The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-07 00:00:00

BILLINGSGATE.

Salmon, Sd to TSitii;l 1137iTut;Z:ts, 3s 6d to 7s 6d;
Brills, is to 2s; Cod Fish, 2s to 6s; Whitings, 4d
to 8d; Lobsters, is to Gs; and Crabs, is to 2s (ach;
Soles, 6d to 2s 4d per pair; Eels, 4d to lld per lb;
Mackerel, 4d to 8d each ; Flounders, is Od to is 4d per
dozen ; Haddocks, 4d to 7d each; Scate, 6d to 8d per
lb; White Bait, is per quart.
BREAD.
The prices of Wheaten Bread in the Metropolis are
from 7d to ;id; of household ditto, 5d to bid per 41bs
loaf.

BIDE MARKET.
Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, lid to lid; ditto, 641 b to
721 b, lid to 2d; ditto, 721 b to 801 b, 2d to 21d; ditto,
801 b to 881 b, 21d to 2id ; ditto, 881 b to 961 b, 24d to 3,1;
ditto, 961 b to 1041 b, 3d to 3/d; ditto, 1041 b to 1121 b, aid
to 4d; Calf Skins, each, 4s 6d to ss; Lamb Skins, is 6d
to 2s 6d; Horse Hides, 7s 6d; Shearlings, Os 7d to Os 9d.

HAY 1111E.A.1t3LETS.
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 31 15s; Clover
ditto, 2/ 153 to 51 Os ; and Straw, 11 8s to 1/ 133 per
load. A moderate supply. and a steady demand.
CUMBERLAND. Meadow Hay, 21 123 to 31 183 ;
Clover ditto, 3/ Os to 41 153 ; and Straw, 11 9s to
1/ 14s per load. Supply limited, and trade firm.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 31 15s ;
Clover ditto, 21 18s to 5/ Os; and Straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 13s
per toad. Trade steady, at full prices.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAN.
OLD CO U.U7'.
(Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.)
TRIAL OF PRINCE GRANATELLI AND OTHERS.

The trial of Prince Granatelli, Senhor Louis Scalia, and
Captain Adoody, for an alleged infringement of the Foreign
Enlistment Act in equipping and arming two English war-
steamers on an expedition against the King of the Two
Sicilies, was resumed this morning.
Sir F. KELLY addressed the jury'for the defendant, Prince
Granatelli. He said he appeared before the jury on behalf
of a nobleman of high reputation and unblemished character,
who appealed to them not against a fine or exile, but against
a charge of the ill requital of that hospitality which he has
received in this country, and which he was alleged to have
violated. He hoped to show them that that nobleman had
not violated either the law of this country or the hospitality
which had been shown him. Before he proceeded to the
facts of this deeply-important case, he should ven-
ture to submit to them a principle which should
govern their decision. The Act of Parliament under which
the defendants were indicted was ,an Act which, imposing as
it did the infliction of high penalties, ought to be liberally
construed. In a criminal prosecution like this, in which ;t
was not sought to impose a civil liability, but to convict the
defendant of a crime, a person should not be made respon-
sible for the acts of any other person, save those which he
himself was proved to have committed. In certain civil
cases a person might be responsible for the acts or defaults
of another ; but that was not so in criminal cases, unless
the defendant was clearly proved to have directed another
person to commit the offence with which he was charged.
The question was whether the defendants, or any of them,
were criminally liable to the c,msequences of the acts charged
in the indictment. By our criminal laws we could
not be guilty of a crime by agency or delegation.
If there ever was a case in which the jury should bear in
mind the strict principle of justice to which he had adverted,
this was that very case. Here was a nation struggling
for independence at a vast distance from England, in the
island of Sicily. In seeking to enlist soldiers in this country
in their noble struggle for liberty, the defendants thought
they were only doing a duty to their country, and in dis-
charging that duty they had evinced the greatest anxiety to
avoid the infringement of any international law. He ven-
tured to submit, that by none of those defendants had there
been any violation of any criminal law in this country. He
would remind them that the Foreign Enlistment Act, under
which this indictment was framed was passed, in 1819, when
the Spanish Colonists in South America were attempting to
throw off the yoke of the mother country in Spain ; and the
object and policy of this law was not to interfere with the
shipping and the commerce and trade of this country, but to
prevent our dock-yards in England being used for building
ships of war to be employed against Spain or any other
friendly state. There was nothing in this Act of Parliament
to prevent the purchase of a ship of war, or the dispatching
that ship to any destination in the world, whatever might
be its object, or however it was equipped. Nor was there any
thing illegal in the purchase and exportation of arms or am-
munition to Palermo or elsewhere, from this country, though
he admitted it was illegal to use our ports and harbours in
the building, equipping, or arming of ships of war to be em-
ployed against any friendly foreign power. The fact alone
which was made illegal in this Act of Parliament was the
having a vesael in any of our docks or harbours,
and furnishing that vessel with guns and muskets with
the view of dispatching it on an expedition of hostilities
against any State at peace with this country. He contended
that by the seventh section of this Act of Parliament the
only parties who could be made criminally liable under it
were the Queen's subjects, who might be convicted of any of
the offences laid down in it. There was no prohibition in
' the Act to purchase any ship, or dispatch it to any place,
or for any purp- se, or to purchase any arm., tor any object
whatever. It was just as legal for any person to purchase
ships or arms in this country, and to export them to the
kingdom of the Two Siciiies, or any other part of the world,
as it was for any man to go into a shop in Cheapside, and
buy whatever articles be wanted, and to send them wherever
he pleased. The defendants having come for a perfectly
legal and honourable purpose to this country, and with an
earnest desire to avoid any violation of the laws of this coun-
try, lie submitted, on these grounds, they must be held guilt-
lessof the grave charges imputed to them in this indictment.
They had been advised they might safely make a purchase
of a ship of war to be employed in the defence of their na-
tive country, and they made that purchase openly, of a great
and powerful company, and they left to that company the
whole maintenance of the laws, Their ship had been seized ;
they complained of that seizure to the Government of this
country, who admitted the justice of that complaint, and
who, when applied to by the Minister of the King of the
Two Sicilies to institute this prosecution, declined thatenter-
prise ; and yet, after all this, the defendants, under the Act of
Parliament to which he had referred, were now treated as
felons in this court and in this country. Did they come to
this country to carry on any warlike, hostile, or illegal pur-
pose? By no means. They came to ask from this country
a recognition of the independence of their country; and while
prosecuting that object they had interviews with Lord Pal-
merston, the Minister for Foreign Affairs in this country, and
were present at Lady Palmerston's soirees. Except the contract
for the purchase of the vessels, he denied that one act had
been proved against either Prince Granatelli or Senhor Scalia,
with respect to the " fitting, furnishing, or arming.' of either
of those vessels. To make Prince Granatelli liable under
this indictment it was not enough to prove that he employed
an agent generally, but they must prove that he gave specific
directions for the execution of the work which was charged
as an offence under this Act of Parliament. It was not the
defendants, whoever it was, who gave the directions for the
work in either of those vessels, which was charged ai an
offence in the indictment.
(The trial was proceeding when our report left.)

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Judging from the
effect at the full rehearsal yesterday, all expectation will be
exceeded by the performance of Linda di Chamouni to-night.
The cast is excellent, and the parts well suited to the pecu-
liar talent of the several artists. Madame Sontag renewed
the striking impression she made on the previous rehearsal.
Her style is as pure and her intonation as certain as ever.
While her voice has lost none of its sweetness, it has gained
in power. Her execution, especially in the cavatina, was
exquisitely finished. The applause of all the artists was
irrepressible.
Here is novel intelligence, as given in the Water •
ford Mail:—" A pauper wardmistress of the Dungarvon
Union, named Mary Sheehan, has eloped with a pauper
porter of one of the auxiliary workhouses!" Only think 9f
ttn, elopement bat t WQrkht>l44o