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Evening Post, Issue 110, 16 June 1865, Page 2

At the Commercial Sale Room, on Wednesda}', a sale by auction of tobacco and cigars was held by Alfred A. Barnett. Buyers were not very numerowp, and but few lots were disposed of. A parcel of Barrett's twist, duty paid, fetched 5s per lb ; Havana cigars, La Patria, brand, brought £8 per thousand, out of bond. The stock of tobacco and cigars in the market is very heavy, and furth. r supplies are expected. This and the late increase of duty, tends lo keep prices down. Inferior qualities are scarcely saleable at all. Choice Southern hrands of aromatic might be moved off. Holders of Cavendish tens must submit to a loss if anxious to sell at the present time. We notice by an advertisement elsewhere, that the programme for this evening -it the Theatre Royal is again changed. Last night there was no performance, the hall being given up to the Choral Society for their usual weekly rehearsal. To-night, " Family Failings," "Box an.l Cox," and the "Swiss Cottage," will bo presented, but we notice an absence of the names of MUs Masrgie Griffiths, Miss Flora Anstead, and Mr. Chas. Massey. John M'lntosh, a respectable looking man, who, it may be remembered, was acquitted at the late Criminal Sittings of the Court for making too free with another man's cheque, which was entrusted to him to cash, was again brought up, this time before the Resident Magistrate's Court, for obtaining goods under false pretences, for which offence he was to-day committed for trial. The victim on the present occasion of his malpractises was Mr. Warmoll, of Lambton Quay, from whom he purchased a quantity of wearing apparel, tendering a cheque for £3 15s, purporting to be drawn by an imaginary person with the apoer> phal name of George Valentine. We need not add that Mr. Warmoll was completely done.