The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-13 00:00:00

OFFICER.

This morning, upon the Recorder taking his seat,
Charles King, formerly a plain-clothes officer in the C
divi,ion of the police, was put upon his trial for having
conspired, with a number of young thieves, to commit
feio❑ieF. The prisoner, who is described in the calendar
as haminerm ,n, aged 32, was arraigned upon several in-
dictments, contai,iing counts for stealing and receiving,
and the first one proceeded with was that of having stolen
upon the 31st Dec , 1853, a purse, containing 175., from
some person unknown, at the parish of St. Mary AL-
botts, Kensington.

Mr. ',Bodki❑ and Mr. Clerk prosecuted, and Mr.
Sleigh defended.

Upon the prisoner being placed at the bar, Mr. Sleigh
applied to the Court to postpone the case until next ses-
sion, as Mr. Duncan, who had been retained by the pri-
soner, was unwell, and he (Mr. Sleigh) had not had time
to sufficiently study the prisoner's instructions, which
had but that day been put into his hands.
The Recorter said that, the case not being of a com-
plicated character, he thought that Mr. Sleigh could do
sufficient justice to the prisoner without the postpone-
ment, as it was merely a case of the credit due to the
witnesses.

M. Bodkin then stated the case to the jury, and said
that the present prosecution had been ordered by the
Government, and it was one about which great anxiety
was felt, as the charge against this man was, if untrue,
one of a most wicked character ; and if true, he could
conceive no offence more heinous, as the prisoner was
one of those members of the police force who were
placed in plain clothes to prevent the commission •f
crime, and his position therefore afforded some facilities
to commit crime if he felt disposed. The charge about
to be proceeded on was this : The prisoner had got ac-
qnainted with a young thief, named Reeves, now
undergoing a sentence of two years' imprison-
ment in the Westminster House of Correction,
for picking pockets, and from what that boy had stated
to the officials then they had taken these proceedings
against the prisoner, and the boy's statement was that
prisoner had taken him and some other boys, upon the
31st of December, 1853, where the skating was going
on upon the Serpentine, and there pointed out to the
lad Reeves a la,ly, whose pocket he picked. After
Reeves had picked the lady's pocket of her purse he gave
it to the prisoner, who, having shown the boy what
money it contained, and then putting the money in his
pocket, hid the purse in a tree. The boy then picked
another lady's pocket of some loose silver, and
the prisoner afterwards, at a coffee-shop in
Sloane-street, divided the proceeds of the day's
plunder. The case did not rest upon the testimony of
the boy alone, for the circumstance of hiding the purse
was seen by Sims, the park-keeper, who called the atten-
tion of the police to it ; and although they could not
prove the prisoner to be the party, the fact of some one
having hidden the purse,. as stated by the boy Reeves,
would be clearly proved. Prisoner had also been seen
at the Zoological Gardens and other places with the boy
Reeves.

The evidence adduced fully bore out the statement of
.he learned counsel.

M t.t-4KI T N W.S-a HIS DAY.

CORN EXCHA N GE.

The receipts of English wheat up to our market, this
week, coastwise and by land carrine, have been very mo-
derate, and the show of samples Litre, to-day, was limited.
The demand, however, was rather inactive, at Monday's
quotations.
There was very little business transacted in any kind of
foreign wheat, yet holders were firms, and prices were well
supported.
Bliley commanded Monday's rate 3, but malt was very
dull at b trely stati,,nary prices.
We had a fair average quantity of oats on offer, and the
sale for them was heavy, at Honda y''s decline
In beans, peas, and flour very li Ale was doing, at late
rates.

Wheat.
1.810

AItRITLIA THIS 'WHIM.
Barley. ( Halt..
2,720 4,..42 1 0

English ..
Irish .• ••
Foreign ..

oats.
1,65)
6,450
1,740

Flonr, .
1,170

3311
6110 brls.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES C/F BRITISII COK,
or the week ended April 12,1855, made• from the Returns of tt e
pectore i t the different Cities and 1 in' /gas in England and Wah s
per Imperial Quarter.
wriEAr. BABLEY. 3 OATS. ; aye, ; BEANS. t pcAs.
684 51 30s 81 244 11,1 , 42f , 404 8,1 37s 9,1
TILE SIX WEEKS' A V.ERAGE.
WHEAT. BARLEY. 3 OATS. SSE:. S BEANS. ; PEAS.
673 10.1 I kOs sil 25s Id 393 1 X.d 40, BLI , 385 9,1
QUANITIT/ES ur GRAiN so:A I,ASI' WEEK.
Wheat, 98,982; Barey, 49,801 ; Oats, 1.0.756 ; Rye, i6B ; Bears,

2,070