The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-07 00:00:00

TALLOW.

The tallow trade is quiet, and prices are rather lower.
P.Y.O. is quoted at 47s per cwt on the spot. Town tallow
commands 43s 6d net cash. Rough fat, 2s 4i-d per Slbs.

Particulars. • 1863. 1864. 1865. 1866.
Stock this day 40,612 50,030 34,454 27,982
Price of Y.C.
1 —s Od —s Od —s 011 47s Od
Delivery last week...... 699 1012 1,318 1,543
Ditto from June 1 75939 71,558 89,962 99,763
Arrival last week
Ditto In in Juno 1 78,272 83.761 79,395 95,264
Price of Town

CRIMINAL COURT—This Day.

OLD COURT.

The May sessions of the Central Criminal Court com-
menced this morning before the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, the
Recorder, and other civil officials.
The calendar contains the names of 71 persons for trial,
and the offences with which they stand charged are of a
more serious description than usual. Amongst the pri-
soners there aro, for abduction, 2 ; arson, 2 ; burglary, 5 ;
child stealing, 1; forgery, 3; manslaughter, 2 ; murder,
1; rape, 1; wounding with intent to murder, 2 ; feloni-
ously demanding money, 1; embezzlement, 2 ; and the re-
mainder, although in the minor class, are many of them
very serious charges.

The Recorder having addressed the grand jury, referred
to several of the cases contained in the calendar, and in a
short time afterwards the trials commenced.
William Smith was indicted for feloniously uttering two
counterfeit shillings within ten days. The prisoner selected
public houses for committing the fraud. Both the spurious
coins were found to be from the same mould.

The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and
The Recorder sentenced the prisoner to 12 months' im-
prisonment with hard labour.
John Phillips was indicted for having in his possession
seven and a half counterfeit crowns.
The prisoner and another man went into an eating-
house in Westminster, and in payment of the articles he
tendered a bad half-crown. The fraud was discovered
and the prisoner ran away, and while he was trying to
elude capture he was seen to throw away a purse, which
on being picked up was found to contain seven half-
crowns all counterfeit. Two of the counterfeit half-
crowns in the purse wore from the same mould as the one
uttered.

The prisoner, in defence, said he was as " innocent as a

Tho jury found the prisoner guilty, and the learned
judge sentenced him to 18 months' imprisonment.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGII-STREET.

ROBBERY BY A BANKER'S SERVANT.—George Rolston, a
young man, servant to Mr. Charles Ctesar Hopkinson,
banker, No. 3, Regent-street, was charged befc,re Mr.
Tyrwhitt with stealing 30 silver forks, 35 silver spoons,
a gun, and other articles, of the value of £7O, the property
of his master.

Mr. Hopkinson said—The prisoner was in my service.
On returning home about eleven o'clock ou the night of
Sunday, the 29th April, the prisoner was not at home. I
sat up some time for him, and as he did not come in I went
down to the pantry, and not finding the prisoner's clothes
there I sent to my housekeeper for a list of the plate, and
I then missed a quantity as well as a gun, a powder flask
and shot pouch, and other articles. I also found one dupli-
cate relating to the plate. I then gave information to the
police, and on Saturday went with a sergeant to South-
ampton, where I gave the prisoner into custody.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—What is the amount of your loss ?
Prosecutor—Above £6O. The powder-flask and shot-
pouch produced aro my property.

Sergeant Shellingford, 4 C—l accompanied the prosecu-
tor to Southampton, where I met the pi isoner in the
High-street. I told him that I was a police officer, and
that I should take him into custody for stealing plate and
other articles from his master. He replied, "I am sorry for
it. I know I have done wrong. I pledged the gun at
Southampton for 305." I took him back to the hotel,
where he was staying, and found on him a duplicate re-
lating to the gun, which was pledged in the name of
" Bateman" at Mr. Emmanuel's, East-street, Southampton,
for 30s. On searching the prisoner's portmanteau, I fount
in it a powder-flask and shot pouch.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—Where is the plate pledged?
Sergeant Shellingford—All in Loudon.
The prisoner, who put no questions to the witnesses,
said—l am guilty. _ _

Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded him for the attendance of tho
pawnbrokers.

THAMES.

DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY. —John Wilson, a well-
known and very desperate thief, 18 years of ago, was
bi ought before Mr. Partridge, charged with assaulting and
robbing Carl Froeting, a German tailor.
The prosecutor was on his way from the City -with 19
pairs of men's trousers over his shoulder, when the prisoner
and another man advanced towards him from the corner
of Dock-street, Whitechapel. The prisoner butted the
prosecutor with his head, knocked him down, and thon
made a snatch at his watch chain. The chain was screwed
from the watch, and the prisoner handed it to his
companion and ran away. The prosecutor immediately
pursued him, and called out " Stop thief." Police-con-
stable Panther, No. 196 H, stopped the prisoner, and the
prosecutor came up and accused him with having
knocked him down, and robbed him of his chain. The
prisoner said " It's not me, sir; I have just come out of a
publichouse." He then made a determined resistance and
said he would not be taken alive. Panther soon over-
powered him and conveyed him to the station-house. It
was stated by Panther that the prisoner was one of three
men under recoguizances to appear at this court to-morrow
on a charge of stealing a watch. The case was one of
conflicting evidence.

Foster, 207 H, an intelligent detective officer, said the
prisoner was in custody three nights in succession for
stealing watches, and was a bold and notorious thief.

Mr. Partridge—The prisoner is committed for trisil.
Prove a former conviction, if any, at the sessions.
ATTEMPTED ROBBERY OP A TILL.—John Male, aged 18,
was brought before Mr. Partridge charged with-attempting
to steal money out of a till in the shop of Mr. William
Davis, a cheesemonger in the Globe-road, Mile-end.
Mr. Davis detected the prisoner leaning over the counter
in his shop and in the act of taking out the till from its
place. Mr. Davis asked him what ho wanted, to which
he replied, how much is a truss of straw ? The prosecutor
said wo don't sell straw in a butter shop, and forthwith
gave him into custody.
Mr. Partridge asked the prisoner if he would be tried by
him or at the sessions.
The prisoner—l will be tried here.

Mr. Partridge—There is no doubt of your guilt. You
are sentenced to three months' imprisonment and bard

labour.

DISRAELI ROAD!—A new street at Putney is
being formed by a Mr. Wylson, and ho has named it, with
the sanction of the Metropolitan Board of Works,
"Disraeli-road," in honour of Mr. Disraeli.

A PERTINENT QUESTION. —Some £50,000 are
being converted into a monument to Prince Albert in Ken-
sington-park. Would not this amount of money spent in
establishing a bath-house, a soup-house, and a school-
house for the poor, have been quite as acceptable an offer-
ing in the eyes of God, or of "Albert the Good ?" The
" children cry for bread, and you give them a stone."—
Cosmopolitan.

VOTING FOR TREMSELVES.—Eighteen members
who hold Government offices voted for the second
reading of the Franchise Bill. The gentlemen who voted
that they had confidence in themselves are Messrs. Baring,
Bruce, Cardwell, Cowper, Forster, Fortescue, Gladstone,
Goschen, Lawson, Villiers, Headlam, Layard, Adams,
Brand, Collier, Sir It. Palmer, Sir George Grey, and the
Marquis of Hartington. If the members of the Govern-
ment (says the Cosmopolitan of Saturday) could not have
voted confidence in themselves, instead of a majority of 5
for, there would have been a majority of 13 against the
Government. Considering this, no one, we think, can deny
that the Government was absolutely defeated.

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land, and Archdeacon Pratt resides at Calcutta. The
election is fixed for the 7th of June.-- The Athenaum.
SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX,.-._A correspondent
of the Reader asks Professor De Morgan why the
Romans based their notation under a thousand upon six
letters as under—combinations of these making all their
figures up to 999. The connexion, he adds, will then be
inquired by the writer between the number 666 and the
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SPORTING NOTES.

At the Bath meeting which takes place to-morrow there
will no doubt bo great changes on the Derby. The closed
races for Tuesday are the Beaufort Cup, the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Biennial States, the Bath Handicap and
County Members' Plate, the Trial Stakes and a Selling
Plate remaining open till this (Monday) evening. The
Beaufort Cup, two miles and a half course, has a splendid
entry of thirty-eight, the list including the names of
Dalby, Breadalbane, The Miner, Christmas Carol, Mail
Train, Ackworth, Blue Riband, The Primate, Wild
Agnes, Sydmonton, Friday, Elthain, Eakring, John
Davis, Elland, Nightwatch, Salpinctes, and Cam-
buscan. The best amongst the three-year-olds is
Blue Riband, but over the tiring course at Bath, the
elder horses are entitled to the preference, and I
most esteem the chances of Miner and Dalby. For the
Fourteenth Biennial Stakes Robin Hood takes an allow-
ance of 311), and, consequently, the elected of Danebury—
probably Ceylon—will have a severe task to lower the
colours of Lord Portsmouth's colt, who will bo much fitter
than when he ran at Newmarket.

The Sotnersetshire Stakes, 2 miles 240 yards course, is
a failure in point of acceptances, as only twenty horses
have been left in from tho sixty-five originally handi-
capped. The Miner, Bst 121 b, occupies the post of
honour, and Whalebone, sst 91b is the "feather " of
the handicap. The Miner, Bst 121 b; Pintail, 7st 111 b in-
cluding 71b extra; Enasleigh, 7st 21b; Lord Zetland,
7st; Miss Hebbie, 6st 81b; and Lansdown, Est 61b ap-
pear to be the pick of the horses left in ; and notwith-
standing his heavy weight I shall trust to The Miner, who
has received a thorough preparation, and his most danger-
ous opponent will be found in the trusted of the Duke of
Beaufort's pair—Lord Zetland or Lansdown.
The York Spring Meeting will be held on Thursday and
Friday. The Great Northern, which will be decided over
the old two-miles course, is the last of the series of Spring
Handicaps. Regalia, 9st, heads the list. She is a great
mare, and is likely to win. Dalby, Bst 101 b (including 101 b
extra) is bound to run well, and will again defeat Redcap,
Bst. Cathedral, Bst 71b, is a great powerful horse, and as
he knows the course and has undergone a careful prepara-
tion, he will finish in front, though the Ashgill stable may
finally find a better representative in Miss Haworth, Est
51b, who is a game, honest filly, and can stay the course.
Moulsey, Bst 71b, should beat Dalby, as he meets the latter
on 221 b more favourable terms than he did on the Roodee,
and if none the worse for his Chester performance, I ap-
prehend Lord Bateman's horse or Regalia will be returned
the winner of this race.

The other events are of very little importance.

A FRESH MAN.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

VICTORIA CLUB BETTING—Tms DAY.
SOMERSETSHIRE STAKES.
5 to 2 agst The Miner (offered—take 3 to 1)
4to 1 agst Lord Zetland (taken)
BEAUFORT CUP
2 to 1 agst Dalby (taken)
sto 2 agst The Miner (taken)
4to 1 agst Breadalbane (taken)
GREAT NORTHERN.
sto 2 agst Regalia (taken)
9 to 2 agst Redcap (taken)
6to 1 agst Cathedral (taken)
7 to 1 agst Dalby (taken)
Bto 1 agst Windham (taken)
100 to 8 agst Dolan (taken)
25 to 1 agst Zenobia (taken)
DERBY.
2to 1 agst Lord Lyons (taken)
3to 1 agst Rustic (taken)
9to 1 agst Medan (taken)
10 to 1 agst Blue Riband (taken and off)
\2O to 1 agst Vespasian (taken)
25 to 1 agst Monarch of the Glen (offered)
1000 to 20 agst Nottingham (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Strathconan (taken)