The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-05 00:00:00

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.

Meat—The supplies of mutton this morning were large
and the prices rather easier. Beef rather scarce, and quite
as dear. Pork firm. Veal very little on offer. The quo-
tations are—beef, 3s 4d to 4s Gd ; mutton, 3s to 4s; veal
4s to 48 8d; pork, Is to 5s 4d per stone of 81b sinking the
offal.

COTTON.
Linnroot, Oct. s.—Sales probably 15,000 or 20,000
bales. Market good demand and advancing; i higher.

An announcement has been received at Chatham
that Messrs. Napier and Sons, of Govan-yard,
Glasgow, have taken the contract for constructing
the new iron-clad ship Hotspur, for the Admiralty,
which vessel will be built under the superinten-
dence of AIL W. Pearce, late of Chatham dockyard,
and now manager of Messrs. Napier and Sons' esta-
blishment. The Hotspur is intended to be an iron
ram, her length being 235 feet, and her breadth of
beam 50 feet. She will be the first vessel built in
this country to carry her guns, working on a turn-
table, in a fixed tower, although there are several
of these ironclads built, or building, in the French
Imperial marine. Her armour-plating along her
broadsides will be 11 inches in thickness, with a
backing of teak of 10 inches, and the usual inner
iron plating. She is designed to carry an 18-ton
450-pounder gun on a turntable, in a fixed tower,
with four portholes, the gun working on the turn-
table from port to port. The tonnage of the Hot-
spur will be 2,637 tons, and she will be of 600-
horse power. The probable amount to be expended
on her this year is £30,000. She is to be built from
the designs of Mr. E. J. Reed, C.B.

A court-martial was resumed at the Government
House, Mount Wire, on Friday, for the trial of
Sergeant T. Dawson, of the 2d battalion of the
Rifle Brigade, for conduct prejudicial to military
rules, in aiding and abetting Corporal Lucas in
writing an anonymous letter to his Royal Highness
the Duke of,Cambridge. Lieut. and Adjt. E. H.
Chamberlin, of the Rifle Brigade, appeared to pro-
secute, assisted by Mr. G. H. E. Rundle ; and Mr.
T. C. Brian appeared for the prisoner. The charge
having been read the prisoner pleaded guilty, and
threw himself on the merciful consideration of the
court. Adjt. Chamberlin said that the prisoner's
general character was very good. He was attested
on the 18th November, 1845, and had served 19
years and 11 days towards the completion of his
time. The prisoner was 37 years of age, and was
in possession of the Crimean medal, with clasps for
Alma, Inkerman, and Sebastopol, the Turkish medal,
the Indian medal, with a clasp for Lucknow, and
the medal for long service and good conduct, with
a gratuity of £l5. The sentence will not be made
known for about a fortnight.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT BIRMINGIIA3I.—At a late
hour on Friday night a fire was discovered on the premises
of the Britannia Flour Mills Company, in Princess-street,
Birmingham. From some unexplained cause delay occurred
in getting the fire-engines to the spot, and by the time of
their arrival ono wing of the building was a mass of flame
—this was the granary ; and so great a hold had the fire
obtained that for some time it was feared the warehouse,
which is separated from the other part of the premises by a
pair of massive iron doors, would also ba destroyed. For-
tunately the firemen were able to prevent this, but it was
getting towards daylight on Saturday morning before the
fire was safely subdued. Seveaal thousand quarters of
corn have been destroyed, and the amount of loss has been
estimated at from £5,000 to £B,OOO. The origin of the
fire is in a great measure conjecture.

POLICE IN TELLIG ENCE— This Day.

BOW-STREET.

ISSUING FICTITIOUS CHEQUES.—CharIes Stan-
bridge,a gentlemanly-dressed man,was charged with
issuing false cheques with intent to defraud.
Patrick O'Hara, a wardrobe keeper, residing in
Judd-street, said the prisoner came to his shop
some time ago and purchased a dress for a young
lady, who accompanied him. He paid for it with
a cheque for £3 10s., and that on presenting it for
payment at the bank he was told there was no
effects. His wife met the prisoner yesterday morn-
ing, and gave him into custody.
Mr. Stansbury, manager of the London Com-
mercial Bank, Sloane-street, said the prisoner
opened an account with the bank in June last, and
paid in a small sum of money. A cheque of £2B
was paid into his account, but it was dishon-
oured. The prisoner had withdrawn his ac-
count, and since that time about twenty cheques
have been presented by him, and some for large
amounts, and drawn by him. They gave him a
cheque-book when he deposited the account. There
was never anything to his account after 26th July.
The prisoner was then remanded.