The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-26 00:00:00

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK

Wheat.
Qrs. Qrs.
870 90

Barley

English • • • •

5c0tch........
Irish •• • I
Foreign .. •• • • 1,610 2,840

Oats,

hour.

iaol-
- demand fur stew Hops, the supply of which is
good, has la, coma tolerably steady, at full prices. In
yearling and old parcels scarcely any business is doing.
Duty 90,000/. New Hops—Sussex packets, 6/ 63 to
71; Weald of Kent ditto, 71 to 8/; Mid and East Kent
ditto 61 103 to 11/ per cwt.

WHI
Our market was TECNAPEL.
lleavy to day, at drooping prices.
Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 4d; Murton, 2s 10d to 33 10d;
Veal, 3s Od to 3s 6d; and Pork, 3s 4d to 4s 2d Per
81b8. by the carcase.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
(Before the ASSISTANT JUDGE ) •
George 1% ieholls end Margaret James, described s$
servants out of place, were indicted for stealing a hos
and contents, of the value of 201., the property of the
Great Western Railway Company.
Mr. CLARKSON conducted the prosecution, and stated
that on the Ist of August last the prisoners, or at least
one of them, came by the railway from Brinscorebe, iii
Gloucestershire to the Paddington station, and btli
amongst the luggage a box covered with a linen wrapper,
corded, and having attached to it a large card with thl,
direction " Mrs. James, Passenger," the usual reel
ticket of the company, with a capital "d."
and the words ...Brills:combo to Paddington" printed
on it, was pasted un the wrapper. There was' by
the same train a passenger of the name of James, wbo
wits in the employment of the company, and was accom-
panied in that trip, from Gloucester to Paddington, by
his wife and family. Be had also, in the luggage, a be%
protected like that of the prisoner, with a linen wrap'
per, corded in a similar manner, but having appended to
it a much smaller card than that used on the prisoner's
box, with the address--" Mr. James, passenger,"—the
red ticket on the wrapper having the same letter "
but the words " Cheltenham to Paddington " inscribed
on it. According to the evidence and
the admission of
the prisoners, Mrs. James, the prisoner, obtained at the
terminus tho box belonging to Mr. James, leaving.ie
its place her own much smaller one. Nicholls carried
it away for her. In a week or so afterwards, the male
prisoner called at the station to claim the box left by
the female; when he was told that she had taken the
box of another passenger, and must bring that
back, before she could have her own. He said
he would tell her so, and would return per-
sonally, but nothing more was seen of himk
until about a fortnight ago, when Collard, the chief
police inspector of the Great Western Railway, met
him in Hyde-park-square. Mrs. James was soon after'
wards met by Collard, on the way to the lodgings occu-
pied by the prisoners, who lived together, and nearly the.
whole of the contents of the box, which consisted of
clothing and ornaments, were found there, and identified
by Mr. and Mrs. James, the owners.
The ASSISTANT JUDGE observed that it had been laid
down by the judges, in recent decisions, that if a wee
found a purse containing 1,000 guineas in the public road,
and applied ever
of felonyshillin ; and,
shilling of it to his own use, he could
not be held guilty
in eases analogous to
the one before the Court, that if a person found any-
thing, and afterwards appropriated it to his own use.
well knowing it to belong to another, it could
not be deemed a felonious taking, SS it might
be that he only took it up at first to examine
it, and see what it was. In the present case the female
prisoner did not take the box from amongst the rest at
the station. It was given to her by the servants at the
station, upon her description; the first mistake was
theirs, not hers; and in this case, notwithstanding the
excellence of the arrangements, the mistake was made.
It was not clear that Nicholls knew anything about the
mistake, if the woman did, at first. But they were
both entitled to any doubts the case presented upon this
point.
The jury, after a short consultation, Acquitted the
prisoners, but on the application of Mr. Clarkson, the
Learned Judge allowed all the expenses of the prose-
cution, observing that the conduct of the company and
all their servants had been perfectly correct in all its
proceedings.