The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-28 00:00:00

JANUARY 2B, 1852.

together; up to that time I had not known the prisoner
Christmas. He (Cl-,ristrnas) asked me if I felt sick, acel
also put other questions to me, and at.; er feeling my neck
he told Smith that that was all he required. They both
then went away. Ou the same evening Smith came
again, bringing with him three powders, one of which I
took, he having told me that he hal brought them from
his friend. He carried two away with him, but came
upon the two next days, upon each of which occasions I
took another powder. They were brown, and extremely
nauseous.
By Mr. BROUGHTON—When he took the pc,vders
away at first he said he aid so in order that they might
not be seen by any one in the room, and he was afraid
to trust me with them. During the fortnight I was
lodging in Little Marlborough-street, Christmas came to
see me every day. I had given him no reason why, as
a medical man, he should have visited me, and never
asked him to do so. He gave me three powders in addi-
tion to what Smith had given to me, and all that had
been brought to me were of the same colour. He (Christ-
mas) wrote upon a piece of paper, "A. 8., 68, London-
read," and gave me an envelope, telling me that I
was to post it if any pains came on. A pain did come
on, and I posted it as directed, and he came to see me
in the evening, when he asked me if I was afraid, and I
told him I was. He sounded my side with an instru-
ment, and told me to go to bed, promising to come in
the morning. He did come, and I told him I was in a
great deal of pain. He brought me two bottles of green
medicine, with directions that I should take a wine-glass
full three times a day. I took the mixture as ordered.
When I left Marlborough-street, I took a lodging in
Little Circus-street, and while there Christmas brought
to me a phial containing a red liquid, which, at his de-
sire, I drank, and he took the bottle away.
When in my former lodging I had told him that I would
take no more medicine, but he said as I had began I
must go on with it, or it would be the worse for me, for
if I went back to my situation a doctor might be called
in, and every one would know it if I was taken ill.
By Mr. BROUGHTON—Smith came to me when I was
in Marlborough-street, and on the first Sunday I was
there he asked me if it was " all over." I told him it
was not, when he said that his friend had assured him
all would be right, and that I might take a situation.
Smith has, upon more than one occasion, given me money.
A great deal of other evidence was gone into by the
prosecutrix, and her statements were of such a nature as
to leave but little doubt with regard to the prisoners
having conspired together with the view of effecting the
offence with which they stood charged.
Whipp, one of the warrant officers of the court, said
—Yesterday evening, at eight o'clock, I was with the
prosecutrix, who, in Regent-street, pointed out to me
the prisoner Smith, whom I took into custody, and on my
telling him that he WAS charged with attempting to pro-
cure abortion he made no observation whatever. At the
station-house he said he knew not where Christmas was,
and in fact knew nothing at all about him. Whipp added
that he took Christmas on the same night in James-
terrace, Waterloo-road.
It was shown that the prosecutrix was confined on the
12th of August last at the Queen Charlotte Lying-in
Hospital, New-road, and that her child lived but thirteen
days Ever since her accouchement she had been in an
extremely weak and exhausted condition, and for
months past had been a patient in the Marylebone In-
firmary.
The prisoners, who wero made fully acquainted with
the very serious position in which they were placed,
were remanded till Tuesday next. They were allowed,
upon their application, to give bail, themselves in 2001,
and two sureties in 1001. each (with twenty-four hours'
notice), for their being forthcoming on the day above-
named.

SPRING CIRCUITS of the JUDGES, 1852.
Yesterday the Judges appointed to proceed and hold
the ensuing Spring Assizes of Oyer and Terminer and
General Gaol Delivery for the several counties comprised
in the Home, Norfolk, Oxford, and Western Circuits,
met and finally fixed the days for opening the commis-
sion of assize for the several counties comprised in their
respective circuits.
The following are the days and places named for each
county on those circuits, and finally fixed, viz.:—
110 A CIRCUIT.
Judges—The Right Hoe. Mr. Baron PARKE and Mr.

Justice COLERIDGE.

Hertford—Wednesday, Feb. 25, at Hertford.
Essex—Monday, March 1, at Chelmsford.
Kent—Monday, March 8, at Maidstone.
Sussex—Tuesday, March 16, at Lewes.
Surrey—Monday, March 22, at Kingston-upon
Thames.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.
Judges—The Right Hon. Lord CAMPBELL, Lord Chief
Justice of England, and the Hon. Mr. Justice PAT-
TESON.
Buckinghamshire—Monday, March 1, at Aylesbury.
Bedfordshire—Thursday, March 4, at Bedford.
Huntingdonshire—Monday, March 8, at Huntingdon.
Cambridgeshire—Wednesday, March 10, at the
County Cuurt of Cambridge.
Norfolk—Monday, March 15, at the Castle of Norwich.
City of Norwich—The same day, at the Guildhall of
the city.
Suffulk—Saturdsv, March 20. at Bury St. Edmund's.
OXFORD CIRCUIT.
Judges—The Hon. Mr. Justice WicrurstAlt and Mr.

Baron PLATT.

Berkshire—Tuesday, February 24, at Reading.
Oxfordshire—Saturday, February 28, at Oxford.
Worcestershire—Thursday, March 4, at Worcester.
City of Worcester—The same day, at the Guildha,
of the city.

Staffordshire—Tuesday, March 9, at the Castle o
Stafford.

Shropshire—VVEdnesday, March 17, at Shrewsbury.
Ilerefordshire—Saturday, March 20, at Hereford.
Monmouthshire—Wednesday, March 24, at Mon
mouth.

Gloucestershire—Saturday, March 27, at Gloucester.
City of Gloucester—The same day, at the Guildhall
of the city.
___

WESTERN CIRCUIT.
Judges—The Hon. Mr. Justice ERLE and Mr. Justice

TALFOURD.
County of Southampton (Hampshire)—Saturday,
February 28, at the Castle of Winchester.
Wiltshire—Saturday, March 6, at New Sarum.
I)orsetshire—Saturday, March 13, at Dorchester.
Devonshire—Wednesday, March 17, at the Castle of
Exeter. .

City of Exeter—The same day, at the Guildhall of
the city of Exeter.
Cornwall—Wednesday, March 24, at Bodmin.
Somersetshire—Tuesday, March 30, at the Castle of
Taunton.
MIDLAND, NORTH AND SOUTH WALES.
The days for opening the Commission on these cir-
cuits are not finally determined.
The LORD CHIEF BARON will remain in town as the
vacation Judge.

DIARY OF AN ILL-USED HUSBAND.
At Marlborough-street Police-court an elderly Irish
couple, whose faces were quite familiar to the bench,
presented themselves before Mr. Bingham, to have their
matrimonial differences settled according to law for the
sixth time. On the present occasion Timothy Lynch,
the husband, was the complainant.
" Here I am again, wid me four pair of boxes, yer
Kanner," said Timothy, with a nod of recognition at the
magistrate, " the same honest, hardworking man that
two years ago yer banner looked at, and said, Timothy
Lynch, you've a bad bargain ov a wife.'"
Mr. Bingham—Well, what have you to say against
her now? Timothy Lynch—That she drinks wust than
iver. She's got her lips all day long at the jug or
bottle, excipt whin she's scoulding and blaggarding me.
It's only yesterdsy she swore a big oath she'd cut out me
back bone. and pawn me last pair of breeches, if I didn't
fork out some more dhrink money.
Mrs. Lynch—That to me, Timothy. Are you coming
an axing me ony just now in court to be friends again
and come home an be comfortable, for I was the best
wife in all England.—(Laughter.)
Mr. Bingham—Tell me why you threatened him, as
he says ? Mrs. Lynch—Here's all about the row, yer
wutchip—Last Sunday I got him a beautiful hot dinner,
pig cheek and baked tatoes, all out ov me own honest
airnings. " Come away, Tim," sis I, "and
.ate your
dinner." fur
" Divil a bit of dinner I'll ate wid ys.os
fifty-two Sundays," sea he. "If you say that,"
1if.1e.,;4
" you ought to want a dinner every
. day
" Hear to me, yer wntchip," said
ITl.Dimo°otvhuyY,ear'jumping
hastily into the witness-box, andpu pulling
history
bundle of papers. " Hear me rade
.t e ory ov me
thrubbles and her charakter;" (reading from the MS.,
which thei following is a verbatim copy :—" Usal
ofE pitats to me, Timothy Lynch : You intornle ipocrat;'
;
you cussed ould retch;" you grey-wiskered lire
•'
cruele willing;' and then when the drink's dying
lint, Tim, dear, I know I've been too bad to
you,so let me have some money.'—Converstitior. wid
Mrs. L."
th ose
Mr.
extra Bingcts? Timothy Lynch ov—ham—From what neNovellw
l are you reading
why it's the
discoorse of Molly Lynch and meself in black and white.
Winsday's conversashin.— Well, Molly, drunk again,
this is the fifth time this wake, though
you know if you
only kept sober three days how happy and comfortable
we might live." To blazes wid the likes of ye,' says
Molly. I says, Molly, Father Hearne tells me to give
you every chance to be a
to chapel. 'Father Hearne good woman, and to bring you
e may go hang himself,' says
Molly; an as for you, Tim I'll make your bones rattle
for that.' Moll '
yniesls It what the Church don't do the
State will do for
Queen, and her _ our grashious lady her Majesty
the honorable magistrates (looking hard
at the Bench), who are worthy of her confidanse, will
not let me suffer from your vile conduck.' The magis-
trates be—' ' Hush, Molly,' says I, don't spake a word
agin them good gintlemin who'll see me righted when I
get you afore 'em.' "
Mr. Bingham—Well, I think that is enough.
Timothy Lynch—l will just rade her doings the next
day. "Put awar one bed and locked me wife out. Went
for me supper-beer, and when I came back found the
door smashed, and the plates and crockery smashed, and
me breeches gone."
Mrs. Lynch, what
Lynch—Say what, that there is
say Mtro. Balilngthhaisai?—WmerlFlz have you to
not above a quarter of it true.
Mr. Bingham—Well, . and for that quarter I think the
best course to take to call upon you to find
on© security
to keep the peace towards your husband.
Timothy shook his head, compassionately at his wife,
and then offered to stand trate ' to anybody in want of
a " sociable drain.

ROCIIESTEE, JAN. 27.--Yesterday morning Wm.
White, a young man holding the situation of foreman over
the goods department at the North Kent Railway Station at
Strood, was found drowned in the canal basin, a short dis-
tance from the terminus. An inquest was held the same
afternoon, before Mr. Lewis, coroner, when aeveral witnesses
were examined, and the jury returned a verdict of " Found
Drowned." Deccaeed hae left a wife and two children!

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.
IP.ivtVICH, JAN. 27.
We c3n Only report, a continuance of sesEty supplies
of both wheat and barley; the former found buyers at
fully 23 and 3s per qr. more money than last market tlsy.
Barley sold also at the advance reported in Mark-lane,
and ail best malting qualities commanded 343 per qr.,
being made for very select samples. Beans, peas, and
oats were all dearer.

PER QUARTER. PER QUARTER.
Wheat, red 42s to 45s Beans 3os to 003
Do., new OO3 to 00s Peas
Do., white 46s to 52s Oats
Barley, malting 33s to 355 Rye.. .......
Do., choice oos to 00s Malt ... . 00s to 00s
Do., grinding... 25s to 27sIFlour, per sack.. 00s to 001

AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING JAN. 24.
Wheat 933 quarters at 41s sd.
Barley
Peas..... 5l „ 30s 91
Oats
Beans .. 40 „ 28s sd.
HULL, JAN. 27.
Messrs. Taylor and Bright's circular states:—The
trade has been exceedingly firm during the past week,
and an advance has been conceded upon all articles in
the business done. Some speculative inquiry has mani-
fested itself for low wheats and oats, and altogether the
tone of things is more cheerful, though we keep a long
way astern of our Continental neighbours, who are cer-
tainly going a-head pretty briskly. The transactions
on the Hamburgh Exchange, by our last advicee, are to
a large extent at a smart advance upon previous rates.
With the exception of Egyptian beans, there is not a
single article of grain now on shipboard here. The
market to-day was tolerably well supplied with English
wheat, for which our farmers, encouraged by the ad-
vance in Mark-lane, were asking high rates—more than
millers were disposed to comply with. However, the
market was very good, at fully 2s per qr over the rates
curt ent last Tuesday. More business is doing in foreign,
and some of the old chambered parcels are now coming
into play : some sales have passed, of low qualities, both
to speculators and for export. Of barley we never knew
the port so completely cleared-27s 6d (30 stones) is re-
fused for grinding, while malting (English) fetches fully
2s advance upon the rates of last week. Beans aro not
dearer during the week, but meet good consumptive de-
[nand. Thr same remark may apply to peas, of which,
however, the stock is insignificant; the unusually mild
season much curtails the consumption. With fair arri-
vals of linseed the market is rather weaker, and buyers
get some advantage. Linseed cakes maintain their price
well, notwithstanding the mild weather; indeed during
the week the market has rather hardened. The port is
now clear of foreign, an occurrence almost unprecedented.
Nothing doing in rapeseed, and cakes only selling in re-
tail. A good demand for bones, but none afloat.
The following are the present prices of grain:-
5. s. e. 5
Wheat, English, red 40 to 42 Peas, white and yel. 30 32
Do. white 42 46'Do. grey ... 27 —49
Dantzic and Bo- Linseed, Black Sea. 44 46
nigsberg 4l 46 Do. Petersburgh ... 42 45
Pomeranian and Do. Riga&Archngl. 38 —42
Hamburgh
Danish, Holstein, & Per_ton.
Friesland 34 36 Lins. c, Hull 71 1736 d to 8/0s
Russian and Odessa 32 —36 Do. fine for. 71 los Od to 0/0s
Oats, English
Do. Danish... l7 20 Rapeseed
Do. Friesland l9 21 Rape cakes...Bss Od to 00s Od
Do. Russ. & Odessa 17 19 Tares, English ......32s
Barley, malting 3O —34 Do. foreign 00s 005
Do. grinding 27 28 Guano 5/ 71 to 101
Beans
Do., foreign
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 27.—The advance onl°:ar°kdo-it Os
Os
Mark-lane
yesterday exercised little influence on our market to-day-
A few small parcels of wheat and flour changed hands
on speculation, but the town millers and dealers operated
very limitedly, and we were thinly attended by country
buyers. A little fine American white wheat sold at 2d
per bushel over Friday's price, making the advance on
this description since last Tuesday 3d to 4d per bushel;
other sorts of wheat, and as well barrel and sack flour,
were much the same as on Friday, and quoted above.
Indian cora dull sale, and no change in its value. Good
oats scarce, and would command ld per bushel advance.
Oatmeal, barley, beans, and pease same as quoted last
week.