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London, England, 1852-02-26 00:00:00

FEBRUARY

26,

1852.

most probable history of it was, that prisoner having the '
pistol loaded for the purpose of trying it, had been
vapouring about with it to alarm the other boy, and that
it had gone off by accident.
The RECORDER, Bummed up, and
The jury Acquitted him.
The RECORDER—Now, take care; don't you go
flourishing about with pistols and make a fool of your-
self; and wait until you have a little hair on your chin
before you make love to young ladies.
The prisoner then joined his friends and was led out
of court in an hysterical state.
In the course of the day the grand jury were dis-
charged. They presented a memorial, praying for the
abolition of the grand jury system.

THIRD COURT.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
Thomas Connor, 24. cabman, and William Watts, 24.
labourer, were indicted for stealing a banknote tor 101,,
and 101. in moneys, the property of James Ritchie, from
his person.
Mr. Trevethan Spicer prosecuted, and Mr. Birnie de-
fended Watts.
It appeared that the prosecutor, who is a draper's
assistant at present out of a situation, and a friend named
Jones, a sharebroker, residing in Angel-terrace, Isling-
ton, were out together early on the morning of the 28th
of January, and about half-past 3 they were at the
White Hart, in the Strand. Both parties were the worse
for liquor, and Mr. Jones then wished to go home, but
Ritchie refused, and finally Mr. Jones got into a cab and
left, and before leaving gave back to prosecutor his
pocketbook and the money in question, which he had
taken from him for security. Prosecutor put the book
and the money into his inside breast coat pocket. Mr.
Jones then left him, and went away in the cab. Prose-
cutor again went into the public-house, followed by the
two prisoners, who had been witnesses of what had
passed. Shortly afterwards Watts went and fetched
a cab from the rank facing Somerset-house, in the
Strand, and upon the driver coming up to the
White Hart the presecutor got in and Watts got on
the box, but the cab driver did not see Connor, though
the police on duty, to whom the prisoners were known,
saw him slip into the cab. The prosecutor told the cab-
man to drive them as far as St. Paul's. He drove them
as far as Watling-street, when Watts got down from the
box, and Connor from inside, and they told the cabman
that the gentleman inside would pay, and they then
walked away. The cabman instantly got down from the
box and looked inside the cab, and found the prosecutor
in the cab in a stupified state, and after some trouble
aroused him. Prosecutor seemed somewhat surprised,
and nNked where his two friends were; the cabman said
they were gone. Prosecutor then felt in his coat pocket,
aro said that he had been robbed. They then went t.,) a
friend of the prosecutor's, and thence to the principal
police stations, and there gave information of the rob-
bery, and tee prisoners were subsequently apprehended
tit their lodgings in' Seven Dials, where they both lived
in the same room. None of the money was found, but
it was proved that on the day after the robbery the pri-
soner Connor bought two new hats, one for himself and
;.nether for Watts, Connor paying for both.
Mr. BIRNIE c,,ot,?nded that Watts, who had been a
pothoy- at the White Hart, and was in the habit of
'etching cabs, had not done more than was cansiltem

with innocence.
The jury Acquitted Watts and found Connor Guilty.
The police proved that Connor was a known and des-
perate thief, but up to this time bad escapA conviction,
ho having been no less than six times in custody for
eimilar felonies.
The prisoner was ordered to be transported for seven
years.
James Logic, 45, dealer, who had been convicted of
firging and uttering a bill of esehange, was brought up
for sentence.
The COMMON-SERGEANT told the prisoner that a few
years ago his liie would have paid the penalty of his
offence. lie Was transported for seven years.
William Souihwell, 28, mariner, was indicted for un-
lawfully assaulting James Harman Crisp, and attempt-
ing to drown him in the river Thames.
The facts of this case have been so very recently be-
fore the public that it is unnecessary to repeat them.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of an assault.
The CommoN-SERQBANT said that under those cir-
cumstances he should order the prisoner to be imprisoned
for one month, and kept to hard labour.

INTELLIGENCE.
NORA
Carli.vle, Feb. 24.
In the Nisi Prius Court one special jury Calllo re-
mained to be tried this morning. There not bwiug suf-
ficient special jurymen present, and both sides refusing
to pray a tales, the record was withdrawn.
Mr. Justice Cresswell then tried one or two larceny
cases.
In the Crown Court a charge of rape by a boy, as-
sisted by four other boys, on a woman at least 35 years
of age, the particulars of which are unfit for publica-
tion, and two or three trivial larceny eases, occupied the
Court till the afternoon, when the business of the as-
sizes terminated.
Their Lordships proceed to-morrow morning to New-
castle.

MIDLANI ClRCUlT.—Northampton, Feb. 25.
(Bator° Mr. Justin° MAULS and a Common Jury.,

EALES V. WILCOX.

This was an action for obstructing a right of way.
Mr Sergeant Miller and Mr. Flood appeared for the
plaintiff; and Mr. Humfrey, Q.C., and Mr. Hayes for
defendant.

The plaintiff was a shoemaker at Towcester, occupy-
ing a house in Tranter's-row, a plaee only accessible
from the High-street by a lane, along which the right
of way in question was claimed. The defendant was
the owner and occupier of a house at the entrance of
the lane from High-street, and he had erected against
the side' of his house a lean-to, which considerably nar-
rowed the passage, and that was the obstruction of
which the plaintiff complained.' "The plaintiff's wife
carried on the business of a laundress, and in conse-
quence of the obstruction the passage of trucks very
fully laden was prevented, and persons carryieg buckets
of water were obliged to enter sideways. Still, it was
admitted that higher up the lane, and nearer the
plaintiff's house, there was a part of it as narrow as the
entrance left by the defendant's encroachment; and the
defendant relied upon some evidence of interruptions for
the purpose of showing that. there was, in fact, no right
of way over the whole width of the lane.
The jury, however, after retiring for a short time,
flied a verdict for the plaintiff—damages Is.; and the
Learned Judge certified that the action was brought to
try a right.
,
The J..ORD CHIEF JUSTICE, after attending Divine ser-
vice, proceeded to charge the grand jury; and was after-
wards during the rest of the day engaged in trying pri-
soners, but none of the cases disposed of were of a serious
charaotet.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

AO-red Harper was charged with uttering a counter-
feit sovereign, knowing it Le be bad..
a ,milliner and dressmaker, of
6.l,,lrlisasrhCiette,rktinsiedtttiscineeentered her shop to pur-
iiiitto.some triffing"article that came to 6d., and paid for
ii with a good sovereign. She gave him the change,
when he immediately found fault with his purchase end
deo:nulled his money back': She asked him to return the
chapge which ne demurred to, and she" then gave him-
back the sovereign., Shesaw him pass it from one band
to the other, and then, not having returned the change,
be enddOnly altered his mind, and said he would keep
the article he had Purchased, and threw &yin a sove-
reign, which witness tested with her teeth and found.
counterfeit. Directly prisoner saw her place it between
her teeth he lan away; she followed, and he was stoppevde
near Carthusian-street and brought back, when he ga
the whole of the change to the witness. •
The oniffirceelratsievaercthoedthethcehpargriseo.7, bnu.tefoon_n,d,...7tthhrionwg
A. witness, who stopped prisoner al join"'
should be
something away,
appear against him.
b a women at the station
said prisoner threatened
The prisoner was identified y
apnadwhcleawasbas,od hslrfatirrety elegnourndhedwerafasoprfeltawhceeddlayao:
et stealing
tasfloi
duoefr
pasrehviliovinuig,
licitor to the Iftlinxit?toiloietnivt::_sd:Tia,ft,rv;d7Tyinuidetrerhto:thwe api
C .rrouc 1
oeor
aro , for an_ an
silverti li
heFbl:citeedflo:roPofiturnialideldlerjl::: ansmnoe'ms 'es
papers Palace,ireetef the property of
is sudden disappear-
d had
swbeere.n di;
afterwards, awakened the suspicion of the
CtatoeTol oedh,niesne
hliPnorGgri stol y
'servants of the Guard mess, who found the plat-, missing
from the dining room. 'Constable Swanson, C 62, after
several weeks' inquiry, succeeded • _ .
goner to Pel, where he found him in
a-house in Whitecha in tracing the pri-
soner
bed. The missing property w
officer found a gold ring concealed ualet
di
idnisocnoveeroefd,
thebut
pt
soner's boots.

and reminded tk
Ca.rlo. 4n.ton.i:
Mr.e •,,i •
HE
Rir sal" it was a ease of strong suspicion,
prisoner. for further etarnination.
ter.feist
was
aid'
charged with t and Luigi le Guardia were
having
a die in their po'ssession tocoun-
„,lt_ proved that Guardia had called at the shop of
Mr, Uonquest, an engraver in Wych-street, Strand, and
given an order for the execution of the die, appointing
to call for it aftervtards.- 'During the' interval Mr. Con.
quest gave information of the clircutnatance to the Mint
441th"itles, but engraved the die and delivered it. to
the prisoner, who was watched by the police, and ap-
prehended after he bad joined Grimaldi in the street.
They were both remanded for further inquiry,
• , ' WORSHIP-STREBT. .
at
Anse Murray, a middle-aged woman, was placed
the bar betore Mr. thiamin, charged with the following
brutal outrage upon her idiot daughter.
The prisoner and her husband lived in a place called
Eastman's-buildings, Old Montague-street, Whitechapel,
arid it appeared from the evidence of one of their ne
stbours that both of, them had been fors long time pa in
the vabit of most cruelly treating their unfortunate
daughter, a girl of fifteen, and for no other reason, se it
seemed, than that she was an idiot and perfectly help-
less. On Saturday evening the prisoner tend three or
four ucquaintancci, of hers were drinking together in
the house of the former, when, for some reason which
(lid not appear, the prisoner conawnced such a violent
om
attack upon tie.) pour girl that, to escape fr
,her cruelty( she rushed into the street.
This,
-however, did, ,not „avail her, for the prisoner pur-
sued her ift a state of furious drunkenness, renewed the
attack upon Iter, struck her to the ground with a violent
blow in the tteee and as soon as she had hilen kicked
her with. such 'brutality about the body and head that
:the:liesh of the unfortunate creature's forehead was laid
open to a grdtit-lengtb and depth,. the bleed poured from
the wound in great profusion, and she was e
so stunne
erd
and ameba sasto be incapable of giant; Th Prim

still continued her illusage, but a policeman, who bad
been apprised of the occurrence by one of the neighbours,
fortunately came up at the moment, and after thrusting
the prisoner away from her victim, raise d the latter from
the pavement, and was about to have ber removed to the
shop of a neighbouring surgeon, when the prisoner again
rushed at her, and it was only with great
e
difficulty that
the ocer could prtect er from hr outraous
lence.ffi The girl waso
then intrusted to the carege of one of
the bystanders, and the prisoner secured, but even at
the station she renewed her violent behaviour until
locked up in one of the cells, acknowledging that
girl was her own child, and that she had struck her
over the head, but displaying great vindictiveness
and exasperation against her, calling her a little devil
and fool, and declaring that she would kill her the first
opportunity that presented itself.
The wretched object of the prisoner's cruelty we e,
here placed in the witness-box to give evidence, but
although Mr. Hammili took great pains to elicit some
of the facts from her, it was impossible to do so. her
answers being confined to jerking negatives and affirm
tives, and although her head was partially covered with
surgical bandages, proving the violence she had been
subjected to, she denied that she had been illused at
nail
the
She appeared dwarfish and attenuated, and anLee
younger than she was stated to be, and stared about
court with an absent vacuity, continually thrusting into
her mouth a hunch of bread, which she devoured with
much avidity and relish.
The circumstances attending the outrages hoseaver,
were clearly established by the testimony of reaPe
ett;
able-looking young woman named Harriette Spiel%
Hazzard, a constable of the H division, described tue
condition of the girl when he came up, and found h.i.er,
as before stated, stretched totally insensible uponher
pavement, and the blood gushing from a gash is
forehead.
When called upon for 'her answer to the charge the
prisoner entered upon a long and disjointed statalneeb'
wholly irrevalent to the evidence against her, the tils.
of which she stoutly denied, and demanded that a "t
ness should be called to refute it; the person else Inee'
tioned was therefore called, but did not appear; and -
Ma. HAsisula. asked the officer if he had coMnitte
cated the facts of the case to the pariah officers, by
conceived it one that ought to have been pressor .
them. The officer replied that he had mentioned itLs
one of the authorities of the parish, that he had net 1;t;
calved a positive answer either way, and the Insgi6,treop
after characterising it es one of the most unnatural olim
rages that had come under his notice, and expreeeldia
his regret that the powers he was invested with w°loo..
not allow him to punish the woman more severelb
it, to
tented her to pay the full penalty of 51., or in
stand committed for two months to the House of v"
recti ‘n.
Neither the prisoner nor her husband could Prneere,.,
the money by the close of the court, and she Was tiler°
fore carried away in the van.

THE COUNTRY MARKETS. .
LEEDS, Fzz. 10.—The supply of wheat was small billet:
day's market. There was increased firmness in trade• s!`41)0,
the business done an advance of is per qr. was obtained outilrii
d rates offered by millers on Friday. Barley. Was tbcsha
___.
Arrivals—Wheat,
Beans steady. In oats and other articles no ,:',ll
?+. tvals—Wheat, 3.609 ; oats, 108; barley, 1,985 : P
14.,2126t5h2;
.asthellings,_ 59 ; flour, 8; peas,. 5 ; linseeds 345'were is
EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET. 14E5. 24.*"....Tb-kreir * 114
the meal market to-day 6 sacks oatmeal, each -,eg co,
2andib. imperial, which sold thus :-1 at 11 ' , 2;1
1 wheat ditto,
r.NoBm
R 931 :daualt6oalsksHlsoo:ddpdyo;tpto-eab:vBa
rsve.
trandyee,
;.swTpbhsraei
barley
yo of
dfitttahooe:
dw:ha,:ofoa nd; 1:: at
;
24'''
Oat aLtrtaifromm:AOLd tom9ABROKdEpTe: kveravip.le
‘,0:._16 IT: vadsOid:
Hay, vote
DA °' Theme ,
99 bags of oatmeal, and 5 of barleymeals at if isout on
narket ; sales dull. Oatmeal down on the to 6"' , lot
the second quality 9d per bag ; barleymeal the "rue a
week. A nit&
Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First coed 283 6d
imperial ... ..: 30s 6d
Barleymeal, per ditto ... 21s 6d 93 O.
—s Od ..._p Od
Od L-4 )9cl
Peasemeal ......8 Od - to ......5 Od
Flour ... ...
...
...
—s Od —s „v-, ,s Od
Pot barley ...
..... ::: 268 6d '—4 ""-
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00AL MASK E'

:T.—YEsTsuDA-V.rket:••" 0(1
,he close of the m
... 16i sd
Braddyll. ........... 169
:iettnn .. ....... ...... 16, 3
... ... •..' .. 15s 9c!
Lambton ....... ..... . ,s oda
Lumley ..... ....... . .... 9d
Pensher .. . .......... r 59 9.
Plummer .. ... .•• " . 15s 90dd
Russell's ilettoo ..... 150 A
9h0tt0n........ •:.. 16s 091
Stewart's .• ••• 10 01
)aradoc ... . . •'"
.... 15s oj
Canso p •••• ....... ~3
Hartlepool ••••.
" ... . . . 14s
,7„1
Heugli ,7*" 166 n
Kenos ••,•r=j..,.),,.. las p
Nf3rtli ifert
.. .
South Kellee ....
... 14g
Rd
ThornleY •"' . ... 1.4 s vol
West .... 161 od
Tees ...... ••••• .. 14s
bleat Cornforth' •.:••'n ,
Nixon's Merthyr 11"7
Caidiff ... . ....«....
Sidney's Bartle,'
205 Sold, 92. ,

Prices of Coal per ton at tl
Bate's West Hartley 13s 3d
Buddle's W „Hartley 136 3d
Burnhope
Chester Main 139 ud
Dean's Primrose
Hasting's Hartley
Howard's W. H. Neth. 13s 3d
Longidge's W. Hartley 13s 6d
North Percy Hartley l3s 3d
Portland W. Hartley l2s 9d
Redheugh Main
Canfield Moor Butes l2s 6d
Wylam • .. l3s 6d
Wall's, End, &C.
Acorn Close
Bell and Brown . . .... 14s Od
Brown
Gosforth
Radon
Harvey Wylam(uns.) 1 is Od
Morrison
Northumberland l3s Od
Walker • • l3s 9d
Eden Main
Bell
Ships at market.

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RA.IL WA Y SHARE. MARIi-034.
BRISTOL, FEB. • 25. ..in toideir
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market wii. ......"47,„. were
and a fair amount of business doing. The tranig.'',i;
...iiidiad.
—Great Western (Original Shares), 86 ,ex u'i''' • •
Stock, 59.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 25. rather better
STOCk EXCHANGti—The share' market was ra.ve . .__.
to-day, and, though the business ,waS not extensi
_0!. P_li.u:.
were somewhat improved. The transactions were
.as_t
_lciorfite
Caledonian, 15 134&—East Lancashire, 15 11^1t1---4 west
and Yorkshire, 68%—bitto, Fifths', 6.4 dig' . ''''l '.',1491,1
Riding-Union. 4,,i- dis.—LOndait end Notth-WeseVidi. sad
Ditto, New Quarters, BN4 pi—'Man o,Blls, test silil
Lincolnshire, 28.3/4: Midland, 58% "''' Sc'n'--- is
. !.
DOver, 20%— York and North Midland, 21%. ' ' .. '
. 'MANCHESTER, Elti3•ls. • 4,,,. •, ocniewhq
arbor. Excrtastets..—The business to. ua• 7.,,. tar,.
limited in amount; but prices generaliy 11 ,:en• biro
tendency. - The •' transactions -.were as follovf..„.
,v,..x0.
and Yorkshire, 68ks Ditto,.— Eifilles a 13-,g,,,,,'''duirtel
cheater Sheffield, and Linconshre,, 28 7,.13 -17cipl'arito1 ana
(No: 1),, 11 3-16—Midland, bB—Di
b°l,g`ign.ci, 214.
Birmingham), 135—York a1..._..,_..........'L...,..--" , .
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by the night-71nd hi by the etOriling P . ,
. . is ilreni ,iliet visa
: . , When tatste:or. eit,,ei 'port dis-' due.
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