The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-26 00:00:00

THE SUN,

on Monday, January 27, 1851, and this d
January 26,1852. -
Per 81bs., to sink the offals.
Jan. 27, 1851.

Lay, Monday,

11-an. 26, 1852.

s. d. s. d.
Coarse and inferior Beasts ... 2 6to 2 8
Second quality ditto ... ... 210 3 0
Prime large Oxen .. 3 2 3 4
Prime Scots, hc. 3 6 3 8
Coarse and inferior Sheep... ... 3 4 3 8
Second quality ditto ... 3 8 310
Prime coarse-woolled ditto 4 0 4 2
Prime Southdown ditto ... 4 2 4 4
Lambs... ... ... 0 0 0 0
Large coarse Calves ... 3 0 3 6'
Prime small ditto ... 3 8 310
Large Hogs .. 210 3 6
Small Porkers 3 8 4 0

s. d. s. d.
2 6to 2 8
2 10 3 2
34 3 6
3 8 3 10
2 10 3 0
13 2 3 8
310 4 0
42 4 4
00 0 0
30 3 6
3 8 310
26 3 6
3 8 310

Beasts ... ... .„.. ... 3,90 3,852
Sheep and Lambs .. ... 20,640 21,250
Calves ... .. ... ... ... 145 171
Pigs .. .., .. . . .. 280 320
SUPPLIES ON SALE, JAN. 28, 1850. Beasts, 3,524;
Sheep and Lambs, 1+1,850; Calves, 85; Pigs, 210.
JAN. 29, 1849. Beasts, 3,334; Sheep and Lambs, 17,280;
Calves, 155 ; Pigs, 140.
NEWGATE .11. ND LEADENHALL.

Since our last report these markets have been very
scantily supplied with Meat kllled in the metropolis;
but the arrivals from the provinces have been on a liberal
stole. On the whole, a full average business has been
transacted, at but little alteration in prices.

At per stone t.y the Carcase.,
8. d. to a. d. a. d. to s.
j.
Beef, inforlor•..... 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior 2 6 210
- middling .... 2 6 '2 8 middling.. 3 0 3 6
- primeiarge .. 210 3 0 prime .... 3 8 310
- prime small 3 2 3 4 Pork, 1arge........ 2 6 3 6
V,c,l•• •••••-• • • • • • 3 0 310 - small •• • • • 3 8 310
BOROUGH AND SPITA.LFIELDS.
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The fresh arrivals of Potatoes, coast ;vise and by
land-carriage, have been on a very moderate scale since
Monday last; nevertheless, the supplies on sale here
are seasonably large. Selected qualities are in lair re-
quest, at full prices. Otherwise, the demand is in a
sluggish state. _ _

Per Ton.
Yorksh. Regents. 65s to 80s Wisbeach & Cam-

Per Ton

Ditto Shawi.. —sto - sl bridge
Lincoln. Regents 60s to 70s Kent Regents 6os to 75s
Scotch Regents.. 60s to 70s Essex Regents 6os to 755
Ditto Cups
Ditto Blues
Ditto Dahlias ... —s to s,Kent & Essx. Mid. —s to —s
Common Whites. —s to —s; French —s to s
N eweastle & Ber- German ditto ... —s to 8
wick Regents.. 60s to 70s;Dutch Whites... —s to —5
Kentish Red Kid. —s to s;Chats
BOROUGH HOP MARKET. _

The market is very moderately supplied with all new
Hops, for which the demand is steady, at fully last
week's prices. Yearlings are in lair request, at ex.
treme quotations, Sussex pockets, per cwt., 112 s to
1265; Weald of Kent, 126 s to 140 s; Mid and East Kent,
140 s to 2505.

LONDON,

2d Vic, chap. 105, which was passed to remove doubts
as to the validity of certain oaths which were general
io their character. The Learned Sergeant had not con-
cluded his address when our report left.
Alderman Salomons was present in the court, and
the Right Hon. Milner Gibson, M P., occupied a seat
upon the bench. The court was more than usually
crowded.

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

PRESTON V. LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEWCASTLE-

UPON TYNE JUNCTIJN RAILWAY COMPANY.

Mr. Blass, Q.C., applied to the Court for a man-
damus, calling upou the directors of the Liverpool,
Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Rail-
way Company to register the transfer of five of the
shares which Mr. Preston had purchased in the market.
The directors refused to register the shares, because
Mr. Preston wanted to use his influence, as a share-
holder, to make the company pay a large demand which
his father had upon them. It would seem that in its
early days the promoter agreed to pay Mr. Preston's
father 5,000/. to withdraw his opposition, as a landowner,
to the proposed line ; and they ultimately found no di-
fficulty in obtaining their Act. When, however, the
panic came, they determined to abandon the scheme
alrogether, and to divide the remainder of the deposits,
amounting to 10s. per share, amongst the shareholders ;
but this had not been done, under the Winding•up Act,
and Mr. Preston having become possessed of five of the
shares, he wished to be placed on the register, but the
directors refused to allow that, for the reasons already
stated.—Application granted.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
(Before the ASSISTANT-JUDGE.)
The January adjourned sessions were opened this
morning at Clerkenwell. The number of names in the
calendar is 74.
John Whittle, a teacher of the violin, and dealer in
musical instruments, harp and violin strings, who lately
had a school for the teaching of the violin in Cheapside,
under the name of Signor Giovanni Betelli, was convicted
at the general sessions for obtaining under false pre-
tences goods to the amount of about 401., the property of
his aunt, a manufacturer of harp and violin strings.
On that occasion the question reserved for the consi-
deration of the Court, at the request of Mr. Giffard,
the prisoner's counsel was, whether it was not incumbent
on the prosecution to prove that the pretence upon which
the goods were obtained was false, and, therefore, that as
the indictment stated the false pretence to be that the pri-
soner said he was engaged to purchase the goods in ques-
tion for a firm, declining at the time to give the name of that
firm, the Learned Gentleman then contended that the
prosecution was required in law to prove that there
existed no such firm as alleged or pretended.
The ASSISTANT-JUDGE had had no doubt whatever
on the subject when he reserved the point. But he had
since taken further opinion on the question, and found,
as he expected, his own view entirely confirmed. It
was made out in the evidence that the pretence was false,
and it would have been for the prisoner to show that there
really was a firm connected with the transaction, had
such been the case. The jury had properly found him
guilty, and the Court considered the fraud upon the pri-
soner's widowed and struggling aunt to be one of a very
heartless nature. The sentence was that ho be impri-
soned and kept to hard labour for six months in the
House of Correction.

ARLBR(Y-STREET—(THIS DAY.)
INTERFERING WITH A POLICE INSPECTOR. Mr.
Richard Streether, a surveyor, residing at No. 2, Wye-
ham-terrace, Brighton, was brought before Mr. Bingham,
charged with being drunk and interfering with Inspector
Whall, C division, while in the execution of his duty.
The Inspector stated that about two o'clock yesterday
morning he was passing along Coventry-street, when he
saw the defendant and another gentleman in conversa-
tion with the constable on duty. Witness went up to
the constable and asked him what the gentleman were
talking about. The defendant, who was very tipsy,
said, " What business is that of yours?" and asked him
who he was. Complainant told him he was an inspector
of police, and desired him to go about his business,
which he refused to do, and gave witness a slight push.
The other gentleman walked quietly away, and as the
defendant persisted in remaining where he was, com-
plainant took him to the station. The inspector added
that since the defendant had recovered from his drunken
fit, he had expressed his contrition for his conduct. He,
therefore, did not wish to press the charge of assault.
Mr. BINGHAM inflicted the drunkard's fine of 55.,
which the defendant at once paid.
PREPARING FOR A RAINY DAY.—Eliza Morris was
charged with stealing a silk umbrella, the property of
James Miller, who deposed that on Saturday afternoon
he went into a shop in Compton-street on business, and
placed his umbrella by the door, close to where the pri-
soner was standing. On leaving the shop he missed the
property in question, and suspecting the prisoner had
stolen it, he went in pursuit of her, and caught her
coming out of a wardrobe shop, where she had been to
sell the umbrella. He then gave her in charge.
Ann Pollock proved purchasing the umbrella from the
prisoner for is. 6d.
The prisoner denied stealing the umbrella, and was
fully committed fer trial.
PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—Henry Newport, clerk, 112,
Fleet-Areet, was placed at the bar before Mr, Bingham,
charged with being drunk and furiously driving a horse
and gig, and running over Clara Midburst, whereby her
life was placed in considerable danger.
Miller, 145 C, stated that about a quarter past eleven
on the previous night he was on duty in Coventry-street,
when he saw the prisoner driving a horse and gig at a
furious rate up the Haymarket. On crossing from the
latter place to Windmill-street the horse ran against a
young woman and knocked her down on her back, the
the
wheels of the gig passing over her in a longitudinal
direction. Witness ran forward and stopped
horse, and observing that the defendant was very
drunk he directed another constable to convey
him to the station, while witness removed the female to
a surgeon's, where it was ascertained that she bas
miraculously escaped any serious injury beyond a few
severe contusions on the breast. Her clothes were also
much damaged and torn.
Clara Medhurst said she was crossing the end of
Windmill-street when the prisoner drove against her
and knocked her down. She recollected nothing else, as
she became insensible. She was much bruised, and her
clothes were torn to pieces.
The defendant expressed his sorrow for what had oc-
curred, and said the horse ran away.
Mr. BINGHAM said it had been proved that the de-
fendant was drunk, and fined him 405. for furious
driving, and 3/. for the damage dor.o to the woman.
The money was paid.

ADMIRAL DUNDAS AND THE REPRESENTATION OF
GREENWICH.—AdmiraI Dundas on Saturday issued his fare-
well address to the electors of Greenwich. He says :—" Her
Majesty having been pleased to confer on me the command
of the Mediterranean Squadron, it becomes my duty to in-
form you that early in the next session of Parliament it is
my intention to resign into your hands the trust you have
for so many years been pleased to honour me with, that of
being your representative in Parliament." The Gallant Ad-
miral proceeds to say, " Great have been the retrenchments
and reductions in England and Ireland since you have had
the Parliamentary franchise, and liberal principles became so
well rooted in the public mind, that the late Sir Robert Peel
was enabled to carry measures having for their object a
cheap and steady price for the food of the people, a law so
sensible and just that I trust it may never again be taken
from them. Peace also has been preserved—public credit
maintained—slavery abolished—and most of those fervent
hopes we formed together at my first selection in 1832, have
been gradually realized." Ile then concludes, " From all of
you I have ever had a kind and hearty reception; to me,
Greenwich has indeed been a ' Sailor's Home,' and my
feelings of regard for you can never be effaced. Accept,
then, my best and warmest wishes for the future welfare
and prosperity of the inhabitants of Greenwich, Woolwich,
and Deptford."
ROBBERY OF CHURCH PLATE.—EarIy on Friday
morning the parish church of Knowstone, Devon, was sacri-
legiously entered and plundered of the whole of the ancient
sacramental plate. Amongst the articles is a massive paten,
the gift of Queen Elizabeth, date 1576; another of William
111., date 1695. The value of the articles is upwards of
3001. A large reward is offered for the discovery of the per-
petrators of this sacrilege.

SERIOUS CAB ACCIDENT.—Last evening, shortly
before ten o'clock, as the driver of a cab was letting out a
fare at the corner of Duke-street, Oxford-street, the horse
suddenly darted off at full galop across the road, when it
came into collision with an omnibus, and so violent was the
shock that the horse fell down dead on the spot, and the cab
made a complete summerset, with its wheels upwards.
The omnibus, which was one of Crawford's cheap Padding-
ton vehicles, had several passengers both inside and outside,
and we regret to say that the violence of the concussion
completely stove in a portion of the offside of the omnibus,
and as we heard, dangerously wounded a female sitting in-
side. The railing at the top of the omnibus for the conve-
nience of the outside passengers was completely broken off
by the shock, and six or seven persons, principally boys,
were thrown with great violence to the ground, and three of
them, as we are informed, seriously hurt. An immense mob
immediately congregated, and several policemen were
quickly on the spot, to whom great credit is due for their
praiseworthy exertions in removing the injured parties to a
neighbouring surgeon's with the greatest possible promp-
titude.
GAROTTE ROBBERY IN LONDON..-011 Friday
morning, at the early hour of near one o'clock, the following
gross outrage and robbery was committed upon the person
of Mr. Huckle, of No. 24, Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square. Mr.
Huckle, who is advanced in years, and greatly afflicted with
rheumatism, was returning home through the above-named
square at a slow pace, having a roll of music in one hand
and an umbrella in the other, when, near the corner of

Charlotte-street, he was suddenly poUnced upon by three
men, two of whom having secured his arms and drawn his
head back by means of gripping his throat, prevented his
giving any alarm by placing something over his mouth,
while the third proceeded to rifle his pockets. Fortunately
Mr. Huckle only had ss. 9d., which they took, as also the
silver spectacles he wore ; but on looking at the roll of paper,
and finding it music, one of them exclaimed " Let the old
buffer keep that and his umbrella." They then started off.
It was some time before Mr. Huckle recovered from the vio-
lence to which he had been subjected, when finding he was
very near home he made the best of his way thither. Mr.
Huckle feels confident he could recognise the man who ac-
actually plundered him, and describes all three to have been
dressed in the garb of stablemen.
SPANISH NAMES.--A Spanish journal gives the
following singular names as those of two employes in the
Finance department at Madrid :—Don Epifanio Mirurzu-
rurdundua y Zengotita, and Don Juan Nepomuceno de
Burionagonatotorecagogeazcoecha. The journal, in quoting
the name of the latter of these hon. gentlemen, would have
done well to have given some directions as to the pro-
nunciation.

FAILURES.—The failure of Messrs. Donald Mackey,
Hadow, and Co., East India merchants, has been announced.
The firm have two houses in India, one at Calcutta and the
other at Moulmein ; but they express a hope that these may
Their liabilities are small. Messrs. Dow, Wilson,
stand.
and Herriman, wholesale grocers, have suspended at New
York; And a Dlr. Crlendie Brook at New Orleans.