The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-24 00:00:00

E SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 187 c

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

This morning the October Sessions of the Central
Criminal Court commenced at the Old Bailey. There
are 113 prisoners for trial, but very few of the cases have
any pubic interest. Three charges involve a loss of
human life—one of the prisoners, John Tantenny, being

indicted for the murder of his wife at Greenwich about
a month ago, and the other two; Denis Collins and
Thomas Towde, for manslaughter. A young woman
named Emma, Sutlirfe, is charged with concealing the
birth of her child; John Crawford, and Charles Holmes
with' feloniously wounding; Louis Gustave Droz with
casting a quantity of corrosive fluid upon his wife, with
intent to do grievous bodily harm ; and Matto Topolo
and Andres Lundstrom with unlawfully wounding.
There are several cases of arson, rape, forgery, fraud,
burglary, robbery with violence, and uttering counterfeit
coin. A money-lender in Clement's-lane, City, named
James Stevens Tripp, is accused of obtaining £9OO
from Mr. Parry, an engineer at Hornchurch, in Essex,
by false pretences and fraud ; Robert D'Auray, a
Frenchman, of a series of ingenious forgeries on bankers

in London and elsewhere, to the extent of 1;800 or 000 ;
Roco Metell;, of uttering forged notes of the National
Bank of Sardinia ; Alfred Timothy Healey, said to
be a gentleman of property at Twickennam, of house-
breaking ; Jonas Woolf, a rag merchant in Spitaliields, of
receiving stolen property worth £l,OOO ; and Alfred
Harris, of stealing a post letter containing £5O. Among
other cases standing over from the last sessions may be
mentioned those against Mr. Cornelius Walton', a
barrister, for a libel ; and John Bennet, a coal merchant
at Wandsworth, for obtaining money by false.pretences.
The Court is likely to be engaged during the greater part
of the week.

Tlt E MONEY MARK ET.

CITY, Two o'CLocK

Business on the Stock Exchange this morning• was a
shade firmer. At the present high range of prices opera-
tors are naturally careful, and they are further restrained
by the approach of the settlement, which begins on Wed-
nesday-

Consols are marked 92fi for money and account. The
leading speculative Foreign Stocks are firmer upon the
proposed armistice. Turkish 1869 Bonds are higher,
Italian, 5-16, and the rest is. The prices are as follows :
Spanish Three per Cents, 1867, 291 to 30 ; ditto, 1869, 29g
to 291 ; Turkish Five per Cents. of 1865, 43,1 to 44 ;
ditto Six per Cents. of 1869, 511 to 52; Peruvian Five
per Cents., 90 to 901 ; Egyptian -Seven per Cents. of
1868, 77 to 78 ; Italian Five per Cents. of 1861, 55} to
55k; and Lombardo-Venetian, 141 to 141.

It is understood that the new French loan will be a six

per cent. stock, and in the Stock Exchanga the impression
seems to be that if the rumour current as to the terms on
which it is to be introduced should prove correct there can
be little doubt of its being promptly subscribed. The idea
of its being open to the objections that it will furnish aid
to a belligerent and also retard the prospects of peace is
not likely to be entertained so as to affect its success.
The advices from Frankfort state that although quota-

tions are upheld business is very stack, speculation being
suspended on the assumption that the war is likely to be
protracted through a winter campaign. Peace is re.
garded as wholly out 'of the question until the fall of
Paris and Metz, and the confidence in ultimate success is
such that the Prussian Gevernment have obtained the
high price of 95t for the remainder of the North German
5 per Cent. Loan by a combination of bankers. Money
is very abundant, and foreign bills are bie,h, those on
Vienna being especially in request by army contractors.
The report of the Royal Mail Steam Company, to be

presented on the 26th inst., spews that the surplus on
the working account for the six months ended the 30th of
June is £15,514 in excess of that for the same period of
1869, and recommends a distribution of £3 a share, free Of
income tax.

The Levant Herald states that the Turkish Government

have contracted a temporary loan with the Soci6t3 Gend-
raid of Constantinople for £1,200,000 at 12 per cent. per
annum, in addition to the usual Bank commission.
The Glasgow► Berald states :—" The rumour current for
a day or two of the difficulties of a local woollen firm
has been confirmed by the announcement of the failure
of Messrs Boskill and Co., manufacturers, with very mode-
nits liabilities."