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FAIR-DAY IN AN IRISH MARKET-TOWN.
On every road, pour in flocks of sheep, droves of
cattle (many of them of the old country breed, small
and rough), and pigs ; the latter for the most part
coming singly, with hay-rope to jerking hind leg. At
every convenient brook or hedge side, country girls
don the shoes and stockings they have been carrying
so far in a bundle : partly for economy's sake, partly
because they can walk with more ease barefoot ;
mainly, in order that they may enter the fair with
undimmed lustre of black, and spotless white or blue.
At an outskirt of the town spreads the "Fair Green,"
bordered with hovels ; its expanse of mire thickly
trodden with hoof and brogue—men shouting,
swearing, bargaining, where the moistened penny
smites and resmites the rugged palm ; beasts lowing,
bleating, bellowing, braying, neighing, and squeaking.
Horses with ribbon on neck dash recklessly to and fro;
multitudinous horns threaten, parried and punished
by innumerable sticks. Who keep all those asses ?
Are they never curried ? In good Booth they are
ill-used. There are few whiskey-tents, but this is
because people prefer to drink elsewhere ; for many
have " broke their medal"—in other words, forgotten
Father Mathew long ago. Down the street, it is
alulitae
extinct
tg
yet),cru sho
fcarts,beasts, potatoes (not
corn-sacks and human beings.
There are men in blue coats,, flat cloth caps, old
brown hats : matrons in blue cloak., red shawls, a
cloak or two of the old-fashioned red-cloth, white
caps, white kerchiefs on head, red kerchiefs ; maidens
with hair of brown or sable Spanish gloss, or, more
ambitious, in bonnets with fluttering ribbons and
flowered shawls. Yet these, too, found their last
mirror, perhaps in Pie's Pool there above; coming
thence no longer barefoot. At all corners and points
of vantage, apples are offered energetically to the
public ; at a few, cakes and " sweet-rock." Elevated
on carts without horses, the auctioneers of old clothes,
and the Cheap Johns of new apparel, make their ap-
peals to the crowd, and their apparently ferocious ver-
bal attacks upon each other. . . . A more quiet
company of merchants—amongst whom, years ago,
Cheap John the First arose like a red revolutionist—
continue to pitch their tents hard by. The Stannens
(standings) are conveniently ranged over the gutter
on each side of the street, with roofs of patched
canvas, sack-cloth, or motley counterpane, stretched
on rickety poles, or rounded with osiers; whereunder
are spread the dazzling treasures of cheap cutlery and
jewellery ; distorting mirrors in red frames; round
pewter-cased ditto, capable of being propped up and
folded artfully ; gallowses (i. e. suspenders), and
broad belts of coloured web—deemed wholesome wear
by country youths ; little blue and yellow covered
song-books; Lives of Saints, mixed with spelling-
books and Reed-a-ma-daisies (Reading-made-easys);
and in a corner, three or four second-hand volumes—
perhaps one of T.Trquhart's " Rabelais," Dublin edition,
and two of " The Justice of the Peace," published in
1823; which latter the stannen'-keeper recommends
to your attention as "an entertaining romance ;" and,
on being, with some trouble, undeceived on the
point, says he's no scholar (meaning that he can't
read), but that's what he bought it for.—Dickens's
Household Words.

CASTING BELLS.
We journeyed to Whitechapel the other day, to see a
sot of bells cast, intended for Port Philip, Melbourne.
Everything was ready for the operation. In the furnace
there were nearly six tons of molten metal, a sea of
fire when stirred by the men, consisting of copper and
tin in certain proportions. The moulds were in their
places, and the " gutters" formed. The moment was
now come, the metal was of the right proportions (tried
by occasional assays) and the right temperature, almost
as important, and the men took a final glance around to
see that the whole was correct. As Schiller says:--
" Is it in the ground well bedded?
Is the mould well set and steadied?
Skill and diligence to pay
Will it issue fair to-day?
Should the cast not hit—
Should the copeing split!
Ah, perhaps, while hope elates us,
Now—e'en now—mishap awaits us!"

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of: two or three blows with a point, at the clay.stopped
hole in the furnace-mouth, and out rushes a vivid streak
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" Smoking where the gutter bows
Fierce in fiery waves it flower'
When the red metal bubbles up through the air-hole
the slice is withdrawn and the stream passes on to make
the neat bell. Long may they hang to summon in a
distant land our fellow-mon to holy teaching. About
twenty-four hours suffice to cool an ordinary bell suffi-
cient to allow of the removal of the earth around it: the
mould is then broken off with small hatchets, and the
bell is removed to the shops to be tuned by means of the
" tuning-machine." When a set of bells turn out to be
in harmony, without tuning, they aro callvd a " maiden
peal," but this does not often happen.—Builder.

MEXICAN PRIESTS.—It is a fact not generally
known, I believe, in England (so contrary is it to the
usages
-of the Romish clergy in other countries), that
priests in
Mexico are frequently in the habit of living with favourite
wives or concubines, and of bringing up their families in
their own sanctified abodes. The practice entails upon them
no disgrace, and their claim to mix in the beat company are
as eligible as before. But, in this instance, a padre named
Miguel, had ventured a step further; after living many
years with a very amiable and well conducted lady; he
basely deserted her and her children. This circumstance had
very properly diminished the reverence with which his cha-
raw er had been previously regarded in the district. He was
lfothexericwoeise unpopular Al ookiety.—Nason's Pictures of LLife
i

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.)
Henry Wooly and Isaac Lyons surrendered to take
their trial for misdemeanour, in having
unlawfully ob-
tained goods under the false colour and pretence that
they required them for the purposes of their trade,
three months before the period of their being adjudi-
cated bankrupts. "
Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Bagley were counsel for the
prosecution; Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Huddlestone ap-
peared for the defendants.
The Learned COUNSEL for the prosecution, in a brief
statement of the facts of the case to the jury, explained
that the charge against the defendants was framed under
one of the sections of the Bankrupt Law/Consolidation
Act, which declared that any bankrupt who should
within thre months of his bankruptcy obtain property
from any person on credit, under the false pretence that
such property was required for the bonez fide purposes of
his trade, should be deemed guilty of misdemeanour,
and be liable to be imprisoned, with or without hard la-
bour, at the discretion of the Court, for any period not
exceeding two years. He should show them that the
defendants had obtained a large
quantity of silk
goods from Messrs. Ellis and Everington, of St.
Paul's Churchyard, on the 27th of September, within a
very short period of their Bankruptcy, and that they dis-
posed of the whole of that property two days afterwards
to a person named Hart, at a considerable reduction in
the price at which they had purchased it. The defen-
dants were partners in carrying
on the business .of pa-
rasol and umbrella-makers, and it appeared that they
commenced business in October, 1850, having at that
time a cspital between them then not exceeding 230/.,
and upon their being adjud4ed bankrupts in November,
1851, it was found that their debts amounted to between
4,0001. and 5,000/., and 3,0001 of that amount appeared
to be wholly unaccounted,,for.
property which
come had
i
Having proved these
to
fd
only question the jury
rothe prty
facts, and also the manner in
which
the
hdiecrdwneotaaolittdhweir viethepnootstushaeelslrsyion, haveportionsh decide would be, whether at
e s
the time the defendants obtained this property from
Messrs. Ellis and Everington, they really intended to
use it in the honest exercise of their trade, or whether
they were not actuated by the fraudulent intention to
make use of it in quite a different manner, for their own
purpose, and to defraud the prosecutors of the value of
the property?
The formal evidence with regard to the bankruptcy of
the defendants having been gone into,
Mr. Parington, an accountant, deposed that on the
sth of November he was engaged by the creditors to
examine the books of the defendants. They appeared
to have been carrying on business as umbrella and pa-
rasol makers for a period of thirteen months, and he
found by the books that there was a deficiency of 3,0004
He made inquiries of the bankrupts upon the subject ot
this deficiency, and they told him that the only way
they could account for it was by the heavy losses they
had made in sacrificing their goods by selling them at
less than they cost. They also gave him an account of
property they had pledged with Messrs. Muncaster and
Warre, pawnbrokers, to the amount of 1,200/., and upon
which 530/. or 5401. bad been advanced.
Mr. CLARKSON—The defendants admitted they were
insolvent, and readily signed a declaration to that effect
when they wore required to do so. They said that their
difficulties had compelled them to pledge a great deal of
their property, but they had redeemed a great portion
of it, and they handed him over the deposit notes
for the remainder. The pledgings were referred
to in the books of the bankrupts, and the
redemptions of the property also to a consi-
derable extent. The whole amount of the debts was
5,4001., and the assets, including furniture, stock, and
property of every description belonging to the defend-
ants, he estimated at 2,400/. It appeared by the books
that there had been a great many business transactions
between Messrs. Ellis and Everington and the bankrupts,
and that the latter had supplied manufactured goods in
their.trade to Messrs. Ellis and Co. to a large amount.
The bankrupts made a statement of expenses and other
matters to account for the deficiency of 3,0001., but ac-
cording to their own showing a sum of 1,000/. was still
unaccounted for. The bankrupts' stock was sold by
public tender, and the proceeds it realised he believed
was 47 per cent. under the invoice price of the goods.
Re-examined—The stock of the bankrupts fetched
1,000/. or 1,1001.
By the COURT—The stock was parcelled out into small
lots, with as option to any party to purchase the whole
amount ; but, as the assignees considered that no eligi-
ble offer was made for the goods, they sold the whole of
the stock by private arrangement to a person named
Myers, .at a discount of 47 per cent. upon the invoice
price.

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- Mr. H. A. Stansfeld, the official assignee, gave similar
evidence with regard to the state of the bankrupt's
book. He also said, that upon his asking the bankrupts
the meaning of the term " silkman" that was placed
against some of the items, they explained to him th.t cat
the cheques that ocere draw. for tho purpob of redeem-
ing the silk that had been pawned were made payable to
that name, in order that the real nature of the transaction
might not be known.

ry and
she
ed
relativeev e ry transactionpositposition
of
and the bankrupts were a consiadpepraebarleedtiimn
Cross-examined—The whole
The books also showed that'eding
October,
wasof such
aboutch esqouuel.s,
between J 301.13
ethebobtohokisti.
favour of the defendants, and at other
Messrs. Ellis and Everington
forodfebPtior and creditor to each other,
and in August, 1851,a there was a balance of 50/. in
creditors to a very much
pay-
ment of 501., and the actual balance urger amount. It also ap-
peared that during the whole sae
sn the month of October,
Co. with their goods, ander 3' supplied Messrs. Ellis and
periods they were
amount by the goods furnished due to the firm from
the bankrupts at the time of the bankruptcy was 5111.
they also made a cash
Is. 51, it being reduced from
the defendant Lyons came t
by the6mf
showed him some figured silk
Mr. John Allen, a clerk' by the bankrupts.
Ellis and Co., deposed that on the warehouse of Messrs.
a much larger sum to that
on the 25th of September
the establishment, and be
He purchased one piece as
consult his partner as to
of pieces of both description
—thellre a
sareanple,alasondsoemaeidgbliierewesielkld.
making parasols. He
afterwardswhether it was suitable for
service
purchased a number
6,316 yards, the e of silks, containing alto-
gether6Bol. 14s. total value of which was
the receipt of the goods iee
Fry, a clerk in the
tehee bankrupt,tbe 27 b
bf provedsep_
ternber.
lisßaybdMEry.rCieLgatneeissaotst wrote a letter to Messrs. El-
fore the goods were sent in. It was to the effect that
of the defendants be-
give the
Mr. Lyons could not
the geode, but if they would (3
price that was asked for
half-
penny less per yard, he would take
a farthing or a
was requested immediately, take them, and an answer
Manchester in the evening' as
Mr. Lyons was going to
Mr. Solomon Abraham .
Hat
as a merchant and warehouse Hart, who described himself
in Burystreet, St. Masysaxe man, carrying on business
defendaws while they were , deposed that he knew the
Cripplegate, and he had hadcarrying
on their business in
trade with them. On the 29th
September he was at
different transactions in
their warehouse, when they Showed
figured silk, and asked him if him several boxes of
he said that they would, ~ at
athey would suit him; and
P
he purchased 35 pieces of thariee." On this occasion
following silk at the rate of Is. 7d.
per yard. On the
defendants' warehouse, and day he went again to the
silk. The price of the he
another lot of
was 5431. 35. 11d., and he „„,e! the silk he purchased
times. P4ld the amount at different
By Mr. CLARKSON—m, gave
portion of the glace silk, and 2 2s. 3d. a yard for one
defendant Lyons told him that 4d. for another. The
silk was, that it was not suitable the reason he sold the
parasols, for which they had for the manufacture of
was certainly not suitable for thiaTrehased it. Tho silk
Mr. Allen was re-called, and he Purpose,
they charged for the glace silk _stated that the prices
2s. I Id., and 2s. 6d. per yard. were 2. 2d
~ 2s. Bd.,
Mr. BALLANTINE asked the witness
was a loser by the bankruptcy of
thes trart whether he
replied that he did no lose anything bydefendants? He
Mr. Warre, of the firm of mahe them.pawers, Skinner-street, proved thaester and Warre,
ing of the property at theirt, establishme different pawns
named Moss, who acted as the agent of the defendants, a erson
who did not appear at all in the transaction.
peered that property amounting altogether It to
about 1,4001. was pledged at different times,in value to
8001. worth was redeemed. The sane and about
charged was 15 per cent. lint of interest
This was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. Clssaxsols said he should like to take
of the Court as to whether any offence h e the opinion
out within the terms of the section upon had been made
dictment was framed. The section in which the in-
that if any " bankrupt" should do eertaluestion said,
months before his bankruptcy he shouldn be
three
guilty of a misdemeanour; and it appeared toe deemed
if this meant anything at all, it meant the pe him that
be a bankrupt at the time he committed the must
formed the subject of complaint. The section,act
which
appeared to be almost nonsense, end he felt in
fact,
himself
justified in asking the opinion of his Lordship whether
the charge made against the defendants could be sus-
tained.
Mr. BALLANTINE, in answer to the objections,
said he
must admit that the section was worded very
and that instead of the word " bankrupt,,, absurdly,
and
should
have been if any " person" committed certain acts three
months before the period at which be should be ad-
judged a bankrupt, and then no difficulty could have
arisen. He submitted, however, that the meaning
in-
tended to be conveyed was perfectly clear, and that on a
common-sense view of the matter, the expression,
"bankrupt" should be taken to mean " person.
Mr. Justice CRESSWELL, in, overruling the objection,
observed that although the clause might certainly have
been worded much more clearly, yet the intention
sufficiently apparent to justify the ,Court in acting was
it- The offence itself was.of rather a curious character.
upon
and
he apprehended that the meaning of the
word
` bankrupt, ' in the clause in question, was intended to
be a person filling the character of a k . ban rupt The
statute created a sort of ex post facto misdemeanour, for
the party did not commit any offence at the time he
ob-
tained the goods, but the offence was only 'anted by
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his filling the character of a bankrupt three months
afterwaitds.
Mr. CLARKSON then addressed the jury for the de-
fence, mud in the course of a very able speech he con-
tended with great earnestness that the defendants had
not done any act that brought them within the scope of
the very highly penal statute under which the indict-
ment against them had been framed. He contended
that so far from there being any proof that they obtained
the goods by the false pretence that they required them
for the purposes of their trade, that the evidence proved
the direct contrary; and he submitted that the proba-
bility was, that finding the articles were not suited for
the purpose for which they were intended they had dis-
posed of them to the witness Hart, being at the time
under pressure of a pecuniary character. As to the
price at which the goods were sold he said it was ad-
mitted that they had fetched within 301. or 40/. of the
sum at which they were originally sold to the de-
fendants, and he called the attention of the jury to the
fact that the assignees had been proved to have sold the
bankrupts' stock at a discount of 47 per cent. under the
then
emnu c
and
vme
ro
treed rut ion otuhses a
stagr i fincae:
bankrupts last year, owing to the Exhibition, and said
tTiinohvneoitetl::ptarrenixceeid:twedCounselges such at that carried on by the
that no doubt they, like many others, were very much
under pressure, and he would admit that they had acted
recklessly in endeavouring to relieve themselves from it;
but he observed that he was very much afraid that some
of the first houses in the city of London had under some
circumstances been compelled to act in a similar manner.
The bankrupts had not yet obtained their certificate, and
they were still liable to be dealt with and punished in the
Bankruptcy Court, which he submitted was the proper
tribunal to dispose of such a case; and he concluded by
expressing his opinion that it would be very great injus-
tice to render the defendants criminally responsible upon
such facts as now appeared before the Court, and he,
therefore, called upon the jury to acquit them of the
charge.
The Learned JUDGE having summed up the case, and
explained to the jury with great clearness the points
upon which they were required to give an opinion, they
almost immediately returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
There were some other indictments against the de-
fendants, but it was arranged that they should stand
over to the next session, the defendants being in the
meantime admitted to bail.
James Solomon Davis, who pleaded guilty on Wed-
nesday to a charge of the same character, and Jonas
HeiThronne, who was convicted of perjury in connexion
with the same transaction, were brought up for judg-
ment, and sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard
labour for 12 months.
Upon the application of Mr. Clarkson, the trial of
Gerber, Wagner, Kessler, and Kracheoer, for perjury
was postponed to the next session.

1V EW COURT.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
George Parker, alias fames Priest Borritt, 36, sailor,
respectable-looking man, pleaded guilty to returning
from transportation.
The COMMON SERGEANT, after reading a petition
handed in by the prisoner, the contents of which did not
transpire, sentenced him to be imprisoned for six
months, and then transported for life.
It appeared from the certificate sent with the pri-
soner, that he had been transported from this court in
July, 1839, for 15 years, ,and being found at large in
1844 at Liverpool was tried and transported for life.
Thomas Johnson, 25, painter, was indicted upon two
indictments for forging and uttering requests for the
delivery of goods.
The prisoner, who pleaded guilty of the uttering,
was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment and hard
labour. _ _

This court was adjourned for several hours. In the
after part of the day Mr. Rassell Gurney presided, and
disposed of several petty cases.

THIRD COURT.

(Before the RECORDER.)
John Gerrard, 32, a very gentlemanly-looking well-
dressed man, described in the calendar as an agent,
was indicted for attempting to steal certain monies from
the person of a lady named Mason. There were also
several other counts in the indictment, charging him
with conspiring with others to steal monies from the
persons of several other persons.
Mr. Platt prosecuted, and Mr. Parry defended.
The jury found him /Guilty.
The RECORDER said he should pass the same sentence
upon the prisoner that had been passed upon his com-
panions—namely, three months 'imprisonment.
George Norris, 34, smith, pleaded guilty to feloniously
marrying Emma Palmer, his wife being alive.
The Court sentenced him to nine months' imprison-
ment.