The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-10 00:00:00

NEWPOILT.

Beef, from 2s :2d to 3s 2d; Mutton, 2s Gd to 38 6d-;
Lamb, 43 8d to 5s 8d; Veal, 3s 2d to 4s 2d; and Pork, 3a Od.
to 3s 10d per 81bs.

VTIEXTMCHAPEL.
Beef, from Is led to 33 Od; Mutton, 2e 4d to 3s ;
Lamb, 49 6d to 5s 6d; Veal, 3s Od to 49 Od; and Pork, 28 4d
to 3s 8d per Sibs.

BILLINGSGATE.
Eels, 5d to ls ; Soles, 4d to 2s Od per pair; Lobsters.
10d to is 8d each; Oysters, 6s Od to 29s Od per bushel;
Bloaters, 8d to 10d per dozen; Cod Fish, 2s Od to as 04
each; Turbots, 6s Od to 12s Od; Plaice, is 2d to is 8d per
20; Salmon, is 6d to is 8d per lb; Mackerel. 4d to 6d
each; Crimped Scate, 4d to 6d per lb.; and Salt Fish, 28 Od
to 4s Od per dozen.

trap.
The prices of Wheaten Breamd
in the metropolis are from
6%d to 7d; of Household ditto, 5d to 6d per 41b loaf.

HIDE MARKET.
Market Hides, 561 b to 641 b, lid to lid; ditto, 641 b to 721 b
lid to Od ; ditto, 721 b to 801 b, lid to 2d ; ditto, 801 b to
881 b, 2d to 2d ; ditto, 881 b to 961b,14d to 2id ; ditto, 961 b to
1041 b, 3d to 30 ; ditto, 1041 b to 1121 b, 31d to aid. Calf
Skins, light, Is Od to 2s 6d; ditto, full, 5-3 Od to es Od;
Horn Hides, 58 Od to Os Od ; Polled Sheep, 6s Od to Is 6d;
Kents, 5s 9d. to 7s Od ; Half-breeds, bs 3d to 6s Od; Downs,
3s 10d to 4s 10d; Shearlings 8d to Ild ; Lamb Skins, 28 3d to,
2s 9d each.

EMT rizanwors.
S/dITITFIELD..Meadow Hay, 2/ 15s Od to 3/ 18s Od ; Clover
ditto, 31 5s to 414 s Od; and Straw, 1/ 3s to 1/ 8s per load.
Trade dull, at barely stationary prices.
CUMBEELAND.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 16s to 41 Os Od; Clover
ditto, 3/ 3s to 4/ 4s; and Straw, 1/ 4s to 1/ 9s per load.
A full average supply, and a dull trade.
WurrEcHArzi...—Meadow Hay, 2/ 15s to 3118 s Od; Clover
ditto, 3/ 5s to 4/ 4s Od; and Straw, 11 48 to 1/ 8e per load.
Supply good; and trade dull.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Justice TALFOURD.)
FORGERY.—Charles Clifford, aged 45, described as a
labourer, was indicted for leloniously uttering a forged
receipt for the sum of 601., with intent to defraud George
flo'gate Foster, and others. The prisoner pleaded not
guilty.
Mr. Clarkson conducted the prosecution, and the
prisoner defended himself.

-It ' apn,ared from the evidence that the prisoner, up to
JlBosinOt,
s-hadntoclakeßenanink,thbeuht aabtit
toti:e commencementthebaringwithof t
London
year the balance standing in his favour was only ss. sd.
Nevertheless a che quo which he sent in for 12/ was duly
honoured, and he afterwards sent in another which was
stopped. The prisoner then sent in his pass-book to be
examined with his account, and it was discovered by the
bark authorities that an entry of 60/. appeared in the:
pass-book, but there was no corresponding entry in the;
ledger of the bank, which circumstance led to the ap—
prehension of the prisoner on the present charge, as the
entry of the COL was not in the handwriting of
any clerk attached to the bank. The prisoner.
had no settled to
or occupation, bat
had some indirect connexion with the Stock
of
Exchange generally gave his address es at the Hall
month his Commerceand , or Garraway's Coffee-house; but last
wife called at the bank with a cheque, and
she was asked where she got it from. She at once de—
clared that her husband gave it her, and she was then
asked whl,re he lived, but she refused to say, and she,
was detained while an officer went in search of him..
He was found waiting io the neighbourhood, and he was
immediately told that his pass-book, which had been
sent in a few days previously, contained a forged entry
for 601., which purportzd to have been paid into the
bank towards the close of 1850, since which time the
prisoner's account had been balanced. He denied that
it was a forgery, but his denial was not satisfactory;
and he was, therefore, given into the custody of the
police.
The trial was proceeding when our re

sort left.

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Tii/RD COU4 7'.
(Before the RECORDER.)
Horton Bateman, 25, described as a law stationer, was
indicted for obtaining money under false pretences.hc been
From the evidence it appeared that Bateman the came
a prisoner iu Newgate, and was confined in
the
ward with a man named John Gilbert. On leaving
h rthat
ptirtiks:nthh:par'eisnotttle Gilbert's wife, and represented to
cho-
colate. Bateinagnrupreol'inainsded
be had been seat by her husband to say that
lehdeserivee
coulde not
chhion;
secretly -18. he would get two pieces of chocolate
htto
h 45., and also
dto him. The wife handed
smend a portion of the
68. 6d, more on his promising
wthouatldilfiksehetowhoauv
money to her husband, and g
to get
afterwards he called
ttolotters from him sent out
of the prison to her.
A fewucceeded in transmitting the
Again, and said he
chocolate and money,
hole in consequence of lending a
had
that her husband was then
confined in the black
pencil to a fellow prisoner,
and that if she could send
him a sovereign or ten shillings he would be released
from the black hole and treated better for the future.
The second attempt,however, did not succeed, as the
wife
bad not the money by her, and Bateman then went
away, and w not heard of until taken into custody.
The articlesnaesver reached Gilbert in Newgate.
Evidencehaving been given in proof of the above
facts,
prisoner was found Guilty.
Sentencets was deferred.

CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.)
John Sheppard was placed at the bar before Mr. Tyr-
whits, charged on au6piciou
with stealing a valuable
silver watch.
L appeared, from ths. evidence of the prosecutor, that
on the night of the sth iugtant, about 11 o'clock, ho was
proceeding along the Islington-read, and when he
arrived near the turnpike. gate, two prostitutes came up
to him and wanted him to accompany them. This ho
refused, and one of them pushed him against two men,
one of whom was the prisoner, when he was knocked
down with great Force to the ground and rendered in-
sensible, and it was some, considerable time before he
recovered. When he came to all the parties had gone,
taking with them his money and his watch. From the in-
formation he bad given to the
police, both women
were apprehended and remanded ; but the pri-
soner and his companion had kept out of the
way until yesterday, when he was apprehended.
The prisoner, in his defence, said he was at home at
theto time Btattd, and he could prove that he was re-
Thee police contradicted this, and said he was well
known to them, and he never did any work.
Mr. TYMMTT said he should remand the case, arid
have the prisoner brought up with the two women, and
in the meantime the other might perhaps be appre-
hz-nded.

Ef,a t 3 j(nANNA
WAGNER —A tu'v (14Y' 8". itr•Pati6;Ce of th,. public
at rest as to this tar-famed singer. We can assure all par-
ties interested that Madlle. Wagner is engaged for the
greater part of the season at Her Majesty's Theatre, and
that she will make he; lIPPO4OIIO there Orthwith.

RAISING OF THE BLOCKADE OF THE
BIGHT OF BENIN.

GOVERNMENT NOTICE.

Adverting Co a notice issued from this office, by order
of the Governor, on the B'h of December, 1851, publish-
ing for general information the notice of blockade estab-
lished, in the Bight of Benin by Commodore Bruce, com-
mander-in-chief of the British squadron on the west coast
of Africa, the Colonial Secretary has the cimmands of
the Governor to publish, fur the inf,rmation of all whom
it may concern, the following notice, officially trans-
mitted to his Excellency by CGmmodore Bruce, conta,in-
ing the names of the ports and places %hich are
now exempt from the operations of the blockade ci-
tablished by the Commodore on the 6tn December last.
By command of his Excellency the Governor-in-
Chief, _ _ .

J. F. SMYTH, Colonial Secretary.
Secretary's OffieT, Freetown, Sierra Leone,
March 3, 1852.

Copy, signed W. Hickman, Secretary.
Her Britannia Majesty's steam ship Penelope,
Whydeb, Feb. 11, 1852.
Notice is hereby given, that the kings and chiefs of
the places noted in the margin [Blockouse, Elmina
Chics, Adaffie, Flotow, Porto Seg,uro, Gomuluta, Little
Popoe, Aghwey, Great Popoe, Pt,rto Novo, Lagos] hav-
ing entered into engagements with her Britannic Ma.
jesty's Government for the complete abolition of the
traffic in slaves, their s.sa coast and ports are to by Ex-
empt from the operations of the blockade established
by me on the 6th December last, and to be consi-
dered free, as heretofore, for the purposes of legitimate
trade.
(Signed)—H. W. BRUCE, Commodore, cud Com
mander-in-Chief of her Britannic
Majesty's Naval Farces on Me West
Coast of Africa.

COURSE OF EXCI
Amsterdam •• •• •• •• 12 0%
Ditto, three months 12 114
Rotterdam .... •• •• l2 2
An ;were.... •• .• 25 57%
Bra iselA• ••• •• •-• •••• • • 25 t 755
=burgh •.• • • • M... 8 13 11jy
Paris, 3 days'inght 25 45
Ditto, 8 months az', 60
Marseilles .•
Bourdeanx.... •
Irrankforton Maine 1221,E
Berlin.... • ....... •
Vienna, effeo. la 0
Trieste, ditto.... .•
Pe tersburgh,fill. Rble 371/.
49 A,
Cadiz ••• •• 7.... .• , 50%
asereelorm .• • • ...... • •
Beville...• • • • • •

ANGE.—THunsDAY.

.....
Leghorn 80 F 2%
3eeo4 ....• •.. 25 62%
yiflao ............
N'aples • • • • •• •6 • • •' 4°74
P1.1erm0,per0z........ 122
Messina •. •..• ••.. •• •• 122
72shon.. 153%
Oforto.• .•.••••• • • • • 53” e)
J esneiro ........ • •
I;ttenos Ayrei . • ••
New York, 6.; days'alghl
?hilacialc.lll3 .... • .....

?BIM OP BULLION, NIB OZ.
Foreign Gold inbars.. £3 17 9
Portugal Golel Coin .. 0 0 n
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 0 0
barn ........ C 0 0

THE NEW DEPARTMENT Or PRACTICAL ART.—
The superintendents of the Government Department of
Practical Art, Messrs. Cole and Redgrave, have addressed a
letter to the new President of the Board of Trade (Mr.
Henley, M.P.) on the duties of the " Department of Practi-
cal Art," lately established ; and the Board of Trade have
directed that the same should be communicated to the
managing committees of the local branch schools of design
for their information. The art superintendents, in this
initiative letter, submit that a leading principle of its future
management should be the endeavour to make the depart-
Ment, as far as practicable, self-supporting in all its branches
•
•••Builder

POLISHED WRITING.—Lord John Ruts 11 put him-
self out of office. Like an obnoxious, cowardly, sneaking,
Malicious cur, he saw preparations making for ejecting him
through the window, and scampered off down the stairs into
the street, with his tail between his legs; but no sooner
found himself there than he commenced snarling and snap-
ing at the heels of everyone who entered the premises which
no had vacated.—North Wales Chronicle.

Corsican bandit, named Padovani, recently com-
mitted two murders not far from Bastia, A warrant. was
granted for his arrest, and a detachment of gendarmerie was
sent to execute it. When the gendarmes approached, he twice
discharged his musket; whereupon a sergeant took aim at
him, and shot him dead.

The Leicestershire justices have charged the pay-
ment of the clerk of the peace for the county from fees to a
ihsed annual salary of 1,0001.

RECORDER OF. W ARWICK Sir J. E. Eardley
Wilmot. Bart., has been appointed Recorder of Warwick, in
the room of Mr. Mellor, Q.C., who has retired for the purpose
of offering himself as a candidate for the representation in
Parliament of that borough.

DEATH OF LORD RENDLESHAM.—This nobleman
died on the 6th inst. at Rendlesham Hall, county of Suffolk,
In the 55th year of his age. The deceased Peer, Frederick
Thelluson Baron Rendlesham, in the peerage of Ireland, was
born on the 7th of January, 1798. He succeeded to the title
in 1849, having married, in June, 1838, Elizabeth Charlotte,
bided daughter of the late Sir George Beeston Prescott,
Bart., and widow of James Duff, Esq. By that lady, who
died in 1840, the deceased had issue a daughter, born in
1839, and a son and heir, Frederick William Brook, born in
1840. The deceased peer was a strong Conservative and a
Protectionist in politics. In 1845 he was elected M.P. for
East Suffolk, and continued to sit for that constituency up
to the present session. His Lordship formerly served iu the
'inlay. The peerage was created in 1806. The first Peer
was son of Peter Thelluson, Esq., who acquired a large for-
tune as a merchant in London.
APOTHECARIES' FALL.—Names of gentlemen who
Passed their examination in the science and practice of me-
dicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday,
April 8, 1852 :—Erlin Clarke, Worcester; Joseph King,
Robert
Newbury ; Joseph Lewis, Cardiff; Thomas James Valiance;
Knaggs, Clapham; Frederick Moon; Frank Lane
I/111(11g, Burton-on-Trent; Charles Palmer, Horton-in-
Lindsey ; George Walker, Harworth-on-Tees, Durham ;
John Northend Nicholls Hamerton, Elland, Yorkshire;
John Fountain, Cowley, Uxbridge; George Smith Brent;
_John Roberts Hughes, Flintehire; Charles White, Doncas •
ter; Robert Bryant Pearse, Bath ; Ebenezer Davies, Swan-
sea ; James Ekin.
THE THAMES TUNNEL.—Yesterday the interior
9_f the Thames Tunnel was visited by vast crowds of persons.
The directors of the company intend having various enter-
t Ittinments for the amusement of the holiday folk during the
,as
week, and great preparations are going forward
n decorating and illuminating the shaft from Wapping to
asotherhithe.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT BLACKHEATH.— Yester-
?day afternoon an accident of a very serious character took
ace on Blackheath-common, whereby a young gentleman,
7ted William Maceton, received such injuries, that his
,site is at present despaired of. It appears that the unfortu-
nate sufferer, and a few friends residing in the City, pro-
.,!'eded on horseback to Blackheath, where there were several
irell_sand persons assembled to witness various games, and
riding., usual fun in donkey-racing ; and, while Maeeton was
slowly across the common, towards Shooter's-hill,
4-" other youth, with a very spirited horse, came suddenly
nd violently against him, by which means the latter indi-
-I„klasi, together with his horse, was thrown heavily to the
etreund. Several persons immediately ran to Maceton's as-
Zistance, and extricated him from beneath the horse, which
as plunging and kicking violently, when they found that
had broken his left leg. He was carried to a surgeon's
near the Green Man Tavern, where some temporary aid was
near the
and subsequently, he was placed in a cab, and con-
Veyed to Guy's Hospital, where Mr. Ramakill, the house-
rgeon, ascertained that both bones of the leg were fractured.
ast evening he was going on favourably.
SINGULAR ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMEN/..—Yester-
"Y (Good Friday) morning, shortly before one o'clock, the
Various persons passing over the metropolitan bridges, as
well as many thousands on the south side of the river, were
considerably alarmed at beholding a most singular appear-
ance in the heavens, which at mete led them to conclude
that a most terrible conflagration had broken out in the
neighbourhood of the Old Kent-road, near New-cross, or
Deptford. Messenger after nutssenger arrived at the
Brigade and West of England fire engine stations, request-
ing the aid of the firemen to subdue what was supposed to
be a terrible fire. The parties in charge of the engines,
upon looking out of the windows of their fire stations,
were equally deceived, and forthwith the engines of the
Brigade belonging to that aide of the water, with Mr.
Henderson, the foreman, and Mr. Hanobleton, the engineer.
started in search of what was expected to be a dreadful con.
fiagration, followed by Mr. Con.norton with the West of
England engine and firemen. Upon starting, the scene that
presented itself was one of fearful brilliancy. The heavens
Presented at the stTth-eastern, quarter an appearance of sheets of flame of various hues; first the light lemon tint,
then changing to deer, oran after which they changed to
The enginesgofthweere driven with all pos-
a deep vermillion.
supposed fire, but after
shone out with the greatest
apirbot se pd
proceeding
dg i
comet hemdiilreesctthi direction
the previous signs of a fire disappeared.
splendour, and
The engines were therefore ordered back to their several
stains.
aPgolt,°arEllaawiTeiTnatead
opres_oNfewOrd
.anylss
'll. LAWYER'S
dinner given at Wigton a
Tiffin, in rsonding to a toanst in honour of theapprreo
feessesio:,
he belonged to.
said that 'she blushed to own
country."—(Terrific applau%lie
Which was a disgrace to
tAid admission so took the meeting
and laughter.) This .m_ before it recovered itself.
133! surprise that it was some ti e
nsisfilxr.edTwiffiitoh,hasorroerooant
The ‘• professionals " present were transfixed
Lhe iLvaen ex-
citedthe ire of some of his professional
h-
ter.) Mr. Lawson gasp Mr. Tiffin explained.
ed out that it mustbeonl only a
,m,
iiise-
take.—(Renewed laughter.
admitted the language might)
be rather too strong to say the
profession he belonged to was a disgrace to the country__
(Laughter)—and he mitigated the severity of the censure by
Saying he meant he was ashamed to reflect that he belonged
a systembelonged
to a community which was engaged in carrying out,,.
of law which was a disgrace to the country."—;Hear, and
laughter.) Tweedledum and Tweediedee.
Pleasure owes its greatest zest to anticipation.
The promise of a shilling fiddle will keep a schoolboy happy
for a year. The fun connected with its possession will not
last an hour. Now, what is true of schoolboys is equally
true of men ; all they differ in is in the price of their fiddles
—Eliza Cook's Journal.
-SCENE IN AN INQUEST Room.—On Thursday Mr.
Bedford held an inquest at Charing-cross Hospital on the
body of Catherine Sauce, aged five years and eight months,
whose death had resulted irons burns received on Tuesday
evening. During the course of the inquiry the coroner ani-
madverted on the practice of parties whose duty it was to
summon the witnesses bringing one of the unfortunate pa-
Mothers o identify the body. In this case he had seen the
seated on the stairs in great grief, t having been
obliged to view the body of her child. af
terha frequently
repeated that it was only necessary to produce some one who
had known the child, and it certainly was most unfeeling to
harrow the feelings of the parents or near relatives. The
beadle said it was no fault of his; he could not know the
feelings of the mother ; it was impossible in all cases to avoid
summoning the parents. It was no onsiness of his. The
Coroner (indignantly)—What, no business of yours to con-
sult the feelings of your fellow-beings? Beadle (angrily)
----I have as much feeling as you or any gentleman of the
Jury, but I cannot always produce persons who are able to
identify. He was proceeding in an excited strain, when the
coroner said he could not have offensive expressions used
whilst performing his duty, and if the beadle persisted in
insulting him, he should order him to be put out of the room.
The beadle repeated the offensive expressions, when the
coroner directed a policeman, who was in the inquest room,
to put him out of the room, which was done. The jury re-
turned a verdict of Accidental Death.
10
alysis STEAM-80AT5...41; is doubtless pr()fi`gble
the but not very p: tit, u.t
to have tots' ats cz,,valcd ts, IT :7 '
day: Several of the up-river boats were observed swaying
fearfully from side to side. Perhaps, after one of them gets
swamped, some fine day, we may see the restrictions against
swamped, some
curied /alto actiTe effect.