The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-06 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

Prom the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.)

MANCHESTER, April 4.—The feeling, approaching to
panic, which overspread our market throughout the
greater part of last week, has now in a considerable
degree subsided. The buying is comparatively insignifi-
cant in amount ; but there are more buyers venturing to
make low offers for some kinds of yarns and goods.
Prices are, however, generally found to be very de-
cidedly reduced. This state of things, with cotton
sustained at comparatively high prices, occasions much
discussion upon the necessity of restricting the hours of
labour, but no agreement to this effect has yet been come
to in any part of the district.
HALIFAX, April I.—The condition of the worsted
trade becomes more gloomy every week. Both spinners
and manufacturers are diminishing production, and
prices are almost nominal. Wool is not easy to sell,
even at reduced quotations.
ROCHDALE, April 3.—There has been another ex-
tremely slack market today in pieces of every descrip-
tion. Thereis no disposition to purchase at any price.
The wool market has been much the same as the piece
market, and prices rather in favour of the buyer.
BIRMINGHAM, Monday, April 3.—At the preliminary
meeting held on Thursday last,
the course was adopted
of maintaining the existing prices of iron. Although
the continued activity of every department, the sus-
tained demand, and the inability to increase produc-
tion to the extent of present consumption would,
under a more auspicious aspect of political and mo-
netary affairs, have fully justified the declaration of an
advance, a sufficient inducement was found for the exer-
cise of caution in the actual commencement of a war,
the duration, extent, and results of which are so utterly
beyond the reach of human calculation. The chief diffi-
culty with which our manufacturers here have to con-
tend seems to be the unusual rates they are compelled
to give for their pig-iron.

FIRE IN THE BLACKFRIARS•ROAD.—Last night, about
teen o'clock, a fire, attended with a considerable loss of
property, broke out in the premises belonging to Mr.
Fly Tin, a tailor, No. 257, Blackfriars-road, next door but
one Ll 4) the Albion Tavern. The proprietor of the pre-
mises rushed out of the house with his children in his
arms ; but the upper portion was tenanted by sundry
lodgers, and they bad the ,greitest difficulty in effecting
a safe retreat, As it was, the police were obliged to pull
the children out of the second floor, and carry them down
a. ladder. Mr. BUrton, one of the lodgers, in attempting
to descend the ladder, slipped and fell from the second
floor, and struck upon the penthouse in front of the
shop. So great was the Nveight of the man, that it broke
the titn.her away, and he fell with considerable force upon
the stoi le flags beneath. lie was conveyed to St. The.
mas's HOspital, where he at present remains. The whole
of the other residents fortunately escaped without re-
ceiving any p ersonal injury. The mains of the Lambeth
company ha,vii ig been drawn, a good supply of water was
procured, from which the engines were set to work. The
1;otal loss is very considerable, and, unfortunately, the
rhole of the lodg era, who have lost their furniture, wear-
ing apparel, and other effects, were not insured for a
single peony., Mr. -Flynn was protected from loss by a
policy in the Norwich Union Fire.office. As to the
origin of the fire, no tthe leastinformationnotcouldcloned
beooeb-
tained. It appears that the house had
mores than an hour viva the discovery was miide.

-ASSf2E' INTELLIGENCEr*

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—GLOUCESTER, APRIL 5.
CROWN COURT.
(Before Mr. Russell Gurney, Q.C.)
THE QUEEN V. CASTRO.
Juan Antonio Castro, a Spaniard, was charged with
the wilful murder of Cornelius Murphy, on the 25th of
February last, at Bristol.
Mr. Skinner and Mr. Matthews appeared for the
prosecution ; Mr. Powell defended the prisoner.
The prisoner was by birth a Spaniard, and when yes..
terday called upon to plead, he was asked whether he
would'be tried by a jury of Englishmen, or by a jury of
half Englishmen and half foreigners. He said he was
indifferent. He was accordingly tried by -a -jury of
Englishmen. The present inquiry arose out of the death
of an Irishman named Cornelius Murphy, who died on
the 25th of February last, in consequence of a stab in-
flicted by a knife in his back on the previous night, at
about 11 o'clock. It appeared in evidence that, on the
Saturday night in question, a number of Spaniards, of
whom the prisoner was one, were at a public-house in
Princes-street, Bristol, called the Hole in the Wall. In
the same house there was also a number of " Highlan,
(lets," viz., sailors belonging -to the bark Highlandef.
The two parties were using bad language and quarrel-
ling, which caused the landlord to put the Spaniards in
one room, and to request the others to leave the house.
A man named Muir, a sailor, was at the Hole in the Wall,
and he said a man, who he believed was the prisoner,
struck him and knocked him down, without any provoca-
tion. Muir then went in to fetch his shipmates, who were
at the time in the house. They rushed down stairs, and
were met at the door by the Spaniards, who assembled
in large numbers. A row then ensued, in which a man
named Robert Hoskins was stabbed. There was fighting
at the time in the street,. and Muir, seeing Hoskins fall,
went to his assistance. He was on the pavement, and
saw a man whom he believed to be the prisoner coming
up to him with a knife in his hand. Muir endeavoured
to avoid the party, and got off the pavement for that
purpose. The man, according to Muir's statement, then
ran along the pavement, and stabbed in the back a man
who was standing on the pavement, and who had taken
no part in the row. This witness then returned for ten
minutes to the public house, where Hoskins was. The
man so stabbed was Cornelius Murphy, an Irishman, who
died next day of the wound. This witness stated that he
saw the man who inflicted the wound on Murphy run in
the direction of Queen's-square, where the next day a
bloody knife was found stuck in a shutter. The blade
was about five inches in length with a daggerpointfirmly
fixed in its handle. A young woman named Jane Blake-
man said she was standing outside the Hole-in-the-Wall
on the night in question, and saw the prisoner, whom
she had seen nearly every evening, run across the street
and stick a knife into the Irishman's back. She saw him
run along the pavement on which the deceased was stand.
ing, and then across the street towards Queen's square.
Mr. Powell, for the prisoner, contended that the evi-
dence of Janeßlakeman, the only witness who spoke po-
sitively to the prisoner's identity, was not sufficient to
warrant the jury in coming to the conclusion that he was
the man who inflicted the wound on the deceased. At all
events, considering the fight which had taken place the
offence would not be more than manslaughter.
Mr. R. Gurney, in summing up the case to the jury, said
he thought the jury would hardly come tothe conclusion,
under the circumstances, that the prisoner had been guilty
of murder. There was not only the fight, but, as a fo-
reigner, the prisoner might reasonably suppose he was
in greater danger than was, in fact, the case.
The jury found the prisoner guilty of manslaughter.
Sentence deferred.

THE QUEEN V. BINJOI.
Jose Fernandez Binjoi Wl.B charged with stabbing
Robert Hoskins, on the 25th of February last, at
Bristol, with intent to maim, and also to do grievous
bodily harm.

Mr. Matthews appeared for the prosecution, Mr.
Powell defended the prisoner.
The prisoner in this case, Jose Fernandez Binjoi was
also a Spaniard, and he was charged with stabbing
Robert Hoskins, the man mentioned in the last case.
When called upon to plead, this prisoner chose to be
tried by a jury of Englishmen, and was so tried ac-
cordingly.

Acceraing to Hoskins' evidence, the prisoner and
another man were pushing Muir, and he (Hoskins) ran
up to Muir's assistance. In so doing, the prosecutor
fell against the two men, and went to the ground. He
got up, and again fell ; and as he was getting up the
second time the prisoner stabbed him in the side with a
knife. The wound was half an inch in depth. A knife
was subsequently found in the Hole-in-the-Wall, in a
place where the prisoner had been seen. (The knife
was produced. The blade was about six inches in length,
with a dagger-like point, and fixed in a strong handle.)
It transpired in the course of this case, that the
Spaniards were ¶uiet before the English sailors came in
and made use of irritating language.
The jury found the prisoner guilty of unlawfully
wounding.—Sentence deferred.

Henry Jones, 47, miner, was charged, on the coroner's
inquisition, with the murder, and, on an indictment,
with the manslaughter of Henry Jones, on the 11th of
January, at East Dean.

Mr. Serjeant Thomas and Mr. Powell appeared for
the prosecution ; Mr. W. H. Cooke and Mr. Barrett
defended the prisoner.
Mr. Serjeant Thomas opened the came to the jury, but
in the course of the opening, it appeared that the pri-
soner was willing to retract his plea, and pleaded guilty
to the charge of manslaughter. Under these circum-
stances, only one or two witnesses were called, who de-
tailed the circumstances of an affray, in which the pri-
soner stabbed the deceased.

A surgeon proved that on the morning of the 12th he
found the deceased with his bowel protruding through a
small wound in the abdomen. Witness, with the assist-
ance of another surgeon, enlarged the wound and re-
turned the bowel ; but the deceased sank under his
injuries and died.
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The jury found the prisoner guilty of manslaughter.
Mr. Russell Gurney sentenced him to 4 years' penal
servitude.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.--A young man who refused to
mention his name, but who was stated to be the son of
a Mr. Woolf, an inhabitant of Leadenhall-street, was
brought before Sir R. W. Carden, charged with having
obtained a watch, &c., value 611.. upon the false pre-
tence that he was the Earl of Dalkeith, son of the Duke
of Buccleuch.

Mr. Henry Newton, foreman and manager of the
business of Mr. Dent, watch and chronometer-maker of
the Royal Exchange, No. 34, said—ln the early part
of last week the prisoner came to the shop and in-
quired what would be the probable cost of a lady's
watch with arms and crest enamelled on the back
with an earl's coronet set in diamonds. I told him I
could not give him that without first knowing the arms
and the quantity of work, and he gave me the name
of the Duke of Buccleuch. I asked him whether he
was the Duke of Buccleuch. He said no, but he was
the son of the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Dalkeith.
1 then told him I would prepare a draught of what he
required, and which would be ready in three or four
days. He assented. I then asked to give me his ad-
dress, and he accordingly wrote in my address-book,
" The Earl of Dalkeith, Mivart's Hotel, London, and
East Park, near Edinburgh. I wrote " the Duke of
Buccleuch" under the name he had written down. He
stated at the time that he was not then staying at Mi-
vart's, but at some nobleman's residence at the West-
end, and he then left the shop. He came again on the
31st of March, and asked whether Mr. Dent was there,
or to be seen in the Strand. He said he wanted a watch
for his own wear, and Mr. Dent would best know the
watch suited to his use. I told him I had every kind
of watch, and I showed him three or four, one of which
he seleoted, and a guard chain. As the watch required
something to be done to it, he went away, and called in
about an hour, when, in the belief that he was the Earl
of Dalkeith, I delivered to him the watch and chain.

In answer to a question from Sir R. W. Carden, the
witness said he had not all this time uttered a word
about the payment of money for the goods sold.
The witness, in continuation, said,—The prisoner
called again on Saturday, and asked whether the draw-
ing had been made, On Monday he called in the fore-
noon and handed in a list of things—viz., diamonds,
studs, ring, and gold pencil-cases, wnich he said he
should require. Yesterday morning (Tuesday) he called
again, and I told him the drawing would be ready be-
tween two and three o'clock. He said he had an en-
gagement at the East India-house at 12, and he would
return as early as convenient. He returned accord-
ingly, and I presented to him this drawing (the arms
of the Duke of Buccleuch with the earl's coronet), and
asked him whether it was right. I think the expression
used by him was " Very nice ;" and he asked me whe-
ther I would allow him to take the drawing with him to
show to his lady. I then gave him a letter which I had
received, and asked him whether he knew the hand-
writing. (It was a letter from the Earl of Dalkeith to
the Hon. 3lr. Talbot.) He said "No," and that the
signature was not his, I said "Then you are not the
Earl of Dalkeith." I then told him that I had received
the letter from the secretary to the Carlton Club, who
had received it in my presence from the Hon. Mr. Talbot.
I told him that I could not part with him, and I must
take him to Montagu-house. He asked me whether it
would not do to take him to some house in the city to
have him identified, and I went with him to the count-
ing-house of a wine merchant in Mark-lane, where he
was recognized, but not as the Earl of Dalkeith. The
person to whom he took me, asked me if I had the goods
hack what more would I require, to which I replied
that that would not be sufficient.
Sir R. W. Carden—Had you and the prisoner any con-
versation on this subject on your way to Mark-lane ?
Witness.—He told me, as we went along, that he was
not the Earl of Dalkeith, and he asked me, if the per-
son in Mark-lane said he was not the Earl of Dalkeith,
what then ? to which I answered, thatolie had got the
property by personating that nobleman, and that he
must take the consequences. Soon afterwards he and
I left Mark-lane, and went in a cab to Montagu-
house, but the Earl of Dalkeith was not at home.
We then went to the Carlton Club, but, not finding
him there, I gave the prisoner into custody.
Sir R. W. Carden—Did you get back the property?
Witness—After he read the letter of the Earl of Dal-
keith the prisoner returned me the watch, and would
have paid for the chain if he had had money enough.
The price of the chain was 131. 10s, I parted with the
watch and chain, believing that he was the Earl of
Dalkeith, and I would not have parted with it if I had
not believed his representation to that effect, and I had
not made a drawing, at his request, of the Duke of
Buccleuch's arms. I have seen the chain since at the
house of Mr. Russell, a pawnbroker.
A servant of Mr. Russell, of Fore-street, Cripplegate,
preyed that the gold chain had been pawned by the pri•