The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-09 00:00:00

of Lloyd's, that the mediation of Great Britain
France for the adjustment of the ddr?rencei be
Sicily and Naples has not prove.] successful, the Sicilian
Government having refused the terms offered them by
the Neapolitan Government; consequently the armistic.
has becn declared to cease on ti:e 29th
instant, whet,
the belligerent prtie, will be at liberty to commence
hostilities.
The Consul has just s, nt round a circular, staling that
Mr. Temple, the Engl Miniser at Naples, had re
ceived a note from the Minister of Foreign Affairs tht,r,-
that the King of Naples would block tele the Bay of Pa
lermo and the adjacent places in the first.days of April,
and have cruisers round the coast to impede the impor-
tation of arms or war stores into the island.
Brtowx, FRANCK, and Co., Agents to Lloyd''.
Captain G. A. Halstead, RN., Secretary, L.oyd s.

CRIMINAL COURT.--(THIS DAY.)
The sixth sessions of the present mayoralty corn
menced this morning before the Recorder and Altite met.
Gibbs and Salomons, and Sheriffs Ennis and Goodhart.
The first edition of the calendar contains the names of
252 prisoners, of which 58 are for London, 148 for Mid-
dlesex, 3 for Essex, 1 for the Admiralty , 15 for Kent,
and 27 for Surrey. There are three cases of murder,
one of manslaughter, and four of forgery.
The grand jury having been selected and sworn,
The RECORDER proceeded to deliver his charge. He
said the present calendar contained a list of 252 priso-
ners, but he understood that since it had been printed an
addition of 25 cases had been m de to it. Further ad-
ditions were to be expected during the progress of the
sessions, and, in all probability, the number would ulti-
mately be made up to 300 cases. This arose maiely from
the increased intervallwhich bad taken place between the
last and the present sessions, which ordinarily occurred
about this period of the year, in consequence of the
absence of the Judges on circuit. Perhaps the
number of prisoners, large as it undoubtedly was, was
not greater than might be anticipated from so extensive
a jurisdiction as that over which this Court presid' d.
That jurisdiction included a population of upwards of
two millions; and it not only extended throughout the
whole metropolis, but to certain parts of Essex and
Surrey, from which there were prisoners whose names
appeared in the calendar . Though the numberjwas very
large, there were no cases of a serious aspect; while the
crimes themselves by no means approached in atrocity
many of those which had unhappily characterised the
present spring circuits. There were two material cases
for the consideration of the, greed jury, as they were
charges of murder both of them being charges
against the parent or parents of children, who
were said to have met an untimely death by
the act of their parents. One case was the
exposure of a child to cold in the streets while in a de-
licate state of health, and although the child survived
some dugs after the exposure, the evidence of the me-
dical man pointed to that as the cause of death. It would,
however, be for the grand. jury to consider whether the
evidence made out the intent of murder on the part of
the mother, or that her motive for exposing it was
simply that its cries might direct attention to iis helpless
situation, and insure it protection. If they took the
latter charitable view of the case, although it could not
change the character of the rash and improper act of
desertion, it would be their duty to send the case fur
inquiry on a charge of manslaughter instead of
murder. The other case was a charge against a hus-
band and wife of the wilful murder of their
child by placing it on a fire. The evidence would show
that the proximate cause of death was the injury it sus-
tained from the burning; but it would seem that the
child, previous to the committal of the offence, was in a
shockingly filthy and emaciated condition, whil.e had it
been in a vigorous and robust state of health, its death
would not have ensued. It would therefore be the duty
of the grand jury to inquire what was the conduct of the
parents towards this child of four or five years old long
previous to its death: if it had been harsh and brutal, so
as to insure the getting rid of the child by this last act
of burning, then the ends of justice would absolutely re-
quire that the parents should be placed upon their
trial for the capital offence. There was a case
of uttering and forging instruments knowing them
to be forged. It was not an ordinary case of
forgery, and it would therefore be necessary fur
him to go somewhat fully into the circumstances
of the case to explain it to the jury. It was a charge of
altering receipts. It would appear that a suit in Chan
eery Was pending relating to the purchase of an estate
by a young man to whom loans had been made for
CFrying on the proceedings. For these loans he had
given several receipts, but the party charged, to whom
they were given, had so altered them as to make them
appear as receipts for part of the purchase money of the
estate. Now, the law of the case was this, it a party
falsifies an instrument by making an alteration on the
face, so as to defraud another party, the act was held to
be a forgery, just as much as the uttering of an instru-
ment which was entirely forged. There w ere altogether
18 instances of acts of extreme violence to the person,
including three persons charged with murder; there was
oircherge of manslaughter, five for cutting and wounding,
with intent to do some grievous bodily harm, and seven
persons charged with robbery and violence to the
person—making 18 cases in number of persons charged
with aggravated violence. There were 88 cases of what
was called simple larceny; there were 9 cases of larceny
from the dwelling-house, and 6 from the person; and,
lastly, there were 38 cases of persons in the capacity of
servants being charged with stealing the property of
their employers. With regard to the case of man-
slaughter, it was a case of flogging by the captain of a
ship. No doubt it was of the utmost importance that,
for the sake of securing discipline, the captain of a ship
should have absolute authority over his crew, but when
ever there was reason to suppose that he had exceeded
the limits of the law ia coercing any one under
hie authority, the ends of justice iniperatively demand, d
that the case should be sifted to the bottom. With these
few general remarks to the gentlemen, who, from their
station and calling, must be men of the world, lie h d
only to dismiss them to their duties, with
ti •e single ex-
pression of a hope, that in discharging their func:ious
as grand jurors, they would use dispatch with judgment,
and in disposing of the ewes to be brought beture them,
neither waste their own nor the public time.
The grand jury then retired.