The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-08 00:00:00

ROBBERY OP CLOTH.

Edward West was placed before the Lord Mayor,
at the Mansion-house, charged with stealing four
parcels of cloth.

The prisoner was a lounger about the city ware-
houses, and had before been in custody. It ap-
peared that the cart of Mr. Paterson, carrier, of
George-yard, Aldermaubury, was standing in
Cheapside whilst some goods were being de-
liverei, and during the absence of the driver
the prisoner went up to the boy in care of the
vehicle and sail be had been sent by the carman
for a parcel he pointed out. The package was
given him, and he went:away with it, but it was
very soon discovered that the prisoner had
deceived the boy in order to get possession
of the goods. The parcel contained four
pieces of cloth of two yards and a half each,
the wholesale price of which was 13s. 9d. a yard.
The cloth was pawned at four different shops, and
the sums obtained on each of the pieces were Bs.,
7s. 6d., 65., and ss.
The prisoner, on being taken into custody, gave
such information that led to the recovery of the
property.
The Lord Mayor said it seemed to him that
pawnbrokers did not care how the goods brought
to their shops were obtained as long as they got a
bargain. The cloth in question had been pawned
for a sum not a quarter the wholesale price of it.
The price asked upon it ought to have at once
aroused suspicion.
The Constable said the pawnbrokers gave every
information, and delivered up the property at once.

The Lord Mayor—Yes ; but that was after the
matter had been found out.

The prisoner said he was driven by starvation to
commit the theft.

The Lord Mayor told the prisoner it was not his
first offence, and therefore he should send him to
prison for three months with hard labour.

MARKE7 S --2 MS DAY.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.

Supplies short, with better prices for good qualities of
stock.

Of beasts there were 880, including 295 foreign. For
best beef stiffer rates were paid, but inferior and middling
did not show any perceptible improvement.
Of sheep there were 6,720. Tho demand was about the
same as Monday, and prices remained without appreciable
change. The general top figures for good saleable quali-
tier. 5s was a very generallprice, but 5s 2d and even 5s 4d
was occasionally made for soma very choice.
Prime veal sold readily, and was fully as dear; inferior
hung on hand; 308 calves at market, 161 being foreign.
Pork sold readily, at full prices. Sixty pigs on sale.
Quotations :—Beef, 3s 4d to 5s 6d ; mutton, 3s 2d to 5s
5s 4,1; veal, 3s 6d to 5s 10d ; pork, 3s 4d to 4s 10d per
stone of 81b., sinking the offal.
COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE.

Sugar.—The market continues very dull, and the down-
ward tendency is more strongly marked, inasmuch as re-
fined sugars could only be sold at a perceptible reduction.
Coffee remains very steady as regards colory qualities
of plantation, but gray and native kinds are very dull,
and where :pressed for sale sell on easier terms. Planta-
tion Ceylon coffee from 7s Gd downwards, are among those
depressed.

Tea—The new Kaison congous are again depressed ld
to lid per lb.
HAY AND STRAW.

Fair supplies at market, and trade steady for good
qualities, but dull for inferior. Meadow hay, 5s to 1108 ;
clover, 80s to 126 s ; straw, 28s to 34s per load.

COTTON.
lAN-Enron, October B. Sales probably 8,000 or 10,000
bales. Market dull.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Arrived, Cot. 7—Waterloo, steamer, from Rotterdam;
Alice Graham, from Colombo; Ziba, from Foo-Chow.
Arrived, Oct. B—Fanny, from Jamaica ; Arie], from
Bruges; Alice, from Guernsey; Yang-tzo, from Foo-Chow,
Witch of the Seas, from Algoa Bay; Normandie, steamer,
from Dunkirk; Baron Osy, steamer, from Antwerp;
Pioneer, steamer, from Rotterdam.

Sailed—Soine, steamer, for Boulogne; Vigilant, steamer,
for Rouen ; Onega, steamer, for St. Petersburg.
DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Passed, Oct. 7.—Troybridge, from Shields, for Alex-
andria.

Passed, Oct. B.—Caroline Hutchings, for Mangalore;
Oress, for Cardiff ; Lahloo, for Shanghai ; Patriot, for
Liverpool—all from London ; Alice, of Sunderland, Fanny
of Colchester, Albion, of Newcastle, Elizabeth, of London
from the north, for the west.

Passed, Oct. 8, back of the Goodwin—Great Eastern,
steamship, from the west, for Loudon.
Sailed—Leon Raymund, for Madeira.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling Day, Wednes-
day, Oct. 7.—Adinissions by season tickets, 1,581; ditto
on payment, 1,643; total visitors, 3,227.