The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-06 00:00:00

LONDON SESSIONS.

These Sessions were held yesterday, before the LORD
MAYOR, RECORDER, &c.
A BRUTE OF A HUSBAND.—James Halls was indicted
for assaulting Elizabeth, his wife.
It appeared from the evidence of the wife, and other
witnesses, that the defendant was a fishmonger, living in
Cripplegate ; that he was in the frequent habit of beating and
ill-treating his wife; and that he had been no less than sixteen
times taken before different Aldermen for assaulting her, and
seven times tried and convicted in that Court for similar
offences, and for which he had been sentenced to terms of im-
prisonment varying from one month to six, and had been
afterwards ordered to find bail to keep the peace towards
her in recognizances varying from 201. to 2001. The last
recognizances he was ordered to enter into were himself in
2001. and two sureties in 1001. each, the term of which re-
cognizances expired on the 30th of last month, and the
very following day he again got drunk and beat his wife in
a most cruel manner.
The defendant, in answer to the present charge, said his
wife's conduct was unbearable.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
The Recorder sentenced him to one month's imprison-
ment, and at the end of that period to find bail, himself in
201. and two sureties in 10/. each, to keep the peace to-
wards his wife for five years, and to be imprisoned until
those sureties were entered into.

SURREY SESSIONS.-W.EDNESDAY,

G. Brown, 117171. Amey, and James Constable, were in-
dieted for stealing 22 tame geese, the property of a farmer
named Wood, at Capel, near Dorking.
The chief testimony against the prisoners was that of an
accomplice who turned Queen's evidence.
The prisoners were convicted and sentenced to be trans-
ported for seven years each.
Wnz. Waller was indicted for, and found Guilty of, steal-
ing three blankets, some sheets, and other articles, the pro-
perty of Lady Jemima Eleanor Bentinck, of Kew Lodge,
near Gatton, Surrey.
Sentence—Twelve months' imprisonment.
James Turner and James Dare, two powerful young
men, who have been working on the Southampton Railway,
were sentenced to be transported for ten years each, for
robbing a young man named Nye, and his sister. The
case
against the prisoners was of an aggravated description.
The CHAIR i MAN, n passing sentence, observed that it

was necessary to make a severe example to prevent such
outrages as had lately disgraced the country through which
railroads were making.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

HA TTON-GARDEN.

Yesterday Dennis Donovan, who has been repeatedly
remanded, on a charge of attempting to murder Catherine,
his wife, was again brought up, when Inspector Penny, of
G division, produced a certificate from the House Surgeon
of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, stating that she was nearly
out of danger.

The prisoner begged that bail might be accepted ; he
expressed his sorrow for the outrage, saying that it was
committed in a moment of passion and intoxication.
Mr. BENETT, however, refused, and he was again re-
manded for a week. It will be recollected that about two
months ago the prisoner returned home and quarrelled
with his wife, whom he attacked with an axe, when he
fractured her skull, broke her arms in two places, and in-
flicted several deep wounds on her person, and he ab-
sconded. His wife has been ever since in the hospital, in
great danger.

MARLBOROUGH.STREET.
Yesterday Robert Day, a young man respectably con-
nected, was brought before Mr. DYER, charged with having
stolen a large quantity of music, the property of Messrs.
Cramer, Addison, and Co., of Regent-street.
Wilks, an officer of this establishment, who apprehended
the prisoner, discovered upwards of 2 cwt. of music at the
shop of a cheesemonger in Broad-street, named Tickle.
The music had been sold as waste paper for 2d. per lb. ;
the purchaser, however, was retailing it at 6d. per lb. In
order to give time to collect further evidence,the prisoner was
ordered to be brought up again next Wednesday.
John Morgan was brought up for final examination,
charged with having embezzled various sums of money from
his employer, Mr. Taylor, iron-plate-worker, Noel-street,
in whose service he had been engaged as confidential clerk
and collector for upwards of ten years.
The cases of Mr. Bailey, Gracechurch-street ; Mr.
Hodson, Kensington ; Mr. Parker, High-street ; Mr.
Gracechurch-street, were gone into, and proof
having been given that the sums had been paid to the pri-
soner, and not accounted for in the regular way, the pri-
soner was ordered to stand fully committed, but to be
brought up on a future day, in order to obtain the produc-
tion of the vouchers for payment in the hands of the diffe-
rent witnesses.

A woman, who pretended to be dumb, was charged on
suspicion of having stolen an infant.
Mr. DYER, not being able to obtain any communication
from the prisoner, committed her for re-examination, and
directed the child to be taken to St. George's workhouse.

MARYLEBOA'E.
Yesterday Hannah Herbert, a well-dressed woman, of
middle age, who on Monday last underwent a long exami-
nation before Mr. RAWLINSON, on a charge of having
forged and uttered a bill of exchange for 2301., purporting
to be the genuine acceptance of Lady Wood, of No. 4,
Bedford-square, and made payable at her Ladyship's
bankers, Messrs. Hoares, was again placed at the bar.
The case against her having been completed by all the
necessary witnesses,

Mr. Fergusson represented, and was descended from two
old and honourable families, the Fergussons of Craigdar-
roch, in Dumfriesshire, and the Cutlars of Orroland, in the
stewartry of Kirkcudbright. The name of the Craigdarreen
• family is fami:iar to all who are acquainted with the minute
history of Scotland. A Fergusson of Craigdarroch was one
• of the first that signed the Solemn League and Covenant .
another headed a small handful of men who defeated a P°l'
lion of Cromwell's army at Glencairn, amounting to abut
,I°.
1,500 men in 1651 ; and another fell 'in the battle of Kaa",
crankie. The name of the family has also been celebrated
by Burns in the song of " The Whistle." The Cutlers
were proprietors of Orroland for upwards of four centuries:
Mr. Cutler Fergusson, thus honourably descended, enjoyed
the advantages of a liberal education, and early gave proofs
of future eminence. He was thus mentioned by a literary
lady (Mrs. Riddell, of Glenriddell) in 1793, in a letter t°
Mr. William Smellie, the famous naturalist : " Craigdar-
roch has a source of happiness and comfort few parents ea.°
boast of, in his eldest son, who seems every thing that
amiable and accomplished." From hints given in the sr':
letter, and others to be found in " Kerr's Life of Smellie,
it appears that young Fergusson was an admirer of the
writings of Mirabeau and the other French authors that
0Y
date. Nay, so warmly did he sympathise with the Freud'
Jacobins, that he connected himself at home with the
Friends of the People"—with Lord Daer and the other
Parliamentary Reformers of that day. He also, in early
life, gained the acquaintance of the late Mr. Huskisson:
and other young men of liberal views, who afterwards as
tamed to distinction. Meanwhile, having studied law a°
entered the English bar, he had every prospect of rising to
professional distinction ; but owing, not only to suspicion''
but danger attaching to him in consequence of his relorna°
principles, he, almost clandestinely, emigrated to Calcutta;
and commenced there the practice of his profession ;a°
his success was equal to his most sanguine expeetatiotiP
He was soon regarded by all parties as at the head of tb°
bar ; and after a brilliant career of about twenty years be
returned to his native country with a liberal fortune and
.°
celebrated name. But though long-continued residence.
a colony is generally found to extinguish liberal political
feelings and to be favourable to Toryism, Mr. Fergussi
brought with him from the East the same public views alit
the same reforming tendencies which he had carried out
with him, though, perhaps, they may have been somewli°
softened by lapse of years. On his return he found the
political state of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright quite deg
graded, and he grieved to see so important a district made
pocket county by two noble families. The constituency'
indeed, under the old system seemed, with some honourable
exceptions, to be in leading strings; and to do as bidden%
their aristocratic superiors. Mr. Fergusson determined
try to break the chain by which his fellow-electors we!:
bound ; and being nobly supported by all the Liberal°,
the county, having the public voice on his side, and beiugre
to talents and general fitness incomparably superior to °if
gentleman whom he opposed (the late General DunloP,°,,
Dunlop), lie came off victorious at the general election
1826, though only by a majority of one. The StewartrYs °
Kirkcudbright, therefore, had the honour of anticipating' t:
it were, the Reform Bill, and was almost the only COu°'
• that voluntarily threw off the whole Tory and feudal trait'.
mels by which they had been so long held. Mr. Fergus
has ever since this period been the representative of jt-
county in question. He had a very fair rank as a Pletial:
mentary orator, and his public career was particularly
e.
by his eloquent and energetic advocacy of the cause "ily
land. His vote before he held office, though genera —4
given to the Whigs, was independent and liberal. In iv)
he was appointed to the office of Judge-Advocate-Gener%
and made a Privy Councillor. He resigned this office °n
Sir Robert Peel's being nominated Minister, but, wa°,„;.-
installed on the downfall of that statesman, a, nd the reL-11
of Lord Melbourne to power. He enjoyed the confide/1°
both of his constituents and of his party ; and, perhaPs'
Scotland has recently sent no Member to Parliament
was more generally esteemed than Mr. Cutler Ferguss°—,
combining, as he did, in his person the enlightened senator
the accomplished gentleman, and the elegant scholar. 11,,,":
late in life, he married a French lady 'named Beauchamp'
by whom he has left two children.--Edinburgh Chronicle.

THE MARKETS.

Per Ton.

COAL

MAR
R d
Adair's iy 3
Holywell Main
Ord's Re.lhugh
Pontop Windsor 22 6
rith,sell's High Main 2O 9
South Hartley 2O 3
We,t Hartley 22 ti
Wylam '22 6
Walls End Gosforth 2l. 0
Walls End Heaton 23 9
Walls End Hilda
Wal Is: End HOtfpia r
Walrs End Killingworth 22 9
Walls End Riddell's ......
Walls End Walker 23 U
Shins arrived sine,.
COUN

[GET.--Dec. 5. .1.
9. i
0 Per Ton.
.. 21 0
Durham Maln
H..... . „
Walls End Braddyil's ettvrt r g
. -4 0
WallsjEnd Haswell ............ ,5 0
Wan,. End Hetton " .... f„
Walls End Lambton ... ....... : 'LI,
Walls End Russel's 11,etton.. ;';
Walls End Stewart,, ........... • 0 P.
Walls Ent( Hartlep ~01 ........... ~,, 6
Walls End Adela',,dv ........... v.: _
Walls End Bar.ett. .......... -•'. 54)g
Wane End 11.,),,,,,, Deaner'''. !14
I waltz End :south I) fLan ". gi 6
Wan Is En., '1 ees . "r ..... -, 0
....... „... ‘2,„
Hartley
last arket-day. 8.
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TRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEED

Per Quarter.
Abingdon

Andover
Bridport

CiroUcester
h4ringdon.
Guildford
Hereford

Wheat. Barley.

s. to S.
• 64 80
74 82
63 80
73 80
61 81
63 80
68 B'l
72 78
63 88
61 70
63 73
61 71
64 73
61 74
6i 75
63 71

s. to s.
30 34
29 31
30 40
32 36
.r 7 32
26 30
28 35
26 32
26 32
32 42
24 36
32 34
25 33
30 34
33 40
28 36

Oats.

c to s.

! 16 22
126 30
20 25
26 30
20 30
23 26
2'2 29
28 34
20 26
22 29
20 27
20 .2g
28 32
20 24
22 32
17 28
20 25
22 26
21 22
30 32
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Reading
Salisbury.
Southampton
Stroud

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Uxbridge
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70 74
63 72
67 70

34 44
3} 40
33 42
41 46

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24 34
27 34

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