The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-03 00:00:00

HAT DIARILETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 31125; Clover
ditto, 31 lOs to 41 12s; and Straw, 11 2s to 1/ 9s per
load. Supply moderate, and trade rather dull.
CIIMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 12, to 31 14s ;
Clover ditto, 21 108 to 4/ 103 ; aid Straw, 113 s to
11 lOs per load. Supply rather limited, and trade firm.
WIIITECHA.PEL.—Meadow hay, 21 8s to 3/ 13s ;
Clover ditto, 31 103 to 4/ 13s; and Straw, 1/ 2s to I/ 9e
Fer load. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand.

IRELAND.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
THE RATE IN AID PROJECT.

DUBLIN, FRIDAY EVENING.—The storm against the
proposed rate in aid grows more and more furious.
The Grand Juries of Westmeath, Longford, and Wick-
low have adopted strong petitions against the impost,
and declare that if Ireland is to be regarded as an in•
tegral portion of the empire, the rate should be levied
off the United Kingdom.

THE CORN TRADE.—The market continues dull for
every description of grain and Indian corn. There is no
alteration to note from the quotations of Tuesday.

AMERICA.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY NOON.
The Wisconsin has arrived, with accounts from New
York to the 14th ult.

Money was in good demand. The demand for cotton
was active. Freights to Liverpool per lb. for cotton.
Breadstuffs firm. Exchange on England, 1081.
The accounts from California were still astonishing.
Murder and robbery were rife.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.)
CHARGE OF FORGERY.—Edward Painter, aged 27, a
smith, and John Davis, 44, a labourer, were placed at
the bar, charged with feloniously forging a promissory
note for 5/. 53., with intent to defraud Titus Turk and
others.

The prisoners severally pleaded Not Guilty.
Mr. PARRY prosecuted, and Mr. ROBINSON defended
the prisoner Davis. Painter was not defended by
counsel.

It appeared from the opening statement of the Counsel
for the prosecution that Titus Turk and others, the
prosecutors, are persons who are associated together in
a loan society, called the Beehive Loan Society, and the
circumstances under which the charge arose were these:
The prisoner Painter went to the offices of the society
on the 15th of November last, representing himself to
be Henry Francis, and having an address at 10,
Charles-street, Clarendon-square, and asked for a loan
of five guineas. The prisoner Painter left a paper at the
office of the society with that name and description of
himself in the hands of the officers of the society. The
name of a security being always required by the society
before advancing a loan, the prisoner Painter, gave the
name of the prisoner Davis as his security. The
officers of the society made soma inquiries,
and, it appeared, satisfied themselves as to
the sufficiency both of Francis and Davis to
repay the loan of five guineas. On the evening
of the 17th of November the prisoners came again to the
office of the Loan Society. In the meantime, the pro-
missory note in question had been prepared at the Loan-
office, and only awaited the signatures of the parties to
whom the money was about to be advanced. The pri-
soner Painter then signed the name of " Henry Fran-
cis," with the address, " 10, Charles-street, Clarendon-
square," and the prisoner Davis signed his real name and
address to the note. Under those circumstances the
prisoner Painter was charged with forging the signature
of Henry Francis. The prisoner Davis knew the real
Francis very intimately, and had worked with him at
Meux's brewery, where Francis has worked for four-
teen years. Therefore, it was charged against the pri-
soner Davis that he knew when he went to the loan
office with Painter that Painter was not the pergola
whom he represented himself to be at the loan office. The
only question was whether the prisoner Painter did
forge the note in question and uttered it knowing it to
be forged, and whether the prisoner Davis uttered the
note knowing it to be forged, and whether or not he was
not an agent from the beginning of the transaction.
John Davis, the secretary of the loan society, and
Titus Turk, one of the prosecutors, were called and
proved the facts narrated above.

Maria Francis, the wife of Henry Francis, whose
name was alleged to have been forged to the note, was
called on behalf of Painter, and proved that, unknown to
her husband, and being in want of money, she asked
Painter's wife to ask Painter to go and sign the note in
question, as a security, when the prisoner said that he
did not like to do it, but he would go and sign the note to
°Age witness. Witness became acquainted with the