The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-25 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 25, 1852

MERCIFUL JURIES.

A girl named Alexandrine Raffanel was tried four
days ego by the Court of Assivs of the Aude, sitting at
Montpellier, for the murder of a sub-lieutenant of 2d
Regiment of Hussars, named Anceaume. When in
garrison at Tarascon, in 1849, Anceaume made the girl
his mistress, and the followed him in 1850 to Carcas-
sonne. At that place he became acquainted with a
young girl of respectable family, and resolved to marry
her. The wedding was fixed to take place in July last.
This greatly exasperated the prisoner, and she fr. quently
menaced Anceaume with vengcance. In the Light of
the 2d July the report of a firearm was heard in the
lieutenant's room, end on going to it he was found wel-
tering in blood. In a few minutes he died. Suspicion
fell on. the girl, and it was ascertained that she had a
key to his room, by which she could let herself in with-
out his knowledge; that she bad a few days bJore been
making enquiries as to how firearms were loaded; that
just after the shot was fired a girl had been seen running
from the house towards- that in which she lived; and
that a ball, similar to that by which the officer was
killed, was found in her room. But, notwithstanding all
this, the jury returned a verdict of acquittal. During
the trial, the girl repeatedly protested her innocence, and
beard the verdict without the least emotion.

A peasant girl, named Tt 4ie Chunhu, of Etourvy,
d“partment of the Aube, was also tried three days ago
by the Court of Assizes of the department, sitting at
Troyes, for an attempt to kill a lover who had aban-
doned her. By this man, named Prunier, she had had
a child, and he undertook to give her 5,000 f. to pro-
vide for it; but after subscribing a document to that
effect, he contrived to get it away again. Having broken
off with her, he paid his addresses to a girl named Lar-
bouillat, and a marriage was resolved on. One evening
in January, as he was kissing this girl on taking leave,
a shot was fired at him from the adjacent garden, but
fortunately he was not touched. The prisoner lived in
the next house, and it was proved that just before she
had bought a pistol. In answer to the interrogatories
of the President, she readily admitted that she had fired
the pistol, anti that she, had formed a deliberate design
of killing Prunier because he had dishonoured her.
But nevertheless the jury decland her not guilty.—
ficaignani.

FRENCH RAILWAY TRAFFIC.
The following are the last returns of the gross re.
ceipti of the principal French Railways :
NORTHERN.—From March 4 to March 10: Passengers,
203,9921.; goods, 265,605 f.; total, 469,597 f.
ROWEL—From March 7 to March 13 : Passengers,
66,672 t.; goods, 97,8741.; total, 164,546 f.
HAVRE.—From March 7 to March 13 : Passengers,
23,577 f.; goods, 46,0191. ; total 69,596 f.
ORLEANS.—From March 8 to March 14: Passengers,
77.900€. ; goods, 141,2961.; total, 219,196 f.
BoaDxkux.—From March 2 to March 8: Passengers,
44.489,.; goods, 69,754 t.; total, 114,243 f.
VIERZON --From March 8 to Msrem 14: Passengers,
38.958 f; goods, 52,990 f. total, 91.948 f.
NANTES.--From March 4 to March 10 : Passengers,
23,9851.; goods, 31.4601.; total, 55 445 f.
STRASBURG.—From March 4 to March 10: Passengers
93.6641.; gouds, 118,670 f.; total, 212,334 f.
BALE.—From Feb. 23 to Feb. 29 : Passengers,
17,9741.; goods, 29,007 f., • t0ta1,46,981f.
MONTEREAM—From Mar. 4 to Mar. 10: Passengers
8,056 f.; goods, 14,506€:; total, 22 5621.
MARSEILLES.—From Feb. 26 to Mar. 4: Passengers,
42,4201.; goods, 35,497 f.; total, 77.917 f.
CHARTRES.—From March 8 to March 14: Passengers,
21,791 f.; goods, 23,5901.; total; 45,651 f.

When made up in I From what When
PLACES. !General Poet-officel port die- a
London. I patched. ' uue.
'...--..-.....-. ......*•••••.
America (by Brit. pkt.) N March 2; .. .. (Liverpool .. March 30
America (by U.S. pkt.) N April 6 .. .. Liverpool April 1
A viarica (by U.S. pkt.) M', March 31 .. .. ' Sontharnpt.
Africa (West coast)• • 24 il4th of the month IPlymouth Aprl 3
)liittil'94dth&olf7tthheolmmononthtt
• ...1...... N Daily •. .. .. ' Dover .. Mar
N 19th & 30th of mo., Dover .. March 23
BA,teigairumnidrial..,
Brazil
.. ,„ .. M j9th of the month !Southampt. April 16
cßauleituoonts
lAarriefia
eivagra• •
Cape of Good Hope N,l4th of month 'Plymouth.. April 3
~ .. N I 7th 17th 27th of mo 'Dover .. 51 arch 30
''SS°ouatthhaarnmPptt: sAlparriclhl26o
. M 23 & 17th of 113011. ISouthampt. March 22
Channel Ilea • • • • N Mon., Wed., & Fri.' Southampt. To. Th. Sat
Ccoenutrstanal
Americatinople .
Chili .. .. .. .51 17th of the month ;Southampt. March 20
Franco .• •• 31 & N Twice daily .. .. Dover .. Twicedaily
Greece* .. •• .. Nlth 17th27th of mo ,Dover .. March ao
Elo
51, Wednes. & Satur.:Londen .. Sitth.Thut
aonduraa
..
.. . N 'l7th of the mouth ' Southampt. March 22
Ireland .• ••
Jambfuridgh .. .. N Tuesday & Friday ,London .. Tues. Sat.
lla .. • • ••
Mlt N Twice daily .. ..:Holyhead •• Twicodaill
India(via SouthamP.) M 20th of the mouth.Southampt. April 2l
India (viaMarsoillea) Niath&24th efmorith, Dover .. Apia 2
.. M 20th Of the month lSouthampt. April 21
llediterranean (via
.. NeJs&th3losthth
Marseilles) .. .. N Bth&24th ofmonth Dover .. ,April 2
___,_ . .. .. M2d of the month.. I Sonthampt: 'April 5
ardelvra •.. .. .. M 9th of the month ISouthampt. !Apr.: 16
liteduithtenan:nnrann) (via i
r 17th,11th,19th,27th
Malta* • • • • month
Naples* • • • •
Papal States. „ .. N sth 15th 25th of mo !Dover .. April: 2
o2fstof
me
iloDvoevr Dover
~. (March
April22B
Peninsular . • • • .. M 7th 17th 27th of morSonthampt. !April 6
,
.. .. M 17th of the month 15outhampt. March 20
Peru
rttn.)* : :
..
.. N,stla 15th 25th of mo
Dover .. April 2
Teat Indies .. •• M ,'l7th of the month 'Southampt. 'March 20
West Indies (except
Havanna & Nassan) 11,2 d Ofthe month .. tionthampt. April 5
. The mails to those c °entries thus marked (") are conveyed by
French packot v!a 5i arseillei.

ACCIDENT TO A CLERGYMAN.—We regret to state
that the Rev. Charles Oxenden, the respected rector of Bar-
ham, met with an accident in the course of last week, which
will, we fear, incapacitate him from fulfilling his parochial
duties for some time to come. Mr. C. Oxendo was walking
in the garden of the rectory, when he slipped down an ab•
rupt terrace bank fronting his house, and in the eff( rt to re-
cover his footing, snapped the tendons of the leg, just above
the ankle. To a gentleman of his active habits this is a mot
unfortunate occurrence, seeing that though neither dangerous
nor painful, the accident is one which requires entire rest and
perfect quiescence. Our readers may remember that some
months back we recorded an accident of a similar nature,
which befel Mr. Charles Vernon Oxendon, of the Rifle
Brigade, son of the above gentleman, on the St. Lawrence
cricket ground, when playing the match between the gen-
tlemen of Kent and the gentlemen of England. —Dover
Telegraph.

THE GAMR-LAWS.—The amount of crime, misery,
and cost, resulting from superabundant game-preserving and
game-laws, which is shown during the p esent assize cir-
cuits, tails forth grave reflection. That noblemen and
squires, by their infatuation for superabundance of game
(st hich amounts to a sort of mania or madness), should
bring upon the community all the ills and evils which they
do, is truely disgraceful, and it is impossible that it can be
much longer endured. No reasonable person would begrudge
tern of rational sport and diversion, but the contrary ; yet
their game preserving has grown to such a bight that the
country justly condemns it, and because it beget injuries and
consequences most serious. It is, also. too bad that the
public should have to pay, in any shape, one farthing for
prosecutions arising out of the ;game-laws. The time is
hastening on when some preserves will have, as they ought
to have, the entire coat of those prosecutions to defray them-
selves ; and they ought to be at the expense of maintaining
the prisoners, and exonerating the ratepayers from charges
of the convicts' wives and families. This being accomplished,
" My Lords and Gentlemen" would then act differently to
what they now do.—( Ftom a Correspondent.)
AN UNWELCOME VIEHTOR.—An adventure with a
tiger occurred latelyat Balasore, ending in the death of one
person, and serious injuries to another. Two native women
were proceeding at an early hour in the morning towards a
patch of jungle in the immediate neighbourhood of a village
in the Eastern district, when a tiger suddenly sprang from
beneath a bush, and seized one of them by the arm. The
screams of the terrified victim, and those of her equally ter-
rified companion, brought to the spot a number of the inha-
bitants, at sight of whom the tiger took to his heels, hotly
pursued by the intruders on his morning's repast. The
brute made straight for the village, and rushed into the hut
of a poor woman, who had sufficient presence of mind to
rush to the spot and bar the door against the exit of her un-
welcome visitor, who remained in sole possession of the pre-
mises. There, however, he was not long suffered to remain
undisturbed. The multitude crowded round the entrance,
and one, bolder than the rest, climbed to the window, and
strucked the imprisoned savage several blows with his club,
upon which be leaped over the wall and slunk into the
neighbouring jungle. There his assaliant had again the au-
dacity to pursue him, and paid for his temerity with his life.
While " beating about the bush," to the great alarm of his
more prudent companions, a low growl w arned him of the
approach of danger, and in an instant he was stretched life-
less on the sward. The tiger then disappeared, leaving f
the_or
inhabitants, we may suppose, with no very ardent desires
his return.—lhdian Paper.
LEGACY, &C. DUTIES.—Mr.anId-luomtheer.
his annual return as to legacy whichduty
was printed on Saturday. In 1851 legacy
49402,3911.
was paid in Great Britain on a capital of
58
ts
h. - lod , anruyai
lfar
sot:
the l t
amount
100 u
np
te r
otc cent. The
tr a
on which such duty has be:n paid from the yearf
ending the
1,610,511;71U 16s. 4d. In Ireland, in the year
which legacy
has obtained
duty was paid was 2,4K,2281. 17". s—, andlBsl, the amount
duty was t 8,444/. Bs. 4d. In Ireland,
the99n s3u2mus.
ins
England and
66,0751. In the year ended the sth of January
re-
venue derived from stamp duties onlegacies
of duty on probates beyond the MITI staitnedoll
Wales was 1,160,0801. 16s. 5d.; in Scotland,
and in Ireland, 59,566/
n d 95 ,63a3s /t. legacies2t sh. 8' .a
in Great Britain, 1,225,713/. 194. 15.,
17,17 the duty
on
Is. 6)., and 66,0751. Since the year
ininintratioast and testamentary PaPerop 11, .
JwBesr:e4d.; respectivelyw e- o probates,9 26,021. administrations,
is
6 i,,1,3
legacies has been 47,502,446/. 14s. 91, a3nad2o6no,poroopils,eaida-
Tlhoen
thet
otaalunlaum9tun:sft

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
Hu ClRCUlT.—Kingston, March 23.
The commimsion for the county of Surrey was opened
at this place on Monday, and to-day business was pro-
ceeded with in both courts, Mr. Baron Parke presiding
on the Civil Side, and Mr. Jiz:cic,, Coleridge in the
Crown Cone. There are 33 pr.soners for tri,l on the
Crown Side, and 44 causes are entered at Nisi Prius,
six of which are special jury cAses.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Baron PARKE and a C,Jm-
rrion Jury.)
JENNINGS v. CROCKER.

This was an action to recover damages for a bmach of
promise of marrisfe. -
Mr. Chambors Q.C., and B >via app iared for the
plaintiff ; and Mr. Jimes, Q.C., and Mr. Wordsworth,
were counsel f r the defendant.

The plaintiff in this action, it appeared, was a cook,
and in the years 1843 and 1849 she filled a situation in
that capacity in the family of a gentleman named Clark,
residing at Pt ckham. The defendant, who was at that
time not more than 18, was in the service of a butcher
in the neighbourhood, and the parties it appeared be-
came .Imitten with each other, and by the consent of
the mistress of the plaintiff the defendant was allowed
to visit her in the kitchen, and was received by her
and her fellow- ervants as a suitor, and on several
occasions he intimated his intention to marry her,
and said he should set up in business for himself ;
and one of the other servants in the establishment was
to be taken into their service when they were married.
Daring the courtship the defendant sent several valen-
tines and other poetical epistles to the plaintiff, but as
she•unfortunately was unable to read, a good deal of
their intended effect was doubtless destroyed. The par-
ties, however, continued a correspondence together until
the month of August in 1851, when the defendant wrote
a letter to the plaintiff, in which he addressed her as
" Madam," and went on to say that he was surprised
she should have said that he had left. Peckham bLeau.e
he was ashamed to stay there any longer; and that he
had done nothing he was ashamed of, and he intended
to return very shortly. He also said that he had heard
she had been to his uncle's to complain about him, and
advised her to be very careful what she said in future.
The letter went on to state that he did not care what
she or any one else said about him. He was fond of
having "a flirt," and he would have one as long as he
lived; and the letter concluded by stating, that if she
behaved well, when he went to Peckham he would go
and see her. The letter was signed, " Yours, &0., J. 13.
C.;" and it appeared that two mouths afterwards the
defendant got married.
Evidence was given to prove these facts, and it ap-
peared that the defendant had stated to one of the wit-
nesses that an uncle had died and left him 1,0001; and
after this a coolness was observed on his part towards
the plaintiff. It appeared that the latter was five or six
years older than the defendant.
Mr. JAMES made a most humorous speech to the jury
on behalf of the defendant. He said he was quite cure
this action would never have been hoard of, if it had not
been for the silly boast of the defendant, that his uncle
had left him a thousand pounds, for which there was not
the least foundation; and the fact would, no doubt, hare
been proved, if it had been capable of proof. The case,
he submitted, was of a most trumpery character. What
were the facts? A butcher's boy, for he really was
nothing else, in the course of his business falls in love
with a lively cook. Which was to blame it was not for
him to say, but cooks were proverbially susceptible.—
(Laughter.) Whether it was owing to the heat of the
kitchen, or to the peculiar nature of their profession, he
could not say, but certainly they did continually hear of
the affections of cooks fur policemen, and persons of that
stamp, and Life Guardsmen.—(A laugh.) In the pre-
sent instance it appeared to be a butcher's boy. hie con-
tended that there had been nothing but a little familiar
flirtation, and all that the plaintiff had lost was her
butcher's boy.—(Renewed laughter.) He then referred
to the poetical epistles sent by the defendant, and ob-
served, that inasmuch as the plaintiff could not read,
she could not have been very much affected by them,
and the Learned Counsel caused a roar of laughter in

court by referring to some of the letters. I❑ one of them
the defendant, after talking " foaming teas" and
" loving hearts," and such matters, concluded by stat-
ing, as a postscript, "In haste, as lam going to kill."
In another letter he gave an account of his old mare
having " slipped up" as he was riding very fast down a
hill, and he said that if he had not "stuck" to her, he
must have been seriously injured, but as it was, they
both got up together, and he found nothing was the
matter with either, so that he went elf again, as fast as
aver. The Learned Counsel concluded by chlling upon
the jury, if they gave a verdict at all for the plaintiff,
only to award moderate damages, as any others must
inevitably cause the utter ruin of the defendant.
Mr. Baron PARKE summed up, and the jury, after a
very brief deliberation, returned a verdict for the plain-
tiff—Damages 50/.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—Exeter, March 20.

CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice TALFOURD.)
William Gildon was indicted for the wilful murder of
John Finch, on the sth March, at Marychurch.
Mr. Collier and Mr. Carter were counsel for the prose-
cution, and Mr. Cox for the prisoner.
It appeared that the prisoner was a wheelwright,
living near Torquay, occupying one of a row of houses.
In the course of last summer he married a young woman
of the name of Ann Finch. who, before her marriage,
had an illegitimate child by a person of the name of
Thomas. It was part of the arrangement that this
child should live with them after their marriage. On
the sth ut March a Mrs. Stier, the former mistress of
the wife, came to see her old servant, and shortly be-
fore she left the prisoner crime in, and at that time the
child was well and cheerful; it was undressed and put
to bed. The prisoner's wire went out with Mrs. Stier,
to ace her a li,tle way on the road. They lett at seven
o'clock. The wife returned at eight o'clock, and during
her absence the child had :net with an injury, from which
it died at five o'clock the next morning. On the sur-
geon, who had been called, making a more particular
observatioc, be found on the back pert of the head, just
behind the ear, a mark shoeing that the child must
have received a most violent blow, and he was of opi-
nion that that blow must have caused the death. The
prisoner accounted for this appearance by stating that
tonguethehandand
seen The
ofo n
nothinghiethe
wife,about it. prisoner's

Mr. Cox urged that there was no motive shown for
the prisoner taking the life of the child, and that it was
possible it might have died in convulsions by knocking
itself about in those convulsions.
Mr. Justice TALFOURD summed up the case to the
jury.
Mr. CARTER suggested that his Lordship had not
stated to the jury that if they did not think the pri-
s)ner guilty of murder, they mght coLvct him of man-
slaughter.
Mr. Justice TALFOURD said he did not know how he
could suggest such a thing.
The jury, however, appeared to have heard this re-
murk, for they returned, a verdict of Manehughter.
Mr. JUstiCB TALFOURD, in passing sentence, cbservcd
;List the jury had come to a decision upon a mere case
of possibility. It was, indeed, a mere possibility that
this could lave been mauslau;hter and not murder. In
his opinion all the circumstances tended to the conclu-
sion thet the more serious crime had been committed.
He should pass upon taw the most severe sentence the
law allowed—that he should be transported fur life to a
penal settlement.

BUSINESS OF THE ClRCUlT.—Notwithstanding the
judges are sitting till a very late hour every night, the
business is so very heavy that they have been compelled
to postpone the commission day at Bothnia from Wed-
nesday till Thursday.

MIDLAND ClRGUlT.—Warwick, March 24.
(Before the Lord Chief Justice JERVIS and Special
Juries.)
FOSTER V. PARSES.

This was an issue directed by the Court of Chancery
to ascertain whether the plaintiff was the heir at law of
Isaac Parkes, who formerly lived at Birmingham. The
property was of considerable value, E aid to Lo nearly
60,0001., and the present question arose upon the death
of a granddaughter of Isaac Parkes, the plaintiff
claiming as grandson in another line.
Mr. Edwin James, Q.C. (specially retained), Mr.
Mellor, Q C., end Mr. Hayes, appeared for the plaintiff;
Mr. Humfrey, Q C., Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., and Mr. Field,
for the defendant.

The court was crowded from an early hour, in expec-
tation of a case of much interest, but certain mys'erious
whisperibga amongst the legal gentlemen gave rise to
some misgivings; and Mr. James was shortly stating
the facts of the case, when he was interrupted by Mr.
Humfrey, and after a brief discussion an arrangement
was come to between the parties, by which the defendant,
as we understood, was to have 10,0001,, and her costs,
conveying any interest she might have in the property
to the plaintiff as heir-at-law. Subject to that arrangsl-,
tnent a verdict was taken for the plaintiff; and the Treed,
which it was fully excreted would last ten it not t
days, thus pleessutly terminated.
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Liverpool, March 24.
13 ron ALDERSON.)
IVORTHERiv CIRCUIT.—
"CROWN COURT.--(B
20 was charged wt
n the man-
' Thomas Bradley, aged
efore Mr. a .
Manchester, on the 10th
slaughter of Jane Roberts,,at i
of January last.
_Mr. Monk and tr. Mr.
prosecution; a
Cobbett for the prisoner.
The deceased, it appeared, resided at Manchester,
olrasitnwgasdopwroncevedoilnlagrdbesttwreeeetn
10 an
and odn the eoi,:l tot
clock
of
rlJn
. January ry
n m ,
Manchester, accompanied by her daughter, and, while
they were crossing, a cab was driven at a rapid rate
downthey
the street. There were two men on the box, one.
of whom was at the time violently fl )gging the horse.
The deceased was knocked down and run over by the
cab, which was driven on without stopping, but was fol-
lowed by three men who got hold of and clung to it for
some distance, until compelled to let go from the ra-
pidity with which it was driven. One of them, however,
succeeded in ascertaining the number of the cab to be
111, which was driven by the prisoner. The prisoner
was not identified in any other way, but he had been
seen with that cab that morning at the stand and to
drive a fare. 'lhe prosecution relied on these facts as
1 sufficient identification of the prisoner.
The Learned Couna .1 for the defence relied on the
identification of the prisoner not being sufficiently esta-
blished, and called witnesses to prove an alibi.
Mr. MONK having replied,
Ills LORDSHIP summed up, leaving it to the jury to
determine whether or no the prisoner was the man who
drove the cab, snd whether or no the weedy/it e ha: oc-
curred was the fault of the driver or -of the ,decessedy.'
hie Idordebip observing ihet be hAd frcqueetly re-

nrirked, when women were in a position of danger of
that kind, that instead of going forwards or trying to
return, they mood still in the very place where the dan-
ger was greatest.
The jury retired, and after a short alisence returned
with a verdict of Guilty.—Sentence was deferred.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS; March 24.
(Before Mr. WrniAiii and a Bench of Magistrate 9, at

the GuimhalbyPestminster.)

James Phineas Davis and David John Davis were
joietly indicted for having committed an as.ault upon
slr. John O'Brien, a person whose name has been for
some time past before the public in connexion with turf
tranwictionft, on the afternoon of the 181 a inst.
Mr. Sleigh conducted the prosecution; Mr. Ballantine
appe,red for Jemes Phineas Davis, and :Mr. Parry for
David Jibe Davis.
The defendants both pleaded not guilty.
Mr. SLEIGH, in a brief address to the jury, stated the
facts of the case, as detailed in the following evidence.
The prosecutor was examined by Mr. SLEIGH. He
said—l em of no buiiness or profession whatever. I was
educated fur the legal profession in Dublin, but I never
took up my degrees, although I am anti+ d to them for
having passed the required number of terms. I know
the defendants, who were engaged against me profes-
sionally as solicitors, in an action at law and in
a suit in Chancery. I reside at the Talbot Hotel,
Richmond. I have been extensively engaged in
sporting transactions ; and I may say that, next
to Lord George Bentinck, I have been suc-
cessful, and have some of the best horses on
the turf. On the afternoon of the 18. h of this
month I was in James-street, Haymarket, where I saw
the two defendants. They were comirg in the direction
of the Haymarket, and I was going away from it. They
were then arm-in-arm, but as soon as I got close to
them they unclosed their armF, and stood about half a
yard , apart. James Davis then, putting himself in a
menacing attitude, said to me, " What do you want with
us?" I said I did not want anything to di with people
of their class, as I under: toed they had been to my hotel
at Richmond for the purpose of vilifying my character.
Upon this, James Phineas Davis seized the stick I held
in my right hand, and David Davis immediately struck
me•with a larger stick that he held in his hand. The
stick he had in his hand was large enough, I should say,
to fell an ox. He struck me on my neck, but the blow
was evidently aimed at my head. Seeing the formidable
nature of the stick, I endeavoured to get the stick from
him. David Davis then seized me by the collar, while I
with my left hand held the stick in his hand. My right
hand was engaged in trying to preserve my own stick
from Phineas Davis, but he almost immediately wrested
it from my •hand. I was then engaged in holding the
other stick with David Davis, and my hat falling off,
James Phineas Davis then, with my own stick, struck
me violent blows, and on various parts of my body. A
crowd collected, end a pdice-Constable came up. I never
attempted to insult, or offered any gesture of defiance to
the defendants.

Goss-examined by Mr. BALLANTIME—Mr. Davis's
stick was much thickAt than 113HIO. Tths two men both
attacked me, and on endeavouring to preserve my stick
I was placed in an unfavourable position, and being off
my guard David DaVia seized me by my ncckclo h. I
will swear my hancrwas not raised against the defen-
dants first. :This I belie've arose out of an aftsir re-
specting a Mr. Clifton, and I was charged with fraudu-
lently obtaining a number of bills which are at present
the subject of a suit in Cbar.cery.
Mr. SLEIGH obj, cted to this line of inquiry on a sub-
ject which was in the course of investigation in a supe-
rior court.

Mr. BALLANTINE said he wished to test the credit of
the prosecutor by his previous transactions.
The prosecutor was cross-examinad at great length,
and questi.)ced in reference to assumed previous trans-
actions, with a view to impeach his credibility.
Mr. John Gubcrt WAS the next witness. He !aid that
he was a baker in the employment if Mr. linker, Pear-
son-street, Kingsland. On Thurtduy afternoon, the
18th instant, he was in James-street. He saw Mr. Da-
vid Davis try to throw Mr. O'Brien. He caught hold of
him by the throat, when the other gentleman struck
bim with a stick. He never saw either of the persons
before. The first thing be saw was the seiz'ng him by
the collar. A person Rho was by called out " sham.
upon which Phineas Davis said, " That is the noted
O'Brien, the extortioner."
Henry Hockley said be was passing through James.
street on the afternoon in question. His attention was
attracted to something going on. A desperate struggle
took place between the prosecutor and David Davis.
The witness then went on to give corroborative evi•
dence of the assault upon the prosecutor.
This was the case for the pros.eteion.
Mr. Ballantine then addressed the jury for the defen-
dant James Davis.
Mr. Parry addressed the jury for the other defendant.
The jury retired to consider their verdict, and after an
absence of half an hour returned into court with a ver-
dict of Guilty against both prisoners.
Mr. WITHAM said the sentence of the Court was that
each of the defendants pay a fine of 50/. to the .Queen,
and be imprisoned until such fine was paid.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WESTMINSTER.

Mr. James Pugh,
,tailor and outfitter, of 117, Jerrnyh-
etreet, St. James's, underwent a very lengthened reexa-
mination before M,. Arnold, charged with having, by
the agency of hots, uttered two forged cheques.
-Henry Hankers stated that on the 24th of November
the prisoner met him in St. James'eepark, and asked him
if he could go as far as iciog-street for him. He then
took him into New-street, Spring gardens, and told him
to wait a minute, and immediately afterwards joined him
without a hat, and having told him that he belonged to
' the house 17 in that street, gave him a letter addressed
to Mrs. Faulkener, and told him he must be careful, as
he would have to bring
.money back, adding that he
(prisoner) ought to go him,elf, but that his master had
a dinner party and he could not spare time. Witness
took the letter, gut 201. 10s. from Mrs. Faulkener, and
was met upon his return, near No. 17, by the prisoner,
to whom he gave the cash, and prisoner then gave him a
shilling for his trouble.
In reply to questions from Mr. Arnold, witness said
he next saw the prisoner at the House of Detention,
Cleikenwell, whither he was taken by a police officer,
who told him that it was to see for the man who had
given him the cheque. He was shown into about a doien
cells where there were prisoners before he came to the
one where he recognised the accused. Nothing was said
by the officer to point out the prisoner. The officer was
not in the cells with witness.
Iu cross-examination by Mr. Payne, the witness said
that while in the waiting-room at the prison, before vi-
siting :he coos, there wsa somebody walked by the door
in the passage, accompanied by another gentleman, and
the officer said that was the man. Witness was looking
out of window at the moment the officer said so, but
turned round and saw two persons, and merely caught
sight of their forms, as they passed along the passage by
the door so quickly.
Mr. ARNOLD put some further questions to the wit-
ness, and elicited that, although he had in his visit to the
cells seen a dozoa or more prisoners before he identi-
fied the accused, some of these were boys, others appa-
rently navigators, and tout the prisoner was the only
well.dressed person- he saw.
The officer was called, who slid he told witness that
the object of his visit to- the prison was to see whether
be could pint out the man who gave him the cheque;
but he positively drnicd that, when the prisoner passed
the waiting-room door, he had said to Hetakere, " Thet
is the man." Witness did not hear any observation
made at the time prisoner passed the doors Did not
hear the words, " That is the officer who took me into
custody." The boy was sitting at the window with his
back towpath the door, and did not move, although he
might have looked towards the door, iu the opening of
which witness was standing.
Mrs. Fautkener and Mr. Partridge were then exa-
mined—the former to show that she gave the 201. los.
to a boy who brought the letter purporting to be writes
by Mr. Partridge; and the latter to show that it was a
forgery.
This being the whole of the evidence for the prosecu-
tion in Mrs. Faulkener's case, box with
The boy White was put into the witness-box
re-
spect to the charge of uttering a forged cheque by Mrorr..
Kirby, at Brompton, purporting to
be
Bowdler. The particulars of this charge were detailid
only a few days ago.
In cross-examine:ion by take b
from unstuffy he was y Mr. Payne. he said that, on
the day after his discharge
the police to 117, J.:rnsyn-stteet, where some in.
quiry was mode. On Sunday fortnight, about half-past
a
seven in the evening, he went into Jerrnyn-street to
meet the officer, who'
however, b
did note ,Tne
near 117 he saw a didl
nowsn 7hteeolm he e
little doubt whether,nv: to
dbewhthhileee
prisoner—but he
wav the wan-enter No. 117. It did not occur to him,
although he thought he had seen him before some-
where, that he was the man who gave him the ele qu
until he saw him go into that house, and if he had not'u•
entered it he should not have thought of him in con-
transaction.
nexien 'With the He believed prisoner. gave
him the note. .
Mr. Kirby anti the Rev. Dr. Bowdler were called to
show that a forged cheque had been tendered to the
former.
Payne
hiasidolrieesnste! 'the magistrates at great length
onAlrbel a'f of
Ann Pennell was then called, and proved that the
prisoner and his' family moved from Storey's-gate on
the day he was alleged to have met White and given
bim the cheque in the evening; that she accompanied
the accused and his wife to their new apartments at
Notting-hill, and that he never left the house that
evening.
Mrs. Harling, the landlady of the new apartments,
not only confirmed the alibi, but declared that the ac-
cused was in bed at seven o'clock on the night of Sun-
day fortnight, in which she was corroborated by ac-
cused's wife's nurse, and two witnesses from 117. J. r_
myn-street, were called to show that he did not go there
en the evening in question.
Cresswell, a solicitor, who is the accused's father-
in-law, said he visited him at the -prison on Thursday,
and after a conference with him observed the officer and
a lad with him. The accused said, " I find the officer -
who arrested me is -here," and added, printing to the
officer, " That is the man." The boy (Hankie's) and ,
the officer were at. that time standing with the room-
door open, locking at them. Witness and the accused,
after going towards the officer, returned again along the
passage to the waiting-room door. when the accused re•
peated, in alluion to the offic-r, " That is he " but s id
it was not • the same boy (White being the
only boy-
who appeared against hits on the previous examination).
)fir. the present state of the case the
end he is.
Mr. ARNOLD I
evidence is not
schatg ,eiffiscl i ient to send the prisoner for trial,d 1

Daniel Frazer, Eliza Frazer, his wife, and John
Frazer, his brother, were bought up for Aug eximius-

It

tinn on a (large of plundering Mr. John Tallis, print
and publi.ht-r, of St. John-street, Smithfield.
From the evidence of Mr. Talks it appeared that for
two years past the prisoner Daniel Freva- bed lrieu in
his employment in the pardel-packing departMent,
his premises in St. John-street, and that latterly the
other male prisoner had also been engaged on the pre-
mises in the map-colouring dPpertment. Up to The"'
day last he did not distrust their honesty ; on the con-
trary, he had a high opinion of their characters, WO'
cularly of Daniel; but on that day, in consequence of
what had be'en told him, he went to the shop of a Pe".
broker in Holbern, and there totted some books belong-
ing to him. Oe returning borne Mr. Tallis told the
prisoner Daniel Fravo- that be wished him to accompani
him to a shop in Holborn, when the latter made some
excuse for a few. minutes' absence, and imenediatelY tab-
seended. His wife and hew her were given into Gusto*
and ho himself in a few. days gave himself up to au
effi:lr, to whom he had declared that he alone was the
guilty party.
The shopmen of four different pawnbrojrcra were in
attendauce with a number of exp,n,ive and le
the
nq
bound volumes, which had been pledged by each of
prisoners, tied all of which were sworn to by Mt. Tsaiprisoners,
as his property.
Mr. Talks made a serious complaint of several pore"
brokers, who, when applied to on the subject of the pro-
party belonging to him which had been stolenl and
pawned, threw every impediment in his way; and L
only on his threatening to apply for a search-wort,
that they gave him any information or produced t
property.
Mr. ELLIOTT severely censured the conduct of the
pawnbrokers in taking property of such a descriptioU
that produced from persons in the position of the P"''
tiers, without making the nt•c..e.sery inquiries—iool;ll::
which must have led to a detection of theirdishonestY long
ago, He (Mr. Elliott) perceived that even the leaves r.
some- of tae costly-bound and expensive works
vol'
duced, and on which not more than a shilling v.e.;uulki
bad been advanced, were "not cut; and be consi.aberolit
that 'the act of taking such, property in pledge v/to,,ed
making the necessary inquiries WaS scarcely tell lsy
from that of receiving • stolen property with n gni •
knowledge. f out
Mr. Tullis remarked, that from the tepticoony grab
of the pawnbrokers, the books had been pledged of
him on the let of March, 181, so that the system
tbs;
robbery must have been car red
on for twidve
and many of the books produced belonged to a i)tr4ot
Tallis's Illustrated London for 1851—which was
11°.
published to the trade.
Wet
The prisoner Daniel Fraser said he Alone ca
and that neither his wife nor brother knew how ue (a°
by the books.
Mr. ach
'ELLIOTT•ELLIoTT considered the case a very bad bad one; _
was guilty of the stealing, and he coma:acted all three
for trial.

THAMES.•
Daniel Billinyton, alas Price. alias Lewis. wily.
been frequently in custody tor assaults and °OrigbblT.
.
was brouAilt before Mr. Yardley charged with sta
1/1°
a woman named Ellen Sweeny, with intent i°
der her. i the
The prisoner, who had been recently emPlOn,Ljed
City Soup K toben, Shoemaker-row, was aPPrerno ed
yesterday by Police-Sergean: Kelly, 2 K, who "eref:rti,
that the prisoner had stabbed the same vvoman
and that he was best known by the name of Daniel 9.
Mr. YARDLEY—He is entered on the police-
Daniel Billington.
Sergeat.t Kelly—He is always called Daniel Gooedd
from his lutfiaidy character, and his real or • upPo
res_ vnblanc.., to the murderer of that name. .„k
Mr. YARDLEY remanded the prisoner for eyes

THE CO UN Tat AKT(ETr-
LIVERpoOL, MARCH 23. Trig market
The demand for
wheat and flour was not setae, &Idiot:
holders
were willing to take lower p i :• Oats and,r,„,r
was
were dull, and cheaper • baile and - rletennebanged. "" a
was a large suppli of cheaper;
beans,maand offered at a delis/
of 6d per qr. ndian corn 6d per qr. lower- li, rrigl,sist-:
Ireland and coastwise, wheat, I
-5 barle 2,49321 nnne, '-',,:,..4
oats, 2,123 ; beans, 105 qrs ; flour 99 ysa'cks. Foreign
9,057 ; barley, 2,541; oats, 383; 431 qrs.; flour
beans,
5,177 sacks. well attended:
No iIII•
NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, MARCH 23*--- tlf:
ly
standing the supplies were m derate, trade ruled exceed.fig a
declinedull, and to transact business a further cline must have bees
Barley
acceded to, which factors were unwilling to ..11ow•
heavy sale, and the turn lower. In other articles no changei.,
NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, MARCH 23.—The ,nPf .r.
of beasts being large, trade was sluggish, at a decline in 'AIP
on last week of from 3d to cd per stone, and a considersni
portion remained unsold. All breeds of sheep moved off
00,4
yet former terms were; ully supported, and a clew ance effeeta
Beasts. 1,1o0; sheep, ,3.50. Pricer —Oxen, 4s 3d to 1$ 'i".
per stone; heifers. bs 3d per stone; sheep, in wool, bid 7
6d per lb ; ditto, shorn, bd to Od. . II
EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET. MARCH 23.—There Wingi
the meal market to:day 7 sacks Oatmeal, each scAl
28011) imperial, whereof 5 sold thus :—t at 33s 04 50"
at 32's ; average price of the whole 11 128 2d 4-12ihs.
2 sacks pot-barley which sold Ow: —1 at 28s, mid 1
EDINBURGH HAT AND STRAW MARKET, MARCH 23'-'.
Oat straw, from 7s 6d to 9s Od per kemple of 16 stenes ts°:(l
wheat ditto, 9s Od to li,s Od; barley ditto, 71 6d 0. 84
gay, from 9d to 11 d per stone.
DALKEITH ' MEAL MARKET, MARCH 22,48 bags of oatmeal and 2of pot barley at this There
nisrketst
at Zs.
sales dull. Oatmeal up on the top 6d per bag. seconiiandloW;e:
prices from 9d to ,lid per bag up ; pot-barley 6d per tag dear- '
there was no barleymeal in market. Third.
Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second
imperial .. „„ •.• .., ....a nu
ymeal, per ditto ... —s 01 8.." (.' Od
Peasemeal „. ,•,, ,„. ~...s Lid .....8 Od ----; Od
Flour ... „, ,„. „, 31 01 30; Od 29s Od
—s Od --a Od -_-_:. cal
Pot barley ... . 28 6' —s Od "---

COAL

Prices of Coal per ton at t
Bate's. West Hartley.. 12s Od!
13uIdle's W. Hartley...l2B Od!
Cares Hartley ... 12s Osil
Howard's W. H. Neth • 12s Od'
Longridge'sW.Hartley 12s 6d
North Percy Hartley.. Ns Od
Ravensworth'aW. Hart 12s o,s
Pantield Moor.Butes... 128 3d

Wall's knd, Stc. -
Gosforth ..... . 134 Od,
Barton
Lawson l2s Od
Walker l2, 6‘
Eden Main ..... l- 0.
Lambton Primrose
Bell ...... ...... 13s 9u
Braddyll
Ships at market,

y isarsuDAY.
he close of them arket:•_-:
'Hatton ................. 10535 via
'Haswell..... .......... pis 94
ILAmbton ..... . ....... 145 9d
Plummer ..... •• . 143 gd
Russell's Hetton ..... 6 od
Stewart's •• •••• . 1.25 od
Fowler's Hartlepool..
.149 Q
Heugh Hall ...........
Kelloe ............. 13_ `46
Nc,rth Hartlepool.....
.. -17 9'd
South Hartlepool ..... 34
South Kelloe ...........
15' 03
few. . . .........
Nixon's literthyr sod
21 pi
Cardiff .. lA. I_.
66
Sidney's Hartley .....
74 .....Sold, 52.

RAILWAY SHARE MARK TO.
STOCK EXCHANGE,-T
B
Rhe mTOL,
aMrkAentcHwas24 very
inactive tO
and prices had a downward tendency. The tranct„i°ll;
,
were as follow:—Aberdeen, 13% Great Western, 88N
Midland Stock, 63,.44...
"LIV, MAEcx 21.
STOCK EXCHANGE.ERPOOL -The share market was not quite -
so-dwr.
sa
good to-day, but prices remain without material alteration.
'the transactions were as follow : -Caledonian. 18 /q
shire and Yorkshire, 73'4 c.—London and North.Westerq•
British, 734
124;14—Ditto, New Quarters, 5 p.—Mancheater, Shetlielt
and Lincolnshire Preference, 12 9-16 - Midland, 6334—N°rtA
'Shrewsbury and Chester (Oswestry an
Chester), 11—Scluth••Eastern and Dover, 21%.
MANCH geruh., MARCH 24.
tvroms . Kac.secautc.—The business to-day was rather li
mited, and prices had a downward tendency. The transaC.
tions were as lollow:-- East And
34,—Eas:ern Coup.
ties, 9%—East Lancashire, 17,4—Ditto, Preference, Quer'
tern, 84— Ditto, Fifths, 5 5-16—bancashire.and Yorkshire.
724—Manchester, iShefield, and Liticolnshlre, p
12 Lto - Ditto, New Preference, 11- t 6 U. P.—Sheffield, Rothe'.
ham and Goole, 21—South-!:astern and Dover, 21 11.16.--•
Mid and, (ALA Caledonian, i 804.— London and North..
Western, 124—Ditto, New Quarters, 54 -._ reference,
p Londcm zind
South-Western, B.4—Dublin and Drogheda, Thirds, 123/4-1;
Manchester and Birmingham (CN, ~
j Quarters, 2 1).--"N°It-
British, Preference 5 L
tilltla-Nligth Staffordshire, 8 ,dill.
AM, MARCH 24 s.A'
Secs EXCHANGE. —The :bitsin ' ilasiw-'
ess to- day.was verf 'rho
in amount, but prices generally, werewell •d. ...-
only sales reported were—Birmingham, sustame so
Stour Valley, 9/. 18s. 91-.... L, Wolverhampton, ,04.
____ 9d.-London and North-Western, "" •

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contact with a hi .;11 bank,•the top of which was bard road'
row and about four feet perpendicular drop into a ,_ struck
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BIRTHS.
F A sort.
On the 21st icst , at Picton-villa, Nololk-soad,-St- /t)brf6-
wood, Mrs. James P. Davies. gerts,
On the 21st inst , at the Parsonage,Little Hadhatri,oool.
the wife of the Rev. E. Randolph, curate of Lithe'
"
OF A PALIGHTBM. the Da of
On the 21st inst.. at Upper Grosvenor-street,
Sir Edward Nuon, Bart., M.P. f Ole
On the 21st. inßstxt., at Heavitree, Exeter, the lady
Hon. W. Addington

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MARRIED. ta ' -
On the 2Sth of January, at Bellary, Lieutenant
(laugh
Bivar, 1 t Madras Light Infantry, to Matilda Boma,
ter of the late. Colonel John Hunter.

DIED.
On the 22d inst., at Wellington-grove, Blackheath, litilll4
Collingwoxl, Eq., aged 66
H3rOdiel
-tih,t:rk:2l(llrsi.ni‘sit.i.ryatpielehipaBrlez,sa-estirzt., Westbourrie-ferrlice'
r Pelir
On th, 22d inst., t',e Rev' P. S. Dodd, rector-0. -
hurst, Kent, and Aldrington, Sussex, aged 77.
the wife of
On the 22d inst, at savenoaks, Nary Jane,
H. Glaibrook, Eeq., of Boxgrove, Sussex. gro•
411, tCollege-placlCarnnen-town, on the
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0.,
Ease, aged 76, podgy
On the 2.ai inst., Thomas Parker, eldest son of Dr.
Peckham, Surrey.
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