The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-30 00:00:00

THAMES.

James Cowderoy, a cab-driver, of No. 4, Bluegate.
street, Shadwell, was charged before Mr. Yardley
with beating his wife, Mary Ann, in a very savage
manner, and breaking her arm.
The wife, a dissipated-looking woman, about 30
years of age, with a child in her arms, stated that on
Sunday night she was in the Bull's Head public-
house, in High-street, Shadwell, with a female ac-
quaintance, and her husband came in there after her.
lie was in a most fourious passion, and, after abusing
tier and applying the most disgusting epithats towards
her, he beat her severely with his fists about her hear]
and face, and then knocked her down and kicked her
on the side and chest until she was nearly disabled.
He lastly seized her arm, wrenched it forcibly, and
broke her wrist. The wretched woman, whose arm had
been set in a splint in the London Hospital, added,
that her husband had been convicted of assaulting her
before ; that her life was in danger from his violence ;
and that he had repeatedly threatened to murder her
and held a knife over her.

Robert Durrant, barman at the Bull's llead, con-
firmed the statement of the complainant as to the
brutal outrage committed on her on Sunday night,
and said he had great difficulty in pulling the pri-
soner away from his wife, and preventing him from
sacrificing her cn the spot, which appeared to be his
intention.

The prisoner, in defence, said he had only been
once convicted for beating his wife, and not three or
four times, as she stated ; and that she wasted all the
money he gave her for housekeeping in satisfying her
propensities for gin and other strong drinks. She
was in the frequent practice of getting drunk, and
was so on Sunday night, when he found her in the
Bull's Head. She began to abuse him, and provoked
him to strike her. He came home several nights in
succession, expecting to find a meal prepared for him,
but his wife was from home at the public house.
Potter, a police-constable, No. 212 K, said that he
took the woman to the hospital, where her fractured
limb was dressed, and that upon taking the prisoner
into custody, he made use of the most repulsive ex-
pressions respecting his wife. Potter added that the
wife kept a house of ill-fame, and the prisoner occu-
pied a room in it.
Mr. YARDLEY expressed the greatest astonishment
on hearing this statement, and asked how it was that
such a fellow was licensed to drive a cab ? The
prisoner said he had driven a cab for many years, and
had never been " pulled up" in his life.
Roche, the gaoler of the court, said the prisoner
was the greatest blackguard in the district; and when
he (Roche) was in the police force, and stationed in
Shadwell, he had to keep a constant watch on the
prisoner, who was always a suspected person.
Potter also said he knew the prisoner to be a sus •
pected person, and that his mother-in law, an old
woman named Hillman, who had been connected with
many robberies, kept the worst brothel in the district.
Mr. YARDLEY directed that the prisoner's badge,
2,813, should be taken from him, and delivered up to
Inspector Bell, and that a statement relating to the
prisoner and his conviction should be returned to the
Registrar of Hackney Coaches and Cabs. He could
not understand the system of licensing cab-drivers
when such a ruffian as the one before him, who had
been a suspected person for many years, and kept a
brothel, was permitted to have a licence to drive a
public conveyance. The licensing system was of no
use at all if such persons were to have licences and
badges. There was no doubt whatever that the wife
was a most worthless woman ; but, if the prisoner
was not restrained, he would commit a murder, and
be hanged. If he were to allow the woman's misconduct,
bad as it was, to be pleaded as an excuse for so much
brutality, there would be no safety for her. lle,sen-
tenced the prisoner to pay a fine of 51. for the assault
on his wife, and, in default of payment, committed
him to the House of Correction for two months. If
the prisoner was again licensed to drive a cab, or
allowed to- have a badge any more, it would not be
his (the magistrate's) fault.

LORD BROUGHAM ON LIGHT.—At the meeting of
the British Association for the Promotion of Science,
recently held at Birmingham, a very interesting account
was given, by Sir David Brewster, of Lord Brougham's
experimental and mathematical inquiries respecting the
properties of light. Sir David spoke in the highest
terms of eulogy of his Lordship's fine apparatus, the
work of M. Soleil, the celebrated instrument-maker at
Paris. The delicacy and exactness of the philosophical
instruments made by M. Soleil were warmly praised
by Sir David Brewster, certainly one of the most qualfied
judges of such matters in Europe. It is fortunate
for science to have such servitors as DI. Soleil.
Lord Brougham is now at his seat near Cannes, in the
South of France, and it is believed that he has gone
thither so early this autumn, for the express purpose of
prosecuting his experiments beneith the clear sky and
fine sun of that beautiful clime. Before he had reached
tho age of twenty h© had communicated to the Royal
Society, of London, some valuable papers on the
flexion and reflexion of light. These were not only
favourably noticed in foreign publicatons, but led to
their author's being elected F.R.S., and were published
in its Transactions. Thus early did his active and in-
quiring mind apply itself to mathematical and exact
science.
WEST INDIA STEAM-SHIP.—The Great Western,
Captain Wolf, arrived at New York, from St. Thomas's,
West Indies, Oct. 12, and sailed again for Bermuda at
noon on Sunday, Oct. 14. The Royal Mail steamer
Thames was going into Havannah on the Bth October,
as the United States mail steamer Ohio was leaving for
New York.

THE BERMONDSEY MURDER. I THE COUNTI
Since the conviction of the MAnnings a circum- The following is the official
stance of very considerable importance has come to corn, &c„ received in the po
light, which, if any doubt could possibly exist as to both Essex,
inclusive :
sei, from the 22d Oct.,
their guilt, would appear to be almost conclusive
upon the subject. It will be remembered that, after
the verdict had been pronounced agailst the prisoners
the woman made a violent speech, in which she as-
serted her innocence, and appeared to make it a strong
point in her favour that she loved the deceased, and
could have been married to .him if she had pleased.
It has, however, since been ascertained that for
some time before the murder O'Connor had been
paying his addresses to a young woman, and they
were on the point of being married ; it is known
that Manning and his wife were aware of the fact,
and it is probable that, feeling the marriage would
in all probability have the effect of breaking off all
connexion between them, they determined upon the
desperate measure of getting possession of his property
of murder.

Another curious fact has also come to light. The
trial, as our readers are aware, lasted two days' and
the prisoners each day retired from the court for a
short time to take refreshment. Of course when the
prisoners were first received at Newgate they were
narruwly searched, and every instrument with which
they might inflict injury, either upon themselves or
others, taken away from them. Upon the second day
of the trial, in consequence of something that came to
the knowledge of the prison officials, it was considered
prudent to search the female prisoner, and in her
pocket there was found a large piece of broken glass,
a most dangerous missile, well calculated to have in-
flicted very deadly injury upon any person who might
have been struck with it. It was immediately taken
from her, and thus, no doubt, from the violence sub
sequently exhibited by the prisoner, some desperate
mischief was prevented. How she obtained posses-
sion of this glass remains a mystery, and the only
way in which it can be accounted for is by the sup-
position that it must have been given to her by some
of the persons who were in the dock, a great many
strangers having been, owing to the crowded state of
the court, admitted into the dock during the latter
part of the proceedings.
It was understood yesterday that the counsel for
Mrs. Manning have resolved, upon consideration, to
abandon their application for a writ of error. The
point, however, whether she stands in the position of
an alien will still be submitted to the Criminal Court of
Appeal, and as that Court must be composed of five
Commissioners at the least, and the whole of the
judges may attend if they please, it is quite clear that
a more competent Court for the disposal of the ques-
tion which, after all, is one of a very simple character,
could not be imagined. The next sitting of the Cri-
minal Court of Appeal will be on the 10th of Novem-
ber, and if the question should be sent before that
tribunal it will, of course, be disposed of on that day.
Manning has made some extraordinary disclosures
relative to the murder and his former connexion with
O'Connor, which will be made public after the exe-
cution. He persists in his statement which was
handed to his Learned Counsel, Mr. Sergeant Wil-
kins—" That his wife shot O'Connor, and afterwards
threatened to shoot him unless he helped her to bury
the body." He seemed more composed yesterday after
his interview with the chaplain, and several times
wished to see his brother and his solicitor, Mr. Binns,

to whom he wishes to make some communication.
Mr. Binns has not been able to have an interview
with him yet, as he must obtain a special order from
the magistrates for that purpose. His brother called
at the gaol last evening, and delivered a letter from
his sister in the country. The letter was shortly
afterwards delivered to him by the Governor, and
the contents seemed to affect him in a great degree,
as he wept• several times while reading it. His
brother did not see him. Prior to the trial, and
while his unhappy wife was confined in the gaol
where she now remains, she wrote several indecent
letters to her husband, couched in the most obscene
language and written in broken English. In none of
them, however, does she allude to the murder, but she
defies him to get her gold watches. Copies of these
letters were shown to Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Parry
during the trial, likewise to the Attorney-General,
but no attention was paid to them. She still con-
tinues in a very sullen mood, and speaks very little.
Her only remarks are that she has been unjustly
treated by England, and that she is innocent.

COAL MARKE
Baffle's W. Hartley 163 Od
Carr's Hartley
Chester Main l6s Od
East Adairs Main l4B 9d
Hasting's Hartley l6s Od
Holywell Main l6s 6d,
North Percy Hartley.. 15s 6d
Old Tanfield
Tanfield Moor
ranfield Moor Butes l4s Od
West Wylam
Wylam
Wall's End, &c.
Brown's .
Bewicke and Co.
Gibson
Hedley
Hilda 163 Gd
Hotspur
Morrison l7s 3t,
Percy.
Riddell's l7s 3d
Eden Main
Lambtou Primrose
Bell
Belmont lB3 Od
Ships at

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the 2

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•om the ports in
!7th Oct., 1849,

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Colchester
Harwich ............ 921 874
Leigh
Dialdon

CHELMSFORD, OCTOBER ; 26.—There was to-day
an ample supply of wheat, to effect a sale for which
lower terms were necessarily submitted to, and even
at a reduction of from is to 2s per quarter the
trade was ( xtremely dull. All else unaltered in value.
Wheat, white, old 4.2 s to 475; new 44s to; 48s; red, old
38s to 425; new, 39s to `44s; barley, 28s to 30s ; chevalier
28s to 132 s ; grinding 20s to 24s ; oats 17s to 23s ; malt 541;
to 56s ; chevalier 54s to 58s ; peas, partridge, new 28s to
30s ; old, —s to —s ; white, new, 28s to 30s ; old, —s to —s ;
dun, new, 27s to 29s ; beans, tick, new 25s to 27s ; old, 28s
to 30s; harrow ticks, new 26s to 28s; old 293 to 31s; ma-
zagan, new 24s to 26s ; old 25s to 27s per qr.
GREAT YARMOUTH, OCT. 27.—The weather is
particularly favourable for seeding, and farmers are
actively engaged, but from the facilities of machinery,
thrashing proceeds also, and we feel supply less interfered
Nsith than is usual at this season. The quality and the
yield also of wheat prove good, evidently beyond an
average. Wheat is 62 to 631bs per bushel, and price to-
day is 41s to 41s 6d per qr. f o b. The stock of old
wheat was good at the time of harvest, and there is still
a fair off.r of 611bs at 40s to 403 6d per qr. f o b•
Bath), is not an average, and much of the crop took
rain and is tinged, yet it proves of excellent malting
quality, the weight 54 to 551bs per bushel, and value to-
day of such is 30s per qr fo h. Beans are a good crop,
and quality fine, weight 65 to 661bs, the value 29s per qr
f o b. Peas are an extra produce, and good maple sell
at 30s to 31s per qr fo b. Flour is of nice quality with
one-third of old wheat, and best household is 30s per
sack fo b. Dulness reigns in the trade, and freights- are

easy.
HADDINGION, OCT. 26.—The following are the prices of
grain at our market to-day :
Wheat. Barley. 1 Oats. Beans.
First ... ... 463 Od 28s Od I 22s 3d 323 Od
Second ... ... 39s 8d 228 101 1 18s lid 31s Od
Third ... .. 28s Od 18s Od I 152 Od 303 Od
Total quantity of Wheat in market 543 qrs., 515 sold
Do. Barley do. 427 qrs., 3F3 sold
Do. Oats do. 599 qrs., 551 sold
Do. Beans do. 38 qrs., 15 sold
KIRICALDY, OcT. 27.—The following are the quotation'
up to this date :
Wheat.
First 463 Od
Second 41s Od
Third 36s Od

Barley. Oats. Beans. Peas,.
I 25s Od 21s Od —s Od —s Oci
21s Od 19s Od —s Od —s Od
ISs Od 176 Od —s Od, —8 Od

Oatmeal, per bag of 280Ibs. imp., 27s to 00s Od.
GLASGOW, OCT. 25.—Provisions—Cheese, 46s to 50s 03
per cwt • retail, 5d to 6d per lb. Skim milk, 18s to 00s per
cwt. dountry fresh butter, 93 to lld per lb ; Irish pow,
dered, in lumps, 9d to 10d; country powdered, wholesale, 7bui
to Bd. Country eggs, 9d per dozen ; carried hen ditto, 55 6111
per hundred, or 7d per dozen. Hens, 21 Od per pair ; ducks,
2s Od.

STIRLING, OCT. 25—Wheat, foreign, 21s to 25s Od; dittt
home, 24s Od to Os Od ; ditto ditto new, 15s to 225, barley, pet
boll of 6 bushels, 00s Od to 00s Od ; ditto new, 15s to 17s 6d;
oats, common, 12s Od to 13s Od • ditto new, 9s Od to 105 ;
ditto, Flemish, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto ditto new, Os Od;
distillers, 33s to 35s ; ditto brewers, 35; Od to 38s ; beans,
per boll, Os Od to Os Od; ditto new, 16s Od to 17s 6d; peas'
14s 6d to Os Od ; flour, new, per sack, 34; to 35s ; ditto cornro°
ditto, 24s Od to 25s 6d ; oatmeal, per load, Os Od to Os Od;
ditto new 26s Od to 28s • ditto per peck of 71bs, Sid to Os Od;
fresh butter, per lb. 8d to 10d; eggs per dozen, 6d to 7cl;
hay per ton, 43; to 455.
KELSO, OCT. 26.—Wheat, old, 00s to 00s ;.ditto, new, 271
to 35s d ; barley, new, 12s to 17; Od ; ditto old, 00s Od
00s ; potato oats, 00s to 00s ; ditto new, 11s to 13; Od ; art
mon oats, 00s to 00s Od; ditto new, 103 to 13s Od ; peas, 0"'
to 00s Od; beans, 00s to 00; per boll of six imperial bushels.
PERTH, OCT. 25.—Wheat, 32s Od to 44s Od ; barley, 1„BA
to 23s Od ; oats, 14s to 16; ; peas and beans, 25s Od to 285 u"
per quarter. Oatmeal, per sack, 26; to 28s.
FALKIRK, OCT. 25,—The supply of grain in this claT
market was 522 bolls; wheat at 18s Od to 233 Od per bolli
barley, 143 6d to 18s 6d ; oats, 10s Od to 14s Od; beans, 125 u`.
to 15s Od per boll ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load.
HAWICK, OCT. 25.—Wheat, new, 33; Od to 373 Od; ditto
old, 00s to 00s ; barley, new, 16; to 18s Od ; potato oatici
13s Od to 15s Od ; common oats, lls to 14s Od ; peas, 23s i,l
to 253 Od ; beans, 23s Od to 25s Od per boll of six iroper
bushels.
13EawIcic, OCT. 25.—Wheat, 38s 31d ; barley, 20; 103;
oats, 16; 54d ; rye, 00s Od ; beans, 00s Od ; peas, 00s Od as
rage per imperial quarter.

!T.-YESTERDAY.

Braddyll
193 oa
Hetton ...
Haswell l9s °a,,
Lambton
Russell's Hetton ....
Stewart's * 19s (4.
Washington . . 163 6,:1,1
Whitwell
fiaigli Hall
Elartlepool 195 v"
155 6a
Kelloe
South Kelloe —.„ 175 3a,1
Whitworth lss ,91
Adelaide Tees
Brown's Deanery l7s 9.i
Cownden Tees ...
St. Helen's Tees
Fees
Graigola Birchgrove 203 v'
Cowpen Hartley 163 ji
Der wentwater fiartley 169 v',
iiartley .........
Howard's W. H. Neth 163 0'
Nixon's Merthyr and ,`,l
1
Cardiff ....
.„„ „ 2lO v„
Sidney's Hartley 163 v"
market, 405.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS•

BRISTOL, OCT. 29. ollt
STOCK EXCHANGE. —An imi r em en t took place ill s,
share market to-day, though but little business was trialsr,
acted. Tue sales are—Great Western, 5614—Ditto, Qtl
ters, 1214 dis.—North British, Quarters, VA.
LIVERPOOL, Oar. 29. • esS
STOCK EXCHANGE.—AIthough the amount of businh
transacted today was moderate, prices in some instances aa
a tendency upwards. The transactions were as folloW•ii
Caledonian, Preference, B%—Great Western, Quarters,,...id
dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Consol. (Manchester
Leeds), 40 dis. Halves, 20 dis.—Ditto, Fifths, `1
017,
dis.—llitto, Fifths (\Vest Riding Union), 6,6
and North-Western, New Quarters, "14 p. Fifchy
p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Preference, ',et,
Bs. 9d.—Midland, halves, 21 dis.—South-Eastern and P°'
18%—Ditto, Consol. (No. 3), 17%—llitto (No. 4), 61A'

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BIRAINGIIAM,McT. 29. stO
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The prices of shares Were 9l; Ch
higher to-day. This is considered a good omen, ina4ol"or
as to-morrow is settling day—an event us :ally preceded at
depression. London and North-Western were quoted
115, and North Staffordshire done at 3% dis.
YORK, OCT. 27. „ 83
STOCK EXCITANGE.—The transactions to-day W e,rxl Ai"
follow :—York, Newcastle. and J.erwick, 17%—Ditto l'efa-
castle Extension), 11I—York and North Midland, Vre
once, 6A.

aig
A silver cup has just been manufactured for I4°
urn
which is intend( dto ri.sinted to t" "",n9
Mayor (Sir J. Duke, M.P.), as a souvenir in comp:W.-0w
ration of his ex Majesty's late visit to the 313°1011S
house. The cup is iu highly-embossed silver &creep
and flowers, having two handles, in the style of Which
Anne, with a shield in tho centre of the body, on W'"
is engraved the crown and "L. P." It is fisounte"ed
a pedestal, on the four panels of which are eng°tbe
the inscription, the arms and crown of the ex-N the
arms of the city of London, and the private arms °`
Lord Mayor.
DUBLIN GARRISON.—A squadron of naval*? "ep-
four companies of infantry aro held in readiness to P t
teed to the Belfast district in aid of the civil power "
the Orange procession on the sth of Novemb•r.
go
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Legs that for Eleven -Leo/
were Swollen to nearly the Size of the Person's Body, Cure
eett
Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—Mrs. Higgins, of High-str,otr
Wellington, Salop, caught a severe cold after her confinerat,or
when her legs commenced swelling, and so weak until t!'oci
became nearly as large as her body, breaking out into sores.:eo
discharging a thin watery humour, which continued ele
years. The pain was generally most excruciating. map'!
treatment was tried in vain, until at last she used Holle,
Pills and Ointment, which effected a perfect cure. Her gerixry
ral health is likewise wonderfully improved. This extraord'.,l",etr
case was communicated by Mr. R. Sharp, of 29, Park-rfst`„jle
Wellington.—Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor P.'
way's Establishment, 244, Strand, London.

BIR NI
On the 21s':, inst., at Whittinghame,TILK
. °a
Preston Kirk, '
the Lady Blanche Balfour, of a son. e°f
On the 25th inst., at the Vicarage, Netherbury, the is'l'f
the Rev. Richard Pultenz7, of a son.
11
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On the 25th inst., at Mariteau-house, Winchclsea,
Mrs. Legg, of a daughter. •
At G- -icl: the 25th : ,he TW. J

just., the wife of t;

reenwich, on
Y. Hughes, of a daughter.
On the 26th inst., at Longford Castle, the Visc°`;
Folkestone, prematurely, of a daughter, which survive,'
a short time. of
On the 26th inst., the wife of John A. T. Smyth,
Cumberland-terrace, Regent's-park, of a daughter. of iv
On the 26th inst., in Ecclestone-square, the wife
Franklin, Esq., of a daughter.

MARRIED. S'
Res''
On the 25th inst, at Drayton, rear Banbury, the 1,30
E. Hughes, rector of Shenington, Glouces ershare, t°
Reginald, eldest daughter of the Rev. W. Lloyd. , harci At
On the 26th inst. at St. George's, Bloomsbury, JOY
Wyatt, Esq , of Great George-street, Westminster, ivf oev'
Lama. eldest (laughter of Robert W. Williams, EST' °
ford-place, Russell-square.

DIE. •
On the 27th inst., at his residenD
ce, Clarendon-house, Cheet-
hani-1; ill, Manchester, John Brooks, Esq., aged 61. -1 1.
On the 21st inst., at Walcot-place, Lambeth, SinnL.
Townsend, late of the Ist Regiment of Grenadier Gli3ryiltlP
On the 23d inst., Mr. James Lay, of the Lane
Wakes, Colne, Essex, aged 24. • wood"
On the 23d inst., in Albany-road, Camberwell,
Esq., aged 64. „To 01)i,
At lieslington, near York, 'on the 25th inst "-r
Esq., cf Ribby-hall, Lancashire, aged 51. g MO"
On the 26th inst., at Gretadwich, aged 32, Thomas .-n
hi a, Esq., only son of Captain T. Dick, R.N. 13.14 ICire
On Ihe '6th inst., in King's-row, Pentonville, Sop
of J. W. Pyrke, aged 32. r
On the 27th inst., at Denmark-hill, Francis Brewia, ifo
On the 27th inst., at Crouch-end, Sarah Ann, the W
Mr. Dykes
terrac Barry. -Leivil
At Lyon-e, Maid-hill, on the 27th inst., '—
Cuthbert, Esq., ag,lel 56.
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