The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-22 00:00:00

BOROUGH BOP DIZLIMET

The quaniity of Hops on offer in our market is still
good, and of excellent quality. For the finest qualities
the demand is steady, at fully last week's quotations.
The inquiry for yearling and old Hops is trifling. Duty,
80,0001. About 120 bales of American and Belgian
Hops have come to band in the past week. Some of
them are off.ring duty paid. New Mid. and East Kent
Pockets, 165 s to 210 s; NewWeald of Kent ditto, 1203
to 160 s ditto; New Sussex ditto, 1153 to 1355; Fern-
hams, 210 s to 231 e; Yearling Kents, 70s to 955; Year-
ling Sussex, 56s to 903; Old Hops, 20s to 80e. ,

BOROUGH AND SPITALrIELDS.
Notwithstanding that the fresh arrivals of Potatoes,
coastwise, during the last week, have been confined to
about 1,000 toes, and that the receipts by land carriage
are very moderate for the time of year, the supplies on
offer here are fully equal to the demand. The foreign
imports hare comprised 106 tons from Calais; 130 tons,
235 bags, from Antwerp; 145 tons, 120 bags, 3 baskets,
from Rotterdam; 32 tons from Rouen; 98 tons from
Ostend; 60 tons from Dunkirk; 20 tons from Hamburgh ;
and 75 tons from Harlingen—forming a total supply
from abroad of 761 tons, mostly in good condition, and
almost wholly free from disease. For most kinds of
good Potatoes the demand is tolerably steady, at full
prices, but all other qualities are a very slow sale.
Present rates as under:—
Per Ton. Per Ton.
York Regents 7os to 85s Shaws 6os to 75s
Wisbeach ditto 6ss to 75s Scotch Reds 6ss to 75a '
Bed Kentish Kidn.. 66s to 80s Foreign sss to 70s

TALLOW.
Although the delivery of Tallow last week was toler
ably good, 2,849 casks, the demand, as most of the
chandlers are well in stock, has rued heavy, and prices
have receded quite 6d per cwt. Today P.Y.C. on the
spot is selling at 37s per cwt for prime, For forward
delivery very little is doing at 36s 61 per cwt. Town
Tallow 37s per cwt. net cash; Rough Fat, 2s id per
slbs. The home-make continues large. Our St. Peters-
burgh letter states that only a limited business was pass-
ing there, at the previous decline.

1845. 1846. 1847. 1848. 1849.
stock this day ...... 21,480 4,388 25,288 31,931 41,488
41s 6d 50s Od 44s 6d 45s Od to 37s Od
Price of Y. C. ••.. [ to 41s 3d to Os Od to 45s Od Os Od to Os Od
Delivery last Week: •• 3,297 2,201 I 2,897 2,508 2,849
Ditto from Jane 1.• • • 37,508 29,052 i 33,030 37,738 31,753
Arrivals last week • 13,516 100 1,836 6,150 775
Ditto from Jane 1 ... 49,016 22,817 59,219 62,138 47,768
Price of Town •••• .. 44s 3d 52s 6d I 48s Od 47s al 39s 6d
STATEMENT OF T ILLOW SHIPPING AT ST. PETF.RSBURGH.
1849. 1848. 1847. 1846. I 1845.'
Tallow dispatched Casks. Casks. Casks. Casks. Casks.
from Cronstadt to
Sept. 26, O.S. 83,150 99,759 95,485 70,394 89,351
In ships loading and
lighters •••••••• .. 14,913 12,432 17,740 19,822 9,922
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Total loaded eft •••• 103,063 112,191 113,225 90,216 69,273
Loaded afterwards • . •• .. 17,313 18,639 23,007 13,735
Total at the close of
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the navigation.... •• •• 129,504 131,864 113,223 113,008
Loadon•••••••• • • 33,311 45,406 41,230 31,699 40,652
Liverpool 15,871 12,103 12,167 9,722 17,980
Bristol ........ 3,255 4,231 3,329 2,745 2,429
Other Engliehports 10,694 11,008 9,32 J 8,711 7,077
Ireland • ••• •• • • 4,267 4,172 6,615 6,060 5,426
Scotland 4,171 6,472 6,043 8,073 4,074
Germany ...... • . 9,602 6,076 6,865 5,419 4,758
France • • .......• 6,975 291 6,916 965 6,955
88,150 99,759 91,485 70,294 89,351

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURP.
The last session of this court during the present
Mayoralty commenced this morning in the Old Court,
before the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Aldermen Gibbs,
Musgrove, Sidney, Finnis, and the new Sheriffs, Messrs.
Lawrence and Nichol, attended by the Under-Sheriffs,
Messrs. Wire and Miller.
The grand jury having been empannelled and sworn,
The RECORDER proceeded to deliver his charge to
them. He observed that the calendar contained a list
of 208 prisoners, and that that number would be pro-
bably augmented to some considerable extent, by various
commitments, before the termination of the session. The
calendar contained an enumeration of the various of-
fences for which prisoners were ordinarily committed
for trial to that court, and he lamented to say that it
presented several cases of the perpetration of those
higher crimes which required the most particular inves-
tigation. Ho was sorry to see that there were no
less than five persons charged with the crime
of wilful murder, under circumstances greatly
different one from the other, but still presenting
facts for the attention of the grand jury that would pro-
bably compel them in each instance to put the charge in
a course of further inquiry before a petty jury. He
would beg very shortly to call the attention of the grand
jury to the nature of the charges in addition to the five
cases of murder he had adverted to. There was one
charge of rape, where, in another count of the indict-
ment, the same party was charged with a criminal assault
on a child under eleven years of age. He would dismiss
that case by stating that there was no necessity for the
grand jury to have evidence of consent in such a case,
the law being that between ten and twelve no consent
could be given. There were three persons charged with
assisting another to rob, and there were no less than
nine cases of cutting and wounding with intent either
to murder or do grievous bodily harm; and he lamented
to see that one of those cases was a charge
of cutting and wounding a constable, to pre-
vent the lawful apprehension of an individual.
That was one of the cases that the law, as it at present
existed, constituted a felony of the most serious nature.
There were eight cases of forgery and uttering forged
instruments, and in one case a party was charged with
forging bank-notes. There were no less than three charges
of bigamy, 11 of burglary, and 9 cases of uttering counter-
feit coin. There were several cases of horse-stealing and
manslaughter, and several cases also of most serious mis-
demeanour. There were a great number of cases of
larceny, 10 cases of house-breaking and larceny, 13
lareenie3 in dwelling-houses, 16 cases of larcenies from
the person, and 41 cases of larceny of other descrip-
tions. Now, having put the grand jury in possession of
the state of the calendar generally, it would be his duty
to call their attention more in detail to some of the
More prominent charges it contained. He alluded
to the charges of manslaughter and murder.
There were two charges of murder; one against a father
for murdering his child by drowning, and another
against a man for murdering his wife and child. And
there was also another case, where death was caused by
brutal violence—caused by the party charged kicking a
female with whom he cohabited; and there was a case
also in which it was in vain for him to say the attention of
the grand jury had not been called by some means or
other—where two persons, man and wife, were charged
with the crime of murder. With respect to the case
where death occurred from personal violence—from
kicking—if the jury found there was great bru-
tality and severity on the part of the individual,
and no disposition of relenting, that would be a case, in
his opinion, in which the grand jury would be justified
in putting the case into a state of further inquiry before
the petty jury as a charge of murder, and it would be
for the grand jury carefully to inquire whether mischief
was not intended. The two cases he would next allude
to were in one instance where a father was charged with
the murder of his own offspring, and in the other where
the father was charged with murdering his child and
also his wife. Perhaps the grand jury, in their kindly
feeling, might, in looking to these cases, be inclined to
think that the parties committing the offence were
under some delusions; but he mentioned this by way of
caution, and not in order that it might sway the grand
jury either one way or the other. The law bad made
certain_ provisions with respect to presumed insanity;
the grand jury had nothing to do with insanity, because
it was for a jury expressly charged to determine that
point. If it appeared that the act of the party was such
that murder was intended, the grand jury were bound
to put the case, in a further stage of inquiry, before a
petty jury. It now remained for him to
refer to the case where a man and his
wife were charged with the heinous crime
of murder, but before he proceeded to consider
-that case it would perhaps be better that he should call
the attention of the grand jury shortly to a case of man-
slaughter of which he had only just received the deposi-
tions, in which the charge was made against the brother
of the deceased, who, by the application of the homogo-
Pathic system in a case of cholera, it was charged, had
caused his death. Now in a case like this, if there was
evidence of a criminal disregard of human life on the
Part of an individual who presumed to act as a medical
mao, there could be no doubt that a charge of man-
6Langhter might be maintained, or at least brought
against him; but if a man was a regular practitioner, and
with the best intent, and with the hope of doing the
art,' gOod, had administered medicines that ended in
in such a case the charge of manslaughter could
not be maintained. Having made these observations, he
now canae to the case to which he desired to call the par-
ticular attention of the grand jury; he alluded to that
serious case in which two persons were charged with
‘,u
ti murder, the parties charged standing in the rela-
sem
to each other of husband and wife. Ho would not
trouble the grand jury with constant refer-
"al to what the early text writers had
written on this subject, as he had endeavoured to collect
as well as he could, what was the result of the law upon
this subject, and as it touched this question in particular.
In
general, it seemed that the wife might be indicted for
felony, even with her hu,band, according to the autho-
rity of Lord lisle; but if it appeared on an indictment,
ezeept for murder, that the husband was present, the
Wife ought to be acquitted, on the presumption of acting
under the control and coercion of her husband. In the
ease of murder it was d,ff, rent. 'The authorities stated
that the exception did not exist in cases of murder, or
treason, or manslaughter, or assault and battery. Where
a wife committed an act, though in the presence of her
husband, she might be convicted of it, and the husband
might also be convicted as an accessary before the fact.
AS a proof of that in the St etc 'Trials, the Earl and
Conn ess of Somerset were convicted of the murder of
Sir Th comas Overbury. It was also laid down in
Pawkie's Pleas of the Crown, that where a wife had
led her husband to commit murder she might be con-
victed as an accessory before the fact. He had gone
into this case thus far because it might appear to the grand
jury that the wife was an accessory alter the fact, and