The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

and the plan was at once approved of by them. 1
The last " improvement" contemplated by the par-
ties at whose instigation the third court is established,
is that the gallery shall be open to all corners on
payment of a fee of one shilling. It is not stated
whether there is to be any half-price. I very much
fear that this fixed money payment will give rise to end-
less disputes. Suppose, for instance, the touters for
the gallery were to induce a person to pay the stipu-
lated fee, on the assurance that a " dreadful murder"
case was then " on," and the party, on that impression,
was to pay the sum demanded ; but when he got admis-
sion found that the case which then occupied the court
was one ofpetty larceny only, would he not have a right
to claim a return of his money, it having been obtained
from him under false pretences ? That facetious
periodical, Punch, very lately exposed the absurdity
of taking money for admission to courts of justice
during what are called " interesting" trials, and gave
a sort of bill of the play of an Old Bailey perform.
ante, to which the usual notification ought to have
been added, " No money returned."
CENSORIUS.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.)
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The pulse of our market
has been stimulated by favourable commercial accounts
from India, and by the advice which the Europa has
brought of a rise in American cotton to the extent of
ic. per lb. since December 26, which has, of course, pro-
duced much more than a corresponding effect upon the
Liverpool market. Spinners and manufacturers, who
had latterly been flagging in some degree, have made an
effort at a rally in the prices that might be considered
attainable last week. This has been the case, princi-
pally, in India qualities of 40's, 50's, and 60's mule
twist, together with shirtings, madapollams, and jac-
conets ; and to some extent also in yarns suitable for
the European continent, as, for instance, common to
good second, 16's to 20's water. The consequence of
this move is a restriction of the day's business, which
has not been very considerable. In some instances, how-
ever, producers have effected sales on rather better
terms than they were able to do last week. The market
is receiving little support from the home-trade dealers,
whose operations are very limited. We regret to
hear of the failure of Messrs. Price and Potter, of
this city, whose liabilities amount to about 10,0001. A
meeting of their creditors will take place to-morrow.
The parties are spinners of coarse yarns.
ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—We have had a better demand
for flannels to-day than we had the previous Monday.
One or two of the large manufacturers have been pur-
shasers again in the Blackwater-market. There is very
little change to report in the wool-market, and, although
there is not much business doing, former prices are
firmly maintained. The Silk Trade—The silk trade, at
Middleton, grows better every week, and, during the last
few days, several large manufacturers have been in search
of weavers. The silk small ware business also improves,
and operatives, in both the above-named branches, have
full employment. The silk manufacture is extending in
Middleton and the neighbourhood, and some of the
finest descriptions of fancy silk goods are now being ma-
nufactured. At Leigh, also, the manufacturers are ad-
vertising for weavers, and most of the warehouses pre•
sent a busy appearance.
HITDDHRSFIELD, TUESDAY.—The attendance of buyers
has been limited and the business in the Cloth-hall was
less than during the last two or three markets. But we
can report that the operatives are pretty generally em-
ployed throughout the whole of our district. There is a
steady demand for wool, and last week's prices are main-
tained.
'HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—We have had more merchants
in the Piece-hall to-day, and some sales have been
effected, especially in lastings; but there is very little
disposition to give any advance upon old rates. The same
may b_) said of the state of business in the warehouses.
The spinners continue fully employed, chiefly upon old
orders, taken before the lat.: advance; but they are gene •
rally able to obtain the improved rates upon the few
ne,v orders that are now giving out. The buoyancy of
the wool market has subsided, and there is much less
doing, though prices remain firm. The spinners have
pretty well stocked themselves, and are now standing
out against any further rise. In short wools there is not
much activity. The spinners are asking higher rates,
which are not acceded to.

LEEDS, TUESDAY.—Considering the very unfavour-
able state of the weather there was a fair amount of
business done in our cloth market to-day, and at prices
about the same as before; the transactions in our ware-
houses, however, have been on a very limited scale this
last week.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEIV'S BENCH, Jan. 24.
(Sittings in Banco.)
SMITH V. THE QUEEN 1N ERROR.
The question involved in this case was whether pri-
soners can be tried before courts of quarter sessions
when courts of assize are sitting. It appeared that the
plaintiff was tried in April last at a court of quarter
sessions at Manchester, the Recorder presiding,
on a charge of burglary, on which he was
found guilty and sentenced to ten years' transportation.
There was a charge of larceny against the prisoner in
another court.
Mr. HODGSON, who appeared for the plaintiff, ad-
dressed the Court at great length, and contended that
n herever courts of oyer and terminer and of gaol de-
livery were sitting the jurisdiction of the inferior courts
were superseded.
Mr. WELsBY appeared for the Crown, and submitted
that the jurisdiction of the inferior courts was not sus-
pended during the sitting of the higher courts. The
Learned Gentleman cited authorities in support of this
view.
The arguments were not concluded at the rising of
the Court.

BAIL COURT, Jan: 24.

THE qIIEEN V. DROIIET-THE TOOTING CHOLERA CASES.

Mr BALLANTINE applied for a rule to show cause why
Mr. Drouet, the proprietor of the infant pauper estab-
lishment at Tooting, against whom the coroner's jury
had on Tuesday returned a verdict of manslaughter,
should not be admitted to bail. The Learned Counsel
said that an inquest, which had oceupied considerable
time, had taken place before Mr. Wakley, the coroner
for Middlesex, at the Globe public-house, Derby-street,
Gray's Inn-lane. That inquiry had been held on the
bodies of four children who had been removed from Mr.
Drouet's establishment, and the jury had returned a ver-
dict of " Manslaughter against Mr. Bartholomew Peter
Drouet." The coroner had issued his warrant against
that person, but he having no power to admit him to
bail it was necessary to make the present application.
He (Mr. Ballantine) had not been able to furnish his
Lordship with copies of the depositions, owing to their
length, but he hoped to be able to do so to morrow, and
Mr. Drouet would come up on Friday to surrender to
the warrant, and to be admitted to bail.
Mr. Justice ERLE said the proper course would be for
the depositions to be officially brought before him. It
would be necessary, in the first place, to have a rule
absolute for a certiorari to bring up the depositions; and
also to have a rule nisi to admit the party to bail after he
had surrendered to tho coroner's warrant. The Learned
Judge then asked Mr. Baliantine if he bad any affidavits
of the proceedings which took place before the coroner.
Mr. dALLANTINE replied that an account of the inquiry
before Mr. Wakley had been published in the daily
papers which was very correct; but he had the affidavit
of the defendant's attorney, which he .would read to the
Court. The Learned Counsel then read the affidavit, in
which Mr. Drouet's attorney set forth the fact of the
inquest having been held, and of a verdict of manslaughter
having been found against his client.
Mr. Justice ERLE, after consulting with the registrar
from the Crown-office, said he did not think the affidavit
stated sufficient facts to induce him to grant the applica-
tion of the Learned Counsel.
Mr. BALLANTINE replied that another affidavit could
shortly be sworn, and perhaps his Lordship would allow
him to embody in it the accounts of the inquest which
had been published in the newspapers.
Mr. Justice ERLE said the affidavit ought to state
what the facts were connected with the commission of
the offence with which the party was charged, and what
were the mitigating circumstances of the case.
At a later period of the day Mr. Ballantine put in a
more extended affidavit, upon which his Lordship granted
a rule absolute for a certiorari to bring up the deposi-
tions, and a rule nisi to show cause why Mr. Drouot
should not be admitted to bail. Mr, Ballantine said it
would be more convenient for Mr. Drouet to come up on
Saturday than on Friday, as he had originally suggested.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Jan. 24.
(Before Mr. Commissioner EveNs.)
ALDMACfLoEr AthNe.
This was an adjourned meeting
and declaration of dividend, in
ntheestate ofilftrhcios of
bankrupt.debts
Mr. Cooke appeared for
Aessresx.eßhoalncgkeo,wfoarndthVeaaumg
hoauun assignees.
o soufg 4'h t:/. , being the
prove on two
10
bills l
of
balance of a transaction of upwards of ,0001, on ac-
count of iron. The proof was disallowed.
Mr. William Rogers, solicitor, of Stockton-on- Te es
appeared to prove for 6,5001. Proof was admitted to the
extent of about 1,3001.; an item of 2,0001., being till:
amount of a cheque drawn by the bankrupt upon- the
L9ndon and County Bank, was disallowed, and the re-
maining part ordered to stand over.
The meeting was then further adjourned for two
months, without the declaration of any dividend.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.)
IN RE WILLIAM SPOKES.
The application of the bankrupt, a bookseller, of the
Strand, for his certificate, was supported by Mr. Parry
and Mr. Duncan.
His HONOUR suspended the certificate six months,
chiefly on the ground that the bankrupt should have come
to that-court earlier, and not have plldged any portion of
his property.
The certificate of W. lli Hell, a grocer, of Colchester,
ass mono s, suspended three mons, on the ground of his trade
expenses
having greatly exceeded his profits.
Protection

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Yesterday Thomas Ford was brought before Alderman
Lawrence for re-examination upon the charge of having
uttered a forged cheque, purporting to be the cheque of
Mr. George Blackburn, wine merchant, of Mark-lane,
for 3001-, upon Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith, the
bankers.
A porter, wined Thomas Taylor, advertised for a
situation, and was answered by a person who called
himself Mr. Thompson, upon whom he waited at the be-
ginning of January, et the Bell and Crown Inn, Holborn.
After two or three interviews, Mr. Thompson told
Taylor that he might consider himself engaged, and
sent him with a cheque to Smith, Payne, and Smith,
with directions to bring him the money to a house in the

neighbourhood of Mark-lane, and to say at the banking- r
house that he came from Mr. Blackburn's clerk. The
forgery was at once detected, and the case was put into
the hands of Messr3. Bush and Mullens, the solicitors to
the Committee of Bankers for Protection against For-
geries and Frauds, who employed John and Drniel
Forrester, the officers, to investigate it. It was soon
seen that Taylor knew nothing of the matter, and
adequate proof was given of the excellence of his
character. He had in his possession two pieces of
paper on which Mr. Thompson bad written directions
for him, and which he had seen that person previously
tear out of a little note-book, and supplied with these
and a few other materials, the officers set to work. Tay-
lor had described Thompson to them as a young man
with black curly hair turned in behind, and dressed in
a dark upper coat of rather elegant appearance. Upon
application to Mr. Blackburn, who is an old customer
at the banking-house, it was found that that gentleman
used cheques at his house at Islington different from
those which he signed at his offices, and that he had a
few days before the forgery. was presented paid away
two of the former to a butcher in the vicinity of his
dwelling. It was also seen that the forgery resembled
in number and other respects the cheques which
Mr. Blackburn had paid away in Islington. Under
these circumstances the officers sent Taylor to the
Islington market on the first day it opened, with
directions to him to look about amongst the trade,
and he had not been long in the place when he
saw Mr. Thompson, who turned out to be the pri-
soner, who had been in the service of a butcher.
Soon afterwards the officers apprehended the
prisoner, and found in a box in his house a black curly
wig, with the hair turned in behind, and exactly an-
swering the description given by Taylor of Mr. Thomp-
son's head of hair, and in his possession they found
a note-book, the pieces of two torn leaves in which
corresponded with the bits of paper on which Mr.
Thompson had written the directions to be observed by
Taylor.
Some of the above-named circumstances and the com-
plete identification of the prisoner by Taylor came out
in detail on the first examination.

Mr. Bush, after stating that he had witnesses to
complete the case, said he had another charge of a
similar nature against the prisoner, on which occasion
a forged cheque for 4341. 16s. Bd. had been uttered,
and the cash obtained. He should, however, first finish
the charge upon the part of Messrs Smith, Payne, and
Smith.
A coat was here produced by John Forrester, and
Taylor at once said it was very much like the over-
coat in which the prisoner was dressed every time they
met about the situation, and they had met five different
times.
Upon his cross-examination by a clerk to Mr. Hum-
phreys, the solicitor, the witness said he could not swear
that it was the identical coat, but he could swear that it
greatly resembled that which the prisoner had worn.
Alderman LAWRENCE—Have you any doubt that he
is the man? Witness—Not the least.
George Pockett, clerk to Mr. Griffith, pawnbroker,
Ossulston-street, Somers-town, produced the ticket of a
coat which was pledged on the 6th of January by Mrs.
Ford, the prisoner's wife, who gave the real name and
address—Ford, 44, Aldenham-street.
Mr. James Dell, landlord of the Horseshoe and Mag-
pie public-house, in Fenchurch-street, remembered
having seen the prisoner as an occasional customer at
his house, perhaps some weeks before the date at which
the forged cheque was said to have been presented. He
remembered having seen Taylor and the prisoner to-
gether in front of the bar of his house.
The prisoner would have been committed, the whole
of the evidence in the case having been heard, but
Mr. Bush stated that he wished to produce evidence
of the second case, of which he had given notice, in
order that both charges might come together before the
grand jury. It would be recollected that in April last a
forged cheque for 4341. 16s. Bd. hal been cashed at Sir
Jelin Lubbocles banking-house; that John and Daniel
Forrester had apprehended two of the persona concerned
at Brussels, and taken the whole of the money from
them; and that a conviction finally took place. Upon
that, as well as upon the present occasion, not only the
writing but the plate was forged; and there was goo.l
reason for believing that the prisoner had been con-
cerned in the offence with the two persons who had been
convicted.

George Thomas, waiter at the Golden Lion, St.
John-street, stated that in April last a gentleman called
on him in York-street and spoke to him about some
employment. Several times afterwards he saw the
same person, and on the 22d of April met him by ap-
pointment at the East India-chambers, in Leadenhall-
street, and received from him a cheque for 4341. 16s. Bd.,
with directions to get it in four 100/. notes and 34
sovereigns. Witness believed the cheque produced
by Mr. Bush was the one; it was for the same sum.
The prisoner, who gave him the cheque, gave, he be•
lieved, the name of Jackson with it, and told him to
take it to Sir John Lubbock's, opposite to the Mansion-
house, and get it cashed, and at the same time gave him
a black case to put the notes in. Witness received the
notes and cash, and gave them to Mr. Jackson, who then
went away, and witness had never seen Mr. Jackson
since until last Wednesday.
Mr. Bush—Do you see the man here? The witness—
That is the man (pointing to the prisoner).
Mr. Bush—Have you any doubt? Witness—Not the
least.
The prisoner was then remanded, in order that the
evidence from the banking-house might be produced,
and the depositions in both cases be prepared, and he
will then be committed for trial.

John Wiseman, an auctioneer, residing in Halfmoon-
street, Bishopsgate-street, was committed to Newgate
for having violated a little girl who was in the habit of
attending and taking care of his children. The case was
palpable, and all the prisoner said was, that the girl
consented.