The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-18 00:00:00

SEEDS.

Good and fine mustard seed is firm in price, but inferior
qualities are dull. Tares are a slow sale. Linseed and
rapeseed are steady. Cakes move off slowly at late rates.

TALLOW.
The tallow trade is steady, but with only a moderate
business doing. New P.Y.C. is quoted at 46s 3d to 46s 6d
per cwt. on the spot ; 46s 3d for October to December, and
47s 6d to 47s 9d for January to March delivery. Rough
fat, 2s 4d per 81b. Town tallow, 46s 3d net cash.
Particulars. 1862. 1863. 1864. 1865.
Stock this day 36,714 42,615 41,319 30,752
Price of Y.C. . .... (488 Od to 43s 8d 41s 9d 46s 3d to
. Gd
Delivery last week ..
1,652 •2,022 468
1,308 2,481
Ditto from June 1 23,290. 16,780 18,985 26,442
Arrival last week
Ditto from June 1 21,692 21,579 15,283 24,711
Price of Town

CRIMINAL COURT.—This Day.

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OLD COURT.

The September sessions of the Central Criminal Couri
commenced this day before the Lord Mayor, the Recorder.
Sheriff; and Aldermen.

The Recorder, in charging the grand jury, said he re-
gretted that the calendar contained the names of persons
charged with serious offences. There were two charges
of murder, One was against the soldier Currie, for shooting
'Major De Vere at Chatham, and the other against Esther
Lock for the murder of her three children at Skin Market-
place, Bermondsey. They would have the whole of the
evidence placed before them in order to ascertain whether
there was a prima facie case against each of the prisoners
accused, because if so it would be their duty to return
true bills against each of the accused, leaving the
state of mind of the prisoners at the time the act was com-
mitted for consideration by the court and jury. There was
also a charge of manslaughter against a foreigner named
Brenner, for causing the death of another foreigner, a Ger:.
man, Joseph Kucten, and in this case also they would be
called upon to inquire very minutely into the circumstances
which led to the quarrel. The learned gentleman then re-
ferred to the depositions, and detailed the facts under which
the quarrel which led to the death of the man arose, and
said it would be for them the Grand Jury to say whether
the charge in the indictment was made out. Besides the
case of manslaughter referred to, there were others of a
similar description, and it was much to be regretted that
such lathentable loss' of ifie.shoum be of such frequent oc-
currence aslhad of late unhappily been the case. In the
case of the prisoner Rickman, he was charged with killing
Sarah Ann Scott, the female with whom he cohabited. It
is alleged by the prisoner that when he went home (4,
White's-grounds, 13ermondsey), he found the woman beastly
drunk, and that, having beCome enraged, he inflicted blows
on her which caused her death. There was an indictment
against Charles Gordon Sprague, the surgeon, for a rapo
on. Hannah Hart, a servant of Mr. Jenkins, surgeon, of 22,
Philpot-lane, Fenchurch-street, in whose employment the
prisoner had been two days. The grand jury, he felt cer-
tain, would be quite able to dispose of the cases submitted
to them ; but, in the event of any difficulty, the Court
would most willingly render them all the assistance re-
quired.
The grand jury then retired to their room.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBERY OF DRESDEN CHINA FIGURES.—Two young
men named Geo. Rutherford, porter, and Geo. Chatham,
labourer, weracharged before Mr. Knox with stealing from
outside the shop of Mr. N. W. Jacobson, 311, Oxford-
street, dealers in works of art, two Dresden china figures.
Sergeant Bentley, 13 C, deposed that about half-past
five on Saturday afternoon he met the prisoners in Pulte-
noy-street. Observing they had something under their
coats, and suspecting them he asked Rutherford what he
had got, when he said it was a figure a man had given him
to carry to Brydges-street, Covent-garden, and on asking
the other prisoner what he had he made a similar answer.
He then took them into custody.

A little girl, a daughter of Air. Jacobson, proved seeing
the prisoner take the figures from outside her father's shop
on Saturday afternoon. She directly afterwards told her
father.

Mr. Jacobson, having identified the articles as his
property, stated that they were not quite complete, as they
would be worth £lO ; in the present state they were of the
value of £5. His daughter had been asked by one of his
men to stand at the shop door for a moment, and directly
the man left the' two prisoners instantly snatched up the
figures and made off.

Mr. Knox asked if the prisoners were known ?
sergeant Bentley said he believed both of them were ?
Mr. Knox said he felt bound to state that he had himself
observed in passing Mr. Jacobson's shop, where there were
a number of pretty things exposed, that no one was in
charge of them.

Mr. Jacobson said he kept a lad for the purpose of taking
care of the goods.

The prisoners Were remanded.

THAMES.
A CRUEL RC/MERL—Elizabeth Muirhead, a very in-
temperate and violent woman, was brought before Mr.
Paget charged with stealing a coat and several articles of
female wearing apparel, the property of Mr. Teague.
1W11( Prc'ert;p Ana his pvife Ikedng Nb.
'Nightingale-lane, Limohouse. The prisoner was their
next door neighbour. On Thursday afternoon last Mrs.
Teaque left home and securely locked the front door, but
the back door was open, no robbery being contemplated
by any one from that quarter. On her return Mrs. Teaque
discovered that her dwelling had been entered in her
absence, and her husband's coat, a shawl, two stuff
petticoats, two pair of drawers, a red scarf, and
a few chemises had been stolen. The prosecutor
and his wife are poor hard working people, and the loss of
their property was to them a heavy one. Michael Holton,
a police-constable, No. 26 K., was called upon to investi-
gate the affair, and he came to the conclusion that an
entrance had been made from the back of the dwelling-
house. The garden or yard at the back of one house could
be easily reached from the yard of the next. The prisoner
took advantage of this facility of access to rob her neigh-
bours, and raised money on the property she had stolen,
which she expended in strong drinks. She pawned the
prosecutor's coat at Mr. Matthew's shop, and gave the
ticket to a man named Filcher, who gave it up
to Holton. The prisoner said she had pawned the re-
mainder of the stolen property, with the exception of a
piee of canvass, which she sold to a rag dealer. The dupli-:
cates relating to the stolen articles were not forthcoming.
The coat was identified.
The prisoner pleaded guilty.
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Mr. Paget said the prisoner had committed a very cruel
robbery on her neighbours, who were poor and could ill
afford the loss. It was a very wicked and unneighbourly
act, which deserved severe punishment. He convicted
the prisoner of larceny, and sentenced her to be imprisoned
and kept to hard labour for six calendar months.