The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-06 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

Sarah Paynter, a well- dressed young woman, con-
nected with an organized gang of shoplifters residing
in Church-street, Whitechapel, was brought before
Mr. Combo, charged with having been concerned
with another woman, not in custody, in stealing
ribands to the value of 181. from the shop of Mr. Ed-
ward Mullock, haberdasher and silkmercer, Newing-
ton•causeway. She was also charged with being
concerned with the same woman in stealing several
pieces of valuable riband from the shop of Mr.
Slocombe, another tradesman in Newington-cause-
way.

Mr. Mullock said, about a quarter-past six on the
previous evening the prisoner and another woman en-
tered his shop and purchased some small lengths of
riband. They were sitting close together at the
counter while being served. Witness had his suspi-
cions respecting them, which induced him to keep a
sharp look out, ned, while reaching in the window for
a piece of riband, he saw the prisoner draw off three
pieces of riband from the counter. Witness then
walked up to her and seized her by both wrists. He
afterwards let go her right hand to get hold of her
companion, when the latter managed to escape. The
prisoner then put her hand to her pocket, and threw
some pieces of riband behind the shop door, together
with several pieces of riband which did not belong
to him. Witness then told her that she had stolen
some satin ribands, when she replied she had not; but
at the same time she threw several on the floor. Wit-
ness had since examined his ribands, and had now
only five pieces out of 32, and those he missed he va-
lued at 181. The prisoner and her companion were
both together, and they were selecting ribands out of
the same box.

Sarah Armstrong, an assistant to the prosecutor,
said she attended to the prisoner and her companion
on the previous evening, when the ribands were safe
in the box, which she placed before them. 'They
merely purchased small lengths to the value of 9J.,
but she did not see any of the property stolen. She
identified the ribands produced as her master's pro-
perty.
Harriet Littleford, assistant to Mr. Slocombe,
another silkmercer in Newington-causeway, iden-
tified the prisoner as coming into her master's shop
a little before six o'clock on the same evening. She
was with another woman, and they purchased two
small lengths of red riband. After they left she
missed several pieces of valuable satin riband, which
were found by Mr. Mullock in his shop.
Police-constable 139 M said he saw her throw
away two pieces of riband while on the way to the
station-house, and they were identified by Mr.
Slocombe. _ _
_ _

Other evidence having been given, and the prisoner
declining to make any defence,
Mr. CoMBE fully committed her for trial on the
two charges. He also directed the officer to appre-
hend her companion.

THE FORMER AND THE PRESENT
CONDITION OF BARTHOLOMEW FAIR.
This day Bartholomew Fair will close. On Friday
the Lord Mayor and some of the City officers went, ac-
cording to ancient custom, to stir up the dying embers
of this venerable institution of our venerable ancestors.
Stow tells us, that the fair was granted by a charter of
Henry IL to the Monastery of St. Bartholomew, which
afterwards passed into the possession of the Corporation
of London and Lord Rich, whose deeeendants claimed to
be jointly entitled with the City, until the Common
Council, a few years since, purchased up the right from
Lord Kensington, to enable them to abolish the fair as a
common nuisance. Three centuries ago the precincts
of the fair were called " Ruffians' Hall, as being the
common rendezvous of ruffians and travellers of all or-
ders and degrees." Upon several occasions lives were
lost in midnight brawls, and in conflicts with the City
Marshals and the Dogberries of ancient days, and in
one affray one of the marshals was killed by the mob.
The grand juries frequently presented the fair as
s nuisance. At midnight hundreds of loose fellows,
principally journeymen tailors, used to assemble at the
" Hand and Shears," in Cloth Fair. They were called
Lady Holland's mob, and were accustomed to sally forth
knockingat the doors and ringing the bells of the peaceful
inhabitants, and assaulting and ill-treating passengers.
These ruffians frequently united in such strength as to defy
the civil power. As late as 1822, a number of them, ex-
ceeding 5,000, rioted in Skinner-street, and were for
hours too powerful for the police. But although Bar-
tholomew Fair had its vices and its violence, it had also
its amusements. Ben Jenson, in his " Bartholomew
Fair," and a quaint writer, in 1641, in a pamphlet bear-
ing the same title, describe the vagaries which prevailed
in those days. "It is remarkable," says the latter, ",and
worth your observation, to behold and hear the strange
fights and confused noises in the fair. There a knave
in a fool's coat, with a trumpet sounding, a drum beat-
ing, invites you to his puppets. There a rogue, like a
wild woodman, desires your company to sea his motions.
On the other side Hocus Focus sits, with three yards of
ribbon in his hand, showing his art of legerdemain to the
admiration of a company of cockoloaches. Cloth Fair
is now in great request, and well fare the ale houses; yet
better may a man fare in the Pig-market, alais Pasty-
lock, alias Pio-corner, where pigs are all hours in
the day on the stalls, and crying come eat me."
The fashion of things passeth away. As lately
as 1830, upwards of 200 booths for toys and
gingerbread crowded the pavements around the
fair, and overflowed into the adjacent streets. In 1852
only two stalls are to be seen. In 1830 Richardson,
Saunders, Wombwell, were in the ascendant, with their
menageries and equestrian and melodramatic shows.
Merry-andreovs, puppets, and fools in motley abounded
in all directions—the air rang with the din and clangor,
the thumping of drums and the blowing of trumpets.
Public-houses and drinking booths were open until
morning challenged the night, and then only closed for
a brief respite, while by night as well as by day pick-
pockets, rioters, and loose persons of both sexes entered
the arena, and woe waited upon any unfortunate wight
who appeared among them without being qualified for
the association by belonging to one or other of these
classes. la 1852 not a single show is to be seen on the
ground—the public-houses are as quiet and orderly as
upon other occasions, and the two or three gingerbread
booths which, like the spirits of departed times linger
on the spot, will depart this day in all probability for
ever. This extraordinary change has been produced
by mild measures, adopted by the Corporation in har-
mony with the advancing spirit of the age and the im-
proving manners of the humbler classes. For 300 years
the Lord Mayor and aldermen had tried orders and
proclamations, and juries had tried presentments, but
without effect. At length the Common Council set
themselves to work in right earnest to put down a nai-
-1 sauce which brought disgrace upon the name and cha-
racter of the Corporation. Having obtained entire
control over the whole lair by the purchase of Lord
Kensington's interest, they refused to let standings
n for
shows and booths ; and they prevailed upon tb
Mayor and sheriffs to give up the practice oft going
ec.egto
Lord
t
open the fair in grand state, with a herald o proclaim
it and officers of the state to marshal thee processi
The proclamations formerly stuck about the streets,
in-
terdicting rioting and debauchery duriengeisteheentdieauyesdof
the fair and within its precincts,
they did but remind the evil
clisposedwoefr former practices,
which, when they ceased to be mentioned
remembered. The consequenetehe ceased to be
of this course of a
ltered condition of
pro-
ceeding is now mataite,ted by
the fair. The Lord May who
went in his private
counient reciting the charter
carriae to Smithfield to go the necessary cere-
monyg of reading the
under which the property is holden, was surrounded by
pered fellows, who lingered about the
a few good-teris
spot in which the humours ot, aartlemy Fair" used to
abound, and a few
minutee alter the ceremony the place '
was again deserted.

CRICKET SURREY AND NOTTINGIIAIki.--The re-
turn match between the best players of these two celebrated
cricketting counties, which commenced at Nottingham on
Thursday-, terminated on Saturday at two o'clock, when the
Surrey players were again defeated, after three days of as
splendid cricketting as ever was witnessed. The score at the
close of the game was as follows :—Surrey, first innings, 112 ;
second ditto, 134; Nottingham, first innings, 209; second
ditto, 38.

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.
MANCHEE,TER, SEPT. 4 —No material change has
eccu.r,ed in the trade dutiotr • the we,2k, the business
,p_:.&alass2aug having been limited on the whole of a limited
c;-er, et the prices current on the preceding market
day.t.ie At our Cora Exchange this morning wheat was
btut . turnr ebeaper. The demand for flour was languid,
',11.11 the value of either English or foreign of prime
oatmeal were in moderate request at rates slightly in
fay ur of buyers.
GLASGOW CATTLE MARKET, SEPT. 2.--The following
were the numbers at our market to-day—OXen; 450;
sheep, 1 566; lambs, 4,041. The short supply of cattle'
sheep, and lambs, caused sales to be very brisk, with an
upward tendmiey. Best ox beet 50s per cwt, current
from 44s to 45s ditto, inferior from 36s to 40s per ditto.
Best eged wethers 5-14 per lb, cuerent 5d per ditto, in-
ferior 4.1 to 4p per ditto. Top price best lambs 154
current 12s to 14s, inferior from 4s to 10s each. Oxelt,
sheep, and lambs, all sold.
ABERDEEN. SIFT. 3.—Grain—Oats 155 6d to 161 Od•
401bs per bushel ; barley, 22s 6d to 2490 d, b2lbs d per bushel ;
bear, 2280 d to 23s Cd, 521bs per bushel; wheat, re 35s to 425;
ditto, white 35s to 425, 621bs per bushel; oatmeal, 1256 d to 131
(id per boll ; flour, 32s to 33s ()d per sack. Provisions---eef;
5d to 7d per lb ; mutton, ditto, 5d to 7d; veal, ditto, 51'
to 61d; pork, per lb, 4d to C; lamb, per lb., 5d
tallow, per stone, 3., Od to 3s 6d potatoes, percr„„l4
Oil to 6d ; salmon, per lb, ls to us Od; hares, ea , ','
to Os Od ; grouse, per brace, Os to Os ; butter, per lb, 9d to 10d;
to ld ;
eggs, per doz, 7d to 8d; cheese, per cwt, Os to Os Od ; heals
per parr, 2s 6d to 3s Od; chickens, ditto, 2s Od to 2s 6d; ducks.d°:
Is 6d to 3s Od ; ducklings, ditto, 2s to 256(1; turkeys, each, 0!
to'.9sod; geese, ditto, 8s to 9,3 ; butter oexportation (presen!
cure), per cwt, 00s to 70s ; eggs. wholesale price, per dozea,sl°
to Od; 41b loaf, 6d ; 21b loaf, 3d ; pork, per stone of 141b5,
Os Od to Os Od; poik, fine small, 5s 6d to Os Od; pork, laoge„
33 6d to 4s 3d; shi pork er barrel of 204 lbs Os ta 9d,
to ,c 1
Meal—Oatmeal, is 3d to is 4d; barley dust,' Od
peasemeal, is lld to 2s Od ; skis, Od to 7d ; bereraeal, 10.4
to Is sd; flour, Is 8d to is 9d; barley, per lb,
flour, Is 'd ~ to Is 6d. els
DALICEITH, SHPT. 2.—The relative weight per foe bUt6st
of the three prices of wheat were 18st 121 b, 18st 31b, al2deobt
Ild to 2d; bartel
81b. Oats, 13st 21b, 12st 21b, and I Ist 01b. Barley, 10" p
15st 81b, and 15st 31b. Peas and beans, 18st 12lbs Othlt '
and OOst Olbs. Inferier'
Qrs. Best. Current.
4%34
OWahtleat.... E 2 5 6 £2 1 0 Li 12 °0
220 Buie - ''''''
11 10 019 8 ?ig 0
y 19 0 14 0 ' 0
0
2 Peas and Beans 113 0 00 0 0
Average of wheat ........... 395 4d.
CORK, SEPT. 3. 'll con'
Supplies of new grain are still small, which I" _.....
tinue to be the case so long as farmers out-door
tcpere,
Lions occupy so much of their time. This week
barley,
ceipts are 950 barrels wheat, 520 bare barley, 43 tois
and 3,083 of oats. The price of wheat advanced 6a.
or,_„,
since our lait, but.the variation in oats
was very trifling, say about 23 per barrel dowth mid,
quality and condition of wheat is various, some Y.Prle. ja
tiling and soft, an 4 but very few samples ot Prt.°3 ouch
Limerick and Tipperary we learn the quality le
present
better than in our county. Oats, from the 36
and here D Tibge
weather, come in worse condition, but the quality'''.he
rally is good. In foreign wheat we have bad (mead, Tor
most languid weeks that the trade has expelith the
some time, scarcely a transaction POSSing• Cti.oo Of
exception of a few lots of Polish Odessa at a
redtliders of
are u
6d er barrel, we are unaware of any sales• folders
• in
wat, however, are not pressing sales, and ._repsr,
their demands, under the impression that the the bigb
able injury done to English wheat, as well as toPt loge
tono of the several continental advises,
doestnni loge
room for further decline ; but just at preseuts 'll);liver-
arrivals of wheat and flour, both the London and d
itere 9
pool markets are very dull. Flour remains ueeewhite
and &mend steady. No new for it. Primo to 71
French or American sells in retail at 61. 17s ,„sra•
per ton. Indian corn is quite neglected, and eei'iesae
tively no sale in the mask, as yer. The potato nosy
seems to have been quite checked,
as we scarcely
hear a remark on the subject.
Barrels. 003 041--
cateineo/;00,,
_55 White wheat 18s 6d to 215 3d
124 Red wheat ...14s Cd to 21s ad Ode2o do
0 Ditto oos Od to 005 Od} 191
O Ditto oos Od to 00s Od
11 Barley its Od to lls 4d ~,u,,, v nd.....00 do
O Ditto oos Od to 00s od} tr
O Ditto OO3 Od to 00s Od
89 Bere... .. .- 108 6d to 105 9d 03s Od
529 Oats . Si Od to 83 8d di) o
330 Ditto ... .83 8(.1 to N 5d 85 Bd.--
O Ditto
O Pigs 03s Od to 005 Od t,--
Quantity sold at the Highest Pricer-- . 29 afg;
7 barrels white wheat; 10 red ; 7 barley; b 7 ere
0 Wheat,Quantity4s9.of
Barley, 0.
NBumerbee,rso3f7!'
Oats, 2,775-
PRICES OF BuTTEß-
ctritalScf. 651
CANT.
First
quality
Second quality
gut yl .............. D 570
74s iconualitYt "- ............. "' 5
Third quality Pegs sold last wee;
igt.--.6 0,
66s Third Val,' .-* .. ... 53s
Fourth quality
Fifth quality
....
339
Sixth quality 42s sixth tlualitY ..
i,„08,
Return of Cattle sold for week ending Atte. '
Pigs, 3(0. Sheep, 285. Cows, "' of 6d;
CORK.—Flour—First 12s 6d to 131 6d; ;",:,rl7 tett Per
seconds,lls to 12s 6d; households 9s to 1056 d; tiur---, °;▪ bess.
cwt. Oatmeallos3d to 10s 6d ; Ind' niell7s 3a to 73
Da'
ton.
limeal,ra.
7955. 6d04 tot 0
81:0
doOs s
dp; pereet
per ton.
cwt.yt3os:an .;
Hay—Farmerslndian
tom
231; aver
a.iisr;aogddeealto.e4233,ol aov:BzgresaedoaLewreer: t03n1.0 81001t147,06,135:0
00110:
household loaf bd to Od per 41—b . hFa arteesuh bad._ t w"' Co9s1,""1
10d per lb. Eggs-4s Od to 4s 2d per hun.' Cds2l'
Newport 14 Od r. a
i --; _y_oey 150 ; Landers ON; pet Ott.
1.2%,6d per ton. Tallow 39s Od to 40s got
Beef 25
o.
7d , pork 4d to Od p"
5s 9d per imperial gall°__lll. 43 t°
_.. 'lid to 7rl; mutton 5d to 60; "1,, IWO
; bacon 6'd to 7cl; sausages 5d F°r,'",,,' i toe•
818 s to 910 s per cwt. Bangor slates 2117 s 6d to "r- woe;
Bark, red 71 to 81105 per ton. Fleece wool 161 W 00' Poero; stared
Hemp 23911:50:4/ per ton. Fish—Scotch herring, 16s t° lij per
ditto, 24s to 00s per barrel ; Newfoundland, 101 09t4).! 01100
ton. Timber—Memel, 70s per ton ; red pine 321.11,10e-'
Market
20,
tor
2tBosn;;
sadlteealds,2llssl
wto
3108 s/
ppeerr:l4lt/u;: . viltatillo:
3d to Od per lb. Potatoes, white 5d to 7tu' bit...
Eid to 12d. Guano—Peruvian, 101 10s to 11/ per tsa•
Archangel, 19s per barrel.

TrET.`3.
RAILWAY SHARE MAIL--
day-
BRISTOL, SEPT. 4. fl,vi tO'
STOCK EXCHANGE. The share market Wag 384.
Great Westerns were done at 97%--South Wales,
Deb
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 1 , was
SirocK ExcHAt..NGE.—The business done to-009 TO
limited, and prices generally had a downward terldell,Y.„%pst'
transactions were as follow :—Eastern Counties, 11,......13 Dolor
Lancashire, 18w— Ditto, Preference, Fifths, 11/4 P___Dittas
second issue, 51A —Lancashire and Yorkshire, 86 4-__3ltur
Fifths, 3% dis.—London and North-VVestern, 122,1/setwoces
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 30 .—Ditto, Prefer OA
1134—Midland, 77 IA —Ditto , Consolidated (Birailindggereforicl:
Derby). 4334—North British, 73/ Shrewsbury an st,iffery
2 s.—South-Eastern nd D4o—e 21 %....South
__patch
slhYired,' % dis.—York and North r'lllidlancl• 2" '''
Rhenish, IA dis.

stock have BIRMINGHAINI, SEPT' 4. alli de'
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The market has been generriptions
ofpressed throughout the week, but prices of some descriptions
hu,
siness done on 'Change except in local stocks. Among, and
slightly improved. To-day there was 10 the
closing quotations were -Ames gate, Not tingbuaao7: svol.,
verhampton,ston buers, 61/6, sellers, 63/8 div.---
13i
rrinsgellers, 11.'"
~0 and Stour Valley, buyers, 10,127...Easterti,
)vcntry anti Nuneaton, buyers, 125, selle,Londort and
Counties, buers 11%, sellers, 11% ex div.- 3-. Manchester
North-Western, 'buyers, 1224, seers,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,' sellers, 30%-" Ingham n(Class 13),
761 A, sellers 761‘-Shrevasbury and „oilers,.l3ir,2N dis.';
sellers, 6V. Sh li TT
'...---r7) 6%-Shropshire -• n Were, '''' d Midland
South S.affordshirP 1 1-11°,
'34, sellers, ifi le•-
e., buyers
150.
(Bristol and 8•_........------
[ADVERTISEMENT
Birmingham), sellers, 1321idla d, buyers,
..--_-r-.__----------------------,, 101.'"Ii'
istc
valuabll ' . small powerful we nb°
w y-invented Yell h. h -con can
pocketgransss, the I
on the 'walnut, by wle a Pe- nose
]......ThE ROYAL bXIIIBIT ~. 00
tze of a sceneri
seen and known li miles distant; they answer every purpose
and ;ships are'at Ito 14 miles; they Sporty.,
clearly seen - smiting, t° h
valuable fur
shooting, deer stalking, yach
...... h
To ..e
Race-course at the Opera-houses country io.
men, Gentlemen, Gamekeepers, and Tourists. °site t"
at
vYork-hotel. Telescopes- new and 0110dtr ill'Pn, „oweri!!
39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, observe, opilropt iv'
ention in Telescopes, possessing such extra° d upail:,,`,,d st,rblo'
that some, 4 inches, with an extra
elli"g onlythree
show distinctly, Jupiter's Moors, Sa.turo',.. hie ' three
Double Stars. With the same Telescope, wetgl
mites gigo,.
ounces, can be seen a person's countenance Sc ''rsede evert,
and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They "urger an a
other kind for the waistcoat pocket, and are of d Pee'
sizes, with increasing powers accordingly. oT object can ~138
course glasses, with wonderful powers; an s. god P.
clearly seen from 14 to 16 miles distant. Messrs.
reorciag
Solomons, Opticians, have invented invaluable 4.1) 0 hoe':
Spectacle Lenses, immediately they are placed be'ort. _ top,
feet vision, every object appears clear and distinct,.
rooeught to
aged defective sight becomes bright and brilliant, is
Invisible to
its youthful, natural, and original state. The Inv' for relie
ganic Vibrator, and all kinds of Acoustic instruments .
11 °b.
pica& I,
of extreme deafness.-39. Albermarle-street,
serve, opposite the York Hotel. An North
LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.—The British --a ..ile-
American mail steam-ship Niagara, Captain Leitcb,r,,r.
from this port at noon to-day for Boston, via lialifs
w,coo
tying out the large number of 160 passenger., amongatinhoff.
were Mr. Sinclair, alias Mr. Forrest, and Ur. Vo,seif
She will be followed by the Pacific, on Wednesday', '°`
York.

BIRTHS.
OF A SON. the
On the 2J inst., at the liighwood, e
Uttoxeter,
wife of the Rev. John Chippindall. les they
On the 31st ult., at Haverfordwest, South Wtot
of Richard Chambers, Esq ,
OF A A LIGHTFR.
On the Ist ins`., at Longcroft-hall, Lichfield, the Wire
D
B. Haigh Allen, Esq. Arnold.
On the Ist inst., at Eden-bridge Kent, Mrs. G. ArT3 scir
On the 2d inst., at Penshnrst, the lady of w, BroWor
..ITARRIED. nest
On the 2d inst., at the parish church, EdgbastoFof Julia
Birmingham, the Ray. Charles Busbriclge SnoPPr,,te 00/'
Aisne, eldest daughter of R. W. Winfield, Esq., of t"
thorns; at the same time and place, the
bohe
Browne, toes arah Hannah, youngest daughter of the
P. W. Winfield, Esq

DIED. Middleton,
At her residence, Bramford-hall, Suffolk, Lady ,1-98.
widow of Sir lir. Middleton, Bart.,of Shrubland-park, age'
On the Ist inst., at Clifton, near Bristol, Thomas 13rucej
Esc). of Arnot, N. 13., formerly Commissioner of the 130 or
of dustonis in Scotland. go
At Filield, Wilts, on the 2d init., Mary, relit of George
Thandford, Esq., late of Rugby, Warwickshire, aged 59. e
On the 2 d inst.. at Titchhourne-street, Cambridge.terric ,
George Christie, Esq , aged 37. late
On the 2d inst., James A. Tester, eldest son of the •
Mr J. Tester. of Bartlett's-buildings abed 39 _,......
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