The Sun. — London, England, 1844-09-18 00:00:00

CENTRAL CREMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Before the RECORDER.) PERJURY.—Thomas Steele, the conductor of a Tooting omnibus, was indicted with having been guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury. The circumstances of the case ap peared to be as follows : Hannah Merritt, is a lady's maid, residing with a family in Mornington-crescent, Hampstead-road. On the 6th of July last the prosecutrix went, about a quarter-past nine o'clock in the evening, to the Elephant and Castle, witl the view of getting into a Tooting omnibus, to go to the 6t place. At the time stated two Tooting omnibuses drov e up, of one of which a person named Wilson was th e driver, and a person named Nightingale was the drivi r, or owner, of the other. A person who was the touie k for Wilson's omnibuses came up to the, prosecutrix, ( A nd requested her to get into his omnibus. She saic. she wished to go by Nightingale's omnibus, and th? man then said his omnibus was Nightingale's, and she the :re upon permitted him to hand her in. The moment, hi )w -ever, she had seated herself, and before the omni bus had proceeded a single yard, she found she had b ten imposed on, and that it was not Nightingale's omnibus. Upon this discovery she immediately proceeded tc alight, and as she was getting out Wilson came up to her, and said he wanted sixpence from her, to wh,cli she replieJ, she did not owe him anything, as she h been induced by false statements to get into his om ii - bus, and she had not travelled a yard by it ; to whei Wilson replied, " 0 yes, you got into my omnibus iu I Gracechurch-street." She denied this, and iae-- mediately went onwards to Nightingale's omnibus ; and while she was getting up the steps, the driver, - son, gave her a severe blow on her breast. When sh arrived at Tooting, she stated what had taken place , - to her friends there, and the result was, the owner of 1,11 e omnibus was summoned before the magistrate of Un . ion Hall, Mr. Cottingham. The owner appeared to the summons, and produced Wilson, the driver, who brou forward the defendant at the bar, Steele, as his witm rss; and he positively swore that the prosecutrix had got i i ito Wilson's omnibus in Grscechurch-street ; and he ai 'so swore to the precise time of night and sp it, where and when she got in, and also that a Lie had not been struck. The evidence on each sey le being so contradictory, the magistrate adjoemod the further hearing of the case till the 17th of July, 11, e first examination taking place on the 12th. On Ad - journing the case to the 17th of July, Mr. Cottingb sn required both parties, in the interim, to look out Cot further evidence. At the adjourned hearing, the pro te cutrix swore to precisely the same facts as she had do ne before, and produced witnesses who corroborated her in every particular. The defendant also produced furt] ter evidence which the magistrate declined to believe le daring the charge to be proved, fined the driver Wils4 for the assault, and ordered the present prosecution to be instituted against Steele for wilful and corrupt per jury, and bound the defendant over to appear at eh is Court to answer any bill that might be preferred agrdn: ;t him. The case was postponed last session on accoun t of the absence of a witness. _ _ _ Mr. KENNEDY, for the prosecution, called several wit - ness, and Mr. CHARNOCK defended the prisoner, tending that he had not committed wilful and corrytp t perjury, but had made a mistake in swearing to tire prosecutrix. Mr. Holden, the master of the defendant, gave Fiini an excellent character for veracity and respect for tri The RECORDER summed up at some length, and The jury acquitted the prisoner. Henry Howard, 25, described in the calendar as. a tailor, was indicted for a burglary in the dwelliiig - house of William Frederick Shoebridge, and stealin g a silver spoon and other articles, his property. It appeared .frem the evidence that the prosecuttc.r is a surgeon, and resides in the Old Kent-road. 0 n the night of the 28th August, the family retired. Lto bed leaving the premises properly secured, and th e next morning it was discovered that some person Itaid entered the house by means of a back window, and the articles in question were stolen from the surge ry. About nine o'clock in the morning after the robb( pry was discovered, the prisoner went to the shop or a pawnbroker in Tooley-street, and offered part of the, stolen property for sale, and on his being questioned , he said he had picked it up in the New-cut. Not lfe lieving this story, the pawnbroker sent for a polit :e.- man, and gave the prisoner in charge, but as he was conveying him to the station-house, the prisoner con trived to give him the slip, and he was not appe headed for three or four days afterwards. The prisoner, in his defence, asserted that he was not the man who ran away, and declared that be knew nothing about the robbery. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty ; and the prisoner was also proved to have been convicted. of felony in 1836, and sentenced to seven years' trims, portation. There was another charge of burglary against thc prisoner, which it appeared was committed at thf. next house to the prosecutor in the former case, Anti which must have been perpetrated about the sate .e time. The Recorder, however, expressed his opinic that it was not necessary to go into the evidence in this case. The prisoner was sentenced to be transported ft)r ten years. William Windsor, 18, a well-known young thief, was indicted for stealing from the person of Lydia Crouch a purse, containing silver moneys, the pro perty of her husband. Mr. C'narnock defended the prisoner. It appeared, from the evidence, that the prosecut or was passing along Garden-row, in the middle of .the day, on the 21st of August, when the prisoner, woo was accompanied by three other young men, weut up to her, and contrived, in a most adroit manner, to lift up her gown and take the purse from her poclt. The robbery was effected in so dexterous a meaner t} .at Mrs. Crouch was not at all aware of her loss, and the prisoner would have escaped with his booty, but - the transaction was fortunately observed by a very intel ligent lad, named Henry llughes, who is in the !ser vice of Mr. Folkard, a pawnbroker, at the corner of Garden-row, and he gave notice to the prosecutrix of what had happened, and called for a policeman. The prisoner and his companions ran off and escaped, but he was taken into custody the next day, and was posi tively sworn to as being the person who committed the robbery. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty; and a pre vious conviction for felony was also formally proved against the prisoner. The RECORDER sentenced him to be transported for ten years. John Sproule, 39, pleaded Guilty to an indictment, charging him with stealing a silver spoon and fork, the property of W. Mackinnon, Esq. Ile was sentenced to be kept to hard labour for twelve months. . In the course of the day the grand jury came into Court, and returned a true bill against William Ross Touchet, for feloniously shooting at Thomas F.anith, with intent to murder him. The Recorder rose soon after five o'clock. Mr. Wooller contended that the offer of 20/. had t aken the case out of the magistrate's jurisdiction. Mr. JARDINE said, he had directed this to be care •f ully entered on tYle depositions, and he should leave t he point for the:, higher Court to decide. John Brockwell here stepped forward, and said he v ras the father of the prisoner, and had given her a sovereign. a fortnight ago. Mr. JARDINE said that could be stated on the trial. The prisoner was then committed to Newgate for trial. CLERKEIVW E L L. MOST EXTRAORDINARY AND MYSTERIOUS CASE.— A fashionably attired man, who described himself on the police-sheet as Francis Drake, Esq., architect, 26, Penton-place, Clerkenwell, was charged with ex torting money from Mr. William Hoyte, a dairyman, residing at 64, White Lion-street, Pentonville, on a threat that he would charge him with the murder of his own illegitimate child. Inspector Thatcher said that the prisoner had given a false address. He lived at 41, Kenton-street, Brunswick-square. Mr. Iloyte was then placed in the witness-box. He trembled violently, and seemed to regard the prisoner with feelings of terror. It appeared from his statement, which was most incoherent and con fused, that he became acquainted with the prisoner five years ago, by his being served with milk from wit ness's establishment. A girl named Harriette Ramsay accused him with being the father of her child. Being in great fear that his wife would hear of it, he went to the prisoner, and sought his advice. The prisoner drew up an agreement, to be signed by the woman and by him (Hoyte), the former guaranteeing not to annoy him in future, and the latter promising to allow her Bs. as a weekly allowance for the maintenance of the child. Soon after this the prisoner asked him for the loan of some money ; he lent it to him. The prisoner continued these requests. Witness at length refused, and then, and almost daily since, prisoner threatened that he would acquaint his wife with the whole matter ; under the influence of these threats he gave him money, sometimes 2/. a week. The pri soner met him generally twice a day, and using this threat obtained sums varying from 4s. to 65., and sometimes more. The child died about two years and a half ago, and since that period the prisoner re peatedly declared that he would bring him before a magistrate for making away with the child. 'Witness was greatly terrified at this, fearing that he would be disgraced before his large family and all his friends. He must have given the prisoner between 50/. and 1001. On Friday last the prisoner met him again, and declared he would bring him before a magis trate for making away with the child, unless he gave him money.' 'Witness gave it to him. On Monday the prisoner used the same threat, but was refused, witness saying he had told all to his wife. On the previous night the prisoner came to his house, and having seen Mrs. Hoyte, told her all, and said he would settle the affair for 31., but she gave him into custody. The solicitor's clerk said that the prisoner never gave a farthing of all the money he had received to the mother of the child, who had never seen him. Mr. BROUGHTON said it was a most extraordinary case, and required the fullest investigation. On the whole he felt it his duty to remand the case until Friday next, and could not accept of bail t' a less amount than 1501. in the whole, to answer for his appearance. The requisite bail not being forthcoming, the pri soner was committed. SCENE BETWEEN A MOTHER AND SON.—John Welch, residing at 14, Gower-place, St. Pancras, and aged 14, was charged with threatening the life of Marie Welch, his mother. The complainant deposed that the prisoner's depra vity had become so great that she was obliged to expel him from the house. He came on the previous evening, and after abusing her outside the door so as to create a mob, forcibly entered the house and threatened her life. Mr. ComßE—What have you to say ? Prisoner— She turned me out and left me to starve in the streets. The Mother—You tell a lie, you know I did not turn you out until I could endure your wickedness no longer. Prisoner—Wickedness ! don't talk about that. You keep a bad house. The Mother—You are a vagabond, and my life is in danger from you. The Magistrate told him he must be sent to prison unless he could find bail. Prisoner—And is she to be at large? He was committed to the Sessions. MARYLEBONE. After the night charges had been disposed of, John Wilson, an ill-looking middle-aged man, who was stated to be a shoemaker, was placed at the bar before Mr. Rawlinson, charged with attempting to murder Catherine Wilson, his wife. _ _ . The poor creature was led into court by two men, and placed in the witness-box. The left side of her face and head was covered with coagu lated blood. She could scarcely stand, and gave her evidence with much difficulty. She said she had been married six years to the prisoner, and that he was continually in the habit of brutally ill-using her. This morning about nine o'clock he seized the candle stick which he used in his trade (a large piece of wood with a tin socket for a candle at the top of it—the metal was broken and bent), and cut her head open with it. She was then suffering great pain from the wound. Mr. Birch, surgeon, residing at No. 15, Great Mary hbone-street, stated that he was requested by police• constable, 64 1), to go to the station-house. On pro ceeding thither he found the woman bleeding very much, and very faint from the loss of blood. On exa mining her head he found one wound nearly half an inch deep. He considered the woman's life in danger, as it was not unlikely that erysipelas may supervene. Mr. RAWLINSON—WouId it be better to dispose of the case now, or remand it ? Mr. Birch thought it would be better to remand the prisoner, as from the wound being of a dangerous cha racter, the worst consequences might ensuo in a day or two. The prisoner said, his wife took the candlestick up to strike him, and he took it from her, and she was struck in. the struggle.—lle was remanded for a week. UNION-HALL. THE ROBBERY BY ASSUMED POLICEMEN. - Wm. Timberlake, alias Cooper, George Jackson, alias Contisou, and John Western, alias White, were brought up before Mr. Traill, for final examination. Cooper and Western were charged with stealing twelve sovereigns and a half from the house of Mr. i3rundall, a journeyman carpenter, at 24, Agnes street, Waterloo-road, by assuming to be policemen. The particulars have appeared in The Sun on several occasions. Western was taken into custody on Wednesday last, by Goff and Brooks, two active officers of the 1 - 4 division, and identified by Mrs. Brundall as the man who took the property, by representing himself as a police-officer, and producing a forged search warrant. The prisoners were also charged with forging two cheques for 451., and committing a robbery at a coffee-house in Grafton-street, Soho. They were committed on all the charges. Thomas Wright, a youth, was charged before Mr. Traill with exposing for sale pictures of an immoral nature. Police-sergeant, 12 L, stated that complaints have recently been made to the police that several persons have been in the habit of selling prints of an immoral description in the public streets ; that on the preceding night, he (the sergeant), while on duty in the Westmin ster-road, observed the defendant standing near Atkin son's warehouse selling prints, and that a crowd of persons was collected about him, some of whom were purchasers, and that the defendant had a box which was filled with the same description of prints. (The ser geant here produced a specimen of the prints which was a representation of a lady taking a shower bath ; but there did not appear to be anything in the print of an immoral tendency, the figure being clothed with the exception of the head, neck, and feet.) Mr. TRAILL said that the charge against the defendant did not come under the Act fdr the suppression of im proper publications. The defendant, however, was not justified in selling things of this kind about the streets, and if he persisted in such a course, and was brought there again, he would certainly be punished for causing crowds of persons to collect and obstruct the thoroughfare. The defendant said that he was not aware that he wes doing anything wrong. inspector said that it was a well-known fact per sons were going about the streets selling prints of the most disgusting kind. Mr. TRAILL—Bring such persons before me, and I shall have no hesitation in punishing them severely. The Magistrate then discharged the defendant, and recom mended him to be cautious what he was about. His box of prints were then delivered up to him. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A respectably-dressed French woman, named Adele Dupier, was charged before Mr. Maltby with having robbed her employer to a considerable extent. It appeared that the prisoner was shopwoman to Mr. Ignace Van Bever, importer and retailer of French shoes, 42, Burlington-arcade. The prose cutor had taken her into his service for the second time in the early part of the summer, since which time he had missed a great many pairs of shoes, which were in no way accounted for to him. In order to ascertain the exact amount of his loss he re solved on taking stock, when he found between eighty and ninety pairs unaccounted for. Van Bever had some slight suspicion of his shopwoman, and he questioned her upon the subject, when she admitted that she had pawned some shoes, and told prosecutor that he had told her to do it. This he denied, and gave her into custody. It had since been found out that upw ar d s o f 140 pairs had been pawned, for 117 of whi c h s h e had the duplicates. On the 29th of August, twenty-nine cates of which were pa f i o r u s nd we o r n e pthledgeperid ";o t n h e e r du p l i- when searched at the station-house. The prisoner, on being asked what she had to say to the charge, stated that in the same arcade, No. 54, lived one Rebecca Cook, who kept a shoe-shop, and and who had been shopwoman to Van Bever, and ho now looked upon her as a rival, a n d was anx i ous t o get her away. For that purpose he had persuaded her (the prisoner) to pawn the goods, for all of which he received the money. He further told her, that if anything should happen, she was to say that Re becca Cook had persuaded her to pledge the shoes, and had received the money. Van Bever further promised, that by acting upon his instructions she would not only be held blameless, but would pro bably reap some advantage at a future time. She solemnly declared that Rebecca Cook never received any money at all from her, neither did she know anything of the transaction. Van Bever received all the money, the produce of the shoes, and it was on his account they were pledged. The prosecutor denied this statement entirely. Mr. MALTBY observed that it was a case that re quired further investigation, and he should therefore remand the prisoner until Wednesday. QUEEN-SQUARE. Catherine Stuart, a powerful dissipated-looking woman, about forty-five years of age, was charged with the most revolting cruelty to three young children. In consequence of the representations made to the Magistrate, a warrant was granted for the prisoner's apprehension in the middle of last July, but as she had absconded on learning that proceedings were about to be taken against her the constable was un able to effect her capture until Saturday night, when he found her in a state of intoxication. William Cooper, a hairdresser, residing at Broad way, Westminster, stated that the accused and a very hard-working man, named Tyler, had taken apartments in his house about a twelvemonth ago, representing themselves to be man and wife, with three children, but he had since ascertained that they were not married and that the children were by Tyler's wife, who had been dead some years. They had not been in the house many weeks when the screams and cries from the rooms occupied by Tyler left no doubt that the children were being very brutally treated ; and as this continued day after day, and was generally when Tyler was from home, witness thought it is duty to communicate it to him. The man said he was not aware that there was anything wrong, and he would see about it; but, although witness had occasion to again point out to him the cruel treatment the children had received, it was continued, and even occurred more frequently than before. On the 18th of July witness heard violent screams proceeding from the room, and on going up stairs heard the girl Clarissa Tyler, who was thirteen years of age, faintly exclaim, " Oh, mother! oh, mother !" and then there was a heavy noise like something falling. Witness knocked at the door, and inquired what was the matter, when witness replied from within, that if he had anything to say he must say it to Mr. Tyler. In about an hour after this Clarissa Tyler came down stairs, and bore evidence of the cruel treatment she had just received ; her head and face were very much swollen, and the blows she had received about the eyes were so severe that she was nearly blind. Wit ness questioned the child, who after much hesitation, said that her mother (the prisoner) had repeatedly jumped upon her while she was in bed, and had then heat her with her fists until she was nearly insen sible. Her mother had told her, that if she men tioned what had occurred to her father, she would jump upon her until she killed her. Witness, con sidering that the lives of the unfortunate children were in jeopardy by such a monster, made an appli cation at this Court, which led to the present prose cution. Mr. BURRELL inquired what was the prisoner's conduct to the other children ? Witness replied— Uniformly most violent and cruel ; she would take them by the hair of the head, and dash them from one end of the room to the other. He had frequently seen the poor children with their hair literally pulled off their heads. Mr. BURRBLL—Did you ever remonstrate with her on her cruelty ? Witness—l have, and told her that I should consider it my duty to make the authorities acquainted with her conduct, and that she might depend upon it, if she still continued to treat these poor motherless children in that way, she would have to answer for it. Mr. BURRELL—Do you know whether they had proper food given them? Witness—l am shocked to say that the poor children were fed upon paunches, such as are given to dogs. Mr. BURRELL (with surprise) "Paunches ?" Witness—Yes, Sir, sheep's paunches. The woman has a son, who is assistant to a butcher, and he used to bring them to her. Mr. Buiftimn, who, in common with others in the Court, appeared much shocked, said—Do you know whether the man left money with this woman to pro vide his children with wholesome and proper food ? Witness—Yes, he did; but that, Sir, was all ex pended in gin, and as the paunches cost nothing they were cooked for the children. Mr. BUIRELL—Is there any act of violence which has occurred in your presence P Witness—The pri soner flung a saucepan of boiling water over Clarissa Tyler. Although I did not see it absolutely thrown, I saw the poor creature directly afterwards. The girl ran down the stairs in great agony, and there was a succession of bright red stripes down her face and neck, where she had been scalded with the boiling water. Mr. BustaELL—Where is the child? I should wish to examine her. Witness—The child has been taken this morning to the prisoner's mother's, as it is sup posed, and is kept out of the way. lam rather sur prised at the conduct of the father of these poor children, who has absolutely, since she has been in custody, supplied her with refreshment at the station. Mr. BURRELL asked the prisoner what she had to say ? Prisoner replied, that there was not a word of truth in it. It was all through spite, because there was some rent owing. She would not deny that she might have struck the children in a somewhat im proper manner. Mr. Buaßimr.—lt is most extraordinary, if inno cent, that you should have kept out of the way this length of time. 'What do you say to feeding these poor children upon paunches ? Prisoner—lt is not true. Mr. BuitzzLL—You have also heard it stated that you threw a saucepan full of boiling water over Cla rissa Tyler. Prisoner—l don't mean to say I might not have thrown water sometimes at her, but not boiling water. Mr. Cooper produced one of the children, a poor emaciated little creature, said to be, as we understood, seven years of age, but not having the appearance of much more than half those years. He said that the child, if examined, would state that paunches had been given to them as food, and could also speak to the violence. There were many other acts of cruelty which could be substantiated. It was a question in his mind whether the man was not in some respects culpable. Mr. BURRELL observed, that this was an extraor- Binary and very cruel case, and he should call upon the prisoner to find good bail for her appearance when the girl Clarissa Tyler could be produced. They might succeed in bringing her forward to-morrow, and he should, therefore, remand the prisoner until then.—She was sent to prison. THAMES POLICE. Monday John Howe, formerly a police-constable, and latterly employed as a Custom-house locker under the Crown, was finally examined on the charge of stealing a quantity of rum, the property of the East and West India Dock Company. There was not sufficient evidence to bring home the charge of steal ing to the prisoner, but that of unlawful possession was fully proved. Mr. BRODERIP said, he was always anxious to temper justice with mercy, but in the present case he would inflict the highest penalty which the law war ranted, namely, two months imprisonment. As, however, the prisoner had already been a week in custody, he should be sentenced to seven weeks' hard labour in the House of Correction. A little urchin, apparently not more than nine or ten years old, named Wm. Boynton, was charged with stealing half-a-sovereign from a man named John Bolton, who, it subsequently appeared, was his aun t' s husband, and resided at 45, Wells-street, Poplar. When the constable, 252 K, took the lad into custody Mrs. Bolton said there was other stolen property in the house, as her sister, the boy's mother, had stolen some pewter pots; he searched and found seve ral bladders, which, from the smell, he found had con tained spirits, together with some stone bottles, one of which had spirits in it, in her sister's room. On further investigation he found a large tub at the bottom of the stairs covered with sacks, and a blanket containing some liquid, which appeared to be in a state of fermentation. As the boy confessed to having stolen the half-sovereign and concealed it in the bottom of a pie-can, witness took him to the station house, and stated what he had seen at Wells-street to police-sergeant 16 R, who immediately repaired to the spot, and having searched the place well found all the apparatus for private distillation; the tub con tained from 36 to 38 gallons of wash. Bolton, the proprietor of the house, had absconded, but two women named Louisa Bolton and Elizabeth Baynton were on the premises, and were taken into custody. The charge against the boy was ordered to stand over until Thursday, by which time it was supposed the man Bolton, who preferred it, might be heard of; and the two women were placed at the bar, charged with an offence against the Excise laws. The sergeant, in addition to his previous testimony, stated that when he discovered the still and other materials the taller prisoner, Mrs. Bolton, though cautioned, said Elizabeth Baynton was her sister, a poor woman, whose husband, being at sea, allowed her only 3s. a week, and that they were obliged to distil a little whisky to make out a living. Witness asked her if there was any one else concerned in the private still, to which she replied no one but her husband, who had given the boy in charge for steal ing the half-sovereign. The prisoners were then taken into custody, and the witness helped an Excise officer named White to remove the apparatus and materials used in distillation. Mr. Pelham, who appeared for the defence, urged the release of the prisoner Bolton, who had acted under the control of her hiasnd. Mr. BRODERIP said there was no evidence to show she was his wife ; and the prisoners were remanded, with permission to put in bail, themselves in 601. and two sureties in 301. each. NEW COURT. Anne Watson was it the bar, chsrged with stealing 76 yards of silk, vshseig, the property of Row land Cooper. • _. It appeared that the prisonervame into the shop of the prisoner on the 26th of August. She inquired about some calico, which was shown her, but did not buy it. She returned again, and the shopman was at the time showing some silks to a person in the shop. In a short time he missed five pieces, and found two of them with the prisoner and three at her feet. The prisoner was at the time standing near the counter. A witness was called en behalf of the defendant, who stated that she was in the shop at the time, and that sho believed the prisoner was only taking up the silks which had fallen.—The prisoner was acquitted. Maria Downs, spinster, aged 27, was charged with stealing a purse, containing two sovereigns and two half crowns, the property of Joseph roode. It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor and the prisoner, together with another female, went into some public-houses in Swan-lane, Kensington, where they had some gin, for which the prosecutor paid. He took the money out of his purse, which he put into his waistcoat pocket and walked out with the prisoner. In a short time the prosecutor perceived that his purse was gone ; and ho seized the prisoner, and kept her till a p"liceman came up, who took some of the money out of her hand. The remainder was on the ground near her. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and it appearing that she had been before convicted of a felony of a similar nature, she was sentenced to ten years' transportation. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) BOW-STREET. Emily Brockwell was brought up for final exami nation, charged with stealing 1001. in gold, the pro perty of Mr. William Cunningham. Mr. Wooller defended the prisoner. Mrs. Margaret Cunningham stated that she was the wife of the prosecutor, and rented the top floor of Mr. Fairbrother's house, in Bow-street. On last Friday she had 100 sovereigns in her room, in a bead purse, inside a velvet bag, which was placed in a drawer in the front sitting-room. On Friday morn ing last, on going to the drawer, she missed the bag. On discovering her loss, she questioned the prisoner, who was servant to Mr. Farebrother. She said she was sorry for the loss, but she knew nothing about it. A policeman was called into the house, and shortly afterwards the prisoner came up stairs, with a printed cotton bag in her hand. She said she had found the bag in the water-closet. On opening' it, it was dis covered to contain 1001. 10s. Witness asked the pri soner if Mrs. Fairbrother knew anything of it, and she said that she did not. The prisoner had access to the room in which the money was deposited. Cross-examined by Mr. Wooller—Witness had said to the prisoner that she would give 201. if she could get the money back. She did this to induce the pri soner to tell her all she knew about the matter. Mr. JARDINE directed this to be entered very care fully on the deposition. The officer who took the prisoner into custody questioned her, and she said she had bought a pair of . eta s, for which she paid 3s. 6d., in Cross-court. Ann Rerillds, of No. 7, Cross-court, deposed that the prisoner purchased a pair of stays at her shop on the 9th of September. She paid 85.6 d. for them. Me paid for then* with s sovereign. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBEIt 18, 1844. WANDSWORTH. On Monday Richard .115cholson, a commercial tra veller and commission agent, residing in Isabella- street, Lambeth, appeared, in discharge of his bail, to answer a charge of attempting to drown Margaret Nicholson, his daughter, aged six years, on Tuesday evening last. The prisoner was first brought to this Court on Wednesday last, and on that occasion it was proved by two young men, cabmen, that in consequence of hav ing been informed by some women, on the previous evening, that the prisoner had attempted to drown his child in Vauxhall-dock, they followed him towards Battersea-fields, believing that he would carry his purpose into execution somewhere in that locality. When the prisoner reached the Mill-pond-bridge, he lifted the child in his arms, and placed her on her belly on the parapet. One of the men, believing that he was about to plunge his child into the water, especially as it cried very much, ran up, snatched the child out of its father's arms, and knocked him down ; after which he was given into custody upon the charge of attempting to drown his child. The defence set up was, that the prisoner never had had any intention of destroying the child, and he only wished to cure it of its timidity for water; and he ac counted for being in so lonely a place, at such a late hour, with a young child, by proving that he was on the road to meet his wife, who had gone to Battersea. Mr. PAYNTER did not feel altogether satisfied with the defendant's conduct, especially as he was drunk at the time, and ordered him to find bail to answer the charge on the following Monday (yesterday). The magistrate also directed the police to make inquiry respecting the first alleged attempt to drown. Monday a woman named Joyce Colcet was called as a witness for the prosecution, and identified by the cabmen as one of the women who had recommended them to look after the prisone r , as he had attempted to drown his child at Vauxhall-dock. The witness, upon being examined, told a widely different story; she said a gentleman had told her that the prisoner had ill-used his child, but she saw nothing unkind in his conduct; he gave her oysters, and bought her cakes, and no parent could have been kinder. Mr. PalmyEa asked the prisoner what answer he had to make to the charge ? The prisoner said that on the day in question he transacted business in the City to his satisfaction, and there were a few pints of ale drunk over it. He then went home, and, as he had to meet his wife, took his child with him. As the child was timid of the water, he thought he would show her it, and explain to her that there was nothing to fear, and he took her up in his arms for that pur pose. She cried and he set her down and was walk ing along with her, when he received two tremendous blows on the head which felled him, and he was after wards kicked in the side. He had been ill ever since, and unable to do any business. Mr. PATISTER—YOU could hardly expect any other treatment, after getting drunk and ill-using your child. It is a very extraordinary thing that you should have put your child in so dangerous a position, and it is not a little suspicious that you should have been complained of doing a similar act in an earlier part of the evening. You were intoxicated, or probably you would not have done so. I shall discharge you now, and, as you have been so much injured, not inflict the fine for drunkenness, which I otherwise should have done.—The prisoner was then dischirged. ASSAULT BY A POLICE CON STABLE ON HIS SERGEANT. At an early hour on Sunday morning a circum stance took pl ace a t Winchmore-hill, Middlesex, which has created considerable sensation in that dis trict. About four o'clock, Sergeant Hannan, of the N division of police, in going his rounds, missed police-constable Harvey, of the same division, off his beat, and after looking about for him for some short time, he observed him milking a cow belon g i ng t o Mr. Risley, a d a i r y man i n the neighbourhood. Han nan crept stealthily along the field in such a position that Harvey had not the slightest knowledge of his approach until he was alongside, when he charged him with his improper conduct. Harvey made some trivial excuse, but the sergeant told him he must do his duty and take him to the station-house, and then laid hold of the left handcuff of the prisoner's coat with his right, and they walked together some short distance through the field, when Harvey, unperceived by his captor, drew his truncheon from his pocket with his right hand, and in an instant gave the sergeant a desperate blow on the head, which felled him to the ground. He then made an effort to escape, but was unable to do so, and repeated the blows on the ser geant's head, actually shivering his staff to pieces. The sergeant, notwithstanding, still held him, upon which the ruffian drew from his pocket a gouging chisel, and jobbed it into the head, face, and the arms of the sergeant, inflicting no fewer than thirteen or fourteen frightful wounds on his person. Hannan, with a death-like grasp, still held him fast, and his cries of " murder" brought to his assistance two men from the farmhouse of Mr. Risley, and alio a farrier in the neighbourhood, just in time to prevent the sacrifice of his life, and Harvey was secured. The sergeant, who was reduced, f rom ex h aus ti on an d the loss of blood to insensibility, was removed to the farmhouse, and Messrs. Creswell and Ward, medical gentlemen at Southgate, were sent for, and promptly attended. A special messenger was also- dispatched to the private r esidence of Mr. J o h nson , th e super i n tendent of the N division, who lost not a moment in repairing to the spot, where he found every attention paid to the sufferer by the medical gentlemen. The sergeant remained in a dreadful state of suffering the whole of the day and night, but yesterday morning he appeared much better, and went on favourably throughout the day, so that there was strong hope of his ultimate recovery. After the prisoner was cap tured a pocket handkerchief full of apples, and with which was also tied up the lantern used by Harvey on his duty, was found in the field, not a great dis tance from where he had been milking the cow, so that there could be no doubt the apples were the produce of some of the nu merous gar d ens i n t h e neighbourhood. His house w as su b sequent l y searc h e d , when a great variety of the choicest fruit, onions of the finest quality, and also miscellaneous property, all the produce of plunder, were found S om e idea may be formed of the sensation which the circum s tance -has created in the neighbourhood from the fact that the officiating clergyman at the Edmonton chapel of ease, Winchmore-hill, alluded to it, and asked the prayers of the congregation for the recovery of the injured man. Monday, Harvey was taken before a bench of magistrates at Edmonton, and after a very brief examination, the injured man not being able to attend, was remanded to a future day. The Bremen Gazette has an article from the Po lish frontiers, 3rd Sept., which states that the Emperor Nicholas has approved of the plan of the Minister of War for very vigorous offensive operations in The Cauca sus ; and that he is resolved, if not to make the cam paign in person, at least to be in the vicinity of the theatre of war. Count Nesselrode is shortly expected to return to St. Petersburgh. It is affirmed that he has communicated to the English Cabinet the decided inten tions of the Emperor respecting the war in the Caucasus, and has obtained the assurance that the assistance sent to the rebels by English agents from Constantinople shall cease.—Hamburgh Papers, 15th Sept. AYLESBURY RAILWAY.—On Monday the half yearly meeting of the directors and shareholders in this railway was held at the White Hart hotel, Aylesbury, William Rickford, Esq., in the chair. The report, which was read by the secretary, stated that surveys were now in progress for the formation of a line to Worcester from Banbury to join the London and Birmingham Rail way. It had been proposed, in order to save a distance of about two miles, to cross the Aylesbury line and to join the Birmingham Railway at another place. This, if carried out, would not only entail an enormous ex pense, looking to the nature of the country to be tra versed, but would render the Aylesbury Railway almost a dead letter. It was nece s sary, therefore, that some steps should be taken by this company in the matter. After the report had been read and adopted, Mr. Pigott suggested that the Aylesbury line should be offered to the new Company, or to the London and Birmingham Company, f or sale at the or i g i na l cost, which was 60,0004 or, in case they should decline that offer , that iected line t the acquies cence of the Ayo Worcester should be lesbury Railway Company in the newly-p ro con tingent upon the promoters of that line agreeing to make the Aylesb ury li ne, the l i ne of j unct i on w ith the London and Birmingham After some discussion, a resolution em p ow ering the directors to enter into negotiations with the Birmingham Railway Company was agreed to, and it was arranged that a spec i a l general meeting should b e ca ll ed as soon as the ne gotiations had ceased, in order that the result might as early as possible be laid before the proprietors. A dividend of eight shillings per share, or four per cent. on the paid- up capital, was than declared and made payable on the 29th inst. In seconding the resolution for a dividend, a proprietor said he supposed this would be the last dividend that j would ever be declared in this company. Thanks were then voted to the chairmain, and the meeting separated. DREADFUL CASE OF BURNING.—On Friday morn ing last a young man, about 18 years of age, named Parradine, a farm-labourer, was found in a ditch, op- I x) cinder. site th e It Phoenix public-house, in Staple Cl a ydon , Buckinghamshire, nearly lifeless and burnt almost to is supposed the poor fellow got drunk on the prec e di ng night, an d ro ll e d into the ditch with a lighted pipe in his hand, or had some lucifer matches upon his person, which ignited, thus destroy ing all the clothes on his body, and burning his frame to a complete cinder, the lower part of his person being entirely destroyed, and the interior of his frame being visible as if he had been flayed alive ; indeed, the poor creature presents a most horrible spectacle, his body being thus mutilated, while ho is in possession of his reason. Several individuals have been summoned becore the borough magistrates this morning (Monday), on suspicion of having some knowledge of this frightful calamity. The p oor f e ll ow has a father and moth er with a large family somewhat dependent on his exertions 1 for a maintenance. PRICES OF SHARES IN CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 17. Dividend per Annum. bi per cent. a. 41. 10s. 81. 4 per cent. 41. 401. .15s. 71. 11.53. 31 12s. Bd. 121. I.los. 341. 101. 171. 301. 3% 17s. ad. 10/. 6 percent. 28 ii :. 1/. 115. 15L a21. - ies. 101. 10e. 41. 1.45. cent. 4 per cent. la per cent. 4 per cent. 31. 10s. 5 per cent. per cent. 6% pet cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. % per cent. IL 07 W. 18s. Id. per cent. 11. 78. Si. 104. 4 percent. 6 per cent. 6 per cent. 3a..651.yr eh 51.55. per share 5 per cent. 34 per cent.l t 30s. N. j 57 per cent. per cent. per cent. 6 per cent. per cent. 4s. 26. 6d. per cent. :19s. 12 ih. & bs. 14 51. 101. 10s. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 11. ss. 4r. 5 per cent. 5% per cent. 11. 4s. 5 per cent. lON per cent 51. S per cent. 6 per cent,. 5 percent. 5 per cent. 6per cent. per cent. per cent. 3 per cent. 6 per cent. ils per share fts, per share 10 per cent. per cent. 166. 11.56. 11. 78. 51. and bs. OV. and bs. per cent. scent. 10/. 101. 81 per eh lbe per sh 91. el per cent. 5 per cent. 6 per cent. 5 per cent 6 per cent 4% per cent. sr. 12s. 21. 10s. 2/. 10s. 21. 10.. 5 per cent. aj• 16s. 11. 14s. 10s. per sh 11. 4.. per cent. Ss. per sh. 24 5& per sh 10 per cent 2% per cent. 41.55. per sh 2%4 per sh. 12s. per sh. per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 1%/. per eh SOL per sh. 11. 14s. 31. per share Said per ah 31.175. pr al 113 s per al IL 11. 55. 15s. 11.11 — s. lid. lb per cent, per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. IL 11. 31. Is. &L. /. 10s. lOper cent. 10s. per eh. 14 104 per sh. Names of Com panies. Canals. Ashton and Oldham Ashby-de-la-Zouch.. av Basingstoke Breckneck & Abergay Birmingham, 1-16th s h Do. and Liverp. June Chelmer & Blackwater Coventry Cromfbrd Dudley Derby Danube and Mayne Ellesmere and Chester Erewash ..... Forth and Clyde Grand Junction ..... Grand Union ..... Grand Surrey Grand Westere Glamorganih., ay. cest Gloucester & Berkeley Grantham Huddersfield Kennet ..,d Avon „Ay Lancaster av Leeds and Liverpool... Leicester Leicester & Northamp Loughborough ..... Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire Melton Mowbray Mersey and Irwell Macclesfield Neath Oxford Peak Forest av Regent's (of London).. Rochdale. av Shropshire Somerset Coal. Do. Lock Fund Stock Stafford and Worcester Shrewsbury Stourbridge ••..•• Stratford .on.Avon...av Swansea Severn & Wye & Rail. Trent & Mersey, 1 4 sh. Thames & Medway..av Warwick and Rirming. Warwick and Napton... Worcester & Birming. Wilts and Berks .ay Wisbeach Wcy and Arun Docks. Commercial East and West India , London Ditto Bonds av Do. Bnds, var. amounts 9t. Katharine Ditto Bonds Ditto Bends Southampton Bridges Hammersmith .... Southwark, new Subs. Ditto New of 7) pr c Waterloo Ditto Old Ann. of Si, Ditto New ditto of 7 1 Ditto Bonds Vauxhall. av Assurances. Albion Alfred Life Alliance Biit. and For Ditto Marine ....... . . Atlas Birmingham Fire British Commercial Cler. Med. A: Gen. Life County Eag1e........ Economic Life ...... European Life Ditto New Freemasons Globe Guardian Hope Life Ditto Fire........... Imperial Fire . Ditto Life Indemnity Marine Law Life Legal and General Life London Fire Ditto Ship National Loan Fund Neptune Marine Palladium Life Protector Life Provident Life Rock Life R yal Exchange Sun Fire Ditto Life University Life Universal Life Union Fire and Life Joint Stk flanks Australasi?.... ..... Ditto New Brit. North American Commercial of London Colonial London & Westminstr Ditto London Joint Stock Metropolitan Provincial of Ditto New National of Ireland Nat. Provincial Bnglnd Ditto New Gloucestershire ~.. Union of Australia..... Union of London Gaslight 44 Coke Bath British Ditto Birmingham Biradng. & St*Wordsh Bristol Brighton Ditto General City of London Ditto New Continental Conso lld Ditto New.. Equitable. IMperial Isle of Thanet Independent ........ Phoenix Ratcliff.— South Metropolitan United General, Westmins. Chartered Ditto New ........ Water Works. Birmingham East Grand Junction.......av Kent Nw Riv Lon. Bridg An Manchester and Salford Vauxhall, late S. Lond. West Middlesex av Yrk BuligCo.Les.Prep Iron Railways. Birmingham & Derby Birming. & Gloucester Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester and Holyhead Eastern Counties Edinburgh & Glasgow Grand Junction..„ Great North of Englnd Great Western Ditto Half Shares Ditto Fifths ... Harwich (Rraithwaite) Hull and Selby ....... Lancaster and Carlisle' Leeds and 5e1by....... Liverpool & Manchestr Ditto Half-Shares London and Brighten Ditto Loan Notes London and Blockwall London and Greenwich London and Birmingh. Ditto Quarter-Shares Ditto Thirds London and S. Western London and Croydon Manchester and Leeds Ditto New Shares Mancbatr and Birming Midland Counties North British Norwi h & Brandon Northern and Eastern Ditto Scrip, iss. 5/. die Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen.., Rouen and Havre Stockton & Darlington South East. and Dover Yarmouth and Norwich lurk and N. Midland.., Ditto New Shares Mines. Albion Copper Alten Anglo Mex., iss.sl. p.m Ditto Subscription Bolanos Ditto Scrip Brazil. Imp. iss.sl. p.m Do. Mocaub. & Coc. U, Do. St. John Del Rey British Iron Ditto Registered Cobre Copper Copiapo Columbian, loss. 51. p.m Cieneral Mining ..... Hibernian . Imperial Slate Cornpy. Mexican ........ Mining Co. of Ireland Real del Monte, Unreg Ditto Loan Notes Rhymney Iron Santiago de Cuba United Mex., iu.2/. pm Ditto Scrip Ditto Ner: Scrip Lit erary. Londn, with Sie.Ticket London University Russell King's College Miscellaneous Angle Mexican Mint Australian Agricultur Brit. American Land, Canada 000000 oo . 000 Upper Canada Bonds.., Gen. Steam Navigation Iberian Mercantile Co. Ditto Property Met. Wood Pay., iss. 1/. Mex. and S. American New Brunswick klAnd) New Zealand Penins. & Orien. :Steam Royal Mail Steam Reversionary Int. Soc South Australian 00000 Thames Tunnel Van Diemen's Land stock '75 0 0 101 0 • 25 0 10 0 I 100 0 ) 50 1 0 110 0 0 15 ' 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 1 50 II e X s. d. 97 18 0 113 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 Z s. 41. 1 ,100 1 o 41 13 4 - ;100 0 0 100 0 0 All paid 107 31 66 640 141 71 1140 160 120 130 11 480 230 240 30 495 10 167 122 100 0 0 Stock Stock li/ 1153. 147 9 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 03 2 8 50 0 0 100 0 0 70 10 S 500 • 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 • 0 50 0 0 250 0 0 50 0 • 100 0 0 100 • 0 50 0 0 1000 • 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 Stock 100 0 0 25 0 0 25 • 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock 72% 19 18% 16 100 • 0 100 0 I 200 0 • 0% 5 y( 400 41 I 6 11 3L - 56 0 • 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 • • 10 0 • 50 0 0 100 0 • 20 0 0 51 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 40 0 0 21 0 0 Ti 10 0 50 • 0 20 • • 20 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 • 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 30 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 • 0 41 13 4 190 • 0 3• 0 0 100 0 0 63 12 a 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 SO • 0 100 0 0 100 0 • 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 • 20 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 • • 50 • • 50 0 0 10 0 0 16 13 4 12 15 4 100 0 0 32 0 • 41 6 10 13 15 9 100 0 0 50 0 0 70 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 • 20 0 0 60 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 2.5 0 0 5 • 0 15 0 0 100 0 0 151 - 13 0 35 0 0 25 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 70 0 0 b 0 0 5 0 0 /3 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 75 • • 50 0 0 12 0 0 2 0 0 50 0 0 5 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 2 0 0 32 0 0 49% 1 °9 122 15% 27 45; 71 0 0 30 0 40.0 0 100 0 0 2 II 0 4 0 0 45 0 0 15 0 0 2 0 0 0 20 • 0 10 0 0 WO 0 0 5000 18 I 0 50 0 0 g 5 0 0 20 • 0 55 0 • 20 •'0 50 0 0 10 0 0 60 0 • 25 0 • 31 0 14 10 0 X 22 5 • 140 • 0 21 • 0 25 • • 15 0 • "75 0 7 10 0 7 10 0 40 • 0 13 • • 55 0 0 20 . • • 10 10 • 3 0 otl 59 0 0 7 • h 0 0 0 25 0 0 40 ,I 0 150 d 0 50 • 10 • 0 40 • 0 - 2 10 0 40s. 2 Is. 23% 44% 17 16% 334! 25 25% 12 75 108 79 4 1 ,4 6% 11% 67 219 122 147 207 104 47 1 4 113 100 0 0 100 - 0 0 10 0 0 3000 351• 0 32 10 0 14 0 0 1 10 0 5 0 0 3 0 0 7 0 0 75 d 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 o 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0' 20 0 0 (13i 215% 25; 78% 1631 124 331 7 61i 9% 5 12 274 9 1014 9% 4% 118 415,, 104% I 2841 30s pm 4 34 2t7e PANIES' PRICES. 844. 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 12 10 0 1 0 0 2 10 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 22 8 18 21s. 4% 50 Amount Share. Pail. !Price. MARKET NEWS_-(YESTERDAY.) NAY MAXILETB. SMITIIFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 15s to 41103 ; Useful ditto, 41 12s to 41 18s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ to 515 s ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 6l 6s ; Oat Straw, 116 s to 11 85 ; Wheat Straw, 118 s to 1/ lOs per load. Supply but moderate, and trade rather dull. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 18s to 4/ 105 ; Useful ditto, 41 12s to 51; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 3s to 51 8s ; Clover Hay, 41 15s to 6/; Oat Straw, 11 7s to 11 9s ; Wheat Straw, 11 lOs to 11 12s per load. Both Hay and Straw sold steadily, at full prices. WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 12s to 418 s; Useful ditto, 41 lOs to 4l 18s ; fine Upland ditto, 51 to 51 5s ; Clover Hay, 4l lOs to 61 lOs ; Oat Straw, 11 6s to 11 8s ; Wheat Straw, 11 8s to 11 lOs per load. A full average supply, and a sluggish inquiry. COLONIAL SCGAR.—In the market for British Plantation a fair business has been done, about 550 hhds having been sold (inclusive of those by auction) at previous prices. The public sales have contained 283 casks 161 barrels St. Lucia, 821 bags Bengal, 500 bags Madras, and 100 casks Madras Molasses. The St. Lucia went off without spirit, and only about one-half found buyers at 54s to 61s for good brown to very good yellow, being about the previous value. All the Bengal and part of the Madras sold, the former at 58s to 70s for fine soft to very fine strong chrystalised yellow, and the latter at 42s to 46s for very low dark to mid brown, being for the Madras comparatively cheap, and the Bengal about former prices. The Molasses were taken in at 16s. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 360 hhds 52 tierces 72 barrels, and there were taken for home consumption 1,363 hhds 250 tierces 250 barrels. The stock in the same places is 12,149 hhds 1,812 tierces 1,838 barrels. Rum.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks, was 365:puns 5 hhds; there were taken for home consumption 176 puns 24 hhds; and exported 80 puns 8 hhds. The stock in the same places is 11,032 puns 2,186 hhds. Rim-3,443 bags of Bengal at auction was all dis posed of at 11s to lls 6d for mid white, and small broken ditto at lOs 6d to I Is, which are previous rates. SALTPETRE.-425 bags Bengal at auction were taken in above the value, viz., at 24s to 24s 6d for Ils to 121 per cent. refraction, and unrefracted at 235. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is quoted on the spot at 41s to 41s 6d for old, and 41s 6d to 41s 9d per cwt. for new. TEA.—The market is quiet, and prices seem generally much the same. (From the London New Price Current of Sept. 17.) SUGAR.—To-day there was less activity in the West India Sugar market, and only a limited business was transacted ; importers, however, were firm, and obtained previous rates. At public sale 150 hhds of Barbadoes were offered, but it being a soft parcel little inclination was shown to purchase, and a part only was disposed of at a decline on former prices of 6d per cwt, fine yellow went at 645, good 60s 6d to 62s 6d, good mid 59s to 59s 6d, mid 56s 6d to 58s, and low 56s per cwt. The total pur chases are only 440 hhds and tierces. _ _ REFINED.--: : The demand has been extensive for Re fined Goods from the home trade since last Tuesday ; the market has been nearly cleared of every description, and a further advance in prices has taken place ; brown Lumps fetching 73s to 73s 6d, Standard Lumps 74s to 755, Tittlers 73s 6d to 78s 6d, fine ditto 79s to 83s, Hambro'Loaves 74s to 84s, double ditto 8.5 to 90s, and wet Lumps 71s to 73s per cwt; there is a very extensive con sumption going on, and refined sugar is still cheaper in comparison than good and fine raw. To-day the home trade purchased refined goods largely, paying 73s to 73s 6d for brown, and 74s 6d to 75s per cwt for standard lumps, indeed of the low and mid qualities the supply at market is not ample fur the increasing wants of the trade. For bonded crushed Sugar prices are firmer, and at 27s 3d to 27s 6d per cwt large purchases have been made ; the market has a firm appearance. MAURITIUS.—The supply is falling off of all descrip tions, indeed the quantity remaining in importers' hands is small, being reduced to 14,000 bags, and nearly all of low quality : none has been submitted to public compe tition, but by private contract several parcels have been disposed of at fully former rates. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the market was much better supplied with Bengal Sugar ; four parcels, amounting to 5,428 bags, were submitted to public com petition ; a fair proportion consisted of good and fine white sorts, which went rather above former rates, and inferior and mid kinds at the previous currency—fine white fetched 64s to 70s, good 62s to 63s 6d, mid 61s to 61s 6d, low 58s Gd to 59s Gd, damp 60s to 67s Gd, washed 59s to Gls 6d, mid dry grey 56s Gd, low 548 6d to 555, common yellow 54s 6d to 555, mid 55s 6d to 57s Gd, damp and washed 53s to 555. Of Madras 173 bags were sold at 47s to 48s for mil brown, and 46s 6d for damp and washed. FOREIGN.—There has been an increased desire mani• fested to purchase Brazil Sugar; the operations have been upon a large scale in all descriptions at prices rather above those of this day week. To-day several cargoes of Foreign Sugar were offering for sale, but at present only one has found purchasers at 18s 3d per cwt for brown Bahia deliverable at a Dutch port. MoLAssEs.—Prices are not lower for West India, but there has been only a limited business transacted at 21s to 24s per cwt. Holders are not inclined to press sales at these low rates. East India are still neglected, and 130 casks of Madras at public sales were taken in at 16s per cwt. The stock of Molasses is still considerably heavier than it was last year at that period, but prices rule from 4s to 5s per cwt lower than at that time. Cocos.—The stock of West India is still diminishing, indeed, the quantity remaining in first bands is small ; holders asking rather higher rates, business has been restricted, and 101 bags of Trinidad at auction were taken in at 44s to 45s 6d for middling, and 42s per cwt for low red. Foreign has met with a - fair demand, and very full rates have been paid ; the market is still sparingly supplied. COCHINEAL.—Prices remain firm, and a good demand has been experienced by private contract ; 50 bags of Honduras at auction fetched 5s 4d to 5s 9d per lb fur middling to fine black. The quantity remaining in im porters' hands is unusually small, and is much less than it was last year at this time. The deliveries are going on largely. COFFE.—The market has been sparingly supplied with West India Coffee since last Tuesday. A better demand has prevailed for clean qualities, and the par cels disposed of by private contract have been at full rates ; indeed, middling kinds, which are the most wanted, in some cases have brought prices that were not to be obtained previously ; unclean sorts are, however, still dull of sale, and there are sellers at comparatively low rates. This afternoon Ceylon Coffee met with a good demand; 480 bags at auction were sold at stiff rates---Pea berry at 75s to 85s, fine fine ord pale Plantation sort 64s 6d to 66s 6d, ragged 55s to 60s, broken 43s 6d, and sea damaged 50s to 635, triage 15s 6d to 18s, good ord is held with firmness at 57s to 57s 6d. The supply is still small of this sort. Mocha was little inquired for, and 15 bales at auction were taken in at 50s to 52s per cwt for very common mixed Mysore sort. TEA.—There has not been so much demand for com mon and good common descriptions of Congou, but holders show firmness, and have obtained full rates ; sales of the former made at 100 to 11d, and the latter at no to is Oid per lb ; but the better kinds have met with increased attention, and llrge parcels have been disposed of at stiffer rates ; is 04d to Is lid paid for but mid rather strong ; Is lid to is 3id with Souchong flavour ; Is 4d to is 8d for good strong blksh leaf, and is 9d to 2s 6d per lb for fine Pekoe flavor. There is still nothing pressing for sale. To-day the purchases made in Tea were upon a small scale, and rather lower rates were accepted for the lower sorts of Congou, sales made at 10d to 10Id per lb for common but in the value of other kinds there is no alteration. SPICES.—For Sumatra Pepper previous rates are re quired, but not much demand has prevailed. Malabar and Penang are in good request privately, and prices are firm, the former at 3d to 3kd per lb : none has been offered at auction : the demand for white continues ; holders show firmness, and supply the market sparingly; sales by private contract made at 4id to 8d per lb. The market is in a fiat state for Cinnamon. Mace at 2s 4d per lb for low quality. Nutmegs at 3s 2d to 4s 6d per lb for brown, but export sorts are not much wanted, and 7 casks of ordinary limed at auction were bought in at 4s 6d per lb, duty paid. This afternoon 103 brls of Jamaica Ginger at public sale were sold at 31 lOs to 71 13s per cwt ; but 10 casks of Mace from the Cape of Good hope were taken i❑ at 2s 6d per lb. In black Pepper a fair business was trans acted privately at previous rates ; Cassia Lignea is wanted, but not much is to be had ; prices have an improving appearance. FRUIT.—To day holders of Currants were desirous to sell:but few buyers were to be met with; 44s to 46s is the value of Patras, and 39s to 42s per cwt other sorts. For New Muscatel Raisins the rates asked are 95s for boxes in layers; 515 s for 1, and 61 for do, but at these high rates there arc no buyers. RUM, BRANDY, AND lIOLLANDS.—For the low and mid dling qualities of Jamaica Rum previous rates are fully sustained, and for good and fine kinds buyers have been compelled to pay a further advance of Id to 2d per gall. The home and export demand has been brisk, and the total purchases amount to 280 puns since this day week; 30 to 36 per cent over proof, fair quality, at 3s 9d to 3s 11d, 32 to 34 over good 3s 10d to 4s 3d, 32 to 36 over fine 4s 6d to ss, 32 to 36 over superior 5s 3d to 5s 6d, and 17 puns very fine high flavour of a favourite mark at 8s 9d per gallon : of the latter sort the quantity at market is far from ample for the demand. Leewards sold at 2s 5d to 2s sid per gallon proof. Demerara at 3s 2d to 3s 6d for good and fine. Calcutta Rum at 2s 3d to 2s 3id for proof with certificate. The deliveries of West India for exportation are I,4Bocasks more than they were lastyear, but for home consumption they are rather less. Of East India the home deliveries are 632 casks less than they were last season, but for exportation 512 casks larger ; the stock is 3,229 casks less than in l 843.t0 this time. Brandy of common quality 2s lld to 3s 3d per gallon. In the better sorts of Brandy the purchases made have been trifling ; Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds 5s 2d, puns 5s ; do 1839, hhds ss, puns 4s 10d, do 1840, hhds 4s 11d, puns 4s 9d; do 1841, hhds 4s 10d, puns 45 Id; do 1842, hhds 4s 7d, puns 4s sd, mid to good mid 3s 4d to 4s 2d per gallon. The accounts from France are highly satis factory for the vintage. Genevaisstillwantedby shippers at ls 10d to ls 11d, and for fine the home trade pay 2s 6d to "386 d per gallon. The value of English Corn Spirits is lOs 6d per gallon cash. To-day the transactions in Jamaica Rum were to a large extent at very full rates ; the quantity sold amounted to 300 puns at 3s 10d to 4s 2d for 30 to 34 per cent over proof ; Leewards are much wanted, and 2s 51-d to 2s 6d paid for proof. Demerara in increased request at the former currency. RICE—The market having been well supplied with Bengal Rice has produced a decline in prices of 3d per cwt, a good demand however has prevailed, and 2,443 bags at auction were all disposed of ; small broken white at lOs 6d to I Is, good middling sound 113 to lls 6d, good bold cleaned by machinery IL 4s. U. 15s. (per cent. 6 per cent. Ales. and/ 111.6 d. be. bper cent, iper cent. AN per cent tiper cent LIST op SCOTTISH COM SEPT. 2, 1 Bank of Scotland Royal Bank British Linen Compny Commercial Bank Glasgow Union Bank Western Bank Central Pk. of Scotland Caledonian Insurance Hercules Insurance North Brit. Insurance Insurance Co. of Scot!. Edinburgh Life Insur. loottlsh Union Insur Standard Life Insur Dalkeith Railway Ed►n. and Glas. Railwy Glasg. and Green. Rail. DuWeeand Arbr Rail. 6 per cent. 6 per cent. 8 per cent. 6 per cent 7 Per cent. 6 pet cent. ti per cent. 6 per cent. 7 per cent. G per cent. tper cent. tper cent. I per cent. 5 per cent. sder cent. per cent I percen t BERWICK CASTLE.—That venerable and intere monument of antiquity, the ancient Castle of Berwi about to be leyelled with the ground, to allow spat the terminus of the railway forming between that and Edinburgh. 60 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 - 5 0 0 It 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 55 0 0 5 0 0 2 II 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 250 0 0 All paid 2 0 3 0 • 36 II 0 2 10 0 2 10 ( 50 0 • 10 • 0 5 13 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 2 10 0 2 0 0 5 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 S 0 0 6 5 0 O 0 0 40 0 0 40 • 20 0 25 0 20 0 0 21 0 0 10 0 0 7 10 0 25 0 0 10 0 • 17 10 0 35 • 0 II 0 0 10 0 0 25 • 0 10 0 0 16 0 0 18 0 0 19 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 31 5 0 28 0 0 54 0 0 54 0 0 21 0 0 30 • 0 39 • 0 •0 0 0 25 0 0 48 • 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 at Calcutta lls 6d, and sea damaged 4s to lOs per cwt. Of Foreign East India Rice several pa y have been sold privately, but not at better pric"_ , ;„ Madras yellow fetching 8s 3d to 8s 6d ; Java white 95 ,: I Is, and yellow 8s to 9s per cwt. For cleaned it e there is at present not much demand ; 21s to 275 is value of Carolina ; and 13s to 17s per cwt for rat This afternoon the few parcels of East India Klee u f i posed of privately were rather under those previo us ' quoted. SALTPETRE.—Rough is not much wanted at by shippers or the home trade, and by private COntr a "; little business has been transacted, but holders will /s° l ; submit to any decline in prices. English refined 11 moved off slowly at 29s 6d to 30s per cwt. INDlGO.—Although the accounts received from -, cutta are favourable for the Indigo crop, still boll ( here manifest firmness, and supply the m a rket sparld parcels cannot be purchased, excepting at prices Itj equal to those of the last quarterly sale ; indeed, Pi c ° lots are fetching a small advance. rr OlLS.—Cocoa Nut Oil has met with increased att e d, tion, but holders have not been able to obtain any vance in prices. At auction, Cochin China,sold at 289 b, to 29s per cwt for fine quality, being the former "td, Palm at 24s 9d to 26s 3d per cwt for low to V o j The market is in a dull state for Linseed Oil, s 1„;; prices are still going down, sales on the having been made at 23s 6d to 23s 9d per .;',O ilape Oil, pale at 35s 6d to 365, and brown 34s 6d to ' 44 1 t°,o per cwt. Olive Oil at 451 to 46/ for Gallipoli, 421 for Spanish, and 401 to :111 per tun for Barbary. ",f o r Oils at 341 lOs to 34115 s for pale Seal, 33l 15s to 3 4 % 0 Cod, and at 281 to 321 per ton for Southern • none _,P been offered at auction. Prices are not higher 'for SP; e r, Fine British is 851 to 86/, and American 821 to 83 ' • tun. This afternoon, for Linseed Oil, an extensive hu - ness was transacted at stiffer rates. for TALLOW.—The market has been in a quiet stateics Russian Tallow, and there is generally more inc lll3 •Lo on the part of the merchants to realise. There has 'lO only a limited demand for P.Y. Candle on the spo 4 , fi r to 41s 3d accepted for old, and 41s 6d to 41s 9d per O' er new quality. For delivery the transactions have bee tremely limited, and there are sellers at 41s 9d for the y, three months of the year. The public sales of Tall y, however, went at full rates : 549 pkgs South .Isscle rl o were mostly sold at 37s 34 to 42s fid, 10 pk 3d to 41s 6d, 93 pkgs East,lndia 41a to 42s 9d, 4 9 o '7 New South Wales 35s 9d to 41s 9d, and 17 cos kS ho Italian 41s 3d to 41s 6d per cwt. Town Tallovla been readily disposed of at 4ls per cwt, nett cash. supply is still small. gs No rth m THE REGISTRATIONS. CITY OF LONDON. Some discussion was created yesteraay the existence of two electoral lists from the parish 0 0 ) j, Stephen's, Walbrook. One list is furnished by Mr dcrman Gibbs, and the other by Mr. Rock. In reply to a question from Mr. Wansey upon subject, The REVISING BARRISTER said the more rego course would have been to defer the consideration el 'y matter until the revision of the lists of St. SteP hi kel Walbrook, were before the Court in the usual P‘c t s y he should, therefore, postpone any decision upo n ' matter until that time. e tel The Court having intimated, at its rising yes „jot its intention to take the cbj?ctions against, and the Clio to, the several Liveries, the clerks of the Cornr i el were in attendance; and the Apothecaries' being th e re on the list, was gone through wiih but few objecti n ,%o CHANGE OF RESIDENCE.—When the Barbers 'JO pany was under decision, a point was raised vvhie l 4ol an important opinion from the Court. Many °I 00 freemen who had changed their residences, were jo to habit of addressing letters to the respective age Pti ? be shown in Court, in order that their description o l r ,c) be amended. The Revising Barrister decided that fo r letters could not be admitted as proof, although oral a mation to those gentlemen from the applicants 'nig'," In the case of John Davis, whose franchise was p 0 tested by the Conservative agent, on the ground of residing at the place named in the list, it was P t ht to that he was and had been for many years resident ti;ol' when the Revising Barrister awarded costs for gr" less opposition. Up to the time of our - the revision p , going to press, . proceeded as far as the Clothworkers' Company. TOWER HAMLETS. D. C. Moylan, Esq., the Learned Counsel aPP ° 4 by the Judges to revise the list of voters for the bor . ? of the Tower Hamlets, opened his Court en Mona.„ 6 -Y o t* that purpose at eleven o'clock, at the Court ici t Y Wellclose-square. The sitting lasted till neariNd o'clock, and the lists of a considerable number of Pli sz were gone through. Mr. Boxer, solicitor, appeared for the LiberaY,,, Mr. Brutton, solicitor, appeared for the Conservative,/ There were no objections in any of the lists ofp a gone through this day, but there were some claims- The parishes the lists of which were gone awe were as follow : - cid° Bromley, St. Leonard, in which parish two were made and allowed. Christchurch, Spitalfields, in which four claims made, of which three were allowed. la* Holy Trinity, Minories, in which there were n o c Mile-end, New-town, in which there were no Norton Folgate, in which there were no claims._ . 0 0 0 The Old Artillery-ground, in which two claim ` made, and disallowed. Ratcliffe Hamlet, in which there were two cl.O which were disallowed. St. Anne, Limehouse, in which there were claims, out of which only one was allowed. to ° St. Botolph Without, Aldgate, in which there we claims. .4 0 St. G ;n which tof fi laims. one oia ~t. .leorge, in which, out o .ve c allowed. Cl St. John, of Wapping, in which there were no c St. Mary, Stratford. Bow, in which there we ir claims. tbr el St. Mary, Whitechapel, in which there wer e ,ed , claims, of which two were allowed, and one disall0"0 St. Paul, Shadwell, in which there were two e ll ' both of which were disallowed. r iot .41 In the list of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green, g P ° \,..ch raised of considerable importance, and upon number of claims depended. The case of Air. Il l g . r ee Benson, of King-street, Old Ford-lane, was by went made the hinge upon which this particular SP of claims should turn. The claimants, of wh°_, l ls c osr, Benson was thus made the representative, occup i elto P pound houses, and their rates had all been paid ; poi was contended by Mr. Brutton that the parties 1 111 " made their claim within the proper time. Mr. Boxer contended that the omission of then the, qualified persons was a wilful one, and render': 1)0 overseers liable to a fine. The overseers last Ye% fr omitted this very same class of voters, and the tt l f. t heo e , vising Barrister had decided that the claims °` ta nce' voters must be allowed. Under these circunis there could be no excuse for the overseers. Considerable discussion took place, and ultima The Learned Barrister decided that he should, one il his judgment as to the fines to a future day, anajirio' sr„ had consulted with Mr. Arnold (the Revising 014 0 of last year). As to the validity of Mr. Benson 's d he had no doubt ; it was a good one, and he WO E allow it accordingly. el Nearly sixty other claims belonging to the W I " gory were in consequence allowed. Mr. Moylan will sit again this day. MARYLEBONE. t The revision of the lists of voters for the optil e : n te d° extensive borough of Marylebone has been aPP„,T; Co n : take place on Monday next, the 23d inst. "-:doo'' servatives have made no less than 1,174 o i l) - 1 1 1 whilst the Reform Association have made t, 1/11 _,g claims of both parties are altogether insigniou e r, there are several hundred individual claims on P l- ' i vb" of persons who are lodgers, and by the Charti s ,,,s ts ' have formed themselves into a " Suffrage" Assn,"..hlor, The number of voters in the register for the bor 011 : 7 0 year was 14,749. On the lists at the present 1-1" tivr, number is 15,784, making an increase of 935 ; e number, it is expected, will be much diminished be revision. hee. l f° ESCAPE OF PRISONERS.--Information has -- warded to Bow-street, and thence to the variousL - e e politan and city police-offices and stations, that Pair the prisoners confined for various offences in St• b e : gaol had managed to effect their escape therer,Vipot tween the hours of one and two o'clock in the til e of Thursday last, and, notwithstanding the eff°loo ,l° by Mr. Dreyton, the Governor, aided by the V. „Itlefr y trace out their retreat, they have as y e t b e en Mr. Dreyton has offered a reward of 15 guineas° . A apprehension. DIED. , of eo On the 10th inst., at Paris, Ruth Wilson, w- 6 Blundell. jcii ,' On the 11th inst., at Hawkhurst, Kent, John Po P Esq., aged 64. of gr..l' On the 11th inst., John Edmondes, only lion Sanders, of the Vassal-road, Brixton, aged 17. . ge t On the 12th inst., at Wilton, William Seagrant 64 ' r ot of that borough. iel On the 13th inst., Ellen Mary Whitehead, tYpo - , daughter of Henry Myers, Esq., of Milton-etre'', of square. e l On the 13th inst., Martha Eliza, eldest surviving clgla 0 of George Joseph Green, Esq., of Birmingham. . _,,, Veri l On the 14th inst., at Sanderstead, Croydon, Si eldest daughter of the Rev. J. S. Hodson, M.A. A 0 1 V P London: Printed and Published I,y MUSD° ° so . 1, No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sea O 3 cetoool Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Deddluti, WOdilVidayp leptomba 18,1844 P PM GQV: _ ti:t41 41 .4r 01 .1 - ' 4lll COI ~ 4 1i A 44 4 Buil Beve t szLip Gre l 1(0Li )44,41:dsenc 144. 4440.-1; 44r, t\P*riSl 7tt the l elpartat kfield, a] .4 line v a. R Ili ill % 2 °11 .1U: ' , item t tts of ] th7 l refai it "° 4 a ho b , c Mt _—°te: ITHS. f CO ° On the 3d inst., at the B Baths of Lucca, the lady 0 _,,,, _. Pr Vincent Kennett, Bombay Army, of a son. On the 9th inst., at Eccleston-street, Chester -0 4 ,1w 4 Cassai. of a son. 10 (1 0' On the 12th of June, at Randah, East Indies, the 70 Robert Price, Esq., Lieutenant and Adjutant of th e 6 lAA tive Infantry, of twins. IA On the 13th inst., at Westbrook, Hertfordsbuw„ Georgians Ryder, of a son. -a il til °to' On the 13th inst., the lady of Captain Georg e ' R.N., of a daughter. ofia telk On the 13th inst., at Highgate, Mrs. Francis' of° of a son. P l* On the 13th inst., at Guildhall, Mrs. Josiah Ten>, daughter. MARRIED. 10. 11 On the 12th inst., at Aberdeen, Robert Mattheigoe finger, London, to Mary Elsmie, daughter of George Esq., Regent-quay, Aberdeen. Wl' ll .be On the 14th inst.. at Trinity Church, Southwark, , l , o f Henry Harris, to Harriet Louisa, y o ungest ( laugh° 4 , late W. Tucker, Esq., of his Majesty's Customs. no On the 14th inst., at Milton Church, Mr. Thern al c io lo)l. of the Stock Exchange, to Jane, third daughter Gardner, Esq., of Milton, Kent. sting ick, is :e for town