The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-05 00:00:00

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Since this day so'nffight our market has been in a
very inactive state, and, in some instances, prices have
ruled the turn in favour of buyers. To-day now P.Y.C.
on the spot is quoted tt 36' 91 per cwt. Town Tallow
is 378 per cwt net cast'. Last week the imports were
only 132, the deliveries 2,417 casks.

1848

1849. 1850

1851. , 182

iNck this day ......

Price of Y. C. • • ..

51,272 61,976
378 3,1 to 36s 9d
37s 6d to Os Od
1,736 2,417
5,146 65,142

_ to 45s OA
Delivery last week .. 327
Ditto from June 1.... 61,971
Arrivals last week . 669
Ditto from June 1 ... 75,162

210 132
83,880 90,684

Price of Town ......1 49s Od

39s 6d I 39s 6d

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAN.)

OLD COURT.

The January session of the Central Criminal Court
was opened this morning in the usual form. The
calendar contains the names of sixty-three prisoners.
The Grand Jury having been sworn and impannelled,
The RECORDER proceeded to charge them. He said
the state of the calendar was such as to require but little
observation. The number of prisoners they had upon
the list was small. He was glad to perceive that in that
number there was only one serious case, namely, the
charge of murder which stood over from last session; but
as a true bill had already been returned against the ac-
cused, they would not be troubled with the case
at all. There was but one other case involving
the destruction of human life, and that was a charge of
manslaughter, which appeared to have arisen out of an
unfortunate broil produced by excessive drinking. The
case, however, presented no legal difficulty, and it was
therefore unnecessary for him to detain them further
upon it. He was glad to observe that the calendar con-
tained but a small number of those serious offences
which excited so much alarm about this period last year
—he meant those daring burglaries and street robberies
which generally attended the winter months. Whether
this was to be attributed to the example of
the punishment inflicted upon previous of-
fenders, the increased vigilance of the police,
or an improvement in the moral and physical condi-
tion of the people could not exactly be ascertained, but
it certainly was to him, and no doubt would be to the
jury, a matter of deep congratulation. There was one
other case to which he must briefly advert. It was a
charge against two persons of having within three
months of their bankruptcy obtained large quantities of
goods under the false pretence that they were trading in
the ordinary course. That was an act which made the
parties liable to be indicted for misdemeanour, and in
this case it appeared the prisoners had pawned the
goods which they obtained in this way, instead of ap-
plying them to the usual purposes of
trade. There was
another case in the calendar upon which he had intended
to make a few observations, as it was one which deeply
the due and proper administration of justice in
this and other courts. It was a charge of ob-
taining money from a prisoner under the
pretence that the offender was a clerk to a
barrister, and enabled to secure the services of his
employer, when in point of fact he held no such position,
nor was he competent to render any assistance whatever
to the prisoner, from whom the money was obtained.
Now that was an offence which, it established, would
subject the party accused to a severe punishment; but
it was not necessary that ho should go into the circum-
stances of this particular case, because, since the court
was opened, the unfortunate accused had ceased to exist.
He was aware, however, that there were other parties of
his class lurking about the Central Criminal Court,
and he had therefore thought it right to warn them that
if the offence could be brought home to them, it would
be the duty of the Court to visit them with the severest
punishment. He would not detain them further, but,
thanking them for the attention they bad given him, he
would at once dismiss them to the discharge of their
duties.
The grand jury then retired, and in a short time some
true bills of a minor nature were returned into court and
the trials were immediately gone into.
The last case referred to by the Learned Recorder
was that of the man Henry Martin Flanigan, who stood
charged with having obtained money from a person under
the pretence that ho was the clerk of, and would secure
the services of, Mr. Hurry, the barrister. It transpired
that the unfortunate man bad committed suicide while
the Court was sitting by immersing his head in a bucket
of water, and keepint it there until life was extinct.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
The January sessions were opened this morning at
Clerkenwell. The calendar contains 70 names.
Five watermen and lightermen, named Robinson, Scott,
Charles Watkins, John Watkins, and Fraser, were in-
dicted for stealing four sacks of oats, the property of
J. 0. Keane.
On Thursday, the 11th of September, a barge
belonging to the prosecutor was lying in the Thames,
off Black wall, hevieg a cargo of oats on board. A
lighterman, Phillips, who was in charge of the barge,
proved to seeing the four sacks in question upon the
after part of the deck shortly before seven o'clock, and
other witnesses proved that the prisoner Scott's boat was
seen laden with four sacks cf oats, marked with the pro-
secutor's name, lying off Execution Dock. Shortly after-
wards Scott, Robinson, Fraser, and Charles Watkins were
seen drawing a truck with four sacks of oats from the di-
rection of Execution Dock, to Brewhouse-lane, where they
deposited them in a dust-corner. A carpenter in the
service of Mr. Junes, in that lane, gave information to
the police. The sacks were found in the dust-hole, and
the prisoners were followed to a neighbouring public-
house. The evidence against John Watkins was to the
effect that before the other prisoners reached Brewhouse-
lane with the truck he was observed walking up and
down there, apparently "on the look out," and that
when they came to him, he said, " What - fools you
are to be all four with the truck." He was also in the
public-house when they were arrested, but he was
not in their company, nor was ho taken into custody at
the same time. It was also proved that he plied for
fares as a waterman about that spot, and would have
been there in the ordinary course of his business. Re-
spectable witnesses gave a good character to each of
the prisoners.
The jury, after a long consultation, found all the pri-
soners Guilty, except John Watkins, whom they ac-
quitted, recommending Robinson to mercy on account
of previous good character.
The JUDGE said the offence was of a very serious
character, and should be punished severely. Those who
were guilty of it were generally in the habit of plunder-
ing vessels in the river, though apparently bearing a
good character. He sentenced Robinson to Six months'
and the others to twelve months' imprisonment.

MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—Michael Foy, 19, and James
Massey, 18, were placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham
charged with being concerned, with others not in custody,
in stealing 181. 10s. in gold, and four watches, the pro-
perty of Mr. Michael Metcalfe, 59, Marshall-street,
Golden-square.
‘_ a
Swanson, C 62, said, yesterday morning be was sent
for to 29, Marshall-street, to inquire about a robbery
which had been committed there, and from information
be subsequently received he suspected the prisoners to
n ve been concerned in the robbery. Ho accordingly
e
took them into custody, and conveyed them to the sta-
tion-house, 7h
ero they wore searched, and a quantity of
money was found upon them. Witness
had since discovered
that the prosecutor's brother-in-law
abscondeddirectlyprisoners had
the discovery of the robbery,
and that the had been previously seen in his
company. Witness now wished for a remand in order
etonot proceed
to say, were remanded for a
eeed further in the case. The
ptorigsoivneerhsiim time to
reek.
Society for the CRUELTY TO A HORSE.—
James Smith appeared in
answer to a summons granted at the instance of Mr.
Thomas, the secretary of the Royal
Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, charging him with wan-
tonly ill-treating a horse.
It appeared from the evidence of a
New River
named
theer
Dann, a clerk in the employ of the Com-
pany, that on the 16th of December last he
was pro-
ceeding along Oxford-street, when he saw the prison
wantonly bet a horse which he was driving about
head with a whip. Witness thought the defendant acted
with unreasonable severity, and told him so, whereupon
tLe defendant commenced such a volley of abuse that, in
order to protect other people, he communicated with
Mr. Thomas, who adopted the present proceedings
against the defendant.
The MAGISTRATE fined the defendant 103. and costs

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DannY-LANE THEATRE.—The new pansmime of
Harlequin Hogarth continues to crowd this house night after
night, and is one of the greatest hits the theatre has ever
made.
A scion of an ancit-nt and distinguished family,
famed for the military achievements of its ancestral line, is
about to lead to the hymeneal altar an accomplished daughter
of a wealthy divine, well known in Fermanagh as a most
extensive landed proprietor.
The cold has tet in with great intensity. Yes-
terday morning, at six o'clock, Al, Chevalier's thermometer
marked 8 deg. 8-lOths of centigrade (16' Fahrenheit), and
at 12 o'clock 7 deg. 4-10ths of centigrade (18% Fahrenheit).
.-tarii 'raper,