The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-19 00:00:00

WOOL MARKET.

The colonial wool sales—which close to-morrow—have
been well attended, and the bid. Tings have ruled steady, at
very full prices :—Aust-calian—Clean sheep's, is 8d to
3s Od, scoured is 1d to 2s Bd, super 2s 10d to 3s Od,
handwashed is 6d to 2s Od, lambs' is 9d to 2s Bd,
skin, &c., is 5d to 2s 4d. Port-Philip Clean
sheep's 2s Od to 2s 10d, scoured is 8d to 2s 7d, locks, &c.,
le 3d to is lid, skin la 2d to is sd. Sydney--
Clean sheep's is 8d to 2s 6d, other kinds is ld to is 10d.
Adelaide—Clean sheep's is M to 2s 4d, lambs' is 8d to 2s
2d. New Zealand—Clean sheep's is 4d to 2s 4d, lambs'
Is 6d to 2s Od, pieces, &c., 10d.to is 4d. Caps—Clean

From the preliminary statement by Messrs. Paul and
Turner, it appeared that the debts due to unsecured credi-
tors are about £2,880 ; to ditto holding security, £2,220 ;
property in the hands of creditors, consisting of plant,
machinery, &c., estimated to realise £5,000 ; book debts,
£5OO.

Assignees were chosen. Messrs. Linkey and Everinklmre
are the solicitors to the estate.

IN RE WHITE.

This bankrupt was described as of BigOeswold, iron-
monger, and this was a meeting for the last examination.
The debts are about £1,430 ; and the assets are set down
as—good debts, £1,153 lls. 1 Id. ; property, £237 ; profit,
£316 ; expenses, £268 ; capital, Jan., 1859, £156 ; losses,
chiefly on realisation of property, £123.
Mr. Weatherall appeared for the assignees ; Mr. Brough
for the bankrupt, who passed his examination.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
STALING WINE AT BEN CAlTNT'is.—William Beardall,
lately a waiter at Ben Caunt's, the Coach and Horses, St.
Martin's•lane, was charged with robbing his employer of
wine under the following circumstances :
Eliza Fitzgerald, servant to Mr. Caunt: and bar assistant,
said that at about 7 o'clock on Saturday morning, she
was washing glasses at the bar, when the pipe leading from
the tank was stopped up. Prisoner, who at the time came
in, said he would go down and clean it. He went down
and came up in 10 minutes, and left the house, he having
left Mr. Caunt's service three or four days.
James Pratt, potman, proved going down to the coal-
cellar and finding the wino cellar door open, and the lock
on the floor. He told Mr. Caunt of what he had seen.
Mr. Caunt said he want to the cellar and missed five bot-
tles of wine, which had been taken that morning. On
searching the eellar he found 20 champagne and other bot-
tles with their necks off lying about the cellar. Had com-
plained of the prisoner's conduct several times, and had dis-
charged him.

Ferdinand Folkard, a hairdresser, said the prisoner came
into his shop to be shaved, and asked if he would like a
glass of wine, and took a bottle out of his pocket.
Mr. Beadon said it was a case in which he should re-
mand him.

THAMES.
STILL/VIE CONDUCT OF A TAX COLLECTOR.-111T. Wil-
liams, a respectable tradesman, waited upon Mr. Yardley,
to complain of the improper behaviour of a tax collector in
the district. The applicant said he was called upon on
Wednesday evening last, after six o'clock, by the collector
of the district, who demanded £1 3s. 10d. for income-tax
and the house-tax. The collector was told it had been
paid, on which he demanded the receipt. It could not be
found, on which the collector, who brought a broker with
him, said he should distrain for the amount. Rather than
be inconvenienced by the removal cf his goods the amount
was paid under protest. A receipt for one of the taxes, to
'the amount of 10s. 10d., had since been foundird it
was taken to the collector, who offered him the
money, but detained the receipt. The income..
tax was never paid without the house-tax, or
the house-tax without the income-tax, and his (Mr. Wil-
liams') wife was certain she paid both together in October
last. The collector was asked to refund the whole of the
3s. 10d. paid a second time, but he refused to do so.
Mr. Yardley—Does the collector still detain the receipt ?
Mr. "Williams—Yes, sir.

Mr. Yardley recommended the applicant to write imme-
diately to the Commissioners of Assessed Taxes at Somer-
set-house, and if they did not express strong disapprobation
of the collector's conduct he (Mr. Yardley) should be very
much astonished. It was an atrocious piece of carelessness
on the part of the collector to call for taxes already paid, a
second time. He would give no opinion whatever of the
subsequent conduct of the collector in this transaction. He
directed Smith, an officer of the court, No. 415 K, to wait
upon the collector, and call upon him to do Mr. Williams
that justice which he deserved.

A telegram has been received, dated Calcutta,
Feb 12, announcing the close of the Five-and-a-half per
Cent. Loan on that day. The advices by letter are to the
Bth of February, and at that date the price both of the
Five-and-a-half and Five per Cent. paper had advanced to
a point which, at the existing rate of exchange, would
leave a loss on the shipment of either to England.
A banking correspondent, who has lived for 24
dyears in the midst of a busy manufacturing population of
120,000, states that he has never known an expression of
approval more unanimous than that which in his district
has greeted the new Bankruptcy Bill of the Attorney
General.

THE Two STRANDED OUTWARD-BOUND SHIPS
IN TILE CHANNEL.—FOLKESTONE, Saturday.—All efforts
have failed to get off the two outward-bound ships Wagoola,
for China, and Wcodcote, for Adelaide, which went ashore
between this port and Dungeness during the snow storm on
Saturday night. A large quantity of their cargo has been
got out, apparently uninjured, and sent on by rail to Lon-
don. Captain Russell has been sent dawn by the under-
writers to superintend the operations, and it is believed that
the larger portion of the property will be saved. It is also
thought that the ship may be floated next spring tide, but
by some this is considered somaqwhat doubtful.