The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-19 00:00:00

are 10c. lower, and the Five per Cents. unaltered. The
Belgian Five per Cents. are / higher. The Belgian
Bank Shares have declined sf. ; those of the Bank of
France are unvaried. The Spanish Active has hung at
191. The Versailles Right Bank Railway Shares have
declined 17f. 50e. The Versailles Left Bank have been
firm, and rallied 2f. 50e. Though the absurdity is mani-
fest on the face of it, there arc persons who imagine that
the sanction of the Legislature will be obtained to con-
verting the Havre Railroad Company into one to go only
a distance of eight leagues. The shares have improved
7f. 50c.

first Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price
French 5 per Cents
4}.e_. per Cents lO3 ... 10:1 ... 1116 ... 106
4 per Cents lOl 31 l"1 30 ... 101 30 ... 101 30
3 per Cents 79 40 ... 79 40 ... 79 40 ... 79 40
Bank of mince
Lalfitte Bank I,ooof. S!i lOBl ...1080
5,00 A Sh s_so ...52.)1.1 —.525 —.5250
Belgian 5 per Cents IO2N, ... I 0 ... 102% ... 02%
Bank ... 80 ... 800 ... 801 ... 800

Coupons
Dutch *4 per Cents
Sp nish Ac ive
Passive
Portuguese 3 per Cents
Nea
Roman

45 ... 45 ... 45 ... 45
5-)% ... 55% 55% ... 55%
1954 ... 19}4 19,4 ... 194
... % ...
2154 ... 2154 214 54 2154
99 311 ;A) 99 15 91 15
••

St. Cermai,
Versailles, it. H

RAILWAY SHARES.
650 ... 650 ... 650 650
685 ... 6,35 ... 677 50 ... 677 nO
162 50 ... (67 50 ... 1(60 ... 167 59
957 50 ... 960 • 957 50 ... 957 50
463. ... 460 • 4.0 460
310 ... ... ai 7 5) ... 207 59
340 ... 240 ... 340 ... 340

Havre, .....
Orleans ..
Strasburg to Bale
Yarn (Maberly's)

The Madrid Journals received this morning are of
the 10th inst. The Royal Ordinance relative to the
Press was beginning to be regarded as so much waste
pap-er ; the Journalists refusing to yield obedience to it,
and the Government not daring to attempt compulsory
measures. Perhaps the circumstance of a duel between
the Editors of the Gairiguay and the Correio Nacional,
in which the latter was slightly wounded, alarmed the
new Minister of Finance, who, with all his sensitiveness
to Newspaper attacks, may prefer the discharge of an
inkhorn to that of a pistol. Better be laughed at than
shot at, especially where there is barely but a choice of
evils.

Orders have been. sent to the Captain-General of the
island of Cuba to send back to Europe the patiiots of
Cadiz and Barcelona, who were transported there by
the decree of the Captai❑ General, Count CLEONARD
and Baron de MEER.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT

THIS DAY,

OLD COURT.

William Smith, a decently dressed young man, having been
remanded from the last Session, was placed at the bar, charged
with having committed a forgery with intent to defraud Sophia
Woodin.

The prosecutor, an old lady, residing in Sloane-street, had
been acquainted with the prisoner's father, and had taken the
prisoner into her house to reside. She imagined that she was
entitled to the estates of the Duke of Buckingham, Lord
Macclesfield. Lord Shaftesbury, and other Noblemen ; she
consulted the prisoner on the subject, who stated that he
would take the advice of Sir John Law, of Plumer's-
buildings, Temple, who, being a Commissioner of Law,
was, of course, a high legal authority. The prisoner
told the prosecutrix shortly afterwards, that having seen Sir
John Law, he hadgiven it as his opinion that her claim was
just to the estate of the Duke of Buckingham, and that, in
order to enforce it, it would be requisite to remove the body of
lir:r father to the tomb of his ancestors; in order to accomplish
which object, a faculty must be obtained from the Archbishop
of Canterbury, which would cost 1001. She immediately or-
dered her broker to sell out this sum, which was placed in Mas-
terman's bank, and from thence remitted to Wigney's bank in
13right,,n, for a Mr. Salmon, who was represented as being the
clerk of Sir John Law.

On her cross-examination the prosecutrix said that she was
the grandaughter of Lord Sheffield, because her father had
married Lord Sheffield's daughter—that her father was a
Baronet, and the title might to have come to her, but she
never got it. She also stated that Lord Shaftesbury had been
an admirer of her's, but that in consequence of an angry reply she
had made to his Lordship in a butcher's shop, he had not been
to sec her, and had not offered her marriage, for which she was
very sorry—that she was entitled to Lord Alacelesfield's estates,
who had been to see her a day or two since. Many particulars
of a similar nature were elicited in the course of the cross-
examination.

A letter respecting the proceedings of Sir John Law, to en-
force her rights, written by the prisoner to the prosecutrix,
was put in and read, and witnesses were called, to prove the
prsoner's handwriting, and the payment to him of the 1001. by
the Messrs. Wigney, of Brighton.

Mr. PKr.NDERGAST made an objection to the indictmen
which was overruled.

Mr. PRENDERGAST for the defence contended that the
deuce of the prosecutrix could not be entitled to credit, as she
was evidently labouring under delusions of such a nature as
would prevent her being convicted of perjury if her evidence
should be proved to be false.
One witness was called to character who had not known the
prisoner since 1834, at which time he was classical tutor in the
establishment of a Mr. Hamilton.

Air. Baron GURNEY summed up, and the jury found the
prisoner Guilty.

Mr. Ba, on -GURNEY, in passing sentence, addressed the pri-
soner as follows:—Prisoner at the bar, it is lamentable to see a
person possessing such acquirements and knowledge as you pos-
sess, and which might enable you to attain a respectable situa-
tion in society, using tho:e acquirements and that knowledge
for so wicked a purpose as you have done. You haVe practised
deceit on this poor old lady, whom it was your duty to have pro-
tected, and not to have plundered. Your crime was committed
with great deliberation, and shows a most depraved heart. A
person of your description cannot be suffered to remain at large
in this country. The sentence of the Court is, that you be
transported beyoud the seas for the term of fourteen years.