per cwt.
COFFEE.—To-day plantation Ceylon met with ready
tlYers and realised stiffer rates, good mid to good at 61s to
g, middling 58s to 60s, others 55s to 57s 6d ; pea berry
4to 64s for fair, and triage 48s to 575. Long berry,
°cha, at 72s to 74s 6d, and triage 46s to 445. Native
1%,
Ltted, and 1,000 bags were sold at 43s 6d for good ord.
A.—A material increase has taken place in operations
lE
ovi to good ord congou, and prices have advanced, rul-
mt;ll at 11(1 to 110. In other sorts transactions are on a
ore extended scale, and rates rule firm, rather blackish
it? blackish leaf at 11N to is 41, and strong to pekoe
011418 Is 4d-to 2s 6d. The trade have been the leading
Nrators. In green there are increasing transactions.
IraieE.—To-day the limited business concluded in East
W% rice privately was at barely former rates. At auction
1493 bars Ma.lr,s were taken in at lls 6d to 12s for pinky,
14 above the value.

r, DISTRIBUTION Os' PRIZES AT THE NORTH LONDON
i'.OLLEGIATE SCHOOL.—Yesterday, the annual distribu-
-4'41 of prizes to the pupils of this school took place at
h! New Vestry-hall, King's-road, Camden Town. The
,;'"- Thos. Dale, the vicar, occupied the chair, and was
zt:PPorted by the Marquis Camden, Sir B. Hall, Bart, MP.,
toil Dudley Stuart, M.P., J. Payne, Esq., J. Flather,
I,,,age and H. Farrer,churchwardens, and a flume-
(.,'llsbody of the clergy and gentry of the district. The
I suc-
18eful pupils received their rewards from the hands of the
Pt,e!r• The vicar, in his address to the meeting, alluded
the benefits of education generally. He was happy
h state that since the opening of that school its progress
pupils
been most satisfactory. 1850, the number of
was only 94 ; the school had progressed steadily,
aid the 'lumber of pupils now was 244 ; a more gratify-
:lB proof of the steady progress of a sound education
ti°l'4l not be found. All that was required to extend
}ha number of pupils was space. It had been stated
lat this was a public school, and that he (the vicar) had
tr,m9propriated public funds to its support. Nothing
Obi be more false : the school was established at the
t;ggestion of and by Mr. Wiliams, the president. He
ttlA happy to state, at the suggestion of Mr. Williams,
hat it was that gentleman's intention to establish four
*tit
of 301. each. The distribution was carried
*tit With the greatest unanimity. The company after-
snatch partook of a &fernier in the schoolroom, when
,il;3' appropriate toasts were proposed.
it, THE PARIS EXHIBITION 1855.—Yesterday a meet
IA of gentlemen, representing a large number of the
,"';‘ Manufacturers of Spitalfields, was held at the School
Design, Crispin-street, Spitalfields, for the purpose of
i°Oferring with the officers of the Board of Trade re-
Pectin the best mode of carrying out the various
144' .g
th intnary measures for the Paris Exhibition, so far as
t department of silk is concerned. Mr. Kemp (of the
til,lll of Kemp, Stone, and Co., occupied the chair, and
tpovernment officers present were Captain Owen,
and Mr. Cole. The latter gentleman explained
that the object of' the meeting was to ascertain whether
e,, representatives of the firms present would exhibit
s'oectively, and if so to name a few individuals to repre-
eqt them. He thought that the example set by the
sithibition of Lyons last year, where they exhibited
1) ,':gether, was one worthy of following, and could not
14.1roproved upon. Their goods would have to be at
Aar
by the 15th of April, 1855, and the applications
pr °Pace must be made by the Ist July, 1854. The
spelleh Government bad invited them to state what
14-ce Would be required for their goods, and it only re
th Illed
sh for the silk manufacturers to say how much
r!Y vtied for. He had been sent over to Paris by the
board of Trade, and believed the building would offer
t.,lopedirnents,, and that the arrangements would be
s„ (41 improvements upon our own. He thought it
ti°tlls4l be better for the manufacturers to form themselves
tz.s, silk committee, to whom any questions as to the
inhibitingofsilk •
4_,
:I,IKB from Captain Owen, Mr. Levanchy, and others,
kre6olution was moved by Mr. Harrison, seconded by
it Casey, and carried unanimously, to the effect that
be ; 4,3 desirable that the silk trade of Spitalfields should
th,ePresented at the forthcoming Exhibition, and that
pia I'Lleetitig would be happy to witness a complete dig-
eY Of the silk manufactures of the United Kingdom.
ehic'erciornittee was then appointed and the proceedings

CITY OF LONDON ELECTION.

(THIS DAY.)

At two o'clock this day, the nomination of a candidate
to serve for the City of London, in the place of the
Right Hon. Lord John Russell, who has accepted the
office of Lord President of her Majesty's Privy Council,
took place is the Common Hall, Guildhall. The ball
and court-yard of Guildhall was densely crowded.
Lady Russell, and her son and daughter, and Lord Wm.
Russell and several of his lordship's friends, occupied the
gallery over the hustings.

Lord John Russell, upon making his appearance on the
hustings, with the Lord May or, Aldermen, and Sheriff,
was loudly cheered.

Mr. Sheriff WIRE having opened the proceedings, and
the usual preliminary proceedings having been gone
through,

HENRY JAMES PRESCOTT Esq., banker, came forward
to propose Lord John Ru,,sell, and in doing so eaid that
ho need not go into the history of the merits of the
noble lord, but no man had been more the friend of religious
liberty and commercial freedom of the people. He was
the firm advocate of popular education. Ho did not
mean to say that the noble herd was not sometimes
wrong, and that he did not himself sometimes differ with
him, but the noble lord had always served the city faith-
fnlly, and we were under a. debt of gratitude for the wisdom
and counsel he had afforded the nation. After some
remarks, he concluded by proposing Lord John Russell.
Mr. DILLON seconded the nomination.

No opposition having been offered, the noble lord was
declared duly elected amidst tremendous cheering.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL having returned thanks, the
proceedings terminated.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY).

OLD COURT,
(Before Mr. Justice Coleridge.)

Mary Anne Alice Seago, 30, was indicted for the wil•
ful murder of her son, William Seago.
The prisoner appeated in a very weak and pitiable
condition, and was hardly able to stand when she was
placed at the bar.

Mr. Parry applied to his lordship to postpone the trial
to the next session. He said that the woman who stood
at the bar was in a very destitute condition, and he was
only instructed on her behalf through the humanity of
the Sheriffs. He had only received the depositions on
Monday, and consequently there had not been sufficient
time for the necessary inquiries to4be made on behalf of
the prisoner.

Mr. Payne, who appeared for the prosecution, said he
did not think he ought to oppose the application, and
the trial was consequently postponed.
"Edward Benjamin Vidler pleaded guilty to a charge
of uttering a forged order.

This prisoner, it will be recollected, had upon a former
occasion b: en convicted of the offence of forgery, and
sentenced to 10 years' transportation, but was released
a short time back under the newly established ticket-of-
leave system, and it appeared that almost the first use
he made of his liberty was to commit the offence to
which he had now pleaded guilty.
Sentence deferred.

In the case of a person named Spooner, who had been
held to bail to answer a charge of secreting post letters,
Mr. Bodkin said that the matter had been referred to
the Attorney-General, and he considered that the de-
fenndant bad been sufficiently punished, and he was
therefore instructed not to offer any evidence in support
of the charge.

John Charleton, 35, a respectable looking man, was
indicted for uttering a forged Si. Bank of England note.
Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Bodkin conducted the prose-
cution.

The guilt of the prisoner was clearly established, and
his nefarious proceedings appeared to have been carried
on with a good deal of ingenuity. It seemed that he re-
presented himself as the steward of a vessel, and that it
was his custom to frequent public-houses by the river
side, until he bad established a sort of acquaintance with
the persons about the establishments, and by this means
he succeeded in getting rid of no less than five forged
notes within a very short period.
The prisoner, when called upon for his defence, de-
clared he was not aware that the notes were forgeries at
the time he uttered them.

The jury found the prisoner guilty.
The prisoner, who had pleaded guilty to another charge
of the same kind, was sentenced to be kept to hard
labour for one month upon one indictment, and to be
transported for 14 years upon the second.
Charlotte Charlton, 29, was indicted for havingunlaw-
fully in her possession three forged 51. Bank of England
notes, without a lawful excuse.
The prisoner, it appeared, was the wife of the man
who had just been convicted, and it seemed that upon
his being taken into custody the officers proceeded to
the lodging he occupied with the prisoner, who was his
wife. She was informed that her husband was in ens_
tody upon a charge of uttering a forged 101. note, and
it was observed that she at the time had something
in her hand, and she was about to place this
on the fire when her hand was seized, and it
was found to contain three forged five-pound notes.
The prisoner upon this offered the officers a genuine 51.
note, and asked them to throw the furged ones into the
fire.

The prisoner, in her defence, declared that she was
quite ignorant of her husband's proceedings, and that
on the day in question she found the forged notes acci-
dentally between two boxes.
The Jury acquitted the prisoner.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)

EXTENSIVE MINING FAILIIRE.-IN RE HOMMERSHAM.

The bankrupt was described as of Bermondsey, and
had dealt extensively in mining shares. To-day was
appointed for his last examination. The debts were
stated at 25,0491. To ditto holding security, 8,9001. ;
liabilities, 4,0961. Assets—Cash, 901. ; good debts,
1451. ; mining shares, valued at 2,7851. The bankrupt's
losses on shares exceeded 10,0001.
The bankrupt passed.
IN RE WIC GRAND.

The bankrupt was described as of Lower Tottenham,
builder, and came up to pass his last examination on
accounts prepared by ➢Zr. Lea, Queen-street, Cheapside.
The debts are not large, and it is supposed that the
estate will pay nearly 20s. in the pound.