The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-23 00:00:00

Trip, SON. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1863.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT---This Day.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Byles.)
CHARGE OF CIIILD MURDER.

The trial of Sarah Emily Mitchell, who was indicted for
the wilful murder of her infant child, was, on the applica-
tion of Mr. Clarke, postponed till next session.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Daj.

MARLBOROUGH•STREET.

TILE IIAYMARRET.—ALLEGED ASSAULT.—Catherine
Willis, a smartly dressed young female, was charged before
Mr. Knox with assaulting Mr. Albert Herbert Lewis, sur-
geon, of Nuneaton, Warwickshire, but staying at present
at 20, Newman-street, Oxford-street.
The complainant said—l was in the Haymarket last
night. Ido not know what time it was, but I think it was
half-past one, when the defendant scratched my face. I
met her at Biznell's, a place where, when I was a student, I
was in the habit of visiting. She said she knew me. She
annoyed my friend, and I rent my friend home in a cab,
and then she scratched my face.
Mr. Knox—Had you been drinking ?
Complainant—Oh, I was not drunk.
Defendant—Did you not strike me ?
Complainant—No.
Benjamin Jeffrey, 201 C, said—About threw this morning
I heard a female calling "Police," and the complainant
:Feld he hod been assaultel, and seeing marks on his face I
took the defendant into custody.
Complainant—Oh, look at my pocket handkerchief.
Defendant—He struck ma twice, and I called for the
police.

Mr. Knox--It certainly strikes me as remarkable if the
defendant had not been struck, that she could call for the
police. I think, Mr. Lewis, that now you are no longer a
student you had better keep from the Haymarket. I think
you brought it all on yourself, and that you did strike the
young woman, and I shall, therefore, discharge her.
SYSTEMATIC THIEVES.—A THIEVING FAMILY.—Mary
Ann Larkin and Caroline Larkin, sisters, the latter only
having come out of prison yesterday morning, were charged
before Mr. Knox with stealing a shawl of the value of 16s.
from the shop of Mr. Fred. Augustus Penny, linendraper,
10 and 11, Walker's-court, Soho, and a piece of cotton
print, of the value of 4s. 6d., from the shop of Mr. James
Horne, linendraper, 5, Little Pulteney-street, Soho.
Elizabeth Jane Bowen, assistant to Mr. Penny, deposed
that, about one o'clock yesterday, she saw the two prisoners
in the lobby of the shop. The prisoners left, and she
went upstairs, and on her return to the shop, in
about twenty minutes, the prisoners came back again, at the
same time a woman entering the shop and asking to be
shown a bonnet. While showing the woman the bonnet
she observed the prisoner Caroline take down a black and
white shepherd's plaid shawl of the value of 165., and on
her (witness) going for assistance they got away. As the
woman bargaining about the bonnet denied all knowledge
of the prisoner she was allowed to go. Last evening about
8 o'clock she was called to the shop of Mr. Home, and saw
the prisoners, and identified them as the women who stole
the shawl from her employer's shop.
John Henry Somers, assistant to Mr. Home, sail that
having been informed yesterday evening about halt-past 7
that a female had taken a piece of cotton print, he went in
search of her, and had nearly given up the search when a
boy informed him that Mary Ann Larkin had the print
under her shawl, and on going out he secured her, took it
from her, end took her into the shop. The prisoner Caro-
line then bounced in, and said, "Oh my dear sister I She
did not steal it; I stole it." A crowd collected, and in con-
sequence information got to Mr. Penny's assistant, and on
her arriving she identified the women as those who had
taken her shawl, and they were then given into custody.
Charles Palmer, a boy, living in Hopkins-street, proved
seeing the prisoners and another woman talking together,
and seeing the print under Mary Anne Larkin's arm. He
gave information to the witness Somers.

Patrick Winter, 321 A, proved taking the prisoners into
custody, and said that the prisoner Caroline had a fit and
was obliged to be taken to the workhouse. The prisoner
Caroline said her sister knew nothing about the print.
Mr. Knox—And yet it was found under her shawl
Sergeant Brown, 5 C, said the prisoner Caroline was com-
mitted on the 29th of July last for two months for stealing
69 yards of print from Mr. Horne's shop, and only came
out yesterday. They belonged to a thieving family.
Committed for trial.

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Sept. 22.—The market for both
yarn and cloth is firmer, but there has not been
natieh business. The amount of business done to-
day has been small, in consequence of the great
advance in prices asked by spinners—namely, from
ld. to 2d. per lb. on the rates of this day week.
Even this advance would hardly bring the rates for
yarn up in proportion to the advances which have
recently taken place in the raw material., but it is
in the attempt on the part of spinners to get some
portion of the advance to cover the increased cost
of cotton that business has been checked. The
inquiry has been very good, and it is probable that
a large business would have been done if spinners
had been easy to deal with. The market closes
very strong, with a tendency to higher
prices. The balance of a large stock of 16's
to 24's water twist, bought some time ago,
made from American cotton, was cleared out yester-
day at 2s 6d per lb. It was bought at 2s per lb
(the then current rate), although the cotton cost
2s 6d per lb. The price of the same quality of cotton
to-day is about 2s 3d per lb. There has been a fair
market for cop yarns from the home trade at full
prices. In some cases, in these as well as other
yarns, spinners have asked extreme rates, and this
has checked business. For cloths we have had only
a small amount of business, buyers to a great ex-
tent having been deterred from operating in conse-
quence of the high prices asked by manufacturers.
Although there have been few inquiries with a
view to purchasing, however, manufacturers are
very firm, and are rather disposed to advance their
prices to cover thecost of cotton oryarn than to make
any concession. So far as we can learn, where
operations have been effected very full prices indeed
have been given. Where manufacturers have hap-
pened to hold stocks of cotton or yarn bought before
the recent advances they have been rather easier to
deal with, but in cases where orders have been
offered to manufacturers who would have to go into
the market for the raw staple the advance required
has been such as to stop business. A telegram has
been received stating that a considerable rise had
taken place in the waters of the Nile (40 inches in
one night), and this had had some effect on the
market, through a supposition that disaster might
be the result to the cotton crops in Egypt.
Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report of the cloth-
market :—" There is no new feature in the mar-
ket to-day. The extreme prices of Tuesday
last are firmly adhered to by manufacturers, but
buyers so far are very reluctant to give them,
and there is consequently little or nothing doing."
LEEDS, Sept. 22.—The woollen trade keeps in a
healthy condition, and a pretty fair business was
transacted at the market to• day, although the very
unsettled state of the weather had the effect of
keeping many buyers from attending. For plain
blacks the demand is steady, and tweeds and mel-
tous meet with a good sale. In heavy goods manu-
facturers find the demand rather diminishing as
the season advances ; ail', a few good sales were
made to day. Prices continue very firm in all de-
partments. The flax trade has been steady, and
the fine qualities keep in fair request. Prices are
about the same. In yarns the trade is brisk, and
spinners in many cases are full of orders, particu-
larly for tow yarns. Hemp is firm, and advanced
prices are paid.

ROCHDALE, Sept. 21.—At to-day's market the
amount of business was rather above the average.
The principal inquiry has been for low goods, but
the price of the raw material makes them scarce.
Manufacturers prefer to be employed in producing
the finer classes of flannels. The fancy trade is
rather brisk, and the tendeney of prices is upwards,
manufacturers declining new orders upon the old
terms. All the Yorkshire goods on offer to-day
were readily sold. Of these goods, howe'er, there
is rather a scarcity, and prices are somewhat higher.
There has been a good business doing in wool,
many large manufacturers having taken the oppor-
tunity to replenish their stocks. Prices have not
at all declined.

GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.

A meeting of East Anglian shareholders in this
company was held yesterday at the London Tavern
—Mr. Goodson in the chair.

Mr. Owen, the secretary, having read the notice
convening the meeting,
The CHAIRMAN said the meeting was called for
the purpose of carrying out the wishes of many
proprietors of East Anglian stock, and he would
call upon Mr. L. Simpson, one of the representa-
tives of East Anglian interests at the Board of the
Great Eastern Company, to explain the business to
them.

Mr. L. SIIIPSON said the meeting was held for
the purpose of exercising certain provisions in the
Great Eastern Act of 1863, by which the East
Anglian proprietors were authorised to separate
their stock in two parts, with a view to meet the
wishes of two classes of shareholders. They pro-
posed to convert one portion, or 20 per cent. of it
into a 5 per cent. stock, which would be bought by
trustees and others as a first-class security, and the
other portion of the stock, 80 per cent. into a
separate stock of a speculative character, which would
cake the contingent dividend to which the East
Anglian stock was entitled. He thought the division
of the stock into two denominations as proposed
would be found an unmixed good. They had been
supported in that view by proprietors holding
£500,000 of the stock of the company, or about
one-halfof the whole amount of it, who had intrusted
him with their proxies. He had no doubt they
wean find that their stock divided would be more
valuable than in one. He then moved a formal
resolution, in pursuance of the powers of the Great
Eastern Railway Act, 1863, authorising the East
Anglian stock to be divided into No. 1 stock of
£206,721, entitled to a fixed dividend of 5 per cent.
per annum, and No. 2 stock of £826,825 entitled
to a dividend equivalent to one-half of the dividend
in excess of 3 per cent. per annum on the ordinary
stock of the Great Eastern Company which in any
half year might be declared on that stock.
Mr. HERAPATII seconded the motion.
Mr. WILKINSON said he intended to second the
motion, and to state that it would be better for all
parties if the East Anglian A, B, and C preference
stocks were consolidated into one preference stock.
Mr. HERAPATII explained that the East Anglian
proprietors were entitled under the amalgamation
to 1 per cent. on their original stock of £1,033,546,
and also to two-fifths of the excess of dividend over
3 per cent. per annum that might be declared in
any half year on the ordinary stock of the Great
Eastern Company, He thought the present a
much simpler plan by consolidating the one per
cent. portion into one-fifth of the amount, namely,
£206,721, and making it a 5 per cent. stock. The
contingent dividend being confined to the other
four-fifths of the original stock, or £826,825, the
result to the holders with respect to dividend was
precisely the same.
Mr. SHAW, the other representative of the East
Anglian at the Great Eastern Board, said, with re-
gard to the observations of Mr. Wilkinson, that
however desirable it might be to consolidate the
A, B, and C preference shares of the East Anglian,
it could not be done under the Act without the
assent of all the proprietors. The resolution before
the meeting would require the assent of three-
fourths of the shareholders represented at the meet-
ing. The Great Eastern Board had cheerfully as-
sented to the proposition, which would do no harm
to them, but would be a great advantage to the East
Anglian proprietors.
Mr. COXIIEAD could not see any advantage from
the proposed change. The present stock would
now realise 27, and he wanted to know what the
contingent stock would be worth when separated
from it. He thought it a very injudicious proceed-
ing, and would vote against the motion.
Mr. SHAW said the stock was et 24 and 241
before, but since it had risen to '27; the difference
was the present value of the contingent right, but
when the stock was divided he expected that the
price of the two taken together would be 30.
After some further observations, the resolution
was unanimously adopted, and the proceedings con-
cluded with votes of thanks to the chairman for
presiding, and to Mr. Simpson and Mr. Shaw, the
representatives of the East Anglian at the Board,
for their valuable cervi'nE.