The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-30 00:00:00

WOOL.

The public sales, which are now almost concluded, con.
tinue to be well attented by home buyers. For the home
trade the biddings rule active, and all superior fleeces fully
support the recent improvement in the currency, Inferior

The Fatal Accident at Islington,—This Day,

The coroner's inquiry into the circumstances at-
tending the death of John Peake and Joseph
Pearce, which resulted from the fall of a newly
erected building in Upper-street, Islington, was
opened this morning at the Lanadown Music Hall,
Islington-green.

The witnesses examined up to the time of our
going to press merely deposed to those facts already
known. It was generally expected that the in-
quiry would be adjourned, in order to allow further
time for a minute examination of the manner in
which the building was carried on.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

The adjourned November sessions of the Central Criminal
Court commenced this morning before the Lord Mayor
Recorder, and Sheriffs.
_ .

There arc 115 prisoners for trial.

The!Recorder, in:charging the Grand Jury, said the num-
ber of prisoners awaiting trial was not more than usual,
considering the time that had elapsed since the adjournment
of the court. The cases were all of the ordinary description.
There were two charges of child murder, in which the
question they would have to deal with was, whether the
children were born alive. There was also an iniictment
against a person named Shorter, who stood charged with
attempting to poison a young woman, and another
against a person named Blundell, who was
indicted for attempting to drown a boy in the river Thames,
but the evidence did not present any peculiarity, and there-
fore he need not detain them from the commencement of
their duties.

The grand jury then retired.
THE CHARGE OP LIBEL AGAINST A CLERGYMAN.
Mr. Poland made an application to the Recorder to allow
the removal of this case by certiorari to the Court of Queen's
Bench.

The court granted the application.
SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST. A TRADESMAN.

A respectably dressed man, named Harris, carrying on
the business of a tailor at Brentford, was charged with
stealing a £5O note, the property of Mr. Abrahams.
The facts of the case were somewhat strange. Tho pro-
secutor resided in the house of the prisoner, and for upwards
of 12 months be had in his possession ,e £5O note, which
he kept in a pocket-book locked up in a wardrobe. From
time to time trifling articles of wearing apparel were miss-
ing from the place, and eventually, two soya having been
stolen, he obtained a patent lock and put it upon the
wardrobe, his £5O being quite safe at this time.
Shortly after lie found that the £5O note had been taken
from the pocket-book, the number of the note which had
been entered in the book altered, and a £5 note substituted
in its place. On the £5 note the name of " Coles"
was written, and also the name of W. Jones, Staines,
on the £5O note, bath of which, it was believed, were in
the handwriting of the prisoner. The prisoner had some
time before the prosecutor discovered his loss asked him to
oblige him with a loan, and in a few days after the prisoner
was known to have paid to Messrs. Bull and Wilson, the
wholesale woollen drapers, a bill of £36.
Witness having deposed to the similarity of the prisoner's
handwriting R ith that on the notes,
Farmer, a detective in the metropolitan police, said he
went into the Bank of England on the Bth of October and
obtained the cancelled £5O note produced. He went to the
prisoner's shop and Mr. Abrams and Mr. Wyburn being
present, he told the prisoner a £5O note had been stolen and
that he had a few questions to put to him to which he
might answer if he thought proper. In answer to the
tshoeve2r6etihg sovereigns.
Sep-
tember. said he Messrs. Bull and Wilson £36
questions prisoner s
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day, he said to Hampton, and he had left Waterloo-station
at a quarter past one. and dEntlageheardesottn
Mr. Davis, a clerk in the Bank of England, said the £5O
note produced was changed,on the 26th of September for a
£5 note and 45 sovereigns.
Mr. Bent, superintendent of the Waterloo Station, said
that there was no quarter past 1 train to Hampton. The
trains were a quarter past 12 and 2 o'clock.
the jury.
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case.
The jury had not returned their verdict when we went
to press.