The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-12 00:00:00

WOOL.

The progressing heavily at a decline in
the quotations, sales are
pared with last series, of from id to 2d
per lb. Sydney—Clean sheeps, is 5d to 58 6id; scoured,
is 41d to 2s 2d; lamb, is 9d; skin, 18 7d to 2s ; loons and

1858. 1859. 1860. 1861. 1862.
Stock this day.... 9,795 9,066 28,731 67.609 35.042
Price of Y.C. 5356 d to 55s 3d to 5356 d to 58s0d to 469 3d to
—s Od —s Od —s Od —s Od —s Od
Delivery last week 834 1,358 832 1,327 1,219
Ditto from June 1 100,401 96,637 77,€03 76,015 115,271
Arrivals last week 51 f,13 611 104 20
Ditto from June 1 98.436 ' 94,136 91,652 116,530 93,467
Price of Town 59s 3d 55s 3d 54s 3d 57s 3d 46s fid

CRIMINAL COURT--THIS DAY.

OLD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)

The May sessions of the Central Criminal Court com-
menced this morning before the Lord Mayor, Aldermen
Carden, Finnis, Gabriel, the Recorder, and the Sheriffs.
The calendar contains the names of 128 prisoners for
trial, many of the offences with which they stand charged
being of a very serious nature.
The Recorder, in charging the grand jury, said the
number of prisoners awaiting trial was much larger than
usually was the ease, but that no doubt was owing to the
time that had elapsed since they last met. The
offences charged were, he regretted to say, of a
very serious nature, although it had been hoped that crimes
attended -with violence against the person were on the
decline. He regretted to find it was not so, for the preSent
calendar contained one charge of wilful murder, and no less
than four for wounding with intent. Another cause of
regret was that the parties in all cases were husband and
wife. The charge of s ilful murder was against a person
named Lawrence, who was accused of shooting a female
at Hendon. The learned Recorder then detailed to
the jury the whole of the circumstances of the
case, which have already appeared at length in
The Sun, The unfortunate woman, he observed, died
from the effect of a gunshot wound, and the prisoner had
also attempted to destroy his own life with the same wea-
pon. No person had witnessed the deed. Therefore, it
would be for the grand jury to determine, after hearing the
several witnesses, whether a true bill would lie against the
accused. In the next four indictments for wounding with
intent, the first was that in which a husband was
charged with shooting his wife ; in the second, the
prisoner was accused of ,Istriking his wife with
an axe; in the third, the man was indicted for feloniously
beating his wife with the leg of a chair; and in the fourth,
a shoemaker's knife was the deadly weapon with which
another husband had assaulted his wife. There was also a
charge of administering poison, in which one of the party
was separated from her husband, and the prisoner, it ap-
peared, became jealous of her from having seen her walk-
ing with her husband, and if the evidence bore out the
charge, it was one of a serious description. That, however,
as in all the other cases he had alluded to, would be for the
grand jury to consider. He did not think the other cases
called for any remark, as they did not appear to him to be
attended with anything of a doubtful or difficult nature.
In the event of the assistance of the Court being required
it would most readily be given.

The grand jury then returned to their room.
PUBLISHING a LIBEL.
Edward Crotty, a respectably-dressed man, pleaded
guilty to' an indictment, charging him with publishing a
libel.

Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, who had been specially re-
tained for the prosecution, said the prosecutrix was a lady
of the highest respectability, named Stewart, and some
years ago the prisoner had been on friendly terms with her,
but the acquaintance had been broken off, and that had led
to the publishing of the letter upon which the present pro-
secution was founded. The lady was actuated by no vin-
dictive feeling, and as she had been appealed to by the wife
of the prisoner, he, on her behalf, asked that the sen-
tence of the court might be as lenient as possible.
The Recorder said the offence to which the prisoner had
pleaded guilty was a most aggravated one, and had he not
been recommended to the merciful consideration of the
court by the prosecution he should have felt it his duty to
inflict a much more severe punishment than that he was
about to do. The learned judge then sentenced the pri-
soner to 12 months imprisonment with hard labour, and that
at the expiration of the sentence that he enter into his own
recognizances in the sum of £lOO to be of good behaviour
for two years.

POLICE---THIS DAY.

MARLBOROUGH•STREET, THIS DAY,

ASSAULT ON A CONSTABLE.—CharIes Howlin, a drover,
was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with assaulting Charles
Davey, 47 C, and there was :a• second charge of assault.
against him, but the person. did not attend.
Davey said that at 12 o'clock on Saturday night be was
called by a female to take the prisoner into custody for
assaulting her. As soon as he did so the prisoner said,
'l'll fight 40 such men as you if you don't use your staves,'
and immediately struck him a blow in the mouth with his
clenched fist, and gave him a violent kick on the leg. With
assistance of two other constables the prisoner was at last
got to the station. The female who was assaulted now re-
fused to appear.
Prisoner said he bad been assaulted by the constable.
The constable denied this, and said whatever marks the
prisoner had were caused by his own violent conduct on the
way to the station.
The prisoner said he had been knocked about.
Mr. Tyrwhitt asked him what else he could expect when
he behaved in the way described.

Fined 20s. or 14 days.
ASSAULT ON A RIFLE V OLUNTEER.—George Williams,
6, Wilmot-street, Russell• square, was charged with assault-
ing James Garland, of 47, James-street, Oxford-street, a
rifle volunteer.

The complainant said on Saturday night in Oxford-street
he saw a crowd round a woman who was in a fit, and while

looking on the defendant came up with a companion and
walked away, saying, " Oh, it's only a woman in a fit."
He remarked to the defendant who he thought very unfeel-
ing, " How would you like to be in a fit P" and the defen-
dant then followed him along Oxford-street, and said,
"Who shot the dog ?" and afterwards struck him in the
eye, and blackened it,
Mr. Tyrwhitt—Were you wearing your uniform at the
time ?

Complainant—Only my volunteer's cap.
Defendant said he did remark, " Oh, it's only a woman
in a fit," and the complainant was then very offensive, and
said, " Go home and chain up, ugly," and he (defendant)
then did say, "Who shot the dog f" but the complainant
made use of an offensive expression respecting his mother.
A witness, who said he was unacquainted with either the
complainant or defendant, said the complainant did use an
expression of an offensive nature, notwithstanding the com-
plainant denied it.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said he was bound to believe the witness,
and discharged the defendant.

THE EAST AND THE WEST.—The Eathen of
to-day has a pleasant sound. It comes to us with a music
of £30,000,000 annually in our commerce. It warbles of
European tastes, sympathies, politics, and social organisa-
tion. It prompts amongst us the rise of such corporations
first
as the " Oriental Commercial Company of London,"
founded by Levantine capital, to transact in our markets
the exuberant and urgent business of 18,000,000t0 progress of people,
supposed, until lately, to be the least prone
in
the world. A wise policy has necessarily much to do with
such a gratifying state of things.
A prospectus has been issued of the Laguna
Silver Mining Company, with a capital of £20,000, in shares
of £5 each. The mine is situated in the district of El
Chico, 70 miles north of the city of Mexico.
Mr. Edward Geliatly, many years connected with
the management of the large marine business of the late
Mr. Duncan Dunbar, has formed a firm under the title of
Gellatly, flunkey, anti Sewell.
TUE mAy-FLY.—It is now the May-fly season,
and an adjoining river is celebrated for the vast number of
those insects which at this period of the year pour forth
from its waters. It is noon, and the sun is shining in all
its splendour, The stream is so calm, that the waters
scarcely seem to move. Now the May-fly begins to
make its appearance, and what a sight it is to witness
Myriads of these ephemera) pour out from the
river (but not in a perfect state), following each
other in rapid succession. They attach themselves
by the legs to some object. Its skin then opens at
the back—the insect emerges and flies, But it has not yet
reached its last state. In about twenty minutes it settles
again, casts another most beautiful and delicate skin, and
then attains its perfect state, During this process, the in-
sects become a prey to swallows, wagtails, and other insec-
tivorous birds. Those that escape them settle on the water,
and begin dropping their eggs in it, which sink to the bottom
and in due time become future fiies,—EDWARD JESSE in
Ono a ireelc,