The Sun. — 1855-01-01 (London, England)

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1855.  LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.  MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.)  CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)  CORN EXCHANGE.  Leasing Compans•  Closing Price. Saturday.  Business this day.  The January session of the above court was opened to-day by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Right Hon. the Recorder, Alderman Sir C. Marshall, and Sir R. W. Carden, the Sheriffs, Under Sheriffs, ,kO.,  The leading country markets held on Saturday were but moderately supplied with wheat. Most kinds sold slowly, but no material change took place in the quotations. The barley trade was heavy, and prices were with difficulty supported. Oats were tolerably firm, but beans, peas, and flour were much neglected. _ _ .  The first edition of the calendar contains the names of 44 prisoners.  The business doing in grain in most of the foreign markets has been very moderate, yet, in some instances, prices have had an upward tendenzy. Up to our market last week the arrivals of English grain were very moderate. From abroad we received 14,235 quarters of wheat, 1,845 barley, 13,405 oats, 273 beans, 669 peas, 808 tares, 11,166 linseed, 5,568 rapeseed, 45 sundry seeds, 544 sacks and 3,007 barrels of flour. The supply of English wheat received fresh up to-day coastwise, was reasonably extensive, and in fair average condition. By land carriage, the receipts were very moderate ; yet the show of samples of both red and white was good. Notwithstanding that the attendance of buyers was by no means numerous, the demand for most kinds of wheat of home produce ruled steady, and a fair demand Was effected, at last week's currency. We were tolerably well supplied with foreign wheat. Good heavy qualities were in moderate request at fell quotations. In low and middling parcels very little was doing on former terms. The inquiry for floating cargoes was less active, yet holders were firm.  The Recorder, in his charge to the Grand Jury, said that but for one melancholy case, in which a prisoner was charged with the commission of two murders, he should have been able to congratulate them upon the present calendar being the lightest that he ever remembered since he bad had the honour of sitting in that court. There were e,ely three cases to which, he said, he considered it necessary to allude. The first was a charge of having transferred the Goldsmith's-hall mark from gold of a superior quality to one of an inferior description, which was made an offence by a recent statute, and the only question they would have to consider was, whether the person charged was proved to have committed the act imputed to him. The next was A case of manslaughter, in which a woman was charged with causing the death of her mother, by wounding her with a pair of scissors. The immediate cause of the death would appear to be erysipelas, but if the Grand Jury should be of opinion that the erysipelas was caused by the original wound, it would bzi their duty to find a bill for manslaughter. With regard to the remaining case, it appeared that a foreigner named Barthelemy was charged with shooting two persons, named Moore and Collard, and although the circumstances under which the death of the first person mentioned appeared involved in some obscurity, it was his duty to tell theft that the depositions disclosed a clear prima facie case of murder, and the grand jury, if the facts should be proved to their satisfaction, would be bound to return a true bill. The second case was free from all legal difficulty, for it appeared that upon the unfortunate man Collard attempting to arrest the prisoner after the commission of the first murder, he deliberately shot him dead with a pistol, and tke Grand Jury he feared, therefore, would feel that they had no alternative but to find a true bill in both cases.  Fine barley was comparatively scarce, and realised full quotations. In grinding and distilling sorts only a limited business was transacted, at barely late rates. _ .  Although the supply of malt was but moderate, the trade ruled heavy, and the quotations were next to nominal. The oat trade was steady, and prices were well supported. We had a very dull sale for beans, the prices of which gave way from is to 2s per qaartor. In peas very few transactions took place, at from is to 2s per quarter less money. The flour trade was in a sluggish state. In prices, however, we have no change to notiee.